I rarely change my DNS tables, so live CDs make perfect nameservers for me. I can have an ISO image ready to go with FreeBSD, djbdns, and our tinydns data files on it. On the rare occasion that I need to make a change, I just mount the ISO file as a filesystem, make the change, and re-burn the image on a $0.50 CD-R.
I would even consider using such a setup as a webserver, having the system mount a/content directory via NFS.
When Microsoft included a stripped-down version of the Diskeeper drive defragmenting software in Windows 2000, it hardly killed the disk defragmenting industry. The stripped-down version they included was absolutely sufficient but was not at all suited to enterprise users because it lacked the ability to schedule defrag runs and could not be fine-tuned.
I would bet that Symantec and Norton's biggest and most profitable customer base is business customers. These are exactly the kind of customers who would want more fine-grained control over virus scanning and who would buy a commercial product that would let them deliver a customized product to their employees.
As a 2LT in the Guard, I'd rather see more money going towards upgrading all our old M1's with M1A1. The survivability increase is astronomical. As far as the strykers with the turrets mounted, we already have a light tank: the M8-AGS. Far more versitile and still quickly deployable.
Problem is, neither the M1A1 or M8 make for ideal urban combat vehicles. There is a great article on this very issue in the latest edition of Armor magazine. That said, I don't think the Stryker or the Bradley are good solutions, either. I think it may be quite some time before the Army develops a vehicle that is large enough to hold an entire squad but sufficiently armored to shield against RPG attacks, while also agile enough to maneuver in an urban environment and be air-deliverable. It probably comes down to armor--we need something lighter.
I seem to remember some kind of camcorder targeted at kids...you mention the XL, which sounds like what I'm thinking of but I don't recognize that name. It used cassette tapes to record video and there were several acessories that you could buy for it...time to poke around ebay and google.
Teddy Ruxpin was pretty neat for its time. The coolest thing was that it had a little "network" that you could use to hook up the bear's little animatronic friends to. At appropriate times in the story, they would move and (IIRC) say things.
2. Give this address out only to close friends and associates whom you trust, asking them kindly not to give it out to others.
3. Do not use this new address when making online purchases, filling out registration forms, etc. Use a junk address for this.
4. Create yet another account for mailing lists. Should it someday become overloaded with spam, delete this mailing list account and make a new one.
5. Enjoy spam-free e-mail.
My old e-mail addresses (chris@insert_one_of_my_domains_here) has been around since 1995 or so. It can be found all over the Google, mostly in old postings to mailing lists. This address gets an unfuckingbelievable amount of spam--around 3 per minute--and is no longer usable. I used the above method to get myself a new, usable address and I haven't seen a spam in months.
At my family's bicycle store, we have a shop dog named Macy, who is a labrador mix. Macy is getting old now but back in his prime, he loved to pull people around on a skateboard. Some of the braver employees would put a harness on the dog and take a longboard out behind the shop and let him run. It was unreal how fast this dog could run. One of the guys came up with an idea for clocking Macy's top speed: the GPS. Using a Garmin eMap, we clocked them at 28mph. At this speed, the board began to get unstable so the rider bailed but he's pretty sure that Macy had a few more mph in him. </OFFTOPIC>
I love my Zero Halliburton attache. They are durable as hell and you will look like James Bond when you walk through the airport with it. The only problem is, you have to do a little bit of customizing to suit your Apple TiBook. My ZH laptop case was designed to carry laptops like Dells and Compaqs, not 1/2" thick PowerBooks. The straps inside just didn't cut it. Instead, I gutted the interior and glued in a piece of dense foam. Into this foam, which is available at any camera or music equipment store, I cut the outline of my PowerBook and Apple power supply, along with a cutout for my ethernet cable. Everything fits snug-as-a-bug in the new lining and it looks hella cool.
Who says that it has to be that insecure? I envision a little device that goes on a keychain (similar in that respect to SpeedPass), which has a little button on the side of it. You squeeze the button as you pass it over the scanner. Only when the button is squeezed does the transmitter in the device emit anything.
