I'm not anonymous, I'm not new, and I've got lots of FreeBSD boxes that aren't bothering me today which leaves me plenty of time to wrench on the girlfriend's (choke, puke) Wintendo XP system. It must be love because I'd rather roast my own eyeballs shish kebab than work on that crap on a daily basis...
I am quick to judge - here I see a shallow, poorly considered response.
Our republic is disintegrating physically, spiritually, and morally - Melissa is just a symptom of it.
I wouldn't live in Iran but I have to agree with some of their views. They call the U.S. The Great Satan and I think this is correct - they're using Satan in the sense of the Koran - the trivializer, that with no spiritual value, rather than the mighty enemy of God that Christians associate with the word.
The United States is a materialistic, spiritual vacuum, and things like MellisaLincoln.com are just one symptom.
We're focused on youth and beauty but we're an aging country and obesity is one of our biggest health problems. We have everything we want and very little of what we need.
If you take the time to look through those pictures of naked women on the internet you'll find that very few of them have genuine smiles and almost none of them are doing things a real woman would do - I see empty, drugged eyes, and poses and clothing that speak of the fantasy of easy availability and no consequences.
I doubt if anyone would pay for nude photos of the woman I'm dating now, but she is the warmest, sweetest person I've ever known, and I've never seen any photo of someone else's idea of what physical intimacy should be that comes close to the feeling of being near to her.
Several years ago my doctor told me and I quote "no drinking, no smoking, no citrus, no caffeine, no chocolate, and no eating after 7:00 PM". Or I could learn to put up with internal bleeding - the choice wasn't difficult.
It took about three days for the headaches to pass and this is normal caffeine withdrawl. This was six or seven years ago and I find that I don't really miss it - I periodically celebrate with a Turkish coffee at a local Persian resturant - a one time special treat doesn't reactivate the physical need and its kind of fun to experience the caffeine affect without having it being a way of existence.
FYI sooner or later *all* men have prostate trouble - stop having caffeine and you'll be one of the last in your peer group...
OK, with a superficial examination we see a woman who is relatively young, physically in pretty good shape, and she is pretty enough, in what looks to me to be a rather vacant sort of way.
You have to ask how this girl ended up nude on the internet in the first place? This isn't a handful of photos taken to please her boyfriend, its production sleaze. I am guessing that in addition to the three traditional orifices she'll end up dispensing nasal sex as soon as she completes reaming her sinuses out with methamphetamine. Would anyone like to make a bet on this chick being a sexual abuse survivor as well?
So, she is nice to look at today, but that'll fade quicker than you can say 'drugs made with household cleaner and other junk' three times, and you'll be left with a miserable wreck of a human being with emotional scars that will *never* heal.
Long term prognosis? Dead before age forty and it won't be glamorous.
That was stupid, inflamatory, and irrelevant to anyone who knows anything about what is really going on with the various BSD derivatives the first time you said it. Are you a genuine troll, a troll larva, or a very clever shell script created by some Linux fanboy? I'm guessing shell script...
There is a portion of Cryptonomicom by Neal Stephenson where a real book of coded intercepts is replaced by random number strings encrypted with a fairly simple scheme.
Does anyone know if this book is a seed for Stephenson's story? He draws an awful lot of information from the history of computing for his stories.
I run two IBM T20s - on is my main machine, the other is backup and it runs the OS of the month. I keep FBSD 4.9 on most everything including my primary laptop, but last week I loaded 5.2RC to check its progress.
I was mostly interested in improved USB support and I'm pretty pleased with the behavior so far. I've found some things to not love about ACPI but that may be my lack of clue rather than a problem with the OS.
I pronounced 5.2RC almost cooked enough for daily use. I'm going to wrench on the backup lappie for a few more weeks and if it does nothing worse than ACPI neutering the power switch I'll probably swap drives and make it my main machine.
Re:News just in: 25,000 niggers die in Iran!
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Uhh, nigger is typically applied to afro-americans. You might be thinking of arabs, which have dark skin and are frequently refered to as 'dune coons'.
The people of Iran are more closely related to central europeans than either the afro-americans or arabs, and many of them in the north could easily pass for German.
Luckily trolls are not an ethnic group that will survive - none of you have a snowball's chance in hell of getting laid.
