It's a strange idea to store passwords in the cloud anyway. I use these simple scripts in Ubuntu. Could work on Mac too, and I had a Windows/Perl/batch-file version long ago: $ cat `which p` #!/bin/bash
[ -d/media/truecrypt1 ] || t on
# accept up to 3 arguments, and filter on all 3 if [ -z "$2" ]; then
grep -ni "$1"/media/truecrypt1/p else
grep -ni "$1"/media/truecrypt1/p | grep -i "$2" | grep -i "$3" fi
$ cat `which padd` #!/bin/bash [ -d/media/truecrypt1 ] || t on echo `date +%F` " $@" >>/media/truecrypt1/p
And to mount the truecrypt volume: $ cat `which t` #!/bin/sh
Isn't this problem limited to the USA because their banks use only user/password for authentication?
I know the procedures for 5 or 6 banks in 3 different European countries, and all of them require a lot more to authenticate me.
The 3 procedures are:
* Bank 1 (the simplest, and first system I have seen, some 10 years ago). - authenticate with user id (unrelated to name or account number) and password - be prompted to enter a one-time number from a list which I received by postal (registered) mail (it asks for the number at row x, column y)
All other banks have long moved to something like the 2 others:
* Bank 2. - put a special card received from the bank into a special calculator also received from the bank and enter password - enter user id (unrelated to name or account number) on bank web site - receive a one-time 6 digit number and type it into the special calculator - the calculator gives an 8 or 10 alphanumeric one-time password to enter into the web form
* Bank 3. - I can't remember the details, but as with bank 2, there is a special device and procedure to follow involving password, user id, device id and one-time numbers exchanged between the device and the bank's site.
- On top of that, the bank sends me an email every time I connect, with the date, time, the IP address from which I connected, and the money operations performed if any.
we'd have two more Slashdot Moral Values-friendly politicians in office
I wonder what these "Slashdot Moral Values" are exactly.
Thinking about what I read in the last few years, very few are obvious: open source good/closed bad, Abusive copyrights bad (but I'm sure there is a very wide range of views on where "abusive" starts). There is not much else, is there? Well truisms like Science good/Ideology bad?
Ideology? I have a read a lot of "socialism = stalinist USSR = bad" and "capitalism = freedom = good" around here. Which seemed very ideological.
But (unfortunately), the venom of Bufo Marinus does not seem to contain the strong hallucinogenic compound found in Bufo Alvarius (5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine aka 5-MeO-DMT).
While some have claimed that bufotenine does have a psychoactive effect, it is disputed, and I wouldn't try it. It definitely does have a cardiovascular effect, which can be dangerous.
Of course it is trivial. But it's useless. Who has a DV player at home/in the office? Nobody I know. They are only to be found in editing rooms. I'm in the offices of a distibutor right now. No DV player around, but plenty of VHS (and DVD) players.
Some producers may have a DV player in their own editing room, but that room is not available because someone is editing in it...
Outputting from Final Cut to VHS is a royal PITA
Why? Never heard that from any editor. As far as I know, they just connect the VHS to the analog output of the DV player, press "Rec", and go have a coffee. Of course it needs a DV deck which receives the FCP output (through FW), but I've never seen an editing room without one anyway.
Still very useful for professionals
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Despite it's terrible picture quality, VHS is still very useful for professionals during editing.
If you need to show the work in progress to someone, the fastest, cheapest and most reliable way is to output from your Final Cut/Avid to VHS.
Sure, you could make a DVD, but many editors don't know how to do that, and if they do know, they just don't have the time for it. The VHS is done in real time, and you can be sure there will be a player for it, and the tape will just play in it.
With a DVD, it will take at least twice the time of what you are recording, and maybe a lot more if you edit on older equipment, and you cannot even be really sure the disc will play on the DVD player that will be used. (I have received several self-made DVDs which play in my computer, but from which I get no sound out of my normal DVD player.)
but Betacam SP was a big hit and is a defacto standard for professionals.
Beta SP was the standard. Now, it's rather Digital Betacam, IMX, HDCAM, or even DVCAM.
Still all Sony though! They seem to be the Microsoft of the video world.
Re:let me explain something about longhorn...
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Just to clarify... "Avoir les cornes, not "Avoir les klaxons," right?
Yes, "Avoir des cornes". Silently, without "klaxons".
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I can confirm that it is the same in French. To "have horns" means to be cheated on by his/her partner.
But since the French don't speak barbaric languages and expect the barbarians to learn a civilized language instead, they will not understand "longhorn", so it won't matter.
OK, now that so many home users have Firefox, and that it works really well, maybe it is time to tackle the corporate front?
