I love mine. The entire 900 line has given me nothing but sticky sweet high throughput... I know nothing of their quality record, but I've never had a bad one.
As people have now figured out, Microsoft forgot to pay $35 to renew passport.com, and NSI pulled the record out of the root servers for it. It isn't just passport.com, they appear to have run something on the 23rd which cleaned out every record which was 2-3 months overdue. I noticed a few other domains dissapear this morning which look almost the same in dig as passport.com does right now.
Is this a monthly thing for NSI? Or are they really idiots enough that they started cracking down on late payments, at a time when noone would know until Christmas day? It's almost like they were getting kickbacks from Motorola because not enough people send pages on Christmas. (sorry, so many people have been posting really idiotic Linux vs NT vs BSD messages over this, when it's only what the root-servers are running that could possibly matter)
Anyone transfered a domain from NSI to a competitor yet? Did it hurt? I have two with NSI, and stupidity like this has caused me to hate their idea of good service.
It will be nice to see people learing about how open source can benifit them. Reading their website, they already have a phone which can run Windows CE. With the chances of Microsoft giving out source code being between slim and none, linux gives them a chance to rework the OS around the specific add-on hardware, and add whatever sort of a GUI they see fit. With as cheap and as small as old 386 hardware can be done these days, along with other processor types that linux has been ported to, this is probably just one of the first of many.
It'll also be interesting to see if any of the hand-held vendors go a similar direction, due to the lack of source, stability, and customization available with Windows CE, combined with the high expense of writing an operating system from scratch.
As I read through alot of this and other threads, I notice many people getting ready to DOS them off the face of the earth. By flooding their mailboxes, you make sure that they will not have a chance to read any of the well thought out (but probably still scathing) responses to their action.
By all means, I'm not saying don't flame them. I'm working on an email in french which might blister some of the paint... But I'd really appreciate it, if there was a chance that they might hear some of us.
I know Slashdot is hardly known for it, but it'd be nice to show some maturity.
More on topic: I think that actions such as these are a disgrace, the warrent should never have been issued or served. They said that their first concern in all of this was that the MIT site came up first in a search engine... Isn't that evidence enough? When they are sending out a journal by that name, and also have a web site using it, what does searching the premisis do besides constitute harassment?
I almost hope someone is getting the facts wrong here, because this is amazingly stupid.
I really like the job CNN did on this one. While the questions are a touch lame in many cases, they allowed both to speak for themselves. While I don't like the suit definition of hacker, it still seems like he knows what is going on when it security. It's a shame that/. can't interview government security professionals. It'd be nice to find out if/how espionage has changed due to computers. Anyone from the NSA want to give us a briefing:-)? I can't say that anything Goldstein said came as much of a surprise.
As an offtopic aside... 2600 seems to be sharing the same fate as Saturday Night Live. They both used to be great.
3 things. 2 offtopic... 1) You can't get a 1600 on the math, just on the combined 2) Yes, it's really easy to get a combined 1600, and lots of people do ( at least I know several who did )... I'm shocked that getting a 1600 is still landing people on TV... 3) It's easy to bluff anything like this... IQ tests are a great example. Due to a minor physical handicap (I was able to demonstrate that I couldn't help my bad handwriting, and therefore couldn't be penalized for it:-)) in high school, I was required to take IQ tests on multiple occations. Giving honest answers I usually would get 145-155, but when I was having some fun my range was 95-185. Moral of the story... it's usually dumb to evaluate someone and represent it as a number.
Everything in the article talks about how this software won't be used until an incident has actually happened. AFAIK, every one of the shootings which have happened over the last few years, almost all of them came after no previous problems. Since this has been the case, the only way that this is going to be useful, is to screen all students.
One of the other things mentioned, is that the information is entered by the administrators, not the students. While this works as far as keeping people from lying, it does nothing towards keeping the people in charge from filling the blanks in the data, with guesses based on stereotype.
This software is going to allow anyone who suspects a student of having a trend towards violence, to back up that claim by tending to answer questions in a way supporting their claim. Directly from the article, "Mosaic's immediate virtue would be in producing detailed documentation of its evaluation of a troubled student so that doubting parents could no longer challenge an administrator's judgment as too subjective."
