the US actually taxes much more than we think. we are taxed on money coming in, money being spent, property, gasoline, and soon the internet. sure it's not all the US government's doing, but it is all still money that doesn't end up in my bank account. i don't see how the government can tax things they don't provide us (gasoline, internet, goods we buy from other citizens).
all in all, i think the US is an OK place to live, but don't come here thinking this is the golden palace. just because your textbook says we're free, remeber that freedom comes with a (rather large) price.
oh yeah, your vote was counted? did it even matter? freedom isn't voting. freedom is in your mind. we are the politicians of the future, only if our parent's generation doesn't mess it up first.
technically, when you go to a web site, that is a single port scan on port 80. what constitutes a portscan? when you go to more than one port on a host? ftp uses more than one port, is that a port scan? portscanning is unauthorized, but it is not intrusive. there is no reason to make it illegal because the person that got portscanned is not harmed by port scanning alone.
if port scanning was made illegal, then any web site owner can sue anyone going to their machine. yahoo's stock would go up for about a day. heck, i would get sued for posting, because i "connected multiple times to port 80 of slashdot.org".
even first-person shooter games still use them, though they were only popularized by cheezy government videos and never in REAL consumer production. i would love to be able to commute through the air instead of sitting in traffic. i liked the grappling hook better though.
something else that should have made the list is AM radio, and maybe CB radio.
i tested out a box that was a pii-450 with 128 megs of ram running linux. i got it to pull about 3500 static pages/second. this fully saturated the 100Mbps network i was on. the load on the machine was about 40, but it was keeping up with the requests. the program i was using is called ptester. it may not have been the most accurate results, but it did show allow me to tweak apache's config to give the best results. doing some math, that gives me a theoretical max of 302,400,000 hits/day (60*60*24*3500). i don't know any site that would pull that much. dynamic content would pull that down quite a bit.
20000hits/day is like one hit per 4 seconds. i know many sites that pull tons more than that.
ramdisks are cool to put your netscape cache in though. that way, when the fbi comes knocking, they cannot see what sites you have been, since the cache is in a ramdisk that is deleted when the ram loses power.
i hadn't heard about NAS. i read up on it a little, and it would be close to what i was asking. a software-based solution would be best for testing purposes. i basically want the ability to have two separate servers running exactly the same software. this would allow a machine to have a hardware failure, while,at the same time, keeping all data mirrored on a secondary live backup system. this system would be able to be a full permanent replacement, and would have all of the hardware of the original main server.
i think most network outtages are REALLY due to someone tripping over the power cord and thus, killing the machine. all of this techie mumbo-jumbo sounds impressive, but i bet a janitor without any computer technical training tripped over the wire, which caused a power outtage, which was recognized by the system admins, which drew them away from their party until someone could drive up there and fix the problem (plug it back in).
the local kroger around here uses what seems to be some sort of unix as the customer price list. the cashier scans the stuff and it's displayed on a normal VGA monitor in a pretty good looking ncurses setup. it totals all of the food as it goes, and generally looks real nice. something like this would probably be what you're looking for. i'm not really sure if they are using a unix to do this, but if it's not, it sure is pretty close.
if i ran a website that hosted anything, i would probably ignore someone if they asked to see my logs. i think if the website owners have to give up their logs, then it stands that Cyperpatrol should give up their blacklisted sites. it'd at least give us "non-blocked" people something to look at.
i think it's pretty much known that the "internet" started out as a United States run wide area network. that gave them plenty of time to learn how to sniff, snoop, and eavesdrop. it's in their best interest to do as much snooping as possible. it's not good to be on the end that gets snooped, but i'd rather the US snoop than some other volatile country just looking for a reason.
oh god, this is getting idiotic. the only reason RIAA even cares is because if music is "open sourced", then there will be no need for RIAA in the first place. they are fighting for their own survival. giving a new music format would allow the RIAA guys to keep their jobs. just more crap for us consumers to deal with. next they'll want to put their own advertisement in the end of the song.
so stupid. same old fights, same stupid results. the consumer will get shafted.
john: i wanna request some new music from a new band
DJ: you heard it guys, this is the NEW release from TOOL......Sober
mary: can i heard a new song?
