Trevor had just begun a new scheme that involved writing down everything about every aspect of his life on a stack of index cards, which he carried with him everywhere.
Have you come across the ARMTech resource management product from Aurema?
Instead of scheduling when jobs run to take care of CPU/memory constraints, you can set a policy of resource usage, which ARMTech then enforces (eg Application A can only have X amount of memory at maximum). Policy can be adjusted whenever the need arises. It might help in solving your problem.
Disclaimer: I am an employee of the above company.
In the article, the author gives an example of an application that doesn't work properly under WineX... GAIM. Well, WTF... why the hell would anyone running WineX try to run Win2k GAIM when the app is native to *nix anyway? Just a thought.
They did the same for UT2004(it has a Linux port too). Perhaps better app examples could have been chosen.
A lot of pros are still using film, but any sort of time critical photography (sports/news reporting/etc) has gone all digital. And if you're using a digital SLR and shooting RAW, those CF cards don't last that many shots. Check out this article for an insight into Sports Illustrated's use of digital photography (they use multiple 512Mb or 1Gb cards per photographer).
The problem with blacklists is they are often administered by volunteers hapazardly. And, often the person using the blacklist (administrator) has little or no connection with the end user. So the end user has no control over the use of a blacklist. This then puts the responsibility for blocking communications with users (desired or not) firmly in the hands of the blacklist creator/maintainer and the administrator.
The WPBL is a slightly different kind of blocklist that attempts to track both spam and non-spam IP addresses. Plus, a blocklist is now available that only includes spammers IP addresses that have been reported by more than one volunteer, to minimise the risk of anomalies. More people to provide data are always welcome, so please consider helping out... (end plug)
sid is the only "perpetual" name, ie sid will always refer to unstable (or still in development, even though it also fits in the toy story theme).
The remaining ones (including sarge) are release names. sarge is currently under development and testing, but will be released sometime or another
I actually think the naming system is good, and flexible. You can track whatever the most current stable release is, or a particular release, or even testing or unstable if you want. It's probably even easier to follow than the Windows naming system, since the code names for Windows releases don't seem to get used as much after that release.
I've already had problems with my CD key. One particular server will give me "the master server says you have an invalid CD key" messages every couple of rounds. While this may not sound like so much of a problem
I'm only running the demo version of UT2004, connecting to demo only servers
I'm not cheating, in fact, I'm decidedly middle of the road when the score sheet comes up at the end of a round.
I'm not engaging in any anti-social behaviour, nor been accused of it
While I love the game (and will probably buy it when I get a chance to get to a store), it doesn't fill me with confidence about the anti cheat protection in the final product.
I run a report daily that tells me where my Bayesian-identified spam came from (IP address and host name via reverse lookup).
Out of the approximately 16 daily reports in my inbox, only two addresses are uu.net. I'm seeing comcast.net (37 occurences) and adelphia.net (29 occurences) a lot more, by comparison.
If you match one of the above conditions your e-mail is sent:
If your a known goodguy such as eBay (or Microsoft.. ug) then you get on the global white list... (Requires a sizeable deposit)
If your willing to provide absolute certanty that you are who you clame to be (PGP) you also get through.
If your not willing (or able) to do eather then you get to pay...
Sorry, but that isn't going to help with things like non-profit mailing lists, who aren't going to have the funds for the "sizeable deposit". You've then got to have every single list member PGP signing emails, which is pretty ridiculous.
Spam isn't an easy problem to solve, by any means.
Worrisome: someone who knows my e-mail address, whose machine is currently infected, is broadcasting it all over the Internet and perhaps eventually to spammers.
It's going to get really interesting when some spammer decides to write an email-borne virus that just runs silently in the background, and harvests email addresses from incoming and outgoing mail, and transmits them back to the spammer.
There's another effective cross platform tool that I'm hooked on. It's called Spambayes and uses similar Bayesian filters.
