> generate electricity, that can then be used to distill urine
Who needs electricity? A vacuum (plenty of that on the moon) distiller will do the job. It would even run the the (14-day) dark. All you have to do is gravity feed the impure water and then, of course, you can use the Potassium nitrate (KNO3) also known as saltpeter in your gunpowder manufacturing.
Is there way to find out how many fraud clains a CC company has processed in raw numbers and percentage of recently active cards? What about the merchants? How carefully do they screen their merchants for cluefulness about validating signatures and matching a photo ID for a purchase?
How much does it tell us about the CC company with the fewest? Better anti-fraud detection or a more clueful customer base.
If these metrics are not availble, they should be.
As was noted in the parent, things are often removed in the transition from a book to a screenplay. So, "a logical progession" s/b "a logical regession".
Although parent requested permanant disablement, I would not advocate such a level of vandalism. Silly String should be even better than the previous suggestion of duct tape for non-destructive occlusion of detested digital detectors. In most cases it can be applied from out of range. Witnesses would most likely be amused. Even if caught, chances are that charges will not be filed as removal is trivial and of minimal, if any, cost.
This is probably only becuz BillyG and SteveyB (or the "BB brains" as I like to think of them) don't read/. As soon as they find out that it has no near term ability to crush their competitors they'll shut it down and re-direct the funds to another sponsored analysis.
No troll. The only reason it would be doing extra work is because programs are wastefully written to use these humongous colorspaces with useles eyecandy of gradiatians and similar crapola. When I was writing software (NT & OS/2 scanner driver & preview, mind you, which might have legitimately justified it) dialogs and other mundane UI stuff I stuck with a 16 color palette, the larger pallette spaces were created on they fly according to the current scan values. We are in desparate need of less cuteness and more functionality, I have had my fill of Clippy and animated mouse droppings^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hpointers, thank you very much. How about they spend their time asking before overwriting my MBR, recognising ext2, ext3 and reiserfs partitions. How about creating a simple mechanism to allow the designation of drive letter/partition/volumeid at install time so I can keep consistancy across my test installs. The list of far more important deficiencies is extensive and far more deserving of attention than 3D Menus.
The first thing I do when I get a new profile at a customer or standalone host is go to "System" and turn off all the "effects" and switch the view and taskbar to "classic", set the color pallette to its lowest gamut and turn the stupid gradiations in the title bars to solid colors. Next is mount my USB thumb drive and strip the MS messenger from the registry.
I haven't found out how to remove this type of "cuteness" from my iBook (it is a test platform, not a real workspace) and I noticed that KDE has started to adopt this distracting and useless animation trend on their mouse pointers. No telling where it will stop in the never ending quest to "be like the others".
Every install needs a "simple" button added to the "typical" and "custom" ones to disable the nonsense.
I was incensed when MS removed the ablity to define a 16 color VGA without squirrelly rituals and required q 256 minimum. Color cues are nice, but I do not need 16 million of them on my desktop and for the most part 256 is overkill.
"Stop the Madness"
(OT: Has she put all that weight back on, is that why we never see her any more?)
Of course I have not RTFA. Knowing how competent these weasels are at lawmaking I would think the congrescritters and their corporate puppet masters might have neglected to put a time limit for how long the devices must support this capability or how liable a manufacturer is when it fails to do so (especially when that manufacturer is a wholly owned subsidiary of some OFFSHORE conglomerate) at some point in the future after passing initial inspection. I would think some enterprising manufacturer could ship units that pass all the production compliancy tests but have a "faulty" circuit which after X hours or days of applied power will silently "fail" and VODKA! Unrestricted access until it is taken in for "repair". BTW, Notice is given this "business method" and any software or circuitry used to accomplish this is patent pending by yours truly, licenses available by barter only for black classic stingrays.
This post not valid in designated "no sarcasm" zones.
