I have no idea if they work with iTunes, but I just came across these relatively inexpensive Ipodripoffs, sold through fifthunit, direct-ship from China.
I just ordered one of the shuffle ones last night, so I'll know soon enough. Can't beat it for ~$50 for the 2GB one.
Nictool is an excellent DNS management system which uses mysql as a backend, rsync/ssh to update djbdns servers, and has a web frontend with very granular delegation to different users.
I've been using it for many many months on multiple DNS setups, and many other organizations use it also. It takes a bit of knowledge to setup, but is very reliable once its setup. I've written a few guides on configuration and installation (though now a little outdated) -- they can be found in the mail toaster forum.
Read forums, learn where not to get screwed by your cell provider. ex: I pay $10/mo for Power Vision with Sprint, I get unlimited high speed internet, and I can tether my laptop through the phone.
To listen to a providers shit about required this or required that is BS -- just talk to a sales rep, call customers service, and you'll eventually get what you want.
Agreed. My non-techie girlfriend randomly came up with the idea to send me a Western Union telegram a few months back, thanking me for such a fun weekend.
Let me tell you -- that was the coolest thing I've ever gotten. I didn't even know they still did such things, and I'm even more thankful that she did it, now that they've discontinued the service.
I was hoping to pull it on someone when the opportunity arose. Now I'll just have to stick to the $2 bills.
The Big O entry explains how its been around for a very long time, and yet not mentioned yet. They're just trying to bring it to attention so it can be included in the next version.
Imagine is Britannica are able to take into consideration all things mentioned on this page, which they didn't previously think of, and improve their own version. That'd be great!
Until Brittanica prints the next version, in which they may fix previously accepted knowledge to be updated -- its wrong. -- And therein lies a benefit of Wikipedia -- it can just be updated.
Sure -- no doubt that not everything on this page is accurate, but I never would've thought that Big O wasn't mentioned in Brittanica -- I'm glad someone noticed and brought it to attention on this page. And if one day they add it to Brittanica, then someone will notice, and make a note on the wikipedia article, and likely remove the gripe. Ah the wonders!
"This defense firmly puts the blame on the reader, for being so stupid as to take the words at face value. Silly you, for believing us, they say."
Yes. He is correct. Despite his sarcasm, users ARE silly for believing things at face value. Just because a work is published does NOT make it the definitive source for all accurate knowledge. How many scientific findings have been published, and later discovered to be inaccurate.
Wikipedia has the opportunity to be both free and more accurate than any printed work. Even an encyclopedia, devoting resources to topics they are not experts in get things wrong, such as some of the items on the list above. Wikipedia gives those out there directly working on it -- Subject Matter Experts -- to contribute their knowledge for others to share.
In regards to the fears of lawsuits, obviously due diligence would be given to review the content of articles before put to paper and widely distributed. What more can be asked for? This is the same thing that Britannica does.
Until Wikipedia is making some claim to take authority over content -- they are just like the post office, the telephone company, or xerox. They are providing a service. Just as Xerox is not responsible for people violating copyright law with their copiers, Wikipedia is not responsible for the accuracy of information on their site. If you ask me, the rules, regulations and procedures they have come up with are an amazing effort at being open to respecting others, and cooperating with them. Similar to the post office working with police to track packages.
I think something commonly being overlooked here is -- Who exactly was affected by this article? The article apparently wasn't link to from other pages -- meaning that it wasn't seeing much attention, which is why it hadn't been changed. Who cares if it was there for months, if only 5 people saw it, was he really severely hurt by this? When he came across it, fix it, move on. Hes actually created a much larger problem by bringing so much attention to this.
I've been using FreeBSD for many years, and I admit to having never tried NetBSD. Could anyone convince me of a reason why I should try it, why it may be better than FreeBSD, what advantages it holds over other BSDs?
And then it spawns more and more processes to process the mail, eating up ram, at which point any other services on the box may be overloaded and deprived of resources. Immense disk swapping ensues. System load increases. Server 'crashes' (becomes so unusable as to be unresponsive even to administrative use, much less queueing or sending mail anymore).
