It was certainly distinguishing itself in my logs... I recently moved to a "gallery.lazylightning.org" setup from lazylightning.org/gallery/. Oblivious to the problems this would cause w/my robots.txt I had every spider and their brother killing my webserver with requests.
Anyway, so I create a new robots.txt file that includes all the individual directories from the gallery directories. AskJeeves apparently read the robots.txt the day before and thought it was then ok to index the site after that at its leisure. It spent the next two days indexing my site even though it was ignoring the new robots.txt put in place about 24 hours before.
AskJeeves will no longer be indexing my site as I just banned their know IP ranges. If you are going to compete as a search engine you best make the people you are spidering happy.
MSNBot was spending the time indexing my site as well but they didn't fail to ignore the new robots.txt that was put out there. Thanks!:)
while the government contends that hemp can be useful as camouflage for marijuana growth, even laymen can easily distinguish between the two.
Then why does he even bring the point up? Why not come right out in the position paper and say that he is against the war on drugs and he doesn't give a shit if people grow smokable dope between the rows of their help crop?
while the government contends that hemp can be useful as camouflage for marijuana growth, even laymen can easily distinguish between the two.
Are you going to provide the funds for the manpower required to manually search help fields? You can't exactly fly airplanes/helicopters over the area and expect to make easy identification without some on the ground work.
Raw hempseed oil can be used, without any modification, to power diesel engines.
Yeah, I have heard it can. It supposedly is a lot more efficient than canola/vegetable oil. First big problem I see is that not many respectable news outlets are promoting this fuel alternative. Google returns a page of hits that includes many sites showing off hemp leaves as their backgrounds.
As your President, I would open the way for free-market exploration and exploitation of industrial hemp. I'd veto legislation funding enforcement of laws against it, and I'd lobby Congress to repeal those laws.
We live in a time that supports conservative views and this would certainly not go over well. You won't get into the White House with this on your ticket and you certainly wouldn't win anything if you ever got there. As someone mentioned on a different thread: put a frog in boiling water and they will jump right out but put that same frog in cold water and slowly raise the temperature...
Honestly, if you want some advice... Tell me what you are going to fix and exactly how you are going to fix it. Do not gloss over important issues with a simple "I am going to do X for the American public!" It doesn't hold water anymore. We have heard enough bullshit fluff from the main parties. You aren't going to walk into the White House and successfully veto anti-Hemp legislation. Tell me how you are going to get Congress and the rest of the public to support your ideas.
Give me something to believe in other than the typical 10 word canned lines. You would get my vote if your plans were thorough and possible.
That second paragraph, in particular, would keep me as far away from them as possible.
And yet those are exactly the words that HR departments are looking for on resumes. As long as you can use stupid words that really don't work in any other situation you can get your foot in the door.
it's really hard to believe that old trends are coming back! It's never ever been fashionable to wear/use items that existed before you could remember them.
No one wore bell bottoms before the late 1990s. No one wore sweat shirts cut strange so they would hang off one shoulder before 2004. No one wore Daisy Duke cutoffs before 2002!
Sadly, in this day and age everything that comes back into style isn't original. It's made by companies that are out looking to make a buck. So yeah, it's going to start out that trendsetters will make their own stuff for free but companies will pick up on it and resell "retro stuff" for the same amount as it costs to have something "modern".
How does it make it impossible? Unless you require everyone to use the cellphone system to buy the tickets and stop offering them in a tangible form it's not going to stop anything.
People are still going to buy gobs of good tickets up and resell them at a profit.
An "enhancement" could always be included in a service pack to allow DRM CDs on 95,98,etc.
And MSFT knows this would make the original idea worthless. It won't happen. Upgrade or suffer with using old programs.
What about legacy auto/component players?
What about them? You want to listen to the new music then buy a new player. It's not exactly as if your VHS player plays DVDs. Sure, you can get VHS movies currently but I would go out on a limb to suggest that eventually they will be discontinued for DVD and its successors. You can continue to watch your old media no problem but you won't have access to the new features.
Here's to hoping the OpenBIOS project can workaroud some of this junk.
Sure, you can run all the free software in the world on your OpenBIOS computer. You will not be able to watch media, listen to media, surf the net, etc, because everything will require a "trusted" computer.
Yeah, it's paranoid, yeah it's probably unlikely, but this is where we are headed whether we like it or not.
Oh, you'll be able to upgrade your 2004 or 2005 PC to Longhorn, but it will never work quite as well as a new 2006 PC actually designed to run the OS. This is called marketing, folks, and it is what keeps us buying new PCs and other electronic devices over and over again.
