BTW, that wasn't an offer, just a rhetorical device. For one, I don't know how, tho I saw it over the shoulder of one of our engineers. Secondly, I don't know if he got that under NDA.
I reserve the right to be miffed about having to crawl under the desk to reach around the back of the box where the power cord is when there's a switch on the front panel that's just a placebo. But I appreciate your kind comment.
Try a) use a safe journaling filesystem; b) run "sync" command; c) hit the power switch.
Of course, the problem with that proposal is the stooopid computers don't have hard power switches -- the "power" switch is just a signal to the same stooopid software that's causing you this grief in the first place. For the life of me I do not understand designing computers without a hard reset and/or power switch. Especially when they're intended for MicroSoft OSes where they're particularly needed.
China's government is much more evil that Sony or HP.
It's practically impossible to avoid Chinese goods entirely. But look at the labels before you purchase. When I recently bought a pair of pliers, I purposefully bought a more expensive pair made in Thailand rather than automatically going with the cheapest and sending my $$ to Beijing.
The Chinese government, and by extension the Chinese establishment and industry are anathema.
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How much money do we spend, how much air pollution, acid rain, and global warming do we create so that we can light up the bellies of birds? It is possible to have development that does not rob us of our heritage and right to enjoy the night sky. International Dark Sky Association
The in-laws gave a CD of all their vital information to my sister-in-law before leaving on a two-week trip to Europe. Wouldn't you know it, a little storm named Katrina blew in while they were away. The sister-in-law remembered to grab the CD as her family fled inland. Now, if they had only remembered to put their MSN password on the CD so that they could get to their email.
Block the cookies and use the remove redirects bookmarklet from Jesse's Bookmarklet Site. There are some really great tools there -- my toolbar is full of them.
Option just not to use A9, though I've still to see if there's anything really innovative there. The "remove redirects" bookmarklet, BTW, can be used on Google's images search results so that you just go straight to the page and not to Google's framing of it.
I always imagined a system where a set of cameras (visual or IR?) would sense motion/heat, and a computer would triangulage the location and direct spotlights to follow the assumed intruder. Good psych value. No, I wouldn't go so far as to connect it to an automatic weapon. YMMV.
Geocities' pathetic traffic limit is exceeded on that site, but I assume that this cached page is what you're referring to.
It's really a shame that most intrusion attempts are worms or automated bots with no one to see the clever responses. For my own home system where I'm not running a real web server, I have a script on port 80 serve up a redirect to the Department of Homeland Security. >:-)
In many cases, it's the journey, not the destination. Think of how much of this great globe they've seen while doing this, and how much of it far, far off the beaten path. Boy, I envy them!
I took two days off work this week to travel from 37.6284 -92.3288 to 37.7503 -923973, spending the night at 37.6950 -92.3067. It was great!
This is so wickedly cool! says the guy who knows the latitude and longitude of his home.:) I spend plane trips staring out the window studying the changing patterns of terrain and land use. Folks who snooze while passing over "fly-over land" can see what the rest of the country^Wworld look like and how it differs from place to place. It would be really interesting to come back in 100 years, do the same thing, and compare the pictures.
People who cannot appreciate something like this cannot be real nerds!
I played with an old-old-old demo version of NFR years ago and wanted a similar after-the-fact investigative tool, so I wrote my own. I record data about every single packet going to or from the Internet and feed it into a MySQL database. A web front-end supports queries against the DB, I can do more complex ad hoc queries from the MySQL prompt, and I have oodles of perl scripts that run analyses against the flat log files it generates. I've thought about asking my employer, on whose time I more-or-less developed it, about making it Open Source, but haven't had the impetus to actually do it. It's a great tool, and I'd be interested if there's something similar that's farther along.
When first out of college I worked at a place that made 16-bit minicomputers. (No, you never heard of them.) They owned an H-P diagnostic device that plugged into the address bus and used the low-order 8 bits to drive the X axis of an oscilliscope and the high-order 8 bits for the Y axis.
You also hooked a sensor onto the memory read strobe (IIRC you could do choose between data fetch and instruction fetch on this architecture), and you could watch real-time memory accesses graphically -- it would light a spot on the scope corresonding to a memory location whenever that location was accessed. Additionally there were a row of 16 switches that you could use to enter an address, which would move a little circular cursor. By positioning the cursor over a dot on the scope you could read the corresponding address from the swithes.
We used this to debug and to optimize running programs. You could see where a system was stuck if it got caught in a loop, and you could tell where it was spending a lot of time even if it wasn't stuck. I didn't actually use this a whole lot, but it was way cool to watch the computer work!