I wonder if it asks about hours a day reading/... sigh..
Re:I have heard some bad things about Red Cross
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Sigh... Another uninformed post on/. You donate blood, but it costs quite a bit to get that blood to a point where it can be used. I don't know the exact breakdown, but I'd guess that most of the cost comes from testing. You really want blood with HIV in it? On top of that, there are costs from transportation, separation of blood into plasma/solids, repackaging, etc. They do in fact charge the hospitals more for the blood, than it cost to get it there, but they use blood to fund other efforts which they do not charge for.
If they're recooping their costs/making profits on blood, where does your donation go? Most of the money donated to the Red Cross goes towards disaster relief. Of the $1.964 billion spent by the Red Cross in fiscal 1997-1998, $1.791 billion or 91 percent, was spent on programs designed to meet the needs of people, leaving $174 million, or 9 percent for overall administration and fundraising.
I've worked with the Red Cross quite a few times in the past, and I have no clue what you are talking about with them charging high prices for food/drinks while working for them.
Next time consider some research. All of their audited financial reports are available off of their site, www.redcross.org
While most of the actual tech companies seem to have gone for a more relaxed dress code, the same is not yet true in IT departments of normal companies. As of about half a year ago, the insurance company I was working for still required men to wear a button down shirt, and tie. ( They had much more lax dress codes for females, but that is another debate for another time ).
During the time that I worked for them, my project group was moved to a facility of it's own, and the project team was allowed to wear just "business casual" (polo shirt and khakis for the most part). When one of the VP's got wind of this, he blew his stack and demanded that we comply with company dress code.
Needless to say, this same company does not have much luck with younger developers.
As far as there being no real shortage of tech workers... That may be what the stats say, but just last week I was at a job fair where companies looking for CS majors outnumbered the actual graduating students, almost 2-1 (and that's assuming that none of the students go to grad school). We may be heading for something worse, but it doesn't seem bleak yet...
Whenever I hear about a new search engine, like many other people on/., I have a set of queries that I tend to try. My results were that it seemed somewhere in the ballpark with Google and AltaVista as far as numbers. One of the things that they pride themselves on, is the ability to check more often and catch broken links faster... If this is the case, why am I seeing more broken links off of their engine than any of the other major ones. They are getting the same pages, but the other engines wiped these pages out quite a while ago because they were no longer current.
It doesn't seem like most people are beating on you here ( at least those of us who actually took the time to read the article ). This probably wasn't the best way for Rob to find out about how stupid his PR firm was making him sound, but your article seems to be making fun of the hype and the PR. Did I miss something?
If you had read the article you would realize that the suit IS against those who posted, and not Yahoo. ( the article makes it very clear that they are not charged )
Hopefully we will be seeing these outside of mainframes and SGI's before too long has passed. It makes you wonder what will happen when the capacity exists to pass around mpeg2's like people do mp3's. Any word on how large these things are going to be? The article doesn't mention it...
The beginning of this interview is a little funny, in how they have trouble accepting the lack of a management structure. This seems to be a theme in many of the acceptance problems with Linux, and other open source projects. There needs to be a better way to explain Open Management ( for the lack of a better term ) to companies with a structure more rigid than my sun 4/330's case ( that's really rigid:) ) I need my coffee
OK, must remember to have coffee BEFORE posting in the future. What I mean is that it doesn't have to be visible on your license, meaning that any person you show your license to doen't now know your SSN.
I really doubt that there is a 1996 law requiring SSN's on driver's licenses. Considering how many states started removing it, or giving you the option to remove it around that time, it just wouldn't make sense. Besides, your SSN is never supposed to be used as an ID number outside of tax purposes. ( not that many people follow this, but it is true )
Re:Speaking of laptops, what about a SPARCbook?
