Domain Name: MSINTERGATE.COM Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC. Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com Referral URL: www.networksolutions.com Name Server: NS1.MSINTERGATE.COM Name Server: NS2.MSINTERGATE.COM Updated Date: 09-jul-1997
[root@www rcarver]# ping -c5 www.saveiridium.com PING www.saveiridium.com (209.60.188.5) from 208.246.241.160 : 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 209.60.188.5: icmp_seq=0 ttl=244 time=151.8 ms 64 bytes from 209.60.188.5: icmp_seq=1 ttl=244 time=153.1 ms 64 bytes from 209.60.188.5: icmp_seq=2 ttl=244 time=139.3 ms 64 bytes from 209.60.188.5: icmp_seq=3 ttl=244 time=136.5 ms 64 bytes from 209.60.188.5: icmp_seq=4 ttl=244 time=139.2 ms
--- www.saveiridium.com ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max = 136.5/143.9/153.1 ms
[root@www rcarver]# ping -c5 ns2.msintergate.com PING ns2.msintergate.com (209.60.188.5) from 208.246.241.160 : 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 209.60.188.5: icmp_seq=0 ttl=244 time=136.9 ms 64 bytes from 209.60.188.5: icmp_seq=1 ttl=244 time=133.9 ms 64 bytes from 209.60.188.5: icmp_seq=2 ttl=244 time=134.2 ms 64 bytes from 209.60.188.5: icmp_seq=3 ttl=244 time=134.9 ms 64 bytes from 209.60.188.5: icmp_seq=4 ttl=244 time=136.8 ms
--- ns2.msintergate.com ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max = 133.9/135.3/136.9 ms
If they open Win9x, it will take 2 years for anyone to wade through that crap code, by that time, its the next generation, (or the next half generation from M$) and things have moved on. THe code will be so out of date it won't be funny.
Apparently some of us fail to remember the huge fiasco not long ago when the beloved communist Al Gore was touting his web page as "Open source" with tag lines on the web page and on the pundint shows. When it turned out the site was running Windoze and IIs web server. When it as asked how they were running an open source web site with all proprietary software, they quickly switched to Linux.
If you really want to know... I can hunt up a URL or two I am sure.
Its about time we get someone with some mula fighting this stupid crap. When the recording industry can fight against a format, and actually hope to win, thats a bad thing. The music on MP3.com is not even from RIAA artists. Funny how theses people think they can get away with this crap.
For a 13 year old girl... Probably the greatest author for her would be Piers Anthony. He does both Sci/Fi and Fantasy. Heck, I'm 33 and still read his stuff. Its very light, but with educational value in some of it.
You of course have to read the hitchhiker series.. Its a must read.
L Ron Hubbard has only 1 good book, which I do not have any more and will not buy again because of his scumbag religion Scientology, but the book is Battlefield Earth.
The Dune series by Frank Herbert is a must read..
Pretty much anything by Arthur C. Clarke is a good read.
Most of my books are Fantasy, but this list will get you started quite well... from there you can see what you like and go from there. If you get into fantasy, Drop a note and I'll give you a huge list.:)
If you read the wording closely, it means seriousdomains.com will only charge a nominal fee. It is however worded to make it look like linus is charging the fee. Kinda spoiled mild in the freaks belly I guess.
and that those legitimate Linux consultancies or programming shops that are interested in any of our domain names that incorporate Linux® must approach Mr. Torvalds et al to make sure that the domain name is worthy to be granted a license, with a customary "nominal fee."
Domain squatters bite. I would never ever ever buy a domain from a squatter, even if it was like www.com for $100, they could sit on it and rot.
The funny thing is.. its so darned easy to get around these scumbags. like the ones they have listed.. opensourceprogrammer.com just change it to open-source-programmer.com and poof.. you have your domain. They can't register everything.
DNS.. Always list YOURSELF as one of the contacts.. usually the billing contact so you can change your Internic information quickly to move your site. The hosting company should be listed as the technical contact, sometimes they change DNS servers etc and they need to be able to update it as well. DNS.. Always have your DNS contact information using an email address not attached to the domain. Use an address that will not change, if possible. I know with people changing ISP's on a daily basis, it an be hard.. but someone somewhere will give you or sell you an email address cheap, so use that one and keep it forever. When making changes to your DNS info with Network Solutions, they must have an email from your registered email address. If your site is down, and you cannot send them an email from your site.. it takes forever to get it moved.
