One of my relatives had a stroke and afterwards she is now always thirsty. At first, nobody caught on to this and she drank herself near to death, just with water - exactly as you said, she broke the balance of electrolytes in her system. Now it all has to be closely monitored as to how much she has had to drink, and yet she is always thirsty - must be an awful feeling.
Here in Bermuda there is a place trying to offer it (I am fairly sure I heard that they started offering before getting license approval for the airwaves and therefore are tied up in that, but I might be a month behind in that news).
One of the guys here in the office got it and was showing me, bragging that he was getting "900KB per second". Not only was that figure off, but he was only looking at a Windows XP pop that claimed 900kbps as the connection speed.
We tried various bandwidth testing sites and it looked to be like a pretty rock solid 300kbps.
The system was pretty impressive, but at the time that I saw it, essentially nobody else would have been in this system. I don't know how sensitive this sort of system (if at all) is to increased users running it (meaning if we were seeing that speed with no users, would 10K users around you then drop the speed or make the connection futz out?).
That service is about $70 a month here all included, unlimited usage. That is way cheaper than the $200 a month I pay for "512kbps" which never tops over 350kbps in real use. (I have to pay the phone company and I have to pay the ISP, each want about $100).
Maybe a dual-processor system: one PowerPC and one Intel? Not likely, I grant you.
Actually, I can remember in 1995 or 1996, Apple had a computer which had an optional card you could plug into it. Said card allowed you to put an Intel chip on there (a 486 I think, but perhaps it was a Pentium). You could then run Windows apps off of that chip.
As I recall, the larger issue was that at the time, overclocking chips via add on kits was quite big (and how Cyrix and AMD gained big market share back then) and the Mac chip could indeed be overclocked with an add on chip - but the PC chip couldn't. Which lead to it already being slow and inefficient with the rest of the system, but also lead to it falling behind the upgrade process.
I think the card also had its own separate RAM on it, which was fairly limited as well - I think maybe even only 8MB.
My roommate in college had one, which would be the only reason I would have to see such a thing or know it exists.
There is a lady here who regularly emails me furious that I blocked some friend of hers as spam. As if I have time to sit and look at each of the incoming messages and then make my own decision as to whether it should be spam or not.
She also does not get BCC at all and freaks out when she gets spam (or any BCC) that doesn't have her name in the headers. She will tell me that the mailserver is not behaving.
She also wants me to block all mail to one person here in the office (well, she is no longer with us, and no longer has an account with us), and we do block that account. But she doesn't get the mailserver is actually doing exactly what it should when it throws out the message to that person, and then still delivers this lady's message as it should be.
I think I must spend a good 30 minutes to an hour EVERY DAY trying to deal with this lady and how she doesn't understand how email works. The worst part is she gets flustered and clearly thinks that I am the one that doesn't get it.
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I was going to make some snide remark of why another spam blog needs to be created when the author of the book this guy is telling us about already has a blog up and running... but I run a spam blog too (anti-spam that is) - so I guess I'd be a bit of a hypocrite there:)
At one of my previous jobs we had code reviews. The leader of one of my projects actually wrote as the main negative point of my code "too many comments".
I wanted to shit on his desk and set his car on fire.
whoa, I just said that recently here
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Here is post of mine on Slashdot where I mentioned that a CPU hotplate would be cool.
Just for future reference if we are going to make my posts come true - I'd like a Porsche or Paris Hilton.
Oh excellent, now I see what was being said. I figured I must have missed something. Thank you! (this is where at least one person needs to give me a hard time for not reading enough of the article - and for good reason)
I pay $80 a month for 600kbp up/down DSL and then another $120 to the phone company for the line. This is currently the fastest/cheapest we have seen and it is recent.