Unless you can and want to pay even closer attention to you drive status than you do with a single drive, only use RAID 1 (mirroring) solutions. With (hardware) RAID 1 each drive has a FULL and COMPLETE copy of your data. If worse comes to worse you have a good probability of recovering a vast majority of the data even if both drives fail from say a fire or flood. There a several companies that, for a hefty fee have the expertise and clean room facilities to decode the flux reversals back into bits onto a healthy drive, last time I shopped a recovery a couple years ago it was about $1200. RAID 5 is recommended ONLY for an enterprise environment where a determined effort is made to raise and escalate alarms of drive failure to an onsite 24/7 staff. The very same thing that they tout as an advantage is the danger of the configuration. Your data is ripped apart and the bits spread over multiple drives. The survival of your data is dependant on not losing more than n-2 drives. You must act quickly if you loose the parity drive and replace it and rebuild back to the optimal number of drives. The danger is that while you wait for that replacement drive to ship or the bad drive to come back from warranty repair you could lose another drive. What was wrong with the 1st to die might also be wrong with the remaining drives. You probably bought all the same drives at the same time/place and stand a good chance of getting them all from the same manufacturing batch unless you go out of you way to insure they come from different lots.
When you lose that n-2 drive you are HOSED. Finding a recovery company that has expertise in recovering RAID 5 data striping as imposed by your particular controller (chances are it is obsolete by a year by the time you get bit by this) is low and if you do find one they are going to charge you 5X or more what a straight mirror recovery might cost, $3500-$5000 AT THE LEAST. Yes you can add warm spares (and you can lose those too, especially if you are not "lot conscious") and take other ameliorative steps, but generally home and small business users do not go that deep into protecting data integrity. I've seen the loss of data on RAID 5 arrays happen to customers, TWICE.
For a home user or a small business that runs "lights out" evenings and weekends, KISS applies, get a Promise or 3ware IDE controller and mirror two drives. Given the cost of an 80GB drive at $80 the "inefficient space utilization" is rendered a pretty moot point.
You can make your life easier by installing the drives in sleds ($30-120) so you don't have to mess with opening the case and screws and cables. Don't trust "hot swap" unless you absolutely required to keep the machine running, usually not the case for a home/small business. Shut it down, pull the sled, and replace the drive in the sled (buy a 3rd sled if you need to make the swap in minimum time. Leave the RAID 5 stuff with the people and the bucks to nursemaid them, they are just a disaster waiting to happen for those that have neither the time or the inclination to monitor drives on an ongoing basis. If you are using more recent Linux or Windows servers you can use software mirroring, but I do think the $100 controller cost and Windows boot track not being included in the mirroring process (solve this by doing trivial installs on the mirror drive before mirroring the partitions with the OS) is worth the hassle of messing with it from the OS, but the more frugal might find the time/money trade-off to make it wortwhile. HTH.
>people who have hacked the engine code to give them an autopilot shooter?
Indeed, take a look at the issues that cropped up with BZflag on SourceForge
(http://bzflag.sourceforge.net)
cheat descriptions
http://bzflag.sourceforge.net/wiki/KnownCheats
http://bzflag.sourceforge.net/wiki/SubtleCheats
.
IANARHFB (Red Hat Fan Boy), RH support & service probably has its place in some business or personal environments. I am not, personally, in need of them. The following is old news for most alternative OS afficianados and slashdotters in general. If all you want is access to patches/latest utilities for RHEL3, try these (my order of preference) change the config files for "yum" to find and apply the relevent updates.
As a final note, I just _purchased_ a copy if Novell/Suse 9.1 to encourage Novell in their recent motions in the FLOSS arena with yast release and mono sponsorship and their actions against the Microsoft SCOhorts, but will not be purchasin follow-on services. You have plenty of choices across a spectrum of sources. Pick one appropriate to your budget and comfort level of self-support and (non-)need for brand name bragging rights.
HTH What, me sig? -- A1fr3d/. N3wm4n
bypass your channel "partners"
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Yes, indeed. Being on the tech side rather than the bean side I forgot the $500K deal they undercut us on after 4 months of negotiations and regular Chicago to Hartford flights with OUR customer. I.m sure my boss has not.
Re:3com's NIC replacement?
