Memorable Quotes from Alt.Sysadmin.Recovery

Memorable Quotes from Alt.Sysadmin.Recovery: "I never really understood how there could be things that would drive you insane just because you knew them until I ran into Windows.

Peter da Silva

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Intel’s McAfee Deal: A National Security Nightmare - The Firewall - the world of security - Forbes

Intel’s McAfee Deal: A National Security Nightmare - The Firewall - the world of security - Forbes: "When I read the news Thursday that Intel is buying McAfee for $7.68 billion, I was stunned by its national security implications.

Intel has had a cozy relationship with the Russian government and its Federal Security Service (FSB) since 2002 with its sponsorship of a laboratory on wireless technology at Nizhny Novgorod State University (NNGU).

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There's something about macro

There's something about macro: "Finally, sticky prices play a crucial role in converting this into a theory of real economic fluctuations; while I regard the evidence for such stickiness as overwhelming, the assumption of at least temporarily rigid nominal prices is one of those things that works beautifully in practice but very badly in theory.

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Spreading Hayek, Spurning Keynes - WSJ.com

Spreading Hayek, Spurning Keynes - WSJ.com: "Austrian school of economics that opposes government intervention in markets and decries federal spending to prop up demand during times of crisis

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Sailing faster than the wind - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sailing faster than the wind - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "On July 2, 2010, the propeller-powered land yacht Blackbird set the world's first certified record for going directly downwind, faster than the wind, using only power from the wind. The yacht achieved a dead downwind speed of about 2.8 times the speed of the wind.[46][47][48]

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Silicon Valley’s Dark Secret: It’s All About Age

Silicon Valley’s Dark Secret: It’s All About Age: "The harsh reality is that in the tech world, companies prefer to hire young, inexperienced, engineers. And engineering is an “up or out” profession: you either move up the ladder or face unemployment. This is not something that tech executives publicly admit, because they fear being sued for age discrimination, but everyone knows that this is the way things are.

The Real Bozo Attempts to Atone: Why the DDWFTW Car Works : Good Math, Bad Math

The Real Bozo Attempts to Atone: Why the DDWFTW Car Works : Good Math, Bad Math: "And the answer to that is 'Yes'. This thing does do it. It's not magic, it's not perpetual motion. In fact, it's really astonishingly simple, once you realize that the behavior of things moving through air is quite different from the simple rigid system that it appears to be equivalent to"

Internet2: IDEA Award Winners 2010

Internet2: IDEA Award Winners 2010: "Shibboleth
Shibboleth® Federated Single Sign-On Software is developed and supported by a growing international community. Nominated by Jack Suess, Vice President of Information Technology and Chief Information Officer, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, an institutional user of the software, Shibboleth is a standards-based, open-source solution for Web-based single sign-on across and within organizational boundaries. Implementing widely used federated identity standards, principally OASIS' Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), Shibboleth simplifies the management of identity and permissions by allowing sites to make informed authorization decisions for individual access of protected online resources in a privacy-preserving manner."

Beware the smart phone data plan con - Technology & science - Tech and gadgets - Back to School - msnbc.com

Beware the smart phone data plan con - Technology & science - Tech and gadgets - Back to School - msnbc.com: "So, how much will your smart phone cost? Forget that number between $0 and $299 that you pay up front. The number you should focus on is the total cost of ownership, which for smart phones is usually around $2,000. (Regular 'dumb' phones with unlimited text messages generally cost half that over the same period.)"

