I'm pretty sure it's a fact that in every state in the USA that has made concealed handguns legal, crimes involving guns have dropped dramatically. If the two don't correlate its an impressive coincidence.
btw, remember i said "pretty sure" not 100% positive.
I've been living in DFW for about 8 years. Its not that bad except in summer when the roads melt and the highways catch on fire ( not kidding about either! ). There's enough technology to keep nerds pacified. Richardson has a lot of cool companies and if you are one of those hippie " big corporations are evil" types there are some small cool tech. shops in Deep Ellum which is a small arts/music/bar/tatoo parlor community just East of downtown. I live in Deep Ellum and it's pretty cool, easy access to alcohol and local music and the CO is 2-3 blocks from just about any loft building so DSL is available and fast.
Your comment hit on another maybe off topic point. The adoption of IPv6 is taking way too long. IPv6 will fix a lot of problems we are facing currently and I'm talking about more then just address space. Things like QOS features are built in to IPv6 and will allow Internet telephony and video confrencing to live up to the hype.
I can hear the ATM crowd screaming in the background but it's just too expensive... sorry.
me too.I have a 2.1gig in my linux box at home. I have had that drive for 6 years now with no prob. But then again all the fuss is over *recent* drives maybe they just let a bug slip through or something.
...scary thing is I've got a bunch of newer drives scattered around TX right now running FreeSWAN VPN gateways. I don't want to even think about those going down.
I was tinning some wires once and flicked molten solder right in my tear duct. I thought I was going to die... but then i didn't and everything was OK.
I want to try something like this in my neighborhood. I have a couple of friends who suffer with dialup or nothing at all while I have a underutilized DSL connection ( A gigantor monster of a CO is right down the street ). My loft building is 2 story and I have access to the roof where I can install an antenna. I live on the edge of deep ellum in Dallas ( Main and Haskell ) if anyone in the area wants to think about this over beer at The Angry Dog drop me a line.
I picked this book up at fry's today for 12 bucks ( it was on the discount rack ). I bought it cause i have been doing a lot of java proramming the last few years and my C sharpness;) has decreased. Plus I have always been interested in systems programming with a hard core systems language like C.
Building a home brew PowerPC brings up some other interesting points. How about instead of overclocking CPU's and case mods we have PCI bus overclocking and memory mods. Why not hack and tinker with the other major parts of a computer ( like I/O ) like we do with CPUs?
A properly DDOS'd router or network doesn't have the queue space to deal with control packets. Most likely they will be dropped just like the DOS'ing packets. I don't think RED ( common queueing algorithm ) differenciates between types of packets. Some sort of QOS based algorithm would be needed to ensure that control packets get highest queueing priority. But then that QOS algorithm has to be installed and working in the entire network which isn't likely.
Without the core layer routers, root domain system, and communications backbone that the major corporations own and control the internet doesn't operate.
Without the backbones and large ISP's the Internet ( big "I" ) doesn't just not operate it doesn't exist.
Here's a paper explaining the properties of a warhol worm. It sounds pretty interesting but I get the feelings a lot of things have to be "just right" for it to work as advertised.
I use to do this kind of thing when i was in HS and actually had spare time. If you have never been to a 1/10 or 1/8 scale race i seriously advise checking it out. It is very cool. Also, the technology in these model cars is nothing short of awesome. The techniques used for battery matching, motor tuning, and suspension setup are insanely complex. Pick up an issue of RC Car Action at your local bookstore and flip through the pages. It's a great hobby if you got the time and $$.
take a 20oz Dr. Pepper bottle or whatever you drink. Fill it half way with good old H2O and then stuff as much dry ice in it as you can. Notice the gobs and gobs of CO2 coming out. Screw the lid down tightly and give it a good hurl ( you don't want to be anywhere near it ). The result is a good bang.
If violent games don't produce a mentality more able to accept and justify killing then why is the Army using one to get people to join?
The military is the closest legal enviorment where you can regulate like in a FPS... maybe a capture the flag game would be a closer approximation but still.
