For my own purposes, I would like to see the federal funds cut from all parties and a hard limit on political donations, lets say 10000/canidate and 20000/party as a yearly limit, with corporations held to those dollar amounts as well, that should help level the playing field signifigantly
Problem is, we are quickly coming up on the 4GB memory barrier for ia32, well before *hammer or itanium is ready for the desktop, that is one train wreck I do not want to see.
Ever heard of the unix based scripts that brought down ESPN and USA today, just to vote for the best college mascot or band (Stanford and Michigan, respectively) with ballot stuffing goodness.
Must live in a verizon/RBC territory, base line in Lexington, KY was like 32, in Elizabethtown, KY its 27.50, but in brandenburg (Rural telephone coop) base line and tarriffs run a cool 15 a month, and they are getting ready to be a clec in E-town, yeah.
The head shaving is easy, see my homepage for my long haired pics. I suggest a gillete mach3 and a baby shampoo the first time you do it though, the first good nick will lead to 3 more if you arent careful. Another thing go out and buy a ~$15 set of hair clippers (I use Wahl's) and no guard it to start, then bring it down with the razor.
When I was a college student, I was upset that my "Student Activity Fee" was being given to the Campus Crusaders, Young Republicans, the Gun Club, at least one anti-abortion group and more Bible study groups then I can count, let alone name. As a taxpayer I do not want to pay for Reagan's failed "War on Drugs" nor do I want to pay for Bush's "War on Terrorism", I have little choice. There is a difference between taxes and student activity fees, with taxes I support a freely elected government, by the people, for the people, to provide for national defense and the common welfare of the state, roads, schools, police, and fire protection. Unless I happen to check some specific boxes on my 1040, none of my taxes go to directly into any political activity. With a activity fee, my dollar that I might use to support the ACM, LUG, and/or a conservative political organization get misdirected into someone elses coffers, just the same as your dollar that might support leftists, hippies, commies, and/or little green men gets put in the Campus Crusade for Christ's pockets. Unfortunately, the university system in the US is overrun with liberal thought and policy, an environment where liberal leaning students are able to gain a critical mass of members and faculty sponsorship, whereas conservative organizations are largely stillborn or confined to religous organizations. All I am asking for is a chance to check a list of student orgs I would feel comfortable donating too, selecting as many as I chose to divide my dollar evenly and letting all the students dollars fall where they may. If no choice is made, pour the funds into a general scholarship fund, not one that targets disadvantaged groups. Yes, I am white, male, and christian, a protestant no less, and I would like to see our take home pay to go where we see fit, not some left leaning university administrator, or to some right winger from your point of view.
I really think the EFF would do well to distance themselves from the ACLU. Many Americans have not been pleased with some of their wackier defenses (Gay scoutmasters in the boy scouts being one of them). Millions of Americans chose not to accept homosexuality as a healthy lifestyle to be promoting to their children and should have the final say when their dollars, not tax revenues are used to fund an organization, not the courts. As a college student I was quite upset that part of my "Student Activity Fee" went to groups and organizations that I had absolutely no interest in supporting (Campus Leftists, Amesty International, college democrats, gay, lesbian, and bisexual alliance, et al.) The public perception of the ACLU is one of negativity and therefore the EFF, when linked to it gets a bad reputation.
XHTML1+CSS2 allows for great positioning/formating/layout of documents, unfortunately, there are still tons of users running older browsers that choke on perfectly valid code. Every day, I code HTML for my employer's site, and I have to have it run in Netscape 4. Netscape 6.2, Mozilla nightlies, and IE 6 allow me to write efficent code, but with NS4, I have to dig out hacks and work-arounds just to get the page to display like marketing likes. Oh yeah they want sub-30 second load times on a 800x600 page that looks like it was run of a web-offset press. I really hate marketing people. Last week, I ran into a bug in NS <= 4.76 that works fine in later versions but caused an extra 40 lines of code for any page with a table. I think as of NS 6.5/Moz 1.0, netscape needs to release one final NS 4 that works or kill 4.x compatability on their home page and redirect to NS6 download.
Linux does need support from the AOL community. we are in a situation of the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Few readers of/. are fans of the AOL/Netscape/TimeWarner megacorp, but AOL does have an ungodly number of POP's all acrosss the US, Canada, Japan, and Europe as I understand it. It is the least common denomiator for an internet connection for most of the world, and therefore, the stronger a competitor that AOL remains, that is less mindshare for MS. And perhaps, as aol picks up a slightly more technically savy audience the signal to noise out of there will increase.
