for software companies to move to India? Who need Silicon India when you can BE in India itself?
Oh wait, the union website says Amazon.com was looking at India around September '00, wonder if they acted on that...
Many unions are^H^H^Happear to be run by thugs who don't mind bullying union and non-union members alike... What will prevent a tech alliance from becoming corrupt? Too many egos will be clashing hardcore... --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Because like you said, DirecTV dared them to do it, they did, and they got hammered. Kinda like that honeypot stuff they were talking about a bit back to catch crackers... NICE --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
If your friends' have sites but not too many people link to them, they won't rank too highly in Google's eyes, will they?
A Google search for 'dumb motherfucker' will yield George W. Bush's website, how inaccurate could Google possibly be?
"a Google search on "chavez" led to several encyclopedia entries on Cesar Chavez" Would it have fucking killed them to type in "Linda Chavez labor secretary"? And this was very recent news, exactly how quickly do you expect Google to scan the entire internet for updates? How quickly could these 'iceberg drilling' search engines possibly scan the net? It's a deep web right now, what's invisible will bubble to the surface if it's relevant... Maybe they have a point on using the search engines to only scan specific areas, but I think websites which specialize in these areas should license the Google engine instead of Excite's... (you know what I'm talking about right? Every big site has some article you want to find, you go to look for it, you get the worst search interface possible that doesn't return any useful links...) --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
So when I can't get to slashdot like that, I know something is up with Microsoft. BTW now Microsoft knows how many times I visit slashdot... like every five minutes and stuff... --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
It would make a hella cool Slashback, instead of just being a summary of what happened during the discussion, you actually revisit the story at a future date to see what happened... --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
glasscode I believe it was called? Written in Java (JSP I think). Didn't do too well when it was slashdotted. It might have been his machine and his connection but... --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
It's like the difference between hacker and cracker. You and I may know the difference, but if the world at large insists on calling computer vandals hackers, nothing we do will change their minds and we'll just be branded as eccentrics.:( Pluto may be a planet everywhere other than NY at the moment, but if you give it a bit of time, who knows? --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
All that, and the government pays for your health care. And I think pound for pound (gram for gram?!) you guys have more colleges that offer courses in game development than the US does. Now you're telling me you can trust your friendly Canadian telco? Someone tell me please why I'm still in Jersey...
The poster you were responding to was talking about American telcos, no doubt. They all suck. I've yet to hear of one that's reliable and trustworthy. --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Funny, yes, but before anyone gets any ideas, remember, you're messing with the FBI here. You're using a computer to mess with the FBI... Once they find out you've been lying, they'll come down on you as if you're Osama bin Ladin * pi. So don't do it from a library, do it from an ex-girlfriends comp or something... --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Forget it. Pretend no one mentioned it. Because it really isn't part of the question. The question is: "What is the best way to get in touch with a Network Admin or someone who actually can do something about a network issue in cases like these?"
Now pretend you're the network operator for a large company. Do you really want to be dealing with customers when you could be playing Starcraft? And even if you're not playing Starcraft all day on your carefully crafted network, chances are, you have better things to worry about than your company's customers. No, you have secretaries and underlings who take your calls and check your email. They sort it. They send it to you.
Imagine you're sitting there, happily flirting with your co-worker when suddenly your beeper beeps... "zerg0 down." Bloody hell, why'd the web server crash? And why isn't it back up? Lemme go check on it... Suddenly every phone in the fucking office lights up with angry customers demanding to know what happened. Some of them are probably the helpful sort who'd like to explain to you in minute detail what happened. Well, would you rather be working on the problem or dealing with customers? Well?
Therefore, the problem isn't how to contact the network operator, but to convince the underlings/secretaries that there is indeed a problem that can only be solved by having them put you in touch with an admin. Money helps. Lots and lots of money. A legal contract entitling you to contact the network admin when you need to (which no sane service provider would sign, but you never know) might also help. --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Oops, forgot to mention that =( The biggest problem BeAIM has is that it won't import AIM 4.X Windows Buddy Lists... It locks up and I can't even do a stack trace =( But other than that it's hella cool and functional. The ICQ clients are indeed flaky, but an analysis of the Windows ICQ 2k betas show that really, there's no such thing as a good icq client right now... --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
a long, loooooooong time. I haven't tried the Linux versions (oh wait, I don't run Linux...) but WinJab and Jabber for BeOS are both horribly buggy and display useless, incomprehensible error messages. Maybe AOL did learn a thing or two when trying to write software dumbed down for the masses and maybe they're able to apply that to their own software? Bloated or not, it's easy to use, and that's the bottom line.
