That's just got to be an aussie rip-off of The Onion. Gotta be. There's no way that it is not a joke. A sound that makes me turn my head? If I was a criminal, I wouldn't be turning my head for anything! Not even the sweet sweet melodies of "chusssh chusssh chusssh". Ridiculous!
Don't forget to invite the chairpersons of the SDMI companies, and the bigwigs behind the whole SDMI thing. You may also want to invite some people from RIAA, and the MPAA. From what I hear, Jack Valenti gives one hell of a toast.
This machine, if it ever sees widespread use, will do for books what Napster and P2P did for music and other online media. We will have the ability to bypass the entire publishing industry, thus going straight from the author to the reader/buyer with only this machine as the step between.
The big one!!! I have AT&T Cable internet access, and the service is great. But, if I ever need phone support (to get credit for service downtime, which happened once) I have to wait for a customer support specialist for over a half hour. It sucks!!! And, I got stood up like 3 times waiting for the installers.
I'm not fan of Napster's legal/business decisions, but, I downright despise Gnutella's useablilty. While Napster may have legal, moral, and philosophical problems - in its hey-day, it was the funktonic-sonic of online music sharing. Back when the average size of the network's storage was about three terabytes (back in the day), you could find anything. Usually, even, you could find several copies of anything, and download many of them. But, with Gnutella and other decentralized networks, it is almost impossible to get a whole album in one sitting. I remember the day when I could search for "One hot minute" and download the whole album. Never more. Even with single files - when they get too big, they get too impossible. I've been trying for weeks to get the second half of Half Baked. No dice. The first half, I got in a few days (note: this is several days of trying, and only a few hours of downloading. I have a T1) but the second half is sooo elusive that any attempts fail before fifty percent. Sure, Gnutella is a technical marvel. Sure, Gnutella makes a statement of freedom and independance. But, at what cost? I think OpenNAP is our best bet (last hope) for the future of music sharing. If only we could get more people to use Napigator, we would eventually have one OpenNAP network come out on top.
The/proc filesystem should tell you what files a process has open. Get the program's PID, then go to/proc/PID/fd and do an 'ls -l' to see what files (and sockets) the process has open. This will probably not give you all of the info you want, but it should be a good start. You can also try doing a 'find' on files modified since a minute before you ran the installer.
I know that these are quick fixes, but, until you find something better...
Why dont they just change their name to World Online. That's what they're doing. It's not just America anymore, and besides, why defame our country's beautiful name with all of their bullshit.
I don't mean to condescend here, but... As I'm just a lowly high school student, and you're the founder of a really cool (and successful) company, I don want to insult you, but, you need to pick up a grammar book. Your sentances are kinda hard to read. For example...
"When we started the whole Linux/open source market was not big enough..."
Do you mean that you started the whole Linux/open source market? No? Then put a comma after the "started", would'ya.
Cogent Communications provides ethernet-over-fiber to businesses in high-rise office buildings. Unfortunately the service is only availible in places where Cogent is able to hook up hundreds of customers. However, the technology is there. They give the building a very fast connection (multigigabit?) and offer customers either 100 Base-FX ethernet (100 Mb over Fiber) or 1000 Base-SC (Gigabit ethernet over SC Fiber). It's insalnely cheap, but with limited availibility. 100 Megabit connections cost $1000/month, and gigabit are $10,000/month. A T1, in comparison, costs about $1000/month (here in South Florida) and it's only 1.5 Mb.
All it does is let you use filesystem calls to access the database. I mean, MySQL uses files that are managed by the Host System's filesystem. So, basically, all it's providing you with is another API that can access the database. That is nice, but I wouldn't necessarily expect anyone to use this for actual data storage. It would seem to me that to use this for the same purposes as a filesystem, it would only add overhead to the process, and provide limited - if any - added data storage benefits.
IBM had a laptop with a touchscreen and handwriting recognition (along with some gesture commands) a while back. I remember hacking one at EPCOT Center once about maybe six years ago. It was a very cool machine and, of course, I want(ed) one. The screen folded over the keyboard so you could use it like a big tablet. It was like a full-computer version of Vadem's Clio. I think that it ran on a 386, or a slow 486. I don't remember the specs, but I do remember being disappointed by them.
You make many good points, but allow me to push one more on to the stack.
