One of the largest issues at hand with the mod chip craze, is that most consoles are now sold at a loss, and the companies have locked themselves into a dangerous game where they primarily make money off of game sales, and these mega corporations only want you to be playing (and buying) their games, not freely downloadable games online, or booting LINUX.
I wonder what would happen if I created a razor blade that fit the Mach 3 razor, was equivalent to the Mach 3 blades, and sold it for half the price of the Mach 3 blades...
What happened to 'generic' stuff? You never see plain old black and white "CEREAL" boxes anymore..
REAL conservative believe that you should be able to do anything you want as long as it doesnt adversely affect others.
I thought that was Libertarianism?
I thought it was anarchy.. (seriously, I don't think anarchy is bad, you just can't tell me what to do - we're just not a responsible enough society to enjoy true anarchy:P..)
>>>Federal enforcement of drug control regulations >>>is a success. >> >>False! The government can't keep drugs out of >>prisons. What makes you think they do a good job >>keeping it out of the hands of non-inamtes? > >Your opinions are not shared by your representatives in >Washington, nor by the majority of your countrymen. I >take it you have personally tried to obtain narcotics in >prison and succeeded? While I am sure that there are >ways to get whatever you want in prison if you try hard >enough, I would also suggest that you not count on it >yourself if you happen to find yourself there.
FYI, opinions aren't fact. My brother-in-law was in prison, and it's a fucking resort. He was in everything from minimum jail to medium prison. He could get anything he wanted, whenever he wanted. Washington reps, and the average Joe don't have experience with the prison system. Why would their opinions on how well it operates matter at all?
Do you weigh heavily the VP of Finance's opinion on the network topology?
According to the National Geographic story, this DNA-based computer "can perform 330 trillion operations per second, more than 100,000 times the speed of the fastest PC."
Yeah, and on page 79 is a article about a newly discovered Amazon tribe 'untouched by modern man'.
I'm trying to give this advice to all my friends who just got their first jobs out of college. Stop buying the new flashy toys, and start putting money away while you can (no real bills to eat up their paycheck). They'll have a lot more freedom later on.
EVERYBODY knows that they SHOULD do that. How about: "Don't give your wife free reign of 4 credit cards and the bank account."
What was it Kevin Mitnick said about social engineering?
I don't like butterscotch, but I do like vanilla. You don't see friggin holy wars over pudding, though, do you?
Hmm, no, I don't remember him saying that.
What? You mean you haven't heard of the famous "Saralee" speach?
Oh man. You missed a good one. Some other choice quotes:
"The next time you feel like complaining, remember that your garbage disposal probably eats better than 30 percent of the people in the world. "
Never serve oysters in a month that has no paycheck in it.
Don't take a butcher's advice on how to cook meat. If he knew, he'd be a chef.
"So I told him, 'Have a coke and a smile and shut the f**k up'"
(what you didn't see was that she navigated through all of that stuff to get to an xterm, and then she typed a command with 6 pipes and more punctuation than letters, but that wasn't on camera)
Everyone who's anyone knows that's the VI macro for 'turn on the power'
I'm sure MANY of you can relate with Robert Redford falling as he jumped over a small piece of furniture when breaking into a bank.
Of course, I'm not 40 yet, but I think I'll be jumping cube walls for quite a few years to come (not the full-height ones you moron - yeah, I know what you're thinking too:).
Remember, Credit Cards companies use neural networks to analyse transactions and decide whether or not they may be faulty, and the success-rate of these babies is higher than you may suspect
Neural Networks? Umm WHATEVER. Having worked for a credit card processor ranked 17th in the nation (when I left a few years ago), I can tell you that's probably crap.
Visa MIGHT use them, Mastercard is so fucked up, I highly doubt it. We did Merchant Processing. That's the type of company that got hacked, and I'm not surprised. The company I worked for did everything in FOXPRO. That's right. Everyone had full access to the datafiles. Not only that, but the programs were written so anyone could change a DOS variable, and 'become' any other user to the front-end software. VERY bad.
Sure there was a security program, but it wasn't there to protect the cardholder, it was there to protect the COMPANY. Each merchant has limits, and average sales. If the limit, or average sale is exceeded, the money isn't put into their account. If a card is charged twice, for the same amount, both transactions are stopped. Anything that will stop a chargeback from the customer is checked for.
