The reason why Apache is better is because its tried-and-proven software. M$ might be pumping out higher-quality software if they spent more time listening to their slaves^H^H^H^H^H^Husers and less time putting their feet in their mouths by saying stuff like "Apache is better."
Ballmer said it himself, "we do not offer our servers enough features to justify the price." Apache has got to have the best bang:buck ratio around just by virtue of its being free software.
IIS will never have the feature set of Apache, because NT is braindead. UNIX and its (Free|Net)BSD/Linux cousins give you integration with Perl, Python, C, shellscript, etc -- the languages you already know. Try learning ASP in a few days to make a dynamic website. Good luck, you'll probably need to run to amazon.com and order a few $90 phonebook-size tech books from the Microsoft Press.
The box reads something like "...Current FCC line voltage regulations limit transmissions to 53Kbps." They say the current regulations make it that way, but by saying "current" they make it sound as if the FCC will change the regulations to accommodate 56K users. Frankly I doubt if they'd change the regulations just so modem users can get an extra measly 375 bytes/sec......
I've always wondered, what is the voltage limit for, anyway? Will increasing line voltage for 56K modems fry peoples phones?
USR has slimy sales practices in general and their hardware (except for the Palm Computing series) is not all that great either. 3Com modems/NICs are fine for consumption by the general masses but for anyone who wants to do the slightest thing nonstandard with them, they're out of luck.
At home I have a 3Com VSP cable modem (internal ISA card) which is basically the cable equivalent of a Winmodem (and seeing as how Paul Allen owns my cable company, Charter Communications it almost makes sense why). Tried every hardware hack possible to make it work, but it doesn't. My Cable Co. hopefully will have an external multiplatform modem soon, or so they tell me, but until now I'm stuck with using it the way 3Com makes me.
At work I was working on a 2x450 PII Linux machine last week with a 3Com NIC which refuses to cooperate with our network. Did a clean install of Linux, nothing nonstandard or weird in the hardware or software. I'm sure the thing works flawlessly under WinNT but under Linux it occasionally stops talking to our Sun NIS and NFS servers and is just really flaky in general.
I can't knock the Palm series though - love my Palm III....
Thanks to the public knee-jerk reactions to Littleton we can expect more of this net.censorship. The internet isn't just a pipeline for porno and bomb-making instructions. If it was then there'd be pictures of naked ladies building bombs all over/. - give me a break...
The reason why the EFF et al. were so succesful in defeating the CDA was because it was a grassroots effort to protect free speech. The problem was though was that it only happened when that free speech was already threatened.
We need to send the message to Washington now about the way we stand. We need to tell them about the true merits of the Internet that outweigh the 1% or so that consists of Anarchists' Cookbook and porno. Don't wait until some bill has been already passed, let's raise hell right now. If we don't tell them the truth, they'll get their ideas from the media.
Your passwd file.. No I dont see any use for MS to get that, but.. How about a list of all the Apps you run, Marketing would love that.. The Serial numbers of all your MS software, or any other SPA protected code on your machine... Yepp, I see Legal slavering over that.. How about the top 10 websites you visit, mmmm good for market research and popup ads targetted at you via your GUID cookie.
Remember that Linux has no GUID cookie. Linux has no Pentium III ID-cracking CraptiveX malicious applets.
Don't want M$ to know what's on your Linux box? Cut off file permissions to all that's necessary. The reason why all the BackOrifice and M$ GUID/spy software works is because under Windows everything always runs as the Linux equivalent of "root" with 777 permissions on everything. Cut off its access to the files, and you're OK. Run Internet Explorer under a restricted user or even run it all under a chroot'ed environment if you're that paranoid about your files....
(Sorry if I accidentally posted part of this message earlier, I hit "enter" too soon)
Thanks to the new "Digital Millennium Copyright Act," (ISP owners everywhere have Clinton to thank for this) ISPs can be held responsible for their users' copyright violations. The ISP becomes responsible only after the copyright owner has notified the ISP of the violations and given them a period of time to deal with it.
There are ways to avoid this though, George Lucas told ISPs that bootleg Star Wars MPEGs are illegal before the movie even came out, so now if anyone distributes Star Wars the ISPs can be held responsible since they've already been notified.
Someone else brought up the point a month or so ago Even if Windows or something like it is released open source (yeah right) there is no way people can try to wade through 30 million+ lines of code that would take 7 hours to compile on a top-end machine.