I would've liked it if I had been offered a tutor like this kid is. Just like photon317, I have taught myself most of the "advanced, gifted" stuff that I know. My dad was there to help me, and he already knew a surprising amount of it, but for the most part, I learned my shit, and then he and I discussed it.
Actually, now that I think about it, maybe it was better that I learned it all on my own. I think that if I had someone to answer all of my questions, than I would not have read all the books that I have read. Hmm, this debate will continue in my head now. Dammit!
This ought to be a Score: 5; Funny - because it's gotta be a fucking JOKE! Yeah, lets take this genius away from his tutor/mentor where he's learning at his own level, and put him in middle school when he's 9 years old. I guarantee that middle school will fuck him up more than learning assembly! I was not promoted like that, and middle school still fucked me up. Take it from me (I'll list some credentials later): DON'T TELL THE KID WHAT'S BEST FOR HIM SOCIALLY!!! I was probably just like him when I was 9 (8 years ago), and lemme tell you - no one my age has come to accept me for my brains except for a select few here in my senior year in high school. I know what you critics will say: well, it may be because you're an ass that people don't like you. Yeah, that's gotta be it. Fuck you. Hell, some adults feel threatened by my talents. In middle school, every time I would raise my hand to answer a question, or ask one, most of the class would tell me to "shut up, stupid." Well, here's some reasons that I'm not stupid... IQ: 135; Age ham license acquired: 8; Current curiosity: chaos theory, and cognitive science. Yeah, I'm basically a failure at school. I'm even in "gifted" classes. Trust me, even the classes labeled "gifted" can suck. No matter what else - it all depends on the teacher. Remember this one thing: teach the kid as much stuff as you can. Don't ever tell him "No, we're not going to learn that today." And please, try to expose him to any form of art. Painting, music, theatre, architecture, even interior design. He might tell you that science is everywhere. You've got to show him that art is too. I've gone way to long without knowing that.
That approval was only the FTC (Federal Trade Commission). They still need approval from the FCC (Federal Communications Commission). Although this is probably the most important decision regarding the merger, it is not the only one that could inhibit it. Personally, I hope that either the FCC denies the merger, or the company gets hit with a big ass class action suit for fuqqing up some personal freedoms.
I think that they simply poll the web server on a constant interval. If the server doesn't respond, then it's down. I would assume that if I could cycle my server in between their polls I could maintain my uptime record. But this is just a guess. Another guess is that they use TCP fingerprinting for the OS detection. I am fairly certain, however, that they use the web server's banner for the server type and modules (PHP, SSL, etc.).
Yes, that's good, but what you really want is DIGEX Internet's NAP Looking Glass services. Go to nitrous.digex.net and select a NAP (MAE East is always a good one). You can do lotsa stuff from tehse systems. FYI: If you dont know, a NAP (or a MAE as MCI calles them) is a really freaking huge ethernet switch. MAE East, for example, connects most of Europe, and the eastern seaboard of the USA.
Netcraft: www.netcraft.com
Netcraft will tell you the uptime history of any site that it watches (currently over 22 million)
Keynote: internetpulse.keynote.com
Keynote has some really cool cross-backbone nodes that tell you the performance from one backbone to another.
Whatsdown.net: www.whatsdown.net
Whatsdown watches various sites and backbones and tells you the current performance of them. This is probably what you want, because it watches specific popular sites.
Check out Google's directory (DMOZ) for some more sites like these. I hope this helped.
Notice how no news agency that has reported the recent cracks has equated the security flaws in Microsoft's network and servers to Microsft's Windows operating system. No news agency is suggesting that "if you use windows, you could be next", as they often do with other reports. "Man dead after drinking poisoned orange juice... Find out if your orange juice could be poisoned - tonight at 10." Why is it that the news media is not running their usual tricks to scare the populus. In my (not ever humble) opinion, everyone running Windows is running the risk of their network/servers being cracked.
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That's just got to be an aussie rip-off of The Onion. Gotta be. There's no way that it is not a joke. A sound that makes me turn my head? If I was a criminal, I wouldn't be turning my head for anything! Not even the sweet sweet melodies of "chusssh chusssh chusssh". Ridiculous!
