... not spend an extra $20 while knowing that a WRT54G v5 flashed with dd-wrt will also have less functionality than a WRT54G-v1-v4 or the new WRT54GL. If that functionality (call it SIP, QoS, OpenVPN, NoCatAuth, larger number of connections) which require the larger memory of the previous wrt54g or the newer wrt54gl is needed for you, you'll be out of luck with the wrt54g v5 and it smaller foot print of memory resources. I guess that if all you need is some extra power out the antenna or things like that, maybe you can do with a wrt54g, but dont be misleaded by the $20 difference: we are talking about whether you want to turn your $80 router into a $400 one or not... as usual, your choice.
Well, this just in... if things like the following turn out to be true, then you can pretty much say things got a little bit out of hand in there (then again, it just might be propaganda or some weird "coma" re-run):
http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/6-4-26/40842.htm l
From TFA:
Sky TV aired a report last week that confirms important claims The Epoch Times has made in its own investigations into organ harvesting in China.
This report verifies that:
* organs for transplantation are very plentiful in China;
* they are available on demand;
* the organs are supplied from prisoners;
* the prisoners are killed after they are found to match a patient who is awaiting a donor organ.
Reporter Dominic Waghorn and at least one other staff member from Sky TV visited the Orient Organ Transplantation Center in Beijing with a hidden camera, posing as someone whose father needed a liver.
I guess Schneier is referring to what happens in a security contest if your product *pass* it, whether if you can consider it secure or not (Schneier say it is not), and then it goes to explain why you should not consider it secure. Here, given a certain scenario, the product *failed*.
Schneier further says that the U of W test will show nothing if it passes, but say nothing (but I would assume bad things) if it fails.
In Schneier's example, if you are not given a certain algorithm or the key in use, but only say ciphertext, and then in a contest someone comes up with the algorithm, the key and the plaintext, I say some work needs to be reviewed.
From other posts, you'll learn that Hitler was once "for better or worse" Time's person of the year in 1938.
There was a magazine around here whose publicity used to say "This man built more schools and made more free-highways than any other in his country recent history. His name was Adolph Hitler.... You know, part of the truth is not the whole truth... so read(buy?)...$THIS_MAGAZINE_INSTEAD". What this means that those schools or charities from Bill has also its "price tag" attached (and no, I havent build any school or free highway myself lateley either), as did the school and wonderfull highway systems in hitler's time, accordint to this magazine publicity. The problem is that we are just so calmly paying the "price tag" attached to this "charity" from Bill. The question is not if the money donated is good for the people that might receive it, but then again, how that money was collected in the first place.
If any monopolist/dictator/assassin would just throw a couple of millon $ to charity, would you (or we as a society) just go and buy a magazine that portrays him as "person of the year" or his products? What would it take to do so? How much harm has this monopolist/whatever done in order to give those millons/billos/gazillons away? Is that a good price (for us as a society) for his charity?
I dont live in the US... AFAIK, I havent seen a single buck of his charity around here (and it is not like there's not much needed), but of course at the same time have seen M$ people collecting more than a couple of millon U$S a year for his programs on the places I work. So, enjoy our "bucks":-). It is good to know that maybe U$S 1 or.02 out of the U$S 2M got to people in need somewhere. I just might wonder what would have happened if there was some real competition in the OS/Office product areas and we had to pay maybe not much as half of that to the SW companies (and not that much in antivirus and costs from non-availability of MS-products and/or similar stuff)... Could that money "saved" have been used to build a better future for people around here?
How many of you have seen M$ people collecting lots of money for "maybe not so stable/secure/dependable products", and seen a charity of almost a half, almost as much, or maybe more from M$ to someone in your vicinity?... Yeah, tought so...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Three environmental groups sued the federal government Thursday, seeking to protect polar bears from extinction because of disappearing Arctic sea ice.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in San Francisco, demands that the government take action on a petition environmentalists filed earlier to have polar bears listed as "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act.
Once a species is listed as threatened, the government is barred from doing anything to jeopardize the animal's existence or its habitat.
