On the other hand, this is the guy who named his anonymous P2P network "Freenet" when that name has been used for many other things.
I don't know if he intentionally uses well-used names, but it sure can be a pain to search for Freenet info because free ISPs keep popping up. I expect Locutus will turn up a bunch of Star Trek fan sites.
It occurred to me recently that they may have considered the possibility of where debris falls when they made Florida the primary landing zone. Or maybe it's just happy coincidence.
At any rate it seems like a shuttle breaking up returning to Earth would only fall in the Pacific Ocean or the USA due to the return path.
Columbia broke up during the point of highest stress, which would be the most likely point for a breakup, and it was dead center over the contenintal U.S. Coincidence or design?
I wonder about a shuttle taking off, though. It seems to me that it might fall into another country if it exploded farther up than Challenger did.
Do you complain about the Salvation Army or Goodwill Industries, as well?
Damn Goodwill and Salvation Army! I still see poor people under bridges and graffiti on walls. This is why I don't give to United Way, these agencies just aren't ready for production use.
Why not just drop a big ass rope off the space station?
Don't know how serious you are, but first off carbon nanotube fiber is the only thing known that would be strong enough and light enough for a space elevator.
The elevator will have to be carefully deployed; You can't drop it down from the space station because A: at that speed gravity is counterbalanced so the 'rope' won't fall; and B: the space station is not geostationary and would drag the 'rope' through the atmosphere and burn it up.
Read the High Lift Systems web site thoroughly on the proposed deployment procedures and the forces that will complicate the process.
I've read that that the ext2 filesystem can support ACLs but not many have implemented them.
A quick Google search brought me to this patch for ACL for ext2 with mention of POSIX ACLs, so I'm not crazy.
I've worked with Novell and WinNT in a production environment and find that fine grained access controls are an incredible pain in the ass. If I can maintain a tiered inherited simple structure then my life is much simpler than if this group wants to share one file in their folder with person A in city X but this file is for person B in city Y but they shouldn't see the rest.
Then later on a stupid coworker gives person C read access (or worse yet full access) to the root volume because of rights confusion. That happens too frequently: a lazy or hurried admin just gives full access to get the production issues smoothed out at great risk to security. (No one's deleted anything, but has a worker noticed at some point that he was able to view his senior manager's sensitive documents before I caught the error? I hope not.)
I avoid the convoluted ACL situation where possible and keep separate folders for separate ACLs/permissions and try not to subtract from inheritence.
It obviously seems to be a lot of junk traffic, but the only part we can say is bad requests are part 3 and 4 from the chart. Bad spellings must go to the root since there may be such domains!
Hrm, I think I'm responsible for a lot of #2 (unknown top-level domains). I'm a fast typist, but faster than accurate and send a lot of browser to DNS looking for ".cmo" addresses.
I wonder if it might be wise to block common misspellings like ".cmo". On one hand you're limiting possible future expansion, but on the other hand you're helping me.
I'm just glad there isn't a porn ".cmo" TLD or I'd have been fired ages ago.
It got a new funny in the time between when I first read it and the time I looked at the mods. I'm sure it will go down and up a few more times.
Maybe I should post this as anonymous to avoid the Offtopic Karma hit. Nah, I'll just hit "No Karma Bonus" and feel the 2 point burn.
By the way, the grandparent post says CmdrTaco does most of the dupes; in my experience it's Timothy who is the king of dupes. I want my money back.:-)
Cygwin is designed to provide a UNIX-like environment under windows. The setup program is very nice for GNU/Linux users who know they want, for example, tcsh, libjpeg, gcc, X, Windowmaker and vim. After you have Cygwin installed you are left with a desktop shortcut that launches bash in a windows command window. The rest is up to you.
GNUWin II appears to be aimed to offer Windows users free alternitives to their proprietary applications, and perhaps to inform them about some free softare / open source political ideas.
The difference is largely the user target, and I assume GNUWin II's installers will be friendly for those used to cliking "Normal", "Next", "Yes" and "OK" and will place icons in the start menu and/or desktop.
By the way, GNUWin II guys, I went to the site, saw the link for Pingus next to Lemmings on the "Free Alternatives" page, but there are no stable versions available to download for any OS. The download page is full of "don't use this" comments. The last news item dated 12-22-02 said that a working release might show up in a few days.
This will allow tablet PCs and other PDA styled devices to have what the desktop PC world takes for granted.
<sigh> I'll sure miss the whine, heat and gyroscopic resistance of my HDD, though. Oh, and the clatter of thrashing heads, and the rare treat of crashing heads. These are the days my friends. Remember them well.
Simple! Use Microsoft Outlook. All you need to do is add your target to your address book before reading your email. You're really leet if you hook it up to an Exchange server.
