They are hard to find. Suprnova has some, but you have to wade through a lot. BoingBoing occasionally has political torrent links, too. I've been posting links on my blog as I've found them.
You don't want to be gliding across the ocean, your fuel spent, and then hit a headwind.
SpaceShipOne's engine design does allow the pilot to stop and start the rocket, so they don't need to use all the fuel, but I don't think many would be comfortable with a trans-Pacific glide.
The Kryptonite locks use the Ace or Ace II barrel, according to the forums I've been following. The former mechanism is somewhat easier to open using the pen exploit than the latter, but there are multiple reports of both types of mechanisms being opened. Same goes for the Kryptonite EV Disc lock.
Further, even Kryptonite's (and other lock companys') New York models have been reported vulnerable to this attack.
For readers who aren't aware, Kryptonite and other companies have special New York models to thwart the mutant underground-dwelling cannibalistic bike thieves common to Manhattan and surrounding boroughs. Kryptonite does not warrantee most of its locks for use in New York.
Inspired by the most logical race in the galaxy, the Vulcans, breeding
will be permitted once every seven years. For many of you this will
mean much less breeding, for me, much much more.
I can vouch for the Fujitsu P5020D. It's similar to the Sony TR2/TR3 - a 1GHz Centrino (roughly equivalent to a 1.3-1.5GHz Pentium IV). It has an internal CD-RW, and you can swap that out for a second battery. On two batteries, it runs for 8+ hrs with real use (constant wireless, lots of HD access, full brightness).
The keyboard is good, the wireless sensitivity is excellent, and I can run Openoffice, Mozilla 1.7 (web and email), ssh, and even Battlefield 1942 without problems.
Highly recommended. It's so portable, I use it instead of my desktop.
Fujitu's new model is the P7000. It is slightly more powerful than the P5000 series. Newegg and Laptopsinc carry these Fujitsu subnotebooks:
"Noooooo please don't send me to white collar CEO prison for a week. Waaaaaaah."
US Sentencing rules have changed in the past few years. Now, the type of prison you go to depends on the number of years you're in for. I don't have the numbers in front of me, but they're of the form "more than 5 years equals at least medium security prison, no chance of prison camp." This is real prison, but possibly in a different building than violent offenders.
I have a Happy Hacker Lite 2 keyboard and I love it. It's nothing special mechanically, it's just that they've applied two criteria to the keyboard layout:
Does this function really need its own key, or can we make it a FN+key combo (Caps Lock, numeric keypad)
Is this layout right for programmers (CTRL where Caps Lock normally is, Backspace and Delete locations switchable)
The Happy Hacking keyboard comes in USB and PS/2 variants, Black or White, Pro or Lite, English layout or Japanese (I don't think they sell every permutation, but I think I've seen six of them). The versions I've seen have dip switch settings for different default layouts (Mac vs PC, Backspace vs DEL).
Mod parent up. I just waded through 50 posts, and this is the only one that got it right.
The key is not that they found a collision, but that they did so with substantially less than brute-force effort. Substantially less here means 30 - 130 orders of magnitude less (depending on whether you call SHA-0 a 2^160 space or a 2^80 space because of the birthday paradox mentioned in the parent article).
The ability to type at all is necessary, sure, but touch-typing is not necessary unless you're a secretary. Touch typists, please read the rest before modding this as a flame - it's not.
Consider the interaction between a person and a computer as an information processing system, analogous to a PC. In building an optimized system, one must consider the task and the likely bottlenecks. In building a gaming PC, for instance, disk speed and even CPU speed are often less important than the speed of the graphics card.
When a person types on a computer, the bottleneck in accomplishing most tasks is not the bandwidth through the keyboard (typing speed) but the latency introduced by other elements of the system. Specifically, the speed of the user's reading comprehension and the speed of the user to make decisions and mentally transform ideas and concepts into text dominate typing IO for most tasks. The tasks where typing speed dominates, like rote transcription, involve very little need for comprehension, decision making, or complex thought - certainly much less than composing an email or a complex report.
I second the recommendation. This notebook, with two batteries installed, is fairly light, very compact, and gets 7.5 hours of use (wireless on, full brightness). It's enough that you can fly across the US with layover and run the notebook at every opportunity along the way, and still have a charge at the other end.
