For this reason I never use my debit card anywhere other than at my bank. I use either cash or a credit card. If credit card info gets stolen it's still a hassle, but not an all my money is gone (until things get resolved or possibly forever) hassle.
Does it count if my cash comes from my wallet instead of an envelope? Does the retail setting matter? Perhaps I dislike the high % cut that credit card companies take from retailers and philosophically prefer cash. Cash also works when the credit transaction system goes down, though that is rare.
Google should enable Strict Transport Security to protect their users from this type of thing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...
It's about time they thought about disabling SSL 3 as well and cutting out the IE 6 users of the world even from basic search.
128k music gives me a headache. Literally. I do not know if this was an artifact of bad encoders back in the day or what, but I found there to be a strong correlation between listening to such files and onset of headaches. Whatever your brain does to fix things up seems to overtax something in mine.
I got rid of everything below 192kb around the turn of the century and anything not in 320 around 2002-3. A couple years later I went completely to lossless formats for anything new. Either FLAC or Apple Lossless depending on playback environment.
Being able to losslessly transcode to a supported format for the needed playback device of choice is the biggest benefit. I wouldn't want to have to rerip everything again as that involves physical media and is time consuming compared to selecting a bunch of FLAC files and turning them into Apple lossless, monkeys audio or whatever. There are very few things where I can tell a difference between 320 MP3 and a lossless format. Typically it's something like cymbals or other complex sounds towards the higher end of the audible range.
Almost anything at the same price point is going to be better. If you want better AND cheaper, it is a bit harder, but very easily doable.
Bose himself may have created some great products in his day, but the company for the last 20 years or so has mostly been putting out overpriced crap.
Personally, I just use Polk monitor 40's in for my side and rear speakers in my surround setup. I think they sound better than Bose and it cost me something like $200 for 2 pairs.
My left and right mains though are Poly Natalia's I built. Link to the design:
http://blackdahlia.com/the_poly_natalia__a_diy_loudsp.htm
The Poly Natalia's are pretty amazing even compared to my Ultimate Ears Triple Fi 10 headphones (retail $400, but they were available for $100 about once a year when in production)
There are very few good programmers out there. I suspect there is a high likelihood that if you have hired one of the few as your intern that the code he is looking at is in fact bad. I've seen much more bad code than good code in my career.
50,000 lines is pretty small. If it really is bad, it shouldn't take long to fix so why not let him have a stab at it? He's an intern, part of what he's supposed to be doing is learning things. Something that size should be fixable in a month if the things surrounding it are any good whatsoever and they don't have to be thrown out as well.
The last code I worked on that size that I claimed was bad and many longterm employees of the company where I worked at the time insisted was great ended up being about 1/3 of the original size at the end with significantly fewer bugs, additional new features, and had lower maintenance costs over the remainder of the years I worked there. Total investment...About 50% of my time for a month.
If the intern achieves the same type of results, great, you've found a stellar programmer you should hire full time. If not, your intern wasted some time and you throw away what he produced and get a new intern.
What? Where do you live? Do you know anything about volcanoes or how far a pyroclastic flow will typically travel. If Mt. Hood (I imagine this is what you meant by Portland) blew it's top Portland would get covered in ash, but nobody would die instantly.
Mt. St. Helens is 53 miles NE of Portland as the crow flies. It blew up fairly recently. 1980 in fact. We're still here. Now Mt. Hood is a bit closer at 40 miles, but still far enough away that it is unlikely that much in the way of real damage would occur.
However, if Mt. Tabor were to suddenly become active there might be a problem. It's smaller, OK, it is more like a big hill....but it's technically an active volcano and it's within city limits. In fact there's parks on it and water reservoirs...and roads....and houses. It's smaller though, so it's not like the whole city would disappear. I'd be quite safe at my house in the burbs.
You don't think the military really spends that much money on wars and hammers do you? All that funding has been going into NASA to build an arcology on the far side of the moon. It'd look suspicious if they put that much money into the NASA budget so they're just leaving it in the military budget where there's been bloat for years and people assume it's being spent on earth based projects. You really think that "secret" space plane is the only thing the military has been spending money on in space?
If Obama were honest when he responds to the construct a Death Star by 2016 petition he would just say: "We already have one. And it's cloaked." But he can't. National security and all that. It will be interesting to see what fiction he makes up instead.
Well thanks for the info. I think you've given me enough to work with. I think maybe I'll pick up a UHF antenna to start. During good weather I can get away with a cheapy small indoor antenna I'm borrowing. It does give troubles picking up the signal on a couple channels during especially adverse conditions.
