I have a degenerative hearing condition called cochlear otosclerosis which wasn't diagnosed until after I had established myself as a successful airline pilot; a career I loved and was deeply invested in both professionally and personally. I have since retrained and I'm now a certified (degree-carrying) computer science nerd. Unfortunately, not a career path that was even vaguely close to first choice, but it pays the bills.
Having this condition also means there is a not insignificant risk I can pass the genes onto my children. This treatment could provide a cure for myself and a "get out of jail" for my children. I cannot describe how delightfully excited I am about the possibilities in medical science right now!
GPS is good, so is the altimeter, but neither are perfect all the time - if they were, ground proximity warning systems (GPWS...aka "WHOOP WHOOP, PULL UP!!") wouldn't be needed. Unfortunately GPWS are prohibitive for small aircraft operators.
Now all we need is to make the technology down-scale in both size/weight and cost. It would be great to see these systems adapted and installed in smaller, lighter aircraft. There are still far too many CFIT fatalities in the private and small aircraft world. They have synthetic terrain warning (superimposing the aircraft's position from GPS and altimeter over a topographic data to determine horizontal and vertical proximity to terrain) but no active warning systems. GPS is good, so is the altimeter, but neither are perfect all the time - if they were, ground proximity warning systems (GPWS...aka "WHOOP WHOOP, PULL UP!!") still are prohibitive for small aircraft operators.
Kudos to the GPWS team though - they saved my ass on at least one occasion in a previous life when I was professional pilot!
Under the GPL, my understanding is that RedHat need to make the source code available. This then allows CentOS to grab the source (RPMs) and re-badge/recompile it into a new distribution. So I don't think this distro is going away any time soon.
My thoughts exactly...but as soon as I'm untethered (Optus GSM...you suck!) and on some real bandwidth, I'm watching the video:) I too have far too much spare time!
My websites generally sit on shared servers. What if a different customer on the same server as my sites hosts something subject one of these DDoS attacks? Answer: I'm boned!! Yeh great idea geniuses! Like others, if these sort of attacks are now legal, then I've got my hitlist ready to go.
It runs linux (w00t) and has a really nice screen. However, it's a brick. I think I'll stick with my iPhone 3GS and Netbook running linux combo thanks; lug a brick when I need to, simplicity and elegance when I only want the phone.
Not to mention many forms of freight cannot be carried by air at all, and others have extreme restrictions on the amounts that can be carried in a single air consignment. As IATA say, "some things just aren't meant to fly" - like pyrotechnic security attache cases for example (sorry Mr. Bond, you'll have to send that by road/rail/boat).
I'm a regional IT manager for a US-based multi-national. I'm a techie, not a mangler despite my job role. I've resisted the pressure to resort to corporatesque and made sure my guys dont indulge in this verbal wank-fest too. We simply tell it how it is. Over the 6 years I've been with this company, our reputation has been made: if you want a straight answer when the excrement hits the rotating blades, you come see either myself or one of my team.
Sure, it's not "pretty" when some sales/marketing droid is going through the motions of why their latest big idea "leverages core <something> to facilitate <something-else> and yield a high VAR..." and one of my guys simply says "Ok - you've got no idea how you're gonna do this - right we get it. Move on to the next slide please". Still, the C-team (CEO/CFO/CTO/etc) appreciate my team's frankness and they pay our salaries.
SPF, while a step in the right direction, is certainly NOT the panacea supporters religiously claim it to be. Google "SPF forward email" and see the results. The first hit I got speaks of the problem (scroll 2/3 down), and I quote:
"SPF problems
SPF breaks SMTP forwarding where an MTA forwards e-mail to someone else without
changing the 'from' address. One solution for this problem is a technique called Sender Rewriting Scheme (SRS). SRS is a mechanism for rewriting sender addresses when a mail is forwarded in that way when mail forwarding continues to work within an SPF implementation. To work around this self-imposed limitation of SPF, you need SRS."
Long story short - by implementing rigid compliance to SPF you can inadvertently throw out some of the Good Things (tm) that the e-mail system can do. Complexity upon complexity...were will it end?
I read about the early space programs (Mercury/Gemini/Apollo) as a kid and dreamt of going into space. My statement was always "I'd give my lefty to take a ride into space"....unfortunately, they want $200K+. I guess I'll have to wait a little longer. Dammit.
Ditto - for my home movies, 40mins of MPEG2 is about all you'd want to sit through in one go, 700Mb is enough to backup the critical stuff, and (fast) drives are well under USD$50. All this DVD+/-/R/RW/RAM/+9/-9 fru-fru can go to hell! I'll starting parting with my $$$ when the format war is fought and won....or something better comes along.
Here in the land of Oz, last night's broadcast news (and repeated this morning and again a few minutes ago on the mid-day news), this Australian arrest was part of multi-national raid involving basically every continent except Antarctica!!
IIRC some of the noteable arrests occured in Cairo, Amsterdam, Australia, Malaysia and Singapore. This was (is??) a global scam, but evidence is stacking up to suggest this Australian connection was one of the key players (not merely a pawn).
Agreed. I am also running a Jabber server for the same reasons. Although being able to plug other services into a Jabber server is very useful. Until Yahoo nuked my connector of course. Still ICQ is functional.
Yeh like no-one has EVER hacked into a closed source platform?! Wake up!
Let's not go over the whole "security by obscurity" debate - it's old and boring.
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I have a degenerative hearing condition called cochlear otosclerosis which wasn't diagnosed until after I had established myself as a successful airline pilot; a career I loved and was deeply invested in both professionally and personally. I have since retrained and I'm now a certified (degree-carrying) computer science nerd. Unfortunately, not a career path that was even vaguely close to first choice, but it pays the bills.
