Actually, as the carbon dioxide boils off from dry ice, it does give somewhat of a 'taste' to the air, slightly acidic. This is from the cold carbon dioxide dissolving in water, in the air or in your lungs, changing the PH.
As far as remote displays go, the 'Sun Ray' terminal is one of the few such products that is not vapor- I've played with two of them.
The product has some drawbacks, but it does embody many of the most important criteria of a remote display- zero administration, zero noise (no local fan, no local disk), small footprint, and plays MP3s out of the box.
The Sun implementation is very bandwidth-intensive, and thus would probably not translate well to a wireless interface. While it only requires one central computer, that computer needs to be running Solaris on an Ultra-2 or better.
Aside from the obvious 'vapor' qualities of this product, it's quite apparent that they have not chosen to use Linux because of any technical merits, but primarily because it is a hot topic right now, always good for lining up investors.
One positive point- they plan to use the Opera browser engine.
Chipping often has more benefits than simply bypassing region coding. Often, a chipped player allows for skipping all playback control encoded in the disks, such as the "forced" trailers in Disney's Tarzan DVD.
There is one major drawback to the chip- it nearly always requires much more than a simple chip replacement, usually soldering at several points in the player, which means that your warranty is certainly voided.
The Mackinac bridge regularly posts advisories for high winds, today's reads as follows, nothing in there about Geo Metros or similar cars:
High Wind Warning
Currently we are experiencing winds of sufficient force in the Straits area to issue a warning to all motorists preparing to cross the Mackinac Bridge.
Examples of vehicles which are especially vulnerable to high winds are pickup trucks with campers, motor homes, vehicles pulling trailers and enclosed semi-truck trailers. Motorists are instructed to reduce their speed to a maximum of 20 miles per hour, turn on their four way flashers, and utilize the outside lane. Motorists are asked to exercise appropriate caution.
The Mackinac Bridge Authority is monitoring wind speeds at various points along the structure. Additional steps will be implemented if conditions change.
We operate a Chicago based internet coop, and we've found that operating without a profit motive, doesn't always mean lower prices.
Doing things right, not cutting any corners, can be more expensive than operating as a company that expects to eventually turn a profit. And if you don't plan to make money, paying the difference out of your own pocket eventually can get to be painful.
Our Co-op is organized as a non-profit Illinois corporation, and has managed to break even on the first year of operations, but only by passing along the actual costs of operation to the membership- this ends up with prices only slightly lower than with a traditional 'for profit' ISP, but with much better service levels.
You have to decide on what is important for you- and for a hosting provider, covering the operating losses out of your pocket isn't viable in the long run. Once you accumulate a wife, house, kids, your prorities change, and your expensive 'hobby' starts to take a backseat to other budget items.
To be viable, any ISP must cover it's own cost of operation and growth, regardless of their 'non-profit' or 'for-profit' status, or they will fail.
What MAPS is complaining about is, if anybody anywhere submits your email address to 'yesmail' as having opted-in, they will immediately add you to the mailing list, without first verifying that you really did choose to 'opt-in'.
The verification process is enabled on a subset of the yesmail lists, which is what they call 'double opt-in'.
There have been NUMEROUS cases of spammers submitting the addresses of ardent anti-spam activists as 'opt-in' addresses, it's not an uncommon revenge tactic.
The only solution to this problem is to do 'double opt-in', where an address that has been submitted is sent just one single message, stating 'reply to this message to confirm mailing list subscription', and including a non-trivially-guessable magic cookie to prevent somebody from falsifying the confirmation message as well.
That is, only what you are willing to give to an outside agency- government or private.
When (not if) you or a user of yours is a target of an investigation or lawsuit, you will have to turn over ALL 'relevant' logs. And 'relevant' can take a rather broad definition.
As a sysadmin, I keep logs of any event that affects the security of my system, along with enough detail to know who was logged into what machine or using which dynamic IP address at any moment in time.
If somebody uses your system to launch an attack, you want enough information to place blame- no more, no less.
This (turning everything off) is pat (a small part) of why OpenBSD is more secure. Unlike other systems, the default OpenBSD install has just about everything disabled, and almost no optional programs installed
This is also part (a big part) of why people will claim that OpenBSD is difficult to install and use. If you want 'dangerous' third-party software and services, you have to actively choose to install them.
Lance Spitzner's excellent five part trilogy, Know your Enemy, gives details from actual attacks on a honeypot.
Included are useful details from somebody who could secure his machines to keep out the script kiddies, but instead choose to leave a few otherwise-unused machines undefended and log the results.
Colocation usually means that YOU, the customer, provides most of this- the facility gives you power, bandwidth and rack space, the computers and OS are your responsibility.
If you're buying managed colocation, look into what software is used- I've had more outages due to the broken monitoring software Exodus requires than any other cause.
