seller has positive feedback you put in max bid on auction. go away for long weekend.(don't watch auction pages) you win auction. email back and forth -
"want paypal?"
"yes please."
user *HAD* positive feedback so you send paypal payment seller receives it. (now it is non-cancellable.)
Seller drops off face of earth.
You see that negative feedbacks started showing up the same day your auction ended.
seller gets booted from ebay you try to get money back.
ebay says scams from sellers with neg feedback are not covered.
Get contact info from ebay - phone number and addresses from ebay, paypal, and post-sale email don't match and are all are now bogus.
Buyer is screwed.
ebay has a credit card and address that was used when they validated the seller. paypal has a bank account and address that was used to validate the seller.
ebay owns paypal.
neither company will work together to help.
Ebay has a "verified user" service. (hidden deep in their pages) that verifies via equifax.com the person's identity.
Ebay has an escrow system.
use of both systems are optional AND must be negotiated before you win the auction. There is no way to list only verified sellers or escrow-able auctions.
Sites that are only eye candy meant to draw you in to see the ads do not work. However, if a site has information you want to see, ala slashdot, the ads tend to be targeted to the visitors. And, I would bet they even work some times.
Look at all the "internet companies" that are now gone. Their business model was: 1) attract people 2) sell adds 3) profit
Sites that are using ads as a way of supporting themselves but not as a way to make millions ARE succeeding.
The SRV record can be used to tell a client what server and port to go to for a named service.
Rather than using hostnames (www.foo.baz) use a SRV record to send http traffic to a host:port pair, frp traffic to a different host:port pair, and on and on::
; SRV priority weight port target _http._tcp IN SRV 0 0 8080 heuey.foo.baz. _http._tcp IN SRV 0 0 8080 deuey.foo.baz. _ftp._tcp.ftp IN SRV 0 0 21 louie.foo.baz.
No more do you need to include non-standard ports for http. (8080, 81, etc) just make the app SRV aware and update DNS. done.
This would allow for much simpler Server configs too!!
If all WiFi clients were also repeaters/bridges, the network would be supported and built by the users.
The wired internet was not a for profit system. Why do people insist that WiFi must be for profit?
public open WPOPs should be all over the place. The more a pop is used, and the more pops/users there are, the more the infrastructure supporting it will grow.
By virtue of using the system you would add to it's range and capacity.
Just think if all cars had a WiFi repeater installed in them. the Highway becomes a true information highway. Packets jumping from car to car to get from anywhere to anywhere.
A previous slashdot article talked about doing this with Cell Phones. The logic is sound. There just has to be enough supporting users.
It already is. The newly signed homeland security bill saw to it.(all 420+ pages could not have been adequately examined by those who voted for it but that is another rant.) Download the PDF from the govt web site. Page 323 Line 15. ...the selection of specific technical hardware and software information security solutions should be left to individual agencies from among commercially developed products.
What we have done is to make verified tapes of the code base and a report listing required packages OS hardware etc. needed to actually build the code.
We included on the tapes only our source code.
Any third party apps (compilers, editors, libraries, widgets) would neeed to be aquired seperately on their dime.
The escrowed code is then only accessible in the event that we are unable to live up to our contract or if our company dissolved. These details are very specific and explicit in the contract.
They cannot look at the code for any other reason. We are protected from them and they are protected if we disappear or try to shaft them.
I left a job of three years on good terms. The admin they hired to replace me was fired, but they did not follow proper procedures. He came in that weekend and trashed the systems. I was called to see if I could bail them out. I did but at my standard consulting rate. I made money on the side and they got back to work quickly. Everyone was happy.
If you are not on the books there could be legal issues if you make things worse, get hurt, etc.
Be sure that you are on the books as an employee/contractor/etc. whenever you do work for a proir company. This is for your protection as well as that of the employer.
