In the OP link: 2.6.7: Changed Hulu code to deal with their new encoding of web pages. Note, this slows it down a fair bit, so UK-only users are advised to do a custom install to turn off US.
pptp is used for for vpn. nm-applet simply refused to work when trying to configure a connection for my job. I ended up editing the configs by hand and run pon to start it.
I assume that is what your parent was referring to. I've had other flakiness with nm-applet, from wireless to crashes. These things are apparent on all my systems.
That said, installing wpa_supplicant solved most of my wireless issues, and the vpn works. 8.04 has a few outstanding bugs, but overall, the configs are pretty damn nice.
You're thinking beer, perhaps? Forcing end users to agree to a EULA before using a particular piece of software explicitly claims limitations on that software. I don't believe Opera (which isn't free either) required an agreement to a EULA. Though they of course retain all their copyrights and trademarks, they are non intrusive about it.
I haven't read Mozillas take on it, and why they require it to use their trademark. But it's annoying. One reason I prefer FOSS is the lack of EULAs, serial number entry and general 'stay out of the users way' attitude.
I have to admit that I scoffed when debian spun iceweasel, thinking them overly concerned with *any* encumbrance. I'm glad they did now. I don't care what name my browser takes, if it's compatible with the addons I use and works without trying to annoy me... even if it's just the first time it's used.
In 2002, Fyodor was the victim of an impersonation attack by a Slashdot user who was posing as a woman. Fyodor sent an email to the fake "woman" in an attempt to solicit further conversation and a possible meeting. When the hoax was revealed, the hoaxer insulted fyodor (I believe the word was "wanker").
Fyodor responded by using information disclosure vulnerabilities in yahoo email to find the originating IP address of the Slashdot prankster (SumDeusExMachine) who was at the time a college student based on the Pacific coast. SDEM was using an open X server for windows, MI/X, with no security enabled. Fyodor quickly scanned SDEM's box, found the open X server, and attached to it, monitoring SDEM's life for nine hours. He took many screen shots of SDEM's machine and posted them to his web site, insecure.org.
A lot of personal information was revealed in these screenshots, including the existence and ip address of a "secret troll irc server", which was running an irc bot capable of tracking and posting new stories. Jamie McCarthy used the information disclosed by Fyodor's attack to log onto this server, discover the new-story-bot, and modify Slashdot to break the troll's new-story-robot.
I agree, but with a caveat.. I've had the opportunity to attempt to transition some of our scada systems at work to linux. One issue though, linux is sorely lacking in this area. There are a few pieces of software out there, but nothing that can hope to begin to compete with win32 solutions. I'd argue that this isn't due to lack of interest or talent; but more of a confidentiality concern. The best solution I've found for mudbus TCP interfacing is at tuxplc.net. It's by no means an optimal solution, however. I'd be very surprised if I were the only one considering this. But I'll never be able to contribute.. I've been working on my own implementation to log and control the mbTCP devices available. I'd love to give my work away in the hope that it would help others.... but there's no way in hell my employer would ever allow me to release the code or binaries.
I guess my point is, this is one point where FOSS seems to break down. A lot of industry specific apps are (at least viewed as) highly proprietary and simply won't be prolific in FOSS. This isn't simply a case of no one being interested, or a lack of financial support. More of a NDA / confidentiality / trade secret realm issue perhaps.
There's at least four or five arguments against hydrogen above which use the interior of the garage as the main point against. Numerous responses have said to keep it outside. This isn't rocket science. Main unit outside with a relatively high vent pipe for O2 (and emergency) discharge. The dispensing apparatus would have multiple safety valves that isolated the line when not in use. Purge the line after filling with atmosphere so there is no hydrogen sitting dormant in the lines. Hell, let's get fancy. Multiple, redundant temp sensors on the tank and line. Too high a temp and it could vent the entire tank through the aforementioned high vent pipe over the course of a few minutes.
Absolutely there are dangers. I would argue that they can be mitigated so that only darwin award candidates are at significantly higher risk than if gasoline were the only thing present.
