Have you seen any pre-makes for this that are easily configurable? I've got a base system with most files in bzip'ed format... would like a small CD-bootable GUI that would allow for the user to choose various options during the install to unzip/configure the various packages.
Actually, I think that what he's probably talking about is a ramdisk similar to the ones used by knoppix. Essentially it's a section of memory initialized with a filesystem and mounted as a drive. Kernel initrd (Initial Ramdisk) is basically that in that part of the kernel is uncompressed from an image into a small "ramdisk."
Basically the way you would work this is to have the base kernel/system loaded off a hard-disk/card/CD, and put all your working space in memory. Again, bootCD's often use this approach to have writable "space" even without a physical disk present. And of course, since the RAM is cleared on reboot, so is the RAMdisk.
I think it's safer to say that mainstream music hasn't evolved as much in the past 30. There are lots of new or different styles of music, it's just that unless you listen to certain stations you probably aren't going to hear them above your regular rock/alternative stuff.
Flash has a nice little niche for silly animations and games
Maybe because I happen to *like* playing some of those "silly games" or those "silly animations" which are often quite decent little animated movies or even quality cartoons
Do I see you not using email because a bunch of idiots use it to send viagara spam? No...? didn't think so.
Blame those that misuse the tool to create crap, not those that make it, and certainly not those that use it to view content.
Actually, the family being billed for the bullet part is about right. According to some of my friends from China, if you are executed for various crimes, your family will be sent a bill for the bullet used.
Unless Vonage pays fees to the network provider, there is no reason the operator should not make the service a lower priority on the network.
How about this. I pay for my internet account. In fact, in comparison to most people, I pay a fair bit (business connection). If the ISP is curtailing my service to a particular company, or raising their own above, they're impacting the service that I paid for.
So really, the reaction from another company (such as say, "Vonage" wouldn't have as much impact as a bunch of customers getting really pissed off because their ISP messed with their Vonage connection.
Does that mean he stole personal/credit info to fund his spamming scheme, attached the names of others to the email crapulence which he distributed, or just joe-jobbed other people's email addresses/servers in the "FROM" field when sending to those he spammed?
Nice to see another spammer get nailed, but the article is a bit sparse on such details...
The issue at hand is how long do we wait for the "just in case we were wrong."
Capital punishment with the appeals process is a joke. While some individuals are obviously screwed up no matter how long they're incarcerated, others - by the time they're ready for the long march - have at least in some way turned their lives around. Facing almost certain death gives some reason for one to examine one's life, after all.
The killer who goes into jail may not be the person that goes down in the end.
In China it seems to be more simple. Guilt, Gun, bullet. The family of the deceased even gets sent a bill for the bullet. Expense-wise it's much more efficient.
The issue and cost at hand though, isn't really the death, it's the incarceration leading up to death, and then trying to make that death as "humane" as possible. Personally, I believe that a bullet to the head is probably fairly quick and painless (depending on calibre). Perhaps something such as the guillotine would be equally or more effective.
I remember a Larry Niven book - Flatlander - which is set in the futuristic world (which Niven created through several literary works). It deals a lot with the issue of how medical science can pretty much graft any organ from one individual to another, but there is a shortage of organs.
People want to live, so the government drafts that criminals have XX years before - if not found innocent - they are reduced to pieces for the organ banks.
The problem? We run out of criminals. So then we up the penalties... DUI becomes a penalty worthy of dissection, etc.
The result is that while overall crime decreases, particularly nasty ones (such as organlegging, where people are murdered for their organs for the black market) become more profitable - the theory of supply VS demand etc.
While it might stop a few hackers by upping the penalties... most don't believe they'd be caught and the heightened penalty would probably even drive up the thrill for most of them. In addition, like the book, upping the penalties for one such crime (non violent, financial) would be a stepping stone for upping other such crimes as warez trading etc.
In the end, we might have less criminals, but the ones that exist would become more elite and the profit greater.
I'm trying to think of an appropriate term that fits here instead though. In the case of the net trading is almost a barter-type system, so it's hard to tie into words:
Exchange of physical goods: Fine if you're getting a tangible item for your filetrading, but when you're just trading files there are no physical goods.
Exchange of assets: Perhaps, but then somebody could just do something for me in exchange for what I want (nobody has slept with me in exchange for Mp3's yet though).