Nah, they are going to make it move from marketing hype to marketing reality. They want to DRM the OS, the BIOS, and the peripherals so that they can lock out whoever and whatever they want.
They have already made the deals w/Phoenix to make a MSFT certified BIOS that will enable them to not boot "insecure" OSs. They are in talks to get the RIAA to support a format to make CDs unreadable in machines other than those running Windows (I presume this would include insecure versions of Windows as well). They are working to get the MPAA to agree to allow them to distribute movie materials via WMP which will likely lead to DVDs "protected" with MSFT products.
So they aren't just going to have use buying PCs over and over again to keep up with their protection schemes... They are going to have us buying everything over and over again.
Wow, I just went to the site and was perusing the 2004 election commercials. For once they gave a realistic view of our future.
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Remember to give serious thought to who you are voting for in November and make sure that those around you are at least somewhat educated on what they are voting for.
Others will say, "Open source developers are more clued in to security issues due to a better sense of community, and their software is more secure as a result."
He's right. They may not be looking for security holes and they may not find them because of all the "eyeballs" but they will certainly fix them and release a patch to the community shortly after it is discovered.
Now, even if MSFT did release a patch right away it wouldn't make much of a difference as most people don't update their software. The OSS community, OTOH, is still mostly comprised of people that have a Clue and those people generally patch immediately.
So while what the article states is true currently the OSS community does respond faster and with less problems than their counterparts on the other side of the fence.
However, presently (at least in MD) you can still get the old signal. FREE (don't tell Comcast), if you have broadband.
Just wait until they do an audit (especially if you were previously an AT&T customer) and they find that you are using an unfiltered line for free...
First is a warning on your door. They tag it and say that they did an audit and found you were stealing cable (not their exact words but their tone does come off as if they are saying that). They claim they will come back and check in a month to make sure it's still off.
Now, in the mean time you will of course get a call to setup CATV service with Comcast. Cute deal. Sure, I'll take your $10/mo basic service so I can watch Football without fuzz. They come out and remove the filter and you are set to go.
You decide, eh, this sucks and call up to cancel. They say it's d/c and they roll a truck to remove the filter. Problem is the lazy Comcast contractor was originally supposed to go there on a Friday night. He decides to skip it and not do it.
Comcast does another audit and then your problems start.
No, this isn't tin-foil hat fictionalized drama it's real life.
I would have posted AC to avoid the karmawhoring but Slashdot isn't allowing my subnet to post anonymously anymore. So blame them for the "Continual Karmawhoring".
Well the article says (obviously they could be wrong) or with a XviD plugin, we can transcode our entire library into MPEG4 in the background.
So they are encoding a stream that was already captured in the background (I assume while other encoding could be going on) which would make for a SERIOUS CPU hit because they chose to save a couple extra bucks by not using the hardware MPEG encoder.
Yeah, they do make it seem trivial to get everything setup with Knoppix Myth as if there is nothing really required from the user to get it going.
From what I understand you still have to install from the CD to the HD in order to get it all setup. It's not exactly like you can pop a KnoppMyth CD into a machine w/a WinTV card and start timeshifting.
You get what you pay for though. If you spend the money on the software you are locked in to what MSFT wants to do (DRM, on demand, etc) but you don't have to spend the time tinkering to get it working.
Unfortunately, we have a large issue with the amount of disk space that the MPEG2 codec consumes. A 15-minute clip of video can take as much as 400MB. MythTV does not perform much better when video is downloaded at high quality, but we have the option to transcode, or re-render the MPEG stream into something a little more versatile. For example, we can compress our cartoon captures down to a lower quality MPEG1 codec without sacrificing much quality; or with a XviD plugin, we can transcode our entire library into MPEG4 in the background. Note that we are using the same Sempron 3100+ processor in both machines!
How well would the transcoding to XViD work when they have sacrificed the CPU to the encoding gods? Wouldn't the machine take a serious hit trying to record and transcode at the same time when they aren't using a hardware encoder?
In this analysis, we are taking video capture from analog cable. We are able to capture digital cable from a digital cable feed as well, but it requires the MCE machine to use a special IR module that actually controls the digital cable box. This can be done with MythTV under LIRC as well.
I have a Tivo and attempted to use the IR modules to control it before caving in and getting the serial control. From what I read the IR control is a pain in the ass and switches channels extremely slowly giving you a lag feel which for some is rather annoying. They don't mention that in this review though.