Unlocking Apple's iPhone is legal, ethical, and just plain fun. - By Tim Wu - Slate Magazine

Unlocking Apple's iPhone is legal, ethical, and just plain fun. - By Tim Wu - Slate Magazine
Part of the copyright code, Section 1201 of the famous Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, makes it illegal to break digital locks to get at copyrighted works. But that doesn't make unlockers criminals. The reason is an explicit exemption for personal unlocking issued by the librarian of Congress in 2006. As the librarian wrote, the locks "are used by wireless carriers to limit the ability of subscribers to switch to other carriers, a business decision that has nothing whatsoever to do with the interests protected by copyright." If that's good enough for the librarian of Congress, that's good enough for me

Some more comments... : On a New Road

Some more comments... : On a New Road
It's not so much that the game favors evil, but that the definition of "good" is really twisted:
Good adj: anything which increases the stock price.
Considerations about employees, products, customers and community are all secondary. They only enter the equation as ways to achieve goal 1. Morality or high principles have no place in the corporate discourse. They maximize the stock price, within the bounds of the law. Corporations like Oracle and Exxon tend to be perfectly rational. They "buy laws" because it's perfectly legal to spend money on lobbyists and political campaigns. While you and I might think that it is morally reprehensible to buy elections, like the recent case with Target, it is nonetheless totally legal. Given the rules of the game, it would be bad for a corporation to not buy an election, if failing to do so would negatively impact their stock price. I could rant for a long time on this one, but not today… The whole modern concept of a public company is deeply flawed. But the game is what it is.

Windows DLL-loading security flaw puts Microsoft in a bind

Windows DLL-loading security flaw puts Microsoft in a bind: "The peculiar thing about all this is that this vulnerability has been known for a long time. The order in which directories are searched is documented, and has been documented for many years (that documentation dates back to 1998, and there are likely references that are older still, if one has any decade-old developer documents handy), and the dangers of using the current directory for loading libraries were explicitly highlighted a decade ago. As well as warning in the documentation about the dangers, Microsoft bloggers have also written about the issue in the past, telling developers how to avoid the problem"

3-sat phase and hardness

http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1002/1002.0217v1.pdf

It was observed early [4, 17] that plotting P[UNSAT]
against shows a sharp threshold behavior at some critical c. Furthermore,
around this c it also takes various algorithms the longest time to solve random
3-SAT problems, i.e., the problems are hard. To quantify the hardness, either
the number of distinct steps of the solving algorithm is counted, or simply the
time measured until the problem is solved. The divergence of the hardness together
with the sudden jump of P[UNSAT] at some critical resembles a phase
transition-like behavior [9, 21]. The numerical analysis of this sharp threshold
behavior resulted in c = 4.15 ± 0.05 [10].

The Daily Mash - OUTRAGE OVER PLANS TO BUILD LIBRARY NEXT TO SARAH PALIN

The Daily Mash - OUTRAGE OVER PLANS TO BUILD LIBRARY NEXT TO SARAH PALIN: "PLANS to build a state-of-the-art library next to Republican catastrophe Sarah Palin are causing outrage across mainstream America.

Intel-McAfee: Horseless Carriage Vendor Buys Buggy-Whips | Forrester Blogs

Intel-McAfee: Horseless Carriage Vendor Buys Buggy-Whips Forrester Blogs: "Intel doesn’t understand software. Perhaps the most troubling part of the McAfee deal is the prospect that they will mismanage their new division into irrelevance. Intel’s track record with deals further up the stack are patchy at best. In 2005, Intel bought Sarvega, a hardware-and-software play in the XML processing segment. Today, it is irrelevant. In 1991, Intel bought LANDesk as the centerpiece of its DMTF strategy. Remember what DMTF stood for? (No penalty for not remembering: it stands for Desktop Management Task Force.) LANDesk was sold at the height of the dot-com boom, and it has been bought, spun off or sold three times again. Now Intel wants to get back in the software game again. Again, how will this be any different?"
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Contrast that with the highly sandboxed, compartmentalized, digitally signed “apps” model of the BlackBerry OS and Apple’s iOS. With these two operating systems, you don’t need on-board anti-virus, or HIPS, or anything else — and if you do, it is because Apple or RIM have screwed up. Both of these vendors are taking responsibility for their platforms in totality in ways that Microsoft never did, or could have. Neither iOS or BlackBerry OS depend in any way on hardware capabilities Intel or anybody else could bring to the table, other than the root-of-trust embedded in the handset. All of the security differentiation is in the OS. And that, frankly, is where it belongs.