Exchange of goods or services: Probably covers the above, but could be a bit too broad as well. Perhaps exchange of appreciable goods/services... something that basically states what being traded should have a value for trade. Theoretically you *could* even trade your wife kisses/etc for some other item that you value.
The problem is that much so-called "piracy" on the internet occurs without financial gain. It's done for fun or mutual benefit, not profit.
You know, if China went on to develop a bunch of patent-free new techology and standards, I wonder how much of the world would adopt them? Really, it sounds like a good thing to me... if the standards work, then I'd much rather see adoption of a more-open not-patent-uncumbered Chinese techology than a strangling US one. Chinese technology could then likely become more friendly to OSS than its US counterpart.
So, Mozilla 1.8 is going to include basic FTP upload support. I've always wondered how Filezilla fits into the mix. To me, it seems that it's just tailing on the 'zilla name, and no real relation. FileZilla is really a pretty good FTP program - but it is windows-only. I'd like to see the FileZilla team hook up with the Moz team though, maybe add it to the suite and/or make a linux/Mac branch.
Before I started running mainly my own mailserver, I used to keep an account at gmx.net. At the end of a certain period, they would summary email me stating which messages were marked as SPAM and were to be summarily trashed. If I checked my mail on time, I could catch emails which were not spam and move then to the "inbox" through a webmail interface.
I've considered a similar system (but not had time to configure it yet) where a user could basically flag emails in a file similar to a.fetchmailrc: mail the user a summary of marked "spam" messages, with links to mark email such as:
-This is spam
-Subscribed (bulkmail that is wanted from a particular domain)
-Known contact (mail wanted from a particular person)
-Keyword/wanted (link to a form in which you could specify an identifier in the mail, such as LUG mails that are all have a prefixed subject).
Legitimate emails could all be tagged with a footer that says:
-Block sender
-Block sending domain
-Block by keyword
Just to outline the point, there's a recent reuters article about how mortuaries are now having to remove the fillings because they create toxic smoke during the cremation process.
Not something I would want in my mouth, thank you!
Have you considered putting together a journal about your experiences with the disorder? I would find it interested to learn more from somebody who actually experiences life in this manner.
Because while we might not all be professionals in such areas, but there are some. Moreover, due the volume of visitors to slashdot, it's not unreasonable to suggest that some have had a similar experience and may be able to offer helpful suggestions.
You don't have to be a professional to offer life-experience, and sometimes that's worth more than a medical diagnoses, particularly when you realize that you aren't alone with a problem...
First of all, murders would often be an issue for local law enforcement. Serials killers perhaps an FBI issue, but otherwise it would be the jurisdiction of the local PD.
Terrorists... if you look at all the steps taken to "combat terrorism," I'd rather they backed off a bit on their current focus before I end up with SWAT in my living room. Proactive steps against terrorist attacks would be good, but the "war against terror" is more like a witch-hunt with an agendy for implenting draconian laws.
Spies. I suppose that goes with the above. How many FBI agents should go towards the above? It's not really a good decision to ignore a given crime in favour of another - it's more a matter of scale for both enforcement and punishment.
Why should CANSPAM kill state laws though? CANSPAN gives an allowed for following certain conditions. A state law can add several additional conditions. I believe the laws are set up so that federal cannot fully override state laws?
Basically, the federal law would be like a blanket law for states w/o their own antispam laws, the state laws would add other conditions.
I think that what we need is a legal barrier against patents against profitable enterprise. Pentium chips have been around awhile, and it's not like they were part of a cloak and dagger operation.
Sure, if a company X uses my technology I should be able to put forth an initial lawsuit to either block the usage or seek royalties. What I should not be able to do, is hold my patent cards close to my hand whilst waiting for anothers' product to make a big profit, then try to capitalize on their profit by sueing with my patent.
With the volume of existing patents finding an existing infringement for a large project is like finding a needle in a haystack. Moreover, by the patent holder not coming forth much earlier, the supposedly 'infringing' company has been robbed of their right to seek non-infringing technology as an alternate.
Regardless of the SUV's... and the fact that the article seems overly optimistic, this is a step in a good direction. While this one plant obviously doesn't come near to providing a solution, time could yield increased efficiency and more plants.
Also, redirection of organic waste that would otherwise end up elsewhere isn't a bad plan either. Perhaps if they started adding reprocessing plants to major landfills we could exchange waste for oil.
