200,000 concurrent users. That really sets the bar high for potential competitors. I wonder what the cost of infrastructure is? What kind of admin setup do they have? How many systems are providing this resource?
Will all new mmorpg networks need similarly-scaled backends? If so, that puts the genre safely in the hands of large corporations. sigh.
I just finished an email with a co-worker from three jobs ago, when I was a consultant doing systems and network stuff for small-medium companies in Mass., RI and Conn. Back then I was all-linux, but I worked on IBMs AS/400s and NT/2k, and rarely got any Unix work on the job. I eventually left because my boss wasn't pushing linux hard enough for my liking. Anyways, I just finished an email in which my co-worker proclaimed this year to be the year of linux. Coming from him, I am forced to take a step back from my daily linux work-life and look at it from his perspective. To those who don't find MS to be an abomination of all that is good and holy, and simply use what technology is best for the times, this year is the equivalent 96(or 97) for NT. This was a year or so before I got into the business(high school and all), but from what I make of the timeline, NT was _IT_ back then. It was a server, it was somewhat stable(compared to Windows), it was user-friendly(compared to Unix/AS400), it was fully 32-bit. It ran on Alphas for christ's sake. What high hopes it held. Now, though, I am worried about what comes next. It took 8 years for what I knew to be the next big thing to become the next big thing. Am I now so deep into linux that I won't be able to see what's set to surpass it until it's here? I'm worried I will turn into those 'NT guys' from 96 or so who saw linux as a handicapped os and summarily dismissed it. Of course, it didn't even support 2-gigabyte files back then, so maybe they had a point. Time will have to tell. I saw one computing mini-revolution coming years ahead of the mainstream; I hope to be able to see the next also.
Yup, anybody can rationalize greed. And I rationalized my gfs moms greed to have PS games for her young kids as acceptable, when buying them all wasn't affordable.
Wow, getting the righteous card tossed out on slashdot. Interesting.
Presenting the tools to a user to allow them to infringe on somebodys copyrights: Legal
Using those tools and infringing on somebodys copyright: Illegal
Hardware that circumvents restrictions put in place to keep me from accessing my legally licensed software should always be legal.
This reminds me of the old PS mod chip stuff I used to do for my gfs mom. I modded a few PSs, and copied rented games for her. It worked out great, because I _knew_ her. If you're going to do this kind of thing for pocket ching, keep it discrete. Like when you get offered Gillette Sensor Excel Titanium Pro(whatever) blades at the local barbershop at like %30 of cost because they fell off a truck somewhere. That's relatively discrete. Putting those same blades in the store window, not discrete.
Darwinism applies to illegal activity also. The stupid get busted, the smart don't.
I am of the mindset that I don't touch anything Windows until Service Pack 1. At least on the server side, it's very possible. For our domain controllers at a large university on 77 Massachusetts Ave. in Cambridge, I specifically am holding off upgrading the domain to Win2k3 until SP1. I am sure many others out there are doing the same.
As for Win2k3 in general, I think it's the best Windows yet, which is still not saying much. I won't touch IIS ever, in fact we have Win2k3 systems running apache because of vendor mandates. It's stable running, but it is Windows, so I only use them to support Windows clients.
Come on boys, lets sack us some code. Come on, don't screw around with those header files, go for the guts! I want sys.c, user.c, sched.c... what, io.sys, how'd that get there? I want it all!! Are we or are we not open-source bandits? Let's act like it then. Come on boys!!!
I work right in the middle of all that is biology at MIT(Center for Cancer Research, Biology, BioInformatics, Chemistry, Biological Engineering, Brain and Cog, Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, etc..) and the geeks in each department are aware of the advancements made in other departments and how they can help themselves. In fact, MIT created something called CSBi, the Computational and Systems Biology Initiative(csbi.mit.edu), which has professors and students from all the departments listed above, and more. They collaborate, share students and projects, organize retreats and conferences. There's even a degree program in systems biology.
