You really should be using RSA or DSA keys instead of passwords. Hardly a day goes by that my systems don't get at least one script-kiddie SSH password guessing scan. Since I'm requiring keys for authentication, they're wasting their effort; if someone manages to crack a public key, we have far worse problems than password guessing.
One night, I noticed that some (but not all) of the images on BoingBoing were not loading. Just for kicks, I right-clicked one of the broken images, and saw that the url led here. Sure enough, I tried going there and got "Forbidden Category 'Adult/Mature Content.'"
Not to mention before the break-up, GTE was the only other phone company other than Bell.
Not quite... there were hundreds, if not thousands, of small, independent phone companies, mostly in rural areas. Even today there are still lots of small telcos. Before the AT&T breakup, though, Ma Bell had a stranglehold on long-distance.
At my office, there are a bunch of white-box computers. Every one of them had a PSU made by "Deer Computer" in them. Every last one of them eventually failed, and a couple of them took out hard drives or CD-ROMs as well.
I popped open one of the failed PSUs once and found that, yes indeed, the blown caps were made by that company in Taiwan.
If your machine has a PSU from Deer, replace the unit ASAP, even if it's working fine right now. It will eventually fail.
I took a trip to the UK in October of 1999, flying AA out of Chicago-O'Hare, nonstop to Manchester. On the day I flew out of Chicago, the front-page news was the coup in Pakistan. What a way to start a transatlantic trip!:o)
The flight was uneventful, though, and the UK immigration official who checked my passport also wanted to know where I was staying and itinerary information. I was staying with my future brother-in-law in Manchester (he now lives in Michigan), and I told the official that I'd be using his place as a "home base," but I tended to be a spur-of-the-moment type (I had rented a car). Still, there wasn't any real hassle entering the UK.
I found the security boarding in Manchester to be a bit more thorough than pre-9/11 O'Hare, with a security official asking Twenty Questions about my bags, had they been out of my sight, any electrical devices, did they work properly, etc., etc., etc. The most dangerous thing I had was a bottle of Scotch.
Entering Manchester, I didn't notice any bag searches, but I presume my bags were X-rayed out of my sight. Entering O'Hare, bags were X-rayed as I passed through Customs.
In no case did an airline employee ask for addresses, etc.; it was UK Customs going in, and airport security (police?) going out.
The Proxim Orinoco b/g and a/b/g cards work nicely with the madwifi drivers. Not yet plug-and-play right now, but once it's set up it works very well. Be sure to grab the latest snapshot of Kismet.
[Querying whois.internic.net] [Redirected to whois.melbourneit.com] [Querying whois.melbourneit.com] [whois.melbourneit.com]
Domain Name.......... fedora-redhat.com
Creation Date........ 2004-10-24
Registration Date.... 2004-10-24
Expiry Date.......... 2005-10-24
Organisation Name.... Raymond Jackson
Organisation Address. 224 Cedar Avenue
Organisation Address.
Organisation Address. New York
Organisation Address. 95301
Organisation Address. NY
Organisation Address. UNITED STATES
Admin Name........... Raymond Jackson
Admin Address........ 224 Cedar Avenue
Admin Address........
Admin Address........ New York
Admin Address........ 95301
Admin Address........ NY
Admin Address........ UNITED STATES
Admin Email.......... rayjackson23@yahoo.com
Admin Phone.......... +1.2098994533
Admin Fax............
Tech Name............ YahooDomains TechContact
Tech Address......... 701 First Ave.
Tech Address.........
Tech Address......... Sunnyvale
Tech Address......... 94089
Tech Address......... CA
Tech Address......... UNITED STATES
Tech Email........... domain.tech@YAHOO-INC.COM
Tech Phone........... +1.6198813096
Tech Fax............. +1.6198813010
Name Server.......... yns1.yahoo.com
Name Server.......... yns2.yahoo.com
Actually, typical residential service in the US is 240V split-phase; the distribution transformer is center-tapped, and the center tap is grounded to serve as the neutral. Phase-to-neutral is 120, phase-to-phase is 240. Heavy-draw appliances, such as large air conditioners, electric ovens, dryers, etc. are usually run on 240.
Another system uses two of three phases on a 208V three-phase supply; phase-to-neutral is still 120. This is normally only found in apartments and commercial buildings.
If you're running your own mail server (or running one for your employer, for that matter), you should configure it to use SSL and authentication, via port 465. No need for ugly hacks like POP-before-SMTP or nonstandard ports, and you get encryption to boot, at least for your link to the server.
