Here's a message from Novell about the merger, from John Dragoon, Chief Marketing Officer:
On November 22, 2010, Novell issued a press release announcing a definitive merger agreement under which Attachmate Corporation (“Attachmate”) would acquire Novell for $6.10 per share in cash (“Merger Agreement”). Novell will continue to own Novell’s UNIX copyrights following completion of the merger as a subsidiary of Attachmate. Novell filed a Form 8-K/A with the SEC on November 22, 2010, with respect to the Merger Agreement.
That is, Novell will be a subsidiary of Attachmate and Novell will continue to own the copyrights.
In some early photo-radar locations, there was a loophole that nobody ever caught onto.
The citations gave an option of identifying the driver and address. If the address of the "identified driver" was foreign, the citation was immediately dismissed.
And one municipality had a maximum time during which the company handling the ticket had to issue the final ticket. If the owner of the vehicle waited until the last minute to identify the driver, there was not enough time to reissue the citation to the identified driver and so it was dismissed.
For a while, citations to anyone driving a rent-a-car were dismissed simply because the rental companies wouldn't respond to the citations. After much digging, a list of the correct addresses to send the citations for each major rental car company was made. After that, requests for identification of the drivers were promptly made by the rental car companies.
My solution to red light cameras is to drive 10-20 mph below the speed limit in any town that used red light cameras.
If those cities were really interested in safety, they could more easily do so, and at all light controlled intersections, by merely increasing the yellow light a second or two.
By the way, when New York City issued their RFP for red light cameras, the first city in the U.S. to do so, I was head of R&D for a radar company and wrote most of our proposal in response to their RFP. We were also working very hard back then to get the Washington DC contract. At the time, I thought that red light cameras would work well, but the actual results have convinced me otherwise.
While I was head of R&D at that company, we were also approached about developing a similar system for railroad crossings. Nothing ever came out of that, though.
In places that I'm familiar with, the requirement that you be able to clear the intersection means that if the cross traffic is backed up so bad that you won't be able to clear the intersection even when the light changes, then you must wait before entering the intersection.
My understanding is that just being in the intersection when the light turns red and then completing the turn normally is not impeding traffic.
In Texas, if you are in the intersection when the light turns red, then you didn't run a red light. Furthermore, you have the legal right of way to clear the intersection before crossing traffic may enter.
For unprotected left turns, that's why I pull out into the intersection during the green or yellow light and wait for the oncoming to stop before completing my left hand turn.
1. We do nothing about global warning until it is undeniably in full force (maybe in 25 years, 50 years, 100 years or 200 years), if it ever happen. The consequential scenarios are:
- Humanity faces an unprecedented crisis that leads to our extinction.
The realistic worst case projections are relatively minor. The possible extinction projections are pure hysteria.
- Humanity faces an unprecedented crisis and with its ingenuity it mitigate the crisis, while a set back in history (maybe thousands, millions or billions dies), humanity continue to strive.
The crisis would be if global cooling were to happen instead. Instead of some possibility so remote that it only exists in the hysterical, global cooling of any but the most minimal magnitude would indeed kill billions.
- Nothing happen and Humanity continue to do what it does now without suffering any consequences of our current behavior.
If nothing happens, but we hobble our economies with useless activity that accomplishes nothing, the consequences are enormous.
Is global warming real? I don't care. Act now!
Panic does noone any good.
If global warming turns out to be real and it turns out not to be beneficial, we have plenty of time to counter the worst effects. That is, plenty of time as in "at least a century".
The questions we should be asking, but aren't, go much further.
First, of course, is the question of whether or not it is actually happening. The answer is far from clear. And if we can't answer that, then it is ridiculously stupid to be paniced by a bunch of hysterical politicians spend billions or trillions of dollars to fix something that may not even be broken. And the term "politicians" includes those so-called climate scientists who have ceased being scientists in their quest to become advocates of their own global warming religion. Furthermore, if we can't even determine whether or not it is happening, than we have plenty of time to try to do something later if needed.
