I though it was a bit of a no brainer that the spammers would win.
Blue security were/are dealing with people who thought they were above the law Their servers got attacked ( if spammers control 50% of email messages i'm pretty sure one site wont be beyond their capabilities to DDOS)
It was a good idea but the only outcome was escalation and Blue Security didn't have the firepower to take them down
Flash'd all their sabres bare, Flash'd as they turn'd in air, Sabring the gunners there, Charging an army, while All the world wonder'd: Plunged in the battery-smoke Right thro' the line they broke; Cossack and Russian Reel'd from the sabre stroke Shatter'd and sunder'd. Then they rode back, but not Not the six hundred.
[snip]
Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon behind them Volley'd and thunder'd; Storm'd at with shot and shell, While horse and hero fell, They that had fought so well Came thro' the jaws of Death Back from the mouth of Hell, All that was left of them, Left of six hundred.
It would be quite useless. I am always aware about the temp of my food cooking, either on the XBox 360 PSU (also useful as a foot warmer in bed) and on my overclocked intel (great for pot noodle) using the motherboard temperature sensors;)
I actually think it could be feasible to harness all that wasted heat from electronic equipment to cook food
I'm studying computer and electronic systems at strathclyde. this involves both eee and cs classes. in the first year in the eee classes the gender mix girl/boy was 5/150 and in cs 8/90. in 2nd year this stayed the same. In my current year there are some asian exchange students which added 5 girls to the eee classes and 5 girls to the cs classes there are actually more girls than boys from within the exchange groups.
however, 3 girls dropped out from the eee classes if those exchange students weren't here we would only have 2 girls in the eee section.
I think there is a cultural reason/bias applied to Engineers in the US and UK which basically boils down to "an engineer has dirty overalls covered in oil and always has a monkey wrench handy". If these technical qualifications were more highly regarded by the public and by the government then maybe more women would go into these fields and be successful. This last point can also be applied to men
It is obvious that getting linux to run on consumer devices is the new fad among developers. So i find that the first thing I ask is "Does it run linux?" to this I hear cries of "of course it does... linux runs on everything" or "no it doesn't... it must be rubbish" or dark mutterings of "I'll make it run linux if it is the last thing I do".
However, my second question is left field "Does it make toast?" to which all and sundry look at me funny as if i've sprouted a second head or speaking a foreign language - they tend to ignore me or find something really important to do for which they must leave my presence. So I propose to make this the standard question when a new device is coming out since everyone has an answer ready for the linux question
how can I now be a cook at the same time as programming?
Before my Pentium 4 generated heat enough for frying eggs and I'm sure in a few years I would be looking for recipes suitable for heat generated by nuclear reactor( charcoal egg comes to mind) but now me dream is gone. Damn you University of Kentucky researchers. I hope we never meet
I am sure that Sony is just protecting itself by working so cordially with the EFF but I must imagine that they don't want anymore bad publicity concerning the DRM technologies included in their music CDs. I suspect that there is going to be a mad rush everytime there is a new DRM software, to find the first security hole. Perhaps Sony is just the first in line to appreciate the backlash caused by unsafe software included in consumer products
I'm not sure whether this is a problem with hardware or software. If it's a hardware problem then will the PS3 have worse problems?
I ask this because as far as I'm aware they are both based around a similar architecture(PowerPC). Although the Xbox is the less powerful of the two, to gain the christmas market, Sony is pushing the PS3 to the cutting edge of technology. Still it is a bad start for Xbox and does not bode well for the PS3.
You conclude from the study that at the enterprise level it is easier to manage Windows in regard to implementing business requirements than it is in Linux. I believe that Linux can and will be as good as Windows and to this end I ask what can we, the community and Linux vendors do to improve this failing i.e. what would you suggest that Linux could do or needs to do to be on par with Windows or even exceed it in this context?
Not to put too fine a point on it but the slideshow seems to be written so that it is difficult to understand for english speakers.