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We were an all 3com shop, they abandoned the core builders, we abandoned them as a networking vendor. The 3com cards would bluescreen when used with with PPTP (NT4sp6) and teaming (two NIC cards which failover/back) and we were told that PPTP was non-standard and, despite having $2500 worth of NIC in racked servers they would not support the configuration. Intel replacements worked flawlessly. Intel actively works to provide linux driver with advanced capabilities like teaming (even with another vendors adaptors. Heh, we combine Intel+3c905 on some older machines to save $$ and get some use out a big box of dustgathering 3com NICs). Intel has its own set of gripes (like insisting on working thru the MB OEM for onboard NIC support even though the drivres are the same. Solutiom: reproduce the issue using a PCI NIC). There were glitches in the teaming for W2k3 but were resolved fairly quickly. 3coms are rated for better performance and they had a keen idea of putting policies on the NIC Developed by someone else and overpriced as a solution, making the concept unacceptably costly to migrate from other NIC. Nowadays its Cisco router/switches and Intel NICs. 3com pretty much brought its current woes upon itself by allowing PHB management opinion override sound technical recommendations.
Doesn't Frontline have an Assitant Producer capable of establishing its current or forthcoming availability and post a hyperlink? Am I the only one that picked up C/N had created new music of which they were extremely proud and was interested in finding out more? Sure, I might be disappointed ala "Good lookin Boy" recently released by the Who (and I have really liked the Who, but this song is the pits, sorry Pete), but it would be nice if they put a little effort into providing background info about topics of this nature with their interview transcript.
Given the $100K cost of designing an ASIC, it probably would be easy to get a pool of donations large enough to outsource the design and manufacturing of a functionally/electrically compatable chip to India and with a little cautios soldering, substitute an open block box for the closed one.
You forgot the incomparable regular expression (RE) search and replace features. It can't be beat for eliminating chaff from log files. Like:v/\.23/d "flush everything that doen't have a trailing IP address octet of '.23'". POOF, nuthing but the lines you are interested in. u for undo if the RE was to broad or to narrow and try a different one. I have forggotten 70% of the sophistcated RE I used to use 15 years ago before editing got GUI-fied, but I still rely on it to wade thru logs and edit config files for routers and firewalls. EMACS might have similar capabilities, but my couple hours of trying to learn it left me unhappy with the number of keystrokes it took to accomplish simple things.
Slashdotters: Please refrain from using the phrase "dark side".
s/dark side/dim side/g
1) The majority of the people accused of this are not evil, merely "dim-witted".
2) Using the deprecated phrase is free advertising for for an industry/company/person that already has more than enough of our dollars & mind share. This is not a bash. I have (legally purchased) laser disc and DVD copies of the stuff. Having acquired and viewed them on multiple occaisions does not make me unaware of the where my dollars and time were/are flowing.
3) Punning the phrase, is slightly more amusing or, at least, eye-catching.
4) Pointing out someone as a buffoon does a great deal more damage to their credibility that accusing them of malicious intent.
Slashdotters: Please refrain from using the phrase "dark side".
s/dark side/dim side/g
1) The majority of the people accused of this are evil, just "dim-witted".
2) Using the deprecated phrase is free advertising for for an industry/company/person that already has more than enough of our dollars & mind share. This is an aside, not a bash. I have (legally purchased) laser disc and DVD copies of the stuff, that does not make me unaware of the where my dollars and time were/are flowing.
I'll cop to ignorance of the patent procedure. What you describe sure looks right and proper on phosphors. So why is the system so broken? For the hoops and obstacles you descibe, one would think that there shouldn't be more than a hundred truly innovative ideas patented in any year. It sure appears as if there are not ENOUGH hoops and the ones that exist might be too easy or too easily gamed by the unscrupulous.
Then feed all the existing expired and current patents into the expert system and invalidate the current patents that expert system shows to be obvious or prior art. Should weed out 99.9999% of the Microsoft and IBM software patents.
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> generate electricity, that can then be used to distill urine
Who needs electricity? A vacuum (plenty of that on the moon) distiller will do the job. It would even run the the (14-day) dark. All you have to do is gravity feed the impure water and then, of course, you can use the Potassium nitrate (KNO3) also known as saltpeter in your gunpowder manufacturing.
