The most common version of this issue has to do with when a new kernel update occurs during a NORMAL ubuntu update. You click the orange star, choose update, let it download and install, then reboot and voila...no more access to any hard drive. It happens to my machine every single time.
I agree that it is annoying when a kernel updates swacks your menu.lst.
I have to get out my liveCD boot with it, mount the main HDD partition, go into the/boot/grub and edit the menu.lst to change everything back.
Wow, talk about doing it the hard way!
The thing I like about grub is that you can alter your boot parameters on the fly, so you can work your way out of this situation without having to resort to the liveCD method. You can give grub commands from the grub prompt and get running so that you can at least boot up normally and edit your menu.lst.
I have found this to be an excellent resource for demystifying how grub works.
Kim where are you? I have been hearing on the radio this bitches rant about how Radiohead and NIN's attempt at going on without the RIAA has failed misserably. She said that they both flat out failed and that trying to sell your music without the RIAA is just about impossible. I wonder what that stupid bitch has to say now that the $300 set sold out in just hours.
Is she still on the air? I stopped listening to her show -years- ago. Nothing but an MS shill AFAICT...
...despite providing the public with a cheap drm free legal source for the music (which the/. crowd seem to suggest will eliminate all piracy) the world still decides to illegally download the music in quanities far higher than it buys it.
There will always be "piracy", that is a fact of the digital age.
What is refreshing is to see someone understand and get over that fact by coming up with a model that works despite the inevitable piracy.
Reznor understands that he can make money by selling directly to his fans. Real fans won't pirate, they want to pay the band. They want the individual tracks to do their own remixes, and are willing to pay for them. Under the old model, providing the individual tracks was inconcievable under any cirucumstances.
He knows that some (large) percentage of people will pirate the CDs, but he is focusing on making money by providing value to the people who he knows won't pirate.
It seems strange to me that they don't have a self-destruct function on board a spy satellite. Wouldn't that be fairly easy to implement, since it's full of hydrazine? Wouldn't that be an easy and possibly important feature for a spy satellite to have?
The reason they shot this satellite down is that they lost control of it in the first place! Even if it had a self-destruct mechanism, there would be no way to tell it to activate.
You could put in a fail-safe system (ie., activate if no commands received in x days), but that is probably difficult to do in such a way that the potential benefit outweighs the risk of malfunction.
Also, if you blow up a satellite while it is in orbit, the debris remains in that orbit (and many nearby orbits), rendering that particular part of space inaccessible in the future.
These guys are rocket scientists, I'm sure they have considered and dismissed the idea of explosive self-destruct mechanisms for pretty good reasons.
Some of my buddies got signed to a label that recorded their album, strung them along for a year without releasing it, and caused the band to ultimately break up.
The local scene is easy to break into without the help of a label, but I ultimately think that (talent aside) our only chances of making it big are to either join a label
...and what, let them string you along until your band breaks up?
I've seen this so many times, and it just sucks.
Don't sell your soul to a label for the hope of "making it big". They will string you along and screw you over. That's the name of the game son, ridin' the gravy train...
Nyquist theorem just states the amplitude of the range of frequencies that can be encoded in a given sample rate.
Go back and actually read the entry I linked to. The Nyquist theorem states that "Exact reconstruction of a continuous-time baseband signal from its samples is possible if the signal is bandlimited and the sampling frequency is greater than twice the signal bandwidth."
Sampling by definition means to loose information, it shouldn't be that difficult.
It's lose, not loose, it shouldn't be that difficult.
The whole point of Nyquist is that you don't lose information as long as your sampling frequency is at least twice the highest frequency that you're interested in.
But I suppose you think that a real-world analog signal isn't frequency bounded.
You're wrong, and even if you weren't, it's a hard fact that the human ear just cannot hear frequencies above 22kHz - best case, so audio signals are frequency bounded by our limited perception.
Nyquist sampling gives exact reproduction of frequency-bounded signals, whether it makes sense to you or not.
Don't be fooled by technological hype, digital means loss, that simple, and that's no 'mistery' is just a fact. What seems to be 'faith' is the unreasoned belief than digital is somehow magically equal to analog.
So mis-informed...
There is no mystery, no faith necessary. There is this little thing called mathematics. The Nyquist theorem says you are wrong. Yes, it is counter-intuitive, but that doesn't make it any less valid.
Choose your top frequency, Nyquist says sample at (at least) double that frequency, and there -won't- be any loss. Mathematically proven, whether or not you choose to believe it.
In that case, states issue ID cards as well as driver's licenses.
Having a state ID card is no guarantee that you are going to get served. I have been refused more than once because my state ID card was not a driver's license. I have also been refused because a U.S. passport isn't a driver's license.
It didn't matter that I am obviously over 21 (grey beard - I'm over 45 yrs, FFS!) and had legal state and federal identification.
I will gnaw my leg of if this dribble gets modded up.
So far, so good, it's still at 1.
I am astounded at the (much more than usual) level of misunderstanding of how the attack works. I've seen one correct comment, and much blathering idiocy!
Running LAMP might protect you from this particular attack only because it is looking for table/column information the MS-SQL way. If you aren't taking effective steps to prevent SQL injection (which has nothing to do with "gaining root"), only luck is keeping it from happening to your LAMP system.