To sum up: Not in the garage. Nothing in the garage. Repeat it: Not in the garage. Line runs OUTSIDE of the garage (picture a line running to a locked panel on the side of the driveway, the line being outside the entire length). Production unit exists..... OUTSIDE of the garage.
Partially correct. Pure oxygen is not poisonous. Medical oxygen is one example. The Apollo missions also used high oxygen concentrations. It is however, extremely dangerous to be in a high concentration of it. The slightest static discharge can create an inferno. When deep sea diving, under high pressure; it can become toxic ( nitrogen also has effects: see nitrogen narcosis). I hadn't heard about oxygen increasing the rate of aging. The most relevant result google produced was this . Anyone have more insight on this?
You are correct about oxygen not being flammable by itself. It requires some sort of fuel to actually undergo redox. The fire triangle is an easier way of thinking about it.
Seconded. linkie indicates 48 hours or so for the virus to die. Soap and water on a soft cloth. Just like any other electronic device if you're truly worried about it.
The Rifter series was released circa 2001 or so and is available at rifters.com for free under a CC licence IIRC. However, I'm fairly sure Watts used a publisher for the back end stuff.
Congrats, and thank you for looking to publish in this manner.
This page lists some dated stats which may or may not have changed significantly in the last ten months. Google had 54%, Yahoo had 22.9%, MSN/Live had 8.8% and Ask.com had 3.6%. That would effectively make two companies the ones serving up 85.7% of search results. Note that there's a reason Excite and Altavista are ignored.. they suck. I just ran a search on Excite for the term 'arduino' and every other link was a sponsored link. 39 results total including sponsored links. None of the good pages I found through google are listed with the exception of adafruit. Altavista did better, though I'm unsure how the addition of whipped cheese spread can help my little PCB with LEDs.
It would effectively be a duopoly between Google and MS, possibly turning into a monopoly if MS bombed back to their mighty 8% afterwards and gave up the ghost finally. I highly doubt those users will flock to engines left over from the 90s.
So how does having a relatively very small percentage of the population with the time, energy, and ability to understand how the operating works, help the vast majority who don't have the time, energy, or ability who will need to re-install their O/S regardless.
Most of those people you are referencing bring the machine to someone knowledgeable to try to recover their "stuff" and to reinstall. I.E. the people who are likely to be interested in knowing how to fix it.
Jebus man, think! If it's easier to fix a comp than a full reinstall, that saves me hours of making sure I've recovered everything they want from the drive, reinstalling the os, patching, apps, app updates, copy said data back over. They pay me less money, I fix them in less time.
No, but you could go download ActiveX, or notepad, or the calculator without worry. I wanted to use the term strawman, but it's mostly just a really poor comparison of apples and oranges that you've used to try to counterpoint. I don't know that Microsoft offers a one box retail version of Windows that includes Office Ultimate for example. I can, however point you to a few distributions that include the GNU tools with them in the box.
And most likely, 8 of those people would email me back asking why the hell I sent them an email that they didn't need because they were already busy for the weekend. It's a good point even if I prefer the "disappear with no trace for the weekend, 00 style" method.
Technology Review - Published by MITMay/June 2008
Where Are They?
Why I hope the search for extraterrestrial life finds nothing.
By Nick Bostrom
People got very excited in 2004 when NASA's rover Opportunity discovered evidence that Mars had once been wet. Where there is water, there may be life. After more than 40 years of human exploration, culminating in the ongoing Mars Exploration Rover mission, scientists are planning still more missions to study the planet. The ÂPhoenix, an interagency scientific probe led by the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona, is scheduled to land in late May on Mars's frigid northern arctic, where it will search for soils and ice that might be suitable for microbial life (see "Mission to Mars," November/December 2007).
The next decade might see a Mars Sample Return mission, which would use robotic systems to collect samples of Martian rocks, soils, and atmosphere and return them to Earth. We could then analyze the samples to see if they contain any traces of life, whether extinct or still active.