A friend pointed me at altavista's chat client, which handles ICQ, AIM, MSN, and Yahoo, but I haven't followed up on that to see if he's for real... --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
almost everything from DOS 6 is available from MS for d/l for the Win95/98 systems that didn't have it... they mostly work too. but i'm just nitpicking =) --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Now I'll have to look up your Dagon reference, because I was almost positive Dagon was something Lovecraft made up when he was bored. Hm... --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Isn't M$ on the XML committee and also on any committee that's doing anything that remotely pertains to XML? They may not have 'invented' it, but they're definitely involved with shaping it. --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
We've had dozens of chances to fight. All the majority of us have done is post to slashdot and use that stupid house.gov/writerep form to email our representatives (which we all know does jack compared to writing a handwritten letter, but one time Menendez sent me a form letter...).
What makes you think the next ten years will be any different? People don't care about what you and I care about! What will happen in the next ten years that will make them care enough to want to fight?
"We will not allow you access to this site because only drug abusers would want to look at this site. Are you a drug abuser? Do you symphatize with people who abuse drugs?" That's really all it would take, right? Tell me what's going to change in the next ten years that will make us fight. --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
they have this thing called the mks toolkit... and while it isn't a unix filesystem, they do add lots and lots of unix commands and tools so you can run shell scripts, emacs, and stuff on nt. it should work on 2k, not sure. --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
I don't suppose you can dig up any pertinant info on that subject? (ms making unix, not slashdot's search...) thanks in advance. --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
one need only look at BT's patent on hyperlinks to realize that having gobs and gobs of prior art may or may not prevent patents from being granted and patent infringement suites from taking place. --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
I don't mean to be a pain, but can you (or the maintainer) please add publisher to that? Think about it: If Baen really is serious about releasing all their books online for free, and other publishers aren't, doesn't it make sense for us to check out Baen books and buy them if we think it's worth it? --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Can anyone list any books that they recommend that are published by Baen? I'd be interested in supporting this if someone can whip up my interest... I'm into sci-fi, but I'll do fantasy or mystery if I'm inclined... --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Slashdot Mirror
for software companies to move to India? Who need Silicon India when you can BE in India itself?
Oh wait, the union website says Amazon.com was looking at India around September '00, wonder if they acted on that...
Many unions are^H^H^Happear to be run by thugs who don't mind bullying union and non-union members alike... What will prevent a tech alliance from becoming corrupt? Too many egos will be clashing hardcore...
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Because like you said, DirecTV dared them to do it, they did, and they got hammered. Kinda like that honeypot stuff they were talking about a bit back to catch crackers... NICE
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
If your friends' have sites but not too many people link to them, they won't rank too highly in Google's eyes, will they?
A Google search for 'dumb motherfucker' will yield George W. Bush's website, how inaccurate could Google possibly be?
"a Google search on "chavez" led to several encyclopedia entries on Cesar Chavez" Would it have fucking killed them to type in "Linda Chavez labor secretary"? And this was very recent news, exactly how quickly do you expect Google to scan the entire internet for updates? How quickly could these 'iceberg drilling' search engines possibly scan the net? It's a deep web right now, what's invisible will bubble to the surface if it's relevant... Maybe they have a point on using the search engines to only scan specific areas, but I think websites which specialize in these areas should license the Google engine instead of Excite's... (you know what I'm talking about right? Every big site has some article you want to find, you go to look for it, you get the worst search interface possible that doesn't return any useful links...)
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
I get to slashdot by following the following link:
x &target=http://www.slashdot.org/
http://www.microsoft.com/isapi/redir.dll?prd=linu
So when I can't get to slashdot like that, I know something is up with Microsoft. BTW now Microsoft knows how many times I visit slashdot... like every five minutes and stuff...
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
It would make a hella cool Slashback, instead of just being a summary of what happened during the discussion, you actually revisit the story at a future date to see what happened...
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
glasscode I believe it was called? Written in Java (JSP I think). Didn't do too well when it was slashdotted. It might have been his machine and his connection but...
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
It's like the difference between hacker and cracker. You and I may know the difference, but if the world at large insists on calling computer vandals hackers, nothing we do will change their minds and we'll just be branded as eccentrics. :( Pluto may be a planet everywhere other than NY at the moment, but if you give it a bit of time, who knows?
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
All that, and the government pays for your health care. And I think pound for pound (gram for gram?!) you guys have more colleges that offer courses in game development than the US does. Now you're telling me you can trust your friendly Canadian telco? Someone tell me please why I'm still in Jersey...
The poster you were responding to was talking about American telcos, no doubt. They all suck. I've yet to hear of one that's reliable and trustworthy.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
"an hour after leaving the theater, it's hard to remember it at all."