I quit using AV before it went haywire. It used to be my favorite for searching for obscure things like screen-printed numbers off of an IC to figure out what it was. It used to be the most complete and up-to-date search engine, but the result ordering seemed random and for searching common terms I had to wade through several pages and surf several sites before I found what I want.
I actually used Yahoo! for quite a while; for some reason whenever I needed to search it was for a company's web site or something that Yahoo! was likely to have cataloged.
I used Google Groups after they bought out DejaNews, but I didn't use the Google web search until I started reading Slashdot and it seemed the de facto geek search engine. I love it now.
I can't remember what I was using after AV and before Google for searches that weren't Yahoo!'s strengths. Maybe I just didn't need to find anything for a long time!
I expect that someone will come up with a hack or add-on application that mimics graffiti
I haven't played with my Palm in a while, but I recall reading about several add-ons where you could program your own symbols. I'm sure one of them could've been converted to Graffiti; I think the trick was that they couldn't distribute it that way. I expect the alphabet file will be distributed under-the-table for those who want to keep Graffiti.
Dear Moderators: I know this post has some generalizations because it's about my being persuaded, so please, I would rather you ignore my post than mod it down.
LOL, I'm going to start putting that after all my posts! Maybe I can even troll with that and keep my karma!
Where do your local bands currently make most of their money? CD sales, concerts or merchandise?
It seems to me that increased availability (read cheaper or even free) of their recorded music would improve the revenue of the other two products, but I'm not in the entertainment industry.
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On the other hand, this is the guy who named his anonymous P2P network "Freenet" when that name has been used for many other things.
I don't know if he intentionally uses well-used names, but it sure can be a pain to search for Freenet info because free ISPs keep popping up. I expect Locutus will turn up a bunch of Star Trek fan sites.
It occurred to me recently that they may have considered the possibility of where debris falls when they made Florida the primary landing zone. Or maybe it's just happy coincidence.
At any rate it seems like a shuttle breaking up returning to Earth would only fall in the Pacific Ocean or the USA due to the return path.
Columbia broke up during the point of highest stress, which would be the most likely point for a breakup, and it was dead center over the contenintal U.S. Coincidence or design?
I wonder about a shuttle taking off, though. It seems to me that it might fall into another country if it exploded farther up than Challenger did.
Damn Goodwill and Salvation Army! I still see poor people under bridges and graffiti on walls. This is why I don't give to United Way, these agencies just aren't ready for production use.
Why not just drop a big ass rope off the space station?
Don't know how serious you are, but first off carbon nanotube fiber is the only thing known that would be strong enough and light enough for a space elevator.
The elevator will have to be carefully deployed; You can't drop it down from the space station because A: at that speed gravity is counterbalanced so the 'rope' won't fall; and B: the space station is not geostationary and would drag the 'rope' through the atmosphere and burn it up.
Read the High Lift Systems web site thoroughly on the proposed deployment procedures and the forces that will complicate the process.
Man, I had this vision of a white XBOX controller with only one action button. *shudders*
Yes, but that controller would look really really cool, cost twice as much and have a fierce and vocal fan club.
I've read that that the ext2 filesystem can support ACLs but not many have implemented them.
A quick Google search brought me to this patch for ACL for ext2 with mention of POSIX ACLs, so I'm not crazy.
I've worked with Novell and WinNT in a production environment and find that fine grained access controls are an incredible pain in the ass. If I can maintain a tiered inherited simple structure then my life is much simpler than if this group wants to share one file in their folder with person A in city X but this file is for person B in city Y but they shouldn't see the rest.
Then later on a stupid coworker gives person C read access (or worse yet full access) to the root volume because of rights confusion. That happens too frequently: a lazy or hurried admin just gives full access to get the production issues smoothed out at great risk to security. (No one's deleted anything, but has a worker noticed at some point that he was able to view his senior manager's sensitive documents before I caught the error? I hope not.)
I avoid the convoluted ACL situation where possible and keep separate folders for separate ACLs/permissions and try not to subtract from inheritence.
How do you plan to back up that one-time pad?
Simple. Use a "trusted" third party! Like maybe the U.S. government, Verisign or Paypal.
It obviously seems to be a lot of junk traffic, but the only part we can say is bad requests are part 3 and 4 from the chart. Bad spellings must go to the root since there may be such domains!
Hrm, I think I'm responsible for a lot of #2 (unknown top-level domains). I'm a fast typist, but faster than accurate and send a lot of browser to DNS looking for ".cmo" addresses.
I wonder if it might be wise to block common misspellings like ".cmo". On one hand you're limiting possible future expansion, but on the other hand you're helping me.
I'm just glad there isn't a porn ".cmo" TLD or I'd have been fired ages ago.
I thought the phrase 'first post' automatically gave you a -4!
