At 8:00 a.m. EST, my Mom IM'd me at school to tell me that the Internet as slow at home. At 9:00, my friend who uses my wiki told me that he had been letting it load for about an hour and it wasn't loading. The Xbox-Linux project's wiki also is hosted on my server, and it was inaccessible.
All these web sites are hosted on my little Linux box in my basement, on my parents' cable-modem with 40 KB/s up to the Internet. What happened to me was that the Google logo, linking to the image search for "julia fractals", had my friend Jonathan's site as the top hit. (The exact hit was this page.)
The page was all-but inaccessible, as was my server. I eventually SSH'd in, copied the files to my JHU web hosting space, and set up an Apache redirect to serve the files from there. JHU (my university) has a pretty big pipe, I've learned over the years I've been here.:-).
I mentioned this in a blog entry I made on the topic. It seems that now the search finds some other first hit, the.edu.au site mentioned in the story. Perhaps that's because my server was "Cthuugled" (eaten alive by Google, that is), and no one could reach the first link for so many hours.
I use Debian unstable currently, but I don't show it off. KDE is a beat slower than the blazing speeds I see in the Windows GUI. (Of course, KDE is Free, but some people don't get that.) This is because Debian has not yet recompiled its distribution with GCC 3.2.
GCC 3.2 offers a huge speed increase for C++ code. KDE, built entirely in C++, suffers from GCC 2.x's late symbol resolution slowness. To impress the power of Free software on the kids, make sure you use a distribution that has compiled KDE with a modern compiler. You want to make a good first impression, and that means killer speed and killer looks. For the same reasons, if you're going to be doing anything multimedia (even just playing music from XMMS), use recent ALSA drivers that support multiplexing (i.e., SB Live!), and be sure to patch the kernel with one of the real-time scheduling patches. Again, skipping music is not a turn-on.
From there on out, teach them the power of multi-desktops, keyboard shortcuts, and shell scripting. Start them on the platform with a positive view.
The vast majority of OSS developers who do not "code OSS professionally" participate in a gift economy, a system where people compete for ethereal quantities like reputation.
It works in OSS because reputation gives people jobs, money for speeches, and fame. And we know geeks like fame.
According to the policies, HTTP traffic is given the highest priority. This probably means traffic to port 80 (and maybe port 443) of external computers.
To take advantage of this, of course, you need to use GNU Httptunnel or a similar program to route your filesharing traffic through a proxy on the outside.
To make this more clear:
Get access to a high-bandwidth network on the outside
Run httptunnel's server on that computer
Run the httptunnel client on your UCI computer
Tunnel all your connections either through SOCKS proxies, SSH tunnels, or the like, via this HTTP traffic
This makes all your file-sharing traffic look like legitimate web traffic to the QoS device. You just have to send your data through port 80!
Every science deals with the interaction of particles. Without our knowledge of physics, computer science would be void in the real world; rather, it would remain a branch of theoretical math.
It seems to me that this will actually help UK citizens' privacy.
At first, all their conversations will be logged, so that "Anything [at all] you say can be used against you in a court of law." But, after that, UK engineers (and hackers, of course) will push encryption.
Uncrackable encryption, like RSA and blowfish. With Ghz processors now mainstream, what better use for them than encrypting your daily messages? The world will see a massive flock to encrypted services (like Jabber+SSL, HTTPS, ssh), and the British "Intelligence" will have no data they can read.
Not a very "Intelligent" move for the UK if they're actually *trying* to invade privacy, it seems to me.
This article notes many features present in Windows Whistler (such as an advanced taskbar, start menu, and file-manager integration) that both Linux GUIs lack.
Whie I still prefer KDE and Konqueror, I can understand that many of these features can be useful to many users. I think that comparisons like this can only help the Linux GUIs as a whole: Once they realize what they need, they can refocus their coding!
Free software is about freedom, including the freedom to express one's opinion. Opinion articles like these will help everyone, and, as ESR predicts, make the Free/OpenSource software products stunningly better than the proprietary ones.
