Few things look more badass then dozens of monitors tailing log files. And it must be displayed as green text on a black background, otherwise you lose *major* cool points.
Yeah:) setting your athletics up into the thousands so you literally jumped from one side of the world to the other was quite a lot of fun. Still, to this day, if the game lets me jump, I keep hitting spacebar, jumping around as if possessed. All because Morrowind forced you to jump to raise your athletics skill.
I used Firefox and Chrome on Ubuntu. I want it to `just work` - I don't want to dick around with this or that app. I want bookmarks to bookmark a different string, that's all - the one that would work more often than currently. Yes, every few years I'll have the incorrect bookmark because the IP address might change etc, but manifestly this happens less often than the DNS going down.
I didn't disagree with you, I thought it would be an interesting thing to add on. Perhaps even in the form of it first trying what it has as the domain, then if it fails after some timeout, it could try the last known A record that it would keep stored as part of the bookmark.
I was just tossing out that you could, should you want, recover resolved IP's of places you've been since currently browsers do not offer this feature.
This has been annoying me for awhile now. Where's a bug we can all vote for and Slashdot?
If I were to guess, it would be due to the two buffers X Windows uses (and since it is X Windows, most Linux OS's suffer the same issue), the clipboard buffer, and the primary buffer, have been an ongoing train wreck for years. It is like a few developers don't want to change the way they do things, and don't share best practices for which buffer to use and when.
Even the current Ubuntu LTS 10.4 suffers from it (not tried it again in the current release, but it has been a problem for a long time on several distros), generally it's the same work around each time, which is to paste into a text program that when you do a copy, it copies it into both buffers (I think I'm using gedit, but I'm not at my workstation). Then when you paste, it should display since regardless of which buffer gets called, it will have your copy.
I recall reading a short story about a man who had his brain removed, and a computerized copy of his brain implanted so he could climb down into a hole and dismantle a nuclear weapon that didn't work as expected. For the life of me I cannot remember who wrote it or what is was called. bluefoxlucid post goes over a lot of what the short story was about, and I'd highly recommend it.... if I could only recall what it was named.
If only browsers bookmarked the IP address as well as the domain name.
It would be an interesting feature to have, but generally speaking if you've been to the site, odds are pretty good you still have the A record in your local DNS cache. I find it easier to look this up on Windows than Linux. For Windows, you just run "ipconfig/displaydns", for Linux you need to have caching nameserver running, and then either dig or nslookup the site in question against your local caching nameserver.
Just when I thought I was about finished with my paper on "How Hammurabi's code relates to today's modern p3n1s 3xt3nsion system", you insensitive clod!
I couldn't help but read your entire bit of writing as if it were coming from the voice of a very motherly Brit. Regardless, you've echoed everything I would say on it and more. Thank you.
If I was your ISP I wouldn't have told you to wait till next year. I would have been gracious enough to give you the entire 192.168.0.0/16 range. You know what, since I'm such a nice guy, I'll let you take it. This one is on me.:)
The Flash updater annoyed me the last time I ran it. The last update I applied snuck some Mcafee software on to my machine.
Thank you greatly for posting this. On my workstation I had an Adobe Flash Updater pop up on me in the last week or 2, I let it run and do it's thing. So, the next day at work I noticed Mcafee Security Scan (or some such) on my computer, I thought it was strange and even double checked that the corporate mandated Symantec was still installed and running. I just chalked it up to some manager deciding to inflict the masses with another ill conceived GPO push. I meant to question our helpdesk about it, but I glossed over it by the next day.
They must have really snuck that checkbox in very well, I'm pretty diligent with my usual "is this software trying to push additional crapware on me" scan for checkboxes and didn't see it. I often expect them in pretty much everything these days (I'm looking at you Java), but I hadn't noticed the Flash Updater sneaking them in before.
Two reasons, the first being that HTML 4 specs call for it to not be rendered unless it meets the criteria. Here is the full blurb:
9.3.3 Hyphenation
In HTML, there are two types of hyphens: the plain hyphen and the soft hyphen. The plain hyphen should be interpreted by a user agent as just another character. The soft hyphen tells the user agent where a line break can occur.
