I got an e-mail from Sun the other day offering to send me Solaris on DVD, and if I activate it within 45 days, they'll also send me some gift certificates for various restaurants. I think it's funny that they're kind of bribing people into trying Solaris.
I got the same thing yesterday. They noted that i'd downloaded part of the install, and didnt complete it... (it was over a Gig). Anyway, they promised $50 in restaurant vouchers if I completed the download and did the install. I finished the download overnight (downloading their smaller.exe self extracting file (still over 1GB). TOday I get an e-mail offering $100 in vouchers (in $25 increments)...
I'm still wondering what the catch is..
I note that you have to register (didn't see any cost associated), and you're supposed to put a service tag on your machine (download and print yourself), and I'm just wondering if a bill for an OS is going to turn up one day, so I'm treading very carefully. ("if it sounds too good to be true then it probably is")
Yeah, because bank tellers are very well trained in psychology. Oh and even if all banks including small Credit Unions were retro fitted with the PHI (Project Hostile Intent) from your article, people 'of interest' will just put the money under their mattress.
The technology in that article is vaporware and only aims to make the company 'selling' it rich leveraging off people's fear.
Absolutley not. I interview a *lot* of people and I have never seen a CV (resume) that lists any nicknames, alter-egos, aliases or anything that would point to the candidate having any kind of online presence. It woud probably count against them if they thought this was important.
So, you're saying I should stop putting my BF2 stats as my sig on my resume?
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You're just making tor more difficult to use for what it really is for
I thought I'd made it clear: "If I was ever going to use a p2p for illegal file sharing" and "Disclaimer: I do NOT illegally file share,".
So no. I'M NOT doing anything of the sort.
But thanks for caring.
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Exactly. If I was ever going to use a p2p for illegal file sharing (Disclaimer: I do NOT illegally file share,) I'd make sure I used azureus bittorrent client through the TOR network - (azureus supports TOR)*. That way, my IP address as seen from the MAFIAA would be seen as the TOR exit node, and they'd never be able to see me on the other end.
The TOR exit node can sniff my traffic all they want, but they ain't finding anything personal beyond a penchant for the latest movies and certain types of pr0n.
*Sure, TOR aint big fans of people chewing up BW with p2p, but better that than being sued right? You could always use a live CD with azureus and configure TOR manually so if power was shut off to the system its configuration would be lost - but that's just tinfoil hat now aint it?
"Sure, what could the skinny guy know about staying thin?" In a single meal, I'll eat a large Domino's Pizza, or about 4 McDonald's hamburgers.
Exactly what the other reply to your post said.
When they cut you open after your heart attack, they'll find the inside your arteries look like the cheesy crust you've been eating all these years.
While you may be fortunate that your body doesn't put on fat on your gut, you're more unfortunate in that the fat is going on your heart and liver - and you don't notice it - so wont do anything about it.
Next time you squeeze the cheese out of a cheezy crust... remember what I said.
After having read the majority of the threads it seems that everyone on Slashdot thinks they are a nutritional expert. Somehow I don't think that is the case.
It is widely claimed that a common bacterium from the human mouth, Streptococcus mitis, survived for two and a half years on the Moon inside the Surveyor 3 camera, to be detected when the camera was returned to Earth on board the Apollo 12 capsule. However, this claim cannot be sustained in the light of several lines of evidence:
* Streptococcus mitis lives in the mouth; there is no evidence that it can survive for long even in terrestrial environments outside the human body.
* Streptococcus mitis, like other oral streptococci, is a mesophile; it cannot survive outside of a narrow temperature range centered on human body temperature. It is not an extremophile nor does it produce endospores. It could not survive on the moon.
* Even extremophiles are unlikely to survive the extremes of temperature on the surface of the Moon (mean surface temperature day 107C; mean surface temperature night -153). Surveyor 3 would have gone through over thirty day-night cycles on the Moon, each one provoking freeze-thawing of bacteria. Applying multiple cycles of freeze-thawing is a commonly used technique for breaking open bacterial cells.
* There is evidence to suggest................(read the wikipedia article for the rest)
China doesn t want a worthless US dollar. All of the dollars that they received as part of funding our national debt and trade defect aren t good just sitting around. At some point, China is going to want to spend them
Reminds me of the girl down the road who owed my mate 50 bucks. The money was no good... so some other favors came into play.....
What else do you have to trade America? You sure got a purdy mouth!