In the meantime, while SUV's etc are definately a problem, the high oil prices provide a visible indicator that perhaps such vehicles cost more than they're worth. Lots of oil is still being used for fueling things other than automobiles though.... so to be fair it's a lot more than just SUV drivers that need to cut back - overconsumption is a much more global issue.
I had a really weird one, and I really can't blame the techs support for being a bit confused by this one because it really is odd. (fyi, I'm a tech for our company, and was talking to the techs of what is basically our ISP).
Basically, we had a server that, after being on for awhile, would lose connectivity on a certain IP address. The machine had about 5 IP's bound into a single NIC... and after IP #2 would die, #1, #3-5 would still be happily accessible.
Well, the internet dudes fully disclaimed any responsibility, citing the problem to be on my end. So thus began a week of troubles, replacing NICs, checking cabling. Eventually, the server itself was move off the main IPs and another brought up to test the issue. Same problem.
After awhile, I noticed something. Whilst trying to access the main server on the "dead" IP address, I couldn't get in. However, if I accessed server #2 (formerly the main server), and then server #1 to copy files, the IP was accessible. Armed with that information, I hailed the ISP tech support, and loe and behold after much investigation it turns out that the cisco router has a bunch of CPU hash errors in the logs. So... router goes out, new router in, and problem goes away.
To be fair, it gave me a much needed opportunity to replace some crap cable and do other things with the server - and all downtown that would have otherwise been associated with that anyways was put to the router problem which caused the primary issue.
Yes, but the more accepted difference is that a hub is basically a repeater whilst a switch by design allows data to flow only to the destination(s) intended.
From there you could go into the fun of explaining the duplex, as well as the issues with collisions, security, etc etc etc.
Of course, with your average drone customer he would have stopped hearing after the first sentence anyhow...
Methinks that anyone making their own wouldn't be considered lazy - seeing as though the case probably takes a lot more effort to make than just grabbing a cold one from the fridge.
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Have you seen any pre-makes for this that are easily configurable? I've got a base system with most files in bzip'ed format... would like a small CD-bootable GUI that would allow for the user to choose various options during the install to unzip/configure the various packages.
Actually, I think that what he's probably talking about is a ramdisk similar to the ones used by knoppix. Essentially it's a section of memory initialized with a filesystem and mounted as a drive. Kernel initrd (Initial Ramdisk) is basically that in that part of the kernel is uncompressed from an image into a small "ramdisk."
Basically the way you would work this is to have the base kernel/system loaded off a hard-disk/card/CD, and put all your working space in memory. Again, bootCD's often use this approach to have writable "space" even without a physical disk present. And of course, since the RAM is cleared on reboot, so is the RAMdisk.
I think it's safer to say that mainstream music hasn't evolved as much in the past 30. There are lots of new or different styles of music, it's just that unless you listen to certain stations you probably aren't going to hear them above your regular rock/alternative stuff.
Flash has a nice little niche for silly animations and games
Maybe because I happen to *like* playing some of those "silly games" or those "silly animations" which are often quite decent little animated movies or even quality cartoons
Do I see you not using email because a bunch of idiots use it to send viagara spam? No...? didn't think so.
Blame those that misuse the tool to create crap, not those that make it, and certainly not those that use it to view content.
Actually, the family being billed for the bullet part is about right. According to some of my friends from China, if you are executed for various crimes, your family will be sent a bill for the bullet used.
Unless Vonage pays fees to the network provider, there is no reason the operator should not make the service a lower priority on the network.
How about this. I pay for my internet account. In fact, in comparison to most people, I pay a fair bit (business connection). If the ISP is curtailing my service to a particular company, or raising their own above, they're impacting the service that I paid for.
So really, the reaction from another company (such as say, "Vonage" wouldn't have as much impact as a bunch of customers getting really pissed off because their ISP messed with their Vonage connection.
Does that mean he stole personal/credit info to fund his spamming scheme, attached the names of others to the email crapulence which he distributed, or just joe-jobbed other people's email addresses/servers in the "FROM" field when sending to those he spammed?
Nice to see another spammer get nailed, but the article is a bit sparse on such details...
The issue at hand is how long do we wait for the "just in case we were wrong."