The majority of study is computer research applied towards biological methods and models, but I'm sure some of the cs geeks will be reading this article and grab the work done by the bio geeks.
And in the end, we will all have the best mouse trap ever.
I've created ff and tb msi releases. Available at http://biomicro.mit.edu/people/patpaul/mozilla -msi.html I've had good luck with them, as have other sysadmins, who email me when the version on the page doesn't match the latest version.
Oh you rat bastards. I thought I had a good thing going. I was getting all the music I wanted for cheap, and the site was under the radar enough not to upset the sue-happy music bizfolk. Now my speeds are going to be shot, the company is going to be closed, and I'll have to go back to buying my four cds a year. So, once again slashdot screws me. To that I say fuck you very much.
Oh ya, I almost forgot. I found out about them from a slasdot post of somebodys. So, uhh, forget what I just said.
Does anybody else think this is too freaky? I mean, these little buggers look like those scary stop-motion things from puppet-master, except they move on their own and look creepishly real. I don't like it. No sir. This is like the model T-2 from cyberdyne industries.
I see this as another example of how the US has its head up its ass. We slapped their wrist after we found them guilty, while EU and now Japan attempt real action against this monopolist./sigh
Seriously, are you guys dense? The fact that these companies cost untold millions of dollars in cost to consumers across the country should be enough to warrant a stance that is in complete opposition to this article. But the fact that it is an industry whose entire business model is based on breaking the law for a profit is even more reason that any intelligent creature on this planet should clearly see that that this is about the densest position an organization can take, unless they had financial incentive to do so. So it appears that the only logical conclusion one can make from this article is that Forbes is somehow benefitting from criminal enterprises. Why am I not surprised?
But it really does make sense to move LinuxWorld. We've got the best universities(debatedly, CA has a great system) with MIT and Harvard literally down the street from the convention(I've walked the MIT-Hynes center route a few time, park car at MIT, walk over bridge to bar, near Hynes) The Big Dig will be finished (opens this Friday!!), so traffic in and out of the city becomes that much easier. Also, the FSF is in Boston, which makes the city a more logical choice, as New York really only has loads of money and lots of businesses that may or may not use Linux, while Boston has the birth of the American Revolution(er, I mean free software movement) plus the absolute brainpool in the area. Plus, the Democratic convention will have left the previous summer, leaving who knows what image on the city.
Am I the only one who thinks the guy should be grateful to be alive? Hey, how about I go to Antarctica..., woop dee doo, woops, there's a bit of a headwind, wouldn't expect that in.. ANTARCTICA. Well, it's a good thing there's people smarter than me, I'm sure they'll save my ass for me. WHAT! I can't get gas!!! Well, no, I didn't plan ahead to possibly have gas shipped here, I figured I could just stop at an Exxon. I mean, there's Exxon all over Alaska, so why not here?
Anyways, fuck'm, he deserves the exact treatment they're giving him. And I bet they won't be charging him for the ride back, to boot.
It's kickass, especially f9, but the Active Directory plugin is a noshow. We were waiting to deploy some g5s and pbs until panther arrived, so we could just integrate them with our AD setup, but the AD plugin just doesn't work in our environment. Check out the apple resource page for panther for active directory, and you'll see the problems in detail.
Ditto on the security. I was flying back from LA to Boston, and I had picked up a 10 pack of disposable razors for.99 or something. So I threm them in my camping bag(carry-on) in some obscure pouch. I check them, and they get in. There I am with 10 razor blades, on an airliner. Actually, it was more like 6 blades; those damned cheap-ass blades suck. I had to use like 4 of them to shave once.