Portable One is a great vendor. Newegg also sells this computer. The best source of info on small Fujitsu notebooks is leog.net
Much of the Internet Archive crawl and processing code, at one point, was perl scripts, GNU text utils, and custom C to deal with sockets and IO. This may still be true, but I haven't seen the Archive crawler in a few years.
Yes, the parent is flamebait, but it's also true. I use Windows 2000, Windows XP Pro, and Mac OS X extensively (home, work, and second home machine).
Windows 2000 and XP are quite stable. I can rely on them. But the UI decisions, particularly the organization of the menus, the system configuration panels, and especially the network configuration panels, is insane. XP is marginally better than 2000 in these areas.
Mac OS X is also quite stable. But the UI decisions - the Finder menu, Preferences panel, and network config elements, are fairly well organized. Not perfect, but much more logical and usable than XP or 2k.
Taking the other side for the moment, I argue that your subscription is not for A, B, C, and D, but for A, B, C, and D unless you exercise your GPL rights.
Let's say you receive A-binary and A-source and then distribute A-source to others.
It is your right to do so, and it also is Sveasoft's right to terminate your subscription as they laid out the conditions at the beginning. The GPL only says that Sveasoft cannot restrict your redistribution of the source for any binary you have received (in this case, your distribution of A-source after receiving A-binary). It says nothing about any other arrangement between you and Sveasoft, which in this case means the GPL is silent on whether you have a right to receive B, C, and D.
Therefore, your receiving B, C, and D is governed by the contract between you and Sveasoft, and not by the GPL. As you and Sveasoft have agreed that the contract is terminated once you redistribute source, there is no problem. You both understand what you are getting into, and further, you understand that your receiving B, C, and D is governed by the contract, and not by the GPL.
The parent post asks about competing data services.
Sprint's service also has very high latency. Ping times are around 500ms. This makes ssh sessions painful. But since the bandwidth is reasonable, other web browsing isn't too bad, and email (even with medium-size attachments) is OK.
Sprint also intercepts GIFs and JPEGs and sends lower quality versions on (like AOL) with no option to disable this feature. This means that, for example, the Google logo looks dithered and noisy.
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Maybe one day somebody will actually find which part of windows contains GPLed code and all hell will break loose. I would not want to be a MS shareholder on that day
If the US DOJ can't do much vs. Microsoft, why do you think finding a GPLed smoking gun in their code will hurt them?
I'm not trolling, this is an honest question. How could a GPL-oriented legal action be more harmful or threatening to Microsoft than a Federal antitrust action?
The question I was responding to was not whether home-made rockets have killed people, but instead whether they have ever been used to terrorize people. The Qassam rockets are certainly in the latter category.
Alexa also can't tell a subdomain from a regular domain - so subpages of IGN.com or UGO wind up just increasing IGN or UGO's rank, and blogs hosted at X.BlogHost.Com just raise BlogHost.com's rank without being able to tell what the particular blog's rank might be.
I wrote much of Alexa's early traffic counting software (I worked there in the late 1990s).
Your description is partly right. Alexa "rolls up" clicks on subdomains into the doman. So clicks on www1.foo.com, www2.foo.com, and www3.foo.com all count towards foo.com.
Alexa does this primarily to deal with site mirrors, but also because some sites create subdomains for various functions related to serving pages. So someone interested in Google's overall popularity might prefer to see gmail.google.com, news.google.com, and www.google.com as one site, and not three.
That said, the site counting software has (or at least had, I don't know if this is still true) rules for detecting home pages as stats-worthy sites independent of their domains. For instance, any URL with a tilde after the domain, like www.foo.com/~bar, has its own statistics. Similarly, there are special rules for recognizing "home pages" on domains like AOL and other big ISPs.
It's a huge problem deciding what people consider to be websites - it borders on serious AI. For instance, is each Sourceforge project a separate site? How about several subdirectories off of someone's home page, each with a very different focus?
If you think that your favorite domain should be divided into sites, and that it isn't happening correctly in the Alexa toolbar, you might try sending email to Alexa and asking them to take a look.
Finally, the biggest flaw in Alexa's ranking system is that it's based on voluntary input; rather than finding 'Net users and trying to get a representative sample (which is the goal of the Nielsen TV setup), they take anyone who'll put in their toolbar. Sure, they can get a pretty large number of idiots to install the thing, but they're still idiots - there are demographics that the toolbar just won't get adopted by in that fashion.
