The spelling, grammar, and indeed vocabulary, of the English language varies greatly around the world. To impose either a mechanised spelling or grammar regime would imho, make the submission of stories such a pain that nobody would bother. And that dear friends would be the death-knell of/. as we know it. CT please don't do it.
What I would really like to see is some sort of scoring on the stories themselves. Many of the articles linked to are just uninformed drivel and can be safely ignored, while others are real gems of informative or entertaining prose. IT would be nice to be able to tell one from t'other before clicking on the link. A scoring system would also give you a good guide as to what we want to read.
Lastly I'd like to see a finer grained scoring, perhaps -1 to 10 instead of the current -1 to 5.
Finally, in consideration for little sites being destroyed by the/. effect you might care to consider changing the direct links to those which point to a cache Google, for example.
Produced cable with the correct number of wires in it.
( Count how many wires in CAT-5/6 actually carry a signal. See: This tutorial)
Produced decent connectors so patch cables last longer than just a few months. ( Who has never had that tiddly tin-pot plastic retaining clip fall off an RJ-45 plug? }
Didn't leave unused cable in buildings.
Attempted to recover the copper, and other things, from the e-waste
If.to,.tv, and.cx were "hijacked", then so was every other piece of property that was ever sold by its owner to someone else.
Seriously, is what the rest of the world calls "confidence trickery" not a crime in the US? I know the laws over there seem a bit weird to those of us in the rest of the world, but surely relieving somebody of their property for a minuscule fraction of what it is actually worth is an offense?
The governments of those entities sold the rights to those TLDs. If those governments regret it now, they could seize it back at any time.
How? They haven't got access to the DNS TLD root servers, Verisign or whoever have.
Essentially, I have two arguments / questions here.
Should the country codes be adhered to or not?
Is it moral or otherwise to create a market of incredible value out of the DNS system?
My own opinion is that the DNS country codes should be adhered to without exception, and that the creation of very real wealth out of the DNS "market" is a totally amoral act. Cost recovery for sure, but what is happening at the moment is just wrong.
Tuvalu (.tv) sold the rights to their domain to verisign. It was not hijacked from them, it was their right and their decision to sell it. They received over $20 million dollars, which is roughly twice their annual gross domestic product.
$20 million for an entire TLD with the appeal of '.tv' is absolute peanuts.
_That_ is exactly what I mean by taking advantage of a small and naive nation-state. I think the verb Hi_Jacking is actually most appropriate in this particular case. The fact that the money paid by Verisign was twice the GDP of the vendor matters not one iota as far as the morality of the transaction is concerned. It's still totally wrong. Verisign could well have afforded a fair and realistic price. After all they paid Mark Shuttleworth $500 million for Thawte.
.cx is run by a community owned non-profit on christmas island. They also run a non-profit isp on the island. How is this hijacking?
Where did the money come from to pay for This Lot. There is some real money there. Certainly many hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars is represented by those pictures. Satellite ground stations are not the sort of thing any "community owned non-profit" could possibly afford on it's own. So in this particular case some spiv has got hold of another TLD for the cost of a satellite station, and the registration fees for a charity. Fair bargain? There may be more to the story than meets the eye, but from what I see I do not think so.
Why did ICANN permit the hijacking, i.e. Internet identity theft, of the TLDs of small and naive nation-states?.tv,.to,.cx come to mind immediately, I'm sure there are others.
IMHO, this is Rampant Imperialism of the worst kind, and is one of many factors which have caused the rest of the world to want to wrest ultimate control of the DNS from the US government.
What are you going to do about it in the future?
Are you ever going to restore the ownership of.to,.tv and.cx back to Tonga, Tuvalu and Christmas Island where they rightfully belong?
Why is it correct and proper to allow out of region servers?
There are something between several and many servers which have.nz addresses, yet are domiciled in the US.
In other words - are you ever going to clean up these messes which have happened in the past?
My office recently donated some P3 machines to a homeless shelter.... updating it to be current took nearly 4 hours for one machine
What on Earth are you doing giving a homeless shelter such a total nightmare? What's going to happen when they have to do it next time around?
You could have installed Gentoo linux which does it's update / patching thing with a simple one liner, vis:-
emerge --sync ; emerge --update --deep world
Anybody can type that. I have quite a severe dyslexic running a Gentoo system and he loves it because of the emerge command.
