the place i used to work would give out $100 bills if you showed up at the winter party. it was more of a christmas present than a bribe attempt, but it still got the point across. the first time they did it, about half of the office showed up. the 2nd year, EVERYONE showed up, and had a good time. we had, 1) drink coupons for free drinks, 2) free pool, 3) free food and some other stuff, like free presents. even with the introverts, no one left early.
the point of unlimited wireless bandwidth is that a single user doesn't have unlimited bandwidth at any one point. if the user adds in a 5Mbit connection, then that user will be able to transmit or receive at 5Mbit, no matter what's around him/her. so if the "jackass" is using the full bandwidth, it's distributed over the neighbors' links, but should not use ALL the bandwidth.
a distributed network like this would easily route around network outtages, and single points of failure.
This is kind of the way the ricochet network worked. they add pole antennas all around the neighborhood that run at 19.2bps. depending on where you are, and how many antennas are around you, you can use multiples of antennas which give you a good overall bandwidth. (i think that's right, don't hold me to it).
i have a cheap ide hp cd12 model i recently purchased for around $100 from bestbuy. i also bought a spindle of 50 cheap 700mb Memorex white cdr's for $17. out of the 50, not one coastered. that's burning at 12x(~5-8min per cd).
if you have to burn at 2x or 4x, you probably are burning from a REAL slow drive. in all fairness, i am burning from a scsi drive, to an ide drive, and the cdr is the only ide device in the computer.
i think the difference is that when you post something on a website, that is intended for people to view it. the website owner has, by either direct or indirect, the ability to post that article or not. when you get e-mail spam, it's unsolicited.
how many executatives care about a specific operating system? Answer: Zero.
The executatives of just about any company is a business(wo)man. they don't care how stuff gets done, as long as it gets done as quickly, quietly, and cheaply as possible. i bet half of the executatives that said they weren't going to use linux in the next year got their mail from a linux machine, or resolve their websites with bind8 (or 9) running on linux and don't even know it. they assume it's windows because they see their technology expenditures go to microsoft and servers that run microsoft. the executative knows nothing of the back-end of what makes it (the internet/network) all work.
i bet if the survey was of the CTO (or the top technically knowledgable employee) of the top 1000 on Fortune's list, the results would be MUCH different.
Microsoft is a company in business to make money. they don't care about ethics. they DO care when they step over the ethical boundry, because it could harm their bottom line. when was the last time you invested money in a company that had a 90% market share and cares about the consumer? probably never. did microsoft leverage their huge market share to influence the FTC?? Hell yeah they did, and their shareholders are banking on them doing it again. i wonder how many of the people on the juries, judgeships, and head FTC members are microsoft share holders. you can bet the aren't going to make a decision to hurt their bottom line either. expect microsoft to do more to increase their bottom line, even if it would be called "illegal" if another company did it. will they get caught, and eventually get in trouble? probably, but they'll beat the rap. they are the "Al Capone" of this generation. they will get away with murder until someone finds a loop hole. that is the american way, and the traditional american dream.
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offtopic, but isn't bero working hard today? i've seen like 10 posts from him/her. it's great to see the support.
the reason for ext3 over resier is the ability to non-destructively upgrade an ext2 drive. with reiserfs, you have to format the drive, which means dataloss for those that can't just 'tar zcvf/dev/tape/'. i'm sure there are other reasons too, but for most people, that ability is important.
that's an easy thing to fix, just have a harddrive mirror the data. the first thing your computer does when it's turned on, is it flashes the ramdrive with what's on the hard drive. this might take a while, but laptops have been doing it for years (hibernate mode).
and besides, who turns off their computer for "*hours*"?
