I will now prove, using extremely shaky methods, that "Blow-by-Blow Account of the OSDN Outage" by Roblimo is, in fact, an epic myth.
I. Call to Adventure
"By 7 a.m. it was obvious that this was not a typical, easily-fixed, reboot-the-database problem. The network operations people were paged, but did not respond."
II. Meeting the Mentor
CowboyNeal once said, "You can take everything I know about Cisco, put it in a thimble and throw it away."
Whoops, that's not it.
"So I called Cisco tech support."
There we go.
III. Obstacles
"Just to make things interesting we've added ports to the 6509 by cascading to a Foundry Fast Iron II and also a Cisco 3500. We've got piles of printouts and documetation of all sorts, drawings and spreadsheets, helping us keep track of every IP and machine in this cage, yet it doesn't seem to get any clearer unless you've either built it yourself (only one person who did still works here and wasn't available this weekend) or if you've had the joyful opportunity of spending a night trying to trace through it all under pressure of knowing that the minutes of downtime are piling up and the answer is not jumping out at you."
IV. Fulfilling The Quest
"He bounces the switch... copy startup-config running-config... the switch resets itself... then email starts streaming into my inbox... then I can ping our sites all of a sudden... we're back online! Everything is back! Weird."
V. Return of the Hero
"The next day, Monday, Kurt talked to Exodus network engineers and asked them why our uplink settings were so confusing to Cisco engineers."
"Tuesday was router reconfig day."
VI. Transformation of the Hero
"At least we've learned a lot from the experience -- like to call for help from specialists right away instead of trying to gut things out, and just how valuable good tech support can be."
"We certainly aren't going to make the same ones [ed: mistakes] again!"
did you bother to read the last article they had on google? All your concerns about 'the us is not the world' were addressed there, and imo very well too.
basic difference between altavista and google: google works. this 'dead-end technology' works almost every time.
basic reason for providing translation: so foreigners can search the english web; having it the other way around is just a convenience. don't like it? go back and read the interview with google's head of r&d, you'll see why it makes sense.
this weekend i went and did two searches on deja and immediately found what i was looking for. i'd say deja is working just fine. your mileage clearly varied...
Why do we have to worry about their laws applying to us? Let's apply our laws to them. Freedom of speech, yay. Be fun watching the Hague try and sort that mess out.
Same thing as the uber-silly TCP over email protocol. It *can* be done, it can be *shown* that it can be done, and somewhere out there is some bored guy/gal who will see the light and implement something useful.
e.g.: When Microsoft put out their Active Accessibility API to make it easier for us to make Win32 applications that can be accessed by people with disabilities, I doubt any one of them thought some jackass (me) would use it to turn AOL's Instant Messenger into a magic hate ball (think magic 8 ball but this one answers your questions with rage & spite instead of vagueness). The easier way to do it of course would be to just create a quick plugin for TiK (tik.sourceforge.net), but nooooooooooooooo, not me. I see a cool new technology (shut up, AA API was new to me...) and I decide to abuse it. This freenet game thingee is the same thing...
"Is this legal?" Stop asking this question on slashdot! Someone's gonna get hurt, purely by accident! And someone knowledgable could speak the absolute truth and it'd either be moderated incorrectly or someone would misinterpret it. Ask a lawyer if it's legal, not slashdot!
"RIAA in France." Recording Industry Association of America... In France... That alone is incredibly silly, but what does the RIAA have to do with CSS? I thought that was MPAA?
Offer online the intro to your content and a synopsis of the rest, and see how many people subscribe. Chances are, you won't get as many readers as if you offered everything for free, but you'd be getting SOME money, which has to be better than the ZERO money coming in from advertising. Just in case, offer some articles for free, just for YOU, our special potential customer. Works for IGN & DevX, at least it looks like it is. The net magazine isn't dying, it's just survival of the fittest... Some will die, some will adapt.
well, it would seem that perhaps the Great and Powerful NSA could come up with something a little better than "Look both ways before crossing the street and don't talk to strangers."
Some things may be common sense to some people, but they won't really be 'common' unless you teach it to other people. These guys are covering their bases and trying to cover yours too... It can't hurt to pay attention.
Thanks for the URL... I was part of the WinME beta test, I think I found and successfully two bugs, so I feel useful... I like the 'first 1000 people to report a bug in this category get squishy toys.' That was neat.
Or if not ethics, teach them, "if you do this, you will go to jail faster than you can say 'all minorities are criminals'"! Because if even one of them misbehaves, you can kiss your job and that poor kid's future goodbye. If you don't believe me, just search through slashdot articles about how little kids get beat up over computer misbehavior, then think about what they would do to an inner city kid as opposed to a suburban kid.