Is there way to find out how many fraud clains a CC company has processed in raw numbers and percentage of recently active cards?
What about the merchants? How carefully do they screen their merchants for cluefulness about validating signatures and matching a photo ID for a purchase?
How much does it tell us about the CC company with the fewest? Better anti-fraud detection or a more clueful customer base.
If these metrics are not availble, they should be.
Oughta hit the spot.
... but it's a DRY heave. -- me
For those ignorant of sourceforge or just too lazy to search for the "open source version of Ghost called G4U" described by the above poster:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4u/
HTH
As was noted in the parent, things are often removed in the transition from a book to a screenplay.
So, "a logical progession" s/b "a logical regession".
So how well does it interact with the clowns and the elephants?
Although parent requested permanant disablement, I would not advocate such a level of vandalism. Silly String should be even better than the previous suggestion of duct tape for non-destructive occlusion of detested digital detectors. In most cases it can be applied from out of range. Witnesses would most likely be amused. Even if caught, chances are that charges will not be filed as removal is trivial and of minimal, if any, cost.
This is probably only becuz BillyG and SteveyB (or the "BB brains" as I like to think of them) don't read /. As soon as they find out that it has no near term ability to crush their competitors they'll shut it down and re-direct the funds to another sponsored analysis.
No troll. The only reason it would be doing extra work is because programs are wastefully written to use these humongous colorspaces with useles eyecandy of gradiatians and similar crapola. When I was writing software (NT & OS/2 scanner driver & preview, mind you, which might have legitimately justified it) dialogs and other mundane UI stuff I stuck with a 16 color palette, the larger pallette spaces were created on they fly according to the current scan values. We are in desparate need of less cuteness and more functionality, I have had my fill of Clippy and animated mouse droppings^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hpointers, thank you very much. How about they spend their time asking before overwriting my MBR, recognising ext2, ext3 and reiserfs partitions. How about creating a simple mechanism to allow the designation of drive letter/partition/volumeid at install time so I can keep consistancy across my test installs. The list of far more important deficiencies is extensive and far more deserving of attention than 3D Menus.
The first thing I do when I get a new profile at a customer or standalone host is go to "System" and turn off all the "effects" and switch the view and taskbar to "classic", set the color pallette to its lowest gamut and turn the stupid gradiations in the title bars to solid colors. Next is mount my USB thumb drive and strip the MS messenger from the registry.
I haven't found out how to remove this type of "cuteness" from my iBook (it is a test platform, not a real workspace) and I noticed that KDE has started to adopt this distracting and useless animation trend on their mouse pointers. No telling where it will stop in the never ending quest to "be like the others".
Every install needs a "simple" button added to the "typical" and "custom" ones to disable the nonsense.
I was incensed when MS removed the ablity to define a 16 color VGA without squirrelly rituals and required q 256 minimum. Color cues are nice, but I do not need 16 million of them on my desktop and for the most part 256 is overkill.
"Stop the Madness"
(OT: Has she put all that weight back on, is that why we never see her any more?)
But is the voice Mel Blanc's?
Of course I have not RTFA. Knowing how competent these weasels are at lawmaking I would think the congrescritters and their corporate puppet masters might have neglected to put a time limit for how long the devices must support this capability or how liable a manufacturer is when it fails to do so (especially when that manufacturer is a wholly owned subsidiary of some OFFSHORE conglomerate) at some point in the future after passing initial inspection. I would think some enterprising manufacturer could ship units that pass all the production compliancy tests but have a "faulty" circuit which after X hours or days of applied power will silently "fail" and VODKA! Unrestricted access until it is taken in for "repair". BTW, Notice is given this "business method" and any software or circuitry used to accomplish this is patent pending by yours truly, licenses available by barter only for black classic stingrays.
This post not valid in designated "no sarcasm" zones.
