Do you just get used to the earphone wires swinging all over the place and the iPod case rubbing a hole through your hip?
I just started jogging as my exercise regimen (I'd like to be able to finish a marathon before I turn 30) and have come to the conclusion that the Greeks had it right. All this gear is just getting in the way.
What kinds of problems can only be figured out by sniffing packets? Rogue programs? Unauthorized porn downloads? Illegal P2P activity?
On a properly configured network, where are the points of failure that can't be figured out with any other method besides packet sniffing? If these problems exist, would it be worthwhile to incorporate functionality directly into the networking software to watch for these problems and fix them automatically?
Javascript must be able to perform simple multiplication and division. That's all that is required.
From the site: "The formula for calculating the Fick Cardiac Index is: BSA / (1.36 * Hgb * (Oxy. Sat. - Oxy Hemoglobin))"
This program could be implemented in just about any language in an hour by someone who is reading their first programming language book. Less for most programmers. And for VB programmers, maybe 5 minutes with a slick UI to boot.
Didn't we just have an article about training replacements? Sounds suspiciously like exactly that.
But it is also possible that this documentation could be used by FAEs who need to have this kind of detailed documentation so that their job becomes easier, more easily repeatable, and faster.
Good documentation is a great thing when it is used for good, it brings customer complaints down and possibly increases revenue. But the double edge also makes it possible to replace the experts with trained monkeys who only know how to follow the docs without an understanding of the product.
I am a tourist. I have 2 hours to play in the ocean. I will either 1) snorkel, get water in my mouth and be stuck at very shallow depths, or 2) ride one of these and get to go down 20 or 30 feet without any discomfort and weight of scuba gear on my body.
Scuba is not for everyone. For Mr. and Mrs. Iowa who will never see the ocean again in their life, this kind of thing is good enough.
Forgive me if this is covered somewhere on your site, but why do you use PHP to implement this?
If your server goes down, the tool is completely useless.
If, OTOH, you had used Javascript to process all this locally, then the webpage could be kept on a local machine and have the results immediately instead of having to load a second page.
As far as your program goes, you need to label the text boxes with the units measurements.
Everyone is complaining about how the picture on Scuba-Doo's website is photoshopped, but comparing it to the pictures in your links it doesn't appear so. The round glass bubble seems to act as a very distorting lens that makes the rider's head appear to be dislocated/misproportioned to her body.
It doesn't excuse the really poor resolution of the picture, but it does seem to put to rest the thought that it is a photoshopped picture.
Yes, it is designed (the ones I've seen) for dive companies. The lack of air is not a big deal, the usual length of these underwater rides is only twenty to thirty minutes. Also, the depths to which the operators permit the skooters to go is never more than 30 feet, so even if an accident were to occur, the tour operator is able to dive down and rescue the rider.
I've ridden on very similar underwater skooters like this years ago. They've got these in just about any snorkel/scuba sites that are primarily tourist areas. Hawaii, Micronesia, Polynesia, the Caribbean, etc. all have tourist excursion packages that include riding these things.
Many software shops have dedicated build teams that do nothing more than make sure that the software is rebuilt from source every day. This entails tweaking build scripts, makefiles, and making sure that the proper libraries are available for the compiler and linker.
This is not an easy task, though once set up properly it becomes fairly self-managing.
Since you are coming from Perl where there is nothing to compile, it would probably be best to start by installing Cygwin and gcc and just try compiling a few simple programs first. READ the makefiles. Understanding the makefiles will make understanding the build process much easier.
Here's where I run into trouble, though. Since this PC only has one NIC, the VPN connection prohibits me from using the internet connection for anything other than the RDP client. So even if I were to email the file to myself, I'd have to shut down the VPN link just to retrieve the file.
Funny thing is, on Win98 the VPN connection mounts the remote filesystem on the local machine so that it is accessible as a local disk. The RDP client is flaky (as is anything running on 98), but the accessible filesystem is very handy.
In the end, this is not a big deal for me, but I was just wondering if anyone knew offhand what kind of steps could be taken to do this.
While his project is altogether useless and probably a complete waste of time, the site is well-documented, well written, and the project is very high in hack-value. More stories like this, please!
Obviously this is just the first step of this project. It looks like they can identify characters and health meters, as well as winners and losers, however the next obvious step is to identify moves on-the-fly so that a running commentary can be played. Also, since they are running video capture HW/SW, they could even have their epic fights saved and played back with computer commentary. Now that would be geeky!
It's great how the interviewer opens up the topic of virii and Spafford replies quite clearly that virii are not things he studies and that he can give references to other experts if the interviewer so wishes. Then the interviewer just plows ahead trying to make out like virii are the key problem in computer security.
At least Spafford was a good sport and continued doing his best to try to bring all of the subsequent virus questions back into the umbrella of computer security.
For the most part, Linux is used in the back rooms for such things as fileserving, printserving, and (especially critical for many companies) webserving. A failure on any one of these machines results in a significant risk of loss of data, company secrets, and company network infrastructure.
A breakin on a Windows system results in the loss of local data (whose value cannot be adequately assessed, but can be assumed to be less than the sum total of all data on the servers).