Why do we want to have millions of lines of probably badly commented code for an even worse operating system? The idea of open source is so you can borrow portions of code, and I think we can all agree there's nothing in Windows we want to borrow.
I'm a high school senior (at least for 3 more days anyway, then I'm a CS student in college) and I've been using Linux for about a year. I initally started using it to learn Unix for my job (at an all-Unix university research lab) and now I'm one of the resident Linux gurus where I work.
Hopefully this summer I'll actually get around to writing some GNU software of my own rather than just mooching off the work of others (i.e. Linus).
OTOH, I have a large stack of O'Reilly books on my bookshelf, I carry a Palm III, among other things, so I guess that makes me not a very normal high-school student. Luckily I go/went to a private high school so I managed to avoid the obligatory public-school ridicule of those who are different... but I digress.
Anyway, getting back to my point: Many of my friends though, who have tried Linux, really liked it but they couldn't do it at home for whatever reason (no disk space, incompatible video card, etc). Another friend of mine did try it, but went back to windows after learning the hard way what rm -rf * does.
Linux is more popular among hobbyists than you may think. It's definitely popular among people who like to dig deep into their systems and see what intricacies M$ and Apple are trying to hide from you. The students using Linux now are the ones who 10 years ago got yelled at by their parents for taking apart all the electronics around the house.
Well, my brain must not go too far w/o a stack overflow since sometimes I go to the grocery store and in the process of driving there I forget what I came for. I sometimes forget what food I want to order at a restaurant because I concentrate too much on talking with people at my table before the waiter comes to take my order.
The one problem for Lucas is that for us it has to measure up to the 16 years' worth of hype that people like us have surrounded the movie with. The movie could (and definitely will be) an excellent movie, regardless of the glitches that these reviewers seemed to point out.
But I'm sure though that there will be plenty of people who come out of TPM thinking "Man, The Matrix rocked, but TPM sucked!" simply because the hype:quality ratio was a little bit more balanced out. You weren't waiting since 1983 for The Matrix, were you?
My Pipeline service from Charter Communications in St. Louis MO is with this stupid VSP cablemodem... I've been stuck using Windows just because it's the only way I can get online.
Cable co. doesn't have external ethernet-based modems and won't have any until at least June 2000 when they upgrade to 2-way cable... 3Com better come through with a Linux driver or else I'll be first in line for ADSL when it comes to my neighborhood in a few months.
There were 2 models of the VSP -- there's the plain-vanilla VSP and the VSP+ for people who have run out of ISA ports and need to sacrifice their modem to install the cable adapter.
The VSP uses your normal analog modem you already have (since it needs the modem for the uplink and cable TV line for downlink); the VSP+ has a builtin winmodem which it uses for the uplink.
Of course.... seeing as how he wrote the TCP/IP protocol and built routers out of his garage, they've got the IT king of the world on staff at the white house, doing absolutely nothing.
On the other hand, maybe Cisco et al. are all secretly run by Al Gore....
Then we have the cable modem, which is ultra-fast but the lines are so overloaded your machine has to wait in line to receive. For the most part, half-life on my cable hookup downright sucks, since the latency on the hookup is so high.
Then their backbone provider isn't that hot, either - I live in St. Louis, and tracerouting to a computer a few blocks away shows that stuff gets routed out to Kansas City, Chicago, and then back into St. Louis again, just to travel the distance equivalent of a 10-minute walk.
From what I read about the cable modem my cable co. uses, it can support up to 35Mbps, and that entire pipe fits through one unused 6MHz wide TV channel. I'm pretty sure they can open up multiple data channels in the system, too.
My cable co. has probably 10 or 15 unused channels on its lineup, so they could probably crank out way more than a single OC-3, if need be. On the other hand, they don't have a snowball's chance in hell of being able to have a backbone connection big enough to support that kind of bandwidth.
I used to do that, until it took me so long to find something I wanted that I broke down and paid the $45 a month for cable.... can't beat 10Mbps piped right into your living room.
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According to the photos it looks like yes, they are just removing leech neurons.
As far as connecting the leeches go, though, how about a leech Beowulf cluster?
The reason why Apache is better is because its tried-and-proven software. M$ might be pumping out higher-quality software if they spent more time listening to their slaves^H^H^H^H^H^Husers and less time putting their feet in their mouths by saying stuff like "Apache is better."