Quick question, I like TSS, I like Leo and Patrick, but how many people outside of the tech community actually watch anything but that little worm Pirillo's bastardized "call for help".
Thats why you save your best trolls in html files saved on your machine at home and work, just view source, copy and paste, and submit. I recomend keeping pico, vi, emacs, ie, mozilla, java, c, c++, linux, bsd, iis, security, and windows on file, but feel free to add as needed.
Where's my IE for Plan9 or AtheOS? You really can't force Microsoft into porting IE willy-nilly.
Remedies that I can think of that might actually do some harm to MS are and yet are still reasonable.
fund an independent review board of top CS professors (NDAed or free to speak) have access to the Windows/IIS/VS/IE/Office/SQL server source and complete a full security and license audit
Force full documentation of API's
Force publishing of XML DTD's for Office product file formats
Allow OEM's to load any OS without price restrictions
Force standards compliance modes (ANSI/ISO/ECMA) on compilers and programming environments
It's late, there are probably others, but I can't think of them right now
You know, Best Buy or CompUSA should offer a "rent a DLT drive" or "bring your comp in and we'll archive it" kind of like some auto parts or home improvement stores do for specialty tools, like steering wheel pullers or coil spring compressors. Hell the Lowes in Elizabethtown, KY has a Ford F-350 SuperDuty 4x4 with a flat bed you can rent for like $30 bucks a day.
Bust the budget initially or
String things along.
Follow me here..
You are going to need photoshop, at 600, that's going to chew the largest part of your budget, however, if she can do without PANATONE color, you can grab Photoshop elements for 100 or GIMP for free. If at some point she needs to work with PANATONE at home, she should hunt a for a new job. So now we are down to actually building the system, so initially she isn't going to have much more than a monitor, case, processor, memory, keyboard, mouse, and an OS. My sugestion would be:
Tyan Tiger MP
AthlonMP 1500
Cheap floppy
Value CD-RW (~8x)
IBM DTLA HDD
256MB Ram
Win ME
3COM/USR Ethernet card/modem
Inwin 508 series case
TNT-2 or Geforce2 MX video
SB Live Value Sound
Photoshop elements
Monitor to fit inside budget at this point will be tight but should be doable
As she gets some more cash, upgrade parts and pieces, add in the second proc, more memory, more disks, XP Pro/2000 Pro, better monitor, and better graphics (AIW-Radeon 8500 DV in the next little bit, its equivalent later on).
If the budget is very tight, a dual P-III solution (Abit BP-6?) may be what you can start with and switch to a PIV/DDR system when time and money permits.
The $1000 PC from dell, gateway, et al looks good and performs well enough for the home user, but a prosumer needs a little more.
no and it kind of pisses me off, I hoped comdex would have featured some boards from the big MB companies (Abit, Asus, SiS, Via, Intel) with integrated firewire/usb2, but none were shown on any of the H/W sites I have seen. However my dream machine for next year did get a signifigant boost when I saw firms besides Tyan with the 760MPX chipset, 2 AthlonMP 2500+ (~2.0GHz)and 4GB of DDR-SDRAM, can you say speed demon.
I think you are missing the point, Joe Sixpack is the root of many tech support problems. It's like handling printer support, are you sure it's plugged in, are you sure it's on, are you sure the printer cable is connected. You have to double check these things unless you want to go on a wild goose chase about driver problems, corrupted settings, etc.
That is a valid question for 1st tier tech support to ask. Many times you need to put a filter on the phone lines to prevent interference between the low-freq signal (POTS) and high (High Speed Data). Unfortunately, Joe Sixpack who can't program his VCR will eventually put the filter between the modem and the wall, killing his connection. The filter is a little RJ-11F to RJ-11F connector about an inch long with a couple of resistors inside, nothing more and nothing less. Cable modems have them as well, look around sometime.
This sort of action would probably balance out, lets take a cable modem service for example.
Major trojan hits their network and their clients are spitting out spoofed packets to DDoS a site. Let's say that this hammered their backbone connection at 90% utilization, leaving 10% for legit traffic.
Now to maintain QoS to their customers (128Kb-1.5Mb tiered) they have four options
Say piss on QoS and have customers leave
Shell out big bucks for another uplink to UUNET, et al.
Wait for a patch...
Egress filter
As a sysadmin and a customer, I like the filtering idea myself.
