For some reason, when I read "Political Leaning and Free Software", I was presuming the exact opposite of what the article went on to say. My thoughts were: those pot-smoking-hippie-leftists would like free software, because it's "free" as in "Freebird", "free-spirited", etc.
However, speaking as someone that is often called an "ultra-conservative" (and I don't argue that), perhaps the appeal of free software is the "free" as in "free beer" aspect, because we are fiscally conservative. If we can save ourselves from spending a couple of hundred dollars on an operating system, a couple hundred more on an office suite... you're damn right we're going to find some way out of paying that. In my case, free software is keeping me from resorting to piracy:)
jZnat, I have run my own DNS servers for many years, and I can now be completely free of that burden thanks to OpenDNS. Take a look at http://www.opendns.org/ and some of the features they have. Working for a global corporation, my favorite feature is their impressive infrastructure- DNS queries are just milliseconds away no matter your location in the world. Let's see your "do-it-yourself" DNS box do that:)
Now that we are educated on what the ads support- I would like to comment on the ads themselves. They are extremely Adwords-esque- minimally intrusive and well-targeted. The most prominent feature on the search/phishing blocked/etc. page is the logo that YOU upload.
This has nothing to do with ICANN and global DNS policy- just better service to end-users.
I highly recommend OpenDNS, available for free at http://www.opendns.com./ They also redirect your typos to a search page, but you can brand the pages with your own logos. They provide many other useful services such as phishing site blocking and DNS usage statistics. You don't even need an account to use their DNS servers, if you don't want the statistics and custom settings.
I have 7/24 networks registered with them now, and I can't thank them enough. I have zero DNS problems now, and it even seems much faster.
Leaving our passwords after we die is actually part of the company policy for my employer. I am required to disclose any passwords used in case of my own death.
a better standard (referring to PNG) , though sadly still a less popular one
Not that I'm trying to be flamebait for OSDN, but the very icons applied to this article (in the upper-right corner) are none other than the very GIF standard that was put down in this article. Just thought I'd point that out.
I'm not sure what the reasoning is behind it, but vehicles over a certain GVWR (e.g. light-medium duty trucks or pickups) are excluded from being rated for gas mileage by the EPA. So, in buying fleet vehicles, etc. we're always left to guess. However, as far as Ford vehicles go (my personal favourite), I've found that vehicles rated by the EPA generally perform the same as vehicles not rated by the EPA with similar engines as far as gas mileage goes. Sorry to bore you, I guess this was just another troll of mine for an "informative" moderation.
It's my theory that the vulnerabilities are there on Apple, but nobody cares enough about the platform to find them. Windows vulnerabilities are found so frequently because it's the most popular platform in the world. Einstein. Everything is relative. In fact, I've been finding myself saying that so much, I think I'll invent a new pop-culture Internet acronym: EIR.
My father's architecture firm has begun to outsource to India for their basic drafting (due to a number of things, including the threat of unionizing drafters). How does this compare to the high-tech industries in terms of what the low man on the totem pole gets paid and in terms of the popularity of this job?
Open-sourced and free software follow the process of evolution (whether you like it or not, Jesse Jackson!). One person gets it, changes it to be more useful to them, and instantly its more useful to 10's, 100's, or 1000's more. The US government, on the other hand, is so damned systematic, they will follow these rules in obtaining software:
Software that functions to their needs
The lowest bidder ... and, from experience, if you create software that the government needs and no one else has, you charge any price you want, and they will pay it- no questions asked, thanks to the "system". So, to make a long story short, what logic is there in NOT charging the government for software?
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I truely have a pile of floppies with hundreds of disks and after about 1 year of not using them, even the brand new ones,I'm convinced that more than 99% of them not only lose their data, but also lose their capability to be reused.
Th best solution: Network backups! All you have to do is decide the load, and use workgroup, departmental and campus wide servers. 20,000 students with 8MB of data on the server each is about 400GB, which is about $2300 worth of hard drives in a server (using generic 70GB IDE drives from a price I pulled out of my head). Not a bad price to a 20,000 user environment, and, centralized data is very convenient. I don't even put floppy drives in most of my computers any more! I hope this helps.
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From the agreement:...Any other use, including, modification, reproduction, uploading, posting, transmission, or distribution in any form or by any means without ZapMedia's prior written permission, is strictly prohibited...
