Well if there is a fire, chances are I'm going to care a whole lot more about other things that I've lost other than my notes.
If it's important enough, I'll transcribe it to an electronic format that is more useful for other people to use. Often I'm taking notes in a very terse format, not writing an entire document. Though often most of the notes I'm taking are ephemeral in nature. I might need those notes for a week a most, not for the next 30 years.
A filing cabinet? A simple small spiral bound notepad fits in my pocket. There is also the aspect of when you are in meetings that people realize you are actually taking notes and not just looking at your phone and possibly not paying a damn bit of attention to the meeting.
I can take notes on a notepad without looking at the paper, it's a bit harder to do that on a phone. Afterwards it's not too terribly difficult to transcribe my notes to electronic format if I need to.
Nothing works better than the old fashioned pen and paper. Simple and straight forward. The batteries don't die, sure my pen might run out of ink, but I can always keep a second one with me.
LD_PRELOAD doesn't intercept system calls, it intercepts library calls. Some of which do wrap system calls, but LD_PRELOAD helps you ZERO if you have a statically linked executable.
I'd imagine a lot of malware for Linux based operating systems very well might be statically linked, to avoid libc version dependencies.
In most of Frontier's service areas "broadband" counts as shitty adsl where you are lucky if you get 3mb/s down. They don't need caps, because you can't download anything anyways.
Seriously, if you've got the choice between Frontier and 4G connection, go with whatever 4G provider there is. Praise FSM if you've got Comcast in a Frontier service area. Seriously, Frontier is that bad, you will be BEGGING for Comcast. They're that bad.
Frontier pretty much has taken over the unprofitable areas of Verizon's wireline business. They have no desire for infrastructure upgrades, or really anything other than getting you to keep paying.
The Fort McMurray fire was a result of 100+ years of fire suppression with a massive fuel load. It was a sign alright, poor forestry management was the primary culprit here. Well that and people living WAY to close to the urban-wildland interface.
The good news is, once you have a huge fire like that, you're likely not to have one again for another 50-100 years since you know, all of the fuel is burnt.
Global warming is a real issue, obviously, but in this case, wrong environmental issue to be going after.
Talk about a double talking weasel. Net neutrality(why don't we call it net neutering instead?) is great when it applies to somebody else, but fuck you if you want me to play by the same rules.
It's also not far from the datacenters in the DC metro area, in particular in the Ashburn, Virginia area, a few hundred miles to the northeast of Virginia Beach. Basically Virginia Beach is the closest place to land cables to the DC area.
Okay, most of the LED bulbs that I've used that are dimmable, the color temperature does not change when using a dimmer, just the amount of light. If you know of LED bulbs that DO change color when dimmed, I'd be interested to know about them.
Color temperature yes, thermal temperature, no. They're sort of backwards from each other:(
Most people generally find this shift towards red rather pleasing when dimming a light bulb.
Citation needed. Actually, no, don't bother. That's just bullshit.
It's a pretty subjective thing, I agree. It's the same subjectiveness that most people like "warm white" bulbs(2000-3000K) instead of daylight(5500K or above).
It's not a "feature" of the dimmer, but a function of the physics of an incandescent bulb.
It's not a feature of anything. That's a bug.
Okay...If you say so. Bug or not, people like this "feature" that incandescent bulbs bring to dimming lights.
When you dim an LED bulb, the amount of light reduces, however the color temperature is the same. The best thing I can compare it to is moonlight. An incandescent when you dim it, it runs cooler and as a result it goes to more of a red color instead of the yellow white color it normally runs at. Most people generally find this shift towards red rather pleasing when dimming a light bulb. It's not a "feature" of the dimmer, but a function of the physics of an incandescent bulb.
The reason this is being done is that Yahoo couldn't get a promise from the IRS that selling off Alibaba shares wouldn't be tax free. So they are doing this game of making the current company a holding company for the Alibaba shares, then putting the rest of the company in a "new" company. This is just tax avoidance, nothing more.
The major advantage analog voice systems have are when you are in a nominal coverage area, you will get some static, but still intelligible. In that same area using digital, either you have nearly perfect audio, or just no audio at all if enough bits are lost and quite likely a dropped call.
I have so much brain damage from dealing with AIX shared libraries.
I remember years ago needing to upgrade an RS/6000 running AIX 3.2.5 to AIX 4.x in the late 90s. The upgrade media was on tape(we were too cheap to have a cd-rom in our RS/6000). Do you know how long it takes to boot AIX from a boot tape?:(
That said, AIX had a lot of features, 15+ years ago that Linux and others are still trying to catch up on.
I had a Sun Netra T1 200 for a bit over 10 years that ran Debian on Sparc. The hardware was reliable, the Debian as an OS worked well enough, less of a headache than Solaris IMHO. Occasionally had some weird kernel related quirks, but I generally just kept it tracking Debian sid.
I think it was just a matter of time that the Debian sparc port went away, the surplus of old sparc boxes has gone away more than anything. I'm not sure anyone used Debian on sparc for anything serious(read business use), though.
