The last Mt St. Helens eruption was just a teaser.
Look to Mt. St. helens going bang like the volcano that Crater Lake used to be, before it exploded and threw debris as far as Montana, removing a mohn tain at least as large as Mt. St. Helens used to be, and a hole in the ground which is now the deepest lake in the US.
Remember that Mt. St. Helens is just one in a chan of volcanos, and that they are all active and just waiting to go bang one day.
Back to the East coast and a monster Tsunami - remember it would run over the huge Methane Hydrate deposits off the East coast, possibly causing a catestrophic release of the Methane and its associated hundreds of billions of tons of carbon into the atmosphere - running a few miles inland is not going to save anyone from the effects of that.
Nowhere in the US is really safe - why do you think the Brits let you have it so easily:-)
No problem, treat cell-phone users the same way that airlines used to treat anti-social smokers - create cell-phone zones in the aircraft.
You want to talk on your cell-phone, you get to sit in the back rows, next to the toilets.
I don't know why people modded this as funny. It really isn't.
I worked for AOL (I was "aquired" from Netscape) for a while. When AOL finally decided to can the iPlanet venture I (and a few hundred others) got laid off (yes, just before Christmas) and AOL HR really couldn't understand why people were so pissed-off to find an AOL CD in the severance package. These people just have no brains.
Back then, the method AOL used to lay off large numbers of people was to invite you to a mandatory conference call, and about half way in mention that if you had been invited, this was your formal notice of termination.
When some of the old Netscape crowd were laid off by AOL a few years ago AOL HR really could not understand why they were so pissed-off to find an AOL CD with three month's free service in the package provided to them when they were let go.
You are not understanding the point he is making. Yes, you can specify that SSL be used, but that isn't what he is saying or asking for.
What he wants is that the session key negociated with the Kerberos authentication be used for communication with LDAP, NOT a completely different key negociated via SSL. SSL requires certificates, using the kerberos session key removes any need for certificates and the associated pain of their management.
For examples of this look at the kerberized apps provided by the standard kerberos disribution - which include a telnet server/client which can be configured to encrypt communication unsing the kerberos session key.
Actually, C had much longer variable names, it was external symbols which were limited to 6 characters, so it only made sense for globals to be limited to 6 characters.
this limit was not imposed by C, but by the DEC linker. DEC tried very hard to get the 6 character limit for global symbols integrated into the C standard to avoid having to "break" their linker.
Fortunately, they failed.
Not entirely correct.
The Netscape MTA was garbage - really! The Innosoft MTA was the only part of SIMS worth keeping. It is complicated to set up compared to the old Netsacape one, but then isn't any competent MTA?
Also remember that ther Netscape MTA had horrific memory leaks, and the "solution" they adopted to fix that was that an MTA process would handel N transactions, then kill itself and fork off a new MTA instance.
There are fairly big chunks of third party software in all of the products as they existed at the Sun/AOL split (except maybe calendar). it will be interesting to see just how much is left after stripping that out, and how feasible it is to get the products up and running again with anything like the previous functionality and reliability.
So why was the parent marked redundant?
He asks a very good question - Really, why is there so little innovation in Open source?
There is lots and lots of partial re-implementation of existing stuff, usually not quite as good or complete as the thing they are copying, but very, very little which is new and exciting.
Brushing questions like this under the carpet by simply moderating them as redundant is not the answer.
I have sendmail using RBL checks, first against spamhaus.org, then against mail-abuse.org. Spamhaus stops a LOT of mail dead in its tracks before it is ever transfered, reducing my network traffic noticably. Mail-abuse.org is useful because a few things that get through the spamhaus RBL checks get caught by it.
Finally procmail is set up to run the mail through SpamAssassin before delivery. This catches virtually all the remaining junk.
The way I use SpamAssassin for high-volume mail users is to initialise their beysian filters with my own collection of spam and ham - that gets beysian filtering turned on and effective. Then I create a SPAM folder, and have any spam detected deposited in that folder by a suitable procmail rule. I also ask users to put their read mail in an OLD-MAIL folder (either dump it there, or copy it there). Every night I run an sa-learn for these users against the SPAM and OLD-MAIL (ham) folders.
I know this is not the way it is supposed to be used, but it works very effectively for me and all my mail users.
I have the spam detection level set to 3.5, I check my SPAM folder from time to time for false positives, but havn't seen any for a LONG while now. I see maybe two or three spam messages in my inbox on a bad day.
I installed 3.0 this morning. It looks as though this might be even better. The only SPAM to sneak through so far was a plain text one written entirely in Spanish!
I don't want to start any sort of flamewar on this, so just take this a my opinion FWIW:
LSB is fine, and a worthwhile effort, BUT (you knew there was but coming, didn't you?) it is FAR from a complete standard for Linux. It just codifies what are prety much already consensus and de-facto opinions on standards already present in most versions of Linux.
