If everyone is ignoring SCO's threats, and they have *no* effect on Linux deployment, then how could Red Hat show actual damages?
Good point. We've got quite a few RH boxes online here for a variety of customers, most of them small enough that RH Enterprise does not make sense for them.
We would have been delighted to keep paying the individual user price of $5/box/month to avoid waiting for peak hour access to the RedHat Network. Months ago, long before the end-of-life announcements, I wrote to RH to ask about a 100-server quantity deal -- not even looking for a price break, but hoping to run a mirror locally to reduce their overhead. They didn't answer my email.
Too bad for them. We're going to be looking at Progeny for our RH support now.
SCO? SCO is not even a blip on our radar. The RedHat sales dept is RedHat's worst enemy.
Asimov does not make any mention of black characters in I Robot.
There's a pretty good chance Smith will be filling the niche occupied in the later books by Lije Bailey (yes, I know Bailey and R. Daneel are not in I, Robot... they're in the same universe, though.) How many white guys named Elijah do you know?
The best way to put a black character -- hell, any character -- into a book is to do it in such a way that the character's color never comes up.
Bumped into Alexei Panshin's site, and was quite excited to see that he had ebook versions of the Anthony Villiers novels (good, entertaining, literate stuff; Masque World has a nifty in-joke if you happen to know the neighborhood around the Brooklyn end of the Brooklyn Bridge). All in Microsoft Reader format and ONLY Microsoft Reader format. What the HELL was the point of doing it that way?!?
Damn shame, because any HTML file + iSilo and a Palm with a storage card absolutely rock.
SWMBO got the same brand at a going-out-of-business sale at Office Max. The "bookshelf" company behind it sent out an announcement a month or two back to say that they are indeed closing their doors and that she now basically owns a very nice paperweight.
I read this far down the thread hoping someone would have a comment about these orphaned devices, and how to give them a new lease on life. (This one has a modem, USB, and some kind of TCP/IP stack. There must be something useful we can do with it!)
If you say corporations can't own copyrights, you are effectively limiting MY right as a natural person to sell my copyrights to a willing buyer. I don't see how that levels the playing field.
Corporations are a natural response to the uncertainty of life. For instance, Stephen King was in a nasty accident not that long ago. If he hadn't pulled through, cancelling his copyrights would have destroyed a sizable company and the value they have accumulated for a number of employees. A modest guarantee -- a fixed number of years with no reference to the author's lifespan -- would seem a more reasonable approach.
Oh, I suppose a publisher could take out an insurance policy on an author -- but that could lead to a whole other set of abuses.
What if spamming meant inviting a massive DOS on your website?
Point that cannon at the spammers and they will gleefully start spamming for anti-spam sites (in addition to their own, I hasten to add). Note the original article.... spammers will seize the chance to point any purely technical takedown mechanism at their enemies, gleefully. Taking down the antispam sites would be worth it, to them.
Clearly, whitelists are part of the solution but they are limited since you can't form a network of whitelists, it's a one-to-one solution that does not scale.
The magic word you're looking for is "brissance," and it's what gunpowder doesn't have. You can pack the he-double-hockey-sticks out of it and it still won't be the equal of TNT, pound for pound.
Or as Click and Clack would say, "Bo-o-o-o-o-GUS!"
A metal dielectric does sound like voodoo... but at the scale they're describing -- four ATOMS thick!? -- I suspect it's more of a waveguide (or perhaps a forcefield) than a physical barrier.
Interesting ratio. There's another aspect, too; nobody lives forever. Why not go out trying to make a difference? I like Mars Direct -- sign up some volunteers and give them a one-way ticket. If they can refine enough go-juice there to get back, that's great, but even if they can't, they got to go to Mars!
Every time I look at the Bonestell paintings and the Grumman models and think about where we were supposed to be by now, it makes me want to cry.
You do not have to taint your results by signing up for anything.
Just a few posts to that newsgroup and you'll hear back from all the organ enhancers, Nigerian widows and orphans, and other scammers you could ever want, 100% unsolicited.
