Sorry but if you are silly enough to try and protect your domain by buying up all the TLDs then you already had the.la and if you don't buy them all why would you suddenly buy the.la now just because one company is trying to promote the domain?
I wonder if they can really do the Mars series justice in an 18 hour mini-series? The one thing that impressed me so much about the Mars books is the depth. Not only do you have the stories of the individual charectors, but also we have the politics of both planets and their codependence aswell as the scientific politics. It'll be fun to see, but with it coming from someone who made Armageddon I imagine that the mega-corp aspects and other political/social/scientific areas of the books will be dropped to make a more instantly atractive action/drama series and removing the cerebral interest! Pity, but maybe I'll be completely wrong!
Here's an idea to help with the/. effect. Write an apache mod which keeps track of where requests are coming from and the intensity of them. When the mod recieves the request it can: check to see if you have instructions for this site/url (like mail me on a new/. story link, and make the page a manual redirect for slashdotters, requesting people to mirror it but click on to get the page) or fall back to default actions (restrict simultaneous connections to 100, send mail if limit reached). Is there something like that out there already? The way I suggest the config, you would see the appearnace of subscribers early in a slashdotting and maybe deal with it before the hoards come. You could even have an emergency plan which is kicked in when a site or pages hit another trigger (write a script/program to produce or redirect your site to a less intensive version, or just stop sending out images). Yes you would introduce an extra load on each request (you could make it minimal by clobbering out local requests first), but in the event of a traffic spike of (by your own definition) reasonable proportions you have a greater chance of survival (if 2 million people come beating on your basic server within a minute of each other your fried no matter what you do). People could even setup a routine whereby contributing servers would send back the list of their top spikers, and then get back a longer list of the sites to watch out for (based on other with your top spikers).
I believe that in Ireland womething similar is intended (though I not sure where I originally heard that). To me having number portability is useless is it means that some people are going to get stung when they ring you. I don't agree with fixed line numbers going mobile because an argument can be made against having common call charges then, but in general there should be a standard interconnect rate (for fixed and one for mobile) and internal network calls should be charged the same as external ones. If the operators really feel that having cheap internal calls is important, add a custom prefix for calls on you network that only stay in your network (so if someone leaves the network you will have to go back to using the original number, but if someone swaps from one other network to another you just keep going with no changes).
The codec dlls aren't GPL are they? And I belive it is the codec work which means that the mplayer guys aren't willing to distribute windows binaries themselves! If you want to do it go right ahead and see how long before you get a knock on the door?
Here's a tough question for you, is vlc a legal DVD player (and WMV 1/2) under Linux? The developers think it is! Perhaps what you meant to say was the first legal DVD for Linux in the USA!
Of course it does! But no-one seems to distribute it because of pretty licesing (I'm sure someone must distribute it somewhere):-( There is however the media player for the XBox which uses mplayer code to provide support for all sorts of formats, and its also one of sourceforges most active projects.
Could you please give some examples of hosting companies that charge $1/gig or less? I have looked at lots of hosting companies (for various projects) and have always ended up deciding that the bottom line is maybe $3/gig. The only exception is host2own.com who offer 1Mbs for $100, 10Mbs for $400 or 100Mbs for $3300! It's hardly equivalent though as they don't simply charge you for bandwidth used but charge you for the connection (though they at least used to give you the bandwidth at the 95th percentile so you can overflow it).
OpenOffice.org is definetly usable, as long as you don't need missing features. People who need the missing features must be less than 5% of the "market" and probably more like less than 1%. If someone can tell me a vital feature for everyday common use (don't forget just how many word processing installs are out there and what they are used for) the OOo is missing then I'll retract my point, but the people I've let loose on OOo have all had no problems (no power users, just people who needed Office for basic stuff and were willing to try OOo rather than pirate or buy MS Office). Now if only I had a spell check in mozilla (there is one somewhere I think), my posts might actually resemble english!
And the difference between the above and an apache box which also serves up its content by samba is? Each "site" has a samba share with appropriate permissions and then your apps can edit the content and save it back up. Best thing is no passwords prompts once you are logged in properly.
