For me, X11 on cygwin has always made the hard drive "thrash" much more than normal (normal being an equivalent Linux box), which makes me pretty paranoid while using it...
Is there a way to run X11 on cygwin as "rootless", or inside of Windows itself? The last time I checked it was full-screen only.
Unless I'm alone here, being able to run X11 apps and native OS X apps at the same time is one of the best features of my OS X boxen.
To quote Chicago, Leonard Nimoy (for those who don't believe me), R. Kelly, Diana Ross, Paul Oakenfold, Culture Shock, Michael Jackson, Boyz II Men, ATB, Dean Fraser, Lovewar, Modern Talking, Olive, Saga, the Kingsmen Quartet, Michael McLean, and Patty Griffin, "You are not alone".:^)
Cygwin is great (I've been running it for years), but there is one fatal problem with it: the underlying OS. For me, running X11 on cygwin (let alone X11 apps) produces the same feeling as trying to quickly pull out a tablecloth from a table that is covered with expensive china.
So what does it take to get the FBI to investigate? There are about 4 different things the bad guys could do:
Attacking the interests of the US, i.e. the gov't
To add to the earlier comment, the situation with Cliff Stoll in the Cuckoo's Egg started out as a few minor hacking incidents, and was eventually traced to a group of German hackers who were stealing U.S. military documents and selling them to the KGB (and this is non-fiction!). Cliff's computers were being used as an intermediate link to other, more important computers at various U.S. National Labs and Air Force Bases. The FBI had no interest at first because from Cliff's perspective it just appeared as if somebody was breaking in and leaving an account open. The CIA had no interest at first because it didn't appear to be an international crime. Only through lots of Cliff's own investigation and persistence was he able to convince the CIA to finally listen, which uncovered the crazy ring of espionage...
The moral of the story: Not all minor hacks are minor hacks.:^)
The book Cuckoo's Egg by Cliff Stoll deals with this issue specifically... Someone kept hacking the author's computers at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs (coincidentally, that makes twice in two days that I've mentioned a National Lab on slashdot), and he has to convince the authorities that it is truly worthy of investigation... The FBI points him to the CIA, the CIA points him to the FBI, so a lot of the story deals with the social engineering required to get the authorities to actually listen. It's really a great read, and you can find used copies on Amazon for a penny.
One similar device is the Jules Verne Gun -- essentially it is a huge cannon that fires things into space, at about 1000 g's. The idea originated from Jules Verne's book From The Earth To The Moon. Popular Mechanics had a write-up about it a few years back (check out the pictures on page 2!) -- apparently some guy at Lawrence Livermore National Labs is trying to build one that actually works.:^)
A particularly apropros story by Isaac Asimov that could be played would be "The Automatobiles", a short story about automated automobiles that have intelligence of their own (it is in the book Isaac Asimov: The Complete Stories, Volume 1).
I am a voluntary amateur motorcycle instructor for the local AA.
I hope that by "AA", you mean "Automobile Association" and not "Alcoholics Anonymous".:^) I completely agree with your post -- I wish that DMVs had driving simulators to test drivers and help them increase their evasive maneuvering skills. I know so many people who don't know how to handle risky driving situations simply because their idea of driving is "always keep it between the lines". I proudly tell people, "I have died countless times in simulation in order to make my driving better."
I have had one situation, in real life, where staying in the lines would have resulted in severe injury to myself and another driver (not due to my driving any more than the other person's driving). To avoid the accident, I had to drive over a fairly high curb at about 40 MPH (~64 kph). Not fun, but nobody was hurt as a result.
I fully agree -- that is why my next vehicle will most likely be a VW Golf TDi... They get about 49 MPG on average, and have a range of over 700 miles per 14.8 gallon tank. More torque, more horsepower, more reliability, no bad diesel smell anymore, no huge batteries to replace, and cheaper than the Civic hybrid -- it's a win-win situation.
You think that's bad -- I just downloaded and installed 1.4RC1 this morning! First, I downloaded 1.3.1 off the mozilla.org page, then when I installed it, the mozilla homepage said "Hey, you're running an old version of Mozilla", which pointed to -- you guessed it -- 1.4RC1. They've since updated their homepage to reflect the new version...