There was a DIY project to build pretty much the same thing to drive a standard oscilliscope from the address bus of an Apple ][. It might have been in Byte magazine, perhaps as a Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar article. I recall the article but never built it.
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BTW, that wasn't an offer, just a rhetorical device. For one, I don't know how, tho I saw it over the shoulder of one of our engineers. Secondly, I don't know if he got that under NDA.
Would you like me to show you how to get to the Linux command line on some of the latest Cisco products? You'll feel right at home, I guarantee.
I reserve the right to be miffed about having to crawl under the desk to reach around the back of the box where the power cord is when there's a switch on the front panel that's just a placebo. But I appreciate your kind comment.
Of course, the problem with that proposal is the stooopid computers don't have hard power switches -- the "power" switch is just a signal to the same stooopid software that's causing you this grief in the first place. For the life of me I do not understand designing computers without a hard reset and/or power switch. Especially when they're intended for MicroSoft OSes where they're particularly needed.
China's government is much more evil that Sony or HP.
It's practically impossible to avoid Chinese goods entirely. But look at the labels before you purchase. When I recently bought a pair of pliers, I purposefully bought a more expensive pair made in Thailand rather than automatically going with the cheapest and sending my $$ to Beijing.
The Chinese government, and by extension the Chinese establishment and industry are anathema.
That's B.S.
How much money do we spend, how much air pollution, acid rain, and global warming do we create so that we can light up the bellies of birds? It is possible to have development that does not rob us of our heritage and right to enjoy the night sky. International Dark Sky Association
The in-laws gave a CD of all their vital information to my sister-in-law before leaving on a two-week trip to Europe. Wouldn't you know it, a little storm named Katrina blew in while they were away. The sister-in-law remembered to grab the CD as her family fled inland. Now, if they had only remembered to put their MSN password on the CD so that they could get to their email.
End of story.
Only by running Windows® That could be convenient for the near term, but my goal is to not send another penny to Redmond.
Option just not to use A9, though I've still to see if there's anything really innovative there. The "remove redirects" bookmarklet, BTW, can be used on Google's images search results so that you just go straight to the page and not to Google's framing of it.
I always imagined a system where a set of cameras (visual or IR?) would sense motion/heat, and a computer would triangulage the location and direct spotlights to follow the assumed intruder. Good psych value. No, I wouldn't go so far as to connect it to an automatic weapon. YMMV.
It's really a shame that most intrusion attempts are worms or automated bots with no one to see the clever responses. For my own home system where I'm not running a real web server, I have a script on port 80 serve up a redirect to the Department of Homeland Security. >:-)
I took two days off work this week to travel from 37.6284 -92.3288 to 37.7503 -923973, spending the night at 37.6950 -92.3067. It was great!
People who cannot appreciate something like this cannot be real nerds!
I played with an old-old-old demo version of NFR years ago and wanted a similar after-the-fact investigative tool, so I wrote my own. I record data about every single packet going to or from the Internet and feed it into a MySQL database. A web front-end supports queries against the DB, I can do more complex ad hoc queries from the MySQL prompt, and I have oodles of perl scripts that run analyses against the flat log files it generates. I've thought about asking my employer, on whose time I more-or-less developed it, about making it Open Source, but haven't had the impetus to actually do it. It's a great tool, and I'd be interested if there's something similar that's farther along.
Some stereo images are here. More are sure to follow, including from the panoramic cameras.
When first out of college I worked at a place that made 16-bit minicomputers. (No, you never heard of them.) They owned an H-P diagnostic device that plugged into the address bus and used the low-order 8 bits to drive the X axis of an oscilliscope and the high-order 8 bits for the Y axis.
You also hooked a sensor onto the memory read strobe (IIRC you could do choose between data fetch and instruction fetch on this architecture), and you could watch real-time memory accesses graphically -- it would light a spot on the scope corresonding to a memory location whenever that location was accessed. Additionally there were a row of 16 switches that you could use to enter an address, which would move a little circular cursor. By positioning the cursor over a dot on the scope you could read the corresponding address from the swithes.
We used this to debug and to optimize running programs. You could see where a system was stuck if it got caught in a loop, and you could tell where it was spending a lot of time even if it wasn't stuck. I didn't actually use this a whole lot, but it was way cool to watch the computer work!
There was a DIY project to build pretty much the same thing to drive a standard oscilliscope from the address bus of an Apple ][. It might have been in Byte magazine, perhaps as a Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar article. I recall the article but never built it.