Not quite the question, but I bet a great many people looking for a Linux laptop really do care about things like color.
I am a developer who uses X and graphics tools. In my looking for a laptop had one priority: Screen resolution.
I purchased a Dell C800. Currently I am staring at a 1600x1200 16 million color Mozilla window. Not only that, but how many CRT's can do that resultion well. With my LCD, not only is the screen crystal clear, but I still have room to have more things on the screen at one time than I can really pay attention to. For my application testing (jsp), I do my editing in full screen Netbeans, then minimize leaving two terminal windows, and a Mozilla window (or two) open. I use the two terminals for packaging and deploying the app for view in mozilla.
I have had RedHat 7.1 and (now) 7.2 on the C800, and most things work fine. Only problems I have had is the video adapter doesn't support DGA (for direct VMWare screen access) and the internal modem (on a ethernet, 802.11b, modem combo card) did not work until RH 7.2. RH 7.2 detected the modem on the first after install boot. I have never used the wireless interface, so I'm not sure it that works.
This is a great machine for the high end Linux user, I would buy it again for use with RedHat 7.2. (I have the 1Ghz version btw.)
Am I totally missing something? If you really want to know what was changed (if not why), can't you just diff the code of the two versions?
I don't think we really need to know HOW the bad code could be exploited...the smart people should be able to figure that out for themselves by looking at the code. Why help the script kiddies. "Fixed some major security flaws" type message is good enough for me as a user.
In my job, I deal with goverment in a few states in the Northeast. The state of Michigan as a whole seems to be leading the way in bringing their state into the networked world. Michigan is ahead of the curve with legislation to allow offices (at least at the county level, which I deal with) to not only offer services over the internet, but also charge fees allowing them to break even doing so. In the end, it doesn't cost the tax payers much. (At least that is my impression) Many customers (counties) in other states have a hard time putting information on the internet, since there is no way to pay the cost of doing so. In many cases, the laws make it very cost prohibitive, either in the short or long term.
I bet this project will work because it is probably run like a break even business, instead of a government bucacracey (sp?) that most slashdotters would expect from government project like this. I would love something like this in my area, but the demographic is not well suited for it.
The world trade center has its own zipcode. It also has more telephone exhanges than the city of Detroit, MI.
As per the 50,000 people rumor. That is how many people work in the building. Since the attack happened just before 9am, we can hope not everyone was there. 50,000 people is the size of many medium size counties in the US.
The 4 jetliners along have the capicity to carry almost 1000 passengers.
Many of the NYC financial companies are based in the towers. The world economy is not at the best state for this to happen right now.
This is nothing. I work for a company that provides computer services and software for county records offices, which is where things like deeds and mortgages are registered with the county. Land owner's signatures, and sometimes even social security numbers are public information, and have been for quite some time. Anyone can go into the county office, and for a couple of bucks walk out with a copy of someone's mortgage.
My current job, or a major part of this is to put this information on the internet. There are still issues being worked out like who pays for the systems...the users or the county, and other minor problems, but in many counties the information will soon be available free over the internet. What's scary is it is a piece of cake for someone to grab person's name, usually address, signature, and social-sec-# all in a one stop shopping experience.
And the NYT is having a stink over names linked to addresses? We have not made any waves yet, but our core customer base are commercial searches, who if don't get the info over the internet will just drive to the county anyway.
I'll be interested to read the discussion following this article.
That's all well and good, but when one of our RAID5 140GIG dual 700MHZ machines goes down hard for some reason (which has happened a couple times), it is nice not to have to wait 20 minutes for the machine that has 2-6 hits a second check it's hard drives. Every second counts.
(We had some wierd NFS problem from an AS/400 that caused Linux to lock.) While it's not a big deal for home users. Production servers are a much different story.
A system, method, and computer program product for delivery and automatic execution of security, management, or optimization software over an Internet connection to a user computer responsive to a user request entered via a web browser on the user computer. In a preferred embodiment, the user directs the Internet browser to a Internet clinical services provider web site computer and logs in to the site using an identifier and a secure password and optionally makes a selection of the type of servicing desired, wherein an automatically-executing software package encapsulated within a markup language communication unit deliverable across the Internet is delivered, to the user computer, the automatically-executing software package being adapted to perform security, management, or optimization functions on the user computer. User identifiers and passwords enabling the downloads may be provided on a per-download basis or on a subscription basis.
