If you want to bring out the EV1 and compare it to Tesla, you should probably also bring out the facts which show that the EV1 died because NO ONE WOULD BUY IT. Not because GM is poorly managed or trying to somehow tie the government LOANS (not bailout) to GM as something GM would waste its money on. The EV1 should be the poster child of the liberal mentality trying to force people into purchasing fuel efficient/battery pwered vehicles. The mentality that forced GM into spending a billion dollars in R&D and rollout of trials in California. Yes, a very few loved the vehicle. But if the market doesn't support a program, you perform cauterization to stop the arterial bleeding. The GM Volt will be a far more cost effective, safe, reliable and market driven vehicle than the EV1 and will cost at least $10,00 less than the Tesla S. Why should the US government BAIL OUT an unproven technology and an unproven car company? I say, let em fail.
I don't know about Masad backdoors into Checkpoint firewalls, but the RAIN protocol http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=00910866 is the method used to build Checkpoint HA clusters.
Another intersting point is that Narus, a company founded by an Israeli, created technology that has been used to gather intelligence on the backbones of some of the largest ISP's in the world. The AT&T traffic sniffing snafu of a few years ago was accomplished using Narus devices.
But what they REALLY didn't understand was going to happen was:
cd/oldUS
rm -rf Democracy
cd/newUS ./configure --opt ++Socialism ++cronyism ++ChicagoPolitics ++PorkSpending
make
make install
When you cashed out, you gave Best Buy your phone number, too. Every Best Buy cashier asks for it when they start your transaction.
With a phone number, and/or a credit card number, anyone could find you.
One would deploy EMI shielded Cat5e or Cat6 (or Cat11) cable and make sure your equipment is all properly grounded.
There was an interesting discussion on grounding GbE here: http://www.sigcon.com/Pubs/news/2_2.htm that hints this may actually not work as expected, though.
I want to know when a virtual machine vendor is going to solve the problems associated with devices like USB and parallel port license dongles, or external USB drives of any kind.
I have an app that requires 64bit Windows 2003 EE with a USB license dongle. Even assigning the VM to only 2 nodes in our cluster and having USB dongles on both of those systems doesn't solve the problem. "No USB support in VMWare ESX".
And yes, I know about the third party "USB device over the network" solutions. Doesn't solve the problem in this case.
YMMV.
Current state of the art natural gas generator to power my home (about the same draw as yours) would be about $15K. I don't know how many of these I could buy for $15K and what the loss would be converting the DC back to 110V AC but to pay $9.00US to charge them to supply ~5hours power each Id buy 10 of them to have 4 days stand by power. I would think my 1400W gas powered generator could keep it charged indefinately.
Anyone who doesn't think that numerous products, Narus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narus) being one example that comes to mind, won't rapidly generate IPDR to track and immediatly filter/blackhole such excessive UDP dataflows is sadly mistaken. I remember when ping floods were the death nail. It rapidly became a non-issue. If TOrrent wants to make a brillany decision that immediately shines the megawatt spotlight on them being the nasties in the network neighborhood they will, in very short order, see the million monkey army come up with that quick fix brillant solution to quickly put them out of business.
In today's world of high speed networking, I'm honestly surprised that UDP is even allowed to traverse the backbone. Short of the million monkey solution, rather than allowing a runaway child to melt down the big boy back bone providers, I would see them black holing UDP and forcing all protocols to use TCP. Sure it will kill some audo and video streaming. It will also decrease utilization at the backbone by 75% and improve all the "real" traffic (HTTP/HTTPS/SMTP) performance by an order of magnitude. Sucks to be a media content provider. They beter start looking at TCP alternatives if they want a sustainable business model. Its not like people haven't been considering the possibility (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=01295064, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaming_media). RTSP will just become the defacto standard rather than an alternative. My.02.
1) Ask for the tracking number. No tracking number == cancel the order, contact your credit card company and dispute the charge (if any).
2) If tracking number exists and it hasn't moved if 48 hours, see #1.
3) If you would prefer to work with Dell, tell them you want an upgraded unit at no charge shipped to you express with tracking number and if it hasn't arrived in 2 weeks you will cancel the order and purchase from someone else.
4) Finally, $1700.00 for a laptop? Are you nuts? First check the Dell refurb website (google "Dell refurb") and get something close and upgrade it to your preferences and purchase the extended warranty. Pocket several hundred dollars in savings.
Thanks for protecting us! God Bless and Merry Christmas!
