Obviously a CPU exception would be requred, which would be thrown if an instruction was processed by an imaginary core/hypercore. This exception would flush any imaginary data held in imaginary caching units back to imaginary memory and then delete the imaginary core. This feature could be implemented by adding a sticker to your machine saying 'Imaginary Core Detection Inside'.
Old threads never die, they just get scheduled onto imaginary cores.
A fix, be it hardware or kernel could be something as simple as introducing some element of 'noise' (eg randomly pre-emptively flushing a cache if a process is deliberately forcing lots of cache flushes), thus making any statistics drawn for analysing this useless. I don't know how that would go with keeping processors deterministic for failover though...
That movie wouldn't be 'Suburban Commando' would it? In this one Hulk Hogan is a space hero (maybe an alien?) and is on vacation and is boarding at the house of a wimpy guy and his wife.
If i am correct, the scene you are referring to was where the guys next door keep parking their cars in front of the wimpy guys house, blocking his driveway. Hulk Hogan picks up one of the cars and shoves it away. The guys next door confront him and Hulk Hogan ask them what they're going to do about it, and lists of a bunch of violent actions they might take. They reply that no, they will be talking to their lawyers.
I'm not the only one who thought that the Slartibartfast character was perfect then!
I thought Arthur wasn't whiney enough. Simon Jones was perfect.
Ford seemed to care too much about things that I had thought just didn't matter to him in the books. From memory, he only came to see Arthur just before the Earth was demolished to return something he had borrowed. It was only when Arthur said 'But what about my home' (referring to his house) that he suddenly felt guilty and took Arthur with him. (or was that only in the computer game?)
Zaphod was too brash, but I thought that the tv series Zaphod wasn't quite right either (or maybe that was just the really bad second head).
Trillian, while plenty beautiful, should have been blonde. And a lot more sure of herself. And 'with' Zaphod up until somewhere in the third or forth book where she finally figures out he's a prick.
Prosser (head guy in charge of Arthurs house being demolished) 's character should have been fleshed out a bit more too.
And Marvin looked too cute to be seriously depressing.
And when it comes down to it, the best form of extracting a password from someone is a gun held to the head of a loved one. I don't think you'd find many people who'd hesitate to give up a password in that situation.
I'm approaching 30 (about 4 months to go) and have been on the very low end of what would be considered a healthy weight since I can remember.
About 12 months ago, my weight started to go down, dipping just under 60kgs (my average weight was around 64kgs), and I was feeling unwell almost all of the time (some sort of low level virus maybe? never followed it up though). Then, for no reason that I can fathom, I looked down and suddenly I have a bit of a gut. And I have bald patches on my inner thighs where my legs now touch each other, and the last time I weighed myself before my scales broke (crappy digital thing), I was edging over 70kgs.
Ever since University (11 years ago now), my diet has been pretty bad, but no fat cells stuck to me at all. I had my cholestorol checked about 5 years ago and it was about the lowest the doctor had ever seen. Probably about due for another check though...
Anyway, my wife thinks I look a lot better with a bit more meat on me, and I don't get as cold as I used to, and if I got sick for an extended amount of time and really didn't feel like eating much, i might last just a little bit longer.
I guess in a few years though I might have to start watching what I eat and how much I exercise. I can feel a mid life crisis coming on:)
The only sad thing is that I still seem to burn up all available blood suger in no time, and if I get hungry I have to eat straight away. If I don't I start feeling very strange, get the shakes, and a headache. I've been tested for all the obvious things and have come to the conclusion that my metabolism is still a bit on the fast side, and hasn't slowed down.
What we really need is a triple core cpu. One core to run the spyware. One to run software to try and counter the spyware. And one to actually do some useful work.
1. Move your computer out of the house for a while. 2. ??? (dob all your housemates into the RIAA) 3. Profit
an RIAA raid might be a good way to get rid of the useless computer junk from your room too. I'm sure they'll take anything that looks like it might be part of a computer.
> Software RAID: > Con - Manual intervetion required in case of disk failure.
You can get around this for some failure modes, as long as your boot partition is always raid1. I do this at home,/boot is raid1 across 5 disks, the rest is raid5. Read performance for a 5 disk raid1 would probably be fantastic:)
The success of this depends on the disk either failing so badly that the system can't see it anymore and so boots off another disk, or that the part of the failed disk that holds/boot is still readable.
I do this too, just sort of relax my eyes and stare into space when i'm thinking. I also get very easily distracted so any happenings around the office cause me to glance in that direction and see what's going on.
I'm nearly 30 and have been staring at computer screens for far longer than is encouraged since I was 8. An eye test recently said that any prescription lens they could give me would be so close to a flat piece of glass that I shouldn't bother. Fingers crossed that this continues well into the future.
I think your example of X is flawed for exactly the reasons you think it isn't. X doesn't have to be XFree86. I don't know if they are still around but there used to be a few closed source commercial X servers available for linux, and XFree86 has recently forked so there are at least two free ones to choose from.
X is a well documented standard (and if the documentation is lacking, you can just read the source:), and so you are free to implement your own if you want.