Such a discovery would be of tremendous scientific significance. What could be more fascinating than discovering life that had evolved entirely independently of life here on Earth? Many people would also find it heartening to learn that we are not entirely alone in this vast, cold cosmos.
But I hope that our Mars probes discover nothing. It would be good news if we find Mars to be sterile. Dead rocks and lifeless sands would lift my spirit.
Conversely, if we discovered traces of some simple, extinct life-form--some bacteria, some algae--it would be bad news. If we found fossils of something more advanced, perhaps something that looked like the remnants of a trilobite or even the skeleton of a small mammal, it would be very bad news. The more complex the life-form we found, the more depressing the news would be. I would find it interesting, certainly--but a bad omen for the future of the human race.
How do I arrive at this conclusion? I begin by reflecting on a well-known fact. UFO spotters, RaÃlian cultists, and self-Âcertified alien abductees notwithstanding, humans have, to date, seen no sign of any extraterrestrial civilization. We have not received any visitors from space, nor have our radio telescopes detected any signals transmitted by any extraterrestrial civilization. The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has been going for nearly half a century, employing increasingly powerful telescopes and data-Âmining techniques; so far, it has consistently corroborated the null hypothesis. As best we have been able to determine, the night sky is empty and silent. The question "Where are they?" is thus at least as pertinent today as it was when the physicist Enrico Fermi first posed it during a lunch discussion with some of his colleagues at the Los Alamos National Laboratory back in 1950.
Here is another fact: the observable universe contains on the order of 100 billion galaxies, and there are on the order of 100 billion stars in our galaxy alone. In the last couple of decades, we have learned that many of these stars have planets circling them; several hundred such "exoplanets" have been discovered to date. Most of these are gigantic, since it is very difficult to detect smaller exoplanets using current methods. (In most cases, the planets cannot be directly observed. Their existence is inferred from their gravitational influence on their parent suns, which wobble slightly when pulled toward large orbiting planets, or from slight fluctuations in luminosity when the planets partially eclipse their suns.) We have every reason to believe that the observable universe contains vast numbers of solar systems, including many with planets that are Earth-like, at least in the sense of having masses and temperatures similar to those of our own orb. We also know that many of these solar systems are older than ours.
Different strokes... I've used SUSE on and off since '97 or so. I prefer the feel of debians. I'm not entirely sure what you mean by Ubuntu being over hyped, it is a solid distribution. It seems that there has always been one distro that has taken the spotlight for a time before being surpassed by another. One that's more _mainstream_ than the others. It doesn't take anything away from the value of that distro except perhaps some imagined geek cred.
Most modern distros make it simple to add repositories and install software. This isn't something that SUSE alone has. SUSE has its features, some like yast are nice to have. It makes a great corp workstation distro. Let's try to avoid looking at distros through colored lenses though. Everyone has their own preferences and Ubuntu is the popular kid right now. Who knows if it will be around for the long haul as SUSE has... but for the moment it's not a bad one either.
It is an idiotic approach. Vista is the one being annoying....how could someone predict that end users would blame the applications and not the os that's to blame? Not to mention the whole issue of purposely designing a ui to annoy paying customers, to pressure 3rd parties to change.
Bad idea all around if this was their intention at design.
That's part of it though. If you act like you're playing nice with open source then you have an argument when US and EU regulators are grilling you about monopolistic behavior. In reality it is exactly what you and the article describe... it's for their own reasons (which is fine, they are a company after all) and they'll try to keep it on their own terms.
I'll push my luck here and wonder aloud how far out php on windows is from the Extend phase. A PHP.Net perhaps?
Slashdot Mirror
Thanks for the sharepoint.
They've already worked around it.
In the OP link: 2.6.7: Changed Hulu code to deal with their new encoding of web pages. Note, this slows it down a fair bit, so UK-only users are advised to do a custom install to turn off US.
pptp is used for for vpn. nm-applet simply refused to work when trying to configure a connection for my job. I ended up editing the configs by hand and run pon to start it.
I assume that is what your parent was referring to. I've had other flakiness with nm-applet, from wireless to crashes. These things are apparent on all my systems.