BTW, why are you so paranoid about a contactless credit card? Do you eat at restaurants and pay with a credit card? Chances are, if you do, some potentially sleazy waiter has taken your credit card out of your sight for a few minutes. Not only can he copy your card, chances are that he knows what city you live in and can then get your home (think billing) address out of the phone book. On top of that, he can look at what kind of clothes you wear and car you drive and make a guesstimate about your credit line.
I did a similar setup recently for my father's bicycle stores and here is a photo gallery of the results. I have an aversion to Linksys (their tech support is horrible) and so I became a D-Link convert a few months back. We bought eight DWL-2000AP access points/bridges (you can select the mode via the web interface) and eight of their DWL-P100 Power-over-Ethernet kits. We linked our warehouses to our stores via 24dBi grids (from hyperlinktech.com) and, like you, placed our APs on the mast underneath the antennae. For our enclosures, I chose some inexpensive but very well-made Davis Instruments enclosures. They are NEMA-4 rated and are sealed against the elements. We're a dealer for Davis so we got them really cheap. Being in South Texas, I was concerned about heat in the boxes so I built custom heat shields, which fit around the NEMA enclosures. I built these from R-Matte (which looks like foam plywood) and foil tape. I also used the foil tape to turn cheap-o indoor grade CAT5e into psuedo-outdoor grade cable.
but the 20 years of bullshit that you'll have to endure is (IMO) hardly worth it. Again, in the military there is next to no inspiration to perform well.
Good lord, you are so full of shit. There are plenty of reasons to work hard in the military. Faster promotion and choice assignments in better locations come to mind, not to mention official and unofficial commendations from your superiors. In terms of employee recognition, the only real difference between the military and civilian worlds is money. And frankly, I didn't leave the civilian world to make more money. There's something supremely satisfying about doing a job well and knowing that it has an impact.
This is way off-topic, but I'm fairly sure that DOS was created in a hotel room on Central Avenue in Albuquerque. I doubt the DoS is coming from Central Avenue, though. The only thing you'll find there is a bunch of wine-os.:)
Ok, this is really awful but...I wonder if it would be possible to implement an HTTP blocker based on these blackhole lists. Let me explain: my father's company has a huge problem with bogus (fraudulent) online orders being placed from Indonesia, Russia, Malaysia, etc. I love Russians, Indonesians, etc, but filtering out these orders from the queue is a pain the butt. Worse yet, new employees sometimes process these orders without knowing any better. Fortunately, our shipping clerks are wise to this and catch them but it's still a big waste of time.
But what if I was able to use these blackhole lists to stop these people from visiting our site to begin with. It's horrible, it's definitely not the way the Internet should be, but it's our business.
Permission? Chances are, the SNTP client was coded by a programmer at Netgear basically working on his own. If their QA team looked at the code at all, I doubt it was for very long. Consider all the different devices that Netgear manufactures. Most of these will have individual firmware codebases. I doubt that a given programmer is responsible for only one subset of code for a single product and I seriously doubt that, once a firmware release is considered stable, they go back and review it for problems like this.
For us, we're not so concerned about the bundling of apps (we can do that ourselves) as we are with the availability of business apps. I've been looking for *nix-based Point-of-Sale apps since '97 and have yet to see anything that comes close to Sage's$700Point-of-Sale Point-of-Sale system. I would love nothing more than to move the fifty mail order and cash register workstations in our stores to FreeBSD or Linux but it's not going to happen until somebody writes a decent point-of-sale app, one that's not specifically tailed for gas stations, restaurants, or small mom-and-pop shops with five items in their inventory.
This aggrivates me to no end. The US Army requires its soldiers to put their SSNs on almost every official peice of paperwork relating to them. Home addresses are only a 201 file away. I'm pretty sure that identity theft is rampant in the US military. Officers and high-ranking NCOs are probably even more vulnerable because of their higher salaries. I wish we would abandon SSNs for a military-only serial number.
So, how long until drug runners send little planes from Columbia to Florida?