I run a hosting company myself, a small time operation, it runs totally on Linux, and I have it set up with my colo company so if something happens, I can run a script on one of my linux boxen on my cable modem and poof, its all moved over. I have a linux box at home on my cable modem that has a complete mirror of my hosting computer, and if the company grows, and I need more machines, I have plenty of backup machines to mirror those as well. The cable modem may not be as fast as the DS3 my servers are sitting on, but it will get you up and running until we can fix the problem.
You should be able to get uptime and load statistics from your hosting company, I have a page up that pulls it from a CGI script, so its always available, and you can check it any time you like.
I also have free hosting for open source sites.:) Check it out.. Click here
The point is, this luser is taking political corectness way way way to extremes.
Having worked in tech support at the beginning of my illustrious career, as many here have, I sometimes shook my head at how people that stupid could afford a computer. I mean "Oh, it has to be plugged in?" If I had a dollar for every time I heard that one... I would not be working now.
If you have never worked TS, then perhaps you don't see how any of those could be true, but I have personally seen most of them, and MUCH worse.
And Before you start, about just about everything else in the world, I feel like an idiot, and the first thing I say when I ask for help on something is.. This is going to sound stupid...
They want rules in place to make everyone "equal" and everything "fair" So that it doesn't matter how hard you work, or how much you train or study, you will never ever get ahead of anyone else. Hence no one does much of anything. There will be no reason for freedom of information, because no one will have any reason to collect information or distribute information.
Looked at this way... If say Linus's programming skills being improved would not have increased his employability (is that a word?), or his standing within a community, or for whatever reason he was studying programming, would he have bothered to write Linux? Why? He doesn't need the programming skills to get a job, he doesn't need the better os to work better and faster, so whats the point. May as well go for a soda, rather than bother writing a kernel. Same difference, same end result.
Free open source web page/mailing list hosting. see http://www.cnhtech.com/ossoffer.html for details.
There are a lot of comments here.. but I'll give you my take anyway.
YOu pretty much HAVE to pay tech workers salary, for several reasons. 1. I make on salary about $75k/year, plus bonuses. You can't get a good quality tech worker for less than $30/hr, and with 12+ hour days most of us work... overtime, double overtime, tripple time... I don't care who you are.. your going bankrupt. 2. We play around with toys a lot.. be it hardware or software toys, thats part of what makes us good, but do you really want to pay me $500/day to horse around with the new Catalyst 8540 in the lab? You can't and shouldn't stop us from playing with it.. since you won't give us training, we have to train ourselves. (don't even try.. I have worked for several companies who said they would give me all the training I wanted, and hardly ever saw a class.. plus it took an act of congress to get those few classes) 2. I work 12+ hours a day.. I don't want to add an hour to that figuring out how long I worked that week, and write it all down. I documented enough stuff this week thank you. 3. If I got use to getting paid hourly, and decided to go to a convention or something which will probably only get me 8 hours, I would be massively short that week.. cutting down on my toys. With a salary, I know what I am getting no matter what.. and can plan my toy buying appropriately.
Just some views.. I know all tech workers would love to get paid hourly, but you can't afford it.
I do pretty much the same thing, I use a random character generator to kick out a few passwords, pick the hardest one for stuff that matters.. Boxes only I have root on, etc. Then I use the next hardest one for boxes someone may need root on at some point, then I use the next for personal accounts I care about, then i use the name of the week with a number or two thrown in for sites I could care less about. Once every couple of months I kick out some new passwords and change them all and voala. I have also figured out with the random garbage my passwords are, if someone needs root and I give it to them, they don't remember it the next day and have to ask again.
Slashdot Mirror
[root@www rcarver]# whois saveiridium.com
[rs.internic.net]
Whois Server Version 1.1
Domain Name: SAVEIRIDIUM.COM
Registrar: ALABANZA, INC.
