"Real adults are far past that stage and have no real desire to subject themselves to unsavory sights and sounds."
Please define "real adult" and how a real adult should be measured. I find it sad that some people believe you should loose interest in youthful pleasures as you age. Isn't that what keeps you feeling young and energetic? Are men expected to stop playing youthful sports like basket ball, hockey, soccer etc. because they are are of a certain age? Should a father not enjoy playing games with his children or watching cartoons? Its silly to say something like that.
Yup. I live in NYC and I must admit I do find driving in some situations to be much more convenient and safer than mass transit. When I went to college my first year I took mass transit. I had to take three buses in the morning because it got me right to the school. They were all major routes for shopping, students and commuting. Getting a seat was tough, always noisy and the occasional weirdo standing/sitting next to you. That was about 2 hours travel time. After school I would walk about a mile or so to a bus stop that guaranteed me a seat and it only took two buses from there. But it was still a two hour commute. Sophomore year I started driving and it was a world of difference. My total commute time dropped from 4 hours to only an hour or so. There was always a seat and no weirdos sitting next to you.
The trains here are pretty decent but filthy and filled with the dregs of society. After a night out in Manhattan we all took the A train toward queens where we lived. Well anyone here who knows the A train knows it goes through some rough neighborhoods in Brooklyn. We were tired and almost half asleep when some homeless vagrant, reeking of urine and god knows what, gets on the train. He walks around and then sits right next to one of our female friends who was sleeping. She had a skirt on and the sick fuck tried slipping his hand up it and one of my friends caught him. He quickly smacked the bums hand away and knocked the guy out. After that we stopped taking the train home and instead pay thirty five dollars to take a cab home. We sometimes drive but someone has to be DD and no one ever wants to be left out of the fun.
Mass transit is always lacking here. Yes we do have allot of it but its always so damn slow or inconvenient that we just drive.
Feature creep was their down fall. Duke Nukem 3D was released in 1997. Their original attempt to make the next Duke Nukem shooter was built using the Quake engine. They then moved to the Quake 2 engine shortly after and little was heard of the development for a while. Then around what 2000 or so it was announced they were switching to the unreal engine. Then a year or two ago they said they modified the unreal engine to the point it wasn't even the unreal engine anymore. And after that they then said it was built using a propriety engine. WTF make up your minds.
Its sad to see them go but after 12 years DNF is still nothing more than some screen shots and a few E3 videos. I don't believe they even gave any public demos of alpha/beta play testing, just the canned videos. There was no solid plan and they just kept screwing around with the engine.They should have set a goal and created a stable engine for the content and just worked from there. They just kept moving to the latest whiz-bang technology which broke stuff requiring all the content to be constantly updated. And each new fancy feature would give them new ways to implement content causing more feature creep. George Broussard must have thought money grew on trees. It was also very irresponsible and reckless to keep spouting "when its done" every time they were asked for a release date. Its like they all had ADD.
No sane developer or big conglomerate studio does that. The dev's are given a release date and that's that. Only really big names like id, Blizzard and maybe a few others have the luxury to comfortably sit back and and hammer out a title. But they have a goal set and don't fuck around, they have a goal and they work towards it. I remember when long ago they announced Prey. It too was a series of screen shots and a single E3 video that was touted as the next gen of shooters with folded space and some other crap. It was eventually canceled around 2001 or 2002 and they said they were "focusing" on DNF. Well Human head was given the honor of finishing prey and they did. I bet any money DNF will be hand to another studio and they will eventually finish it in a few years or so.
Seriously. What assets do they have left that are worth selling? Patents? Software? I am sure there are still SCO shops around so there might be some interest in Unix Ware, Open Server etc. But how profitable will it be after everyone jumps the SCO ship to other platforms that aren't in danger of becoming unsupported?
I bought a Sony P3-600 64MB laptop around 200/2001 or so that shipped with ME. Jesus Christ, I never had so many headaches trying to get a computer to work and not crash. It was like an early version of Vista, it ate memory like a hog eating slop. I blew the ME install away after only one week and installed windows 2000. Best move I could have made. Win2k ran great on just 64MB and when upgraded to 256MB it flew.