After that is the question of what, if anything, we can effectively do to slow it down or stop it. If we don't understand the problem, then anything we do is likely to be far from ineffective and may accomplish nothing at all. Why should we destroy our economy for little more than a hysterical nightmare?
Third is the question that hardly anyone is asking or even thinking about. The global warming advocates all take the answer for granted without even thinking about it. That is the question of whether or not we should do anything if global warming is happening and if there are some effective things we can do to combat it. Global warming is likely to be overwhelmingly beneficial for most life on Earth including mankind. Sure, if global warming occurs, there will be some people who come out behind. But global warming means longer growing seasons, especially toward the poles. Large expanses of land would become available for growing crops.
The real disaster would be global cooling. If that occurs, expect billions of people to starve to death. Remember that in the fossil record, periods of cooling, not warming, are the climatological causes of mass extinctions. If global warming helps postpone the next ice age or lessen its effects, the benefits to mankind and other animal life are clear.
There is no reason to panic. Far from it. There is plenty of reason to welcome global warming.
It's time for scientists to go back to doing science. Those who can't should go find some other work and get out of the way of the real scientists.
Except when cattle are commingled at the slaughterhouse - infection could be spread there.
By far the major problem is cross-contaimination at the slaugherhouse/packing plant.
I would bet that if you looked at the number of deaths in the United States over the last 50 years that resulted from eating contaminated beef. you would find that all, or nearly all, were from contamination that occurred after the animal was slaughtered.
The food industry doesn't need these regulations at all.
If you consider the actual diseases that make it to the consumers from meat, they are invariably the result of contamination or cross-contamination of meat at the packing plant. Where the animal came from prior to that makes no difference at all.
As for BSE, it has not been much of a problem here. When a cow with BSE was imported a couple of years or so ago, it took only about 24 hours to track it. It is doubtful that the cow would have been tracked any faster with NAIS.
If you want to look at the real threats to our meat supply, look at the animals being brought in from Mexico with relatively little oversight.
Considering the size of the food supply, there have been very few problems at the producer level. The problems that have occurred are after that.
I don't think that is obvious at all. Quite the contrary -- ssh is probably the most secure method one has of connecting. Better to leave it on and turn off things like telnet.
I would like to see the password login shut off by default. If soneone wants to use plain passwords on ssh, let them edit the/etc/ssh/sshd_config file themselves to enable them.
If an ISP promises a certain level of traffic, then it would be fraud. If not, it isn't fraud.
We never guarantee any customer a particular bandwidth. We had one that was interested in a guaranteed bandwidth, but that would have come at a much higher price and they didn't like our price quote.
We also tell our customers outright that we prioritize the packets by type of service. Most of our customers really do appreciate that.
The top priority goes to certain essential network traffic. Things like DNS, for example.
The next level of priority is for very interactive traffic such as ssh.
After that comes e-mail and web browsing.
At the very bottom is anything else.
The idea is that the type of things that are most critical in terms of being very aggravating to users as they wait are at the top. The more batch-like traffic is at the bottom.
Back when CD drives for computers were just becoming popular, I went to Circuit City to buy one. I picked out the particulear one to buy but noticed that the package only mentioned that it was compatible with Windows 95.
I told the salesman that if it didn't work with Windows NT I would bring it back.
The manager was standing behind the salesman and overheard me. He told me in no uncertain terms that if it worked with any computer running Windows 95, they would not accept a return.
So I went elsewhere, picked out the exact same model CD drive, verified that I could return it, and bought it. It worked perfectly.
Since then, I've spent plenty of money at the store that would have accepted its return, if necessary, and not a penny at Circuit City.
In fact, at the time of the CD incident, I needed a new stereo system because my previous has completely quit. I had just what I wanted picked out at Circuit City, but just hadn't bought it yet. Their refusal to accept returns of the CD drive not only killed the CD drive sale, they killed the stereo sale as well. I ended up buying a better stereo for less money at another nearby store.
I don't feel the least bit sorry for Circuit City going under. As far as I'm concerned -- Good Riddance.
