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So our apartment building caught on fire over the weekend.
File that under sentences I thought I'd never say. It was early evening, a hot and sticky Memorial Day weekend, and I was standing in the parking lot of a Dunkin' Donuts while a handful of fire trucks circled my building. I stood in the parking lot with my boyfriend and my neighbors and my neighbor's quaking bunny rabbit, watching fire fighters shimmy into the sky on extendable ladders, stomping around our roof, shooing gawkers away from the action, and all I could think was, "So this is why I pay taxes."
When we got the all clear to go assess, I sat in the doorway to the deck and surveyed the damage. It looked bad. Our lackadaisical descent and the calm, measured movements of the fire department had suggested that this was perhaps merely a safety drill, but seeing the evidence so artfully displayed reassured me that, minutes before, this deck had actually been on fire.
Carefully picking past charred boards and our overturned grilled, we looked for souvenirs. Well, I looked for souvenirs. This is what I'm keeping:
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When I called him from the Dunkin' parking lot on Saturday, he retold the story of that house and that phone for perhaps the tenth or twelfth or hundredth time. So of course I'm keeping the twisted solo cup and of course I'll drag it from apartment to apartment. What is it they say about apples and trees?
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Graphically, Ganglia works well. text bases you might consider using pdsh to do an hourly uptime for load info then run that through awk to clean it up and put it in a readable format. In the past, I've also run "top" with a count of 1 and used awk to clean it up. It can be good to know not only memory and load, but what jobs are running at a given time. Honestly though, I mainly use ganglia these days with job details being provided by SGE via the qstat command. Mike Davis A Lenzo wrote: > Hello Cluster Colleagues, > > I would like to begin monitoring my cluster in order to see what the > usage is at different times of day. A simple method would work - I am > looking for advice on this. The mosmon utility is enticing since it > shows the usage on all nodes at once, but of course, I can't pipe the > output to a text file. If I can find the right tool for the job, I am > sure I can keep it running every hour or so with Cron. Ideally, I'd > love to measure memory usage and also CPU usage. > > Suggestions? > > Thanks! > Tony > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
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Like many plants, the husk tomato (Physalis pubescens), an edible plant native to the US, goes by more than one common name. To complicate matters, theres also a lot of confusion regarding species epithet. For example, the strawberry-tomato, P. grisea, is synonymous with both the husk tomato and another species, also called the strawberry-tomato (P. pruinosa). Confused yet? What inspired me to tackle this topic was an article on ground cherries in the May 2008 issue of Organic Gardening. I chose this particular ground cherry, the husk tomato, because it grows throughout most of the US, its range extending from Washington state south to California and across to the eastern US, skipping Nevada, the great plains states, and New Hampshire. The husk tomato, like all ground cherries is a member of the Nightshade family (Solanaceae)--the same family as many of our favorite vegetables such as peppers, tomatoes, and potatoes. Tomatillos (P. ixocarpa), a staple of Mexican cooking are also a member of this family. The best cultivars to plant are Aunt Mollys (an heirloom cultivar), 'Goldie', and Cossack Pineapple. Because its a member of the nightshade family, its important to remember that many parts of the plant are poisonous, so only buy seeds from a reputable seed company. Husk tomato grows 12 to 18 inches and like most vegetables prefers full sun (at least 6 hours a day). The whitish flowers on begin blooming in late spring and continue throughout the summer. The edible fruits begin developing in summer and are ready for harvest when they turn a golden apricot color. According to the article in Organic Gardening, they typically fall off the plant before they are ripe, so simply gather them off the ground when theyre ripe. Husk tomato (listed as P. pruinosa) is listed as possibly extirpated in Maine and endangered in New York (listed as P. pubescens var. integrifolia). |


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I received these as a gift, they looked great and were comfortable. Like one of the other reviews here, the paint around the eyebrow area started flaking off, occasionally getting in my eyes. Once all the paint peeled off it was better, but they didn't look as good, clearly. Won't buy Oakley again.
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I have owned other models of Oakley sunglasses in the past. These Flak Jacket polarized are my new favorites, since getting some about a year and a half ago. Fit is just right. I have a fairly small face, and 2 friends of mine with larger faces, we all have Flak Jackets, and we all love them. They fit perfectly-very comfortable, awesome protection from sun, wind, or whatever is out there, clarity and color vision all excellent. They stay in place no matter what you are doing. My friends wear them every day for work, and we all wear them for any and all outdoor activities: fishing, boating, hiking, shooting, snowshoeing, bicycling, whatever! Flak Jackets are definitely the best and look cool.
