I haven't worked in the NOC of an ISP in years, but this is much is still true
I have.
I'm not just referring to bandwidth costs, but costs in paying engineers and operations staff, costs for upkeep and service contracts for hardware, the list goes on and on. Have you looked in detail at finanicial reports for your broadband provider?
Its not a rosey picture, and the world of the ISP has changed significantly from "back in the day". Even when I worked at a local dialup provider before the advent of broadband the costs were astromomical because they had nothing to offer in a peering arrangement. They were a small fish in a big pond. Now, working for a big fish, the costs are entirely different. Sure, peering may be a different world, and owning your own fat fibre network changes costs of traffic... but there are still costs for the network, greater costs for the servers, huge costs for software and service contracts to take care of the servers, manage the network and gather information for trend analysis (Open Source is nice but doesn't cut it in the real world of the huge corporation, hence companies like HP and Micromuse make a killing), and the amount of money you have to dish out for salaries... hoooo boy.
Invoking "corporate greed" is a cop out for refusing to understand the realities. In most cases (I will concede "not all") we're getting our broadband REALLY REALLY CHEAP. The tide is swinging the other way in many areas (ATTBI: tastes flat, less filling, same price), but where I live and work, its not.
I'd suggest you go check the actually costs versus income of services like this. You'd be surprised at how much you've been ripping your provider off all these years.
Re:who ever said it was?
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Unix Isn't Dead
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Someone flag this user for Balmerization, he has dared to question The Truth of the Microsoft.
I'm sure I'm ignoring obvious deficiencies, but when I'm in X I've settled on Evolution from Ximian. It tastes like Outlook, which I use if I'm stuck in Windows, will soon be able to replace Outlook (Exchange server 2000 compatibility is out, hopefully older Exchange server compatibility is on the way) for the corporate desktop, its pretty, featured, etc. When I'm relagated to a mere console, I use pine. Its been around and I'm used to it.
I might check out the bat based on other comments here, but those two do it for me.
Posting the news as soon as you have it is what News for Nerds is about. The nerds reading it should be clueful enough to know that they should just chill the fsck out and not cripple the servers.
The fact that you ask that makes me feel horribly old school. Back in Tha Day, nobody quick enough to get the first (real) comment onto a story would have thought to ask that. Its assumed.
Heh. One day I'll be drinking metamucil from my Thinkgeek penguin glass and remincising about the times before peer-to-peer when you either knew ftp or you went home... and zmodem will be considered a myth.
Ain't It Cool News *ALL* looks like its done by a stoned 15 year-old script kiddie. For a site this consistently awful it sure does get a lot of attention.
They would love to be able to tell complainants citing the DMCA to just go away (i.e., some user on a broadband service puts up a server on their DSL or cable line to distribute warez, mp3s, etc, and the right-holder in the US calls/writes to demand the user be shut down). Usually, copyright from one country is not in force in another, you need to establish copyright under both legal codes. The efforts of rightsholders in the US to enforce their law in other jurisdictions muddies these waters considerably.
Better be careful, those Mac users may attempt to bash "FUTURE MAN!" with their keyboards and "CPUs". The OS uncourages too much lack of clue to equip the average user to be able to understand you travelling back in time.
The kind of "thought" in the legal world is frightening. Its similar to the ideas motivating the Canadian government to introduce bills that seek to make ISPs reponsible for criminal activities on their network, such as the distribution of child pornography.
This seems to be another bit of fallout from the societal trend to blame the circumstances "making criminals" rather than making the criminals responsible for their own choices.
Linus is a myth. There is no Linus, never was. He is a fictional person created to explain the spontaneous evolution of Linux from code snippets by pure chance. Linus is a crutch used by those who require a neat and tidy explanation for this phenomenom.
Furthermore, there is no meaning to Linux. It just is. Its complex, its dynamic, its really difficult to explain and predict in detail. The VM fiasco was in fact a stronger species of VM being introduced into the environment by accident. We believe that it may have been smuggled in by a BSD user, and having no strong natural enemies it was vulnerable to, simply pushed out the weaker indigenous VM species. Again, this is all chance.