Shutters on the OUTSIDE of the window work best. Inside shutters reflect some of the light back out, but its already through the glass at that point and some of it is converted to heat inside your home. Outdoor shutters block any of the light from getting inside the glass except of course any light that may enter between the slats.
It's been years since I have worked on either an MTA or an MUA, but as I recall RFC 821 doesn't say much about memo headers at all. It merely specifies multiple recipients results in multiple RCPT commands being issued. I don't think there is any restriction on number of recipients in the to field of the header or anything that states recipients beyond the first should be placed in the CC field of the header. To SMTP that is all just data and it really doesn't give a crap. The more recent RFC 2821 does have some things to say and does specifically mention even BCC, so I'm not sure where you're getting the idea multiple recipients in to was ever non-standard as far as SMTP is concerned.
As wikipedia would say: Citation needed.
Buying local for me means buying from powells.com instead of amazon.com when it comes to books
Sometimes I'll even look stuff up on their website, then call in and they'll have it ready for pickup and checkout at the front when I get there. It's too bad more local businesses can't figure out how to make a good website.
48kbit MP3 is perfectly reasonable when it's mono. Next you'll tell my 128kbit MP3 stereo isn't acceptable. Come on, this is coming out of a handset speaker. You obviously haven't tried 48kbit or you wouldn't make such a ridiculous statement. Me, I've been in the codec business (and writing them) for over a decade.
128 kbit MP3 stereo really isn't acceptable. I stopped using it way back in 2000/2001 or so as devices with a reasonable amount of space allowed me to. 192k MP3 is the lower end of acceptable. Not only did I stop encoding anythinng new in 128k bit it I deleted everything existing that I had already encoded at 192 kbit or below in late 2001.
At 128k it's of a low enough quality that it at times physically gives me headaches after longish listening sessions for some types of recording which I don't seem to experience with higher bit rates.
In the modern age I really wish lossy audio compression would just go away altogether, but it still has it's uses on the internet for streaming where bandwidth may be limited.
Low bit rate is the primary reason I don't use sites like pandora.com
A good portion of the electiricity I'm using comes from Hydropower. Now, technically this "uses" water to produce electricity, but there's not any less water after the electricity is produced and it's not substantially less potable.
I bought a 73" Mitsubishi 3D Ready 120hz 1080P DLP HDTV yesterday at Costco with stand for $1500 total. Now it doesn't come with the glasses and IR emitter to use 3d, but it has the plugin on it. Honestly I have no idea how much those would cost to buy as the fact the TV is 3d ready wasn't my major reason for the purchase. It doesn't seem to me like there was much, if any additional cost to add the 3d ready port to this beast. I suspect the real cost is going to be in purchasing a pair of glasses for each viewer if I ever chose to go 3d.
My primary purpose for this TV is to watch media such as movies or TV on DVD/Blu-Ray and play video games.
I do not subscribe to any cable or satellite services and have no intention of doing so. I find that they deliver a bunch of crap I don't want and I can rent/purchase what I do want to watch for cheaper per month and I don't ever waste time mindlessly flipping through the channels just because I'm bored.
I heard an ad for this on the radio today. The ad was for a promotional price of 49.99 for their mobile "4G" internet along with home internet for x # of months. I think 12 months. That said I was wondering if they are renting part of Clear's network and rebranding it, especially since the ad was for a bundle rather than standalone service.
I was part of the beta for Clear near the end of this year and continued to use it until they shut down the network to go live in about early February. Service was continually improving throughout the time I used it although it still had a few dead spots in places where I would like to use it. 3 or 4 were left on my hour long commute on the MAX (our light rail system in Portland), which was much better than at the start of the beta.
I have 6 months free for being part of the beta with Clear coming up here when I decide to redeem it and am looking forward to using the system again and am hoping they have continued to improve
My router/switch supports snmp so it was just a matter of setting up a tool to grab the data from the router and graph it. Something such as MRTG for linux or PRTG for windows. So I'm actually monitoring the switchport this computer is plugged into, not the computer itself, although you can install SNMP software directly on both Windows and Linux workstations to do the monitoring if you're network hardware doesn't support it.
Installing the SNMP agent on Windows is fairly straightforward, although I've never had to use it.
