I should also add that if you don't want to run a mailserver yourself you can just as easily use your hosting provider's server as long as they provide an alternate port. With as many hosting providers as there currently are, finding one that allows this should not be overly difficult.
My ISP blochs port 25 outbound, forcing me to use their mail servers.
Wrong. You can use whatever mail server you want as long as you connect on a different port. Very few (if any) ISPs block 587.
When I am traveling and connected with a different ISP, I have to go into my email program's (Thunderbird) settings and change the outbound server (or not send mail).
If mobile email is important to you this is why it is an excellent idea to use an ISP independent mail server. You can get a cheap web hosting account that can do this quite easily. I have a UML linux setup with remote root access for $8/mo. I run a mailserver with SMTP auth on 587 and I can connect from anywhere in the world without a problem.
For the trivial expense the hassle this eliminates is well worth it.
The point is, he was saying you can most of the time assume that at least one person will have a weak password. Have you ever run John on a file with thousands of accounts? I have, and I had about a dozen passwords within the first hour. Some did stupid things like making their password the same as their account name, others used a dictionary word or just added a number to one, etc.
Of course this really only works if you work in a large company with hundreds or thousands of accounts.
But I give him credit, he got it past the slashdot editors.
That takes about as much effort as getting something past a fat, drunken old man lazily reclining in a bean bag chair whilst watching a porno and listening to Yani.
Indeed. Considering that the two companies philosophies and product strategies are basically incompatible, the only really viable reason MS would have for buying them is to shut down a competitor. Such an action would not be viewed well by the courts given Microsoft's position as a convicted monopoly.
In other news, a team of NASA's best psychologists is scheduled to hold a meeting where they will determine how to best break the news to Spirit that her brother may be nearing the end of his life.
Mission planners at NASA are concerned about the consequences this could have. While they still want Spirit to remain functional and capable of scientific discovery, they are aware of the moral issues involved and have decided against keeping the news from her, fearing a backlash from the MCLU (Mars Civil Liberties Union).
NASA administrator Michael Griffin released a statement saying the team is carefully weighing the choices and will continue striving to preserve Spirit's technical functionality and psychological stability. Should Spirit become too depressed over the impending demise of her brother and refuse to cooperate, there is talk of calling in a special favor from a nearby resident to cheer her back up. Apparantly Spirit has recently become infatuated with a local hunk named Marvin.
Not at all. By "treatment" I meant the necessity of untold numbers of fans having to spend untold amounts of time and dollars to get the show a proper ending.
what most Sci-Fi still hasn't. That is that writing and telling a good story is still the most important element. They've gotten it right this season, but it was too late to save it.
Given the setting of this series, the logical place to start in the story was getting Earth established in the space of the era, meeting other species, forging alliances, making enemies, forming the beginnings of the Federation, etc. This is exactly what they've done this season and it's been brilliant. Had they started this way, the show would still be on the air.
But no, for the first two seasons we had Andy Griffith in space (yes it really was THAT boring), and then they had to trot out such over the top monstrosities as a war through time and huge insect aliens that wanted to annihilate earth. It didn't help that they broke continuity a lot with the other series (introducing the Borg, etc.). This is not the Trek that the fans came for and many of them left, never to return. Unfortunate but it reinforces one of the basic requirements of any fictional narrative that many people still don't grasp. If the story isn't compelling it won't be a success. Given the past success of Trek, you can't just slap the name on any piece of work and expect that alone to carry you.
However if the disks were to actually commit fully to the physical media on every fsync you would see a very very dramatic performance degredation. Not just a little slower so you look bad in a magazine article but incredibly slow, especially if you are running a database or similar application that fsyncs often.
I think you are confusing write caching with fsyncing. Having no write cache to the disk would indeed slow things down quite a bit. I don't see how fsync fits the same description though. Simply honoring fsync (actually flushing the data to disk) would not slow things down anywhere near the same level as long as software makes intelligent use of it. Fsync is not designed to be used with every write to the disk, just for the occasional time when an application needs to guarantee certain data gets written.
While I wouldn't disagree with that, I think the argument against it here is that given the past actions and power grabs by the US federal govt, measures like this could likely be used to extend that power further.
It's not the measure itself, but the method behind it. Since 9/11 there has been an enormous extension of authority on the part federal police and intelligence officials. There seems to be an attitude in Washington that they need to assume control over all critical information pertaining to anyone in the country to combat terrorism.
This is not only demonstrably unnecessary, but may serve to create a menace even worse than the terrorists of today in the long run if we are not careful.
I never said I had psychic powers. What I did say is that sometimes I will sense some minor occurence that will happen a few seconds later, and I stand by that.
And I don't buy your "incorrect timestamp" thing. It isn't just a vague intuition, a concrete, conscious thought will sometimes appear, and a concrete, visible or audible manifestation of it will appear a few seconds later in my environment. It isn't a period of milliseconds, it is a quatifiable period that is easily 5 or 10 seconds at times.