When will we wake up and stop attempting to explain things by invoking some higher power, creator, kernel maintainer, what-have-you? Wake up, darwin wasn't talking about odd monkey-creatures in Madagascar, he was talking about Linux.
The author(s) should definitely be acknowledged for their work and the code should definitely be open. If it was paid for by the tax payers, it belongs to the tax payers. It is only fair to acknowledge the work of individuals irregardless of who the rights holders are.
Flame: OMFG what the hell is wrong with Steve Jobs
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New iMac Announced
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Is Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer, drinking the bong water again? Apple's new iMac boasts a flat panel display (which Jobs may be surprised to
hear have been an option for PC users - remember them, Steve? The ones with choices about their hardware? - have been using for some time). Yippity-do-dah.
The new iMac/desktop-lamp is "the best thing we have ever done" according to Jobs. What the hell is wrong with this guy? A 700 - 800 MHz G4 CPU, 32 MB GeForce2 MX card, and other options long available for PCs is the height of Apple's engineering prowess? Jobs further pontificates that "this is the official death of the CRT today". Wow.
More idiotic babbling: "Pretty much, us and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by
innovation,"... a desktop lamp-shaped underpowered OS-limited Mac box with a crappy video card is innovative?
</rant>
For the first time? Hardly. The little bastards "win" all the time, the manage to disrupt various services to give themselves the confidence boost needed from living a pitiful little life in their parents basement using stolen credit cards to access porn. Thankfully, the vast amount of porn available means they are least know what a women looks like...
This won't be a problem for Shaw@Home. Shaw has already rebranded as Shaw High-Speed Internet Services, has always used their own network, and has servers up which customers are being migrated too. They are EASILY the most prepared of all of the (former?) partners of @Home.
Don't you think it was a little dumb to use UPS? For a computer? That would be like using a flimsy tissue paper cups to protect your nuts when you play hockey.
Sucks man but... uh... you have to accept some if not all of the blame for shipping a COMPUTER by notoriously bad UPS.
Slashdot Mirror
I have.
I'm not just referring to bandwidth costs, but costs in paying engineers and operations staff, costs for upkeep and service contracts for hardware, the list goes on and on. Have you looked in detail at finanicial reports for your broadband provider?
Its not a rosey picture, and the world of the ISP has changed significantly from "back in the day". Even when I worked at a local dialup provider before the advent of broadband the costs were astromomical because they had nothing to offer in a peering arrangement. They were a small fish in a big pond. Now, working for a big fish, the costs are entirely different. Sure, peering may be a different world, and owning your own fat fibre network changes costs of traffic... but there are still costs for the network, greater costs for the servers, huge costs for software and service contracts to take care of the servers, manage the network and gather information for trend analysis (Open Source is nice but doesn't cut it in the real world of the huge corporation, hence companies like HP and Micromuse make a killing), and the amount of money you have to dish out for salaries... hoooo boy.
Invoking "corporate greed" is a cop out for refusing to understand the realities. In most cases (I will concede "not all") we're getting our broadband REALLY REALLY CHEAP. The tide is swinging the other way in many areas (ATTBI: tastes flat, less filling, same price), but where I live and work, its not.
I'd suggest you go check the actually costs versus income of services like this. You'd be surprised at how much you've been ripping your provider off all these years.
Someone flag this user for Balmerization, he has dared to question The Truth of the Microsoft.
This is the film that made me recind my "Tim Burton is a genius" claims.
Planet of the Suck had nothing more than good special effects, everything else is a stain on the careers of all involved.
IMO.
I might check out the bat based on other comments here, but those two do it for me.
Posting the news as soon as you have it is what News for Nerds is about. The nerds reading it should be clueful enough to know that they should just chill the fsck out and not cripple the servers.
Lynx owns j00
I use it on any *nix box I use for a desktop, which is several. I don't care for KDE, so I haven't become a fan of Konqueror.
I like mozilla, and I hope it continues to improve.
The fact that you ask that makes me feel horribly old school. Back in Tha Day, nobody quick enough to get the first (real) comment onto a story would have thought to ask that. Its assumed.
