Winzip (at least 6.3) works fine. I'll round up my sample image and post it... http://networkboy.net/imageofgdf.jpg This will be removed shortly as my available bandwith is questionable. -nB
one of the easiest (and least secure) is to append a zip file to the end of a jpg. name it.jpg and it opens, name it.zip and it opens. (you can not add/delete files from the zip though).
This is because a jpg opens front to back while a zip opens back to front. Excellent way to demonstrate the concept of steg, though it is not all that good for real protection. -nB
Very true, had this not been about 3 years ago, before cameras (esp video) in cell phones were common. Really I should have simply called the cops, shown them the bare patch on my arm, pointed at the asshat, and pressed charges. Then sued my company. -nB
In the case of flash a simple overwrite pattern of 0000 followed by an erase back to FFFF is sufficent to ensure complete erasure. Should the memory not have single bit writability, then an erase to FFFF followed by a write to 0000 and an erase back to FFFF is sufficent. This is because the data is not stored in magnetic domains, so simply ensuring all cells are written makes the charges on the cells fairly equal, the following erase operation and post erase repair that happens will obfscuate any remaining charge enough to have no recoverability.
Remember the flash cell is simply a very high performance cap formed between two SiO2 insulators. -nB
Im curious, has anyone been verbally or physically abused by a manager or supervisor? I know I have had terrible managers in the past, some almost could be considered abusive. Just wondered how wide spread it was.
Yup. I've had my wrist grabbed and subsequently the manager (parallel to my own, and in same department), pulled a big assed knife out from a rather nicely concealed holster and shaved my forearm, this to prove a point about my not shaving every day. Same person has done the whole gammut of "titty twister" through very heavy verbal abuse. I took it to my manager, nothing happened. Took it to HR nothing happened. Informed HR and Security that I would be packing pepper spray for selfe defense, was threatened with termination. Still work for the same company, but in an entirly different division. Have had months of Psych visits, etc. Also have sworn never to bend to Carnarvon agan (the asshole manager).
BTW, he's an ex cop from apartheid (sp?) RSA and has bragged about beating confessions out of people. Real winner. I'll defend myself vehemently against him laying even a finger on me ever again, not to mention I'll simply call the cops rather than internal security or HR. -nB
why did the original plan not include at least some options for extended runs then
IIRC they did have extended mission plans should the rovers last an additional few days to weeks. We are talking a (wonderful) over-run of available time of 1600% (1/4 year designed Vs. 4/1 year actual). I would never plan for that much good fortune. Heck, I don't think I would plan for even 200% of designed time available, thouth I may immagine it, kinda like I immagine winning the lottery.
Re: TCI/IP over gigabit: "their efficiency is poor and in some cases really quite pathological."
Damn I've never hear a better discription of those issues and I was at the commercial R&D birth of 802.11 gig PHYs (7 years ago...) We knew that there were packet issues and such, but just getting decent protocol analyzers and such (SMB2000 IX1600) was a PITA for about the first year and a half. Broadcom's fuck-up of the spec on their first gen parts was no help either (but hey, anything to get to market first right?)
Even bypassing TCP/IP, the 802.11 spec has a ton of latency built into it, hence the popularity of Myrinet for some apps, in spite of the absurd per-port costs. -nB
Again, I can't disagree with you. Ever notice that the POS app is usually a POS? Anyway, the clients I've successfully moved to OSS/Wine were a DJ, a coffee shop back office, and an office supply company. All had minimal transition issues, the coffee shop being the worst. The coffee shop front office stayed windows, for your same reason, the POS POS was windows only, and wouldn't run on WINE. Still they saved quite a bit on licence costs for the back office, and while I was at it I set up a Wi-Fi with metering/throttling/proxying* that allowed them to attract more customers. The DJ was the easiest, all he needed was a calendar and a player app for his digital collection. His hardware was mostly supported which, honestly, was quite a shock for me. -nB
* The Wi-Fi was free, but using metering/throttling & a proxy to selectively kill certain P2P and game ports we've mitigated the loitering aspect without much impact on the average paying customer. Using MAC filtering has allowed us to grant game access to a select few who spend money on a continuous stream of caffine while gaming.
All your points are valid. Here's the flip side (which I assume you'll appriciate): All thosed licences *should* cost money. I know several small businesses with pirated apps and OS's. I myself used a pirated suite of OSs and such for quite some time. Margins are thin enough without paying M$ nearly a grand and a half for Office, OS, and sundry other apps, add another $2K to Adobe and that's a chunk of change when you are trying to start-up.