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Don't forget to invite the chairpersons of the SDMI companies, and the bigwigs behind the whole SDMI thing. You may also want to invite some people from RIAA, and the MPAA. From what I hear, Jack Valenti gives one hell of a toast.
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Um, that's only a step above your average ASCII art. It's not even close to good ASCII art.
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This machine, if it ever sees widespread use, will do for books what Napster and P2P did for music and other online media. We will have the ability to bypass the entire publishing industry, thus going straight from the author to the reader/buyer with only this machine as the step between.
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The big one!!! I have AT&T Cable internet access, and the service is great. But, if I ever need phone support (to get credit for service downtime, which happened once) I have to wait for a customer support specialist for over a half hour. It sucks!!! And, I got stood up like 3 times waiting for the installers.
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That they'll just use the info to know where to target more tampon and pregnancy tests??? I think so!
It'll be like "Hmm, tampon sales are down in Holland, MI. Maybe we should put some more ads on the ClearChannel stream."
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Engage! Hehehe. Just kidding. I think you meant to say "Browse-Wrap". HTH.
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what harmful side effects?
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I'm not fan of Napster's legal/business decisions, but, I downright despise Gnutella's useablilty. While Napster may have legal, moral, and philosophical problems - in its hey-day, it was the funktonic-sonic of online music sharing. Back when the average size of the network's storage was about three terabytes (back in the day), you could find anything. Usually, even, you could find several copies of anything, and download many of them. But, with Gnutella and other decentralized networks, it is almost impossible to get a whole album in one sitting. I remember the day when I could search for "One hot minute" and download the whole album. Never more. Even with single files - when they get too big, they get too impossible. I've been trying for weeks to get the second half of Half Baked. No dice. The first half, I got in a few days (note: this is several days of trying, and only a few hours of downloading. I have a T1) but the second half is sooo elusive that any attempts fail before fifty percent. Sure, Gnutella is a technical marvel. Sure, Gnutella makes a statement of freedom and independance. But, at what cost? I think OpenNAP is our best bet (last hope) for the future of music sharing. If only we could get more people to use Napigator, we would eventually have one OpenNAP network come out on top.
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The /proc filesystem should tell you what files a process has open. Get the program's PID, then go to /proc/PID/fd and do an 'ls -l' to see what files (and sockets) the process has open. This will probably not give you all of the info you want, but it should be a good start. You can also try doing a 'find' on files modified since a minute before you ran the installer.
I know that these are quick fixes, but, until you find something better...
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Why dont they just change their name to World Online. That's what they're doing. It's not just America anymore, and besides, why defame our country's beautiful name with all of their bullshit.
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I don't mean to condescend here, but... As I'm just a lowly high school student, and you're the founder of a really cool (and successful) company, I don want to insult you, but, you need to pick up a grammar book. Your sentances are kinda hard to read. For example...
"When we started the whole Linux/open source market was not big enough..."
Do you mean that you started the whole Linux/open source market? No? Then put a comma after the "started", would'ya.
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Cogent Communications provides ethernet-over-fiber to businesses in high-rise office buildings. Unfortunately the service is only availible in places where Cogent is able to hook up hundreds of customers. However, the technology is there. They give the building a very fast connection (multigigabit?) and offer customers either 100 Base-FX ethernet (100 Mb over Fiber) or 1000 Base-SC (Gigabit ethernet over SC Fiber). It's insalnely cheap, but with limited availibility. 100 Megabit connections cost $1000/month, and gigabit are $10,000/month. A T1, in comparison, costs about $1000/month (here in South Florida) and it's only 1.5 Mb.
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All it does is let you use filesystem calls to access the database. I mean, MySQL uses files that are managed by the Host System's filesystem. So, basically, all it's providing you with is another API that can access the database. That is nice, but I wouldn't necessarily expect anyone to use this for actual data storage. It would seem to me that to use this for the same purposes as a filesystem, it would only add overhead to the process, and provide limited - if any - added data storage benefits.
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IBM had a laptop with a touchscreen and handwriting recognition (along with some gesture commands) a while back. I remember hacking one at EPCOT Center once about maybe six years ago. It was a very cool machine and, of course, I want(ed) one. The screen folded over the keyboard so you could use it like a big tablet. It was like a full-computer version of Vadem's Clio. I think that it ran on a 386, or a slow 486. I don't remember the specs, but I do remember being disappointed by them.