PalmOS has EasyCalc. i am sure there's something like it for pocketPC, but since the software is harder to write, and get a license for, good luck. maybe someone will port it.
dns shouldn't be an issue, since that is a variable that you should be able to change. most operating systems allow you to specify dns settings, even if you get your ip information by DHCP. check your documentation on your operating system to find out how.
note: you can use any DNS server. the closer ones are usually faster, but if they are unstable, change them
from what i understand, if i own the gate, the lock, and the bolt cutters i can cut that bolt to pieces without breaking any laws. are we now just licensing music? i don't agree to any licenses when i purchase music, so how can i not have fair use of a piece of non-animate hardware? what's next, an EULA for purchasing a cd?
problem there is that's an analog recording, and not digital, like mp3 or oog. you can always just setup a microphone infront of your speaker, and use sound recorder to record the individual tracks. there will never be a way to stop that from happening. using the line in/out is closer to the real thing, but it's still analog.
but then you're going to spend an extra $500-$750 on intel hardware, including CPU, motherboard, and ram. you'd save yourself money just buying a whole extra Athlon computer.
they may have written papers, but the papers are not interpreted into law. the current constitution is one of many admendments and clarifications (admendments that overwrite other admendments). this clouds everything up. basically most of the same code is there, but now it's bloated, and some of the functions have been rewritten, but the old code still remains. the comments next to the code change as society changes, but most of the code remains stable, and that's what matters.
saying that you can't complain because you didn't vote is a lame complaint. there are actually some people that just turned 18 and wouldn't have been able to vote yet. does that mean these people don't matter? hell no. a representative shouldn't care who their constituents voted for, they are there to REPRESENT their region. seems like if someone didn't vote, and then took the time to write in to their representative, when the representative writes something intelligent back, this would instill confidence in the political system, and that person would be more likely to vote (what a long runon sentence).
i propose a national voting day, where we would have the whole day off to vote.
california just ruled that "victims cannot sue weapons manufacturers for damages when criminals use their products illegally." in this case, isn't the DeCSS code the gun, the victim the MPAA, and the gun manufacturers the hosting company and the person that hosts the file? This case will definately set a precedent, if not for the freedom of speech/press, then for the inability of the courts to decide on the improper laws our legislative body makes up. laws go where the $$$ is, and i wonder how much the MPAA and RIAA had to pay to get that law enacted. and then i wonder if it has affected the bottom line for any musician or movie producer. if anything, i bet the musicians are still the ones getting screwed, as are the fools that go out and pay $25 to buy the newest DVD release.
on a side note, i just rented the movie snatch on dvd. it came on two "enhanced" dvds. well, each of these dvds were single sided. is the only reason to release a dvd as a two dvd set to make an extra buck? it seems that it would be real easy to make it double sided and not have to charge an extra arm and leg for it (retail for snatch is $27.95 although you can buy it for $20 on sale).
i used to work for an isp and we would get an e-mail a week about some windows user running winNT4.0 that would say we were trying to hack into their machine. most of these cases, the user, or someone on their network was using napster or gnutella. well, gnutella and it's clones, makes port 80 requests all the time. people would e-mail our abuse e-mail address or just call up threatening to sue us if it didn't stop (good thing we had onsite counsel). what a pain in the a-hole to have to stop what i was doing to explain to a shotty admin what port connections are and how the internet wouldn't work without them.
almost EVERYTIME, it was someone running NT4.0 and a freeware or shareware firewall program that had some sort of e-mail detection (gets a port probe, e-mails a specified address). those things are evil in the wrong hands. it should MAKE you read the documentation, and then give you a short test to see if you actually read it.
oh well, basically, dumb users are to blame, and unless you want to teach the world about tcp ports (in perfect harmony, even), you have to live with it. if the same person keeps harassing you though, press charges. that'll get them to stop.
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the place i used to work would give out $100 bills if you showed up at the winter party. it was more of a christmas present than a bribe attempt, but it still got the point across. the first time they did it, about half of the office showed up. the 2nd year, EVERYONE showed up, and had a good time. we had, 1) drink coupons for free drinks, 2) free pool, 3) free food and some other stuff, like free presents. even with the introverts, no one left early.
you sound like a barrel of fun. kind of reminds me of that creepy, quiet, silent type that always kept to himself.