I would love to see some stats that are more realistic of a server envirnment. I don't know about mySql, but I know postgres spawns more than one thread for addition queries when needed. Looks to me from the numbers that mySql is only doing one thing at a time for the bechmark.
I know my dual PIII 700 kicks ass when two big queries are going on at once, as long as they are indexed well. I have a hard time believing a single processor would still beat the dual in any useful DB test. (How many DB's really only perform one query at a time?) Two mySql benhmarks run at the same time, and then 4, would be much more interesting to me.
Correct me if I'm wrong about how the mySql benchmark works.
As a web developer myself, it is an interesting dilema. I run a subscription site for my employer, which offers a internet version of something to commercial customers which they usually hire an addition worker, to physically drive to places to retrieve (information.) We charge $50 per month, and $2 per search. If you compare that to the cost of hiring an additional employee to retrieve the information, is dirt cheap. But of course people still bitch. They all think the internet is free. All the content just comes out of nowhere. We have over $10k a month in ISDN charges alone to retrieve the information which is searchable on the site. That cost may soon double as our information base grows.
As a whole, I see content based internet sites going the way kuro just did today, but with a twist. I see sites adding more intrusive ads, and offering subscriptions for ad free based access. For more intrusive ads, think the large square in the middle of the content type some zdnet sites now have. For users who rarely visit a site, it will be a minor nusience. For people who regular a site, like slashdot, there is more bang for the buck to subscribe. I think the costs will be relativly low once the dust settles, like $24 for a year ($2 a month), the same cost as a good magazine. I doubt slashdot makes a two dollars a month showing me banner ads, but I could be wrong. 15000 people paying two dollars a month isn't too bad for a site which still feeds banner to non-subscribers. That's enough to hire five full time employees and site overhead in my neck of the woods.
Make ads obtrusive on a site like slashdot I vistit a few times a day, and I'd gladly pony up $2 a month. Just means I have to work an extra 6 minutes a month;-).
That's where I see the content based web going, but it will take some time for the public (the internet is free!) perception to change.
It's too close to Microsoft "Shared Source" thing. They are not going to get lots of people contributing, like Linux and other OSS software has. Major companies (IBM, HP) are less likly to make contributions to commercial software that directly competes with software of their own, etc.
Not to mention it was a half hearted attempt. It was too much like a AOL "me too!" post. They were late to the party, and wanted to make people think they belonged.
I was watching the JavaOne keynote's last week and something struck me as interesting. While JavaOne is a conference sponsered by Sun, the majority of the products that had on-stage demos were running under the Linux OS. Not all of them, but a lot of them were.
I thought it was interesting how people kept coming up on stage and telling the Sun reps that this that or the other thing ran with a Linux backend. Once or twice they had the comment "oh....it runs on Linux?"
If I worked for Sun, I would have taken that as a wakeup call. Currently Sun is one of the companies that doesn't know quite what to make of little free OS we know and love.
I personally never thought it really made sense to release the Solaris code. Maybe they are starting to come up with a real open source strategy...at least we can hope.
The fight over the best technology is not a bad thing, any more than Linux is a bad thing because Windows already exists. It will drive competition for better technologies, which is a goog thing in such a immature market.
I used to work for a company which makes commercial cable equipment. Most cable companies today that offer broadband use different cable modem technologies, but that is starting to change. Based on all the different technologies in the market, a standard (DOCSIS) was decided upon. Whether modems using that technology are out yet or not, I don't know.
Anyway, incompatible technologies are an importart part of such an immature and unstable industry such as power line broadband.
The "power struggles" among the major companies is a good thing. When a standard comes out, it will be that much better.
The company I work for has a number of ISDN lines going to places on the east coast. The reliability of these lines for the first few months of operation is usually horrible. One problem we have seen _many_ times, is they claim they tested the line, and there were no problems..."It must be your equipment!" Imediatly after they do "their testing", the problems fix themselves. In this process, Verison takes no blame.
I can easily see Verison considering problems like these as false trouble claims. We now just immediatly call them when there is a problem, and open a ticket. 95% of the time they admit to a problem, or "test" the problem away.
One lady actually had the audacity to say "sir, you know we are Verison, we don't have problems like that." The funny part is that ticket was actually a problem they admitted!
Anyway, I believe Verison is playing games with Covad.