Management asks for cuts in the budget. Honest teams comply truthfully, accurately. Deceptive Teams cut 1/4 of what they could. Management is happy all around. Time passes. Management asks for more cuts. Honest teams already cut as far as they could. Deceptive teams have fat to spare. They cut 1/4 of their potential cuts again (1/2 of what the did before still leaving a huge margin for later cuts). Management is unpleased with honest teams. Management makes arbitrary cuts or layoffs to honest teams to cut costs. Deceptive Teams are rewarded. They still have spare cash AND full employment.
lesson learned:: do not be truthful about how much you can cut.
Management lays off people. Honest groups Survivors pick up the pieces and work harder to keep the company going. Deceptive groups people do not pick up the pieces and intentionally let projects slip and service quality drop. Management transfers people from Honest Teams into Deceptive Teams to cover their "losses" OR lays off people in honest teams so they can hire people back into the deceptive teams.
lesson learned:: do not pick up the pieces. Let management feel the pain of reductions.
This was also true in the good times. A person who does exemplary work all the time is expected to always do exemplary work. The one day they come in with a cold and do average work they are criticized for laziness. However, A person who always does the bare minimum on a day that they are unusually focused and produces average work (drank Jolt not water) gets praised for being a real go-getter! and gets a bonus for such wonderful work.
Every time we are asked to do our best and do so, we are punished. Every time other groups perform below average they are rewarded.
You can learn basic unix operator skills in 24 hours. You will not get real knowledge without spending considerable time in the trenches. More lessons have been learned working with real systems in real use than in the books.
Want to learn fast?
read ALL comp.sys.blah postings. Try to resolve them on your own.
get some second hand UNIX gear (HP,DEC,SGI,SUN...) or some cheap PC gear (SolarisX86,RedHat,debian,freebsd,MacOSX...),build a LAN.
make NFS/NIS/LDAP/DNS/SMTP/NNTP/etc. work on your new LAN.
Read the documentation for each of your platforms.
Compile and use all the opensource packages you can find. Start with GCC and the major gnu packages. Do not go the easy out pre-compiled route (compiler for first compiler excluded.)
Make a NFS/usr/local to install all variants into. Make them work on each of your platforms.
Add printers/scanners/disk/peripherals to each platform. Add any bit and piece that you can find.
try to find EMC/compaq/netapp storage gear. make that all interoperate.
make everything work with everything else
Get on the help desk at a LARGE company or university and answer/resolve as many questions as possible.
you must be a Windoze Admin. Maybe if it was all Right-Click Properties...
You can learn basic unix operator skills in 24 hours. You will not get real knowledge without spending considerable time in the trenches.
Want to learn fast?
1) read ALL comp.sys.blah postings. Try to resolve them on your own. 2) get some second hand UNIX gear (HP,DEC,SGI,SUN) build a LAN and make them interoperate. (NFS/NIS/LDAP/DNS/SMTP/NNTP) 3) Compile and use all the opensource packages you can find. Do not go the easy out pre-compiled route (compiler for first compiler excluded.) 4)Get on the help desk at a LARGE company or university and answer/resolve as many questions as possible.
This should have been done long ago. MS gave hardware to schools to sway them to go M$ Apple should be giving gear away as an investment into the end users too.
This is exactly what intel and AMD need. A real reason for people to upgrade their hardware. For most people even a 400Mhz system is enough.
Simply writing bigger and clunkier apps (a la microshaft) is not a good reason for me to dump[ my hardware.
It seems to me that the limits of compression technology are self inflicted. We don't do better compression because it takes too long to compress/decompress. However, with the improved speeds capacities of new hardware we can break those barriers.
When will we see this compression to allow more bandwidth down a dialup line?
Send me that a pair of 1Thz AMD CPUs!!!
I created a smiley using a typewriter in 78
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My sister and I used to "type pictures" on my parents old suitcase typewriter. We made all sorts of pictures. I wish I still had some around.
Unless you are installing oracle. they dropped commandline installation and require a graphical head for the Java install. Why does everything java have to be GUI? can't there be commandline variants to a java program?
I discovered recently that hotmail and, in fact, all passport sites are nolonger case sensitive when it comes to passwords.
This rather bothers me. It used to be that I had to use the proper case to login. Somewhere along the way, microsoft did something to change my password (which I had assumed was stored encrypted) to make case insensitive.