Ballmer said it himself, "we do not offer our servers enough features to justify the price." Apache has got to have the best bang:buck ratio around just by virtue of its being free software.
IIS will never have the feature set of Apache, because NT is braindead. UNIX and its (Free|Net)BSD/Linux cousins give you integration with Perl, Python, C, shellscript, etc -- the languages you already know. Try learning ASP in a few days to make a dynamic website. Good luck, you'll probably need to run to amazon.com and order a few $90 phonebook-size tech books from the Microsoft Press.
The box reads something like "...Current FCC line voltage regulations limit transmissions to 53Kbps." They say the current regulations make it that way, but by saying "current" they make it sound as if the FCC will change the regulations to accommodate 56K users. Frankly I doubt if they'd change the regulations just so modem users can get an extra measly 375 bytes/sec......
I've always wondered, what is the voltage limit for, anyway? Will increasing line voltage for 56K modems fry peoples phones?
USR has slimy sales practices in general and their hardware (except for the Palm Computing series) is not all that great either. 3Com modems/NICs are fine for consumption by the general masses but for anyone who wants to do the slightest thing nonstandard with them, they're out of luck.
At home I have a 3Com VSP cable modem (internal ISA card) which is basically the cable equivalent of a Winmodem (and seeing as how Paul Allen owns my cable company, Charter Communications it almost makes sense why). Tried every hardware hack possible to make it work, but it doesn't. My Cable Co. hopefully will have an external multiplatform modem soon, or so they tell me, but until now I'm stuck with using it the way 3Com makes me.
At work I was working on a 2x450 PII Linux machine last week with a 3Com NIC which refuses to cooperate with our network. Did a clean install of Linux, nothing nonstandard or weird in the hardware or software. I'm sure the thing works flawlessly under WinNT but under Linux it occasionally stops talking to our Sun NIS and NFS servers and is just really flaky in general.
I can't knock the Palm series though - love my Palm III....
Thanks to the public knee-jerk reactions to Littleton we can expect more of this net.censorship. The internet isn't just a pipeline for porno and bomb-making instructions. If it was then there'd be pictures of naked ladies building bombs all over /. - give me a break...
The reason why the EFF et al. were so succesful in defeating the CDA was because it was a grassroots effort to protect free speech. The problem was though was that it only happened when that free speech was already threatened.
We need to send the message to Washington now about the way we stand. We need to tell them about the true merits of the Internet that outweigh the 1% or so that consists of Anarchists' Cookbook and porno. Don't wait until some bill has been already passed, let's raise hell right now. If we don't tell them the truth, they'll get their ideas from the media.
Your passwd file.. No I dont see any use for MS to get that, but..
How about a list of all the Apps you run, Marketing would love that..
The Serial numbers of all your MS software, or any other SPA protected code on your machine... Yepp, I see Legal slavering over that..
How about the top 10 websites you visit, mmmm good for market research and popup ads targetted at you via your GUID cookie.
Remember that Linux has no GUID cookie. Linux has no Pentium III ID-cracking CraptiveX malicious applets.
Don't want M$ to know what's on your Linux box? Cut off file permissions to all that's necessary. The reason why all the BackOrifice and M$ GUID/spy software works is because under Windows everything always runs as the Linux equivalent of "root" with 777 permissions on everything. Cut off its access to the files, and you're OK. Run Internet Explorer under a restricted user or even run it all under a chroot'ed environment if you're that paranoid about your files....
How about a beowulf cluster of these?
(Sorry if I accidentally posted part of this message earlier, I hit "enter" too soon)
Thanks to the new "Digital Millennium Copyright Act," (ISP owners everywhere have Clinton to thank for this) ISPs can be held responsible for their users' copyright violations. The ISP becomes responsible only after the copyright owner has notified the ISP of the violations and given them a period of time to deal with it.
There are ways to avoid this though, George Lucas told ISPs that bootleg Star Wars MPEGs are illegal before the movie even came out, so now if anyone distributes Star Wars the ISPs can be held responsible since they've already been notified.
Someone else brought up the point a month or so ago Even if Windows or something like it is released open source (yeah right) there is no way people can try to wade through 30 million+ lines of code that would take 7 hours to compile on a top-end machine.