DJ: THE BEST NEW ROCK STATION, Here's a new one from AC/DC.
cheeze: can i hear the latest one hit wonder from the main contributor to your radio station
DJ: uhhh....sure...Here's a new release from WhiteSnake.
This is happening in texas, not sure about the rest of the country. the ignorance of the music industry will be it's own downfall. no-talent bands, loser DJ's, greedy businessmen running it all. to me, it sounds like what happened when 8-tracks came out. the record company freaked out. it happened with tapes, and then cd's after that. with tapes, you could record your own cd's, and then listen to them later. i imagine they had the same problems then.
and will have the same problems in the future, until the ARTISTS actually stand up for their music. the artist is the one that's being bastardized.
if you actually READ the article, it clearly says "he has sent data at 125 megabits per second." this is not really too fast compared with what was actually posted (less by a factor of 8).
I would like to inform all of you that i have recently patented the entire human language. the actual patent number is yet to be assigned, but what i have proposed is the patenting of all audible noises coming from a human body. this is including, but not limited to, voice, farts, burps, vomiting sounds, and sneezes. i would like to invite all of you to help in this struggle. to help, please send me 1% of your yearly earnings. if you choose to not cooperate, i will be forced to bring legal action upon you and your family.
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the US actually taxes much more than we think. we are taxed on money coming in, money being spent, property, gasoline, and soon the internet. sure it's not all the US government's doing, but it is all still money that doesn't end up in my bank account. i don't see how the government can tax things they don't provide us (gasoline, internet, goods we buy from other citizens).
all in all, i think the US is an OK place to live, but don't come here thinking this is the golden palace. just because your textbook says we're free, remeber that freedom comes with a (rather large) price.
oh yeah, your vote was counted? did it even matter? freedom isn't voting. freedom is in your mind. we are the politicians of the future, only if our parent's generation doesn't mess it up first.
i guess you're not a fan of porn. if you've been on the internet for 7 years, how could you have avoided it?
my choice for best video card under linux, anything by matrox.
technically, when you go to a web site, that is a single port scan on port 80. what constitutes a portscan? when you go to more than one port on a host? ftp uses more than one port, is that a port scan? portscanning is unauthorized, but it is not intrusive. there is no reason to make it illegal because the person that got portscanned is not harmed by port scanning alone.
if port scanning was made illegal, then any web site owner can sue anyone going to their machine. yahoo's stock would go up for about a day. heck, i would get sued for posting, because i "connected multiple times to port 80 of slashdot.org".
it'd be real silly to ban that
what about jet packs?
even first-person shooter games still use them, though they were only popularized by cheezy government videos and never in REAL consumer production. i would love to be able to commute through the air instead of sitting in traffic. i liked the grappling hook better though.
something else that should have made the list is AM radio, and maybe CB radio.
who cares about cmdrtaco's ethics. i think this is news for nerds and so does the person that originally submitted the post.
i bet it would get more if people actually knew the games belonged to him.
oh yeah, and i got my 8-bit nintendo and a supernintendo if anyone is interested in buying them.
i tested out a box that was a pii-450 with 128 megs of ram running linux. i got it to pull about 3500 static pages/second. this fully saturated the 100Mbps network i was on. the load on the machine was about 40, but it was keeping up with the requests. the program i was using is called ptester. it may not have been the most accurate results, but it did show allow me to tweak apache's config to give the best results. doing some math, that gives me a theoretical max of 302,400,000 hits/day (60*60*24*3500). i don't know any site that would pull that much. dynamic content would pull that down quite a bit.