If you wanted to roll your own Media Player, you'd have to do a fair amount of reverse engineering to do it - which is illegal in some places.
Please don't let him do this. Many truck and train drivers who hit a person never drive again because of the impact it has on them. And it makes one hell of a mess.
It still works though for your example. If everyone with the same last name is probably related, then you can probably just figure out a likely candidate and they'll pass it on to the correct person anyway.
A few 'probablys' in that paragraph, but it's the postal service. what do you expect:)
I hate it when users just give up their password when asked. But on the other hand it is so damn useful to be able to get into somebodies computer to fix a problem that only affects them (eg using their profile).
One thing that windows lacks is for an Admin user to be able to impersonate anyone ala su under unix. It would make fixing problems for other people so much easier as you could log into their computer as them using your/admin credentials.
that's an interesting thought. Maybe the microphones were part of the handsfree mobile phone system she recently had installed. Maybe the disk was found floating around on the back floor and was accidently left there by her teenage son... no filesystem 'cos he'd just bought it.
Does the car actually still work? Is your friend blonde?
I'm glad i'm not the only one who hates how they pretend that that's possible. There's a lot of pictures i've downloaded from the net that i'd love to get a better zoom on:(
howabout this: a) all of those people dying generates a disturbance in the 'force'. b) the disturbance somehow affects random number generators c) the effect can travel backwards in time
I think you're on to something there. The weapons of mass destruction they should be looking for are small random number generators.
Maybe the generation of randomness in the form of random numbers, creates a vacuum in the entropy pool of the universe in the local vicinity of our planet. Something needs to fill that void, so a major disaster happens which in turn fills the vacuum and restores entropy to an equalibrium.
it isn't as easy as you make out. The accoustics of a car will vary wildly depending on who's sitting in there and how they're sitting. Someone reclining in their seat will change things dramatically. Opening a window or the sun roof will too.
You know those conference call speakerphone things that send out a ping when you turn them on? They are mapping the accoustic characteristics in terms of echo of the room to the normal frequencies you'll find in a conversation. If you move it by more than a small ammount after it's done its ping, you'll find a terrible amount of echo!
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Obviously a CPU exception would be requred, which would be thrown if an instruction was processed by an imaginary core/hypercore. This exception would flush any imaginary data held in imaginary caching units back to imaginary memory and then delete the imaginary core. This feature could be implemented by adding a sticker to your machine saying 'Imaginary Core Detection Inside'.
Old threads never die, they just get scheduled onto imaginary cores.
A fix, be it hardware or kernel could be something as simple as introducing some element of 'noise' (eg randomly pre-emptively flushing a cache if a process is deliberately forcing lots of cache flushes), thus making any statistics drawn for analysing this useless. I don't know how that would go with keeping processors deterministic for failover though...
That movie wouldn't be 'Suburban Commando' would it? In this one Hulk Hogan is a space hero (maybe an alien?) and is on vacation and is boarding at the house of a wimpy guy and his wife.
If i am correct, the scene you are referring to was where the guys next door keep parking their cars in front of the wimpy guys house, blocking his driveway. Hulk Hogan picks up one of the cars and shoves it away. The guys next door confront him and Hulk Hogan ask them what they're going to do about it, and lists of a bunch of violent actions they might take. They reply that no, they will be talking to their lawyers.
I'm not the only one who thought that the Slartibartfast character was perfect then!
I thought Arthur wasn't whiney enough. Simon Jones was perfect.
Ford seemed to care too much about things that I had thought just didn't matter to him in the books. From memory, he only came to see Arthur just before the Earth was demolished to return something he had borrowed. It was only when Arthur said 'But what about my home' (referring to his house) that he suddenly felt guilty and took Arthur with him. (or was that only in the computer game?)
Zaphod was too brash, but I thought that the tv series Zaphod wasn't quite right either (or maybe that was just the really bad second head).
Trillian, while plenty beautiful, should have been blonde. And a lot more sure of herself. And 'with' Zaphod up until somewhere in the third or forth book where she finally figures out he's a prick.
Prosser (head guy in charge of Arthurs house being demolished) 's character should have been fleshed out a bit more too.
And Marvin looked too cute to be seriously depressing.
And when it comes down to it, the best form of extracting a password from someone is a gun held to the head of a loved one. I don't think you'd find many people who'd hesitate to give up a password in that situation.
I'm approaching 30 (about 4 months to go) and have been on the very low end of what would be considered a healthy weight since I can remember.
:)
About 12 months ago, my weight started to go down, dipping just under 60kgs (my average weight was around 64kgs), and I was feeling unwell almost all of the time (some sort of low level virus maybe? never followed it up though). Then, for no reason that I can fathom, I looked down and suddenly I have a bit of a gut. And I have bald patches on my inner thighs where my legs now touch each other, and the last time I weighed myself before my scales broke (crappy digital thing), I was edging over 70kgs.
Ever since University (11 years ago now), my diet has been pretty bad, but no fat cells stuck to me at all. I had my cholestorol checked about 5 years ago and it was about the lowest the doctor had ever seen. Probably about due for another check though...
