Ah, that is where you are wrong. Optimum online offers Business service as well and it has great SLA's. Those business contracts are sold to the exact same addresses so your residential connection while it won't have a static IP address is almost guaranteed to be as stable as the Business offering since they have an SLA to uphold on that! Our OOL connection never went down in the 4 years I lived in New Jersey, except during power outages. I used to be connected to the same IRC server for months on end. Longest time I held out was 9 months 15 days 10 hours 20 minutes and 33 seconds. That is impressive.
Ah, but therein lies the whole crux of this argument. The big corporation is taking the source code and is not claiming that they are releasing it for free and making statements making it sound like they are the only REAL free implementation and that their way (GPL) is the best way to go.
Big corporations generally don't release their source code, thus they are not dictating how their improvements are used.
It comes down to this:
GPL camp says that the big corporations are bad they are going to take the source code and steal it and not give anything back BSD camp says that the big corporations can use their code in any way shape or form.
Now the GPL camp takes the BSD code, licenses it under terms that won't allow the BSD camp to use the improvements. So now the GPL camp is doing exactly what they were saying the big corporations were going to do. Hypocritical? Yes.
That being said, corporations that do take BSD licensed software generally give something back in return for the source code. Apple for example is sponsoring much of the code required for the TrustedBSD framework that is being implemented in FreeBSD.
You can't launch in specific air space, and yes it has to be X miles away from an airport. It does not need to reflect radar in any way shape or form, so cardboard with aluminium foil is not required. Also, the load line has no specific specs on it what so ever, the only thing is that the package can not be more than 12 pounds total, and those 12 pounds have to be distributed between two seperate containers that can be tied together using load lines, but each one has a max limit of 6 pounds.
Also, the ascent rate does not matter in terms of when it is going to break, the balloon is going to break when the pressure of the gas inside causes the balloon to burst because the atmosphere is not putting enough pressure on the latex balloon to keep the latex from stretching any further. It is like a condom, you fill it with water, and the higher the pressure inside the condom will eventually burst. That being said, depending on wind conditions at the different layers you will want it to ascent faster or slower so that it follows a path you can predict. Also, if you don't put enough gas in the latex balloon the package can become a counter balance and the balloon will stay stuck at a layer in the stratosphere and never rise far enough for it to pop. Much like the weather balloons the national weather service uses.
Generally the faster it rises, the more likely it is going to be recovered closely to the launch site, since there is less chance for the wind to grab it and drag it along.
As for the styrofoam box, you are absolutely correct, it does have to be in one to survive because of the extreme temperatures. Also, you generally have the GPS record the location, not transmit the actual data which is generally done using a standard off the shelf HAM radio with a TNC and an antenna hanging out of the box. On our last flight (CONNERY-2) we actually lost GPS for a while because the GPS receiver actually froze up because of the outside temperature thereby we "lost" our near space craft.
Yes, when it stops at the top, all of the clocks are synced around all of the stations where the train drives and they all start off on the cycle again at the same time. This way the time is never far off from the time that the central has for the trains. If you had been at the train station long enough you would have witnessed that sometimes it sits at the top of the clock for longer than a second before it starts again. The same thing happens in Germany, The Netherlands and Belgium.
Would it be discrimination against the males if my corporation only called the females? As far as I am aware I have not yet heard any cases where this happened (besides Hooters).
Yes, I happen to have three of them on me at all times (small electronics screwdrivers. One end has philips the other has flathead, thanks to Parallax). Never had an issue with airport security. That being said, they also let me through with a leatherman, a swiss army knife at one point in time, so I am not sure if I happen to get lucky each time.
Not interesting, they used standard off the shelf components and build a radio shack. Then they used the default voice/data channel for ISS which has been posted online and contact ISS. They may or may not respond when you talk to them, most of the time you can leave messages on their packet radio computer.
I got a HAM license, and I am definitely a hardcore geek. I also got it because at the time I was doing near space balloon launches (http://nearspace.0x58.com). It is surprising how much fun it can be to talk to random people on the radio.
I have been thinking of adding APRS to my car, anyone have any experience with this?