They don't bury the dead in New Orleans. The highest point in the city is only 6 ft. above sea level, which makes for watery graves. Fearful that rotting corpses caused epidemics, the city limited ground burials in 1830. Mausoleums built on soggy cemetery grounds became the final resting place for generations. Beyond providing a macabre tourist attraction, these "cities of the dead" serve as a reminder of the Big Easy's vulnerability to flooding. The reason water rushes into graves is because New Orleans sits atop a delta made of unconsolidated material that has washed down the Mississippi River.
Think of the city as a chin jutting out, waiting for a one-two punch from Mother Nature. The first blow comes from the sky. Hurricanes plying the Gulf of Mexico push massive domes of water (storm surges) ahead of their swirling winds. After the surges hit, the second blow strikes from below. The same swampy delta ground that necessitates above-ground burials leaves water from the storm surge with no place to go but up.
The fact that New Orleans has not already sunk is a matter of luck. If slightly different paths had been followed by Hurricanes Camille, which struck in August 1969, Andrew in August 1992 or George in September 1998, today we might need scuba gear to tour the French Quarter.
"In New Orleans, you never get above sea level, so you're always going to be isolated during a strong hurricane," says Kay Wilkins of the southeast Louisiana chapter of the American Red Cross.
During a strong hurricane, the city could be inundated with water blocking all streets in and out for days, leaving people stranded without electricity and access to clean drinking water. Many also could die because the city has few buildings that could withstand the sustained 96- to 100-mph winds and 6- to 8-ft. storm surges of a Category 2 hurricane. Moving to higher elevations would be just as dangerous as staying on low ground. Had Camille, a Category 5 storm, made landfall at New Orleans, instead of losing her punch before arriving, her winds would have blown twice as hard and her storm surge would have been three times as high.
Yet knowing all this, area residents have made their potential problem worse. "Over the past 30 years, the coastal region impacted by Camille has changed dramatically. Coastal erosion combined with soaring commercial and residential development in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama have all combined to significantly increase the vulnerability of the area," says Sandy Ward Eslinger, of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's Coastal Services Center in Charleston, S.C.
Early Warning
Emergency planners believe that it is a foregone conclusion that the Big Easy someday will be hit by a scouring storm surge. And, given the tremendous amount of coastal-area development, this watery "big one" will produce a staggering amount of damage. Yet, this doesn't necessarily mean that there will be a massive loss of lives.
The key is a new emergency warning system developed by Gregory Stone, a professor at Louisiana State University (LSU). It is called WAVCIS, which stands for wave-current surge information system. Within 30 minutes to an hour after raw data is collected from monitoring stations in the Gulf, an assessment of storm-surge damage would be available to emergency planners. Disaster relief agencies then would be able to mobilize resources--rescue personnel, the Red Cross, and so forth.
The $4.5 million WAVCIS project, which is now coming on line, will fill a major void in the Louisiana storm warning system, which was practically nonexistent compared to those of other Gulf Coast states. A system of 20 "weat
Maybe that's why the article wants IBM to release "as much OS/2 code as possible", so maybe we have an OS/2-Lite version, (sucn as the 4.4BSD-lite Unix version without the AT&T code) so that the community can fill in the blanks later.
Maybe it is just that people will not upgrade to something that does not have anything usable for them to actually "use".
Reader : Please do not confuse "upgrade" with "patches". Most people will want patches for their 2K machines. Also, they'll love updates that contain features they actually want. People will not migrate to XP if XP doesnt do "something" that 2K does not (and for some good reason.. not just that M$ or some other software company does not feel like to support 2k just to earn an extra 10c on something...).
So, nothing to see here. People will not migrate easily to XP unless XP has some real value to the people. Artificial value (as in eye candy, features I dont need, problems with activation keys)is no good replacement for real value (runs the software I need, is secure, is more or less stable, I know how to manage it, I know most of its problems and workarounds, I dont need to relearn everything from scratch,I dont need reinstall my software).
Seems sometimes history repeats itself... and in this particular case, the site is/.'ed once again...
We haven't learned how to put links to "weaker" sites using nyud.net:8090 just yet. Give it another year..
I guess there are a couple of points that have to be considered in all this.
