My router handles firewalling but I read some time ago that Firestarter is also a good GUI based firewall, is easy to use but with features for advanced use. How does it campare with IPCop?
This strategy has worked just fine in the US for many years; the price of gas, other consumer goods and politics come to mind. As a matter of fact, I believe the good ol' US perfected this method to the fine art it is today.
Very low tech but, I once built a surfboard that had some interesting/strange qualities. It was a tri-fin short board of pretty much standard width, length, thickness and rocker but with my custom shape. I built it from an ordinary foam blank with 3/16" redwood stringer which I purchased from a local surfboard shop.
Any surfer knows that it is not easy to paddle a short board out to the line-up and even more difficult to paddle into a wave unless you are in just the right position. This board paddled as if it were a longboard, never missed a wave and was the fastest board I ever rode. Family members and friends of different sizes surfed it and all said the same things. We studied this board in an effort to determine why it possessed its special qualities but were never able to come up with anything. Even exact copies of the board did not surf the same.
The board was stolen, or winked out, at Sunset Cliffs in San Diego in the mid 90's, never to be seen again.
... which is a lot more useful^W fun than a Mac, because us old farts questioned the sexual mutilation that has been practiced in this country (usa) for about the last 150 years; no offense to our Jewish brothers. Sorry if you lost your's in spite of our efforts.
Oh, and I'm not a frigging 'baby boomer'. I was born during WWII and those bastards have been nipping at my arse for over 60 years.
Now something with a different characteristic comes out (more dynamic, higher frequencies), and of course this sounds "metallic" and "hollow" to you
Yes, and I also have very bad hearing and have an aid in the worst ear which makes its hearing better than the other ear. I've tried all sorts of things to improve sound quality to fit my hearing but it really never occurred to me to try lowering the encoded quality. Thanks for the ideas you've given me.
Oops, 'wife alert'. Got a bad Winter storm here and I'm supposed to be building a fire to get the moisture out of the house yet I'm responding to/. and playing with audio files.
In the early 90's I decided to join the tech audio revolution and I got rid of an eclectic lp collection that spanned more than a thirty year period. Stan Getz, Herbie Mann, Cannonball Adderley, Leonard Kwan, Carlos Montoya, Bo Diddley, Jimmy Reed and on and on.
No cd ever sounded as good to me as an lp and it makes me sick that I was so stupid as to part with them. I'll bet the guy that bought them is still pretty happy with his purchase though.
Cnn's Dr. Sanjay Gupta has a blog entry on a new study done by the American Academy of Pediatrics which says there is a correlation between violent video games and violent behavior.
From the article:
Now, for the first time, a study has probed deep in the brain to figure out what is really happening when teenagers play these violent video games. Researchers found that teenagers who played particularly violent video games showed more activation in an area of the brain called the amygdala. This is an area responsible for conflict response and emotional arousal.
Unfortunately the post is pretty short on details and there are no links to the study. Interesting too that Dr. Gupta'a post was referring to 'children' but the tests were done on teenagers. I don't equate teenagers with children.
The way that dating mechanisms work is based on unproven assumption. In order for Carbin 14 dating system to be accurate, there hase to be NO CHANGE in the ratio of carbon 14 to carbon 12 in the atmosphere over the years for which the system is claimed to be accurate.
I believe this article on Radiocarbon Dating may help you understand this process better. You will also see that scientists do take variables into account to better calibrate their results.
The single best place to go for information on this ms/novell deal, best estimates of what it means to the FOSS community and the GPL is Groklaw. PJ, as usual, has put a lot of effort into gathering information, explaining legal points, providing links to more information and getting opinions form many in the community. She has about four posts up on this subject and each is worth the read.
No, I was working my way through college then. I was 24 when I landed in Cam Rahn in '69 and felt like I was about 75 when I went home a year later; disenchanted, demoralized, disgusted and saddened beyond words.
