As I had commented earlier today in another story, what's more impressive is the rapid recovery from last year's explosion. Funny the Brazilians are fond of conspiracy stories about that. (Quite a few think the CIA had something to do with it - leftover distrust from the era of military rule) This launch was not as ambitious as the craft which was destroyed, but at least Brazil didn't stay paralyzed after the tragedy. Hopefully they can keep up the momentum - without attracting too much attention. Certain parties might view the recent nuclear developments (new enrichment technology) in association with the rocket program and start thinking Brasil is developing ICBM's
Off topic aside - I had thought about posting this story but I had submitted one about Operacao Cavalo de Troia II - 53 phish scammers busted for over 30M in bank fraud -19 of them in the interior city where I work, I had some relatively inside information on the bust. But no I'm not bitter:P
Unfortunate that the manufacturers have done this, as I will be buying a low-mid-range AGP card at the beginning of November, as that will be the period when someone can bring it down for me. Hopefully will be able to catch the price drop (post Back-to-school, pre Christmas rush). The only two contenders currently in my price range are the ATI 9800 XT or the nVidia 5900. I'm leaning more to the nVidia for the motive of better Linux drivers, but I'm still pissed off over a mx440 that fried and took out my last motherboard with its death throes.
And how many linux users had the installer version (the easy to find link) crap out, then have to go back and rummage around to get the version without?
Yes, the extension is called Download With. I'm not sure if it works with 1.0PR, but I use it with 0.98 with Prozilla as my download manager. Downloading source tarballs over dialup requires frequent resumes, so i find this extension very useful.
I find even the standard not to be clear in certain cases:
For example is it correct to build mplayer in/opt/mplayer or in/usr/local/mplayer. Put the executable in/usr/bin or usr/local/bin? Where is the correct spot to save miscellaneous tarballs? It's hard to follow standards when they're not complete.
Gets even better when you are using the Firesomething extension. Vanilla Moistpussy, now THERE'S a browser!
In addition, I currently use the Download With extension in association with Prozilla, which comes in handy for those mp^h^h source file downloads, especially on unreliable dial-up connections.
Thanks for the link, I'm laughing my ass off at the number of surfers out there in the water. Some baddass waves going on there, mind you if I was there I might be tempted, but I find anything over 3 m a bit scary, not to mention too exhausting paddling out past the rebentation er break zone
Slight error in the math there: If the other guy is on the other side of the planet that's HALF the circumference: Giving us a more respectable 67 ms ping time!!!
Dem bones dem bones dem dry bones... The skull-bone connected to the jaw-bone The jawbone connected to the shoulderbone...err
Actually this sounds like excellent news, especially for someone like me who is perpetually in danger of getting t-boned on my bike by some irresponsable driver who doesn't look before entering an intersection.
>>Watch whilst the US tourist industry takes a dive because of this bureaucratic stupidity.
Not just the tourist industry. A recent issue of Epoca (Brazilian magazine similar to Time) had the following tidbit about the where Brazilians were studying languages abroad: 2001: USA 1st with 34%
Canada 2nd with 21%
UK 3rd with 14% New Zealand 4th with 11%
Australia 5th with 11%
Spain 6th with 4%
Others 5%
Now with the current situation we have the following: 2003: Canada 1st with 36%
UK 2nd with 14%
Spain 3rd with 14% Ronaldo joining Real Madrid probably had something to do with this too:P
Australia 4th with 13%
USA 5th with 8%
New Zealand 6th with 5%
Others 10%
People just don't feel welcome in the USA anymore, though there are other factors not mentioned: The Brazilian real dropped a lot in 2001/2002 versus the US dollar for example.
I checked the list and I didn't see the two bugs that are annoying me the most.
Write a CD, and you lose read access to the CD-RW drive. I think they use a pointer to the temporary directory that stores the files to be written, after writing the CD the temp is wiped but the pointer stays at the temp directory. Refreshing the CD window in explorer does not work, nor swapping out for another CD. Only fixes on reboot.
The other is the incomplete download bug, (may be IE, but I never see this on my win98 box) Download drops without losing connection and reports download complete with only part of the file downloaded. Why the hell doesn't windows support download resumes! geez I was using sz to ftp back in the dos days and it supported resuming downloads (I use leechget when I deign to run Win on my own box thank you, and prozilla/prozgui most of the time)
It's been done... Apparently there's some seamounts SW of Cali that generate some monster waves consistently. I've seen pictures, these guys are nuts.
