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You insensative clod!

Don't blame us DC residents for the politicans. See we like our violence, our sex and corruption, and our baseball like all good Americans. So leave us alone you colonial tyrant. No taxation without representation!

A bit late. It has already been published by these guys..

Actually, the question should be "Do we really need TWO books dedicated to broadband?"

Your argument doesn't make sense. The web address is completely different from the IP address.

The problem is that IP addresses need to be assigned in blocks to keep the size of a full routing table down. Basically this ruling is nothing more than an indirect Internet Tax. The result of this ruling will be that backbone providers have to raise service rates to support the increased memory and processor requirements of their routers.

The size of a BGP routing table was skyrocketing until about 5-7 years ago. That's when groups like ARIN started saying, "we have to fix this".

The way to fix it is a logical method of subnetting. Big Blocks assigned to backbone providers...Smaller blocks within those assigned to the ISPs that connect to them...a few subnets givent to the customers that connect to them. If you move, you get new addresses. DNS solves all the problem of moving except the internal cost to readdress your machines. If your intelligent, you use DHCP for everything but servers so most of the work is easy. If your even more intelligent you run 95+% of your devices on internal addresses and NAT at your gateway so the work is even easier.

The problem is that users and some stupid programmers don't want to do what makes sense (utilizing DNS and NAT properly).

Plain and simple this ruling is ridiculous. Someone should buy this Judge, and more importantly, the fool that filed the complaint and his lawyer a copy of DNS for dummies.

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"I know how to do it" does not equal "This is trivial."

Setting up DNS on UNIX is quite complex. Whole books have been written on the subject.

And books being written on a subject doesn't make it complex. Whole books have been written on MANY topics that are relatively simple.

"I know how to do it" does not equal "This is trivial."

Setting up DNS on UNIX is quite complex. Whole books have been written on the subject.

And books being written on a subject doesn't make it complex. Whole books have been written on MANY topics that are relatively simple.

"I know how to do it" does not equal "This is trivial."

Setting up DNS on UNIX is quite complex. Whole books have been written on the subject.

And books being written on a subject doesn't make it complex. Whole books have been written on MANY topics that are relatively simple.

"I know how to do it" does not equal "This is trivial."

Setting up DNS on UNIX is quite complex. Whole books have been written on the subject.

And books being written on a subject doesn't make it complex. Whole books have been written on MANY topics that are relatively simple.

"I know how to do it" does not equal "This is trivial."

Setting up DNS on UNIX is quite complex. Whole books have been written on the subject.

And books being written on a subject doesn't make it complex. Whole books have been written on MANY topics that are relatively simple.

"I know how to do it" does not equal "This is trivial."

Setting up DNS on UNIX is quite complex. Whole books have been written on the subject.

And books being written on a subject doesn't make it complex. Whole books have been written on MANY topics that are relatively simple.

Heh, there are some other choice ones here:

http://www.dummies.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-100157. html

I think my ex-landlord actually memorized the "Property Management for Dummies" edition.

i saw this book at the library and i started laughing out loud at the title. just thought it might be relevant to the subject.

Sheesh, review your Latin, dumbfuck.

-um is the singular nominative for a neuter second declension noun, and -a is the plural.

One datum, many data.

Dummies.com Search: Your search for "linux" returned : 26 books

LOTR is not set upon this earth. It is set in a world similar to ours in many ways. Nonetheless, the telltale absence of well... pretty much everything in LOTR except Humans would be an excelent indication that Tolkin intended his world to be seperate from ours in its history.

I recall hearing from a couple of sources that Tolkien actually did intend for Middle-Earth to be the same earth that we stand on right now. After all, he was trying to provide a mythology for the Britons, whom he felt did not have a grand mythology in the same way as the Norse or the Romans. The only source that I can find at the moment is from here, but it does contain the following:

When pressed for the location of Middle-earth (as fans and critics continually did), Tolkien often replied that Middle-earth most definitely refers to lands of this world.

I'm sure that I can dig up more sources from "Letters of J.R. Tolkien" or other books should you require more evidence.

You're right that there aren't any elves, Maiar, or Valar around nowadays, but remember that they all reside in Valinor now, beyond the reaches of men. Sauron was defeated, Saruman's spirit was blown away by the wind from the west, and who knows what happened to the Ents, Trolls, and Orcs. The Fourth Age was the Age of Man, and here we still live.

No, of course it's not real, but it's still a wonderful fantasy - far beyond anything the movies showed you. My fellow readers of The Simarillion and The Bible would understand what I'm talking about when I say how much Tolkien's work paralleled Biblical creation.

Maybe Linus should make them read Potty training for Dummies.

You lose
Mac OS 9 for dummies

sorry I had to check if it existed.
But with titles like:
- Server+ Certification For Dummies
- Carpentry For Dummies
- Migraines For Dummies
I just had to check.

(ps for the humor impaired this is not a troll but a mere demonstration of the power of the for dummie books)

I don't get it. What's the point in calling you a dummy if you're trying to sell a book. How did marketing people ever come up with that ? There's a For Dummies book for about every f**king aspect of life: beekeeping for dummies, prostate cancer for dummies, there's even a "Hypoglycemia for Dummies". Why do people buy books entitled "The Complete Idiot's Guide to ...". Stuff like Solaris, C++, ... are not for idiots. Such titles disgrace the art of programming. They'd better start showing some goddamn respect !