I'd kill to see someone worthy take on Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy! Imagine that though, no more struggles to make a ring and an eye the centerpiece, now you have to make it the planet! Failing that I'll give my vote to doing all the City Watch books of Terry Pratchet! SocioPolitical commentary in my movies please, guess I'll have to wait for Michael Moore to do his next movie though if I want it to be american!
On downloading applications, you should be careful no matter what you are doing. No matter where you get software from, you either have to check it or trust the person you got it from. If you want to check it, you can either google it and hope that someone has done the alternative and posted about it OR you can examine the softwares actual instructions. If nobody but the producers has the source to a program, examing the software will be far more painful and difficult. Taking personal finance software as an example, without the source you would have to monitor all data stored on the hard disk by the program (including registry entries) and monitor all communications to find any which you can't explain and confirm aren't carrying an extra payload. If either of these tests throws up something you can't understand you have to go through some serious pain if you don't have the source code, but with the source code you just track down those pieces and then you can understand them. The final step of ensuring software is going to behave as you expect with no hidden treasures is to check the entire source and confirm that your own compilation matches the binary being distributed (assuming the whole point of this is to check that random downloaders aren't being taken). Your also of course going to have to ensure that your compiler is unaffected. If you have the entire source code to your distro and the apllication then far more people are likely to check some software integrity. If a program is actively devloped by a community with publically readable source code, a lazy person who is unwilling to do anything to confirm their software's integrity (99%+ I expect) is a lot safer with it then with a binary produced by a closed group. For a person who is willing to search to check if their software is ok, then again the publically revieable software is far more likely to yield a trustworthy result.
As for waiting for free beer, I personally would have no problem paying for GPL software. If a company sold some software under the GPL and requested that nobody redistributed it and that was respected generally, I wouldn't be the one to post it! If it is under the GPL though, I couldn't be stopped!
Finally on the shopping carts, the difference is that unless a dodgy shopping cart vendor's software runs a number of sites I visit they will not get very much information (but I wouldn't shop from companies who I would feel would not care about protecting their customer information).
On point 1, if the rest of the world responds to the US actions by imposing their own tariffs on US owned copyrights and patents (that's what a trade/protectionism war is, tit for tat) then as an American you a going to have less money to spend. All it takes is one overseas company to choose to take another route instead of paying the increased price and your countries cash goes down. Now how much money you lose depends on the level of the tariff, but don't forget that tariff money is being collected by your opponents and they can then spend that money on fighting you or improving their own country.
Even more interesting would be if the rest of the world decided to examine patent law. Perhaps they would simply state that US awarded patents were unrespected outside because the US Patents Office is so useless it should be ignored. Perhaps they could also co-operatively destroy any potential applicability of the areas where the US has sought to extend patents (software and business practices).
My immediate reaction to the comments here that the DVD is region free and unencrypted (same thing is it not for DVDs) was does the case carry the DVD logo, and are they paying any licensing fees? I've only ever come across one high capacity video disc for sale without a DVD logo (and regret not buying it just for the sake of it even though it was a German metal band) but I would love to see more. Anyway, your right, playing back DVDs is a legal problem for Free Software, not just because of the encryption technology, but also because patents abound and a player has to pay quite a bit in licensing (that $2.50 is on top of a $10k entry fee still I presume, nice to see they seem to have dropped the different rates depending on what audio formats you can output though).
Well if the world can send a quarter of a million troops to Iraq, I'm sure we can spare ten thousand or so UN inspectors to make sure the 2004 election is carried out fairly, transparently and democratically unlike the last one. Oh and in case anyone thought I was talking about Iraq, I'm not, see parents!
Option 1: Pay 200 billion to a dictator you don't like for some oil, dropping the UN sanctions you have vetoed being dropped and also potentially getting yourself into a mess with opec.
Option 2: Spend 100 billion on a war, with nearly all of it going directly to your corporations (I suspect the army wages are around 1-2 billion a month and therefore negligible) and hence providing a boost to your economy that doesn't attract to much attention from the WTO. Install your companies to run the oil process in the newly overtaken country and hence start seeing a percentage of all oil purchases from the country providing another boost to your economy. Take oil as payment for all your reconstruction work which again is providing more investment into your economy by providing the reconstruction from US companies AND don't forget US companies are now profiting from the oil you are buying! If you haven't managed to get as much oil as you would have "just bought" you can just by it now at an effectively discounted price as some of the money is recirculating back into your economy.