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I bought these for my wife and they fit her perfectly as she has a petite face. They have great coverage all the way around her eyes and she says they are comfortable to wear. Only had them a few months but so far no scratches.
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I bought these in 2010 and was very pleased with the fit and style, I'm very particular about my gear and take good care of it; unfortunately about a year and a half after owning these the polarization lens started to get tiny bubbles that were not scratches, I happened to be visiting in southern California and decided to go to the Oakley headquarters in Foothill Ranch, where I inquired about what was wrong with my lenses, I was told by their customer service that it was caused by little tiny beads of sweat and oil eating away at the polarization. I'm pretty good about cleaning my sunglasses and have never seen this before on any of my other polarized glasses, needless to say I was very disappointed to find out that Oakley does not stand behind their products and offered below par customer service, they asked me if I had a receipt, who keeps their receipt for more than a year? And also they stated that even if I had a receipt it is out of their 1 year replacement policy, I feel like this is a defect on their end because they never stated on any of their instructions about making sure the sunglasses are not just cleaned with the cleaning cloth they provide but to use water as well to make sure you get 100% of sweat and oils off. I always cleaned them with only the cloth they provided, I feel like they have gotten too big to care about one small customer. Never again Oakley as all of your competitors are glad to give you replacement lenses on something so minor. Thank GOD for REI as they will stand behind all of the products they sell. I hope no one ever has to deal with Oakley customer service.
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I've been wearing these for a couple of years, with no complaints or issues. Nice and light too.
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I use these sun glasses for just about everything under the sun! Stylish and comfortable is for sure!
My only problem was after wearing them for a couple months, the paint on the frame near where my eyebrows are wrinkles and peels off. 2X, I went through this exchanging them for a new pair. I just gave up and nobody really sees the defect unless I take them off and show them. Otherwise, these are the best!
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I've been a die-hard Oakley user since the turn of the millenium. I first bought a pair of Oakley XX's, which I have always loved. I initially used the XX's for sport and backcountry use. After upgrading to the Flak Jacket, I still carry the XX's as a spare pair of sunglasses on long trips. I myself have never suffered a sunglass fatality, but some of my hiking partners have, and my spare pair has bailed them out. I then purchased a pair of Oakley E-wire's, which I also love and use for around the town use. Then, in the spring of 2007, I purchased a pair of polarized Oakley Flak Jackets.
The Flak Jacket is an AMAZING pair of sunglasses. The frame is flexible and can withstand bending and abuse that would typically break or permanently damage a frame. The lenses, like all Oakley lenses, are unbeatable. I have always purchased the Black Iridium lenses and I have always been impressed by their clarity. The color is phenomenal and they block out bright light, even reflecting off a snow field.
The lenses are interchangeable, which is a convenient feature. There are two styles of lenses. I originally purchased the standard lens, but I recently ordered prescription lenses from Oakley, so that I don't have to wear contacts under my Oakleys. For my prescription lenses, I ordered the XLJ version of the lens, which provides more coverage. I used the standard lenses for a year and they work great, but I am excited about the larger XLJ lenses. And changing between sets of lenses is quick and easy.
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Posted Jul 29, 2012 15:48 UTC (Sun) by Kit (guest, #55925) [Link]
Ease of use is how they try to market Cryptocat... but, to actually use Cryptocat securely, it would be no more effort to use any IM client that supports OTR (or similar) instead (a number support it out of the box, with others having plugins).
Posted Jul 29, 2012 16:13 UTC (Sun) by xxiao (subscriber, #9631) [Link]
Posted Jul 30, 2012 4:32 UTC (Mon) by Kit (guest, #55925) [Link]
> chat privately from an internet bar, a kiosk, a computer in hotel,etc
Exactly who are you wanting privacy from?
