I would actually go for a sealed box with cooling fins and then some water cooling with an external radiator and fans.
Sealed box - mostly to keep any kind of bugs out of the box and also to try to keep the humidity down. Add some silica gel inside to keep it dry.
Remember that silica gel can be re-used, you just have to dry it in some way.
I'm assuming that the box doesn't have to be deluge-proof, so just make it reasonably sealed. Add thermometers and possibly a small radiator/fan inside for general cooling of the PSU air.
With water cooling you will get a stable temperature and be able to get rid of a lot of heat - and be able to vent the heat outdoors.
Also select the most power-efficient PSU you can get your hands on to avoid unnecessary heat.
And for UPS - that shall be located in a separate compartment to avoid catastrophic problems in case you get a battery leak.
Mounting the whole box on inflatable rubber wheels would be a good idea - not only for moving it, but the rubber wheels can also provide vibration dampening when transporting.
Rugged things get heavy.
And don't forget - mount the hard drives using extra shock-proofing in some way. Mirrored drives is also a good idea since it may save you from some agony.
The problem as I see it that convicting a tracker is the wrong thing. That may bring a precedent that also other trackers and search engines can be brought to court and convicted.
And even though the tracker in question is focused on copyrighted material it wouldn't really be a problem if it linked to sites where you could have purchased the music.
But this just indicates that the rigidity of the music industry prevails and they try to defend it with all means.
As for odd and unusual music - that's the failure of many trackers. Top lists may only provide a list of the most popular music since it has been played on the radio, not a list of the best music.
I have realized that even CD-shops on the net are contributing to the fail of the music industry since it's hard to get the music you want even there. So what's the alternative? A torrent download of a MP3 that is hopefully not too crappy.
Essentially - the music industry is rotting from within by not selling what people wants and pricing the available music wrong.
This still leaves us with the singular bands that wants to provide their music without a label or on a very narrow label. What's needed is some way to spread the music that they provide. Just having a site on the net isn't enough - you need a directory and a way to preview the music. Online Flash players and low-quality MP3:s could do that.
Just because DNA trace is found at a crime scene doesn't mean that you have been there at the time of the crime, it may be that you were there moments before or did unknowingly have a brush with someone involved. This is especially important in areas where public transportation systems are frequently used.
It's important to consider how the DNA was collected and the conditions at the time to determine how relevant it is.
More interesting would be if DNA is missing when it would be expected.
If you are good enough they won't come for you because you have hidden your tracks and possibly implicated someone else - hopefully someone that's guilty of something serious anyway.
So this leads to an interesting issue - if someone is pointed out as a hacker is that person really guilty or just a scapegoat?
Even a petty offender may have a long track record of minor offenses that taken together are serious.
So go ahead and collect DNA. You may eventually have everyone on record, but that's no big deal for most of us. And it may even help in identification if you get killed.
Define which state the purchase was made in first. You actually have three factors, state where the business operates, state where purchaser resides and state where the buyer happens to be when the purchase was made.
Another working condition that makes things awkward is when you never know when the power will fail, but that it will fail - at the worst possible moment.
"Why does humans marry?" is the more correct question. It seems to be an invention from somewhere that it makes it more "legal" to have offspring when married while it technically doesn't really matter.
And then - is it really necessary to bloat your base product with those features?
If you have the additional functions available for download as a plugin and also have a community making plugins then you can get a better acceptance for your product and also decrease the load on you when developing.
It's possible that as soon as this broke wind in the newschannels they figured out that it was a flawed action and backed down.
Censorship is always bad for business. You may have a content rating filter that the user can set, but then it's up to the user to control the censoring.
And if you have obnoxious users that wants books thrown out regardless then it's not the fault of the store but that user that should have the head examined.
Journalists learns which articles that draws the most comments and therefore are the most controversial. This means that they get an indication about what may be disturbing for people.
But sometimes we also need informative articles and not only the disturbing articles.
As for anonymous comments - they may be valid, but it must be possible to moderate those articles to get rid of the noise and the worst forms. And in controversial questions the availability of anonymous comments may be a life saver. It must be possible to express an opinion, at least in a polite way without revealing your identity. The question is sometimes more important than who the messenger is.