The phone company is slightly scamming in that they have listed on their page that the 256kbps line that I had been paying for through them could handle 1.5mbps downloads but the 256kbps was for the uploads. But when I complained to them that I was getting nowhere near 600kbps downloads, they told me that I needed to upgrade my line with them (meaning in payment). So I did that and now I am paying more, but still not getting the speed. The ISP swears that they turned off the limits on my account, so I *should* be getting even 1.5mbps through them, but I am getting about 250kbps at best.
Lately when I try calling my home phone number, I can't get through and instead just get a blast of static and then a dead line. I am assuming that is probably related to why my DSL speed sucks, but in order to get them to come look at it, for some reason I have to actually be here (none of the phone line is inside the house except for the short line that comes in through the wall to where I have my phone) - and I can't just leave me job and lounge around the house all day (were I an exec I could work from home, but I am the IT bitch at work, so that means I need to be there in person).
Just thinking about all of this wants me to smack someone.
But I live in Bermuda, and when I mention that to anyone, they assume that I spend my days lounging on the beach and don't have much sympathy for me. Of course, I am a nerd and don't care about the beach or sunburns, and right now it is COLD outside.
No, they can't. You can create a hash collision with a known piece of data, not with a known hash. You would have to know the original password (from which of course the hash is easily computable) to create a password with a colliding hash.
Wait, explain that again? The post to which you reply is saying that if a system stores the hashes of passwords instead of the passwords themselves (many places on the net do this - some with MD5, many with SHA1) so that if my password is "pants" the system will hash that when I sign up and then put that in the database. So then when I login in the future, it hashes my password and compares that to what it has in the database, and if the two hashes are the same, it assumes that it is my password and lets me in.
So that poster you responded to was saying that if we could get that list, we would have the hash. Then all we would need to do is try combinations of characters through the hash to get a collision on the target hash (the "pants" hash in this case). If it turns out that "balls" makes the same hash that "pants" makes, then they could type in "balls" while logging in as me and it would produce the same hash as "pants" and the system would think that they are me.
They would never need to know what the original password is, and they would never need to care - they can get in due to the collision.
Do you honestly go through life and look at published statistics and think "huh, well I don't do that, therefore this whole study's end numbers must be wrong"?
I am a sys admin and programmer. In my free time tend to write a lot of financial analysis code for equity movement forecasting. So I started a blog about it. Inadvertently I stumbled onto the fact that the stock market and associated terms is a relatively high popularity AdWord in Google, so the rare clicks that I got were fairly high value.
Since I am a sys admin and have to deal with blocking spam both on a personal level and also for our office network, I was seeing that there was a clear trend in spam - I think we could all see it - it was going up and up and up. So I started a blog in order to discuss spam and ways to stop it, since apparently many people weren't familiar with what was available (especially since so many people actually buy from spam). But I have to admit, that was only part of the motive - part of it was the curiosity on AdWord revenue from something that was going to be growing so much in popularity (probably the wrong word there).
I have seen some ad clicks on the spam blog go for as much as $10, and on the stock market blog they tend to top out at about $1.50.
Unfortunately, due to starting up my own company on the side, and increasing pressures at work - combined with the fact that there is only so much you can say about a subject, I stopped posting as much to the spam blog. I also haven't posted to the financial blog in far too long as well, but more because I accidentally (retarded I know) deleted my stock database one bleary-eyed morning and I have yet to rebuild it largely out of laziness. (I had incentive for awhile since I was trading for a friend and making him money, but then stopped doing that so that I could lock in the gains and now have less incentive to care until I can trade more with my own funds)
You are exactly right! I forgot that Apple decided to drop any other sizes and now all of their laptops are 12". Sorry, not sure how that slipped my mind.
They've got masks now! No way! Next thing you know, we'll land a man on the moon.
What is in the car paint that is so bad - and what is the method of delivery through the skin? Sounds like DMSO or a similar action - but what is the dangerous metal?
And why do they use said paint?
From the sounds of it, they should use it in wartime - "Hey no problem guys, they are only using paintball guns - we are set. Man my skin itches."
