I think, at least in terms of HST, the most important issue is the pressing nature of the topics...for instance: Nixon, Watergate, and social repression. Another point to consider is the importance of the writer's point of view; HST not only wrote about society and politics but came from and continued to write about sports throughout his career.
Be sure to contact him and join AIR if you need spam/condescension. No doubt AIR will solve all your hiss problems...you're probably not dealing with a hardware/software problem that people who regularly do sound engineering on computers would be able to help you with anyways. Since you're a student you can go pay AIR $35 to help you with "broadcast" advice; like how far you need to stick the microphone up your ass.
You mean name the stars after the what the natives of the Earth call the star? It sounds like a good plan; by the way, what do natives of the Earth call that particular star?
"Am I under arrest?" "Am I being detained?" "Am I free to leave?"
and two magic phrases: "No thank you officer" - in response to requests for search "If you feel you need to arrest me I understand that you need to do your job" - in response to threats of arrest
Say you're pulled over for speeding. If you ask the cop, "Am I under arrest?" and he/she says, "No" you are still not free to leave. If you do so you will probably end up under arrest. Police do have the legal authority to temporarily detain you without affecting an arrest.
It seems like the logical direction of Xen's progression.
From the creator of Xen's website "A port of Windows XP was developed for an earlier version of Xen, but is not available for release due to licence restrictions"
I haven't used it since version 4, but the overhead for DeepFreeze was not at all noticeable. I know there was some small amount of overhead since there were at least two processes associated with the program, however a human couldn't tell any difference between a machine with DeepFreeze versus a machine without it. And these weren't souped up machines...they ran Windows 2000 with an 800mgz Athlon and 256MB of RAM. There's no way they could have run Win2K on VMWare running on X running on a stripped down version of Linux at anywhere near the same speed as native Win2K with DeepFreeze. It's pure speculation since I'm not around them anymore, but I'd guess 50% overhead but someone is welcome to contradict me. In addition, back in the day VMWare licenses would have been cost prohibitive but that's obviously changeing. And with cheap memory and fancy dual and quad core processors, the system overhead cost of using VMWare on top of Linux would be a much smaller portion of the system's resources.
Have you ever considered using imaging software to deploy one image to all the machines (if they're identical) or create individual images for each machine (if they're different)? Norton/Symantec Ghost, Acronis True Image, or g4u (Ghost for Unix) if you're looking for an OSS solution.
There's also software out there that can lock down XP, keeping any changes from becoming permanent...I used a program called DeepFreeze to minimize maintenanc on an 12 computer lab I ran.
Reinstalling Windows from scratch is a little inefficient compared to imaging or locking down the machines.
TFA in case anyone else is having trouble with access:
July 4, 2006 Stolen Lives Identity Thief Finds Easy Money Hard to Resist By TOM ZELLER Jr.
By the time of Shiva Brent Sharma's third arrest for identity theft, at the age of 20, he had taken in well over $150,000 in cash and merchandise in his brief career. After a certain point, investigators stopped counting.
The biggest money was coming in at the end, postal inspectors said, after Mr. Sharma had figured out how to buy access to stolen credit card accounts online, change the cardholder information and reliably wire money to himself -- sometimes using false identities for which he had created pristine driver's licenses.
But Mr. Sharma, now 22, says he never really kept track of his earnings.
"I don't know how much I made altogether, but the most I ever made in a quick period was like $20,000 in a day and a half or something," he said, sitting in the empty meeting hall at the Mohawk Correctional Facility in Rome, N.Y., where he is serving a two- to four-year term. "Working like three hours today, three hours tomorrow -- $20,000."
And once he knew what he was doing, it was all too easy.
"It's an addiction, no doubt about that," said Mr. Sharma, who inflected his words with the sort of street cadence adopted by smart kids trying to be cool. "I get scared that when I get out, I might have a problem and relapse because it would be so easy to take $300 and turn it into several thousand."
That ease accounts for the sizable ranks of identity-fraud victims, whose acquaintance with the crime often begins with unexplained credit card charges, a drained bank account or worse. The victims' tales have become alarmingly familiar, but usually lack a protagonist -- the perpetrator. Mr. Sharma's account of his own exploits provides the missing piece: an insight into both the tools and the motivation of a persistent thief.
Identity theft can, of course, have its origins in a pilfered wallet or an emptied mailbox. But for computer-savvy thieves like Mr. Sharma, the Internet has forged new conduits for the crime, both as a means of stealing identity and account information and as the place to use it.
The Secret Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have invested millions of dollars in monitoring Internet sites where thousands of users from around the world congregate to swap tips about identity theft and to buy and sell personal data. Mr. Sharma frequented such sites from their earliest days, and the techniques he learned there have become textbook-variety scams.