Those browsers that interpret soft hyphens must observe the following semantics: If a line is broken at a soft hyphen, a hyphen character must be displayed at the end of the first line. If a line is not broken at a soft hyphen, the user agent must not display a hyphen character. For operations such as searching and sorting, the soft hyphen should always be ignored.
In HTML, the plain hyphen is represented by the "-" character ( or ). The soft hyphen is represented by the character entity reference ( or )
The other reason is that the current unicode standard basically says it doesn't support when and where it should be displayed as a hyphen and leaves it open to interpretation of whoever is coding for it. Here is the blurb from the unicode standard on it:
Hyphenation. U+00AD soft hyphen (SHY) indicates an intraword break point, where a
line break is preferred if a word must be hyphenated or otherwise broken across lines. Such
break points are generally determined by an automatic hyphenator. SHY can be used with
any script, but its use is generally limited to situations where users need to override the
behavior of such a hyphenator. The visible rendering of a line break at an intraword break
point, whether automatically determined or indicated by a SHY, depends on the surrounding
characters, the rules governing the script and language used, and, at times, the meaning
of the word. The precise rules are outside the scope of this standard, but see Unicode Standard
Annex #14, “Unicode Line Breaking Algorithm,” for additional information. A common
default rendering is to insert a hyphen before the line break, but this is insufficient or
even incorrect in many situations.
Contrast this usage with U+2027 hyphenation point, which is used for a visible indication
of the place of hyphenation in dictionaries. For a complete list of dash characters in the
Unicode Standard, including all the hyphens, see Table 6-3.
The Unicode Standard includes two nonbreaking hyphen characters: U+2011 non-breaking
hyphen and U+0F0C tibetan mark delimiter tsheg bstar. See Section 10.2,
Tibetan, for more discussion of the Tibetan-specific line breaking behavior.
Seriously, well said, thank you for taking the time to post this. The analogy really helped bring it all together. I hope you enjoy the +5 this deserves.
They're not doing this out of respect, they're doing it because they're afraid, and don't have the balls to stand up for the principles that they've always convinced themselves that they supported.
You draw a big circle, calling all form of media distribution as being of the same mind and you lump Rackspace in with them without providing any character reference or proof of any sort. You claim to have a deep understanding of the motivation behind this decision when clearly that is quite impossible unless you happen to work at Rackspace and were there when the decision was made. I would have more respect for you if you could at least admit you don't have any information and were just wildly speculating. Instead you hide behind some kind of global media conspiracy to try to further reaffirm your own world views. In short...
So far, he hasn't released stuff that embarrasses governments. I like the idea of a good whistle-blowing site, but wikileaks isn't one. Has it uncovered a conspiracy? No. Has it found serious evidence of corruption? No. All wikileaks has done is tooted its own horn and shown what we already know: that war is a messy business.
Where is the evidence of price fixing or securities fraud? Voting machine tampering? You know that sort of thing is going on, but wikileaks as failed at drawing even a single leak about such topics. War is war. We know that. Try blowing the whistle on something we don't know!
Wikileaks has been doing this for ~4 years. During that time they have released stuff that does embarrass governments, a few I can think of were Kenya (assassination order of gov officials signed by some Sheikh) and Somolia (which doesn't take much to make them look bad, this was on corruption of a former leader) as well as the British MoD when they leaked their SOP book on how to prevent leaks. They released info that suggested a Swiss bank had some illegal dealings in their Cayman branch. They had voice recordings of businessmen and politicians talking about an oil scandal in Peru. And that is just some of the things I can recall. Prior to wikileaks, cryptome.org often would (and still does) host things of a very similar nature, although more focused on governments.
Whistle-blowing being what it is, it isn't exactly surprising that they haven't had anyone come forward with security fraud or voting machine tampering in the 4 years they have been doing this. But the longer they are around, the more likely someone in the right place, at the right time, will come forward and reveal misdeeds. Patience young Padawan.
I'm unsure if this dev release is out there for download, and I'm really not sure what would be the trusted site to get the (I hope) binary from. Can anyone help make this clear? Thanks:)
The only reason I can see would be if you had an external USB enclosure that housed multiple drives that you plan on RAIDing. With the speeds of SSD drives still ramping up, it is possible you could saturate even USB 3 with just 2 drives.
Sorry for replying to myself. After a casual search I found it was naive of me to think EEG's weren't being used in psychiatry for a while now. Seems it is rather common place. Still, cool the tech is being used in new and more accessible ways.
