I grew up in northwest Jersey (exits 4 & 12 of off I-80 btw:)
The last 20 miles of I-80 before you reach PA are absolutely beautiful. And a great section of interstate to drive on. It's a shame most people think of the highly populated and industrial areas when they think of NJ. There are a lot of really nice areas there. I'd never move back though. Too expensive and too many speed traps. You can't drive 10 miles without seeing a state trooper or something even in the rural areas.
I have a cron job running that waits a random amount of time (30 minutes to 5 hours) and then does a shutdown and reboot. This duplicates XP's Random Reboot of Death nearly perfectly, with the exception that it doesn't allow the filesystem to be corrupted:( I also run the BSoD screensaver for that "old sk00l" Windows feel.
I think to really do it right would require a kernel patch though.
I caught a decent chunk of this radio show a couple weeks ago, and it really made the whole push for non-verifiable e-voting here in Florida seem pretty shady: An estimated 28% of U.S. voters will cast their ballots on electronic voting machines next November, but questions about security remain. A panel discusses the on-going concerns.
Joe Andrew, lawyer in private practice and former National Chairman of the Democratic National Committee
David Dill, Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University www.verifiedvoting.org
Bev Harris, author of "Black Box Voting" www.blackboxvoting.org
Mark Radke, director of marketing, Diebold Election Systems
Congressman Robert Wexler, D - Florida, 19th district
The ASCII code for backspace is 8 which is equivalent of control-H. ^H is shorthand for control-H. Back in the ole BBS days if you didn't have your terminal settings properly configured you'd see ^H instead of backspace.
Some systems would let you intentionally insert backspace characters into your posts. At 300bps you would actually see the word Lindows, then the cursor would move back four spaces in it would recomplete the word as Linspire.
I think the big deal is that when it's a Microsoft exploit it spreads like wildfire, causes outages, and generally wreaks havoc across the Internet.
When it's a Linux exploit maybe a couple machines get compromised and it doesn't even make the news. And it's not as if there aren't tons of Linux servers out there that are constantly connected to the Internet.
And what's this "Grow up" crap? If it upsets you so much stick your head in the sand and don't read about it.
Actually, the price varies depending on who you buy it from, how detailed it is, the number of people on the list you buy, and how specific of a demographic the list targets.
I'm not overly concerned about getting free coupons for ice-cream in the mail. I doubt they'll sell my e-mail address, but if they do I'll know it and close that particular sneakemail account. Giving my work number or a fax number works for keeping telemarketer's from bugging me.
I found a link to this on Ben&Jerry's site after reading the news.com article. Pledge to vote in the next election and you get a free iTunes download with 24-48 hours.
Get 'em while they're hot--er, or before they melt?
I guess these guys never used the rocket launcher in Unreal Tournament. Press it briefly and it fires a rocket. Hold it down and it will load up to six rockets and release them when you let go.
Note: Don't try this in a small room or at close range.:)
First of all, the governor of our state is Jeb Bush, not George W Bush. Not the same person, although they are brothers--both sons of the former President Bush.
Secondly, when I was referring to "democrats" and "republicans" I was referring to the currently elected members of those parties in the state of Florida. If you know of any elected member of either party in Florida that isn't polarized on the issue in the way I stated, it's news to me. Also, I wasn't attempting to insinuate anything--the implications are there, but it's not my fault that the whole thing appears so shady.
Maybe you can explain to us why having a paper trail would be such a bad idea.
As someone else mentioned, I should be upset that this isn't being covered at all by the local news (as far as I know.) He/she most likely lives in FL as well because he's correct about that. I only heard about it because I was listening to NPR in the car when they happened to be talking to someone from Diebold, one of the state reps, and a couple other people about the issue.
The guy from Diebold actually came off pretty well. When asked about installing printers for a paper trail his reponse was basically that printers weren't part of the spec that they were provided when they designed the system. He added that they would gladly install printers if asked to do so.
