Netscape is faster than IE on Unix
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IE already exists for Solaris, it sucks. It's very slow (noticeably slower than Netscape) and there exactly 0 plugins available. There is no reason to expect that a FreeBSD port would be any better.
Face it. The only reason IE runs well with Windows is because it is so tightly coupled to the OS. Port it to any other OS, and it's a dog.
1) It really is a nice place to live. Awsome weather. Lots to do. Reasonably intelegent society. (yes, there are boneheads here but the density is much lower than other places I've lived) It won't suit everybody but a lot of people really do like it here.
2) A hot job market means the next job is right next door to the last job. If your startup company bites the dust, it's not a catastrophy. The next one is well within commute range. If you lose your job in Podunk, what are you going to do? And where do you think companies located in Podunk go recruting? SV.
Well, the copywrite notice in/bin/false is slightly less ludicrous than the one in/bin/true. It's the same notice but at least/bin/false has (one line of) code./bin/true is entirely comments.
What's really amazing is that the comments indicate that/bin/true is at version 1.6. What did the earlier versions do? How does one enhanse or fix a null program?.... 6 times!
No. And that is the problem. We never actually developed the technology to allow sustainted occupation of the moon. We went for the quick, multi-billion dollar publicity stunt instead. If going to the moon was a test then we didn't pass, we cheated. Why didn't we even try to go on to Mars? Because we never actually learned the lessons we were supposed to learn going to the Moon.
Now we have nothing. The Moon is no longer the lure to inspire people to think of space and it's challanges. And yet, the job still isn't done. Is it any wonder that space technology has stagnated? The prize is gone. All that's left is the work.
1) Sites that have their own domain. 2) Sites that share their domain with others.
Sites with their own domains can be found simply by searching domains. I would think that NSI and other registries would be willing to part with their zone data for research purposes by a reputable organization.
Sites that share a domain are harder. These could probably be estimated by finding the ratio between pages reachable from the domain's home page and those not reachable for known sites and extrapolating.
Another useful source, if they can get it, is Alexia's data. Alexia tracks pages as the user visits them. As a result, any page that any user (using the Alexia plugin) visits, Alexia can catalog. I have caught alexia crawling pages of mine that were deliberately set up to not have any links to them.
"Here we are the site of the site of the latest nuclear test. As you can see the tremendous forces unleased have transformed this once prestine wilderness into a barren moonscape.
Back then, people actually understood how usenet works rather get it get into a huf that "ooh. Someone might see that I was a dork once. Oh my god! Nuke! Nuke! Nuke!".
With longer latency and less volume, typical expire times were longer. Two weeks was the standard for a long time.
Seriously, usenet has been archived for as long as it has existed. (~1980) And it's still being archived, even the postings with X-no-archive. Get over it.
It's too late. Really. If we start mucking with the HDTV spec now, sales of existing televisions and existing broadcast equipment will fall through the floor. We'll be back to square one again. And, if you've been following the HDTV effort you will know that maketing HDTV a reality has been a long and painful process.
And, it's not like you can just change a cheap component and be done. OFDM is significantly more complex than 8VSB. And end user equipement will need to support both. 'Does wonders for the cost model of already too expensive HDTV receivers.
BTW, in the wired world, OFDM is called DMT. Alcatel's version of DMT is the standard for ADSL.
Opening the source code is unlikely to accomplish anything. I expect it would be a year or two to before anyone outside of Microsoft got the source to *compile*. This is like Mozilla but a *lot* worse.
If you're trying to restore a competitive environment, regulation is a lousy way to do it. The company will have to be micromanaged in order to prevent monopopy abuses. They'll be just like SBC in the telephone market. Yuck.
A breakup, on the other hand, can actually work. It's the only method, in my estimation, that can actually work.
PayMyBills is almost there. The amounts (variable) are available online and you can schedule automatic payments.
What you can't do is schedule automatic variable payments. Do that, and they'll have my business.
Because they're convenient and I have self control
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I treat my credit card transactions like checks. If I couldn't write a check for the same amount, I can't charge it either. Simple, really. Credit cards are also nice in that the bills are itemized so that I always know what I spent things on without having to track it myself. Unlike debit cards, the charges nicely integrate back into my checking account with one entry. Less security risk too.
The 8086 was a hack. Intel knew it was a hack. The chip they really wanted to define their future was the 432 Unfortunately, the 432 was rediculously big, complex, and slow. It failed misserably in the marketplace.
All signals are analog. All signals that carry information are modulated in some fashion. The simplest modulation is on-off keying. For example, 2.6V-5VT is defined as "1" and below 2.4V is "0". That's probably what your thinking of as "pure digital" but, aside from *short* range copper and fiber, nothing is on-off-keyed.
The modulation ISDN uses called 2b1q ADSL uses DMT. DMT is pretty complex. It envolves sending data across multiple sinusoidal subcariers. It looks nothing like a square wave.
Let's say, I want to accept may for user@domainname and direct it to user foo.
Simple, eh? Just add a virtusertable entry.