Print the picture. I'm not (just) being a dick, it really is the best way.
I think you missed the point -- an efficient method of storing backups to data could be used for much more than just pictures. One could, for example, store programs, music, movies, or any other kind of digital data as well.
It would be entirely possible to make a paper copy of binary data that could easily be read in with the correct software. Of course, the paper you would want to use would be acid-free.
One could simply encode the binary as forward slashes and backward slashes. Or as x's and o's.
But those would be really wasteful.
I've often thought that what would make a really good software contest would be to develop a format to back data up to a paper copy on a laser printer using the best compression possible but with enough error correction and detection to be able to read just about any paper put in that comes out in reasonable shape.
For example, one might use individual pixels on the paper. Or you might want to group several together and treat as a bit. Or use an innovative coding scheme that doesn't just map individual bits to spots on the paper.
I think that a scheme that spreads the information out over the entire paper might be interesting. In other words, the individual bits of a byte and any bits dealing with the error detection and correction would be located remotely from each other.
In such a contest, testing would be easy. Write images of several datasets to paper and then scan the images in after different stages of intentional damage to the paper. For example, you might read two data files back from the pristine paper without doing anything. Another two data sets might come from paper that has been crumpled up into a ball and then flattened. Two more might be from paper that has been moistened. Two more from paper with a tear across the middle. And, finally, make copies of two data sets on an everyday copier and then scan them in and decode.
Rank the results by the numbers of errors, possibly with factors to take in levels of difficulty based on the amount of damage to the paper, and select a winner.
I always use a one time credit card number for each use.
The credit card issuer seems to think that this is sufficient and the card is always approved without going through the Verified by Visa.
For some reason, though, the credit card issuer, Bank of America, seems to be hiding the one time credit card number page deeper and deeper and making it hard to find.
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Novell's Chief Marketing officer stated:
That is, Novell will be a subsidiary of Attachmate and Novell will continue to own the copyrights.
In some early photo-radar locations, there was a loophole that nobody ever caught onto.
The citations gave an option of identifying the driver and address. If the address of the "identified driver" was foreign, the citation was immediately dismissed.
And one municipality had a maximum time during which the company handling the ticket had to issue the final ticket. If the owner of the vehicle waited until the last minute to identify the driver, there was not enough time to reissue the citation to the identified driver and so it was dismissed.
For a while, citations to anyone driving a rent-a-car were dismissed simply because the rental companies wouldn't respond to the citations. After much digging, a list of the correct addresses to send the citations for each major rental car company was made. After that, requests for identification of the drivers were promptly made by the rental car companies.
My solution to red light cameras is to drive 10-20 mph below the speed limit in any town that used red light cameras.
If those cities were really interested in safety, they could more easily do so, and at all light controlled intersections, by merely increasing the yellow light a second or two.
By the way, when New York City issued their RFP for red light cameras, the first city in the U.S. to do so, I was head of R&D for a radar company and wrote most of our proposal in response to their RFP. We were also working very hard back then to get the Washington DC contract. At the time, I thought that red light cameras would work well, but the actual results have convinced me otherwise.
While I was head of R&D at that company, we were also approached about developing a similar system for railroad crossings. Nothing ever came out of that, though.
Correction: It is a caution light, not a stop light. The first "not" should not have been there.
Not true.
A yellow light in Texas is a warning that the light is getting ready to turn red. It is not a caution light, not a stop light.
In places that I'm familiar with, the requirement that you be able to clear the intersection means that if the cross traffic is backed up so bad that you won't be able to clear the intersection even when the light changes, then you must wait before entering the intersection.
My understanding is that just being in the intersection when the light turns red and then completing the turn normally is not impeding traffic.
In Texas, if you are in the intersection when the light turns red, then you didn't run a red light. Furthermore, you have the legal right of way to clear the intersection before crossing traffic may enter.
For unprotected left turns, that's why I pull out into the intersection during the green or yellow light and wait for the oncoming to stop before completing my left hand turn.