I don't get it. What's the point in calling you a dummy if you're trying to sell a book. How did marketing people ever come up with that ? There's a For Dummies book for about every f**king aspect of life: beekeeping for dummies, prostate cancer for dummies, there's even a "Hypoglycemia for Dummies". Why do people buy books entitled "The Complete Idiot's Guide to ...". Stuff like Solaris, C++, ... are not for idiots. Such titles disgrace the art of programming. They'd better start showing some goddamn respect !

Not exactly popular science, but The infamous "X for dummies" company is going to publish a new book in 2 months: Calculus for dummies.

I always laughed about this series when it came to programming books, but Calculus (aka Infinitesimal math) can be an evil and tricky subject, and maybe this book can help me - especially if it's going to be as interesting as Fermat's Last Theorem. What do you think?

All hail the 8 that fell on its side.

Or maybe they went to the city and got themselves a puter and a book, windows for dummies cliff notes edition

The FOR DUMMIES® series books and the CLIFFS NOTES® series books are published by the same publisher. Thus, in a way, all FOR DUMMIES® books can be considered CLIFFS NOTES® edition.

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You need to be careful here. The law recognizes so-called "implicit contracts".

Yes, but all contract law centers around a "meeting of the minds":

Meeting of the minds

The first step in creating a contract is making sure that both parties are talking about the same deal, so that when they subsequently agree to enter into the contract they are both agreeing to the same thing. Seems obvious, right? Until you realize that the "vintage red car" you planned on buying from your brother-in-law isn't the Ferrari, it's his Pinto. Take the time to communicate your understanding of the deal to the other party, and listen carefully when he or she talks back.

(From dummies.com)

What EULAs, contracts on boxes, etc. fail to do is ensure this meeting of the minds. If I walk into a store and pay for something, I assume that all I'm doing is paying for what's in the box, not agreeing to anything else. When more extensive considerations are involved, there's a contract stating them fully. EULAs et al violate this fundamental principle by trying to postpone the meeting of minds until after the contract has been agreed to. Given that the rest of human endeavor has managed to avoid having to do that, I see no reason to accept this for software. If you want software to work differently, present the contract up front, and don't allow me to buy it without full agreement.

And if you find that requirement of having a contract is too burdensome, tough noogies! Having it work otherwise is too burdensome on everyone else.

As always, IANAL, but I *am* a professional, proprietary content developer.

But Slashdot is targeted at the digiterati, and if you don't know what I just posted, then you're just another "user who just knows enough to be dangerous".

Just the same, here's why I posted:

• the TiBook aka Powerbook has a 15.2 inch mega-wide display that was introduced last year!
• VAIO and the Powerbook are in the same market segment, i.e. high-end consumer laptops
• with Macworld around the corner, a new round of hardware announcements is widely anticipated from Apple, including rumors of bigger screens on both the Apple laptops and the iMac
• CmrTaco is a Linux user and you can be sure he'll be loading up Linux on that VAIO (right Cmr?)
• Fink is a project to port Unix tools to Mac OS X.
• OS X is a *Nix (for your benefit, that's shorthand for a Unix-like system like Linux, Solaris and the ilk)
• and lastly, Slashdot is a FORUM so everybody (including you, sad to say), can post what they think

And BTW, I was the editor of our paper, and have been feted with numerous literary awards.

Its just that when you're talking amongst peers, you tend to conduct the conversation in shorthand.

See you around, anonymous coward.

If people are interested in what to say when confronted by this sort of letter, they could do worse than to follow the example of the guys who wrote the Ulysses for Dummies web site. They got a letter from lawyers for IDG Publications (the publishers of the ...for Dummies series). Their reply is priceless. Copy and paste away!


...phil

Guyz (& girlz), check this one out!

Yes, it seems to be for real.

HH

To get my feet wet, I always use the Dummies books. I have always found them to be helpful when I'm first tackling a new subject. (except the perl for dummy's book) Then I get the O'Reilly books for reference and in-depth study.

Dummies can't be all that bad, John 'maddog' Hall wrote the "Linux for Dummies" book.

What a joke! This is the lamest, most ill conceived web site I have ever seen!

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Please go buy a copy of this book.

Free trials of Linux to come? Yummy!

Jon Maddog Hall, executive Director of Linux International. Halls speech, titled From Datacenter to Desktop, focused on applications built for Linux. Hall also held a signing ceremony for his latest book called Red Hat Linux for Dummies.

Wait, is this supposed to be a good thing? I realize that Linux should go more mainstream, but are we really ready right now for the readers of iMac for Dummies?

Local ISP, Internet Access HK Limited was offering a total office automation and Internet package running on Redhat Linux Server OS and bundled with a Compaq ProLiant 400 server. The package comes with Web server, network fax server, file server applications, and on-site technical support.

It's good that the Chinese get it, but why can't we? I wonder how many offices might switch over if an offer like this was available and highly publicized...
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Dummy - fool, idiot, dolt, person lacking in brainpower.

The series of books (which aren't too bad) are for the beginner, someone who realizes he or she knows nothing about a subject but wants to learn. A "computer dummy" for example, may want to buy Computers for Dummies to learn about computers. The reason these books are so popular is because they are written to teach the very basics.

However, the variety of books has gotten out of hand. I saw a copy of Sex for Dummies recently, I'm not kidding.

Here's their site

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(Sorry if I posted just the subject before.)


IDG has a Contact IDG page that you can use to tell them what you think.


On the www.dummies.com page, they also have an email address custserdum@idgbooks.com that you can send to.