In my RSS reader, only five comments are displayed, and then this note:
"There may be more comments in this discussion. Without JavaScript enabled, you might want to turn on Classic Discussion System in your preferences instead."
Maybe worth a try?
Another good comparison: Schneier calculated, conservatively, in his recent summary of the situation, that the scanners are probably safe enough to only cause deadly cancer in 16 out of every billion passengers. An acceptable risk, perhaps--but *still* greater than the chances of being killed by a terrorist.
Okay, so the experiment running an FTP server with all my music and movies didn't last, because now I'm at home for the summer and it's not exactly practical to run a high-capacity server with large files through a DSL connection.
On to the next project!
I just got back online, my connection having been dropped by my university's Residential Computing department a few hours ago. This is the nth time this has happened in the past few weeks, where n is a number much larger than I would like it to be. I'm still trying to get it sorted out, but if Rescomp's track record means anything, it will happen many more times over the next few months.
Okay everyone, as promised, I'm giving fair warning before what will hopefully be the next time my server goes down.
Since I've been operating this server for a while, and it has gone down several times without my having any way of providing an explanation to those who were downloading and lost their connections, I've decided to start making journal entries to warn people of downtime when possible, and to explain it after the fact otherwise.
For those who haven't been visiting my server, take a look.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman? -- Woody Allen