That said, installing wpa_supplicant solved most of my wireless issues, and the vpn works. 8.04 has a few outstanding bugs, but overall, the configs are pretty damn nice.
I was more surprised that no one jumped on the statement: "four million times heavier than our sun".
You're thinking beer, perhaps? Forcing end users to agree to a EULA before using a particular piece of software explicitly claims limitations on that software. I don't believe Opera (which isn't free either) required an agreement to a EULA. Though they of course retain all their copyrights and trademarks, they are non intrusive about it.
I haven't read Mozillas take on it, and why they require it to use their trademark. But it's annoying. One reason I prefer FOSS is the lack of EULAs, serial number entry and general 'stay out of the users way' attitude.
I have to admit that I scoffed when debian spun iceweasel, thinking them overly concerned with *any* encumbrance. I'm glad they did now. I don't care what name my browser takes, if it's compatible with the addons I use and works without trying to annoy me... even if it's just the first time it's used.
Found via google:
;)
In 2002, Fyodor was the victim of an impersonation attack by a Slashdot user who was posing as a woman. Fyodor sent an email to the fake "woman" in an attempt to solicit further conversation and a possible meeting. When the hoax was revealed, the hoaxer insulted fyodor (I believe the word was "wanker").
Fyodor responded by using information disclosure vulnerabilities in yahoo email to find the originating IP address of the Slashdot prankster (SumDeusExMachine) who was at the time a college student based on the Pacific coast. SDEM was using an open X server for windows, MI/X, with no security enabled. Fyodor quickly scanned SDEM's box, found the open X server, and attached to it, monitoring SDEM's life for nine hours. He took many screen shots of SDEM's machine and posted them to his web site, insecure.org.
A lot of personal information was revealed in these screenshots, including the existence and ip address of a "secret troll irc server", which was running an irc bot capable of tracking and posting new stories. Jamie McCarthy used the information disclosed by Fyodor's attack to log onto this server, discover the new-story-bot, and modify Slashdot to break the troll's new-story-robot.
Direct copy/paste from: http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=189213&cid=15582790
So he got burned decently, but he gave some back.
Unfortunately, wiring doesn't get fossilized
Remind me to introduce you to my boss sometime.
I agree, but with a caveat.. I've had the opportunity to attempt to transition some of our scada systems at work to linux. One issue though, linux is sorely lacking in this area. There are a few pieces of software out there, but nothing that can hope to begin to compete with win32 solutions. I'd argue that this isn't due to lack of interest or talent; but more of a confidentiality concern. The best solution I've found for mudbus TCP interfacing is at tuxplc.net. It's by no means an optimal solution, however. I'd be very surprised if I were the only one considering this. But I'll never be able to contribute.. I've been working on my own implementation to log and control the mbTCP devices available. I'd love to give my work away in the hope that it would help others.... but there's no way in hell my employer would ever allow me to release the code or binaries.
I guess my point is, this is one point where FOSS seems to break down. A lot of industry specific apps are (at least viewed as) highly proprietary and simply won't be prolific in FOSS. This isn't simply a case of no one being interested, or a lack of financial support. More of a NDA / confidentiality / trade secret realm issue perhaps.
There's at least four or five arguments against hydrogen above which use the interior of the garage as the main point against. Numerous responses have said to keep it outside. This isn't rocket science. Main unit outside with a relatively high vent pipe for O2 (and emergency) discharge. The dispensing apparatus would have multiple safety valves that isolated the line when not in use. Purge the line after filling with atmosphere so there is no hydrogen sitting dormant in the lines. Hell, let's get fancy. Multiple, redundant temp sensors on the tank and line. Too high a temp and it could vent the entire tank through the aforementioned high vent pipe over the course of a few minutes.
Absolutely there are dangers. I would argue that they can be mitigated so that only darwin award candidates are at significantly higher risk than if gasoline were the only thing present.
