main difference afaict is that methane (natural gas) is more flamablle so needs more care to handle safely than propane and butane (LPG) so isn't generally supplied in bottles.
natural gas (with something smelly added so you can smell leaks) is piped to a large proportion of houses in britan though normal pipes and doesn't seem to cause too many problems.
both are used in similar equipment (cookers boilers bunsen burners etc) though obviously exact sizes of holes etc differ between lpg equipment and natural gas equipment to get the same sizes of flame with different gasses.
not entirely due to gravity though gravity is certainly involved.
an orbiting object has its lateral velocity balanced with gravity in such a way that its state stays steady, but atnospheric resistance takes away energy from the object causing it to spiral into lower and lower orbits (and as the orbit gets lower the resistance gets greater accelerating the process).
who else would you like to control it though i'm not sure i trust the UN any more than i trust the U.S.A.
besides if the U.S.A decided to fuck with things too much it wouldn't be that hard to set up aternate roots that reflected the situation before the U.S.A. made the unacceptable changes.
this is a very important point many many websites including some very very major ones rely on name based virtual hosting (it makes say using a cluster to serve a group of websites a lot easier).
yes a few have been made to run unofficial firmware unfortunately they don't seem to be the ones with built in dsl modems (and finding a dsl device that can connect over ethernet to a router and connect to a pppoa isp just seems like too much trouble). and i don't think it would count as anywhere near most home routers.
afaict most home nats are similar to the most basic config of a statefull packet inspection firewall. That is they let you connect out but don't (at least easilly) allow connections in.
the problem is of course that you wan't some connections coming in but not others (because of chronically insecure lan protocols etc). UPNP helps to some degree as generally only internet orientated applications use it leaving stuff thats only safe for lan protected. another option is to manually open the holes but this is a pita for experianced people and basically impossible for the masses.
the final possibility is software firewalls. Theese work good at controlling what apps can be accessed from the internet but running on the pc you are trying to protect leaves them vulnerable to interferance from malware.
offtopic but people are afraid of DDOS for two reasons.
1: it can cost them a money immediately if thier connection is metered 2: it can get them chucked off thier provider (many small providers only have 100mbit themselves which is not too difficult to saturate). 3: it costs a lot of money to keep a site running in the face of constant DDOS
getting hacked generally means you wipe the box and re-build the OS on it then restore your data. A pita sure but something you can easilly move on from.
i understand why you don't wan't to spend thousands on kit but can't you at least find a way to keep the signal in an electrical form rather than recording through a horrible laptop mic?
you say the readers are quite pricey but a few hundred dollars really isn't a huge sum when you consider what it can save you;)
when the RSPCA (substitute equivilent local institution if required) take in a stray animal if they can contact the owner immediately (which a microchip generally allows) it means they can immediately find out if the owner wants it back of if it needs to go up for re-homing.
on the other hand if they can't get in touch with the owner they have to hold the animal for a minimum time in case its claimed by the owner before they can put it up for re-homing.
the problem with mysql is like qt its software that was licensed in such a way as to drive sales of thier commercial product rather than helping the OSS community (why else would they GPL the client access libs?).
i can see why people wouldn't wan't to contribute to a project with such lopsided licensing (e.g. mysql AB can profit from your code in thier commercial/propietry product whilst you can't do the same)
and a hostile fork would just leave something that was impossible to use legally (at least by mysqls GPL interpretation other interpretations may vary) as a backend data store that your propietry apps can use.
therefore the safest option is almost certainly to switch to a freer DB like postgreSQL though i agree that doing so will involve a lot of short term pain
note that ICQ lets you set up a list of users who can see you even if you are set on invisible. which is a great feature if you wan't to be reachable by a few friends all the time but only by your larger contact list some of the time.
and finally this IS NOT bittorrent its a means of communication for groups of friends, if invisible mode causes problems for some groups of friends then thats an issue for them to solve between themselves.
Windows 9x DOES have preemtive multitasking for 32 bit apps and it does work (you can run a 32 bit app that hangs in an infinite loop without making the system unusable).
However it did indeed suffer a number of problems due to the desicion to build it as a 16/32 bit hybrid 1: if you opened a lot of windows at once you started to get problems i'm not entirely sure why but i expect it was to do with running out of some form of system rescources.
2: a hanging win16 app would basically hang the system
3: its system for closing misbehaved programs was not the best arround
the tradeoff was that win9x had extremely good support for dos games and badly coded win16 applications whereas switching to the NT line meant huge compatiblity sacrifices (it still does if you are a retro gamer).
It means if they get into a peering dispute there is a VERY high chance you will be cut off from part of the internet. A big tier 2 otoh will probablly have both its own peering arrangements and upstreams to muliple tier 1 ISPs so is less likely to cut you off from parts of the internet.
of course being multihomed yourself is the safest course of action though it does bring complications of its own.
finally multiple internet connections with nat are a possibility (see the linux advanced routing and traffic control howto). This may be simpler and cheaper to set up than true mulihoming (it doesn't require any cooperation from the isps) and if one of your lines has trouble reaching a certain site you can simply reconfigure your routing to put all traffic to that site on the other one.