If it's the owner (or anyone else that can touch them) of each of those machines, you can simply forget about that to begin with, as a keylogger would easily defeat Cryptocat (and OTR, and everything else that didn't encrypt the data before it entered the computer). For any casual malicious entities on the network (i.e. anyone that can't hijack SSL sessions... so basically anyone that isn't approaching the power of a nation state), then the SSL certificate alone would do a good enough job securing the communication (and many common chat protocols support SSL connections... even IRC!). If you're worried about someone that can hijack SSL sessions, then you're screwed anyways if you're using the website version, which is almost assuredly the version you'd be using on one of those machines.
I'm not really seeing a scenario where Cryptocat actually delivers on the hype.
Posted Jul 30, 2012 8:59 UTC (Mon) by robert_s (subscriber, #42402) [Link]
When was the last time you were able to set up Tor on a machine in an internet bar, a kiosk, or a computer in hotel?
Because from what I'm hearing, the only time cryptocat is actually secure (any more secure than plain old SSL) is when it's being used through Tor.
Posted Jul 30, 2012 15:35 UTC (Mon) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]
Posted Jul 31, 2012 7:37 UTC (Tue) by ekj (subscriber, #1524) [Link]
I've used crypto-cat for something as simple as chatting with friends in Tunisia and Syria about the situation there, under the circumstances that seems sensible, I don't trust the Syrian government further than I can throw them.
"Go to this website" is a *lot* simpler than "download this IM-client and install it, then sign up for an account *here*, then configure OTR-messaging like *this*, then add me as a "buddy" like *that*, and -then- talk to me."
Crypto-cat ain't perfect. But it's very likely good enough that the Syrian government does not routinely store the text of our chats, and it would cost them significant effort to get at those texts.
Posted Jul 31, 2012 8:48 UTC (Tue) by robert_s (subscriber, #42402) [Link]
Please don't.
"Crypto-cat ain't perfect."
Well, it ain't secure.
"But it's very likely good enough that the Syrian government does not routinely store the text of our chats, and it would cost them significant effort to get at those texts."
In that way it's no better than obfuscation then.
Posted Jul 31, 2012 10:24 UTC (Tue) by ekj (subscriber, #1524) [Link]
crypto-cat *does* suffer from quite a few problems, the biggest one I'm aware of being the need to somehow securely exchange keys, and the fact that you need to trust the folks running the website.
But those vulnerabilities exist in all programs - if I download Pidgin with OTR, I need to trust the folks creating pidgin and running the website I download it from. Yes I know about signatures on packages, but most windows-users don't, and even then you still need to trust the person signing the package.
trade-offs are the rule, not the exception in the real world. It's reasonable to consider crypto-cat more secure than unencrypted chat. With "more secure" in this context, I mean simply: the odds that the government of Syria will read the chat-contents, is lower.
Ease of use *does* have value, and encrypted chat that works with zero installation is useful -- yes you need to securely exchange keys, and that's a problem - but it's primarily a problem if you worry about being the victim of a *targeted* attack, and that's not the issue here, the worry is over passive sweeping passively eavesdropping on everything and grepping for interesting words kind of attack. Against -that- kind of attack, key-exchange is easy.
Posted Jul 31, 2012 15:44 UTC (Tue) by avheimburg (subscriber, #75272) [Link]
That's the problem: You need not only trust the cryptocat site, you need to trust all the hosts between your PC and the cryptocat site and all the hosts between your chat partner's PC and the site.
It's entirely possible for the any organization that controls internet access to launch a MITM-attack and supply all the poeple in Syria with a "customized" version of cryptocat that sends a copy of everything said to a computer controlled by the government. And there's no easy way for you to check whether you or your chat partner is thusly compromised.
Posted Jul 31, 2012 17:06 UTC (Tue) by robert_s (subscriber, #42402) [Link]
The wired article *itself* (presumably prompted by the cryptocat author) says SSL is "known to be broken". So you _can't_ trust the folks running the website. It's a self contradiction.
Is _some_ security better than none? Perhaps, but probably only when you're dealing with foes less capable & with fewer resources than a nation state. However if a false sense of security encourages someone to be more loose-lipped and candid, then it can be _very_ dangerous.
A slightly half-baked "some security is better than none" attitude may be fine for you, but I suspect _you're_ not the one that's going to get tortured, the person you're talking to in [dictatorship] _is_.
The problem with cryptocat's message is it is *far* less secure than it purports to be.
Posted Aug 3, 2012 15:41 UTC (Fri) by arafel (subscriber, #18557) [Link]
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