Time Warner has been doing this in my local market for quite some time (years.) National ISP adds would usually get played, but it was impossible for any ISP who didn't purchase Nationwide "coverage" (if that's what they call it in the TV World.)
Local ISP's have been griping for quite some time that they can only get airtime on the big broadcast stations.
It has happened ever since Time Warner locally rolled out Cable Modems, and started considering local ISP's competition.
While it would be nice to try and tie this practice in with the "merger" (hehe) with AOL, I don't think that's quite justified.
Think back to the AT&T breakup example. When AT&T was the only long distance provider, the system ran on copper. AT&T and Corning had invented fiber optics years before, but were in no hurry to role it out. After AT&T had competition from Sprint and MCI, fiber started be planted in the ground like it was going out of style. When you think of the major internet backbones, how many of them are (or were) run by AT&T? Few, if any. All of the major high speed fiber links were run by MCI and Sprint. (If my memory is correct.) Fiber is what makes the Internet possible today. AT&T's monopoly may have caused us to still be using 28.8 connections, with slow backbones, had they not been broken up.
Also, think of all the features offered today on your phone line. Compare that to the standard applications that come with windows. Call waiting, three-way-calling, caller id, etc., can be compared to "paint.exe", "wordpad.exe", etc. Since Microsoft has a monopoly on the consumer OS market, what incentive do they have to improve any of the feature already included with the opperating system. When is the last time and upgrade to windows included a better paint program? They've had since 1995! In six years, they should at least be able to upgrade it to be a mini-photoshop, much less handle more than one image at a time! If AT&T had not been broken up, whether we would have these inovations in telephone technology is a real question.
Look at KDE and Gnome. Even though they are not commercial products, they keep up with each other in terms of many of the "core" features. There is incentive to expand on the core features because there compititions has offered an enhancement. Microsoft does not have any of that incentive in the desktop market.
Also, the statement that Netscape had no chance of becoming a platform is dead wrong, and Microsoft knows it. It can be explained in four characters...".net"..net means your web browser is now a platform. How many of you really believe Microsoft's.net products will work just as well on third party browsers as on Windows/IE?
Lastly, the punishment is not set in stone. I have heard lawers argue last week on CSPAN that it was never intended by judge Jackson to stick. A remedy needed to be entered for the trial to go on to the next step. The appeals court has the option of saying "we disagree with finding of fact A and D", therefore a trial must be held to come up with a new more fair remedy. More importantly, if they disagree with A and D, then B, C, and E are no longer open for discussion, since two courts have upheld them.
With that said, I would just like to say that the lawers in court right now have no clue what the case is really about. Get them off of their bullet point items, and they have no clue what their arguments should be. At least in many cases this is true for both sides of the case.
The archie information system is a network-based information tool offering proactive data retrieval and indexing for widely distributed collections of data.
The archie Data Gathering Component automates the gathering, indexing and maintenance of information, allowing information providers to offer improved resource discovery and access to information.
The archie User Access Component allows your users to locate and access your information using a variety of interfaces and search methods.
Given the number of hosts being used as archive sites nowadays, there can be great difficulty in finding needed software in a distributed environment. You may know that the software that you need is out there, but it can sometimes be difficult to find. Perhaps the best known application of the archie system is to maintain this Internet Archives database. The database, already available from a number of service providers across the Internet, currently contains the names of over 2,400,000 files at over 1,000 anonymous FTP archive sites. Using this database, users can rapidly locate needed files without the need to log onto dozens or even hundreds of machines. archie servers offering this database currently receive over 50,000 queries per day.
I live in upstate New York, which is having huge turnout. I went to the polls already being told by the media that Gore would win by a landslide.
There are two reasons why I voted this morning.
1. Cast a vote for a third party canidate (Browne) to voice my dis-taste of the "system."
2. The reason most people in my area were voting, who would not normally be...to vote against Hillary, who will most likley win due to the New York City vote. It is sad that so many people in my area will be voting only because they hate Hillary, and wish she would go back to Arkansas, DC, or where ever she came from. Once you rule out party line republicans, and people who hate hillary, you have very few people who actually LIKE lazio.
fuck...the Hillary win was just announced...anyway...
Lazio is getting 40% percent of the vote...with almost NO REAL VOTES! How sad is that! ok, the hillary win has me pissed off and I'm not longer writting very well any longer...I'll post something else later once I cool off.
