As many have already pointed out, your statement is incorrect. The 24.0.0.0/8 (Class A) network has been "reserved" by for cable networks. So if you're a cable ISP and you request address space from ARIN or whomever controls address space for your country (and if they actually give it to you -- another story entirely) it is very likely that it will be within the 24.0.0.0/8 netblock, but it doesn't *have* to be.
We used to do this with 12/24 beer boxes back in college. We had the whole wall and ceiling covered at one point. Who says you don't do anything useful in college?
This brings up an issue that has been bugging me for some time.
Why the hell do we still have the electoral college?
100 years ago, or even 50, it was needed for the simple fact that it was too difficult to poll all Americans, but in this day and age with computers, the Internet, and mass communication, there really is no need for it. It is possible to actually poll every American of voting age (via phone, Internet, snail mail, any other electronic communication from the booths, etc), and tally those votes (most likely using lots of computing power). Sure the infrastructure is not there at the moment, but it could be set up by the next presidential elections using today's technologies.
Let every American have his/her say and have it count, instead of having some group try to interpret what your region wants.
Hear Hear. Just his stance on large organized religion* gets my vote. Not to mention the fact that you know he would get things done, instead of sitting on his thumbs like most politicians.
-B
* In an interview he once stated that large organized religions are a crutch for people who cannot think for themselves.
IANAL but 'IANAL' is a pretty lame acronym anyway. I mean, come on, it has the word 'anal' in it for crying out loud. (Although I guess it is appropriate when talking about lawyers)
One day, I was out to dinner with a friend of mine, who happens to be a business acquaintance of Dvorack. All of a sudden, my friend's mobile phone rings, caller id reporting "DVORAK". He ignored it and let it ring to voicemail.
Changing the time_t (or equivalent) data type to 64 bit will also solve the 2038 problem rather nicely. Sure you can solve it with 32 bit processors today, but it would be much more elegant on a 64 bit system.
Actually, I'm pretty sure what he was referring to was the fact that his vice presidency was fairly instrumental in raising/allocating money for the creation of Internet2, which is supposed to use next generation Internet technology.
Suppose My coffee maker wants to know the time, and its sitting on a network in my Home Of The Future® It can query the local e-speak server server (e-speak core???) for a service with the appropriate properties (must have TimeZone=>GMT, must have Precision=>microsecond, must have Name=>Time, etc), and then follow it up with a call to the *right* server's services. shazam.
What you describe has already existed for some time now. It is called CORBA.
I agree, it did appear to have a really good soundtrack, so I went out and bought the cd. Now I'm contemplating returning it. For all the bands that I like on the album, there is maybe one good song on the entire disk. Don't even get me started on the new Guns N Roses song.
Wait, are they trying to stop the protest, even the legal parts of it
They're not trying to stop the protests, they are trying to stop the protesters from stopping the WTO conference. Remember that the conference has as much a right to be there as the protesters do.
Yes, the police have acted excessively at times, but wouldn't you if you had been on duty for 24 hours and had not eaten in 12 and had to put up with a high-stress situation like that? The national guard is here to back up the police officers and give them a rest, nothing more. In my opinion, the police have done a pretty good job overall, with the exception of chasing rioters/looters through residential areas last night not near downtown. Most protesters did get to say what they wanted.
The use of pepper spray creates a smoke-like fog that resembles tear gas, but police said they did not use tear gas. They also denied reports they used rubber bullets.
And yes, that picture shows a cop holding a paintball gun. Who would you rather believe; CNN, or Fox News? I know who I would choose.
My take: FreeBSD users will have to bombard manufacturers with requests for native ports to overcome the negative effects of emulation.
It isn't emulation at all. It is binary compatibility. With the linux libs installed (and it is very easy to do with ports), FreeBSD should be able to run both FreeBSD and Linux binaries natively. It isn't perfect, but it does get rid of a lot of the negative aspects of emulation.
I'm not sure dpkg is really an advantage over FreeBSD's packaging/ports systems. Both seem to be very powerful and do much of the same thing. It is definitely a heated battle over which is better, but for most purposes, they achieve the same goals.
As far as maintainers, have you looked into FreeBSD? There are quite a few people actively maintaining/producing code, so again, this may not be something Debian has over FreeBSD.
Recall that the BSD folks are using less and less GNU utilities over the years. It looks like Debian GNU/BSD would have its work cut out for them if they wanted to keep the GNU there.
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your old (expired) address might still work, if you configure it manually (no DHCP).
:)
That's a nice way to generate an IP conflict. Fun fun.
-B
Actually, @Home owns the *entire* 24 network.
As many have already pointed out, your statement is incorrect. The 24.0.0.0/8 (Class A) network has been "reserved" by for cable networks. So if you're a cable ISP and you request address space from ARIN or whomever controls address space for your country (and if they actually give it to you -- another story entirely) it is very likely that it will be within the 24.0.0.0/8 netblock, but it doesn't *have* to be.