I keep hoping for better from Mandrake -- we need competition for RedHat. But the first box set I bought from them (at a computer show, but close enough to retail) had a dead disk.
So I contact them: "Oh, take it back to the store." Running score: -1.0
Ran into a mobo that wouldn't boot RedHat -- Mandrake to the rescue. Score: 0.0.
Tried to install bittorrent on RedHat -- no go. Mandrake to the rescue. Almost kewl; bt is not what it was cracked up to be. Score: +0.5
Seems RedHat's $60/year/box deal will soon be history. Downloaded Mandrake 9.0, crossed fingers... Nooooo, KDE on XFree 4 is Utterly B0rked. Score to date: -0.5.
Our cat figured out that she can go on the other side of the virtual wall and watch the Roomba as much as she likes, in relative peace.
It's not bad for a 1st gen device. Likes to go under the couch quite a bit, and it's more like a carpet sweeper than a true vacuum, but it does help a bit.
Now that it's shown that Spam actually helps the brick and mortar stores, now are we going to see Walmart and KMart behind a lot of spam in the future?
First, I don't believe a word any spammer says. Second, can't speak for KMart, but Wal-Mart says "No." You may have seen a recent case of fraud where some guy was abusing the Wal-Mart name in his spam -- you would not want to be in that guy's shoes this time next month.
Silly question, perhaps, but are we all just assuming that Smith is being cast as R. Daneel Olivaw? He could be playing Lije Bailey, who IS the viewpoint character (or "star"), after all.
If you think of Daneel as Spock, yeah, he's the charismatic breakout character -- but it's Bailey who is supposed to be Kirk!
Oh, joy, ifilm.com is one of our customers. The horror, the horror....
Anyway, careful with the direct links, please. Speedera is probably okay, being a Content Delivery Network; but last 11 Sept. a bunch of people gave out deep links to a site we were trying to put onto a CDN, and so the deep links didn't help anyone. (Yeah, we should have put it up on the CDN earlier... but some people had bookmarked it the year before. Duh.)
Give the webmaster a chance to give you a redirect, please. They probably want you to have the content as much as you want to see it.
Slashdot Mirror
...just so we can point at this guy and laugh. Isn't that how all human progress works?
Funny about BSD's ps -- I've seen a couple of rooted RH boxes, and both of them were running a ps that looks nothing like the one that comes with RH.
So instead of hiding the rootkit processes, it actually tipped me off. In fact it was like waving a big red flag. "Yo! Rootkit here!"
Good point. We've got quite a few RH boxes online here for a variety of customers, most of them small enough that RH Enterprise does not make sense for them.
We would have been delighted to keep paying the individual user price of $5/box/month to avoid waiting for peak hour access to the RedHat Network. Months ago, long before the end-of-life announcements, I wrote to RH to ask about a 100-server quantity deal -- not even looking for a price break, but hoping to run a mirror locally to reduce their overhead. They didn't answer my email.
Too bad for them. We're going to be looking at Progeny for our RH support now.
SCO? SCO is not even a blip on our radar. The RedHat sales dept is RedHat's worst enemy.
There's a pretty good chance Smith will be filling the niche occupied in the later books by Lije Bailey (yes, I know Bailey and R. Daneel are not in I, Robot... they're in the same universe, though.) How many white guys named Elijah do you know?
The best way to put a black character -- hell, any character -- into a book is to do it in such a way that the character's color never comes up.
Damn shame, because any HTML file + iSilo and a Palm with a storage card absolutely rock.
I read this far down the thread hoping someone would have a comment about these orphaned devices, and how to give them a new lease on life. (This one has a modem, USB, and some kind of TCP/IP stack. There must be something useful we can do with it!)
4 / 7 = 57 percent, not 85. You can reasonably read it as "LINux winDOWS" rather than "Linux wINDOWS."
And I'm standing on the side of the room where they're saying the trademark is on "MICROSOFT WINDOWS," not just "WINDOWS."
