The other big difference between using Open Source vs. a Microsoft product, is that I don't have to fork over substantial amounts to cash to be what is in essence a beta tester (and before everyone flames me saying 'you don't have to pay to be on the MS beta program' - I KNOW! I'm talking about the fact that the first gold release of their software is about beta quality), and then have to fork over additional cash to get support, not to mention the frequency of "Ooops, did we put a massive vulnerability in the application that cost your organization real money. Our bad, but there's nothing you can do about it because we don't accept liability for any loses arising for the use of our product". Things need to freakin' change!
Anecdotal evidence from my company's maillogs doesn't support that. The majority of connections appear to come directly from client machines. Also, we used to run MAPS dial-up black list, which supposedly only lists known ISP client-allocated ranges - the amount of rejected sessions was pretty interesting to say the least.
The other thing that I have observed is that there doesn't seem to be a lot of correlation between the ISP that owns the IP block from which a particular spam message originates, and the domain of the e-mail address used in that message. In this case SPF should fix the problem quite nicely, the biggest problem is its slow adoption. I'd love to turn on rejection of non-SPF validated e-mail, but the execs would have a fit...
The problem (at least as I see it) is that the servos still need power to operate, so you either end up running power cables anyway (which probably comprise most of the weight) or you go with distributed power sources - I can think of any number of reasons that you wouldn't want to do that). As another poster pointed out, the easiest way to save weight for control wiring is to use fiber.
For inherently unstable aircraft, such as most modern generation fighters, where the flight management systems are making thousands of corrections per second, I suspect that wireless latency would be completely unnacceptable. Not to mention it's suceptability to outside interference, which you could fix by adding shielding, etc., but then you're back to adding more weight...
The last I heard is that it was due out this past April. It appears to be late:) But, I'm totally with you. The Comcast POS is slow, unreliable with an appalling UI. I've had 3 of them fail now, and its a crap-shoot as to whether it will actually record the entire show, and even if it does, whether the audio will consist of white noise.
So as a former writing instructor, you should know that correct capitilization helps the reader more readily parse the sentance structure, and should be used even when the writing style is 'informal'. Lack of capitalization is just plain laziness.
E-mail, IM, and particularly SMS is killing proper writing techniques.
Have you ever used Spin-Rite or any other Gibson products? If you had, then you'd know that my post did not contain "non-serious" content. How can saying that Spin-Rite is a great product and that Gibson has a lot of credibility possibly be construed as non-serious.
Let me state this categorically for all of you retards out there. I like and have used, and have been saved by, Spin-Rite many times! I admire and respect Gibson's ability to write stable, quality products in assembler. There, is it all clear now? I promise in future that any non-serious content will be enclosed in the appropriate meta-tags.
He's also the guy who wrote his own IIRC app from the RFC in order to back-track some script kiddies. His article about the DoS attack on his site is interesting reading:
How is the GP hypocritical? When was the last time that Boeing had to make a aircraft system that was compatible with an Airbus' fly-by-wire control system?
There doesn't have to be much inter-operability between aircraft (other than as required for integration with ATC, etc.)
Totally with you. How is it that the theater execs can claim with a straight face that delaying release to DVD will benefit consumers? It seems that blantant dishonesty is the order of the day now.
Let's see now, I could stay at home and watch a movie on my SXRD with Definitive speakers on a comfy leather couch, or for about the same price (or more if you have to pay for parking in Seattle) and way more hassle, I could go to theater, have to queue for tickets and concessions, sit in a sticky seat and hope I didn't drink too much soda, because then I have to queue for the restrooms...
Ask yourself this: When was the last time the pizze parlour of you choice delivered you a pizza at a movie theater? Happens at my house all the time:)
Sure, your scenario target's the DNS servers that host a specific zone. The scenario I'm talking about is a bandwidth DDoS for any publicly accessible network.
1. Pick the target network who's bandwith you want to consume. 2. Send a bunch of DNS requests to a number of DNS servers with requests for records in their respective authoritative zones and send the response to the target network by spoofing the source address to one from the target network. 3. Sit back and imagine the screams of anguish.
The DNS servers don't need to be recursive for this to work...unless I'm missing something...
Hmmm. It seems that if it is just an amplification attack, a non-recursive server would work just as well. Simply spoof the source address of the UDP packet and request a record for which the DNS server is authoritative. Should have about the same effect.
Yeah - I always thought it funny when the US government was saying "well, if we allow people to use their cell phones on a plane, terrorists could use them to coordinate attacks"... A convincing argument, which conveniently overlooks the reality that people who are willing to fly planes into buildings are not going to be too worried about an FAA citation for turning on an "unapproved electronic device" in flight.