Companies are now scared of what hackers (the full force of the Open Source/Free Software leaders) can do to their hardware. Thus, they prevent us from using through patents and restrictive store agreements.
I say someone gets a bundle of those dishes from RadioShack and resells them. Or, use the copy of Win98 that came with your last computer, and tell 'em "I have Win98; see?" Then, use it with Linux and help the community find the secrets behind it.
As we've seen with Lego Mindstorms, hacking HELPS the companies, not hurts. Show them that as well.
In due course, companies won't be scared of us because of what we can do; they'll be scared of us not buying their products, as our numbers continue to soar!
I think that articles like this have no purpose but for the authors to play with the stock market.
Of course in the US sales are declining. As computers stop being ooh-cool-shiny-new-toy objects, and become work tools, they decrease in sales. Their glamour has decreased. However, abroad, there is a massive need for computers. Perhaps the decreases here will decrease prices, as basic economic rules predict, and will make them more attractive to foreign customers.
There needs to be a petition started for this kind of thing.
What kinds of petition campaigns have been successful online? Usually, those involving ensuring the rights of those who sign it.
The question the answer to which I would like is: Is there a petition for this sort of thing?
The following link is a direct message to the FCC. Speak. Make your voice known. Let US lawmakers know what they would do if they further hampered the rights of consumers.
unless your uptime is worth nothing. One crash a week may seem like nothing to a Home user of Win2K, but no crashes in a year is necessary for a production databse.
Seriously, this is a medical database. Uptime is crucial, to the point of life and death.
Go with a 'NIX. Linux, *BSD, or even Solaris (may the Moderators forgive me): Each has uptimes measured in years, as compared to Windoze's days.
I personally would say Linux, as it is currently the fastest growing (both codewise and usagewise) 'NIX of which I know. Solaris is destined for an eventual death, like Windows.
Well, a problem here is that "penis" could be used on an article on testicular cancer.
Howerver, "cock" wouldn't be found there, but rather on sites referring to male chickens.
And what about a discussion on censorship? This article on slashdot is interesting (some parts of it, anyway), but would probably not be allowed by your score scheme.
And, then there's of course the general page on genital dysfunction/disease that would probably reach -30.
Eek.
Good luck, but I don't think this is quite the solution.
Simply, "community censorship" will work in this case. If I wanted to look at some pr0n, I would try to be private about it. Especally if there are consequences for unauthorized use of a service.
So, you just need to tell people when they use the 'net stations there the following:
Do not look at pornographic materials, or materials that other community members may object to. If a staff member or another service user reports that your usage of the Internet offends him/her, and our staff decides as a whole that the violation was serious, consequences may follow.
That's like saying that this post isn't owned by me because a keyboard and Linus' keyboard driver and Marc's Netscape made it.
I just meant that the only true artform is the original form in which the art was created. If the art was first created through a keyboard, and if the keyboard did not modify it, the art is still mine. Otherwise, the keyboard would surrender all IP rights or else pay me royalties;-).
Thus, you do own your own digital artwork: the artform requires the use of certain tools. However, the art of a program isn't in the binary, it's in the source.
Slashdot Mirror
I have made a mirror of the page, as it is becoming exceedingly slow.
At 8:00 a.m. EST, my Mom IM'd me at school to tell me that the Internet as slow at home. At 9:00, my friend who uses my wiki told me that he had been letting it load for about an hour and it wasn't loading. The Xbox-Linux project's wiki also is hosted on my server, and it was inaccessible.
All these web sites are hosted on my little Linux box in my basement, on my parents' cable-modem with 40 KB/s up to the Internet. What happened to me was that the Google logo, linking to the image search for "julia fractals", had my friend Jonathan's site as the top hit. (The exact hit was this page.)
The page was all-but inaccessible, as was my server. I eventually SSH'd in, copied the files to my JHU web hosting space, and set up an Apache redirect to serve the files from there. JHU (my university) has a pretty big pipe, I've learned over the years I've been here. :-).