Capital punishment with the appeals process is a joke. While some individuals are obviously screwed up no matter how long they're incarcerated, others - by the time they're ready for the long march - have at least in some way turned their lives around. Facing almost certain death gives some reason for one to examine one's life, after all.
The killer who goes into jail may not be the person that goes down in the end.
In China it seems to be more simple. Guilt, Gun, bullet. The family of the deceased even gets sent a bill for the bullet. Expense-wise it's much more efficient.
The issue and cost at hand though, isn't really the death, it's the incarceration leading up to death, and then trying to make that death as "humane" as possible. Personally, I believe that a bullet to the head is probably fairly quick and painless (depending on calibre). Perhaps something such as the guillotine would be equally or more effective.
I remember a Larry Niven book - Flatlander - which is set in the futuristic world (which Niven created through several literary works). It deals a lot with the issue of how medical science can pretty much graft any organ from one individual to another, but there is a shortage of organs.
People want to live, so the government drafts that criminals have XX years before - if not found innocent - they are reduced to pieces for the organ banks.
The problem? We run out of criminals. So then we up the penalties... DUI becomes a penalty worthy of dissection, etc.
The result is that while overall crime decreases, particularly nasty ones (such as organlegging, where people are murdered for their organs for the black market) become more profitable - the theory of supply VS demand etc.
While it might stop a few hackers by upping the penalties... most don't believe they'd be caught and the heightened penalty would probably even drive up the thrill for most of them. In addition, like the book, upping the penalties for one such crime (non violent, financial) would be a stepping stone for upping other such crimes as warez trading etc.
In the end, we might have less criminals, but the ones that exist would become more elite and the profit greater.
I'm trying to think of an appropriate term that fits here instead though. In the case of the net trading is almost a barter-type system, so it's hard to tie into words:
Exchange of physical goods: Fine if you're getting a tangible item for your filetrading, but when you're just trading files there are no physical goods.
Exchange of assets: Perhaps, but then somebody could just do something for me in exchange for what I want (nobody has slept with me in exchange for Mp3's yet though).
Exchange of goods or services: Probably covers the above, but could be a bit too broad as well. Perhaps exchange of appreciable goods/services... something that basically states what being traded should have a value for trade. Theoretically you *could* even trade your wife kisses/etc for some other item that you value.
The problem is that much so-called "piracy" on the internet occurs without financial gain. It's done for fun or mutual benefit, not profit.
You know, if China went on to develop a bunch of patent-free new techology and standards, I wonder how much of the world would adopt them? Really, it sounds like a good thing to me... if the standards work, then I'd much rather see adoption of a more-open not-patent-uncumbered Chinese techology than a strangling US one. Chinese technology could then likely become more friendly to OSS than its US counterpart.
So the spam-zombie equivilent would be either:
SPAAAAAAAAAM
or
Maaaaaaaail
I wonder if I could modify the little AOL voice into zomebieism. You've got maiiiiiil.
So, Mozilla 1.8 is going to include basic FTP upload support. I've always wondered how Filezilla fits into the mix. To me, it seems that it's just tailing on the 'zilla name, and no real relation. FileZilla is really a pretty good FTP program - but it is windows-only. I'd like to see the FileZilla team hook up with the Moz team though, maybe add it to the suite and/or make a linux/Mac branch.
Before I started running mainly my own mailserver, I used to keep an account at gmx.net. At the end of a certain period, they would summary email me stating which messages were marked as SPAM and were to be summarily trashed. If I checked my mail on time, I could catch emails which were not spam and move then to the "inbox" through a webmail interface.
.fetchmailrc: mail the user a summary of marked "spam" messages, with links to mark email such as:
I've considered a similar system (but not had time to configure it yet) where a user could basically flag emails in a file similar to a
-This is spam
-Subscribed (bulkmail that is wanted from a particular domain)
-Known contact (mail wanted from a particular person)
-Keyword/wanted (link to a form in which you could specify an identifier in the mail, such as LUG mails that are all have a prefixed subject).
Legitimate emails could all be tagged with a footer that says:
-Block sender
-Block sending domain
-Block by keyword
Just to outline the point, there's a recent reuters article about how mortuaries are now having to remove the fillings because they create toxic smoke during the cremation process.
Not something I would want in my mouth, thank you!
Feel free to email me about getting some free webspace.
http://phorm.phormix.com/cgi-bin/mailme.cgi
Sorry about the mailer page. I avoid putting my email online since I tend to get spammed a lot, especially with addresses on slashdot.
