Most people in areas where bananas can be grown probably don't eat Cavendish bananas.
They would have access to the many other local varieties that are excellent food sources and resistant to this disease.
"...it will be built in a single day to keep science and engineering researchers from facing a lengthy downtime." I'm afraid the damage has already been done on the downtime front, since it has not existed up until this point in time.
they don't throttle you YET! gotta remember during this how time fcc been on comcast case verizon was one companies backing comcast's side. Good point. When I first subscribed to SBC's Fiber to the Premise internet service, I got sustained 2.5/2.5 service.
Now that the product has rolled out nationally and has been rebranded "Uverse", I get 5 down /.8 up.
Even though my download speed is doubled, the connection feels much slower because of the throttled upload speed.
I don't get why people are bitching at Yahoo! over this. Do you WANT Microsoft to own them? I don't care WHY they turned it down, I'm just glad they did, I personally don't want to see it happen at all! I'm not even sure if the FTC would like it much. The Bushies gave them a secret head-nod on the antitrust thing. Otherwise, they would not have made the offer.
PLATO is powered by a gas generator, and has a 4000-litre tank of jet fuel to keep it running through the winter. If they can generate their own gas, why do they need jet fuel?
It would also be trivial for someone to run "arp" while connected to your access point. I agree that they need to use a random default password, but the MAC address would not be sufficient.
It is doable. The 2WIRE routers (those affected by this exploit) come with the default password set to a unique serial number. The serial number is printed on a sticker stuck to the router.
I know for a fact that 2WIRE has developed s3kr1t unique serial number generation technology that makes this possible.
The LinkStation is a convenient choice because it allows you to connect another USB hard disk, and do automatic backups from the internal disk to the USB disk. If you can get by with daily backups instead of RAID, this is a great choice due to its simplicity.
As mentioned, the Linksys NSLU2 is also worth checking out. At $89, the price is good, but you will have to buy a USB hard drive for it. If you want automatic backups, you'll need two hard drives.
I have both, and I prefer the LinkStation. The process by which you hack it into a fully capable server is easier than the NSLU2. Also, it seems to have more pre-built software packages available than Unslung. The LinkStation is a bit more expensive, however.
Both give you the capability to serve files to Windows computers, and both will let you stream music files over 100mbit ethernet. Both use less power than a regular PC. Another advantage is that they are easily portable for travel.
It happened to a coworker of mine who had FIOS installed in Keller, TX, where it was first piloted. He was perplexed that they cut the copper line going to his house.
When SBC installed fiber to the home at my house, they appear to have left the copper intact. They did, however, cut my Comcast coax line.
I'm just waiting for the garbage crew to destroy my sewer connection, cuz there goes my Broadband over Sewer Line (BSL). At least the bandwidth of a garbage truck full of DVD ROMs is still excellent.
I still think Call to Power was much more of an advance than any of the Sid Meier Civs since Civ II. Why couldn't they include futuristic units like space fighters?
How about colonizing the oceans?
Why can't you have group combat where archery units can bombard from the back while infantry fights?
The depth of play in CTP was much better, although the AI sucked royally. For human-human play I'd choose Call to Power over Civ IV, graphics or no graphics.
Since this is only going to be serving a few machines (and maybe doing router/gateway duty)
You may not want your file server doing firewall duty. If it gets rooted, all your files are compromised. In addition, if it fails for any reason, you've lost all your files, and your Internet connectivity. It makes google searching to fix the problem that much harder.
Consider having a dedicated machine serve as the firewall/gateway/router. If it gets compromised, the intruder will still have another layer to get through before reaching your data, assuming the firewall and file server aren't the same platform.
For me, a low power, quiet, 486DX266 running OpenBSD has worked well for the past 5 years as a firewall.
But fuck it, she's not going to win a Democratic nomination. The last thing the Democrats need is to assume the burden of overcoming both her bad name, AND sexism.
You assume the Democratic Party nomination process takes into account who is most likely to win.
My friend, if this were the case, we would not have seen Dukakis in 1988 or Kerry in 2004.
The nomination is decided by Old World Democrats in back room deals. If it were based on reality, we would not have seen two northeasterners nominated in the past two decades.
