I sometimes do a little contract work so have my employer withold some extra to offset it. The amount I do is variable, so I'm happy to get close to "breaking even", on either side. This year I got $400 back. A couple years ago I had to pay $600....close nuff!
I had royal problems when I got to the very last step on turbotax, right where you click to submit to the IRS. After a good 15 second wait, I got an error about being overloaded, and to try again later. What really sucked is that I couldn't start from that point again, but instead had to re-visit the last bunch of questions I had already answered. Being their Website is so format heavy, each screen took a good 10-15 seconds to draw on this 1.8 Ghz box, so the entire process was quite annoying. After 3 tries and some minor sheet-rock damage, I had to print the whole damn thing out and drive across town to our main post office. To add insult to injury, turbotax took my money before this last step was available. This sucks. I got ripped off, and I wont't get my tax refund in the usual week and 1/2 since I had to mail it. (at least a got a refund though...albeit little bitty)
no problem...I'm running 3 seeds, one pushing about 400 Kb/sec and the other about 200 Kb/sec as well as my cable modem pushing 30 Kb/sec. There aren't too many people using this torrent yet, so I'll run it as long as I can, or until the network admins start getting on my case.
...but in a few years it'll peak, and I'll be able to push a 5 watt signal 10,000 miles like I did last peak, except I'm older now and have cooler toys.;-) It'll be a certainly be a QRP radio hayday, but I wonder if I'll end up hearing everyone's BPL from across the globe this time around.
A large power plant converts dinosaur-era organic matter to energy a lot better than the little engine under your hood, even considering distribution losses.
I did some contract work on a miltary base a while back where it was "windows-only" desktops, etc. I needed to do a lot of text parsing, a job best left to PERL. I got permission to have activestate perl installed without much trouble at all. While this is slightly off-topic, having a few unixy tools around can make win32 a much more tolerable environment. PERL tops this list.
-Michael
I must make one further comment on dinosaur power vs. solar. Solar is limited to constraints of immediate capture. With dinosaur power, you can tap the aggregation of thousands of years of worth of solar energy each day to compensate for your losses no matter how inefficient your process is.
>BestBuy needed an ISP that didn't suck to offer their business customers
Uh, it's nice for an ISP to have customers who don't suck. ID10T customers are the number one reason behind idiotic blanket policies that leave us geeks out in the cold.
Lets see...you take a big land hungry plant to produce a few ears of corn per plant, which in fact are mostly cob. You end up with a few ounces of actual corn per plant, then loose even more in the fermentation process. At least when you use corn to feed livestock, you can generally make use of the entire plant, cellulose and all. Growing corn for fuel is arrogant, wasteful, and can only compete because tax money is being thrown at it. Any politician supporting ethanol subsidies needs to pull their small and hollow head out of their arse and then wash what few strands of hair they have left. Don't vote for these asshats again!
We need a good end-to-end hardware crypto solution for voice traffic, 100% open-source and published and buildable on cheap commodity hardware. (I'm thinking PIC processors and FPGA's). We basically need a hardware-based telephone equivilent to PGP that everyone could afford, that doesn't require me to use a PC as a telephone. Phil Zimmerman's PGPhone is pretty cool and a step in the right direction. It just needs to shrink;-)
The government should fear its population, its creator.
Clever and simple;-) The only problem is coming up with a ideal OTP is a real bitch. I have a co-worker whom I once saw cutting the detector module up out of a smoke detector. He said he needed random numbers and had connected a geiger counter to a computer and was using radioactive decay to build random number sets. I guess with the proper ambition it is possible to build a good pad, but i'm so thankful his office isn't anywhere near mine.
A government that is not accountable to its population is by default invalid and unjust, and needs to be delt with accordingly. Thank God we have the soap box and ballot box in this Great Country and have options to bring about change in a constructive manner. In other places, the ammo box is the only option available.
Slap one of these bad-boys into a video camera with only the ability to only write/encrypt and then you'll have a tool journalists can use without fear their content will be pilfered by a herd of unwieldly pigs. Only once the cam is back from the field would the data be accessable. This of course assumes the drive uses some sort of PKI, it may be symmetric only, in which case you'd have to add something to generate the symmetric keys from a PKI infrastructure. Performance should still be good with the added PKI module since the internal crypto would still be using the hardware accelerator with the derived symmetric keys.
This is just the sort of BS Corpus Christi needs...I wonder if she'll be wearing diapers to catch it as she drives across Ward Island (where my office is) to get to the base.
The SSN should be only considered as a gov't assigned userid. The government should now issue everyone in the USA a password and provide a government sponsored pluggable authentication system anyone could use for their company. Those using this system to authenticate customers would fund it. Password reset would be available at SSN offices only with verified photo ID. Lets end this bullshit once and for all and empower the end user to protect their identify credentials via at least a password, maybe even a RSA dongle.
Hmm...lets see. Cover some cardboard with aluminum foil and make a shield or use a metal trash can lid then step behind a building. I really don't think the effects of this thing will last long as soon as the enemy becomes aware of it, and exactly what do to avoid it. Chaos and people scurrying makes cover for return fire. The enemy isn't going to stop fearing lead, but they will stop fearing this thing rather quickly imho.
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I sometimes do a little contract work so have my employer withold some extra to offset it. The amount I do is variable, so I'm happy to get close to "breaking even", on either side. This year I got $400 back. A couple years ago I had to pay $600. ...close nuff!