That coupled with the teachers unions means teachers are almost bullet proof when it comes to firing. The only teacher I ever heard of being fired in my school days was a gym teacher who was caught helping a girl put her bra back on after doing god-knows-what with her.
My brothers friend had a public school teacher who was literally burnt out from the years of dealing with students who did not care for education. He was unkempt and had long hair and a bald spot which he covered by wrapping the top of his head with a disgusting greasy spiral of hair. Every day in that teachers class he did nothing, and I mean nothing. The kids were out of control. He would just sit there staring into oblivion or reading a book/news paper. Once a student went up to his desk where he was sitting and pushed his desk out of the classroom and into the hallway. All the teacher did was get up and push the desk back into the classroom. He was said to be in that school for 15 years and there was nothing anyone could do about him. They just had to wait until he retired. Then he will be able to collect upward of a $60,000 pension per year for his 20 years as a useless teacher.
And people wonder why school systems are going bankrupt. The biggest expense is not administrators, teachers or classroom materials. The biggest expense is paying people full salaries for the rest of their life for just 20-25 years of service. A college student graduates with a 4 year degree is most likely 21-22 years old. They will be able to retire on full salary when they are about 45-50 years old. They might live for another 25-40 years in which they will be paid full salaries for nothing.
My mother is friends with a couple who were both in the public school system. One retired as a principal and the other as a school teacher/college professor. Their combined yearly pension income is $170,000. He makes 60k per year and she makes 110k per year! Talk about the good life, you should see their apartment. They always say the school system is the best kept secret. My high school electrical shop teacher owned three successful electrician businesses his sons ran while he taught in the public school system for 25 years. He receives full medial benefits and has a 55k per year pension and the income from his three businesses. He now owns a 10,000 square foot mansion on 50 acres and two three car garages with various restored classic muscle/sports cars. He also has a summer home in Florida and a another home near his mansion he rents out which is water front. the 55,000 is just gravy along with the free medical for him.
So you want to know where the real money is? Its in unionized government jobs. You cant be laid off easily and its almost impossible to get fired for things other companies would dump you for in a heart beat. Salaries can approach the 100k mark, you and your family get full medical coverage and you get a nice fat pension when you retire. I know lots of people who work in the government: cops, fire fighters, sanitation, DEP, customs & border patrol etc. You cant loose with jobs like those.
I agree. I would never pay for normal access to user created content. But if there was a pay-for section of premium commercial free content then I could see that being acceptable. It would be great If we had access to many classic TV shows which are no longer aired today. I am 29 but it would be fun to watch a classic Disney or WB cartoon. Who wouldn't want to see bugs bunny screw with Elmer Fud or watch Donald Duck have a violent temper tantrum? Even the more recent cartoons from the 80's/90's that aired during the afternoon would be fun to see again. I would pay upward of 8-15 a month for unlimited access to a whole archive.
But the pricing and terms of use have to be fair: -Unlimited views of any show when ever and where ever. -Ability to use PC, STB, or wireless device such as a phone or PDA with same account -No hidden anything, just a fair flat rate. -Cross platform PC player that will run on Windows, Linux and MacOS. In a web browser is fine. -Ability to download shows for viewing on other portable media players like iPod/iPhone or Archos jukebox when off the wireless grid.
I would pay for commercial content but I would never pay to access user content. The only you tube videos I watch are some user made live recordings of a few musicians (Bucketnead, Les Claypool etc.), tech and science videos. Other then that youtube is a cesspool of attention starved people.
Because its removable media like a DVD, not a hard disk.
If this pans out to be a viable alternative to DVD/Blu-ray for long term backup/storage than it should gain ground. I sure could use that 500GB system to backup some of my stuff. I am a data rat packer and still have backups of my old dos software from the 80's! I even have images of my dos 6.22 disks and windows 3.11 disks.
This is a simple problem that everyone for some reason has blown it out of proportion. Why is everyone talking about the pro's and cons of hand crimping patch cables?
He needs to run a SINGLE line from the server room to the ISP's network termination point. If he has to pull it through conduit, walls or holes using fish tape then hand crimping is the best way to do the run. A factory made patch cable plug will be torn up or make pulling impossible or very difficult. No electrician or network installation pro will use patch cables for pulls, it will make life miserable.