That's a hundred billion dollars for US business (of tech and other items you probably don't really want anymore) no doubt paid for by the oil you love to guzzle (which will probably be pumped, refined and delivered by US business who will make a cut of that 100 billion) after a war in which you managed to spend another few 10s or 100s of billions on US business (Lockhead et al)! Don't pretend that money has nothing to do with any of this, and that the ultimate reason for this war is the belief that it will help US business (as Afghanistan did). Are you also saying that the US will not ask anyone else to contribute? Is this any different than MS settling a case for 100 million.... in MS licences!
Yep they sure will claim ownership of your work... 100 years after you and everyone else whose code you collaborated with to create the said work is dead. You can't complain about that! You raise an interesting question, how long after a piece of GPL software is released would we be happy to see MS/SCO being able to pick up the code and not release the source to a product using it? 20 Years (the oft talked about figure) seems ok to me, but how low would we go? 10 years? 5 years?
Dia diabh,
sin mo cead am dul go slashdot. Nil mo bearle an mhaith agus mar sin taim ag caint as gaeilge. Ceapaim go mhaith laoibh pog an bod agus nach bhfuil aon beatha agat. As gaeilge fearstraide sin an ainm ata agat, cad e as bearla? Nach bhfuil aon Gaeilge agat, taim cinnte nach bhfuil aon rud a fhail as babelfish na aon ait eile leis an riomhaire. Taim ag dul go dti mo leaba, oiche mhaith agat.
Demolition "Tonight you will join me for dinner at Taco Bell" Man
"Greetings and salutations. Welcome to the emergency line of the San Angeles Police Department. If you prefer an automated response, press one, now."
"Simon Phoenix knows he has some competition. He's finally matched his meat. You really licked his ass."
"You can take this job, and you can shovel it."
But best of all were Sandra Bullocks legs on a cinema screen!
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And I suppose you think that Bush's regime should be allowed to bomb and send in the troups wherever they like. Good for you! And how open-minded!
Seriously where are his standards? North Korea, China, Zimbabwe, Israel, Turkey and Saudi all have serious issues such as Iraqs, but W wanted Iraq first (well he had to warm the troops and the country up in Afghanistan first, makes it look a bit less suspicious to). Is he going to continue after Iraq and take out regime after regime until the world is populated by his friends or torn assunder in World War III?
I am never going to shake the feeling I had on 911, that the attacks were started somewhere in the seats of power of the USA to simply bring about the "War of Terror/War on Freedom" that those in power wanted. Whether you ultimately believe it is about power or money (or if you believe the two are inseperable) there are an incredible number of mysterious questions that are getting swept under the carpet with each new wave of W's madness. What happened in Florida which means that W is now president and not Al? What significance do the connections between the Bush and Bin Laden families have in all of this? What evidence did US inteligence have about threats from Iraq (that go beyond the threats from the above mentioned countries) that could actually stand up to scrutiny, and not be dismissed as false by indpendent inspectors (as the attempts to purchase nuclear materials from niger were).
What was preventing a diplomatic solution to the rape, murder, torture and stravation that you descirbe? Surely the only thing that was missing was the power and finances to back up anything which would need to be done (such as installing peace keeping toops to oversee elections and aid distribution for example) and those are being more then spent now in a war instead, why? Is it just to try and keep the american economy alive or at least get peoples attentions away from it? Let them blame it on the war and not the crap your country has become. Why didn't they install election inspectors, come to think of it I hope the UN are going to have a few thousand of them in the USA for the next few elections.
Finally I say go and read Michael Moore and ask yourself are you one who is being lead along in a society of fear to suit those in power?
217.26.193.10 is the correct IP according to netcraft so yep someone has shut down some pipes, or at least some routing. If you look at my other post on this story you will see that there is possibly another IP address but it is in trouble to.