Unless you can and want to pay even closer attention to you drive status than you do with a single drive, only use RAID 1 (mirroring) solutions. With (hardware) RAID 1 each drive has a FULL and COMPLETE copy of your data. If worse comes to worse you have a good probability of recovering a vast majority of the data even if both drives fail from say a fire or flood. There a several companies that, for a hefty fee have the expertise and clean room facilities to decode the flux reversals back into bits onto a healthy drive, last time I shopped a recovery a couple years ago it was about $1200. RAID 5 is recommended ONLY for an enterprise environment where a determined effort is made to raise and escalate alarms of drive failure to an onsite 24/7 staff. The very same thing that they tout as an advantage is the danger of the configuration. Your data is ripped apart and the bits spread over multiple drives. The survival of your data is dependant on not losing more than n-2 drives. You must act quickly if you loose the parity drive and replace it and rebuild back to the optimal number of drives. The danger is that while you wait for that replacement drive to ship or the bad drive to come back from warranty repair you could lose another drive. What was wrong with the 1st to die might also be wrong with the remaining drives. You probably bought all the same drives at the same time/place and stand a good chance of getting them all from the same manufacturing batch unless you go out of you way to insure they come from different lots. When you lose that n-2 drive you are HOSED. Finding a recovery company that has expertise in recovering RAID 5 data striping as imposed by your particular controller (chances are it is obsolete by a year by the time you get bit by this) is low and if you do find one they are going to charge you 5X or more what a straight mirror recovery might cost, $3500-$5000 AT THE LEAST. Yes you can add warm spares (and you can lose those too, especially if you are not "lot conscious") and take other ameliorative steps, but generally home and small business users do not go that deep into protecting data integrity. I've seen the loss of data on RAID 5 arrays happen to customers, TWICE. For a home user or a small business that runs "lights out" evenings and weekends, KISS applies, get a Promise or 3ware IDE controller and mirror two drives. Given the cost of an 80GB drive at $80 the "inefficient space utilization" is rendered a pretty moot point. You can make your life easier by installing the drives in sleds ($30-120) so you don't have to mess with opening the case and screws and cables. Don't trust "hot swap" unless you absolutely required to keep the machine running, usually not the case for a home/small business. Shut it down, pull the sled, and replace the drive in the sled (buy a 3rd sled if you need to make the swap in minimum time. Leave the RAID 5 stuff with the people and the bucks to nursemaid them, they are just a disaster waiting to happen for those that have neither the time or the inclination to monitor drives on an ongoing basis. If you are using more recent Linux or Windows servers you can use software mirroring, but I do think the $100 controller cost and Windows boot track not being included in the mirroring process (solve this by doing trivial installs on the mirror drive before mirroring the partitions with the OS) is worth the hassle of messing with it from the OS, but the more frugal might find the time/money trade-off to make it wortwhile. HTH.
>people who have hacked the engine code to give them an autopilot shooter? Indeed, take a look at the issues that cropped up with BZflag on SourceForge
(http://bzflag.sourceforge.net)
cheat descriptions
http://bzflag.sourceforge.net/wiki/KnownCheats
http://bzflag.sourceforge.net/wiki/SubtleCheats .
IANARHFB (Red Hat Fan Boy), RH support & service probably has its place in some business or personal environments. I am not, personally, in need of them. The following is old news for most alternative OS afficianados and slashdotters in general. If all you want is access to patches/latest utilities for RHEL3, try these (my order of preference) change the config files for "yum" to find and apply the relevent updates.
/. N3wm4n
www.centos.org
www.whiteboxlinux.org
www.taolinux.org
If you are not married to RHEL3:
www.netbsd.org
www.freebsd.org
www.openbsd.org
If you really adventurous:
www.linuxfromscratch.org
If you do not want to contribute to larger corporate coffers, a quick search using vivisimo.com for "Linux support contract" gives
www.linuxunlimited.com/support.html
www.unixporting.com/linux-support.html
As a final note, I just _purchased_ a copy if Novell/Suse 9.1 to encourage Novell in their recent motions in the FLOSS arena with yast release and mono sponsorship and their actions against the Microsoft SCOhorts, but will not be purchasin follow-on services. You have plenty of choices across a spectrum of sources. Pick one appropriate to your budget and comfort level of self-support and (non-)need for brand name bragging rights.
HTH
What, me sig? -- A1fr3d
Yes, indeed. Being on the tech side rather than the bean side I forgot the $500K deal they undercut us on after 4 months of negotiations and regular Chicago to Hartford flights with OUR customer. I.m sure my boss has not.