First : If the cost of a PC with windows is $400 and the same PC with Linux is $420, you have to realize that actually a PC with either Windows or Linux or BSD costs $400, because you can install whatever you feel like on that PC. After that, the cost of additional software for basic things also has to be considered. Windows is an obvious loser in that area (consider antivirus/basic editors/remote mgmt/whatever and the bill starts to grow).
Second: If you really think that for medium-large companies it's a hassle to have to re-install the machines with Linux if they have shipped with Linux, I guess that's not a problem. Actually, PCs where I work are being reinstalled anyway with the corporate image, so that time of reinstalling has to be counted on the TCO for both Linux and Windows.Then again, those images are more expensive for similar functionality with windows, than a similar image based on linux (and we have both where I work). Of course, maintenance of windows machines tend to be a little, well, harder and problematic, so it all adds on the TCO. \P>
Ok, so I bought a CD/DVD, so I have the right to listen/watch. Now HiDef-DVD comes along, and I want the HiDef version of a movie picture, for which I already have the right to watch becaus I own the DVD/VHS. Now, can get the HiDef movie just for the price of the HiDef-media? 'cause the right to watch it, I already own...
One thing that I noticed today while downloading a Linux iso image is that there was a client, IP 67.70.0.x... which was flooding me with keep alive messages (with Azureus, you see that on the "console" option). After "kicking & banning" that address, download speeds went to normal.
Slashdot Mirror
... not spend an extra $20 while knowing that a WRT54G v5 flashed with dd-wrt will also have less functionality than a WRT54G-v1-v4 or the new WRT54GL. If that functionality (call it SIP, QoS, OpenVPN, NoCatAuth, larger number of connections) which require the larger memory of the previous wrt54g or the newer wrt54gl is needed for you, you'll be out of luck with the wrt54g v5 and it smaller foot print of memory resources. I guess that if all you need is some extra power out the antenna or things like that, maybe you can do with a wrt54g, but dont be misleaded by the $20 difference: we are talking about whether you want to turn your $80 router into a $400 one or not... as usual, your choice.
From TFA:
Sky TV aired a report last week that confirms important claims The Epoch Times has made in its own investigations into organ harvesting in China.
This report verifies that:
* organs for transplantation are very plentiful in China;
* they are available on demand;
* the organs are supplied from prisoners;
* the prisoners are killed after they are found to match a patient who is awaiting a donor organ.
Reporter Dominic Waghorn and at least one other staff member from Sky TV visited the Orient Organ Transplantation Center in Beijing with a hidden camera, posing as someone whose father needed a liver.
Dundee says: That's no crater. This is a crater!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JHdYBet_4Q&eurl=ht tp://www.sosyalmekan.com/blog/index.php
Here's another "benchmark":
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http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MT
Hope this is +Informative : http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/04/06/rings.of. uranus.ap/index.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060406/ap_on_sc/rings _of_uranus
http://www.space.com/060406_uranus_blue.html
I guess Schneier is referring to what happens in a security contest if your product *pass* it, whether if you can consider it secure or not (Schneier say it is not), and then it goes to explain why you should not consider it secure. Here, given a certain scenario, the product *failed*.
Schneier further says that the U of W test will show nothing if it passes, but say nothing (but I would assume bad things) if it fails.
In Schneier's example, if you are not given a certain algorithm or the key in use, but only say ciphertext, and then in a contest someone comes up with the algorithm, the key and the plaintext, I say some work needs to be reviewed.
A place to start might be http://www.zoneminder.org/ , maybe is not so "pro", but it does it job for smaller installations. Maybe is worth a try.
dvdshrink might get endorsement as an MPAA certified DVD copy program !!!
Will it support 64-bit AMD64 style instructions too? Or should I wait for the Athlon 64 X2 Mobile version ?
From other posts, you'll learn that Hitler was once "for better or worse" Time's person of the year in 1938.
... You know, part of the truth is not the whole truth ... so read(buy?)...$THIS_MAGAZINE_INSTEAD". What this means that those schools or charities from Bill has also its "price tag" attached (and no, I havent build any school or free highway myself lateley either), as did the school and wonderfull highway systems in hitler's time, accordint to this magazine publicity. The problem is that we are just so calmly paying the "price tag" attached to this "charity" from Bill. The question is not if the money donated is good for the people that might receive it, but then again, how that money was collected in the first place.