I'm using sendmail with some extra anti-spam measures that seems to work really well:
FEATURE(`access_db')dnl FEATURE(`require_rdns')dnl FEATURE(`block_bad_helo')dnl FEATURE(`enhdnsbl', `zen.spamhaus.org', `"Message from $&{client_addr} rejected - see http://www.spamhaus.org/query/bl?ip="$&{client_addr}', `t')dnl FEATURE(`enhdnsbl', `bl.spamcop.net', `"Message from $&{client_addr} rejected - see http://spamcop.net/bl.shtml?"$&{client_addr}', `t')dnl FEATURE(`dnsbl',`combined.njabl.org',`Message from $&{client_addr} rejected - see http://njabl.org/lookup?$&{client_addr}')dnl FEATURE(`dnsbl',`list.dsbl.org',`Message from $&{client_addr} rejected - see http://www.dsbl.orgdnl/ FEATURE(`dnsbl',`dnsbl.sorbs.net',`"Message from $&{client_addr} rejected - see http://www.sorbs.net/"')dnl FEATURE(`dnsbl',`dnsbl-1.uceprotect.net',`"Message from $&{client_addr} rejected - see http://www.uceprotect.net/"')dnl FEATURE(`dnsbl',`dnsbl-2.uceprotect.net',`"Message from $&{client_addr} rejected - see http://www.uceprotect.net/"')dnl FEATURE(`dnsbl',`dnsbl-3.uceprotect.net',`"Message from $&{client_addr} rejected - see http://www.uceprotect.net/"')dnl dnl FEATURE(`enhdnsbl', `sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org', `Message from $&{client_addr} rejected - see http://www.spamhaus.org/SBL', `t', `127.0.0.2.')dnl FEATURE(rhsbl,`dsn.rfc-ignorant.org',`"550 Mail from domain " $`'&{RHS} " refused. MX of domain do not accept bounces. This violates RFC 821/2505/2821 - see http://www.rfc-ignorant.org/"')dnl FEATURE(rhsbl,`postmaster.rfc-ignorant.org',`"550 Mail from domain " $`'&{RHS} " refused. MX of domain does not have a working postmaster address - see http://www.rfc-ignorant.org/"')dnl
I haven't seen any junk mail entering the mail account I have that is protected by these measures. And anyone trying to send mail that can't arrive will get an error message.
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Only way around it seems to be to use HTML entities like Å for Å and so on.
Or the article at The Local.
I would actually go for a sealed box with cooling fins and then some water cooling with an external radiator and fans.
Sealed box - mostly to keep any kind of bugs out of the box and also to try to keep the humidity down. Add some silica gel inside to keep it dry.
Remember that silica gel can be re-used, you just have to dry it in some way.
I'm assuming that the box doesn't have to be deluge-proof, so just make it reasonably sealed. Add thermometers and possibly a small radiator/fan inside for general cooling of the PSU air.
With water cooling you will get a stable temperature and be able to get rid of a lot of heat - and be able to vent the heat outdoors.
Also select the most power-efficient PSU you can get your hands on to avoid unnecessary heat.
And for UPS - that shall be located in a separate compartment to avoid catastrophic problems in case you get a battery leak.
Mounting the whole box on inflatable rubber wheels would be a good idea - not only for moving it, but the rubber wheels can also provide vibration dampening when transporting.
Rugged things get heavy.
And don't forget - mount the hard drives using extra shock-proofing in some way. Mirrored drives is also a good idea since it may save you from some agony.
The problem as I see it that convicting a tracker is the wrong thing. That may bring a precedent that also other trackers and search engines can be brought to court and convicted.
And even though the tracker in question is focused on copyrighted material it wouldn't really be a problem if it linked to sites where you could have purchased the music.
But this just indicates that the rigidity of the music industry prevails and they try to defend it with all means.
As for odd and unusual music - that's the failure of many trackers. Top lists may only provide a list of the most popular music since it has been played on the radio, not a list of the best music.
I have realized that even CD-shops on the net are contributing to the fail of the music industry since it's hard to get the music you want even there. So what's the alternative? A torrent download of a MP3 that is hopefully not too crappy.
Essentially - the music industry is rotting from within by not selling what people wants and pricing the available music wrong.