To quench some of the flames, i have been playing FPS type games for a long time and am definately not a violent person. So i know they affect people differently.
A couple of friends of mine work at a WorldComm datacenter in Richardson TX. Sometimes i go hang out with them and it always amazes me how so few can keep such a huge place operational. But more to the point i don't see how an operating system can replace their jobs. Most of the things they field are customer requested tasks like swapping tapes or reboots. Occasionally there is a network or power issue to deal with as well. Things are just too random and disparate for a finite state machine to know how to deal with.
remember AT cases? remember how the power switch was a *real* switch attached to the power supply? guess what happens when you change out power supplys and get the wiring on the power switch wrong... the computer explodes! I've never seen a computer on fire before until then. Blew off most of the insulation on the wires and caught the remaining plastic on fire. btw, the circuit breaker and plug in the wall didn't make it either ( no surge protector in place ). ahh good times good times
I missed the good old days of the Internet by about 15-20 years or so having never really gotten into the Internet until college (fall of '95). Unfortunately I bet this just turns into a haven for IRC bots and the like.
If you are looking for something cool to be involved in and has a sense of community i'd advise checking out the 6bone (www.6bone.org), the IPV6 testbed. Everyone there is very helpful and friendly and there is a sense of some greater good. Hehe its kind of cool because not everything works in IPV6 so people are working on porting old taken for granted apps like different MTA's and other servers. I wonder if the way the 6bone folks work togather is similar to the old days of the Internet.
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code (written backwards in the rom to save a byte in copying it into ram)
Thats crazy talk! seriously though dude, you're crazy
If you have enough room between the toaster and microwave can i colocate a server? :P
I'm pretty sure it's a fact that in every state in the USA that has made concealed handguns legal, crimes involving guns have dropped dramatically. If the two don't correlate its an impressive coincidence.
btw, remember i said "pretty sure" not 100% positive.
I've been living in DFW for about 8 years. Its not that bad except in summer when the roads melt and the highways catch on fire ( not kidding about either! ). There's enough technology to keep nerds pacified. Richardson has a lot of cool companies and if you are one of those hippie " big corporations are evil" types there are some small cool tech. shops in Deep Ellum which is a small arts/music/bar/tatoo parlor community just East of downtown. I live in Deep Ellum and it's pretty cool, easy access to alcohol and local music and the CO is 2-3 blocks from just about any loft building so DSL is available and fast.
Your comment hit on another maybe off topic point. The adoption of IPv6 is taking way too long. IPv6 will fix a lot of problems we are facing currently and I'm talking about more then just address space. Things like QOS features are built in to IPv6 and will allow Internet telephony and video confrencing to live up to the hype.
I can hear the ATM crowd screaming in the background but it's just too expensive... sorry.
two strings walk into a bar.
The first one says "I'll have a beer"
The second says "Yeah, I'll have a beer tooadsfjjl45080f4[].(&$#@jhf,f324...."
The first one replies "sorry my friend isn't null terminated"
*badaboomski*
me too.I have a 2.1gig in my linux box at home. I have had that drive for 6 years now with no prob. But then again all the fuss is over *recent* drives maybe they just let a bug slip through or something.
...scary thing is I've got a bunch of newer drives scattered around TX right now running FreeSWAN VPN gateways. I don't want to even think about those going down.
UNIX administration in 24 hours AND how to cook 30 min. brownies in 20 min.!
Is that a ramp up to the first floor? I wonder who thought that up. Scientists are so cool.
I was tinning some wires once and flicked molten solder right in my tear duct. I thought I was going to die... but then i didn't and everything was OK.
I want to try something like this in my neighborhood. I have a couple of friends who suffer with dialup or nothing at all while I have a underutilized DSL connection ( A gigantor monster of a CO is right down the street ). My loft building is 2 story and I have access to the roof where I can install an antenna. I live on the edge of deep ellum in Dallas ( Main and Haskell ) if anyone in the area wants to think about this over beer at The Angry Dog drop me a line.