FF could be made much easier and practical for administrators to deploy.
There is FFDeploy, but I would hope for something better and easier.
A possibility would be to allow some.ini file as argument to the install, specifying:
- profile location (with the possibility to leave out that stupid random directory name in the profile path),
- a cache directory separate from the profile folder and/or the right registry entries so the cache isn't copied over the network at every logon/logoff.
- extensions to be installed straight away,
- etc.
That.ini or whatever should also expand environment variables like %username%, %userprofile%, etc. (and $HOME etc. on Unix).
If you are deploying FF on your network, have you found a way to do it without going to every machine and setting it up manually?
Why do so many international students struggle to enter the best American universities
There is a lot of high-level research in the US, and big budgets for research.
Why do they leave their country to come to [...] be taught by stupid American professors?
Many professors are not American either, or were not when they first came.
How can American high schools be so much worse than European ones, but still produce students that go to the same universities?
There are brilliant people everywhere. The difference of education shows mainly with average and sub-average people.
Compare it with food in different countries. There are great restaurants in just about any country (if you can afford them). But there are not many countries where you can walk into some random restaurant around the corner and have a good chance of being served decent food. Of the countries I know, I would count Italy, Lebanon, Marocco and Thailand as the ones with good food.
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There is a bit missing in the post above:
$ cat `which t`
#!/bin/sh
file=$HOME/timecode
tcvol=/media/truecrypt1
do=$1
case "$do" in /media/truecrypt1 < /proc/mounts ; then ;; ;; ;; ;;
"on")
if grep -q
logger -t truecrypt "$0 Starting tc: already mounted"
exit
fi
logger -t truecrypt "$0 Starting tc"
DISPLAY=:0.0 truecrypt $file
"off")
t=$(find $tcvol -type f -printf "%TY-%Tm-%Td %TH:%TM\n" | sort -n | tail -1)
truecrypt -d
if [ -n "$t" ] ; then
touch -d "$t" $file
logger -t truecrypt "$0 Stopped tc and set mtime to $t"
else
logger -t truecrypt "$0 Stopped tc; no mtime to set found"
fi
"status")
truecrypt -t -l
"*")
echo "Usage: $0 on|off|status";
logger -t truecrypt "Bad option '$do' given to $0"
exit 1;
esac
It's a strange idea to store passwords in the cloud anyway. I use these simple scripts in Ubuntu. Could work on Mac too, and I had a Windows/Perl/batch-file version long ago:
$ cat `which p`
#!/bin/bash
[ -d /media/truecrypt1 ] || t on
# accept up to 3 arguments, and filter on all 3 /media/truecrypt1/p /media/truecrypt1/p | grep -i "$2" | grep -i "$3"
if [ -z "$2" ]; then
grep -ni "$1"
else
grep -ni "$1"
fi
$ cat `which padd` /media/truecrypt1 ] || t on
#!/bin/bash
[ -d
echo `date +%F` " $@" >>/media/truecrypt1/p
And to mount the truecrypt volume:
$ cat `which t`
#!/bin/sh
file=$HOME/timecode
tcvol=/media/truecrypt1
do=$1
case "$do" in /media/truecrypt1
"on")
if grep -q
In hex, the string is:
506f 7765 7220 d984 d98f d984 d98f d8b5 d991 d8a8 d98f d984 d98f d984 d8b5 d991 d8a8 d98f d8b1 d8b1 d98b 20e0 a5a3 20e0 a5a3 6820 e0a5 a320 e0a5 a320 e586 97
It starts with "Power ", but I guess that's not important.
Isn't this problem limited to the USA because their banks use only user/password for authentication?
I know the procedures for 5 or 6 banks in 3 different European countries, and all of them require a lot more to authenticate me.
The 3 procedures are:
* Bank 1 (the simplest, and first system I have seen, some 10 years ago).
- authenticate with user id (unrelated to name or account number) and password
- be prompted to enter a one-time number from a list which I received by postal (registered) mail (it asks for the number at row x, column y)
All other banks have long moved to something like the 2 others:
* Bank 2.
- put a special card received from the bank into a special calculator also received from the bank and enter password
- enter user id (unrelated to name or account number) on bank web site
- receive a one-time 6 digit number and type it into the special calculator
- the calculator gives an 8 or 10 alphanumeric one-time password to enter into the web form
* Bank 3.
- I can't remember the details, but as with bank 2, there is a special device and procedure to follow involving password, user id, device id and one-time numbers exchanged between the device and the bank's site.
- On top of that, the bank sends me an email every time I connect, with the date, time, the IP address from which I connected, and the money operations performed if any.
