The internet is set to become the basis for just about every form of communication, according to net pioneer Vint Cerf, and he should know what he is talking about.
Why should Vint Cerf know what he's talking about? Sure, he knows all about the Internet; but does he know all about communication in general?
Would the sotry submitter agree with the (equivalently valid) statement that "Microsoft Windows is set to become the basis for just about every form of personal computing, according to Bill Gates, and he should know what he is talking about"?
what's going to happen to the Dell users who have all of these +R drives if it turns out that -R wins out in the long run?
1. Ship incompatible hardware for free. 2. Sell the compatible hardware for inflated prices. 3. Profit!
Seriously, Dell sells systems cheaply, but they heavily inflate their prices for components. If they can get people to enjoy the idea of burning DVDs by giving them DVD+R drives, they'll make lots of money when those customers realize that they really need to get DVD-R drives.
How long before it gets added to debian or gentoo as a package?
Actually, I was planning on making an RPM out of this, but I hadn't gotten around to it yet. (And, to be honest, I have work I really should be doing...)
Yep, too many curious people. I've disabled mrtg.daemonology.net for now, but I'll put snapshots of the MRTG graphs online later for anyone who wants to see what a slashdotting looks like.
Actually, my server seems to be doing surprisingly well, considering that it's running a PPro 200.
That said, the people pounding on mrtg.daemonology.net are creating a bit of a load... I might need to take those scripts offline if things get too bad.
This is PERFECT for one of those Dedicated Server hosting providers that don't let you touch your box at all.
That was the initial motivation; although it turns out that this is also very useful for installing FreeBSD on easily accessible servers, since loading the entire OS into a memory disk makes it possible to do things which sysinstall doesn't support -- for example, creating a vinum root system.
So all this does is write to the boot partition and load a barebones copy of bsd on a ramdisk?
It also inserts a system configuration file into the filesystem image; and the filesystem in question -- UFS2 -- is one for which Linux support is rather lacking, so the filesystem image has to be built entirely within userland (thanks NetBSD!).
The Christmas season can be an especially difficult time for those suffering a personal loss. And while it is true that Beagle 2 is dead, there are some helpful steps you can take:
deal with the inevitable.
grieve for your loss.
move on.
Never let your emotions get tangled up with something as silly as a space probe. It isn't healthy. So Beagle 2 fails. Big whoop. Deal with it and move on.
Mars is a lot easier to keep a probe on. The problems thus far have been in getting a probe *to* Mars in one piece, not in keeping it operational once it's there.
This isn't about making money, and it isn't about protecting a patent. This is simply an exercise for the benefit of the courts: Microsoft will be holding FAT (along with lots of other things) up as examples of how they're making their standards available to the competition.
where do you get the patches you apply to close the vulnerabilities of which you are not aware?
I don't, obviously. But I avoid running software which has a history of security vulnerabilities (eg, sendmail, BIND), on the basis that there are likely other (unknown) vulnerabilities.
I rather doubt that. Perhaps all security problems of which the server administrators are aware have been resolved, but there are definitely going to be other security problems left.
It's easy to blame Kim Campbell for the crushing loss in 1993, but that loss is far more due to those stupid TV adverts. She didn't authorize those adverts; as soon as she became aware of them, she ordered that they be pulled off the air.
In fact, the people responsible for those adverts were from the Quebec wing of the party -- the last of the Quebecois nationalists whom Mulroney had convinced to join the party -- and, shortly after the election, they joined the Bloc Quebecois.
The leader is why people vote for the party, so in a sense, Paul Martin is unelected because nobody thought about him on E Day
In that case, how do you explain the fact that the Liberals jumped about 5% in the polls in the middle of the last election campaign when Chretien said that he didn't plan on remaining Prime Minister for all of his next term?
Most voters were very much aware that Paul Martin would be the next Prime Minister.
If you exclude the guesses which are obviously jokes (eg, 2038), then 96% of the guesses were optimistic. Obviously some elements of proprietary software development still hold true in OSS.
IANAL, laws vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, etc.
That said, it might be illegal to fire you without "just cause". A conslutant's report labelling you as a security risk might or might not qualify as such, especially if said conslutant proceeded to win a contract to replace you.
Read your contract, and consult a qualified lawyer, about what conditions your (former) employer must satisfy in order to fire you.
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The internet is set to become the basis for just about every form of communication, according to net pioneer Vint Cerf, and he should know what he is talking about.
Why should Vint Cerf know what he's talking about? Sure, he knows all about the Internet; but does he know all about communication in general?
Would the sotry submitter agree with the (equivalently valid) statement that "Microsoft Windows is set to become the basis for just about every form of personal computing, according to Bill Gates, and he should know what he is talking about"?
... and three of them are mine.