Yesterday, a judge threw out the case against Greenpeace. Still, it shows just what a corrupt, authoritarian bunch of crooks are in charge in the administration.
One thing I've noticed when downloading from a heavily-used torrent: the download will start out as a trickle until you actually have a chunk that you can upload to others. This is a consequence of BitTorrent's anti-leeching design; if you don't upload anything, you will get little or nothing in return.
Sometimes it may take ten minutes or more before you get any real speed from a torrent.
What killed Kodak was that they had never sold high-quality film cameras, I guess.
Kodak made their very well-regarded Retina series cameras up until the 1960s, but then they abandoned the market and concentrated on Instamatics. IMHO, that was a big mistake - one which they repeated twice, with the Disc cameras and the APS system.
I recently picked one up, and the image quality is astounding, even with the cheapie kit lens. If you already have Canon EOS lenses, you can use them as well. In the DSLR market, this camera is truly a ground-breaker. A few years ago, a 6.3 MP DSLR was a professional product with a $12000 price tag; now you can get one for $1000. Still more than most film SLRs, but worth every penny. Even when shooting at ISO 800, there's very little noise, and at ISO 1600, the noise level is less than you'd see at 400 with a compact digicam.
For more on this camera, there's an exhaustive review at Digital Photography Review.
If you have a collection of Nikon lenses, wait for the Nikon D70, which is on the edge of being rolled out. It will be in the same price range.
I've been trying for several years to get Speakeasy. Every time I've gone to their site, it has been unavailable. My only DSL option is SBC/Yahoo. No thanks, if I can help it. Until then, I'm stuck with Comcast. They haven't hassled me, but I can't bank on it.
...but it is possible to make LEAF boot from a hard drive. You need to use a bootable DOS partition configured with SYSLINUX, and be sure to have the IDE drivers in your initrd.lrp. The boot/etc/modules file must load ide-mod, ide-disk, and ide-probe-mod.
Similar approaches can be used to boot from a flash memory device, but I have several old hard drives lying around.
...such as LEAF. I've been running it for quite a while on my old P166. I've set mine up to boot from a hard drive, then use a hdparm -y to shut the hard drive down once it's up and running. Works like a charm!
The technologically astute are too proud to work for a measly $35K FBI salary, investigating tech crimes.
I wonder how many people are out there who would love to do so, but don't want to end up being called upon to enforce laws they consider unjust, like the DMCA, laws against recreational drugs, etc.
For that matter, how many are turned off by the possiblility of being used as political enforcers rather than law enforcers?
Slashdot Mirror
I suppose it also shows a microscopic dot on a microscopic dot, with the notation "You are here."
You really should be using RSA or DSA keys instead of passwords. Hardly a day goes by that my systems don't get at least one script-kiddie SSH password guessing scan. Since I'm requiring keys for authentication, they're wasting their effort; if someone manages to crack a public key, we have far worse problems than password guessing.
...the worlds smallest keypunch.
The Mozilla PrefBar has a Kill Flash button, and also a checkbox that allows you to enable or disable Flash as you see fit.
One night, I noticed that some (but not all) of the images on BoingBoing were not loading. Just for kicks, I right-clicked one of the broken images, and saw that the url led here. Sure enough, I tried going there and got "Forbidden Category 'Adult/Mature Content.'"
Not quite... there were hundreds, if not thousands, of small, independent phone companies, mostly in rural areas. Even today there are still lots of small telcos. Before the AT&T breakup, though, Ma Bell had a stranglehold on long-distance.
I popped open one of the failed PSUs once and found that, yes indeed, the blown caps were made by that company in Taiwan.
If your machine has a PSU from Deer, replace the unit ASAP, even if it's working fine right now. It will eventually fail.
I took a trip to the UK in October of 1999, flying AA out of Chicago-O'Hare, nonstop to Manchester. On the day I flew out of Chicago, the front-page news was the coup in Pakistan. What a way to start a transatlantic trip! :o)
The flight was uneventful, though, and the UK immigration official who checked my passport also wanted to know where I was staying and itinerary information. I was staying with my future brother-in-law in Manchester (he now lives in Michigan), and I told the official that I'd be using his place as a "home base," but I tended to be a spur-of-the-moment type (I had rented a car). Still, there wasn't any real hassle entering the UK.
I found the security boarding in Manchester to be a bit more thorough than pre-9/11 O'Hare, with a security official asking Twenty Questions about my bags, had they been out of my sight, any electrical devices, did they work properly, etc., etc., etc. The most dangerous thing I had was a bottle of Scotch.
