The real problem with "yuppie food stamps" ($20 bills) is that they're worthless in a lot of contexts. Need quarters to do laundry? It may be hard to find a changer that takes things other than 1's, 5's, and 10's. Even if it does take 20's, some machines will accept the bill if it has less than $20 in change inside it and then give you $5 or $10 worth.
I've got a whole lab full of Solaris workstations for X and shell access to students. General usage is low, but there is a core of people who use them every day.
I've been thinking about opening up access beyond Case, but not too hard.
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If it's an iMac or a Cube we're talking about, then the reference board has you beat 2 to 0 on PCI Slots. Same goes for their laptops, obviously. So hopefully this is a G4 minitower or older Mac that you're sticking to.
As it happens, I did notice that Macromedia's website was unavailable last week. I was going there to download Flash or something of the sort. After making sure that my general Internet access was still operating, I gave up and tried again a few days later.
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The important part is that I had no idea why Macromedia's site wasn't responding. Presumably due to some kind of legitimate, undesired situation on their end somewhere. I never would have expected this to be the reason.
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All this blocking by MAPS and Above.net resulted in was me, a user who has never received e-mail from Macromedia, being unable to do what I wanted to. Neither my employer or me are Above.net customers, nor are we users of MAPS. We had no idea of what was going on (that it had been blocked due to "spam"), and we were not in favor of the action being taken.
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Nevertheless, we were affected by the actions of MAPS and Above.net, as were Macromedia. That isn't very acceptable to me. Is this supposed to be for my own good?
Lately I haven't had any trouble finding Playstation 2's in stores, and I'm not even interested in buying one. I have yet to ever see one in a store like Best Buy, but places like Funcoland, Target and Wal-Mart seem to always have at least one.
I always have better luck going to the more unusual game sellers, it seems like everyone else just knows about Best Buy and Babbages.
In case you're wondering why Agent Sokolov doesn't seem to make much sense, here's a little explanation.
He's obsessed with 4.3BSD, and is trying to recreate pristine sources of it so as to continue to use it well into the next millenium (with as few modifications as possible, of course).
He thinks that 10BaseT is the "evil intruder" in the world of network cabling; 10Base2 is acceptable, but 10Base5 is the One True Cable.
He made his own version of gzip and switched one of the bytes in the header; it's incompatible, but it's Sokolovian.
How do I know this? He used to work at CWRU before he made death threats against the president and VP of IS. Then they threw him in the nuthouse. Apparently he's loose again and on the rampage.
It's been mentioned before that this article isn't about blocking but about shaping Napster and other protocols so as to consume less bandwidth.
Personally, I think that this is a sweet idea whose time has come. If used correctly this could solve a good portion of the QoS problems that plague bandwidth-limited organizations.
I mean really, why should students be able to slurp up all of the bandwidth at a university at the expense of legitimate services like the campus web server? Sure students (or whoever) should be allowed to use Napster (or whatever), just not at the expense of the legitimate functions of the network.
The beauty of shaping is that you can do this without having to descriminate between multiple network segments (i.e. the student dorms are universally bandwidth controlled for every protocol). So you don't have to screw over certain people entirely (just screw everybody partially) in order to achieve the desired result.
Not only do I remember them, but I tried the Solaris one out the other day on an Ultra 5.
Although Microsoft's site isn't very clear (there are a lot of conflicting stories on different pages), IE 5 has been released for HP/UX and Solaris. <P> I might add that it didn't work at all. Outlook Express did work, though.
First, to answer your question: Yes, I have used every RedHat release for the last several years. In fact, I used to exclusively use RedHat. As a systems administrator for an ISP, I think that that qualifies me to say whether or not the releases are acceptable.
I don't know what your beef can possibly be with 5.2, as that is perhaps the only good release they've done in a long time. Now, I'm not talking about good as in compatibility with Quake or WINE or some stuff like that. I'm talking about pure reliability. And with the exception of polished releases like 4.2 and 5.2, RedHat has not had this in suitable amounts for quite some time.
One more point in my rant. I attempted to install 6.1 the other day (this is what lead to my conversion), and could not even get the installer to function properly. After spending several hours with it, I continually got installer script errors.
Short list of horrible RedHat problems of yore
Shipping developmental libraries/kernels/etc. with custom patches that make things work. But not quite.
Linuxconf (yes, it has improved, but that is a recent thing)
15-20 security patches per version. Yes, they are released quickly, but some auditing would stop the majority of them in the first place.
Specifically to RH6.0: GNOME losing preferences constantly, and other related problems
I could go on and on. And if you could see the redhat-list archives of the last few years, you would see people complaining about the same problems from release to release.
To tell you the truth, from just the Slashdot article (I've been a bad boy, I didn't actually read the linked articles), it doesn't sound like RedHat is "getting back on track".
In fact, it sounds like they continue to cater more and more towards corporate users or purchasers of their commercial package. Which is fine, except that they also have a certain responsibility to those of us who AREN'T paying customers. Strange but true.