I also did some crazy datacenter moves -- they went a little different:
Squeeze as many virtual hosts onto as few boxes as possible. Move the cleared off boxes to the new datacenter, get them up and running, with a ton of IPs Move swaths of virtualhosts and users at a time -- update DNS to point to the new box, create www2.domain pointing to the new box update old box virtualhost with a 301 redirect of everything to www2.domain
All traffic moves to the new NOC, all that remains are redirects for a few hours while dns caches around the world updating.
Great method for moving hundreds of MB/sec of traffic in no time.
No, but it may have something to do with all those warez site busts the other day. The 'Don't Copy That Floppy' (17MB) campaign had its first bust -- and now this!
My little brother got one of those offers to try PC Gamer magazine; getting an issue or two, he signed up, being told that he would get a bill and could cancel after such time. He never actually received a single issue, but he did get the invoice from them. Since he had yet to get the issue, he ignored the invoice, awaiting his issue so he could decide if he wanted to subscribe or not.
At this point, some more time passed, and he then began getting collection notices on this bill for a magazine he never even got the trial issues.
We had written 'CANCEL' on numerous of the PC gamer invoices, and returned them, but heard nothing back, and the collection notices continued.
We then contacted the collection company who tried to tell us to notify PC Gamer, which I explained that we've tried numerous times, but no action has been taken -- and they reluctantly removed us from their collection system, and apparently also removed our PC Gamer subscription, clearing everything up.
Seems like a lot of effort to try to go for, for a $20/yr magazine subscription.
This all occured over nearly a one-year period, so there was more than sufficient time in between each action to account for snail mail.
Just keep in mind that these sites do have affiliate agreements with companies, and so are making a buck off the purchases you click-through from their sites. Some of their recommendations may be skewed based on their affiliate agreements.
These are the sites where you'll find out about last minute clearances, specials, % off coupons, and pricing errors. Often you're being the 'evil consumer', but you're getting a heck of a deal.
You're probably right -- my estimating is a bit off, because in my mind I was thinking 20 minutes from my home, which is in Conrad Weiser's district, but closer to KU.
Anyway -- Mapquest says 36 minutes, which would be a little shorter if you took backroads to get on 222 instead of going through Sinking Spring/Wyomissing.
Finally you can take Park Rd before you get into the traffic jam right there before 222 intersects with 73, hop back onto 222 at/after 73 (I suggest Schaffer Rd) -- saving yourself yet another 5 minutes or more.
In that article, it was said that the students were accessing porn sites, and HAD infact hacked the administrative network.
However, living in this area, I feel it necessary to point out that the papers around here can't handle technical articles, and and usually get the facts wrong. For all we know, they got the admin pass, and disabled the proxy (which was likely the n2h2 Bess Proxy), and all of this is being blown out of proportion.
Once more facts become clear, maybe we'll learn why the rest of the 80-100 students weren't charged.
I attended and worked IT for Conrad Weiser Area School District which is about 20 minutes away from Kutztown, where we had the BCIU come in to do a lot of work on machines. The BCIU is clueless, and security is their lowest priority. It wouldn't surprise me at all if the BCIU worked with Kutztown High to setup this network, making it all the easier for these kids.
Also, here are the nyud mirrors of the links: FAQ Kutztown Area Patriot Article Laptop Initiative
Slashdot Mirror
I have no idea if they work with iTunes, but I just came across these relatively inexpensive Ipod ripoffs, sold through fifthunit, direct-ship from China.
I just ordered one of the shuffle ones last night, so I'll know soon enough. Can't beat it for ~$50 for the 2GB one.
Holy cached page.
I was there earlier today, it wasn't there, and it didn't reload it from the server when I went just now.
doh!
Could you please specify where this time-lapse video is?
Thank You slashdot editors for providing a link to the video in question.
It actually took me three tries to find it, entitled: "Homeland Security - Coast Guard Issues"
Nictool is an excellent DNS management system which uses mysql as a backend, rsync/ssh to update djbdns servers, and has a web frontend with very granular delegation to different users.
I've been using it for many many months on multiple DNS setups, and many other organizations use it also. It takes a bit of knowledge to setup, but is very reliable once its setup. I've written a few guides on configuration and installation (though now a little outdated) -- they can be found in the mail toaster forum.