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/w indows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/sag_snmptopnode.mspx? mfr=true
That sucks...I have snmp monitoring on on this PC and on a day where I do essentially nothing, background services and various other things polling the web take up 100 Megabytes a day. I see one day in January where I only used 22 Megabytes of bandwidth, but thats rather an anomaly. From May 1st to June 2nd only 5 days are under 100 Megabytes with the lowest day being 53 Megabytes on May 4th. This is of course only my usage from this PC and does not include the other 3 pc's in this household.
Over the past week I have 2.13 GB Friday, 208 MB Saturday, 1.25 GB Sunday, 163 MB Monday, 211 MB Tuesday, 148 MB Wednesday, 148 MB Thursday, and 141 MB for today, another Friday with 3 hours left to go. One of those days over a GB is a day where I rented a movie from movielink.com using some free money I got off a cereal box...the other, I forget what I was doing. Updating a bunch of software I think so those are a bit anomalous off the high end, but I usually have a gigabyte+ day once every two weeks or so with two 4.5 and 4.6 GB single day whoppers this year, one Feb 5., one March 8th... I can't imagine having to pay for using over 3GB per month.
NES systems died. Lots. Blink, blink, blink....goes the little red light. Of course thats fixable for a nominal sum, but I imagine a hard drive would be replaceable just as the connector pins on the NES are replaceable.
My countertop deep fryer that was purchased a few years back has a magnetically attached power adapter. It's awesome. Hopefully we start seeing these on more and more items.
In the CS 410/596 Network Management and Security class at Portland State University there is a capture the flag exercise which lasts about 6 weeks of the term. This goes on concurrent to the normal class activites and is a 24x7 exercise as would be the case in the real world. Not sure on the exact details as I am just taking the class now and the first day was yesterday.
Actually, here in the USA where us Yanks live, a Curriculum Vitae (C.V.) and a resume are two quite different things and serve different purposes. I am fairly certain this is the case most everywhere in the world.
A CV is typically much longer and lists all your educational experience, publications, academic background, affiliation with various societies, etc., etc. A resume is a much more concise document that mainly covers job/work experience.
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For this reason I never use my debit card anywhere other than at my bank. I use either cash or a credit card. If credit card info gets stolen it's still a hassle, but not an all my money is gone (until things get resolved or possibly forever) hassle.
Does it count if my cash comes from my wallet instead of an envelope? Does the retail setting matter? Perhaps I dislike the high % cut that credit card companies take from retailers and philosophically prefer cash. Cash also works when the credit transaction system goes down, though that is rare.
Google should enable Strict Transport Security to protect their users from this type of thing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H... It's about time they thought about disabling SSL 3 as well and cutting out the IE 6 users of the world even from basic search.
128k music gives me a headache. Literally. I do not know if this was an artifact of bad encoders back in the day or what, but I found there to be a strong correlation between listening to such files and onset of headaches. Whatever your brain does to fix things up seems to overtax something in mine. I got rid of everything below 192kb around the turn of the century and anything not in 320 around 2002-3. A couple years later I went completely to lossless formats for anything new. Either FLAC or Apple Lossless depending on playback environment. Being able to losslessly transcode to a supported format for the needed playback device of choice is the biggest benefit. I wouldn't want to have to rerip everything again as that involves physical media and is time consuming compared to selecting a bunch of FLAC files and turning them into Apple lossless, monkeys audio or whatever. There are very few things where I can tell a difference between 320 MP3 and a lossless format. Typically it's something like cymbals or other complex sounds towards the higher end of the audible range.
Almost anything at the same price point is going to be better. If you want better AND cheaper, it is a bit harder, but very easily doable. Bose himself may have created some great products in his day, but the company for the last 20 years or so has mostly been putting out overpriced crap. Personally, I just use Polk monitor 40's in for my side and rear speakers in my surround setup. I think they sound better than Bose and it cost me something like $200 for 2 pairs. My left and right mains though are Poly Natalia's I built. Link to the design: http://blackdahlia.com/the_poly_natalia__a_diy_loudsp.htm The Poly Natalia's are pretty amazing even compared to my Ultimate Ears Triple Fi 10 headphones (retail $400, but they were available for $100 about once a year when in production)
There are very few good programmers out there. I suspect there is a high likelihood that if you have hired one of the few as your intern that the code he is looking at is in fact bad. I've seen much more bad code than good code in my career. 50,000 lines is pretty small. If it really is bad, it shouldn't take long to fix so why not let him have a stab at it? He's an intern, part of what he's supposed to be doing is learning things. Something that size should be fixable in a month if the things surrounding it are any good whatsoever and they don't have to be thrown out as well. The last code I worked on that size that I claimed was bad and many longterm employees of the company where I worked at the time insisted was great ended up being about 1/3 of the original size at the end with significantly fewer bugs, additional new features, and had lower maintenance costs over the remainder of the years I worked there. Total investment...About 50% of my time for a month. If the intern achieves the same type of results, great, you've found a stellar programmer you should hire full time. If not, your intern wasted some time and you throw away what he produced and get a new intern.