It is a little like assessing the risk of terrorism in transportation. The sheer number of automobile accidents far outweighs any risk of death due to terror attack on the highways. So too is the unlikelihood that a major terrorist attack will occur in the US skies or US rail system. However, an attack on rail cargo would be far more devastating than a similar attack on the highway system. Rail provides a very high bandwidth for cargo delivery but is also restricted to an unroutable track, so any attack on rail would essentially wipe out a very significant method of cargo transportation. On the other hand, traffic can be rerouted around any localized road problem minimizing the impact of any highway attack.
Windows is ubiquitous on the desktop, but on these desktops are very small amounts of data compared to the large amounts located on servers. A loss due to breakin would be necessarily less significant than a similar breakin on a Linux server.
AV software seems to do a lot of scanning in a minimum amount of time. Considering the thousands upon thousands of viruses running around the wild, how is AV software able to scan each file so quickly, even if it only looks for specific signatures, it seems that each file would take an inordinate amount of time to scan. However it doesn't.
Can someone give a brief explanation of how anti-virus software is able to scan so many files so quickly?
The washlets are amazing and I'm surprised other modern countries don't have them. What other part of your body can you smear feces on, wipe off with a piece of paper, then declare it clean?
When I move back to the U.S., the washlet is going with me.
Saturday's flashmob event, which continued into late afternoon, was a dry run designed to measure how much computing power could be generated, rather than tackle a specific task.
So why don't we just "generate" a value for the total computing power that could be generated by clustering all the computers at Microsoft or IBM or Sun together? That ought to come up with a number much larger than any flashmob could come up with.
It's one thing to bring all these computers into one place. It's a whole different beast to combine a lot of heterogeneous devices into a single supercomputing entity.
In the West, this has been called geocaching. There are websites dedicated to it, and it has the added benefit of actually involving other people who you 'interact' with even if only indirectly.
I don't want to say that the Japanese are expert imitators, but they do have a penchant for taking the best ideas of the West and improving on them far beyond the dreams of the original creators.
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Do you just get used to the earphone wires swinging all over the place and the iPod case rubbing a hole through your hip?
I just started jogging as my exercise regimen (I'd like to be able to finish a marathon before I turn 30) and have come to the conclusion that the Greeks had it right. All this gear is just getting in the way.
What kinds of problems can only be figured out by sniffing packets? Rogue programs? Unauthorized porn downloads? Illegal P2P activity?
On a properly configured network, where are the points of failure that can't be figured out with any other method besides packet sniffing? If these problems exist, would it be worthwhile to incorporate functionality directly into the networking software to watch for these problems and fix them automatically?
Javascript must be able to perform simple multiplication and division. That's all that is required.
From the site: "The formula for calculating the Fick Cardiac Index is: BSA / (1.36 * Hgb * (Oxy. Sat. - Oxy Hemoglobin))"
This program could be implemented in just about any language in an hour by someone who is reading their first programming language book. Less for most programmers. And for VB programmers, maybe 5 minutes with a slick UI to boot.
Didn't we just have an article about training replacements? Sounds suspiciously like exactly that.
But it is also possible that this documentation could be used by FAEs who need to have this kind of detailed documentation so that their job becomes easier, more easily repeatable, and faster.
Good documentation is a great thing when it is used for good, it brings customer complaints down and possibly increases revenue. But the double edge also makes it possible to replace the experts with trained monkeys who only know how to follow the docs without an understanding of the product.
I am a tourist. I have 2 hours to play in the ocean. I will either 1) snorkel, get water in my mouth and be stuck at very shallow depths, or 2) ride one of these and get to go down 20 or 30 feet without any discomfort and weight of scuba gear on my body.
Scuba is not for everyone. For Mr. and Mrs. Iowa who will never see the ocean again in their life, this kind of thing is good enough.
Forgive me if this is covered somewhere on your site, but why do you use PHP to implement this?
If your server goes down, the tool is completely useless.
If, OTOH, you had used Javascript to process all this locally, then the webpage could be kept on a local machine and have the results immediately instead of having to load a second page.
As far as your program goes, you need to label the text boxes with the units measurements.
Everyone is complaining about how the picture on Scuba-Doo's website is photoshopped, but comparing it to the pictures in your links it doesn't appear so. The round glass bubble seems to act as a very distorting lens that makes the rider's head appear to be dislocated/misproportioned to her body.
It doesn't excuse the really poor resolution of the picture, but it does seem to put to rest the thought that it is a photoshopped picture.
Note to self: Do not leave computer logged in while away from desk.
Jeez.
Who are you, Ralph Nader?!?
No, but I am an anti-Semite.
Yes, it is designed (the ones I've seen) for dive companies. The lack of air is not a big deal, the usual length of these underwater rides is only twenty to thirty minutes. Also, the depths to which the operators permit the skooters to go is never more than 30 feet, so even if an accident were to occur, the tour operator is able to dive down and rescue the rider.
But I'm still not sure what is so new about this.