The occasional 3m wave is scary enough for me.
I've been using Slackware for over 2 years in a dual-boot situation (Win 98). It started off pretty simple with a Zipslack install to a dos directory, using loadlin to switch to Linux. Shortly thereafter I used part2.4.3 to create a true linux partition and swapspace, manually copied the installation from the DOS partition to the linux partition, ran LILO and got lucky on the first try.
Still no X or sound, so first I downloaded an updated kernel (2.4.19 IIRC), then began filling in the required libraries. Got X working, but KDE crashed and burned due to a dependency problem while loading. After much trial and error worked around that with an older version of XFREE86 and some symlinks. Then switched from default SVGA to NVidia drivers. Still works but no sound yet.
Next "discovered" swaret and upgraded the whole kit and kaboodle to Slackware 9.1 (very slowly- I'm on dialup in the middle of Brazil). Got the ALSA drivers working somewhat, so now have sound.
Of course at this time the mX440 decided to die and take the AGP on the motherboard along with it, so the system gets a brain transplant. With no hope of getting back home where good hardware is reasonable, I opt for whats available - a somewhat crappy ASUS a7v266 motherboard.
The Windows part went without a too much trouble, boot to safe mode, uninstall the old hardware, do a quick search and destroy mission in the registry, reboot and let it grab the needed files off the motherboard CD. Now for Slack - BORF-kernel panic on boot.
About this time I get a good deal on a 120 gig HD, and as the hd in the kid's machine is dying, another transplant in order. Of course I'm a lazy fuck and will do anything to avoid a reinstall even if it takes longer. Windows - no problem at all, used part243 to clone the partition off the 40 gig drive, finished that part in 30mins with formatting and all. Decided my linux partition deserved to be somewhat larger, so I couldn't clone. Formatted the partition. Now what?
Remembered I STILL had the old ZIPSLACK installed on the windows partition i had cloned, ran loadlin and now had access to the old linux partition. Used the old linux to copy the files over to the new partition. Ran lilo & to boot the new linux partition. Kernel panic. Boot to DOS, run loadlin, fixed the references causing the kernel panic in rc.d (old NVIDIA cruft) reboot. Boots fine, no X, sound drivers still not right. Oops! Install cd only has linux drivers for old version of RH. Try to install manually anyway, kernel mismatch so give up. Change to plain old SVGA in XFree86Config, finally get X working, and lo and behold KDE is working too. Upgrade my moz to Waterfrog and start browsing in search of solutions. Which is where I am now.
>>all i want to know is why you need 9 patches for 4 holes
Hmm Just ran WinUpdate here on my work machine (XP pro). It was up to date as of Sunday, I get 5 updates to download: KB840315,KB842773,KB841873,KB823353,and KB839645 Four of these were exploitable vulnerabilities.
Late, last night, when everyone in bed, Old Mrs. Leary lit a lantern in the shed And when the cow kicked it over, She winked her eye and said, There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight (Fire! Fire! Fire!)
Anyhow the methane could have just as easily come from cosmic cow farts...
They don't come, when you call They don't chase squirrels at all, Dead Beagles aren't much fun. My Beagle died, late last fall He's still rotting in the hall Dead Beagles aren't much fun...
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As I had commented earlier today in another story, what's more impressive is the rapid recovery from last year's explosion. Funny the Brazilians are fond of conspiracy stories about that. (Quite a few think the CIA had something to do with it - leftover distrust from the era of military rule) This launch was not as ambitious as the craft which was destroyed, but at least Brazil didn't stay paralyzed after the tragedy. Hopefully they can keep up the momentum - without attracting too much attention. Certain parties might view the recent nuclear developments (new enrichment technology) in association with the rocket program and start thinking Brasil is developing ICBM's
:P
Off topic aside - I had thought about posting this story but I had submitted one about Operacao Cavalo de Troia II - 53 phish scammers busted for over 30M in bank fraud -19 of them in the interior city where I work, I had some relatively inside information on the bust. But no I'm not bitter
Brazil launched its first successful rocket Saturday from their Alcantarao base in Maranhao. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3948531.stm The two stage rocket, VSB-30, reached a maximum height of 250 km Good to see their program getting back on its feet after last years disaster http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/brazil_failur e_030822.htm which killed 21 of their top people
Also I remember seeing an article recently... Ah here it is: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/200409 17/sc_nm/environment_mussels_dc_2
about warm water mussels migrating north. So there at least seems to be a very consistent trend going on here, whether due to emissions or natural cycles or both.
