I looked up the address to the local jail, and then I give then teh name William Gates the 3rd. The really do not need that information if all you are doing is buying batteries, sodier, floppy disks, a cable etc.. but remember if you use your ATM/CC/CheckCard/etc then they gotcha.
patent it if you have that incling. In todays market, trying to make a buck off of encryption is going to be hard. Look at NAI and PGP. I personally prefer the OpenSource over ClosedSource but will use the best product out there that is used by the masses.
Releasing a plugin for GnuPG/PGP would allow it to be used in a more widespread audience in a quicker timeframe.
I am a convert from the windows world (at work due to Office requirements), and linux (at home and personal laptops). The TiBook is very sweet and powerful. MacOSX is easy to use, sometimes too easy. I keep getting caught up in the windows-isms but soon I will be beyond that crap. I have had my TiBook for about 2 weeks now and think it is the best decison I have made in a long time.
My suggestion before plopping down 3-4k for a new mac laptop, go to on the of the Apple Stores (if you can) otherwise goto CompUsa (or other computer store with an Apple Section) and play with the MacOSX machines.
Since the dot.com went dot.commedy (or dot.bomb), they had less cash flow, so they had to cut back. Back during the techno boom, they were making barrells full of cash. Those dot.coms were using them at their "not soo cheap" prices and kinkos just made a killing. But the cash cow died. But I would expect to see more cool stuff from them as time goes on.
This is probably one of the famous/. april 1st jokes but it does make sense to a degree. It probably was/is not the languages that he was programming but it was what he was programming. In the C++ world, he was doing the 8-10hrs/day coding where when he was doing the java he was doing 8-10hrs/day of conquring something new. Once he mastered all the APIs and the actual coding becomes a little more standard for him, then the sex drive would go to.
I am far from an expert but I feel much better as a person (happier, energetic, etc) when I get do to things that extend my mind or chanllege me. Doing the "punch-the-clock and work at my desk" crap does nothing for the geek. But trying to get Your linux box to administrer the Win2k/XP boxes without having admin rights (and being able to do it) is more geeker and more interesting to the local geek.
I know many people running Windows 98(SE) still. And some of them just upgraded in the last 2 years. They have not even looked at Win2k or XP. Those people will not move to Longhorn until 3-5 years after it comes out.
I am not a lawyer... but I would suggest that you contact the lawyer for the FSF. I do not remember his name off the top of my head. You could always get an (mostly-)anonymous email account with yahoo or msn and email him from there.
This is the reason I use Google over the others. It works, it works, it works. Plus it is not tainted the way the big boys, err I mean big companies want to "help you". It reminds me more of the GNU/Linux/BSD thing. Not the open source part, but the part where everything is treated equal no matter who you work for.
Arguing and debating over the VM or other technical issues is good. But when the parties begin bashing each other (not the technical issues but the people) then we have problems. I do consulting on very large projects with many different players (aka companies) involved. Whenever the discussions/debates/arguements move from issues/technical problems into people/companies that is when the whole process breaks down. I am glad that we (as a community) have the ability to debate/discuss the technical issues. I love that. It works great. But lets do not loose the prespective of what we are here to do (write good software that beats the commerical stuff) and start trashing each other.
I run linux and just got an iPod ofr christmas. I was ready to hack at it to get it to work. The biggest problem is that the HFS+ drivers is "read-only" only. Until we can progress the drivers to be able to "read-write", we are stuck. There is some good Windows software. Ephpod (free software) with MacDrive/MacOpener (commerical) combo works great.
A friend of mine has a firewire drive and I plugged it into my sony vaio laptop. Wham! I had another 60gig. It was just as fast if not faster than my internal drive. I mounted it like it was a scsi disk and then I copied files back and forth to see the speed. WOW it was fast. I did not have any issues. The only thing I would suggest is that the firewire drive be SBP-2 compatable.
I was testing his drive since I looking to upgrade the internal drive in my laptop and move the current drive to a small firewire enclosure. That way I get multiple drives when I need them.
I am very impressed with the 1394 code so far in the linux kernel.
I learned as much UNIX as I could on the University's unix servers and loaded UNIX (linux) on my computer. After a little while I got a job at the University as a Student Assistant in the main computer labs. I just kept of learning more and more UNIX (including shell scripting) and just migrated over as a junior admin and just kept on learning more and more. Now I am a Senior National Consultant doing UNIX and SAN work. The first certifications I would get (probably easier to get) are the Brain Bench ones. They are not easy but BB is much cheaper than something like Sun Cerifited Solaris Administrator (2 test at $150 each). Once you have the BB certifications, then work on something like HP's HPUX admin or Sun Solaris certifications. Personally I would go with Sun's but I am biased. Degrees and Certifications are great to get past the Head Hunters/HR/Personal departments but the IT managers will look at your skills and past jobs. Some IT managers will look at cerifications to see what areas you are profecient in but not having them will not prevent you from getting the job but will hurt.
Load linux on your machine (or FreeBSD) and learn as much as you can. Learn how to build kernels on your own, build packages/software from source, learn as much administration (from the commandline) as possible. If you can, get access to Solaris (for x86 might be an option) or HPUX and see the differences between them and just play.
The OS X.1 CD was free since OS X was broken. And that is from Apple's mouth. It worked but not very well. Instead of making everyone buy a new verison o f the O/S when all you are doing it patching the holes and fixing the bugs, they released it for free. Unlike M$ who release 98 when all it was, was a patched verision of 95. I congratulate Apple on releasing the CD for free.
Without people like the SPA (Software Publishers Association) and the GNU group then coporations that should do the right thing, wouldn't due to $$$. Money makes busines decisions. The SPA makes it harder for corporations to use pirated software. Where the GNU group (I am not sure what the proper term of the GNU people are, so do not flame me on calling them the GNU group) is there to make sure that the software that was put out under the GPL/LGPL license stays that way. If not, too many corporations would steal the code and release it as theirs (without adhering to the license).
I am all for the GNU group and what they do. Open up the source code so we can fix the bugs. Make it harder for Virus writers/hackers/script kiddies to do they stuff.
There is several things I do. I have a stock list of Soft Skill questions that I ask (I pick 1-4 of them for each canidate). These questions deal with Train of Thought and Troubleshooting skills. I want to see how the canidate thinks/doesn't think when forced to. I mix those in with the technical questions. I skim the resume before the interview, circling the keywords (DNS, NIS, NIS+, NFS, Veritas ______, etc) Then if I see multiple circles of the same word or if the sentece that the word is in states that (s)he is the almighty in that subject, I will write down the keyword on the margin of the resume.
At the interview time, I have (in my head) about a dozen or so technical questions for each of the major topics. I will ask them questions like (here is an easy one) "What is the configuration file or files for a DNS server and what is contained in them?" to questions that are about what they did "Explain to me why and how you deployed the DNS & WINS services on the NT servers at ________?" And of course my questions get much harder. I try to judge in a hour (or so) how technical they (senior, junior, average) and how well they do with the soft skills (interpersonal, troubleshooting, etc).
I try not to pick a flat set of questions before the interview starts becuase you need to adjust the questioning as you go along. If you notice that (s)he does not have any real DNS skills, why pound them with DNS questions? Move on to another subject and ask them on those. You already know that they dont know it.
Maybe PKZ can work on helping out GnuPG to be the PGP replacement across the board. Not just for geeks and cheapskates but really out do PGP. Then again I would like to replace a lot of commerical software with open source.
Scott
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Use touch screens computers at the voting booths. People can still be verified the same old way they have been for years but the counting process would be a snap. Plus each button will have the canidate's name on it so when they press the name of the canidate they just voted. It seems pretty simple. Then again I am a geek.
I had to use fill-in-the-bubble like on the ACT/SAT tests but with a marker instead of a pencil. Weird!
Scott
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Well, when can others test/use/beta the software? I have a fair number of machines at my house in the home data center (13 machines and growing). I would love to be able to do automatic installs via a boot floppy to start the system. It would save me and my roommate a ton of time doing installs. It would have to support Debian for my needs, my roommate is a red hat guy so he could always use kickstart. If you need a beta tester, let me know.
Scott
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I am 39.0% slashdot pure
As long as the non-free software stays in the non-free area then there should be no problems. I support and use Debian over all the other distros (personal choice) and it would really suck if they took *all* the non-free software away from the distro. I use GnuPG for an example, and that is not in the non-free section, but the RSA addon for it is (in the non-free section).
This is just another flame war, just like emacs vs vi, linux vs *bsd, windows vs linux, etc.
That is my 2 cents worth, Scott
Scott C{E,F,O,T}O sboss dot net email: scott@sboss.net I am 39.0% slashdot pure
two weeks ago I had plenty of time on a plane to read (flying east coast to west coast) and I read the first 7 or 8 chapters of this book. I wasn't planning on it but I just could not put the book down. It was great. I have never done OO before although I understood the principals. After reading this book, I not only understand the principals but I can use them. I am now looking at OO'ng all my code now. It makes sense!
Scott
Scott C{E,F,O,T}O sboss dot net email: scott@sboss.net I am 39.0% slashdot pure
I have been using the online checking/bill pay for a couple years now with Security First Network Bank (www.sfnb.com) and have been really happy with them. Unfortunitely they do not offer the bill collection part. So I signed up with PayTrust to collect my bills for me. PayTrust sends a check out on my bank account and pays the bills for me. It is great. Is it for everyone, nope! I travel 23+ days a month so it is hard for me to keep on top of paper bills. Paytrust does this for me. I get email about each new bill, and each payment made. Plus I can get a CD cut at the end of the year with all my transactions (including the bills that they received). Between the two I can travell all the time and not have to worry about if the bill is laying in my mailbox at the house. I recommend PayTrust. I have never used PayMyBills, OnMoney, or the others.
Thanks, Scott
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will UNIX ever die, nah not for a long time..
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I have to admit upfront that I am a UN*X junkie.
True UNIX written by AT&T Bell Labs, is probably dead, but it has morphed into many different children UN*Xes which have spun off children, etc There are mainstream UN*Xes like Solaris, HPUX, AIX, IRIX, Linux, & BSD. Then there are some that have fallen to the wayside like SunOS (before the Solaris version), AUX, etc. There are still out there true SysV R4 UNIX running in production enviroments, whereas overall it is dead. The vendor does not even support it. There are children of SysV R4 that are live and kicking today. So, will UNIX die? it depends on how you define the word UNIX. In the original AT&T UNIX, then yes it will die if it had not already. But with the children O/Ses being spun off the UN*Xes then I do not see it going away anytime soon.
Microsoft is doing the same thing (sorta), the release newer and newer O/Ses that are children of their previous O/Ses. Will Windows go away anytime soon, probably not. Windows 3.1 or Windows 95 or a specific version/flavor of it will go away in the not too far away future (year, years, whatever). But overall Windows like UN*X is here to stay. They are both good O/Ses, but....
At this point I piss off all the Windows fans, by saying I will not put anything mission critical on Windows 9x/NT/2000. I do not see it as a stable enough platform. On the other hand, I will run mission critical stuff on 6 year old UN*X hardware and not blink an eye. Or even better, steal the hardware from the Windows 9x/NT/2000 machine and load Linux on it.
That last paragraph is probably a seed for a flame war. Which is not why I said it.
Thanks, that is my $0.02 worth, Scott
Scott C{E,F,O,T}O sboss dot net email: scott@sboss.net I am 39.0% slashdot pure
Well this is a question I have been asking for a long time now. The big things are cheap electricity, cheap/fast net access, plenty of geeky things to do, etc. Here in atlanta we have everything but cheap/fast net access. Only small portions of the city can get DSL and it is not cheap. Forget about ISDN (BellSouth charges way too much including make people to pay for chanel hours). The part of city I live in, I am too far away for DSL/ISDN and dedicated circuits (even 56k) are way too expensive. Personally if BellSouth could fix the net connection costs problem Atlanta would shoot right through the roof as geek central. We have many Univeristies/Colleges, plenty of culture, plenty of geeky things to do, and a lot more. I do not see BellSouth dropping its prices of network connections.
That's my 2 cents worth, Scott
Scott C{E,F,O,T}O sboss dot net email: scott@sboss.net
Do you think there will be any security in the internet of the future? There seems to be more and more security holes (or at least we are finding more). Plus does encryption or digitially signing data help or hender the net?
Thanks Scott
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I looked up the address to the local jail, and then I give then teh name William Gates the 3rd. The really do not need that information if all you are doing is buying batteries, sodier, floppy disks, a cable etc.. but remember if you use your ATM/CC/CheckCard/etc then they gotcha.
Scott
patent it if you have that incling. In todays market, trying to make a buck off of encryption is going to be hard. Look at NAI and PGP. I personally prefer the OpenSource over ClosedSource but will use the best product out there that is used by the masses.