Uhm, at the end of the month these days I am all out of money. I have to pay rent, bills, buy food, gas, pay insurance for my car to get to school, health insurance, school tuition, books, and some form of entertainment... just porn is not enough. I am lucky if at the end of the month I have a few dollars left over to go out and party with some friends. I really don't want to also have to spend money just to use MS Word. Some of the papers I write take upwards of 3 - 4 hours, including researching (taking notes in Word), it adds up quickly.
Wait, how did this get mod'ded informative. I am running FreeBSD 7.0 within a VirtualBox environment without any major issues, the only issue is that time keeping is all screwy, I lose about 13 seconds of time for every 30 seconds that happen in the real world. I think it may have something to do with how I have my OpenSolaris machine set up though (PowerNow support on my processor). Besides the time keeping issue, which is a none issue for me, everything works fine. It is set to use a dedicated 1 Gbps network card and it is able to push 60 MB/sec easily.
What is straight TCP? What is simply UDP? They are ways of encapsulating data with different delivery guarantee standards and putting them on an IP network. There are some games still out there that are really old and still have the option available to do IPX, but besides that all of them use either UDP or TCP. They define their own data structures on what to send out, however that is still encapsulated in a normal packet.
It seems to me that you are confusing the terms, and what the intentions are, and the differences between UDP and TCP. I wish anyone that creates a new way to encapsulate packets over IP good luck in getting it adapted for main use, how are routers to know how to read the packets?
This is something that has bothered me about open source in general for a while now, why is that there is so much fragmentation? So many wheels that are being re-implemented for the sake of being re-implemented? I agree that a new file system that supports all the new features of btrFS and ZFS are required, at the same time I don't understand all of this duplication. ZFS has some features that btrFS does not have, and vice-versa, why not spend the time developing a hybrid of the two, thereby massively increasing the usability and stability of both products, or rather, of just one product since the time and effort would only be but into the hybrid.
If it is possible for Nvidia to use binary blobs for their graphics cards, it should be possible to use CDDL code with a compatibility shim in the Linux kernel. All this duplicated effort could instead be focused on one project, thereby having an all around better file system. btrFS has just recently started coming into fruition, would that time not be better spent improving ZFS?
It seems that license issues are the only thing that is causing all of this trouble in the first place. As a user of a system I don't want to spend valuable time testing all the various file systems, I also don't want to have to support all of the different file systems that are available. With a project as large as Linux, and the amount of file systems that are available, how can it be guaranteed that the file system I ultimately go with has been properly bug tested, has had the proper code review done, and is not going to be shoved aside for the next new shiny file system that is introduced? As an end-user (and I hereby don't mean the home user group) I want stability. FreeBSD gives me UFS2, I know I can depend on it, I know it will still exist tomorrow, and I know that it is still being looked at for performance improvements and improvements in general, ZFS has recently been imported and is will exist for a long time. OpenSolaris gives me UFS, and ZFS, I know it is going to be around, I know it is going to be improved. Linux gives me XFS, JFS, ext2, ext3, ext4, ReiserFS, Reiser4, and now btrFS. Depending on my workload and who I ask I get told to use different file systems on Linux. Individually testing each and everyone would be time consuming and error prone, instead of all of these different file systems make one unified file system.
For that reason, and that reason alone I use FreeBSD 7.0 and Solaris 10 on my servers. Stability is a good thing, I need some way to relay to my clients that there is a reasonable time schedule for new releases, that what they are storing their data on right now is going to be around tomorrow, and that it is stable, that it has been time proven and tested. Linux can not provide that at the moment.
What kind of output power are you using? People have suggested that 25 watts should be enough depending on the day, but I would like some concrete evidence from people that have accomplished it!
I am more than willing to pay for the bandwidth I use per month, if it was a sane amount. $10 per 5 GB over is insane. I get all you can eat electricity, at the end of the month I pay for it. Going off a service provider where I currently have a server. I pay $199 a month for 3 TB of data transfer, I'll even leave the costs of the server, the electricity and whatnot in there. That comes out to about 15 GB per $1. That means that with the bandwidth I have used in this house I live in, I would owe the cable company about $15.
I live in a house with 6 other college students, we do about 300 - 400 GB of transfer a month.
