| 2013/1/28-2/19 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:54591 Activity:nil | 1/28 "'Charities' Funnel Millions to Climate-Change Denial"
http://www.csua.org/u/z2w (news.yahoo.com)
And they're getting tax-deduction out of it!
\_ Climate denialism should quality for the religious exemption.
\_ Koch, yes, Koch and his ilk give "millions" to this kind of thing.
How much is spent on the other side of the issue?
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| 2012/6/26-7/20 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:54422 Activity:nil | 6/26 WW2 brought us antibiotics, syringe, production capacity,
excessive petroleum, radar, television, atomic energy,
rocketry (HEIL VON BRAUN), synthetic rubber, microwave,
computers (GAY TURING), jets.
What did the Iraq war bring us?
\_ HMMWV -> Hummer H1 the gas guzzler.
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| 2009/1/9-13 [Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:52347 Activity:kinda low | 1/9 I want to share maybe 100 photos with close family only. I don't
want anyone else to be able to see them, not that they are naughty
or anything. I want to then take them offline and replace with
more photos in 6-12 months (no need for permanent online storage).
I use iPhoto for my photos on my Mac. I don't want to pay for this
service. It would be nice if the s/w could compress images
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| 2006/9/8-12 [Computer/SW/Unix, Computer/SW/Security, Computer/SW/WWW/Server] UID:44325 Activity:nil | 9/9 Is there a gzip-like unix command that will encrypt a file?
I'm looking for something that's widely available. Thanks
crypt (not very secure - DES). Or failing that, openssl or gnupg
\_ openssl or gnupg... what are you looking for? Those will work fine..
\_ Thanks for the recommendations. I'm basically experimenting
with a way of using my friend's computer to backup my
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| 2005/9/19-20 [Computer/SW/OS, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:39750 Activity:nil | 9/19 So I have this proprietary logger that writes into a temporary
directory, and to rotate it, we simply rename it, gzip it, and
the logger is smart enough to create a new log file. However,
I've noticed that even after we rename it, the logger still
APPENDS to the log file, and during the time we gzip and delete
it, the stuff that is appended, is lost. So I'm wondering if
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| 2004/9/23 [Computer/SW/Unix, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:33715 Activity:very high | 9/23 I need to make an image of a disk a disk on a different machine
in Linux. That is, Make an image of A's disk, on B, and then
later be able to just copy the image back on to A.
ADDENDUM: It would be nice to be able to compress the image on the
way out. Tar and gzip or bzip2 I suppose.
\_ Is this a question or an observation? I need a big-breasted
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| 2004/4/21-22 [Computer/Theory] UID:13323 Activity:high | 4/21 Cute problem: You are given n bits which resulted from flipping a
biased coin n times (you don't know the bias). The problem is to come
up with an algorithm which will produce as many unbiased independent
random bits from this string as possible (on average). You have no
other sources of randomness except the input bits. One possible
algorithm would be to pair up the bits, and produce a random bit 1 if
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| 2004/4/22 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:13333 Activity:nil | 4/22 So is the defactor compression program on UNIX bzip2 now? I gotta
admit it compresses a lot better than gzip, and while it's hecka
slow it's pretty good.
\_ No, it's still gzip. bzip2 is only for dweebies who care about
saving 10-20% on a file in return for 50% more compression/
decompression time. If your internet pipe is really limited I
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| 2003/10/24-25 [Computer/SW/Mail, Computer/SW/Compilers] UID:10768 Activity:nil | 10/24 Are there any pitfalls involved in using sendmsg/recvmsg over
send/recv? I finally got my problems solved with basic sockets,
and I'm looking for a good way to say "these bytes are msg1,
these are msg2" etc. Thanks
\_ These are two separate issues. (1) man sendmsg. (2) Since
TCP is byte-stream oriented, you will need to introduce some
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| 2003/8/12-13 [Computer/SW/OS/Linux, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:29323 Activity:kinda low | 8/11 How does one determine which debian CD a specific package is on.
I've searced google and debian, and can't find out where to look.
\_ No reason to. You use CD1 to install, and then net to grab the
rest. If you don't have net, put the package on a CD or on a
floppy, and use dpkg to install.
\_ Well, actually I DO have a reason: I've installed debian
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| 2003/5/2-3 [Computer/SW/Mail, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:28305 Activity:very high | 5/1 Alright, I have lots of personal mail (~5000 msgs) currently in
Outlook Express (I know, big mistake, but I started using it a long
while ago, and now here I am)... I would like to backup/archive
these. I'm thinking the best format to store mail like this is the
unix mbox format? Any other suggestions? Is there some way to
convert all my outlook express mail (w/ folders, sub-folders, etc)
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