Depends on your definition of most! I was being generous to avoid the penis envy scenario of people going "well I get 400k on my cable modem so it would only take 12.5s". ADSL speeds generally seem to max out a 2 megabits anyway (only 1 megabit here in Ireland) but cable modem speeds were often bandied about at 4 megabits. Anyway, your only re-inforcing my point in many ways that any caching benefits will apply everywhere and not just for 56k people.
So let me get this straight the people working on OS/FS projects don't have a clue about whats important and the people working in commercial software do? What about StarOffice then, it is commercial software and it is based on OO.o and hence updates go both ways. How many pieces of commercial software do you sit there and look at the release notes and go "thank god they dealt with all the things I needed them to, and they didn;t add one thing I didn;t want". You seem to believe that core functionality is missing from OO.o, but that depends on your target market! If you ask my Aunt it's fine, cause she just wants to get work done and despite going from wordstar on a 286 to OO.o 1.0 on a Pentium she has yet to come back with a single question on how to do anything after she was given two pages of notes on how to use the system by my 60 year old mother who uses Word97 all the time and had looked at OO.o for about 20 minutes before she gave it to my Auntie, agreeing to deal with any problems my Aunt had! If you ask me it's fine, but I don't do much power stuff with office, I just slap together some documents and spreadsheets. Pdf creation facilities are not in Windows or Linux at an OS level, and something like a PDF can be created so many ways it's just not funny, so if OO.o can produce lovely pdfs by using it's own native tools I think thats magic, and crushes the problems of sending documents electronically. When you want to get the work done, do you send someone a pdf, or do you send them a word doc? Which gets less replies?
As for what you have said that is ignorant, re-read your posts and ask yourself one question, if you heard a human talk with all those swear words would you think they were ignorant (or at least had some form of speech impediment). And also stating that you know more about something than someone else when you don't know them and you are unwiliing to provide any indentifier for yourself is also ignorant. Care to login and continue?
This is news for nerds after all! A little bit of research on my part has revealed the following:
DNS servers for aljazeera.net are
ALJNS1SA.NAV-LINK.net. 172800 IN A 217.26.193.15
NS3.aljazeera.net. 172800 IN A 213.30.180.218
Neither DNS server can be accessed or pinged. A traceroute to 217.26.193.15 bombed out very close to home as unreachable (5th hop, still in my ISP). A traceroute for 213.30.180.218 got to Paris, then to an unknown location on the same network and then it made three jumps to IPs and got stuck! It ended at (s/star*/*/, damn lameness filter)
12 2547 ms 2543 ms 2359 ms so-1-0-0.mp1.Paris1.Level3.net [212.187.128.41]
13 3124 ms 2295 ms 1919 ms unknown.Level3.net [212.73.240.71]
14 2078 ms 2735 ms 3383 ms 212.73.242.66
15 2377 ms 2263 ms 2262 ms 213.30.129.210
16 2359 ms 2479 ms 2327 ms 213.30.128.126
17 star* star* star* Request timed out. ...
100 star* star* star* Request timed out.
netcraft's report shows up two ip addresses and two netblock owners for www.aljazeera.net (either constant changing or more likely load-balancing). The netblock owners are French Navlink for 217.26.193.10 and Horizons Media and Information Services Private Residence Hoboken NJ 07030 US for 64.106.198.10, though this IP was registered to ARIN until the 21st March. Both are running IIS/5 and it looks like they've been doing things daily from the 20th-25th March. Both IP addresses are un pingable. The 217 address also drops at one of my ISPs boxes on a traceroute, while the 64 address gets dropped at a verio ip in london.
The whois record for aljazeera is a little strange (Jazeera Space Channel, hotmail address and po box?).
I don't understand routing well enough to know what could cause something like this? Are these machines that are reporting unreachable hosts under tracert actually acting in response to a DOS, or are they themselves denying the service? Could someone have issued an order that made this happen, or is it a network corruption issue?
Symantec have a incredible list of recent threats (I was stunned how long it was). 6 were discovered since the 24th of March including 3 backdoors. Is it reasonable to think that this could simply be a virus/worm/backdoor based DOS?