Entering Manchester, I didn't notice any bag searches, but I presume my bags were X-rayed out of my sight. Entering O'Hare, bags were X-rayed as I passed through Customs.
In no case did an airline employee ask for addresses, etc.; it was UK Customs going in, and airport security (police?) going out.
The Proxim Orinoco b/g and a/b/g cards work nicely with the madwifi drivers. Not yet plug-and-play right now, but once it's set up it works very well. Be sure to grab the latest snapshot of Kismet.
There's a project called roadmap that uses the US Census Bureau TIGER vector maps. It doesn't yet have trip planning capability, though.
[Querying whois.internic.net]
[Redirected to whois.melbourneit.com]
[Querying whois.melbourneit.com]
[whois.melbourneit.com]
Domain Name.......... fedora-redhat.com
Creation Date........ 2004-10-24
Registration Date.... 2004-10-24
Expiry Date.......... 2005-10-24
Organisation Name.... Raymond Jackson
Organisation Address. 224 Cedar Avenue
Organisation Address.
Organisation Address. New York
Organisation Address. 95301
Organisation Address. NY
Organisation Address. UNITED STATES
Admin Name........... Raymond Jackson
Admin Address........ 224 Cedar Avenue
Admin Address........
Admin Address........ New York
Admin Address........ 95301
Admin Address........ NY
Admin Address........ UNITED STATES
Admin Email.......... rayjackson23@yahoo.com
Admin Phone.......... +1.2098994533
Admin Fax............
Tech Name............ YahooDomains TechContact
Tech Address......... 701 First Ave.
Tech Address.........
Tech Address......... Sunnyvale
Tech Address......... 94089
Tech Address......... CA
Tech Address......... UNITED STATES
Tech Email........... domain.tech@YAHOO-INC.COM
Tech Phone........... +1.6198813096
Tech Fax............. +1.6198813010
Name Server.......... yns1.yahoo.com
Name Server.......... yns2.yahoo.com
Actually, typical residential service in the US is 240V split-phase; the distribution transformer is center-tapped, and the center tap is grounded to serve as the neutral. Phase-to-neutral is 120, phase-to-phase is 240. Heavy-draw appliances, such as large air conditioners, electric ovens, dryers, etc. are usually run on 240.
Another system uses two of three phases on a 208V three-phase supply; phase-to-neutral is still 120. This is normally only found in apartments and commercial buildings.
As with the common stinkhorn, a mushroom that is known scientifically as Phallus impudicus .
If you're running your own mail server (or running one for your employer, for that matter), you should configure it to use SSL and authentication, via port 465. No need for ugly hacks like POP-before-SMTP or nonstandard ports, and you get encryption to boot, at least for your link to the server.
Yesterday, a judge threw out the case against Greenpeace. Still, it shows just what a corrupt, authoritarian bunch of crooks are in charge in the administration.
One thing I've noticed when downloading from a heavily-used torrent: the download will start out as a trickle until you actually have a chunk that you can upload to others. This is a consequence of BitTorrent's anti-leeching design; if you don't upload anything, you will get little or nothing in return.
Sometimes it may take ten minutes or more before you get any real speed from a torrent.
The Mozilla PrefBar has a configurable checkbox option for sending referers.
...Canon surrenders.
For more on this camera, there's an exhaustive review at Digital Photography Review.
If you have a collection of Nikon lenses, wait for the Nikon D70, which is on the edge of being rolled out. It will be in the same price range.
Gemesys.com belongs to a domain squatter.
.COM, .NET, .EDU domains and
* * * * *
The Registry database contains ONLY
Registrars.
Found a referral to whois.fabulous.com.
Domain gemesys.com:
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Administrative contact:
Technical contact:
Billing contact:
Domain Active Pty. Ltd.
Domain Hostmaster
hostmaster@domainactive.com
GPO Box 262
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Phone: +61.7 3018 5100
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I've been trying for several years to get Speakeasy. Every time I've gone to their site, it has been unavailable. My only DSL option is SBC/Yahoo. No thanks, if I can help it. Until then, I'm stuck with Comcast. They haven't hassled me, but I can't bank on it.
Similar approaches can be used to boot from a flash memory device, but I have several old hard drives lying around.
...such as LEAF. I've been running it for quite a while on my old P166. I've set mine up to boot from a hard drive, then use a hdparm -y to shut the hard drive down once it's up and running. Works like a charm!
I wonder how many people are out there who would love to do so, but don't want to end up being called upon to enforce laws they consider unjust, like the DMCA, laws against recreational drugs, etc.
For that matter, how many are turned off by the possiblility of being used as political enforcers rather than law enforcers?