Do YOU want to be in a helicopter when a drone gets sucked into its intake. What happens then? The helicopter's engine likely stalls, the helicopter then goes into autorotation if you are lucky...landing in the fire you are trying to put out.
What if the drone smashes into your windshield in limited visibility, knocking the pilot out cold or worse.
You are very wrong here. Look at the airplane that landed in the Hudson River that was taken out by a goose. Seriously, a goose, a lot of drones are of similar weight or larger, also a lot softer.
If bird strikes are a hazard, how would a drone NOT be a hazard?
When there is no person on this Earth suffering from hunger, war and disease, we'll be in a post-economic system. Until then, it's just as much sci-fi as it was in Star Trek.
So there was a bug several years ago in ircd-ratbox that impacted the core code that wasn't a loadable module. There was a bug in cidr matching that really needed fixed. So..I wrote a loadable module that got the address of the C function that needed replaced. Then I used mprotect to set that page the function was in memory to be read/write. Then..I scribbled over the start of the function with x86 opcodes to make it jump to a replacement function that was in the just loaded module.
Or in code.. match_cidr is the bad function, fixed_match_cidr is the replacement.
No it works just fine on mobile, but only using SLAAC and not DHCPv6. They are two different ways of getting address assignments. SLAAC is typically going to be an autogenerated IPv6 address, based on MAC address, where DHCPv6 is going to give an address from whatever rules are defined on the DHCPv6 server.
My Galaxy S6 has IPv6 addresses on both the mobile and wifi networks. The wifi side was configured using SLAAC as expected.
The lack of DHCPv6 is generally an issue for corporate networks with regards to Android phones more than anything.
Just because a piece of software is old, doesn't mean it's suddenly doesn't do its intended function.
I'm not sure I'd be shocked by the effort that people make to keep old software running,. You mention PDP emulators, but how many people here use DOSBox on a regular basis to play old games.
Emulators are just one way do keep old software running of. The other way if the source is around is to keep updating the software for new platforms but avoiding too much feeping creaturism if you can. That's pretty much where I'm at with doing ircd work, keep the code updated for modern systems(with their own OS specific quirks) so it continues function.
It seems like people just want new and shiny software just for the sake of having new and shiny. New and shiny code however doesn't have X number of years of being used as production and all of the WTF bugs have long been squashed.
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At least with Ingress, you get speed locked if you end up with an average speed over 35mph.
Well if there is a fire, chances are I'm going to care a whole lot more about other things that I've lost other than my notes.
If it's important enough, I'll transcribe it to an electronic format that is more useful for other people to use. Often I'm taking notes in a very terse format, not writing an entire document. Though often most of the notes I'm taking are ephemeral in nature. I might need those notes for a week a most, not for the next 30 years.
To each their own.
A filing cabinet? A simple small spiral bound notepad fits in my pocket. There is also the aspect of when you are in meetings that people realize you are actually taking notes and not just looking at your phone and possibly not paying a damn bit of attention to the meeting.
I can take notes on a notepad without looking at the paper, it's a bit harder to do that on a phone. Afterwards it's not too terribly difficult to transcribe my notes to electronic format if I need to.
*Shrug* Maybe I'm just old.
Nothing works better than the old fashioned pen and paper. Simple and straight forward. The batteries don't die, sure my pen might run out of ink, but I can always keep a second one with me.
Sometimes simple tech works the best.
Right, a ptrace based tool obviously is a better option, but that isn't what the original poster was talking about.
LD_PRELOAD doesn't intercept system calls, it intercepts library calls. Some of which do wrap system calls, but LD_PRELOAD helps you ZERO if you have a statically linked executable.
I'd imagine a lot of malware for Linux based operating systems very well might be statically linked, to avoid libc version dependencies.
IRC never went anywhere, it's still here and efnet is still dying.
Is that you Dan?
In most of Frontier's service areas "broadband" counts as shitty adsl where you are lucky if you get 3mb/s down. They don't need caps, because you can't download anything anyways.
Seriously, if you've got the choice between Frontier and 4G connection, go with whatever 4G provider there is. Praise FSM if you've got Comcast in a Frontier service area. Seriously, Frontier is that bad, you will be BEGGING for Comcast. They're that bad.
Frontier pretty much has taken over the unprofitable areas of Verizon's wireline business. They have no desire for infrastructure upgrades, or really anything other than getting you to keep paying.
The Fort McMurray fire was a result of 100+ years of fire suppression with a massive fuel load. It was a sign alright, poor forestry management was the primary culprit here. Well that and people living WAY to close to the urban-wildland interface.
The good news is, once you have a huge fire like that, you're likely not to have one again for another 50-100 years since you know, all of the fuel is burnt.
Global warming is a real issue, obviously, but in this case, wrong environmental issue to be going after.
Talk about a double talking weasel. Net neutrality(why don't we call it net neutering instead?) is great when it applies to somebody else, but fuck you if you want me to play by the same rules.
