Sopwith!!! Woohoo, thanks for that link - guess what I am playing now...:-)
Together with DoubleDOS, I could wait for a 30 minute compile on my blazingly fast 4.77MHz PC and play Sopwith - the good old bad old days, sigh...
Storing H2 bound to other schtuff in pellets is really a very old idea. The problem is the weight of the gas tank, so why is this idea being warmed over (pun intended) again?
Spam is not the same thing as viruses though. Spam is a nuisance - it is malicious. Anyhoo, do go to Hardin's site and look at html-trap. Works very well and never needs updating - well, I update once per year. It Just Works (TM).
I know what you mean - signature based detection is always after the fact. However, it is possible to identify viruses using generic rules and a combination of these and signature detection creates a filter that is very strong and protects against known and future viruses.
For example, see this:
http://www.impsec.org/email-tools/procmail-securit y.html
Stilts.
Simply mandating that all dwellings must be built 3 feet above the 2005 flood level will go a long way to mitigating damage. All houses there are built on piles and a concrete slab anyway, so just make the damn piles taller.
Then if they do flood again, little damage will be done.
BTW, South Africa doesn't have any oil - only coal and gas. It supplies almost half of Africa with petrol synthesized from coal. The Alberta tar sands is converted to petrol using the same process, licensed from South Africa. So, the reprocessing of hydrocarbons is quite feasible and economical.
Also, Shell recently anounced a process to extract shale oil without using much water. They basically burn the oil down in the hole and use the heat to drive the oil off. It is like running an underground refinery.
Furthermore, South Africa even does the reverse and converts natural gas into petrol, because it doesn't have a gas distribution infrastructure.
The 'OMFG the oil is going to run out brigade' is simply ignoring the fact that all the technology to ensure oil supply for hundreds of years, already exist and is in use on a commercial scale in various parts of the world.
"Desktop OS's aren't reliable enough yet, and get slowed down at the weirdest times, which means that this is going to be unreliable, too."
Uhmmm, guess you must be running Windows ME...
I think a major problem with MS Office is its lack of archive value. If you have thousands (or millions) of documents and someone misfiles something, you cannot simply search the contents of the documents for a known string.
Ferinstance, "egrep 'John Doe' *.doc" doesn't work so well, but it works on Corel WordPerfect files, and adding gzip into a pipe works on OOo docs.
In a law office for example, it is very useful to be able to find precedents on obscure subjects that are only handled once or twice in several years and searching a collection of MS documents just doesn't work. This has convinced many lawyers to rather stick with Corel and not move to MS Office.
Well, of course there were multiple people working on these projects, but my comment wasn't about the people really.
Here are a few of Ingres' bastard children that I can think of, you'll no doubt know more:
Sybase, Informix, Microsoft SQL Server, Illustra, NonStop SQL and of course PostgreSQL...
So, there are many other database families, as I indicated in my post, but being an open project, Ingres was by far the most influential, since the other projects are all rather secretive.
In terms of money, SAP and Oracle seems to be the largest, but goodness knows which DB is the largest in terms of records served.
Got news for you - there is enough oil and coal to last 100s or years, till the atmosphere is so thick with CO2 that we will mutate into dinosaurs - it will just cost a little more to extract than the current oil and coal.
Most databases are descended from the Interactive Graphics Retrieval System INGRES. The original coder of Ingres later started a follow on project called Postgres and when SQL was standardised it became PostgreSQL.
Basically, there are only about 4 database families: SAP, Ingres, DB2 and Oracle.
I prefer using Postgres simply because it is funded by the nice US taxpayers through DARPA. If it is good enough for the military, it should be good enough for me...
Actually, I have found that about one in ten restaurant credit card tip payments never appear on my credit card bill. So this is not just a PayPal problem.
Of course, and you may only fill the gas tank of your car once - when empty, you have to buy a new car. How else is GMC ever going to make money on cars?
A bit of a Googling will turn up copies of visicalc. It still runs even on WinXP - I tried it a while back. It runs on Linux Wine too, but man, is it ever clunky. It is hard to believe that we raved about it...
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Hmm, I wasn't aware of DOSbox - is it any better than DOSEmu?
Sopwith!!! Woohoo, thanks for that link - guess what I am playing now... :-)
Together with DoubleDOS, I could wait for a 30 minute compile on my blazingly fast 4.77MHz PC and play Sopwith - the good old bad old days, sigh...
These vehicles will be very popular with beancounters...
Storing H2 bound to other schtuff in pellets is really a very old idea. The problem is the weight of the gas tank, so why is this idea being warmed over (pun intended) again?
Geezo, I'm impressed... BS detector overload - Which makes me wonder, does any program ever use Scrollock mode?
"The difference that the USA has _loud_ retards."
Yup, I have always held that the only difference between an American and a Canadian is about 3dB...