20000hits/day is like one hit per 4 seconds. i know many sites that pull tons more than that.
insmod rd rd_size=128M /dev/ram
/mnt/ram
/dev/ram /mnt/ram
/mnt/ram/swap
/mnt/ram/swap
mkfs -m 0
mkdir
mount
dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/ram/swap bs=128M count=1
mkswap
swapon
how useless.
ramdisks are cool to put your netscape cache in though. that way, when the fbi comes knocking, they cannot see what sites you have been, since the cache is in a ramdisk that is deleted when the ram loses power.
i hadn't heard about NAS. i read up on it a little, and it would be close to what i was asking. a software-based solution would be best for testing purposes. i basically want the ability to have two separate servers running exactly the same software. this would allow a machine to have a hardware failure, while,at the same time, keeping all data mirrored on a secondary live backup system. this system would be able to be a full permanent replacement, and would have all of the hardware of the original main server.
i think most network outtages are REALLY due to someone tripping over the power cord and thus, killing the machine. all of this techie mumbo-jumbo sounds impressive, but i bet a janitor without any computer technical training tripped over the wire, which caused a power outtage, which was recognized by the system admins, which drew them away from their party until someone could drive up there and fix the problem (plug it back in).
that's just my conspiracy theory.
the local kroger around here uses what seems to be some sort of unix as the customer price list. the cashier scans the stuff and it's displayed on a normal VGA monitor in a pretty good looking ncurses setup. it totals all of the food as it goes, and generally looks real nice. something like this would probably be what you're looking for. i'm not really sure if they are using a unix to do this, but if it's not, it sure is pretty close.
if i ran a website that hosted anything, i would probably ignore someone if they asked to see my logs. i think if the website owners have to give up their logs, then it stands that Cyperpatrol should give up their blacklisted sites. it'd at least give us "non-blocked" people something to look at.
i think it's pretty much known that the "internet" started out as a United States run wide area network. that gave them plenty of time to learn how to sniff, snoop, and eavesdrop. it's in their best interest to do as much snooping as possible. it's not good to be on the end that gets snooped, but i'd rather the US snoop than some other volatile country just looking for a reason.
strings /dev/hda | less
where hda is the device name.
this works, but it's not too pretty. i've recovered about 50 megs of e-mail from a fat32 drive this way.
linux/Documentation/cdrom/ide-cd
about half way down is the source for a program that will do the changing for you. i've used it on an Nec 4x4 for about 2 years. works fine.
oh god, this is getting idiotic. the only reason RIAA even cares is because if music is "open sourced", then there will be no need for RIAA in the first place. they are fighting for their own survival. giving a new music format would allow the RIAA guys to keep their jobs. just more crap for us consumers to deal with. next they'll want to put their own advertisement in the end of the song.
so stupid. same old fights, same stupid results. the consumer will get shafted.
seems like supply and demand:
john: i wanna request some new music from a new band
DJ: you heard it guys, this is the NEW release from TOOL......Sober
mary: can i heard a new song?
DJ: THE BEST NEW ROCK STATION, Here's a new one from AC/DC.
cheeze: can i hear the latest one hit wonder from the main contributor to your radio station
DJ: uhhh....sure...Here's a new release from WhiteSnake.
This is happening in texas, not sure about the rest of the country. the ignorance of the music industry will be it's own downfall. no-talent bands, loser DJ's, greedy businessmen running it all. to me, it sounds like what happened when 8-tracks came out. the record company freaked out. it happened with tapes, and then cd's after that. with tapes, you could record your own cd's, and then listen to them later. i imagine they had the same problems then.
and will have the same problems in the future, until the ARTISTS actually stand up for their music. the artist is the one that's being bastardized.
if you actually READ the article, it clearly says "he has sent data at 125 megabits per second." this is not really too fast compared with what was actually posted (less by a factor of 8).
I would like to inform all of you that i have recently patented the entire human language. the actual patent number is yet to be assigned, but what i have proposed is the patenting of all audible noises coming from a human body. this is including, but not limited to, voice, farts, burps, vomiting sounds, and sneezes. i would like to invite all of you to help in this struggle. to help, please send me 1% of your yearly earnings. if you choose to not cooperate, i will be forced to bring legal action upon you and your family.