Under number of downloaders should be two numbers.. Completed and incomplete. This lets you know what to expect from the download process. This has the side effect of letting you know whether a particular link is still good; No completeds, you can't finish the file no matter how long you wait.
The various sub tabs under 'Data' are just the raw data the tracking server has on the file, as well as I think the rest of the files the tracker is managing.
The music industry can only sell 'x' number of discs a year at a certain price. There's a whole field of economics devoted to price/volume equilibrium and the 'best price'. They can never make more than a certain amount of money is what it boils down to.
There is a finite amount of money to pay the lawyers and cripple techies. The more they have to pay the copy protection guys, the less they can pay the sharks.
...I have taken up a crusade to stop this type of activity on the net. No one should have to bathe in holy water and take antipsychotic drugs just because they want to be well informed about the news...
There's a group at Carnegie Mellon working on something to kill the trolls who post disturbing links like that goat.se thing. Basically it's a collaborative filter, where if you see something truly unfit for a set of normal eyeballs you flag it and after a certain number of flags by different users, the filter adds it to the global kill list on all clients. Kills redirects, obfuscated URLs, the whole shebang
Right now they have a working plug-in for IE5+ and mostly working for recent Mozilla builds, plus a stand alone client for Win32 and Linux that basically just updates the host file, but their kill list is pretty short. You can download pre-built versions from one of theie developers here.
Can always replace the NT 4.0 box with Samba, if it's in a fileserver or network authentication role. Most of the time, it's pretty painless to replace one with the other.
Is someone listening to "Smack my bitch up" (Prodigy) really going to be productive in the office?
Probably. I used to have a few Prodigy tunes in my at-work playlist, Beastie Boys, Mega-deth, Iron Maiden.. Though I found out over the course of time I did more work with less distraction listening to the portion of the playlist consisting of Van Halen, Simon and Garfunkel, and the Beatles.. I eventually ended up listening to that portion of the playlist exclusivly. It had the added bonus I could play it on the speakers at reasonable volume, and my coworkers not only had no complaints, they made requests from time to time.. "Hey, you got any Hendryx in there?
The premise was that in order to maintain a classist social structure, you need scarcity. The three mega-countries could produce far more goods than they could consume, meaning no scarcity, collapse of society.
Independantly, all three devised a dictatorial police state akin to Stalinism.. This gave them a convenient way of capping the output of goods.
A war.
More bombs, less boots for the people. More tanks, less shaving razors for the people. That sort of thing.
The book wasn't clear on the founding conditions.. After all, he who controls the past controls the future, and he who controls the present controls the past; None of the characters actually knew how they got in the hands of the police state condition, having been subject to new revisions of history almost constantly. But I would assume that the class structure was beginning to break down when the power grab was made..
That hasn't happened yet to any real degree.. The rich are richer, the middle class are happy, and the poor are still poor.
I like to come in right after the Microsoft rep has been in..
"He wanted us to do what?!? XP on the desktops? They're P2s with 64M of memory! Replace the NT servers with 2K just for the new proxy server software? $16 grand?? Plus client licenses? He said he thought we might have overused our Windows 98 liscenses? How about I just snag a couple 486s from the junk bin, toss a copy of Debian on em, and we call it done? Oh, cost? You owe me a six pack of beer to drink when I'm doing it. Support? What do you have me here for? Its not like you've ever actually called Microsoft. No. You call me."
I remember getting five disks with one bit of software I bought.. One for NT-i386, one for NT-Alpha, one for NT-MIPS, one for Windows 95 and a version for Win3.11/Win32s..
Had to put em in to find out which was which among the NT discs.. They all just said 'Windows NT'
I'd imagine their Unix release was mor confusing, considering they claimed to support seven variants..
.. Say 'Listen, [insert expletive or name. I suggest 'Jackhole'], I've got 502.75 hours of unpaid overtime. Documented. You raked my ass over the coals with a [layoff/firing/downsizing], and the way State law figures, you owe me $5.71 million in cash and valuable prizes.
