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I life in Germany and we have the problem today, that the sewer system was created for much more water usage http://www.hydrologie.uni-oldenburg.de/ein-bit/12045.html (german). As you can see: After re-industrialization (1975) the consumption growed steadily until 1990. This was more or less the time when it became common in Germany that wasting water, especially drinking water is a stupid idea. In http://www.me-vermitteln.de/Portals/0/Redaktion/grafiken/umwelt/Entwicklung%20Wasserverbrau%20pro%20Person_g.jpg you can see that the current trend is still pointing downwards.

For comparission of water usage per person world wide: http://chartsbin.com/view/1455

Thank you for proving that advertising big numbers numbs the minds of most consumers so they don't bother to get their facts straight.

DECT 6.0 is called "6.0" because it is a bigger number than 5.8 (as in GHz) and your average consumer knows, just KNOWS, that bigger is better -- facts be damned.

DECT, however, runs on the 1.8 to 1.9 GHz range, not 6 GHz. Believe it or not, that is better if you want to wander around your yard while on the cordless phone. Lower frequencies penetrate solid objects, like walls, better.

Details: http://einstein.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/rechnernetze/seite24.htm

I never had access to the pre-Internet Inter-network myself, but I talked with people at Tektronix who had access. The pre-cursor to the Internet was a very limited resource compared to what resulted because of the funding arranged by Mr. Gore.

My understanding is that there was no HTML in those days, and there were no generally useful browsers. People used Gopher and Archie to access resources. Numerous provisions needed to be made before what became the Internet could be an enormously useful, and public, resource.

Back then many, many technically knowledgeable people were actually against the idea that their semi-private inter-network would become a public utility. Then Senator Gore had the vision that most people didn't have, including Bill Gates.

Quote from Marc L. Andreessen about Senator Gore: "He had people buying into the concept of the information superhighway before anybody had an idea about what it would be." (This quote is just one I found on the first page of a Google search.)

Here's another quickly found web page which discusses the issue: ... the Internet's "most determined congressional advocate"

I don't want to duplicate the article, so here's the link.

How about a nice news server instead (meaning NNTP)? That way people could read and post job news, you could see "old" job postings even if you fail to check the feed for a couple of days, and a news article of course could include a full job description, while most RSS feeds tend to only include short info (I don't know if that's a technical limit, or the RSS feeders just choose to only include a couple of lines per article).

RSS AFAIK, because of it's website (http) nature, is publish only, so that you would need to browse/search all websites that offer job-RSSes; with a news server there is one common marketplace for companies and job-seekers.

BTW, my full rant why RSS sucks, is here.

I haven't tried it on OS X, but if you're using Mozilla or Firefox, there's this:

Mozilla MLdonkey Protocol Handler

Sounds to me like you don't care for slashdot much. If that's the case, why are you here?

It's not that I don't like Slashdot in general, but I don't believe everything I read here.

Oh yes, let's just generalize for the purpose of making him sound like a moron. At least he's sticking to the topic, virus and how it exploits IE.

Everything he said applies to the Linux kernel too. He was trying to say that Windows is broken because it took so long for SP2 to be released. It took at least as long to get from the stable release 2.4 to 2.6 of the Linux kernel, so is that proof that 2.4 is broken? No.
Furthermore, he named no specific viruses, exploits in IE or anything else.

And you know this... How? Oh wait, let me guess, you read it on slashdot, so it must be true...

If it's so easy, then how come there aren't any provably safe/correct OSes in existance? The only provably correct software I am aware of run a few critical functions for orginizations that can afford the development: nuclear reactor computers, some of NASA's software. Nothing even approaching the complexity of Windows or Linux have even been attempted. Information is hard to link to because you have to pay for it. See http://archive.comlab.ox.ac.uk/procos/codesign.htm l, http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/lin91provably.html, http://csd.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/persons/ste phan.kleuker/s-kleuker.hti-abstracts.html.

No, he's not saying the Linux kernel is invulnerable. Far from it. He's saying Windows has far more vulnerabilities. No study necessary. Unless you're a total Microsoft Zealot, you should be able to see that as plain as day.

He specifically said the "heart" of Linux: I can only assume he is referring to the kernel. You've avoided that point entirely. The Windows kernel has equal or less vulnerabilities than the Linux kernel does. I dare you to name even one recent one that allows privlege escilation in SP2. Here is one in 2.6.0, and another in 2.6.6... Just ask Google

So you are saying that your position is so obvious and such common knowledge that you cannot find any support for it? That's called doublethink. If it was obvious, you should be able to provide copious, valid, fair and detailed sources to support your position. Stating that it's obvious without any support at all, as I posted earlier, destroys your credibility. No one is going to believe you just because you say it's true. That's the main problem I had with E-Rock-23, and now you.

Back off him, he does have a good point.

A point cannot be any good without support. He stated his case with zero references of any kind.

Besides, you're the one who posted anonymously

1. I don't see a name at the top of your post
2. What makes you think that's why I posted AC?
3. If your threshold is so high, how did you see the grandparent?

I use wTicker for my Windows computer and KNewsTicker for my Linux boxes. The latest version of wTicker won't run on my XP computer, but an older version does. It's still in beta and a little clunky, but the crawler takes up far less screen space than any other RSS reader I've tried.

It's nice to see Microsoft helping out the physically challenged

Yup, Knewsticker reads RSS (and other formats)- here's an email from CmdrTaco, way back in April 2002, to the Knewsticker people expressing concern that a 30-second default reload rate (madness!) in Knewsticker was looking like slashdotting the slashdot RSS feed.

TomV

After nine continuous years of service, the Archie Gateway is not functional any more, because working Archie servers do not exist any more.
I leave the page as it is, since it was one of the first working forms on the Net, programmed in the night the Mosaic Team created the Forms extension to HTML in October 1993. It was one of the first applications to actually return dynamically created Hypertext.

well of course. He has plans for the microsoft car

I remember Archie. Sadly missed.

Anyone remember veronica?

The DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine) standard is one implementation of the P2P that needs to be looked at. the principle behind the communication according to the DICOM standard is that EVERY "Station" is both a client and a server. you have of course dedicated storage station such as PACS (Picture Archiving System) for obvious reasons [the Files are quite large]. This standard is used and developed by people all over the world). You can find one open source implementation of the DICOM standard here (OFFIS) and other DICOM ressourses here Any How, this is only one example and I'm sure people can find better one.

While this may not be exactly what you're looking for, you might try DS3 for modem sharing. Or, something that I suspect is more what you're after is MSREDIR, a serial port redirector that is designed to let multiple people share multiple modems (an implementation of RFC 2217).

As for sound card sharing, while I haven't looked into this very much, it is probably not difficult to do it using the EsounD daemon. I think I may have tried this before using xmms to play across the network to a remote host. Quite cool if you ask me.

Wait! There's more!
A new version (0.15.6) of bttvgrab is available, also today. This is a simple but nice frame grabbing program for BT848 cards.

I've been looking into using bttvgrab as a cheap replacement for a VCR, but haven't found the time yet. Has anyone done this?