Make sure it comes right after teaching them basic typing, basic Windows, history of the web, how to surf the web, how to set up and use email, netiquette, how to use a chat client (aim/jabber/trillian), and right before teaching them basic DOS commands, basic unix shell commands, html->lisp->scheme->python.
Imacs are naturally quiet because their cases are designed to cool via air flow or some such nonsense.
Maybe the actual question is, what sort of case exists for pc configs that doesn't require a fan?
If you get bored, try this. It's dated 1999, I wonder how much of it is accurate today? I can't say either way since I'm still using the same comp from 1998 ^^;;
NYU is right across the river from me, (maybe 15 minutes from where I work) and I just asked my boss, and he said, "NO! You cannot skip work to see some raving zealot!" NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Fuck the transcript, I just want to see the man in action.
Any marked departure from what Joe Dobson and his fellow citizens wear and eat and how they amuse themselves will arouse comment.... It is astonishing how easily the great majority of us fall into step with our neighbors.
Dude, that's so accurate it's not funny. But I guess this was true of any time, so why would things change, huh?:(
You took me through the Galaxy
When I was just 14
To show me there was so much more
Than a small planet blue and green.
You showed us deserts, mountains, parties,
And marshes where mattresses romp.
You gave us Dent and Prefect and Zaphod
And a robot who only would stomp.
Adventures galore caused by eddies in time
And Ford's warped mind, so manic.
All the while, the center - a book
Whose cover tells us not to panic.
A trilogy with books of five
So the mind of genius creates.
And years ago, a young version of me
Found your work lifted from my soul weights.
You left us last night, your towel was packed,
So suddenly out of life's door.
Should I see you again, on an eternal beach
Or the brothel of Triple Breasted Whores?
Perhaps reciting some poetry not as bad as Vogon prose?
Or hiding your face so an alien tiger can't see you?
Who knows?
Learning to throw yourself at the ground
And miss- yeah, that's the ticket.
Or perhaps taking on armies of Killbots who murder through Cricket.
Asking questions of the most powerful computer
That take strange aeons to reply?
And when it does, the question itself is elusive to the mind and the eye?
I jest, I joke, I write this poem,
To repair the hurt of a day.
Although there's sun, I feel less warm
For a true master went away.
That was written by J. Grant of Flem Comics. The actual thread is here.
My next? My turn next? Ok, yes, I take Japanese at NYU, our class used "Yookoso! An Introduction to Contemporary Japanese" and it was a great book, I highly recommend it as a matter of fact.
Peace,
Amit
ICQ 77863057
Re:Professionals should not be unionized.
on
IT Unions?
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· Score: 1
We'd complain about teachers less if there were strict guidelines about linking teachers' pay to students' overall scores. Students doing well in school? Pay teachers more. Students doing poorly, penalize teachers. That'd give them incentive to give a fuck, but unions strictly forbid it.
Anyone who's been through high school recently knows exactly what I'm talking about.
A network solely for some group of people who think they're so important is different from making a list of AIM names and then blocking everyone who's not on the list HOW?
CometSystems' "smart cursor" is different from vaunted (now dead) NBCi's ClickQuick (QuickClick?) technology? They're selling stuff people aren't asking for.
I'm using their Jabber IM 1.7.0.14 (Windows), and even though it's proprietary, the open source clients aren't any better. IT depts would be crazy to pay for this 'technology'.
Slashdot Mirror
Since I've never actually left NJ, or hell, never actually left Hudson County, anyone else want to comment on Iowa's geek-friendliness?
Peace,
Amit
ICQ 77863057
Where did you get your hard cover notebook? I've never heard of such a thing and my search at local shops has proved fruitless...
Peace,
Amit
ICQ 77863057
I will now prove, using extremely shaky methods, that "Blow-by-Blow Account of the OSDN Outage" by Roblimo is, in fact, an epic myth.
... the switch resets itself... then email starts streaming into my inbox... then I can ping our sites all of a sudden... we're back online! Everything is back! Weird."
I. Call to Adventure
"By 7 a.m. it was obvious that this was not a typical, easily-fixed, reboot-the-database problem. The network operations people were paged, but did not respond."
II. Meeting the Mentor
CowboyNeal once said, "You can take everything I know about Cisco, put it in a thimble and throw it away."
Whoops, that's not it.
"So I called Cisco tech support."
There we go.