I'm not saying there isn't any possible alternative explanation besides the fact that I can predict the future, there may be, but yours is not it IMO.
And I don't have Asperger's or any other kind of mental disorder as far as I am aware.
I have often experienced something like a sense of what would happen 5 or 10 seconds later. Sometimes a word or phrase will suddenly come in to my mind for no particular reason and then several seconds later I will hear someone say that on TV or will read it in whatever I'm reading.
Not common words either, ones that are obscure enough that I know it's not just coincidence. Or sometimes I will think of a song that I have not heard in a long time and then will hear it being played in a car I drive by or a building I walk into a short time later. This effect usually does not go past a few seconds to a minute (i.e. I won't be guessing any lottery numbers), but it's definitely there and is real.
Looks like someone's been busy. A whois on Microsoft currently (11:58 pm est) returns the following (microsoft lowercased to pass the lameness filter):
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I think it's rather unfair to blantantly stereotype in this way. The government has contracts with TONS of companies, both large and small. Furthermore, government contracts have paid for a tremendous amount of research and production that has led to advances in just about every area. Sure there are some companies that tend to pork and underdeliver, but this is not a universal rule of all government contracts.
Also, "young inspiring" companies need money. Nothing will ever come of their aspirations if they stay young forever. If SpaceX is able to offer better private lauches as a result of their experience as a customer of the government, then I am all for it.
how will this kind of funding and research propel the movement to colonize other planets, become more enlightened
I'm not sure how you are relating these two. Colonizing other planets is a strictly technical undertaking. Becoming more enlightened is a personal/human/psychological process. If you are one of those people that thinks being able to explore other worlds will automatically make humanity more enlightened then I would disagree. What's to stop us from fucking up the other ones just as bad as this one is given enough time?
and generally get the f*** off this planet?
If by that you mean being able to go for a joyride in space, get to experience weightlessness, stay in a space hotel, etc. and then come back, I think it's quite likely something like that will become available to a great many people sometime in the next few decades. If you mean being able to leave completely (live on the moon, mars, etc.) I don't really see that as likely to happen on a large scale anytime during our current lifetimes.
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I should also add that if you don't want to run a mailserver yourself you can just as easily use your hosting provider's server as long as they provide an alternate port. With as many hosting providers as there currently are, finding one that allows this should not be overly difficult.
My ISP blochs port 25 outbound, forcing me to use their mail servers.
Wrong. You can use whatever mail server you want as long as you connect on a different port. Very few (if any) ISPs block 587.
When I am traveling and connected with a different ISP, I have to go into my email program's (Thunderbird) settings and change the outbound server (or not send mail).
If mobile email is important to you this is why it is an excellent idea to use an ISP independent mail server. You can get a cheap web hosting account that can do this quite easily. I have a UML linux setup with remote root access for $8/mo. I run a mailserver with SMTP auth on 587 and I can connect from anywhere in the world without a problem.
For the trivial expense the hassle this eliminates is well worth it.
The point is, he was saying you can most of the time assume that at least one person will have a weak password. Have you ever run John on a file with thousands of accounts? I have, and I had about a dozen passwords within the first hour. Some did stupid things like making their password the same as their account name, others used a dictionary word or just added a number to one, etc.
Of course this really only works if you work in a large company with hundreds or thousands of accounts.
Says Dvorak, the wise, all knowing sage...oh wait.
Maybe this was a subconscious self-referential compliment.
But I give him credit, he got it past the slashdot editors.
That takes about as much effort as getting something past a fat, drunken old man lazily reclining in a bean bag chair whilst watching a porno and listening to Yani.
Indeed. Considering that the two companies philosophies and product strategies are basically incompatible, the only really viable reason MS would have for buying them is to shut down a competitor. Such an action would not be viewed well by the courts given Microsoft's position as a convicted monopoly.
In other news, a team of NASA's best psychologists is scheduled to hold a meeting where they will determine how to best break the news to Spirit that her brother may be nearing the end of his life.
Mission planners at NASA are concerned about the consequences this could have. While they still want Spirit to remain functional and capable of scientific discovery, they are aware of the moral issues involved and have decided against keeping the news from her, fearing a backlash from the MCLU (Mars Civil Liberties Union).
NASA administrator Michael Griffin released a statement saying the team is carefully weighing the choices and will continue striving to preserve Spirit's technical functionality and psychological stability. Should Spirit become too depressed over the impending demise of her brother and refuse to cooperate, there is talk of calling in a special favor from a nearby resident to cheer her back up. Apparantly Spirit has recently become infatuated with a local hunk named Marvin.
Andy Griffith's like a lot of other classic TV
Classic TV and Sci-Fi are two very different genres. I just don't think Andy Griffith is a good model for a Sci-Fi show.
Indeed. I could have substituted "learned" for "decided to fire all their writers".