I wonder what these "Slashdot Moral Values" are exactly.
Thinking about what I read in the last few years, very few are obvious: open source good/closed bad, Abusive copyrights bad (but I'm sure there is a very wide range of views on where "abusive" starts). There is not much else, is there? Well truisms like Science good/Ideology bad?
Ideology? I have a read a lot of "socialism = stalinist USSR = bad" and "capitalism = freedom = good" around here. Which seemed very ideological.
What are the values shared among
Actually, silently install firefox for them
/silent switch...
Unfortunately, as far as I can see, the installer doesn't understand the
The toxic mixture present in Bufo cane toads contains up to 15% 5-MeO-DMT
I don't think this is correct. It is Bufo alvarius which does have this hallucinogenic venom.
These are related to Bufo Alvarius aka The Psychedelic Toad of the Sonoran Desert.
But (unfortunately), the venom of Bufo Marinus does not seem to contain the strong hallucinogenic compound found in Bufo Alvarius (5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine aka 5-MeO-DMT).
While some have claimed that bufotenine does have a psychoactive effect, it is disputed, and I wouldn't try it. It definitely does have a cardiovascular effect, which can be dangerous.
See TOAD VENOM...THEIR TOXICITY & PSYCHOACTIVE EFFECTS.
So, I don't think I will go toad hunting to Australia. Good old psylocibin or LSD seem much safer...
Outputting from Final Cut to DV tape is trivial
Of course it is trivial. But it's useless. Who has a DV player at home/in the office? Nobody I know. They are only to be found in editing rooms. I'm in the offices of a distibutor right now. No DV player around, but plenty of VHS (and DVD) players.
Some producers may have a DV player in their own editing room, but that room is not available because someone is editing in it...
Outputting from Final Cut to VHS is a royal PITA
Why? Never heard that from any editor. As far as I know, they just connect the VHS to the analog output of the DV player, press "Rec", and go have a coffee. Of course it needs a DV deck which receives the FCP output (through FW), but I've never seen an editing room without one anyway.
Despite it's terrible picture quality, VHS is still very useful for professionals during editing.
If you need to show the work in progress to someone, the fastest, cheapest and most reliable way is to output from your Final Cut/Avid to VHS.
Sure, you could make a DVD, but many editors don't know how to do that, and if they do know, they just don't have the time for it. The VHS is done in real time, and you can be sure there will be a player for it, and the tape will just play in it.
With a DVD, it will take at least twice the time of what you are recording, and maybe a lot more if you edit on older equipment, and you cannot even be really sure the disc will play on the DVD player that will be used. (I have received several self-made DVDs which play in my computer, but from which I get no sound out of my normal DVD player.)
but Betacam SP was a big hit and is a defacto standard for professionals.
Beta SP was the standard. Now, it's rather Digital Betacam, IMX, HDCAM, or even DVCAM.
Still all Sony though! They seem to be the Microsoft of the video world.
Just to clarify... "Avoir les cornes, not "Avoir les klaxons," right?
Yes, "Avoir des cornes". Silently, without "klaxons".
I can confirm that it is the same in French. To "have horns" means to be cheated on by his/her partner. But since the French don't speak barbaric languages and expect the barbarians to learn a civilized language instead, they will not understand "longhorn", so it won't matter.
OK, now that so many home users have Firefox, and that it works really well, maybe it is time to tackle the corporate front?
.ini file as argument to the install, specifying:
.ini or whatever should also expand environment variables like %username%, %userprofile%, etc. (and $HOME etc. on Unix).
FF could be made much easier and practical for administrators to deploy.
There is FFDeploy, but I would hope for something better and easier.
A possibility would be to allow some
- profile location (with the possibility to leave out that stupid random directory name in the profile path),
- a cache directory separate from the profile folder and/or the right registry entries so the cache isn't copied over the network at every logon/logoff.
- extensions to be installed straight away,
- etc.
That
If you are deploying FF on your network, have you found a way to do it without going to every machine and setting it up manually?
Why do so many international students struggle to enter the best American universities
There is a lot of high-level research in the US, and big budgets for research.
Why do they leave their country to come to [...] be taught by stupid American professors?
Many professors are not American either, or were not when they first came.
How can American high schools be so much worse than European ones, but still produce students that go to the same universities?
There are brilliant people everywhere. The difference of education shows mainly with average and sub-average people.
Compare it with food in different countries. There are great restaurants in just about any country (if you can afford them). But there are not many countries where you can walk into some random restaurant around the corner and have a good chance of being served decent food. Of the countries I know, I would count Italy, Lebanon, Marocco and Thailand as the ones with good food.