It would be interesting to run this a few times... not sequentially, but maybe once every few months to give yourself time to reset (for the lack of a better word), and rewatch whatever it was you recorded with this device and then diff the results to see if their was a drift, and in what area's. I have to assume you wouldn't always respond the same way, and the results could be highly interesting, perhaps even moreso to the field of psychiatry in allowing a more exact gauging of the effectiveness of whatever drug they are administering to a patient.
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Few things look more badass then dozens of monitors tailing log files. And it must be displayed as green text on a black background, otherwise you lose *major* cool points.
Yeah :) setting your athletics up into the thousands so you literally jumped from one side of the world to the other was quite a lot of fun. Still, to this day, if the game lets me jump, I keep hitting spacebar, jumping around as if possessed. All because Morrowind forced you to jump to raise your athletics skill.
i did to toggle running in some game a long time ago !
Elder Scrolls: Morrowind, capslock set autorun for you.
Why the hell do I still remember this!?
I used Firefox and Chrome on Ubuntu. I want it to `just work` - I don't want to dick around with this or that app. I want bookmarks to bookmark a different string, that's all - the one that would work more often than currently. Yes, every few years I'll have the incorrect bookmark because the IP address might change etc, but manifestly this happens less often than the DNS going down.
I didn't disagree with you, I thought it would be an interesting thing to add on. Perhaps even in the form of it first trying what it has as the domain, then if it fails after some timeout, it could try the last known A record that it would keep stored as part of the bookmark.
I was just tossing out that you could, should you want, recover resolved IP's of places you've been since currently browsers do not offer this feature.
This has been annoying me for awhile now. Where's a bug we can all vote for and Slashdot?
If I were to guess, it would be due to the two buffers X Windows uses (and since it is X Windows, most Linux OS's suffer the same issue), the clipboard buffer, and the primary buffer, have been an ongoing train wreck for years. It is like a few developers don't want to change the way they do things, and don't share best practices for which buffer to use and when.
Even the current Ubuntu LTS 10.4 suffers from it (not tried it again in the current release, but it has been a problem for a long time on several distros), generally it's the same work around each time, which is to paste into a text program that when you do a copy, it copies it into both buffers (I think I'm using gedit, but I'm not at my workstation). Then when you paste, it should display since regardless of which buffer gets called, it will have your copy.
It's called "Where Am I?" by Daniel Dennett.
Yes! Thank you, now off to read it again! It really is an excellent short story on this topic. So please read and enjoy, Where Am I?
I recall reading a short story about a man who had his brain removed, and a computerized copy of his brain implanted so he could climb down into a hole and dismantle a nuclear weapon that didn't work as expected. For the life of me I cannot remember who wrote it or what is was called. bluefoxlucid post goes over a lot of what the short story was about, and I'd highly recommend it.... if I could only recall what it was named.
If only browsers bookmarked the IP address as well as the domain name.
It would be an interesting feature to have, but generally speaking if you've been to the site, odds are pretty good you still have the A record in your local DNS cache. I find it easier to look this up on Windows than Linux. For Windows, you just run "ipconfig /displaydns", for Linux you need to have caching nameserver running, and then either dig or nslookup the site in question against your local caching nameserver.
Just when I thought I was about finished with my paper on "How Hammurabi's code relates to today's modern p3n1s 3xt3nsion system", you insensitive clod!
I couldn't help but read your entire bit of writing as if it were coming from the voice of a very motherly Brit. Regardless, you've echoed everything I would say on it and more. Thank you.
Thank you for that link. It would be hard to write a better article on this. Well done.
So I asked my ISP for a /16
If I was your ISP I wouldn't have told you to wait till next year. I would have been gracious enough to give you the entire 192.168.0.0/16 range. You know what, since I'm such a nice guy, I'll let you take it. This one is on me. :)
And if you jaywalk with a friend, only to have your friend get hit by a car, you are guilty of vehicular manslughter.
As a Floridian, I can happily inform you that jaywalking is one of the few things you can do in this State that isn't a felony.
The Flash updater annoyed me the last time I ran it. The last update I applied snuck some Mcafee software on to my machine.