I am not familiar with Neilsen's current methodology, but I was unimpressed by their marketing claims when they first started their web metrics. At the time (late 1990s) I believe they were saying they had a representative sample of the internet, even though their sample size was: 1) tiny, and 2) made up of volunteers. I cannot say what goes on in Neilsen, or any other web ratings company, currently, but while companies may have very careful statisticians on the inside, often, the caveats and possible biases get stripped out by the marketing department. The moral of this story is, assume that any web rating (or television rating, for that matter) is biased, and understand those biases as well as you can.
No. It runs amazingly cool. Most of the case fans are disconnected. I've got one of the Zalman flower-petal heat sinks (CNPS7000A-ALCU pic) and its fan rarely spins up. I used an Antec power supply that is rather quiet, partly because it is more efficient than standard PSs, so it dissapates less heat.
The drives are fairly low-speed, either 5400RPM or maybe 7200RPM, so they don't generate much noise or heat either.
I recently built a PC with several TB of hot-swap SATA RAIDed storage for around $1/G. I used two 3Ware Escalade 8508-8 cards and 10 250GB SATA drives. I'm running FreeBSD AMD64 5.2.1-rel with only minor problems (sysinstall/fdisk doesn't like creating > 1TB arrays).
One important detail when constructing a multi-TB PC is that the 3Ware 8506 series cards can address at most 2TB per card. This is no problem with 250GB drives, but with 400GB drives, it becomes an issue (8 x 400GB = 3.2TB).
The recently announced 3Ware 9506 series can address more storage (4TB per card, I think) but when I looked two months ago, no vendors had it yet.
Slashdot Mirror
Here is my list of the most interesting torrents -- all three presidential debates and key Daily Shows.
I am currently seeding the three debate torrents.
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
SpaceShipOne's engine design does allow the pilot to stop and start the rocket, so they don't need to use all the fuel, but I don't think many would be comfortable with a trans-Pacific glide.
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
Further, even Kryptonite's (and other lock companys') New York models have been reported vulnerable to this attack.
For readers who aren't aware, Kryptonite and other companies have special New York models to thwart the mutant underground-dwelling cannibalistic bike thieves common to Manhattan and surrounding boroughs. Kryptonite does not warrantee most of its locks for use in New York.
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
The keyboard is good, the wireless sensitivity is excellent, and I can run Openoffice, Mozilla 1.7 (web and email), ssh, and even Battlefield 1942 without problems.
Highly recommended. It's so portable, I use it instead of my desktop.
Fujitu's new model is the P7000. It is slightly more powerful than the P5000 series. Newegg and Laptopsinc carry these Fujitsu subnotebooks:
LeoG's Fujitsu notebook forum
LaptopsInc (a great Fujitsu dealer)
P7010 with 512M
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
- Does this function really need its own key, or can we make it a FN+key combo (Caps Lock, numeric keypad)
- Is this layout right for programmers (CTRL where Caps Lock normally is, Backspace and Delete locations switchable)
The Happy Hacking keyboard comes in USB and PS/2 variants, Black or White, Pro or Lite, English layout or Japanese (I don't think they sell every permutation, but I think I've seen six of them). The versions I've seen have dip switch settings for different default layouts (Mac vs PC, Backspace vs DEL).Here's the layout of the Happy Hacking Professional. The other model is the Happy Hacking Lite 2.
In the US, Users Side in San Jose, Los Angeles, and New York carries these, so you can try them before buying:
Users Side store listing
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
The key is not that they found a collision, but that they did so with substantially less than brute-force effort. Substantially less here means 30 - 130 orders of magnitude less (depending on whether you call SHA-0 a 2^160 space or a 2^80 space because of the birthday paradox mentioned in the parent article).
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
Consider the interaction between a person and a computer as an information processing system, analogous to a PC. In building an optimized system, one must consider the task and the likely bottlenecks. In building a gaming PC, for instance, disk speed and even CPU speed are often less important than the speed of the graphics card.
When a person types on a computer, the bottleneck in accomplishing most tasks is not the bandwidth through the keyboard (typing speed) but the latency introduced by other elements of the system. Specifically, the speed of the user's reading comprehension and the speed of the user to make decisions and mentally transform ideas and concepts into text dominate typing IO for most tasks. The tasks where typing speed dominates, like rote transcription, involve very little need for comprehension, decision making, or complex thought - certainly much less than composing an email or a complex report.