While a Pentium/III might take more than 4 hours to do a sizable update, the machine can be left on overnight to do its thing. No reboots required except to update the kernel. While Gentoo may not be the easiest distro to install initially, it's certainly one of the easiest to patch and update. In my experience , now-a-days, the Portage system 'just works' at least 99.99% of the time.
I've noticed this too. Perhaps it's time for a fork. We need to get back to the release regime which used odd and even numbers to indicate stable and development. Yes, I do know the reasons for the change, but imho it just isn't working right. Using the 2.6.xy series is just like fiddling around with the 2.3 and 2.5 series, with the disadvantage that there is no 'stable' release into which the significant bug fixes can be backported. The old way might have resulted in more work, but there is now a financially supported OSDL full of helpers who can do that sort of drudgery.
This makes Lavrenty Beria's Soviet Russia look like Heaven. Just how do such dumb people get into these petty official positions, and then proceed to make the US the Number One laughing stock on the world's stage. Do please explain, because, looking in from another country, I'd be splitting my sides if it wasn't so tragic.
In my practical experience this article is load of flushable nonsense. Just what do the/. editors think they are doing giving it space? I have run ext[23], Reiser[34], and xfs, All of them pretty extensively. For me the most important criterion is whether my data is safe. Everything else is of secondary importance. Yet this is not even mentioned in the article. The other issue is whether a file access intensive process bogs down the machine so much so that it is unusable for tasks other than the one accessing files. Yet both of these most important facets of file system performance are totally ignored by the article. My experience is that Reiser4 wins hands down on both these vital features. The data recovery abilities of the fsck.reiser4 utility appears to be nothing less than 'magic'.
Question for Linus: Why are you not letting the Reiser4 drivers into the mainline kernel? Imnsho you are doing the Linux user community something more than a mere disservice by not allowing everyone simple access to these excellent file system drivers.
Where is the presentation software and the course-ware coming from?
Just because it's Open-Source, that's not the same as being able to wave a magic wand, while saying "Abracadabra" to make the educational content suddenly appear. It takes skill and time, both by the truckload, to create effective teaching material.
Where is the training for the teachers coming from?
If my experience with teachers is anything to go by, computers are an absolute anathema. If this exercise is going to work, a great deal of care will be needed in their introduction to the classroom.
The BBC is running a series about hearing and noise.
The Noisy Ape.
Interesting stuff!
I used an ASR-33 teletype terminal for 5+ years. Doing that has stuffed my hearing. Now, 30+ years later, I have horrible squealing tinnitus. Please youngsters, take care of your hearing. Once you damage the micro-hairs in your cochlea you have damaged them and your hearing for ever. End of sentence. Period. They will not heal. Listen to the programs while you still can.
The various..AAs of the world should take a page out of the lawmakers' books. When a proscribed activity beomes so widespread that enforcement of a prohibition becomes impossible, both politically and effectively, then sensible Governments legalise, regulate, and tax it. I'd like to see the content creation industries face up to the fact that their best option is to not only run their own BitTorrent trackers and seeds, but also to license others to do so. I just so happen to like content which at least attempts to exercise the brain cells, yet there is none on TV where I live. I therefore get my miniscule ration of programmes over the Internet via index sites which specialise in my kind of content. I would have no problem with having to pay a small fee to view the material I like to watch. Ideally, for convenience, I would like to see the various fees being collected by my ISP as part of my regular bill in return for accessing a BitTorrent tracker & seeds not only on their local network, but also any other licenced provider. Just like my ISP provides e-mail facilities. Note that I _*DO NOT WANT*_, nor am prepared to pay for, any content which has been ruined by being riddled with parasitic advertising messages.
How would you prove the need for change on these three points?
You are obviously totally overworked, over a hundred varigated Windows boxes! The mind boggles! I understand that the norm is about thirty.
You're totally immersed in firefighting all the little day-to-day problems, and doubtless run ragged doing it. You seem to have completely lost touch with the overall picture of what the Company is trying to do.
Book yourself into the best Caring Institution your insurance will allow. This will give you time to refocus your mind on your own needs, and a rest from the pressures of the job. Alternatively have a decently extended Christmas holiday.
Can I institute change here?