Not at all. By "treatment" I meant the necessity of untold numbers of fans having to spend untold amounts of time and dollars to get the show a proper ending.
what most Sci-Fi still hasn't. That is that writing and telling a good story is still the most important element. They've gotten it right this season, but it was too late to save it.
Given the setting of this series, the logical place to start in the story was getting Earth established in the space of the era, meeting other species, forging alliances, making enemies, forming the beginnings of the Federation, etc. This is exactly what they've done this season and it's been brilliant. Had they started this way, the show would still be on the air.
But no, for the first two seasons we had Andy Griffith in space (yes it really was THAT boring), and then they had to trot out such over the top monstrosities as a war through time and huge insect aliens that wanted to annihilate earth. It didn't help that they broke continuity a lot with the other series (introducing the Borg, etc.). This is not the Trek that the fans came for and many of them left, never to return. Unfortunate but it reinforces one of the basic requirements of any fictional narrative that many people still don't grasp. If the story isn't compelling it won't be a success. Given the past success of Trek, you can't just slap the name on any piece of work and expect that alone to carry you.
At least this show will get a proper ending and avoid the Farscape treatment.
You can always switch to Firefox.
However if the disks were to actually commit fully to the physical media on every fsync you would see a very very dramatic performance degredation. Not just a little slower so you look bad in a magazine article but incredibly slow, especially if you are running a database or similar application that fsyncs often.
I think you are confusing write caching with fsyncing. Having no write cache to the disk would indeed slow things down quite a bit. I don't see how fsync fits the same description though. Simply honoring fsync (actually flushing the data to disk) would not slow things down anywhere near the same level as long as software makes intelligent use of it. Fsync is not designed to be used with every write to the disk, just for the occasional time when an application needs to guarantee certain data gets written.
There's a good Windows program called Total Recorder that does basically what AH does.
If only webservers could replicate themselves whenever they detect the /. effect.
You're measuring with the wrong side of the ruler, that's cm not inches.
While I wouldn't disagree with that, I think the argument against it here is that given the past actions and power grabs by the US federal govt, measures like this could likely be used to extend that power further.
It's not the measure itself, but the method behind it. Since 9/11 there has been an enormous extension of authority on the part federal police and intelligence officials. There seems to be an attitude in Washington that they need to assume control over all critical information pertaining to anyone in the country to combat terrorism.
This is not only demonstrably unnecessary, but may serve to create a menace even worse than the terrorists of today in the long run if we are not careful.
I never said I had psychic powers. What I did say is that sometimes I will sense some minor occurence that will happen a few seconds later, and I stand by that.
And I don't buy your "incorrect timestamp" thing. It isn't just a vague intuition, a concrete, conscious thought will sometimes appear, and a concrete, visible or audible manifestation of it will appear a few seconds later in my environment. It isn't a period of milliseconds, it is a quatifiable period that is easily 5 or 10 seconds at times.
I'm not saying there isn't any possible alternative explanation besides the fact that I can predict the future, there may be, but yours is not it IMO.
And I don't have Asperger's or any other kind of mental disorder as far as I am aware.
I have often experienced something like a sense of what would happen 5 or 10 seconds later. Sometimes a word or phrase will suddenly come in to my mind for no particular reason and then several seconds later I will hear someone say that on TV or will read it in whatever I'm reading.
Not common words either, ones that are obscure enough that I know it's not just coincidence. Or sometimes I will think of a song that I have not heard in a long time and then will hear it being played in a car I drive by or a building I walk into a short time later. This effect usually does not go past a few seconds to a minute (i.e. I won't be guessing any lottery numbers), but it's definitely there and is real.
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Well, I wouldn't call it a piece of cake. It's still more involved than say analyzing the interactions of Newtonian physics on a solid object.
I think it's rather unfair to blantantly stereotype in this way. The government has contracts with TONS of companies, both large and small. Furthermore, government contracts have paid for a tremendous amount of research and production that has led to advances in just about every area. Sure there are some companies that tend to pork and underdeliver, but this is not a universal rule of all government contracts.
Also, "young inspiring" companies need money. Nothing will ever come of their aspirations if they stay young forever. If SpaceX is able to offer better private lauches as a result of their experience as a customer of the government, then I am all for it.
how will this kind of funding and research propel the movement to colonize other planets, become more enlightened
I'm not sure how you are relating these two. Colonizing other planets is a strictly technical undertaking. Becoming more enlightened is a personal/human/psychological process. If you are one of those people that thinks being able to explore other worlds will automatically make humanity more enlightened then I would disagree. What's to stop us from fucking up the other ones just as bad as this one is given enough time?
and generally get the f*** off this planet?
If by that you mean being able to go for a joyride in space, get to experience weightlessness, stay in a space hotel, etc. and then come back, I think it's quite likely something like that will become available to a great many people sometime in the next few decades. If you mean being able to leave completely (live on the moon, mars, etc.) I don't really see that as likely to happen on a large scale anytime during our current lifetimes.