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A single purpose server appliance, StorageEngine Voyager provides exceptional performance with up to 144 GB of data in 1U (1.75 inches), and an additional 288 GB of storage in a 1U optional disk array called StorageArray?, for a total of 432 GB in 2U. Pricing for StorageEngine Voyager begins at under $15,000.
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Too bad Maxtor still blows them out of the water with the Price/MB ratio. The 340 (320?) MaxAttach is $4500! And what's this total of 432GB in 2U? That is from a press release published today! Don't know where you got the 600+GB in 1U number.
Pros: Flexible if somewhat haphazard language; growing pool of support.
Cons: Relatively new; few tools; lacks unified database API.
Bottom Line: Not mature enough yet for widespread corporate use, but holds promise.
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I have starting moving my web development projects (at least the largest one I am working on) to a PHP/JavaBeans solution. I no longer have to mess with any of the database API's in PHP, as my JavaBeans do all the dirty work. Currently, JSP seams to be very immature, based on the research I have done.
Using a PHP/JavaBean model, I try to keep the API (HTML) layer as thin as possible. In addition to being able to add other interfaces easier (XML, Java Applet, etc.), I can easily migrate to a JSP front end if the JSP functionality catches up and/or passes PHP. There are currently some things my site currently does in PHP, which JSP does not support, and would take way to long (and more java skills than I have) to program into a bean.
This should prove to be an interesting discussion to read through.
I you are part of the government...you are allowed to bend some of the rules.
If you work in the private sector, there is no way to "opt out." Congress has their own retirement plan to, btw.
-Pete
I read through the Haryy Brown article, but not the others. Nothing I din't already know, but it was good none the less.
We do have more than just two choices this election. We only have two choices in which we have a real chance of being on the winning team, but why would the slashdot crowd care about that? We don't use windows just because that is the "market leader." Saying we only have two choices is like saying we have a 50/50 chance of being on the winning team? Who cares if the the person you vote for actually wins!? If everyone voted for the person they thought would win, this country would be more of a mess than it already is!
I was initially planning to vote, if I did vote, for Bush, due to strong dislike of Gore's policies, and history of lying about stupid little things. If he lies about the small stuff all the time, what about the big stuff? Moving on...I am getting off track....
Based on a couple things I have hear Gore talk about recently, I figure I don't really care which one of them wins. I plan to vote for a third party canidate. Who? I don't know yet. Nader is a little too, I guess freak is the word, for me to vote for. I have watched some interviews of some of the other third party canidates, and am thinking Harry Brown has his head on the straightest of them all. But my mind is not made up yet.
The point is, pick he national canidate you like the most, and vote for him.
And God help us, if you live in New York, vote against Hillary Clinton for Senator! I can't stand the though of the woman from wherever she is from pretending to care about my state! She has her own agenda and "career" to advance. I wish we had someone from NY running on the Democratic ticket, I'd probably vote for them.
Anyway, enough rambling. But get out and vote for some third party person. Who you choose is up to you...but vote for them, send a message with your vote, you voice will be louder than voting for one of the top two.
He shows me more. Criminals - who have a peculiar habit of inputting all their deeds into PCs and handheld computers - often use software to erase such incriminating information. Modern techniques, however, such as the molecular analysis of a hard disc, can reveal much of what was "deleted".
This about that next time you delete something from your Palm! He is capturing the data you delete from your PDA! Also, is he implying does molecular analysis of every hard disc connected to the net!?
Finally, Whitelaw demonstrates steganography - the art of concealing text within more text. "Steganography is considered the third biggest threat to US security after biological and chemical attack," he says
His laptop shows a letter containing seemingly harmless text. But, once decoded, a very different meaning emerges: it is an order to carry out an assassination..
Doesn't he know about ssh!? Yeah..that's gotta be right up there with bio and chem attack.;-)
After reading the article, some of the ideas have merit, and he may do them, but a lot sounds like a PHB who only knows what his marketing guys tell him.
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Not quite the question, but I bet a great many people looking for a Linux laptop really do care about things like color.
I am a developer who uses X and graphics tools. In my looking for a laptop had one priority: Screen resolution.