More than one of my clients has switched (or tried to till some wierd app that only runs on windows and won't run on WINE comes along, or till my admittedly weak Linux/WINE fu fails), simply to be leagal. That is as good a reason, if not better, than the "free is good". -nB
There's packaging, distrobution, key management, etc. involved as well. Cost of the media is likely the cheapest part. (not that I disagree with the point you were trying to make, but I'm tired of that particular argument (that it's only the cost of the media).
That and reflection. TFA mentions flourescent lights which is bunk, we don't have shop lights in our living rooms, but we do have windows, which can be worse. Flipside is the contrast and dMax of the blacks on plasma are hands above LCD.
In a nutshell: GP TV? LCD Theatre? Plasma. That's it. -nB
Last one I used ended up poisioning my entire crop. Not reccomended. They are only good bu putting them in a courtroom and tapping the hot exhaust gas from objections and closing arguments. -nB
I've really been thinking about getting one of these. I currently use the Xbox, mod'd to run XBMC. If the neuros can work that well out of the box (preferably running a port of XBMC) then I'd be sold. As I see it now it's still too much work compared to the Xbox solution. -nB
My 83 merc is the same. You can even tow start the car if you had to. It's winter so I'm on petro diesel, but come summer I'll be burning veggie oil. I'd love to see a diesel electric hybrid, that would be awesome.
Side note about alternative fuel energy gains*: Ethanol from corn: 25% Biodiesel from soybeans: 93% Source: Science News, July 15 2006, vol 170 pg 36-37 "Farm-Fuel Feedback"
*energy provided vs energy to produce. Also, corn takes tons more fertalizer and other crap to grow, it's a crap energy source. We need to lift the tarrifs on Brazillian ethanol, made from sugarcane it's way cheaper than corn based fuel.
Sure. If our desires compliment each other then the company grows, if they are counter to each other the ecosystem balences, either way, we both win. -nB
"Define 'best'" An interface that I can see what I want super fast, and without exteranious clutter. Google wins, hands down. Even with their personalized pages the layout is spartan and clean. -nB
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Winzip (at least 6.3) works fine.
I'll round up my sample image and post it...
http://networkboy.net/imageofgdf.jpg This will be removed shortly as my available bandwith is questionable.
-nB
"um thats does not work.."
then you either are an idiot, or using windows cat function...
-nB
one of the easiest (and least secure) is to append a zip file to the end of a jpg. name it .jpg and it opens, name it .zip and it opens. (you can not add/delete files from the zip though).
This is because a jpg opens front to back while a zip opens back to front. Excellent way to demonstrate the concept of steg, though it is not all that good for real protection.
-nB
Very true, had this not been about 3 years ago, before cameras (esp video) in cell phones were common.
Really I should have simply called the cops, shown them the bare patch on my arm, pointed at the asshat, and pressed charges. Then sued my company.
-nB
In the case of flash a simple overwrite pattern of 0000 followed by an erase back to FFFF is sufficent to ensure complete erasure.
Should the memory not have single bit writability, then an erase to FFFF followed by a write to 0000 and an erase back to FFFF is sufficent. This is because the data is not stored in magnetic domains, so simply ensuring all cells are written makes the charges on the cells fairly equal, the following erase operation and post erase repair that happens will obfscuate any remaining charge enough to have no recoverability.
Remember the flash cell is simply a very high performance cap formed between two SiO2 insulators.
-nB
Yup.
I've had my wrist grabbed and subsequently the manager (parallel to my own, and in same department), pulled a big assed knife out from a rather nicely concealed holster and shaved my forearm, this to prove a point about my not shaving every day. Same person has done the whole gammut of "titty twister" through very heavy verbal abuse. I took it to my manager, nothing happened. Took it to HR nothing happened. Informed HR and Security that I would be packing pepper spray for selfe defense, was threatened with termination. Still work for the same company, but in an entirly different division. Have had months of Psych visits, etc. Also have sworn never to bend to Carnarvon agan (the asshole manager).
BTW, he's an ex cop from apartheid (sp?) RSA and has bragged about beating confessions out of people. Real winner. I'll defend myself vehemently against him laying even a finger on me ever again, not to mention I'll simply call the cops rather than internal security or HR.
-nB
We are talking a (wonderful) over-run of available time of 1600% (1/4 year designed Vs. 4/1 year actual). I would never plan for that much good fortune. Heck, I don't think I would plan for even 200% of designed time available, thouth I may immagine it, kinda like I immagine winning the lottery.
-nB
Re: TCI/IP over gigabit: "their efficiency is poor and in some cases really quite pathological."
Damn I've never hear a better discription of those issues and I was at the commercial R&D birth of 802.11 gig PHYs (7 years ago...)
