There's a big difference between attacking a military target (building / vehicle / person) and killing civilians who are near it, and explicitly targetting civilians. There's no rationale for attacking a children's school other than to kill children & terrorize people. (unless, of course, arms are stockpiled inside, etc; that turns it into a potential military target. Re: al-Sadr hiding in mosques. But I digress!)
I cannot vouch for all the Israeli attacks, but many of the condemned attacks have involved military targets. Yes, sometimes civilians were killed; if you put your military bases & arms stockpiles *in residential neighborhoods*, what do you expect?
Maybe at the momeht they are, but they're not very "close" friends! Remember the surveillance plane they harassed, crashed into and then hung onto? That was just a few years ago...
This isn't a case of preparing to fight the *LAST* war, it's preparing to fight the *NEXT* war. Technology like this takes a while to develop; if there's, say, a 20-year lead time, how confident are you other countries missiles will not pose a threat for 20 years?
Hmmm... I don't think I'm an OS hobbyist, so that narrows my choices down to dabbler or dilettante... I'll go with dabbler, even though dilettante sounds more fun!
Although I have 2 home boxes running OpenBSD; can I dabble with one, and be a dilettante with the other?
Back in the late '80s, early '90s, worked on (DOS-based) commercial products written in APL. APL is an interpreted language, written in Greek & math symbols, some overstrikes.
Each byte of that 640K was precious, so it was common practice to "de-comment" the code before release; remove all comments, reduce whitespace, move multiple statements onto a single line, possibly shorten variable names. You could gain a substantial (for the time) amount of memory that way. You also dynamically imported/destroyed functions.
I regularly debugged client systems with "de-commented" APL; if you could read that, you could read anything!
The Camaro/Firebird V8 has been an aluminum-block since '98 (possibly '97, but definitely since '98). The LS1 was introduced in the Corvette, then the F-bodies picked it up. My wife's car is a '00; I've driven raucous high-horsepower cars, but this one is very smooth in normal driving. You'd never know it has 305-HP, and even more torque. Later years, and the SS versions, pumped out even more power stock.
If you had the room for the install, the torquey V8 could use a lower cruising RPM, hopefully a longer life than the turbo-4.
Yeah, it's a shame we ever allowed the oil companies to develop nuclear weapons. They've kept the American auto industry away from building cheap fusion-powered flying cars, ever since they nuked Honda & Toyota back to the Stone Age. And what can we do, except stay away from Canada (those Canucks with their straw-to-ethanol enzymes; you know they're getting blasted into atoms any day now! What were they thinking?!)
Damn oil-company overlords... I'll never welcome them! Never!
Got to go - I hear the medication cart coming down the hall.
I know you were kidding (hope you were kidding), but - HushMail's free/premium Web email service encrypts email both on their servers, and from your browser to their servers.
Once it gets sent out to another server, it's (potentially) a different story. Most email is still sent unencrypted; HushMail gives you the option of sending as plain-text or sending encrypted (PGP/GPG compatible, I believe).
The main point relevant to this story: a compromise to HushMail's server's will not result in someone else reading your email. It also means, you'd better not forget your passphrase, or your stored emails become irretrievable random-looking gibberish!
adds stability to Win9x/ME workgroups
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I have limited Samba experience, but have found that my 5-box home network became much more stable after allowing Samba to become a browse master. We had occasional issues with printers dropping offline, files copyable one direction but not another, odd hangs where the only solution was a power-off reset, bringing boxes up in sequence.
Once I installed Samba on my main OpenBSD server, things quieted down. Took a few weeks before I realized: no Windows "hiccups" had happened! It's stayed that way for months now. I may have gotten the same effect by setting up a Windows PDC, but I don't have a "dedicated" box new enough to be useful for that. At this point, even if I don't need the shares, I'll leave it running just to stabilize the wife's WinME box!
Re:"Beer does not age for more than a few months at best."
Just have to correct this...
Beer actually ages wonderfully (at least for a year or two). Store-bought beer may not age well, but if you enjoy medium to heavy beers, porter, stout: find someone who makes home-brew. Acquire a few bottles. Chill and drink one. Let it age in a dark place for a year. Chill a 2nd bottle, drink it, and marvel at the deep rich taste.
Real beer ages well; drinkable after a month or so, tasty at 6 months, usually wonderful after a year. I've never managed to keep any for 2 years; I keep promising to set aside a case, but always drink it too soon. For all I know, it keeps getting better!