>> As the article says, just go to tools: options: advanced: software updates and hit the Check Now button
But it wasn't like that at all for me:
Edit: Preferences: Advanced: Software Updates - Check Now
Not sure if I was all that vulnerable anyway, I've been using the Download With plugin since 0.9
Unfortunate that the manufacturers have done this, as I will be buying a low-mid-range AGP card at the beginning of November, as that will be the period when someone can bring it down for me. Hopefully will be able to catch the price drop (post Back-to-school, pre Christmas rush). The only two contenders currently in my price range are the ATI 9800 XT or the nVidia 5900. I'm leaning more to the nVidia for the motive of better Linux drivers, but I'm still pissed off over a mx440 that fried and took out my last motherboard with its death throes.
Also: wonder if this type of exploit had anything to do with the new patches in X 6.8.1: libXpm libraries http://freedesktop.org/bin/view/XOrg/Home#About_th e_X11R6_8_1_Release
And how many linux users had the installer version (the easy to find link) crap out, then have to go back and rummage around to get the version without?
Yes, the extension is called Download With. I'm not sure if it works with 1.0PR, but I use it with 0.98 with Prozilla as my download manager. Downloading source tarballs over dialup requires frequent resumes, so i find this extension very useful.
I find even the standard not to be clear in certain cases: /opt/mplayer or in /usr/local/mplayer. /usr/bin or usr/local/bin?
For example is it correct to build mplayer in
Put the executable in
Where is the correct spot to save miscellaneous tarballs?
It's hard to follow standards when they're not complete.
Gets even better when you are using the Firesomething extension.
Vanilla Moistpussy, now THERE'S a browser!
In addition, I currently use the Download With extension in association with Prozilla, which comes in handy for those mp^h^h source file downloads, especially on unreliable dial-up connections.
>>Iwonder if the author will find himself being tailed by suited guys in cars from now on....
Naw, he'll be too busy working on his tan...on the tarmac at Gitmo.
Thanks for the link, I'm laughing my ass off at the number of surfers out there in the water. Some baddass waves going on there, mind you if I was there I might be tempted, but I find anything over 3 m a bit scary, not to mention too exhausting paddling out past the rebentation er break zone
Slight error in the math there: If the other guy is
on the other side of the planet that's HALF the circumference: Giving us a more respectable 67 ms
ping time!!!
Dem bones dem bones dem dry bones...
The skull-bone connected to the jaw-bone
The jawbone connected to the shoulderbone...err
Actually this sounds like excellent news, especially for someone like me who is perpetually in danger of getting t-boned on my bike by some irresponsable driver who doesn't look before entering an intersection.
...Coz I use XMMS for my MP3 and FLAC goodness. Mind you it is supposed to be able to use WinAmp skins...
>>Watch whilst the US tourist industry takes a dive because of this bureaucratic stupidity.
:P
Not just the tourist industry. A recent issue of Epoca (Brazilian magazine similar to Time) had the following tidbit about the where Brazilians were studying languages abroad:
2001: USA 1st with 34%
Canada 2nd with 21%
UK 3rd with 14%
New Zealand 4th with 11%
Australia 5th with 11%
Spain 6th with 4%
Others 5%
Now with the current situation we have the following:
2003: Canada 1st with 36%
UK 2nd with 14%
Spain 3rd with 14% Ronaldo joining Real Madrid probably had something to do with this too
Australia 4th with 13%
USA 5th with 8%
New Zealand 6th with 5%
Others 10%
People just don't feel welcome in the USA anymore, though there are other factors not mentioned: The Brazilian real dropped a lot in 2001/2002 versus the US dollar for example.
...But Shinji was born the year of the SECOND impact ie after Antarctica got smucked AGAIN. We just have to kill Shinji's dad before he finds Adam.
I checked the list and I didn't see the two bugs that are annoying me the most.