We knew that there were packet issues and such, but just getting decent protocol analyzers and such (SMB2000 IX1600) was a PITA for about the first year and a half. Broadcom's fuck-up of the spec on their first gen parts was no help either (but hey, anything to get to market first right?)
Even bypassing TCP/IP, the 802.11 spec has a ton of latency built into it, hence the popularity of Myrinet for some apps, in spite of the absurd per-port costs.
-nB
Again, I can't disagree with you.
Ever notice that the POS app is usually a POS? Anyway, the clients I've successfully moved to OSS/Wine were a DJ, a coffee shop back office, and an office supply company. All had minimal transition issues, the coffee shop being the worst. The coffee shop front office stayed windows, for your same reason, the POS POS was windows only, and wouldn't run on WINE. Still they saved quite a bit on licence costs for the back office, and while I was at it I set up a Wi-Fi with metering/throttling/proxying* that allowed them to attract more customers.
The DJ was the easiest, all he needed was a calendar and a player app for his digital collection. His hardware was mostly supported which, honestly, was quite a shock for me.
-nB
* The Wi-Fi was free, but using metering/throttling & a proxy to selectively kill certain P2P and game ports we've mitigated the loitering aspect without much impact on the average paying customer. Using MAC filtering has allowed us to grant game access to a select few who spend money on a continuous stream of caffine while gaming.
All your points are valid. Here's the flip side (which I assume you'll appriciate):
All thosed licences *should* cost money. I know several small businesses with pirated apps and OS's. I myself used a pirated suite of OSs and such for quite some time. Margins are thin enough without paying M$ nearly a grand and a half for Office, OS, and sundry other apps, add another $2K to Adobe and that's a chunk of change when you are trying to start-up.
More than one of my clients has switched (or tried to till some wierd app that only runs on windows and won't run on WINE comes along, or till my admittedly weak Linux/WINE fu fails), simply to be leagal. That is as good a reason, if not better, than the "free is good".
-nB
No idea how it got posted two links up4 11554
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=214254&cid=17
some ref's for the crappy iDrive
-nB
References:
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http://www.builderau.com.au/architect/work/soa/Wh
http://www.cartalk.com/content/testdrives/Reviews
-nB
"Get your hits in - especially if you can do it off-topic on a Friday night!"
Apparently you missed the memo, it's a Roland P. story. Bashing is part of the topical discussion...
-nB
Oh come on!
There's packaging, distrobution, key management, etc. involved as well. Cost of the media is likely the cheapest part.
(not that I disagree with the point you were trying to make, but I'm tired of that particular argument (that it's only the cost of the media).
-nB
They who?
Yawhat?
Yawho?
YooHoo?
Nope, never heard of them...
Nitrogen fixing bacteria, cyanoacrylate, non sequitur. Take that!
"92. In a fight between a polar bear and a lion, the polar bear would win."
um.... duh?
That and reflection. TFA mentions flourescent lights which is bunk, we don't have shop lights in our living rooms, but we do have windows, which can be worse. Flipside is the contrast and dMax of the blacks on plasma are hands above LCD.
In a nutshell: GP TV? LCD
Theatre? Plasma.
That's it.
-nB
I say it, and thus it is so!
Last one I used ended up poisioning my entire crop.
Not reccomended. They are only good bu putting them in a courtroom and tapping the hot exhaust gas from objections and closing arguments.
-nB
I've really been thinking about getting one of these. I currently use the Xbox, mod'd to run XBMC. If the neuros can work that well out of the box (preferably running a port of XBMC) then I'd be sold. As I see it now it's still too much work compared to the Xbox solution.
-nB
My 83 merc is the same. You can even tow start the car if you had to. It's winter so I'm on petro diesel, but come summer I'll be burning veggie oil.
I'd love to see a diesel electric hybrid, that would be awesome.
Side note about alternative fuel energy gains*:
Ethanol from corn: 25%
Biodiesel from soybeans: 93%
Source: Science News, July 15 2006, vol 170 pg 36-37 "Farm-Fuel Feedback"
*energy provided vs energy to produce. Also, corn takes tons more fertalizer and other crap to grow, it's a crap energy source. We need to lift the tarrifs on Brazillian ethanol, made from sugarcane it's way cheaper than corn based fuel.
Sure. If our desires compliment each other then the company grows, if they are counter to each other the ecosystem balences, either way, we both win.
-nB
"Define 'best'"
An interface that I can see what I want super fast, and without exteranious clutter.
Google wins, hands down. Even with their personalized pages the layout is spartan and clean.
-nB
"I wasn't aware that plausible deniability was an essential part of republican democracy."
I'll feed the troll.
It's not. But that is why the Oval office may not know what the CIA knows. doesn't make it right, but it is true.
-nB