I purchased a Dell C800. Currently I am staring at a 1600x1200 16 million color Mozilla window. Not only that, but how many CRT's can do that resultion well. With my LCD, not only is the screen crystal clear, but I still have room to have more things on the screen at one time than I can really pay attention to. For my application testing (jsp), I do my editing in full screen Netbeans, then minimize leaving two terminal windows, and a Mozilla window (or two) open. I use the two terminals for packaging and deploying the app for view in mozilla.
I have had RedHat 7.1 and (now) 7.2 on the C800, and most things work fine. Only problems I have had is the video adapter doesn't support DGA (for direct VMWare screen access) and the internal modem (on a ethernet, 802.11b, modem combo card) did not work until RH 7.2. RH 7.2 detected the modem on the first after install boot. I have never used the wireless interface, so I'm not sure it that works.
This is a great machine for the high end Linux user, I would buy it again for use with RedHat 7.2. (I have the 1Ghz version btw.)
-Pete
Or you could pay a high end photo place to make you slides, and put them in a cheap slide projector.
Am I totally missing something? If you really want to know what was changed (if not why), can't you just diff the code of the two versions?
I don't think we really need to know HOW the bad code could be exploited...the smart people should be able to figure that out for themselves by looking at the code. Why help the script kiddies. "Fixed some major security flaws" type message is good enough for me as a user.
-Pete
In my job, I deal with goverment in a few states in the Northeast. The state of Michigan as a whole seems to be leading the way in bringing their state into the networked world. Michigan is ahead of the curve with legislation to allow offices (at least at the county level, which I deal with) to not only offer services over the internet, but also charge fees allowing them to break even doing so. In the end, it doesn't cost the tax payers much. (At least that is my impression) Many customers (counties) in other states have a hard time putting information on the internet, since there is no way to pay the cost of doing so. In many cases, the laws make it very cost prohibitive, either in the short or long term.
I bet this project will work because it is probably run like a break even business, instead of a government bucacracey (sp?) that most slashdotters would expect from government project like this. I would love something like this in my area, but the demographic is not well suited for it.
-Pete
The world trade center has its own zipcode. It also has more telephone exhanges than the city of Detroit, MI.
As per the 50,000 people rumor. That is how many people work in the building. Since the attack happened just before 9am, we can hope not everyone was there. 50,000 people is the size of many medium size counties in the US.
The 4 jetliners along have the capicity to carry almost 1000 passengers.
Many of the NYC financial companies are based in the towers. The world economy is not at the best state for this to happen right now.
This is nothing. I work for a company that provides computer services and software for county records offices, which is where things like deeds and mortgages are registered with the county. Land owner's signatures, and sometimes even social security numbers are public information, and have been for quite some time. Anyone can go into the county office, and for a couple of bucks walk out with a copy of someone's mortgage.
My current job, or a major part of this is to put this information on the internet. There are still issues being worked out like who pays for the systems...the users or the county, and other minor problems, but in many counties the information will soon be available free over the internet. What's scary is it is a piece of cake for someone to grab person's name, usually address, signature, and social-sec-# all in a one stop shopping experience.
And the NYT is having a stink over names linked to addresses? We have not made any waves yet, but our core customer base are commercial searches, who if don't get the info over the internet will just drive to the county anyway.
I'll be interested to read the discussion following this article.
-Pete
That's all well and good, but when one of our RAID5 140GIG dual 700MHZ machines goes down hard for some reason (which has happened a couple times), it is nice not to have to wait 20 minutes for the machine that has 2-6 hits a second check it's hard drives. Every second counts.
(We had some wierd NFS problem from an AS/400 that caused Linux to lock.) While it's not a big deal for home users. Production servers are a much different story.
-Pete
From the Patent:
Abstract
A system, method, and computer program product for delivery and automatic execution of security, management, or optimization software over an Internet connection to a user computer responsive to a user request entered via a web browser on the user computer. In a preferred embodiment, the user directs the Internet browser to a Internet clinical services provider web site computer and logs in to the site using an identifier and a secure password and optionally makes a selection of the type of servicing desired, wherein an automatically-executing software package encapsulated within a markup language communication unit deliverable across the Internet is delivered, to the user computer, the automatically-executing software package being adapted to perform security, management, or optimization functions on the user computer. User identifiers and passwords enabling the downloads may be provided on a per-download basis or on a subscription basis.
I would love to see some stats that are more realistic of a server envirnment. I don't know about mySql, but I know postgres spawns more than one thread for addition queries when needed. Looks to me from the numbers that mySql is only doing one thing at a time for the bechmark.