This is useful work, but by no means sufficient to develop against. LSB cound be more proactive and push standards where they are needed, but the push-back they would get from "the community" would be intense, and could end up devaluing the good work they currently do.
Most of the Linux distros out there do aim for LSB conformance anyway. If they don't quite make it, its not by much, and if they don't try -- well, maybe you need to give your patronage to those that do.
As far as I kno, SuSe are committed to following the LSB, so applications ported to it will naturally be LSB conformant ports - for as far as that takes them.
You can find the "what with" part by simply XORing
again with you key. So to find out what the magic string is, simply buy one of these devices, encrypt some data to it, then locate the encrypted key and XOR you original password with the "encrypted" version.
Doing this with your own device means you are not violating DMCA - trying this out with someone elses device will subject you to the possibility of 57 consecutive life sentences.
Tony Benn, originally known a Anthony Wegdewood-Benn, and elected as a labour MP under that name. Became minister of technology in Harold Wilson's government, made lots of promises about firing up a "White-hot technological revolution" in the UK - and then acheived nothing.
Later he abreviated his name to Tony Ben on the basis that his real name was far too snooty for a labour MP and could be seen as a political liability.
Hung around as a labour MP, never really acheiving much, becoming more and more of a left-wing loony until "promoted" to the House of Lords as part of an attempt to turn that part of government into a repository for worn-out left-wing loonys.
Still pontificates on stuff he has no clue about and is becoming more of an embarassment with each passing year.
Eventually, they will tie these cameras to sniper rifles to save the cost of having to send out police to pick up the criminals, the courts having to try them, and the prisons house them.
Just remember, its all for the children - to protectg them from these evil domestic terrorists.
Radio call signs are issued by the FCC. they are NOT the property of the radio stations.
If they have an owner at all, its you and me (the taxpayers -- yes, both of us!:-)
The only thing you are not allowed to do with a radio station call sign is to use it on another radio station - it is required identification, not a marketing tool, and not "IP" of the radio station.
Its a bit hard to tell what is actually going on with the site slashdotted to death.
If he is in fact making the WINDOWS source available, complete with whatever code he added to time-cripple it, then fine. I agree, he can do this under GPL.
However, from what I have read (admittedly here, on/.) the source available is that for Linux. if this is the case, this is NOT GPL compliante behavior.
That is just plain dumb.
Its the same level as me stealing anything that takes my fancy from my neighbors houses, and when nabbed by the police, claiming that its ok, because I will return anything if they just ask.
No, you can't just take GPL-ed code. You don't own it, you can have it under license - the GPL and you MUST abide by every one of its rules. If you don't you can't have the code.
How is this hard to understand?
Machine guns have been banned for years and years, yet people continue to get shot by them.
Would you like to back that up with some evidence? I don't think anyone outside of members of the armed forces has been shot by a machine gun for years.
Also, BTW, machine guns are NOT illegal, they are just highly regulated. Assuming you are not a criminal, are over 21 years of age, live in a state which trusts you and can convince your local police chief that you are not a threat to him, yourself or anyone else, you too can own a machine gun. All it takes is the above plus a $100 tax payment (the "license" is a receipt indicating that you have paid the appropriate tax).
Ah! so you did... I need to read the subject line as well as the body...:-)
But I would still argue that that is not the right answer. Military weapons training is substantially different from that really needed by a civilian carrying concealed - quite different even from the training given to police.
This is probably not the right forum to go into the details on that - but if anyone is really interested I will explain why.
I would contend that simply applying the already existing constitutional mechanisms which make the licences I mentioned previously universally applicable would be quite sufficient.
There is absolutely no such thing as a federal concealed weapons permit.
The nearest you can get is the law just passed which allows off-duty police to carry concealed weapons outside their own state.
Military personel, on active deployment can carry weapons pretty much anywhere, concealed or not. But once off duty the weapons have to be returned and locked away. The off-duty person is then just an ordinary citizen with as few rights (and getting fewer every day) as anyone else.
State issued concealed weapons permits should, of course, be honored everywhere in the US under the "full faith and credit" section of the US constitution - just like drivers licenses and marrige licenses. However, petty politics obviously trumps the US constitution any day.
You obviously knew a different internet from the one I knew.
Shareware was one of those things that silly kids with DOS machines on BBSs did. Real S/W developers dropped their contributions in comp.sources free for anyone in the world to download and use.
Because in HUGE areas of the country there is no alternative other than slow, clunky, high-latency, expensive satellite connections.
I have broadband only because I have the knowlege to set up a 1 mile 802.11b point to point link to someone willing to let me put DSL on their phone-line.