I remember using debian to cut my teeth on linux. I had a pc(win95) that was hooked up to the internet, which I needed to ask questions and download stuff with. My gf's grandmother gave me a 386-33 with 8 megs of ram and a 130 meg hdd. All isa slots, AT keyboard, NO cdrom drive(no ide adapter, some proprietary cable or something), only a 1.44 floppy. So, I had my choice of debian, using a floppy install, or.... well, just debian. I forget what debian version it was, but it was the 2.0.36 or so kernel(97-98 timeframe), and I only had like 3 floppies, so I had to keep shuffling disks from the win95 machine to the 386 to install debian using floppies. I finally got the basic install done, and then went to configure isa ne2000 nics using linux, being a complete newbie. There was this dude on yahoo chats who helped out. But, going from newbie to getting a system such as above running, adding ipfwadm to make the box a router, added samba to make it a pdc, played with everything possible(given the constraints). I was even smb-mounting my win95 disk over the network to get more space(of course the box crashed and I had stale mount points, yech- windows). I have to say that after an experience with that, using the hardest possible configuration possible to get debian up and running, all command line on a 386 when my first pc had 8 gig hdd(like I said, this was 97-98) teaches you more than you can imagine. Hell, I ran this box for something like 13 months before I knew what X or kde(1.0 days). I was like 'Woa! Linux can do this?' I figured it was just command line, no gui at all. I recommend this method to learn linux. It'll put you on the track to knowing more than your instructor at RHCE classes(guilty, #808002685906747).
I laud this effort. Here's my situation: We pay for the rhn service at work. I attempt to download the 3 iso's, and I get combined download speeds of 22kB/s. This is unacceptable. I'm using BitTorrent right now, and the speed is 1900kB/s, and rising. The machine is on a 100mb/s switch, on MIT network, so I'll probably get 3mB/s before the download finishes. This is an example of a legal use of p2p technology directly benefitting a valid user.
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200,000 concurrent users. That really sets the bar high for potential competitors. I wonder what the cost of infrastructure is? What kind of admin setup do they have? How many systems are providing this resource?
Will all new mmorpg networks need similarly-scaled backends? If so, that puts the genre safely in the hands of large corporations. sigh.
I just finished an email with a co-worker from three jobs ago, when I was a consultant doing systems and network stuff for small-medium companies in Mass., RI and Conn. Back then I was all-linux, but I worked on IBMs AS/400s and NT/2k, and rarely got any Unix work on the job. I eventually left because my boss wasn't pushing linux hard enough for my liking.
Anyways, I just finished an email in which my co-worker proclaimed this year to be the year of linux. Coming from him, I am forced to take a step back from my daily linux work-life and look at it from his perspective.
To those who don't find MS to be an abomination of all that is good and holy, and simply use what technology is best for the times, this year is the equivalent 96(or 97) for NT. This was a year or so before I got into the business(high school and all), but from what I make of the timeline, NT was _IT_ back then. It was a server, it was somewhat stable(compared to Windows), it was user-friendly(compared to Unix/AS400), it was fully 32-bit. It ran on Alphas for christ's sake.
What high hopes it held.
Now, though, I am worried about what comes next. It took 8 years for what I knew to be the next big thing to become the next big thing. Am I now so deep into linux that I won't be able to see what's set to surpass it until it's here? I'm worried I will turn into those 'NT guys' from 96 or so who saw linux as a handicapped os and summarily dismissed it. Of course, it didn't even support 2-gigabyte files back then, so maybe they had a point.
Time will have to tell. I saw one computing mini-revolution coming years ahead of the mainstream; I hope to be able to see the next also.
Yup, anybody can rationalize greed. And I rationalized my gfs moms greed to have PS games for her young kids as acceptable, when buying them all wasn't affordable.
Wow, getting the righteous card tossed out on slashdot. Interesting.
Presenting the tools to a user to allow them to infringe on somebodys copyrights: Legal
Using those tools and infringing on somebodys copyright: Illegal
Hardware that circumvents restrictions put in place to keep me from accessing my legally licensed software should always be legal.