I was a four-time loser: volunteered for the draft (Army), airborne, special forces and Vietnam so I had about a year and a half of training before I set foot in-country. After my three years I did another two hoping I could go back and help set things right but we know how well that went.
I'm not disputing anything you say but the tsunami video which, I believe, was taken in Banda Ache, with pool below and sea wall beyond at the beach edge, shows a beautifully formed 'wave' which crests and breaks in a very surfable form, for a few seconds. I believe this happened at this particular beach because of a very steep drop-off to deep water. Another video taken at a beach with a very gradual slope, I can't remember where, shows a 5-6 foot mass of water coming in with churning whitewater at its front; the classic form we have been taught to expect. You may remember this sad footage as, towards the end, the camera pans to the right parallel with the beach to show what appears to be a young boy being overcome by the leading edge.
The trick is, you never give up. You let the pain or minor disability piss you off enough to fight beyond letting it hold you back.
I won't bore you with all the injuries I've suffered in my life from sports to Vietnam to the fire service or tell you about my arthritis or skin cancer and other minor problems. I will tell you that I am a month and a few days shy of 62, I run 6 miles every other day, surf whenever I can get to an ocean and I can sport a nice rod just thinking about shanking my neighbor's girlfriend; I'd never do that because he is a brother firefighter....on the other hand......
Sorry to get off on a tangent. My point is, you can not let pain or the disability that comes with older age rule your life. It can be overcome with spirit and determination.
You incorrectly assume that I have not done the things you suggest, I have and was called a zealot for that as well.
We both know that Microsoft has a long and glorious history of absolutely refusing to listen to reason, even from their own user base. Though I didn't state it, my thought was that if Microsoft lost a goodly portion of their users to the FOSS community, perhaps they might come to the realization that OS usability/control for the customer and interoperability with other OS's are good and DRM plus other restrictions hurt everyone. Microsoft's stubbornness on these issues is mindbogglingly stupid and I don't expect them to change strategy any time soon.
I have had two or more Debian machines on my home LAN coexisting with my wife's Windows machine for over nine years and the only problems I ever had were with Microsoft changing SMB in an attempt to thwart Samba. I have never been a Windows user, used Mac's for about fifteen years prior to Deb, but I will say that, with careful administration, XP has played nicely on our LAN and has been relatively trouble free. I just wish MS were honest in their talk of interoperability.
I hope Microsoft locks Vista down tighter than a bedbugs arsehole with lots of user restrictions, DRM, **AA protections and many other inconveniences. That should send another 5-10% of their users over to the FOSS community.
I can say that the women of the Mexican states of Baja California and Baja Califorinia Sur are among the most beautiful in the world. Oh, to be a young man in Baja again.
Recovering from yet another surgery for skin cancer, I was thinking a while back how nice it would be to have some sort of salve that, when applied to skin cancer, would stop the growth and allow the skin to heal itself. This would certainly beat the hell out of having chunks of tissue removed every few years. I'm starting to look like 'The Monster' but my grand kids still love me.
Perhaps this enzyme research, combined with others, will eventually lead to good things for all who suffer from cancers but I'm sure I am too old to benefit.
I never liked small dogs either until one came into my life and stole my heart. Muffin, a Lhasa Apso, was eight months old when a neighbor gave her to us and was our friend and companion for nineteen years. To put an old saying another way, it isn't the size of the dog in your life but the size of the life in your dog. I will miss her the rest of my life.
Interesting how the administration and friends keep coming up with these draconian measures to thwart 'terrorism', yet, our borders are still wide open. Any terrorist worth his/her salt can still move in and out of this country with ease and bring in just about anything (s)he wants.
I hadn't heard this. My wife has to run an XP machine on our home lan and must use IE for on-line apps (CaseMap) related to her job which FF can't access. She would have serious problems if things started breaking because of IE7.
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I don't think so. Guerrilla warfare seems to working just fine for Iraq's sectarian groups and insurgents, Hezbollah and Al-Qaeda.
