When we go to Mars, best case right now, you would be in transit for six months," Hodgson says. Once the spacecraft reached the planet, it could stay for only a few days.
A couple days seem a bad return on billions of dollars. Mars base on the other hand....
If a backdoor crypto law is passed, wait till everyone is using it, then crack the keys.
Decrypt all congresses personal email, post those neat little secrets, post thier love letters, bank accounts.
I bet they pass a law banning backdoor crypto and encrease personal privacy laws.
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Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear. - Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972), August 8, 1950
Backdoor to encryption protocols wouldn't have saved us from this terrorist attack.
The government knew about the terrorists, they even had files on them. Did the government put key loggers on their computers? Did the government suspect them? No, there was no red flags that said "terrorist here".
We know the FBI can bypass encryption, but they need a search warrant. The only way to be effective against terrorists is to scan everyone's email (Think carnivore). Backdoor encryption opens "warrantless" searches, which scares the hell out of me. You have nothing to hide right?
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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987
Forgive the small rant, but this relates to the term floating around, "Nanny State" that seems to summarize the current ideology of most Americans. The term expresses exactly how the I see our country.
Any country that bans Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwiches from schools is in need of a major political overhaul.
I am a one of those people who hates authority, doesn't trust the one sided news sources, questions the unquestionable. Anything that remotely encroaches my personal freedoms becomes an instant battle to the death. I believe that people should have total freedom to live their lives without interference.
I'm a mix of different political beliefs, anarchist, green party and a republican. Less government, but still have an army to protect us from terrorists. A police force for the violent criminals. Legalize everything for consenting adults. Teachers to teach math not religion. Flat tax, school vouchers, legalized abortion, no affirmative action (everyone is the same). I believe in public assistance for the truly needy, medical for everyone, 7 day gun wait, gun locks, but not a gun ban. Personal privacy, no agency shared government database.
Basically, Live and let live.
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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul. - George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Has anyone tested opensource freeware for 25K users? You could save money on different designs, but this really isnt the meat of the article.
I know it can be done cheaper, we have designed email/groupware for millions of subscribers cheaper than that, all are webbased with oracle/ldap on sun equipment, with network load balancers.
I like how Exchange looks like a cheap solution, untill you grow past your user base, then costs sky rocket.
I decided to upgrade my p75 nat router to a netgear RT314 nat appliance. The first think I noticed right way was a ping drop from 40 to 20ms. This was worth it due to all the online gaming I play.
The second thing, the applicance broke my nortel VPN connection, it couldnt handle the ipsec packets correctly. I hear IPSEC/VPN works on the newer versions, but I really dont want to buy a new box just for VPN. They should release a new rom upgrade.
I find the biggest problems with any applicance, not upgradable, limited amount of features, limited access lists and stupid KISS features.
As a long time computer user, starting from a C64/Floppy/300 baud modems to DualP3s/Terrabyte storage/DSL I have migrated and changed the way I interact with GUI's and store my files many times over the years.
Mark Hursts ideas are almost like mine. I will break it down a little as to HD layout then OS.
I have normally have 2 HDs in my system, HDA for my OS's and HDB for my Games and Work. HDA I break down into 4 Paritions.
HDA1 for Win98,
HDA2 for Win2K,
HDA3 for either a Linux dristro or WinXP beta
HDA4 for the swap if im using linux.
HDB1 is 1 parition, normally 3 folders, Games, Work and Emulators. (Im a UAE and Mame freak.)
I dont normally use boot loaders other than Win2k's, If i boot linux i use loadlin, it seems easier for me to maintain. (C:\linux)
Im a big fan of Norton Ghost, using ghost on the paritions, I can restore quickly. As I like to play around with drivers and migrate my HD's to more space. I also burn the.gho files on CDs. If the files are larger than 700 megs, I rar the ghost images and make it self extractable. So I can boot a fresh HD from floppy. I also copy the CD images to the HD, unrar, and ghost from the whole image.
I'm a little more in depth on my HDA1 drive, I use directory names, Apps, GFX, Net, Sound, Utils, Work. I also have the normal windows directories, My Documents, Windows and Temp. Under My Documents I put My Pictures, My Music and Favorites. I then use M$ Tweak UI to point all windows versions on my HD to c:\My documents, C:\My Documents\favorites, etc.. This keeps all my files at hand if im either Win98, Win2K or linux. It makes it easier to keep every file in the same place under ever os. (Example, IE for Win2K and Win98 point to the same favorites, so my bookmarks are the same.)
