I also find myself downloading the latest iso's and burning them out to CD for all the people in the office and around the neighborhood. What I do is I make a set of the binaries as well as the source for each set that I get, and I only use that set to make replications. I then sell replications to my friends at the usual $5, telling them that their $5 covers the cost of media for them, and the extra cost of the backup media so that if they need it again it will always be here. That way my friends are not limited to the stuff I want to download for myself and I would keep, but they can feel free to ask for whatever and they know that a few cents of every transaction pays for the needed CD racks to hold all the stuff. If someone loses, destroyes or for some other reason wants/needs more sets I just replicate from the NOT FOR USE set (I write NOT FOR USE all over the label of those). And I know that the sets will be around for as long as the CDRs will survive. I feel that getting the source for ever distro is necessary to keep myself GNU'd but it also a fun tool so that if I or someone else wants to muck around in it, it's handy. Think of it as an extra little bit of download and a few minutes of burn to ensure your GNU'd status and promote the open source education of yourself and others... who knows, you might not think of the source as good reading material now, but what if in a few years you really get going on it, and you are writing something that will mount drives off of the latest competitor to linux, and you want to check out how samba was done back in 2000 - back when there was a windows to use samba for............
For some more information on the "jaggies" (the stuff that makes things look bad, that this technologies aimes at improving in fonts) in OpenGL and OS/2 check out:
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. (hey, I typed it quicker and more accurately this time around since I just got practice a few seconds ago)
Don't enjoy music... I didn't match...
The quick brown fox...
Still no music... become totally frustrated and decided to download napster instead.
If you live in the desert and make your living selling water, and all of a sudden it begins to rain where you live and there is no longer a demand for what people can just walk outside and get cheaply do you:
A) File a suit against the meterologists for monitoring the rain on their radar. or B) Begin to sell umbrellas.
Good companies can adapt to ever changing markets.
And add ot your list the numerous bands listed on napster's website that condone such behavior (many of whom I have never heard of, but have found new interests in). I think that this is a major sellingpoint of napster and mp3s - it has opened my ears to new groups and their types of music, and although I doubt I'm going to buy their CD (note: I said doubt - if CDs didn't cost what I make an hour I'd buy them) I think I might go to one of their concerts if they come to my area.
Who was it that said that the most secure computer is one that is not connected in any way to anything (including power), that has no periferals, and that is burried 8 feet down - and even this level is arguably insufficient....
You do bring up a good point... physical security is paramount for digital things, not just cookies. If you can get to a machine you can damage it physically (obviously) or in a way not as noticed... single user mode under unix, stupid screen saver passwords (if any) affect all OSes, boot disks affect all....
But what if you were paranoid and kept your binaries on read-only media (think link/usr to/mnt/cdrom/usr or whatever, maybe a samba mount of another machine's CD drive) such that no one could touch it?
Or in a less paranoid sense, you kept copies of said files on-read only material so that a trip-wire-ish program could compare the information about your current binaries and those in the "backedup" state. If there were inconsistencies you could just restore from the backup.
If you are worried the script kiddie got to your trip wire program then maybe you should have been running your trip wire remotely (just mount your current hard drive system to that of your "security" server) so the cracker would now have to get to another machine to cover their tracks and do inflict their damage (if any).
But... the industry has often shifted. Sure the big bloated OS market might be seeing it's dieing days in the consumer market, but MS has interestes beyond OSes. They are parteners with NBC in MSNBC (which has had interesting coverage of this*). There's a little game machine coming out soon, MS has made joysticks and mice for sometime now as well, and the big move to the Internet has been right in MS' gun sight - they make IE, IIS, etc....
We are not fighting to keep MS restricted within a single market. Sure the DOJ made an effort by arguing within a certain realm, but if the ruling is upheld and a split of some form made, then a restriction will forever be felt in future MS product ideas.
* I saw a show last night with the token for and against guests and the for guest kept getting cut off just as he began to make his point while the other guy ran away with the show - interesting.
that the judge wished the two sides would settle out of court and that they should realize to compromise. He felt that it could be decided to not break up MS, but that MS would have to realize that they did infact do something wrong.
IMHO, I like the idea of 2 or 3 seperate companies where all retain the rights to the same products, that way there would be immediate and direct competition on the same platform.
But you seem to forget... Al Gore created the World Wide Web... it's an integral part of his Internet that he created while being a junior senator a long time before 1990.
If you are a student, or just want to learn more about it, you can receive a free copy of DB2. Heck, even download the latest beta.
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What was the last one?? Maybe CT and the boys feel the need to extend "Ask/." questions for more discussion?
I just think it's really weird, if they are purposely reposting then I think they should state that somewhere... it just opens the flood doors for confusion and flaimbait.
Any ideas on appyling this to the problem of e-voting (there currently is a lack of super solutions to e-voting that keeps a vote from ever being linked back directly to a voter) by in someway using the scrambling to also add a signature? The best e-vote idea I've seen uses the idea of signing through an envelope onto a piece of paper using carbon paper sealed in the envelope (all done digitaly ofcourse).
What comes next in the size measurement after terabyte? I kinda remember it was excabyte (sp?) but can someone correct me (and possibly expand on things beyond that level) ?