Exactly. Similar concept to how Copyright Law was used to create Creative Commons. Legislation could be passed to ensure freedom of the networks.
Unfortunately, the people who would need to pass this legislation are influenced more by the corporations than the citizens they are supposed to represent.
Exactly. When I read the title, I thought they'd be delving into how the first guy 'leaped' across the 150ft canyons.... I was thinking they flung a midget inca over the crevase by trebuchet or something... the article did not tell me, so I'm moving forward believing it was midget Inca's and trebuchets.
But I wonder: do you want us to win in Iraq?..... [or do you] wish for us to lose. Do you?
Define win.
Now define lose.
I define win as: Not giving the enemy a reason to fight, and not giving people cause to join them,. Oh, that and not having a nation that is terrorized and afraid of its own shadow.
I define lose as: The enemy continuing to harm Americans and their allies while growing support for their cause.
* enemy = insurgents/extremists/RIAA/insert your own group here....
Pulling out of Iraq CAN mean you WIN, if it achieves your strategic goals. If you're aim is to reduce security in the Middle East and piss off every other Country by the way it's being handled... while making a very few people (oil/military industry) very rich in the process, then the US is doing a heck of a job (eh, Brownie).
But to be honest, I'm interested in your definition of win / lose and why you think losing==withdrawing from Iraq.
I'm about to move to a colder (and more damp) environment (and an older house with wood floors), and have thought about putting my server and NAS in hallway cupboard, drawing cool air from under the house and venting it to the hallway.
Will have to see how big a hole I can cut (and repair) in the floor of the cupboard without the new landlord noticing....
yeah, that'll teach me for not reading TFA and the link... but relying on the GPP's post saying it was on XP with ie... Looks like a reasonable piece of kit. Thanks for the link.
Exactly. It's the same old story with military hardware salesmen. The put words in nice brochures that attract the senior officers who don't understand the details. Look at the words used in the ad.
"The system uses Secure Computing's..... " makes it sound secure. "off-the-shelf.... " makes it sound 'cost effective' "...Sidewinder Security Appliance..." makes it sound like a cool offensive weapon ".... consolidates all major Internet security functions into a single system" makes it sound like they have everything in a small box (perfect for in a cramped tank i hear them say), "..providing "best-of-breed" ".... sounds like they had to compromise... I feel it slipping... "...protection against all types of threats, both known and unknown.." see that!? protects against 'unknown threats'... Wow... if you read far enough down the brochure you'll find the snake-oil salesman will advertise the snake oil.
I deal with this kind of stuff every day. As the parent pointed out, you don't need to dig very far to find that the system uses the largest target OS out there with arguably the most exploits available to 'hackers'.
I've dealt with enough military equipment to know that if I had seen something along the lines of Trusted sun/vxworks OS, TEMPEST tested to xxxx, MIL-STD-461E (or similar) DO-178B for environmental... NISP Chapter 8 and 9 compliant... Common Criteria (ISO/IEC 15408) etc... then it'd be worth taking a second look.
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I'm still wondering what the catch is..
I note that you have to register (didn't see any cost associated), and you're supposed to put a service tag on your machine (download and print yourself), and I'm just wondering if a bill for an OS is going to turn up one day, so I'm treading very carefully. ("if it sounds too good to be true then it probably is")
anyone?
The technology in that article is vaporware and only aims to make the company 'selling' it rich leveraging off people's fear.
So no. I'M NOT doing anything of the sort.
But thanks for caring.
Exactly. If I was ever going to use a p2p for illegal file sharing (Disclaimer: I do NOT illegally file share,) I'd make sure I used azureus bittorrent client through the TOR network - (azureus supports TOR)*. That way, my IP address as seen from the MAFIAA would be seen as the TOR exit node, and they'd never be able to see me on the other end.
The TOR exit node can sniff my traffic all they want, but they ain't finding anything personal beyond a penchant for the latest movies and certain types of pr0n.
*Sure, TOR aint big fans of people chewing up BW with p2p, but better that than being sued right? You could always use a live CD with azureus and configure TOR manually so if power was shut off to the system its configuration would be lost - but that's just tinfoil hat now aint it?
5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99 is the MD5 hash for 'password'.....
search enough systems and you're bound to see some doosh has used it.
When they cut you open after your heart attack, they'll find the inside your arteries look like the cheesy crust you've been eating all these years.
While you may be fortunate that your body doesn't put on fat on your gut, you're more unfortunate in that the fat is going on your heart and liver - and you don't notice it - so wont do anything about it.