:-) However, the trolls are going to be disappointed on this one - I pulled 5.2RC last night, burned the disk, and popped it into my spare IBM T20. Wonder of wonders, the PCMCIA slots in the T20 actually *work* under 5.2, something that none of the 4.X series has been able to get right.
All in all 5.2 seems a very lively corpse. Maybe the trolls are just the shallow end of the Linux Fanboy gene pool?
BSD is starting to speciate like Linux - instead of distros we see forks at a more fundamental level - first the Free/Open/NetBSD versions, and now we see a FreeBSD fork in DragonflyBSD and I see this new ekkoBSD, but I don't know why of the big three is its parent.
It is a good time to be a FreeBSD admin - gives me lots of free time via its stability, so I am working on a customized Knoppix that will allow me to whack a couple of hundred M$ desktops in 2004:-)
There are so many aspects to SafariShane's posting I'm at a loss as to where to begin, so I'm just going to grab a piece and start pulling.
I've been 'a security risk' so many times now that I'm considering having it put on my personal business cards. I know how things fit together and that system knowledge absolutely *terrifies* people who have their position based on political skills. This is the root of many of the 'wrongful discharge' posts - I suppose most of them are ethically wrong, but don't imagine that the world is going to change for you; in my eighteen years in the business it has become more sleazy, not less.
The best revenge is getting a better job next week. The second best revenge is an employment attorney - if they jacked you around on vacation, sick pay, the cause for your firing, etc get yourself a bloodsucker and attach aforementioned parasite to their bottom line. I've hired an employment attorney twice in the last nine years and I should have done it more than that - if your boss is an underperformer and you know this to be the case its the number one way for him/her to 'achieve visibility' at a higher level.
I don't think an underperforming boss is the case here. Get with some acceptance of your fate. Everyone and their incontinent cocker spaniel mix is a security expert post 9/11/01 and they're all bending the ears of any clueless suit with purchasing power that falls into their clutches. Ever hear of HIPPA? This little beastie fills the same ecological niche that Windows 3.0 did in the early 90s - it is full employment for anyone who can fog a mirror while breathing those letters.
What sort of ADP audit did this financial institution have to have on an annual basis? The poster might have been doing a wonderful job on port filtering but missing *dozens* of nonsystem related security issues - there are a great many things in the CISSP certification that *aren't* common sense to a guy with a screwdriver and a packet filter.
As you move on in life you'll find more and more sleazy stuff like this - I've seen all of the following in the last ten years:
Meth head PC tech employees setting up skilled contractors to be fired for equipment theft. Happened half a dozen times, crapping on the careers of half a dozen decent network admins before they finally figured it out. No, I didn't get an apology letter later.
Vendors without a lick of sense selling stuff that doesn't exist to suits with even less sense after labeling me incapable, then aforementioned suits getting on my ass for being unable to work on nonexistent solution they bought. This one has a happy ending - employment attorney put the fear o' god in 'em back when, and I now regularly abuse that vendor for being flighty and incompetent and it works. They'd like to kiss and make up but I tend to hold grudges.
Drunk help desk chickie sleeps with old director of network support department. Drunk help desk chickie doesn't like me. Out the door I go after Director Dicklips contacts my boss and puts the pressure on him. This particular meat grinder ate up four different WAN engineers in twenty one months and this was before the internet boom and not in Silicon Valley nor anywhere close to places where employment churn was so high.
There is just a snippet of cold comfort in all of this. Companies that breed for less threatening(to suits) employees on the inside are often much more focused on internal politics than servicing their customers. After a few rounds of 'selective breeding' they have cubicles full of the people who don't do anything without asking permission... twice... and you know how that story ends.
Go to a startup and take your paycheck directly via running a bloody trench right up the middle of their market share - hard to do with a financial institution, but you get the idea - I've started doing this in lieu of the employment attorney and its *much* more painful to the previous employer:-):-):-)
I obviously developed better techniques for laying waste to brain cells than you:-)
I did recall her name not long after writing the story, but given the venue in which it originally appeared (hint:not slashdot ) I think its just fine with a nameless girl...
One of my customers is the third largest Ford dealership in the U.S. and the two that are bigger are in Dearborn and cater to Ford employees.
This dealership has five FreeBSD boxes doing a variety of things, one Redhat box which snuck by me because of the better java support, and one lonely, fearful Open Server system that runs a single application provided by an outside vendor. I'm not allowed to dismantle that one, but I'm certain the vendor has strategic plans to move to some Linux distribution once SCO's stock collapses and they lose all their employees.