I wired up a small office as a side job. Forty Ethernet jacks were needed throughout the office, some for future expansion. All were pulled and terminated by hand. In the offices each line was terminated with CAT5 keystone style jacks and the lines were terminated in the server room into 110 patch blocks (a little overboard but the admin guy like it that way). We used four 1000 foot spools to enable us to pull four runs at a time. If there were plugs on the end it would have been murder as they would have snagged on every possible thing in the ceiling. Cables, electrical boxes, light fixtures, pipes, conduit, duct work and ceiling supports are just some of the obstacles you can get snagged on. Of the forty runs only two were bad due to the wire stripper cutting past the jacket and nicking the conductors causing them to snap when terminated. We tested the continuity and proper pin out using a simple cable tester that was had for 30 bucks. That was two years ago and they never had a problem as of yet.
So to sum it up:
If it is a simple run like a patch cable to plug a workstation to a wall jack then for the love of god buy pre-made patch cords. Hand crimping patch cables for stupid simple things like that is a waste of time. Patch cords are also fine for single long runs that are simple and don't risk destroying the plug.
For runs through walls, ceilings or where you have to route around allot of obstacles then hand crimp or terminate using jacks. This applies to multiple runs when you are pulling more than one cable at a time.
There are already10Gbt copper cards from Mellanox. They can tolerate cable runs of 55 meters using cat5e and cat 6 or the full 100 meters using cat6A. That might be a problem for current cabling infrastructure but backbones most likely use fiber it will be no problem. Work stations and desktops wont need 10gbt any time soon so the existing 1gbt over cat 5 is fine.
And as for 40/100 and beyond Ethernet who cares what cable media it will use. Most likely will be fiber and most likely wont really be necessary for the desktop/workstation any time soon. Gigabit should last us another 10 years for desktop and laptop use. 10 gig would be good for use on workstation and server boards.
Not that you can jump into another VM but possibly inject code into them which in turn allows you to gain access to them. Or gives you access to the hypervisor which could lead to similar results. I am no security expert but from what I heave read in the paper it does appear to be possible. I highly doubt the DQ35 is going to be found in a data center serving VM's though. Systems serving VM's are most likely dual/quad CPU systems with multicore CPU's.
I read the PDF of the exploit and from what it states the code injected into the SMRAM is effectively being executed in a region where no OS or hyper visor can touch. So from what I understand a system running virtualization software only needs one of the guest operating systems to become compromised in order for the attacker to gain control of the entire system. From there the other guest/host OS's or possibly the hyper visor can be attacked. So yes for a single OS system it is redundant to attack the SMRAM because if you already have root then whats the point?
But even with the ability to attack other software on a virtualized DQ35 system, their numbers I am sure are close to none. The DQ35 board is a uATX desktop board. If it were specific to Intel server boards or Intel based server boards then I would worry.
I wonder if this exploit is truly only limited to the DQ35. How many different Intel systems have they tested this on. And what about AMD systems, are they vulnerable to similar attacks?
High pressure cylinders have to be hydro tested every 5-10 years I believe. Those cylinders are good for about 2000-4000 PSI (138-276 BAR) and need to also be inspected every time they are filled.
Propane does not need a very high pressure to keep it liquid, its liquid pressure is only ~177 PSI (12.2 BAR). 177 PSI is very easy to store and does not require any expensive or fancy hoses or pressure vessels to store. It is probably the best gaseous fuel today for automotive applications. Its very clean which is why any non-electric forklift used in a warehouse or indoors is propane powered. A gas or diesel forklift would produce noxious exhaust which will make workers sick.
In fact back in the 40's/50's there were quite a few heavy trucks running on propane or butane. I saw an old Mack B model at a truck show with a Propane powered 707 gas engine that was used as an oil field truck. The problem with those fuels back then was there was no real refueling network to support them. Many were converted to gasoline which only required a carburetor change and fuel delivery system swap (maybe timing too but that was easy.)
