"While NASA isn't concerned about the rover overheating, they're exploring the long-term effects of continued power drain on the second rover."
They are probably also investigating the JPL plant mystery. Mysteriously, water being poured into vases disappears within a matter of hours, if not minutes! The NASA is filing the case as "astonishing" and "a potential breakthrough in human civilisation", and has made a multi-million-dollar case out of this. Priorities...
What's with all those conspiracy theories. Someone wrote a virus, someone apparently had a bad experience with SCO, maybe they don't even really know what the issue is, maybe they picked SCO out randomly, maybe they thought "S C O" sounded as a nice target, maybe they're wannabee Linux nerds, and what not, I could go on for a while.
I fail to see the big deal here, apart from that it spreads really fast and clogs up my upstream bandwidth. All the fancy stories behind "why it was written" and "for what purpose" are speculations, and we again see how much of an impact one rumour can have on a whole bunch of people who just want to believe something.
But competing in the DefCon Wi-Fi Shootout was much different than setting up an antenna in your back yard, or on top of a friend's house. ... ok...
To get better line-of-sight, many contestants decided to hike up a mountain with all of their gear.
There you go. After all, it wasn't that much of a difference from putting an antenna on a friend's house, it's just a little higher, which probably even means the rate of success you get is higher too.
Furthermore, the conditions don't look all that bad, from what I can gather from the pictures on the site. It's very exciting, but I don't really think it's worth the prizemoney. 8)
I mean, a free (right?) MSCE certification course, an Xbox.
Not that I fully agree with Microsoft even making this much of a problem out of this whole case, but I think this settlement is quite good for both parties. 8)
As an answer to your point about SSH, if you are on Windows (and however I don't think you are, I'm gonna mention it anyway:p), SecureCRT has this pretty neat feature to buffer your SSH TX. When I was still on ISDN, I rather enjoyed this feature while I was downloading the latest 0-day Slackware ISOz. 8)
I'm not aware of any UNIX SSH client capable of buffering though, but I do think you have a good chance of finding one somewhere on the net.
... as I was saying, usually the word "unlimited" is suffixed by this nifty little asterisk. I rarely see providers really offering unlimited access (which would be free of any limitations involving bandwidth usage, no matter what), generally it's the FUP-crap.
Now I don't mind a little limitation, but those fair use policies do more harm than good; you don't know what your provider's definition of "fair use" is, and when you do, you're on thin ice (if not under it, where Brick Top is waiting for you!):p
It's way easier for one to be a nerd (or at least, be classified as a nerd by others) nowadays. Back then we used to get beaten up badly, now it's a trend. We must come up with something new to receive our daily dose of adrenalin while running from them bullies. It's kinda similiar to what freedivers do, they seek higher buildings.
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And I thought my shiny new Minolta could do elite long-exposure photo's!
Would they have ties to Indian programmers? 8)
... and naturally, how to get rid of Bill and Steve in an efficient and clean way!
"While NASA isn't concerned about the rover overheating, they're exploring the long-term effects of continued power drain on the second rover."
They are probably also investigating the JPL plant mystery. Mysteriously, water being poured into vases disappears within a matter of hours, if not minutes! The NASA is filing the case as "astonishing" and "a potential breakthrough in human civilisation", and has made a multi-million-dollar case out of this. Priorities...
What's with all those conspiracy theories. Someone wrote a virus, someone apparently had a bad experience with SCO, maybe they don't even really know what the issue is, maybe they picked SCO out randomly, maybe they thought "S C O" sounded as a nice target, maybe they're wannabee Linux nerds, and what not, I could go on for a while.
I fail to see the big deal here, apart from that it spreads really fast and clogs up my upstream bandwidth. All the fancy stories behind "why it was written" and "for what purpose" are speculations, and we again see how much of an impact one rumour can have on a whole bunch of people who just want to believe something.
But competing in the DefCon Wi-Fi Shootout was much different than setting up an antenna in your back yard, or on top of a friend's house.
... ok ...
To get better line-of-sight, many contestants decided to hike up a mountain with all of their gear.
There you go. After all, it wasn't that much of a difference from putting an antenna on a friend's house, it's just a little higher, which probably even means the rate of success you get is higher too.
Furthermore, the conditions don't look all that bad, from what I can gather from the pictures on the site. It's very exciting, but I don't really think it's worth the prizemoney. 8)
I could do with that. :)
I mean, a free (right?) MSCE certification course, an Xbox.
Not that I fully agree with Microsoft even making this much of a problem out of this whole case, but I think this settlement is quite good for both parties. 8)
As an answer to your point about SSH, if you are on Windows (and however I don't think you are, I'm gonna mention it anyway :p), SecureCRT has this pretty neat feature to buffer your SSH TX. When I was still on ISDN, I rather enjoyed this feature while I was downloading the latest 0-day Slackware ISOz. 8)
I'm not aware of any UNIX SSH client capable of buffering though, but I do think you have a good chance of finding one somewhere on the net.
I don't even think he has to actually type the command, he's just thinking it.
.o( haXor heathens ) ...
...
# nmap -vvP0 -T5 -oG heathens.log 152.62.52.0/24
# grep "open" heathens.log
#
8)
... in Rotterdam we have a "lite" ADSL subscription for ~15$. A "medium" ADSL subscription is yours for ~29$, and a heavy account is about 50 to 80$.
Lite usually implies 384/128kbit, medium is 1024/320kbit, and heavy is either 2048/1024kbit or 8192/1024kbit.
Gah, this picture passed by me for so many times that, whenever I see it, I have this uncontrollable, almost manic, urge to cut myself.
... as I was saying, usually the word "unlimited" is suffixed by this nifty little asterisk. I rarely see providers really offering unlimited access (which would be free of any limitations involving bandwidth usage, no matter what), generally it's the FUP-crap. Now I don't mind a little limitation, but those fair use policies do more harm than good; you don't know what your provider's definition of "fair use" is, and when you do, you're on thin ice (if not under it, where Brick Top is waiting for you!) :p
It's way easier for one to be a nerd (or at least, be classified as a nerd by others) nowadays. Back then we used to get beaten up badly, now it's a trend. We must come up with something new to receive our daily dose of adrenalin while running from them bullies. It's kinda similiar to what freedivers do, they seek higher buildings.