AH HA! I knew someone would call me out on it. That md5sum is actually of the parent post. Anyway, I've always thought the coolest sig would be:
The md5sum of this sig is a1701b65a107c9a92958acdb29e6fdef
Where the sum was actually the sum of the sig including the sum. You could put all the computers on earth working on that one and it would probably still take billions of years to brute force (I'm guessing)
#echo "You ARE aware that you can make a md5sum of even an outright self-declared virus? The md5sum programs don't really have anti-virus algorithms built in. Posting a md5sum proves only that the copy you downloaded is the official copy."|md5sum
It think it's ISP-dependent. My address hasn't changed in a few years, but a co-worker's changes every month or two. I know, because I have to reconfigure something whenever it changes. We both have cable, but different companies.
Gah, no kidding. Everyone who has had to explain this to a PHB, please raise your hand. "But, they're the server logs! How can they be wrong? This PDF has been downloaded 1,000,000 times. Look - there are 1,000,000 lines in the log that have this pdf file in it. Broken up into chunks by the webserver? WTF does that mean? Nope, 1,000,000 downloads of this PDF. This is were we need to put the money. This is the most popular thing we have. People want this."
Yes the clarification was necessary, each planet has its own definition of a day (that is, a complete rotation about its axis).
Well then now I am confused. The last sentence of the article asks why the Earth and Venus evolved so differently over the last 4.6 billion years. Are they talking Earth years or Venus years? They didn't specify. Or do you only have to do it once, like the trademark symbol? You know, just use it at the first instance and it's implied for the rest. Is that how it works?
Slashdot's financial situation has become more than just a mess and has been portrayed as nothing less than the End of the World by some. However, despite all the hoopla from Zonk, Malda and Scuttle Monkey, there is another side, but it's being suppressed according to various Slashdot denizens. From the article: 'Slashbots who dissent from the alarmism have seen their karma disappear, their posts derided, and themselves libeled as Evangelicals, Republicans, or worse. Consequently, lies about Slashdot's impending death gain credence even when they fly in the face of the truth that supposedly is their basis.'
So what you need is a so-so dba who has a passionate hobby of biology to hack something together, then the real dba's can tune it and the biologists can hack it
Well, that's pretty much how it works in academia (+/- the real dba). Problem is that this is a lab by lab (or department) solution to problems that appear in hundreds or thousands of institutions. The wheel is reinvented over and over again because either commercial/free solutions suck or don't exist. The commercial versions suck because they are built by software engineers and the free versions suck because they are built by scientists (who tend to have the mantra of "if it works, it's done").
How about a site that shows me objective views Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc. have to offer?
Just go to that site that has the unbiased comparison of emacs vs vi (can't rembember the url), then click on the "Perl vs Ruby vs Python: An Ojective Analysis" link. On that page, there is a link to exactly what you are looking for (It's just under all the "Linux vs Microsoft: TCO" whitepapers.)
Excuse me, uh, Ward Cunningham - you know it just struck me - your first and last name are shared by two pop-culture culture icons who also live idealic lives - Ward Clever and (Take your pick) Cunningham. Anyway, back to my question - what's it like in that ivory tower and where do you get your back scratchers?
You anti-javascript types seem really bitter. You can code all your functionallity in CGI if you want, but to abandon javascript and cookies. How do you have user accounts without cookies? Log in every page refresh? Use Apache authentication? That pop up user id/password is ugly, it blocks your site unless you have an account and it has no "log out" method. I just don't see anything beyond static web content with js and cookies unless it's horribly over programmed on the server side.
I remember when newspapers were facing extinction from the internet 8 years ago.
They have a unique lock on push delivery of local advertisements. That will keep them alive.
True, but markets will support fewer newspapers. Here in Seattle one of the two major papers is on its deathbed. Readership is down with both. I'm sure the internet had a lot to do with it.
It's funny. Back in the day, when Slashdot was cool, almost everyone would know what GPG was. Most of the articles were like this one. Cool stuff about cool technology. Not politics (aside from GNU) and all the other crap like the "new mouse/keyboard techonolgy of the week" adverts that permeates Slashdot these days.
Slashdot Mirror
..here in GroupThink town.
AH HA! I knew someone would call me out on it. That md5sum is actually of the parent post. Anyway, I've always thought the coolest sig would be:
The md5sum of this sig is a1701b65a107c9a92958acdb29e6fdef
Where the sum was actually the sum of the sig including the sum. You could put all the computers on earth working on that one and it would probably still take billions of years to brute force (I'm guessing)
#echo "You ARE aware that you can make a md5sum of even an outright self-declared virus? The md5sum programs don't really have anti-virus algorithms built in. Posting a md5sum proves only that the copy you downloaded is the official copy."|md5sum
a1701b65a107c9a92958acdb29e6fdef
It think it's ISP-dependent. My address hasn't changed in a few years, but a co-worker's changes every month or two. I know, because I have to reconfigure something whenever it changes. We both have cable, but different companies.