The realistic worst case projections are relatively minor. The possible extinction projections are pure hysteria.
The crisis would be if global cooling were to happen instead. Instead of some possibility so remote that it only exists in the hysterical, global cooling of any but the most minimal magnitude would indeed kill billions.
If nothing happens, but we hobble our economies with useless activity that accomplishes nothing, the consequences are enormous.
Panic does noone any good.
If global warming turns out to be real and it turns out not to be beneficial, we have plenty of time to counter the worst effects. That is, plenty of time as in "at least a century".
The questions we should be asking, but aren't, go much further.
First, of course, is the question of whether or not it is actually happening. The answer is far from clear. And if we can't answer that, then it is ridiculously stupid to be paniced by a bunch of hysterical politicians spend billions or trillions of dollars to fix something that may not even be broken. And the term "politicians" includes those so-called climate scientists who have ceased being scientists in their quest to become advocates of their own global warming religion. Furthermore, if we can't even determine whether or not it is happening, than we have plenty of time to try to do something later if needed.
After that is the question of what, if anything, we can effectively do to slow it down or stop it. If we don't understand the problem, then anything we do is likely to be far from ineffective and may accomplish nothing at all. Why should we destroy our economy for little more than a hysterical nightmare?
Third is the question that hardly anyone is asking or even thinking about. The global warming advocates all take the answer for granted without even thinking about it. That is the question of whether or not we should do anything if global warming is happening and if there are some effective things we can do to combat it. Global warming is likely to be overwhelmingly beneficial for most life on Earth including mankind. Sure, if global warming occurs, there will be some people who come out behind. But global warming means longer growing seasons, especially toward the poles. Large expanses of land would become available for growing crops.
The real disaster would be global cooling. If that occurs, expect billions of people to starve to death. Remember that in the fossil record, periods of cooling, not warming, are the climatological causes of mass extinctions. If global warming helps postpone the next ice age or lessen its effects, the benefits to mankind and other animal life are clear.
There is no reason to panic. Far from it. There is plenty of reason to welcome global warming.
It's time for scientists to go back to doing science. Those who can't should go find some other work and get out of the way of the real scientists.
By far the major problem is cross-contaimination at the slaugherhouse/packing plant.
I would bet that if you looked at the number of deaths in the United States over the last 50 years that resulted from eating contaminated beef. you would find that all, or nearly all, were from contamination that occurred after the animal was slaughtered.
The food industry doesn't need these regulations at all.
If you consider the actual diseases that make it to the consumers from meat, they are invariably the result of contamination or cross-contamination of meat at the packing plant. Where the animal came from prior to that makes no difference at all.
As for BSE, it has not been much of a problem here. When a cow with BSE was imported a couple of years or so ago, it took only about 24 hours to track it. It is doubtful that the cow would have been tracked any faster with NAIS.
If you want to look at the real threats to our meat supply, look at the animals being brought in from Mexico with relatively little oversight.
Considering the size of the food supply, there have been very few problems at the producer level. The problems that have occurred are after that.
I don't think that is obvious at all. Quite the contrary -- ssh is probably the most secure method one has of connecting. Better to leave it on and turn off things like telnet.
I would like to see the password login shut off by default. If soneone wants to use plain passwords on ssh, let them edit the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file themselves to enable them.
My RSA keys are 8192 bits.
Why not just disable cleartext passwords?
On our systems, we permit only skey and RSA/DSA keys for logins.
We used to run a small company off of a single 2400 baud link with an 8 port statmux (statistical multiplexor) to a remote VAX minicomputer.
It worked fine.
If I remember correctly, a VT100 was something like $1,200 or $1,600. After a while, there were third party VT100 compatibles that were much cheaper.
I bought a brand new out of the box ten year old VT100 compatible monitor on eBay a couple of years ago for about $60.
I love it. I actually get more work done on it than from my usual Linux and OpenBSD workstations.
You overgeneralize.
If an ISP promises a certain level of traffic, then it would be fraud. If not, it isn't fraud.