I should say that I would love to have a PowerBook with dual G5s and 10GB of RAM with 300GB of SATA in it - but what I mean when I say that I am not sure I want a G5 PB is that I know it is going to be warm if not HOT. My current G4 PB gets hot enough to be uncomfortable at time - this is especially annoying if I am running background programs that are designed to be processor intensive.
While it would be great to have the G5, I am not sure it is something that I NEED - the G4 works really well as it is and I think I would rather see it drop in price than go up in speed at this point.
That said - there has been talk of a G3 based unit that has some additions (something by IBM or Motorola? I forget which, but I think it was the latter of the two) which makes it much like the G5 in that it is faster/better than the G4, and it would be well suited to the PBs in that it is smaller/thinner and uses less power (and therefore puts off less heat).
That said, they can never release something with a G3 in it and call it better than the G4, even if it is - people will just smack themselves about the face and whine about how they want the G5 because as we can all clearly see: 5 is bigger than 3, even for very large values of 3.
So perhaps this "G5" PB is actually using this new superG3 chip, which gives G5-like performance, and therefore they are going to come up with some new name for it - like G5m or something - but it technically isn't the G5 chip that we know in our workstations/servers?
In the end, regardless of what they do, I am going to wait about a year on it to avoid issues in the first generation that always seem to come about (said as I sit here and type on a first generation Al book with white spots - but I still love it).
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One of my relatives had a stroke and afterwards she is now always thirsty. At first, nobody caught on to this and she drank herself near to death, just with water - exactly as you said, she broke the balance of electrolytes in her system.
Now it all has to be closely monitored as to how much she has had to drink, and yet she is always thirsty - must be an awful feeling.
Here in Bermuda there is a place trying to offer it (I am fairly sure I heard that they started offering before getting license approval for the airwaves and therefore are tied up in that, but I might be a month behind in that news).
One of the guys here in the office got it and was showing me, bragging that he was getting "900KB per second". Not only was that figure off, but he was only looking at a Windows XP pop that claimed 900kbps as the connection speed.
We tried various bandwidth testing sites and it looked to be like a pretty rock solid 300kbps.
The system was pretty impressive, but at the time that I saw it, essentially nobody else would have been in this system. I don't know how sensitive this sort of system (if at all) is to increased users running it (meaning if we were seeing that speed with no users, would 10K users around you then drop the speed or make the connection futz out?).
That service is about $70 a month here all included, unlimited usage. That is way cheaper than the $200 a month I pay for "512kbps" which never tops over 350kbps in real use. (I have to pay the phone company and I have to pay the ISP, each want about $100).
Maybe a dual-processor system: one PowerPC and one Intel? Not likely, I grant you.
Actually, I can remember in 1995 or 1996, Apple had a computer which had an optional card you could plug into it. Said card allowed you to put an Intel chip on there (a 486 I think, but perhaps it was a Pentium).
You could then run Windows apps off of that chip.
As I recall, the larger issue was that at the time, overclocking chips via add on kits was quite big (and how Cyrix and AMD gained big market share back then) and the Mac chip could indeed be overclocked with an add on chip - but the PC chip couldn't.
Which lead to it already being slow and inefficient with the rest of the system, but also lead to it falling behind the upgrade process.
I think the card also had its own separate RAM on it, which was fairly limited as well - I think maybe even only 8MB.
My roommate in college had one, which would be the only reason I would have to see such a thing or know it exists.
heh - yeah, early on in my burnout I did a bit of the BOFH deal. But now I mostly just wish for the sweet release of death to come and take me away.
Or some other job that pays more.
She is the office manager. I don't have hiring/firing power over here (or really anyone I suppose).
There is a lady here who regularly emails me furious that I blocked some friend of hers as spam. As if I have time to sit and look at each of the incoming messages and then make my own decision as to whether it should be spam or not.
She also does not get BCC at all and freaks out when she gets spam (or any BCC) that doesn't have her name in the headers. She will tell me that the mailserver is not behaving.