Why do we want to have millions of lines of probably badly commented code for an even worse operating system? The idea of open source is so you can borrow portions of code, and I think we can all agree there's nothing in Windows we want to borrow.
Where I work the NT boxes BSOD and reboot themselves 3-4 times a day, at a DEAD IDLE.
/. effect?
I set up a Linux web server for someone last February and it's been running continuously for the past 3.5 months w/o a hiccup.
Sure NT might serve more hits, but think of how many hits you drop while NT reboots after a heavy dose of the
Note that none of these performance tests rate uptime in real-world load situations... wonder why?
I'm a high school senior (at least for 3 more days anyway, then I'm a CS student in college) and I've been using Linux for about a year. I initally started using it to learn Unix for my job (at an all-Unix university research lab) and now I'm one of the resident Linux gurus where I work.
Hopefully this summer I'll actually get around to writing some GNU software of my own rather than just mooching off the work of others (i.e. Linus).
OTOH, I have a large stack of O'Reilly books on my bookshelf, I carry a Palm III, among other things, so I guess that makes me not a very normal high-school student. Luckily I go/went to a private high school so I managed to avoid the obligatory public-school ridicule of those who are different... but I digress.
Anyway, getting back to my point: Many of my friends though, who have tried Linux, really liked it but they couldn't do it at home for whatever reason (no disk space, incompatible video card, etc). Another friend of mine did try it, but went back to windows after learning the hard way what rm -rf * does.
Linux is more popular among hobbyists than you may think. It's definitely popular among people who like to dig deep into their systems and see what intricacies M$ and Apple are trying to hide from you. The students using Linux now are the ones who 10 years ago got yelled at by their parents for taking apart all the electronics around the house.
Or (let me play devil's advocate here) Linux advocacy? I tried Linux and now I can't stop using it, and I'm getting all my friends to try?
It *is* a virus!
Well, my brain must not go too far w/o a stack overflow since sometimes I go to the grocery store and in the process of driving there I forget what I came for. I sometimes forget what food I want to order at a restaurant because I concentrate too much on talking with people at my table before the waiter comes to take my order.
So does this mean we're in for a new line of cheap SGI Intel Visual Workstations now that they're not subject to the M$ tax for NT Workstation?
The one problem for Lucas is that for us it has to measure up to the 16 years' worth of hype that people like us have surrounded the movie with. The movie could (and definitely will be) an excellent movie, regardless of the glitches that these reviewers seemed to point out.
But I'm sure though that there will be plenty of people who come out of TPM thinking "Man, The Matrix rocked, but TPM sucked!" simply because the hype:quality ratio was a little bit more balanced out. You weren't waiting since 1983 for The Matrix, were you?
Cable co. doesn't have external ethernet-based modems and won't have any until at least June 2000 when they upgrade to 2-way cable... 3Com better come through with a Linux driver or else I'll be first in line for ADSL when it comes to my neighborhood in a few months.
There were 2 models of the VSP -- there's the plain-vanilla VSP and the VSP+ for people who have run out of ISA ports and need to sacrifice their modem to install the cable adapter.
The VSP uses your normal analog modem you already have (since it needs the modem for the uplink and cable TV line for downlink); the VSP+ has a builtin winmodem which it uses for the uplink.
Did anyone else notice the strange similarity between the high-power energy gun used in The Matrix and the gluon/Egon gun seen in Half-Life?
Of course.... seeing as how he wrote the TCP/IP protocol and built routers out of his garage, they've got the IT king of the world on staff at the white house, doing absolutely nothing.
On the other hand, maybe Cisco et al. are all secretly run by Al Gore....
Because we have WINE.... it's not as good but hey, can't beat the price.
Then their backbone provider isn't that hot, either - I live in St. Louis, and tracerouting to a computer a few blocks away shows that stuff gets routed out to Kansas City, Chicago, and then back into St. Louis again, just to travel the distance equivalent of a 10-minute walk.
10GB/sec? Wow... where do I sign?!
Now it takes MORE than a week for the mail to go across the country!
My cable co. has probably 10 or 15 unused channels on its lineup, so they could probably crank out way more than a single OC-3, if need be. On the other hand, they don't have a snowball's chance in hell of being able to have a backbone connection big enough to support that kind of bandwidth.
I used to do that, until it took me so long to find something I wanted that I broke down and paid the $45 a month for cable.... can't beat 10Mbps piped right into your living room.