Even timid bunny rabbits can give a good bite if provoked enough i wouldn't say they need to be explicitly provoked
i know i've had a friends bunny try to bite me (i was moving at the time and it didn't actually manage to bite but i certainly felt some part of its mouth on the tendon behind my ankle) when i was just standing in the garden with me. (it seemed to smell my feet and think they were another male competing with it or something it was always far more aggressive arround males than arround females)
after that i always made sure i wore wellies when it was arround so it couldn't smell my feet.
the real problem is that moving to using an open system involves convincing users to create yet another account etc.
also until recently the free version of trillian (which is probablly the number one multiprotocol im client) didn't support jabber and whatever some people try to say irc is NOT an im system.
1: run 4 different bits of bloatware 2: be unable to contact some of thier friends 3: run one bit of bloatware that misses major features 4: some mixture of the above
the real problem is that moving to using an open system convincing users to create yet another account etc.
fast food outlets like mcdonalds may be expensive compared to eating at home but thats not always feasible. Compared to other types of cafe i belive thier prices are generally similar or lower.
wiping an individual site off the internet if it wasn't under a US controlled TLD would be bloody expensive and a political nightmare. Afaict you would have to change the root zone and then set up your own servers to proxy all requests for the entire TLD!
it was a sham because they were ticking a box in a way that was of virtually no practical use. IIRC the posix subsystem couldn't even access the network.
here in the uk you see basic rate ISDN a fair bit at moderate size buisnesses generally feeding into PBX systems.
but yeah for data its not great, slightly faster than dialup but not significantly so and administered/charged in the same way as dialup (read: flat rate accounts availible but generally with a limit on time online in any one day and/or auto dropping after a set connection duration). also i think it can often be less disruptive to have your existing PSTN lines converted to ISDN than to get more PSTN lines installed.
most dialup providers afaict use some ISDN variant to terminate the calls and i belive this is a requirement for working with 56K modems at full speed. So normally you can use ISDN dialup with any dialup ISP and thier kit figures out its talking to another ISDN unit rather than a 56K modem.
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main difference afaict is that methane (natural gas) is more flamablle so needs more care to handle safely than propane and butane (LPG) so isn't generally supplied in bottles.
natural gas (with something smelly added so you can smell leaks) is piped to a large proportion of houses in britan though normal pipes and doesn't seem to cause too many problems.
both are used in similar equipment (cookers boilers bunsen burners etc) though obviously exact sizes of holes etc differ between lpg equipment and natural gas equipment to get the same sizes of flame with different gasses.
well they've already ported the google toolbar to it. so i guess a fully branded version wouldn't be a huge effort.
its good for the web in general to have more people using alternate browsers however they are branded as it discourages IE centric web development.
not entirely due to gravity though gravity is certainly involved.
an orbiting object has its lateral velocity balanced with gravity in such a way that its state stays steady, but atnospheric resistance takes away energy from the object causing it to spiral into lower and lower orbits (and as the orbit gets lower the resistance gets greater accelerating the process).
who else would you like to control it though i'm not sure i trust the UN any more than i trust the U.S.A.
besides if the U.S.A decided to fuck with things too much it wouldn't be that hard to set up aternate roots that reflected the situation before the U.S.A. made the unacceptable changes.
this is a very important point many many websites including some very very major ones rely on name based virtual hosting (it makes say using a cluster to serve a group of websites a lot easier).
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yes a few have been made to run unofficial firmware unfortunately they don't seem to be the ones with built in dsl modems (and finding a dsl device that can connect over ethernet to a router and connect to a pppoa isp just seems like too much trouble). and i don't think it would count as anywhere near most home routers.
afaict most home nats are similar to the most basic config of a statefull packet inspection firewall. That is they let you connect out but don't (at least easilly) allow connections in.
the problem is of course that you wan't some connections coming in but not others (because of chronically insecure lan protocols etc). UPNP helps to some degree as generally only internet orientated applications use it leaving stuff thats only safe for lan protected. another option is to manually open the holes but this is a pita for experianced people and basically impossible for the masses.
the final possibility is software firewalls. Theese work good at controlling what apps can be accessed from the internet but running on the pc you are trying to protect leaves them vulnerable to interferance from malware.
is home nat routers. They effecively prevent you using either 6to4 or native IPv6 unless the nat router itself explicitly supports it.
and they are effectively closed devices so adding support requires the manufactueres cooperation.
offtopic but people are afraid of DDOS for two reasons.
1: it can cost them a money immediately if thier connection is metered
2: it can get them chucked off thier provider (many small providers only have 100mbit themselves which is not too difficult to saturate).