Do you want to continue being a [expletive/jackhole], and pay a bloodsucking shark so I can just wring it out of your dying corporate corpse with interest anyway, or do you want to simply pay me 4.67 million and toss in a used Maserati so I won't open a can off class action whoopass on you?
I know Bob in Networking had 747.14 hours of overtime last year, and I'm sure he could use a quality used Lotus instead of putting a new alternator in his Camry. Do you want me to call Bob? Or Gina, in Support?
Or Alfie, the whacko that peed in the punch bowl and groped the VP after four vodka tonics at the company party? He's just gotten out of the rubber room the layoff put him in, I'm sure he'll consult with his friend Old Kentucky Shark and drop by looking to have a good time in his old cubicle after I tell him you owe him three Porsche and a Mercedes, plus whatever is behind door number three in Today's Showcase.. I think he left a back door in the accounting system..
Oh, no.. You [expletives/jackholes, perhaps now is a time to throw in 'asshats'] shouldn't take this as a threat. I'm not threatening anything! How do I know if I'll push some of your psychotic disgruntled ex-employees over the edge? How am I an expert on what the courts will do when Lisa, who wrote your new property management system in her free time, and I'm sure would love to know she still owns it because you dumbasses never made her sign the IP agreement, sues you?
We're all reasonable people here.. Just give me what you owe me, before I beat it out of your cold, lifeless body with a pitchfork wielding lawyer, and then set the pack of dogs on you.
Stallan(sic) once said if you stated a lie long enough it would become true.
Nope.
"If you tell a lie long enough, the people will believe it. The greater the lie, the more people will believe it". Adolph Hitler, and I may be mistaken on the exact wording..
Stalin undoubtedly beleived the same thing, although he preferred to just kill everyone who knew the truth and then change the story. He just didn't say it.
I used to scan books for those guys.. It's amazing how fast they could go through a dry 500 page historical novel.
Unfortunatly you can't really use the human caught errors to refine the OCR process. There are quite a few people scanning for them these days, and they're not using standard OCR software for one, for two to correct the OCR output of one of those programs takes an exhaustive amount of work.. Tweaking FineReader to ignore the dots in the margin of a copy of Queen Josephine without screwing up punctuation took me 45 minutes and didn't even eliminate all the odd marks it treated as text.
Now consider it usually took me 20 minutes to scan the book and 20 to OCR it, you've just doubled the effort and gotten no real gain of it.
I've had a bunch of crushed Xircom network cards.. Even if the casing was too bad to square up, the board was in one piece. Just pop off the casing and go to town.:)
Yes and no. Just because all email falls foul of 47 USC 227 (d)(1)(b), doesn't mean that the prohibition under (b)(1) for unsolicited faxes is suddenly invalid. It's just something else to use as ammo.
We're not going to suddenly start walking around suing those that send us solicited 'faxes' for failing to include the header strip. In fact, I know many businesses who intentionally either lie on the contents of the strip for convenience (IE, master fax server for incoming and many manual fax machines for outgoing so they fib about the fax number, or the one that has a 'special fax machine' that lies about the company name so they can review certain documents and refax without their name ever appearing to the end client) or omit the strip entirely (IE, set the contents of the machine number and company name strings to whitespace because sometimes they fax documents to clients or vendors that they have no real business having in the first place and want deniability)
The technical constraints placed in the 1991 enactment of the statute have kind of been outmoded by the price of long distance. You don't send a document without coversheet anymore, even if it is just 100% non-confidential and yuo wouldn't care if it was broadcast on the morning national news. You can contain the information regarding sender/company so much better on a cover sheet, and it no longer costs you $.75 a page in long distance as it did 20 years ago, so you send the cover sheet in lieu of relying on the contents of that strip.
wiggle out if he sends to your mail server rather than directly to your home computer - because the mail server doesn't "transcribe onto paper" as a normal integral part of receiving e-mail.
Not really. Ever hear of fax forwarding? A lot of companies do it. Machine recieves the fax, determines the recipient, puts it in memory, then when it has a chance calls the proper recipient machine which then prints the fax.