We were an all 3com shop, they abandoned the core builders, we abandoned them as a networking vendor. The 3com cards would bluescreen when used with with PPTP (NT4sp6) and teaming (two NIC cards which failover/back) and we were told that PPTP was non-standard and, despite having $2500 worth of NIC in racked servers they would not support the configuration. Intel replacements worked flawlessly. Intel actively works to provide linux driver with advanced capabilities like teaming (even with another vendors adaptors. Heh, we combine Intel+3c905 on some older machines to save $$ and get some use out a big box of dustgathering 3com NICs). Intel has its own set of gripes (like insisting on working thru the MB OEM for onboard NIC support even though the drivres are the same. Solutiom: reproduce the issue using a PCI NIC). There were glitches in the teaming for W2k3 but were resolved fairly quickly. 3coms are rated for better performance and they had a keen idea of putting policies on the NIC Developed by someone else and overpriced as a solution, making the concept unacceptably costly to migrate from other NIC. Nowadays its Cisco router/switches and Intel NICs. 3com pretty much brought its current woes upon itself by allowing PHB management opinion override sound technical recommendations.
Doesn't Frontline have an Assitant Producer capable of establishing its current or forthcoming availability and post a hyperlink? Am I the only one that picked up C/N had created new music of which they were extremely proud and was interested in finding out more? Sure, I might be disappointed ala "Good lookin Boy" recently released by the Who (and I have really liked the Who, but this song is the pits, sorry Pete), but it would be nice if they put a little effort into providing background info about topics of this nature with their interview transcript.
Does it require a framework of steel I-beams and pylons driven into the bedrock?
So what?
Given the $100K cost of designing an ASIC, it probably would be easy to get a pool of donations large enough to outsource the design and manufacturing of a functionally/electrically compatable chip to India and with a little cautios soldering, substitute an open block box for the closed one.
You forgot the incomparable regular expression (RE) search and replace features. It can't be beat for eliminating chaff from log files. Like :v/\.23/d "flush everything that doen't have a trailing IP address octet of '.23'". POOF, nuthing but the lines you are interested in. u for undo if the RE was to broad or to narrow and try a different one. I have forggotten 70% of the sophistcated RE I used to use 15 years ago before editing got GUI-fied, but I still rely on it to wade thru logs and edit config files for routers and firewalls. EMACS might have similar capabilities, but my couple hours of trying to learn it left me unhappy with the number of keystrokes it took to accomplish simple things.
Slashdotters: Please refrain from using the phrase "dark side".
s/dark side/dim side/g
1) The majority of the people accused of this are not evil, merely "dim-witted".
2) Using the deprecated phrase is free advertising for for an industry/company/person that already has more than enough of our dollars & mind share. This is not a bash. I have (legally purchased) laser disc and DVD copies of the stuff. Having acquired and viewed them on multiple occaisions does not make me unaware of the where my dollars and time were/are flowing.
3) Punning the phrase, is slightly more amusing or, at least, eye-catching.
4) Pointing out someone as a buffoon does a great deal more damage to their credibility that accusing them of malicious intent.
Slashdotters: Please refrain from using the phrase "dark side". s/dark side/dim side/g 1) The majority of the people accused of this are evil, just "dim-witted". 2) Using the deprecated phrase is free advertising for for an industry/company/person that already has more than enough of our dollars & mind share. This is an aside, not a bash. I have (legally purchased) laser disc and DVD copies of the stuff, that does not make me unaware of the where my dollars and time were/are flowing.
I'll cop to ignorance of the patent procedure. What you describe sure looks right and proper on phosphors. So why is the system so broken? For the hoops and obstacles you descibe, one would think that there shouldn't be more than a hundred truly innovative ideas patented in any year. It sure appears as if there are not ENOUGH hoops and the ones that exist might be too easy or too easily gamed by the unscrupulous.
Then feed all the existing expired and current patents into the expert system and invalidate the current patents that expert system shows to be obvious or prior art. Should weed out 99.9999% of the Microsoft and IBM software patents.