Every backbone provider has problems, I don't know of any Tier-1 ISP that claims to completely filter incoming or outbound traffic that claims 'non routable' (10/8, etc) source address.
I know from personal experience the following backbone providers do not filter these addresses:
Actually, Canada is an example of gun registration leading to confiscation, there's even a newsgroup, can.talk.guns.
Canada has banned many different firearms, and uses registration information to enforce bans.
In 1995, Canada passed 'Bill C-68' which put strict limitations on firearms ownership:
Requiring a license to possess, allowing the justice minister to ban any firearms without further legislation.
All pistols that are.25 or.32 calibre and/or have a barrel length of 105 mm or shorter will be destroyed if they were not registered to a person on February 14, 1995 (the day the bill was first tabled in Parliament). That means that pistols belonging to businesses and museums will be destroyed without compensation.
any pistols made after 1945 that are.25 or.32 calibre or have barrels that are 105 mm or shorter will be destroyed when the current owner dies.
In Canada, 58% of over 1,000,000 handguns, legally registered, have been declared prohibited.
Canada proves my point... the only purpose of registration is confiscation.
There is no place in the USA which has had a registration law which has not, within a generation, been used to either restrict further sales of firearms, or enforce a ban.
The most egregious example is Chicago, where all handguns must be registered, but registration is CLOSED to all new owners, yet hundreds of people each year are convicted for not doing something they are not allowed to do (register their pistol). Does this make Chicago safer?
Actually, not all automobiles are registered, licensed, or taxed- only cars that are driven on public roads are taxed. I bought my first car at age 14, without a license, or registration, for the sole purpose of off-road use, and violated no laws.
If laws banning objects work, then how is it that we still have a drug problem? Why was prohibition a failure, and ultimately repealed?
That the FBI could 'accidentally' halt all gun sales through an 'unforseen error' is not a good thing. Who is to say that the next time it won't be intentional?
The best way to dispose of your old computers and monitors is to blow the guts out of them with firearms and/or explosives, then cart the remains to the nearest landfill.
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Just because faceless corporations rather than faceless governments are now the biggest bogeymen, does not mean that Crypto is not needed, perhaps what is needed is new applications. If anything, the DeCSS and CPHack sagas should have taught us this lesson. When corporations are the enemy, the weapons are not guns, rather, laywers.
I've recently signed onto the manifesto, since then I've gotten several spam mails to the address with which I signed.
I'm not accusing the Cluetrain authors of spamming, but a company has to be really clueless to harvest email addresses from the Cluetrain. If anybody is going to be anti-spam, signers of the manifesto have to be among the most likely.
Why would anybody who went to the trouble of reverse-engineering CensorWare cave in so easily?
I doubt Mattel would/could buy them off, but I can imagine no other reason (except perhaps the advice of an incompetent lawyer)for such a quick change of heart.
Given that the user is providing you with the cleartext of their new password choice, you don't actually need to 'crack' the password, just check if it could be broken by the rules used by password cracking software. This is much easier.
Many companies are using Linux solely because it's the cool thing of the moment. This annoys me.
I just turned down a 6-figure job offer from a local company, after I found out that they are converting all of their (perfectly good as they stand) web servers from Solaris on UltraSparc to 'Beowulf Clusters' of (cheap) Intel PC's running 'Linux'.
They aren't doing this for performance, they aren't doing this to save money, they aren't doing this to make administration of the servers (which would be my job) easier...
They are doing this because the company is planning for an IPO, and certain key words give the market a stiffy.
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Actually, as the carbon dioxide boils off from dry ice, it does give somewhat of a 'taste' to the air, slightly acidic. This is from the cold carbon dioxide dissolving in water, in the air or in your lungs, changing the PH.
This was about three months ago.
The product has some drawbacks, but it does embody many of the most important criteria of a remote display- zero administration, zero noise (no local fan, no local disk), small footprint, and plays MP3s out of the box.
The Sun implementation is very bandwidth-intensive, and thus would probably not translate well to a wireless interface. While it only requires one central computer, that computer needs to be running Solaris on an Ultra-2 or better.
One positive point- they plan to use the Opera browser engine.
There is one major drawback to the chip- it nearly always requires much more than a simple chip replacement, usually soldering at several points in the player, which means that your warranty is certainly voided.
Doing things right, not cutting any corners, can be more expensive than operating as a company that expects to eventually turn a profit. And if you don't plan to make money, paying the difference out of your own pocket eventually can get to be painful.
Our Co-op is organized as a non-profit Illinois corporation, and has managed to break even on the first year of operations, but only by passing along the actual costs of operation to the membership- this ends up with prices only slightly lower than with a traditional 'for profit' ISP, but with much better service levels.