This reminds me of the old PS mod chip stuff I used to do for my gfs mom. I modded a few PSs, and copied rented games for her. It worked out great, because I _knew_ her. If you're going to do this kind of thing for pocket ching, keep it discrete. Like when you get offered Gillette Sensor Excel Titanium Pro(whatever) blades at the local barbershop at like %30 of cost because they fell off a truck somewhere. That's relatively discrete. Putting those same blades in the store window, not discrete.
Darwinism applies to illegal activity also. The stupid get busted, the smart don't.
I am of the mindset that I don't touch anything Windows until Service Pack 1. At least on the server side, it's very possible. For our domain controllers at a large university on 77 Massachusetts Ave. in Cambridge, I specifically am holding off upgrading the domain to Win2k3 until SP1. I am sure many others out there are doing the same.
As for Win2k3 in general, I think it's the best Windows yet, which is still not saying much. I won't touch IIS ever, in fact we have Win2k3 systems running apache because of vendor mandates. It's stable running, but it is Windows, so I only use them to support Windows clients.
Come on boys, lets sack us some code. Come on, don't screw around with those header files, go for the guts! I want sys.c, user.c, sched.c... what, io.sys, how'd that get there? I want it all!! Are we or are we not open-source bandits? Let's act like it then. Come on boys!!!
I work right in the middle of all that is biology at MIT(Center for Cancer Research, Biology, BioInformatics, Chemistry, Biological Engineering, Brain and Cog, Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, etc..) and the geeks in each department are aware of the advancements made in other departments and how they can help themselves. In fact, MIT created something called CSBi, the Computational and Systems Biology Initiative(csbi.mit.edu), which has professors and students from all the departments listed above, and more. They collaborate, share students and projects, organize retreats and conferences. There's even a degree program in systems biology.
The majority of study is computer research applied towards biological methods and models, but I'm sure some of the cs geeks will be reading this article and grab the work done by the bio geeks.
And in the end, we will all have the best mouse trap ever.
I've created ff and tb msi releases. Available ata -msi .html
http://biomicro.mit.edu/people/patpaul/mozill
I've had good luck with them, as have other sysadmins, who email me when the version on the page doesn't match the latest version.
Why the fuck is Venture Capitalist capitalized? Here's a news item: Boston Student Nurse performs CPR on fellow student, saving his life.
See how stupid it looks?
Oh you rat bastards. I thought I had a good thing going. I was getting all the music I wanted for cheap, and the site was under the radar enough not to upset the sue-happy music bizfolk. Now my speeds are going to be shot, the company is going to be closed, and I'll have to go back to buying my four cds a year. So, once again slashdot screws me. To that I say fuck you very much.
Oh ya, I almost forgot. I found out about them from a slasdot post of somebodys. So, uhh, forget what I just said.
Fuck'm all. allofmp3.com So cheap, and lots of choices. And besided, them ruskies need the money.
Does anybody else think this is too freaky? I mean, these little buggers look like those scary stop-motion things from puppet-master, except they move on their own and look creepishly real. I don't like it. No sir. This is like the model T-2 from cyberdyne industries.
They should have scheduled the talk for a Thursday, because Thursday is belly dancer night at the Middle East in Cambridge. What a show!
I see this as another example of how the US has its head up its ass. We slapped their wrist after we found them guilty, while EU and now Japan attempt real action against this monopolist. /sigh
Are you guys dense?
Seriously, are you guys dense? The fact that these companies cost untold millions of dollars in cost to consumers across the country should be enough to warrant a stance that is in complete opposition to this article. But the fact that it is an industry whose entire business model is based on breaking the law for a profit is even more reason that any intelligent creature on this planet should clearly see that that this is about the densest position an organization can take, unless they had financial incentive to do so. So it appears that the only logical conclusion one can make from this article is that Forbes is somehow benefitting from criminal enterprises. Why am I not surprised?