"Shiva Sharma was probably one of the first, and he was certainly one of the first to get caught," said Diane M. Peress, a former Queens County prosecutor who handled all three of Mr. Sharma's cases and who is now the chief of economic crimes with the Nassau County district attorney's office. "But the kinds of methods that he used are being used all the time."
As far back as 2002, Mr. Sharma began picking the locks on consumer credit lines using a computer, the Internet and a deep understanding of online commerce, Internet security and simple human nature, obtained through years of trading insights with like-minded thieves in online forums. And he deployed the now-common rods and reels of data theft -- e-mail solicitations and phony Web sites -- that fleece the unwitting.
Much of this unfolded from the basement of a middle-class family home in Richmond Hill, Queens, at the hands of a high school student with a knack for problem solving and an inability, even after multiple arrests, to resist the challenge of making a scheme pay off.
That is what worries Mr. Sharma's wife, Damaris, 21, who has no time for the Internet as she raises the couple's 1-year-old daughter, Bellamarie.
"I hate computers," she said. "I think they're the devil."
A Thief's Tool Kit
Mr. Sharma is soft-spoken, but he does not shrink from the spotlight. He gained fleeting attention after his first arrest, as the first person
Someone mentioned OSS...but that isn't the only path for free time. Have you ever contacted local non-profits and seen what kind of help they need and if it fits with the type of programming you'd like to do?
I still watch a few shows, but I have a requirement: if I can't listen to it without visuals then it's too stupid to have on. Our kitchen has no view of the living room TV so I'll often listen while I cook. You'd be amazed how asinine 99% of televisions shows become without visuals.
I second WaMu. Very good customer service, the online experience is good and always improving, and they've expanded into most states. Right now, at least, I believe all their employees are in the U.S.
What a shame that the employers who employ those individuals and those who buy/sell products produced by those individuals don't benefit in any material way.
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I think, at least in terms of HST, the most important issue is the pressing nature of the topics...for instance: Nixon, Watergate, and social repression. Another point to consider is the importance of the writer's point of view; HST not only wrote about society and politics but came from and continued to write about sports throughout his career.
Be sure to contact him and join AIR if you need spam/condescension. No doubt AIR will solve all your hiss problems...you're probably not dealing with a hardware/software problem that people who regularly do sound engineering on computers would be able to help you with anyways. Since you're a student you can go pay AIR $35 to help you with "broadcast" advice; like how far you need to stick the microphone up your ass.
http://www.primidi.com/2005/03/27.html
You mean name the stars after the what the natives of the Earth call the star? It sounds like a good plan; by the way, what do natives of the Earth call that particular star?
Not quite...there are three magic questions:
"Am I under arrest?"
"Am I being detained?"
"Am I free to leave?"
and two magic phrases:
"No thank you officer" - in response to requests for search
"If you feel you need to arrest me I understand that you need to do your job" - in response to threats of arrest
Say you're pulled over for speeding. If you ask the cop, "Am I under arrest?" and he/she says, "No" you are still not free to leave. If you do so you will probably end up under arrest. Police do have the legal authority to temporarily detain you without affecting an arrest.
It's a trap!
Aren't these changes to Vista akin to rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic?
It seems like the logical direction of Xen's progression.
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From the creator of Xen's website "A port of Windows XP was developed for an earlier version of Xen, but is not available for release due to licence restrictions"
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/in
The only thing standing in the way of Xen's running Microsoft's products is Microsoft.
The website for anyone who is interested: http://www.faronics.com/index.asp
I haven't used it since version 4, but the overhead for DeepFreeze was not at all noticeable. I know there was some small amount of overhead since there were at least two processes associated with the program, however a human couldn't tell any difference between a machine with DeepFreeze versus a machine without it. And these weren't souped up machines...they ran Windows 2000 with an 800mgz Athlon and 256MB of RAM. There's no way they could have run Win2K on VMWare running on X running on a stripped down version of Linux at anywhere near the same speed as native Win2K with DeepFreeze. It's pure speculation since I'm not around them anymore, but I'd guess 50% overhead but someone is welcome to contradict me. In addition, back in the day VMWare licenses would have been cost prohibitive but that's obviously changeing. And with cheap memory and fancy dual and quad core processors, the system overhead cost of using VMWare on top of Linux would be a much smaller portion of the system's resources.
Have you ever considered using imaging software to deploy one image to all the machines (if they're identical) or create individual images for each machine (if they're different)? Norton/Symantec Ghost, Acronis True Image, or g4u (Ghost for Unix) if you're looking for an OSS solution.
There's also software out there that can lock down XP, keeping any changes from becoming permanent...I used a program called DeepFreeze to minimize maintenanc on an 12 computer lab I ran.