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For my own purposes, I would like to see the federal funds cut from all parties and a hard limit on political donations, lets say 10000/canidate and 20000/party as a yearly limit, with corporations held to those dollar amounts as well, that should help level the playing field signifigantly
When are we going to see W64.virusname start to appear?
Problem is, we are quickly coming up on the 4GB memory barrier for ia32, well before *hammer or itanium is ready for the desktop, that is one train wreck I do not want to see.
Ever heard of the unix based scripts that brought down ESPN and USA today, just to vote for the best college mascot or band (Stanford and Michigan, respectively) with ballot stuffing goodness.
2 Words: Paper tape
Must live in a verizon/RBC territory, base line in Lexington, KY was like 32, in Elizabethtown, KY its 27.50, but in brandenburg (Rural telephone coop) base line and tarriffs run a cool 15 a month, and they are getting ready to be a clec in E-town, yeah.
thats why you use a nifty cgi to help with the topology.
64 Nodes, $42000, 64.459 GFLOPS on 32bit ScaLAPACK
The head shaving is easy, see my homepage for my long haired pics. I suggest a gillete mach3 and a baby shampoo the first time you do it though, the first good nick will lead to 3 more if you arent careful. Another thing go out and buy a ~$15 set of hair clippers (I use Wahl's) and no guard it to start, then bring it down with the razor.
When I was a college student, I was upset that my "Student Activity Fee" was being given to the Campus Crusaders, Young Republicans, the Gun Club, at least one anti-abortion group and more Bible study groups then I can count, let alone name. As a taxpayer I do not want to pay for Reagan's failed "War on Drugs" nor do I want to pay for Bush's "War on Terrorism", I have little choice.
There is a difference between taxes and student activity fees, with taxes I support a freely elected government, by the people, for the people, to provide for national defense and the common welfare of the state, roads, schools, police, and fire protection. Unless I happen to check some specific boxes on my 1040, none of my taxes go to directly into any political activity. With a activity fee, my dollar that I might use to support the ACM, LUG, and/or a conservative political organization get misdirected into someone elses coffers, just the same as your dollar that might support leftists, hippies, commies, and/or little green men gets put in the Campus Crusade for Christ's pockets. Unfortunately, the university system in the US is overrun with liberal thought and policy, an environment where liberal leaning students are able to gain a critical mass of members and faculty sponsorship, whereas conservative organizations are largely stillborn or confined to religous organizations. All I am asking for is a chance to check a list of student orgs I would feel comfortable donating too, selecting as many as I chose to divide my dollar evenly and letting all the students dollars fall where they may. If no choice is made, pour the funds into a general scholarship fund, not one that targets disadvantaged groups. Yes, I am white, male, and christian, a protestant no less, and I would like to see our take home pay to go where we see fit, not some left leaning university administrator, or to some right winger from your point of view.
I really think the EFF would do well to distance themselves from the ACLU. Many Americans have not been pleased with some of their wackier defenses (Gay scoutmasters in the boy scouts being one of them). Millions of Americans chose not to accept homosexuality as a healthy lifestyle to be promoting to their children and should have the final say when their dollars, not tax revenues are used to fund an organization, not the courts. As a college student I was quite upset that part of my "Student Activity Fee" went to groups and organizations that I had absolutely no interest in supporting (Campus Leftists, Amesty International, college democrats, gay, lesbian, and bisexual alliance, et al.) The public perception of the ACLU is one of negativity and therefore the EFF, when linked to it gets a bad reputation.
XHTML1+CSS2 allows for great positioning/formating/layout of documents, unfortunately, there are still tons of users running older browsers that choke on perfectly valid code. Every day, I code HTML for my employer's site, and I have to have it run in Netscape 4. Netscape 6.2, Mozilla nightlies, and IE 6 allow me to write efficent code, but with NS4, I have to dig out hacks and work-arounds just to get the page to display like marketing likes. Oh yeah they want sub-30 second load times on a 800x600 page that looks like it was run of a web-offset press. I really hate marketing people. Last week, I ran into a bug in NS <= 4.76 that works fine in later versions but caused an extra 40 lines of code for any page with a table. I think as of NS 6.5/Moz 1.0, netscape needs to release one final NS 4 that works or kill 4.x compatability on their home page and redirect to NS6 download.