I showed the in house admin OpenOffice.org a while back; M$ will be getting no more Office extortion dollars from those guys:-)
We're going to roll out Knoppix to a couple of hundred desktops in 2004. They're just desktops, and I'm kind of a wimp, so I'll make sure it'll all run on a 2.2 kernel and we'll just keep on truckin'.
Screw SCO. If you're really, really, really pissed about it, realize they got their money from M$ and start talking to anyone who will listen about OpenOffice.org - don't abuse the ground troops in a proxy war, get into their homeland and start burning crops and blowing up bridges...
After the successful initial attack on Pearl Harbor Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto uttered this famous line:
"I fear that we have awakened a sleeping giant
and filled him with a terrible resolve"
I'm sure the people at SCO who actually work on the product understand what is happening in the same fashion that Yamamoto understood the value of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Perhaps the stock price of the Imperial Japanese Navy was quite high on December 8th, 1941, but the owners of SCO stock can charter a ship and drop their worthless certificates at Midway, the Coral Sea, or somewhere in the Leyte Gulf. We all know how this one is going to end
http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Bunker/4929/im ag es/Mikuma_sink.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Bunker/4929/im ag es/Hiryu_Midway_afire.jpg
I don't think a picture of PJ has ever been published, but I'm definitely getting this visual of 60'+ tall, wreathed in smoke, with a lash of flame close at hand for when fools trespass.
Keep up the good work PJ - and where is that 'donate via paypal' button on your site?
Not interesting, stupid. The smart card reader folks were developing things demonstrably NOT related to pirating DirecTV. A pirated song is *obviously* pirated.
Everyone who moderated the parent up needs to have their head examined...
I'm amazed at the number of poor posts that get moderated up whenever there is a telecom related article.
I just scanned through the two dozen that made a +3 or better so far and I'm astonished at the number of poor assumptions about physics, economics, network operations, and life in general.
The physics was the most egregious of the bunch and I think everyone who is smart enough to navigate far enough to see this *should* understand, but I can't resist brushing some of the others.
Moore's law is just an observation - its *NOT* a law. Why is someone applying this to available circuit speeds for WAN access? WAN access lines are very expensive and thusly that ground has been throughly worked by every telco equipment vendor - copper pairs are good for a about 2 mbits at the typical distance between a home/office and a CO, the next step up is DS3 delivered on coax (low loss, damned expensive compared to copper, and fiber refits in existing areas are crazy expensive. If it was possible high value DS3s filled with 672 voice channels would be the first thing going on some new wonder technology - this isn't happening, ergo it doesn't exist.
And why are they making statements like "100 mbit stuff is cheap on ebay, just build a national network out of it". Ethernet is a *LAN* protocol - 300' limit in most cases for copper, Cisco 2950-LRE are only good for a few thousand(hint, long reach ethernet == DSL), and who would want to manage a pile of crap from ebay? The number one expense in any network operation is almost certainly payroll and a crapola network guarantees 127% of revenue will be spent unfornicating it. If you want reliable service you pay for reliable gear. Once in a while you get lucky on the cheap but no business big enough to do a neighborhood size rollout would fool around like that, let alone a big telecom organization.
It seems to me the underpinnings of many of those posts are pure emotion coupled with a sense of entitlement - J Random/. Reader has a ADSL line and got lucky with no neighbors using outflow bandwidth and an ISP that doesn't care (yet), so therefor any nonsensesical pronouncement that would lead to the whole world having a service that now costs $5,000/month being provided to them for $21.95 makes perfect sense.
Mod me brilliant, mod me troll - the opinions of the readers are foolish and the moderators deserve a timeout for promoting such crap.
You could install some sort of proxy and view every web site name they visit, but that puts you in a position of holding them responsible if a friend mails them a link to something inappropriate.
If they're all boys they're going to look at porn. Deal with it - did you raise them to respect women? Do you respect your wife? If this is the case it is mostly harmless... have the talk with them and let it be.
Do shield them from creeps on the internet. Part of my job used to be training police officers in computer forensics and I found I just don't have the stomach to hear about the stuff they're chasing. Explain what a sexual predator is to them. Even if it makes YOU squirm.