That's great! That just means you'll have to go see the movie again...
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Funny, yes, but before anyone gets any ideas, remember, you're messing with the FBI here. You're using a computer to mess with the FBI... Once they find out you've been lying, they'll come down on you as if you're Osama bin Ladin * pi. So don't do it from a library, do it from an ex-girlfriends comp or something...
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Forget it. Pretend no one mentioned it. Because it really isn't part of the question. The question is: "What is the best way to get in touch with a Network Admin or someone who actually can do something about a network issue in cases like these?"
Now pretend you're the network operator for a large company. Do you really want to be dealing with customers when you could be playing Starcraft? And even if you're not playing Starcraft all day on your carefully crafted network, chances are, you have better things to worry about than your company's customers. No, you have secretaries and underlings who take your calls and check your email. They sort it. They send it to you.
Imagine you're sitting there, happily flirting with your co-worker when suddenly your beeper beeps... "zerg0 down." Bloody hell, why'd the web server crash? And why isn't it back up? Lemme go check on it... Suddenly every phone in the fucking office lights up with angry customers demanding to know what happened. Some of them are probably the helpful sort who'd like to explain to you in minute detail what happened. Well, would you rather be working on the problem or dealing with customers? Well?
Therefore, the problem isn't how to contact the network operator, but to convince the underlings/secretaries that there is indeed a problem that can only be solved by having them put you in touch with an admin. Money helps. Lots and lots of money. A legal contract entitling you to contact the network admin when you need to (which no sane service provider would sign, but you never know) might also help.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
"He failed to apply the required Constitutionality test to the DMCA."
I thought only the Supreme Court was supposed to handle that?
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Oops, forgot to mention that =( The biggest problem BeAIM has is that it won't import AIM 4.X Windows Buddy Lists... It locks up and I can't even do a stack trace =( But other than that it's hella cool and functional. The ICQ clients are indeed flaky, but an analysis of the Windows ICQ 2k betas show that really, there's no such thing as a good icq client right now...
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
a long, loooooooong time. I haven't tried the Linux versions (oh wait, I don't run Linux...) but WinJab and Jabber for BeOS are both horribly buggy and display useless, incomprehensible error messages. Maybe AOL did learn a thing or two when trying to write software dumbed down for the masses and maybe they're able to apply that to their own software? Bloated or not, it's easy to use, and that's the bottom line.
A friend pointed me at altavista's chat client, which handles ICQ, AIM, MSN, and Yahoo, but I haven't followed up on that to see if he's for real...
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
almost everything from DOS 6 is available from MS for d/l for the Win95/98 systems that didn't have it... they mostly work too. but i'm just nitpicking =)
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Now I'll have to look up your Dagon reference, because I was almost positive Dagon was something Lovecraft made up when he was bored. Hm...
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Isn't M$ on the XML committee and also on any committee that's doing anything that remotely pertains to XML? They may not have 'invented' it, but they're definitely involved with shaping it.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
We've had dozens of chances to fight. All the majority of us have done is post to slashdot and use that stupid house.gov/writerep form to email our representatives (which we all know does jack compared to writing a handwritten letter, but one time Menendez sent me a form letter...).
What makes you think the next ten years will be any different? People don't care about what you and I care about! What will happen in the next ten years that will make them care enough to want to fight?
"We will not allow you access to this site because only drug abusers would want to look at this site. Are you a drug abuser? Do you symphatize with people who abuse drugs?" That's really all it would take, right? Tell me what's going to change in the next ten years that will make us fight.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
It's time for another one of those slashdot interviews! "Ask the people who are suing us whatever you want!"
Slightly morbid, but maybe we can get them to drop the lawsuit on their own?
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
thank you
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
they have this thing called the mks toolkit... and while it isn't a unix filesystem, they do add lots and lots of unix commands and tools so you can run shell scripts, emacs, and stuff on nt. it should work on 2k, not sure.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
I don't suppose you can dig up any pertinant info on that subject? (ms making unix, not slashdot's search...) thanks in advance.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
one need only look at BT's patent on hyperlinks to realize that having gobs and gobs of prior art may or may not prevent patents from being granted and patent infringement suites from taking place.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
"Browse by subject author title reviewer"
I don't mean to be a pain, but can you (or the maintainer) please add publisher to that? Think about it: If Baen really is serious about releasing all their books online for free, and other publishers aren't, doesn't it make sense for us to check out Baen books and buy them if we think it's worth it?
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Can anyone list any books that they recommend that are published by Baen? I'd be interested in supporting this if someone can whip up my interest... I'm into sci-fi, but I'll do fantasy or mystery if I'm inclined...
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057