/. needs to seriously consider mirroring sites before they link to them, or at least warning the people they're about to launch a DoS at ahead of time so they can be prepared with their own mirrors.
I've heard horror stories about tape heads being differently aligned, causing any tapes written to with older drives useless. But then again, I've also seen IDE drives go bad in an array such as one of these (this one is 16x100GB, adequately cooled).
Given that, I prefer using a two-layered backup approach - disk-based as the front-end, for high speed backups and restores, and then back the disk-based solution on to tape. Btw, when doing this, I don't think compression will count at all since the backups are already compressed. Is that right?
I used to run a web provider, never had any employees (it was small, I should have known better, anyways). I'm now getting spammed 2 or 3 times a day from one particular company (QIS.com, it was also under some other name but they finally stopped). All through Sprintlink's network. (Sprintlink, btw, appears to do absolutely nothing about spam, so I would highly suggest everyone look elsewhere for connectivity. When I decide to start another company, I now know who not to deal with - QIS or Sprintlink.)
Can you explain why you think that Verisign doesn't have a monopoly on.com domains? They get $6/year on every.com domain registered, regardless of who you're paying.
However, movies don't make a lot of money in the box office. From the MPAA's 2000 US Economic review, they state the new high is only $7.66 billion. Videocasette sales, at an average of say (guessing) $20 each, were only $12.4B (rental casettes are charged differently thanks to Blockbuster's efforts.)
Compared to telecom, Internet, autos, pharmecuticals(sp), etc, at $20B this is a *very* small industry. It's simply amazing how much control they wield.
That's interesting, because my Handspring relies on CDMA I believe, through Sprint PCS. Or are you talking about just one of their springboard products?
Don't get me wrong, I understand that cheating on a test is wrong. I'm concerned that this sort of thing may help promote the "wasn't built here" syndrome (I believe it's called something else.)
I'm just hoping that this is balanced with a few lessons on reusing and sharing code, for practical purposes.
"We think you have stolen merchandise in your home. You're going to hire or pay people to generate a list of all of the items in your home, and if you don't have a receipt for everything here, we're going to assume it's stolen, so you'll have to pay for it again, plus pay penalties. We won't compensate you for the search."
Again, I must ask, who would want to compress truly random data? What would be the point of that?
Something that can compress data people actaully want to download, like movies or music or whatever, better than currently used algorithms, is a good thing. It remains to be seen by the public if this will do that. But I think y'all are focusing too hard on the term "random".
Daemonnews is not *directly* related to the FreeBSD project (I don't know how deep the ties are, if at all - please post if you know). I do believe some of the money does go on to the project, however.
Anyways, I'm a subscriber to the FreeBSD CD set, and I suggest that anyone else who has found FreeBSD useful in work or home should subscribe as well. FreeBSD has saved me unmeasurable time and aggravation that I would have experienced using other OSs, so it's worth well more than the $40 or so the subscription costs a couple of times a year.
I realize not all of the money goes directly to the project, but Daemonnews has good people and I'm proud to support them as well.
Spam doesn't necessarily work in that consumers buy products from spammers. The main spam product is the spam itself. There are many companies that spam on other's behalf. They're pretty much the only ones making money off this stuff. (Well, the spam-friendly ISPs (sprintlink, I'm talkin about you) are, too.)
...and bet that they meant "arbitrary data" rather than "random data". After all, who would want to compress random data? What possible benefit could there be to such a thing?
I agree about FFX. I'm getting tired of FMV and losing control of my character so it can perform a scene. I'm definitely not a fan of the red arrow "Go this way, stupid" thing in X. These things would be tough to have in an online game, though. Hopefully they won't try.
Frankly, I don't plan to let a law stop me from enjoying what I feel is reasonable, such as watching an out-of-region DVD on my region-hacked player. I feel I have a good sense of what is right and what is wrong, thanks in part to my parents and schooling, and I rely on that to make my decisions.
It may get me in trouble one day, but I'm not too worried about that.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm the same way.
/. needs to seriously consider mirroring sites before they link to them, or at least warning the people they're about to launch a DoS at ahead of time so they can be prepared with their own mirrors.
I've heard horror stories about tape heads being differently aligned, causing any tapes written to with older drives useless. But then again, I've also seen IDE drives go bad in an array such as one of these (this one is 16x100GB, adequately cooled).
Given that, I prefer using a two-layered backup approach - disk-based as the front-end, for high speed backups and restores, and then back the disk-based solution on to tape. Btw, when doing this, I don't think compression will count at all since the backups are already compressed. Is that right?