Whois Server: whois.alabanza.com
Referral URL: www.alabanza.com
Name Server: NS1.STRANGETIMES.COM
Name Server: NS2.STRANGETIMES.COM
Updated Date: 17-mar-2000
[root@www rcarver]# whois strangetimes.com
[rs.internic.net]
Whois Server Version 1.1
Domain Name: STRANGETIMES.COM
Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC.
Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Referral URL: www.networksolutions.com
Name Server: NS1.MSINTERGATE.COM
Name Server: NS2.MSINTERGATE.COM
Updated Date: 20-dec-1999
[root@www rcarver]# whois msintergate.com
[rs.internic.net]
Whois Server Version 1.1
Domain Name: MSINTERGATE.COM
Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC.
Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Referral URL: www.networksolutions.com
Name Server: NS1.MSINTERGATE.COM
Name Server: NS2.MSINTERGATE.COM
Updated Date: 09-jul-1997
[root@www rcarver]# ping -c5 www.saveiridium.com
PING www.saveiridium.com (209.60.188.5) from 208.246.241.160 : 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 209.60.188.5: icmp_seq=0 ttl=244 time=151.8 ms
64 bytes from 209.60.188.5: icmp_seq=1 ttl=244 time=153.1 ms
64 bytes from 209.60.188.5: icmp_seq=2 ttl=244 time=139.3 ms
64 bytes from 209.60.188.5: icmp_seq=3 ttl=244 time=136.5 ms
64 bytes from 209.60.188.5: icmp_seq=4 ttl=244 time=139.2 ms
--- www.saveiridium.com ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 136.5/143.9/153.1 ms
[root@www rcarver]# ping -c5 ns2.msintergate.com
PING ns2.msintergate.com (209.60.188.5) from 208.246.241.160 : 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 209.60.188.5: icmp_seq=0 ttl=244 time=136.9 ms
64 bytes from 209.60.188.5: icmp_seq=1 ttl=244 time=133.9 ms
64 bytes from 209.60.188.5: icmp_seq=2 ttl=244 time=134.2 ms
64 bytes from 209.60.188.5: icmp_seq=3 ttl=244 time=134.9 ms
64 bytes from 209.60.188.5: icmp_seq=4 ttl=244 time=136.8 ms
--- ns2.msintergate.com ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 133.9/135.3/136.9 ms
Its available at download.com. Thats where I found it. Not sure about other places.
If they open Win9x, it will take 2 years for anyone to wade through that crap code, by that time, its the next generation, (or the next half generation from M$) and things have moved on. THe code will be so out of date it won't be funny.
If you really want to know... I can hunt up a URL or two I am sure.
You of course have to read the hitchhiker series.. Its a must read.
L Ron Hubbard has only 1 good book, which I do not have any more and will not buy again because of his scumbag religion Scientology, but the book is Battlefield Earth.
The Dune series by Frank Herbert is a must read..
Pretty much anything by Arthur C. Clarke is a good read.
Most of my books are Fantasy, but this list will get you started quite well... from there you can see what you like and go from there. If you get into fantasy, Drop a note and I'll give you a huge list.
I have mirrored as well.... Everything you need all in one place.
ftp://cnhtech.com/pub/slashstuff
I have mirrored as well.... Everything you need all in one place.
ftp://cnhtech.com/pub/slashstuffs;l
and that those legitimate Linux consultancies or
programming shops that are interested in any of our domain names that incorporate
Linux® must approach Mr. Torvalds et al to make sure that the domain name is worthy to
be granted a license, with a customary "nominal fee."
Domain squatters bite. I would never ever ever buy a domain from a squatter, even if it was like www.com for $100, they could sit on it and rot.
The funny thing is.. its so darned easy to get around these scumbags. like the ones they have listed.. opensourceprogrammer.com just change it to open-source-programmer.com and poof.. you have your domain. They can't register everything.
DNS.. Always list YOURSELF as one of the contacts.. usually the billing contact so you can change your Internic information quickly to move your site. The hosting company should be listed as the technical contact, sometimes they change DNS servers etc and they need to be able to update it as well.