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
Portable One is a great vendor. Newegg also sells this computer. The best source of info on small Fujitsu notebooks is leog.net
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
Every two months or so. Dell sells their 20/21 inch LCDs for $750.
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
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--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
Yes, the parent is flamebait, but it's also true. I use Windows 2000, Windows XP Pro, and Mac OS X extensively (home, work, and second home machine).
Windows 2000 and XP are quite stable. I can rely on them. But the UI decisions, particularly the organization of the menus, the system configuration panels, and especially the network configuration panels, is insane. XP is marginally better than 2000 in these areas.
Mac OS X is also quite stable. But the UI decisions - the Finder menu, Preferences panel, and network config elements, are fairly well organized. Not perfect, but much more logical and usable than XP or 2k.
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
Taking the other side for the moment, I argue that your subscription is not for A, B, C, and D, but for A, B, C, and D unless you exercise your GPL rights.
Let's say you receive A-binary and A-source and then distribute A-source to others.
It is your right to do so, and it also is Sveasoft's right to terminate your subscription as they laid out the conditions at the beginning. The GPL only says that Sveasoft cannot restrict your redistribution of the source for any binary you have received (in this case, your distribution of A-source after receiving A-binary). It says nothing about any other arrangement between you and Sveasoft, which in this case means the GPL is silent on whether you have a right to receive B, C, and D.
Therefore, your receiving B, C, and D is governed by the contract between you and Sveasoft, and not by the GPL. As you and Sveasoft have agreed that the contract is terminated once you redistribute source, there is no problem. You both understand what you are getting into, and further, you understand that your receiving B, C, and D is governed by the contract, and not by the GPL.
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
Sprint's service also has very high latency. Ping times are around 500ms. This makes ssh sessions painful. But since the bandwidth is reasonable, other web browsing isn't too bad, and email (even with medium-size attachments) is OK.
Sprint also intercepts GIFs and JPEGs and sends lower quality versions on (like AOL) with no option to disable this feature. This means that, for example, the Google logo looks dithered and noisy.
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
I'm not trolling, this is an honest question. How could a GPL-oriented legal action be more harmful or threatening to Microsoft than a Federal antitrust action?
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
Hamas fires Qassam rockets at Israelis
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
"two one two five five five one two one two"
So yes, I think people will be able to handle the change.
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
Your description is partly right. Alexa "rolls up" clicks on subdomains into the doman. So clicks on www1.foo.com, www2.foo.com, and www3.foo.com all count towards foo.com.
Alexa does this primarily to deal with site mirrors, but also because some sites create subdomains for various functions related to serving pages. So someone interested in Google's overall popularity might prefer to see gmail.google.com, news.google.com, and www.google.com as one site, and not three.
That said, the site counting software has (or at least had, I don't know if this is still true) rules for detecting home pages as stats-worthy sites independent of their domains. For instance, any URL with a tilde after the domain, like www.foo.com/~bar, has its own statistics. Similarly, there are special rules for recognizing "home pages" on domains like AOL and other big ISPs.
It's a huge problem deciding what people consider to be websites - it borders on serious AI. For instance, is each Sourceforge project a separate site? How about several subdirectories off of someone's home page, each with a very different focus?
If you think that your favorite domain should be divided into sites, and that it isn't happening correctly in the Alexa toolbar, you might try sending email to Alexa and asking them to take a look.
I am not familiar with Neilsen's current methodology, but I was unimpressed by their marketing claims when they first started their web metrics. At the time (late 1990s) I believe they were saying they had a representative sample of the internet, even though their sample size was: 1) tiny, and 2) made up of volunteers. I cannot say what goes on in Neilsen, or any other web ratings company, currently, but while companies may have very careful statisticians on the inside, often, the caveats and possible biases get stripped out by the marketing department. The moral of this story is, assume that any web rating (or television rating, for that matter) is biased, and understand those biases as well as you can.--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
The drives are fairly low-speed, either 5400RPM or maybe 7200RPM, so they don't generate much noise or heat either.
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
One important detail when constructing a multi-TB PC is that the 3Ware 8506 series cards can address at most 2TB per card. This is no problem with 250GB drives, but with 400GB drives, it becomes an issue (8 x 400GB = 3.2TB).
The recently announced 3Ware 9506 series can address more storage (4TB per card, I think) but when I looked two months ago, no vendors had it yet.
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu