The sentence translates into "TrueServer (the hosting company) has a Gigabit connection to AMS-IX (Amsterdam Internet Exchange) and 100 MBit transit uplinks to Level3, EBone, Telia and AboveNet'.
The sentence below that (about the Juniper router) translates into this:
"Not many Dutch hosting farms can match such network connectivity. The TrueServer network runs on Juniper M20 routers and core-switches from Extreme Networks"
So it's not exactly what you thought it meant - it's more like, they have a veeeeeeeeeeeeeery large bandwidth, with several upstream providers (so if, for example, KPNQwest files for chapter 11 - which they did in case you don't know - they don't have any problem at all:)
Ah, finally a site that will be pretty hard to bring down using the SlashDot effect:)
tweakers.net routinely handles about one million hits a day, go check their Statistics page, or check out some pictures of their servers and server room.
Ofcourse the text is in Dutch, but I think you can read stats and view pictures in Dutch right:)
Where exactly does this article bash microsoft? It looks like they are (for once) on the right side, and the article does NOT deny that.
And what does the slashdot crew (not) using Windows have to do with this?
How is this slashdot article not friendly to all geeks? Don't most geeks *hate* MS? Well, most Real Geeks (TM) anyway:-)
Besides, Slashdot does not have money problems. They would have if they had not given the advertisers what they wanted (i.e. bigger ads) - so they had not much choice basically.
And last but not least, I can tell from your post you're probably from the USA - so much for journalistic integrity: if you can trade it for a few bucks, do so anytime!
I'm very glad the Slashdot crew does not show any signs of using such practices. Keep the MS stories coming!
Why anyone would spend the extra $350 on a P4 for the minimal performance gains (relative to the cost) is beyond me.
Well, minimal performance gains IF THAT!
It turns out the Athlon was faster in many tests. When you use RDRAM on the Intel platform, as you really should, they will probably be a bit faster, but not even in all benchmarks (we have seen these tests too, maybe not with exactly this clockspeed but the idea is the same).
So, reasons I can think of are Stability (not really an issue as long as you stay away from VIA chipsets as much as possible), Brand name recognition, and the law of Highest Number Must Be Fastest.
It's indeed real strange to see people buying P4's that will be beaten hands-down by AMD systems that cost about half as much. When will people finally learn? Much as I hate the AMD '2200+' (but actually really 1.67 Ghz) marketing ploy, they finally have a clue how they should market their products!
But as long as they don't put the highest number on their products, they probably won't win this battle against Intel.
Windowmaker is also very fast and has a very small memory footprint (compared to KDE and Gnome).
Windowmaker has been in development for years, and is very stable.
It is also very themable, I used it for years until I installed Linux on a faster computer. KDE 2.2.2 works fine on my PII 333 with lots of RAM so I don't really care about the few MBs. But Windowmaker is real great, it runs just fine on a Pentium 133 with 32 MB!
[About going to the URL bar and erasing any URL that might be there]
Or place the cursor *anywhere* in the URL bar, and use ctrl-U. My only complaint about this is that some fool chose to overload ctrl-U and make it the keyboard accelerator for view source, so if you haven't quite clicked in the URL bar, you don't get the result you expect..
Ahh....but you can go to the URL bar by pressing Ctrl-L at any time.
So a Ctrl-L Ctrl-U does the trick nicely, without using the mouse.
I didn't know about the Ctrl-U thingy, thanks for the tip!
Hello? I don't know what reality you're living in, but at least in my reality there IS such an 'X' to close a tabbed window, in the upper-right corner just below the "M"-logo.
Has been there in 0.9.5 and stayed there in 0.9.6
And I've tried this using both Modern and Classic layout. So I don't see what you're talking about...
Windows-button-F even......yeah those keys are usefull for *something*:-)
Don't suppose I like windows now (actually, I ditched it almost completely and I'm typing this in Mozilla/Linux), but one just HAS to admit that the point a poster above makes is not really true...
You use only 20 koystrokes to do a grep on your entire system? On windows, you need to press just 1 key combination.
Still I like Linux more as the commandline and scriping abilities are actually usefull, unlike in DOS/windows, where they are broken and half-implemented at best.
And you can do some nifty things with (for example) grep, things that Windows search can't...but the question is indeed: how many people use that extended functionality?
to be perfectly honest and blunt with you, if slashdot had an option to only read posts at scored at -1 I would use it.
Hey - could you mail this to CmdrTaco? Maybe he even reads this thread - if so could you please react CmdrTaco?
At this moment I got moderator status. The problem is, I usually browse at +2 because I don't have time to read Slashdot all day (at +2 there usually are 30-60 posts, which takes plenty of time already).
But I'm not changing this every time I become a moderator - reading 400 posts just takes too much time.
However if there would be an option to browse -1 posts ONLY that would be cool as you could quickly browse through all the goatsex crap and first posts to look for interesting posts between all the crap, that have inadvertently been moderated down (or have been posted by interesting AC's).
Maybe if there was an option to turn this on quickly on every article page, so you don't have to go through your complete preferences section everytime you want to change this option?
Intrusive and irritating banners (in particular, but not limited to, popups and pop-unders) are the main reason I've been using using Mozilla almost exclusively instead of IE lately. Yes, even on Windows (2000). It's just better. It takes a bit of memory, but since that's cheap nowadays, I could care less about that...
will get rid of those popups forever! However, clicking a link that opens a new window still works (taget=_BLANK still works fine).
Most banners are fine and I sometimes click on them to show my apprecitation for certain websites. But when there are REALLY annoying ones, just hit right-mouse->Block Images From Server, and you'll never see a single image from that specific server again.
If I could do that in IE, I might start to use it again, since I don't really care about the differences otherwise. Both IE and Mozilla are great browsers, but IE just doesn't have all the functionality I want at this moment....
1. Didn't have a window border (so I couldn't close it!)
2. Couldn't even be closed by right-clicking->close on the taskbar
This was just on a default install of Win2K with medium security settings and no crappy plugins installed!
This annoyed the hell out of me. So much, that I took down the companies name and decided not to buy something from them, *EVER* (not that I probably would've, otherwise, but hey:-)
Again, using Mozilla with some extra options set (unfortunately some things have to be done outside the GUI, currently..) solved most of my problems with irritating ads (i.e. I never see them anymore:-)
This is one of the major reasons I'm using Mozilla for everyday browsing now. Every irritating banner I see gets a 'right click->block images from this server', and voila, another Banner Advertizer that will never bother me again.
Same goes for cookies: it's really irritating when every site has to ask if it may store a cookie. Therefore, I use the default setting 'accept all cookies'. Every now and then, I delete all crappy *ad*=Your-Unique-Tracking-Id-Here-cookies using the Preferences->Security menu, while enabling 'don't allow deleted cookies to be accepted again'. Another problem solved.
I guess similar programs/plugins exist for IE (but, as you might have noticed, IE doesn't run on Linux:-)
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The -turbo option works great on Windows indeed, but I can't get it to work in Linux.
Is this 'by design' or am making some mistake?
Someone who succeeded in doing this, and how did you get it to work?
Also, (on Win2K) when using -turbo, when I open a new first window it doesn't open maximized, which it does without the -turbo switch. Guess this is a little bug, but does anyone know how to force mozilla into starting fullscreen?
...where cdrecord (and other free software) comes in?
I mean, they can make it a little harder to the 'casual' rippers, but hey, there are more programs then just Easy CD Creator - like Nero Burning ROM or CDRWin etc.
So see me care...
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That must be why companies are switching...
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"There really isn't much value in free," said Miller, who also contends that the latest release of the Linux kernel, 2.4, doesn't have the features required for widespread business use.
So I guess that must be why the company I work for is letting their employees switch to Linux if they want, because it saves them money and makes some of the employees (like me) very happy:-)
It is not a very large company, 100 people or so, but still..
The MAC address of your NIC is transmitted with your PID when you register. That's ALL. If you try to install the software with the same PID on another machine, and the MAC address doesn't match up, you're denied
So, when my NIC breaks and I install a new one in the same computer, I can't reinstall windows, right?
This clearly sucks. Btw, many NICs allow the MAC-address to be changed:-)
Well, it may be a little more serious than it looks.
Okay, these vulnerabilities have always existed and you could live with them because it was quite hard to exploit them.
However, as the author of the article points out, there is now a very convenient, easy to compile/install, almost 'off-the-shelf shrinkwrapped' set of applications that can do these kinds of things, which means the l33t 5(r1pt k1dd135 are probably going to find it a lot easier to use then before.
So that's why he writes the article, and I think he certainly has a point here.
This is almost always the case. There even exist special hardware devices that detect this and automagically turn of your TV:-)
Strange things seem to happen with optimalization
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What I consider strange is that many people are complaining about instability of (especially) KWord and Konqueror.
I have tested many of the beta's and RC's myself and they generally worked better than the 2.0 release.
However, to compile 2.0 release, I used pgcc with -O6, which produces highly optimized code but *may* not work in all cases. A large project like KDE, which takes a day to compile even on a dual celeron system is very likely to trigger bugs in only half-decent, just-apply-this-patch-and-it-should-work-compilers
And indeed I encounter many more crashes then before. This time, I'm going to reinstall my old gcc version (I believe it was gcc 2.95.1) and just compile with -O2 (the default) and see how it works out.
I mean, highly optimized is cool and all, but it's also great if it actually *works*!
I suspect that many people have used very 'new' and untested compilers because in the slashdot thread just after release there was much discussion about that (which is why I tried to do it:)
Hey, isn't that what the first for-pay
Processtree project is going to do? Look at their news page for information.
According to that page, 'the job is a quality-of-service monitoring system that provides real-time updates on the performance and availability of websites.'
Wonder what they'll do with the data, though
Okay so it's fun, but isn't it rather old?
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What I'm waiting for is the moment Linux binaries will be shipped with the official version of games at the same release date.
I think that until then, many people won't even bother trying them. Not that it refrains me from trying, ofcourse:-)
I've been told that RedHat 7 (deluxe edition or whatever it's called) includes some popular games ported by Loki, which is cool for mainstream acceptance I think.
So, Linux and Windows NT (just to name two of them) must be violating this patent, right?
It's publication date is 1995, March 22th.
Okay, we can debate about which OS classifies as the first multitasking system - probably Multics which was 'invented' in 1965, 30 year earlier!
(I am not sure that Multics is actually the first since I'm not that old yet;)
It may be not that much of a difference compared to their current licensing system since Office and Windows tends to be upgraded every 2 or 3 years anyway.
But, it is already too expensive *right now* and that is the reason that we will try to migrate, an annual software fee probably won't change that...
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The sentence translates into "TrueServer (the hosting company) has a Gigabit connection to AMS-IX (Amsterdam Internet Exchange) and 100 MBit transit uplinks to Level3, EBone, Telia and AboveNet'.
:)
The sentence below that (about the Juniper router) translates into this:
"Not many Dutch hosting farms can match such network connectivity. The TrueServer network runs on Juniper M20 routers and core-switches from Extreme Networks"
So it's not exactly what you thought it meant - it's more like, they have a veeeeeeeeeeeeeery large bandwidth, with several upstream providers (so if, for example, KPNQwest files for chapter 11 - which they did in case you don't know - they don't have any problem at all
tweakers.net routinely handles about one million hits a day, go check their Statistics page, or check out some pictures of their servers and server room.
Ofcourse the text is in Dutch, but I think you can read stats and view pictures in Dutch right :)
Where exactly does this article bash microsoft? It looks like they are (for once) on the right side, and the article does NOT deny that.
:-)
And what does the slashdot crew (not) using Windows have to do with this?
How is this slashdot article not friendly to all geeks? Don't most geeks *hate* MS? Well, most Real Geeks (TM) anyway
Besides, Slashdot does not have money problems. They would have if they had not given the advertisers what they wanted (i.e. bigger ads) - so they had not much choice basically.
And last but not least, I can tell from your post you're probably from the USA - so much for journalistic integrity: if you can trade it for a few bucks, do so anytime!
I'm very glad the Slashdot crew does not show any signs of using such practices. Keep the MS stories coming!
Well, minimal performance gains IF THAT!
It turns out the Athlon was faster in many tests. When you use RDRAM on the Intel platform, as you really should, they will probably be a bit faster, but not even in all benchmarks (we have seen these tests too, maybe not with exactly this clockspeed but the idea is the same).
So, reasons I can think of are Stability (not really an issue as long as you stay away from VIA chipsets as much as possible), Brand name recognition, and the law of Highest Number Must Be Fastest.
It's indeed real strange to see people buying P4's that will be beaten hands-down by AMD systems that cost about half as much. When will people finally learn? Much as I hate the AMD '2200+' (but actually really 1.67 Ghz) marketing ploy, they finally have a clue how they should market their products!
But as long as they don't put the highest number on their products, they probably won't win this battle against Intel.
Windowmaker has been in development for years, and is very stable.
It is also very themable, I used it for years until I installed Linux on a faster computer. KDE 2.2.2 works fine on my PII 333 with lots of RAM so I don't really care about the few MBs. But Windowmaker is real great, it runs just fine on a Pentium 133 with 32 MB!
[About going to the URL bar and erasing any URL that might be there]
Or place the cursor *anywhere* in the URL bar, and use ctrl-U. My only complaint about this is that some fool chose to overload ctrl-U and make it the keyboard accelerator for view source, so if you haven't quite clicked in the URL bar, you don't get the result you expect..
Ahh....but you can go to the URL bar by pressing Ctrl-L at any time.
So a Ctrl-L Ctrl-U does the trick nicely, without using the mouse.
I didn't know about the Ctrl-U thingy, thanks for the tip!
Hello? I don't know what reality you're living in, but at least in my reality there IS such an 'X' to close a tabbed window, in the upper-right corner just below the "M"-logo.
Has been there in 0.9.5 and stayed there in 0.9.6
And I've tried this using both Modern and Classic layout. So I don't see what you're talking about...
Windows-button-F even......yeah those keys are usefull for *something* :-)
Don't suppose I like windows now (actually, I ditched it almost completely and I'm typing this in Mozilla/Linux), but one just HAS to admit that the point a poster above makes is not really true...
You use only 20 koystrokes to do a grep on your entire system? On windows, you need to press just 1 key combination.
Still I like Linux more as the commandline and scriping abilities are actually usefull, unlike in DOS/windows, where they are broken and half-implemented at best.
And you can do some nifty things with (for example) grep, things that Windows search can't...but the question is indeed: how many people use that extended functionality?
Hey - could you mail this to CmdrTaco? Maybe he even reads this thread - if so could you please react CmdrTaco?
At this moment I got moderator status. The problem is, I usually browse at +2 because I don't have time to read Slashdot all day (at +2 there usually are 30-60 posts, which takes plenty of time already).
But I'm not changing this every time I become a moderator - reading 400 posts just takes too much time.
However if there would be an option to browse -1 posts ONLY that would be cool as you could quickly browse through all the goatsex crap and first posts to look for interesting posts between all the crap, that have inadvertently been moderated down (or have been posted by interesting AC's).
Maybe if there was an option to turn this on quickly on every article page, so you don't have to go through your complete preferences section everytime you want to change this option?
Would be cool IMHO.
Intrusive and irritating banners (in particular, but not limited to, popups and pop-unders) are the main reason I've been using using Mozilla almost exclusively instead of IE lately. Yes, even on Windows (2000). It's just better. It takes a bit of memory, but since that's cheap nowadays, I could care less about that...
n ", "noAccess");
Adding this line to your prefs.js:
user_pref("capability.policy.default.Window.ope
will get rid of those popups forever! However, clicking a link that opens a new window still works (taget=_BLANK still works fine).
Most banners are fine and I sometimes click on them to show my apprecitation for certain websites. But when there are REALLY annoying ones, just hit right-mouse->Block Images From Server, and you'll never see a single image from that specific server again.
If I could do that in IE, I might start to use it again, since I don't really care about the differences otherwise. Both IE and Mozilla are great browsers, but IE just doesn't have all the functionality I want at this moment....
But irritating ads can also work the other way.
:-)
:-)
A week ago I got a popup in Explorer that
1. Didn't have a window border (so I couldn't close it!)
2. Couldn't even be closed by right-clicking->close on the taskbar
This was just on a default install of Win2K with medium security settings and no crappy plugins installed!
This annoyed the hell out of me. So much, that I took down the companies name and decided not to buy something from them, *EVER* (not that I probably would've, otherwise, but hey
Again, using Mozilla with some extra options set (unfortunately some things have to be done outside the GUI, currently..) solved most of my problems with irritating ads (i.e. I never see them anymore
I already learned how to live with them. Add this line to your Mozilla's prefs.js:
user_pref("capability.policy.default.Window.open", "noAccess");
And you're fixed.
This is one of the major reasons I'm using Mozilla for everyday browsing now. Every irritating banner I see gets a 'right click->block images from this server', and voila, another Banner Advertizer that will never bother me again.
Same goes for cookies: it's really irritating when every site has to ask if it may store a cookie. Therefore, I use the default setting 'accept all cookies'. Every now and then, I delete all crappy *ad*=Your-Unique-Tracking-Id-Here-cookies using the Preferences->Security menu, while enabling 'don't allow deleted cookies to be accepted again'. Another problem solved.
I guess similar programs/plugins exist for IE (but, as you might have noticed, IE doesn't run on Linux :-)
Is this 'by design' or am making some mistake?
Someone who succeeded in doing this, and how did you get it to work?
Also, (on Win2K) when using -turbo, when I open a new first window it doesn't open maximized, which it does without the -turbo switch. Guess this is a little bug, but does anyone know how to force mozilla into starting fullscreen?
I tried -max, -maximized but that didn't work
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So I guess that must be why the company I work for is letting their employees switch to Linux if they want, because it saves them money and makes some of the employees (like me) very happy
It is not a very large company, 100 people or so, but still..
This clearly sucks. Btw, many NICs allow the MAC-address to be changed :-)
Okay, so nailing doubleclick.com is pretty easy, if you go for the quick solution.
/etc/hosts:
Just add the following line to
127.0.0.1 doubleclick.com
This will see to it that DNS lookups to 'doubleclick.com' will be redirected to 127.0.0.1, where the picture can't be found, ofcourse
Well, it may be a little more serious than it looks.
Okay, these vulnerabilities have always existed and you could live with them because it was quite hard to exploit them.
However, as the author of the article points out, there is now a very convenient, easy to compile/install, almost 'off-the-shelf shrinkwrapped' set of applications that can do these kinds of things, which means the l33t 5(r1pt k1dd135 are probably going to find it a lot easier to use then before.
So that's why he writes the article, and I think he certainly has a point here.
This is almost always the case. There even exist special hardware devices that detect this and automagically turn of your TV :-)
What I consider strange is that many people are complaining about instability of (especially) KWord and Konqueror.
s
:)
I have tested many of the beta's and RC's myself and they generally worked better than the 2.0 release.
However, to compile 2.0 release, I used pgcc with -O6, which produces highly optimized code but *may* not work in all cases. A large project like KDE, which takes a day to compile even on a dual celeron system is very likely to trigger bugs in only half-decent, just-apply-this-patch-and-it-should-work-compiler
And indeed I encounter many more crashes then before. This time, I'm going to reinstall my old gcc version (I believe it was gcc 2.95.1) and just compile with -O2 (the default) and see how it works out.
I mean, highly optimized is cool and all, but it's also great if it actually *works*!
I suspect that many people have used very 'new' and untested compilers because in the slashdot thread just after release there was much discussion about that (which is why I tried to do it
Look at their news page for information.
According to that page, 'the job is a quality-of-service monitoring system that provides real-time updates on the performance and availability of websites.'
Wonder what they'll do with the data, though
What I'm waiting for is the moment Linux binaries will be shipped with the official version of games at the same release date.
:-)
I think that until then, many people won't even bother trying them. Not that it refrains me from trying, ofcourse
I've been told that RedHat 7 (deluxe edition or whatever it's called) includes some popular games ported by Loki, which is cool for mainstream acceptance I think.
...why things are always posted twice on Slashdot!
So, Linux and Windows NT (just to name two of them) must be violating this patent, right?
It's publication date is 1995, March 22th. Okay, we can debate about which OS classifies as the first multitasking system - probably Multics which was 'invented' in 1965, 30 year earlier!
(I am not sure that Multics is actually the first since I'm not that old yet ;)
It may be not that much of a difference compared to their current licensing system since Office and Windows tends to be upgraded every 2 or 3 years anyway.
But, it is already too expensive *right now* and that is the reason that we will try to migrate, an annual software fee probably won't change that...