Of course, on the MythTV machine, we are actually able to skip the commercials entirely. MythTV surpasses MCE completely in this respect. During our tests, 9 out of 10 commercial breaks were skipped flawlessly. ReplayTV's accuracy may be slightly higher than this, but for a free solution, Myth does an excellent job.
This is a minor annoyance for me being a Tivo user. I really wish I could easily do this. FF'ing the commercials is easy and the Tivo does do a good job once you get the hang of it but I would LOVE to see them just gone completely.
From what I can see MCE is really beautiful. You get what you pay for though. I'd love to have the time to play with MythTV (and buy all the hardware) but it seems like you can get the package complete with your DRM'd OS from MS with little pain.
Honestly I am glad that I went w/even less painful option of Tivo but that's me.
Why didn't the article say that they were going to conform to the LSB? They mentioned specifically that they were looking for people to develop for SuSE Linux.
From the article: But daily results posted by MessageLabs, Earthlink (ELNK), and Symantec (SYMC) showed little correlation.
And neither has anyone else. It was only a single institution that claimed their weekly spam traffic was down 100 million messages. The article mentions that two top 10 spammers remained in the top 10 even during the storms. They even (hopefully) jokingly claim it was a heroic effort.
First, let's correct your previous statement. Novell and SuSE are one, and so there's not as much for a developer to struggle to conform to.
First let's correct your statement. SuSE is one Linux distribution that a developer would have to develop for. RedHat, Debian, Slackware, Foo, DoubleFoo are all other distributions that would have to be developed for. Yeah, we have the LSB/LSB-2 out there and in active discussion. Yeah you would support one or the other... Neither has really materialized and you still have different packages, different locations, and different setups.
It's confusing to the user and just as confusing to the developer.
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hah, you are all too much.
It was certainly distinguishing itself in my logs... I recently moved to a "gallery.lazylightning.org" setup from lazylightning.org/gallery/. Oblivious to the problems this would cause w/my robots.txt I had every spider and their brother killing my webserver with requests.
:)
Anyway, so I create a new robots.txt file that includes all the individual directories from the gallery directories. AskJeeves apparently read the robots.txt the day before and thought it was then ok to index the site after that at its leisure. It spent the next two days indexing my site even though it was ignoring the new robots.txt put in place about 24 hours before.
AskJeeves will no longer be indexing my site as I just banned their know IP ranges. If you are going to compete as a search engine you best make the people you are spidering happy.
MSNBot was spending the time indexing my site as well but they didn't fail to ignore the new robots.txt that was put out there. Thanks!
while the government contends that hemp can be useful as camouflage for marijuana growth, even laymen can easily distinguish between the two.
Then why does he even bring the point up? Why not come right out in the position paper and say that he is against the war on drugs and he doesn't give a shit if people grow smokable dope between the rows of their help crop?
From this position paper on Industrial Hemp:
while the government contends that hemp can be useful as camouflage for marijuana growth, even laymen can easily distinguish between the two.
Are you going to provide the funds for the manpower required to manually search help fields? You can't exactly fly airplanes/helicopters over the area and expect to make easy identification without some on the ground work.
Raw hempseed oil can be used, without any modification, to power diesel engines.
Yeah, I have heard it can. It supposedly is a lot more efficient than canola/vegetable oil. First big problem I see is that not many respectable news outlets are promoting this fuel alternative. Google returns a page of hits that includes many sites showing off hemp leaves as their backgrounds.
As your President, I would open the way for free-market exploration and exploitation of industrial hemp. I'd veto legislation funding enforcement of laws against it, and I'd lobby Congress to repeal those laws.
We live in a time that supports conservative views and this would certainly not go over well. You won't get into the White House with this on your ticket and you certainly wouldn't win anything if you ever got there. As someone mentioned on a different thread: put a frog in boiling water and they will jump right out but put that same frog in cold water and slowly raise the temperature...
Honestly, if you want some advice... Tell me what you are going to fix and exactly how you are going to fix it. Do not gloss over important issues with a simple "I am going to do X for the American public!" It doesn't hold water anymore. We have heard enough bullshit fluff from the main parties. You aren't going to walk into the White House and successfully veto anti-Hemp legislation. Tell me how you are going to get Congress and the rest of the public to support your ideas.
Give me something to believe in other than the typical 10 word canned lines. You would get my vote if your plans were thorough and possible.
That second paragraph, in particular, would keep me as far away from them as possible.