Having this condition also means there is a not insignificant risk I can pass the genes onto my children. This treatment could provide a cure for myself and a "get out of jail" for my children. I cannot describe how delightfully excited I am about the possibilities in medical science right now!
One sentence got munged...it should've read:
GPS is good, so is the altimeter, but neither are perfect all the time - if they were, ground proximity warning systems (GPWS...aka "WHOOP WHOOP, PULL UP!!") wouldn't be needed. Unfortunately GPWS are prohibitive for small aircraft operators.
Sorry
Now all we need is to make the technology down-scale in both size/weight and cost. It would be great to see these systems adapted and installed in smaller, lighter aircraft. There are still far too many CFIT fatalities in the private and small aircraft world. They have synthetic terrain warning (superimposing the aircraft's position from GPS and altimeter over a topographic data to determine horizontal and vertical proximity to terrain) but no active warning systems. GPS is good, so is the altimeter, but neither are perfect all the time - if they were, ground proximity warning systems (GPWS...aka "WHOOP WHOOP, PULL UP!!") still are prohibitive for small aircraft operators. Kudos to the GPWS team though - they saved my ass on at least one occasion in a previous life when I was professional pilot!
Under the GPL, my understanding is that RedHat need to make the source code available. This then allows CentOS to grab the source (RPMs) and re-badge/recompile it into a new distribution. So I don't think this distro is going away any time soon.
My thoughts exactly...but as soon as I'm untethered (Optus GSM...you suck!) and on some real bandwidth, I'm watching the video :) I too have far too much spare time!
My websites generally sit on shared servers. What if a different customer on the same server as my sites hosts something subject one of these DDoS attacks? Answer: I'm boned!! Yeh great idea geniuses! Like others, if these sort of attacks are now legal, then I've got my hitlist ready to go.
It runs linux (w00t) and has a really nice screen. However, it's a brick. I think I'll stick with my iPhone 3GS and Netbook running linux combo thanks; lug a brick when I need to, simplicity and elegance when I only want the phone.
Not to mention many forms of freight cannot be carried by air at all, and others have extreme restrictions on the amounts that can be carried in a single air consignment. As IATA say, "some things just aren't meant to fly" - like pyrotechnic security attache cases for example (sorry Mr. Bond, you'll have to send that by road/rail/boat).
I'm a regional IT manager for a US-based multi-national. I'm a techie, not a mangler despite my job role. I've resisted the pressure to resort to corporatesque and made sure my guys dont indulge in this verbal wank-fest too. We simply tell it how it is. Over the 6 years I've been with this company, our reputation has been made: if you want a straight answer when the excrement hits the rotating blades, you come see either myself or one of my team.
Sure, it's not "pretty" when some sales/marketing droid is going through the motions of why their latest big idea "leverages core <something> to facilitate <something-else> and yield a high VAR..." and one of my guys simply says "Ok - you've got no idea how you're gonna do this - right we get it. Move on to the next slide please". Still, the C-team (CEO/CFO/CTO/etc) appreciate my team's frankness and they pay our salaries.
Quote: We're fast running out of people to vote for in Australia. (Choose between a liar and an idiot.)
Be grateful we don't live in the USA - their president is BOTH a liar and an idiot!
"SPF problems
SPF breaks SMTP forwarding where an MTA forwards e-mail to someone else without changing the 'from' address. One solution for this problem is a technique called Sender Rewriting Scheme (SRS). SRS is a mechanism for rewriting sender addresses when a mail is forwarded in that way when mail forwarding continues to work within an SPF implementation. To work around this self-imposed limitation of SPF, you need SRS."
Long story short - by implementing rigid compliance to SPF you can inadvertently throw out some of the Good Things (tm) that the e-mail system can do. Complexity upon complexity...were will it end?
BSA - I grokked that as "Bull Shit Artists" .... how apt :)
We've been sharing this planet with Neanderthals for eons! These days we call them "users" though.
I read about the early space programs (Mercury/Gemini/Apollo) as a kid and dreamt of going into space. My statement was always "I'd give my lefty to take a ride into space"....unfortunately, they want $200K+. I guess I'll have to wait a little longer. Dammit.
Ditto - for my home movies, 40mins of MPEG2 is about all you'd want to sit through in one go, 700Mb is enough to backup the critical stuff, and (fast) drives are well under USD$50. All this DVD+/-/R/RW/RAM/+9/-9 fru-fru can go to hell! I'll starting parting with my $$$ when the format war is fought and won....or something better comes along.
Here in the land of Oz, last night's broadcast news (and repeated this morning and again a few minutes ago on the mid-day news), this Australian arrest was part of multi-national raid involving basically every continent except Antarctica!!
IIRC some of the noteable arrests occured in Cairo, Amsterdam, Australia, Malaysia and Singapore. This was (is??) a global scam, but evidence is stacking up to suggest this Australian connection was one of the key players (not merely a pawn).
Australian Mirror.
Agreed. I am also running a Jabber server for the same reasons. Although being able to plug other services into a Jabber server is very useful. Until Yahoo nuked my connector of course. Still ICQ is functional.
Why not check out http://www.cotse.com/
$5.95/mth (basically free) anonymizer service etc... very cool site with mucho Unix resources.
Yeh like no-one has EVER hacked into a closed source platform?! Wake up! Let's not go over the whole "security by obscurity" debate - it's old and boring.
To quote Mandrake:
"DiskDrake currently runs under Linux. A Windows(tm) port is envisaged."
It seems they are aware of the catch22 you mention and are planning a Windows version for pre-linux partition juggling acts.
I wonder if other Linux distro's and maybe even FreeBSD etc. are going to bundle it up in the same way some bundle a "lite" PM-4??