She also wants me to block all mail to one person here in the office (well, she is no longer with us, and no longer has an account with us), and we do block that account. But she doesn't get the mailserver is actually doing exactly what it should when it throws out the message to that person, and then still delivers this lady's message as it should be.
I think I must spend a good 30 minutes to an hour EVERY DAY trying to deal with this lady and how she doesn't understand how email works.
The worst part is she gets flustered and clearly thinks that I am the one that doesn't get it.
Note that the author of Spam Kings runs a blog too.
:)
I was going to make some snide remark of why another spam blog needs to be created when the author of the book this guy is telling us about already has a blog up and running... but I run a spam blog too (anti-spam that is) - so I guess I'd be a bit of a hypocrite there
This sounds like the Rodney Brooks part of Fast Cheap and Out of Control.
At one of my previous jobs we had code reviews. The leader of one of my projects actually wrote as the main negative point of my code "too many comments".
I wanted to shit on his desk and set his car on fire.
Here is post of mine on Slashdot where I mentioned that a CPU hotplate would be cool.
Just for future reference if we are going to make my posts come true - I'd like a Porsche or Paris Hilton.
Thanks.
Oh excellent, now I see what was being said. I figured I must have missed something.
Thank you!
(this is where at least one person needs to give me a hard time for not reading enough of the article - and for good reason)
This filter is probably 1.5 years. They aren't expensive here (~$12) - I'll try to get a new one and give it a shot tomorrow.
There is only one line and there is a filter on it.
Do filters go bad?
I pay $80 a month for 600kbp up/down DSL and then another $120 to the phone company for the line. This is currently the fastest/cheapest we have seen and it is recent.
The phone company is slightly scamming in that they have listed on their page that the 256kbps line that I had been paying for through them could handle 1.5mbps downloads but the 256kbps was for the uploads.
But when I complained to them that I was getting nowhere near 600kbps downloads, they told me that I needed to upgrade my line with them (meaning in payment).
So I did that and now I am paying more, but still not getting the speed.
The ISP swears that they turned off the limits on my account, so I *should* be getting even 1.5mbps through them, but I am getting about 250kbps at best.
Lately when I try calling my home phone number, I can't get through and instead just get a blast of static and then a dead line.
I am assuming that is probably related to why my DSL speed sucks, but in order to get them to come look at it, for some reason I have to actually be here (none of the phone line is inside the house except for the short line that comes in through the wall to where I have my phone) - and I can't just leave me job and lounge around the house all day (were I an exec I could work from home, but I am the IT bitch at work, so that means I need to be there in person).
Just thinking about all of this wants me to smack someone.
But I live in Bermuda, and when I mention that to anyone, they assume that I spend my days lounging on the beach and don't have much sympathy for me. Of course, I am a nerd and don't care about the beach or sunburns, and right now it is COLD outside.
I envy the broadband of South Korea.
No, they can't. You can create a hash collision with a known piece of data, not with a known hash. You would have to know the original password (from which of course the hash is easily computable) to create a password with a colliding hash.
Wait, explain that again?
The post to which you reply is saying that if a system stores the hashes of passwords instead of the passwords themselves (many places on the net do this - some with MD5, many with SHA1) so that if my password is "pants" the system will hash that when I sign up and then put that in the database.
So then when I login in the future, it hashes my password and compares that to what it has in the database, and if the two hashes are the same, it assumes that it is my password and lets me in.
So that poster you responded to was saying that if we could get that list, we would have the hash. Then all we would need to do is try combinations of characters through the hash to get a collision on the target hash (the "pants" hash in this case).
If it turns out that "balls" makes the same hash that "pants" makes, then they could type in "balls" while logging in as me and it would produce the same hash as "pants" and the system would think that they are me.
They would never need to know what the original password is, and they would never need to care - they can get in due to the collision.
Do you honestly go through life and look at published statistics and think "huh, well I don't do that, therefore this whole study's end numbers must be wrong"?