This still leaves us with the singular bands that wants to provide their music without a label or on a very narrow label. What's needed is some way to spread the music that they provide. Just having a site on the net isn't enough - you need a directory and a way to preview the music. Online Flash players and low-quality MP3:s could do that.
Actually - if you want to avoid as much malware as possible you should consider an operating system that's less common than Linux or Windows.
You will of course run a risk by doing such a bold move.
I'm thinking of a system like AROS.
It sure isn't top of the line, but it has potential and may also benefit from having an addition to the community.
Another alternative is to develop a new operating system, but that is something that's incredibly hard and takes a decade or so to get up and running.
Just because DNA trace is found at a crime scene doesn't mean that you have been there at the time of the crime, it may be that you were there moments before or did unknowingly have a brush with someone involved. This is especially important in areas where public transportation systems are frequently used.
It's important to consider how the DNA was collected and the conditions at the time to determine how relevant it is.
More interesting would be if DNA is missing when it would be expected.
If you are good enough they won't come for you because you have hidden your tracks and possibly implicated someone else - hopefully someone that's guilty of something serious anyway.
So this leads to an interesting issue - if someone is pointed out as a hacker is that person really guilty or just a scapegoat?
Even a petty offender may have a long track record of minor offenses that taken together are serious.
So go ahead and collect DNA. You may eventually have everyone on record, but that's no big deal for most of us. And it may even help in identification if you get killed.
And soon they will transport solid state disks instead.
The catch with copyright laws is that the amount of fair use seems to be cut down bit by bit for every new release.
I'm still of the opinion that there shall be limitations on copyright:
Maybe this and the outcome will mark the end of an era, much like Napster once.
We are just waiting for the next big thing in file sharing.
It's possible, but it's also possible that there will be an addition to the law later that will require more from the ISP:s.
Define which state the purchase was made in first. You actually have three factors, state where the business operates, state where purchaser resides and state where the buyer happens to be when the purchase was made.
And the boot time of a PC can be considerable eating man-hours of billable time even for a small company.
And don't forget the number of man-hours wasted on anti-spam measures and manual spam handling.
Don't forget systems with MLS security which makes SELinux feel like a breeze to operate.
What's AM? After Midday?
No problem starting coding 04:00 if that's what it takes...
Nasty with battery vents.
Another working condition that makes things awkward is when you never know when the power will fail, but that it will fail - at the worst possible moment.
Luckily I was coding under VMS at that time.
Why not bash Bush? All things went down the drain from actions (or rather failure to do anything) during his presidency.
Wrong question!
"Why does humans marry?" is the more correct question. It seems to be an invention from somewhere that it makes it more "legal" to have offspring when married while it technically doesn't really matter.
And then - is it really necessary to bloat your base product with those features?
If you have the additional functions available for download as a plugin and also have a community making plugins then you can get a better acceptance for your product and also decrease the load on you when developing.
And if you have a three try block then you may still decrease the effectiveness of a botnet unless you are the specific target of the botnet.
But some bots are actually stupid enough to run the same list of passwords on every node, so it may work really well.
It's more the question of making your site less attractive than other sites on the net.
A hack for /etc/sysconfig/iptables to take care of the problem.
It's possible that as soon as this broke wind in the newschannels they figured out that it was a flawed action and backed down.
Censorship is always bad for business. You may have a content rating filter that the user can set, but then it's up to the user to control the censoring.
And if you have obnoxious users that wants books thrown out regardless then it's not the fault of the store but that user that should have the head examined.
Journalists learns which articles that draws the most comments and therefore are the most controversial. This means that they get an indication about what may be disturbing for people.
But sometimes we also need informative articles and not only the disturbing articles.
As for anonymous comments - they may be valid, but it must be possible to moderate those articles to get rid of the noise and the worst forms. And in controversial questions the availability of anonymous comments may be a life saver. It must be possible to express an opinion, at least in a polite way without revealing your identity. The question is sometimes more important than who the messenger is.
Just glue the envelope to a heavier package and you are fine.
Old car batteries contains lead, just cast it into a suitable form that you can place in a reinforced envelope and drop in a mailbox.
I'm using sendmail with some extra anti-spam measures that seems to work really well:
I haven't seen any junk mail entering the mail account I have that is protected by these measures. And anyone trying to send mail that can't arrive will get an error message.