I picked this book up at fry's today for 12 bucks ( it was on the discount rack ). I bought it cause i have been doing a lot of java proramming the last few years and my C sharpness ;) has decreased. Plus I have always been interested in systems programming with a hard core systems language like C.
Building a home brew PowerPC brings up some other interesting points. How about instead of overclocking CPU's and case mods we have PCI bus overclocking and memory mods. Why not hack and tinker with the other major parts of a computer ( like I/O ) like we do with CPUs?
A properly DDOS'd router or network doesn't have the queue space to deal with control packets. Most likely they will be dropped just like the DOS'ing packets. I don't think RED ( common queueing algorithm ) differenciates between types of packets. Some sort of QOS based algorithm would be needed to ensure that control packets get highest queueing priority. But then that QOS algorithm has to be installed and working in the entire network which isn't likely.
Without the core layer routers, root domain system, and communications backbone that the major corporations own and control the internet doesn't operate.
Without the backbones and large ISP's the Internet ( big "I" ) doesn't just not operate it doesn't exist.
Here's a paper explaining the properties of a warhol worm. It sounds pretty interesting but I get the feelings a lot of things have to be "just right" for it to work as advertised.
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~nweaver/warhol.html
I use to do this kind of thing when i was in HS and actually had spare time. If you have never been to a 1/10 or 1/8 scale race i seriously advise checking it out. It is very cool. Also, the technology in these model cars is nothing short of awesome. The techniques used for battery matching, motor tuning, and suspension setup are insanely complex. Pick up an issue of RC Car Action at your local bookstore and flip through the pages. It's a great hobby if you got the time and $$.
take a 20oz Dr. Pepper bottle or whatever you drink. Fill it half way with good old H2O and then stuff as much dry ice in it as you can. Notice the gobs and gobs of CO2 coming out. Screw the lid down tightly and give it a good hurl ( you don't want to be anywhere near it ). The result is a good bang.
btw, glass is a BAD idea so stick to plastic.
Here's one i got from maximizer ( contact manager for windows ).
An unknown error has occurred on the N/A file.
That was usually followed by a long sigh.. from me
will Zeus run on linux? How do you get non-blocking I/O out of a blocking file system? Or are you talking about non blocking socket I/O?
If violent games don't produce a mentality more able to accept and justify killing then why is the Army using one to get people to join?
The military is the closest legal enviorment where you can regulate like in a FPS... maybe a capture the flag game would be a closer approximation but still.
To quench some of the flames, i have been playing FPS type games for a long time and am definately not a violent person. So i know they affect people differently.
A couple of friends of mine work at a WorldComm datacenter in Richardson TX. Sometimes i go hang out with them and it always amazes me how so few can keep such a huge place operational. But more to the point i don't see how an operating system can replace their jobs. Most of the things they field are customer requested tasks like swapping tapes or reboots. Occasionally there is a network or power issue to deal with as well. Things are just too random and disparate for a finite state machine to know how to deal with.
remember AT cases? remember how the power switch was a *real* switch attached to the power supply? guess what happens when you change out power supplys and get the wiring on the power switch wrong... the computer explodes! I've never seen a computer on fire before until then. Blew off most of the insulation on the wires and caught the remaining plastic on fire. btw, the circuit breaker and plug in the wall didn't make it either ( no surge protector in place ). ahh good times good times
I missed the good old days of the Internet by about 15-20 years or so having never really gotten into the Internet until college (fall of '95). Unfortunately I bet this just turns into a haven for IRC bots and the like.
If you are looking for something cool to be involved in and has a sense of community i'd advise checking out the 6bone (www.6bone.org), the IPV6 testbed. Everyone there is very helpful and friendly and there is a sense of some greater good. Hehe its kind of cool because not everything works in IPV6 so people are working on porting old taken for granted apps like different MTA's and other servers. I wonder if the way the 6bone folks work togather is similar to the old days of the Internet.
... and by golly it put them on the map!