To sum up: Not in the garage. Nothing in the garage. Repeat it: Not in the garage. Line runs OUTSIDE of the garage (picture a line running to a locked panel on the side of the driveway, the line being outside the entire length). Production unit exists..... OUTSIDE of the garage.
Partially correct. Pure oxygen is not poisonous. Medical oxygen is one example. The Apollo missions also used high oxygen concentrations. It is however, extremely dangerous to be in a high concentration of it. The slightest static discharge can create an inferno. When deep sea diving, under high pressure; it can become toxic ( nitrogen also has effects: see nitrogen narcosis). I hadn't heard about oxygen increasing the rate of aging. The most relevant result google produced was this . Anyone have more insight on this?
You are correct about oxygen not being flammable by itself. It requires some sort of fuel to actually undergo redox. The fire triangle is an easier way of thinking about it.
Seconded. linkie indicates 48 hours or so for the virus to die. Soap and water on a soft cloth. Just like any other electronic device if you're truly worried about it.
Right... so what happens if being born female happens to be treated like a genetic defect in your country?
You population dies out or moves away?
Are you sure? I just checked my about... and I show:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008060309 Firefox/3.0
The top graphic also shows just 3.0 rather than the 3rc... it had post upgrade to hardy. dpkg shows the version as
3.0~rc1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.
So, what the hell? *shrug*
The Rifter series was released circa 2001 or so and is available at rifters.com for free under a CC licence IIRC. However, I'm fairly sure Watts used a publisher for the back end stuff.
Congrats, and thank you for looking to publish in this manner.
That had a related video named Let Me Borrow Your Top, Dorrothy. Honey Bunches of Oats under my spacebar now. What a weird but sickly funny vid. Link
There is just one.... Uwe Boll can tell you who the distinguished gentleman / arteest is.
Surely you jest.
This page lists some dated stats which may or may not have changed significantly in the last ten months. Google had 54%, Yahoo had 22.9%, MSN/Live had 8.8% and Ask.com had 3.6%. That would effectively make two companies the ones serving up 85.7% of search results. Note that there's a reason Excite and Altavista are ignored.. they suck. I just ran a search on Excite for the term 'arduino' and every other link was a sponsored link. 39 results total including sponsored links. None of the good pages I found through google are listed with the exception of adafruit. Altavista did better, though I'm unsure how the addition of whipped cheese spread can help my little PCB with LEDs.
It would effectively be a duopoly between Google and MS, possibly turning into a monopoly if MS bombed back to their mighty 8% afterwards and gave up the ghost finally. I highly doubt those users will flock to engines left over from the 90s.
Most of those people you are referencing bring the machine to someone knowledgeable to try to recover their "stuff" and to reinstall. I.E. the people who are likely to be interested in knowing how to fix it.
Jebus man, think! If it's easier to fix a comp than a full reinstall, that saves me hours of making sure I've recovered everything they want from the drive, reinstalling the os, patching, apps, app updates, copy said data back over. They pay me less money, I fix them in less time.
No, but you could go download ActiveX, or notepad, or the calculator without worry. I wanted to use the term strawman, but it's mostly just a really poor comparison of apples and oranges that you've used to try to counterpoint. I don't know that Microsoft offers a one box retail version of Windows that includes Office Ultimate for example. I can, however point you to a few distributions that include the GNU tools with them in the box.
And most likely, 8 of those people would email me back asking why the hell I sent them an email that they didn't need because they were already busy for the weekend. It's a good point even if I prefer the "disappear with no trace for the weekend, 00 style" method.
Site was starting to puke on me. Full text.
Technology Review - Published by MITMay/June 2008
Where Are They?
Why I hope the search for extraterrestrial life finds nothing.
By Nick Bostrom
People got very excited in 2004 when NASA's rover Opportunity discovered evidence that Mars had once been wet. Where there is water, there may be life. After more than 40 years of human exploration, culminating in the ongoing Mars Exploration Rover mission, scientists are planning still more missions to study the planet. The ÂPhoenix, an interagency scientific probe led by the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona, is scheduled to land in late May on Mars's frigid northern arctic, where it will search for soils and ice that might be suitable for microbial life (see "Mission to Mars," November/December 2007).