There was a magazine around here whose publicity used to say "This man built more schools and made more free-highways than any other in his country recent history. His name was Adolph Hitler.
If any monopolist/dictator/assassin would just throw a couple of millon $ to charity, would you (or we as a society) just go and buy a magazine that portrays him as "person of the year" or his products? What would it take to do so? How much harm has this monopolist/whatever done in order to give those millons/billos/gazillons away? Is that a good price (for us as a society) for his charity?
:-). It is good to know that maybe U$S 1 or .02 out of the U$S 2M got to people in need somewhere. I just might wonder what would have happened if there was some real competition in the OS/Office product areas and we had to pay maybe not much as half of that to the SW companies (and not that much in antivirus and costs from non-availability of MS-products and/or similar stuff)... Could that money "saved" have been used to build a better future for people around here?
... Yeah, tought so...
I dont live in the US... AFAIK, I havent seen a single buck of his charity around here (and it is not like there's not much needed), but of course at the same time have seen M$ people collecting more than a couple of millon U$S a year for his programs on the places I work. So, enjoy our "bucks"
How many of you have seen M$ people collecting lots of money for "maybe not so stable/secure/dependable products", and seen a charity of almost a half, almost as much, or maybe more from M$ to someone in your vicinity?
Extract:
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Three environmental groups sued the federal government Thursday, seeking to protect polar bears from extinction because of disappearing Arctic sea ice.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in San Francisco, demands that the government take action on a petition environmentalists filed earlier to have polar bears listed as "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act.
Once a species is listed as threatened, the government is barred from doing anything to jeopardize the animal's existence or its habitat.
....
ok, and let's mention Montevideo, Uruguay while we are at it.
256/64k ADSL : U$S 50
512/192k ADSL : U$S 149
256/64k, 1 GB limit : U$S 22
It would be nice what other /.'ers get on their respective countries/cities.
Of course, U$S 50 might be as much as 10 or 25% of what you make in a month when you start working on something like IT, 8hs a day, 5 days a week.
It's called "Broadband Reality Check, The FCC ignores America's Digital Divide". http://www.freepress.net/docs/broadband_report.pdf
... is google turning *that* evil ?
They don't bury the dead in New Orleans. The highest point in the city is only 6 ft. above sea level, which makes for watery graves. Fearful that rotting corpses caused epidemics, the city limited ground burials in 1830. Mausoleums built on soggy cemetery grounds became the final resting place for generations. Beyond providing a macabre tourist attraction, these "cities of the dead" serve as a reminder of the Big Easy's vulnerability to flooding. The reason water rushes into graves is because New Orleans sits atop a delta made of unconsolidated material that has washed down the Mississippi River.
Think of the city as a chin jutting out, waiting for a one-two punch from Mother Nature. The first blow comes from the sky. Hurricanes plying the Gulf of Mexico push massive domes of water (storm surges) ahead of their swirling winds. After the surges hit, the second blow strikes from below. The same swampy delta ground that necessitates above-ground burials leaves water from the storm surge with no place to go but up.
The fact that New Orleans has not already sunk is a matter of luck. If slightly different paths had been followed by Hurricanes Camille, which struck in August 1969, Andrew in August 1992 or George in September 1998, today we might need scuba gear to tour the French Quarter.
"In New Orleans, you never get above sea level, so you're always going to be isolated during a strong hurricane," says Kay Wilkins of the southeast Louisiana chapter of the American Red Cross.
During a strong hurricane, the city could be inundated with water blocking all streets in and out for days, leaving people stranded without electricity and access to clean drinking water. Many also could die because the city has few buildings that could withstand the sustained 96- to 100-mph winds and 6- to 8-ft. storm surges of a Category 2 hurricane. Moving to higher elevations would be just as dangerous as staying on low ground. Had Camille, a Category 5 storm, made landfall at New Orleans, instead of losing her punch before arriving, her winds would have blown twice as hard and her storm surge would have been three times as high.