I used to run a web provider, never had any employees (it was small, I should have known better, anyways). I'm now getting spammed 2 or 3 times a day from one particular company (QIS.com, it was also under some other name but they finally stopped). All through Sprintlink's network. (Sprintlink, btw, appears to do absolutely nothing about spam, so I would highly suggest everyone look elsewhere for connectivity. When I decide to start another company, I now know who not to deal with - QIS or Sprintlink.)
Wired Article on how d.net helped someone track down their stolen computer.
Can you explain why you think that Verisign doesn't have a monopoly on .com domains? They get $6/year on every .com domain registered, regardless of who you're paying.
(Slightly off topic)
However, movies don't make a lot of money in the box office. From the MPAA's 2000 US Economic review, they state the new high is only $7.66 billion. Videocasette sales, at an average of say (guessing) $20 each, were only $12.4B (rental casettes are charged differently thanks to Blockbuster's efforts.)
Compared to telecom, Internet, autos, pharmecuticals(sp), etc, at $20B this is a *very* small industry. It's simply amazing how much control they wield.
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Heck, why not 3.2-STABLE?
(server's ususally busier than this)
# uptime
8:03AM up 669 days, 40 mins, 1 user, load averages: 0.40, 1.37, 1.53
# uname -a
FreeBSD server 3.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE #0: Tue Oct 5 11:37:54 PDT 1999 root@server:/usr/src/sys/compile/SERVER i386
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"I mean, humour is humour"
I think that's the problem right there. In America, humour is humor.
That's interesting, because my Handspring relies on CDMA I believe, through Sprint PCS. Or are you talking about just one of their springboard products?
Don't get me wrong, I understand that cheating on a test is wrong. I'm concerned that this sort of thing may help promote the "wasn't built here" syndrome (I believe it's called something else.)
I'm just hoping that this is balanced with a few lessons on reusing and sharing code, for practical purposes.
Good, but with one correction.
"We think you have stolen merchandise in your home. You're going to hire or pay people to generate a list of all of the items in your home, and if you don't have a receipt for everything here, we're going to assume it's stolen, so you'll have to pay for it again, plus pay penalties. We won't compensate you for the search."
"In other words, their data is not random."
Again, I must ask, who would want to compress truly random data? What would be the point of that?
Something that can compress data people actaully want to download, like movies or music or whatever, better than currently used algorithms, is a good thing. It remains to be seen by the public if this will do that. But I think y'all are focusing too hard on the term "random".
Daemonnews is not *directly* related to the FreeBSD project (I don't know how deep the ties are, if at all - please post if you know). I do believe some of the money does go on to the project, however.
Anyways, I'm a subscriber to the FreeBSD CD set, and I suggest that anyone else who has found FreeBSD useful in work or home should subscribe as well. FreeBSD has saved me unmeasurable time and aggravation that I would have experienced using other OSs, so it's worth well more than the $40 or so the subscription costs a couple of times a year.
I realize not all of the money goes directly to the project, but Daemonnews has good people and I'm proud to support them as well.
There is also a web-based Outlook mail client. More than likely that's what they're talking about.
Spam doesn't necessarily work in that consumers buy products from spammers. The main spam product is the spam itself. There are many companies that spam on other's behalf. They're pretty much the only ones making money off this stuff. (Well, the spam-friendly ISPs (sprintlink, I'm talkin about you) are, too.)
...and bet that they meant "arbitrary data" rather than "random data". After all, who would want to compress random data? What possible benefit could there be to such a thing?
uudecode:
input file: uu
encoded file: stdout
character out of range: [33-96]
yeah, sweet.
I never thought I'd see a "Good Times"-style virus in my lifetime. Microsoft changed that feeling, however!
On that note, isn't it about time for one of these virus authors to use the old Good Times text for their "real" viruses?
Why on earth should defragging help stability? Why is it always the first thing people recommend?
Although MMOG (drop the Role Playing) is a more accurate description of the current crop of games.
I agree about FFX. I'm getting tired of FMV and losing control of my character so it can perform a scene. I'm definitely not a fan of the red arrow "Go this way, stupid" thing in X. These things would be tough to have in an online game, though. Hopefully they won't try.
"Guess what? I couldn't review it"
Seems like it'd be appropriate to go ahead and give it the worst rating possible.
Frankly, I don't plan to let a law stop me from enjoying what I feel is reasonable, such as watching an out-of-region DVD on my region-hacked player. I feel I have a good sense of what is right and what is wrong, thanks in part to my parents and schooling, and I rely on that to make my decisions.
It may get me in trouble one day, but I'm not too worried about that.
"It looks like a fricking joke, wouldn't you not e-mail the person suing you and instead deal with the issue in court?"
Courts prefer out-of-court "settlement" type actions. It's better for everyone.
"Didn't we pass a bill to make English the official language of the United States?"
No, but states (scroll a bit) appear to have.