I've been storing mine in GNU Keyring for Palm OS... it's portable, secure, and helps me keep 100s of passwords that I can fall back on if I haven't used it enough to remember them all.
It also has a great password generator, allowing you to select character sets to choose from, and has a fairly decent amount of randomness - sure beats out banging something out on a qwerty...
I don't mean to repeat myself, but team sports are good at building social skills for *EXACTLY* the reasons you mention as negatives.
Exactly! Im little league, I used to entertain myself waiting in the outfield practicing fraction multiplication & division in my head. I also cut my teeth on medians, standard deviations, and moving averages by watching hockey team scores in the nightly paper. Team sports are a perfect medium to offset nerd syndrome, as it requires you to work together with others to accomplish a common goal.
For those geeks who can't throw or catch - just remember that nobody could when they first tried. Did you ever write a "bug-less" program on the first attempt? Didn't think so... practice makes perfect. Take your kid out in the backyard (or find a neighborhood park) and just toss the ball back and forth. It's good quality time to spend with your kid, and helps them get comfortable with the sport in a low-pressure environment. When it comes time to catch the other kid's passes, they won't feel as nervous or clumsy.
OK, so what if you were create a script that would download tons of open source projects, and then hand that to a non-technical friend who could also download the Windows source code. Then the script could search for patterns in the windows source that were lifted directly from GPL material without affecting anyone who might want to make future contributions to GPL projects.
I love fiction and escapism, I just think that the line between it and reality should be kept blurred.
Is that what people said in the 16th century about DaVinci's helicopter design? Or in the 19th century about Jules Verne's submarine story, or his idea of travelling around the world in 80 days (or less)? How about the idea of walking on the moon?
Science fiction and scientific exploration come from the same place - our desire to know and experience new things. It's not only about profit (sadly that seems to be driving force these days) but human kind will always dream up new ideas that make sense, and then work to fulfill them.
A) wipe an ext3 partition / insert a blank hard drive B) purchase a copy of recent version of Windows C) install said recent version of Windows D) install AOL on PC E) Get Hacked F) Sue
Oh hell yeah there is a way. The software can be managed on a separate host that has limited connectivity to the outside world, and the ftp server can be updated from that.
Why back up your production server (which is exposed to the outside world), instead of syncing to it from known, trusted sources? and why aren't they running a regular tripwire that checks their current offerings against that same, known-good library to notify them of break-ins?!
I've toured Germany, and yes they make really good lagers and Weisses, but I'm not really into those styles. I'm a much bigger fan of IPAs, porters, stouts, barley wines, and strong ales that have so much hops, that they kick your ass.
Belgian Lambics, Dubbels, and Trippels can be awesome too.
Oh, and the real Budweiser - from Budjoweiz (sp?) is a pretty good beer too. If I ran that shop - I'd be furious that some crappy corn and rice shop in the States was watering down my brand name.
Yeah, you got me there. Too lax to do my research on a sunday morning. I was more interested in the rant.;)
Still, it's an interesting period of history that continues to dominate the reason why more marketed American beer continues to suck. Hell, I halfway considered using a leftover keg of bud as a substitute for water when I brewed my next batch of homebrew.
There's a rather good explanation for this. Not that I'm defending it, but rather explaining it to understand it and adress it at the root cause.
Prohibition was a scary time for Americans, particularly breweries - most of which went out of business. Prohibition was created by women marching in the streets, complaining that their husbands had become drunks in the saloons. Who could blame them - during the depression, there weren't many jobs to keep them occupied.
When prohibition was repealed, the breweries wanted to create beer that would appeal to women, so that they would become consumers and not vote again for prohibition. So they made their beers lighter, and specialized in the lager field that they felt was more approachable for those who weren't accustomed to drinking beer.
Sadly, America's beer development was stuck on training wheels until about the 80s, when certain individuals started experimenting with brewing their own. This launched a movement where people started becoming more interested in flavor rather than just getting drunk.
In case you haven't been to this side of the pond recently, there are many wonderful breweries that severly stomp on most European breweries which are stuck doing things the way they did around the time that America was discovered. I'd highly reccomend checking out some of these breweries:
Just to point out that there's a difference between "specialized parts", and regular, normal parts that have "specialized decals" on them. Of course, the decals look cool in certain situations, but sometimes they're not appropriate for what you're trying to build.
OK, so what if I have a pickup truck that just arrived full of hard drives? How fast can I get that data into a useful state (i.e. loaded into RAM)? You still need to plug it in.
This is a bit like marriage... just because you've got a wife doesn't mean that you're experiencing a real-live porno 24-7.
If you drive a car while drunk, is it the car manufacturer's fault if you drive into a tree and are severely wounded?
People would stop driving drunk if there was a massive explosive-backed spike aiming at them - embedded in the steering column. In fact, if all cars had this feature, we'd see much more polite drivers... while we're at it, make the body out of glass, and we'd see an end to road rage as we know it.
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I've been storing mine in GNU Keyring for Palm OS... it's portable, secure, and helps me keep 100s of passwords that I can fall back on if I haven't used it enough to remember them all.
It also has a great password generator, allowing you to select character sets to choose from, and has a fairly decent amount of randomness - sure beats out banging something out on a qwerty...
...where we're going, we don't need roads...
Actually, it appears that he's not alone...
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Converted+by+Mat hematica%22
google returns 10,000+ results for that phrase...
...or if the law enforcement subpoenas the logs within your 5-day window.