Releasing a plugin for GnuPG/PGP would allow it to be used in a more widespread audience in a quicker timeframe.
Scott
Hemos/Cmdr Taco,
I am a convert from the windows world (at work due to Office requirements), and linux (at home and personal laptops). The TiBook is very sweet and powerful. MacOSX is easy to use, sometimes too easy. I keep getting caught up in the windows-isms but soon I will be beyond that crap. I have had my TiBook for about 2 weeks now and think it is the best decison I have made in a long time.
My suggestion before plopping down 3-4k for a new mac laptop, go to on the of the Apple Stores (if you can) otherwise goto CompUsa (or other computer store with an Apple Section) and play with the MacOSX machines.
Have fun and I predict that you will buy one.
Since the dot.com went dot.commedy (or dot.bomb), they had less cash flow, so they had to cut back. Back during the techno boom, they were making barrells full of cash. Those dot.coms were using them at their "not soo cheap" prices and kinkos just made a killing. But the cash cow died. But I would expect to see more cool stuff from them as time goes on.
This is probably one of the famous /. april 1st jokes but it does make sense to a degree. It probably was/is not the languages that he was programming but it was what he was programming. In the C++ world, he was doing the 8-10hrs/day coding where when he was doing the java he was doing 8-10hrs/day of conquring something new. Once he mastered all the APIs and the actual coding becomes a little more standard for him, then the sex drive would go to.
I am far from an expert but I feel much better as a person (happier, energetic, etc) when I get do to things that extend my mind or chanllege me. Doing the "punch-the-clock and work at my desk" crap does nothing for the geek. But trying to get Your linux box to administrer the Win2k/XP boxes without having admin rights (and being able to do it) is more geeker and more interesting to the local geek.
But your opinions may very...
I know many people running Windows 98(SE) still. And some of them just upgraded in the last 2 years. They have not even looked at Win2k or XP. Those people will not move to Longhorn until 3-5 years after it comes out.
I am not a lawyer... but I would suggest that you contact the lawyer for the FSF. I do not remember his name off the top of my head. You could always get an (mostly-)anonymous email account with yahoo or msn and email him from there.
good luck,
scott
This is the reason I use Google over the others. It works, it works, it works. Plus it is not tainted the way the big boys, err I mean big companies want to "help you". It reminds me more of the GNU/Linux/BSD thing. Not the open source part, but the part where everything is treated equal no matter who you work for.
Arguing and debating over the VM or other technical issues is good. But when the parties begin bashing each other (not the technical issues but the people) then we have problems. I do consulting on very large projects with many different players (aka companies) involved. Whenever the discussions/debates/arguements move from issues/technical problems into people/companies that is when the whole process breaks down. I am glad that we (as a community) have the ability to debate/discuss the technical issues. I love that. It works great. But lets do not loose the prespective of what we are here to do (write good software that beats the commerical stuff) and start trashing each other.
Just my point of view.
I run linux and just got an iPod ofr christmas. I was ready to hack at it to get it to work. The biggest problem is that the HFS+ drivers is "read-only" only. Until we can progress the drivers to be able to "read-write", we are stuck. There is some good Windows software. Ephpod (free software) with MacDrive/MacOpener (commerical) combo works great.
Scott
A friend of mine has a firewire drive and I plugged it into my sony vaio laptop. Wham! I had another 60gig. It was just as fast if not faster than my internal drive. I mounted it like it was a scsi disk and then I copied files back and forth to see the speed. WOW it was fast. I did not have any issues. The only thing I would suggest is that the firewire drive be SBP-2 compatable.
I was testing his drive since I looking to upgrade the internal drive in my laptop and move the current drive to a small firewire enclosure. That way I get multiple drives when I need them.
I am very impressed with the 1394 code so far in the linux kernel.
I learned as much UNIX as I could on the University's unix servers and loaded UNIX (linux) on my computer. After a little while I got a job at the University as a Student Assistant in the main computer labs. I just kept of learning more and more UNIX (including shell scripting) and just migrated over as a junior admin and just kept on learning more and more. Now I am a Senior National Consultant doing UNIX and SAN work. The first certifications I would get (probably easier to get) are the Brain Bench ones. They are not easy but BB is much cheaper than something like Sun Cerifited Solaris Administrator (2 test at $150 each). Once you have the BB certifications, then work on something like HP's HPUX admin or Sun Solaris certifications. Personally I would go with Sun's but I am biased. Degrees and Certifications are great to get past the Head Hunters/HR/Personal departments but the IT managers will look at your skills and past jobs. Some IT managers will look at cerifications to see what areas you are profecient in but not having them will not prevent you from getting the job but will hurt.
Load linux on your machine (or FreeBSD) and learn as much as you can. Learn how to build kernels on your own, build packages/software from source, learn as much administration (from the commandline) as possible. If you can, get access to Solaris (for x86 might be an option) or HPUX and see the differences between them and just play.
Hopefully this helps,
Scott
The OS X.1 CD was free since OS X was broken. And that is from Apple's mouth. It worked but not very well. Instead of making everyone buy a new verison o f the O/S when all you are doing it patching the holes and fixing the bugs, they released it for free. Unlike M$ who release 98 when all it was, was a patched verision of 95. I congratulate Apple on releasing the CD for free.
Thank you Apple.
Without people like the SPA (Software Publishers Association) and the GNU group then coporations that should do the right thing, wouldn't due to $$$. Money makes busines decisions. The SPA makes it harder for corporations to use pirated software. Where the GNU group (I am not sure what the proper term of the GNU people are, so do not flame me on calling them the GNU group) is there to make sure that the software that was put out under the GPL/LGPL license stays that way. If not, too many corporations would steal the code and release it as theirs (without adhering to the license).
I am all for the GNU group and what they do. Open up the source code so we can fix the bugs. Make it harder for Virus writers/hackers/script kiddies to do they stuff.
Scott
There is several things I do. I have a stock list of Soft Skill questions that I ask (I pick 1-4 of them for each canidate). These questions deal with Train of Thought and Troubleshooting skills. I want to see how the canidate thinks/doesn't think when forced to. I mix those in with the technical questions. I skim the resume before the interview, circling the keywords (DNS, NIS, NIS+, NFS, Veritas ______, etc) Then if I see multiple circles of the same word or if the sentece that the word is in states that (s)he is the almighty in that subject, I will write down the keyword on the margin of the resume.
At the interview time, I have (in my head) about a dozen or so technical questions for each of the major topics. I will ask them questions like (here is an easy one) "What is the configuration file or files for a DNS server and what is contained in them?" to questions that are about what they did "Explain to me why and how you deployed the DNS & WINS services on the NT servers at ________?" And of course my questions get much harder. I try to judge in a hour (or so) how technical they (senior, junior, average) and how well they do with the soft skills (interpersonal, troubleshooting, etc).
I try not to pick a flat set of questions before the interview starts becuase you need to adjust the questioning as you go along. If you notice that (s)he does not have any real DNS skills, why pound them with DNS questions? Move on to another subject and ask them on those. You already know that they dont know it.
Scott
National Senior Consultant
Maybe PKZ can work on helping out GnuPG to be the PGP replacement across the board. Not just for geeks and cheapskates but really out do PGP. Then again I would like to replace a lot of commerical software with open source. Scott
Scott
hacker
sboss dot net
email: scott@sboss.net
Use touch screens computers at the voting booths. People can still be verified the same old way they have been for years but the counting process would be a snap. Plus each button will have the canidate's name on it so when they press the name of the canidate they just voted. It seems pretty simple. Then again I am a geek.
I had to use fill-in-the-bubble like on the ACT/SAT tests but with a marker instead of a pencil. Weird!
Scott
C{E,F,O,T}O
sboss dot net
email: scott@sboss.net
I am 39.0% slashdot pure
Well, when can others test/use/beta the software? I have a fair number of machines at my house in the home data center (13 machines and growing). I would love to be able to do automatic installs via a boot floppy to start the system. It would save me and my roommate a ton of time doing installs. It would have to support Debian for my needs, my roommate is a red hat guy so he could always use kickstart. If you need a beta tester, let me know.
Scott
C{E,F,O,T}O
sboss dot net
email: scott@sboss.net
I am 39.0% slashdot pure
As long as the non-free software stays in the non-free area then there should be no problems. I support and use Debian over all the other distros (personal choice) and it would really suck if they took *all* the non-free software away from the distro. I use GnuPG for an example, and that is not in the non-free section, but the RSA addon for it is (in the non-free section).