... but we can't afford to fix our voting system, the core of our democratic republic? I say we hang these fuckers!
My router handles firewalling but I read some time ago that Firestarter is also a good GUI based firewall, is easy to use but with features for advanced use. How does it campare with IPCop?
Anyone?
Nah, that's just a little ice cream.
I'm sorry. The Devil made me do it.
This strategy has worked just fine in the US for many years; the price of gas, other consumer goods and politics come to mind. As a matter of fact, I believe the good ol' US perfected this method to the fine art it is today.
All Goklaw did was post a news release made by Novell and commented on it. So, if you need to blame someone or something, blame Novell.
Definition of 'fork' ~ When developers take code from a software project and develop it independent of the project.
Novell is going to develop OpenOffice apart from OpenOffice.org so it is indeed a 'fork' of the application.
Very low tech but, I once built a surfboard that had some interesting/strange qualities. It was a tri-fin short board of pretty much standard width, length, thickness and rocker but with my custom shape. I built it from an ordinary foam blank with 3/16" redwood stringer which I purchased from a local surfboard shop.
Any surfer knows that it is not easy to paddle a short board out to the line-up and even more difficult to paddle into a wave unless you are in just the right position. This board paddled as if it were a longboard, never missed a wave and was the fastest board I ever rode. Family members and friends of different sizes surfed it and all said the same things. We studied this board in an effort to determine why it possessed its special qualities but were never able to come up with anything. Even exact copies of the board did not surf the same.
The board was stolen, or winked out, at Sunset Cliffs in San Diego in the mid 90's, never to be seen again.
... which is a lot more useful^W fun than a Mac, because us old farts questioned the sexual mutilation that has been practiced in this country (usa) for about the last 150 years; no offense to our Jewish brothers. Sorry if you lost your's in spite of our efforts.
Oh, and I'm not a frigging 'baby boomer'. I was born during WWII and those bastards have been nipping at my arse for over 60 years.
Yes, and I also have very bad hearing and have an aid in the worst ear which makes its hearing better than the other ear. I've tried all sorts of things to improve sound quality to fit my hearing but it really never occurred to me to try lowering the encoded quality. Thanks for the ideas you've given me.
Oops, 'wife alert'. Got a bad Winter storm here and I'm supposed to be building a fire to get the moisture out of the house yet I'm responding to /. and playing with audio files.
In the early 90's I decided to join the tech audio revolution and I got rid of an eclectic lp collection that spanned more than a thirty year period. Stan Getz, Herbie Mann, Cannonball Adderley, Leonard Kwan, Carlos Montoya, Bo Diddley, Jimmy Reed and on and on.
No cd ever sounded as good to me as an lp and it makes me sick that I was so stupid as to part with them. I'll bet the guy that bought them is still pretty happy with his purchase though.
Cnn's Dr. Sanjay Gupta has a blog entry on a new study done by the American Academy of Pediatrics which says there is a correlation between violent video games and violent behavior.
From the article:
Unfortunately the post is pretty short on details and there are no links to the study. Interesting too that Dr. Gupta'a post was referring to 'children' but the tests were done on teenagers. I don't equate teenagers with children.
I believe this article on Radiocarbon Dating may help you understand this process better. You will also see that scientists do take variables into account to better calibrate their results.
The single best place to go for information on this ms/novell deal, best estimates of what it means to the FOSS community and the GPL is Groklaw. PJ, as usual, has put a lot of effort into gathering information, explaining legal points, providing links to more information and getting opinions form many in the community. She has about four posts up on this subject and each is worth the read.
Just my two cents worth.
No, I was working my way through college then. I was 24 when I landed in Cam Rahn in '69 and felt like I was about 75 when I went home a year later; disenchanted, demoralized, disgusted and saddened beyond words.
I was a four-time loser: volunteered for the draft (Army), airborne, special forces and Vietnam so I had about a year and a half of training before I set foot in-country. After my three years I did another two hoping I could go back and help set things right but we know how well that went.