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Sorry but if you are silly enough to try and protect your domain by buying up all the TLDs then you already had the .la and if you don't buy them all why would you suddenly buy the .la now just because one company is trying to promote the domain?
I wonder if they can really do the Mars series justice in an 18 hour mini-series? The one thing that impressed me so much about the Mars books is the depth. Not only do you have the stories of the individual charectors, but also we have the politics of both planets and their codependence aswell as the scientific politics. It'll be fun to see, but with it coming from someone who made Armageddon I imagine that the mega-corp aspects and other political/social/scientific areas of the books will be dropped to make a more instantly atractive action/drama series and removing the cerebral interest! Pity, but maybe I'll be completely wrong!
Here's an idea to help with the /. effect. Write an apache mod which keeps track of where requests are coming from and the intensity of them. When the mod recieves the request it can: check to see if you have instructions for this site/url (like mail me on a new /. story link, and make the page a manual redirect for slashdotters, requesting people to mirror it but click on to get the page) or fall back to default actions (restrict simultaneous connections to 100, send mail if limit reached). Is there something like that out there already? The way I suggest the config, you would see the appearnace of subscribers early in a slashdotting and maybe deal with it before the hoards come. You could even have an emergency plan which is kicked in when a site or pages hit another trigger (write a script/program to produce or redirect your site to a less intensive version, or just stop sending out images). Yes you would introduce an extra load on each request (you could make it minimal by clobbering out local requests first), but in the event of a traffic spike of (by your own definition) reasonable proportions you have a greater chance of survival (if 2 million people come beating on your basic server within a minute of each other your fried no matter what you do). People could even setup a routine whereby contributing servers would send back the list of their top spikers, and then get back a longer list of the sites to watch out for (based on other with your top spikers).
I believe that in Ireland womething similar is intended (though I not sure where I originally heard that). To me having number portability is useless is it means that some people are going to get stung when they ring you. I don't agree with fixed line numbers going mobile because an argument can be made against having common call charges then, but in general there should be a standard interconnect rate (for fixed and one for mobile) and internal network calls should be charged the same as external ones. If the operators really feel that having cheap internal calls is important, add a custom prefix for calls on you network that only stay in your network (so if someone leaves the network you will have to go back to using the original number, but if someone swaps from one other network to another you just keep going with no changes).
The codec dlls aren't GPL are they? And I belive it is the codec work which means that the mplayer guys aren't willing to distribute windows binaries themselves! If you want to do it go right ahead and see how long before you get a knock on the door?
Here's a tough question for you, is vlc a legal DVD player (and WMV 1/2) under Linux? The developers think it is! Perhaps what you meant to say was the first legal DVD for Linux in the USA!
Of course it does! But no-one seems to distribute it because of pretty licesing (I'm sure someone must distribute it somewhere) :-( There is however the media player for the XBox which uses mplayer code to provide support for all sorts of formats, and its also one of sourceforges most active projects.
Could you please give some examples of hosting companies that charge $1/gig or less? I have looked at lots of hosting companies (for various projects) and have always ended up deciding that the bottom line is maybe $3/gig. The only exception is host2own.com who offer 1Mbs for $100, 10Mbs for $400 or 100Mbs for $3300! It's hardly equivalent though as they don't simply charge you for bandwidth used but charge you for the connection (though they at least used to give you the bandwidth at the 95th percentile so you can overflow it).
OpenOffice.org is definetly usable, as long as you don't need missing features. People who need the missing features must be less than 5% of the "market" and probably more like less than 1%. If someone can tell me a vital feature for everyday common use (don't forget just how many word processing installs are out there and what they are used for) the OOo is missing then I'll retract my point, but the people I've let loose on OOo have all had no problems (no power users, just people who needed Office for basic stuff and were willing to try OOo rather than pirate or buy MS Office). Now if only I had a spell check in mozilla (there is one somewhere I think), my posts might actually resemble english!
And the difference between the above and an apache box which also serves up its content by samba is? Each "site" has a samba share with appropriate permissions and then your apps can edit the content and save it back up. Best thing is no passwords prompts once you are logged in properly.
