Yeah, unless there's a delay between the infection and the death, like AIDS.
A virus that causes 'extremely massive casualities' is a failure. Gene's exist to replicate, not to kill. A successful virus is one that you spread like crazy, but your body never kills off, and never kills your body (since it's harder to spread to other people from inside a coffin).
IMAP with good filters and the right client can download just the headers, which should be enough to decide whether the message is spam or not. Webmail can be good because it only typically shows the date, subject, and from, and doesn't bother with the other headers (at least not on the overview), but that may not be enough to automatically sideline messages which get past the server-side spam filters... Also, using a web-browser to read email suck:-)
Not sure if the deal is still available, but Tivo had an offer out to Series 1 lifetime owners to move their lifetime subscription to a new Series2, but you had to buy direct from them, and I think it ended last month (but maybe this month).
I think the attitude that "but I might _need_ that floppy or PS/2 keyboard" comes from the lousy quality of PCs. I've never worried whether my USB keyboard and mouse would work or whether I'd be able to boot from CD with my Macs. My NeXT never had trouble booting from CD (once I got a drive for it:-), or external SCSI drives, or even off the Net. That said, I can see the hobbyist's need for parallel ports, and I still have uses for serial ports to hook up to 'legacy' devices (like my wife's GPS and our Tivo). But'd be happier if the GPS had USB (downloading 24MB of maps over serial, even 115.2K is slow!), and my Tivo has ethernet, so if they'd stop disabling telnet server on upgrade, I wouldn't need the serial port on that either...
I've got two of them, they rock...
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This picture? http://artscenecal.com/ArtistsFiles/Lang eD/LangeDF ile/LangeDPics/DLange1.html If so, I don't think there was a cigarette. I worked for Horace (the photographer) just after high school, and could probably check the negative if you like...
But Microsoft is a verb too. It means to destroy by any means possible competitors while delivering a sub-par product with lots of security holes and poor UI.
Yeah, it's 7 years worth at the artificially limited 10.5 billion/year we allow Iraq to sell via UN contracts. Don't think we won't lift that limitiation after we're getting our cut of the $$s.
In his paper, 'widespread, but small-scale and unorganized' means that a copy from the original doesn't 'travel' very far. That is, from any one 'original' (legal, licensed) copy, only a few copies are made, but that many legal 'originals' have copies made from them. Ie, every person who purchases a copy makes one copy for their parents, but those parents don't give out further copies (after all, how many parents like their kids' music:-)
I think he's addressing the DRM advocates who use the 'napsterization' threat as an excuse to introduce DRM that only solves the 'small scale' threat. They (the DRM advocates) overstate the problem for their solution, and there solution does nothing to solve the problem they state.
In short, I think he's calling the DRM advocates either stupid or disingenuous.
I recently set up a domain and 1 page website for our friends who clean carpets. They wondered why it didn't come up when they typed the address. The were typing the address into a yahoo search box on the day the site went live. The didn't have a clue of the difference between the address and the search boxes in the browser. Explaining it wasn't that hard though: "Here, this is where you type someone's phone number. Here is where you type their name to lookup their phone number."... Light goes on...:-)
My wife wanted a PC, I'm a NeXT, NetBSD, Mac guy..
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I told her she could get a PC, but I wouldn't do _ANY_ support for it. She got a Mac (blueberry iBook). Since it ran OS9, I should have let her get a PC:-) So for our anniversary, I got her a 12" Powerbook (can't run OS9, yay!), and she's happy with it, and I can ssh in to fix anything.
So, now my wife is trying to convince her friend to get a Mac. God I hope they get a PC!:-)
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The reason that people freak out, and the reason I bought VPC 6 the day I found out Microsoft bought it was that I wanted Virtual PC, not Virtual Windows. I bought it without any windows, and now I can run Linux and Wine which will let me run the 1 piece of Windows software I want to run (Garmin MapSource).
Who thinks that Microsoft will go out of their way to make sure that Microsoft VPC will run 'alternate' operating systems?
Then you want the devices to send IP packets over their power plugs, and have a single device that sits on the 'power network' that has an RJ-45 and gateways packets between the 'power network' and ethernet. Like I really want an RJ-45 cable running from my blender to the wall, along with the power cable. It might be ok with things like the fridge or the washing machine, but an extra cable for things like a toaster, blender, or lamp would just kill the idea.
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Yeah, unless there's a delay between the infection and the death, like AIDS.
A virus that causes 'extremely massive casualities' is a failure. Gene's exist to replicate, not to kill. A successful virus is one that you spread like crazy, but your body never kills off, and never kills your body (since it's harder to spread to other people from inside a coffin).
IMAP with good filters and the right client can download just the headers, which should be enough to decide whether the message is spam or not. Webmail can be good because it only typically shows the date, subject, and from, and doesn't bother with the other headers (at least not on the overview), but that may not be enough to automatically sideline messages which get past the server-side spam filters... :-)
Also, using a web-browser to read email suck
Not sure if the deal is still available, but Tivo had an offer out to Series 1 lifetime owners to move their lifetime subscription to a new Series2, but you had to buy direct from them, and I think it ended last month (but maybe this month).