Someone mentioned making sure a card wasn't used in NV and NJ at the same time... That MAY happen at the cardholder banks, but not at the processor. In fact, we did a little cardholder stuff there too. I'm quite sure the TWO people in that department weren't working on cardholder security.
Those of you discussing SETI@Home, would you please READ the information provided before mouthing off? The software under discussion has nothing to do with SETI@Home.
"can such control software be developed using open source methods or are we better off focussing on the software-only systems, such as the next generation of our signal detectors?"
Why, the author asks, do makers of controller cards put all their BIOS utilities on DOS floppies which require us to find a DOS boot disk? Seriously, how many of us carry around DOS boot disks nowadays?
But really, the author's point is so moot that it's embarassing: if it's my job to maintain a RAID array, and the utilities are on DOS floppies, of course I'm going to have access to a DOS boot disk. So what ? Just how hard is it to carry such a thing around, and why is this is a worthy thing to rail about, in a book about RAID ? If the author wastes too much time talking about stuff like this, this book can't be that useful - arggh, I've wasted too much of my own time already.
I thought it was an issue last week, when I was at a customers site, and needed one to flash a BIOS on an old pentium. Google is your friend : "dos bootdisk" reveals bootdisk.com.
I had more problems trying to boot off my new Asus A7V333 with Promise's 'RAID LITE' crap. The drives are found, but individually..I ended up using ataraid... but that just doesn't seem right. (Note: I've had a Promise Ultra 66 RAID running for two years now - installing the driver 'just worked'. But not with this 'Lite' verison)
Due to the complexity of LDAP, and samba w/PDC in general about 6 months ago I wroteup a pretty significant document on how to configure and deploy such a system, I've spent more then 40 hours on it to date, it's fairly complete:
http://howto.aphroland.de/HOWTO/LDAP
no way in hell could it withstand the slashdot effect, it runs ontop of Zope which is slow enough as it is! Apache seems to be in the order of 2000x to 2500x faster then zope+Zwiki, but the features of zope make it worth it.
Looks good, too bad if I do a:
wget -m -GMETA http://howto.aphroland.de/HOWTO/LDAP
It doesn't do anything useful.. You don't run standard HTML (which is understandable), and all your links are hard links.
I suppose I could 'sweep' the sctructure, and replace 'map' with index.html, and remove the hostname from all the files.. ugh. I'll just bookmark the damn thing.
Bummer.. I'd hold a copy on my dinky Cable for temp use (and my own use)
The only thing that school prepares you for is to get an entry level job where you can gain the experience to write reliable software.
School will get you up to speed on new terms and concepts, but the only thing that will make you better at writing good code is to read good code, write your own code and compare it to the good code, notice the difference, and adjust your approach until your code is "good".
I agree entirely, and will actually take it a step further:
Question the 'facts' you were taught. They may appear to be correct, but you may not only learn something new by examining why the 'fact' is as it is, but you may find a better way.
Of course, take that with a grain of salt. I don't believe the speed of light can't be exceeded. Not that I can prove anything, I just don't like having someone tell me I can't do something:)
I thought Microwave and Aztec were pretty damned cool Apple ][ games. Decathlon was pretty fun, too.
Mr Robot ROCKED. (I actually found a copy for the Apple ][ emulator). Not only could you play the game, I think disk2 allowed you to create your own levels.. Sure it was only 2d, non-scrolling (like CannonBall Blitz) - but MAKING your own levels was so cool!
That was, what, 15 years ago? I got mine in 6th grade, so was 12... 18 years ago.. Damn... I'm getting old.
Not architecture, graphics. But you're turning a joke about a good game with poor graphics into a techie pissing contest.
-Comic book guy voice-"Ahh but see I have an Apple ][e, that's enhanced, for those of you who don't know. I also have an 80 column card, and a googly graphics card, plus, an add-on sound board in Slot 5. Mind you, I pity those who don't have a decent sound system for playing those classic games."
Doug writes "Arthur C Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama is being made into a movie!
Shouldn't "Rendezvous with Rama" be in quotes, or Italicized, or bolded or something?