I think HP, in response to this flagrant disregard for the over priced perceived partnership, should make the decision to eliminate all MS OS, drivers and support, should back open office and should only deliver Linux and Apple OSX distributions on their Intel platforms. They should offer free Linux support and reject all connections to HP websites with Windows Explorer browsers and only accept non-Explorer browsers, suggesting Mozilla as their preferred browser of choice.
I also think their should brand their hardware "Windows non-compatible".
I challenge the/. community to assist HP with creating their "Windows non-compatible tm." logo.
Now wheres my popcorn...
maybe, but only as long as it takes for the supreme court case to be heard which will prove he wasn't born in the US, that he isn't a US citizen, that he is ineligble to be president, he is arrested for fraud and YOUR party gets to address Biden as Mr. preident-elect until the call for a re-election is demanded.
Unfortunately, as much as I once thought Snopes was a "disinterested third party, seeking the truth", they are not. They are firmly in the back pocket of Obama. While they clearly have dismissed the allegations that Obama is not a natural born US citizen, the Phillip J. Berg vs. Obama case is on its way to the Supreme court with Sworn affidavits from a priest and a Bishop along with a live recording of Obamas paternal grandmother confirming multiple times she was in the delivery room in Kenya when Barack was born. I would point you to http://obamacrimes.com/ but suddenly "this blog has exceeded its bandwidth limit".
Application to Justice David H. Souter for a stay of the Presidential Elections and/or a Temp. Injunction staying the Presidential Election pending resolution of the Writ of Certiorari - PDF (206 KB)
YAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWNNNNN!
Nothing to see here. Move along. Been there. Done that. Years ago.
Narus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narus) not only had this capability but at theoretical OC192 bandwidth spead "Network and Vendor agnostic at Carrier-grade speeds, performance and scalability" with NO IMPACT to the actual stream (via fiber vampire taps http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_tap). Remember the AT&T data snooping scandal? This was the stuff that allowed the NSA to do it and it is a commercial product.
They could also generate records for every stream that included what amounted to a full CDR (thats a Call Detail Record, i.e. what appears on your phone bill http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_detail_record) for EVERY protocol, every session in real time, stored in a fully cross indexed oracle database with a full web based GUI data warehouse engine including the ability to generate adhoc queries and reports (tell me who the biggest bandwidth hogs are on every Thu-Sun every week using P2P and VOIP concurrently as an example).
The Narus engine let you perform "actionable intelligence" based upon rule sets applied to the captured data streams. Generate CDR records for all VOIP streams as one example. Track all protocols, source and destination, duration, payload, bandwidth used, QoS, for a block of IP addresses, as another.
move along, move along...
The best books for a sysadmin are O'Reilly books, hands down. http://oreilly.com/
Unix Essentials/Linux/Unix in a Nutshell, Systems Administration, BASH, IPTables, Apache, Java, MySQL, PHP, Perl, Sendmail.
Thats 10 classes. You could probably cover IPTables and Perl in 9 weeks if the classes were more than once per week.
You could probably throw JavaScript and Python in there too.
"A tool that automatically steals IDs of non-encrypted sessions and breaks into Google Mail accounts has been presented at the Defcon hackers' conference in Las Vegas. Last week, Google introduced a new feature in Gmail that allows users to permanently switch on SSL and use it for every action involving Gmail, not just authentication. Users who did not turn it on now have a serious reason to do so, as Mike Perry, the reverse engineer from San Francisco who developed the tool, is planning to release it in two weeks."
Building the impression of trustworthy on top of grossly untrustworthy is moronic.
Whatever you develop on the company's dime is their intellectual property. You rprobably signed an agreement stating this fact when you were hired (I know I have at the last 7 jobs over the last 15 years). Not only is it grounds for immediate dismissal but it is also very solid grounds for a very expensive lawsuit that I don't think you have any chance of winning. My.02. Im not a lawyer. Don't take my word for it. If you are seriously considering not supporting the company that paid you to develop the patentable technology you better get a really good lawyer.
Im doing this and this an this and this and this and this to make sure my data is secure.
I then I transfer it to an internet accessible site using an insecure protocol with clear text, unencrypted passwords over an unencrypted data stream where ANY host with a promiscuous mode interface on the same subnet (either source OR destination) could have his password, and complete access to all of his "secure data" within seconds of his first (and last) login.
Answer: there is NO SECURE STORAGE using a NON_SECURE PROTOCOL. Next.
Considering that York Rite Masonic body with the "Order of the Knights Templar" might be seen as having a bit of legitimacy and every York Rite member being required membership in good standing in a lodge of Freemasonry as a requirement for entry, I think your logic may be at least slightly flawed.