I know my dual PIII 700 kicks ass when two big queries are going on at once, as long as they are indexed well. I have a hard time believing a single processor would still beat the dual in any useful DB test. (How many DB's really only perform one query at a time?) Two mySql benhmarks run at the same time, and then 4, would be much more interesting to me.
Correct me if I'm wrong about how the mySql benchmark works.
-Pete
As a web developer myself, it is an interesting dilema. I run a subscription site for my employer, which offers a internet version of something to commercial customers which they usually hire an addition worker, to physically drive to places to retrieve (information.) We charge $50 per month, and $2 per search. If you compare that to the cost of hiring an additional employee to retrieve the information, is dirt cheap. But of course people still bitch. They all think the internet is free. All the content just comes out of nowhere. We have over $10k a month in ISDN charges alone to retrieve the information which is searchable on the site. That cost may soon double as our information base grows.
;-).
As a whole, I see content based internet sites going the way kuro just did today, but with a twist. I see sites adding more intrusive ads, and offering subscriptions for ad free based access. For more intrusive ads, think the large square in the middle of the content type some zdnet sites now have. For users who rarely visit a site, it will be a minor nusience. For people who regular a site, like slashdot, there is more bang for the buck to subscribe. I think the costs will be relativly low once the dust settles, like $24 for a year ($2 a month), the same cost as a good magazine. I doubt slashdot makes a two dollars a month showing me banner ads, but I could be wrong. 15000 people paying two dollars a month isn't too bad for a site which still feeds banner to non-subscribers. That's enough to hire five full time employees and site overhead in my neck of the woods.
Make ads obtrusive on a site like slashdot I vistit a few times a day, and I'd gladly pony up $2 a month. Just means I have to work an extra 6 minutes a month
That's where I see the content based web going, but it will take some time for the public (the internet is free!) perception to change.
-Pete
It was my impression that many of the backend systems were Linux, especially for the J2ME applications.
-Pete
It's too close to Microsoft "Shared Source" thing. They are not going to get lots of people contributing, like Linux and other OSS software has. Major companies (IBM, HP) are less likly to make contributions to commercial software that directly competes with software of their own, etc.
Not to mention it was a half hearted attempt. It was too much like a AOL "me too!" post. They were late to the party, and wanted to make people think they belonged.
-Pete
I was watching the JavaOne keynote's last week and something struck me as interesting. While JavaOne is a conference sponsered by Sun, the majority of the products that had on-stage demos were running under the Linux OS. Not all of them, but a lot of them were.
I thought it was interesting how people kept coming up on stage and telling the Sun reps that this that or the other thing ran with a Linux backend. Once or twice they had the comment "oh....it runs on Linux?"
If I worked for Sun, I would have taken that as a wakeup call. Currently Sun is one of the companies that doesn't know quite what to make of little free OS we know and love.
I personally never thought it really made sense to release the Solaris code. Maybe they are starting to come up with a real open source strategy...at least we can hope.
-Pete
The fight over the best technology is not a bad thing, any more than Linux is a bad thing because Windows already exists. It will drive competition for better technologies, which is a goog thing in such a immature market.
I used to work for a company which makes commercial cable equipment. Most cable companies today that offer broadband use different cable modem technologies, but that is starting to change. Based on all the different technologies in the market, a standard (DOCSIS) was decided upon. Whether modems using that technology are out yet or not, I don't know.
Anyway, incompatible technologies are an importart part of such an immature and unstable industry such as power line broadband.
The "power struggles" among the major companies is a good thing. When a standard comes out, it will be that much better.
-Pete
The company I work for has a number of ISDN lines going to places on the east coast. The reliability of these lines for the first few months of operation is usually horrible. One problem we have seen _many_ times, is they claim they tested the line, and there were no problems..."It must be your equipment!" Imediatly after they do "their testing", the problems fix themselves. In this process, Verison takes no blame.
I can easily see Verison considering problems like these as false trouble claims. We now just immediatly call them when there is a problem, and open a ticket. 95% of the time they admit to a problem, or "test" the problem away.
One lady actually had the audacity to say "sir, you know we are Verison, we don't have problems like that." The funny part is that ticket was actually a problem they admitted!
Anyway, I believe Verison is playing games with Covad.