But it really does make sense to move LinuxWorld. We've got the best universities(debatedly, CA has a great system) with MIT and Harvard literally down the street from the convention(I've walked the MIT-Hynes center route a few time, park car at MIT, walk over bridge to bar, near Hynes) The Big Dig will be finished (opens this Friday!!), so traffic in and out of the city becomes that much easier. Also, the FSF is in Boston, which makes the city a more logical choice, as New York really only has loads of money and lots of businesses that may or may not use Linux, while Boston has the birth of the American Revolution(er, I mean free software movement) plus the absolute brainpool in the area. Plus, the Democratic convention will have left the previous summer, leaving who knows what image on the city.
Am I the only one who thinks the guy should be grateful to be alive? Hey, how about I go to Antarctica..., woop dee doo, woops, there's a bit of a headwind, wouldn't expect that in .. ANTARCTICA. Well, it's a good thing there's people smarter than me, I'm sure they'll save my ass for me. WHAT! I can't get gas!!! Well, no, I didn't plan ahead to possibly have gas shipped here, I figured I could just stop at an Exxon. I mean, there's Exxon all over Alaska, so why not here?
Anyways, fuck'm, he deserves the exact treatment they're giving him. And I bet they won't be charging him for the ride back, to boot.
It's kickass, especially f9, but the Active Directory plugin is a noshow. We were waiting to deploy some g5s and pbs until panther arrived, so we could just integrate them with our AD setup, but the AD plugin just doesn't work in our environment. Check out the apple resource page for panther for active directory, and you'll see the problems in detail.
Ditto on the security. I was flying back from LA to Boston, and I had picked up a 10 pack of disposable razors for .99 or something. So I threm them in my camping bag(carry-on) in some obscure pouch. I check them, and they get in. There I am with 10 razor blades, on an airliner. Actually, it was more like 6 blades; those damned cheap-ass blades suck. I had to use like 4 of them to shave once.
I remember using debian to cut my teeth on linux. I had a pc(win95) that was hooked up to the internet, which I needed to ask questions and download stuff with. My gf's grandmother gave me a 386-33 with 8 megs of ram and a 130 meg hdd. All isa slots, AT keyboard, NO cdrom drive(no ide adapter, some proprietary cable or something), only a 1.44 floppy. So, I had my choice of debian, using a floppy install, or .... well, just debian. I forget what debian version it was, but it was the 2.0.36 or so kernel(97-98 timeframe), and I only had like 3 floppies, so I had to keep shuffling disks from the win95 machine to the 386 to install debian using floppies. I finally got the basic install done, and then went to configure isa ne2000 nics using linux, being a complete newbie. There was this dude on yahoo chats who helped out. But, going from newbie to getting a system such as above running, adding ipfwadm to make the box a router, added samba to make it a pdc, played with everything possible(given the constraints). I was even smb-mounting my win95 disk over the network to get more space(of course the box crashed and I had stale mount points, yech- windows). I have to say that after an experience with that, using the hardest possible configuration possible to get debian up and running, all command line on a 386 when my first pc had 8 gig hdd(like I said, this was 97-98) teaches you more than you can imagine. Hell, I ran this box for something like 13 months before I knew what X or kde(1.0 days). I was like 'Woa! Linux can do this?' I figured it was just command line, no gui at all. I recommend this method to learn linux. It'll put you on the track to knowing more than your instructor at RHCE classes(guilty, #808002685906747).
Duh
Mr. Romero, will you make me your bitch?
Only in California do you not only not get arrested for taking your balls out for a spin, but it makes news.
They're only doing it cuz of the Matrix sequel that'll be out 1 month prior. Fricken lamers.
I laud this effort. Here's my situation: We pay for the rhn service at work. I attempt to download the 3 iso's, and I get combined download speeds of 22kB/s. This is unacceptable. I'm using BitTorrent right now, and the speed is 1900kB/s, and rising. The machine is on a 100mb/s switch, on MIT network, so I'll probably get 3mB/s before the download finishes.
This is an example of a legal use of p2p technology directly benefitting a valid user.