250 GB we would blow by without even blinking. The 40 GB cap that was being discussed before, pfft, easily gone.
As for your "living within your means", it is a bullshit argument. I choose to pay for NetFlix, and I pay for my Cable connection, I expect to be able to make use of NetFlix as much as I want without my Cable company suddenly telling me I am unable to access the NetFlix online library without being held at gunpoint for my bandwidth, and that instead I should use their on-demand crap.
No, parenting is not something that happens in America anymore. You stick em in front of the TV, and when something shows up that you as a parent don't like (nipple for example) you complain loudly to the FCC instead of turning off the TV. That is right, Americans want others to do the parenting for them, TV so far is the best solution!
This was the first year that the Wall of Sheep was also at Black Hat. There were posters posted that contained extra information on it saying that the wireless was going to be monitored.
I really should move my HAM radio away from my head when trying to talk to people. My HAM radio outputs 5 watts. That is a bit more than a standard cell phone.
I think that is a bit short sighted. Even if Microsoft is an "enemy" they have in the recent months started releasing more and more open source software. They have also started making amends in the browser space to follow the W3C standards. There is even an entire test suite they created with over 700 tests.
Do I dislike Microsoft. Yes? Can I take what good they do and use it to my advantage. If they meet the requirements and pre-req's for the OSI, then why should they not be allowed to be a member?
Yes, I do expect differently. My previous MacBook Pro had many stickers and signatures of people in the hacking community on it. These were prized possessions to me. It took hard work and dedication to going to all these different conferences and getting people to sign my laptop. When my laptop needed repairs to the LCD I explicitly asked to have them make sure that I got my original case back.
Normally they would have pulled the LCD out, and stuck a new one on (case and all) but, by me asking, an Apple employee somewhere had to unscrew the new LCD from the new case and do the same to the old LCD. They then put the entire thing back together. I got my artwork back, without any problems what so ever!
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Ah, that is where you are wrong. Optimum online offers Business service as well and it has great SLA's. Those business contracts are sold to the exact same addresses so your residential connection while it won't have a static IP address is almost guaranteed to be as stable as the Business offering since they have an SLA to uphold on that! Our OOL connection never went down in the 4 years I lived in New Jersey, except during power outages. I used to be connected to the same IRC server for months on end. Longest time I held out was 9 months 15 days 10 hours 20 minutes and 33 seconds. That is impressive.
Can't say the same for Cox in Phoenix.
Ah, but therein lies the whole crux of this argument. The big corporation is taking the source code and is not claiming that they are releasing it for free and making statements making it sound like they are the only REAL free implementation and that their way (GPL) is the best way to go.
Big corporations generally don't release their source code, thus they are not dictating how their improvements are used.
It comes down to this:
GPL camp says that the big corporations are bad they are going to take the source code and steal it and not give anything back
BSD camp says that the big corporations can use their code in any way shape or form.
Now the GPL camp takes the BSD code, licenses it under terms that won't allow the BSD camp to use the improvements. So now the GPL camp is doing exactly what they were saying the big corporations were going to do. Hypocritical? Yes.
That being said, corporations that do take BSD licensed software generally give something back in return for the source code. Apple for example is sponsoring much of the code required for the TrustedBSD framework that is being implemented in FreeBSD.
Wait a minute here, ls -l is broken on Mac OS X? That is news to me!
You can't launch in specific air space, and yes it has to be X miles away from an airport. It does not need to reflect radar in any way shape or form, so cardboard with aluminium foil is not required. Also, the load line has no specific specs on it what so ever, the only thing is that the package can not be more than 12 pounds total, and those 12 pounds have to be distributed between two seperate containers that can be tied together using load lines, but each one has a max limit of 6 pounds.
Also, the ascent rate does not matter in terms of when it is going to break, the balloon is going to break when the pressure of the gas inside causes the balloon to burst because the atmosphere is not putting enough pressure on the latex balloon to keep the latex from stretching any further. It is like a condom, you fill it with water, and the higher the pressure inside the condom will eventually burst. That being said, depending on wind conditions at the different layers you will want it to ascent faster or slower so that it follows a path you can predict. Also, if you don't put enough gas in the latex balloon the package can become a counter balance and the balloon will stay stuck at a layer in the stratosphere and never rise far enough for it to pop. Much like the weather balloons the national weather service uses.
Generally the faster it rises, the more likely it is going to be recovered closely to the launch site, since there is less chance for the wind to grab it and drag it along.