Saves money too, you need fifteen faxes sent to your employees machines in Denver? Make one long distance call, have the first machine forward 15 copies to 15 machines as local calls.
Have a look in the manual of any sufficiently advanced fax machine (IE, was made after 1985 and cost more than $100) and I bet the machine is perfectly capable of operating in a store and forward mode not too much different than a mail server. And no one is going to try to argue that it isn't a fax.
Code red, WinCIM, hell even Stone B is still going around.. A nicely written virus never goes away.
Sure, the guy might do jail time, but when 90% of your customers have been hit and billions and billions of dollars of equipment is, for most intents and purposes, trashed, you better bet Microsoft is going to be held responsible by every large company their questionable 'security' has ever screwed.
A software controlled 'self-destruct switch' in any Microsoft product (or any product for that matter)?? May as well burn whatever money you'd spend on software for the platform, low-level format the hard drive, and smash the BIOS chip yourself now, so you can buy something else and save yourself time reimplementing everything that ran on the platform.
Windows doesn't do it. Some versions of Windows just make it so the system won't boot. Anti piracy feature. He might as well have claimed Linux was superior, because through a series of bad choices when compiling a kernel you can pretty well lock it to a machine.
But say you did steal a XP install and needed to get data off it.
Pop in a XP Pro CD, tell it to repair the existing install, enter a new license key. Use any one of the dozen or so ways of gaining admin from there.
Heh. I just built one of these puppies from scratch. Linux system with four WinTV Go! cards in it. Hacked camE to handle four cards and a sample rate of 2 fps, every frame archived and every tenth frame uploaded to the webserver so they can be peeked in on. Yeah, could have written something else easy enough, but writing under 50 lines of code can't be beat. Cron job moves files every hour to temp directories, mencoder converts them to msmpeg4v2 streams so the boss can. Every twelve hours, the mpeg4 files are moved to the file server for archival along with the nightly backup.
Total cost without the cameras and cabling, about $375. No video card needed after install, and you can get away with very little CPU power. A K6-2 350 with 32M of memory and a slow WD 2G drive is what I used to figure out if it was going to work, and it was able to deliver 2fps from three cameras and do the encode pass in under 20 minutes with 512x384 16bpp images.
Oh come now. The Humvee may be bad compared to a Metro, but I bet it still gets better gas mileage and lower emissions out of the Chevy 350 it has under the hood than any of the millions of 60's,70's and early 80's vehicles on the road. Cripes, there are probably a thousand times as many high-school and college student tweaked Camaros and Mustangs on the road than Hummers, each getting much worse mileage and belching emissions like a nut, not to mention the fact they all leak something.
Nope. It's not 4wd that really counts when mud bogging, cutting down two-tracks, across fields, rivers, curbs, the neighbors lawn, etc.. It's ground clearance and driver skill.
Go down to Mexico where they have some of the worst roads on earth. The vehicles you'll see in the black-hole "drove three hours through a series of mud filled two-tracks uphill" towns are nearly all 15 year old 2wd pickups with slightly oversize tires.
With a 2wd SUV you get the desired look and cargo capacity of a SUV, plus the ground clearance to keep you from bottoming out and grinding to a halt but with better gas mileage and a more reliable vehicle than the 4wd version.
Definitly agree. I evaluated a bunch of them, and despite having much more experience with OmniPage (not to mention a free copy) I went out and bought a copy of Finereader to use on books I scanned for Project Gutenberg. It was faster, more reliable in terms of output, and it wouldn't balk at taking 1000 page.tiff files.
I've had IBM and Toshiba-branded 12 and 14mm laptop drives in constant operation since 1995 or so. The first of them finally died this month, after 7 years on the job up 24/7.
On the other hand, I have Maxtor and WD drives giving me trouble after only 2 years..
They don't build them like they used to, that's my conclusion.
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Under number of downloaders should be two numbers.. Completed and incomplete. This lets you know what to expect from the download process. This has the side effect of letting you know whether a particular link is still good; No completeds, you can't finish the file no matter how long you wait.