Kind of pointless when they can send big planes. During the 1980s, Pablo Escobar's Medellin Cartel flew gutted 727s from Columbia to the States, loaded to the max with cocaine. Another one of his tricks was to send large numbers of small planes, each loaded with coke, towards the US. The DEA and Customs Service could only catch so many... You can read more about it in Mark Bowden's (author of Black Hawk Down) excellent book, Killing Pablo.
[having spent the last 28 years of my life hanging around my family's bike stores, this article has me all rawled up]
Simple Answer: No. Hell no. In fact, most consumer bikes are made of steel alloy. Aluminum bikes are generally more expensive, starting at around $500-600 last time I checked. People who want a "practical, eco-friendly" bike would not spend that much in the first place. Most people who want a lightweight bike could really care less about what the 5 pounds of aluminum in their bike frame does to the environment. If they were concerned and they wanted a nice, lightweight bike, they would buy one with a carbon fiber frame.
I just can't see a bamboo bike improving on anything. If you want to talk about providing cheap, sustainable bikes for the masses, that's already happening. You can get a robot-welded bike made from (recycled) steel in some parts of the world for $100 or less (probably less). I seriously doubt bamboo is going to undercut cheap steel in the bike industry, simply because the uniformity of the steel tubing makes it simple for machines to do the assembly/welding.
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I rarely change my DNS tables, so live CDs make perfect nameservers for me. I can have an ISO image ready to go with FreeBSD, djbdns, and our tinydns data files on it. On the rare occasion that I need to make a change, I just mount the ISO file as a filesystem, make the change, and re-burn the image on a $0.50 CD-R.
/content directory via NFS.
I would even consider using such a setup as a webserver, having the system mount a
Chris
When Microsoft included a stripped-down version of the Diskeeper drive defragmenting software in Windows 2000, it hardly killed the disk defragmenting industry. The stripped-down version they included was absolutely sufficient but was not at all suited to enterprise users because it lacked the ability to schedule defrag runs and could not be fine-tuned.
I would bet that Symantec and Norton's biggest and most profitable customer base is business customers. These are exactly the kind of customers who would want more fine-grained control over virus scanning and who would buy a commercial product that would let them deliver a customized product to their employees.
Just a guess.
As a 2LT in the Guard, I'd rather see more money going towards upgrading all our old M1's with M1A1. The survivability increase is astronomical. As far as the strykers with the turrets mounted, we already have a light tank: the M8-AGS. Far more versitile and still quickly deployable.
Problem is, neither the M1A1 or M8 make for ideal urban combat vehicles. There is a great article on this very issue in the latest edition of Armor magazine. That said, I don't think the Stryker or the Bradley are good solutions, either. I think it may be quite some time before the Army develops a vehicle that is large enough to hold an entire squad but sufficiently armored to shield against RPG attacks, while also agile enough to maneuver in an urban environment and be air-deliverable. It probably comes down to armor--we need something lighter.
Ok, with the help of some fellow Children of the 1980s (tm), I found the camera.
The device in question is the pxl-2000, aka Pixelvision, aka Pixelcam. You can read more about it here.
I seem to remember some kind of camcorder targeted at kids...you mention the XL, which sounds like what I'm thinking of but I don't recognize that name. It used cassette tapes to record video and there were several acessories that you could buy for it...time to poke around ebay and google.
Teddy Ruxpin was pretty neat for its time. The coolest thing was that it had a little "network" that you could use to hook up the bear's little animatronic friends to. At appropriate times in the story, they would move and (IIRC) say things.
It's really not hard at all.
1. Create a new e-mail account.
2. Give this address out only to close friends and associates whom you trust, asking them kindly not to give it out to others.
3. Do not use this new address when making online purchases, filling out registration forms, etc. Use a junk address for this.
4. Create yet another account for mailing lists. Should it someday become overloaded with spam, delete this mailing list account and make a new one.