Anyway, my wife thinks I look a lot better with a bit more meat on me, and I don't get as cold as I used to, and if I got sick for an extended amount of time and really didn't feel like eating much, i might last just a little bit longer.
I guess in a few years though I might have to start watching what I eat and how much I exercise. I can feel a mid life crisis coming on
The only sad thing is that I still seem to burn up all available blood suger in no time, and if I get hungry I have to eat straight away. If I don't I start feeling very strange, get the shakes, and a headache. I've been tested for all the obvious things and have come to the conclusion that my metabolism is still a bit on the fast side, and hasn't slowed down.
What we really need is a triple core cpu. One core to run the spyware. One to run software to try and counter the spyware. And one to actually do some useful work.
1. Move your computer out of the house for a while.
2. ??? (dob all your housemates into the RIAA)
3. Profit
an RIAA raid might be a good way to get rid of the useless computer junk from your room too. I'm sure they'll take anything that looks like it might be part of a computer.
> Software RAID:
/boot is raid1 across 5 disks, the rest is raid5. Read performance for a 5 disk raid1 would probably be fantastic :)
/boot is still readable.
> Con - Manual intervetion required in case of disk failure.
You can get around this for some failure modes, as long as your boot partition is always raid1. I do this at home,
The success of this depends on the disk either failing so badly that the system can't see it anymore and so boots off another disk, or that the part of the failed disk that holds
DRM. You can download anything you want for free, provided the RIAA gets to shock you on a per megabyte basis - negative conditioning.
Educational games. Kids are hooked up to the computer and the computer quizzes them, zapping them every time they make a mistake.
Extreme games - apply the electrodes to areas of the body much more sensitive than they would otherwise be attached to.
Exercise games - electrodes attached such that they automatically stimulate and tone the muscles while you work/play.
I could go on, but i'll spare you.
I do this too, just sort of relax my eyes and stare into space when i'm thinking. I also get very easily distracted so any happenings around the office cause me to glance in that direction and see what's going on.
I'm nearly 30 and have been staring at computer screens for far longer than is encouraged since I was 8. An eye test recently said that any prescription lens they could give me would be so close to a flat piece of glass that I shouldn't bother. Fingers crossed that this continues well into the future.
I think your example of X is flawed for exactly the reasons you think it isn't. X doesn't have to be XFree86. I don't know if they are still around but there used to be a few closed source commercial X servers available for linux, and XFree86 has recently forked so there are at least two free ones to choose from.
:), and so you are free to implement your own if you want.
:)
X is a well documented standard (and if the documentation is lacking, you can just read the source
If you wanted to roll your own Media Player, you'd have to do a fair amount of reverse engineering to do it - which is illegal in some places.
I'd write more but the kids need a bath
Please don't let him do this. Many truck and train drivers who hit a person never drive again because of the impact it has on them. And it makes one hell of a mess.
There are much cleaner ways of doing the job.
I remember reading an mskb article that made mention of the hosts file, which lived in
C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\and so on
obviously someone didn't like the use of 'etc' and so replaced it with 'and so on'
It still works though for your example. If everyone with the same last name is probably related, then you can probably just figure out a likely candidate and they'll pass it on to the correct person anyway.
:)
A few 'probablys' in that paragraph, but it's the postal service. what do you expect
I hate it when users just give up their password when asked. But on the other hand it is so damn useful to be able to get into somebodies computer to fix a problem that only affects them (eg using their profile).
One thing that windows lacks is for an Admin user to be able to impersonate anyone ala su under unix. It would make fixing problems for other people so much easier as you could log into their computer as them using your/admin credentials.
that's an interesting thought. Maybe the microphones were part of the handsfree mobile phone system she recently had installed. Maybe the disk was found floating around on the back floor and was accidently left there by her teenage son... no filesystem 'cos he'd just bought it.
Does the car actually still work? Is your friend blonde?
that's not a reference, that's a quote. It could have come from the 'false' section of snopes for all we know. :p
I'm glad i'm not the only one who hates how they pretend that that's possible. There's a lot of pictures i've downloaded from the net that i'd love to get a better zoom on :(
... as far as you know :)
howabout this:
a) all of those people dying generates a disturbance in the 'force'.
b) the disturbance somehow affects random number generators
c) the effect can travel backwards in time
I think you're on to something there. The weapons of mass destruction they should be looking for are small random number generators.
Maybe the generation of randomness in the form of random numbers, creates a vacuum in the entropy pool of the universe in the local vicinity of our planet. Something needs to fill that void, so a major disaster happens which in turn fills the vacuum and restores entropy to an equalibrium.
... but it's close enough. Welcome to your computer.
... or did anyone else imagine laser beams from GPS satellite's aiming down at lighthouses blowing them to pieces?
?
I guess it was just me.
it isn't as easy as you make out. The accoustics of a car will vary wildly depending on who's sitting in there and how they're sitting. Someone reclining in their seat will change things dramatically. Opening a window or the sun roof will too.
You know those conference call speakerphone things that send out a ping when you turn them on? They are mapping the accoustic characteristics in terms of echo of the room to the normal frequencies you'll find in a conversation. If you move it by more than a small ammount after it's done its ping, you'll find a terrible amount of echo!