My eldest is going to be seven and he just got a web mail account but I've dated a couple of women with teenagers... you're merely the dad, remember?:-(
If you place Adtran Tracers anywhere near an 802.11b cell the effect is rather like sandblasting a soup cracker. The Tracers split the band with one end using the lower half and the other using the upper. They bridge ESF T1 frames so their utilization of spectrum is always 100% whether they're idle or not.
Broadcom is just producing either a concatenated 108 mbits by using two channels at once or they're producing a full duplex 54 mbit 802.11g connection.
The FCC will not do anything about this sort of thing. As an unlicensed band user they'd prefer that you just drop dead.
Unlicensed band may work well in unpolluted rural areas with one carrier but in metro areas it is pretty much a disaster in the ISM band and the same troubles are starting to happen in the UNI (5.8) band as well.
If your business plan depends on flawless throughput in the ISM band please send me your home address - I'll come over, kick your ass in your driveway, steal a bunch of stuff from your house, and we'll call it good - the financial effects and suffering are the same but you get it all compressed into a few short minutes of fun, instead of spending a year of your life flushing your money along with investor's dollars.
Re:I thought 5.x was the latest
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4.X, with 4.9 being the latest is the -STABLE train - use this if you want to not mess with stuff.
5.X is the new stuff. Getting quite stable, but still closer to the bleeding edge than 4.9.
Earlier this week someone suggested I move a production box from 4.9-RC to 5.1 for a certain feature's support. 5.1 is *almost* cooked enough for me to put production stuff on it.
When the 'iron horse' was making its way across the plains the communities along the way made up all sorts of laws restricting what could and could not be done with a train. The most shrill DMCA supporters are the twenty first century equivalent of buggy whip makers from the nineteenth century.
Quick! Name three buggy whip vendors! Ah... can't think of any, can you?
The GNU battering ram is going to level Microsoft, Sun, SCO, SGI, and it'll take a large bite out of Cisco, Nortel, Avaya, and the like as well.
The US will try to restrain it, the rest of the world will embrace it, and after a brief period of agonizing over brainstem companies like M$ that just don't realize they're mostly dead already, the tide will reverse. Its going to take a generation and I don't mean an internet time generation, but the outcome is inevitable.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm not anonymous, I'm not new, and I've got lots of FreeBSD boxes that aren't bothering me today which leaves me plenty of time to wrench on the girlfriend's (choke, puke) Wintendo XP system. It must be love because I'd rather roast my own eyeballs shish kebab than work on that crap on a daily basis
I am quick to judge - here I see a shallow, poorly considered response.
Our republic is disintegrating physically, spiritually, and morally - Melissa is just a symptom of it.
I wouldn't live in Iran but I have to agree with some of their views. They call the U.S. The Great Satan and I think this is correct - they're using Satan in the sense of the Koran - the trivializer, that with no spiritual value, rather than the mighty enemy of God that Christians associate with the word.
The United States is a materialistic, spiritual vacuum, and things like MellisaLincoln.com are just one symptom.
We're focused on youth and beauty but we're an aging country and obesity is one of our biggest health problems. We have everything we want and very little of what we need.
If you take the time to look through those pictures of naked women on the internet you'll find that very few of them have genuine smiles and almost none of them are doing things a real woman would do - I see empty, drugged eyes, and poses and clothing that speak of the fantasy of easy availability and no consequences.
I doubt if anyone would pay for nude photos of the woman I'm dating now, but she is the warmest, sweetest person I've ever known, and I've never seen any photo of someone else's idea of what physical intimacy should be that comes close to the feeling of being near to her.
Several years ago my doctor told me and I quote "no drinking, no smoking, no citrus, no caffeine, no chocolate, and no eating after 7:00 PM". Or I could learn to put up with internal bleeding - the choice wasn't difficult.
It took about three days for the headaches to pass and this is normal caffeine withdrawl. This was six or seven years ago and I find that I don't really miss it - I periodically celebrate with a Turkish coffee at a local Persian resturant - a one time special treat doesn't reactivate the physical need and its kind of fun to experience the caffeine affect without having it being a way of existence.
FYI sooner or later *all* men have prostate trouble - stop having caffeine and you'll be one of the last in your peer group
OK, with a superficial examination we see a woman who is relatively young, physically in pretty good shape, and she is pretty enough, in what looks to me to be a rather vacant sort of way.