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I bought one already... People have had luck with linux on them, exp with later version 2.2.x kernels on them. Unfortunatly the special tadpole notebook tools ( for dealing with PCMCIA APM and suspend ) only work under solaris 2.5 and 2.6, not linux, or sloaris 7. Good thing this didn't get a real mention on/.:-)
But where does a "direct connection" go? It's not like there is some central router in the set of networks known as the internet. Two things:
1) Yes, everyone can have their own IP address... But where are they going to buy it from? Single IP addresses, scattered across the internet, just don't work. There is no router that could keep up with that kind of routing table. While an ISP may no longer be needed to loan you an IP address, you're still going to want them to sell you one. If there's no route to you, then being on the internet is useless.
2) The other major service that the ISP's provide, is a good connection to the networks you want to get to. Sure, you have an ADSL connection to Bell Atlantic, or another physical-layer provider, but wouldn't it be nice to be connected to usefull networks? You need an ISP because you don't have the money to connect into UUNET's backbone or MAE-EAST.
There are many internet users who have never used an ISP for anything more than getting an IP address, and connecting to the networks that make up the internet. This hasn't changed, and it doesn't look like it's going to soon.
Once the computers that reside on most people's desktops are fast enough, and have enough/fast enough storage, the speach recognition that you will be able to do will be amazing. Products like NaturallySpeaking aren't using all of the technology/techniques that they could be just because the computers that would be required, wouldn't be practical. Here at CMU they've been doing speech recognition since the 70's, and there are currently projects in the works that blow away everything currently on the market... But they probably won't run on your computer.
Yes, but a pirated copy of OSS is still pirated software on your computer. Heck, at this point OSS is probably the *only* non-free software on my computer ( yes, I own it ). Besides the fact that you are hurting one of the few companies willing to do commercial software on Linux, you are also braging about doing something illegal in a forum that is read by many people ( probably including the makers of OSS ). At least be a little bright and post as an AC.
I never suggested anything master/slave, I was talking about techniques for making it posible for each node to reach another node in a reasonable time. A master/slave relationship would imply a tree sort of structure. Oh, and BTW, I have PVM up and running on my Linux boxes, which are setup as a mini-Beowulf cluster.
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I love mine. The entire 900 line has given me nothing but sticky sweet high throughput... I know nothing of their quality record, but I've never had a bad one.
As people have now figured out, Microsoft forgot to pay $35 to renew passport.com, and NSI pulled the record out of the root servers for it. It isn't just passport.com, they appear to have run something on the 23rd which cleaned out every record which was 2-3 months overdue. I noticed a few other domains dissapear this morning which look almost the same in dig as passport.com does right now.
Is this a monthly thing for NSI? Or are they really idiots enough that they started cracking down on late payments, at a time when noone would know until Christmas day? It's almost like they were getting kickbacks from Motorola because not enough people send pages on Christmas. (sorry, so many people have been posting really idiotic Linux vs NT vs BSD messages over this, when it's only what the root-servers are running that could possibly matter)
Anyone transfered a domain from NSI to a competitor yet? Did it hurt? I have two with NSI, and stupidity like this has caused me to hate their idea of good service.
It will be nice to see people learing about how open source can benifit them. Reading their website, they already have a phone which can run Windows CE. With the chances of Microsoft giving out source code being between slim and none, linux gives them a chance to rework the OS around the specific add-on hardware, and add whatever sort of a GUI they see fit. With as cheap and as small as old 386 hardware can be done these days, along with other processor types that linux has been ported to, this is probably just one of the first of many.
It'll also be interesting to see if any of the hand-held vendors go a similar direction, due to the lack of source, stability, and customization available with Windows CE, combined with the high expense of writing an operating system from scratch.
As I read through alot of this and other threads, I notice many people getting ready to DOS them off the face of the earth. By flooding their mailboxes, you make sure that they will not have a chance to read any of the well thought out (but probably still scathing) responses to their action.
By all means, I'm not saying don't flame them. I'm working on an email in french which might blister some of the paint... But I'd really appreciate it, if there was a chance that they might hear some of us.
I know Slashdot is hardly known for it, but it'd be nice to show some maturity.
More on topic: I think that actions such as these are a disgrace, the warrent should never have been issued or served. They said that their first concern in all of this was that the MIT site came up first in a search engine... Isn't that evidence enough? When they are sending out a journal by that name, and also have a web site using it, what does searching the premisis do besides constitute harassment?