And yet those are exactly the words that HR departments are looking for on resumes. As long as you can use stupid words that really don't work in any other situation you can get your foot in the door.
it's grammar, learn to spell.
it's really hard to believe that old trends are coming back! It's never ever been fashionable to wear/use items that existed before you could remember them.
No one wore bell bottoms before the late 1990s. No one wore sweat shirts cut strange so they would hang off one shoulder before 2004. No one wore Daisy Duke cutoffs before 2002!
Sadly, in this day and age everything that comes back into style isn't original. It's made by companies that are out looking to make a buck. So yeah, it's going to start out that trendsetters will make their own stuff for free but companies will pick up on it and resell "retro stuff" for the same amount as it costs to have something "modern".
Bah.
How does it make it impossible? Unless you require everyone to use the cellphone system to buy the tickets and stop offering them in a tangible form it's not going to stop anything.
People are still going to buy gobs of good tickets up and resell them at a profit.
Don't we know where most of the spammers are spamming from anyway? Why not just pay the ISPs to stop allowing the fuckers from having bandwith?
.kr, .br, etc from sending their spam into our country!
Better yet why don't we just do it for free and block their IP blocks from all routers across the net?
Hey, an even better idea is a "Great Firewall of America" where we can keep the
An "enhancement" could always be included in a service pack to allow DRM CDs on 95,98,etc.
And MSFT knows this would make the original idea worthless. It won't happen. Upgrade or suffer with using old programs.
What about legacy auto/component players?
What about them? You want to listen to the new music then buy a new player. It's not exactly as if your VHS player plays DVDs. Sure, you can get VHS movies currently but I would go out on a limb to suggest that eventually they will be discontinued for DVD and its successors. You can continue to watch your old media no problem but you won't have access to the new features.
Here's to hoping the OpenBIOS project can workaroud some of this junk.
Sure, you can run all the free software in the world on your OpenBIOS computer. You will not be able to watch media, listen to media, surf the net, etc, because everything will require a "trusted" computer.
Yeah, it's paranoid, yeah it's probably unlikely, but this is where we are headed whether we like it or not.
Oh, you'll be able to upgrade your 2004 or 2005 PC to Longhorn, but it will never work quite as well as a new 2006 PC actually designed to run the OS. This is called marketing, folks, and it is what keeps us buying new PCs and other electronic devices over and over again.
Nah, they are going to make it move from marketing hype to marketing reality. They want to DRM the OS, the BIOS, and the peripherals so that they can lock out whoever and whatever they want.
They have already made the deals w/Phoenix to make a MSFT certified BIOS that will enable them to not boot "insecure" OSs. They are in talks to get the RIAA to support a format to make CDs unreadable in machines other than those running Windows (I presume this would include insecure versions of Windows as well). They are working to get the MPAA to agree to allow them to distribute movie materials via WMP which will likely lead to DVDs "protected" with MSFT products.
So they aren't just going to have use buying PCs over and over again to keep up with their protection schemes... They are going to have us buying everything over and over again.
Wow, I just went to the site and was perusing the 2004 election commercials. For once they gave a realistic view of our future.
Blank.
Remember to give serious thought to who you are voting for in November and make sure that those around you are at least somewhat educated on what they are voting for.
Of course they don't care. In fact, it's one less thing that the tech has to do during the install.
*YOU* will care when you have to pay for the services they claim you were stealing because one of their outsourced techs didn't do his job.
(You can walk my grandma through downloading a gzipped tarball.)
Grandma ACclick here.
Others will say, "Open source developers are more clued in to security issues due to a better sense of community, and their software is more secure as a result."
He's right. They may not be looking for security holes and they may not find them because of all the "eyeballs" but they will certainly fix them and release a patch to the community shortly after it is discovered.
Now, even if MSFT did release a patch right away it wouldn't make much of a difference as most people don't update their software. The OSS community, OTOH, is still mostly comprised of people that have a Clue and those people generally patch immediately.
So while what the article states is true currently the OSS community does respond faster and with less problems than their counterparts on the other side of the fence.
However, presently (at least in MD) you can still get the old signal. FREE (don't tell Comcast), if you have broadband.
Just wait until they do an audit (especially if you were previously an AT&T customer) and they find that you are using an unfiltered line for free...
First is a warning on your door. They tag it and say that they did an audit and found you were stealing cable (not their exact words but their tone does come off as if they are saying that). They claim they will come back and check in a month to make sure it's still off.
Now, in the mean time you will of course get a call to setup CATV service with Comcast. Cute deal. Sure, I'll take your $10/mo basic service so I can watch Football without fuzz. They come out and remove the filter and you are set to go.