You have to ask how this girl ended up nude on the internet in the first place? This isn't a handful of photos taken to please her boyfriend, its production sleaze. I am guessing that in addition to the three traditional orifices she'll end up dispensing nasal sex as soon as she completes reaming her sinuses out with methamphetamine. Would anyone like to make a bet on this chick being a sexual abuse survivor as well?
So, she is nice to look at today, but that'll fade quicker than you can say 'drugs made with household cleaner and other junk' three times, and you'll be left with a miserable wreck of a human being with emotional scars that will *never* heal.
Long term prognosis? Dead before age forty and it won't be glamorous.
That was stupid, inflamatory, and irrelevant to anyone who knows anything about what is really going on with the various BSD derivatives the first time you said it. Are you a genuine troll, a troll larva, or a very clever shell script created by some Linux fanboy? I'm guessing shell script
There is a portion of Cryptonomicom by Neal Stephenson where a real book of coded intercepts is replaced by random number strings encrypted with a fairly simple scheme.
Does anyone know if this book is a seed for Stephenson's story? He draws an awful lot of information from the history of computing for his stories.
I run two IBM T20s - on is my main machine, the other is backup and it runs the OS of the month. I keep FBSD 4.9 on most everything including my primary laptop, but last week I loaded 5.2RC to check its progress.
I was mostly interested in improved USB support and I'm pretty pleased with the behavior so far. I've found some things to not love about ACPI but that may be my lack of clue rather than a problem with the OS.
I pronounced 5.2RC almost cooked enough for daily use. I'm going to wrench on the backup lappie for a few more weeks and if it does nothing worse than ACPI neutering the power switch I'll probably swap drives and make it my main machine.
Uhh, nigger is typically applied to afro-americans. You might be thinking of arabs, which have dark skin and are frequently refered to as 'dune coons'.
The people of Iran are more closely related to central europeans than either the afro-americans or arabs, and many of them in the north could easily pass for German.
Luckily trolls are not an ethnic group that will survive - none of you have a snowball's chance in hell of getting laid.
All in all 5.2 seems a very lively corpse. Maybe the trolls are just the shallow end of the Linux Fanboy gene pool?
BSD is starting to speciate like Linux - instead of distros we see forks at a more fundamental level - first the Free/Open/NetBSD versions, and now we see a FreeBSD fork in DragonflyBSD and I see this new ekkoBSD, but I don't know why of the big three is its parent.
It is a good time to be a FreeBSD admin - gives me lots of free time via its stability, so I am working on a customized Knoppix that will allow me to whack a couple of hundred M$ desktops in 2004
There are so many aspects to SafariShane's posting I'm at a loss as to where to begin, so I'm just going to grab a piece and start pulling.
... twice ... and you know how that story ends.
:-) :-) :-)
I've been 'a security risk' so many times now that I'm considering having it put on my personal business cards. I know how things fit together and that system knowledge absolutely *terrifies* people who have their position based on political skills. This is the root of many of the 'wrongful discharge' posts - I suppose most of them are ethically wrong, but don't imagine that the world is going to change for you; in my eighteen years in the business it has become more sleazy, not less.
The best revenge is getting a better job next week. The second best revenge is an employment attorney - if they jacked you around on vacation, sick pay, the cause for your firing, etc get yourself a bloodsucker and attach aforementioned parasite to their bottom line. I've hired an employment attorney twice in the last nine years and I should have done it more than that - if your boss is an underperformer and you know this to be the case its the number one way for him/her to 'achieve visibility' at a higher level.
I don't think an underperforming boss is the case here. Get with some acceptance of your fate. Everyone and their incontinent cocker spaniel mix is a security expert post 9/11/01 and they're all bending the ears of any clueless suit with purchasing power that falls into their clutches. Ever hear of HIPPA? This little beastie fills the same ecological niche that Windows 3.0 did in the early 90s - it is full employment for anyone who can fog a mirror while breathing those letters.
What sort of ADP audit did this financial institution have to have on an annual basis? The poster might have been doing a wonderful job on port filtering but missing *dozens* of nonsystem related security issues - there are a great many things in the CISSP certification that *aren't* common sense to a guy with a screwdriver and a packet filter.
As you move on in life you'll find more and more sleazy stuff like this - I've seen all of the following in the last ten years:
Meth head PC tech employees setting up skilled contractors to be fired for equipment theft. Happened half a dozen times, crapping on the careers of half a dozen decent network admins before they finally figured it out. No, I didn't get an apology letter later.