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For a second there, I thought the gimp was sleeping.
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You make many good points, but allow me to push one more on to the stack.
I would've liked it if I had been offered a tutor like this kid is. Just like photon317, I have taught myself most of the "advanced, gifted" stuff that I know. My dad was there to help me, and he already knew a surprising amount of it, but for the most part, I learned my shit, and then he and I discussed it.
Actually, now that I think about it, maybe it was better that I learned it all on my own. I think that if I had someone to answer all of my questions, than I would not have read all the books that I have read. Hmm, this debate will continue in my head now. Dammit!
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This ought to be a Score: 5; Funny - because it's gotta be a fucking JOKE! Yeah, lets take this genius away from his tutor/mentor where he's learning at his own level, and put him in middle school when he's 9 years old. I guarantee that middle school will fuck him up more than learning assembly! I was not promoted like that, and middle school still fucked me up. Take it from me (I'll list some credentials later): DON'T TELL THE KID WHAT'S BEST FOR HIM SOCIALLY!!! I was probably just like him when I was 9 (8 years ago), and lemme tell you - no one my age has come to accept me for my brains except for a select few here in my senior year in high school. I know what you critics will say: well, it may be because you're an ass that people don't like you. Yeah, that's gotta be it. Fuck you. Hell, some adults feel threatened by my talents. In middle school, every time I would raise my hand to answer a question, or ask one, most of the class would tell me to "shut up, stupid." Well, here's some reasons that I'm not stupid... IQ: 135; Age ham license acquired: 8; Current curiosity: chaos theory, and cognitive science. Yeah, I'm basically a failure at school. I'm even in "gifted" classes. Trust me, even the classes labeled "gifted" can suck. No matter what else - it all depends on the teacher. Remember this one thing: teach the kid as much stuff as you can. Don't ever tell him "No, we're not going to learn that today." And please, try to expose him to any form of art. Painting, music, theatre, architecture, even interior design. He might tell you that science is everywhere. You've got to show him that art is too. I've gone way to long without knowing that.
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That approval was only the FTC (Federal Trade Commission). They still need approval from the FCC (Federal Communications Commission). Although this is probably the most important decision regarding the merger, it is not the only one that could inhibit it. Personally, I hope that either the FCC denies the merger, or the company gets hit with a big ass class action suit for fuqqing up some personal freedoms.
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So, will he be like "What can we get away with?"
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I think that they simply poll the web server on a constant interval. If the server doesn't respond, then it's down. I would assume that if I could cycle my server in between their polls I could maintain my uptime record. But this is just a guess. Another guess is that they use TCP fingerprinting for the OS detection. I am fairly certain, however, that they use the web server's banner for the server type and modules (PHP, SSL, etc.).
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Yes, that's good, but what you really want is DIGEX Internet's NAP Looking Glass services. Go to nitrous.digex.net and select a NAP (MAE East is always a good one). You can do lotsa stuff from tehse systems. FYI: If you dont know, a NAP (or a MAE as MCI calles them) is a really freaking huge ethernet switch. MAE East, for example, connects most of Europe, and the eastern seaboard of the USA.
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Netcraft: www.netcraft.com
Netcraft will tell you the uptime history of any site that it watches (currently over 22 million)
Keynote: internetpulse.keynote.com
Keynote has some really cool cross-backbone nodes that tell you the performance from one backbone to another.
Whatsdown.net: www.whatsdown.net
Whatsdown watches various sites and backbones and tells you the current performance of them. This is probably what you want, because it watches specific popular sites.
Check out Google's directory (DMOZ) for some more sites like these. I hope this helped.
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Notice how no news agency that has reported the recent cracks has equated the security flaws in Microsoft's network and servers to Microsft's Windows operating system. No news agency is suggesting that "if you use windows, you could be next", as they often do with other reports. "Man dead after drinking poisoned orange juice... Find out if your orange juice could be poisoned - tonight at 10." Why is it that the news media is not running their usual tricks to scare the populus. In my (not ever humble) opinion, everyone running Windows is running the risk of their network/servers being cracked.
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"It's too bad that stupidity isn't lethal."
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if it was, YOU WOULD BE DEAD !!!
--- Xee hath struck you down, and it hurt - bad.
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