Here in Florida we are getting Diebold voting machines. Right now the democrats in the state are fighting to have ticket printers installed on the machines so there will be a paper trail of votes. Governor Bush and the republicans are completely against this for some reason. I'm worried that the coming presidential election is going to make the last fiasco look like a minor glitch. I'm seriously concerned that my vote isn't going to be counted properly.
The first time I recall hearing the term spam was on FidoNet a couple years prior to the lawyer spam. When I asked where the term came from I was told that it stood for Self-Propelled Advertising Material.
I think the whole ten year spam anniversary thing is made up by people that didn't get Internet access until after Windows 95 came out.
ngrep is pretty handy if you like grep and want to scan network traffic. from their website:
ngrep strives to provide most of GNU grep's common features, applying them to the network layer. ngrep is a pcap-aware tool that will allow you to specify extended regular or hexadecimal expressions to match against data payloads of packets. It currently recognizes TCP, UDP and ICMP across Ethernet, PPP, SLIP, FDDI, Token Ring and null interfaces, and understands bpf filter logic in the same fashion as more common packet sniffing tools, such as tcpdump and snoop.
Ethereal is my favorite. tcpdump is ok for quickly figuring out where packets are coming from, but Ethereal makes things a lot easier beyond that. For example, the ability to follow TCP streams is great for diagnosing problems. It works great in Linux and Windows, however I haven't tried it on other platforms.
The basic cable package is $15 (IIRC.) I pay an ADDITIONAL $30 a month just to get the "Bronze" package, which is the minimal package I need to get Comedy Central.
What I meant is that I'd rather pay an additional $5 for one station that I'll watch instead of having to pay the additional $30 a month for one station I watch and 20 that I'll never use.
Cable Internet from Comcast here is about $50 a month. Unless you ONLY want Internet, and aren't interested in cable channels. Then It's $70 a month. I wish they'd do something about that too.
It's ridiculous for me to have to spend over $50/month for cable just to watch Comedy Central. I'd much rather pay just $5 a month for Comedy Central instead of the $30 extra or whatever I have to pay to get the "package" that includes it. Comcast sucks.
Yes. This is a good distinction to make. I think the Mozilla project rocks. The suite doesn't suit me, but that's one of the cool things about the project--I can use Firefox and Thunderbird because that suits my needs. I can use the whole suite if/when my needs change.
I'm not a very big fan of Mozilla at all--not since Phonix/Firebird/Firefox came out. Mozilla renders quickly, but it just feels clunky and slow to get started.
I like Firefox because it's trimmed down and has a smaller footprint. If I want to use mail I just start up Thunderbird. The calendar plugin works from both Thunderbird and Firefox.
I suppose if I regularly needed all the features in Mozilla I'd feel differently. No disrespect to Mozilla, but I really prefer using Firefox and Thunderbird.
Seriously though, the console modding part looked pretty cool.
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Download and install Azureus. Forward TCP port 6881 to the machine you will be downloading to (you can tell Azureus to listen on a different port if you don't like 6881.)
With my cablemodem, setting the max uploads to 4 and the max upload speed to 16KB per second lets me attain speeds up to 400KB per second.
These are good settings to start with, but you might be able to tweak it to get better speeds depending on your connection. A nice thing about Azureus is when you change your transfer settings they take immediate effect--no applying settings or restarting transfers required.
If you don't forward a TCP port from your firewall it will still work, but you won't be able to connect to anyone else who doesn't have port forwarding on. Unfortunately, this drastically reduces the number of peers your client can download from.
Under the server settings I have my override address set to my external IP address and my bind address set to the IP address of the machine I'm downloading to. Not sure if this is necessary, but it works great for me.
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I grew up in northwest Jersey (exits 4 & 12 of off I-80 btw :)
The last 20 miles of I-80 before you reach PA are absolutely beautiful. And a great section of interstate to drive on. It's a shame most people think of the highly populated and industrial areas when they think of NJ. There are a lot of really nice areas there. I'd never move back though. Too expensive and too many speed traps. You can't drive 10 miles without seeing a state trooper or something even in the rural areas.