Write a CD, and you lose read access to the CD-RW drive. I think they use a pointer to the temporary directory that stores the files to be written, after writing the CD the temp is wiped but the pointer stays at the temp directory. Refreshing the CD window in explorer does not work, nor swapping out for another CD. Only fixes on reboot.
The other is the incomplete download bug, (may be IE, but I never see this on my win98 box) Download drops without losing connection and reports download complete with only part of the file downloaded. Why the hell doesn't windows support download resumes! geez I was using sz to ftp back in the dos days and it supported resuming downloads (I use leechget when I deign to run Win on my own box thank you, and prozilla/prozgui most of the time)
I changed some of the options in Firesomething... :0
mine says Manzanilla Moistpussy
It's been done... Apparently there's some seamounts SW of Cali that generate some monster waves consistently. I've seen pictures, these guys are nuts.
The occasional 3m wave is scary enough for me.
I've been using Slackware for over 2 years in a dual-boot situation (Win 98). It started off pretty simple with a Zipslack install to a dos directory, using loadlin to switch to Linux. Shortly thereafter I used part2.4.3 to create a true linux partition and swapspace, manually copied the installation from the DOS partition to the linux partition, ran LILO and got lucky on the first try.
Still no X or sound, so first I downloaded an updated kernel (2.4.19 IIRC), then began filling in the required libraries. Got X working, but KDE crashed and burned due to a dependency problem while loading. After much trial and error worked around that with an older version of XFREE86 and some symlinks. Then switched from default SVGA to NVidia drivers. Still works but no sound yet.
Next "discovered" swaret and upgraded the whole kit and kaboodle to Slackware 9.1 (very slowly- I'm on dialup in the middle of Brazil). Got the ALSA drivers working somewhat, so now have sound.
Of course at this time the mX440 decided to die and take the AGP on the motherboard along with it, so the system gets a brain transplant. With no hope of getting back home where good hardware is reasonable, I opt for whats available - a somewhat crappy ASUS a7v266 motherboard.
The Windows part went without a too much trouble, boot to safe mode, uninstall the old hardware, do a quick search and destroy mission in the registry, reboot and let it grab the needed files off the motherboard CD. Now for Slack - BORF-kernel panic on boot.
About this time I get a good deal on a 120 gig HD, and as the hd in the kid's machine is dying, another transplant in order. Of course I'm a lazy fuck and will do anything to avoid a reinstall even if it takes longer. Windows - no problem at all, used part243 to clone the partition off the 40 gig drive, finished that part in 30mins with formatting and all. Decided my linux partition deserved to be somewhat larger, so I couldn't clone. Formatted the partition. Now what?
Remembered I STILL had the old ZIPSLACK installed on the windows partition i had cloned, ran loadlin and now had access to the old linux partition. Used the old linux to copy the files over to the new partition. Ran lilo & to boot the new linux partition. Kernel panic. Boot to DOS, run loadlin, fixed the references causing the kernel panic in rc.d (old NVIDIA cruft) reboot.
Boots fine, no X, sound drivers still not right. Oops! Install cd only has linux drivers for old version of RH. Try to install manually anyway, kernel mismatch so give up. Change to plain old SVGA in XFree86Config, finally get X working, and lo and behold KDE is working too. Upgrade my moz to Waterfrog and start browsing in search of solutions. Which is where I am now.
>>all i want to know is why you need 9 patches for 4 holes
d KB839645
Hmm Just ran WinUpdate here on my work machine (XP pro). It was up to date as of Sunday, I get 5 updates to download:
KB840315,KB842773,KB841873,KB823353,an
Four of these were exploitable vulnerabilities.
What were the other four???
Late, last night, when everyone in bed,
Old Mrs. Leary lit a lantern in the shed
And when the cow kicked it over,
She winked her eye and said,
There'll be a hot time
in the old town
tonight (Fire! Fire! Fire!)
Anyhow the methane could have just as easily come from cosmic cow farts...
...So I guess that www.sco.com will be back up by Feb. 13th... ...Unless you set the system clock back :P
For that matter beat the rush, and set system clock to Feb 1 today!!!
They don't come, when you call
They don't chase squirrels at all,
Dead Beagles aren't much fun.
My Beagle died, late last fall
He's still rotting in the hall
Dead Beagles aren't much fun...