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I also find myself downloading the latest iso's and burning them out to CD for all the people in the office and around the neighborhood. What I do is I make a set of the binaries as well as the source for each set that I get, and I only use that set to make replications. I then sell replications to my friends at the usual $5, telling them that their $5 covers the cost of media for them, and the extra cost of the backup media so that if they need it again it will always be here. That way my friends are not limited to the stuff I want to download for myself and I would keep, but they can feel free to ask for whatever and they know that a few cents of every transaction pays for the needed CD racks to hold all the stuff. If someone loses, destroyes or for some other reason wants/needs more sets I just replicate from the NOT FOR USE set (I write NOT FOR USE all over the label of those). And I know that the sets will be around for as long as the CDRs will survive. I feel that getting the source for ever distro is necessary to keep myself GNU'd but it also a fun tool so that if I or someone else wants to muck around in it, it's handy. Think of it as an extra little bit of download and a few minutes of burn to ensure your GNU'd status and promote the open source education of yourself and others... who knows, you might not think of the source as good reading material now, but what if in a few years you really get going on it, and you are writing something that will mount drives off of the latest competitor to linux, and you want to check out how samba was done back in 2000 - back when there was a windows to use samba for............
I've heard they were called Buzz Cards... I got one in the mail a few weeks back from Fedility Online Investing.
How fast would the space craft be going at the halfway point when it would turn around to slow down?
Anyone know of a physical limit to the speed of this type of craft?
I checked the link, and I'm sorry if I missed it, but I didn't seem to spot speed numbers anywhere.
For some more information on the "jaggies" (the stuff that makes things look bad, that this technologies aimes at improving in fonts) in OpenGL and OS/2 check out:
http://www.edm2.com/0603/opengl.html
Download file....
Type in:
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
Enjoy music.
Type in:
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
(hey, I typed it quicker and more accurately this time around since I just got practice a few seconds ago)
Don't enjoy music... I didn't match...
The quick brown fox...
Still no music... become totally frustrated and decided to download napster instead.
What about impared users of computers (Steven Hawkings for examples) that don't ever type, but use another system to generate text for them?
So, what if we all just tpye our sentances in vi, then cut copy paste them to the input field?? Wouldn't it be the same pattern for all of us??
If you live in the desert and make your living selling water, and all of a sudden it begins to rain where you live and there is no longer a demand for what people can just walk outside and get cheaply do you:
A) File a suit against the meterologists for monitoring the rain on their radar.
or
B) Begin to sell umbrellas.
Good companies can adapt to ever changing markets.
I think following in the original poster's idea then you'd move right to:
Op ps ey dehd it ahgen by Brytni Spiers
And add ot your list the numerous bands listed on napster's website that condone such behavior (many of whom I have never heard of, but have found new interests in). I think that this is a major sellingpoint of napster and mp3s - it has opened my ears to new groups and their types of music, and although I doubt I'm going to buy their CD (note: I said doubt - if CDs didn't cost what I make an hour I'd buy them) I think I might go to one of their concerts if they come to my area.
Thank you.
Who was it that said that the most secure computer is one that is not connected in any way to anything (including power), that has no periferals, and that is burried 8 feet down - and even this level is arguably insufficient....
You do bring up a good point... physical security is paramount for digital things, not just cookies. If you can get to a machine you can damage it physically (obviously) or in a way not as noticed... single user mode under unix, stupid screen saver passwords (if any) affect all OSes, boot disks affect all....
But what if you were paranoid and kept your binaries on read-only media (think link /usr to /mnt/cdrom/usr or whatever, maybe a samba mount of another machine's CD drive) such that no one could touch it?
Or in a less paranoid sense, you kept copies of said files on-read only material so that a trip-wire-ish program could compare the information about your current binaries and those in the "backedup" state. If there were inconsistencies you could just restore from the backup.
If you are worried the script kiddie got to your trip wire program then maybe you should have been running your trip wire remotely (just mount your current hard drive system to that of your "security" server) so the cracker would now have to get to another machine to cover their tracks and do inflict their damage (if any).
But... the industry has often shifted. Sure the big bloated OS market might be seeing it's dieing days in the consumer market, but MS has interestes beyond OSes. They are parteners with NBC in MSNBC (which has had interesting coverage of this*). There's a little game machine coming out soon, MS has made joysticks and mice for sometime now as well, and the big move to the Internet has been right in MS' gun sight - they make IE, IIS, etc....
We are not fighting to keep MS restricted within a single market. Sure the DOJ made an effort by arguing within a certain realm, but if the ruling is upheld and a split of some form made, then a restriction will forever be felt in future MS product ideas.
* I saw a show last night with the token for and against guests and the for guest kept getting cut off just as he began to make his point while the other guy ran away with the show - interesting.
that the judge wished the two sides would settle out of court and that they should realize to compromise. He felt that it could be decided to not break up MS, but that MS would have to realize that they did infact do something wrong.
IMHO, I like the idea of 2 or 3 seperate companies where all retain the rights to the same products, that way there would be immediate and direct competition on the same platform.
What was the cost of your "project" since the referenced web site's author seem to have price as a goal? (under $500)
But you seem to forget... Al Gore created the World Wide Web... it's an integral part of his Internet that he created while being a junior senator a long time before 1990.
just as I posted the silly thing appeard right in front of my eyes....
I picked the boston and NY mirrors but I haven't spotted it yet.... which mirrors???
I hope there's a place for Alicia Witt in the new ones - not that she played a major part in the original...
If you are a student, or just want to learn more about it, you can receive a free copy of DB2. Heck, even download the latest beta.
What was the last one?? Maybe CT and the boys feel the need to extend "Ask /." questions for more discussion?
I just think it's really weird, if they are purposely reposting then I think they should state that somewhere... it just opens the flood doors for confusion and flaimbait.
Any ideas on appyling this to the problem of e-voting (there currently is a lack of super solutions to e-voting that keeps a vote from ever being linked back directly to a voter) by in someway using the scrambling to also add a signature? The best e-vote idea I've seen uses the idea of signing through an envelope onto a piece of paper using carbon paper sealed in the envelope (all done digitaly ofcourse).
What comes next in the size measurement after terabyte? I kinda remember it was excabyte (sp?) but can someone correct me (and possibly expand on things beyond that level) ?