This is just another flame war, just like emacs vs vi, linux vs *bsd, windows vs linux, etc.
That is my 2 cents worth,
Scott
Scott
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sboss dot net
email: scott@sboss.net
I am 39.0% slashdot pure
two weeks ago I had plenty of time on a plane to read (flying east coast to west coast) and I read the first 7 or 8 chapters of this book. I wasn't planning on it but I just could not put the book down. It was great. I have never done OO before although I understood the principals. After reading this book, I not only understand the principals but I can use them. I am now looking at OO'ng all my code now. It makes sense!
Scott
Scott
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sboss dot net
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I am 39.0% slashdot pure
Congrats to the Slashdot Team.
I do understand the blood sweat and tears that go into upgrading a network server without interfering with the endusers.
Thanks for all you hard work..
S.
Scott
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sboss dot net
email: scott@sboss.net
I am 39.0% slashdot pure
I have been using the online checking/bill pay for a couple years now with Security First Network Bank (www.sfnb.com) and have been really happy with them. Unfortunitely they do not offer the bill collection part. So I signed up with PayTrust to collect my bills for me. PayTrust sends a check out on my bank account and pays the bills for me. It is great. Is it for everyone, nope! I travel 23+ days a month so it is hard for me to keep on top of paper bills. Paytrust does this for me. I get email about each new bill, and each payment made. Plus I can get a CD cut at the end of the year with all my transactions (including the bills that they received). Between the two I can travell all the time and not have to worry about if the bill is laying in my mailbox at the house. I recommend PayTrust. I have never used PayMyBills, OnMoney, or the others.
Thanks,
Scott
Scott
C{E,F,O,T}O
sboss dot net
email: scott@sboss.net
I am 39.0% slashdot pure
I have to admit upfront that I am a UN*X junkie.
True UNIX written by AT&T Bell Labs, is probably dead, but it has morphed into many different children UN*Xes which have spun off children, etc There are mainstream UN*Xes like Solaris, HPUX, AIX, IRIX, Linux, & BSD. Then there are some that have fallen to the wayside like SunOS (before the Solaris version), AUX, etc. There are still out there true SysV R4 UNIX running in production enviroments, whereas overall it is dead. The vendor does not even support it. There are children of SysV R4 that are live and kicking today. So, will UNIX die? it depends on how you define the word UNIX. In the original AT&T UNIX, then yes it will die if it had not already. But with the children O/Ses being spun off the UN*Xes then I do not see it going away anytime soon.
Microsoft is doing the same thing (sorta), the release newer and newer O/Ses that are children of their previous O/Ses. Will Windows go away anytime soon, probably not. Windows 3.1 or Windows 95 or a specific version/flavor of it will go away in the not too far away future (year, years, whatever). But overall Windows like UN*X is here to stay. They are both good O/Ses, but....
At this point I piss off all the Windows fans, by saying I will not put anything mission critical on Windows 9x/NT/2000. I do not see it as a stable enough platform. On the other hand, I will run mission critical stuff on 6 year old UN*X hardware and not blink an eye. Or even better, steal the hardware from the Windows 9x/NT/2000 machine and load Linux on it.
That last paragraph is probably a seed for a flame war. Which is not why I said it.
Thanks, that is my $0.02 worth,
Scott
Scott
C{E,F,O,T}O
sboss dot net
email: scott@sboss.net
I am 39.0% slashdot pure
Well this is a question I have been asking for a long time now. The big things are cheap electricity, cheap/fast net access, plenty of geeky things to do, etc. Here in atlanta we have everything but cheap/fast net access. Only small portions of the city can get DSL and it is not cheap. Forget about ISDN (BellSouth charges way too much including make people to pay for chanel hours). The part of city I live in, I am too far away for DSL/ISDN and dedicated circuits (even 56k) are way too expensive. Personally if BellSouth could fix the net connection costs problem Atlanta would shoot right through the roof as geek central. We have many Univeristies/Colleges, plenty of culture, plenty of geeky things to do, and a lot more. I do not see BellSouth dropping its prices of network connections.
That's my 2 cents worth,
Scott
Scott
C{E,F,O,T}O
sboss dot net
email: scott@sboss.net
Do you think there will be any security in the internet of the future? There seems to be more and more security holes (or at least we are finding more). Plus does encryption or digitially signing data help or hender the net?
Thanks
Scott
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