DNS.. Always have your DNS contact information using an email address not attached to the domain. Use an address that will not change, if possible. I know with people changing ISP's on a daily basis, it an be hard.. but someone somewhere will give you or sell you an email address cheap, so use that one and keep it forever. When making changes to your DNS info with Network Solutions, they must have an email from your registered email address. If your site is down, and you cannot send them an email from your site.. it takes forever to get it moved.
I run a hosting company myself, a small time operation, it runs totally on Linux, and I have it set up with my colo company so if something happens, I can run a script on one of my linux boxen on my cable modem and poof, its all moved over. I have a linux box at home on my cable modem that has a complete mirror of my hosting computer, and if the company grows, and I need more machines, I have plenty of backup machines to mirror those as well. The cable modem may not be as fast as the DS3 my servers are sitting on, but it will get you up and running until we can fix the problem.
You should be able to get uptime and load statistics from your hosting company, I have a page up that pulls it from a CGI script, so its always available, and you can check it any time you like.
I also have free hosting for open source sites.
Check it out.. Click here
Can I have a Million dollars???
Perty please????!!!!
If you do I promise to give you about a thousand hits a day! I can quit work and load slashdot all day long!!!
Having worked in tech support at the beginning of my illustrious career, as many here have, I sometimes shook my head at how people that stupid could afford a computer. I mean "Oh, it has to be plugged in?" If I had a dollar for every time I heard that one... I would not be working now.
If you have never worked TS, then perhaps you don't see how any of those could be true, but I have personally seen most of them, and MUCH worse.
And Before you start, about just about everything else in the world, I feel like an idiot, and the first thing I say when I ask for help on something is.. This is going to sound stupid
Get off the PC bandwagon, its dead.
They want rules in place to make everyone "equal" and everything "fair" So that it doesn't matter how hard you work, or how much you train or study, you will never ever get ahead of anyone else. Hence no one does much of anything. There will be no reason for freedom of information, because no one will have any reason to collect information or distribute information.
Looked at this way... If say Linus's programming skills being improved would not have increased his employability (is that a word?), or his standing within a community, or for whatever reason he was studying programming, would he have bothered to write Linux? Why? He doesn't need the programming skills to get a job, he doesn't need the better os to work better and faster, so whats the point. May as well go for a soda, rather than bother writing a kernel. Same difference, same end result.
Free open source web page/mailing list hosting. see http://www.cnhtech.com/ossoffer.html for details.
There are a lot of comments here.. but I'll give you my take anyway.
YOu pretty much HAVE to pay tech workers salary, for several reasons. 1. I make on salary about $75k/year, plus bonuses. You can't get a good quality tech worker for less than $30/hr, and with 12+ hour days most of us work... overtime, double overtime, tripple time... I don't care who you are.. your going bankrupt. 2. We play around with toys a lot.. be it hardware or software toys, thats part of what makes us good, but do you really want to pay me $500/day to horse around with the new Catalyst 8540 in the lab? You can't and shouldn't stop us from playing with it.. since you won't give us training, we have to train ourselves. (don't even try.. I have worked for several companies who said they would give me all the training I wanted, and hardly ever saw a class.. plus it took an act of congress to get those few classes) 2. I work 12+ hours a day.. I don't want to add an hour to that figuring out how long I worked that week, and write it all down. I documented enough stuff this week thank you. 3. If I got use to getting paid hourly, and decided to go to a convention or something which will probably only get me 8 hours, I would be massively short that week.. cutting down on my toys. With a salary, I know what I am getting no matter what.. and can plan my toy buying appropriately.
Just some views.. I know all tech workers would love to get paid hourly, but you can't afford it.
I do pretty much the same thing, I use a random character generator to kick out a few passwords, pick the hardest one for stuff that matters.. Boxes only I have root on, etc. Then I use the next hardest one for boxes someone may need root on at some point, then I use the next for personal accounts I care about, then i use the name of the week with a number or two thrown in for sites I could care less about. Once every couple of months I kick out some new passwords and change them all and voala. I have also figured out with the random garbage my passwords are, if someone needs root and I give it to them, they don't remember it the next day and have to ask again.