As for the styrofoam box, you are absolutely correct, it does have to be in one to survive because of the extreme temperatures. Also, you generally have the GPS record the location, not transmit the actual data which is generally done using a standard off the shelf HAM radio with a TNC and an antenna hanging out of the box. On our last flight (CONNERY-2) we actually lost GPS for a while because the GPS receiver actually froze up because of the outside temperature thereby we "lost" our near space craft.
Check out our website http://nearspace.0x58.com/ if you would like more information about the flights we have flown (CONNERY-1 and CONNERY-2), pictures are available at http://nearspace.0x58.com/launches/.
Yes, when it stops at the top, all of the clocks are synced around all of the stations where the train drives and they all start off on the cycle again at the same time. This way the time is never far off from the time that the central has for the trains. If you had been at the train station long enough you would have witnessed that sometimes it sits at the top of the clock for longer than a second before it starts again. The same thing happens in Germany, The Netherlands and Belgium.
Would it be discrimination against the males if my corporation only called the females? As far as I am aware I have not yet heard any cases where this happened (besides Hooters).
Or just use a properly sized screw driver bit and this problem would go away as well. I have never stripped any of my MacBook Pro screws.
Yes, I happen to have three of them on me at all times (small electronics screwdrivers. One end has philips the other has flathead, thanks to Parallax). Never had an issue with airport security. That being said, they also let me through with a leatherman, a swiss army knife at one point in time, so I am not sure if I happen to get lucky each time.
Not interesting, they used standard off the shelf components and build a radio shack. Then they used the default voice/data channel for ISS which has been posted online and contact ISS. They may or may not respond when you talk to them, most of the time you can leave messages on their packet radio computer.
I got a HAM license, and I am definitely a hardcore geek. I also got it because at the time I was doing near space balloon launches (http://nearspace.0x58.com). It is surprising how much fun it can be to talk to random people on the radio.
I have been thinking of adding APRS to my car, anyone have any experience with this?
Uhm, at the end of the month these days I am all out of money. I have to pay rent, bills, buy food, gas, pay insurance for my car to get to school, health insurance, school tuition, books, and some form of entertainment ... just porn is not enough. I am lucky if at the end of the month I have a few dollars left over to go out and party with some friends. I really don't want to also have to spend money just to use MS Word. Some of the papers I write take upwards of 3 - 4 hours, including researching (taking notes in Word), it adds up quickly.
Wait, how did this get mod'ded informative. I am running FreeBSD 7.0 within a VirtualBox environment without any major issues, the only issue is that time keeping is all screwy, I lose about 13 seconds of time for every 30 seconds that happen in the real world. I think it may have something to do with how I have my OpenSolaris machine set up though (PowerNow support on my processor). Besides the time keeping issue, which is a none issue for me, everything works fine. It is set to use a dedicated 1 Gbps network card and it is able to push 60 MB/sec easily.
Eh, what?
What is straight TCP? What is simply UDP? They are ways of encapsulating data with different delivery guarantee standards and putting them on an IP network. There are some games still out there that are really old and still have the option available to do IPX, but besides that all of them use either UDP or TCP. They define their own data structures on what to send out, however that is still encapsulated in a normal packet.
It seems to me that you are confusing the terms, and what the intentions are, and the differences between UDP and TCP. I wish anyone that creates a new way to encapsulate packets over IP good luck in getting it adapted for main use, how are routers to know how to read the packets?
This is something that has bothered me about open source in general for a while now, why is that there is so much fragmentation? So many wheels that are being re-implemented for the sake of being re-implemented? I agree that a new file system that supports all the new features of btrFS and ZFS are required, at the same time I don't understand all of this duplication. ZFS has some features that btrFS does not have, and vice-versa, why not spend the time developing a hybrid of the two, thereby massively increasing the usability and stability of both products, or rather, of just one product since the time and effort would only be but into the hybrid.
If it is possible for Nvidia to use binary blobs for their graphics cards, it should be possible to use CDDL code with a compatibility shim in the Linux kernel. All this duplicated effort could instead be focused on one project, thereby having an all around better file system. btrFS has just recently started coming into fruition, would that time not be better spent improving ZFS?