Linux does need support from the AOL community. we are in a situation of the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Few readers of /. are fans of the AOL/Netscape/TimeWarner megacorp, but AOL does have an ungodly number of POP's all acrosss the US, Canada, Japan, and Europe as I understand it. It is the least common denomiator for an internet connection for most of the world, and therefore, the stronger a competitor that AOL remains, that is less mindshare for MS. And perhaps, as aol picks up a slightly more technically savy audience the signal to noise out of there will increase.
University of Kentucky has rolled out 802.11b acess across most of the campus as well.
Welcome to Three Mile Island and the world of thermal polution.
Quick question, I like TSS, I like Leo and Patrick, but how many people outside of the tech community actually watch anything but that little worm Pirillo's bastardized "call for help".
Well you're kind of right the powertoys for XP has virt desktops, but MS wont support it.
Thats why you save your best trolls in html files saved on your machine at home and work, just view source, copy and paste, and submit. I recomend keeping pico, vi, emacs, ie, mozilla, java, c, c++, linux, bsd, iis, security, and windows on file, but feel free to add as needed.
Where's my IE for Plan9 or AtheOS? You really can't force Microsoft into porting IE willy-nilly. Remedies that I can think of that might actually do some harm to MS are and yet are still reasonable.
It's late, there are probably others, but I can't think of them right now
You know, Best Buy or CompUSA should offer a "rent a DLT drive" or "bring your comp in and we'll archive it" kind of like some auto parts or home improvement stores do for specialty tools, like steering wheel pullers or coil spring compressors. Hell the Lowes in Elizabethtown, KY has a Ford F-350 SuperDuty 4x4 with a flat bed you can rent for like $30 bucks a day.
Bust the budget initially or String things along. Follow me here.. You are going to need photoshop, at 600, that's going to chew the largest part of your budget, however, if she can do without PANATONE color, you can grab Photoshop elements for 100 or GIMP for free. If at some point she needs to work with PANATONE at home, she should hunt a for a new job. So now we are down to actually building the system, so initially she isn't going to have much more than a monitor, case, processor, memory, keyboard, mouse, and an OS. My sugestion would be:
Tyan Tiger MP
AthlonMP 1500
Cheap floppy
Value CD-RW (~8x)
IBM DTLA HDD
256MB Ram
Win ME
3COM/USR Ethernet card/modem
Inwin 508 series case
TNT-2 or Geforce2 MX video
SB Live Value Sound
Photoshop elements
Monitor to fit inside budget at this point will be tight but should be doable
As she gets some more cash, upgrade parts and pieces, add in the second proc, more memory, more disks, XP Pro/2000 Pro, better monitor, and better graphics (AIW-Radeon 8500 DV in the next little bit, its equivalent later on).
If the budget is very tight, a dual P-III solution (Abit BP-6?) may be what you can start with and switch to a PIV/DDR system when time and money permits.
The $1000 PC from dell, gateway, et al looks good and performs well enough for the home user, but a prosumer needs a little more.
no and it kind of pisses me off, I hoped comdex would have featured some boards from the big MB companies (Abit, Asus, SiS, Via, Intel) with integrated firewire/usb2, but none were shown on any of the H/W sites I have seen. However my dream machine for next year did get a signifigant boost when I saw firms besides Tyan with the 760MPX chipset, 2 AthlonMP 2500+ (~2.0GHz)and 4GB of DDR-SDRAM, can you say speed demon.
I think you are missing the point, Joe Sixpack is the root of many tech support problems. It's like handling printer support, are you sure it's plugged in, are you sure it's on, are you sure the printer cable is connected. You have to double check these things unless you want to go on a wild goose chase about driver problems, corrupted settings, etc.
That is a valid question for 1st tier tech support to ask. Many times you need to put a filter on the phone lines to prevent interference between the low-freq signal (POTS) and high (High Speed Data). Unfortunately, Joe Sixpack who can't program his VCR will eventually put the filter between the modem and the wall, killing his connection. The filter is a little RJ-11F to RJ-11F connector about an inch long with a couple of resistors inside, nothing more and nothing less. Cable modems have them as well, look around sometime.
And lets say Sysadmin A is fired from job for downloading too much pr0n, he could launch the "Net Nuke" back at his old bosses.
Major trojan hits their network and their clients are spitting out spoofed packets to DDoS a site. Let's say that this hammered their backbone connection at 90% utilization, leaving 10% for legit traffic.
Now to maintain QoS to their customers (128Kb-1.5Mb tiered) they have four options
As a sysadmin and a customer, I like the filtering idea myself.