Makes one realize how insignificant one's own contribution is, when one has contributed less than 0.03% of the total.
what's going to happen to the Dell users who have all of these +R drives if it turns out that -R wins out in the long run?
1. Ship incompatible hardware for free.
2. Sell the compatible hardware for inflated prices.
3. Profit!
Seriously, Dell sells systems cheaply, but they heavily inflate their prices for components. If they can get people to enjoy the idea of burning DVDs by giving them DVD+R drives, they'll make lots of money when those customers realize that they really need to get DVD-R drives.
I've put a static snapshot of mrtg.daemonology.net up here: http://www.daemonology.net/depenguinator/slashdott ing/
I'll update it from time to time over the next day.
How long before it gets added to debian or gentoo as a package?
Actually, I was planning on making an RPM out of this, but I hadn't gotten around to it yet. (And, to be honest, I have work I really should be doing...)
Yep, too many curious people. I've disabled mrtg.daemonology.net for now, but I'll put snapshots of the MRTG graphs online later for anyone who wants to see what a slashdotting looks like.
Actually, my server seems to be doing surprisingly well, considering that it's running a PPro 200.
That said, the people pounding on mrtg.daemonology.net are creating a bit of a load... I might need to take those scripts offline if things get too bad.
This is PERFECT for one of those Dedicated Server hosting providers that don't let you touch your box at all.
That was the initial motivation; although it turns out that this is also very useful for installing FreeBSD on easily accessible servers, since loading the entire OS into a memory disk makes it possible to do things which sysinstall doesn't support -- for example, creating a vinum root system.
So all this does is write to the boot partition and load a barebones copy of bsd on a ramdisk?
It also inserts a system configuration file into the filesystem image; and the filesystem in question -- UFS2 -- is one for which Linux support is rather lacking, so the filesystem image has to be built entirely within userland (thanks NetBSD!).
Would you be looking for FreeBSD Update, perhaps?
Actually, it was a parody of one of the BSD-is-dead trolls.
Well, I'm glad that *someone* caught the joke...
- deal with the inevitable.
- grieve for your loss.
- move on.
Never let your emotions get tangled up with something as silly as a space probe. It isn't healthy. So Beagle 2 fails. Big whoop. Deal with it and move on.Build it yourself as you can afford it. It can be done.
Can you build the land as well? Where I live, people tend to have $100K houses sitting on $400K of land.
Mars is a lot easier to keep a probe on. The problems thus far have been in getting a probe *to* Mars in one piece, not in keeping it operational once it's there.
This isn't about making money, and it isn't about protecting a patent. This is simply an exercise for the benefit of the courts: Microsoft will be holding FAT (along with lots of other things) up as examples of how they're making their standards available to the competition.
where do you get the patches you apply to close the vulnerabilities of which you are not aware?
I don't, obviously. But I avoid running software which has a history of security vulnerabilities (eg, sendmail, BIND), on the basis that there are likely other (unknown) vulnerabilities.
Quoth the AC:
So in real life we consider only known problems as "problems". Same goes with vunlerabilites also.
Personally, I consider vulnerabilities of which I am not aware to be far greater problems than vulnerabilities of which I am aware.
all security problems are resolved
I rather doubt that. Perhaps all security problems of which the server administrators are aware have been resolved, but there are definitely going to be other security problems left.
It's easy to blame Kim Campbell for the crushing loss in 1993, but that loss is far more due to those stupid TV adverts. She didn't authorize those adverts; as soon as she became aware of them, she ordered that they be pulled off the air.
In fact, the people responsible for those adverts were from the Quebec wing of the party -- the last of the Quebecois nationalists whom Mulroney had convinced to join the party -- and, shortly after the election, they joined the Bloc Quebecois.
The leader is why people vote for the party, so in a sense, Paul Martin is unelected because nobody thought about him on E Day
In that case, how do you explain the fact that the Liberals jumped about 5% in the polls in the middle of the last election campaign when Chretien said that he didn't plan on remaining Prime Minister for all of his next term?
Most voters were very much aware that Paul Martin would be the next Prime Minister.
You mean shipping later, rather than sooner?
No, I mean "on time, on budget, works properly. Pick none."
If you exclude the guesses which are obviously jokes (eg, 2038), then 96% of the guesses were optimistic. Obviously some elements of proprietary software development still hold true in OSS.
Also amusing: The median guess was April 1, 2002.
IANAL, laws vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, etc.
That said, it might be illegal to fire you without "just cause". A conslutant's report labelling you as a security risk might or might not qualify as such, especially if said conslutant proceeded to win a contract to replace you.
Read your contract, and consult a qualified lawyer, about what conditions your (former) employer must satisfy in order to fire you.
the FCC can only impose fines on telemarketers after they have had one citation letter
Does that mean that telemarketers can harass people for two weeks, receive a citation letter, change names, and repeat the process ad infinitum?