Yet knowing all this, area residents have made their potential problem worse. "Over the past 30 years, the coastal region impacted by Camille has changed dramatically. Coastal erosion combined with soaring commercial and residential development in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama have all combined to significantly increase the vulnerability of the area," says Sandy Ward Eslinger, of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's Coastal Services Center in Charleston, S.C. Early Warning
Emergency planners believe that it is a foregone conclusion that the Big Easy someday will be hit by a scouring storm surge. And, given the tremendous amount of coastal-area development, this watery "big one" will produce a staggering amount of damage. Yet, this doesn't necessarily mean that there will be a massive loss of lives.
The key is a new emergency warning system developed by Gregory Stone, a professor at Louisiana State University (LSU). It is called WAVCIS, which stands for wave-current surge information system. Within 30 minutes to an hour after raw data is collected from monitoring stations in the Gulf, an assessment of storm-surge damage would be available to emergency planners. Disaster relief agencies then would be able to mobilize resources--rescue personnel, the Red Cross, and so forth.
The $4.5 million WAVCIS project, which is now coming on line, will fill a major void in the Louisiana storm warning system, which was practically nonexistent compared to those of other Gulf Coast states. A system of 20 "weat
Well, they already have IBM making some AMD64 servers ( http://www-132.ibm.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/C ategoryDisplay?categoryId=2590406&storeId=1&catalo gId=-840&langId=-1 ). I can only hope IBM (don't know about others) had a broader line of AMD 64 based servers, but this is certainly a start.
Maybe that's why the article wants IBM to release "as much OS/2 code as possible", so maybe we have an OS/2-Lite version, (sucn as the 4.4BSD-lite Unix version without the AT&T code) so that the community can fill in the blanks later.
Maybe it is just that people will not upgrade to something that does not have anything usable for them to actually "use".
Reader : Please do not confuse "upgrade" with "patches". Most people will want patches for their 2K machines. Also, they'll love updates that contain features they actually want. People will not migrate to XP if XP doesnt do "something" that 2K does not (and for some good reason.. not just that M$ or some other software company does not feel like to support 2k just to earn an extra 10c on something...).
So, nothing to see here. People will not migrate easily to XP unless XP has some real value to the people. Artificial value (as in eye candy, features I dont need, problems with activation keys)is no good replacement for real value (runs the software I need, is secure, is more or less stable, I know how to manage it, I know most of its problems and workarounds, I dont need to relearn everything from scratch,I dont need reinstall my software).
Seems sometimes history repeats itself... and in this particular case, the site is /.'ed once again...
We haven't learned how to put links to "weaker" sites using nyud.net:8090 just yet. Give it another year..
I guess there are a couple of points that have to be considered in all this.
First : If the cost of a PC with windows is $400 and the same PC with Linux is $420, you have to realize that actually a PC with either Windows or Linux or BSD costs $400, because you can install whatever you feel like on that PC. After that, the cost of additional software for basic things also has to be considered. Windows is an obvious loser in that area (consider antivirus/basic editors/remote mgmt/whatever and the bill starts to grow).
Second: If you really think that for medium-large companies it's a hassle to have to re-install the machines with Linux if they have shipped with Linux, I guess that's not a problem. Actually, PCs where I work are being reinstalled anyway with the corporate image, so that time of reinstalling has to be counted on the TCO for both Linux and Windows.Then again, those images are more expensive for similar functionality with windows, than a similar image based on linux (and we have both where I work). Of course, maintenance of windows machines tend to be a little, well, harder and problematic, so it all adds on the TCO. \P>
Ok, so I bought a CD/DVD, so I have the right to listen/watch. Now HiDef-DVD comes along, and I want the HiDef version of a movie picture, for which I already have the right to watch becaus I own the DVD/VHS. Now, can get the HiDef movie just for the price of the HiDef-media? 'cause the right to watch it, I already own...
what??? I mean, sccs, you know... I kind of miss "what".
One thing that I noticed today while downloading a Linux iso image is that there was a client, IP 67.70.0.x... which was flooding me with keep alive messages (with Azureus, you see that on the "console" option). After "kicking & banning" that address, download speeds went to normal.
OTOH, maybe not all of those patents are software related...
... maybe it'll hit us anyway. NASA is looking at whether the metric or imperial systems was used all along the calculations. Stay tuned...