Thank you greatly for posting this. On my workstation I had an Adobe Flash Updater pop up on me in the last week or 2, I let it run and do it's thing. So, the next day at work I noticed Mcafee Security Scan (or some such) on my computer, I thought it was strange and even double checked that the corporate mandated Symantec was still installed and running. I just chalked it up to some manager deciding to inflict the masses with another ill conceived GPO push. I meant to question our helpdesk about it, but I glossed over it by the next day.
They must have really snuck that checkbox in very well, I'm pretty diligent with my usual "is this software trying to push additional crapware on me" scan for checkboxes and didn't see it. I often expect them in pretty much everything these days (I'm looking at you Java), but I hadn't noticed the Flash Updater sneaking them in before.
Why don't modern browsers render this character?
Two reasons, the first being that HTML 4 specs call for it to not be rendered unless it meets the criteria. Here is the full blurb:
The other reason is that the current unicode standard basically says it doesn't support when and where it should be displayed as a hyphen and leaves it open to interpretation of whoever is coding for it. Here is the blurb from the unicode standard on it:
Seriously, well said, thank you for taking the time to post this. The analogy really helped bring it all together. I hope you enjoy the +5 this deserves.
We just started getting the same email a few minutes ago linking to the same place. That said, this isn't a pdf exploit.
It is too late, the first shot in the intergalactic war has already been fired!!!
They're not doing this out of respect, they're doing it because they're afraid, and don't have the balls to stand up for the principles that they've always convinced themselves that they supported.
You draw a big circle, calling all form of media distribution as being of the same mind and you lump Rackspace in with them without providing any character reference or proof of any sort. You claim to have a deep understanding of the motivation behind this decision when clearly that is quite impossible unless you happen to work at Rackspace and were there when the decision was made. I would have more respect for you if you could at least admit you don't have any information and were just wildly speculating. Instead you hide behind some kind of global media conspiracy to try to further reaffirm your own world views. In short...
[citation needed]
So far, he hasn't released stuff that embarrasses governments. I like the idea of a good whistle-blowing site, but wikileaks isn't one. Has it uncovered a conspiracy? No. Has it found serious evidence of corruption? No. All wikileaks has done is tooted its own horn and shown what we already know: that war is a messy business.
Where is the evidence of price fixing or securities fraud? Voting machine tampering? You know that sort of thing is going on, but wikileaks as failed at drawing even a single leak about such topics. War is war. We know that. Try blowing the whistle on something we don't know!
Wikileaks has been doing this for ~4 years. During that time they have released stuff that does embarrass governments, a few I can think of were Kenya (assassination order of gov officials signed by some Sheikh) and Somolia (which doesn't take much to make them look bad, this was on corruption of a former leader) as well as the British MoD when they leaked their SOP book on how to prevent leaks. They released info that suggested a Swiss bank had some illegal dealings in their Cayman branch. They had voice recordings of businessmen and politicians talking about an oil scandal in Peru. And that is just some of the things I can recall. Prior to wikileaks, cryptome.org often would (and still does) host things of a very similar nature, although more focused on governments.
Whistle-blowing being what it is, it isn't exactly surprising that they haven't had anyone come forward with security fraud or voting machine tampering in the 4 years they have been doing this. But the longer they are around, the more likely someone in the right place, at the right time, will come forward and reveal misdeeds. Patience young Padawan.
+1 Hilarious. Would laugh again!!!
I'm unsure if this dev release is out there for download, and I'm really not sure what would be the trusted site to get the (I hope) binary from. Can anyone help make this clear? Thanks :)
The only reason I can see would be if you had an external USB enclosure that housed multiple drives that you plan on RAIDing. With the speeds of SSD drives still ramping up, it is possible you could saturate even USB 3 with just 2 drives.
Sorry for replying to myself. After a casual search I found it was naive of me to think EEG's weren't being used in psychiatry for a while now. Seems it is rather common place. Still, cool the tech is being used in new and more accessible ways.
It would be interesting to run this a few times... not sequentially, but maybe once every few months to give yourself time to reset (for the lack of a better word), and rewatch whatever it was you recorded with this device and then diff the results to see if their was a drift, and in what area's. I have to assume you wouldn't always respond the same way, and the results could be highly interesting, perhaps even moreso to the field of psychiatry in allowing a more exact gauging of the effectiveness of whatever drug they are administering to a patient.