Frankly, I think that RedHat is going to be in seriouis trouble once a lot of people realize that they're recent releases (4.0, 5.0, 6.0, 6.1 for instance) are horrible and that the competition (Linux-Mandrake for instance) is way ahead in terms of actually getting things working correctly.
I've used RedHat for a long, long time now; but the other night I formatted and moved on. First they didn't have the quality to warrant my money, and now they don't have the quality to warrant my bandwidth.
Yeah, just the RAM. That's all that you could ever upgrade with these (you could add IR with some RAM upgrades if you needed it). Just about any Palm can go up to 8M with the right upgrade, so go forth and install.
e and x have different amounts of RAM too. But you're right, there were more differences between Pro and Personal (Personal didn't have networking stuff, which bit).
Doesn't the V have a modem? Or is that the VII or whatever? I'm having trouble keeping them straight.
Hey man, those big executives always get the big bucks. $18,000 a month only works out to be $216,000 a year; that's not too bad for a CEO! Especially since it's unlikely that he's getting any stock options (stock options in what?).
Don't get me wrong, I think it's silly. But that's not really very uncommon.
Using the Net to hold teleconferences requires high-speed connections, by the way (well, I guess not...but ugh). Maybe ICANN doesn't have them?:)
I believe you're talking about Tannenbaum's comment during the "Linux is obsolete" flameware in comp.os.minix.
He said:
"I still maintain the point that designing a monolithic kernel in 1991 is a fundamental error. Be thankful you are not my student. You would not get a high grade for such a design:-)"
That's a better AppleInsider article to link to, in my opinion.
So, according to the article, Apple has purchased the rights to use Fraunhoefer's actual reference code for use in QuickTime as opposed to using someone else's implementation or creating their own.
OK, I can believe that. I mean, why not get the best?
But, I don't think that this is meant to imply that Apple is now the sole owner of Fraunhoefer's reference implementation.
It's just you. MP3 has never been a free standard; Fraunhoefer has been after people for making free implementations of encoders for a long time.
I'm not sure of their stance on MP3 players anymore (I seem to recall a recent decision to allow players without a license), but you must pay Fraunhoefer a certain amount of money if you make an MP3 encoder.
MPEG standards are certainly "open", but there are very few ISO (and similar) standards that are also "free".
What does a CD ripper have to do with MP3 encoding?
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The real problem with "yuppie food stamps" ($20 bills) is that they're worthless in a lot of contexts. Need quarters to do laundry? It may be hard to find a changer that takes things other than 1's, 5's, and 10's. Even if it does take 20's, some machines will accept the bill if it has less than $20 in change inside it and then give you $5 or $10 worth.
The moral of the story is, I hate 20's.
If you think you're getting it in my will now, you're in for a shock.
You probably don't even remember when the topic icons were added to the top of the page!
Frankly I'm surprised you can understand it either, with a UID as high as 212035!
What were you guys doing when Slashdot started taking accounts, reading Byte?
I've got a whole lab full of Solaris workstations for X and shell access to students. General usage is low, but there is a core of people who use them every day.
I've been thinking about opening up access beyond Case, but not too hard.
I hope that I can hear the 1108 Thugz on an elevator soon. Preferably Fast Food Fuckin', but I'm not picky.
Who even has one of these fabled UIDs?
If it's an iMac or a Cube we're talking about, then the reference board has you beat 2 to 0 on PCI Slots. Same goes for their laptops, obviously. So hopefully this is a G4 minitower or older Mac that you're sticking to.
Yeah, I cry myself to sleep every night thinking about what might have been. 10 is a nice number too though. I wonder what it would fetch on Ebay.
As it happens, I did notice that Macromedia's website was unavailable last week. I was going there to download Flash or something of the sort. After making sure that my general Internet access was still operating, I gave up and tried again a few days later.
<P>
The important part is that I had no idea why Macromedia's site wasn't responding. Presumably due to some kind of legitimate, undesired situation on their end somewhere. I never would have expected this to be the reason.
<P>
All this blocking by MAPS and Above.net resulted in was me, a user who has never received e-mail from Macromedia, being unable to do what I wanted to. Neither my employer or me are Above.net customers, nor are we users of MAPS. We had no idea of what was going on (that it had been blocked due to "spam"), and we were not in favor of the action being taken.
<P>
Nevertheless, we were affected by the actions of MAPS and Above.net, as were Macromedia. That isn't very acceptable to me. Is this supposed to be for my own good?
Lately I haven't had any trouble finding Playstation 2's in stores, and I'm not even interested in buying one. I have yet to ever see one in a store like Best Buy, but places like Funcoland, Target and Wal-Mart seem to always have at least one.
I always have better luck going to the more unusual game sellers, it seems like everyone else just knows about Best Buy and Babbages.
http://minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au/ Quasijarus/tmachine.html
Another project of Quasijarus and the demented mind of Agent Sokolov.