Intel Plans to Acquire McAfee for $7.68 Billion - NYTimes.com

Intel Plans to Acquire McAfee for $7.68 Billion - NYTimes.com: "McAfee’s revenue rose 20 percent last year to $1.93 billion. Intel’s revenue fell 7 percent to $35.1 billion. At 80 percent, McAfee’s gross margins surpass Intel’s, which tend to be around 65 percent."

Michael B. Thompson Profile - Forbes.com

Michael B. Thompson Profile - Forbes.com
Michael B. Thompson has served as a director of the Company since May 2004. Mr. Thompson is currently the VP of R&D and Information Technology for Kersh Risk Management in Plano, Texas. Kersh is a B2B Company focused on helping employees and dependents make behavioral changes to improve health which benefits the employee while driving significant health care cost savings for employers. In 2007 and 2008, Mr. Thompson was the COO of Mediaport Entertainment, Inc a digital media kiosk company that provides automated fulfillment and point of sale solutions for music, movies, eBooks, audio books, and other digital media. From 2003 to 2006 Mr. Thompson served as President, Chief Executive Officer and director of Setpoint Companies, an industry leader in lean automation that fully designs, assembles, tests and delivers automated assembly and test equipment. Mr. Thompson was integrally involved in Setpoint?s hub?and-spoke growth initiative starting (4) new companies while directly managing MySchedule.Net, Setpoint Spectrometers, and Rocky Mountain Testing Solutions. From 1986 to 2003, Mr. Thompson was the Vice President of the Planning and Logistics Solutions Group of Brooks? software division. Brooks Planning and Logistics Solutions Group's primary market focus is to provide simulation, scheduling and material handling automation and software controls to the semiconductor and related high technology industries. He was the President of AutoSimulations, Inc., which was acquired by Brooks in January of 2000. Mr. Thompson has been involved with automation, modeling and scheduling manufacturing systems for over 25 years. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Department of Engineering Sciences and Technology at Brigham Young University

dallasnews.com

dallasnews.com: "'As a citizen, and as president, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as everyone else in this country,' Obama told an intently listening crowd gathered at the White House Friday evening to observe the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.

'That includes the right to build a place of worship and a community center on private property in lower Manhattan, in accordance with local laws and ordinances,' he said. 'This is America, and our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakable.'

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AVP - AVP suspends operations

AVP - AVP suspends operations: "The AVP Tour today announced it has closed its doors due to financial hardship, cutting short the 2010 season. AVP ownership is not funding the tour and the AVP has been unsuccessful at finding new investors.

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Traveler to the undiscovere'd country - Roger Ebert's Journal

Traveler to the undiscovere'd country - Roger Ebert's Journal: "'The empty life of this ugly little charlatan proves only one thing, that you can get away with the most extraordinary offenses to morality and to truth in this country if you will just get yourself called reverend. Who would, even at your network, have invited on such a little toad to tell us that the attacks of September the 11th were the result of our sinfulness and were God's punishmen -- if they hadn't got some kind of clerical qualification?'

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Page 2 - Oracle Outlines SPARC, Solaris 11 Plans - IT Infrastructure from eWeek

Page 2 - Oracle Outlines SPARC, Solaris 11 Plans - IT Infrastructure from eWeek: "Oracle will only focus on Intel processors, which offer the best per-core performance, which is important given that Oracle licenses its software on a per-core basis, rather than a per-socket basis like Microsoft, Brookwood said"

Oracle Charges Into Desktop Virtualization With VDI 3.2 -- Virtual desktops -- InformationWeek

Oracle Charges Into Desktop Virtualization With VDI 3.2 -- Virtual desktops -- InformationWeek: "Desktop applications run on central servers under the Oracle VM hypervisor, a version of the Xen open source hypervisor"