Vendors without a lick of sense selling stuff that doesn't exist to suits with even less sense after labeling me incapable, then aforementioned suits getting on my ass for being unable to work on nonexistent solution they bought. This one has a happy ending - employment attorney put the fear o' god in 'em back when, and I now regularly abuse that vendor for being flighty and incompetent and it works. They'd like to kiss and make up but I tend to hold grudges.
Drunk help desk chickie sleeps with old director of network support department. Drunk help desk chickie doesn't like me. Out the door I go after Director Dicklips contacts my boss and puts the pressure on him. This particular meat grinder ate up four different WAN engineers in twenty one months and this was before the internet boom and not in Silicon Valley nor anywhere close to places where employment churn was so high.
There is just a snippet of cold comfort in all of this. Companies that breed for less threatening(to suits) employees on the inside are often much more focused on internal politics than servicing their customers. After a few rounds of 'selective breeding' they have cubicles full of the people who don't do anything without asking permission
Go to a startup and take your paycheck directly via running a bloody trench right up the middle of their market share - hard to do with a financial institution, but you get the idea - I've started doing this in lieu of the employment attorney and its *much* more painful to the previous employer
I obviously developed better techniques for laying waste to brain cells than you
I did recall her name not long after writing the story, but given the venue in which it originally appeared (hint:not slashdot ) I think its just fine with a nameless girl
One of my customers is the third largest Ford dealership in the U.S. and the two that are bigger are in Dearborn and cater to Ford employees.
This dealership has five FreeBSD boxes doing a variety of things, one Redhat box which snuck by me because of the better java support, and one lonely, fearful Open Server system that runs a single application provided by an outside vendor. I'm not allowed to dismantle that one, but I'm certain the vendor has strategic plans to move to some Linux distribution once SCO's stock collapses and they lose all their employees.
I showed the in house admin OpenOffice.org a while back; M$ will be getting no more Office extortion dollars from those guys
We're going to roll out Knoppix to a couple of hundred desktops in 2004. They're just desktops, and I'm kind of a wimp, so I'll make sure it'll all run on a 2.2 kernel and we'll just keep on truckin'.
Screw SCO. If you're really, really, really pissed about it, realize they got their money from M$ and start talking to anyone who will listen about OpenOffice.org - don't abuse the ground troops in a proxy war, get into their homeland and start burning crops and blowing up bridges
But send the $$$ to PJ @ Groklaw
I'm not so well off as to pay it all at once, but I've started sending *my* Linux license cost to her, bit by bit, even though I'm one of *those*
[tara] ~> uname -a
FreeBSD tara.slashdot.org 4.9-STABLE FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE #0
After the successful initial attack on Pearl Harbor Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto uttered this famous line:
"I fear that we have awakened a sleeping giant
and filled him with a terrible resolve"
I'm sure the people at SCO who actually work on the product understand what is happening in the same fashion that Yamamoto understood the value of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Perhaps the stock price of the Imperial Japanese Navy was quite high on December 8th, 1941, but the owners of SCO stock can charter a ship and drop their worthless certificates at Midway, the Coral Sea, or somewhere in the Leyte Gulf. We all know how this one is going to end
http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Bunker/4929/i
http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Bunker/4929/i
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Cockpit/
ifconfig eth0
At least it works that way on DyingBSD 4.9
"re-flashed with a new MAC?"
I'll bet your computer is infested with the start button virus, isn't it?
"Ai! Ai!" wailed Legolas, "A Balrog is come!"
s/Legolas/Darl/
I don't think a picture of PJ has ever been published, but I'm definitely getting this visual of 60'+ tall, wreathed in smoke, with a lash of flame close at hand for when fools trespass.
Keep up the good work PJ - and where is that 'donate via paypal' button on your site?
Not interesting, stupid. The smart card reader folks were developing things demonstrably NOT related to pirating DirecTV. A pirated song is *obviously* pirated.
Everyone who moderated the parent up needs to have their head examined
I'm amazed at the number of poor posts that get moderated up whenever there is a telecom related article.
/. Reader has a ADSL line and got lucky with no neighbors using outflow bandwidth and an ISP that doesn't care (yet), so therefor any nonsensesical pronouncement that would lead to the whole world having a service that now costs $5,000/month being provided to them for $21.95 makes perfect sense.