III. Obstacles
"Just to make things interesting we've added ports to the 6509 by cascading to a Foundry Fast Iron II and also a Cisco 3500. We've got piles of printouts and documetation of all sorts, drawings and spreadsheets, helping us keep track of every IP and machine in this cage, yet it doesn't seem to get any clearer unless you've either built it yourself (only one person who did still works here and wasn't available this weekend) or if you've had the joyful opportunity of spending a night trying to trace through it all under pressure of knowing that the minutes of downtime are piling up and the answer is not jumping out at you."
IV. Fulfilling The Quest
"He bounces the switch... copy startup-config running-config
V. Return of the Hero
"The next day, Monday, Kurt talked to Exodus network engineers and asked them why our uplink settings were so confusing to Cisco engineers."
"Tuesday was router reconfig day."
VI. Transformation of the Hero
"At least we've learned a lot from the experience -- like to call for help from specialists right away instead of trying to gut things out, and just how valuable good tech support can be."
"We certainly aren't going to make the same ones [ed: mistakes] again!"
Peace,
Amit
ICQ 77863057
did you bother to read the last article they had on google? All your concerns about 'the us is not the world' were addressed there, and imo very well too.
basic difference between altavista and google: google works. this 'dead-end technology' works almost every time.
basic reason for providing translation: so foreigners can search the english web; having it the other way around is just a convenience. don't like it? go back and read the interview with google's head of r&d, you'll see why it makes sense.
this weekend i went and did two searches on deja and immediately found what i was looking for. i'd say deja is working just fine. your mileage clearly varied...
Peace,
Amit
ICQ 77863057
Why do we have to worry about their laws applying to us? Let's apply our laws to them. Freedom of speech, yay. Be fun watching the Hague try and sort that mess out.
Peace,
Amit
ICQ 77863057
Same thing as the uber-silly TCP over email protocol. It *can* be done, it can be *shown* that it can be done, and somewhere out there is some bored guy/gal who will see the light and implement something useful.
e.g.: When Microsoft put out their Active Accessibility API to make it easier for us to make Win32 applications that can be accessed by people with disabilities, I doubt any one of them thought some jackass (me) would use it to turn AOL's Instant Messenger into a magic hate ball (think magic 8 ball but this one answers your questions with rage & spite instead of vagueness). The easier way to do it of course would be to just create a quick plugin for TiK (tik.sourceforge.net), but nooooooooooooooo, not me. I see a cool new technology (shut up, AA API was new to me...) and I decide to abuse it. This freenet game thingee is the same thing...
Peace,
Amit
ICQ 77863057
Technology is driven by two factors:
1. Its ability to enable sex.
2. Its ability to enable game playing.
With anonymous porn, freenet clearly had the first all set up, but now that it has the second, there are no more obstacles to its widespread adoption.
Thank you for reading
Peace,
Amit
ICQ 77863057
"Is this legal?" Stop asking this question on slashdot! Someone's gonna get hurt, purely by accident! And someone knowledgable could speak the absolute truth and it'd either be moderated incorrectly or someone would misinterpret it. Ask a lawyer if it's legal, not slashdot!
Peace,
Amit
ICQ 77863057
"RIAA in France." Recording Industry Association of America... In France... That alone is incredibly silly, but what does the RIAA have to do with CSS? I thought that was MPAA?
Peace,
Amit
ICQ 77863057
You know how each episode starts with a quote? Does anyone have these collected anywhere?
Peace,
Amit
ICQ 77863057
Offer online the intro to your content and a synopsis of the rest, and see how many people subscribe. Chances are, you won't get as many readers as if you offered everything for free, but you'd be getting SOME money, which has to be better than the ZERO money coming in from advertising. Just in case, offer some articles for free, just for YOU, our special potential customer. Works for IGN & DevX, at least it looks like it is. The net magazine isn't dying, it's just survival of the fittest... Some will die, some will adapt.
Peace,
Amit
ICQ 77863057
well, it would seem that perhaps the Great and Powerful NSA could come up with something a little better than "Look both ways before crossing the street and don't talk to strangers."
Some things may be common sense to some people, but they won't really be 'common' unless you teach it to other people. These guys are covering their bases and trying to cover yours too... It can't hurt to pay attention.
Peace,
Amit
ICQ 77863057
Thanks for the URL... I was part of the WinME beta test, I think I found and successfully two bugs, so I feel useful... I like the 'first 1000 people to report a bug in this category get squishy toys.' That was neat.
Peace,
Amit
ICQ 77863057
It's what MIT teaches it's kids first. If MIT does it, does it make sense to follow suit?