What kind of geek are you?
Read forums, learn where not to get screwed by your cell provider.
ex:
I pay $10/mo for Power Vision with Sprint, I get unlimited high speed internet, and I can tether my laptop through the phone.
To listen to a providers shit about required this or required that is BS -- just talk to a sales rep, call customers service, and you'll eventually get what you want.
Finally, regarding your 411 Fees: 1-800-free-411
Agreed. My non-techie girlfriend randomly came up with the idea to send me a Western Union telegram a few months back, thanking me for such a fun weekend.
Let me tell you -- that was the coolest thing I've ever gotten. I didn't even know they still did such things, and I'm even more thankful that she did it, now that they've discontinued the service.
I was hoping to pull it on someone when the opportunity arose. Now I'll just have to stick to the $2 bills.
The Big O entry explains how its been around for a very long time, and yet not mentioned yet. They're just trying to bring it to attention so it can be included in the next version.
Imagine is Britannica are able to take into consideration all things mentioned on this page, which they didn't previously think of, and improve their own version. That'd be great!
Until Brittanica prints the next version, in which they may fix previously accepted knowledge to be updated -- its wrong. -- And therein lies a benefit of Wikipedia -- it can just be updated.
Sure -- no doubt that not everything on this page is accurate, but I never would've thought that Big O wasn't mentioned in Brittanica -- I'm glad someone noticed and brought it to attention on this page. And if one day they add it to Brittanica, then someone will notice, and make a note on the wikipedia article, and likely remove the gripe. Ah the wonders!
"This defense firmly puts the blame on the reader, for being so stupid as to take the words at face value. Silly you, for believing us, they say."
Yes. He is correct. Despite his sarcasm, users ARE silly for believing things at face value. Just because a work is published does NOT make it the definitive source for all accurate knowledge. How many scientific findings have been published, and later discovered to be inaccurate.
He seems to think that because a work is put to paper that is must have more accuracy than a work such as wikipedia. I challenge this: Errors in the Encyclopædia Britannica that have been corrected in Wikipedia
Wikipedia has the opportunity to be both free and more accurate than any printed work. Even an encyclopedia, devoting resources to topics they are not experts in get things wrong, such as some of the items on the list above. Wikipedia gives those out there directly working on it -- Subject Matter Experts -- to contribute their knowledge for others to share.
In regards to the fears of lawsuits, obviously due diligence would be given to review the content of articles before put to paper and widely distributed. What more can be asked for? This is the same thing that Britannica does.
Until Wikipedia is making some claim to take authority over content -- they are just like the post office, the telephone company, or xerox. They are providing a service. Just as Xerox is not responsible for people violating copyright law with their copiers, Wikipedia is not responsible for the accuracy of information on their site. If you ask me, the rules, regulations and procedures they have come up with are an amazing effort at being open to respecting others, and cooperating with them. Similar to the post office working with police to track packages.
I think something commonly being overlooked here is -- Who exactly was affected by this article? The article apparently wasn't link to from other pages -- meaning that it wasn't seeing much attention, which is why it hadn't been changed. Who cares if it was there for months, if only 5 people saw it, was he really severely hurt by this? When he came across it, fix it, move on. Hes actually created a much larger problem by bringing so much attention to this.
I've been using FreeBSD for many years, and I admit to having never tried NetBSD. Could anyone convince me of a reason why I should try it, why it may be better than FreeBSD, what advantages it holds over other BSDs?
And then it spawns more and more processes to process the mail, eating up ram, at which point any other services on the box may be overloaded and deprived of resources.
Immense disk swapping ensues. System load increases.
Server 'crashes' (becomes so unusable as to be unresponsive even to administrative use, much less queueing or sending mail anymore).
I also did some crazy datacenter moves -- they went a little different:
Squeeze as many virtual hosts onto as few boxes as possible.
Move the cleared off boxes to the new datacenter, get them up and running, with a ton of IPs
Move swaths of virtualhosts and users at a time --
update DNS to point to the new box, create www2.domain pointing to the new box
update old box virtualhost with a 301 redirect of everything to www2.domain
All traffic moves to the new NOC, all that remains are redirects for a few hours while dns caches around the world updating.