After I get the basic windows installed (doesnt matter what version). I upgrade the entire installation with the newest patches and drivers. Then register file types for my apps, not windows defaults. Apps include textpad, winzip,winrar,cdrwin,nero,acdsee,winamp,proxomitro n. Windows modifications as x-teq and m$ powertoys.
Now that windows is installed, and apps, I keep a shortcut to a folder NET in c:\net\net on my desktop. This folder c:\net\net keeps shortcuts for all my programs. Even if I reinstall windows, my c:\net\net folder stays. I put a shortcut of my NET folder in my tooltray. I can either alt-tab or click on the tooltray icon (in case my apps are maximized) to have access to my favorite apps. I really dont use the start menu, as it takes longer to get to my commonly used applications.
Microsoft has weened us off Dual pane file managers.(I miss fileman!) This was (IMHO) the hardest thing to get used to in win95 and new versions of windows. Trying to copy files from a file viewed pane, then select the destination folder is slower and has more steps involved. M$ introduced powertoys that included "Copy To and Move To" extensions to windows, that at least helped. I do keep a copy of 2xExplorer for when I need to handle large ammount of files.
The part that actually increased my productivity was the toolbar. Being able to have access to my running applications, instead of alt-tabbing was a nice changed. It also provides a quick visual que on what programs im running. The tooltray also speeds up access to my c:\net\net quick launch folder full of shortcuts.
Drag and Drop, right mouse menus have become standard. I have found that I now drag mp3's onto winamp, and right mouse clicking and enqueing them. My older habit was using playlists for everything. IE didnt have the best right mouse menus, but with IE6, they have the most common menus again. (Using proxomitron and enabling all right mouse clicks also helps)
Now as my Linux GUI, I really use Windows as workstation, and unix as a server and display X back to my windows box. (X-win32 is far the best for this.) But when Im using a unix workstation, I normally install IceWM. IceWM is small, fast and has a toolbar and tooltray. It is highly customizable and can add those extra buttons that come in handy. The windowshade mode which rolls up the window to a bar is very handy. Comes in handy when I need to view multiple load balanced servers at the same time. Also for quick eye-candy, I like the network and cpu meters on the toolbar, dont really need it, but nice to see.
Started to use WinXP beta, and I'm pretty impressed with its Font Smoothing features. Check out some screenshots I made for friends here and here.. The font smoothing works all throught the GUI, notice how the menus are changed.
I spend too much time playing around with new utilities and GUI's for windows. If your interested in modifing your windows GUI, check out Shell City, WindowBlinds, and Litestep.
How about starting a head hunting service linked to the/. amount of people in the techincal field.
Everyone bitches about issues, how about using/. as a portal for answers. And OSDN could even charge a small subscription fee for all the new services.
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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
It says initially surfacing in the/bin directory, ok what file? What distro? What rpm? What.tgz do I have to watch out for? Little more info please. I don't know that any unix admin who would run/bin utilities that they get off the Internet, maybe source, but not binaries.
This is no way as bad as Code Red, Code red self replicated on unpatched servers. This trojan will not replicate without a user doing it. Sheesh, bad journalism.
Im really just trying to find a replacement for the Toshiba Libretto. After Toshiba stopped making the palm top, the only real choice people had was PDAs. I really need a wireless device, If I only wanted a calendar or contact list, I have PocketNet phone with Fonesync software. But I needed a true wireless connection with a tcp/ip stack(for SSH) so I picked up a CDPD modem. But carrying around a full size laptop sucks, so I migrated to a PDA. I first started off with an wireless Palm Omnisky. Battery life was nice, upto 1 week light use, and 2 weeks if it sat im my pocket. But I wanted color and sound, I migrated to the PocketPC (Ipaq) and CDPD modem. Not bad, I can surf websites in html not wap, and even listen to mp3s. (Very important for work ya know!) Battery life is weak, and I find myself letting the battery die right when I need. Picked up a IBM Microdrive. Fast, was able to move documents from my laptop and back, neat idea, but didnt use it as much I wanted. I gotta get around to trying out the Pocket Divx Player and put a divx movie on the microdrive. (Gotta watch Red Dwarf ep with the Sock Puppet.)
Heck, They even have PDA pr0n for those long boring conference calls.:)
He said many of the sites were able to start up again on other servers, while the task force continued to copy computerized information on Thursday. The office remained sealed off by FBI agents.
It sounds like some sites are still offline. And many had to move to new servers.