The various sub tabs under 'Data' are just the raw data the tracking server has on the file, as well as I think the rest of the files the tracker is managing.
As of a moment ago, there were two seed copies of the ISOs and 487 people sucking them down..
Geez.. Talk about a lot of bandwidth!
The music industry can only sell 'x' number of discs a year at a certain price. There's a whole field of economics devoted to price/volume equilibrium and the 'best price'. They can never make more than a certain amount of money is what it boils down to.
There is a finite amount of money to pay the lawyers and cripple techies. The more they have to pay the copy protection guys, the less they can pay the sharks.
...I have taken up a crusade to stop this type of activity on the net. No one should have to bathe in holy water and take antipsychotic drugs just because they want to be well informed about the news...
There's a group at Carnegie Mellon working on something to kill the trolls who post disturbing links like that goat.se thing. Basically it's a collaborative filter, where if you see something truly unfit for a set of normal eyeballs you flag it and after a certain number of flags by different users, the filter adds it to the global kill list on all clients. Kills redirects, obfuscated URLs, the whole shebang
Right now they have a working plug-in for IE5+ and mostly working for recent Mozilla builds, plus a stand alone client for Win32 and Linux that basically just updates the host file, but their kill list is pretty short. You can download pre-built versions from one of theie developers here.
Oh.. Oww.. No, you don't want to even break wind in the same room as those. It's hard enough to get them up running stable in the first place
Can always replace the NT 4.0 box with Samba, if it's in a fileserver or network authentication role. Most of the time, it's pretty painless to replace one with the other.
Is someone listening to "Smack my bitch up" (Prodigy) really going to be productive in the office?
Probably. I used to have a few Prodigy tunes in my at-work playlist, Beastie Boys, Mega-deth, Iron Maiden.. Though I found out over the course of time I did more work with less distraction listening to the portion of the playlist consisting of Van Halen, Simon and Garfunkel, and the Beatles.. I eventually ended up listening to that portion of the playlist exclusivly. It had the added bonus I could play it on the speakers at reasonable volume, and my coworkers not only had no complaints, they made requests from time to time.. "Hey, you got any Hendryx in there?
Heh. Yeah, The homepage info is about four years out of date.. I'll get around to putting something new up eventually..
The premise was that in order to maintain a classist social structure, you need scarcity. The three mega-countries could produce far more goods than they could consume, meaning no scarcity, collapse of society.
Independantly, all three devised a dictatorial police state akin to Stalinism.. This gave them a convenient way of capping the output of goods.
A war.
More bombs, less boots for the people. More tanks, less shaving razors for the people. That sort of thing.
The book wasn't clear on the founding conditions.. After all, he who controls the past controls the future, and he who controls the present controls the past; None of the characters actually knew how they got in the hands of the police state condition, having been subject to new revisions of history almost constantly. But I would assume that the class structure was beginning to break down when the power grab was made..
That hasn't happened yet to any real degree.. The rich are richer, the middle class are happy, and the poor are still poor.
I like to come in right after the Microsoft rep has been in..
"He wanted us to do what?!? XP on the desktops? They're P2s with 64M of memory! Replace the NT servers with 2K just for the new proxy server software? $16 grand?? Plus client licenses? He said he thought we might have overused our Windows 98 liscenses? How about I just snag a couple 486s from the junk bin, toss a copy of Debian on em, and we call it done? Oh, cost? You owe me a six pack of beer to drink when I'm doing it. Support? What do you have me here for? Its not like you've ever actually called Microsoft. No. You call me."
I remember getting five disks with one bit of software I bought.. One for NT-i386, one for NT-Alpha, one for NT-MIPS, one for Windows 95 and a version for Win3.11/Win32s..
Had to put em in to find out which was which among the NT discs.. They all just said 'Windows NT'
I'd imagine their Unix release was mor confusing, considering they claimed to support seven variants..
.. Say 'Listen, [insert expletive or name. I suggest 'Jackhole'], I've got 502.75 hours of unpaid overtime. Documented. You raked my ass over the coals with a [layoff/firing/downsizing], and the way State law figures, you owe me $5.71 million in cash and valuable prizes.
