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Re: Why Education Matters More Than Most Realize

Adrian Bool — Sun, 06 May 2007 07:01:11 -0000

I've long thought that he most significant part of The Matrix was the near instantaneous programming of people. The great thinkers in time often mastered multiple disciplines - and their discoveries were born from these different perspectives. As mankind understands more and more about individual subjects it has become impossible for anyone to have a detailed understanding of say, all the sciences. Therefore, I feel that the greatest invention we could build today would be the 'download facility' portrayed in the Matrix to provide human minds with the knowledge required to carry us further from where we are now.

Re: The Bible Is Fiction: A Collection Of Evidence

Adrian Bool — Sun, 13 May 2007 14:05:33 -0000

.. or perhaps God just doesn't have a very good imagination? ;-)

aid

Re: An Alternative View of the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict

Adrian Bool — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:35:19 -0000

Hrln,

The Israelis were allocated a territory by the British government after WWII. They then proceeded to the attack their neighbours in order to expand this territory illegally. To this day the Israelis occupy the lands to which they have no legal entitlement.

If the Israelis really sought peace they would return this land, but why would they when their army is several orders of magnitude superior thanks to being financed by the US?

aid

Re: Instant Messaging Kills Babies

Adrian Bool — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 07:19:12 -0000

Have you dumped all of your phones too? ;-)

aid

Re: Interesting New Spam Business Model

Adrian Bool — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 03:59:35 -0000

This SPAM model has been going on for a good while...

When I first found out about it, I couldn't help but think it would be good to catch as much such SPAM as possible. On detection of a new stock buy that stock ASAP, actually going along with the SPAMer but be sure to sell before the spammers.

I'm currently unsure how immoral that would be!

(BTW: Your column to the right displays over the top of the message entry box in Safari 3.0.3 on a Mac)

Re: Loving Safari

Adrian Bool — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:31:13 -0000

"I have one major qualm right now, and that’s the fact that you can’t tab to select visited sites from within the URL field."

Does just hitting the down arrow key do what you need...?

Re: Time to Switch From Debit to Credit When Paying for Things?

Adrian Bool — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 04:29:12 -0000

This sounds strange for me over in the UK!

In the UK using Debit and Credit cards at a POS terminal is identical - you enter a PIN for both - and so PINs for both can be captured by a rogue POS. Over here, the advantage with Credit Cards is that you get extra anti-fraud protection over the use of Debit cards.

So, in the US, do you still sign for Credit purchases?

Re: Time to Switch From Debit to Credit When Paying for Things?

Adrian Bool — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 07:24:04 -0000

Hi Mike, I think you mean 'Debit Cards' - they are just the same as what you use in Holland.

Direct Debit in the UK is a kind of variable Standing Order, typically used to automatically pay for varying amounts on a monthly basis - such as telephone, electric bills etc...

I wish 'cash cards' where available - just dump an amount you would normally put in your wallet and then pay with that - no change etc to worry about. Debit cards are quite near, but you can't really pay for good less than say £5 with them. (Technically possible but it is frowned on).

Re: God is TextMate-Like

Adrian Bool — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:47:50 -0000

Uh?

Re: Capturing Traffic Once and Making That Traffic Available to Multiple Tools

Adrian Bool — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:39:25 -0000

I think you may want John Lennon rather than Elton John for your Imagine reference...

We already have tcpdump and the .pcap file format for much of what you want in this post - except for the last section which sounds like you've taken your .pcap data, parsed it and dumped the results into a database. Not too hard to do - but could certainly be interesting.

Lots of data crosses most networks; how much of fit can we really keep? Hard drives are getting cheaper - but not that cheap!

Re: Security and Obscurity: Does Changing Your SSH Port Lower Your Risk?

Adrian Bool — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:57:44 -0000

I agree wholeheartedly; it's just another level of protection as part of defence in depth - although I'd use port 48351, or similar, rather than port 24!

This action would only be security through obscurity if you had no password or private key on the accounts - the non-standard port was your only protection. I'm sure that that is not the case!

A further protection is, on your firewall, to only permit connections with a source port less than 1024, then use the 'UsePrivilegedPort yes' in your ~/.ssh/config file to tell ssh to use source ports < 1024. My quick checks with nmap showed that nmap used source ports over 1024 - so even a hit on the right destination port would not result in an 'open'.

Were you monitoring the traffic to your ssh ports, if yes, were most of the source ports < 1024??

Re: Three Powerful Safari Features That Few People Use

Adrian Bool — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:16:31 -0000

No need for the CLI to enable the Developer menu - just go to the Advanced tab in Safari 3.1's Preferences where the 'Show Develop menu in menu bar' option is ready to satisfy your desires...

Re: The Best Reason I’ve Ever Seen For Outlawing Religion

Adrian Bool — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 04:49:23 -0000

"She ain't goin' down to a bad place." Poor guy. It /is/ a piss take, yeah?