I'd kill to see someone worthy take on Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy! Imagine that though, no more struggles to make a ring and an eye the centerpiece, now you have to make it the planet! Failing that I'll give my vote to doing all the City Watch books of Terry Pratchet! SocioPolitical commentary in my movies please, guess I'll have to wait for Michael Moore to do his next movie though if I want it to be american!
On downloading applications, you should be careful no matter what you are doing. No matter where you get software from, you either have to check it or trust the person you got it from. If you want to check it, you can either google it and hope that someone has done the alternative and posted about it OR you can examine the softwares actual instructions. If nobody but the producers has the source to a program, examing the software will be far more painful and difficult. Taking personal finance software as an example, without the source you would have to monitor all data stored on the hard disk by the program (including registry entries) and monitor all communications to find any which you can't explain and confirm aren't carrying an extra payload. If either of these tests throws up something you can't understand you have to go through some serious pain if you don't have the source code, but with the source code you just track down those pieces and then you can understand them. The final step of ensuring software is going to behave as you expect with no hidden treasures is to check the entire source and confirm that your own compilation matches the binary being distributed (assuming the whole point of this is to check that random downloaders aren't being taken). Your also of course going to have to ensure that your compiler is unaffected. If you have the entire source code to your distro and the apllication then far more people are likely to check some software integrity. If a program is actively devloped by a community with publically readable source code, a lazy person who is unwilling to do anything to confirm their software's integrity (99%+ I expect) is a lot safer with it then with a binary produced by a closed group. For a person who is willing to search to check if their software is ok, then again the publically revieable software is far more likely to yield a trustworthy result.
As for waiting for free beer, I personally would have no problem paying for GPL software. If a company sold some software under the GPL and requested that nobody redistributed it and that was respected generally, I wouldn't be the one to post it! If it is under the GPL though, I couldn't be stopped!
Finally on the shopping carts, the difference is that unless a dodgy shopping cart vendor's software runs a number of sites I visit they will not get very much information (but I wouldn't shop from companies who I would feel would not care about protecting their customer information).
On point 1, if the rest of the world responds to the US actions by imposing their own tariffs on US owned copyrights and patents (that's what a trade/protectionism war is, tit for tat) then as an American you a going to have less money to spend. All it takes is one overseas company to choose to take another route instead of paying the increased price and your countries cash goes down. Now how much money you lose depends on the level of the tariff, but don't forget that tariff money is being collected by your opponents and they can then spend that money on fighting you or improving their own country.
Even more interesting would be if the rest of the world decided to examine patent law. Perhaps they would simply state that US awarded patents were unrespected outside because the US Patents Office is so useless it should be ignored. Perhaps they could also co-operatively destroy any potential applicability of the areas where the US has sought to extend patents (software and business practices).
My immediate reaction to the comments here that the DVD is region free and unencrypted (same thing is it not for DVDs) was does the case carry the DVD logo, and are they paying any licensing fees? I've only ever come across one high capacity video disc for sale without a DVD logo (and regret not buying it just for the sake of it even though it was a German metal band) but I would love to see more. Anyway, your right, playing back DVDs is a legal problem for Free Software, not just because of the encryption technology, but also because patents abound and a player has to pay quite a bit in licensing (that $2.50 is on top of a $10k entry fee still I presume, nice to see they seem to have dropped the different rates depending on what audio formats you can output though).
Well if the world can send a quarter of a million troops to Iraq, I'm sure we can spare ten thousand or so UN inspectors to make sure the 2004 election is carried out fairly, transparently and democratically unlike the last one. Oh and in case anyone thought I was talking about Iraq, I'm not, see parents!
Option 1: Pay 200 billion to a dictator you don't like for some oil, dropping the UN sanctions you have vetoed being dropped and also potentially getting yourself into a mess with opec.
Option 2: Spend 100 billion on a war, with nearly all of it going directly to your corporations (I suspect the army wages are around 1-2 billion a month and therefore negligible) and hence providing a boost to your economy that doesn't attract to much attention from the WTO. Install your companies to run the oil process in the newly overtaken country and hence start seeing a percentage of all oil purchases from the country providing another boost to your economy. Take oil as payment for all your reconstruction work which again is providing more investment into your economy by providing the reconstruction from US companies AND don't forget US companies are now profiting from the oil you are buying! If you haven't managed to get as much oil as you would have "just bought" you can just by it now at an effectively discounted price as some of the money is recirculating back into your economy.