I was wondering who Rama was, what point she was Mr Clarke's love interest, and what made a quickie between an old author and an Egyptian interesting enough to be a movie..
Has given us Teflon, Kevlar, Lexan....The impact of this tech tends to be below the radar of the average person
No kidding.. my kids will probably never know what trying to clean a non-teflon coated pot is like.
I don't know what Lexan is, but I work for Valeo (Fitness Gloves/Belts, and Industrial Safety), and we use Kevlar threads in some of our Material Handling gloves to give them longer life.. Things just don't fall apart as much as they used to. I just hope my kids don't grow up thinking this stuff was invented in a garage, and everyone needs free access immediately. Some companies spend millions on this research, and they deserve to make their money back - and then some. Only after a reasonable amount of time should it become public domain.
Slashdot Mirror
Or, more to the point, apparently nobody cared enough to go check it out after Desert Storm.
I wonder what would happen if I created a razor blade that fit the Mach 3 razor, was equivalent to the Mach 3 blades, and sold it for half the price of the Mach 3 blades...
What happened to 'generic' stuff? You never see plain old black and white "CEREAL" boxes anymore..
I thought it was anarchy.. (seriously, I don't think anarchy is bad, you just can't tell me what to do - we're just not a responsible enough society to enjoy true anarchy :P..)
>>>Federal enforcement of drug control regulations
>>>is a success.
>>
>>False! The government can't keep drugs out of
>>prisons. What makes you think they do a good job
>>keeping it out of the hands of non-inamtes?
>
>Your opinions are not shared by your representatives in
>Washington, nor by the majority of your countrymen. I
>take it you have personally tried to obtain narcotics in
>prison and succeeded? While I am sure that there are
>ways to get whatever you want in prison if you try hard
>enough, I would also suggest that you not count on it
>yourself if you happen to find yourself there.
FYI, opinions aren't fact. My brother-in-law was in prison, and it's a fucking resort. He was in everything from minimum jail to medium prison. He could get anything he wanted, whenever he wanted.
Washington reps, and the average Joe don't have experience with the prison system. Why would their opinions on how well it operates matter at all?
Do you weigh heavily the VP of Finance's opinion on the network topology?
This is clearly the signature of the Grays from Cygnus Prime. You don't want to communicate with them.
How do you know that, did they reset their modems?
Yeah, and on page 79 is a article about a newly discovered Amazon tribe 'untouched by modern man'.
Yet the women have remarkably perky breasts..
EVERYBODY knows that they SHOULD do that.
How about: "Don't give your wife free reign of 4 credit cards and the bank account."
I sure as hell didn't see that coming..
Hmm, no, I don't remember him saying that.
What? You mean you haven't heard of the famous "Saralee" speach?
Oh man. You missed a good one. Some other choice quotes:
Everyone who's anyone knows that's the VI macro for 'turn on the power'
Of course, I'm not 40 yet, but I think I'll be jumping cube walls for quite a few years to come (not the full-height ones you moron - yeah, I know what you're thinking too :).
Neural Networks? Umm WHATEVER. Having worked for a credit card processor ranked 17th in the nation (when I left a few years ago), I can tell you that's probably crap.
Visa MIGHT use them, Mastercard is so fucked up, I highly doubt it. We did Merchant Processing. That's the type of company that got hacked, and I'm not surprised. The company I worked for did everything in FOXPRO. That's right. Everyone had full access to the datafiles. Not only that, but the programs were written so anyone could change a DOS variable, and 'become' any other user to the front-end software. VERY bad.
Sure there was a security program, but it wasn't there to protect the cardholder, it was there to protect the COMPANY. Each merchant has limits, and average sales. If the limit, or average sale is exceeded, the money isn't put into their account. If a card is charged twice, for the same amount, both transactions are stopped. Anything that will stop a chargeback from the customer is checked for.
Someone mentioned making sure a card wasn't used in NV and NJ at the same time... That MAY happen at the cardholder banks, but not at the processor. In fact, we did a little cardholder stuff there too. I'm quite sure the TWO people in that department weren't working on cardholder security.
"can such control software be developed using open source methods or are we better off focussing on the software-only systems, such as the next generation of our signal detectors?"
I thought SETI@Home WAS detecting signals...??