"Lather, rinse, repeat" should be the official slogan for open source.:^)
We went to the Denver Zoo because we knew it was fairly large... Upon returning home I did a little research, and it actually has about the same number of total animals as the San Diego Zoo. It just has a little less acreage (80 vs. 100) and total species represented (750 vs. 800).
It's funny that you mention #2 -- I moved around in just such a way to make Moroni look that way (other perspectives distorted or covered up Moroni, so having him on the roof was an improvement)... I ended up taking the picture nearly sitting down, about five feet away from the Tabernacle.:^)
I just took a cross-country U.S. road trip, and the lack of water out west was one of the most noticeable things we encountered. Many campsites didn't have running water at all -- flush toilets were a luxury. It's a true challenge to stay clean, knowing that you can't take a shower.:^)
(For the overly curious, we did have a few stops at normal places where we were able to do laundry and take showers. Life wasn't bad at all on the road... A great trip indeed. Pictures are here for anyone who is interested)
I'm not saying that certain physical properties of the universe could not be ascertained from the perspective of the spinning CD; I am merely saying that it would appear as if most of the rest of the universe was spinning 'round if you were sitting atop a spinning CD. No mathematical rigor here.:^)
I've had the same problem myself. One recommendation I can provide is to try mounting the NFS share using the "NFS Manager" program... When using this program, you can tinker with lots of parameters that are normally more difficult to experiment with at the command line. For example, you can adjust some of the timeout parameters that should give you a little more leeway in the event of getting the spinny beach ball of near-death. It's not a complete solution by any means, but it does seem to help some. All of us with this problem should write Apple to have them fix it.
About the only other advice I can provide is to remember that you have a mount active, and then unmount before leaving work (easier said than done, of course).
It looks like nobody has said this yet, so I'll pitch in -- the Cassini space probe, which was launched on October 15, 1997, was also nuclear-powered. There were protests around NASA right before the launch took place, but it went up anyway without a hitch.
According to JPL's Cassini "safety" page, they explain that the probe is powered by three radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) which provide energy by the natural radioactive decay of Pu-238. This isn't fission or fusion at work, but merely the harvesting of heat generated by the radioactive decay. The big question for environmentalists (and NASA) was whether these RTGs would remain contained in the event of a launch disaster.
The big difference between the RTGs of Cassini and the nuclear technology in JIMO is that JPL wants to have a full-fledged nuclear fission reactor this time around. This would obviously provide a lot more power for the mission, at the expense of extreme public scrutiny. It will be interesting to see how this situation pans out.
The device, which is internally rechargable, can wirelessly transmit location, movements and vital signs via the Internet, storing the info in a database.
I've often wondered how crewmembers on Star Trek are able to have their vital stats read aloud by the computer (see the Picard & Beverly scene in the TNG episode Remember Me)... Perhaps something like this would be necessary? While their communicators could relay position, I'm not so sure that they are responsible for vital stats. Any more experienced trekkers out there who know the answers?
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For me, X11 on cygwin has always made the hard drive "thrash" much more than normal (normal being an equivalent Linux box), which makes me pretty paranoid while using it...
Is there a way to run X11 on cygwin as "rootless", or inside of Windows itself? The last time I checked it was full-screen only.
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Cygwin is great (I've been running it for years), but there is one fatal problem with it: the underlying OS. For me, running X11 on cygwin (let alone X11 apps) produces the same feeling as trying to quickly pull out a tablecloth from a table that is covered with expensive china.
The moral of the story: Not all minor hacks are minor hacks.
The book Cuckoo's Egg by Cliff Stoll deals with this issue specifically... Someone kept hacking the author's computers at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs (coincidentally, that makes twice in two days that I've mentioned a National Lab on slashdot), and he has to convince the authorities that it is truly worthy of investigation... The FBI points him to the CIA, the CIA points him to the FBI, so a lot of the story deals with the social engineering required to get the authorities to actually listen. It's really a great read, and you can find used copies on Amazon for a penny.
Maybe that's what piles are all about, eh?
