This happens a lot on the abusive country that I live (Brazil). There is a major cable ISP called Virtua that used to allow the ridiculous amount of 1 GB per month. Nowadays, they allow you 7! Gee!!
Even though Ajato really sucks sometimes, it doesn't have this sort of bullshit yet. I hear there are a few other ISPs doing the same thing Virtua is doing... I just hope mine doesn't get "infected" by this evil idea:-(
Amongst common uses of the parallel port besides the standard of printers, there are lots of other devices that attach to them, like scanners and Imation's SuperDisk, which is a device like a ZIP-drive, but that can store 120 MB (maybe newer versions support more). I'm sure you can find other common uses, like control of cars and other electronic devices -- kids do it a lot, controlling something like a car or an electronic arm connected to the parallel port with the adequate software.
There are lots of reasons to don't pay for music, but all of them, in a way or the other, take the money away from a musician. And you need to remember that a musician lives from the music he sells. Of course, when we're talking about such huge bands like Metallica, they won't miss it at all, but we *need* to support the people who are just getting started, so they can actually afford a life based solely on playing music.
Indeed, this is no surprise. If someone likes napster a lot, it's because they like music a lot, and not napster itself. And, once you have access to the immense archive napster once had, you're free to discover new kinds of music that you will, probably, spend your bucks later buying CDs or going for concerts.
*Sigh*. How long are we going to have to read kernel = kernel + 0.0.1 just released stories? What is the relevance of this, truly? This thing shouldn't even be at freshmeat, for christ's sake.
If not, then I want daily CVS announcements. Please, either completely bore me, or do not bore me at all.
wedit used to be GPL. Then, all of the sudden, the authors just took the source code out of the site, without warning anybody. And now, I'm stuck with the desire of using the GPL'd versions, but all there's left in the site are binaries, and, apparently, nobody bothered to mirror it.:-(
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We try to stay positive in every circumstance and put the good of a project above any personal concerns or artistic egos. By sustaining this attitude and conduct, we have achieved a high level of efficiency and quality in our work.
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And of course when they modify and enhance GPL'ed software such as gcc, they have their changes publically accessible too, as they must.
You're wrong. The GNU GPL allows you to fork the code and keep the source, and any further modifications, for yourself. Since you're not obligated to redistribute changes, that means that the GPL allows you to "privately close source" something.
I agree with you 100%, although its no excuse for governments to justify private monitoring of our lives. But, concerning public monitoring, I'm all for it. Let's bust the criminals.
Ok, this whole monitoring is very bad. But the point here is the damage - I, too, think these vandals should be punished for the whole damaged they caused over such a stupid thing - I mean, if it was for some noble cause, I'd be upset, but people who just cause major problems for no reason at all must pay for their crimes. The cameras were there just like cops could be there - it's technology in service of the law.
Suppose our Sun was not alone but had a companion star. Suppose that this companion star moved in an elliptical orbit, its solar distance varying between 90,000 a.u. (1.4 light years) and 20,000 a.u., with a period of 30 million years. Also suppose this star is dark or at least very faint, and because of that we haven't noticed it yet.
This would mean that once every 30 million years that hypothetical companion star of the Sun would pass through the Oort cloud (a hypothetical cloud of proto-comets at a great distance from the Sun). During such a passage, the proto-comets in the Oort cloud would be stirred around. Some tens of thousands of years later, here on Earth we would notice a dramatic increase in the the number of comets passing the inner solar system. If the number of comets increases dramatically, so does the risk of the Earth colliding with the nucleus of one of those comets.
When examining the Earth's geological record, it appears that about once every 30 million years a mass extinction of life on Earth has occurred. The most well-known of those mass extinctions is of course the dinosaur extinction some 65 million years ago. About 15 million years from now it's time for the next mass extinction, according to this hypothesis.
This hypothetical "death companion" of the Sun was suggested in 1985 by Daniel P. Whitmire and John J. Matese, Univ of Southern Louisiana. It has even received this name: Nemesis. One awkward fact of the Nemesis hypothesis is that there is no evidence whatever of a companion star of the Sun. It need not be very bright or very massive, a star much smaller and dimmer than the Sun would suffice, even a brown or a black dwarf (a planet-like body insufficiently massive to start "burning hydrogen" like a star). It is possible that this star already exists in one of the catalogues of dim stars without anyone having noted something peculiar, namely the enormous apparent motion of that star against the background of more distant stars (i.e. its parallax). If it should be found, few will doubt that it is the primary cause of periodic mass extinctions on Earth.
But this is also a notion of mythical power. If an anthropologist of a previous generation had heard such a story from his informants, the resulting scholarly tome would doubtless use words like 'primitive' or 'pre-scientific'. Consider this story:
There is another Sun in the sky, a Demon Sun we cannot see. Long ago, even before great grandmother's time, the Demon Sun attacked our Sun. Comets fell, and a terrible winter overtook the Earth. Almost all life was destroyed. The Demon Sun has attacked many times before. It will attack again.