We have to turn people fresh from college away from our open posititions at work. They dont have any pratical experience in troubleshooting, teamwork, and physical experience with tcp/ip, unix, networking, networked applications, etc. We have hired alot of dot.com'rs, they have more experience than people with BA in computer science. Some people even started at ISP's as teenagers and worked thier way up to being an engineer. Only recently has colleges started giving courses that apply to the real world.
On the subject of no jobs for dot.com peeps, we have 7 openings in my group (growth), and almost 30 for our department. We cant even find the right people to fill the jobs, it seems hard to find any unix/dba/network specialist or someone with a little experience who would pick it up. We hired one person who started 2 ISP's from scratch and sold them off before the boom, a very rare find. The local head hunters run out of people with any marketable skills quickly.
This is in Seattle Washington, so people in BFE like Spokane Washington would still be out of work.
I just started using IE's image toolbar, nice thing, i was on a site that tried to protect the images with javascript, i just clicked on image and the toolbar popped up, clicked save picture...
Is m$ breaking the DMCA with thier circumvention?
Humm, it was illegal here.
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They stopped renting video games here in Washington State about 10 years ago due to legal pressures. Seems SPA didnt like people renting new games, and it also broke some licensing policies. I think this was the same issue as Renting Music CD's, and how they closed down stores that sold "Used" Cds.
I couldnt find the law about renting disc based software, but I swear it exists.
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I was watching a pbs special about how the russian airforce allows tourists to fly thier planes, so pilots can get in basic air combat training. 1K a pop, and you too can fly a mig.
Hell, even Chuck Norris even owns a chain of casinos in Russia.
This guy did the whole.au domain authority without making any money? He should of started a business off the get go. The best way to make the rules is to be the one in power, and now he is force to hand the keys to the kingdom over to IANA.
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When we go to Mars, best case right now, you would be in transit for six months," Hodgson says. Once the spacecraft reached the planet, it could stay for only a few days.
A couple days seem a bad return on billions of dollars. Mars base on the other hand....
If a backdoor crypto law is passed, wait till everyone is using it, then crack the keys.
Decrypt all congresses personal email, post those neat little secrets, post thier love letters, bank accounts.
I bet they pass a law banning backdoor crypto and encrease personal privacy laws.
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Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear. - Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972), August 8, 1950
Backdoor to encryption protocols wouldn't have saved us from this terrorist attack.
The government knew about the terrorists, they even had files on them. Did the government put key loggers on their computers? Did the government suspect them? No, there was no red flags that said "terrorist here".
We know the FBI can bypass encryption, but they need a search warrant. The only way to be effective against terrorists is to scan everyone's email (Think carnivore). Backdoor encryption opens "warrantless" searches, which scares the hell out of me. You have nothing to hide right?
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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987
Forgive the small rant, but this relates to the term floating around, "Nanny State" that seems to summarize the current ideology of most Americans. The term expresses exactly how the I see our country.
Any country that bans Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwiches from schools is in need of a major political overhaul.
I am a one of those people who hates authority, doesn't trust the one sided news sources, questions the unquestionable. Anything that remotely encroaches my personal freedoms becomes an instant battle to the death. I believe that people should have total freedom to live their lives without interference.
I'm a mix of different political beliefs, anarchist, green party and a republican. Less government, but still have an army to protect us from terrorists. A police force for the violent criminals. Legalize everything for consenting adults. Teachers to teach math not religion. Flat tax, school vouchers, legalized abortion, no affirmative action (everyone is the same). I believe in public assistance for the truly needy, medical for everyone, 7 day gun wait, gun locks, but not a gun ban. Personal privacy, no agency shared government database.
Basically, Live and let live.
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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul. - George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Has anyone tested opensource freeware for 25K users? You could save money on different designs, but this really isnt the meat of the article.
I know it can be done cheaper, we have designed email/groupware for millions of subscribers cheaper than that, all are webbased with oracle/ldap on sun equipment, with network load balancers.
I like how Exchange looks like a cheap solution, untill you grow past your user base, then costs sky rocket.
I decided to upgrade my p75 nat router to a netgear RT314 nat appliance. The first think I noticed right way was a ping drop from 40 to 20ms. This was worth it due to all the online gaming I play.
The second thing, the applicance broke my nortel VPN connection, it couldnt handle the ipsec packets correctly. I hear IPSEC/VPN works on the newer versions, but I really dont want to buy a new box just for VPN. They should release a new rom upgrade.