I am a sys admin and programmer. In my free time tend to write a lot of financial analysis code for equity movement forecasting. So I started a blog about it.
Inadvertently I stumbled onto the fact that the stock market and associated terms is a relatively high popularity AdWord in Google, so the rare clicks that I got were fairly high value.
Since I am a sys admin and have to deal with blocking spam both on a personal level and also for our office network, I was seeing that there was a clear trend in spam - I think we could all see it - it was going up and up and up.
So I started a blog in order to discuss spam and ways to stop it, since apparently many people weren't familiar with what was available (especially since so many people actually buy from spam).
But I have to admit, that was only part of the motive - part of it was the curiosity on AdWord revenue from something that was going to be growing so much in popularity (probably the wrong word there).
I have seen some ad clicks on the spam blog go for as much as $10, and on the stock market blog they tend to top out at about $1.50.
Unfortunately, due to starting up my own company on the side, and increasing pressures at work - combined with the fact that there is only so much you can say about a subject, I stopped posting as much to the spam blog.
I also haven't posted to the financial blog in far too long as well, but more because I accidentally (retarded I know) deleted my stock database one bleary-eyed morning and I have yet to rebuild it largely out of laziness. (I had incentive for awhile since I was trading for a friend and making him money, but then stopped doing that so that I could lock in the gains and now have less incentive to care until I can trade more with my own funds)
The GHz figures mean nothing at all in terms of performance expectations unless you are comparing within the same processor family.
4GHz cell != 4GHz P4 != 4GHz Opteron != 4GHz G5
I took a black magic marker and wrote my passwords, PINs, bank account #s, CC #s, and SSN all on the lid of my Powerbook.
That way I figure nobody will bother trying to break into my Powerbook - therefore it is probably pretty secure.
You are exactly right! I forgot that Apple decided to drop any other sizes and now all of their laptops are 12". Sorry, not sure how that slipped my mind.
They've got masks now! No way! Next thing you know, we'll land a man on the moon.
What is in the car paint that is so bad - and what is the method of delivery through the skin? Sounds like DMSO or a similar action - but what is the dangerous metal?
And why do they use said paint?
From the sounds of it, they should use it in wartime - "Hey no problem guys, they are only using paintball guns - we are set. Man my skin itches."
I should say that I would love to have a PowerBook with dual G5s and 10GB of RAM with 300GB of SATA in it - but what I mean when I say that I am not sure I want a G5 PB is that I know it is going to be warm if not HOT.
My current G4 PB gets hot enough to be uncomfortable at time - this is especially annoying if I am running background programs that are designed to be processor intensive.
While it would be great to have the G5, I am not sure it is something that I NEED - the G4 works really well as it is and I think I would rather see it drop in price than go up in speed at this point.
That said - there has been talk of a G3 based unit that has some additions (something by IBM or Motorola? I forget which, but I think it was the latter of the two) which makes it much like the G5 in that it is faster/better than the G4, and it would be well suited to the PBs in that it is smaller/thinner and uses less power (and therefore puts off less heat).
That said, they can never release something with a G3 in it and call it better than the G4, even if it is - people will just smack themselves about the face and whine about how they want the G5 because as we can all clearly see: 5 is bigger than 3, even for very large values of 3.
So perhaps this "G5" PB is actually using this new superG3 chip, which gives G5-like performance, and therefore they are going to come up with some new name for it - like G5m or something - but it technically isn't the G5 chip that we know in our workstations/servers?
In the end, regardless of what they do, I am going to wait about a year on it to avoid issues in the first generation that always seem to come about (said as I sit here and type on a first generation Al book with white spots - but I still love it).
PowerBooks have larger screens, more memory available, and better graphics cards for starters.
aluminum spray? excellent! I hear that stuff is great for your body :)
Yeah, I could get out of it pretty easily since I live in another country and was only in NYC for a few days and extremely busy.
Hell, I hate IT - I'm a programmer - but I get stuck doing IT 99% of the time.