In high school I read and re-read three series, Xanth, Apprentice Adept and Incarnations of Immortality. In 1988 my first son was born which drew most of my attentions away from your novels. In 1991 my second son and the real world drew me the rest of the way.
I see that there are now 10 more Xanth novels that I do not have. I guess I have some catching up to do!
Your authors notes were for me almost a series of their own. These, combined with your autobiography, "Bio of an Ogre", made me feel like I knew you. And gave new meaning and insight to most of your novels.
Have you ever thought of collecting them together into a book of their own? Sort of a Peirs Anthony self retrospective or 'The Ogre Speaks Through the Ages.'
If clients checksum the file before uploading it all it would take is a distributed list of checksums. the first submission would generate a checksum which could then be uploaded to a website and mirrored to manage bandwidth.
when you do a search, check the results against the checksum database site. If the file has been reported by enough people as bad then either don't download it, don't list it in the search results, or flag it as such.
This method could easily be used to prevent viruses and ensure acuracy of content.
the data I am interrested in is the usenet archive. I can (and do) collect new but I have a gap of the second 10 years or so that only google seems to have a copy of.
Those boxes were larger than full tower had screaming fast CPU for the time - 200Mhz Each came with 96Mb RAM. --- The systems had the main board split into two pieces running vertically 4 disk bays on one side, cpu and ram on the other side. --- if you drew a line vertically down the front of your tower you can get an idea of the arrangement of the internals. --- The power supply was a monster. about 6x6x6. There were three (or 4 maybe) case fans along the base of the system. with the box held above a vented panel by thick rubber shock absorbers. --- when you powered it up there was an incredible whoosh as they got the air flowing. and then it was silent. --- Air was drawn from top to bottom (or vice-versa) thrrough a grate that ran the entire top. Again there was a raised louvered box 1.5" high covering the top.
The coleco system used this overlay concept. I remember my first GUI program written on the colecovision ADAM. I moved with the joystick and selected different items with the 12 button keypad.
Slashdot Mirror
SSIA. ;)
:(
G'bye Karma
Yeah right...
seller has positive feedback
you put in max bid on auction.
go away for long weekend.(don't watch auction pages)
you win auction.
email back and forth -
"want paypal?"
"yes please."
user *HAD* positive feedback so you send paypal payment
seller receives it. (now it is non-cancellable.)
Seller drops off face of earth.
You see that negative feedbacks started showing up the same day your auction ended.
seller gets booted from ebay
you try to get money back.
ebay says scams from sellers with neg feedback are not covered.
Get contact info from ebay - phone number and addresses from ebay, paypal, and post-sale email don't match and are all are now bogus.
Buyer is screwed.
ebay has a credit card and address that was used when they validated the seller.
paypal has a bank account and address that was used to validate the seller.
ebay owns paypal.
neither company will work together to help.
Ebay has a "verified user" service.
(hidden deep in their pages) that verifies via equifax.com the person's identity.
Ebay has an escrow system.
use of both systems are optional AND must be negotiated before you win the auction.
There is no way to list only verified sellers or escrow-able auctions.
Sites that are only eye candy meant to draw you in to see the ads do not work. However, if a site has information you want to see, ala slashdot, the ads tend to be targeted to the visitors. And, I would bet they even work some times.
Look at all the "internet companies" that are now gone. Their business model was:
1) attract people
2) sell adds
3) profit
Sites that are using ads as a way of supporting themselves but not as a way to make millions ARE succeeding.
The SRV record can be used to tell a client what server and port to go to for a named service.
Rather than using hostnames (www.foo.baz)
use a SRV record to send http traffic to a host:port pair, frp traffic to a different host:port pair, and on and on::
; SRV priority weight port target
_http._tcp IN SRV 0 0 8080 heuey.foo.baz.
_http._tcp IN SRV 0 0 8080 deuey.foo.baz.
_ftp._tcp.ftp IN SRV 0 0 21 louie.foo.baz.
No more do you need to include non-standard ports for http. (8080, 81, etc) just make the app SRV aware and update DNS. done.
This would allow for much simpler Server configs too!!