Before that, I lived with a 56k full-time dial-up connection for many years.
It's a bit suprising how badly EastEnders does in the US though, considering it's the highest rated show on BBC One...
Not really... a lot of the content is context sensitive, requiring a fairly good knowlege of England, and its culture. But more to the point, it is no longer available on BBC America, but only on a pay per view basis - really, do you consider it worth $4.95 per episode?
BBC America really sucks. If BBC World was available it would cease to exist after about two weeks. I am really dissapointed that the BBC sold out to the money grabbing assholes that dominate American media.
Its braindead. The RF spectrum is a limited resource, and as such is subject to speculation and fraud -- have we forgotten electricity auctions so quickly?
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The last Mt St. Helens eruption was just a teaser. Look to Mt. St. helens going bang like the volcano that Crater Lake used to be, before it exploded and threw debris as far as Montana, removing a mohn tain at least as large as Mt. St. Helens used to be, and a hole in the ground which is now the deepest lake in the US. Remember that Mt. St. Helens is just one in a chan of volcanos, and that they are all active and just waiting to go bang one day. Back to the East coast and a monster Tsunami - remember it would run over the huge Methane Hydrate deposits off the East coast, possibly causing a catestrophic release of the Methane and its associated hundreds of billions of tons of carbon into the atmosphere - running a few miles inland is not going to save anyone from the effects of that. Nowhere in the US is really safe - why do you think the Brits let you have it so easily :-)
Yes - if you have the BIG iPod it charges only with the firewire cable, not the USB, my wife's small iPod seems to charge from either.
No problem, treat cell-phone users the same way that airlines used to treat anti-social smokers - create cell-phone zones in the aircraft. You want to talk on your cell-phone, you get to sit in the back rows, next to the toilets.
I don't know why people modded this as funny. It really isn't.
I worked for AOL (I was "aquired" from Netscape) for a while. When AOL finally decided to can the iPlanet venture I (and a few hundred others) got laid off (yes, just before Christmas) and AOL HR really couldn't understand why people were so pissed-off to find an AOL CD in the severance package. These people just have no brains.
Back then, the method AOL used to lay off large numbers of people was to invite you to a mandatory conference call, and about half way in mention that if you had been invited, this was your formal notice of termination.
When some of the old Netscape crowd were laid off by AOL a few years ago AOL HR really could not understand why they were so pissed-off to find an AOL CD with three month's free service in the package provided to them when they were let go.
Intelligence never was a common commodity at AOL.
You are not understanding the point he is making.
Yes, you can specify that SSL be used, but that isn't what he is saying or asking for.
What he wants is that the session key negociated with the Kerberos authentication be used for communication with LDAP, NOT a completely different key negociated via SSL. SSL requires certificates, using the kerberos session key removes any need for certificates and the associated pain of their management.
For examples of this look at the kerberized apps provided by the standard kerberos disribution - which include a telnet server/client which can be configured to encrypt communication unsing the kerberos session key.
Actually, C had much longer variable names, it was external symbols which were limited to 6 characters, so it only made sense for globals to be limited to 6 characters. this limit was not imposed by C, but by the DEC linker. DEC tried very hard to get the 6 character limit for global symbols integrated into the C standard to avoid having to "break" their linker. Fortunately, they failed.
Also remember that ther Netscape MTA had horrific memory leaks, and the "solution" they adopted to fix that was that an MTA process would handel N transactions, then kill itself and fork off a new MTA instance.
There are fairly big chunks of third party software in all of the products as they existed at the Sun/AOL split (except maybe calendar). it will be interesting to see just how much is left after stripping that out, and how feasible it is to get the products up and running again with anything like the previous functionality and reliability.
So why was the parent marked redundant? He asks a very good question - Really, why is there so little innovation in Open source? There is lots and lots of partial re-implementation of existing stuff, usually not quite as good or complete as the thing they are copying, but very, very little which is new and exciting. Brushing questions like this under the carpet by simply moderating them as redundant is not the answer.
I have sendmail using RBL checks, first against spamhaus.org, then against mail-abuse.org. Spamhaus stops a LOT of mail dead in its tracks before it is ever transfered, reducing my network traffic noticably. Mail-abuse.org is useful because a few things that get through the spamhaus RBL checks get caught by it.
Finally procmail is set up to run the mail through SpamAssassin before delivery. This catches virtually all the remaining junk.
The way I use SpamAssassin for high-volume mail users is to initialise their beysian filters with my own collection of spam and ham - that gets beysian filtering turned on and effective. Then I create a SPAM folder, and have any spam detected deposited in that folder by a suitable procmail rule. I also ask users to put their read mail in an OLD-MAIL folder (either dump it there, or copy it there). Every night I run an sa-learn for these users against the SPAM and OLD-MAIL (ham) folders.