WPBL isn't a filtering tool itself (and hence not an alternative to Spambayes). It's a project aimed at building a list of IP addresses that send good mail and IP addresses that send spam (based on whatever bayesian filtering the client has available). The data collection is automated, so as long as your filter is accurate, then the data uploaded will be too.
Basically, it's an attempt to use statistical filters (eg Bayesian based ones) to identify what IP's are sending spam. I'm sure that they would love to have more people involved in the collection of data, particularly if they've already trained their client side filters to a high level of accuracy.
It's not always a choice between stable and unstable, either. For example, I run a mostly stable system at home, but I use a few backports for packages that I need newer versions of, or don't exist in stable. apt-get.org is your friend when looking for backports. Just copy and paste the relevant sources line(s) into/etc/apt/sources.list, then apt-get update and apt-get upgrade. Works for me.
Actually, Yahoo does still offer free POP access, in some of the international versions. I know for a fact that the Australian flavour still enabled creation of accounts with POP access after they made it a pay option for the US one.
I'm certainly behind this idea, providing they get the wording of the legislation right.
However, given the Australian government's track record on these matters, I'm not confident it will make that much difference in practice. Take Internet censorship as an example. Similar concept, the legislation gives them the power to take down Australian hosted sites. Result - dismal failure
Unreal Tournament and Unreal Tournament 2003 both have an "Auto adjust skill" option for the bots, where they will attempt to play at the same standard as the human player(s). It doesn't have this option for the single player tournament mode though.
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I'm surprised that I haven't seen any mention of diceware yet.
Allows for strong passwords with high entropy, but easier to remember than traditional passwords. Well worth a look, IMHO
Trevor had just begun a new scheme that involved writing down everything about every aspect of his life on a stack of index cards, which he carried with him everywhere.
Sounds like someone's been reading Getting Things Done
Have you come across the ARMTech resource management product from Aurema?
Instead of scheduling when jobs run to take care of CPU/memory constraints, you can set a policy of resource usage, which ARMTech then enforces (eg Application A can only have X amount of memory at maximum). Policy can be adjusted whenever the need arises. It might help in solving your problem.
Disclaimer: I am an employee of the above company.
In the article, the author gives an example of an application that doesn't work properly under WineX ... GAIM. Well, WTF... why the hell would anyone running WineX try to run Win2k GAIM when the app is native to *nix anyway? Just a thought.
They did the same for UT2004(it has a Linux port too). Perhaps better app examples could have been chosen.
A lot of pros are still using film, but any sort of time critical photography (sports/news reporting/etc) has gone all digital. And if you're using a digital SLR and shooting RAW, those CF cards don't last that many shots. Check out this article for an insight into Sports Illustrated's use of digital photography (they use multiple 512Mb or 1Gb cards per photographer).
The problem with blacklists is they are often administered by volunteers hapazardly. And, often the person using the blacklist (administrator) has little or no connection with the end user. So the end user has no control over the use of a blacklist. This then puts the responsibility for blocking communications with users (desired or not) firmly in the hands of the blacklist creator/maintainer and the administrator.
The WPBL is a slightly different kind of blocklist that attempts to track both spam and non-spam IP addresses. Plus, a blocklist is now available that only includes spammers IP addresses that have been reported by more than one volunteer, to minimise the risk of anomalies. More people to provide data are always welcome, so please consider helping out... (end plug)
sid is the only "perpetual" name, ie sid will always refer to unstable (or still in development, even though it also fits in the toy story theme).
The remaining ones (including sarge) are release names. sarge is currently under development and testing, but will be released sometime or another
I actually think the naming system is good, and flexible. You can track whatever the most current stable release is, or a particular release, or even testing or unstable if you want. It's probably even easier to follow than the Windows naming system, since the code names for Windows releases don't seem to get used as much after that release.
Yes, try the New Maintainers Guide and an article written by IBM
While I love the game (and will probably buy it when I get a chance to get to a store), it doesn't fill me with confidence about the anti cheat protection in the final product.