Do you want to continue being a [expletive/jackhole], and pay a bloodsucking shark so I can just wring it out of your dying corporate corpse with interest anyway, or do you want to simply pay me 4.67 million and toss in a used Maserati so I won't open a can off class action whoopass on you?
I know Bob in Networking had 747.14 hours of overtime last year, and I'm sure he could use a quality used Lotus instead of putting a new alternator in his Camry. Do you want me to call Bob? Or Gina, in Support?
Or Alfie, the whacko that peed in the punch bowl and groped the VP after four vodka tonics at the company party? He's just gotten out of the rubber room the layoff put him in, I'm sure he'll consult with his friend Old Kentucky Shark and drop by looking to have a good time in his old cubicle after I tell him you owe him three Porsche and a Mercedes, plus whatever is behind door number three in Today's Showcase.. I think he left a back door in the accounting system..
Oh, no.. You [expletives/jackholes, perhaps now is a time to throw in 'asshats'] shouldn't take this as a threat. I'm not threatening anything! How do I know if I'll push some of your psychotic disgruntled ex-employees over the edge? How am I an expert on what the courts will do when Lisa, who wrote your new property management system in her free time, and I'm sure would love to know she still owns it because you dumbasses never made her sign the IP agreement, sues you?
We're all reasonable people here.. Just give me what you owe me, before I beat it out of your cold, lifeless body with a pitchfork wielding lawyer, and then set the pack of dogs on you.
Stallan(sic) once said if you stated a lie long enough it would become true.
Nope.
"If you tell a lie long enough, the people will believe it. The greater the lie, the more people will believe it". Adolph Hitler, and I may be mistaken on the exact wording..
Stalin undoubtedly beleived the same thing, although he preferred to just kill everyone who knew the truth and then change the story. He just didn't say it.
I used to scan books for those guys.. It's amazing how fast they could go through a dry 500 page historical novel.
Unfortunatly you can't really use the human caught errors to refine the OCR process. There are quite a few people scanning for them these days, and they're not using standard OCR software for one, for two to correct the OCR output of one of those programs takes an exhaustive amount of work.. Tweaking FineReader to ignore the dots in the margin of a copy of Queen Josephine without screwing up punctuation took me 45 minutes and didn't even eliminate all the odd marks it treated as text.
Now consider it usually took me 20 minutes to scan the book and 20 to OCR it, you've just doubled the effort and gotten no real gain of it.
I've had a bunch of crushed Xircom network cards.. Even if the casing was too bad to square up, the board was in one piece. Just pop off the casing and go to town. :)
Yes and no. Just because all email falls foul of 47 USC 227 (d)(1)(b), doesn't mean that the prohibition under (b)(1) for unsolicited faxes is suddenly invalid. It's just something else to use as ammo.
We're not going to suddenly start walking around suing those that send us solicited 'faxes' for failing to include the header strip. In fact, I know many businesses who intentionally either lie on the contents of the strip for convenience (IE, master fax server for incoming and many manual fax machines for outgoing so they fib about the fax number, or the one that has a 'special fax machine' that lies about the company name so they can review certain documents and refax without their name ever appearing to the end client) or omit the strip entirely (IE, set the contents of the machine number and company name strings to whitespace because sometimes they fax documents to clients or vendors that they have no real business having in the first place and want deniability)
The technical constraints placed in the 1991 enactment of the statute have kind of been outmoded by the price of long distance. You don't send a document without coversheet anymore, even if it is just 100% non-confidential and yuo wouldn't care if it was broadcast on the morning national news. You can contain the information regarding sender/company so much better on a cover sheet, and it no longer costs you $.75 a page in long distance as it did 20 years ago, so you send the cover sheet in lieu of relying on the contents of that strip.
wiggle out if he sends to your mail server rather than directly to your home computer - because the mail server doesn't "transcribe onto paper" as a normal integral part of receiving e-mail.