Next time you squeeze the cheese out of a cheezy crust... remember what I said.
After having read the majority of the threads it seems that everyone on Slashdot thinks they are a nutritional expert. Somehow I don't think that is the case.
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What else do you have to trade America? You sure got a purdy mouth!
I can simplify it even more:
Nothing to see here, move along.
Exactly. Similar concept to how Copyright Law was used to create Creative Commons. Legislation could be passed to ensure freedom of the networks.
Unfortunately, the people who would need to pass this legislation are influenced more by the corporations than the citizens they are supposed to represent.
My mother still writes letters... she's 63.
Funny story. She does use e-mail as well, and was one day complaining to my (now late) father that she was getting too much 'junk mail'.
His answer: "well just print the bloody stuff out and throw it in the trash!"
Well, where I work we still have to send 'letters' for all formal stuff.
We are 'up with the play' though, as we're allowed to print out the letter, sign it, then scan it as a PDF and e-mail the scan.
I've never tried printing and scanning "OMG - did u c Larry -teh gay!", but will try it on Monday and see how it pans out.
Exactly. When I read the title, I thought they'd be delving into how the first guy 'leaped' across the 150ft canyons.... I was thinking they flung a midget inca over the crevase by trebuchet or something... the article did not tell me, so I'm moving forward believing it was midget Inca's and trebuchets.
and I thought the dinosaur's Latin name was RIAAsaurus. Bottom feeders with air in their skulls indeed.
ls -l brain | keg_of_beer | grep *wedding*
I put everything my wife tells me to
Now define lose.
I define win as: Not giving the enemy a reason to fight, and not giving people cause to join them,. Oh, that and not having a nation that is terrorized and afraid of its own shadow.
I define lose as: The enemy continuing to harm Americans and their allies while growing support for their cause.
* enemy = insurgents/extremists/RIAA/insert your own group here....
Pulling out of Iraq CAN mean you WIN, if it achieves your strategic goals. If you're aim is to reduce security in the Middle East and piss off every other Country by the way it's being handled... while making a very few people (oil/military industry) very rich in the process, then the US is doing a heck of a job (eh, Brownie).
But to be honest, I'm interested in your definition of win / lose and why you think losing==withdrawing from Iraq.
bah... Kinda answered my own question...
is it possible to put the swap to another media, say a flash / ram drive?
It's hard to beat 3GBps on a SATAII though, and while good flash does wear leveling I'm sure it'll catch us out eventually.
Be interested in any ideas rather than spending $40 on a dedicated 40GB HDD just for a few GB of Swap.
I think its hard to beat a SATA2 for speed (at home, SCSI at work...?), but interested in any ideas...
I'm about to move to a colder (and more damp) environment (and an older house with wood floors), and have thought about putting my server and NAS in hallway cupboard, drawing cool air from under the house and venting it to the hallway.
Will have to see how big a hole I can cut (and repair) in the floor of the cupboard without the new landlord noticing....
yeah, that'll teach me for not reading TFA and the link... but relying on the GPP's post saying it was on XP with ie... Looks like a reasonable piece of kit. Thanks for the link.
Yum. eating my own words is tasty.
Exactly. It's the same old story with military hardware salesmen. The put words in nice brochures that attract the senior officers who don't understand the details. Look at the words used in the ad.
"The system uses Secure Computing's..... " makes it sound secure.
"off-the-shelf.... " makes it sound 'cost effective'
"...Sidewinder Security Appliance..." makes it sound like a cool offensive weapon
".... consolidates all major Internet security functions into a single system" makes it sound like they have everything in a small box (perfect for in a cramped tank i hear them say),
"..providing "best-of-breed" ".... sounds like they had to compromise... I feel it slipping...
"...protection against all types of threats, both known and unknown.." see that!? protects against 'unknown threats'... Wow... if you read far enough down the brochure you'll find the snake-oil salesman will advertise the snake oil.
I deal with this kind of stuff every day. As the parent pointed out, you don't need to dig very far to find that the system uses the largest target OS out there with arguably the most exploits available to 'hackers'.
I've dealt with enough military equipment to know that if I had seen something along the lines of Trusted sun/vxworks OS, TEMPEST tested to xxxx, MIL-STD-461E (or similar) DO-178B for environmental... NISP Chapter 8 and 9 compliant... Common Criteria (ISO/IEC 15408) etc... then it'd be worth taking a second look.