Have you checked out WPBL, as linked in my sig?
It basically attempts to classify IPs as primarily spam senders or not according to the ratio of spam/non spam they send.
The more signed up, the merrier, so feel free to check it out.
I run a report daily that tells me where my Bayesian-identified spam came from (IP address and host name via reverse lookup).
Out of the approximately 16 daily reports in my inbox, only two addresses are uu.net. I'm seeing comcast.net (37 occurences) and adelphia.net (29 occurences) a lot more, by comparison.
If you match one of the above conditions your e-mail is sent:
If your a known goodguy such as eBay (or Microsoft.. ug) then you get on the global white list... (Requires a sizeable deposit)
If your willing to provide absolute certanty that you are who you clame to be (PGP) you also get through.
If your not willing (or able) to do eather then you get to pay...
Sorry, but that isn't going to help with things like non-profit mailing lists, who aren't going to have the funds for the "sizeable deposit". You've then got to have every single list member PGP signing emails, which is pretty ridiculous.
Spam isn't an easy problem to solve, by any means.
And while we're on the subject of IP address based block lists, I'll add a mandatory plug for the Weighted Private Block List project.
Check it out, it uses a different approach to any other block list I've seen thus far.
Worrisome: someone who knows my e-mail address, whose machine is currently infected, is broadcasting it all over the Internet and perhaps eventually to spammers.
It's going to get really interesting when some spammer decides to write an email-borne virus that just runs silently in the background, and harvests email addresses from incoming and outgoing mail, and transmits them back to the spammer.
There's another effective cross platform tool that I'm hooked on. It's called Spambayes and uses similar Bayesian filters.
WPBL isn't a filtering tool itself (and hence not an alternative to Spambayes). It's a project aimed at building a list of IP addresses that send good mail and IP addresses that send spam (based on whatever bayesian filtering the client has available). The data collection is automated, so as long as your filter is accurate, then the data uploaded will be too.
I've recently started submitting data to the Weighted Private Block List project.
Basically, it's an attempt to use statistical filters (eg Bayesian based ones) to identify what IP's are sending spam. I'm sure that they would love to have more people involved in the collection of data, particularly if they've already trained their client side filters to a high level of accuracy.
(OP)I know for a fact that one of the major Hollywood talents has leaked his share of movies.
You know whose script was bootlegged and photocopied a zillion times? William Fucking Shatner's, that's who.
I thought we were discussing major Holywood talent?
If you're looking for a "Ghost" like solution, try SystemImager. Should work well if your hardware is fairly standardised.
But Lotus Notes doesn't run natively under Linux does it? Last time I spoke to IBMers, they were forced to run it under Wine, if anything
Well, the summary has some entries with DB2 running on z/OS (for IBM's biggest mainframes), doesn't that count?
It's not always a choice between stable and unstable, either. For example, I run a mostly stable system at home, but I use a few backports for packages that I need newer versions of, or don't exist in stable. apt-get.org is your friend when looking for backports. Just copy and paste the relevant sources line(s) into /etc/apt/sources.list, then apt-get update and apt-get upgrade. Works for me.
Actually, Yahoo does still offer free POP access, in some of the international versions. I know for a fact that the Australian flavour still enabled creation of accounts with POP access after they made it a pay option for the US one.
I'm certainly behind this idea, providing they get the wording of the legislation right.
However, given the Australian government's track record on these matters, I'm not confident it will make that much difference in practice. Take Internet censorship as an example. Similar concept, the legislation gives them the power to take down Australian hosted sites. Result - dismal failure
Unreal Tournament and Unreal Tournament 2003 both have an "Auto adjust skill" option for the bots, where they will attempt to play at the same standard as the human player(s). It doesn't have this option for the single player tournament mode though.
ATM machine?
What's next:
PIN number?
Contains Windows NT technology?
Just say no to redundancy!