The problem today is we have low end motherboards with on board gigabit Ethernet. Gigabit chip sets are sometimes the limitation (eg garbage Realtek stuff) as well as the OS in use. Running a Linux server with a 3 disk SATA software raid5 (mdadm) I can get speeds of upward of 50MBps when copying from the server to my Windows Vista system. At that point the single vita disk, a 250GB 7200RPM SATA disk becomes the bottleneck. The Linux Server has a two port PCIX Intel gigabit adapter with only one port hooked to a Netgear GS108T switch. The Vista box has an on board realtek gigabit PHY and the AMD/ATI 790G chip set gigabit controller. With a fourth SATA disk in the server I can top out at 40-45 MBPS when copying from the raid 5 to the single 400 gig disk (both formatted XFS). One of these days I would like to see if I can setup another Raid array or solid state disk and really benchmark the maximum network speed.
If you think about it gigabit is more than enough for most of today's desktop needs. I would rather see faster Ethernet used for internet/datacenter backbones. In a real large network environment I can definitely see 10Gb and 100Gb useful for server links and backbone stuff. 10 gig ethernet used for simple workstations is a bit extreme at this point. Many applications used today can comfortably run on 100BT networks. The only application where 10GBT might be helpful is high end workstations doing heavy AV/Rendering/Pro Photo work.
Your average grunt is joe schmo. I have a few friends who all served in Iraq. All of them had electronic gadgets to help pass the time. They had ipods, laptops, digital cameras, hand held gaming systems etc. One of my friends bought his fancy $2000 digital SLR and it survived no problem. One friend did have his mp3 cd player broken when some guy was throwing rocks at him. Other than that all their gadgets made it back just fine. BUT I am not suggesting Ipods and the like are battle field ready gear. Maybe Apple will team up with a military contractor to provide mil-spec units if they prove to be useful.
"No Windows convert is going to do that and I dont like it either since theres no nice and clean way to uninstall them."
I primarily use Ubuntu and in that aspect you are wrong. If you compile from source you can run checkinstall instead of "make install" after running make. That will automatically generate and install a.deb package that can be removed via apt/adept/synaptic etc. Works every time for me when I install newer software or some piece of software is not yet in the repository or available in a deb package.
If I were him I would use links running off a Knoppix CD for browsing. And for internet it would be smart to use an open wireless AP from a laptop, preferably one that isn't in the same area where you live.
Parent is correct. I had an oxy-propane torch for cutting and the torch handle has two mixing valves and then a trigger lever. You adjust the mixing valves to get a nice hot flame and then start to heat the metal. once it gets to the point where it begins to get yellow hot and starts to melt you squeeze the lever and out come a stream of oxygen. Then you start seeing sparks fly! At that point the flame isn't doing any cutting, the oxygen is.
The "bacon" lance is a thermal lance that is made of meat. A real thermal lance is easy to make.You take a 1/2 piece of steel pipe, pack it full of thin steel rods and just connect a valve to one end that is hooked to an oxygen tank. You light it with a cutting torch and it works like the torch, only it does not have its own gaseous fuel source but instead burns the steel. They can punch holes through concrete and slice steel I beams like a hot knife through butter. As the lance burns it gets shorter, that is why some are upward of eight to ten feet long. If you ever get to see a bridge or overpass demolished you will see thermal lances used to cut the beams and anchors.
"Why should there be a human at a weigh station at all?"
Because they don't only weigh the trucks for proper weight, weight distribution and axle loads. They also physically inspect trucks as well for safety issues when they spot an unsafe looking rig. Plenty of trucks on the road now that have minor to serious safety issues because everyone wants to beat the system and make more money. There was a video on youtube, I cant find the link, that was taken by a weigh station officer. It showed a trailer that was missing an entire set of duals which the driver chained the axle up, rusted out brake chambers (which wont do jack) and a whole laundry list of serious safety issues. The trailer wasn't loaded but it looked like a logging trailer, they get loaded upward of 50+ tons. You want that guy driving through a weigh station and just getting a green light? Officers man them for a very good reason. You should think before you speak.
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"Real adults are far past that stage and have no real desire to subject themselves to unsavory sights and sounds."
Please define "real adult" and how a real adult should be measured.
I find it sad that some people believe you should loose interest in youthful pleasures as you age. Isn't that what keeps you feeling young and energetic? Are men expected to stop playing youthful sports like basket ball, hockey, soccer etc. because they are are of a certain age? Should a father not enjoy playing games with his children or watching cartoons? Its silly to say something like that.