If all WiFi clients were also repeaters/bridges, the network would be supported and built by the users.
The wired internet was not a for profit system.
Why do people insist that WiFi must be for profit?
public open WPOPs should be all over the place. The more a pop is used, and the more pops/users there are, the more the infrastructure supporting it will grow.
By virtue of using the system you would add to it's range and capacity.
Just think if all cars had a WiFi repeater installed in them. the Highway becomes a true information highway. Packets jumping from car to car to get from anywhere to anywhere.
A previous slashdot article talked about doing this with Cell Phones. The logic is sound. There just has to be enough supporting users.
Is this not front page material???
I would think so.
It already is. The newly signed homeland security bill saw to it.(all 420+ pages could not have been adequately examined by those who voted for it but that is another rant.) Download the PDF from the govt web site.
...the selection of specific technical hardware and software information security solutions should be left to individual agencies from among commercially developed products.
Page 323 Line 15.
What we have done is to make verified tapes of the code base and a report listing required packages OS hardware etc. needed to actually build the code.
We included on the tapes only our source code.
Any third party apps (compilers, editors, libraries, widgets) would neeed to be aquired seperately on their dime.
The escrowed code is then only accessible in the event that we are unable to live up to our contract or if our company dissolved. These details are very specific and explicit in the contract.
They cannot look at the code for any other reason. We are protected from them and they are protected if we disappear or try to shaft them.
I left a job of three years on good terms. The admin they hired to replace me was fired, but they did not follow proper procedures. He came in that weekend and trashed the systems. I was called to see if I could bail them out. I did but at my standard consulting rate. I made money on the side and they got back to work quickly. Everyone was happy.
If you are not on the books there could be legal issues if you make things worse, get hurt, etc.
Be sure that you are on the books as an employee/contractor/etc. whenever you do work for a proir company. This is for your protection as well as that of the employer.
Management asks for cuts in the budget. Honest teams comply truthfully, accurately. Deceptive Teams cut 1/4 of what they could. Management is happy all around. Time passes. Management asks for more cuts. Honest teams already cut as far as they could. Deceptive teams have fat to spare. They cut 1/4 of their potential cuts again (1/2 of what the did before still leaving a huge margin for later cuts). Management is unpleased with honest teams. Management makes arbitrary cuts or layoffs to honest teams to cut costs. Deceptive Teams are rewarded. They still have spare cash AND full employment.
lesson learned:: do not be truthful about how much you can cut.
Management lays off people. Honest groups Survivors pick up the pieces and work harder to keep the company going. Deceptive groups people do not pick up the pieces and intentionally let projects slip and service quality drop. Management transfers people from Honest Teams into Deceptive Teams to cover their "losses" OR lays off people in honest teams so they can hire people back into the deceptive teams.
lesson learned:: do not pick up the pieces. Let management feel the pain of reductions.
This was also true in the good times.
A person who does exemplary work all the time is expected to always do exemplary work. The one day they come in with a cold and do average work they are criticized for laziness.
However, A person who always does the bare minimum on a day that they are unusually focused and produces average work (drank Jolt not water) gets praised for being a real go-getter! and gets a bonus for such wonderful work.
Every time we are asked to do our best and do so, we are punished. Every time other groups perform below average they are rewarded.
Want to learn fast?
read ALL comp.sys.blah postings. Try to resolve them on your own.
get some second hand UNIX gear (HP,DEC,SGI,SUN...) or some cheap PC gear (SolarisX86,RedHat,debian,freebsd,MacOSX...),build a LAN.
make NFS/NIS/LDAP/DNS/SMTP/NNTP/etc. work on your new LAN.
Read the documentation for each of your platforms.
Compile and use all the opensource packages you can find. Start with GCC and the major gnu packages. Do not go the easy out pre-compiled route (compiler for first compiler excluded.)
Make a NFS /usr/local to install all variants into. Make them work on each of your platforms.
Add printers/scanners/disk/peripherals to each platform. Add any bit and piece that you can find.
try to find EMC/compaq/netapp storage gear. make that all interoperate.
make everything work with everything else
Get on the help desk at a LARGE company or university and answer/resolve as many questions as possible.
never stop learning.
you must be a Windoze Admin.