I know this is not the way it is supposed to be used, but it works very effectively for me and all my mail users.
I have the spam detection level set to 3.5, I check my SPAM folder from time to time for false positives, but havn't seen any for a LONG while now. I see maybe two or three spam messages in my inbox on a bad day.
I installed 3.0 this morning. It looks as though this might be even better. The only SPAM to sneak through so far was a plain text one written entirely in Spanish!
LSB is fine, and a worthwhile effort, BUT (you knew there was but coming, didn't you?) it is FAR from a complete standard for Linux. It just codifies what are prety much already consensus and de-facto opinions on standards already present in most versions of Linux.
This is useful work, but by no means sufficient to develop against. LSB cound be more proactive and push standards where they are needed, but the push-back they would get from "the community" would be intense, and could end up devaluing the good work they currently do.
Most of the Linux distros out there do aim for LSB conformance anyway. If they don't quite make it, its not by much, and if they don't try -- well, maybe you need to give your patronage to those that do.
As far as I kno, SuSe are committed to following the LSB, so applications ported to it will naturally be LSB conformant ports - for as far as that takes them.
You can find the "what with" part by simply XORing again with you key. So to find out what the magic string is, simply buy one of these devices, encrypt some data to it, then locate the encrypted key and XOR you original password with the "encrypted" version.
Doing this with your own device means you are not violating DMCA - trying this out with someone elses device will subject you to the possibility of 57 consecutive life sentences.
Later he abreviated his name to Tony Ben on the basis that his real name was far too snooty for a labour MP and could be seen as a political liability.
Hung around as a labour MP, never really acheiving much, becoming more and more of a left-wing loony until "promoted" to the House of Lords as part of an attempt to turn that part of government into a repository for worn-out left-wing loonys.
Still pontificates on stuff he has no clue about and is becoming more of an embarassment with each passing year.
Just remember, its all for the children - to protectg them from these evil domestic terrorists.
If they have an owner at all, its you and me (the taxpayers -- yes, both of us! :-)
The only thing you are not allowed to do with a radio station call sign is to use it on another radio station - it is required identification, not a marketing tool, and not "IP" of the radio station.
If he is in fact making the WINDOWS source available, complete with whatever code he added to time-cripple it, then fine. I agree, he can do this under GPL.
However, from what I have read (admittedly here, on /.) the source available is that for Linux. if this is the case, this is NOT GPL compliante behavior.
That is just plain dumb. Its the same level as me stealing anything that takes my fancy from my neighbors houses, and when nabbed by the police, claiming that its ok, because I will return anything if they just ask. No, you can't just take GPL-ed code. You don't own it, you can have it under license - the GPL and you MUST abide by every one of its rules. If you don't you can't have the code. How is this hard to understand?
Would you like to back that up with some evidence? I don't think anyone outside of members of the armed forces has been shot by a machine gun for years.
Also, BTW, machine guns are NOT illegal, they are just highly regulated. Assuming you are not a criminal, are over 21 years of age, live in a state which trusts you and can convince your local police chief that you are not a threat to him, yourself or anyone else, you too can own a machine gun. All it takes is the above plus a $100 tax payment (the "license" is a receipt indicating that you have paid the appropriate tax).
But I would still argue that that is not the right answer. Military weapons training is substantially different from that really needed by a civilian carrying concealed - quite different even from the training given to police.
This is probably not the right forum to go into the details on that - but if anyone is really interested I will explain why.
I would contend that simply applying the already existing constitutional mechanisms which make the licences I mentioned previously universally applicable would be quite sufficient.
State issued concealed weapons permits should, of course, be honored everywhere in the US under the "full faith and credit" section of the US constitution - just like drivers licenses and marrige licenses. However, petty politics obviously trumps the US constitution any day.
Couldn't happen to a nicer person!
Shareware was one of those things that silly kids with DOS machines on BBSs did. Real S/W developers dropped their contributions in comp.sources free for anyone in the world to download and use.
I have broadband only because I have the knowlege to set up a 1 mile 802.11b point to point link to someone willing to let me put DSL on their phone-line.
Before that, I lived with a 56k full-time dial-up connection for many years.
Not really ... a lot of the content is context sensitive, requiring a fairly good knowlege of England, and its culture. But more to the point, it is no longer available on BBC America, but only on a pay per view basis - really, do you consider it worth $4.95 per episode?
BBC America really sucks. If BBC World was available it would cease to exist after about two weeks. I am really dissapointed that the BBC sold out to the money grabbing assholes that dominate American media.
Its braindead. The RF spectrum is a limited resource, and as such is subject to speculation and fraud -- have we forgotten electricity auctions so quickly?