I just scanned through the two dozen that made a +3 or better so far and I'm astonished at the number of poor assumptions about physics, economics, network operations, and life in general.
The physics was the most egregious of the bunch and I think everyone who is smart enough to navigate far enough to see this *should* understand, but I can't resist brushing some of the others.
Moore's law is just an observation - its *NOT* a law. Why is someone applying this to available circuit speeds for WAN access? WAN access lines are very expensive and thusly that ground has been throughly worked by every telco equipment vendor - copper pairs are good for a about 2 mbits at the typical distance between a home/office and a CO, the next step up is DS3 delivered on coax (low loss, damned expensive compared to copper, and fiber refits in existing areas are crazy expensive. If it was possible high value DS3s filled with 672 voice channels would be the first thing going on some new wonder technology - this isn't happening, ergo it doesn't exist.
And why are they making statements like "100 mbit stuff is cheap on ebay, just build a national network out of it". Ethernet is a *LAN* protocol - 300' limit in most cases for copper, Cisco 2950-LRE are only good for a few thousand(hint, long reach ethernet == DSL), and who would want to manage a pile of crap from ebay? The number one expense in any network operation is almost certainly payroll and a crapola network guarantees 127% of revenue will be spent unfornicating it. If you want reliable service you pay for reliable gear. Once in a while you get lucky on the cheap but no business big enough to do a neighborhood size rollout would fool around like that, let alone a big telecom organization.
It seems to me the underpinnings of many of those posts are pure emotion coupled with a sense of entitlement - J Random
Mod me brilliant, mod me troll - the opinions of the readers are foolish and the moderators deserve a timeout for promoting such crap.
I don't much care if he is looking at hotjocks.com, its small animals, or god forbid a woman like his mother, which would concern me.
You could install some sort of proxy and view every web site name they visit, but that puts you in a position of holding them responsible if a friend mails them a link to something inappropriate.
If they're all boys they're going to look at porn. Deal with it - did you raise them to respect women? Do you respect your wife? If this is the case it is mostly harmless
Do shield them from creeps on the internet. Part of my job used to be training police officers in computer forensics and I found I just don't have the stomach to hear about the stuff they're chasing. Explain what a sexual predator is to them. Even if it makes YOU squirm.
My eldest is going to be seven and he just got a web mail account but I've dated a couple of women with teenagers
If you place Adtran Tracers anywhere near an 802.11b cell the effect is rather like sandblasting a soup cracker. The Tracers split the band with one end using the lower half and the other using the upper. They bridge ESF T1 frames so their utilization of spectrum is always 100% whether they're idle or not.
Broadcom is just producing either a concatenated 108 mbits by using two channels at once or they're producing a full duplex 54 mbit 802.11g connection.
The FCC will not do anything about this sort of thing. As an unlicensed band user they'd prefer that you just drop dead.
Unlicensed band may work well in unpolluted rural areas with one carrier but in metro areas it is pretty much a disaster in the ISM band and the same troubles are starting to happen in the UNI (5.8) band as well.
If your business plan depends on flawless throughput in the ISM band please send me your home address - I'll come over, kick your ass in your driveway, steal a bunch of stuff from your house, and we'll call it good - the financial effects and suffering are the same but you get it all compressed into a few short minutes of fun, instead of spending a year of your life flushing your money along with investor's dollars.
4.X, with 4.9 being the latest is the -STABLE train - use this if you want to not mess with stuff.
5.X is the new stuff. Getting quite stable, but still closer to the bleeding edge than 4.9.
Earlier this week someone suggested I move a production box from 4.9-RC to 5.1 for a certain feature's support. 5.1 is *almost* cooked enough for me to put production stuff on it.
When the 'iron horse' was making its way across the plains the communities along the way made up all sorts of laws restricting what could and could not be done with a train. The most shrill DMCA supporters are the twenty first century equivalent of buggy whip makers from the nineteenth century.
... can't think of any, can you?
Quick! Name three buggy whip vendors! Ah
The GNU battering ram is going to level Microsoft, Sun, SCO, SGI, and it'll take a large bite out of Cisco, Nortel, Avaya, and the like as well.
The US will try to restrain it, the rest of the world will embrace it, and after a brief period of agonizing over brainstem companies like M$ that just don't realize they're mostly dead already, the tide will reverse. Its going to take a generation and I don't mean an internet time generation, but the outcome is inevitable.