Probably not, but at least you will be appreciated after your break. The management might even get you a helper.
Linus, every time I copy large files between devices on my Linux system my mouse pointer skips. It works fine on my Mac
Just use one of Hans Reiser's file systems ( Preferably 4 ).
This is a real fix which actually worked for me. Also setting the nice level at 19 for the copy process will be a real help until you have Reiser-4 installed.
The reason I use KDE is because the default appearance was aesthetically more acceptable than the other choices when I had the choice of KDE or something else. I've been on KDE since the first beta release, thus I am totally habituated and can't change. E17 is really beautiful, but the whole usage paradigm is so different I just cannot 'get it'.
Needless to say I long for a decent spreadsheet implementation, because, to put it politely, Kspread is a bit lacking. How about a Knumeric, team?
But I have to get my granddaughter ( 3 ) suitably indoctrinated ( parents are 'dozey ). Anybody know of a site / torrent to download a LiveCD of Edubuntu?
Slashdot Mirror
And _I_ don't want a dog running my banks data-center.
What I would really like to see is some sort of scoring on the stories themselves. Many of the articles linked to are just uninformed drivel and can be safely ignored, while others are real gems of informative or entertaining prose. IT would be nice to be able to tell one from t'other before clicking on the link. A scoring system would also give you a good guide as to what we want to read.
Lastly I'd like to see a finer grained scoring, perhaps -1 to 10 instead of the current -1 to 5.
Finally, in consideration for little sites being destroyed by the /. effect you might care to consider changing the direct links to those which point to a cache Google, for example.
( Count how many wires in CAT-5/6 actually carry a signal. See: This tutorial)
( Who has never had that tiddly tin-pot plastic retaining clip fall off an RJ-45 plug? }
Essentially, I have two arguments / questions here.
My own opinion is that the DNS country codes should be adhered to without exception, and that the creation of very real wealth out of the DNS "market" is a totally amoral act. Cost recovery for sure, but what is happening at the moment is just wrong.
_That_ is exactly what I mean by taking advantage of a small and naive nation-state. I think the verb Hi_Jacking is actually most appropriate in this particular case. The fact that the money paid by Verisign was twice the GDP of the vendor matters not one iota as far as the morality of the transaction is concerned. It's still totally wrong. Verisign could well have afforded a fair and realistic price. After all they paid Mark Shuttleworth $500 million for Thawte. Where did the money come from to pay for This Lot. There is some real money there. Certainly many hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars is represented by those pictures. Satellite ground stations are not the sort of thing any "community owned non-profit" could possibly afford on it's own. So in this particular case some spiv has got hold of another TLD for the cost of a satellite station, and the registration fees for a charity. Fair bargain? There may be more to the story than meets the eye, but from what I see I do not think so.
Not flamebait, pertinent and serious questions actually. Emphatically put maybe, but serious none the less.
So that some spiv can flog bits of it off to the highest bidders, and give somebody else a kick-back. Well Really! Don't be so naive.
Why did ICANN permit the hijacking, i.e. Internet identity theft, of the TLDs of small and naive nation-states? .tv, .to, .cx come to mind immediately, I'm sure there are others.
IMHO, this is Rampant Imperialism of the worst kind, and is one of many factors which have caused the rest of the world to want to wrest ultimate control of the DNS from the US government.
What are you going to do about it in the future?
Are you ever going to restore the ownership of .to, .tv and .cx back to Tonga, Tuvalu and Christmas Island where they rightfully belong?
Why is it correct and proper to allow out of region servers?
There are something between several and many servers which have .nz addresses, yet are domiciled in the US.
In other words - are you ever going to clean up these messes which have happened in the past?
What's going to happen when they have to do it next time around?
You could have installed Gentoo linux which does it's update / patching thing with a simple one liner, vis:-
emerge --sync ; emerge --update --deep world
Anybody can type that. I have quite a severe dyslexic running a Gentoo system and he loves it because of the emerge command. While a Pentium/III might take more than 4 hours to do a sizable update, the machine can be left on overnight to do its thing. No reboots required except to update the kernel. While Gentoo may not be the easiest distro to install initially, it's certainly one of the easiest to patch and update. In my experience , now-a-days, the Portage system 'just works' at least 99.99% of the time.