I use some page on my (yes, "dying")OpenBSD / Apache box, a few feet away from my PCs. Either a Links page (with SlashDot near the top!), or a "fortune" page for a bit of randomness each time.
A local page is handy, as it loads quickly. Using a Web page instead of a local file gives me a consistent, updated page on all local machines (my devel box, my wife's PC, my SQL Server test box, etc.). Periodically move frequently-used local bookmarks into the server's Links page, and I have my links on any local machine.
A small bit of SSI in an otherwise static page allows you to serve additional, not-publicly-visible links to machines on your local network. No, not for hiding porn, just hiding links to devel boxes that aren't publicly accessible.
Ahh, but they're beautiful pieces to see when they stay together. There's some active vintage-racers who have their cars set; it's amazing to see a Lotus-11 holding off GT-40s for a few laps, after they pit & he just keeps rolling around. Of course, they eventually blast past, but you've gotta love enduros...cars get really mixed together.
There are 2 CAFE standards
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There are 2 CAFE standards, and yes, even SUVs fall under CAFE. There is one standard for general cars, another (lower) for trucks/SUVs.
Perhaps some of the reasons SUVs sell like crazy are: small cars are too small for many family purposes, and the lower fuel-economy requirement allows for some perkiness when loaded. Make SUVs that get 50MPG, and no-one will buy them. They'll go back to full-size cars that get below-CAFE-average mileage.
As an example: my wife & I, and my three children, won't fit into a 4-passenger car. Preferably I'd have an extra seat left, for an additional friend or relative. That narrows down vehicle choices a bit.
I was thinking the same thing...
I have no problem with his setup, until the lights (small problem) and the chainsaw-against-neck (very big problem). The lights are just mean, but the chainsaw would trigger Dad tearing down the sidewalk, if he wasn't already standing near the kids to reassure them about the scary house. Expect a similar reaction if you stabbed them with a fake knife, or shot them with blanks.
The last few years, I've assisted my brother running a haunt; while it's very scary, he enforces a strict no-touching rule. We also ease up on the little ones, the scariest folks keep out of sight as they go through.
I did like the overturned car, wired for sound.
My wife's from Chicago, and I'm a Jersey boy. She created a song about New Jersey, which starts with the line:
Everything fun in Jersey, is, illegal.....
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There's a big difference between attacking a military target (building / vehicle / person) and killing civilians who are near it, and explicitly targetting civilians. There's no rationale for attacking a children's school other than to kill children & terrorize people. (unless, of course, arms are stockpiled inside, etc; that turns it into a potential military target. Re: al-Sadr hiding in mosques. But I digress!)
I cannot vouch for all the Israeli attacks, but many of the condemned attacks have involved military targets. Yes, sometimes civilians were killed; if you put your military bases & arms stockpiles *in residential neighborhoods*, what do you expect?
Maybe at the momeht they are, but they're not very "close" friends! Remember the surveillance plane they harassed, crashed into and then hung onto? That was just a few years ago...
This isn't a case of preparing to fight the *LAST* war, it's preparing to fight the *NEXT* war. Technology like this takes a while to develop; if there's, say, a 20-year lead time, how confident are you other countries missiles will not pose a threat for 20 years?
Hmmm... I don't think I'm an OS hobbyist, so that narrows my choices down to dabbler or dilettante... I'll go with dabbler, even though dilettante sounds more fun!
Although I have 2 home boxes running OpenBSD; can I dabble with one, and be a dilettante with the other?
Back in the late '80s, early '90s, worked on (DOS-based) commercial products written in APL. APL is an interpreted language, written in Greek & math symbols, some overstrikes.
Each byte of that 640K was precious, so it was common practice to "de-comment" the code before release; remove all comments, reduce whitespace, move multiple statements onto a single line, possibly shorten variable names. You could gain a substantial (for the time) amount of memory that way. You also dynamically imported/destroyed functions.
I regularly debugged client systems with "de-commented" APL; if you could read that, you could read anything!
And on the weight issue...
The Camaro/Firebird V8 has been an aluminum-block since '98 (possibly '97, but definitely since '98). The LS1 was introduced in the Corvette, then the F-bodies picked it up. My wife's car is a '00; I've driven raucous high-horsepower cars, but this one is very smooth in normal driving. You'd never know it has 305-HP, and even more torque. Later years, and the SS versions, pumped out even more power stock.
If you had the room for the install, the torquey V8 could use a lower cruising RPM, hopefully a longer life than the turbo-4.