Yeah, there are many meanings to SALT:
In South Africa, a Saltie is an Englishman - since he is standing with one foot in London, the other in Cape Town and his dong in the salt water...
In Australia, a Saltie is a seawater crocodile.
The combination of the two would be very amusing to watch...
Spam is not the same thing as viruses though. Spam is a nuisance - it is malicious. Anyhoo, do go to Hardin's site and look at html-trap. Works very well and never needs updating - well, I update once per year. It Just Works (TM).
I know what you mean - signature based detection is always after the fact. However, it is possible to identify viruses using generic rules and a combination of these and signature detection creates a filter that is very strong and protects against known and future viruses. For example, see this: http://www.impsec.org/email-tools/procmail-securit y.html
Stilts. Simply mandating that all dwellings must be built 3 feet above the 2005 flood level will go a long way to mitigating damage. All houses there are built on piles and a concrete slab anyway, so just make the damn piles taller. Then if they do flood again, little damage will be done.
BTW, South Africa doesn't have any oil - only coal and gas. It supplies almost half of Africa with petrol synthesized from coal. The Alberta tar sands is converted to petrol using the same process, licensed from South Africa. So, the reprocessing of hydrocarbons is quite feasible and economical.
Also, Shell recently anounced a process to extract shale oil without using much water. They basically burn the oil down in the hole and use the heat to drive the oil off. It is like running an underground refinery.
Furthermore, South Africa even does the reverse and converts natural gas into petrol, because it doesn't have a gas distribution infrastructure.
The 'OMFG the oil is going to run out brigade' is simply ignoring the fact that all the technology to ensure oil supply for hundreds of years, already exist and is in use on a commercial scale in various parts of the world.
No, the calls don't pass through their servers - calls are point to point - only the setup pass through their servers.
"Desktop OS's aren't reliable enough yet, and get slowed down at the weirdest times, which means that this is going to be unreliable, too." Uhmmm, guess you must be running Windows ME...
Yup, you could embed the whole MS Windows XP with MS Word and a Monkey Boy Video inside an OOo document if you feel like it...
I think a major problem with MS Office is its lack of archive value. If you have thousands (or millions) of documents and someone misfiles something, you cannot simply search the contents of the documents for a known string. Ferinstance, "egrep 'John Doe' *.doc" doesn't work so well, but it works on Corel WordPerfect files, and adding gzip into a pipe works on OOo docs. In a law office for example, it is very useful to be able to find precedents on obscure subjects that are only handled once or twice in several years and searching a collection of MS documents just doesn't work. This has convinced many lawyers to rather stick with Corel and not move to MS Office.
I think the converter already exists and is called OpenOffice.org - works quite well really...
Well, of course there were multiple people working on these projects, but my comment wasn't about the people really. Here are a few of Ingres' bastard children that I can think of, you'll no doubt know more: Sybase, Informix, Microsoft SQL Server, Illustra, NonStop SQL and of course PostgreSQL... So, there are many other database families, as I indicated in my post, but being an open project, Ingres was by far the most influential, since the other projects are all rather secretive. In terms of money, SAP and Oracle seems to be the largest, but goodness knows which DB is the largest in terms of records served.
Got news for you - there is enough oil and coal to last 100s or years, till the atmosphere is so thick with CO2 that we will mutate into dinosaurs - it will just cost a little more to extract than the current oil and coal.
I simply added a sleep(10); to the file auth-passwd.c and recompiled.
/* Password authentication delay */
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc/ssh
int
auth_password(Authctxt *authctxt, const char *password)
{
struct passwd * pw = authctxt->pw;
int result, ok = authctxt->valid;
#if defined(USE_SHADOW) && defined(HAS_SHADOW_EXPIRE)
static int expire_checked = 0;
#endif
sleep(10);
That slows all password authentication attempts down enormously.
make
make install
service sshd restart
La Voila!
Most databases are descended from the Interactive Graphics Retrieval System INGRES. The original coder of Ingres later started a follow on project called Postgres and when SQL was standardised it became PostgreSQL. Basically, there are only about 4 database families: SAP, Ingres, DB2 and Oracle. I prefer using Postgres simply because it is funded by the nice US taxpayers through DARPA. If it is good enough for the military, it should be good enough for me...
flies like a sale and quacks like a sale - then it is a sale. Look at your state's Sale of Goods Act.
Actually, I have found that about one in ten restaurant credit card tip payments never appear on my credit card bill. So this is not just a PayPal problem.
Hmm, EU gallons are way bigger than US gallons, so be careful when you compare.
Of course, and you may only fill the gas tank of your car once - when empty, you have to buy a new car. How else is GMC ever going to make money on cars?
A bit of a Googling will turn up copies of visicalc. It still runs even on WinXP - I tried it a while back. It runs on Linux Wine too, but man, is it ever clunky. It is hard to believe that we raved about it...