Re: Signing with Initials

Adrian Bool — Sat, 31 May 2008 15:19:26 -0000

'Digital Rights Management'... Don't you currently feel sufficiently hated? ;-)

Re: Silly Question: Why Aren’t Russians Considered Asians?

Adrian Bool — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 04:05:43 -0000

It used to be a federation in the soviet days - USSR, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Russia is indeed a normal country these days.

Although Russia may have a large land mass in Asia, what proportion of the population are from the European part? I think it is quite large, hence us considering Russians European - as great many are!

Perhaps if you live in China or Korea you may consider Russians Asian. My wife is Korean; I've just asked her and she considers 'Russians' as Asian - even the Russian family that lives in our building who are from St Petersberg - who look completely European. For me, as a Brit, they're just plain European.

I guess for a country of that size you just can't label people with a continent in that way.

I'm a person, not a continent!!!

aid

Re: If McCain is the “Military” Candidate, Why Did Ron Paul, Who Wants to Pull Out of Iraq, Get More Campaign Contributions from the Military?

Adrian Bool — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:04:14 -0000

I guess because there are two sides to military - those who fight it and those who supply goods for it. Bush, McCain & friends are obviously more concerned about the interests of the second side.

Re: Silly Question: Why Aren’t Russians Considered Asians?

Adrian Bool — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:09:47 -0000

Carl, check out the Nationality entry at,

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/us.html

On this subject, why does the USA refer to itself as the United States (or US) rather than the United States of America (or USA)?

From the above link,

conventional long form: United States of America
conventional short form: United States
abbreviation: US or USA

Is it just for brevity or is there something else to it?

aid

Re: Safari’s #1 Annoyance: No Tab From The URL Bar

Adrian Bool — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 04:26:34 -0000

Safari and Firefox seem pretty much the same to me on this! Hitting tab whilst in the location bar takes me to the search field on both browsers.. What are you after..?

Re: This Video Rejuvenates the Soul

Adrian Bool — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:07:44 -0000

You'd think his dancing would improve a little during the journey ;)

Re: How-to Filter Google Results by Date

Adrian Bool — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:21:59 -0000

You can also 'subscribe' to Google's beta search service. (I'm guessing it just dumps a cookie in your browser).

This allows you to see the results on a graphical timeline, among other formats, should that be a useful representation.

Check out, http://www.google.com/experimental/</p>

Re: A Disturbing Commercial Dealing With Race

Adrian Bool — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 05:18:36 -0000

Why 'Disturbing'? A little depressing perhaps...

Re: How to Add Directory Colors to OS X’s Terminal

Adrian Bool — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 06:06:58 -0000

A related set of env variables I stumbled upon a day or two ago... very handy...

export GREP_OPTIONS='--color=auto'
export GREP_COLOR='1;33'

Re: Why America Will Be Attacked Again Under Obama

Adrian Bool — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:13:16 -0000

But America did not only attack the terroists; they did not limit themselves Al Quaeda and Teliban forces principally in Afaganistan - they invaded Iraq which had no terriost associations at that time and was not at all involved with 9/11.

The equilivent with your dog analog would be that the dog bit you; you kicked the dog and then tore apart the cat that just happened to live in house next to the dog.

Re: Exploring Coffee

Adrian Bool — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 03:12:15 -0000

Why is having milk in your coffee unhealthy...?

Re: The Real Reason Git is Great

Adrian Bool — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:08:25 -0000

Mmm, this guy could really do with looking at ZFS on Solaris (and hopefully working fully in OS X soon).

In built-compression, revision history via checkpoints, copy on write for disk efficiency and full checksums throughout the entire filing system. All ZFS features that thinks don't exist anywhere but git.

Sure, ZFS is not a revision control system - but he's not thinking of git in that way in his article. He's thinking of git as an FS, which ZFS naturally is today and will provide all the niceness (such as block level diff syncs) he wants for this projects.

I wish I could use ZFS for my OSX laptop now. Yesterday, after applying an update, /etc/authorization got screwed up - with the FS pointing to some completely wrong blocks on the filing system. This file is essential to the system booting up so it was noticed. It is hard to tell whether any other files were effected in a similar manner though - ZFS could easily detect such issues.

Re: The Real Reason Women Love Diamonds

Adrian Bool — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:19:33 -0000

I guess that explains the shortage of nookie during my life! I *hate* buying useless shit! ;-) Luckily my wife does not seem to be overly concerned but this particular aspect of my personality....

Re: I Wish More Roads Had These Signs [IMG]

Adrian Bool — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:17:28 -0000

I'm suprised this sign leaves an impression on an atheist such as yourself! ;-)

Re: I Can’t Wait for Google Latitude on the iPhone

Adrian Bool — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:21:45 -0000

Dream on with the background non-apple apps... :-( Unless you're willing to jailbreak it if course...