If you say corporations can't own copyrights, you are effectively limiting MY right as a natural person to sell my copyrights to a willing buyer. I don't see how that levels the playing field.
Corporations are a natural response to the uncertainty of life. For instance, Stephen King was in a nasty accident not that long ago. If he hadn't pulled through, cancelling his copyrights would have destroyed a sizable company and the value they have accumulated for a number of employees. A modest guarantee -- a fixed number of years with no reference to the author's lifespan -- would seem a more reasonable approach.
Oh, I suppose a publisher could take out an insurance policy on an author -- but that could lead to a whole other set of abuses.
That's how I use it, but I'm not running a site like Gentoo's.
If I were, I'd rather run an rsync server than give shell logins to every Tom Dick and Mary.
Point that cannon at the spammers and they will gleefully start spamming for anti-spam sites (in addition to their own, I hasten to add). Note the original article.... spammers will seize the chance to point any purely technical takedown mechanism at their enemies, gleefully. Taking down the antispam sites would be worth it, to them.
Site's not even breathing hard, and it's 20 pages "and over 140 images." Big ones. Seems this guy knows how to build more than casemods.
I suddenly have a mad desire to go water-cooled....
Are you sure?
"We're not even supposed to be here!" -- Sam in Minas Tirith.
The magic word you're looking for is "brissance," and it's what gunpowder doesn't have. You can pack the he-double-hockey-sticks out of it and it still won't be the equal of TNT, pound for pound.
Or as Click and Clack would say, "Bo-o-o-o-o-GUS!"
A metal dielectric does sound like voodoo... but at the scale they're describing -- four ATOMS thick!? -- I suspect it's more of a waveguide (or perhaps a forcefield) than a physical barrier.
Every time I look at the Bonestell paintings and the Grumman models and think about where we were supposed to be by now, it makes me want to cry.
You do not have to taint your results by signing up for anything.
Just a few posts to that newsgroup and you'll hear back from all the organ enhancers, Nigerian widows and orphans, and other scammers you could ever want, 100% unsolicited.
So I contact them: "Oh, take it back to the store." Running score: -1.0
Ran into a mobo that wouldn't boot RedHat -- Mandrake to the rescue. Score: 0.0.
Tried to install bittorrent on RedHat -- no go. Mandrake to the rescue. Almost kewl; bt is not what it was cracked up to be. Score: +0.5
Seems RedHat's $60/year/box deal will soon be history. Downloaded Mandrake 9.0, crossed fingers... Nooooo, KDE on XFree 4 is Utterly B0rked. Score to date: -0.5.
Apparently they're only one year old, too. Happy first anniversary slashdotting, amigos.
I keep tripping over Ian Watson's books while looking for more by Ian Wallace. No AI's in his stuff, but some fascinating riffs on the nature of mind.
and they've produced two or three kick-ass CD's so far.
Our cat figured out that she can go on the other side of the virtual wall and watch the Roomba as much as she likes, in relative peace.
It's not bad for a 1st gen device. Likes to go under the couch quite a bit, and it's more like a carpet sweeper than a true vacuum, but it does help a bit.
First, I don't believe a word any spammer says. Second, can't speak for KMart, but Wal-Mart says "No." You may have seen a recent case of fraud where some guy was abusing the Wal-Mart name in his spam -- you would not want to be in that guy's shoes this time next month.
Silly question, perhaps, but are we all just assuming that Smith is being cast as R. Daneel Olivaw? He could be playing Lije Bailey, who IS the viewpoint character (or "star"), after all.
If you think of Daneel as Spock, yeah, he's the charismatic breakout character -- but it's Bailey who is supposed to be Kirk!
Anyway, careful with the direct links, please. Speedera is probably okay, being a Content Delivery Network; but last 11 Sept. a bunch of people gave out deep links to a site we were trying to put onto a CDN, and so the deep links didn't help anyone. (Yeah, we should have put it up on the CDN earlier... but some people had bookmarked it the year before. Duh.)
Give the webmaster a chance to give you a redirect, please. They probably want you to have the content as much as you want to see it.