I don't mean to repeat myself, but team sports are good at building social skills for *EXACTLY* the reasons you mention as negatives.
Exactly! Im little league, I used to entertain myself waiting in the outfield practicing fraction multiplication & division in my head. I also cut my teeth on medians, standard deviations, and moving averages by watching hockey team scores in the nightly paper. Team sports are a perfect medium to offset nerd syndrome, as it requires you to work together with others to accomplish a common goal.
For those geeks who can't throw or catch - just remember that nobody could when they first tried. Did you ever write a "bug-less" program on the first attempt? Didn't think so... practice makes perfect. Take your kid out in the backyard (or find a neighborhood park) and just toss the ball back and forth. It's good quality time to spend with your kid, and helps them get comfortable with the sport in a low-pressure environment. When it comes time to catch the other kid's passes, they won't feel as nervous or clumsy.
what do you mean? We've already got Vigor!
OK, so what if you were create a script that would download tons of open source projects, and then hand that to a non-technical friend who could also download the Windows source code. Then the script could search for patterns in the windows source that were lifted directly from GPL material without affecting anyone who might want to make future contributions to GPL projects.
You forgot the ultimate robot wants to be human stories of "Artificial Intelligence", and what it's based on, "Pinnochio".
As long as we're questioning... where did you get yours? :)
...I haven't worn a watch in years - too burdensome. Telling time - bad, that's what my laptop is for. :)
If you start me up
If you start me up I'll never stop
You make a grown man cry....
but only if they can remember their PIN number!
...but not as much as cheese!
I love fiction and escapism, I just think that the line between it and reality should be kept blurred.
Is that what people said in the 16th century about DaVinci's helicopter design? Or in the 19th century about Jules Verne's submarine story, or his idea of travelling around the world in 80 days (or less)? How about the idea of walking on the moon?
Science fiction and scientific exploration come from the same place - our desire to know and experience new things. It's not only about profit (sadly that seems to be driving force these days) but human kind will always dream up new ideas that make sense, and then work to fulfill them.
Didn't you mean to enter your list like this:
A) wipe an ext3 partition / insert a blank hard drive
B) purchase a copy of recent version of Windows
C) install said recent version of Windows
D) install AOL on PC
E) Get Hacked
F) Sue
And they actually have decent customer service - perhaps implying that they would like their customers to return for future purchases...?
Boycott Verisign!
Oh hell yeah there is a way. The software can be managed on a separate host that has limited connectivity to the outside world, and the ftp server can be updated from that.
Why back up your production server (which is exposed to the outside world), instead of syncing to it from known, trusted sources? and why aren't they running a regular tripwire that checks their current offerings against that same, known-good library to notify them of break-ins?!
I've toured Germany, and yes they make really good lagers and Weisses, but I'm not really into those styles. I'm a much bigger fan of IPAs, porters, stouts, barley wines, and strong ales that have so much hops, that they kick your ass.
Belgian Lambics, Dubbels, and Trippels can be awesome too.
Oh, and the real Budweiser - from Budjoweiz (sp?) is a pretty good beer too. If I ran that shop - I'd be furious that some crappy corn and rice shop in the States was watering down my brand name.
Yeah, you got me there. Too lax to do my research on a sunday morning. I was more interested in the rant. ;)
Still, it's an interesting period of history that continues to dominate the reason why more marketed American beer continues to suck. Hell, I halfway considered using a leftover keg of bud as a substitute for water when I brewed my next batch of homebrew.
There's a rather good explanation for this. Not that I'm defending it, but rather explaining it to understand it and adress it at the root cause.
Prohibition was a scary time for Americans, particularly breweries - most of which went out of business. Prohibition was created by women marching in the streets, complaining that their husbands had become drunks in the saloons. Who could blame them - during the depression, there weren't many jobs to keep them occupied.
When prohibition was repealed, the breweries wanted to create beer that would appeal to women, so that they would become consumers and not vote again for prohibition. So they made their beers lighter, and specialized in the lager field that they felt was more approachable for those who weren't accustomed to drinking beer.
Sadly, America's beer development was stuck on training wheels until about the 80s, when certain individuals started experimenting with brewing their own. This launched a movement where people started becoming more interested in flavor rather than just getting drunk.
In case you haven't been to this side of the pond recently, there are many wonderful breweries that severly stomp on most European breweries which are stuck doing things the way they did around the time that America was discovered. I'd highly reccomend checking out some of these breweries:
Just to point out that there's a difference between "specialized parts", and regular, normal parts that have "specialized decals" on them. Of course, the decals look cool in certain situations, but sometimes they're not appropriate for what you're trying to build.
OK, so what if I have a pickup truck that just arrived full of hard drives? How fast can I get that data into a useful state (i.e. loaded into RAM)? You still need to plug it in.
This is a bit like marriage... just because you've got a wife doesn't mean that you're experiencing a real-live porno 24-7.
It's not about the bandwidth, but what you do with it...
If you drive a car while drunk, is it the car manufacturer's fault if you drive into a tree and are severely wounded?
People would stop driving drunk if there was a massive explosive-backed spike aiming at them - embedded in the steering column. In fact, if all cars had this feature, we'd see much more polite drivers... while we're at it, make the body out of glass, and we'd see an end to road rage as we know it.
hmm, that sounds like certain operating system licenses...
I'll sell you this seed today, but it will stop working in a year, and you'll need to buy seed 2.0 next year.