A Democratic candidate must be able to play in the "sticks". If the Democrats don't learn this soon, we'll likely see another Republican president in 2008.
The funniest part is that if you remind most Republicans that W is actually from Connecticut, not Texas, you are sure to see some slack jawed stares.
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Of course someone else might find a good way to tell me why I should use 40 characters to transmit what should have taken 10 characters and how it should have been faster or more efficient some way to use it. The whole concept was definitely good for a lot of programmer payroll time.
I would not be so quick to dismiss XML because of traditional arguments. Having worked with several different ways of storing and transmitting structured information, I can say without question XML comes out easiest in the end.
If you're only transmitting 10 characters, then yes XML is not for you. However, if you're describing dynamically changing, complex data, even in large amounts, XML is very handy.
There are turnkey parsers for XML that are well tested and which allow the client to see an abstracted view of the data as an object, at any level of detail desired.
Platform independence is built in.
It's easy to syntactically validate XML, as it's done automatically. It's also easy to isolate logical validation into discrete units since XML couples easily to object oriented designs.
Very large XML messages can be processed quickly using a pull parser. Pull parsing is faster than SAX and has the intuitive benefit of being client driven, not event driven.
6. Digital phones can be dialed by whistling into them. It isn't easy but you can do it if you practice long enough (and are bored enough).
DTMF numbers are made of two separate, simultaneous tones. For instance, the number one is a combination of 1209Hz and 697Hz. Please enlighten as to how you can whistle two tones at once.
Does anyone know of a complete list of Alpha boxes that can run OpenVMS? I have searched for this before and never found anything conclusive. The last one I found said that none of the Personal Workstation series would run OpenVMS. This while I had PWS 500 under my desk at work running OpenVMS. My understanding is that none of the NT capable Alphas will work.
I don't know why they mention summer. If you're lagering your beer you need to ferment it around 55 degrees fahrenheit, and it's hard to keep the temperature that low for weeks on end during the hot summer. If you don't, your beer will end up with nasty banana flavored esters, and you will get headaches when you drink it. You can, of course, brew ales, but they still need to be kept relatively cool.
This is one reason the Czechs brew their Pilsner before it gets too hot, and then age it in cool cellars until fall.
Bacteria grow easier when it is hot too, increasing the chance of brewing an infected batch. This is not to say you can't brew great beer in the summer, it's just harder.
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The flip side is that Jr. consultants require a huge amount of oversight.
Unless you only hire the best, you will find lots of unhandled exceptions, duplicate code, 10,000 line classes, and general crap.
The time you spend explaining the difference between runtime and checked exceptions will drive you nuts and seriously harm your productivity.
Most people in areas where bananas can be grown probably don't eat Cavendish bananas. They would have access to the many other local varieties that are excellent food sources and resistant to this disease.
Too bad they didn't have this during Vietnam. It might have detected the truancy of a certain Texas Air Nat'l Guard cadet.
I know nothing about embedded systems. Would it be possible to interface this with a 1-wire bus to monitor environment sensors?
Now that the product has rolled out nationally and has been rebranded "Uverse", I get 5 down / .8 up.
Even though my download speed is doubled, the connection feels much slower because of the throttled upload speed.
Ironically, this would only be ironic if Larry Wall now advocated the use of Awk instead of Perl.
It is doable. The 2WIRE routers (those affected by this exploit) come with the default password set to a unique serial number. The serial number is printed on a sticker stuck to the router.
I know for a fact that 2WIRE has developed s3kr1t unique serial number generation technology that makes this possible.
You misspelled "elected".
The LinkStation is a convenient choice because it allows you to connect another USB hard disk, and do automatic backups from the internal disk to the USB disk. If you can get by with daily backups instead of RAID, this is a great choice due to its simplicity.
As mentioned, the Linksys NSLU2 is also worth checking out. At $89, the price is good, but you will have to buy a USB hard drive for it. If you want automatic backups, you'll need two hard drives.
I have both, and I prefer the LinkStation. The process by which you hack it into a fully capable server is easier than the NSLU2. Also, it seems to have more pre-built software packages available than Unslung. The LinkStation is a bit more expensive, however.