I find the biggest problems with any applicance, not upgradable, limited amount of features, limited access lists and stupid KISS features.
As a long time computer user, starting from a C64/Floppy/300 baud modems to DualP3s/Terrabyte storage/DSL I have migrated and changed the way I interact with GUI's and store my files many times over the years.
.gho files on CDs. If the files are larger than 700 megs, I rar the ghost images and make it self extractable. So I can boot a fresh HD from floppy. I also copy the CD images to the HD, unrar, and ghost from the whole image.
o n. Windows modifications as x-teq and m$ powertoys.
Mark Hursts ideas are almost like mine. I will break it down a little as to HD layout then OS.
I have normally have 2 HDs in my system, HDA for my OS's and HDB for my Games and Work. HDA I break down into 4 Paritions.
HDA1 for Win98,
HDA2 for Win2K,
HDA3 for either a Linux dristro or WinXP beta
HDA4 for the swap if im using linux.
HDB1 is 1 parition, normally 3 folders, Games, Work and Emulators. (Im a UAE and Mame freak.)
I dont normally use boot loaders other than Win2k's, If i boot linux i use loadlin, it seems easier for me to maintain. (C:\linux)
Im a big fan of Norton Ghost, using ghost on the paritions, I can restore quickly. As I like to play around with drivers and migrate my HD's to more space. I also burn the
I'm a little more in depth on my HDA1 drive, I use directory names, Apps, GFX, Net, Sound, Utils, Work. I also have the normal windows directories, My Documents, Windows and Temp. Under My Documents I put My Pictures, My Music and Favorites. I then use M$ Tweak UI to point all windows versions on my HD to c:\My documents, C:\My Documents\favorites, etc.. This keeps all my files at hand if im either Win98, Win2K or linux. It makes it easier to keep every file in the same place under ever os. (Example, IE for Win2K and Win98 point to the same favorites, so my bookmarks are the same.)
After I get the basic windows installed (doesnt matter what version). I upgrade the entire installation with the newest patches and drivers. Then register file types for my apps, not windows defaults. Apps include textpad, winzip,winrar,cdrwin,nero,acdsee,winamp,proxomitr
Now that windows is installed, and apps, I keep a shortcut to a folder NET in c:\net\net on my desktop. This folder c:\net\net keeps shortcuts for all my programs. Even if I reinstall windows, my c:\net\net folder stays. I put a shortcut of my NET folder in my tooltray. I can either alt-tab or click on the tooltray icon (in case my apps are maximized) to have access to my favorite apps. I really dont use the start menu, as it takes longer to get to my commonly used applications.
Microsoft has weened us off Dual pane file managers.(I miss fileman!) This was (IMHO) the hardest thing to get used to in win95 and new versions of windows. Trying to copy files from a file viewed pane, then select the destination folder is slower and has more steps involved. M$ introduced powertoys that included "Copy To and Move To" extensions to windows, that at least helped. I do keep a copy of 2xExplorer for when I need to handle large ammount of files.
The part that actually increased my productivity was the toolbar. Being able to have access to my running applications, instead of alt-tabbing was a nice changed. It also provides a quick visual que on what programs im running. The tooltray also speeds up access to my c:\net\net quick launch folder full of shortcuts.
Drag and Drop, right mouse menus have become standard. I have found that I now drag mp3's onto winamp, and right mouse clicking and enqueing them. My older habit was using playlists for everything. IE didnt have the best right mouse menus, but with IE6, they have the most common menus again. (Using proxomitron and enabling all right mouse clicks also helps)
Now as my Linux GUI, I really use Windows as workstation, and unix as a server and display X back to my windows box. (X-win32 is far the best for this.) But when Im using a unix workstation, I normally install IceWM. IceWM is small, fast and has a toolbar and tooltray. It is highly customizable and can add those extra buttons that come in handy. The windowshade mode which rolls up the window to a bar is very handy. Comes in handy when I need to view multiple load balanced servers at the same time. Also for quick eye-candy, I like the network and cpu meters on the toolbar, dont really need it, but nice to see.
Started to use WinXP beta, and I'm pretty impressed with its Font Smoothing features. Check out some screenshots I made for friends here and here.. The font smoothing works all throught the GUI, notice how the menus are changed.
I spend too much time playing around with new utilities and GUI's for windows. If your interested in modifing your windows GUI, check out Shell City, WindowBlinds, and Litestep.
Have fun!