Maintainability and documentation were gradeable aspects for both the undergrad and graduate programs I attended.
What? Where do you live? Do you know anything about volcanoes or how far a pyroclastic flow will typically travel. If Mt. Hood (I imagine this is what you meant by Portland) blew it's top Portland would get covered in ash, but nobody would die instantly. Mt. St. Helens is 53 miles NE of Portland as the crow flies. It blew up fairly recently. 1980 in fact. We're still here. Now Mt. Hood is a bit closer at 40 miles, but still far enough away that it is unlikely that much in the way of real damage would occur. However, if Mt. Tabor were to suddenly become active there might be a problem. It's smaller, OK, it is more like a big hill....but it's technically an active volcano and it's within city limits. In fact there's parks on it and water reservoirs...and roads....and houses. It's smaller though, so it's not like the whole city would disappear. I'd be quite safe at my house in the burbs.
You don't think the military really spends that much money on wars and hammers do you? All that funding has been going into NASA to build an arcology on the far side of the moon. It'd look suspicious if they put that much money into the NASA budget so they're just leaving it in the military budget where there's been bloat for years and people assume it's being spent on earth based projects. You really think that "secret" space plane is the only thing the military has been spending money on in space? If Obama were honest when he responds to the construct a Death Star by 2016 petition he would just say: "We already have one. And it's cloaked." But he can't. National security and all that. It will be interesting to see what fiction he makes up instead.
Well thanks for the info. I think you've given me enough to work with. I think maybe I'll pick up a UHF antenna to start. During good weather I can get away with a cheapy small indoor antenna I'm borrowing. It does give troubles picking up the signal on a couple channels during especially adverse conditions.
So lets say I don't live in Alaska, but my Metro area still has a station on channel 5. What would you recommend? Is it feasible to use an all in one? Something like this? http://www.solidsignal.com/pview.asp?mc=03&p=HD8200U&d=Winegard-HD8200U-Heavy-Duty-Platinum-VHFUHFFM-HDTV-Antenna-(HD8200U)&c=TV%20Antennas&sku=&more=yes If so is there a particular model that research (which I haven't done) would indicate is best?
Shutters on the OUTSIDE of the window work best. Inside shutters reflect some of the light back out, but its already through the glass at that point and some of it is converted to heat inside your home. Outdoor shutters block any of the light from getting inside the glass except of course any light that may enter between the slats.
It's been years since I have worked on either an MTA or an MUA, but as I recall RFC 821 doesn't say much about memo headers at all. It merely specifies multiple recipients results in multiple RCPT commands being issued. I don't think there is any restriction on number of recipients in the to field of the header or anything that states recipients beyond the first should be placed in the CC field of the header. To SMTP that is all just data and it really doesn't give a crap. The more recent RFC 2821 does have some things to say and does specifically mention even BCC, so I'm not sure where you're getting the idea multiple recipients in to was ever non-standard as far as SMTP is concerned. As wikipedia would say: Citation needed.
Buying local for me means buying from powells.com instead of amazon.com when it comes to books Sometimes I'll even look stuff up on their website, then call in and they'll have it ready for pickup and checkout at the front when I get there. It's too bad more local businesses can't figure out how to make a good website.
Sounds really slow. When do you expect the bit to finish changing?
This is what I mean by misinformation:
48kbit MP3 is perfectly reasonable when it's mono. Next you'll tell my 128kbit MP3 stereo isn't acceptable. Come on, this is coming out of a handset speaker. You obviously haven't tried 48kbit or you wouldn't make such a ridiculous statement. Me, I've been in the codec business (and writing them) for over a decade.
128 kbit MP3 stereo really isn't acceptable. I stopped using it way back in 2000/2001 or so as devices with a reasonable amount of space allowed me to. 192k MP3 is the lower end of acceptable. Not only did I stop encoding anythinng new in 128k bit it I deleted everything existing that I had already encoded at 192 kbit or below in late 2001. At 128k it's of a low enough quality that it at times physically gives me headaches after longish listening sessions for some types of recording which I don't seem to experience with higher bit rates. In the modern age I really wish lossy audio compression would just go away altogether, but it still has it's uses on the internet for streaming where bandwidth may be limited. Low bit rate is the primary reason I don't use sites like pandora.com
A good portion of the electiricity I'm using comes from Hydropower. Now, technically this "uses" water to produce electricity, but there's not any less water after the electricity is produced and it's not substantially less potable.