We never guarantee any customer a particular bandwidth. We had one that was interested in a guaranteed bandwidth, but that would have come at a much higher price and they didn't like our price quote.
We also tell our customers outright that we prioritize the packets by type of service. Most of our customers really do appreciate that.
What we do is to prioritize packets.
The top priority goes to certain essential network traffic. Things like DNS, for example.
The next level of priority is for very interactive traffic such as ssh.
After that comes e-mail and web browsing.
At the very bottom is anything else.
The idea is that the type of things that are most critical in terms of being very aggravating to users as they wait are at the top. The more batch-like traffic is at the bottom.
That is as it should be.
Back when CD drives for computers were just becoming popular, I went to Circuit City to buy one. I picked out the particulear one to buy but noticed that the package only mentioned that it was compatible with Windows 95.
I told the salesman that if it didn't work with Windows NT I would bring it back.
The manager was standing behind the salesman and overheard me. He told me in no uncertain terms that if it worked with any computer running Windows 95, they would not accept a return.
So I went elsewhere, picked out the exact same model CD drive, verified that I could return it, and bought it. It worked perfectly.
Since then, I've spent plenty of money at the store that would have accepted its return, if necessary, and not a penny at Circuit City.
In fact, at the time of the CD incident, I needed a new stereo system because my previous has completely quit. I had just what I wanted picked out at Circuit City, but just hadn't bought it yet. Their refusal to accept returns of the CD drive not only killed the CD drive sale, they killed the stereo sale as well. I ended up buying a better stereo for less money at another nearby store.
I don't feel the least bit sorry for Circuit City going under. As far as I'm concerned -- Good Riddance.
We had a drug dog in town for a while.
I like dogs. When I'd see the cop and the dog around town, often as not, I would have the cop let him out of the car so I could play with him.
The cop told me that the people he thought were likely to be involved in drugs tended to stay as far away from the dog as they could.
Since then I've wondered if a drug dog could sense that reluctance and hit on that instead of drugs in some instances.
I remember those.
Considering the advances in technology since then, I'm sure we can do better, though.
I think you missed the point -- an efficient method of storing backups to data could be used for much more than just pictures. One could, for example, store programs, music, movies, or any other kind of digital data as well.
It would be entirely possible to make a paper copy of binary data that could easily be read in with the correct software. Of course, the paper you would want to use would be acid-free.
One could simply encode the binary as forward slashes and backward slashes. Or as x's and o's.
But those would be really wasteful.
I've often thought that what would make a really good software contest would be to develop a format to back data up to a paper copy on a laser printer using the best compression possible but with enough error correction and detection to be able to read just about any paper put in that comes out in reasonable shape.
For example, one might use individual pixels on the paper. Or you might want to group several together and treat as a bit. Or use an innovative coding scheme that doesn't just map individual bits to spots on the paper.
I think that a scheme that spreads the information out over the entire paper might be interesting. In other words, the individual bits of a byte and any bits dealing with the error detection and correction would be located remotely from each other.
In such a contest, testing would be easy. Write images of several datasets to paper and then scan the images in after different stages of intentional damage to the paper. For example, you might read two data files back from the pristine paper without doing anything. Another two data sets might come from paper that has been crumpled up into a ball and then flattened. Two more might be from paper that has been moistened. Two more from paper with a tear across the middle. And, finally, make copies of two data sets on an everyday copier and then scan them in and decode.
Rank the results by the numbers of errors, possibly with factors to take in levels of difficulty based on the amount of damage to the paper, and select a winner.
I always use a one time credit card number for each use.
The credit card issuer seems to think that this is sufficient and the card is always approved without going through the Verified by Visa.
For some reason, though, the credit card issuer, Bank of America, seems to be hiding the one time credit card number page deeper and deeper and making it hard to find.
They agreed not to provide them the account information to the outside company.
My bank contracts out it's web banking to another company that uses Windows servers with IIS to run it.
I told my bank that I didn't want any of my information on that company's computers.