If you are really thinking about sending this in an e-mail, you might want to do some spell and grammar checking first.
the point of unlimited wireless bandwidth is that a single user doesn't have unlimited bandwidth at any one point. if the user adds in a 5Mbit connection, then that user will be able to transmit or receive at 5Mbit, no matter what's around him/her. so if the "jackass" is using the full bandwidth, it's distributed over the neighbors' links, but should not use ALL the bandwidth.
a distributed network like this would easily route around network outtages, and single points of failure.
This is kind of the way the ricochet network worked. they add pole antennas all around the neighborhood that run at 19.2bps. depending on where you are, and how many antennas are around you, you can use multiples of antennas which give you a good overall bandwidth. (i think that's right, don't hold me to it).
i have a cheap ide hp cd12 model i recently purchased for around $100 from bestbuy. i also bought a spindle of 50 cheap 700mb Memorex white cdr's for $17. out of the 50, not one coastered. that's burning at 12x(~5-8min per cd).
if you have to burn at 2x or 4x, you probably are burning from a REAL slow drive. in all fairness, i am burning from a scsi drive, to an ide drive, and the cdr is the only ide device in the computer.
i think the difference is that when you post something on a website, that is intended for people to view it. the website owner has, by either direct or indirect, the ability to post that article or not. when you get e-mail spam, it's unsolicited.
how many executatives care about a specific operating system? Answer: Zero.
The executatives of just about any company is a business(wo)man. they don't care how stuff gets done, as long as it gets done as quickly, quietly, and cheaply as possible. i bet half of the executatives that said they weren't going to use linux in the next year got their mail from a linux machine, or resolve their websites with bind8 (or 9) running on linux and don't even know it. they assume it's windows because they see their technology expenditures go to microsoft and servers that run microsoft. the executative knows nothing of the back-end of what makes it (the internet/network) all work.
i bet if the survey was of the CTO (or the top technically knowledgable employee) of the top 1000 on Fortune's list, the results would be MUCH different.
out of sight, out of mind.
Microsoft is a company in business to make money. they don't care about ethics. they DO care when they step over the ethical boundry, because it could harm their bottom line. when was the last time you invested money in a company that had a 90% market share and cares about the consumer? probably never.
did microsoft leverage their huge market share to influence the FTC?? Hell yeah they did, and their shareholders are banking on them doing it again. i wonder how many of the people on the juries, judgeships, and head FTC members are microsoft share holders. you can bet the aren't going to make a decision to hurt their bottom line either. expect microsoft to do more to increase their bottom line, even if it would be called "illegal" if another company did it. will they get caught, and eventually get in trouble? probably, but they'll beat the rap. they are the "Al Capone" of this generation. they will get away with murder until someone finds a loop hole. that is the american way, and the traditional american dream.
offtopic, but isn't bero working hard today? i've seen like 10 posts from him/her. it's great to see the support.
the reason for ext3 over resier is the ability to non-destructively upgrade an ext2 drive. with reiserfs, you have to format the drive, which means dataloss for those that can't just 'tar zcvf /dev/tape /'. i'm sure there are other reasons too, but for most people, that ability is important.
Scotty is what I used to use. it has automatic network discovery, snmp/tcp/icmp monitoring, and simple config files.
that's an easy thing to fix, just have a harddrive mirror the data. the first thing your computer does when it's turned on, is it flashes the ramdrive with what's on the hard drive. this might take a while, but laptops have been doing it for years (hibernate mode).
and besides, who turns off their computer for "*hours*"?