Yup. I live in NYC and I must admit I do find driving in some situations to be much more convenient and safer than mass transit. When I went to college my first year I took mass transit. I had to take three buses in the morning because it got me right to the school. They were all major routes for shopping, students and commuting. Getting a seat was tough, always noisy and the occasional weirdo standing/sitting next to you. That was about 2 hours travel time. After school I would walk about a mile or so to a bus stop that guaranteed me a seat and it only took two buses from there. But it was still a two hour commute. Sophomore year I started driving and it was a world of difference. My total commute time dropped from 4 hours to only an hour or so. There was always a seat and no weirdos sitting next to you.
The trains here are pretty decent but filthy and filled with the dregs of society. After a night out in Manhattan we all took the A train toward queens where we lived. Well anyone here who knows the A train knows it goes through some rough neighborhoods in Brooklyn. We were tired and almost half asleep when some homeless vagrant, reeking of urine and god knows what, gets on the train. He walks around and then sits right next to one of our female friends who was sleeping. She had a skirt on and the sick fuck tried slipping his hand up it and one of my friends caught him. He quickly smacked the bums hand away and knocked the guy out. After that we stopped taking the train home and instead pay thirty five dollars to take a cab home. We sometimes drive but someone has to be DD and no one ever wants to be left out of the fun.
Mass transit is always lacking here. Yes we do have allot of it but its always so damn slow or inconvenient that we just drive.
Feature creep was their down fall. Duke Nukem 3D was released in 1997. Their original attempt to make the next Duke Nukem shooter was built using the Quake engine. They then moved to the Quake 2 engine shortly after and little was heard of the development for a while. Then around what 2000 or so it was announced they were switching to the unreal engine. Then a year or two ago they said they modified the unreal engine to the point it wasn't even the unreal engine anymore. And after that they then said it was built using a propriety engine. WTF make up your minds.
Its sad to see them go but after 12 years DNF is still nothing more than some screen shots and a few E3 videos. I don't believe they even gave any public demos of alpha/beta play testing, just the canned videos. There was no solid plan and they just kept screwing around with the engine.They should have set a goal and created a stable engine for the content and just worked from there. They just kept moving to the latest whiz-bang technology which broke stuff requiring all the content to be constantly updated. And each new fancy feature would give them new ways to implement content causing more feature creep. George Broussard must have thought money grew on trees. It was also very irresponsible and reckless to keep spouting "when its done" every time they were asked for a release date. Its like they all had ADD.
No sane developer or big conglomerate studio does that. The dev's are given a release date and that's that. Only really big names like id, Blizzard and maybe a few others have the luxury to comfortably sit back and and hammer out a title. But they have a goal set and don't fuck around, they have a goal and they work towards it. I remember when long ago they announced Prey. It too was a series of screen shots and a single E3 video that was touted as the next gen of shooters with folded space and some other crap. It was eventually canceled around 2001 or 2002 and they said they were "focusing" on DNF. Well Human head was given the honor of finishing prey and they did. I bet any money DNF will be hand to another studio and they will eventually finish it in a few years or so.
Seriously. What assets do they have left that are worth selling? Patents? Software? I am sure there are still SCO shops around so there might be some interest in Unix Ware, Open Server etc. But how profitable will it be after everyone jumps the SCO ship to other platforms that aren't in danger of becoming unsupported?
All in all, good riddance.
I bought a Sony P3-600 64MB laptop around 200/2001 or so that shipped with ME. Jesus Christ, I never had so many headaches trying to get a computer to work and not crash. It was like an early version of Vista, it ate memory like a hog eating slop. I blew the ME install away after only one week and installed windows 2000. Best move I could have made. Win2k ran great on just 64MB and when upgraded to 256MB it flew.
You also forgot: Tenure.
That coupled with the teachers unions means teachers are almost bullet proof when it comes to firing. The only teacher I ever heard of being fired in my school days was a gym teacher who was caught helping a girl put her bra back on after doing god-knows-what with her.