I mentioned this in a blog entry I made on the topic. It seems that now the search finds some other first hit, the .edu.au site mentioned in the story. Perhaps that's because my server was "Cthuugled" (eaten alive by Google, that is), and no one could reach the first link for so many hours.
To avoid Slashdotting the poor server, a mirror is available here:
mirror.
I have mirrored the site here, inside AT&T's network block.
When the traffic normalizes, I'll remove the mirror.
It's shoot him, not shoot them! See http://webster.commnet.edu/sensen/part2/thirteen/p ronouns_making.html
I use Debian unstable currently, but I don't show it off. KDE is a beat slower than the blazing speeds I see in the Windows GUI. (Of course, KDE is Free, but some people don't get that.) This is because Debian has not yet recompiled its distribution with GCC 3.2.
GCC 3.2 offers a huge speed increase for C++ code. KDE, built entirely in C++, suffers from GCC 2.x's late symbol resolution slowness. To impress the power of Free software on the kids, make sure you use a distribution that has compiled KDE with a modern compiler. You want to make a good first impression, and that means killer speed and killer looks. For the same reasons, if you're going to be doing anything multimedia (even just playing music from XMMS), use recent ALSA drivers that support multiplexing (i.e., SB Live!), and be sure to patch the kernel with one of the real-time scheduling patches. Again, skipping music is not a turn-on.
From there on out, teach them the power of multi-desktops, keyboard shortcuts, and shell scripting. Start them on the platform with a positive view.
The vast majority of OSS developers who do not "code OSS professionally" participate in a gift economy, a system where people compete for ethereal quantities like reputation.
It works in OSS because reputation gives people jobs, money for speeches, and fame. And we know geeks like fame.
According to the policies, HTTP traffic is given the highest priority. This probably means traffic to port 80 (and maybe port 443) of external computers.
To take advantage of this, of course, you need to use GNU Httptunnel or a similar program to route your filesharing traffic through a proxy on the outside.
To make this more clear:
This makes all your file-sharing traffic look like legitimate web traffic to the QoS device. You just have to send your data through port 80!
Every science deals with the interaction of particles. Without our knowledge of physics, computer science would be void in the real world; rather, it would remain a branch of theoretical math.
Floppies are as much of a "computer medium" as the CD-R. They can, in fact, hold many songs pirated through the Internet.
Furthermore, this fails to address the spread via broadband connections. FTP servers should be next.
I think that this URL affects many /. viewers, and should therefore be on the main site.
Why is this only on the Science subsite?!?
It seems to me that this will actually help UK citizens' privacy.
At first, all their conversations will be logged, so that "Anything [at all] you say can be used against you in a court of law." But, after that, UK engineers (and hackers, of course) will push encryption.
Uncrackable encryption, like RSA and blowfish. With Ghz processors now mainstream, what better use for them than encrypting your daily messages? The world will see a massive flock to encrypted services (like Jabber+SSL, HTTPS, ssh), and the British "Intelligence" will have no data they can read.
Not a very "Intelligent" move for the UK if they're actually *trying* to invade privacy, it seems to me.
This article notes many features present in Windows Whistler (such as an advanced taskbar, start menu, and file-manager integration) that both Linux GUIs lack.
Whie I still prefer KDE and Konqueror, I can understand that many of these features can be useful to many users. I think that comparisons like this can only help the Linux GUIs as a whole: Once they realize what they need, they can refocus their coding!
Free software is about freedom, including the freedom to express one's opinion. Opinion articles like these will help everyone, and, as ESR predicts, make the Free/OpenSource software products stunningly better than the proprietary ones.
People, don't worry about this license.
Eventually, Everquest's company will download some copyrighted file off someone's hard drive, and a full license lawyer war will ensue!
Ah, I love proprietary licenses. When people realize what this says, they'll stop buying it. As Everquest is sued.
Think of it as the natural selection of the freeest (think speech, not beer) licenses over the most restrictive.