Yeah, it's a shame we ever allowed the oil companies to develop nuclear weapons. They've kept the American auto industry away from building cheap fusion-powered flying cars, ever since they nuked Honda & Toyota back to the Stone Age. And what can we do, except stay away from Canada (those Canucks with their straw-to-ethanol enzymes; you know they're getting blasted into atoms any day now! What were they thinking?!)
Damn oil-company overlords... I'll never welcome them! Never!
Got to go - I hear the medication cart coming down the hall.
I know you were kidding (hope you were kidding), but - HushMail's free/premium Web email service encrypts email both on their servers, and from your browser to their servers.
Once it gets sent out to another server, it's (potentially) a different story. Most email is still sent unencrypted; HushMail gives you the option of sending as plain-text or sending encrypted (PGP/GPG compatible, I believe).
The main point relevant to this story: a compromise to HushMail's server's will not result in someone else reading your email. It also means, you'd better not forget your passphrase, or your stored emails become irretrievable random-looking gibberish!
I have limited Samba experience, but have found that my 5-box home network became much more stable after allowing Samba to become a browse master. We had occasional issues with printers dropping offline, files copyable one direction but not another, odd hangs where the only solution was a power-off reset, bringing boxes up in sequence.
Once I installed Samba on my main OpenBSD server, things quieted down. Took a few weeks before I realized: no Windows "hiccups" had happened! It's stayed that way for months now. I may have gotten the same effect by setting up a Windows PDC, but I don't have a "dedicated" box new enough to be useful for that. At this point, even if I don't need the shares, I'll leave it running just to stabilize the wife's WinME box!
Re:"Beer does not age for more than a few months at best."
Just have to correct this...
Beer actually ages wonderfully (at least for a year or two). Store-bought beer may not age well, but if you enjoy medium to heavy beers, porter, stout: find someone who makes home-brew. Acquire a few bottles. Chill and drink one. Let it age in a dark place for a year. Chill a 2nd bottle, drink it, and marvel at the deep rich taste.
Real beer ages well; drinkable after a month or so, tasty at 6 months, usually wonderful after a year. I've never managed to keep any for 2 years; I keep promising to set aside a case, but always drink it too soon. For all I know, it keeps getting better!
I use some page on my (yes, "dying")OpenBSD / Apache box, a few feet away from my PCs. Either a Links page (with SlashDot near the top!), or a "fortune" page for a bit of randomness each time.
A local page is handy, as it loads quickly. Using a Web page instead of a local file gives me a consistent, updated page on all local machines (my devel box, my wife's PC, my SQL Server test box, etc.). Periodically move frequently-used local bookmarks into the server's Links page, and I have my links on any local machine.
A small bit of SSI in an otherwise static page allows you to serve additional, not-publicly-visible links to machines on your local network. No, not for hiding porn, just hiding links to devel boxes that aren't publicly accessible.
Ahh, but they're beautiful pieces to see when they stay together. There's some active vintage-racers who have their cars set; it's amazing to see a Lotus-11 holding off GT-40s for a few laps, after they pit & he just keeps rolling around. Of course, they eventually blast past, but you've gotta love enduros...cars get really mixed together.
There are 2 CAFE standards, and yes, even SUVs fall under CAFE. There is one standard for general cars, another (lower) for trucks/SUVs. Perhaps some of the reasons SUVs sell like crazy are: small cars are too small for many family purposes, and the lower fuel-economy requirement allows for some perkiness when loaded. Make SUVs that get 50MPG, and no-one will buy them. They'll go back to full-size cars that get below-CAFE-average mileage. As an example: my wife & I, and my three children, won't fit into a 4-passenger car. Preferably I'd have an extra seat left, for an additional friend or relative. That narrows down vehicle choices a bit.
I was thinking the same thing... I have no problem with his setup, until the lights (small problem) and the chainsaw-against-neck (very big problem). The lights are just mean, but the chainsaw would trigger Dad tearing down the sidewalk, if he wasn't already standing near the kids to reassure them about the scary house. Expect a similar reaction if you stabbed them with a fake knife, or shot them with blanks. The last few years, I've assisted my brother running a haunt; while it's very scary, he enforces a strict no-touching rule. We also ease up on the little ones, the scariest folks keep out of sight as they go through. I did like the overturned car, wired for sound.
My wife's from Chicago, and I'm a Jersey boy. She created a song about New Jersey, which starts with the line: Everything fun in Jersey, is, illegal.....