My brothers friend had a public school teacher who was literally burnt out from the years of dealing with students who did not care for education. He was unkempt and had long hair and a bald spot which he covered by wrapping the top of his head with a disgusting greasy spiral of hair. Every day in that teachers class he did nothing, and I mean nothing. The kids were out of control. He would just sit there staring into oblivion or reading a book/news paper. Once a student went up to his desk where he was sitting and pushed his desk out of the classroom and into the hallway. All the teacher did was get up and push the desk back into the classroom. He was said to be in that school for 15 years and there was nothing anyone could do about him. They just had to wait until he retired. Then he will be able to collect upward of a $60,000 pension per year for his 20 years as a useless teacher.
And people wonder why school systems are going bankrupt. The biggest expense is not administrators, teachers or classroom materials. The biggest expense is paying people full salaries for the rest of their life for just 20-25 years of service. A college student graduates with a 4 year degree is most likely 21-22 years old. They will be able to retire on full salary when they are about 45-50 years old. They might live for another 25-40 years in which they will be paid full salaries for nothing.
My mother is friends with a couple who were both in the public school system. One retired as a principal and the other as a school teacher/college professor. Their combined yearly pension income is $170,000. He makes 60k per year and she makes 110k per year! Talk about the good life, you should see their apartment. They always say the school system is the best kept secret. My high school electrical shop teacher owned three successful electrician businesses his sons ran while he taught in the public school system for 25 years. He receives full medial benefits and has a 55k per year pension and the income from his three businesses. He now owns a 10,000 square foot mansion on 50 acres and two three car garages with various restored classic muscle/sports cars. He also has a summer home in Florida and a another home near his mansion he rents out which is water front. the 55,000 is just gravy along with the free medical for him.
So you want to know where the real money is? Its in unionized government jobs. You cant be laid off easily and its almost impossible to get fired for things other companies would dump you for in a heart beat. Salaries can approach the 100k mark, you and your family get full medical coverage and you get a nice fat pension when you retire. I know lots of people who work in the government: cops, fire fighters, sanitation, DEP, customs & border patrol etc. You cant loose with jobs like those.
I agree. I would never pay for normal access to user created content. But if there was a pay-for section of premium commercial free content then I could see that being acceptable. It would be great If we had access to many classic TV shows which are no longer aired today. I am 29 but it would be fun to watch a classic Disney or WB cartoon. Who wouldn't want to see bugs bunny screw with Elmer Fud or watch Donald Duck have a violent temper tantrum? Even the more recent cartoons from the 80's/90's that aired during the afternoon would be fun to see again. I would pay upward of 8-15 a month for unlimited access to a whole archive.
But the pricing and terms of use have to be fair:
-Unlimited views of any show when ever and where ever.
-Ability to use PC, STB, or wireless device such as a phone or PDA with same account
-No hidden anything, just a fair flat rate.
-Cross platform PC player that will run on Windows, Linux and MacOS. In a web browser is fine.
-Ability to download shows for viewing on other portable media players like iPod/iPhone or Archos jukebox when off the wireless grid.
I would pay for commercial content but I would never pay to access user content. The only you tube videos I watch are some user made live recordings of a few musicians (Bucketnead, Les Claypool etc.), tech and science videos. Other then that youtube is a cesspool of attention starved people.
No they just made an XP theme and boot screen for OpenBSD.
Because its removable media like a DVD, not a hard disk.
If this pans out to be a viable alternative to DVD/Blu-ray for long term backup/storage than it should gain ground. I sure could use that 500GB system to backup some of my stuff. I am a data rat packer and still have backups of my old dos software from the 80's! I even have images of my dos 6.22 disks and windows 3.11 disks.
USB Fire Wire and SATA/SAS allow you to do just that. Although hot plug SATA seems to be a bit of a black art on Linux (at least to me).
This is a simple problem that everyone for some reason has blown it out of proportion. Why is everyone talking about the pro's and cons of hand crimping patch cables?
He needs to run a SINGLE line from the server room to the ISP's network termination point. If he has to pull it through conduit, walls or holes using fish tape then hand crimping is the best way to do the run. A factory made patch cable plug will be torn up or make pulling impossible or very difficult. No electrician or network installation pro will use patch cables for pulls, it will make life miserable.