Both give you the capability to serve files to Windows computers, and both will let you stream music files over 100mbit ethernet. Both use less power than a regular PC. Another advantage is that they are easily portable for travel.
I am a Rogers [V1AGR4] customer, and I [MORTGAGE RATES FALL AGAIN!] think you're all just overreacting [VISTA - THE BEST WINDOWS YET!].
Now let's have no more talk about this bizarre coverup.
It happened to a coworker of mine who had FIOS installed in Keller, TX, where it was first piloted. He was perplexed that they cut the copper line going to his house.
When SBC installed fiber to the home at my house, they appear to have left the copper intact. They did, however, cut my Comcast coax line.
I'm just waiting for the garbage crew to destroy my sewer connection, cuz there goes my Broadband over Sewer Line (BSL). At least the bandwidth of a garbage truck full of DVD ROMs is still excellent.
I still think Call to Power was much more of an advance than any of the Sid Meier Civs since Civ II. Why couldn't they include futuristic units like space fighters?
How about colonizing the oceans?
Why can't you have group combat where archery units can bombard from the back while infantry fights?
The depth of play in CTP was much better, although the AI sucked royally. For human-human play I'd choose Call to Power over Civ IV, graphics or no graphics.
You may not want your file server doing firewall duty. If it gets rooted, all your files are compromised. In addition, if it fails for any reason, you've lost all your files, and your Internet connectivity. It makes google searching to fix the problem that much harder.
Consider having a dedicated machine serve as the firewall/gateway/router. If it gets compromised, the intruder will still have another layer to get through before reaching your data, assuming the firewall and file server aren't the same platform. For me, a low power, quiet, 486DX266 running OpenBSD has worked well for the past 5 years as a firewall.
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Go to sector seven-G.
Substitute corn-related terms as appropriate.
I wonder if they considered Crater Parry.
I for one welcome our new all-seeing, all-knowing Internet overlords.
You assume the Democratic Party nomination process takes into account who is most likely to win. My friend, if this were the case, we would not have seen Dukakis in 1988 or Kerry in 2004.
The nomination is decided by Old World Democrats in back room deals. If it were based on reality, we would not have seen two northeasterners nominated in the past two decades. A Democratic candidate must be able to play in the "sticks". If the Democrats don't learn this soon, we'll likely see another Republican president in 2008.
The funniest part is that if you remind most Republicans that W is actually from Connecticut, not Texas, you are sure to see some slack jawed stares.
I would not be so quick to dismiss XML because of traditional arguments. Having worked with several different ways of storing and transmitting structured information, I can say without question XML comes out easiest in the end.
If you're only transmitting 10 characters, then yes XML is not for you. However, if you're describing dynamically changing, complex data, even in large amounts, XML is very handy.
There are turnkey parsers for XML that are well tested and which allow the client to see an abstracted view of the data as an object, at any level of detail desired.
Platform independence is built in.
It's easy to syntactically validate XML, as it's done automatically. It's also easy to isolate logical validation into discrete units since XML couples easily to object oriented designs.
Very large XML messages can be processed quickly using a pull parser. Pull parsing is faster than SAX and has the intuitive benefit of being client driven, not event driven.
There are very few products as robust at message delivery and which run on Linux, DOS, OS/2, big iron, OpenVMS, Z/OS, and all flavors of Unix.
DTMF numbers are made of two separate, simultaneous tones. For instance, the number one is a combination of 1209Hz and 697Hz. Please enlighten as to how you can whistle two tones at once.
Does anyone know of a complete list of Alpha boxes that can run OpenVMS? I have searched for this before and never found anything conclusive. The last one I found said that none of the Personal Workstation series would run OpenVMS. This while I had PWS 500 under my desk at work running OpenVMS. My understanding is that none of the NT capable Alphas will work.
This is one reason the Czechs brew their Pilsner before it gets too hot, and then age it in cool cellars until fall. Bacteria grow easier when it is hot too, increasing the chance of brewing an infected batch. This is not to say you can't brew great beer in the summer, it's just harder.