You have to decide on what is important for you- and for a hosting provider, covering the operating losses out of your pocket isn't viable in the long run. Once you accumulate a wife, house, kids, your prorities change, and your expensive 'hobby' starts to take a backseat to other budget items.
To be viable, any ISP must cover it's own cost of operation and growth, regardless of their 'non-profit' or 'for-profit' status, or they will fail.
What MAPS is complaining about is, if anybody anywhere submits your email address to 'yesmail' as having opted-in, they will immediately add you to the mailing list, without first verifying that you really did choose to 'opt-in'.
The verification process is enabled on a subset of the yesmail lists, which is what they call 'double opt-in'.
There have been NUMEROUS cases of spammers submitting the addresses of ardent anti-spam activists as 'opt-in' addresses, it's not an uncommon revenge tactic.
The only solution to this problem is to do 'double opt-in', where an address that has been submitted is sent just one single message, stating 'reply to this message to confirm mailing list subscription', and including a non-trivially-guessable magic cookie to prevent somebody from falsifying the confirmation message as well.
When (not if) you or a user of yours is a target of an investigation or lawsuit, you will have to turn over ALL 'relevant' logs. And 'relevant' can take a rather broad definition.
As a sysadmin, I keep logs of any event that affects the security of my system, along with enough detail to know who was logged into what machine or using which dynamic IP address at any moment in time.
If somebody uses your system to launch an attack, you want enough information to place blame- no more, no less.
This is also part (a big part) of why people will claim that OpenBSD is difficult to install and use. If you want 'dangerous' third-party software and services, you have to actively choose to install them.
Included are useful details from somebody who could secure his machines to keep out the script kiddies, but instead choose to leave a few otherwise-unused machines undefended and log the results.
No, actually this isn't a bad series, though the ending was a bit predictable.
If you're buying managed colocation, look into what software is used- I've had more outages due to the broken monitoring software Exodus requires than any other cause.
I know from personal experience the following backbone providers do not filter these addresses:
Canada has banned many different firearms, and uses registration information to enforce bans.
In 1995, Canada passed 'Bill C-68' which put strict limitations on firearms ownership:
Canada proves my point... the only purpose of registration is confiscation.
There is no place in the USA which has had a registration law which has not, within a generation, been used to either restrict further sales of firearms, or enforce a ban.
The most egregious example is Chicago, where all handguns must be registered, but registration is CLOSED to all new owners, yet hundreds of people each year are convicted for not doing something they are not allowed to do (register their pistol). Does this make Chicago safer?
Actually, not all automobiles are registered, licensed, or taxed- only cars that are driven on public roads are taxed. I bought my first car at age 14, without a license, or registration, for the sole purpose of off-road use, and violated no laws.
If laws banning objects work, then how is it that we still have a drug problem? Why was prohibition a failure, and ultimately repealed?
That the FBI could 'accidentally' halt all gun sales through an 'unforseen error' is not a good thing. Who is to say that the next time it won't be intentional?
I lost my best 'shooting old PC hardware' links, does anybody have some to contribute?
Perhaps your floppy has multiple bad sectors?
Usually I do a network install off a boot floppy, so I've made a lot of OpenBSD floppies in the last couple of years.
I do buy the CD, but mainly just for the distfiles and to support the project.
And no, I don't own any 'Linux stocks'. Not just because of persona prejudice, but because I don't hold any high-risk stocks at all.
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Just because faceless corporations rather than faceless governments are now the biggest bogeymen, does not mean that Crypto is not needed, perhaps what is needed is new applications. If anything, the DeCSS and CPHack sagas should have taught us this lesson. When corporations are the enemy, the weapons are not guns, rather, laywers.
I'm not accusing the Cluetrain authors of spamming, but a company has to be really clueless to harvest email addresses from the Cluetrain. If anybody is going to be anti-spam, signers of the manifesto have to be among the most likely.
I doubt Mattel would/could buy them off, but I can imagine no other reason (except perhaps the advice of an incompetent lawyer)for such a quick change of heart.
Anxiously awaiting further details...
Cracklib can be found on the Author's home page at http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~crypto/
I just turned down a 6-figure job offer from a local company, after I found out that they are converting all of their (perfectly good as they stand) web servers from Solaris on UltraSparc to 'Beowulf Clusters' of (cheap) Intel PC's running 'Linux'.
They aren't doing this for performance, they aren't doing this to save money, they aren't doing this to make administration of the servers (which would be my job) easier...
They are doing this because the company is planning for an IPO, and certain key words give the market a stiffy.
You don't hook up fifty keyboards, monitors, and mice directly to one central linux box- that would be unscalable.
You get fifty inexpensive display controllers, and connect them to a network with one or more large servers doing the actual heavy labor.
Check out Sun's solution- The 'Sun Ray' at $499.