One similar device is the Jules Verne Gun -- essentially it is a huge cannon that fires things into space, at about 1000 g's. The idea originated from Jules Verne's book From The Earth To The Moon. Popular Mechanics had a write-up about it a few years back (check out the pictures on page 2!) -- apparently some guy at Lawrence Livermore National Labs is trying to build one that actually works. :^)
Score:4, Twisted! :^)
A particularly apropros story by Isaac Asimov that could be played would be "The Automatobiles", a short story about automated automobiles that have intelligence of their own (it is in the book Isaac Asimov: The Complete Stories, Volume 1).
I have had one situation, in real life, where staying in the lines would have resulted in severe injury to myself and another driver (not due to my driving any more than the other person's driving). To avoid the accident, I had to drive over a fairly high curb at about 40 MPH (~64 kph). Not fun, but nobody was hurt as a result.
I fully agree -- that is why my next vehicle will most likely be a VW Golf TDi... They get about 49 MPG on average, and have a range of over 700 miles per 14.8 gallon tank. More torque, more horsepower, more reliability, no bad diesel smell anymore, no huge batteries to replace, and cheaper than the Civic hybrid -- it's a win-win situation.
In other news, my Powerbook G4 with USB 1.1 now has USB 2! Imagine that. :^)
You think that's bad -- I just downloaded and installed 1.4RC1 this morning! First, I downloaded 1.3.1 off the mozilla.org page, then when I installed it, the mozilla homepage said "Hey, you're running an old version of Mozilla", which pointed to -- you guessed it -- 1.4RC1. They've since updated their homepage to reflect the new version...
:^)
"Lather, rinse, repeat" should be the official slogan for open source.
We went to the Denver Zoo because we knew it was fairly large... Upon returning home I did a little research, and it actually has about the same number of total animals as the San Diego Zoo. It just has a little less acreage (80 vs. 100) and total species represented (750 vs. 800).
:^)
It's funny that you mention #2 -- I moved around in just such a way to make Moroni look that way (other perspectives distorted or covered up Moroni, so having him on the roof was an improvement)... I ended up taking the picture nearly sitting down, about five feet away from the Tabernacle.
Just FYI, the pictures were taken with a Kodak DC3400 2.1 megapixel camera.
I just took a cross-country U.S. road trip, and the lack of water out west was one of the most noticeable things we encountered. Many campsites didn't have running water at all -- flush toilets were a luxury. It's a true challenge to stay clean, knowing that you can't take a shower. :^)
(For the overly curious, we did have a few stops at normal places where we were able to do laundry and take showers. Life wasn't bad at all on the road... A great trip indeed. Pictures are here for anyone who is interested)
You get to drink from... the fire hose!!!
(For those of you out of the loop, please watch this movie)
I'm not saying that certain physical properties of the universe could not be ascertained from the perspective of the spinning CD; I am merely saying that it would appear as if most of the rest of the universe was spinning 'round if you were sitting atop a spinning CD. No mathematical rigor here. :^)
I've had the same problem myself. One recommendation I can provide is to try mounting the NFS share using the "NFS Manager" program... When using this program, you can tinker with lots of parameters that are normally more difficult to experiment with at the command line. For example, you can adjust some of the timeout parameters that should give you a little more leeway in the event of getting the spinny beach ball of near-death. It's not a complete solution by any means, but it does seem to help some. All of us with this problem should write Apple to have them fix it.
About the only other advice I can provide is to remember that you have a mount active, and then unmount before leaving work (easier said than done, of course).
'Tis true. I wasn't around back then to hear about RTG protests, however. :^)
It looks like nobody has said this yet, so I'll pitch in -- the Cassini space probe, which was launched on October 15, 1997, was also nuclear-powered. There were protests around NASA right before the launch took place, but it went up anyway without a hitch.
According to JPL's Cassini "safety" page, they explain that the probe is powered by three radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) which provide energy by the natural radioactive decay of Pu-238. This isn't fission or fusion at work, but merely the harvesting of heat generated by the radioactive decay. The big question for environmentalists (and NASA) was whether these RTGs would remain contained in the event of a launch disaster.
The big difference between the RTGs of Cassini and the nuclear technology in JIMO is that JPL wants to have a full-fledged nuclear fission reactor this time around. This would obviously provide a lot more power for the mission, at the expense of extreme public scrutiny. It will be interesting to see how this situation pans out.
Oddly enough, that's exactly what the world would look like from the perspective of the spinning CD. :^)