Great method for moving hundreds of MB/sec of traffic in no time.
4. Disney downloads the pirated copy, reads your name in the watermark, and promptly sues you.
This might be another super volcano? I don't know enough about the subject, but I've read about it in the past here
RC2 is actually out, just not listed on their download page. I found it on the Oregon Mirror, however that mirror is extremely slow -- (20K/sec).
I'm hosting a mirror of DesktopBSD-1.0-RC2-x86-CD.iso
While they're doing a crackdown -- they should hit up my Nigerian Ebay Scammer.
No, but it may have something to do with all those warez site busts the other day.
The 'Don't Copy That Floppy' (17MB) campaign had its first bust -- and now this!
Its about time they had a victory from their 'Don't Copy That Floppy' (17MB) Advertising Campaign.
At the end of the thread he admits he was lying.
My little brother got one of those offers to try PC Gamer magazine; getting an issue or two, he signed up, being told that he would get a bill and could cancel after such time. He never actually received a single issue, but he did get the invoice from them. Since he had yet to get the issue, he ignored the invoice, awaiting his issue so he could decide if he wanted to subscribe or not.
At this point, some more time passed, and he then began getting collection notices on this bill for a magazine he never even got the trial issues.
We had written 'CANCEL' on numerous of the PC gamer invoices, and returned them, but heard nothing back, and the collection notices continued.
We then contacted the collection company who tried to tell us to notify PC Gamer, which I explained that we've tried numerous times, but no action has been taken -- and they reluctantly removed us from their collection system, and apparently also removed our PC Gamer subscription, clearing everything up.
Seems like a lot of effort to try to go for, for a $20/yr magazine subscription.
This all occured over nearly a one-year period, so there was more than sufficient time in between each action to account for snail mail.
BTW, typo on the URL of that first one:
100 Big Coupons
Hardcore shoppers will take advantage of the various coupon/deal sites, and forums, such as:
100 Big Coupons
SlickDeals
Headlinedeals
Tech Bargains
Hot Deals
Of Course Fat Wallet Hot-Deals Forum can't be forgotten
Just keep in mind that these sites do have affiliate agreements with companies, and so are making a buck off the purchases you click-through from their sites. Some of their recommendations may be skewed based on their affiliate agreements.
These are the sites where you'll find out about last minute clearances, specials, % off coupons, and pricing errors. Often you're being the 'evil consumer', but you're getting a heck of a deal.
You're probably right -- my estimating is a bit off, because in my mind I was thinking 20 minutes from my home, which is in Conrad Weiser's district, but closer to KU.
Anyway -- Mapquest says 36 minutes, which would be a little shorter if you took backroads to get on 222 instead of going through Sinking Spring/Wyomissing.
Finally you can take Park Rd before you get into the traffic jam right there before 222 intersects with 73, hop back onto 222 at/after 73 (I suggest Schaffer Rd) -- saving yourself yet another 5 minutes or more.
Give it a try!
This news was also reported in the Reading Eagle/Reading Times.
In that article, it was said that the students were accessing porn sites, and HAD infact hacked the administrative network.
However, living in this area, I feel it necessary to point out that the papers around here can't handle technical articles, and and usually get the facts wrong. For all we know, they got the admin pass, and disabled the proxy (which was likely the n2h2 Bess Proxy), and all of this is being blown out of proportion.
Once more facts become clear, maybe we'll learn why the rest of the 80-100 students weren't charged.
I attended and worked IT for Conrad Weiser Area School District which is about 20 minutes away from Kutztown, where we had the BCIU come in to do a lot of work on machines. The BCIU is clueless, and security is their lowest priority. It wouldn't surprise me at all if the BCIU worked with Kutztown High to setup this network, making it all the easier for these kids.
Also, here are the nyud mirrors of the links:
FAQ
Kutztown Area Patriot Article
Laptop Initiative
Yes, it was on an SMP box actually -- I'll have to give it a try on a non-SMP.
I'll also follow the below comment and try -CURRENT and see if the SMP ULE situation has improved.