Disclaimer: I own Covad stock, although not much.
-Pete
Time Warner has been doing this in my local market for quite some time (years.) National ISP adds would usually get played, but it was impossible for any ISP who didn't purchase Nationwide "coverage" (if that's what they call it in the TV World.)
Local ISP's have been griping for quite some time that they can only get airtime on the big broadcast stations.
It has happened ever since Time Warner locally rolled out Cable Modems, and started considering local ISP's competition.
While it would be nice to try and tie this practice in with the "merger" (hehe) with AOL, I don't think that's quite justified.
-Pete
Think back to the AT&T breakup example. When AT&T was the only long distance provider, the system ran on copper. AT&T and Corning had invented fiber optics years before, but were in no hurry to role it out. After AT&T had competition from Sprint and MCI, fiber started be planted in the ground like it was going out of style. When you think of the major internet backbones, how many of them are (or were) run by AT&T? Few, if any. All of the major high speed fiber links were run by MCI and Sprint. (If my memory is correct.) Fiber is what makes the Internet possible today. AT&T's monopoly may have caused us to still be using 28.8 connections, with slow backbones, had they not been broken up.
.net means your web browser is now a platform. How many of you really believe Microsoft's .net products will work just as well on third party browsers as on Windows/IE?
Also, think of all the features offered today on your phone line. Compare that to the standard applications that come with windows. Call waiting, three-way-calling, caller id, etc., can be compared to "paint.exe", "wordpad.exe", etc. Since Microsoft has a monopoly on the consumer OS market, what incentive do they have to improve any of the feature already included with the opperating system. When is the last time and upgrade to windows included a better paint program? They've had since 1995! In six years, they should at least be able to upgrade it to be a mini-photoshop, much less handle more than one image at a time! If AT&T had not been broken up, whether we would have these inovations in telephone technology is a real question.
Look at KDE and Gnome. Even though they are not commercial products, they keep up with each other in terms of many of the "core" features. There is incentive to expand on the core features because there compititions has offered an enhancement. Microsoft does not have any of that incentive in the desktop market.
Also, the statement that Netscape had no chance of becoming a platform is dead wrong, and Microsoft knows it. It can be explained in four characters...".net".
Lastly, the punishment is not set in stone. I have heard lawers argue last week on CSPAN that it was never intended by judge Jackson to stick. A remedy needed to be entered for the trial to go on to the next step. The appeals court has the option of saying "we disagree with finding of fact A and D", therefore a trial must be held to come up with a new more fair remedy. More importantly, if they disagree with A and D, then B, C, and E are no longer open for discussion, since two courts have upheld them.
With that said, I would just like to say that the lawers in court right now have no clue what the case is really about. Get them off of their bullet point items, and they have no clue what their arguments should be. At least in many cases this is true for both sides of the case.
-Pete
The archie information system is a network-based information tool offering proactive data retrieval and indexing for widely distributed collections of data. The archie Data Gathering Component automates the gathering, indexing and maintenance of information, allowing information providers to offer improved resource discovery and access to information.
The archie User Access Component allows your users to locate and access your information using a variety of interfaces and search methods.
Given the number of hosts being used as archive sites nowadays, there can be great difficulty in finding needed software in a distributed environment. You may know that the software that you need is out there, but it can sometimes be difficult to find. Perhaps the best known application of the archie system is to maintain this Internet Archives database. The database, already available from a number of service providers across the Internet, currently contains the names of over 2,400,000 files at over 1,000 anonymous FTP archive sites. Using this database, users can rapidly locate needed files without the need to log onto dozens or even hundreds of machines. archie servers offering this database currently receive over 50,000 queries per day.
http://archie.emnet.co.uk/readme.html.
-Pete
If customers do not renew or install an upgrade product, they can still open, view and print their existing documents.
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My God! Did ANYONE read the article!?
-Pete
I live in upstate New York, which is having huge turnout. I went to the polls already being told by the media that Gore would win by a landslide.
There are two reasons why I voted this morning.
1. Cast a vote for a third party canidate (Browne) to voice my dis-taste of the "system."
2. The reason most people in my area were voting, who would not normally be...to vote against Hillary, who will most likley win due to the New York City vote. It is sad that so many people in my area will be voting only because they hate Hillary, and wish she would go back to Arkansas, DC, or where ever she came from. Once you rule out party line republicans, and people who hate hillary, you have very few people who actually LIKE lazio.
fuck...the Hillary win was just announced...anyway...