I just think that Freemasonry wants the Catholic church to stop hassling its parishoners when they want to join the Freemasons. This was specifically allowed within Opus Dei in 1968 yet the Catholic church in some respects still sees Fremasonry as evil.
It was obviously a big disappointment not to reach orbit on this flight [Falcon 1, Flight 3]. On the plus side, the flight of our first stage, with the new Merlin 1C engine that will be used in Falcon 9, was picture perfect. Unfortunately, a problem occurred with stage separation, causing the stages to be held together. This is under investigation and I will send out a note as soon as we understand exactly what happened.
The most important message I'd like to send right now is that SpaceX will not skip a beat in execution going forward. We have flight four of Falcon 1 almost ready for flight and flight five right behind that. I have also given the go ahead to begin fabrication of flight six. Falcon 9 development will also continue unabated, taking into account the lessons learned with Falcon 1. We have made great progress this past week with the successful nine engine firing.
As a precautionary measure to guard against the possibility of flight 3 not reaching orbit, SpaceX recently accepted a significant investment. Combined with our existing cash reserves, that ensures we will have more than sufficient funding on hand to continue launching Falcon 1 and develop Falcon 9 and Dragon. There should be absolutely zero question that SpaceX will prevail in reaching orbit and demonstrating reliable space transport. For my part, I will never give up and I mean never.
Thanks for your hard work and now on to flight four.
--Elon--
(In a message to Employees, August 2, 2008)
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If you want to bring out the EV1 and compare it to Tesla, you should probably also bring out the facts which show that the EV1 died because NO ONE WOULD BUY IT. Not because GM is poorly managed or trying to somehow tie the government LOANS (not bailout) to GM as something GM would waste its money on. The EV1 should be the poster child of the liberal mentality trying to force people into purchasing fuel efficient/battery pwered vehicles. The mentality that forced GM into spending a billion dollars in R&D and rollout of trials in California. Yes, a very few loved the vehicle. But if the market doesn't support a program, you perform cauterization to stop the arterial bleeding. The GM Volt will be a far more cost effective, safe, reliable and market driven vehicle than the EV1 and will cost at least $10,00 less than the Tesla S. Why should the US government BAIL OUT an unproven technology and an unproven car company? I say, let em fail.
Actually I would REALLY like to see a true representation of the book Armor rather than the obvious ripoff delivered with Starship Troopers.
I don't know about Masad backdoors into Checkpoint firewalls, but the RAIN protocol http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=00910866 is the method used to build Checkpoint HA clusters. Another intersting point is that Narus, a company founded by an Israeli, created technology that has been used to gather intelligence on the backbones of some of the largest ISP's in the world. The AT&T traffic sniffing snafu of a few years ago was accomplished using Narus devices.
But what they REALLY didn't understand was going to happen was: cd /oldUS /newUS
./configure --opt ++Socialism ++cronyism ++ChicagoPolitics ++PorkSpending
rm -rf Democracy
cd
make
make install
When you cashed out, you gave Best Buy your phone number, too. Every Best Buy cashier asks for it when they start your transaction. With a phone number, and/or a credit card number, anyone could find you.
So why give it up, then?
One would deploy EMI shielded Cat5e or Cat6 (or Cat11) cable and make sure your equipment is all properly grounded.
There was an interesting discussion on grounding GbE here: http://www.sigcon.com/Pubs/news/2_2.htm that hints this may actually not work as expected, though.
You could always just hire a company http://www.fms-corp.com/ to come and make sure everything is all properly shielded but then you move to the next component in the chain and start exploring 60Hz AC EMF http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=00065035 and the output from your normal computer systems.
Personally, I prefer to think of it as the catalyst for turning my children into the "X-men" of our future.
I want to know when a virtual machine vendor is going to solve the problems associated with devices like USB and parallel port license dongles, or external USB drives of any kind. I have an app that requires 64bit Windows 2003 EE with a USB license dongle. Even assigning the VM to only 2 nodes in our cluster and having USB dongles on both of those systems doesn't solve the problem. "No USB support in VMWare ESX". And yes, I know about the third party "USB device over the network" solutions. Doesn't solve the problem in this case. YMMV.
Current state of the art natural gas generator to power my home (about the same draw as yours) would be about $15K. I don't know how many of these I could buy for $15K and what the loss would be converting the DC back to 110V AC but to pay $9.00US to charge them to supply ~5hours power each Id buy 10 of them to have 4 days stand by power. I would think my 1400W gas powered generator could keep it charged indefinately.
Sign me up.