The guy Cheney shot wasn't seriously injured, and definitely not killed. He caught a little birdshot in the face, which isn't that big a deal (birdshot is very small and low-energy, and has very little penetrative power, especially after traveling through the air a distance)
Except that one of the pieces of birdshot got into a blood vessel and migrated to the guy's heart, endangering his life.
Cheney, as VP of the USA, isn't subject to the same laws and penalties as the rest of us.
Clearly, he isn't. But that isn't codified anywhere. The VP -should- be subject to the same laws and penalties as the rest of us. I can't think of a good reason why he should not.
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I agree that it is annoying when a kernel updates swacks your menu.lst.
Wow, talk about doing it the hard way!
The thing I like about grub is that you can alter your boot parameters on the fly, so you can work your way out of this situation without having to resort to the liveCD method. You can give grub commands from the grub prompt and get running so that you can at least boot up normally and edit your menu.lst.
I have found this to be an excellent resource for demystifying how grub works.
So much better than the bad old LILO days...
Sort order in Linux is controlled by which locale you use.
A little Pynchon fills the gap nicely...
How many people will lose their jobs/careers/freedom for these transgressions?
None.
Is she still on the air? I stopped listening to her show -years- ago. Nothing but an MS shill AFAICT...
There will always be "piracy", that is a fact of the digital age.
What is refreshing is to see someone understand and get over that fact by coming up with a model that works despite the inevitable piracy.
Reznor understands that he can make money by selling directly to his fans. Real fans won't pirate, they want to pay the band. They want the individual tracks to do their own remixes, and are willing to pay for them. Under the old model, providing the individual tracks was inconcievable under any cirucumstances.
He knows that some (large) percentage of people will pirate the CDs, but he is focusing on making money by providing value to the people who he knows won't pirate.
Just make sure you don't leave your fingerprints anywhere on or near the drive and you're good to go!
The reason they shot this satellite down is that they lost control of it in the first place! Even if it had a self-destruct mechanism, there would be no way to tell it to activate.
You could put in a fail-safe system (ie., activate if no commands received in x days), but that is probably difficult to do in such a way that the potential benefit outweighs the risk of malfunction.
Also, if you blow up a satellite while it is in orbit, the debris remains in that orbit (and many nearby orbits), rendering that particular part of space inaccessible in the future.
These guys are rocket scientists, I'm sure they have considered and dismissed the idea of explosive self-destruct mechanisms for pretty good reasons.
...and what, let them string you along until your band breaks up?
I've seen this so many times, and it just sucks.
Don't sell your soul to a label for the hope of "making it big". They will string you along and screw you over. That's the name of the game son, ridin' the gravy train...
That would be NOAA, not NASA. Two entirely different agencies, two entirely different missions.
Fucking delivery receipts!
Ummm, "dark energy", anyone?
Go back and actually read the entry I linked to. The Nyquist theorem states that "Exact reconstruction of a continuous-time baseband signal from its samples is possible if the signal is bandlimited and the sampling frequency is greater than twice the signal bandwidth."
It's lose, not loose, it shouldn't be that difficult.
The whole point of Nyquist is that you don't lose information as long as your sampling frequency is at least twice the highest frequency that you're interested in.
But I suppose you think that a real-world analog signal isn't frequency bounded.
You're wrong, and even if you weren't, it's a hard fact that the human ear just cannot hear frequencies above 22kHz - best case, so audio signals are frequency bounded by our limited perception.
Nyquist sampling gives exact reproduction of frequency-bounded signals, whether it makes sense to you or not.
Hmmm, like this perhaps? Debian has implemented integrity-checking of updates for quite some time now...
So mis-informed...
There is no mystery, no faith necessary. There is this little thing called mathematics. The Nyquist theorem says you are wrong. Yes, it is counter-intuitive, but that doesn't make it any less valid.
Choose your top frequency, Nyquist says sample at (at least) double that frequency, and there -won't- be any loss. Mathematically proven, whether or not you choose to believe it.
Having a state ID card is no guarantee that you are going to get served. I have been refused more than once because my state ID card was not a driver's license. I have also been refused because a U.S. passport isn't a driver's license.
It didn't matter that I am obviously over 21 (grey beard - I'm over 45 yrs, FFS!) and had legal state and federal identification.
There, fixed that for you. Drinking alcohol hasn't been illegal since the 21st ammendment was ratified...
Q: What do you call someone who hangs out with musicians?
A: A drummer!
So far, so good, it's still at 1.
I am astounded at the (much more than usual) level of misunderstanding of how the attack works. I've seen one correct comment, and much blathering idiocy!
Running LAMP might protect you from this particular attack only because it is looking for table/column information the MS-SQL way. If you aren't taking effective steps to prevent SQL injection (which has nothing to do with "gaining root"), only luck is keeping it from happening to your LAMP system.
And then went on "60 Minutes" to cry about how she had been so unfairly treated......
Except that one of the pieces of birdshot got into a blood vessel and migrated to the guy's heart, endangering his life.
Clearly, he isn't. But that isn't codified anywhere. The VP -should- be subject to the same laws and penalties as the rest of us. I can't think of a good reason why he should not.
Bingo! That's what I love about Perl. No unexpected surprises, it Just Works the way it is supposed to (as thoroughly explained in the camel book).
Ask Jeeves was a flop because it started returning stupid results like, "Would you like to buy a Subatomic Physics?".
Except that he isn't going to be directing, he'll be executive producer.
Not to say that he won't have significant artistic control, but he isn't going to be directing.