Origin of Species: A History of O'Reilly Animals - O'Reilly Media

Origin of Species: A History of O'Reilly Animals - O'Reilly Media
When I was first approached by O'Reilly to propose new covers for their books, I was immersed in the VAX/VMS world of Digital Equipment Corporation. I had heard of UNIX, but I had a very hazy idea of what it was. I had never met a UNIX programmer or tried to edit a document using vi. All of the terms associated with vi, sed and awk, uucp, lex, yacc, curses, to name just a few, sounded to me like words that might come out of a popular game called "Dungeons and Dragons." I developed a mental picture of the UNIX programmer as a "Dungeons and Dragons" player. As I started to look for imagery for the book covers, I came across some wonderful wood engravings from the 19th century. The strange animals I found seemed to be a perfect match for all those strange-sounding UNIX terms, and were esoteric enough to appeal to what I believed the UNIX programmer type to be.

IB-InnovativeStrategies.pdf (application/pdf Object)

IB-InnovativeStrategies.pdf (application/pdf Object): "-When this second stage calculation is taken into account,
married couples may often find that it’s beneficial for
the spouse who is eligible for the lower Social Security
payments to start collecting his/her own worker benefits
early—while delaying the other spouse’s benefits

Emma Larkin | FiveBooks

Emma Larkin FiveBooks: "The first time I smelt Jap was in a deep dry riverbed in the Dry Belt, somewhere near Meiktila. I can no more describe the smell than I could describe a colour, but it was heavy and pungent and compounded of stale cooked rice and sweat and human waste and … Jap"

Chris Abbott | FiveBooks

Chris Abbott FiveBooks: "liddism. It’s basically a trend whereby Western states attempt to control threats to international security by military means, rather than understanding the nature of the threats and countering them at source. So, you can compare this to a pressure cooker where every attempt is made to keep the lid on, instead of turning down the heat."

Why Your Phone Can’t Really Replace Your Credit Card | Epicenter | Wired.com

Why Your Phone Can’t Really Replace Your Credit Card | Epicenter | Wired.com: "Meanwhile, the likelihood of an upstart disrupting the existing credit card industry is virtually nil, regardless of any switch to pay-by-phone. Instead, MacPherson says, start-ups should continue focusing on areas where they can gain ground — municipal parking systems, public transportation, vending machines and the like — because all other attempts to disrupt the credit card status quo have failed miserably.

“A lot of people from outside the payments industry have seriously underestimated how durable Visa and MasterCard’s franchise is. [America Online co-founder] Steve Case is one of them. [His] RevolutionMoney was … to be a new card network that would underprice the associations, and it totally cratered and was sold to American Express. Then you have DebitMan [a debit card network backed by merchants, rather than banks, which DebitMan's COO accused of raising rates unfairly and keeping 80-90 percent of resulting revenue]. It totally failed to take off — now, they’re Tempo Payments, and they’re selling to banks

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Judge Walker's decision to overturn Prop 8 is factual, well-reasoned, and powerful. - By Dahlia Lithwick - Slate Magazine

Judge Walker's decision to overturn Prop 8 is factual, well-reasoned, and powerful. - By Dahlia Lithwick - Slate Magazine: "'[I]t would demean a married couple were it to be said marriage is simply about the right to have sexual intercourse,' quotes Walker. ''[M]oral disapproval, without any other asserted state interest,' has never been a rational basis for legislation,' cites Walker. 'Animus towards gays and lesbians or simply a belief that a relationship between a man and a woman is inherently better than a relationship between two men or two women, this belief is not a proper basis on which to legislate,' Walker notes

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Audience Picks: Top 100 'Killer Thrillers' : NPR

Audience Picks: Top 100 'Killer Thrillers' : NPR: "* 1. The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
* 2. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
* 3. Kiss the Girls, by James Patterson
* 4. The Bourne Identity, by Robert Ludlum
* 5. In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote
* 6. The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown
* 7. The Shining, by Stephen King
* 8. And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie
* 9. The Hunt tor Red October, by Tom Clancy
* 10. The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle



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Embedded Security Subsystem - ThinkWiki