I've ridden on very similar underwater skooters like this years ago. They've got these in just about any snorkel/scuba sites that are primarily tourist areas. Hawaii, Micronesia, Polynesia, the Caribbean, etc. all have tourist excursion packages that include riding these things.
Next week will we be hearing about snuba?
Many software shops have dedicated build teams that do nothing more than make sure that the software is rebuilt from source every day. This entails tweaking build scripts, makefiles, and making sure that the proper libraries are available for the compiler and linker.
This is not an easy task, though once set up properly it becomes fairly self-managing.
Since you are coming from Perl where there is nothing to compile, it would probably be best to start by installing Cygwin and gcc and just try compiling a few simple programs first. READ the makefiles. Understanding the makefiles will make understanding the build process much easier.
Here's where I run into trouble, though. Since this PC only has one NIC, the VPN connection prohibits me from using the internet connection for anything other than the RDP client. So even if I were to email the file to myself, I'd have to shut down the VPN link just to retrieve the file.
Funny thing is, on Win98 the VPN connection mounts the remote filesystem on the local machine so that it is accessible as a local disk. The RDP client is flaky (as is anything running on 98), but the accessible filesystem is very handy.
In the end, this is not a big deal for me, but I was just wondering if anyone knew offhand what kind of steps could be taken to do this.
While his project is altogether useless and probably a complete waste of time, the site is well-documented, well written, and the project is very high in hack-value. More stories like this, please!
Obviously this is just the first step of this project. It looks like they can identify characters and health meters, as well as winners and losers, however the next obvious step is to identify moves on-the-fly so that a running commentary can be played. Also, since they are running video capture HW/SW, they could even have their epic fights saved and played back with computer commentary. Now that would be geeky!
Can you copy files from the Windows remote client to the local computer?
I've got W2K at home and frequently VPN into my XP machine at work. But I've not been able to figure out how to copy files to the local machine.
It's great how the interviewer opens up the topic of virii and Spafford replies quite clearly that virii are not things he studies and that he can give references to other experts if the interviewer so wishes. Then the interviewer just plows ahead trying to make out like virii are the key problem in computer security.
At least Spafford was a good sport and continued doing his best to try to bring all of the subsequent virus questions back into the umbrella of computer security.
My wife doesn't believe me, but I was up on Robson in Vancouver, BC and saw a dead ringer for UBL about a month before 9/11.
Not that I'd have any idea what ultra-orthodox UBL would be doing on Robson. It doesn't seem like his kind of place.
For the most part, Linux is used in the back rooms for such things as fileserving, printserving, and (especially critical for many companies) webserving. A failure on any one of these machines results in a significant risk of loss of data, company secrets, and company network infrastructure.
A breakin on a Windows system results in the loss of local data (whose value cannot be adequately assessed, but can be assumed to be less than the sum total of all data on the servers).
It is a little like assessing the risk of terrorism in transportation. The sheer number of automobile accidents far outweighs any risk of death due to terror attack on the highways. So too is the unlikelihood that a major terrorist attack will occur in the US skies or US rail system. However, an attack on rail cargo would be far more devastating than a similar attack on the highway system. Rail provides a very high bandwidth for cargo delivery but is also restricted to an unroutable track, so any attack on rail would essentially wipe out a very significant method of cargo transportation. On the other hand, traffic can be rerouted around any localized road problem minimizing the impact of any highway attack.
Windows is ubiquitous on the desktop, but on these desktops are very small amounts of data compared to the large amounts located on servers. A loss due to breakin would be necessarily less significant than a similar breakin on a Linux server.
AV software seems to do a lot of scanning in a minimum amount of time. Considering the thousands upon thousands of viruses running around the wild, how is AV software able to scan each file so quickly, even if it only looks for specific signatures, it seems that each file would take an inordinate amount of time to scan. However it doesn't.
Can someone give a brief explanation of how anti-virus software is able to scan so many files so quickly?
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We know that CD-Rs and DVD-Rs decay over time as the chemicals holding the data inside the discs slowly deteriorate.
What kind of lifespans are we looking at for this kind of media?
The washlets are amazing and I'm surprised other modern countries don't have them. What other part of your body can you smear feces on, wipe off with a piece of paper, then declare it clean?
When I move back to the U.S., the washlet is going with me.
The Best Mod winner of Phase 1 was a European Football adaptation of Unreal.
The extent to which UT seems to be malleable is amazing. I wonder what hard limits these mod creators are running into.
Saturday's flashmob event, which continued into late afternoon, was a dry run designed to measure how much computing power could be generated, rather than tackle a specific task.
So why don't we just "generate" a value for the total computing power that could be generated by clustering all the computers at Microsoft or IBM or Sun together? That ought to come up with a number much larger than any flashmob could come up with.
It's one thing to bring all these computers into one place. It's a whole different beast to combine a lot of heterogeneous devices into a single supercomputing entity.
In the West, this has been called geocaching. There are websites dedicated to it, and it has the added benefit of actually involving other people who you 'interact' with even if only indirectly.
I don't want to say that the Japanese are expert imitators, but they do have a penchant for taking the best ideas of the West and improving on them far beyond the dreams of the original creators.