Peace,
Amit
ICQ 77863057
Or if not ethics, teach them, "if you do this, you will go to jail faster than you can say 'all minorities are criminals'"! Because if even one of them misbehaves, you can kiss your job and that poor kid's future goodbye. If you don't believe me, just search through slashdot articles about how little kids get beat up over computer misbehavior, then think about what they would do to an inner city kid as opposed to a suburban kid.
Make sure it comes right after teaching them basic typing, basic Windows, history of the web, how to surf the web, how to set up and use email, netiquette, how to use a chat client (aim/jabber/trillian), and right before teaching them basic DOS commands, basic unix shell commands, html->lisp->scheme->python.
Peace,
Amit
ICQ 77863057
using tricks similar to those needed by GIMP to avoid the Unisys GIF patents.
What sort of tricks?
What about freenet? Or putting it on Russian servers? Is linking still illegal or did they change that?
Peace,
Amit
ICQ 77863057
Imacs are naturally quiet because their cases are designed to cool via air flow or some such nonsense.
Maybe the actual question is, what sort of case exists for pc configs that doesn't require a fan?
If you get bored, try this. It's dated 1999, I wonder how much of it is accurate today? I can't say either way since I'm still using the same comp from 1998 ^^;;
Peace,
Amit
ICQ 77863057
If Russia's a 'lawless' place, and these guys didn't have any mentors to help them tell right from wrong, did they knowingly engage in crime?
Peace,
Amit
ICQ 77863057
NYU is right across the river from me, (maybe 15 minutes from where I work) and I just asked my boss, and he said, "NO! You cannot skip work to see some raving zealot!" NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Fuck the transcript, I just want to see the man in action.
Peace,
Amit
ICQ 77863057
You're my hero.
Peace,
Amit
ICQ 77863057
Any marked departure from what Joe Dobson and his fellow citizens wear and eat and how they amuse themselves will arouse comment. ... It is astonishing how easily the great majority of us fall into step with our neighbors.
:(
Dude, that's so accurate it's not funny. But I guess this was true of any time, so why would things change, huh?
Peace,
Amit
ICQ 77863057
You took me through the Galaxy
When I was just 14
To show me there was so much more
Than a small planet blue and green.
You showed us deserts, mountains, parties,
And marshes where mattresses romp.
You gave us Dent and Prefect and Zaphod
And a robot who only would stomp.
Adventures galore caused by eddies in time
And Ford's warped mind, so manic.
All the while, the center - a book
Whose cover tells us not to panic.
A trilogy with books of five
So the mind of genius creates.
And years ago, a young version of me
Found your work lifted from my soul weights.
You left us last night, your towel was packed,
So suddenly out of life's door.
Should I see you again, on an eternal beach
Or the brothel of Triple Breasted Whores?
Perhaps reciting some poetry not as bad as Vogon prose?
Or hiding your face so an alien tiger can't see you?
Who knows?
Learning to throw yourself at the ground
And miss- yeah, that's the ticket.
Or perhaps taking on armies of Killbots who murder through Cricket.
Asking questions of the most powerful computer That take strange aeons to reply?
And when it does, the question itself is elusive to the mind and the eye?
I jest, I joke, I write this poem,
To repair the hurt of a day.
Although there's sun, I feel less warm
For a true master went away.
That was written by J. Grant of Flem Comics. The actual thread is here.
Peace,
Amit
ICQ 77863057
"Your next."
My next? My turn next? Ok, yes, I take Japanese at NYU, our class used "Yookoso! An Introduction to Contemporary Japanese" and it was a great book, I highly recommend it as a matter of fact.
Peace,
Amit
ICQ 77863057
We'd complain about teachers less if there were strict guidelines about linking teachers' pay to students' overall scores. Students doing well in school? Pay teachers more. Students doing poorly, penalize teachers. That'd give them incentive to give a fuck, but unions strictly forbid it.
Anyone who's been through high school recently knows exactly what I'm talking about.
Peace,
Amit
ICQ 77863057
A network solely for some group of people who think they're so important is different from making a list of AIM names and then blocking everyone who's not on the list HOW?
CometSystems' "smart cursor" is different from vaunted (now dead) NBCi's ClickQuick (QuickClick?) technology? They're selling stuff people aren't asking for.
I'm using their Jabber IM 1.7.0.14 (Windows), and even though it's proprietary, the open source clients aren't any better. IT depts would be crazy to pay for this 'technology'.
Peace,
Amit
ICQ 77863057