Heh. One day I'll be drinking metamucil from my Thinkgeek penguin glass and remincising about the times before peer-to-peer when you either knew ftp or you went home... and zmodem will be considered a myth.
Trillian password files perhaps?
Slow? Try throwing real hardware at it, Linux deserves more than an old p200
Ain't It Cool News *ALL* looks like its done by a stoned 15 year-old script kiddie. For a site this consistently awful it sure does get a lot of attention.
A similar problem faces Canadian ISPs.
They would love to be able to tell complainants citing the DMCA to just go away (i.e., some user on a broadband service puts up a server on their DSL or cable line to distribute warez, mp3s, etc, and the right-holder in the US calls/writes to demand the user be shut down). Usually, copyright from one country is not in force in another, you need to establish copyright under both legal codes. The efforts of rightsholders in the US to enforce their law in other jurisdictions muddies these waters considerably.
Better be careful, those Mac users may attempt to bash "FUTURE MAN!" with their keyboards and "CPUs". The OS uncourages too much lack of clue to equip the average user to be able to understand you travelling back in time.
Needlessly redundant?
Holy crap.
It may be worth noting that you could be the only happy ATTBI user, the rest are not happy campers.
The kind of "thought" in the legal world is frightening. Its similar to the ideas motivating the Canadian government to introduce bills that seek to make ISPs reponsible for criminal activities on their network, such as the distribution of child pornography.
This seems to be another bit of fallout from the societal trend to blame the circumstances "making criminals" rather than making the criminals responsible for their own choices.
Ah'd shoot ya fer yer remarks if'n ah could get up outta this pool a' vomit *hic*
A rocket that explodes would be really really cool. I'd pay to see that. Who wants to start the petition?
Furthermore, there is no meaning to Linux. It just is. Its complex, its dynamic, its really difficult to explain and predict in detail. The VM fiasco was in fact a stronger species of VM being introduced into the environment by accident. We believe that it may have been smuggled in by a BSD user, and having no strong natural enemies it was vulnerable to, simply pushed out the weaker indigenous VM species. Again, this is all chance.
When will we wake up and stop attempting to explain things by invoking some higher power, creator, kernel maintainer, what-have-you? Wake up, darwin wasn't talking about odd monkey-creatures in Madagascar, he was talking about Linux.
The author(s) should definitely be acknowledged for their work and the code should definitely be open. If it was paid for by the tax payers, it belongs to the tax payers. It is only fair to acknowledge the work of individuals irregardless of who the rights holders are.
Is Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer, drinking the bong water again? Apple's new iMac boasts a flat panel display (which Jobs may be surprised to
hear have been an option for PC users - remember them, Steve? The ones with choices about their hardware? - have been using for some time). Yippity-do-dah.
The new iMac/desktop-lamp is "the best thing we have ever done" according to Jobs. What the hell is wrong with this guy? A 700 - 800 MHz G4 CPU, 32 MB GeForce2 MX card, and other options long available for PCs is the height of Apple's engineering prowess? Jobs further pontificates that "this is the official death of the CRT today". Wow.
More idiotic babbling: "Pretty much, us and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by
innovation,"... a desktop lamp-shaped underpowered OS-limited Mac box with a crappy video card is innovative?
</rant>
For the first time? Hardly. The little bastards "win" all the time, the manage to disrupt various services to give themselves the confidence boost needed from living a pitiful little life in their parents basement using stolen credit cards to access porn. Thankfully, the vast amount of porn available means they are least know what a women looks like...
Just so its clear to users on Shaw... Shaw is exempt :
Contracts with all the Contract Parties except Shaw shall be and hereby are rejected
This won't be a problem for Shaw@Home. Shaw has already rebranded as Shaw High-Speed Internet Services, has always used their own network, and has servers up which customers are being migrated too. They are EASILY the most prepared of all of the (former?) partners of @Home.
Don't you think it was a little dumb to use UPS? For a computer? That would be like using a flimsy tissue paper cups to protect your nuts when you play hockey.
Sucks man but... uh... you have to accept some if not all of the blame for shipping a COMPUTER by notoriously bad UPS.