Not really. Ever hear of fax forwarding? A lot of companies do it. Machine recieves the fax, determines the recipient, puts it in memory, then when it has a chance calls the proper recipient machine which then prints the fax.
Saves money too, you need fifteen faxes sent to your employees machines in Denver? Make one long distance call, have the first machine forward 15 copies to 15 machines as local calls.
Have a look in the manual of any sufficiently advanced fax machine (IE, was made after 1985 and cost more than $100) and I bet the machine is perfectly capable of operating in a store and forward mode not too much different than a mail server. And no one is going to try to argue that it isn't a fax.
Code red, WinCIM, hell even Stone B is still going around.. A nicely written virus never goes away.
Sure, the guy might do jail time, but when 90% of your customers have been hit and billions and billions of dollars of equipment is, for most intents and purposes, trashed, you better bet Microsoft is going to be held responsible by every large company their questionable 'security' has ever screwed.
A software controlled 'self-destruct switch' in any Microsoft product (or any product for that matter)?? May as well burn whatever money you'd spend on software for the platform, low-level format the hard drive, and smash the BIOS chip yourself now, so you can buy something else and save yourself time reimplementing everything that ran on the platform.
Windows doesn't do it. Some versions of Windows just make it so the system won't boot. Anti piracy feature. He might as well have claimed Linux was superior, because through a series of bad choices when compiling a kernel you can pretty well lock it to a machine.
But say you did steal a XP install and needed to get data off it.
Pop in a XP Pro CD, tell it to repair the existing install, enter a new license key.
Use any one of the dozen or so ways of gaining admin from there.
Wonder if the old ring-0 exploits still work..
Heh. I just built one of these puppies from scratch. Linux system with four WinTV Go! cards in it. Hacked camE to handle four cards and a sample rate of 2 fps, every frame archived and every tenth frame uploaded to the webserver so they can be peeked in on. Yeah, could have written something else easy enough, but writing under 50 lines of code can't be beat. Cron job moves files every hour to temp directories, mencoder converts them to msmpeg4v2 streams so the boss can. Every twelve hours, the mpeg4 files are moved to the file server for archival along with the nightly backup.
Total cost without the cameras and cabling, about $375. No video card needed after install, and you can get away with very little CPU power. A K6-2 350 with 32M of memory and a slow WD 2G drive is what I used to figure out if it was going to work, and it was able to deliver 2fps from three cameras and do the encode pass in under 20 minutes with 512x384 16bpp images.
Oh come now. The Humvee may be bad compared to a Metro, but I bet it still gets better gas mileage and lower emissions out of the Chevy 350 it has under the hood than any of the millions of 60's,70's and early 80's vehicles on the road. Cripes, there are probably a thousand times as many high-school and college student tweaked Camaros and Mustangs on the road than Hummers, each getting much worse mileage and belching emissions like a nut, not to mention the fact they all leak something.
Nope. It's not 4wd that really counts when mud bogging, cutting down two-tracks, across fields, rivers, curbs, the neighbors lawn, etc.. It's ground clearance and driver skill.
Go down to Mexico where they have some of the worst roads on earth. The vehicles you'll see in the black-hole "drove three hours through a series of mud filled two-tracks uphill" towns are nearly all 15 year old 2wd pickups with slightly oversize tires.
With a 2wd SUV you get the desired look and cargo capacity of a SUV, plus the ground clearance to keep you from bottoming out and grinding to a halt but with better gas mileage and a more reliable vehicle than the 4wd version.
Probably meant shn. Shorten, a lossless music compression scheme.
Definitly agree. I evaluated a bunch of them, and despite having much more experience with OmniPage (not to mention a free copy) I went out and bought a copy of Finereader to use on books I scanned for Project Gutenberg. It was faster, more reliable in terms of output, and it wouldn't balk at taking 1000 page .tiff files.
I've had IBM and Toshiba-branded 12 and 14mm laptop drives in constant operation since 1995 or so. The first of them finally died this month, after 7 years on the job up 24/7.
On the other hand, I have Maxtor and WD drives giving me trouble after only 2 years..
They don't build them like they used to, that's my conclusion.