So.... water + matter == wet && pope == catholic
Check it out, http://bzflag.org/
Anyone who doesn't think that numerous products, Narus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narus) being one example that comes to mind, won't rapidly generate IPDR to track and immediatly filter/blackhole such excessive UDP dataflows is sadly mistaken. I remember when ping floods were the death nail. It rapidly became a non-issue. If TOrrent wants to make a brillany decision that immediately shines the megawatt spotlight on them being the nasties in the network neighborhood they will, in very short order, see the million monkey army come up with that quick fix brillant solution to quickly put them out of business.
In today's world of high speed networking, I'm honestly surprised that UDP is even allowed to traverse the backbone. Short of the million monkey solution, rather than allowing a runaway child to melt down the big boy back bone providers, I would see them black holing UDP and forcing all protocols to use TCP. Sure it will kill some audo and video streaming. It will also decrease utilization at the backbone by 75% and improve all the "real" traffic (HTTP/HTTPS/SMTP) performance by an order of magnitude. Sucks to be a media content provider. They beter start looking at TCP alternatives if they want a sustainable business model. Its not like people haven't been considering the possibility (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=01295064, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaming_media). RTSP will just become the defacto standard rather than an alternative. .02.
My
1) Ask for the tracking number. No tracking number == cancel the order, contact your credit card company and dispute the charge (if any).
2) If tracking number exists and it hasn't moved if 48 hours, see #1.
3) If you would prefer to work with Dell, tell them you want an upgraded unit at no charge shipped to you express with tracking number and if it hasn't arrived in 2 weeks you will cancel the order and purchase from someone else.
4) Finally, $1700.00 for a laptop? Are you nuts? First check the Dell refurb website (google "Dell refurb") and get something close and upgrade it to your preferences and purchase the extended warranty. Pocket several hundred dollars in savings.
Thanks for protecting us! God Bless and Merry Christmas!
I think HP, in response to this flagrant disregard for the over priced perceived partnership, should make the decision to eliminate all MS OS, drivers and support, should back open office and should only deliver Linux and Apple OSX distributions on their Intel platforms. They should offer free Linux support and reject all connections to HP websites with Windows Explorer browsers and only accept non-Explorer browsers, suggesting Mozilla as their preferred browser of choice. I also think their should brand their hardware "Windows non-compatible". I challenge the /. community to assist HP with creating their "Windows non-compatible tm." logo.
Now wheres my popcorn...
maybe, but only as long as it takes for the supreme court case to be heard which will prove he wasn't born in the US, that he isn't a US citizen, that he is ineligble to be president, he is arrested for fraud and YOUR party gets to address Biden as Mr. preident-elect until the call for a re-election is demanded.
Unfortunately, as much as I once thought Snopes was a "disinterested third party, seeking the truth", they are not. They are firmly in the back pocket of Obama. While they clearly have dismissed the allegations that Obama is not a natural born US citizen, the Phillip J. Berg vs. Obama case is on its way to the Supreme court with Sworn affidavits from a priest and a Bishop along with a live recording of Obamas paternal grandmother confirming multiple times she was in the delivery room in Kenya when Barack was born.
I would point you to http://obamacrimes.com/ but suddenly "this blog has exceeded its bandwidth limit".
Instead, try these:
Affidavit of Bishop Ron McRae - PDF (3707 KB)
http://comments.blogware.com/Affidavit_20of_20Bishop_20Ron_20McRae.pdf
Exhibits for Affidavit of Bishop Ron McRae - PDF (178 KB)
http://comments.blogware.com/Exhibits_20for_20Affidavit_20of_20Bishop_20Ron_20McRae.pdf
Affidavit of Reverend Kweli Shuhubia - PDF (146 KB)
http://comments.blogware.com/Affidavit_20of_20Reverend_20Kweli_20Shuhubia.pdf
U.S. Supreme Court Writ of Certiorari - PDF (202 KB)
http://comments.blogware.com/U_20S_20Supreme_20Court_20Writ_20of_20Certiorari10_30_08.pdf
Application to Justice David H. Souter for a stay of the Presidential Elections and/or a Temp. Injunction staying the Presidential Election pending resolution of the Writ of Certiorari - PDF (206 KB)
http://comments.blogware.com/Application_20to_20Justice_20David_20H._20Souter_20for_20stay.pdf
The main site has been replaced with: http://down.codeweavers.com/ It loads quickly but the link to get your serial number still fails.
YAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWNNNNN! Nothing to see here. Move along. Been there. Done that. Years ago. Narus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narus) not only had this capability but at theoretical OC192 bandwidth spead "Network and Vendor agnostic at Carrier-grade speeds, performance and scalability" with NO IMPACT to the actual stream (via fiber vampire taps http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_tap). Remember the AT&T data snooping scandal? This was the stuff that allowed the NSA to do it and it is a commercial product. They could also generate records for every stream that included what amounted to a full CDR (thats a Call Detail Record, i.e. what appears on your phone bill http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_detail_record) for EVERY protocol, every session in real time, stored in a fully cross indexed oracle database with a full web based GUI data warehouse engine including the ability to generate adhoc queries and reports (tell me who the biggest bandwidth hogs are on every Thu-Sun every week using P2P and VOIP concurrently as an example). The Narus engine let you perform "actionable intelligence" based upon rule sets applied to the captured data streams. Generate CDR records for all VOIP streams as one example. Track all protocols, source and destination, duration, payload, bandwidth used, QoS, for a block of IP addresses, as another. move along, move along...
As opposed to Obama who flat out stated he is not a proponent of Nuclear energy at all.
All your Muons are belong to us!
The best books for a sysadmin are O'Reilly books, hands down. http://oreilly.com/ Unix Essentials/Linux/Unix in a Nutshell, Systems Administration, BASH, IPTables, Apache, Java, MySQL, PHP, Perl, Sendmail. Thats 10 classes. You could probably cover IPTables and Perl in 9 weeks if the classes were more than once per week. You could probably throw JavaScript and Python in there too.
"A tool that automatically steals IDs of non-encrypted sessions and breaks into Google Mail accounts has been presented at the Defcon hackers' conference in Las Vegas. Last week, Google introduced a new feature in Gmail that allows users to permanently switch on SSL and use it for every action involving Gmail, not just authentication. Users who did not turn it on now have a serious reason to do so, as Mike Perry, the reverse engineer from San Francisco who developed the tool, is planning to release it in two weeks." Building the impression of trustworthy on top of grossly untrustworthy is moronic.
Whatever you develop on the company's dime is their intellectual property. You rprobably signed an agreement stating this fact when you were hired (I know I have at the last 7 jobs over the last 15 years). Not only is it grounds for immediate dismissal but it is also very solid grounds for a very expensive lawsuit that I don't think you have any chance of winning. My .02. Im not a lawyer. Don't take my word for it. If you are seriously considering not supporting the company that paid you to develop the patentable technology you better get a really good lawyer.
Im doing this and this an this and this and this and this to make sure my data is secure. I then I transfer it to an internet accessible site using an insecure protocol with clear text, unencrypted passwords over an unencrypted data stream where ANY host with a promiscuous mode interface on the same subnet (either source OR destination) could have his password, and complete access to all of his "secure data" within seconds of his first (and last) login. Answer: there is NO SECURE STORAGE using a NON_SECURE PROTOCOL. Next.
Considering that York Rite Masonic body with the "Order of the Knights Templar" might be seen as having a bit of legitimacy and every York Rite member being required membership in good standing in a lodge of Freemasonry as a requirement for entry, I think your logic may be at least slightly flawed. I just think that Freemasonry wants the Catholic church to stop hassling its parishoners when they want to join the Freemasons. This was specifically allowed within Opus Dei in 1968 yet the Catholic church in some respects still sees Fremasonry as evil.
Aha! I found it here: http://www.spacex.com/updates.php
Message from Elon Musk
Posted August 2, 2008
Plan Going Forward
It was obviously a big disappointment not to reach orbit on this flight [Falcon 1, Flight 3]. On the plus side, the flight of our first stage, with the new Merlin 1C engine that will be used in Falcon 9, was picture perfect. Unfortunately, a problem occurred with stage separation, causing the stages to be held together. This is under investigation and I will send out a note as soon as we understand exactly what happened.
The most important message I'd like to send right now is that SpaceX will not skip a beat in execution going forward. We have flight four of Falcon 1 almost ready for flight and flight five right behind that. I have also given the go ahead to begin fabrication of flight six. Falcon 9 development will also continue unabated, taking into account the lessons learned with Falcon 1. We have made great progress this past week with the successful nine engine firing.
As a precautionary measure to guard against the possibility of flight 3 not reaching orbit, SpaceX recently accepted a significant investment. Combined with our existing cash reserves, that ensures we will have more than sufficient funding on hand to continue launching Falcon 1 and develop Falcon 9 and Dragon. There should be absolutely zero question that SpaceX will prevail in reaching orbit and demonstrating reliable space transport. For my part, I will never give up and I mean never.
Thanks for your hard work and now on to flight four.
--Elon--
(In a message to Employees, August 2, 2008)