Maybe if it was all Right-Click Properties...
You can learn basic unix operator skills in 24 hours. You will not get real knowledge without spending considerable time in the trenches.
Want to learn fast?
1) read ALL comp.sys.blah postings. Try to resolve them on your own.
2) get some second hand UNIX gear (HP,DEC,SGI,SUN) build a LAN and make them interoperate. (NFS/NIS/LDAP/DNS/SMTP/NNTP)
3) Compile and use all the opensource packages you can find. Do not go the easy out pre-compiled route (compiler for first compiler excluded.)
4)Get on the help desk at a LARGE company or university and answer/resolve as many questions as possible.
This should have been done long ago.
MS gave hardware to schools to sway them to go M$ Apple should be giving gear away as an investment into the end users too.
Prove it. Lets see the link on state.ma.gov that says so.
This is exactly what intel and AMD need. A real reason for people to upgrade their hardware.
For most people even a 400Mhz system is enough.
Simply writing bigger and clunkier apps (a la microshaft) is not a good reason for me to dump[ my hardware.
It seems to me that the limits of compression technology are self inflicted. We don't do better compression because it takes too long to compress/decompress. However, with the improved speeds capacities of new hardware we can break those barriers.
When will we see this compression to allow more bandwidth down a dialup line?
Send me that a pair of 1Thz AMD CPUs!!!
My sister and I used to "type pictures" on my parents old suitcase typewriter. We made all sorts of pictures. I wish I still had some around.
SSIA
Unless you are installing oracle.
they dropped commandline installation and require a graphical head for the Java install. Why does everything java have to be GUI? can't there be commandline variants to a java program?
stupid oracle.
I discovered recently that hotmail and, in fact, all passport sites are nolonger case sensitive when it comes to passwords.
This rather bothers me.
It used to be that I had to use the proper case to login. Somewhere along the way, microsoft did something to change my password (which I had assumed was stored encrypted) to make case insensitive.
In high school I read and re-read three series, Xanth, Apprentice Adept and Incarnations of Immortality. In 1988 my first son was born which drew most of my attentions away from your novels. In 1991 my second son and the real world drew me the rest of the way.
I see that there are now 10 more Xanth novels that I do not have. I guess I have some catching up to do!
Your authors notes were for me almost a series of their own. These, combined with your autobiography, "Bio of an Ogre", made me feel like I knew you. And gave new meaning and insight to most of your novels.
Have you ever thought of collecting them together into a book of their own? Sort of a Peirs Anthony self retrospective or 'The Ogre Speaks Through the Ages.'
If clients checksum the file before uploading it all it would take is a distributed list of checksums. the first submission would generate a checksum which could then be uploaded to a website and mirrored to manage bandwidth.
when you do a search, check the results against the checksum database site. If the file has been reported by enough people as bad then either don't download it, don't list it in the search results, or flag it as such.
This method could easily be used to prevent viruses and ensure acuracy of content.
the data I am interrested in is the usenet archive. I can (and do) collect new but
I have a gap of the second 10 years or so that only google seems to have a copy of.
any chence of the public ever geting their hands on the raw archive?
Found an external photo HERE.
Those boxes were larger than full tower had screaming fast CPU for the time - 200Mhz
Each came with 96Mb RAM. --- The systems had the main board split into two pieces running vertically 4 disk bays on one side, cpu and ram on the other side. --- if you drew a line vertically down the front of your tower you can get an idea of the arrangement of the internals. --- The power supply was a monster. about 6x6x6. There were three (or 4 maybe) case fans along the base of the system. with the box held above a vented panel by thick rubber shock absorbers. ---
when you powered it up there was an incredible whoosh as they got the air flowing. and then it was silent. --- Air was drawn from top to bottom (or vice-versa) thrrough a grate that ran the entire top. Again there was a raised louvered box 1.5" high covering the top.
The coleco system used this overlay concept.
I remember my first GUI program written on the colecovision ADAM. I moved with the joystick and selected different items with the 12 button keypad.