Reinstalling Windows from scratch is a little inefficient compared to imaging or locking down the machines.
Are you talking about Norton/Symantec home products or enterprise products?
No, no, no. The project is going to ship a ship. It's like sending the QE2 via UPS.
TFA in case anyone else is having trouble with access:
July 4, 2006
Stolen Lives
Identity Thief Finds Easy Money Hard to Resist
By TOM ZELLER Jr.
By the time of Shiva Brent Sharma's third arrest for identity theft, at the age of 20, he had taken in well over $150,000 in cash and merchandise in his brief career. After a certain point, investigators stopped counting.
The biggest money was coming in at the end, postal inspectors said, after Mr. Sharma had figured out how to buy access to stolen credit card accounts online, change the cardholder information and reliably wire money to himself -- sometimes using false identities for which he had created pristine driver's licenses.
But Mr. Sharma, now 22, says he never really kept track of his earnings.
"I don't know how much I made altogether, but the most I ever made in a quick period was like $20,000 in a day and a half or something," he said, sitting in the empty meeting hall at the Mohawk Correctional Facility in Rome, N.Y., where he is serving a two- to four-year term. "Working like three hours today, three hours tomorrow -- $20,000."
And once he knew what he was doing, it was all too easy.
"It's an addiction, no doubt about that," said Mr. Sharma, who inflected his words with the sort of street cadence adopted by smart kids trying to be cool. "I get scared that when I get out, I might have a problem and relapse because it would be so easy to take $300 and turn it into several thousand."
That ease accounts for the sizable ranks of identity-fraud victims, whose acquaintance with the crime often begins with unexplained credit card charges, a drained bank account or worse. The victims' tales have become alarmingly familiar, but usually lack a protagonist -- the perpetrator. Mr. Sharma's account of his own exploits provides the missing piece: an insight into both the tools and the motivation of a persistent thief.
Identity theft can, of course, have its origins in a pilfered wallet or an emptied mailbox. But for computer-savvy thieves like Mr. Sharma, the Internet has forged new conduits for the crime, both as a means of stealing identity and account information and as the place to use it.
The Secret Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have invested millions of dollars in monitoring Internet sites where thousands of users from around the world congregate to swap tips about identity theft and to buy and sell personal data. Mr. Sharma frequented such sites from their earliest days, and the techniques he learned there have become textbook-variety scams.
"Shiva Sharma was probably one of the first, and he was certainly one of the first to get caught," said Diane M. Peress, a former Queens County prosecutor who handled all three of Mr. Sharma's cases and who is now the chief of economic crimes with the Nassau County district attorney's office. "But the kinds of methods that he used are being used all the time."
As far back as 2002, Mr. Sharma began picking the locks on consumer credit lines using a computer, the Internet and a deep understanding of online commerce, Internet security and simple human nature, obtained through years of trading insights with like-minded thieves in online forums. And he deployed the now-common rods and reels of data theft -- e-mail solicitations and phony Web sites -- that fleece the unwitting.
Much of this unfolded from the basement of a middle-class family home in Richmond Hill, Queens, at the hands of a high school student with a knack for problem solving and an inability, even after multiple arrests, to resist the challenge of making a scheme pay off.
That is what worries Mr. Sharma's wife, Damaris, 21, who has no time for the Internet as she raises the couple's 1-year-old daughter, Bellamarie.
"I hate computers," she said. "I think they're the devil."
A Thief's Tool Kit
Mr. Sharma is soft-spoken, but he does not shrink from the spotlight. He gained fleeting attention after his first arrest, as the first person
If only they could manage this for corporate mergers...
The black marks would get annoying after awhile.
Someone mentioned OSS...but that isn't the only path for free time. Have you ever contacted local non-profits and seen what kind of help they need and if it fits with the type of programming you'd like to do?
I for one, wholeheartedly embrace the concept of design...
I love shoeboxes for storage. Cheap and modular.
I still watch a few shows, but I have a requirement: if I can't listen to it without visuals then it's too stupid to have on. Our kitchen has no view of the living room TV so I'll often listen while I cook. You'd be amazed how asinine 99% of televisions shows become without visuals.
I second WaMu. Very good customer service, the online experience is good and always improving, and they've expanded into most states. Right now, at least, I believe all their employees are in the U.S.
What a shame that the employers who employ those individuals and those who buy/sell products produced by those individuals don't benefit in any material way.
Anyone with a non-MS software firewall will see this POS phoning home all the time.
Frankly, I think she not only owned WiFi but she PWNed WiFi.
How about slander?...sure sounds like he's being defamed, regardless of the truth of the statement.
Seems fair to me if you have such a douche for a friend.