I wired up a small office as a side job. Forty Ethernet jacks were needed throughout the office, some for future expansion. All were pulled and terminated by hand. In the offices each line was terminated with CAT5 keystone style jacks and the lines were terminated in the server room into 110 patch blocks (a little overboard but the admin guy like it that way). We used four 1000 foot spools to enable us to pull four runs at a time. If there were plugs on the end it would have been murder as they would have snagged on every possible thing in the ceiling. Cables, electrical boxes, light fixtures, pipes, conduit, duct work and ceiling supports are just some of the obstacles you can get snagged on. Of the forty runs only two were bad due to the wire stripper cutting past the jacket and nicking the conductors causing them to snap when terminated. We tested the continuity and proper pin out using a simple cable tester that was had for 30 bucks. That was two years ago and they never had a problem as of yet.
So to sum it up:
If it is a simple run like a patch cable to plug a workstation to a wall jack then for the love of god buy pre-made patch cords. Hand crimping patch cables for stupid simple things like that is a waste of time. Patch cords are also fine for single long runs that are simple and don't risk destroying the plug.
For runs through walls, ceilings or where you have to route around allot of obstacles then hand crimp or terminate using jacks. This applies to multiple runs when you are pulling more than one cable at a time.
There are already10Gbt copper cards from Mellanox. They can tolerate cable runs of 55 meters using cat5e and cat 6 or the full 100 meters using cat6A. That might be a problem for current cabling infrastructure but backbones most likely use fiber it will be no problem. Work stations and desktops wont need 10gbt any time soon so the existing 1gbt over cat 5 is fine.
And as for 40/100 and beyond Ethernet who cares what cable media it will use. Most likely will be fiber and most likely wont really be necessary for the desktop/workstation any time soon. Gigabit should last us another 10 years for desktop and laptop use. 10 gig would be good for use on workstation and server boards.
Not that you can jump into another VM but possibly inject code into them which in turn allows you to gain access to them. Or gives you access to the hypervisor which could lead to similar results. I am no security expert but from what I heave read in the paper it does appear to be possible. I highly doubt the DQ35 is going to be found in a data center serving VM's though. Systems serving VM's are most likely dual/quad CPU systems with multicore CPU's.
I read the PDF of the exploit and from what it states the code injected into the SMRAM is effectively being executed in a region where no OS or hyper visor can touch. So from what I understand a system running virtualization software only needs one of the guest operating systems to become compromised in order for the attacker to gain control of the entire system. From there the other guest/host OS's or possibly the hyper visor can be attacked. So yes for a single OS system it is redundant to attack the SMRAM because if you already have root then whats the point?
But even with the ability to attack other software on a virtualized DQ35 system, their numbers I am sure are close to none. The DQ35 board is a uATX desktop board. If it were specific to Intel server boards or Intel based server boards then I would worry.
I wonder if this exploit is truly only limited to the DQ35. How many different Intel systems have they tested this on. And what about AMD systems, are they vulnerable to similar attacks?
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High pressure cylinders have to be hydro tested every 5-10 years I believe. Those cylinders are good for about 2000-4000 PSI (138-276 BAR) and need to also be inspected every time they are filled.
Propane does not need a very high pressure to keep it liquid, its liquid pressure is only ~177 PSI (12.2 BAR). 177 PSI is very easy to store and does not require any expensive or fancy hoses or pressure vessels to store. It is probably the best gaseous fuel today for automotive applications. Its very clean which is why any non-electric forklift used in a warehouse or indoors is propane powered. A gas or diesel forklift would produce noxious exhaust which will make workers sick.
In fact back in the 40's/50's there were quite a few heavy trucks running on propane or butane. I saw an old Mack B model at a truck show with a Propane powered 707 gas engine that was used as an oil field truck. The problem with those fuels back then was there was no real refueling network to support them. Many were converted to gasoline which only required a carburetor change and fuel delivery system swap (maybe timing too but that was easy.)