Do the math and see which is better!
That's a hundred billion dollars for US business (of tech and other items you probably don't really want anymore) no doubt paid for by the oil you love to guzzle (which will probably be pumped, refined and delivered by US business who will make a cut of that 100 billion) after a war in which you managed to spend another few 10s or 100s of billions on US business (Lockhead et al)! Don't pretend that money has nothing to do with any of this, and that the ultimate reason for this war is the belief that it will help US business (as Afghanistan did). Are you also saying that the US will not ask anyone else to contribute? Is this any different than MS settling a case for 100 million .... in MS licences!
Yep they sure will claim ownership of your work ... 100 years after you and everyone else whose code you collaborated with to create the said work is dead. You can't complain about that! You raise an interesting question, how long after a piece of GPL software is released would we be happy to see MS/SCO being able to pick up the code and not release the source to a product using it? 20 Years (the oft talked about figure) seems ok to me, but how low would we go? 10 years? 5 years?
Dia diabh, sin mo cead am dul go slashdot. Nil mo bearle an mhaith agus mar sin taim ag caint as gaeilge. Ceapaim go mhaith laoibh pog an bod agus nach bhfuil aon beatha agat. As gaeilge fearstraide sin an ainm ata agat, cad e as bearla? Nach bhfuil aon Gaeilge agat, taim cinnte nach bhfuil aon rud a fhail as babelfish na aon ait eile leis an riomhaire. Taim ag dul go dti mo leaba, oiche mhaith agat.
Demolition "Tonight you will join me for dinner at Taco Bell" Man
"Greetings and salutations. Welcome to the emergency line of the San Angeles Police Department. If you prefer an automated response, press one, now."
"Simon Phoenix knows he has some competition. He's finally matched his meat. You really licked his ass."
"You can take this job, and you can shovel it."
But best of all were Sandra Bullocks legs on a cinema screen!
And I suppose you think that Bush's regime should be allowed to bomb and send in the troups wherever they like. Good for you! And how open-minded!
Seriously where are his standards? North Korea, China, Zimbabwe, Israel, Turkey and Saudi all have serious issues such as Iraqs, but W wanted Iraq first (well he had to warm the troops and the country up in Afghanistan first, makes it look a bit less suspicious to). Is he going to continue after Iraq and take out regime after regime until the world is populated by his friends or torn assunder in World War III?
I am never going to shake the feeling I had on 911, that the attacks were started somewhere in the seats of power of the USA to simply bring about the "War of Terror/War on Freedom" that those in power wanted. Whether you ultimately believe it is about power or money (or if you believe the two are inseperable) there are an incredible number of mysterious questions that are getting swept under the carpet with each new wave of W's madness. What happened in Florida which means that W is now president and not Al? What significance do the connections between the Bush and Bin Laden families have in all of this? What evidence did US inteligence have about threats from Iraq (that go beyond the threats from the above mentioned countries) that could actually stand up to scrutiny, and not be dismissed as false by indpendent inspectors (as the attempts to purchase nuclear materials from niger were).
What was preventing a diplomatic solution to the rape, murder, torture and stravation that you descirbe? Surely the only thing that was missing was the power and finances to back up anything which would need to be done (such as installing peace keeping toops to oversee elections and aid distribution for example) and those are being more then spent now in a war instead, why? Is it just to try and keep the american economy alive or at least get peoples attentions away from it? Let them blame it on the war and not the crap your country has become. Why didn't they install election inspectors, come to think of it I hope the UN are going to have a few thousand of them in the USA for the next few elections.
Finally I say go and read Michael Moore and ask yourself are you one who is being lead along in a society of fear to suit those in power?
217.26.193.10 is the correct IP according to netcraft so yep someone has shut down some pipes, or at least some routing. If you look at my other post on this story you will see that there is possibly another IP address but it is in trouble to.