This is why some scientists thought this Nemesis theory was a joke when they first heard of it -- an invisible Sun attacking the Earth with comets sounds like delusion or myth. It deserves an additional dollop of skepticism for that reason: we are always in danger of deceiving ourselves. But even if the theory is speculative, it's serious and respectable, because its main idea is testable: you find the star and examine its properties.
However, since the examination of the entire sky in the far IR by IRAS with no "Nemesis" found, the existence of "Nemesis" is not very likely.
Unix Threading
On Unix systems with POSIX threads support, Apache can now run in a hybrid multiprocess, multithreaded mode. This should improve scalability.
New Build System
The build system has been rewritten from scratch to be based on autoconf and libtool. This makes Apache's configuration system more similar to that of other packages.
Multiprotocol Support
Apache now has some of the infrastructure in place to support serving multiple protocols. mod_echo has been written as an example.
Better support for non-Unix platforms
Apache 2.0 is faster and more stable on non-Unix platforms such as BeOS, OS/2, and Windows. With the introduction of platform-specific multi-processing modules (MPMs) and the Apache Portable Runtime (APR), these platforms are now implemented in their native API, avoiding the often buggy and poorly performing POSIX-emulation layers.
New Apache API
The API for modules has changed significantly for 2.0. Many of the module-ordering problems from 1.3 should be gone. 2.0 does much of this automatically, and module ordering is now done per-hook to allow more flexibility.
Also, new calls have been added that provide additional module capabilities without patching the core Apache server.
IPv6 Support
On systems where IPv6 is supported by the underlying Apache Portable Runtime library, Apache gets IPv6 listening sockets by default. Additionally, the Listen, NameVirtualHost, and directives support IPv6 numeric address strings (e.g., "Listen [fe80::1]:8080").
Filtering
Apache modules may now be written as filters which act on the stream of content as it is delivered to or from the server. This allows, for example, the output of CGI scripts to be parsed for Server Side Include directive by mod_include.
Module Enhancements:
mod_auth_db
Now supports Berkely DB 3.0
mod_auth_digest
Includes additional support for session caching across processes using shared memory.
mod_charset_lite
New module in Apache 2.0. This experimental module allows for character set translation or recoding.
mod_dav
New module in Apache 2.0. This module implements the HTTP Distributed Authoring and Versioning (DAV) specification for posting and maintaining web content.
mod_file_cache
New module in Apache 2.0. This module includes the functionality of mod_mmap_static in Apache 1.3, plus adds further caching abilities.
I was not attempting to troll, while this may seem almost unbelievable. Fact is, there is nothing that upsets me more than space exploration. Scientific development usually helps people, esp. in medical/genetics research. What good, besides from a few inventions that were developed in space and are now used by us, do we get from billionaire space exploration? None. What did we get with the Cold War? Nothing. Stuff just repeats itself.
Bla, bla, bla, bla. Ok. We're going to Mars again. Let's just spend a couple billion dollars to check out on other planets, while millions suffer from major poverty and hunger down here on Earth.
You may mod me down as offtopic or flamebait, but this is the pure truth.
At least concerning domain names, the Brazilian NIC is very controlling. You can't register domain names without the proper documentation to ensure that you are a.com. The policies for other domains, like.net.br, are even worse: you have to be a "networking company" - like a telecom - in order to get one of those domains. That, together with the fact that they overcharge a lot, is like a "please go register a.com instead of a.com.br " request.
True. Get your own IPv6 tunnels for free here and here.
There is also some very interesting information regarding IPv6 in various sites, such as 6BONE's, and Sun's. It is really great to poke around with IPv6 stuff, there are a lot of programs that support it by now, such as lynx (-dev tree only), w3m, BitchX, epic, etc. etc. etc. And also, IPv6 is cool because it lets you create such educational hosts like dead:beef:c0ff:eeca:bf00:3:133:7.
If you don't believe me, here is my sit1 interface:
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This happens a lot on the abusive country that I live (Brazil). There is a major cable ISP called Virtua that used to allow the ridiculous amount of 1 GB per month. Nowadays, they allow you 7! Gee!!
:-(
Even though Ajato really sucks sometimes, it doesn't have this sort of bullshit yet. I hear there are a few other ISPs doing the same thing Virtua is doing... I just hope mine doesn't get "infected" by this evil idea
Amongst common uses of the parallel port besides the standard of printers, there are lots of other devices that attach to them, like scanners and Imation's SuperDisk, which is a device like a ZIP-drive, but that can store 120 MB (maybe newer versions support more). I'm sure you can find other common uses, like control of cars and other electronic devices -- kids do it a lot, controlling something like a car or an electronic arm connected to the parallel port with the adequate software.