The next decade might see a Mars Sample Return mission, which would use robotic systems to collect samples of Martian rocks, soils, and atmosphere and return them to Earth. We could then analyze the samples to see if they contain any traces of life, whether extinct or still active.
Such a discovery would be of tremendous scientific significance. What could be more fascinating than discovering life that had evolved entirely independently of life here on Earth? Many people would also find it heartening to learn that we are not entirely alone in this vast, cold cosmos. But I hope that our Mars probes discover nothing. It would be good news if we find Mars to be sterile. Dead rocks and lifeless sands would lift my spirit. Conversely, if we discovered traces of some simple, extinct life-form--some bacteria, some algae--it would be bad news. If we found fossils of something more advanced, perhaps something that looked like the remnants of a trilobite or even the skeleton of a small mammal, it would be very bad news. The more complex the life-form we found, the more depressing the news would be. I would find it interesting, certainly--but a bad omen for the future of the human race.
How do I arrive at this conclusion? I begin by reflecting on a well-known fact. UFO spotters, RaÃlian cultists, and self-Âcertified alien abductees notwithstanding, humans have, to date, seen no sign of any extraterrestrial civilization. We have not received any visitors from space, nor have our radio telescopes detected any signals transmitted by any extraterrestrial civilization. The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has been going for nearly half a century, employing increasingly powerful telescopes and data-Âmining techniques; so far, it has consistently corroborated the null hypothesis. As best we have been able to determine, the night sky is empty and silent. The question "Where are they?" is thus at least as pertinent today as it was when the physicist Enrico Fermi first posed it during a lunch discussion with some of his colleagues at the Los Alamos National Laboratory back in 1950. Here is another fact: the observable universe contains on the order of 100 billion galaxies, and there are on the order of 100 billion stars in our galaxy alone. In the last couple of decades, we have learned that many of these stars have planets circling them; several hundred such "exoplanets" have been discovered to date. Most of these are gigantic, since it is very difficult to detect smaller exoplanets using current methods. (In most cases, the planets cannot be directly observed. Their existence is inferred from their gravitational influence on their parent suns, which wobble slightly when pulled toward large orbiting planets, or from slight fluctuations in luminosity when the planets partially eclipse their suns.) We have every reason to believe that the observable universe contains vast numbers of solar systems, including many with planets that are Earth-like, at least in the sense of having masses and temperatures similar to those of our own orb. We also know that many of these solar systems are older than ours.
From these two facts it follows that
Different strokes... I've used SUSE on and off since '97 or so. I prefer the feel of debians. I'm not entirely sure what you mean by Ubuntu being over hyped, it is a solid distribution. It seems that there has always been one distro that has taken the spotlight for a time before being surpassed by another. One that's more _mainstream_ than the others. It doesn't take anything away from the value of that distro except perhaps some imagined geek cred.
Most modern distros make it simple to add repositories and install software. This isn't something that SUSE alone has. SUSE has its features, some like yast are nice to have. It makes a great corp workstation distro. Let's try to avoid looking at distros through colored lenses though. Everyone has their own preferences and Ubuntu is the popular kid right now. Who knows if it will be around for the long haul as SUSE has... but for the moment it's not a bad one either.
It is an idiotic approach. Vista is the one being annoying....how could someone predict that end users would blame the applications and not the os that's to blame? Not to mention the whole issue of purposely designing a ui to annoy paying customers, to pressure 3rd parties to change.
Bad idea all around if this was their intention at design.
He improves civilizations in some ways [Citation Needed]
That's part of it though. If you act like you're playing nice with open source then you have an argument when US and EU regulators are grilling you about monopolistic behavior. In reality it is exactly what you and the article describe... it's for their own reasons (which is fine, they are a company after all) and they'll try to keep it on their own terms.
I'll push my luck here and wonder aloud how far out php on windows is from the Extend phase. A PHP.Net perhaps?
You're right, I am being pretty dismal. Bleh.