I really want this sandstorm thingy... where is the website?;)
OR... The slides would say it like this
Must protect country[from enemy]
Use Sandstorm[to gather intelligence or find intelligent life?]... Take Over The WORLD!!! Then self terminate without leave trace[anywhere]
petantik.blogsome.com - A Lucid Look at Reality... maybe?
My lecturers teach me one thing. Whenever something new comes out that seems to be so fantastic as to be miraculous ask one question
Whats the catch?
I'm doing engineering and i'm alway wary about such claims
where else/how much have they tested it?
How much does weather affect its operation?
How much will it cost?
Of course. i'm not saying that they are lying, they have achieved an engineering marvel that can only change things for the better. can you imagine how useful this would be in the developing world and rural areas where bandwidth is expensive or non-existent
These kind of schemes always end in tears for everyone. Sounds like a good idea on paper but the system complexity will end up being enormous.
1. The information will be organised and recorded at one central location - which will break
2. It uses the latest technology and, i assume, some stastical/mathematical techniques - which will probably be incorrect and will end up giving false results anyway
3. 1 and 2 will cause extra congestion and extra cost - yippee!!!
I switched, dual booting xp, because i like tinkering with things i.e. breaking them and rebuilding them with stuff left over. i got bored with windows and i'd heard of unix and was geting back into coding and so installing mandrake 8.2. This was my first real experience of unix type environment, although i had in my younger days used an amstrad computer and an amiga commodore.
Basically, I want to try different things and i felt that linux was fairly cutting edge and had lots of free compilers and a helpful community.
Slashdot Mirror
I though it was a bit of a no brainer that the spammers would win.
Blue security were/are dealing with people who thought they were above the law
Their servers got attacked ( if spammers control 50% of email messages i'm pretty sure one site wont be beyond their capabilities to DDOS)
It was a good idea but the only outcome was escalation and Blue Security didn't have the firepower to take them down
The following says it all (from http://poetry.eserver.org/light-brigade.html)
[snip]
Flash'd all their sabres bare,
Flash'd as they turn'd in air,
Sabring the gunners there,
Charging an army, while
All the world wonder'd:
Plunged in the battery-smoke
Right thro' the line they broke;
Cossack and Russian
Reel'd from the sabre stroke
Shatter'd and sunder'd.
Then they rode back, but not
Not the six hundred.
[snip]
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon behind them
Volley'd and thunder'd;
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
While horse and hero fell,
They that had fought so well
Came thro' the jaws of Death
Back from the mouth of Hell,
All that was left of them,
Left of six hundred.
[snip]
---------------THE END----------------
http://www.xanga.com/petantik
We will only feed it to foreigners, who will thinks that it is a local specialty
It would be quite useless. I am always aware about the temp of my food cooking, either on the XBox 360 PSU (also useful as a foot warmer in bed) and on my overclocked intel (great for pot noodle) using the motherboard temperature sensors ;)
I actually think it could be feasible to harness all that wasted heat from electronic equipment to cook food
http://petantik.blogsome.com/ - A Lucid Look at Reality
http://www.xanga.com/petantik - The Golden Nugget
I was also trying to give a general number of students in class. hey, surely those who read slashdot can do the reduction in their head while reading
This is quite true.
I'm studying computer and electronic systems at strathclyde. this involves both eee and cs classes. in the first year in the eee classes the gender mix girl/boy was 5/150 and in cs 8/90. in 2nd year this stayed the same. In my current year there are some asian exchange students which added 5 girls to the eee classes and 5 girls to the cs classes there are actually more girls than boys from within the exchange groups.
however, 3 girls dropped out from the eee classes if those exchange students weren't here we would only have 2 girls in the eee section.