Nope, neither does this one:
Obey!
Which you can get on a T-shirt .
Which shuttle box? My Shuttle SS51g has 1 serial port...
I think the attitude that "but I might _need_ that floppy or PS/2 keyboard" comes from the lousy quality of PCs. I've never worried whether my USB keyboard and mouse would work or whether I'd be able to boot from CD with my Macs. My NeXT never had trouble booting from CD (once I got a drive for it :-), or external SCSI drives, or even off the Net.
That said, I can see the hobbyist's need for parallel ports, and I still have uses for serial ports to hook up to 'legacy' devices (like my wife's GPS and our Tivo). But'd be happier if the GPS had USB (downloading 24MB of maps over serial, even 115.2K is slow!), and my Tivo has ethernet, so if they'd stop disabling telnet server on upgrade, I wouldn't need the serial port on that either...
_AND_ they run Mac OS-X!
"What a country!"
I wonder if it's Applescript enabled... Then I'd just script it to do the typing :-)
This picture?g eD/LangeDF ile/LangeDPics/DLange1.html
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http://artscenecal.com/ArtistsFiles/Lan
If so, I don't think there was a cigarette. I worked for Horace (the photographer) just after high school, and could probably check the negative if you like...
Appearances aren't always what they seem
But Microsoft is a verb too. It means to destroy by any means possible competitors while delivering a sub-par product with lots of security holes and poor UI.
Yeah, it's 7 years worth at the artificially limited 10.5 billion/year we allow Iraq to sell via UN contracts. Don't think we won't lift that limitiation after we're getting our cut of the $$s.
I think you may be making the assumption that the american people don't believe the same thing, that this is all about oil.
See the recent release that Dick Cheney's former company just got a no-bid contract for putting out oil field fires.
Just install TMDA, since you're already running your own server.
In his paper, 'widespread, but small-scale and unorganized' means that a copy from the original doesn't 'travel' very far. That is, from any one 'original' (legal, licensed) copy, only a few copies are made, but that many legal 'originals' have copies made from them. Ie, every person who purchases a copy makes one copy for their parents, but those parents don't give out further copies (after all, how many parents like their kids' music
I think he's addressing the DRM advocates who use the 'napsterization' threat as an excuse to introduce DRM that only solves the 'small scale' threat. They (the DRM advocates) overstate the problem for their solution, and there solution does nothing to solve the problem they state.
In short, I think he's calling the DRM advocates either stupid or disingenuous.
I recently set up a domain and 1 page website for our friends who clean carpets. They wondered why it didn't come up when they typed the address. The were typing the address into a yahoo search box on the day the site went live. The didn't have a clue of the difference between the address and the search boxes in the browser. :-)
Explaining it wasn't that hard though: "Here, this is where you type someone's phone number. Here is where you type their name to lookup their phone number."... Light goes on...
So, you uninstalled them both, right? :-)
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I told her she could get a PC, but I wouldn't do _ANY_ support for it. She got a Mac (blueberry iBook). Since it ran OS9, I should have let her get a PC
So, now my wife is trying to convince her friend to get a Mac. God I hope they get a PC!
The reason that people freak out, and the reason I bought VPC 6 the day I found out Microsoft bought it was that I wanted Virtual PC, not Virtual Windows. I bought it without any windows, and now I can run Linux and Wine which will let me run the 1 piece of Windows software I want to run (Garmin MapSource).
Who thinks that Microsoft will go out of their way to make sure that Microsoft VPC will run 'alternate' operating systems?
Also note that 'w' is the only letter that when said by itself is more than one sylable. And, 'web' is one sylable.
:-)
So, my webservers always have a dns alias of 'web'
The Java Powered iButton ring of course!
http://www.iowatelecom.net/~njohnsn/thejava1.ht
(I was going to say that a regular ring is useful, it's the chain that your wife uses to enslave you, but my wife hit me when I said that...
my.domain.org daily insecurity output for Fri Feb 21 03:15:01 PST 2003
/etc/security.local:
Running
Package openssl-0.9.6g has a weak-encryption vulnerability, see http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20030219.txt
Then you want the devices to send IP packets over their power plugs, and have a single device that sits on the 'power network' that has an RJ-45 and gateways packets between the 'power network' and ethernet. Like I really want an RJ-45 cable running from my blender to the wall, along with the power cable. It might be ok with things like the fridge or the washing machine, but an extra cable for things like a toaster, blender, or lamp would just kill the idea.
We've got Cisco IP phones here, so you could just power your device from the Ethernet cable!
tinyhttpd, publicfile, etc.
Oh come on. Anyone who really cares about the security of their mail servers security hasn't run sendmail for a long time!