You decide, eh, this sucks and call up to cancel. They say it's d/c and they roll a truck to remove the filter. Problem is the lazy Comcast contractor was originally supposed to go there on a Friday night. He decides to skip it and not do it.
Comcast does another audit and then your problems start.
No, this isn't tin-foil hat fictionalized drama it's real life.
While not exactly *required* as AdAware and SpyBot are it is certainly a nice addition to the list.
SpywareBlaster
I would have posted AC to avoid the karmawhoring but Slashdot isn't allowing my subnet to post anonymously anymore. So blame them for the "Continual Karmawhoring".
Or when will the viruses start coming from those that are supposedly protecting us from them?
Well the article says (obviously they could be wrong) or with a XviD plugin, we can transcode our entire library into MPEG4 in the background.
So they are encoding a stream that was already captured in the background (I assume while other encoding could be going on) which would make for a SERIOUS CPU hit because they chose to save a couple extra bucks by not using the hardware MPEG encoder.
Yeah, they do make it seem trivial to get everything setup with Knoppix Myth as if there is nothing really required from the user to get it going.
From what I understand you still have to install from the CD to the HD in order to get it all setup. It's not exactly like you can pop a KnoppMyth CD into a machine w/a WinTV card and start timeshifting.
You get what you pay for though. If you spend the money on the software you are locked in to what MSFT wants to do (DRM, on demand, etc) but you don't have to spend the time tinkering to get it working.
Unfortunately, we have a large issue with the amount of disk space that the MPEG2 codec consumes. A 15-minute clip of video can take as much as 400MB. MythTV does not perform much better when video is downloaded at high quality, but we have the option to transcode, or re-render the MPEG stream into something a little more versatile. For example, we can compress our cartoon captures down to a lower quality MPEG1 codec without sacrificing much quality; or with a XviD plugin, we can transcode our entire library into MPEG4 in the background. Note that we are using the same Sempron 3100+ processor in both machines!
How well would the transcoding to XViD work when they have sacrificed the CPU to the encoding gods? Wouldn't the machine take a serious hit trying to record and transcode at the same time when they aren't using a hardware encoder?
In this analysis, we are taking video capture from analog cable. We are able to capture digital cable from a digital cable feed as well, but it requires the MCE machine to use a special IR module that actually controls the digital cable box. This can be done with MythTV under LIRC as well.
I have a Tivo and attempted to use the IR modules to control it before caving in and getting the serial control. From what I read the IR control is a pain in the ass and switches channels extremely slowly giving you a lag feel which for some is rather annoying. They don't mention that in this review though.
Of course, on the MythTV machine, we are actually able to skip the commercials entirely. MythTV surpasses MCE completely in this respect. During our tests, 9 out of 10 commercial breaks were skipped flawlessly. ReplayTV's accuracy may be slightly higher than this, but for a free solution, Myth does an excellent job.
This is a minor annoyance for me being a Tivo user. I really wish I could easily do this. FF'ing the commercials is easy and the Tivo does do a good job once you get the hang of it but I would LOVE to see them just gone completely.
From what I can see MCE is really beautiful. You get what you pay for though. I'd love to have the time to play with MythTV (and buy all the hardware) but it seems like you can get the package complete with your DRM'd OS from MS with little pain.
Honestly I am glad that I went w/even less painful option of Tivo but that's me.
Why didn't the article say that they were going to conform to the LSB? They mentioned specifically that they were looking for people to develop for SuSE Linux.
From the blurb:
I've not noticed any decrease.
From the article:
But daily results posted by MessageLabs, Earthlink (ELNK), and Symantec (SYMC) showed little correlation.
And neither has anyone else. It was only a single institution that claimed their weekly spam traffic was down 100 million messages. The article mentions that two top 10 spammers remained in the top 10 even during the storms. They even (hopefully) jokingly claim it was a heroic effort.
First, let's correct your previous statement. Novell and SuSE are one, and so there's not as much for a developer to struggle to conform to.
First let's correct your statement. SuSE is one Linux distribution that a developer would have to develop for. RedHat, Debian, Slackware, Foo, DoubleFoo are all other distributions that would have to be developed for. Yeah, we have the LSB/LSB-2 out there and in active discussion. Yeah you would support one or the other... Neither has really materialized and you still have different packages, different locations, and different setups.
It's confusing to the user and just as confusing to the developer.
Yeah, LSB is great and all in theory but when a major Linux player isn't really doing much to advocate it I don't see what good it is going to do.