He's obsessed with 4.3BSD, and is trying to recreate pristine sources of it so as to continue to use it well into the next millenium (with as few modifications as possible, of course).
He thinks that 10BaseT is the "evil intruder" in the world of network cabling; 10Base2 is acceptable, but 10Base5 is the One True Cable.
He made his own version of gzip and switched one of the bytes in the header; it's incompatible, but it's Sokolovian.
How do I know this? He used to work at CWRU before he made death threats against the president and VP of IS. Then they threw him in the nuthouse. Apparently he's loose again and on the rampage.
Personally, I think that this is a sweet idea whose time has come. If used correctly this could solve a good portion of the QoS problems that plague bandwidth-limited organizations.
I mean really, why should students be able to slurp up all of the bandwidth at a university at the expense of legitimate services like the campus web server? Sure students (or whoever) should be allowed to use Napster (or whatever), just not at the expense of the legitimate functions of the network.
The beauty of shaping is that you can do this without having to descriminate between multiple network segments (i.e. the student dorms are universally bandwidth controlled for every protocol). So you don't have to screw over certain people entirely (just screw everybody partially) in order to achieve the desired result.
Cha-ching!
Although Microsoft's site isn't very clear (there are a lot of conflicting stories on different pages), IE 5 has been released for HP/UX and Solaris.
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I might add that it didn't work at all. Outlook Express did work, though.
I don't know what your beef can possibly be with 5.2, as that is perhaps the only good release they've done in a long time. Now, I'm not talking about good as in compatibility with Quake or WINE or some stuff like that. I'm talking about pure reliability. And with the exception of polished releases like 4.2 and 5.2, RedHat has not had this in suitable amounts for quite some time.
One more point in my rant. I attempted to install 6.1 the other day (this is what lead to my conversion), and could not even get the installer to function properly. After spending several hours with it, I continually got installer script errors.
Short list of horrible RedHat problems of yore
I could go on and on. And if you could see the redhat-list archives of the last few years, you would see people complaining about the same problems from release to release.
In fact, it sounds like they continue to cater more and more towards corporate users or purchasers of their commercial package. Which is fine, except that they also have a certain responsibility to those of us who AREN'T paying customers. Strange but true.
Frankly, I think that RedHat is going to be in seriouis trouble once a lot of people realize that they're recent releases (4.0, 5.0, 6.0, 6.1 for instance) are horrible and that the competition (Linux-Mandrake for instance) is way ahead in terms of actually getting things working correctly.
I've used RedHat for a long, long time now; but the other night I formatted and moved on. First they didn't have the quality to warrant my money, and now they don't have the quality to warrant my bandwidth.
Yeah, just the RAM. That's all that you could ever upgrade with these (you could add IR with some RAM upgrades if you needed it). Just about any Palm can go up to 8M with the right upgrade, so go forth and install.
e and x have different amounts of RAM too. But you're right, there were more differences between Pro and Personal (Personal didn't have networking stuff, which bit).
Doesn't the V have a modem? Or is that the VII or whatever? I'm having trouble keeping them straight.
It seems to me like they're back to the PalmPilot Pro/Personal kind of thing again, after a brief stint with only one model (III).
When you think about it, the IIIe and IIIx are basically the equivalents to the Pro and Personal of years gone by.
The big difference now is that there's also the Palm V, which is (in my opinion) the killer Palm. I'd love to have one, if I wasn't poor.
Hey man, those big executives always get the big bucks. $18,000 a month only works out to be $216,000 a year; that's not too bad for a CEO! Especially since it's unlikely that he's getting any stock options (stock options in what?).
:)
Don't get me wrong, I think it's silly. But that's not really very uncommon.
Using the Net to hold teleconferences requires high-speed connections, by the way (well, I guess not...but ugh). Maybe ICANN doesn't have them?
Without INTEL, AMD would take the market by storm, for the fact that they would be the only serious x86 chip manufacturer.
If INTEL falls, AMD will look more like another company we all know.
INTEL is fighting for the customer, we need to fight to INTEL.
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See: Linux is ObsoleteThat's a better AppleInsider article to link to, in my opinion.
So, according to the article, Apple has purchased the rights to use Fraunhoefer's actual reference code for use in QuickTime as opposed to using someone else's implementation or creating their own.
OK, I can believe that. I mean, why not get the best?
But, I don't think that this is meant to imply that Apple is now the sole owner of Fraunhoefer's reference implementation.
I'll bid about tree-fity.
(No, I'm not the Loch Ness Monster)
It's just you. MP3 has never been a free standard; Fraunhoefer has been after people for making free implementations of encoders for a long time.
I'm not sure of their stance on MP3 players anymore (I seem to recall a recent decision to allow players without a license), but you must pay Fraunhoefer a certain amount of money if you make an MP3 encoder.
MPEG standards are certainly "open", but there are very few ISO (and similar) standards that are also "free".
What does a CD ripper have to do with MP3 encoding?