Companies are now scared of what hackers (the full force of the Open Source/Free Software leaders) can do to their hardware. Thus, they prevent us from using through patents and restrictive store agreements.
I say someone gets a bundle of those dishes from RadioShack and resells them. Or, use the copy of Win98 that came with your last computer, and tell 'em "I have Win98; see?" Then, use it with Linux and help the community find the secrets behind it.
As we've seen with Lego Mindstorms, hacking HELPS the companies, not hurts. Show them that as well.
In due course, companies won't be scared of us because of what we can do; they'll be scared of us not buying their products, as our numbers continue to soar!
Long live hackers!
That's why we need campaign finance reform.
(-;
Wow. Things like this make me wish that Nader could win.
He's the only truly independent candidate, and the only one whose reforms we should truly trust.
Ah well. Such is life in these United States.
I think that articles like this have no purpose but for the authors to play with the stock market.
Of course in the US sales are declining. As computers stop being ooh-cool-shiny-new-toy objects, and become work tools, they decrease in sales. Their glamour has decreased. However, abroad, there is a massive need for computers. Perhaps the decreases here will decrease prices, as basic economic rules predict, and will make them more attractive to foreign customers.
There needs to be a petition started for this kind of thing.
d ir=hrrc&comptype=agency&agency=112&message =101
What kinds of petition campaigns have been successful online? Usually, those involving ensuring the rights of those who sign it.
The question the answer to which I would like is: Is there a petition for this sort of thing?
The following link is a direct message to the FCC. Speak. Make your voice known. Let US lawmakers know what they would do if they further hampered the rights of consumers.
http://congress.nw.dc.us/cgi-bin/oo_compose.pl?
This is amongst the utmost importance of anyone remotely interested in freedom. Free software users, especially, should be aware of this!
Speak!
-- This message posted by Konqueror.
unless your uptime is worth nothing. One crash a week may seem like nothing to a Home user of Win2K, but no crashes in a year is necessary for a production databse.
Seriously, this is a medical database. Uptime is crucial, to the point of life and death.
Go with a 'NIX. Linux, *BSD, or even Solaris (may the Moderators forgive me): Each has uptimes measured in years, as compared to Windoze's days.
I personally would say Linux, as it is currently the fastest growing (both codewise and usagewise) 'NIX of which I know. Solaris is destined for an eventual death, like Windows.
Please. Think of the patients. Go with a 'NIX.
Seriously, has anyone counted how many programs depend on connecting to an X server?
Well? Probably in the tens of thousands as well. Check freshmeat.net, and your local University's Computer Science majors.
I'm pretty sure this is an amazingly meaningless statistic.
Well, a problem here is that "penis" could be used on an article on testicular cancer.
Howerver, "cock" wouldn't be found there, but rather on sites referring to male chickens.
And what about a discussion on censorship? This article on slashdot is interesting (some parts of it, anyway), but would probably not be allowed by your score scheme.
And, then there's of course the general page on genital dysfunction/disease that would probably reach -30.
Eek.
Good luck, but I don't think this is quite the solution.
Simply, "community censorship" will work in this case. If I wanted to look at some pr0n, I would try to be private about it. Especally if there are consequences for unauthorized use of a service.
So, you just need to tell people when they use the 'net stations there the following:
Do not look at pornographic materials, or materials that other community members may object to. If a staff member or another service user reports that your usage of the Internet offends him/her, and our staff decides as a whole that the violation was serious, consequences may follow.
Wouldn't that solve your problems?
That's like saying that this post isn't owned by me because a keyboard and Linus' keyboard driver and Marc's Netscape made it.
;-).
I just meant that the only true artform is the original form in which the art was created. If the art was first created through a keyboard, and if the keyboard did not modify it, the art is still mine. Otherwise, the keyboard would surrender all IP rights or else pay me royalties
Thus, you do own your own digital artwork: the artform requires the use of certain tools. However, the art of a program isn't in the binary, it's in the source.
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