I have a cron job running that waits a random amount of time (30 minutes to 5 hours) and then does a shutdown and reboot. This duplicates XP's Random Reboot of Death nearly perfectly, with the exception that it doesn't allow the filesystem to be corrupted :( I also run the BSoD screensaver for that "old sk00l" Windows feel.
I think to really do it right would require a kernel patch though.
I caught a decent chunk of this radio show a couple weeks ago, and it really made the whole push for non-verifiable e-voting here in Florida seem pretty shady:
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An estimated 28% of U.S. voters will cast their ballots on electronic voting machines next November, but questions about security remain. A panel discusses the on-going concerns.
Joe Andrew, lawyer in private practice and former National Chairman of the Democratic National Committee
David Dill, Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University
www.verifiedvoting.org
Bev Harris, author of "Black Box Voting" www.blackboxvoting.org
Mark Radke, director of marketing,
Diebold Election Systems
Congressman Robert Wexler, D - Florida, 19th district
http://www.wamu.org/ram/2004/r1040324.ram
It's a very interesting conversation no matter how you look at it. Unfortunately in Realaudio only
Yep, I did see it in the theater. I saw Star Wars and the cartoon version of Lord of the Rings in the theater as well :) I'll be 33 next week.
Oh, and I started my first BBS on and Apple II+ about 20 years ago. Can't believe how long it's been.
The ASCII code for backspace is 8 which is equivalent of control-H. ^H is shorthand for control-H. Back in the ole BBS days if you didn't have your terminal settings properly configured you'd see ^H instead of backspace.
Some systems would let you intentionally insert backspace characters into your posts. At 300bps you would actually see the word Lindows, then the cursor would move back four spaces in it would recomplete the word as Linspire.
I think the big deal is that when it's a Microsoft exploit it spreads like wildfire, causes outages, and generally wreaks havoc across the Internet.
When it's a Linux exploit maybe a couple machines get compromised and it doesn't even make the news. And it's not as if there aren't tons of Linux servers out there that are constantly connected to the Internet.
And what's this "Grow up" crap? If it upsets you so much stick your head in the sand and don't read about it.
Indeed. My personal information costs $0.99
Actually, the price varies depending on who you buy it from, how detailed it is, the number of people on the list you buy, and how specific of a demographic the list targets.
I'm not overly concerned about getting free coupons for ice-cream in the mail. I doubt they'll sell my e-mail address, but if they do I'll know it and close that particular sneakemail account. Giving my work number or a fax number works for keeping telemarketer's from bugging me.
I found a link to this on Ben&Jerry's site after reading the news.com article. Pledge to vote in the next election and you get a free iTunes download with 24-48 hours.
Get 'em while they're hot--er, or before they melt?
I guess these guys never used the rocket launcher in Unreal Tournament. Press it briefly and it fires a rocket. Hold it down and it will load up to six rockets and release them when you let go.
:)
Note: Don't try this in a small room or at close range.
First of all, the governor of our state is Jeb Bush, not George W Bush. Not the same person, although they are brothers--both sons of the former President Bush.
Secondly, when I was referring to "democrats" and "republicans" I was referring to the currently elected members of those parties in the state of Florida. If you know of any elected member of either party in Florida that isn't polarized on the issue in the way I stated, it's news to me. Also, I wasn't attempting to insinuate anything--the implications are there, but it's not my fault that the whole thing appears so shady.
Maybe you can explain to us why having a paper trail would be such a bad idea.
As someone else mentioned, I should be upset that this isn't being covered at all by the local news (as far as I know.) He/she most likely lives in FL as well because he's correct about that. I only heard about it because I was listening to NPR in the car when they happened to be talking to someone from Diebold, one of the state reps, and a couple other people about the issue.