I almost hope someone is getting the facts wrong here, because this is amazingly stupid.
I hate to tell you this, but the Matrix is 7.8G... It is dual layered. (as an aside, it works just fine in my sony)
I really like the job CNN did on this one. While the questions are a touch lame in many cases, they allowed both to speak for themselves. While I don't like the suit definition of hacker, it still seems like he knows what is going on when it security. It's a shame that /. can't interview government security professionals. It'd be nice to find out if/how espionage has changed due to computers. Anyone from the NSA want to give us a briefing :-)? I can't say that anything Goldstein said came as much of a surprise.
As an offtopic aside... 2600 seems to be sharing the same fate as Saturday Night Live. They both used to be great.
3 things. 2 offtopic... :-)) in high school, I was required to take IQ tests on multiple occations. Giving honest answers I usually would get 145-155, but when I was having some fun my range was 95-185. Moral of the story... it's usually dumb to evaluate someone and represent it as a number.
1) You can't get a 1600 on the math, just on the combined
2) Yes, it's really easy to get a combined 1600, and lots of people do ( at least I know several who did )... I'm shocked that getting a 1600 is still landing people on TV...
3) It's easy to bluff anything like this... IQ tests are a great example. Due to a minor physical handicap (I was able to demonstrate that I couldn't help my bad handwriting, and therefore couldn't be penalized for it
Everything in the article talks about how this software won't be used until an incident has actually happened. AFAIK, every one of the shootings which have happened over the last few years, almost all of them came after no previous problems. Since this has been the case, the only way that this is going to be useful, is to screen all students.
/. .. sigh..
One of the other things mentioned, is that the information is entered by the administrators, not the students. While this works as far as keeping people from lying, it does nothing towards keeping the people in charge from filling the blanks in the data, with guesses based on stereotype.
This software is going to allow anyone who suspects a student of having a trend towards violence, to back up that claim by tending to answer questions in a way supporting their claim. Directly from the article, "Mosaic's immediate virtue would be in producing detailed documentation of its evaluation of a troubled student so that doubting parents could no longer challenge an administrator's judgment as too subjective."
I wonder if it asks about hours a day reading
Sigh... Another uninformed post on /. You donate blood, but it costs quite a bit to get that blood to a point where it can be used. I don't know the exact breakdown, but I'd guess that most of the cost comes from testing. You really want blood with HIV in it? On top of that, there are costs from transportation, separation of blood into plasma/solids, repackaging, etc. They do in fact charge the hospitals more for the blood, than it cost to get it there, but they use blood to fund other efforts which they do not charge for.
If they're recooping their costs/making profits on blood, where does your donation go? Most of the money donated to the Red Cross goes towards disaster relief. Of the $1.964 billion spent by the Red Cross in fiscal 1997-1998, $1.791 billion or 91 percent, was spent on programs designed to meet the needs of people, leaving $174 million, or 9 percent for overall administration and fundraising.
I've worked with the Red Cross quite a few times in the past, and I have no clue what you are talking about with them charging high prices for food/drinks while working for them.
Next time consider some research. All of their audited financial reports are available off of their site, www.redcross.org
-Adam
While most of the actual tech companies seem to have gone for a more relaxed dress code, the same is not yet true in IT departments of normal companies. As of about half a year ago, the insurance company I was working for still required men to wear a button down shirt, and tie. ( They had much more lax dress codes for females, but that is another debate for another time ).
During the time that I worked for them, my project group was moved to a facility of it's own, and the project team was allowed to wear just "business casual" (polo shirt and khakis for the most part). When one of the VP's got wind of this, he blew his stack and demanded that we comply with company dress code.
Needless to say, this same company does not have much luck with younger developers.
As far as there being no real shortage of tech workers... That may be what the stats say, but just last week I was at a job fair where companies looking for CS majors outnumbered the actual graduating students, almost 2-1 (and that's assuming that none of the students go to grad school). We may be heading for something worse, but it doesn't seem bleak yet...