Depends on your definition of most! I was being generous to avoid the penis envy scenario of people going "well I get 400k on my cable modem so it would only take 12.5s". ADSL speeds generally seem to max out a 2 megabits anyway (only 1 megabit here in Ireland) but cable modem speeds were often bandied about at 4 megabits. Anyway, your only re-inforcing my point in many ways that any caching benefits will apply everywhere and not just for 56k people.
So let me get this straight the people working on OS/FS projects don't have a clue about whats important and the people working in commercial software do? What about StarOffice then, it is commercial software and it is based on OO.o and hence updates go both ways. How many pieces of commercial software do you sit there and look at the release notes and go "thank god they dealt with all the things I needed them to, and they didn;t add one thing I didn;t want". You seem to believe that core functionality is missing from OO.o, but that depends on your target market! If you ask my Aunt it's fine, cause she just wants to get work done and despite going from wordstar on a 286 to OO.o 1.0 on a Pentium she has yet to come back with a single question on how to do anything after she was given two pages of notes on how to use the system by my 60 year old mother who uses Word97 all the time and had looked at OO.o for about 20 minutes before she gave it to my Auntie, agreeing to deal with any problems my Aunt had! If you ask me it's fine, but I don't do much power stuff with office, I just slap together some documents and spreadsheets. Pdf creation facilities are not in Windows or Linux at an OS level, and something like a PDF can be created so many ways it's just not funny, so if OO.o can produce lovely pdfs by using it's own native tools I think thats magic, and crushes the problems of sending documents electronically. When you want to get the work done, do you send someone a pdf, or do you send them a word doc? Which gets less replies?
As for what you have said that is ignorant, re-read your posts and ask yourself one question, if you heard a human talk with all those swear words would you think they were ignorant (or at least had some form of speech impediment). And also stating that you know more about something than someone else when you don't know them and you are unwiliing to provide any indentifier for yourself is also ignorant. Care to login and continue?
This is news for nerds after all! A little bit of research on my part has revealed the following:
- DNS servers for aljazeera.net are
ALJNS1SA.NAV-LINK.net. 172800 IN A 217.26.193.15
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- netcraft's report shows up two ip addresses and two netblock owners for www.aljazeera.net (either constant changing or more likely load-balancing). The netblock owners are French Navlink for 217.26.193.10 and Horizons Media and Information Services Private Residence Hoboken NJ 07030 US for 64.106.198.10, though this IP was registered to ARIN until the 21st March. Both are running IIS/5 and it looks like they've been doing things daily from the 20th-25th March. Both IP addresses are un pingable. The 217 address also drops at one of my ISPs boxes on a traceroute, while the 64 address gets dropped at a verio ip in london.
- The whois record for aljazeera is a little strange (Jazeera Space Channel, hotmail address and po box?).
I don't understand routing well enough to know what could cause something like this? Are these machines that are reporting unreachable hosts under tracert actually acting in response to a DOS, or are they themselves denying the service? Could someone have issued an order that made this happen, or is it a network corruption issue?NS3.aljazeera.net. 172800 IN A 213.30.180.218 Neither DNS server can be accessed or pinged. A traceroute to 217.26.193.15 bombed out very close to home as unreachable (5th hop, still in my ISP). A traceroute for 213.30.180.218 got to Paris, then to an unknown location on the same network and then it made three jumps to IPs and got stuck! It ended at (s/star*/*/, damn lameness filter) 12 2547 ms 2543 ms 2359 ms so-1-0-0.mp1.Paris1.Level3.net [212.187.128.41]
13 3124 ms 2295 ms 1919 ms unknown.Level3.net [212.73.240.71]
14 2078 ms 2735 ms 3383 ms 212.73.242.66
15 2377 ms 2263 ms 2262 ms 213.30.129.210
16 2359 ms 2479 ms 2327 ms 213.30.128.126
17 star* star* star* Request timed out.
100 star* star* star* Request timed out.
Symantec have a incredible list of recent threats (I was stunned how long it was). 6 were discovered since the 24th of March including 3 backdoors. Is it reasonable to think that this could simply be a virus/worm/backdoor based DOS?