It got him a -9! But also +11:
Moderation Totals: Offtopic=1, Flamebait=2, Troll=1, Funny=10, Overrated=5, Underrated=1, Total=20.
I guess he started at 2. Congrats! And well said.
Anyway, the fact that it reaches +5 means that moderators agree with it.
:-)
The moderators seem somewhat divided on the subject. Here are the moderations for that post as of now:
Offtopic=2, Insightful=1, Interesting=1, Funny=5, Overrated=3, Underrated=1, Total=13
It got a new funny in the time between when I first read it and the time I looked at the mods. I'm sure it will go down and up a few more times.
Maybe I should post this as anonymous to avoid the Offtopic Karma hit. Nah, I'll just hit "No Karma Bonus" and feel the 2 point burn.
By the way, the grandparent post says CmdrTaco does most of the dupes; in my experience it's Timothy who is the king of dupes. I want my money back.
Are they ill-tempered sea bass?
Cygwin is designed to provide a UNIX-like environment under windows. The setup program is very nice for GNU/Linux users who know they want, for example, tcsh, libjpeg, gcc, X, Windowmaker and vim. After you have Cygwin installed you are left with a desktop shortcut that launches bash in a windows command window. The rest is up to you.
GNUWin II appears to be aimed to offer Windows users free alternitives to their proprietary applications, and perhaps to inform them about some free softare / open source political ideas.
The difference is largely the user target, and I assume GNUWin II's installers will be friendly for those used to cliking "Normal", "Next", "Yes" and "OK" and will place icons in the start menu and/or desktop.
By the way, GNUWin II guys, I went to the site, saw the link for Pingus next to Lemmings on the "Free Alternatives" page, but there are no stable versions available to download for any OS. The download page is full of "don't use this" comments. The last news item dated 12-22-02 said that a working release might show up in a few days.
Popup ads aimed at airborne websurfers:
<flashing> Your aircraft may not be optimized!!!!
[ OK ]
Seduce flight attendants FAST!!
[ OK ]
Your might be in danger from TERRORISTS! Find out who is on your plane.
<link>Consumer/Credit reports
This will allow tablet PCs and other PDA styled devices to have what the desktop PC world takes for granted.
<sigh> I'll sure miss the whine, heat and gyroscopic resistance of my HDD, though. Oh, and the clatter of thrashing heads, and the rare treat of crashing heads. These are the days my friends. Remember them well.
How do I become a hacker??
Simple! Use Microsoft Outlook. All you need to do is add your target to your address book before reading your email. You're really leet if you hook it up to an Exchange server.
I have seen screenshots of Windows task manager showing (2) CPU performance graphs.
Since the "Professional" line of NT/2K/XP kernels only support two processors, does this mean you can only use one HT CPU?
Since when was Kleenex a verb?
I Kleenex'ed my swimsuit magazine last night.
I quit using AV before it went haywire. It used to be my favorite for searching for obscure things like screen-printed numbers off of an IC to figure out what it was. It used to be the most complete and up-to-date search engine, but the result ordering seemed random and for searching common terms I had to wade through several pages and surf several sites before I found what I want.
I actually used Yahoo! for quite a while; for some reason whenever I needed to search it was for a company's web site or something that Yahoo! was likely to have cataloged.
I used Google Groups after they bought out DejaNews, but I didn't use the Google web search until I started reading Slashdot and it seemed the de facto geek search engine. I love it now.
I can't remember what I was using after AV and before Google for searches that weren't Yahoo!'s strengths. Maybe I just didn't need to find anything for a long time!
I expect that someone will come up with a hack or add-on application that mimics graffiti
I haven't played with my Palm in a while, but I recall reading about several add-ons where you could program your own symbols. I'm sure one of them could've been converted to Graffiti; I think the trick was that they couldn't distribute it that way. I expect the alphabet file will be distributed under-the-table for those who want to keep Graffiti.
At least one such add-on was freely available.
You can imagine my relief when, reading further, I see that its $96/cpu.
Yes, but is that concurrent cpu or per cpu socket licensing?
The only significant computer purchases made these days by businesses and consumers alike contain the words "Dell", "Intel", and "Microsoft".
Somebody better tell that to IBM--fast.
You must have experience in python, awk, squeak, moo, bark, and oink.
How about Bison and YACC?
Dear Moderators: I know this post has some generalizations because it's about my being persuaded, so please, I would rather you ignore my post than mod it down.
LOL, I'm going to start putting that after all my posts! Maybe I can even troll with that and keep my karma!
Where do your local bands currently make most of their money? CD sales, concerts or merchandise?
It seems to me that increased availability (read cheaper or even free) of their recorded music would improve the revenue of the other two products, but I'm not in the entertainment industry.