You're not a pilot right? GPS is a gift from the gods and any pilot that has an IFR certified GPS system who doesn't use it as the primary nav source is an idiot. GPS massively reduces cockpit workload, and reduces the amount of time that a pilot spends aways from his primary duty, which is to fly the plane. GPS should always be cross-checked with secondary nav, of course.
A couple of points. 1. Selective availabilty. Not really a problem for an airplane. I don't care whether I have 1 meter of accuracy or 100 meters. I'm flying a plane, not a cruise missile.
2. If the US goverment decides to turn the GPS system off, the GPS will simply lose signal, prompting any halfway decent pilot who should be doing course checks every 10 minutes or so to switch to secondary nav.
Most TV's allow you to zoom the 4:3 image to fill the screen on a 16:9 TV. The result is that you end up with a cropped image and the resolution sucks, but hey, it's NTSC anyway. I used to do this with my Hitachi RP CRT since it had the grey side bars (which are annoying), but since replacing it with a Sony SXRD which has black side bars and no burn problems, I just watch 4:3 content in 4:3 mode. I simply stop noticing the sidebars after a few minutes.
I find that a soft light (on a dimmer switch) thrown against the wall behind an LCD monitor with the rest of the room as dark as possible helps to relieve strain. There is no reflected light on the display to deal with and it's much more relaxing to the eyes than working in complete darkness.
Dude, a British billion used to be one million million, as opposed to the American one thousand million. Common usage in the UK is now the American version.
Sorry, I made the assumption that you were posting another "not made in America, ergo I don't understand it, ergo it's crap" comment wrapped in subtle sarcasm. I was wrong apparently...
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The other big difference between using Open Source vs. a Microsoft product, is that I don't have to fork over substantial amounts to cash to be what is in essence a beta tester (and before everyone flames me saying 'you don't have to pay to be on the MS beta program' - I KNOW! I'm talking about the fact that the first gold release of their software is about beta quality), and then have to fork over additional cash to get support, not to mention the frequency of "Ooops, did we put a massive vulnerability in the application that cost your organization real money. Our bad, but there's nothing you can do about it because we don't accept liability for any loses arising for the use of our product". Things need to freakin' change!
Well, obviously - how many LAN drops have you seen in the jungle? Oh, wait, that's Gorillas...
Anecdotal evidence from my company's maillogs doesn't support that. The majority of connections appear to come directly from client machines. Also, we used to run MAPS dial-up black list, which supposedly only lists known ISP client-allocated ranges - the amount of rejected sessions was pretty interesting to say the least.
The other thing that I have observed is that there doesn't seem to be a lot of correlation between the ISP that owns the IP block from which a particular spam message originates, and the domain of the e-mail address used in that message. In this case SPF should fix the problem quite nicely, the biggest problem is its slow adoption. I'd love to turn on rejection of non-SPF validated e-mail, but the execs would have a fit...
The problem (at least as I see it) is that the servos still need power to operate, so you either end up running power cables anyway (which probably comprise most of the weight) or you go with distributed power sources - I can think of any number of reasons that you wouldn't want to do that). As another poster pointed out, the easiest way to save weight for control wiring is to use fiber.
For inherently unstable aircraft, such as most modern generation fighters, where the flight management systems are making thousands of corrections per second, I suspect that wireless latency would be completely unnacceptable. Not to mention it's suceptability to outside interference, which you could fix by adding shielding, etc., but then you're back to adding more weight...
Nah, you just have to fly in a very small circle...
Sink our tiny island... You really mean sink the US' largest aircraft carrier :)
The last I heard is that it was due out this past April. It appears to be late :) But, I'm totally with you. The Comcast POS is slow, unreliable with an appalling UI. I've had 3 of them fail now, and its a crap-shoot as to whether it will actually record the entire show, and even if it does, whether the audio will consist of white noise.
So as a former writing instructor, you should know that correct capitilization helps the reader more readily parse the sentance structure, and should be used even when the writing style is 'informal'. Lack of capitalization is just plain laziness.
E-mail, IM, and particularly SMS is killing proper writing techniques.
Have you ever used Spin-Rite or any other Gibson products? If you had, then you'd know that my post did not contain "non-serious" content. How can saying that Spin-Rite is a great product and that Gibson has a lot of credibility possibly be construed as non-serious.
Let me state this categorically for all of you retards out there. I like and have used, and have been saved by, Spin-Rite many times! I admire and respect Gibson's ability to write stable, quality products in assembler. There, is it all clear now? I promise in future that any non-serious content will be enclosed in the appropriate meta-tags.