5. Enjoy spam-free e-mail.
My old e-mail addresses (chris@insert_one_of_my_domains_here) has been around since 1995 or so. It can be found all over the Google, mostly in old postings to mailing lists. This address gets an unfuckingbelievable amount of spam--around 3 per minute--and is no longer usable. I used the above method to get myself a new, usable address and I haven't seen a spam in months.
At my family's bicycle store, we have a shop dog named Macy, who is a labrador mix. Macy is getting old now but back in his prime, he loved to pull people around on a skateboard. Some of the braver employees would put a harness on the dog and take a longboard out behind the shop and let him run. It was unreal how fast this dog could run. One of the guys came up with an idea for clocking Macy's top speed: the GPS. Using a Garmin eMap, we clocked them at 28mph. At this speed, the board began to get unstable so the rider bailed but he's pretty sure that Macy had a few more mph in him.
</OFFTOPIC>
I love my Zero Halliburton attache. They are durable as hell and you will look like James Bond when you walk through the airport with it. The only problem is, you have to do a little bit of customizing to suit your Apple TiBook. My ZH laptop case was designed to carry laptops like Dells and Compaqs, not 1/2" thick PowerBooks. The straps inside just didn't cut it. Instead, I gutted the interior and glued in a piece of dense foam. Into this foam, which is available at any camera or music equipment store, I cut the outline of my PowerBook and Apple power supply, along with a cutout for my ethernet cable. Everything fits snug-as-a-bug in the new lining and it looks hella cool.
Kangaroo Jack? Please. That can't hold a flame to this gem.
I'm absolutely shocked that nobody mentioned this movie. This film is destined for the AFI's Top 250 Movies of All Time. Just you want and see!.
What film am I talking about? You'll just have to see for yourself!.
It would save me a lot of time. My wallet is constantly erasing the mag stripes on my cards. I can't wait to ditch them for a contactless card.
Who says that it has to be that insecure? I envision a little device that goes on a keychain (similar in that respect to SpeedPass), which has a little button on the side of it. You squeeze the button as you pass it over the scanner. Only when the button is squeezed does the transmitter in the device emit anything.
BTW, why are you so paranoid about a contactless credit card? Do you eat at restaurants and pay with a credit card? Chances are, if you do, some potentially sleazy waiter has taken your credit card out of your sight for a few minutes. Not only can he copy your card, chances are that he knows what city you live in and can then get your home (think billing) address out of the phone book. On top of that, he can look at what kind of clothes you wear and car you drive and make a guesstimate about your credit line.
Here's the antenna I bought a few months ago:
Aerialix 12dBi omni
I did a similar setup recently for my father's bicycle stores and here is a photo gallery of the results. I have an aversion to Linksys (their tech support is horrible) and so I became a D-Link convert a few months back. We bought eight DWL-2000AP access points/bridges (you can select the mode via the web interface) and eight of their DWL-P100 Power-over-Ethernet kits. We linked our warehouses to our stores via 24dBi grids (from hyperlinktech.com) and, like you, placed our APs on the mast underneath the antennae. For our enclosures, I chose some inexpensive but very well-made Davis Instruments enclosures. They are NEMA-4 rated and are sealed against the elements. We're a dealer for Davis so we got them really cheap. Being in South Texas, I was concerned about heat in the boxes so I built custom heat shields, which fit around the NEMA enclosures. I built these from R-Matte (which looks like foam plywood) and foil tape. I also used the foil tape to turn cheap-o indoor grade CAT5e into psuedo-outdoor grade cable.
Chris
Craig built a neutron modulator (which slows down the emitted neutrons so they can be detected) out of a few hundred spare CDs.
Apparently, my mother's computer is not the only thing an AOL cd can slow down.
but the 20 years of bullshit that you'll have to endure is (IMO) hardly worth it.
Again, in the military there is next to no inspiration to perform well.
Good lord, you are so full of shit. There are plenty of reasons to work hard in the military. Faster promotion and choice assignments in better locations come to mind, not to mention official and unofficial commendations from your superiors. In terms of employee recognition, the only real difference between the military and civilian worlds is money. And frankly, I didn't leave the civilian world to make more money. There's something supremely satisfying about doing a job well and knowing that it has an impact.