Re: Why Education Matters More Than Most Realize

Adrian Bool — Sun, 06 May 2007 07:01:11 -0000

Re: The Bible Is Fiction: A Collection Of Evidence

Adrian Bool — Sun, 13 May 2007 14:05:33 -0000

.. or perhaps God just doesn't have a very good imagination? ;-)

aid

Re: An Alternative View of the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict

Adrian Bool — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:35:19 -0000

Re: Instant Messaging Kills Babies

Adrian Bool — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 07:19:12 -0000

Have you dumped all of your phones too? ;-)

aid

Re: Interesting New Spam Business Model

Adrian Bool — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 03:59:35 -0000

Re: Loving Safari

Adrian Bool — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:31:13 -0000

"I have one major qualm right now, and that’s the fact that you can’t tab to select visited sites from within the URL field."

Does just hitting the down arrow key do what you need...?

Re: Time to Switch From Debit to Credit When Paying for Things?

Adrian Bool — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 04:29:12 -0000

This sounds strange for me over in the UK!

So, in the US, do you still sign for Credit purchases?

Re: Time to Switch From Debit to Credit When Paying for Things?

Adrian Bool — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 07:24:04 -0000

Hi Mike, I think you mean 'Debit Cards' - they are just the same as what you use in Holland.

Direct Debit in the UK is a kind of variable Standing Order, typically used to automatically pay for varying amounts on a monthly basis - such as telephone, electric bills etc...

Re: God is TextMate-Like

Adrian Bool — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:47:50 -0000

Uh?

Re: Capturing Traffic Once and Making That Traffic Available to Multiple Tools

Adrian Bool — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:39:25 -0000

I think you may want John Lennon rather than Elton John for your Imagine reference...

Lots of data crosses most networks; how much of fit can we really keep? Hard drives are getting cheaper - but not that cheap!

Re: Security and Obscurity: Does Changing Your SSH Port Lower Your Risk?

Adrian Bool — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:57:44 -0000

I agree wholeheartedly; it's just another level of protection as part of defence in depth - although I'd use port 48351, or similar, rather than port 24!

This action would only be security through obscurity if you had no password or private key on the accounts - the non-standard port was your only protection. I'm sure that that is not the case!

Were you monitoring the traffic to your ssh ports, if yes, were most of the source ports < 1024??

Re: Three Powerful Safari Features That Few People Use

Adrian Bool — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:16:31 -0000

No need for the CLI to enable the Developer menu - just go to the Advanced tab in Safari 3.1's Preferences where the 'Show Develop menu in menu bar' option is ready to satisfy your desires...

Re: The Best Reason I’ve Ever Seen For Outlawing Religion

Adrian Bool — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 04:49:23 -0000

"She ain't goin' down to a bad place." Poor guy. It /is/ a piss take, yeah?

Re: Signing with Initials

Adrian Bool — Sat, 31 May 2008 15:19:26 -0000

'Digital Rights Management'... Don't you currently feel sufficiently hated? ;-)

Re: Silly Question: Why Aren’t Russians Considered Asians?

Adrian Bool — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 04:05:43 -0000

It used to be a federation in the soviet days - USSR, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Russia is indeed a normal country these days.

I guess for a country of that size you just can't label people with a continent in that way.

I'm a person, not a continent!!!

aid

Re: If McCain is the “Military” Candidate, Why Did Ron Paul, Who Wants to Pull Out of Iraq, Get More Campaign Contributions from the Military?

Adrian Bool — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:04:14 -0000

I guess because there are two sides to military - those who fight it and those who supply goods for it. Bush, McCain & friends are obviously more concerned about the interests of the second side.

Re: Silly Question: Why Aren’t Russians Considered Asians?

Adrian Bool — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:09:47 -0000

Carl, check out the Nationality entry at,

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/us.html

On this subject, why does the USA refer to itself as the United States (or US) rather than the United States of America (or USA)?

From the above link,

conventional long form: United States of America
conventional short form: United States
abbreviation: US or USA

Is it just for brevity or is there something else to it?

aid

Re: Safari’s #1 Annoyance: No Tab From The URL Bar

Adrian Bool — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 04:26:34 -0000

Safari and Firefox seem pretty much the same to me on this! Hitting tab whilst in the location bar takes me to the search field on both browsers.. What are you after..?

Re: This Video Rejuvenates the Soul

Adrian Bool — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:07:44 -0000

You'd think his dancing would improve a little during the journey ;)

Re: How-to Filter Google Results by Date

Adrian Bool — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:21:59 -0000

You can also 'subscribe' to Google's beta search service. (I'm guessing it just dumps a cookie in your browser).

This allows you to see the results on a graphical timeline, among other formats, should that be a useful representation.

Check out, http://www.google.com/experimental/</p>

Re: A Disturbing Commercial Dealing With Race

Adrian Bool — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 05:18:36 -0000

Why 'Disturbing'? A little depressing perhaps...