It seems that license issues are the only thing that is causing all of this trouble in the first place. As a user of a system I don't want to spend valuable time testing all the various file systems, I also don't want to have to support all of the different file systems that are available. With a project as large as Linux, and the amount of file systems that are available, how can it be guaranteed that the file system I ultimately go with has been properly bug tested, has had the proper code review done, and is not going to be shoved aside for the next new shiny file system that is introduced? As an end-user (and I hereby don't mean the home user group) I want stability. FreeBSD gives me UFS2, I know I can depend on it, I know it will still exist tomorrow, and I know that it is still being looked at for performance improvements and improvements in general, ZFS has recently been imported and is will exist for a long time. OpenSolaris gives me UFS, and ZFS, I know it is going to be around, I know it is going to be improved. Linux gives me XFS, JFS, ext2, ext3, ext4, ReiserFS, Reiser4, and now btrFS. Depending on my workload and who I ask I get told to use different file systems on Linux. Individually testing each and everyone would be time consuming and error prone, instead of all of these different file systems make one unified file system.
For that reason, and that reason alone I use FreeBSD 7.0 and Solaris 10 on my servers. Stability is a good thing, I need some way to relay to my clients that there is a reasonable time schedule for new releases, that what they are storing their data on right now is going to be around tomorrow, and that it is stable, that it has been time proven and tested. Linux can not provide that at the moment.
There is a new contender in the ring!
What kind of output power are you using? People have suggested that 25 watts should be enough depending on the day, but I would like some concrete evidence from people that have accomplished it!
I am more than willing to pay for the bandwidth I use per month, if it was a sane amount. $10 per 5 GB over is insane. I get all you can eat electricity, at the end of the month I pay for it. Going off a service provider where I currently have a server. I pay $199 a month for 3 TB of data transfer, I'll even leave the costs of the server, the electricity and whatnot in there. That comes out to about 15 GB per $1. That means that with the bandwidth I have used in this house I live in, I would owe the cable company about $15.
I live in a house with 6 other college students, we do about 300 - 400 GB of transfer a month.
250 GB we would blow by without even blinking. The 40 GB cap that was being discussed before, pfft, easily gone.
As for your "living within your means", it is a bullshit argument. I choose to pay for NetFlix, and I pay for my Cable connection, I expect to be able to make use of NetFlix as much as I want without my Cable company suddenly telling me I am unable to access the NetFlix online library without being held at gunpoint for my bandwidth, and that instead I should use their on-demand crap.
No, parenting is not something that happens in America anymore. You stick em in front of the TV, and when something shows up that you as a parent don't like (nipple for example) you complain loudly to the FCC instead of turning off the TV. That is right, Americans want others to do the parenting for them, TV so far is the best solution!
Pfft, screw that. We are just going to re-direct all traffic through New York using BGP and sniff cookies that way :P
See: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080812/tc_afp/usitinternetcrimehackerdefcon
I can has research?
This was the first year that the Wall of Sheep was also at Black Hat. There were posters posted that contained extra information on it saying that the wireless was going to be monitored.
I really should move my HAM radio away from my head when trying to talk to people. My HAM radio outputs 5 watts. That is a bit more than a standard cell phone.
You don't want to use a dish for that sort of work, helix antenna's like described at http://members.fortunecity.com/dimoni/ant_qha.htm would work much better.
So really is a self fulfilling prophecy?
An infinite loop if you would?
I think that is a bit short sighted. Even if Microsoft is an "enemy" they have in the recent months started releasing more and more open source software. They have also started making amends in the browser space to follow the W3C standards. There is even an entire test suite they created with over 700 tests.
Do I dislike Microsoft. Yes? Can I take what good they do and use it to my advantage. If they meet the requirements and pre-req's for the OSI, then why should they not be allowed to be a member?
Yes, I do expect differently. My previous MacBook Pro had many stickers and signatures of people in the hacking community on it. These were prized possessions to me. It took hard work and dedication to going to all these different conferences and getting people to sign my laptop. When my laptop needed repairs to the LCD I explicitly asked to have them make sure that I got my original case back.
Normally they would have pulled the LCD out, and stuck a new one on (case and all) but, by me asking, an Apple employee somewhere had to unscrew the new LCD from the new case and do the same to the old LCD. They then put the entire thing back together. I got my artwork back, without any problems what so ever!