3: it costs a lot of money to keep a site running in the face of constant DDOS
getting hacked generally means you wipe the box and re-build the OS on it then restore your data. A pita sure but something you can easilly move on from.
i understand why you don't wan't to spend thousands on kit but can't you at least find a way to keep the signal in an electrical form rather than recording through a horrible laptop mic?
you say the readers are quite pricey but a few hundred dollars really isn't a huge sum when you consider what it can save you ;)
when the RSPCA (substitute equivilent local institution if required) take in a stray animal if they can contact the owner immediately (which a microchip generally allows) it means they can immediately find out if the owner wants it back of if it needs to go up for re-homing.
on the other hand if they can't get in touch with the owner they have to hold the animal for a minimum time in case its claimed by the owner before they can put it up for re-homing.
the problem with mysql is like qt its software that was licensed in such a way as to drive sales of thier commercial product rather than helping the OSS community (why else would they GPL the client access libs?).
i can see why people wouldn't wan't to contribute to a project with such lopsided licensing (e.g. mysql AB can profit from your code in thier commercial/propietry product whilst you can't do the same)
and a hostile fork would just leave something that was impossible to use legally (at least by mysqls GPL interpretation other interpretations may vary) as a backend data store that your propietry apps can use.
therefore the safest option is almost certainly to switch to a freer DB like postgreSQL though i agree that doing so will involve a lot of short term pain
hmm i guess you didn't use msconfig then which most definately does list stuff started from win.ini
you still have to buy the right adaptor cards for the cpus you finally end up shipping with though and i doubt those cards will be cheap.
i'm also pretty sure that keeping stock is a bad idea for pc manufacturers anyway as it depriciates so quickly.
note that ICQ lets you set up a list of users who can see you even if you are set on invisible. which is a great feature if you wan't to be reachable by a few friends all the time but only by your larger contact list some of the time.
and finally this IS NOT bittorrent its a means of communication for groups of friends, if invisible mode causes problems for some groups of friends then thats an issue for them to solve between themselves.
Windows 9x DOES have preemtive multitasking for 32 bit apps and it does work (you can run a 32 bit app that hangs in an infinite loop without making the system unusable).
However it did indeed suffer a number of problems due to the desicion to build it as a 16/32 bit hybrid
1: if you opened a lot of windows at once you started to get problems i'm not entirely sure why but i expect it was to do with running out of some form of system rescources.
2: a hanging win16 app would basically hang the system
3: its system for closing misbehaved programs was not the best arround
the tradeoff was that win9x had extremely good support for dos games and badly coded win16 applications whereas switching to the NT line meant huge compatiblity sacrifices (it still does if you are a retro gamer).
It means if they get into a peering dispute there is a VERY high chance you will be cut off from part of the internet. A big tier 2 otoh will probablly have both its own peering arrangements and upstreams to muliple tier 1 ISPs so is less likely to cut you off from parts of the internet.
of course being multihomed yourself is the safest course of action though it does bring complications of its own.
finally multiple internet connections with nat are a possibility (see the linux advanced routing and traffic control howto). This may be simpler and cheaper to set up than true mulihoming (it doesn't require any cooperation from the isps) and if one of your lines has trouble reaching a certain site you can simply reconfigure your routing to put all traffic to that site on the other one.
Even timid bunny rabbits can give a good bite if provoked enough
i wouldn't say they need to be explicitly provoked
i know i've had a friends bunny try to bite me (i was moving at the time and it didn't actually manage to bite but i certainly felt some part of its mouth on the tendon behind my ankle) when i was just standing in the garden with me. (it seemed to smell my feet and think they were another male competing with it or something it was always far more aggressive arround males than arround females)
after that i always made sure i wore wellies when it was arround so it couldn't smell my feet.
sorry that last line should have been
the real problem is that moving to using an open system involves convincing users to create yet another account etc.
also until recently the free version of trillian (which is probablly the number one multiprotocol im client) didn't support jabber and whatever some people try to say irc is NOT an im system.
they do when it means they have to either
1: run 4 different bits of bloatware
2: be unable to contact some of thier friends
3: run one bit of bloatware that misses major features
4: some mixture of the above
the real problem is that moving to using an open system convincing users to create yet another account etc.
fast food outlets like mcdonalds may be expensive compared to eating at home but thats not always feasible. Compared to other types of cafe i belive thier prices are generally similar or lower.
wiping an individual site off the internet if it wasn't under a US controlled TLD would be bloody expensive and a political nightmare. Afaict you would have to change the root zone and then set up your own servers to proxy all requests for the entire TLD!
it was a sham because they were ticking a box in a way that was of virtually no practical use. IIRC the posix subsystem couldn't even access the network.
here in the uk you see basic rate ISDN a fair bit at moderate size buisnesses generally feeding into PBX systems.
but yeah for data its not great, slightly faster than dialup but not significantly so and administered/charged in the same way as dialup (read: flat rate accounts availible but generally with a limit on time online in any one day and/or auto dropping after a set connection duration). also i think it can often be less disruptive to have your existing PSTN lines converted to ISDN than to get more PSTN lines installed.
most dialup providers afaict use some ISDN variant to terminate the calls and i belive this is a requirement for working with 56K modems at full speed. So normally you can use ISDN dialup with any dialup ISP and thier kit figures out its talking to another ISDN unit rather than a 56K modem.