I'm not disputing anything you say but the tsunami video which, I believe, was taken in Banda Ache, with pool below and sea wall beyond at the beach edge, shows a beautifully formed 'wave' which crests and breaks in a very surfable form, for a few seconds. I believe this happened at this particular beach because of a very steep drop-off to deep water. Another video taken at a beach with a very gradual slope, I can't remember where, shows a 5-6 foot mass of water coming in with churning whitewater at its front; the classic form we have been taught to expect. You may remember this sad footage as, towards the end, the camera pans to the right parallel with the beach to show what appears to be a young boy being overcome by the leading edge.
The trick is, you never give up. You let the pain or minor disability piss you off enough to fight beyond letting it hold you back.
I won't bore you with all the injuries I've suffered in my life from sports to Vietnam to the fire service or tell you about my arthritis or skin cancer and other minor problems. I will tell you that I am a month and a few days shy of 62, I run 6 miles every other day, surf whenever I can get to an ocean and I can sport a nice rod just thinking about shanking my neighbor's girlfriend; I'd never do that because he is a brother firefighter....on the other hand......
Sorry to get off on a tangent. My point is, you can not let pain or the disability that comes with older age rule your life. It can be overcome with spirit and determination.
You incorrectly assume that I have not done the things you suggest, I have and was called a zealot for that as well.
We both know that Microsoft has a long and glorious history of absolutely refusing to listen to reason, even from their own user base. Though I didn't state it, my thought was that if Microsoft lost a goodly portion of their users to the FOSS community, perhaps they might come to the realization that OS usability/control for the customer and interoperability with other OS's are good and DRM plus other restrictions hurt everyone. Microsoft's stubbornness on these issues is mindbogglingly stupid and I don't expect them to change strategy any time soon.
I have had two or more Debian machines on my home LAN coexisting with my wife's Windows machine for over nine years and the only problems I ever had were with Microsoft changing SMB in an attempt to thwart Samba. I have never been a Windows user, used Mac's for about fifteen years prior to Deb, but I will say that, with careful administration, XP has played nicely on our LAN and has been relatively trouble free. I just wish MS were honest in their talk of interoperability.
I hope Microsoft locks Vista down tighter than a bedbugs arsehole with lots of user restrictions, DRM, **AA protections and many other inconveniences. That should send another 5-10% of their users over to the FOSS community.
to cover up most dishes: Curry. I had so much curry as a child I now need it to survive. Mmmm, kidney pie.
I can say that the women of the Mexican states of Baja California and Baja Califorinia Sur are among the most beautiful in the world. Oh, to be a young man in Baja again.
Recovering from yet another surgery for skin cancer, I was thinking a while back how nice it would be to have some sort of salve that, when applied to skin cancer, would stop the growth and allow the skin to heal itself. This would certainly beat the hell out of having chunks of tissue removed every few years. I'm starting to look like 'The Monster' but my grand kids still love me.
Perhaps this enzyme research, combined with others, will eventually lead to good things for all who suffer from cancers but I'm sure I am too old to benefit.
I never liked small dogs either until one came into my life and stole my heart. Muffin, a Lhasa Apso, was eight months old when a neighbor gave her to us and was our friend and companion for nineteen years. To put an old saying another way, it isn't the size of the dog in your life but the size of the life in your dog. I will miss her the rest of my life.
Interesting how the administration and friends keep coming up with these draconian measures to thwart 'terrorism', yet, our borders are still wide open. Any terrorist worth his/her salt can still move in and out of this country with ease and bring in just about anything (s)he wants.
And these are the people responsible for fighting our wars and, as of yesterday, in charge of dispensing psyops directed and American citizens?
We're BONED!
I hadn't heard this. My wife has to run an XP machine on our home lan and must use IE for on-line apps (CaseMap) related to her job which FF can't access. She would have serious problems if things started breaking because of IE7.