There are lots of reasons to don't pay for music, but all of them, in a way or the other, take the money away from a musician. And you need to remember that a musician lives from the music he sells. Of course, when we're talking about such huge bands like Metallica, they won't miss it at all, but we *need* to support the people who are just getting started, so they can actually afford a life based solely on playing music.
Indeed, this is no surprise. If someone likes napster a lot, it's because they like music a lot, and not napster itself. And, once you have access to the immense archive napster once had, you're free to discover new kinds of music that you will, probably, spend your bucks later buying CDs or going for concerts.
You can't miss this! Go check it out right now!
*Sigh*. How long are we going to have to read kernel = kernel + 0.0.1 just released stories? What is the relevance of this, truly? This thing shouldn't even be at freshmeat, for christ's sake.
If not, then I want daily CVS announcements. Please, either completely bore me, or do not bore me at all.
wedit used to be GPL. Then, all of the sudden, the authors just took the source code out of the site, without warning anybody. And now, I'm stuck with the desire of using the GPL'd versions, but all there's left in the site are binaries, and, apparently, nobody bothered to mirror it. :-(
So what? We're talking about Micro$oft bashing here. There are no frontiers or any sort of rules for that. Let the guy show his indignation.
I mean, can a what to do when you see a possible GPL violation link from GNU itself be clearer than anything else? Just read it, people. C'mon.
Thirty Nine positions at Higher Source, a web site development and production house. Our business has really taken off like a comet and we now have quite a few positions to fill.
The individuals at the core of our group have worked closely together for over 20 years. During those years, each of us has developed a high degree of skill and know-how through personal discipline and concerted effort.
We try to stay positive in every circumstance and put the good of a project above any personal concerns or artistic egos. By sustaining this attitude and conduct, we have achieved a high level of efficiency and quality in our work.
This crew-minded effort, combined with ingenuity and creativity, have helped us provide advanced solutions at highly competitive rates.
Based in Rancho Santa Fe, California (near San Diego), we provide excellent opportunity for advancement to a higher place. In fact all of our employees have recently been promoted.
We provide free clothing, Nike tennis shoes, pudding, apple sauce and vodka. You must supply your own Phenobarbital. Every employee is issued a large purple cloth, the purpose of which will become clear. Free haircuts too.
No experience is necessary. We will train you to work and think within our business model.
ID is required. Abduction experiences a plus.
We are looking for real team players.
Please send resumes to bunchowackos@highersource.com.
And of course when they modify and enhance GPL'ed software such as gcc, they have their changes publically accessible too, as they must.
You're wrong. The GNU GPL allows you to fork the code and keep the source, and any further modifications, for yourself. Since you're not obligated to redistribute changes, that means that the GPL allows you to "privately close source" something.
I agree with you 100%, although its no excuse for governments to justify private monitoring of our lives. But, concerning public monitoring, I'm all for it. Let's bust the criminals.
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There is this nice Microsoft Timeline, covering 1975 till 2000, right over here. It is not exactly what you asked for, but its a M$ Timeline. Enjoy.
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Ok, this whole monitoring is very bad. But the point here is the damage - I, too, think these vandals should be punished for the whole damaged they caused over such a stupid thing - I mean, if it was for some noble cause, I'd be upset, but people who just cause major problems for no reason at all must pay for their crimes. The cameras were there just like cops could be there - it's technology in service of the law.
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Well, you can always ask the folks of OpenSSH (www.openssh.org), perhaps they'll have some ideas.
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This would mean that once every 30 million years that hypothetical companion star of the Sun would pass through the Oort cloud (a hypothetical cloud of proto-comets at a great distance from the Sun). During such a passage, the proto-comets in the Oort cloud would be stirred around. Some tens of thousands of years later, here on Earth we would notice a dramatic increase in the the number of comets passing the inner solar system. If the number of comets increases dramatically, so does the risk of the Earth colliding with the nucleus of one of those comets.
When examining the Earth's geological record, it appears that about once every 30 million years a mass extinction of life on Earth has occurred. The most well-known of those mass extinctions is of course the dinosaur extinction some 65 million years ago. About 15 million years from now it's time for the next mass extinction, according to this hypothesis.
This hypothetical "death companion" of the Sun was suggested in 1985 by Daniel P. Whitmire and John J. Matese, Univ of Southern Louisiana. It has even received this name: Nemesis. One awkward fact of the Nemesis hypothesis is that there is no evidence whatever of a companion star of the Sun. It need not be very bright or very massive, a star much smaller and dimmer than the Sun would suffice, even a brown or a black dwarf (a planet-like body insufficiently massive to start "burning hydrogen" like a star). It is possible that this star already exists in one of the catalogues of dim stars without anyone having noted something peculiar, namely the enormous apparent motion of that star against the background of more distant stars (i.e. its parallax). If it should be found, few will doubt that it is the primary cause of periodic mass extinctions on Earth.