Sheesh!
No, the point was the Spin-Rite is a great product and that Gibson has a lot of credibility.
He's also the guy who wrote his own IIRC app from the RFC in order to back-track some script kiddies. His article about the DoS attack on his site is interesting reading:
http://www.grc.com/dos/grcdos.htm
How is the GP hypocritical? When was the last time that Boeing had to make a aircraft system that was compatible with an Airbus' fly-by-wire control system?
There doesn't have to be much inter-operability between aircraft (other than as required for integration with ATC, etc.)
Totally with you. How is it that the theater execs can claim with a straight face that delaying release to DVD will benefit consumers? It seems that blantant dishonesty is the order of the day now.
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Let's see now, I could stay at home and watch a movie on my SXRD with Definitive speakers on a comfy leather couch, or for about the same price (or more if you have to pay for parking in Seattle) and way more hassle, I could go to theater, have to queue for tickets and concessions, sit in a sticky seat and hope I didn't drink too much soda, because then I have to queue for the restrooms...
Ask yourself this: When was the last time the pizze parlour of you choice delivered you a pizza at a movie theater? Happens at my house all the time
Sure, your scenario target's the DNS servers that host a specific zone. The scenario I'm talking about is a bandwidth DDoS for any publicly accessible network.
1. Pick the target network who's bandwith you want to consume.
2. Send a bunch of DNS requests to a number of DNS servers with requests for records in their respective authoritative zones and send the response to the target network by spoofing the source address to one from the target network.
3. Sit back and imagine the screams of anguish.
The DNS servers don't need to be recursive for this to work...unless I'm missing something...
Hmmm. It seems that if it is just an amplification attack, a non-recursive server would work just as well. Simply spoof the source address of the UDP packet and request a record for which the DNS server is authoritative. Should have about the same effect.
20,000 lines of code... I think that you're putting in too much exception handling :)
Yeah - I always thought it funny when the US government was saying "well, if we allow people to use their cell phones on a plane, terrorists could use them to coordinate attacks"... A convincing argument, which conveniently overlooks the reality that people who are willing to fly planes into buildings are not going to be too worried about an FAA citation for turning on an "unapproved electronic device" in flight.
You're not a pilot right? GPS is a gift from the gods and any pilot that has an IFR certified GPS system who doesn't use it as the primary nav source is an idiot. GPS massively reduces cockpit workload, and reduces the amount of time that a pilot spends aways from his primary duty, which is to fly the plane. GPS should always be cross-checked with secondary nav, of course.
A couple of points.
1. Selective availabilty. Not really a problem for an airplane. I don't care whether I have 1 meter of accuracy or 100 meters. I'm flying a plane, not a cruise missile.
2. If the US goverment decides to turn the GPS system off, the GPS will simply lose signal, prompting any halfway decent pilot who should be doing course checks every 10 minutes or so to switch to secondary nav.
IAAP (I am a pilot)
Most TV's allow you to zoom the 4:3 image to fill the screen on a 16:9 TV. The result is that you end up with a cropped image and the resolution sucks, but hey, it's NTSC anyway. I used to do this with my Hitachi RP CRT since it had the grey side bars (which are annoying), but since replacing it with a Sony SXRD which has black side bars and no burn problems, I just watch 4:3 content in 4:3 mode. I simply stop noticing the sidebars after a few minutes.
I find that a soft light (on a dimmer switch) thrown against the wall behind an LCD monitor with the rest of the room as dark as possible helps to relieve strain. There is no reflected light on the display to deal with and it's much more relaxing to the eyes than working in complete darkness.
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Something like this: http://www.morehome.com/index.cfm?page=display:pr
Purists would probably argue that you should use a full spectrum light source with a 18% grey wall to maintain color balance...
I also have a similar setup for watching TV.
Lack of adequate sleep (i.e. 5 hours per night) can also contribute to loss of vision.
Dude, a British billion used to be one million million, as opposed to the American one thousand million. Common usage in the UK is now the American version.
I don't think that the intent is that everyone keeps the same schedule, merely that everyone uses the same time reference.
Yes, curse you and all of your progeny, General Lafayette!
Rule Britannia, and all of that crap...
Sorry, I made the assumption that you were posting another "not made in America, ergo I don't understand it, ergo it's crap" comment wrapped in subtle sarcasm. I was wrong apparently...
The fact that they don't appeal to your tastes does not indicate that there isn't a substantial market for them elsewhere.