I had royal problems when I got to the very last step on turbotax, right where you click to submit to the IRS. After a good 15 second wait, I got an error about being overloaded, and to try again later. What really sucked is that I couldn't start from that point again, but instead had to re-visit the last bunch of questions I had already answered. Being their Website is so format heavy, each screen took a good 10-15 seconds to draw on this 1.8 Ghz box, so the entire process was quite annoying. After 3 tries and some minor sheet-rock damage, I had to print the whole damn thing out and drive across town to our main post office. To add insult to injury, turbotax took my money before this last step was available. This sucks. I got ripped off, and I wont't get my tax refund in the usual week and 1/2 since I had to mail it. (at least a got a refund though...albeit little bitty)
no problem...I'm running 3 seeds, one pushing about 400 Kb/sec and the other about 200 Kb/sec as well as my cable modem pushing 30 Kb/sec. There aren't too many people using this torrent yet, so I'll run it as long as I can, or until the network admins start getting on my case.
Please seed the torrent on thepiratebay.org as there are currently only 2 seeds. http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3661078/OLPC_Stream_SD K_LiveCD
...but in a few years it'll peak, and I'll be able to push a 5 watt signal 10,000 miles like I did last peak, except I'm older now and have cooler toys. ;-) It'll be a certainly be a QRP radio hayday, but I wonder if I'll end up hearing everyone's BPL from across the globe this time around.
A large power plant converts dinosaur-era organic matter to energy a lot better than the little engine under your hood, even considering distribution losses.
I did some contract work on a miltary base a while back where it was "windows-only" desktops, etc. I needed to do a lot of text parsing, a job best left to PERL. I got permission to have activestate perl installed without much trouble at all. While this is slightly off-topic, having a few unixy tools around can make win32 a much more tolerable environment. PERL tops this list.
-Michael
I must make one further comment on dinosaur power vs. solar. Solar is limited to constraints of immediate capture. With dinosaur power, you can tap the aggregation of thousands of years of worth of solar energy each day to compensate for your losses no matter how inefficient your process is.
-Michael
>BestBuy needed an ISP that didn't suck to offer their business customers Uh, it's nice for an ISP to have customers who don't suck. ID10T customers are the number one reason behind idiotic blanket policies that leave us geeks out in the cold.
Here are detailed instructions on how I got Truecrypt to work under Fedora Core 6 (FC6). It wasn't that hard after all. http://www.aggiegeeks.com/wordpress/?p=74
Using 3rd party crypto binaries is really smart, dude. I've got a really neat rpm for you to install...
...and just like the previous versions of Truecrypt, all indications are its once again gonna be a little bitch trying to get it to build on FC6.
Boy, what you got against Texans?
Lets see...you take a big land hungry plant to produce a few ears of corn per plant, which in fact are mostly cob. You end up with a few ounces of actual corn per plant, then loose even more in the fermentation process. At least when you use corn to feed livestock, you can generally make use of the entire plant, cellulose and all. Growing corn for fuel is arrogant, wasteful, and can only compete because tax money is being thrown at it. Any politician supporting ethanol subsidies needs to pull their small and hollow head out of their arse and then wash what few strands of hair they have left. Don't vote for these asshats again!
We need a good end-to-end hardware crypto solution for voice traffic, 100% open-source and published and buildable on cheap commodity hardware. (I'm thinking PIC processors and FPGA's). We basically need a hardware-based telephone equivilent to PGP that everyone could afford, that doesn't require me to use a PC as a telephone. Phil Zimmerman's PGPhone is pretty cool and a step in the right direction. It just needs to shrink ;-)
The government should fear its population, its creator.
Clever and simple ;-) The only problem is coming up with a ideal OTP is a real bitch. I have a co-worker whom I once saw cutting the detector module up out of a smoke detector. He said he needed random numbers and had connected a geiger counter to a computer and was using radioactive decay to build random number sets. I guess with the proper ambition it is possible to build a good pad, but i'm so thankful his office isn't anywhere near mine.
A government that is not accountable to its population is by default invalid and unjust, and needs to be delt with accordingly. Thank God we have the soap box and ballot box in this Great Country and have options to bring about change in a constructive manner. In other places, the ammo box is the only option available.
Slap one of these bad-boys into a video camera with only the ability to only write/encrypt and then you'll have a tool journalists can use without fear their content will be pilfered by a herd of unwieldly pigs. Only once the cam is back from the field would the data be accessable. This of course assumes the drive uses some sort of PKI, it may be symmetric only, in which case you'd have to add something to generate the symmetric keys from a PKI infrastructure. Performance should still be good with the added PKI module since the internal crypto would still be using the hardware accelerator with the derived symmetric keys.
This is just the sort of BS Corpus Christi needs...I wonder if she'll be wearing diapers to catch it as she drives across Ward Island (where my office is) to get to the base.
The SSN should be only considered as a gov't assigned userid. The government should now issue everyone in the USA a password and provide a government sponsored pluggable authentication system anyone could use for their company. Those using this system to authenticate customers would fund it. Password reset would be available at SSN offices only with verified photo ID. Lets end this bullshit once and for all and empower the end user to protect their identify credentials via at least a password, maybe even a RSA dongle.
Hmm...lets see. Cover some cardboard with aluminum foil and make a shield or use a metal trash can lid then step behind a building. I really don't think the effects of this thing will last long as soon as the enemy becomes aware of it, and exactly what do to avoid it. Chaos and people scurrying makes cover for return fire. The enemy isn't going to stop fearing lead, but they will stop fearing this thing rather quickly imho.
here's a project using solar heat to drive a ammonia absorption cycle freezer. [PDF]
This dude is using a modified ionic breeze to pump air at 325 CFM through his machine. (or so he claims). http://www.inventgeek.com/Projects/IonCooler/Overv iew.aspx
black marker...that's so old school. White-out tape + xerox is the new way of doing this.