Fuck you guy, just fuck you.
It's also not far from the datacenters in the DC metro area, in particular in the Ashburn, Virginia area, a few hundred miles to the northeast of Virginia Beach. Basically Virginia Beach is the closest place to land cables to the DC area.
Okay, most of the LED bulbs that I've used that are dimmable, the color temperature does not change when using a dimmer, just the amount of light. If you know of LED bulbs that DO change color when dimmed, I'd be interested to know about them.
Color temperature yes, thermal temperature, no. They're sort of backwards from each other :(
It's a pretty subjective thing, I agree. It's the same subjectiveness that most people like "warm white" bulbs(2000-3000K) instead of daylight(5500K or above).
Okay...If you say so. Bug or not, people like this "feature" that incandescent bulbs bring to dimming lights.
When you dim an LED bulb, the amount of light reduces, however the color temperature is the same. The best thing I can compare it to is moonlight. An incandescent when you dim it, it runs cooler and as a result it goes to more of a red color instead of the yellow white color it normally runs at. Most people generally find this shift towards red rather pleasing when dimming a light bulb. It's not a "feature" of the dimmer, but a function of the physics of an incandescent bulb.
The reason this is being done is that Yahoo couldn't get a promise from the IRS that selling off Alibaba shares wouldn't be tax free. So they are doing this game of making the current company a holding company for the Alibaba shares, then putting the rest of the company in a "new" company. This is just tax avoidance, nothing more.
The major advantage analog voice systems have are when you are in a nominal coverage area, you will get some static, but still intelligible. In that same area using digital, either you have nearly perfect audio, or just no audio at all if enough bits are lost and quite likely a dropped call.
I have so much brain damage from dealing with AIX shared libraries.
I remember years ago needing to upgrade an RS/6000 running AIX 3.2.5 to AIX 4.x in the late 90s. The upgrade media was on tape(we were too cheap to have a cd-rom in our RS/6000). Do you know how long it takes to boot AIX from a boot tape? :(
That said, AIX had a lot of features, 15+ years ago that Linux and others are still trying to catch up on.
This system is NOT used in the US for social security numbers, its a private vendor that uses it....the /. summary is misleading..
Nobody reads the articles anymore so...here is the quote.
I had a Sun Netra T1 200 for a bit over 10 years that ran Debian on Sparc. The hardware was reliable, the Debian as an OS worked well enough, less of a headache than Solaris IMHO. Occasionally had some weird kernel related quirks, but I generally just kept it tracking Debian sid.
I think it was just a matter of time that the Debian sparc port went away, the surplus of old sparc boxes has gone away more than anything. I'm not sure anyone used Debian on sparc for anything serious(read business use), though.
Do YOU want to be in a helicopter when a drone gets sucked into its intake. What happens then? The helicopter's engine likely stalls, the helicopter then goes into autorotation if you are lucky...landing in the fire you are trying to put out.
What if the drone smashes into your windshield in limited visibility, knocking the pilot out cold or worse.
You are very wrong here. Look at the airplane that landed in the Hudson River that was taken out by a goose. Seriously, a goose, a lot of drones are of similar weight or larger, also a lot softer.
If bird strikes are a hazard, how would a drone NOT be a hazard?
When there is no person on this Earth suffering from hunger, war and disease, we'll be in a post-economic system. Until then, it's just as much sci-fi as it was in Star Trek.
So there was a bug several years ago in ircd-ratbox that impacted the core code that wasn't a loadable module. There was a bug in cidr matching that really needed fixed. So..I wrote a loadable module that got the address of the C function that needed replaced. Then I used mprotect to set that page the function was in memory to be read/write.
Then..I scribbled over the start of the function with x86 opcodes to make it jump to a replacement function that was in the just loaded module.
Or in code.. match_cidr is the bad function, fixed_match_cidr is the replacement.
No it works just fine on mobile, but only using SLAAC and not DHCPv6. They are two different ways of getting address assignments. SLAAC is typically going to be an autogenerated IPv6 address, based on MAC address, where DHCPv6 is going to give an address from whatever rules are defined on the DHCPv6 server.
My Galaxy S6 has IPv6 addresses on both the mobile and wifi networks. The wifi side was configured using SLAAC as expected.
The lack of DHCPv6 is generally an issue for corporate networks with regards to Android phones more than anything.
Just because a piece of software is old, doesn't mean it's suddenly doesn't do its intended function.
I'm not sure I'd be shocked by the effort that people make to keep old software running,. You mention PDP emulators, but how many people here use DOSBox on a regular basis to play old games.
Emulators are just one way do keep old software running of. The other way if the source is around is to keep updating the software for new platforms but avoiding too much feeping creaturism if you can. That's pretty much where I'm at with doing ircd work, keep the code updated for modern systems(with their own OS specific quirks) so it continues function.
It seems like people just want new and shiny software just for the sake of having new and shiny. New and shiny code however doesn't have X number of years of being used as production and all of the WTF bugs have long been squashed.
Meh.