But really, the author's point is so moot that it's embarassing: if it's my job to maintain a RAID array, and the utilities are on DOS floppies, of course I'm going to have access to a DOS boot disk. So what ? Just how hard is it to carry such a thing around, and why is this is a worthy thing to rail about, in a book about RAID ? If the author wastes too much time talking about stuff like this, this book can't be that useful - arggh, I've wasted too much of my own time already.
I thought it was an issue last week, when I was at a customers site, and needed one to flash a BIOS on an old pentium. Google is your friend : "dos bootdisk" reveals bootdisk.com.
I had more problems trying to boot off my new Asus A7V333 with Promise's 'RAID LITE' crap. The drives are found, but individually..I ended up using ataraid... but that just doesn't seem right. (Note: I've had a Promise Ultra 66 RAID running for two years now - installing the driver 'just worked'. But not with this 'Lite' verison)
Potentially, but I already spent too much time finding the -GMETA option, because it was initially dying tyring to get a non-existant robots.txt...
So I've given up.. His loss if he wants someone to mirror his site..
http://howto.aphroland.de/HOWTO/LDAP
no way in hell could it withstand the slashdot effect, it runs ontop of Zope which is slow enough as it is! Apache seems to be in the order of 2000x to 2500x faster then zope+Zwiki, but the features of zope make it worth it.
Looks good, too bad if I do a:
wget -m -GMETA http://howto.aphroland.de/HOWTO/LDAP
It doesn't do anything useful.. You don't run standard HTML (which is understandable), and all your links are hard links. I suppose I could 'sweep' the sctructure, and replace 'map' with index.html, and remove the hostname from all the files.. ugh. I'll just bookmark the damn thing.
Bummer.. I'd hold a copy on my dinky Cable for temp use (and my own use)
Ugh.. Ultima IV on Nintendo wasn't what I'd call 'good'.
You need a PC for a good Ultima experience. (or an Apple ][, in my case)
But you still can beat Bubble Bobble for cheat codes.. we filled an 8.5x11 sheet of paper with them. :P
School will get you up to speed on new terms and concepts, but the only thing that will make you better at writing good code is to read good code, write your own code and compare it to the good code, notice the difference, and adjust your approach until your code is "good".
I agree entirely, and will actually take it a step further:
Question the 'facts' you were taught. They may appear to be correct, but you may not only learn something new by examining why the 'fact' is as it is, but you may find a better way.
Of course, take that with a grain of salt. I don't believe the speed of light can't be exceeded. Not that I can prove anything, I just don't like having someone tell me I can't do something :)
Mr Robot ROCKED. (I actually found a copy for the Apple ][ emulator). Not only could you play the game, I think disk2 allowed you to create your own levels.. Sure it was only 2d, non-scrolling (like CannonBall Blitz) - but MAKING your own levels was so cool!
That was, what, 15 years ago? I got mine in 6th grade, so was 12... 18 years ago.. Damn... I'm getting old.
As stupid as it actually was.. I have to agree with you - that was a fun game.
Tombstone something was another favorite of mine on the TI..
Not architecture, graphics. But you're turning a joke about a good game with poor graphics into a techie pissing contest.
-Comic book guy voice-"Ahh but see I have an Apple ][e, that's enhanced, for those of you who don't know. I also have an 80 column card, and a googly graphics card, plus, an add-on sound board in Slot 5. Mind you, I pity those who don't have a decent sound system for playing those classic games."
Only 8 bits? Obviously you never played Castle Wolfenstein on an Apple ][.
Shouldn't "Rendezvous with Rama" be in quotes, or Italicized, or bolded or something?
I was wondering who Rama was, what point she was Mr Clarke's love interest, and what made a quickie between an old author and an Egyptian interesting enough to be a movie..
No kidding.. my kids will probably never know what trying to clean a non-teflon coated pot is like.
I don't know what Lexan is, but I work for Valeo (Fitness Gloves/Belts, and Industrial Safety), and we use Kevlar threads in some of our Material Handling gloves to give them longer life.. Things just don't fall apart as much as they used to. I just hope my kids don't grow up thinking this stuff was invented in a garage, and everyone needs free access immediately. Some companies spend millions on this research, and they deserve to make their money back - and then some. Only after a reasonable amount of time should it become public domain.