The guy from Diebold actually came off pretty well. When asked about installing printers for a paper trail his reponse was basically that printers weren't part of the spec that they were provided when they designed the system. He added that they would gladly install printers if asked to do so.
Here in Florida we are getting Diebold voting machines. Right now the democrats in the state are fighting to have ticket printers installed on the machines so there will be a paper trail of votes. Governor Bush and the republicans are completely against this for some reason. I'm worried that the coming presidential election is going to make the last fiasco look like a minor glitch. I'm seriously concerned that my vote isn't going to be counted properly.
You mean we were supposed to be getting overtime before? I don't ever remember getting paid overtime in the last ten years.
So to get a brunette, does that mean we have to listen to the phrase "Take me home, I need to study?"
No, listen for the phrase, "Hey, did that drunk blonde leave yet?"
The first time I recall hearing the term spam was on FidoNet a couple years prior to the lawyer spam. When I asked where the term came from I was told that it stood for Self-Propelled Advertising Material.
I think the whole ten year spam anniversary thing is made up by people that didn't get Internet access until after Windows 95 came out.
Ethereal is my favorite. tcpdump is ok for quickly figuring out where packets are coming from, but Ethereal makes things a lot easier beyond that. For example, the ability to follow TCP streams is great for diagnosing problems. It works great in Linux and Windows, however I haven't tried it on other platforms.
Sorry to see you got modded down for that. For what it's worth, I got a good laugh out of your comment.
good thing they thought ahead and got modems with volume knobs, or you would be able to hear each person dialing in.
ATM0 is your friend.
The basic cable package is $15 (IIRC.) I pay an ADDITIONAL $30 a month just to get the "Bronze" package, which is the minimal package I need to get Comedy Central.
What I meant is that I'd rather pay an additional $5 for one station that I'll watch instead of having to pay the additional $30 a month for one station I watch and 20 that I'll never use.
Cable Internet from Comcast here is about $50 a month. Unless you ONLY want Internet, and aren't interested in cable channels. Then It's $70 a month. I wish they'd do something about that too.
It's ridiculous for me to have to spend over $50/month for cable just to watch Comedy Central. I'd much rather pay just $5 a month for Comedy Central instead of the $30 extra or whatever I have to pay to get the "package" that includes it. Comcast sucks.
The Mozilla Suite is what you're referring to.
Yes. This is a good distinction to make. I think the Mozilla project rocks. The suite doesn't suit me, but that's one of the cool things about the project--I can use Firefox and Thunderbird because that suits my needs. I can use the whole suite if/when my needs change.
I'm not a very big fan of Mozilla at all--not since Phonix/Firebird/Firefox came out. Mozilla renders quickly, but it just feels clunky and slow to get started.
I like Firefox because it's trimmed down and has a smaller footprint. If I want to use mail I just start up Thunderbird. The calendar plugin works from both Thunderbird and Firefox.
I suppose if I regularly needed all the features in Mozilla I'd feel differently. No disrespect to Mozilla, but I really prefer using Firefox and Thunderbird.
No thanks.
Seriously though, the console modding part looked pretty cool.
Download and install Azureus. Forward TCP port 6881 to the machine you will be downloading to (you can tell Azureus to listen on a different port if you don't like 6881.)
With my cablemodem, setting the max uploads to 4 and the max upload speed to 16KB per second lets me attain speeds up to 400KB per second.
These are good settings to start with, but you might be able to tweak it to get better speeds depending on your connection. A nice thing about Azureus is when you change your transfer settings they take immediate effect--no applying settings or restarting transfers required.
If you don't forward a TCP port from your firewall it will still work, but you won't be able to connect to anyone else who doesn't have port forwarding on. Unfortunately, this drastically reduces the number of peers your client can download from.
Under the server settings I have my override address set to my external IP address and my bind address set to the IP address of the machine I'm downloading to. Not sure if this is necessary, but it works great for me.
YMMV.