Embedded Security Subsystem - ThinkWiki: "Using the TPM in Linux
This section is very incomplete, but here are some pointers to get you started:
Compile a 2.6.23 or later kernel with the driver for the tpm chip in your ThinkPad model enabled;
You need to enable CONFIG_SECURITY to get securityfs, and CONFIG_KEYS to use eCryptfs TPM support;
You need to enable tpm_bios to access the TCPA log;"

Marv's Grand Page Home

Marv's Grand Page Home

RM:0.0 - LEE'S FERRYRM:1.0 - Paria RiffleRM:8.0 - Badger Creek Rapid (5-8)RM:11.2 - Soap Creek Rapid (5-6)RM:12.0 - Salt Water WashRM:14.3 - Sheer Wall Rapid (2) Tanner WashRM:16.9 - House Rock Rapid (7-9)RM:20.5 - North Canyon Rapid (5)RM:21.5 - 21 Mile Rapid (5)RM:23.3 - 23 Mile Rapid (4-6)RM:24.2 - 24 Mile Rapid (6-8)RM:24.5 - 24 ½ Mile Rapid (5-6)RM:24.9 - 25 Mile Rapid (5-7)RM:25.3 - Cave Springs Rapid (5-6)RM:26.6 - Tiger Wash Rapid (4-5)RM:29.2 - Silver Grotto and Shinumo WashRM:30.0 - Proposed site Redwall Dam (1920s)RM:31.8 - Stanton’s CaveRM:31.9 - Vasey’s ParadiseRM:33.0 - Red Wall CavernRM:34.8 - Nautiloid CanyonRM:35.0 - The Bridge of SighsRM:37.6 - Tatahatso Wash/CampRM:43.0 - Point Hansbrough & Anasazi BridgeRM:43.7 - President Harding RapidRM:46.6 - Triple AlcovesRM:47.0 - Saddle CanyonRM:51.9 - Little Nankoweap CreekRM:52.2 - Nakoweap AreaRM:56.0 - Kwagunt Rapid (6) (Marble Canyon)RM:61.4 - Little Colorado RiverRM:64.7 - Carbon CreekRM:65.6 - Lava Canyon (Chuar) Rapid (3-5)RM:68.4 - Tanner Rapid / Furnace FlatsRM:72.3 - Unkar Delta Puebloan dwellingsRM:72.5 - Unkar Rapid (6-7)RM:74.8 - EscalanteRM:75.5 - Nevills Rapid (6)RM:76.8 - Hance Rapid (8-10)RM 77.2 - Upper Granite Gorge/ End MarbleRM:78.7 - Sockdolager Rapid(8-9)RM:81.1 - Vishnu/GrapevineRM:81.5 - Grapevine Rapid (8)RM:83.5 - 83 Mile Rapid (3-5)RM:83.8 - Lone Tree C/HRM:84.0 - Clear Creek CampRM:84.6 - Zoroaster Rapid (5-8)RM:85.0 - 85 Mile Rapid (2-6)RM:85.8 - Cremation Camp – Above PhantomRM:87.5 - Kaibab Bridge/Phantom RanchRM:87.8 - Bright Angel Rapid and BridgeRM:89.0 - Pipe Springs Rapid (4-5)RM:90.2 - Horn Creek Rapid (8-10)RM:93.5 - Granite Rapid (9)RM:95.0 - Hermit Rapid (8-9)RM:96.8 - Boucher Rapid (3-5) CRM:98.2 - Crystal Rapid (10) RM:99.2 - Tuna Creek Rapid (6)RM:101.3 - Saphire Rapid (7)RM:102.0 - Turquoise Rapid (3-6)
RM:103.9 - 104 Mile Rapid (5-7)RM:104.6 - Ruby Rapid (6-7)RM:106.0 - Serpentine Rapid (6-8)RM:107.8 - Bass Rapid (3-6)RM:108.2 - Beach and trailhead for Bass’s CampRM:108.7 - Shinumo RapidRM:112.2 - Waltenberg Rapid (6-9)RM:112.6 - 112½ Mile Rapid (1-6)RM:114.4 - Garnet CanyonRM:116.5 - Elves ChasmRM:116.9 - Stephen Aisle (End Granite)RM:119.8 - Salt DepositsRM:120.1 - Blacktail Canyon & Conquistador Aisle (Middle Granite)RM 121.7 - 122 Mile Rapid(4-6)RM 122.8 - Forster Rapid (3-6)RM 125.0 - Fossil Rapid (3-6)RM 126.6 - Middle Granite GorgeRM 128.7 - 128 Mile Rapid (3)RM 129.0 - Specter Rapid (5-6)RM 130.5 - Bedrock Rapid (6-8)RM 131.7 - Deubendorff Rapid (5-8) Stone Cr.RM 133.7 - Tapeats Creek&Thunder River(4-5)RM 135.5 - Granite Narrows CampRM 136.2 - Deer CreekRM 137.0 - Pancho’s Kitchen CampRM 139.0 - Fishtail RM 143.5 - Kanab (start of fast flow on river)RM 147.9 - Matkatamiba CanyonRM 149.9 - Upset Rapid (6)RM 151.0 - Ledges Camp Above HavasuRM 153.0 - Mt. SinyellaRM 156.7 - HavasuRM 164.5 - Tuck Up Canyon/Rapid RRM 166.0 - National Rapid/CanyonRM 168.0 - Fern Glen Canyon/Camp/FirewoodRM 171.2 - Gateway/Mohawk CanyonRM 174.0 - Cove CanyonRM 177.1 - Honga Springs Camp LRM 177.7 - Above Anvil Camp LRM 178.0 - Vulcan’s Anvil Camp RRM 178.9 - Above Lava CampRM 179.2 - Lava Rapid! (10)RM 179.3 - Lava Well (Water)RM 180.0 - Little Lava Falls CRM 188.0 - Whitmore WashRM 198.5 - Parashant Camp / Book of WormsRM 202.0 - Camp/HikeRM 205.2 - Canyon, Spring CampRM 206.6 - Indian Canyon/Camp RuinsRM 209.0 - Granite Park Canyon L ShadeRM 211.6 - Fall Canyon RRM 212.0 - Pumpkin SpringsRM 215.6 - Three Springs Canyon WaterRM 215.9 - Lower Granite GorgeRM 220.0 - Camp RM 220.4 - Granite Springs LRM 222.0 - Canyon - No Shade CampRM 226.0 - DIAMOND CREEK takeout