I've noticed this too. Perhaps it's time for a fork. We need to get back to the release regime which used odd and even numbers to indicate stable and development. Yes, I do know the reasons for the change, but imho it just isn't working right. Using the 2.6.xy series is just like fiddling around with the 2.3 and 2.5 series, with the disadvantage that there is no 'stable' release into which the significant bug fixes can be backported. The old way might have resulted in more work, but there is now a financially supported OSDL full of helpers who can do that sort of drudgery.
O I C. Pity. Shame when personalities get in the way.
Not that I need to care 'cos I run the -mm kernel tree, which seems to go pretty well for me.
This makes Lavrenty Beria's Soviet Russia look like Heaven. Just how do such dumb people get into these petty official positions, and then proceed to make the US the Number One laughing stock on the world's stage. Do please explain, because, looking in from another country, I'd be splitting my sides if it wasn't so tragic.
Question for Linus: Why are you not letting the Reiser4 drivers into the mainline kernel? Imnsho you are doing the Linux user community something more than a mere disservice by not allowing everyone simple access to these excellent file system drivers.
So 2006 is going to be the year during which assembler code does it's much heralded Lazarus act is it?
Where is the presentation software and the course-ware coming from?
Just because it's Open-Source, that's not the same as being able to wave a magic wand, while saying "Abracadabra" to make the educational content suddenly appear. It takes skill and time, both by the truckload, to create effective teaching material.
Where is the training for the teachers coming from?
If my experience with teachers is anything to go by, computers are an absolute anathema. If this exercise is going to work, a great deal of care will be needed in their introduction to the classroom.
The Noisy Ape.
Interesting stuff!
I used an ASR-33 teletype terminal for 5+ years. Doing that has stuffed my hearing. Now, 30+ years later, I have horrible squealing tinnitus. Please youngsters, take care of your hearing. Once you damage the micro-hairs in your cochlea you have damaged them and your hearing for ever. End of sentence. Period. They will not heal. Listen to the programs while you still can.
The various ..AAs of the world should take a page out of the lawmakers' books. When a proscribed activity beomes so widespread that enforcement of a prohibition becomes impossible, both politically and effectively, then sensible Governments legalise, regulate, and tax it. I'd like to see the content creation industries face up to the fact that their best option is to not only run their own BitTorrent trackers and seeds, but also to license others to do so. I just so happen to like content which at least attempts to exercise the brain cells, yet there is none on TV where I live. I therefore get my miniscule ration of programmes over the Internet via index sites which specialise in my kind of content. I would have no problem with having to pay a small fee to view the material I like to watch. Ideally, for convenience, I would like to see the various fees being collected by my ISP as part of my regular bill in return for accessing a BitTorrent tracker & seeds not only on their local network, but also any other licenced provider. Just like my ISP provides e-mail facilities. Note that I _*DO NOT WANT*_, nor am prepared to pay for, any content which has been ruined by being riddled with parasitic advertising messages.
The-Rest-of-the-World will love it for that very reason.
I wonder how long it will be before the anti-virus outfits give it a signature?
Once that happens it will have 'made it', and everybody will want it.
Congratulations and thanks to IBM.
Once you are fully habituated on this wonderous gadget, it'll be absolutely impossible to get back to QWERTY.
You're totally immersed in firefighting all the little day-to-day problems, and doubtless run ragged doing it. You seem to have completely lost touch with the overall picture of what the Company is trying to do.
Book yourself into the best Caring Institution your insurance will allow. This will give you time to refocus your mind on your own needs, and a rest from the pressures of the job. Alternatively have a decently extended Christmas holiday.
Probably not, but at least you will be appreciated after your break. The management might even get you a helper.The reason I use KDE is because the default appearance was aesthetically more acceptable than the other choices when I had the choice of KDE or something else. I've been on KDE since the first beta release, thus I am totally habituated and can't change. E17 is really beautiful, but the whole usage paradigm is so different I just cannot 'get it'.
Needless to say I long for a decent spreadsheet implementation, because, to put it politely, Kspread is a bit lacking. How about a Knumeric, team?
It'll never even start compiling!!!
Yes and Yes!
But I have to get my granddaughter ( 3 ) suitably indoctrinated ( parents are 'dozey ).
Anybody know of a site / torrent to download a LiveCD of Edubuntu?