I bought a 73" Mitsubishi 3D Ready 120hz 1080P DLP HDTV yesterday at Costco with stand for $1500 total. Now it doesn't come with the glasses and IR emitter to use 3d, but it has the plugin on it. Honestly I have no idea how much those would cost to buy as the fact the TV is 3d ready wasn't my major reason for the purchase. It doesn't seem to me like there was much, if any additional cost to add the 3d ready port to this beast. I suspect the real cost is going to be in purchasing a pair of glasses for each viewer if I ever chose to go 3d. My primary purpose for this TV is to watch media such as movies or TV on DVD/Blu-Ray and play video games. I do not subscribe to any cable or satellite services and have no intention of doing so. I find that they deliver a bunch of crap I don't want and I can rent/purchase what I do want to watch for cheaper per month and I don't ever waste time mindlessly flipping through the channels just because I'm bored.
I heard an ad for this on the radio today. The ad was for a promotional price of 49.99 for their mobile "4G" internet along with home internet for x # of months. I think 12 months. That said I was wondering if they are renting part of Clear's network and rebranding it, especially since the ad was for a bundle rather than standalone service. I was part of the beta for Clear near the end of this year and continued to use it until they shut down the network to go live in about early February. Service was continually improving throughout the time I used it although it still had a few dead spots in places where I would like to use it. 3 or 4 were left on my hour long commute on the MAX (our light rail system in Portland), which was much better than at the start of the beta. I have 6 months free for being part of the beta with Clear coming up here when I decide to redeem it and am looking forward to using the system again and am hoping they have continued to improve
My router/switch supports snmp so it was just a matter of setting up a tool to grab the data from the router and graph it. Something such as MRTG for linux or PRTG for windows. So I'm actually monitoring the switchport this computer is plugged into, not the computer itself, although you can install SNMP software directly on both Windows and Linux workstations to do the monitoring if you're network hardware doesn't support it. Installing the SNMP agent on Windows is fairly straightforward, although I've never had to use it. http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/w indows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/sag_snmptopnode.mspx? mfr=true
That sucks...I have snmp monitoring on on this PC and on a day where I do essentially nothing, background services and various other things polling the web take up 100 Megabytes a day. I see one day in January where I only used 22 Megabytes of bandwidth, but thats rather an anomaly. From May 1st to June 2nd only 5 days are under 100 Megabytes with the lowest day being 53 Megabytes on May 4th. This is of course only my usage from this PC and does not include the other 3 pc's in this household. Over the past week I have 2.13 GB Friday, 208 MB Saturday, 1.25 GB Sunday, 163 MB Monday, 211 MB Tuesday, 148 MB Wednesday, 148 MB Thursday, and 141 MB for today, another Friday with 3 hours left to go. One of those days over a GB is a day where I rented a movie from movielink.com using some free money I got off a cereal box...the other, I forget what I was doing. Updating a bunch of software I think so those are a bit anomalous off the high end, but I usually have a gigabyte+ day once every two weeks or so with two 4.5 and 4.6 GB single day whoppers this year, one Feb 5., one March 8th... I can't imagine having to pay for using over 3GB per month.
NES systems died. Lots. Blink, blink, blink....goes the little red light. Of course thats fixable for a nominal sum, but I imagine a hard drive would be replaceable just as the connector pins on the NES are replaceable.
My countertop deep fryer that was purchased a few years back has a magnetically attached power adapter. It's awesome. Hopefully we start seeing these on more and more items.
In the CS 410/596 Network Management and Security class at Portland State University there is a capture the flag exercise which lasts about 6 weeks of the term. This goes on concurrent to the normal class activites and is a 24x7 exercise as would be the case in the real world. Not sure on the exact details as I am just taking the class now and the first day was yesterday.
Actually, here in the USA where us Yanks live, a Curriculum Vitae (C.V.) and a resume are two quite different things and serve different purposes. I am fairly certain this is the case most everywhere in the world.
A CV is typically much longer and lists all your educational experience, publications, academic background, affiliation with various societies, etc., etc. A resume is a much more concise document that mainly covers job/work experience.
Good points about the database though.