Yes, MS-DOS was created in Redmond.
This is way off-topic, but I'm fairly sure that DOS was created in a hotel room on Central Avenue in Albuquerque. I doubt the DoS is coming from Central Avenue, though. The only thing you'll find there is a bunch of wine-os.
Ok, this is really awful but...I wonder if it would be possible to implement an HTTP blocker based on these blackhole lists. Let me explain: my father's company has a huge problem with bogus (fraudulent) online orders being placed from Indonesia, Russia, Malaysia, etc. I love Russians, Indonesians, etc, but filtering out these orders from the queue is a pain the butt. Worse yet, new employees sometimes process these orders without knowing any better. Fortunately, our shipping clerks are wise to this and catch them but it's still a big waste of time.
But what if I was able to use these blackhole lists to stop these people from visiting our site to begin with. It's horrible, it's definitely not the way the Internet should be, but it's our business.
Permission? Chances are, the SNTP client was coded by a programmer at Netgear basically working on his own. If their QA team looked at the code at all, I doubt it was for very long. Consider all the different devices that Netgear manufactures. Most of these will have individual firmware codebases. I doubt that a given programmer is responsible for only one subset of code for a single product and I seriously doubt that, once a firmware release is considered stable, they go back and review it for problems like this.
For us, we're not so concerned about the bundling of apps (we can do that ourselves) as we are with the availability of business apps. I've been looking for *nix-based Point-of-Sale apps since '97 and have yet to see anything that comes close to Sage's $700 Point-of-Sale Point-of-Sale system. I would love nothing more than to move the fifty mail order and cash register workstations in our stores to FreeBSD or Linux but it's not going to happen until somebody writes a decent point-of-sale app, one that's not specifically tailed for gas stations, restaurants, or small mom-and-pop shops with five items in their inventory.
This aggrivates me to no end. The US Army requires its soldiers to put their SSNs on almost every official peice of paperwork relating to them. Home addresses are only a 201 file away. I'm pretty sure that identity theft is rampant in the US military. Officers and high-ranking NCOs are probably even more vulnerable because of their higher salaries. I wish we would abandon SSNs for a military-only serial number.
So, how long until drug runners send little planes from Columbia to Florida?
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Kind of pointless when they can send big planes. During the 1980s, Pablo Escobar's Medellin Cartel flew gutted 727s from Columbia to the States, loaded to the max with cocaine. Another one of his tricks was to send large numbers of small planes, each loaded with coke, towards the US. The DEA and Customs Service could only catch so many... You can read more about it in Mark Bowden's (author of Black Hawk Down) excellent book, Killing Pablo
Jimmy Buffett also discusses air smuggling in his book, A Pirate Looks at Fifty .
Building a Webpage Without a star-pattern as a background nor using the blink tag. would be a better course.
:) How about no Java applets, no MIDI music, no JavaScript anything, and no Flash?
That's so 1999.
[having spent the last 28 years of my life hanging around my family's bike stores, this article has me all rawled up]
Simple Answer: No. Hell no. In fact, most consumer bikes are made of steel alloy. Aluminum bikes are generally more expensive, starting at around $500-600 last time I checked. People who want a "practical, eco-friendly" bike would not spend that much in the first place. Most people who want a lightweight bike could really care less about what the 5 pounds of aluminum in their bike frame does to the environment. If they were concerned and they wanted a nice, lightweight bike, they would buy one with a carbon fiber frame.
I just can't see a bamboo bike improving on anything. If you want to talk about providing cheap, sustainable bikes for the masses, that's already happening. You can get a robot-welded bike made from (recycled) steel in some parts of the world for $100 or less (probably less). I seriously doubt bamboo is going to undercut cheap steel in the bike industry, simply because the uniformity of the steel tubing makes it simple for machines to do the assembly/welding.
Chris
No, she isn't. She put another dime in the jukebox.