Lazio is getting 40% percent of the vote...with almost NO REAL VOTES! How sad is that! ok, the hillary win has me pissed off and I'm not longer writting very well any longer...I'll post something else later once I cool off.
-Pete
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A single purpose server appliance, StorageEngine Voyager provides exceptional performance with up to 144 GB of data in 1U (1.75 inches), and an additional 288 GB of storage in a 1U optional disk array called StorageArray?, for a total of 432 GB in 2U. Pricing for StorageEngine Voyager begins at under $15,000.
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Too bad Maxtor still blows them out of the water with the Price/MB ratio. The 340 (320?) MaxAttach is $4500! And what's this total of 432GB in 2U? That is from a press release published today! Don't know where you got the 600+GB in 1U number.
-Pete
Pros: Flexible if somewhat haphazard language; growing pool of support.
Cons: Relatively new; few tools; lacks unified database API.
Bottom Line: Not mature enough yet for widespread corporate use, but holds promise.
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I have starting moving my web development projects (at least the largest one I am working on) to a PHP/JavaBeans solution. I no longer have to mess with any of the database API's in PHP, as my JavaBeans do all the dirty work. Currently, JSP seams to be very immature, based on the research I have done.
Using a PHP/JavaBean model, I try to keep the API (HTML) layer as thin as possible. In addition to being able to add other interfaces easier (XML, Java Applet, etc.), I can easily migrate to a JSP front end if the JSP functionality catches up and/or passes PHP. There are currently some things my site currently does in PHP, which JSP does not support, and would take way to long (and more java skills than I have) to program into a bean.
This should prove to be an interesting discussion to read through.
-Pete
I you are part of the government...you are allowed to bend some of the rules. If you work in the private sector, there is no way to "opt out." Congress has their own retirement plan to, btw. -Pete
I read through the Haryy Brown article, but not the others. Nothing I din't already know, but it was good none the less.
We do have more than just two choices this election. We only have two choices in which we have a real chance of being on the winning team, but why would the slashdot crowd care about that? We don't use windows just because that is the "market leader." Saying we only have two choices is like saying we have a 50/50 chance of being on the winning team? Who cares if the the person you vote for actually wins!? If everyone voted for the person they thought would win, this country would be more of a mess than it already is!
I was initially planning to vote, if I did vote, for Bush, due to strong dislike of Gore's policies, and history of lying about stupid little things. If he lies about the small stuff all the time, what about the big stuff? Moving on...I am getting off track....
Based on a couple things I have hear Gore talk about recently, I figure I don't really care which one of them wins. I plan to vote for a third party canidate. Who? I don't know yet. Nader is a little too, I guess freak is the word, for me to vote for. I have watched some interviews of some of the other third party canidates, and am thinking Harry Brown has his head on the straightest of them all. But my mind is not made up yet.
The point is, pick he national canidate you like the most, and vote for him.
And God help us, if you live in New York, vote against Hillary Clinton for Senator! I can't stand the though of the woman from wherever she is from pretending to care about my state! She has her own agenda and "career" to advance. I wish we had someone from NY running on the Democratic ticket, I'd probably vote for them.
Anyway, enough rambling. But get out and vote for some third party person. Who you choose is up to you...but vote for them, send a message with your vote, you voice will be louder than voting for one of the top two.
-Pete
He shows me more. Criminals - who have a peculiar habit of inputting all their deeds into PCs and handheld computers - often use software to erase such incriminating information. Modern techniques, however, such as the molecular analysis of a hard disc, can reveal much of what was "deleted".
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This about that next time you delete something from your Palm! He is capturing the data you delete from your PDA! Also, is he implying does molecular analysis of every hard disc connected to the net!?
Finally, Whitelaw demonstrates steganography - the art of concealing text within more text. "Steganography is considered the third biggest threat to US security after biological and chemical attack," he says
His laptop shows a letter containing seemingly harmless text. But, once decoded, a very different meaning emerges: it is an order to carry out an assassination.
Doesn't he know about ssh!? Yeah..that's gotta be right up there with bio and chem attack.
After reading the article, some of the ideas have merit, and he may do them, but a lot sounds like a PHB who only knows what his marketing guys tell him.
-Pete