But this is also a notion of mythical power. If an anthropologist of a previous generation had heard such a story from his informants, the resulting scholarly tome would doubtless use words like 'primitive' or 'pre-scientific'. Consider this story:
This is why some scientists thought this Nemesis theory was a joke when they first heard of it -- an invisible Sun attacking the Earth with comets sounds like delusion or myth. It deserves an additional dollop of skepticism for that reason: we are always in danger of deceiving ourselves. But even if the theory is speculative, it's serious and respectable, because its main idea is testable: you find the star and examine its properties.
However, since the examination of the entire sky in the far IR by IRAS with no "Nemesis" found, the existence of "Nemesis" is not very likely.
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Our big problem right now is that the vast majority of our servers are in a cluster and we have one or two machines that get reinstalled every week.
:)
You just answered your own question, stop reinstalling everything every week, for Christ's sake
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Core Enhancements:
Unix Threading
On Unix systems with POSIX threads support, Apache can now run in a hybrid multiprocess, multithreaded mode. This should improve scalability.
New Build System
The build system has been rewritten from scratch to be based on autoconf and libtool. This makes Apache's configuration system more similar to that of other packages.
Multiprotocol Support
Apache now has some of the infrastructure in place to support serving multiple protocols. mod_echo has been written as an example.
Better support for non-Unix platforms
Apache 2.0 is faster and more stable on non-Unix platforms such as BeOS, OS/2, and Windows. With the introduction of platform-specific multi-processing modules (MPMs) and the Apache Portable Runtime (APR), these platforms are now implemented in their native API, avoiding the often buggy and poorly performing POSIX-emulation layers.
New Apache API
The API for modules has changed significantly for 2.0. Many of the module-ordering problems from 1.3 should be gone. 2.0 does much of this automatically, and module ordering is now done per-hook to allow more flexibility.
Also, new calls have been added that provide additional module capabilities without patching the core Apache server.
IPv6 Support
On systems where IPv6 is supported by the underlying Apache Portable Runtime library, Apache gets IPv6 listening sockets by default. Additionally, the Listen, NameVirtualHost, and directives support IPv6 numeric address strings (e.g., "Listen [fe80::1]:8080").
Filtering
Apache modules may now be written as filters which act on the stream of content as it is delivered to or from the server. This allows, for example, the output of CGI scripts to be parsed for Server Side Include directive by mod_include.
Module Enhancements:
mod_auth_db
Now supports Berkely DB 3.0
mod_auth_digest
Includes additional support for session caching across processes using shared memory.
mod_charset_lite
New module in Apache 2.0. This experimental module allows for character set translation or recoding.
mod_dav
New module in Apache 2.0. This module implements the HTTP Distributed Authoring and Versioning (DAV) specification for posting and maintaining web content.
mod_file_cache
New module in Apache 2.0. This module includes the functionality of mod_mmap_static in Apache 1.3, plus adds further caching abilities.
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God, James Bond. Please, consider all my posts about space exploration futile - mr. Bond rules. :)
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Monopoly.
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I was not attempting to troll, while this may seem almost unbelievable. Fact is, there is nothing that upsets me more than space exploration. Scientific development usually helps people, esp. in medical/genetics research. What good, besides from a few inventions that were developed in space and are now used by us, do we get from billionaire space exploration? None. What did we get with the Cold War? Nothing. Stuff just repeats itself.
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Bla, bla, bla, bla. Ok. We're going to Mars again. Let's just spend a couple billion dollars to check out on other planets, while millions suffer from major poverty and hunger down here on Earth.
You may mod me down as offtopic or flamebait, but this is the pure truth.
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At least concerning domain names, the Brazilian NIC is very controlling. You can't register domain names without the proper documentation to ensure that you are a .com. The policies for other domains, like .net.br, are even worse: you have to be a "networking company" - like a telecom - in order to get one of those domains. That, together with the fact that they overcharge a lot, is like a "please go register a .com instead of a .com.br " request.
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There is also some very interesting information regarding IPv6 in various sites, such as 6BONE's, and Sun's. It is really great to poke around with IPv6 stuff, there are a lot of programs that support it by now, such as lynx (-dev tree only), w3m, BitchX, epic, etc. etc. etc. And also, IPv6 is cool because it lets you create such educational hosts like dead:beef:c0ff:eeca:bf00:3:133:7.
If you don't believe me, here is my sit1 interface:
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ROT-13 is a very interesting idea. Except that the filters might just rot13 their own rulesets, too.
It's like they say:
shpx prafbefuvc!
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