I think there is a cultural reason/bias applied to Engineers in the US and UK which basically boils down to "an engineer has dirty overalls covered in oil and always has a monkey wrench handy". If these technical qualifications were more highly regarded by the public and by the government then maybe more women would go into these fields and be successful. This last point can also be applied to men
It is obvious that getting linux to run on consumer devices is the new fad among developers. So i find that the first thing I ask is "Does it run linux?" to this I hear cries of "of course it does ... linux runs on everything" or "no it doesn't ... it must be rubbish" or dark mutterings of "I'll make it run linux if it is the last thing I do".
However, my second question is left field "Does it make toast?" to which all and sundry look at me funny as if i've sprouted a second head or speaking a foreign language - they tend to ignore me or find something really important to do for which they must leave my presence. So I propose to make this the standard question when a new device is coming out since everyone has an answer ready for the linux question
This news has made me very depressed.
how can I now be a cook at the same time as programming?
Before my Pentium 4 generated heat enough for frying eggs and I'm sure in a few years I would be looking for recipes suitable for heat generated by nuclear reactor( charcoal egg comes to mind) but now me dream is gone. Damn you University of Kentucky researchers. I hope we never meet
I am sure that Sony is just protecting itself by working so cordially with the EFF but I must imagine that they don't want anymore bad publicity concerning the DRM technologies included in their music CDs. I suspect that there is going to be a mad rush everytime there is a new DRM software, to find the first security hole. Perhaps Sony is just the first in line to appreciate the backlash caused by unsafe software included in consumer products
I wonder what the PS3 will be like.
I'm not sure whether this is a problem with hardware or software. If it's a hardware problem then will the PS3 have worse problems?
I ask this because as far as I'm aware they are both based around a similar architecture(PowerPC). Although the Xbox is the less powerful of the two, to gain the christmas market, Sony is pushing the PS3 to the cutting edge of technology. Still it is a bad start for Xbox and does not bode well for the PS3.
You conclude from the study that at the enterprise level it is easier to manage Windows in regard to implementing business requirements than it is in Linux. I believe that Linux can and will be as good as Windows and to this end I ask what can we, the community and Linux vendors do to improve this failing i.e. what would you suggest that Linux could do or needs to do to be on par with Windows or even exceed it in this context?
I just posted on comp.lang.python asking about available protection schemes for python code
Python obfuscation thread at comp.lang.python
petantik.blogsome.com - A Lucid Look at Reality
Not to put too fine a point on it but the slideshow seems to be written so that it is difficult to understand for english speakers.
... where is the website? ;)
... The slides would say it like this
... Take Over The WORLD!!!
... maybe?
I really want this sandstorm thingy
OR
Must protect country[from enemy]
Use Sandstorm[to gather intelligence or find intelligent life?]
Then self terminate without leave trace[anywhere]
petantik.blogsome.com - A Lucid Look at Reality
My lecturers teach me one thing. Whenever something new comes out that seems to be so fantastic as to be miraculous ask one question
Whats the catch?
I'm doing engineering and i'm alway wary about such claims
where else/how much have they tested it?
How much does weather affect its operation?
How much will it cost?
Of course. i'm not saying that they are lying, they have achieved an engineering marvel that can only change things for the better. can you imagine how useful this would be in the developing world and rural areas where bandwidth is expensive or non-existent
These kind of schemes always end in tears for everyone. Sounds like a good idea on paper but the system complexity will end up being enormous.
1. The information will be organised and recorded at one central location - which will break
2. It uses the latest technology and, i assume, some stastical/mathematical techniques - which will probably be
incorrect and will end up giving false results anyway
3. 1 and 2 will cause extra congestion and extra cost - yippee!!!
http://petantik.blogsome.com/ - A Lucid Look at Reality
I switched, dual booting xp, because i like tinkering with things i.e. breaking them and rebuilding them with stuff left over. i got bored with windows and i'd heard of unix and was geting back into coding and so installing mandrake 8.2. This was my first real experience of unix type environment, although i had in my younger days used an amstrad computer and an amiga commodore. Basically, I want to try different things and i felt that linux was fairly cutting edge and had lots of free compilers and a helpful community.