So we have to ask before we hack:)
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Admittedly, I'm sometimes known to play QIII or Asheron's Call as "I Like Routers":). Here's my dream: have Linux run *on top* of IOS, and then use Linux to console into IOS! Now THAT is what I call fun! Who cares how much a router costs? As long as its entertaining (and it is) its ok in my book. I'm going to have to go and find the article that was run a few weeks ago about "Text Based Quake 1...hehehe....I'm getting ahead of myself, I guess. If I could, I would give everyone here a router just to try this! (send requests to rob@cybertime.net):)
Now that I think of it, here's my next project: OpenNeXT prompt on Cisco routers! Woohoo! (Yes, I'm wussy and want to try it on native processor:) )
flames, etc. to rob@cybertime.net. I actually have routers, so suggestions to rob@cybertime.net, too.
Good luck to the developers, and my compliments
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That is a good idea, but the issue there is software drivers. That's the big difference between a "PC" and an "APPLIANCE". They're usually odd non-open-sourced crap.
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I didn't really self-censor it, at least I didn't mean to. I was just trying to point out my point of view: Technology, to me, is work, play and everything in between. I should never be taken seriously:)
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I either agree or disagree with you. Here are the conditions:
-If you are using Linux PPC, *slap* buy a new machine -If you are using Alpha Linux, you're my friend:)
It seems that power in numbers means that the power draws more numbers. Usually Windows®, and now its x86 Linux...no matter how much you resist, it is always the laziest way (my way) to go with the flow.
Metallica may not have had this intention at first, but they certainly do now. What better way to advertise than make news worldwide whilst trying to 'make the world a better place'?
BUY A BILLBOARD, METALLICA!
Of the potentially thousands of MP3s I have downloaded, only approximately half have infringed copyright, and only maybe two or three were Metallica songs (which I already owned).
With the advent of MP3's, Metallica and other groups were certainly a loss, but certainly not enough to be substantial. I don't understand how they can worry about losing a few sales when they're behind their 21" Dell® Trinitron® monitors attached to machines with 1GHz processors while I'm still sitting here putting along with my Pentium II Xeon 400. My apologies, but that's the best of my ability of analogy-making:).
I would hope that this will settle without much of an impact on either the music media or electronic music industry. Metallica saw an opportunity to market and took it, and although I don't blame them, it has now gone too far and needs to come to a screeching RISC-processor halt (I did it again).
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Watch out for the outlaw booger on page 5!
For some reason, when I read "Political Leaning and Free Software", I was presuming the exact opposite of what the article went on to say. My thoughts were: those pot-smoking-hippie-leftists would like free software, because it's "free" as in "Freebird", "free-spirited", etc.
However, speaking as someone that is often called an "ultra-conservative" (and I don't argue that), perhaps the appeal of free software is the "free" as in "free beer" aspect, because we are fiscally conservative. If we can save ourselves from spending a couple of hundred dollars on an operating system, a couple hundred more on an office suite... you're damn right we're going to find some way out of paying that. In my case, free software is keeping me from resorting to piracy
jZnat, I have run my own DNS servers for many years, and I can now be completely free of that burden thanks to OpenDNS. Take a look at http://www.opendns.org/ and some of the features they have. Working for a global corporation, my favorite feature is their impressive infrastructure- DNS queries are just milliseconds away no matter your location in the world. Let's see your "do-it-yourself" DNS box do that :)
Now that we are educated on what the ads support- I would like to comment on the ads themselves. They are extremely Adwords-esque- minimally intrusive and well-targeted. The most prominent feature on the search/phishing blocked/etc. page is the logo that YOU upload.
This has nothing to do with ICANN and global DNS policy- just better service to end-users.
David:
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You're welcome for the plug! OPENDNS IS THE GREATEST THING EVER.
(All caps is an inside joke
I highly recommend OpenDNS, available for free at http://www.opendns.com./ They also redirect your typos to a search page, but you can brand the pages with your own logos. They provide many other useful services such as phishing site blocking and DNS usage statistics. You don't even need an account to use their DNS servers, if you don't want the statistics and custom settings.
/24 networks registered with them now, and I can't thank them enough. I have zero DNS problems now, and it even seems much faster.
I have 7
Leaving our passwords after we die is actually part of the company policy for my employer. I am required to disclose any passwords used in case of my own death.
Blame the guy that doesn't speak English (or, in the case of outsourcing to India, the guy the *does* speak English)
a better standard (referring to PNG) , though sadly still a less popular one
Not that I'm trying to be flamebait for OSDN, but the very icons applied to this article (in the upper-right corner) are none other than the very GIF standard that was put down in this article. Just thought I'd point that out.