Have you considered putting together a journal about your experiences with the disorder? I would find it interested to learn more from somebody who actually experiences life in this manner.
Because while we might not all be professionals in such areas, but there are some. Moreover, due the volume of visitors to slashdot, it's not unreasonable to suggest that some have had a similar experience and may be able to offer helpful suggestions.
You don't have to be a professional to offer life-experience, and sometimes that's worth more than a medical diagnoses, particularly when you realize that you aren't alone with a problem...
First of all, murders would often be an issue for local law enforcement. Serials killers perhaps an FBI issue, but otherwise it would be the jurisdiction of the local PD.
Terrorists... if you look at all the steps taken to "combat terrorism," I'd rather they backed off a bit on their current focus before I end up with SWAT in my living room. Proactive steps against terrorist attacks would be good, but the "war against terror" is more like a witch-hunt with an agendy for implenting draconian laws.
Spies. I suppose that goes with the above. How many FBI agents should go towards the above? It's not really a good decision to ignore a given crime in favour of another - it's more a matter of scale for both enforcement and punishment.
Why should CANSPAM kill state laws though? CANSPAN gives an allowed for following certain conditions. A state law can add several additional conditions. I believe the laws are set up so that federal cannot fully override state laws?
Basically, the federal law would be like a blanket law for states w/o their own antispam laws, the state laws would add other conditions.
I think that what we need is a legal barrier against patents against profitable enterprise. Pentium chips have been around awhile, and it's not like they were part of a cloak and dagger operation.
Sure, if a company X uses my technology I should be able to put forth an initial lawsuit to either block the usage or seek royalties. What I should not be able to do, is hold my patent cards close to my hand whilst waiting for anothers' product to make a big profit, then try to capitalize on their profit by sueing with my patent.
With the volume of existing patents finding an existing infringement for a large project is like finding a needle in a haystack. Moreover, by the patent holder not coming forth much earlier, the supposedly 'infringing' company has been robbed of their right to seek non-infringing technology as an alternate.
Regardless of the SUV's... and the fact that the article seems overly optimistic, this is a step in a good direction. While this one plant obviously doesn't come near to providing a solution, time could yield increased efficiency and more plants.
Also, redirection of organic waste that would otherwise end up elsewhere isn't a bad plan either. Perhaps if they started adding reprocessing plants to major landfills we could exchange waste for oil.
In the meantime, while SUV's etc are definately a problem, the high oil prices provide a visible indicator that perhaps such vehicles cost more than they're worth. Lots of oil is still being used for fueling things other than automobiles though.... so to be fair it's a lot more than just SUV drivers that need to cut back - overconsumption is a much more global issue.
I had a really weird one, and I really can't blame the techs support for being a bit confused by this one because it really is odd. (fyi, I'm a tech for our company, and was talking to the techs of what is basically our ISP).
Basically, we had a server that, after being on for awhile, would lose connectivity on a certain IP address. The machine had about 5 IP's bound into a single NIC... and after IP #2 would die, #1, #3-5 would still be happily accessible.
Well, the internet dudes fully disclaimed any responsibility, citing the problem to be on my end. So thus began a week of troubles, replacing NICs, checking cabling. Eventually, the server itself was move off the main IPs and another brought up to test the issue. Same problem.
After awhile, I noticed something. Whilst trying to access the main server on the "dead" IP address, I couldn't get in. However, if I accessed server #2 (formerly the main server), and then server #1 to copy files, the IP was accessible. Armed with that information, I hailed the ISP tech support, and loe and behold after much investigation it turns out that the cisco router has a bunch of CPU hash errors in the logs. So... router goes out, new router in, and problem goes away.
To be fair, it gave me a much needed opportunity to replace some crap cable and do other things with the server - and all downtown that would have otherwise been associated with that anyways was put to the router problem which caused the primary issue.
Yes, but the more accepted difference is that a hub is basically a repeater whilst a switch by design allows data to flow only to the destination(s) intended.
From there you could go into the fun of explaining the duplex, as well as the issues with collisions, security, etc etc etc.
Of course, with your average drone customer he would have stopped hearing after the first sentence anyhow...
Methinks that anyone making their own wouldn't be considered lazy - seeing as though the case probably takes a lot more effort to make than just grabbing a cold one from the fridge.