-B
One was a cheap rental town house, and the other in a neighborhood with $150,000 houses.
I don't know about you but where I live (Seattle), $150,000 houses are usually called garages.
-B
We used to do this with 12/24 beer boxes back in college. We had the whole wall and ceiling covered at one point. Who says you don't do anything useful in college?
-B
Oh I completely agree, I was just answering your question :)
-B
or alternatively:
/dev/null
spam:
Right, so taking your comment to the extreme, why aren't we seeing linux machines with an uptime of something like 10-20 years?
Because Linux hasn't existed for 10-20 years.
-B
This brings up an issue that has been bugging me for some time.
Why the hell do we still have the electoral college?
100 years ago, or even 50, it was needed for the simple fact that it was too difficult to poll all Americans, but in this day and age with computers, the Internet, and mass communication, there really is no need for it. It is possible to actually poll every American of voting age (via phone, Internet, snail mail, any other electronic communication from the booths, etc), and tally those votes (most likely using lots of computing power). Sure the infrastructure is not there at the moment, but it could be set up by the next presidential elections using today's technologies.
Let every American have his/her say and have it count, instead of having some group try to interpret what your region wants.
-B
Hear Hear. Just his stance on large organized religion* gets my vote. Not to mention the fact that you know he would get things done, instead of sitting on his thumbs like most politicians.
-B
* In an interview he once stated that large organized religions are a crutch for people who cannot think for themselves.
IANAL but 'IANAL' is a pretty lame acronym anyway. I mean, come on, it has the word 'anal' in it for crying out loud. (Although I guess it is appropriate when talking about lawyers)
-B
P.S. IANAL
Offtopic, but funny story;
One day, I was out to dinner with a friend of mine, who happens to be a business acquaintance of Dvorack. All of a sudden, my friend's mobile phone rings, caller id reporting "DVORAK". He ignored it and let it ring to voicemail.
-B
Changing the time_t (or equivalent) data type to 64 bit will also solve the 2038 problem rather nicely. Sure you can solve it with 32 bit processors today, but it would be much more elegant on a 64 bit system.
-BThis would require quite the creative contract on MTV's part, so that none of the "participants" would sue afterwards.
Granted, the type of people who actaully want to be on MTV would probably sign anything.
-BActually, I'm pretty sure what he was referring to was the fact that his vice presidency was fairly instrumental in raising/allocating money for the creation of Internet2, which is supposed to use next generation Internet technology.
-BThe above had a score of "Score 3: Flamebait". How cool is that?
-B
What you describe has already existed for some time now. It is called CORBA.
-BFYI, No ticket is an Indiana Jones reference.
-BI agree, it did appear to have a really good soundtrack, so I went out and bought the cd. Now I'm contemplating returning it. For all the bands that I like on the album, there is maybe one good song on the entire disk. Don't even get me started on the new Guns N Roses song.
-BSorry, couldn't resist.
-BThey're not trying to stop the protests, they are trying to stop the protesters from stopping the WTO conference. Remember that the conference has as much a right to be there as the protesters do.
Yes, the police have acted excessively at times, but wouldn't you if you had been on duty for 24 hours and had not eaten in 12 and had to put up with a high-stress situation like that? The national guard is here to back up the police officers and give them a rest, nothing more. In my opinion, the police have done a pretty good job overall, with the exception of chasing rioters/looters through residential areas last night not near downtown. Most protesters did get to say what they wanted.
-B in SeattleFrom http://www.cnn.com/US/9911/30/wto.03/:
The use of pepper spray creates a smoke-like fog that resembles tear gas, but police said they did not use tear gas. They also denied reports they used rubber bullets.
And yes, that picture shows a cop holding a paintball gun. Who would you rather believe; CNN, or Fox News? I know who I would choose.
-B in SeattleIt isn't emulation at all. It is binary compatibility. With the linux libs installed (and it is very easy to do with ports), FreeBSD should be able to run both FreeBSD and Linux binaries natively. It isn't perfect, but it does get rid of a lot of the negative aspects of emulation.
-BExcept port them to the BSD kernel API and the BSD libc API where needed. This is by no means a trivial task.
-BI'm not sure dpkg is really an advantage over FreeBSD's packaging/ports systems. Both seem to be very powerful and do much of the same thing. It is definitely a heated battle over which is better, but for most purposes, they achieve the same goals.
As far as maintainers, have you looked into FreeBSD? There are quite a few people actively maintaining/producing code, so again, this may not be something Debian has over FreeBSD.
-BRecall that the BSD folks are using less and less GNU utilities over the years. It looks like Debian GNU/BSD would have its work cut out for them if they wanted to keep the GNU there.
-B