I'm not sure what the reasoning is behind it, but vehicles over a certain GVWR (e.g. light-medium duty trucks or pickups) are excluded from being rated for gas mileage by the EPA. So, in buying fleet vehicles, etc. we're always left to guess. However, as far as Ford vehicles go (my personal favourite), I've found that vehicles rated by the EPA generally perform the same as vehicles not rated by the EPA with similar engines as far as gas mileage goes. Sorry to bore you, I guess this was just another troll of mine for an "informative" moderation.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=103769&cid=884 4370
Thanks for proving my point, weekendwarrior1980
It's my theory that the vulnerabilities are there on Apple, but nobody cares enough about the platform to find them. Windows vulnerabilities are found so frequently because it's the most popular platform in the world. Einstein. Everything is relative. In fact, I've been finding myself saying that so much, I think I'll invent a new pop-culture Internet acronym: EIR.
My father's architecture firm has begun to outsource to India for their basic drafting (due to a number of things, including the threat of unionizing drafters). How does this compare to the high-tech industries in terms of what the low man on the totem pole gets paid and in terms of the popularity of this job?
Is it a reward?
A) Why isn't this a poll?
B) IMPORTANT people don't have desktops, sometimes semi-important people have consoles.
C) How about CmdrTaco?
Software that functions to their needs
The lowest bidder
... and, from experience, if you create software that the government needs and no one else has, you charge any price you want, and they will pay it- no questions asked, thanks to the "system". So, to make a long story short, what logic is there in NOT charging the government for software?
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Intelligence should not be rewarded; ignorance should be punished
I truely have a pile of floppies with hundreds of disks and after about 1 year of not using them, even the brand new ones,I'm convinced that more than 99% of them not only lose their data, but also lose their capability to be reused. Th best solution: Network backups! All you have to do is decide the load, and use workgroup, departmental and campus wide servers. 20,000 students with 8MB of data on the server each is about 400GB, which is about $2300 worth of hard drives in a server (using generic 70GB IDE drives from a price I pulled out of my head). Not a bad price to a 20,000 user environment, and, centralized data is very convenient. I don't even put floppy drives in most of my computers any more! I hope this helps.
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Intelligence should not be rewarded; ignorance should be punished
From the agreement: ...Any other use, including, modification, reproduction, uploading, posting, transmission, or distribution in any form or by any means without ZapMedia's prior written permission, is strictly prohibited...
So we have to ask before we hack :)
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Intelligence should not be rewarded; ignorance should be punished
Admittedly, I'm sometimes known to play QIII or Asheron's Call as "I Like Routers" :). Here's my dream: have Linux run *on top* of IOS, and then use Linux to console into IOS! Now THAT is what I call fun! Who cares how much a router costs? As long as its entertaining (and it is) its ok in my book. I'm going to have to go and find the article that was run a few weeks ago about "Text Based Quake 1...hehehe....I'm getting ahead of myself, I guess. If I could, I would give everyone here a router just to try this! (send requests to rob@cybertime.net) :)
:) )
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Now that I think of it, here's my next project: OpenNeXT prompt on Cisco routers! Woohoo! (Yes, I'm wussy and want to try it on native processor
flames, etc. to rob@cybertime.net. I actually have routers, so suggestions to rob@cybertime.net, too.
Good luck to the developers, and my compliments
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Intelligence should not be rewarded; ignorance should be punished
That is a good idea, but the issue there is software drivers. That's the big difference between a "PC" and an "APPLIANCE". They're usually odd non-open-sourced crap.
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Intelligence should not be rewarded; ignorance should be punished
I didn't really self-censor it, at least I didn't mean to. I was just trying to point out my point of view: Technology, to me, is work, play and everything in between. I should never be taken seriously :)
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This is Slashdot....Technology is liesure time! :)
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How long is this not-so-scientist planning to take to think things through? By hearing the words "back yard", I think of a week :)
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Now that you mention flamebait:
:)
I either agree or disagree with you. Here are the conditions:
-If you are using Linux PPC, *slap* buy a new machine
-If you are using Alpha Linux, you're my friend
It seems that power in numbers means that the power draws more numbers. Usually Windows®, and now its x86 Linux...no matter how much you resist, it is always the laziest way (my way) to go with the flow.
Metallica may not have had this intention at first, but they certainly do now. What better way to advertise than make news worldwide whilst trying to 'make the world a better place'?
BUY A BILLBOARD, METALLICA!
Of the potentially thousands of MP3s I have downloaded, only approximately half have infringed copyright, and only maybe two or three were Metallica songs (which I already owned).
With the advent of MP3's, Metallica and other groups were certainly a loss, but certainly not enough to be substantial. I don't understand how they can worry about losing a few sales when they're behind their 21" Dell® Trinitron® monitors attached to machines with 1GHz processors while I'm still sitting here putting along with my Pentium II Xeon 400. My apologies, but that's the best of my ability of analogy-making :).
I would hope that this will settle without much of an impact on either the music media or electronic music industry. Metallica saw an opportunity to market and took it, and although I don't blame them, it has now gone too far and needs to come to a screeching RISC-processor halt (I did it again).