The problem today is we have low end motherboards with on board gigabit Ethernet. Gigabit chip sets are sometimes the limitation (eg garbage Realtek stuff) as well as the OS in use. Running a Linux server with a 3 disk SATA software raid5 (mdadm) I can get speeds of upward of 50MBps when copying from the server to my Windows Vista system. At that point the single vita disk, a 250GB 7200RPM SATA disk becomes the bottleneck. The Linux Server has a two port PCIX Intel gigabit adapter with only one port hooked to a Netgear GS108T switch. The Vista box has an on board realtek gigabit PHY and the AMD/ATI 790G chip set gigabit controller. With a fourth SATA disk in the server I can top out at 40-45 MBPS when copying from the raid 5 to the single 400 gig disk (both formatted XFS). One of these days I would like to see if I can setup another Raid array or solid state disk and really benchmark the maximum network speed.
If you think about it gigabit is more than enough for most of today's desktop needs. I would rather see faster Ethernet used for internet/datacenter backbones. In a real large network environment I can definitely see 10Gb and 100Gb useful for server links and backbone stuff. 10 gig ethernet used for simple workstations is a bit extreme at this point. Many applications used today can comfortably run on 100BT networks. The only application where 10GBT might be helpful is high end workstations doing heavy AV/Rendering/Pro Photo work.
Your average grunt is joe schmo. I have a few friends who all served in Iraq. All of them had electronic gadgets to help pass the time. They had ipods, laptops, digital cameras, hand held gaming systems etc. One of my friends bought his fancy $2000 digital SLR and it survived no problem. One friend did have his mp3 cd player broken when some guy was throwing rocks at him. Other than that all their gadgets made it back just fine. BUT I am not suggesting Ipods and the like are battle field ready gear. Maybe Apple will team up with a military contractor to provide mil-spec units if they prove to be useful.
"No Windows convert is going to do that and I dont like it either since theres no nice and clean way to uninstall them."
I primarily use Ubuntu and in that aspect you are wrong. If you compile from source you can run checkinstall instead of "make install" after running make. That will automatically generate and install a .deb package that can be removed via apt/adept/synaptic etc. Works every time for me when I install newer software or some piece of software is not yet in the repository or available in a deb package.
Even worse, Goatse.
Imagine some dude on the beach with a fresh new digital back plate unwittingly displaying hello.jpg. *shudders*
And god help the poor soul who has their animated ink hacked and is walking around displaying meat spin.
If I were him I would use links running off a Knoppix CD for browsing. And for internet it would be smart to use an open wireless AP from a laptop, preferably one that isn't in the same area where you live.
Parent is correct. I had an oxy-propane torch for cutting and the torch handle has two mixing valves and then a trigger lever. You adjust the mixing valves to get a nice hot flame and then start to heat the metal. once it gets to the point where it begins to get yellow hot and starts to melt you squeeze the lever and out come a stream of oxygen. Then you start seeing sparks fly! At that point the flame isn't doing any cutting, the oxygen is.
The "bacon" lance is a thermal lance that is made of meat. A real thermal lance is easy to make.You take a 1/2 piece of steel pipe, pack it full of thin steel rods and just connect a valve to one end that is hooked to an oxygen tank. You light it with a cutting torch and it works like the torch, only it does not have its own gaseous fuel source but instead burns the steel. They can punch holes through concrete and slice steel I beams like a hot knife through butter. As the lance burns it gets shorter, that is why some are upward of eight to ten feet long. If you ever get to see a bridge or overpass demolished you will see thermal lances used to cut the beams and anchors.
"Why should there be a human at a weigh station at all?"
Because they don't only weigh the trucks for proper weight, weight distribution and axle loads. They also physically inspect trucks as well for safety issues when they spot an unsafe looking rig. Plenty of trucks on the road now that have minor to serious safety issues because everyone wants to beat the system and make more money. There was a video on youtube, I cant find the link, that was taken by a weigh station officer. It showed a trailer that was missing an entire set of duals which the driver chained the axle up, rusted out brake chambers (which wont do jack) and a whole laundry list of serious safety issues. The trailer wasn't loaded but it looked like a logging trailer, they get loaded upward of 50+ tons. You want that guy driving through a weigh station and just getting a green light? Officers man them for a very good reason. You should think before you speak.
Good point but they were targeted at embedded systems and other non-pc oriented systems. I was talking about commodity low power PC hardware.
You mean your friend bought diamonds to have his meat cut...er polished.