Whenever I hear about a new search engine, like many other people on /., I have a set of queries that I tend to try. My results were that it seemed somewhere in the ballpark with Google and AltaVista as far as numbers. One of the things that they pride themselves on, is the ability to check more often and catch broken links faster... If this is the case, why am I seeing more broken links off of their engine than any of the other major ones. They are getting the same pages, but the other engines wiped these pages out quite a while ago because they were no longer current.
Where's the link for "here"
It doesn't seem like most people are beating on you here ( at least those of us who actually took the time to read the article ). This probably wasn't the best way for Rob to find out about how stupid his PR firm was making him sound, but your article seems to be making fun of the hype and the PR.
Did I miss something?
If you had read the article you would realize that the suit IS against those who posted, and not Yahoo. ( the article makes it very clear that they are not charged )
An important question in my mind... Does Slasdot log enough information to do the same?
Hopefully we will be seeing these outside of mainframes and SGI's before too long has passed. It makes you wonder what will happen when the capacity exists to pass around mpeg2's like people do mp3's. Any word on how large these things are going to be? The article doesn't mention it...
The beginning of this interview is a little funny, in how they have trouble accepting the lack of a management structure. This seems to be a theme in many of the acceptance problems with Linux, and other open source projects. There needs to be a better way to explain Open Management ( for the lack of a better term ) to companies with a structure more rigid than my sun 4/330's case ( that's really rigid :) )
I need my coffee
OK, must remember to have coffee BEFORE posting in the future. What I mean is that it doesn't have to be visible on your license, meaning that any person you show your license to doen't now know your SSN.
If all of the states are ignoring it, does it really matter?
I really doubt that there is a 1996 law requiring SSN's on driver's licenses. Considering how many states started removing it, or giving you the option to remove it around that time, it just wouldn't make sense. Besides, your SSN is never supposed to be used as an ID number outside of tax purposes. ( not that many people follow this, but it is true )
I bought one already... People have had luck with linux on them, exp with later version 2.2.x kernels on them. Unfortunatly the special tadpole notebook tools ( for dealing with PCMCIA APM and suspend ) only work under solaris 2.5 and 2.6, not linux, or sloaris 7. Good thing this didn't get a real mention on /. :-)
But where does a "direct connection" go? It's not like there is some central router in the set of networks known as the internet. Two things:
1) Yes, everyone can have their own IP address... But where are they going to buy it from? Single IP addresses, scattered across the internet, just don't work. There is no router that could keep up with that kind of routing table. While an ISP may no longer be needed to loan you an IP address, you're still going to want them to sell you one. If there's no route to you, then being on the internet is useless.
2) The other major service that the ISP's provide, is a good connection to the networks you want to get to. Sure, you have an ADSL connection to Bell Atlantic, or another physical-layer provider, but wouldn't it be nice to be connected to usefull networks? You need an ISP because you don't have the money to connect into UUNET's backbone or MAE-EAST.
There are many internet users who have never used an ISP for anything more than getting an IP address, and connecting to the networks that make up the internet. This hasn't changed, and it doesn't look like it's going to soon.
Adam Pennington
Carnegie Mellon University
Once the computers that reside on most people's desktops are fast enough, and have enough/fast enough storage, the speach recognition that you will be able to do will be amazing. Products like NaturallySpeaking aren't using all of the technology/techniques that they could be just because the computers that would be required, wouldn't be practical. Here at CMU they've been doing speech recognition since the 70's, and there are currently projects in the works that blow away everything currently on the market... But they probably won't run on your computer.
Yes, but a pirated copy of OSS is still pirated software on your computer. Heck, at this point OSS is probably the *only* non-free software on my computer ( yes, I own it ). Besides the fact that you are hurting one of the few companies willing to do commercial software on Linux, you are also braging about doing something illegal in a forum that is read by many people ( probably including the makers of OSS ). At least be a little bright and post as an AC.
I never suggested anything master/slave, I was talking about techniques for making it posible for each node to reach another node in a reasonable time. A master/slave relationship would imply a tree sort of structure.
Oh, and BTW, I have PVM up and running on my Linux boxes, which are setup as a mini-Beowulf cluster.