Gah, no kidding. Everyone who has had to explain this to a PHB, please raise your hand. "But, they're the server logs! How can they be wrong? This PDF has been downloaded 1,000,000 times. Look - there are 1,000,000 lines in the log that have this pdf file in it. Broken up into chunks by the webserver? WTF does that mean? Nope, 1,000,000 downloads of this PDF. This is were we need to put the money. This is the most popular thing we have. People want this."
Ugh.
If I understand it correctly, then this is really slick.
s/really slick/complete overkill/
I use this ascii generator to put the name of the server in all the servers I admin.
http://www.network-science.de/ascii/
I favor 'standard' as the font.
Yes the clarification was necessary, each planet has its own definition of a day (that is, a complete rotation about its axis).
Well then now I am confused. The last sentence of the article asks why the Earth and Venus evolved so differently over the last 4.6 billion years. Are they talking Earth years or Venus years? They didn't specify. Or do you only have to do it once, like the trademark symbol? You know, just use it at the first instance and it's implied for the rest. Is that how it works?
If you're interested in science as anything more than a few sound bites to ooh and ahh at then... ...you don't get your 'science' at the BBC.
(I finished your sentence for you.)
Was that clarification really necessary?
Slashdot's financial situation has become more than just a mess and has been portrayed as nothing less than the End of the World by some. However, despite all the hoopla from Zonk, Malda and Scuttle Monkey, there is another side, but it's being suppressed according to various Slashdot denizens. From the article: 'Slashbots who dissent from the alarmism have seen their karma disappear, their posts derided, and themselves libeled as Evangelicals, Republicans, or worse. Consequently, lies about Slashdot's impending death gain credence even when they fly in the face of the truth that supposedly is their basis.'
01110100 01110111 01101111 00101101 01100010 01101001 01110100 00100000 01100011 01101111 01100100 01100101 01110010 00001101 00001010
This should help.
Doesn't make them not trade secrets.
So what you need is a so-so dba who has a passionate hobby of biology to hack something together, then the real dba's can tune it and the biologists can hack it
Well, that's pretty much how it works in academia (+/- the real dba). Problem is that this is a lab by lab (or department) solution to problems that appear in hundreds or thousands of institutions. The wheel is reinvented over and over again because either commercial/free solutions suck or don't exist. The commercial versions suck because they are built by software engineers and the free versions suck because they are built by scientists (who tend to have the mantra of "if it works, it's done").
He said in the summary that they have that. Catpchas can be decoded: http://sam.zoy.org/pwntcha/
How about a site that shows me objective views Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc. have to offer?
Just go to that site that has the unbiased comparison of emacs vs vi (can't rembember the url), then click on the "Perl vs Ruby vs Python: An Ojective Analysis" link. On that page, there is a link to exactly what you are looking for (It's just under all the "Linux vs Microsoft: TCO" whitepapers.)
This is the level of behaviour we expect from children.
You noticed too? I thought I was the only one who thought Slashdot was invaded by a bunch of angsty, uniformed teenagers.
What the hell is this about again?
If you could actually read the text of the website. I guess maybe it would steer you away from link farms but other than that, you can't see much.
Excuse me, uh, Ward Cunningham - you know it just struck me - your first and last name are shared by two pop-culture culture icons who also live idealic lives - Ward Clever and (Take your pick) Cunningham. Anyway, back to my question - what's it like in that ivory tower and where do you get your back scratchers?
4: A number of companies block javascript at the firewall - trust me, it's true.
LOL, what?
It sets no precedent. Rambling, incoherent lawsuits that get dismissed do not constitute precedent.
50,000 John Does?
Racketeering?
Civil conspiracy?
The guy sounds like a nut job.
You anti-javascript types seem really bitter. You can code all your functionallity in CGI if you want, but to abandon javascript and cookies. How do you have user accounts without cookies? Log in every page refresh? Use Apache authentication? That pop up user id/password is ugly, it blocks your site unless you have an account and it has no "log out" method. I just don't see anything beyond static web content with js and cookies unless it's horribly over programmed on the server side.
I remember when newspapers were facing extinction from the internet 8 years ago.
They have a unique lock on push delivery of local advertisements. That will keep them alive.
True, but markets will support fewer newspapers. Here in Seattle one of the two major papers is on its deathbed. Readership is down with both. I'm sure the internet had a lot to do with it.
It's funny. Back in the day, when Slashdot was cool, almost everyone would know what GPG was. Most of the articles were like this one. Cool stuff about cool technology. Not politics (aside from GNU) and all the other crap like the "new mouse/keyboard techonolgy of the week" adverts that permeates Slashdot these days.