-Brook
Lucky, Washington State is next Tuesday.
Check out Washington Voter
How about starting a head hunting service linked to the /. amount of people in the techincal field.
/. as a portal for answers. And OSDN could even charge a small subscription fee for all the new services.
Everyone bitches about issues, how about using
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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
It better leave ink on my thumbs, and potty train my puppy!
It says initially surfacing in the /bin directory, ok what file? What distro? What rpm? What .tgz do I have to watch out for? Little more info please. I don't know that any unix admin who would run /bin utilities that they get off the Internet, maybe source, but not binaries.
This is no way as bad as Code Red, Code red self replicated on unpatched servers. This trojan will not replicate without a user doing it. Sheesh, bad journalism.
Im really just trying to find a replacement for the Toshiba Libretto. After Toshiba stopped making the palm top, the only real choice people had was PDAs. I really need a wireless device, If I only wanted a calendar or contact list, I have PocketNet phone with Fonesync software. But I needed a true wireless connection with a tcp/ip stack(for SSH) so I picked up a CDPD modem. But carrying around a full size laptop sucks, so I migrated to a PDA. I first started off with an wireless Palm Omnisky. Battery life was nice, upto 1 week light use, and 2 weeks if it sat im my pocket. But I wanted color and sound, I migrated to the PocketPC (Ipaq) and CDPD modem. Not bad, I can surf websites in html not wap, and even listen to mp3s. (Very important for work ya know!) Battery life is weak, and I find myself letting the battery die right when I need. Picked up a IBM Microdrive. Fast, was able to move documents from my laptop and back, neat idea, but didnt use it as much I wanted. I gotta get around to trying out the Pocket Divx Player and put a divx movie on the microdrive. (Gotta watch Red Dwarf ep with the Sock Puppet.)
:)
Heck, They even have PDA pr0n for those long boring conference calls.
Found some news clips.
Anti-terrorism agents raid Texas Internet business
FBI Raids Muslim Businesses, Charity Organizations
FBI Raids Dallas-Area Web Business
He said many of the sites were able to start up again on other servers, while the task force continued to copy computerized information on Thursday. The office remained sealed off by FBI agents.
It sounds like some sites are still offline. And many had to move to new servers.
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Troll is a troll is a troll.
We have to turn people fresh from college away from our open posititions at work. They dont have any pratical experience in troubleshooting, teamwork, and physical experience with tcp/ip, unix, networking, networked applications, etc. We have hired alot of dot.com'rs, they have more experience than people with BA in computer science. Some people even started at ISP's as teenagers and worked thier way up to being an engineer. Only recently has colleges started giving courses that apply to the real world.
On the subject of no jobs for dot.com peeps, we have 7 openings in my group (growth), and almost 30 for our department. We cant even find the right people to fill the jobs, it seems hard to find any unix/dba/network specialist or someone with a little experience who would pick it up. We hired one person who started 2 ISP's from scratch and sold them off before the boom, a very rare find. The local head hunters run out of people with any marketable skills quickly.
This is in Seattle Washington, so people in BFE like Spokane Washington would still be out of work.
I dont know how many hundreds of times, Google cache has helped display sites that get slashdotted. Pictures of a case mode comes to mind.
I just started using IE's image toolbar, nice thing, i was on a site that tried to protect the images with javascript, i just clicked on image and the toolbar popped up, clicked save picture...
Is m$ breaking the DMCA with thier circumvention?
They stopped renting video games here in Washington State about 10 years ago due to legal pressures. Seems SPA didnt like people renting new games, and it also broke some licensing policies. I think this was the same issue as Renting Music CD's, and how they closed down stores that sold "Used" Cds.
I couldnt find the law about renting disc based software, but I swear it exists.
Its a joke. Its written in asm! (Sheesh!)
The correct name is GNU/MenuetOS.
Sorry couldnt resist.
Humm, only good good answer to the post above.
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I was watching a pbs special about how the russian airforce allows tourists to fly thier planes, so pilots can get in basic air combat training. 1K a pop, and you too can fly a mig.
Hell, even Chuck Norris even owns a chain of casinos in Russia.
480mbps bandwidth for my USB2 Mouse! (-;
Trying not to troll, but let him have 4 kids and a mortgage, and money *will* matter!
This guy did the whole .au domain authority without making any money? He should of started a business off the get go. The best way to make the rules is to be the one in power, and now he is force to hand the keys to the kingdom over to IANA.
The SMH link was down, check out the Australian IT news site out.