PalmOS has EasyCalc. i am sure there's something like it for pocketPC, but since the software is harder to write, and get a license for, good luck. maybe someone will port it.
dns shouldn't be an issue, since that is a variable that you should be able to change. most operating systems allow you to specify dns settings, even if you get your ip information by DHCP. check your documentation on your operating system to find out how.
note: you can use any DNS server. the closer ones are usually faster, but if they are unstable, change them
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i agree
but i wish my cell phone would change the tv station, then i'd need one less fancy gadget
from what i understand, if i own the gate, the lock, and the bolt cutters i can cut that bolt to pieces without breaking any laws. are we now just licensing music? i don't agree to any licenses when i purchase music, so how can i not have fair use of a piece of non-animate hardware? what's next, an EULA for purchasing a cd?
problem there is that's an analog recording, and not digital, like mp3 or oog. you can always just setup a microphone infront of your speaker, and use sound recorder to record the individual tracks. there will never be a way to stop that from happening. using the line in/out is closer to the real thing, but it's still analog.
but then you're going to spend an extra $500-$750 on intel hardware, including CPU, motherboard, and ram. you'd save yourself money just buying a whole extra Athlon computer.
they may have written papers, but the papers are not interpreted into law. the current constitution is one of many admendments and clarifications (admendments that overwrite other admendments). this clouds everything up. basically most of the same code is there, but now it's bloated, and some of the functions have been rewritten, but the old code still remains. the comments next to the code change as society changes, but most of the code remains stable, and that's what matters.
saying that you can't complain because you didn't vote is a lame complaint. there are actually some people that just turned 18 and wouldn't have been able to vote yet. does that mean these people don't matter? hell no. a representative shouldn't care who their constituents voted for, they are there to REPRESENT their region. seems like if someone didn't vote, and then took the time to write in to their representative, when the representative writes something intelligent back, this would instill confidence in the political system, and that person would be more likely to vote (what a long runon sentence).
i propose a national voting day, where we would have the whole day off to vote.
Read the Constitution. It's the damn source code for our government.
talk about an obfuscated code contest. and since the code is not commented, it gets interpreted.
why? because we'll need all we can get when we start decompressing our live, full-screen video feed we get off of our 28.8 modem.
that's probably not the best idea.
california just ruled that "victims cannot sue weapons manufacturers for damages when criminals use their products illegally." in this case, isn't the DeCSS code the gun, the victim the MPAA, and the gun manufacturers the hosting company and the person that hosts the file? This case will definately set a precedent, if not for the freedom of speech/press, then for the inability of the courts to decide on the improper laws our legislative body makes up. laws go where the $$$ is, and i wonder how much the MPAA and RIAA had to pay to get that law enacted. and then i wonder if it has affected the bottom line for any musician or movie producer. if anything, i bet the musicians are still the ones getting screwed, as are the fools that go out and pay $25 to buy the newest DVD release.
on a side note, i just rented the movie snatch on dvd. it came on two "enhanced" dvds. well, each of these dvds were single sided. is the only reason to release a dvd as a two dvd set to make an extra buck? it seems that it would be real easy to make it double sided and not have to charge an extra arm and leg for it (retail for snatch is $27.95 although you can buy it for $20 on sale).
i used to work for an isp and we would get an e-mail a week about some windows user running winNT4.0 that would say we were trying to hack into their machine. most of these cases, the user, or someone on their network was using napster or gnutella. well, gnutella and it's clones, makes port 80 requests all the time. people would e-mail our abuse e-mail address or just call up threatening to sue us if it didn't stop (good thing we had onsite counsel). what a pain in the a-hole to have to stop what i was doing to explain to a shotty admin what port connections are and how the internet wouldn't work without them.
almost EVERYTIME, it was someone running NT4.0 and a freeware or shareware firewall program that had some sort of e-mail detection (gets a port probe, e-mails a specified address). those things are evil in the wrong hands. it should MAKE you read the documentation, and then give you a short test to see if you actually read it.
oh well, basically, dumb users are to blame, and unless you want to teach the world about tcp ports (in perfect harmony, even), you have to live with it. if the same person keeps harassing you though, press charges. that'll get them to stop.