How to create a Balloon Tooltip in C# and Windows Forms

How to create a Balloon Tooltip in C# and Windows Forms: "To create a balloon tooltip, we just need to set IsBalloon property of ToolTip control to true. The following code snippet create a balloon tooltip and attaches it to a Button control.


ToolTip buttonToolTip = new ToolTip();
buttonToolTip.ToolTipTitle = 'Button Tooltip';
buttonToolTip.UseFading = true;
buttonToolTip.UseAnimation = true;
buttonToolTip.IsBalloon = true;

buttonToolTip.ShowAlways = true;

buttonToolTip.AutoPopDelay = 5000;
buttonToolTip.InitialDelay = 1000;
buttonToolTip.ReshowDelay = 500;

buttonToolTip.SetToolTip(button1, 'Click me to execute.');"

Mind Hacks: From on hayo

Mind Hacks: From on hayo: "24 of anthropologist Wade Davis' magical book on the ethnobotany of ceremonial chemicals, One River.

In a sacred landscape in which every plant is a manifestation of the divine, the chewing of hayo, a variety of coca only found in the mountains of Colombia, represents the most profound expression of culture. Distance in the mountains is not measured in miles but coca chews. When two men meet, they do not shake hands, they exchange leaves. Their societal ideal is to abstain from sex, eating and sleeping while staying up all night, chewing hayo and chanting the names of ancestors. Each week the men chew about a pound of dry leaves, thus absorbing as much as a third of a gram of cocaine each day of their adults lives.

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