Hmmm. Not working. oops. Gotta add, domainname into sendmail.cw so that sendmail recognizes it. All done, right?
Oops, fo@domainname is being delivered to fo@mailserver instead of bounceing. Sendmail.cw has the side effect of delivering aliasing *@domainame to *@mailserver. Yuck!
Now, I have to add another virtusertable entry to explicity bounce *@domainname.
There we have it. Three entries, in two files where one entry in one file should have been sufficient.
The only way a clean name space will arise is if there are actual humans looking at each application and rejecting registrations that don't make sense. Without controls, people will do their worst, if not because of beligerance or ignorance then through self defense.
We now have a pathetically simple set of domains and even this classification system has been completely trashed. There isn't a chance for a more complex system to work without humans manageing the process.
Right now the only domains that "work" are the ones actively managed (.edu,.gov,.mil, some of the country domains) They work because they have people to look at registrations and throw many into the trash.
Having people look at registratoins will be expensive. There's no way around that. But, frankly, I don't this is a real problem. Domain name allocations are permanent. That's an expensive charge against the future. There's no particular reason why it should be monitarily cheap now.
Make them work. Because geography really does matter.
An organization should not be able to register in a global top lovel domain unless they have full time employees (in the case of for-profit) or members in at least 3 countries.
Companies will be permited to have domains in other country domains but only if they have full time employees there.
Set up a personal domain in each country. It makes no sense to have personal domains in international domains. (Unless you can find someone who is a citizen of 3 countries)
Within the US, require registration in a state 2ld unless the company has full time employees in 3 or more states. Since people are much more mobile than compies, I would not restrict personal domains in this way.
Now geography isn't everything and the above won't resolve every conflict, but it will reduce the conflicts. "Type" classification can also be overlayed. There would, for example, be a "restuarants" domain at the root, the us domain, and the ca.us domain.
Nah. They'll aim it straight at Ganymede for a crash landing. Somehow Galileo will soft land and NASA won't be able to figure out how to get the thing to shut up.
There's nothing wrong with having no web server at domain.com. I would argue that is the more correct way to do it. Aliasing domain.com is ugly.
You can't cname domain.com to www.domain.com. You must either use duplicated A records or alias www.domain.com to domain.com. The former is an administrative headache. The later re-enforces notions that a) the Web is the Internet and b) DNS is a flat name space where everything is domain.com
OpenSSH is a pain in the ass to build/install on many systems especialy those, like Solaris, that have no/dev/random. I have it working at home but there's no way I'm going to install it on all the machines at work.
Land speculation increases demand for land without increasing utility obtained from the land. Cost of living/doing business goes up. Everyone gets a little poorer in order to pay for the speculators profits.
People don't complain so much about land speculations because:
1) It's more constrained. As others have mentioned, land is more interchangeable. You can's squeese as hard as for unique objects, like domains.
2) It's accepted. Land speculation is old business. Humans have an amazing ability to accept rather henius acts providing it's "always been done that way".
3) There hasn't been any free or nearly free land to resell for a long time. Thus, the obvious unearned windfalls just there.
The trouble with returning the name, is that very likely a domain speculator will grab it first and then auction it off to the highest bidder. Nothing is changed except someone less deserving gets the money.
If you really wanted to score maximum karma points, I suggest selling the name, at a fair price, to the one who you think will make best use of the name.
Set the price just high enough to make the process worthwhile (Don't donante your time and effort to the process. The purchaser should pay you.) and cover the risk that your company may, in fact, need the name later on.
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IE already exists for Solaris, it sucks. It's very slow (noticeably slower than Netscape) and there exactly 0 plugins available. There is no reason to expect that a FreeBSD port would be any better.
Face it. The only reason IE runs well with Windows is because it is so tightly coupled to the OS. Port it to any other OS, and it's a dog.
I disagree that there's no more work to do, even that all the mainstream OS's are stuck in the past.
Where is my object oriented file system? Where is multi-level security? Plan9 style compute servers?
These are the topics of reseach past. Proven useful, still not available outside of research OS's.
In a sense, he's right that OS reseach has become irrelevent. Very little of it reaches the desk top these days. So what's the point?
1) It really is a nice place to live. Awsome weather. Lots to do. Reasonably intelegent society. (yes, there are boneheads here but the density is much lower than other places I've lived) It won't suit everybody but a lot of people really do like it here.
2) A hot job market means the next job is right next door to the last job. If your startup company bites the dust, it's not a catastrophy. The next one is well within commute range. If you lose your job in Podunk, what are you going to do? And where do you think companies located in Podunk go recruting? SV.
Screen draw is painful compared to Netscape (no speed demon itself). There are no plugins available.
I keep it around for certain Java heavy sites and for certain pages where Netscape (somehow) manages to crash the X server.
Um, why? Intel architecture isn't particularly new or interesting. So there's no compelling reason the OS can't be portable. So, why isn't it?
Well, the copywrite notice in /bin/false is slightly less ludicrous than the one in /bin/true. It's the same notice but at least /bin/false has (one line of) code. /bin/true is entirely comments.
/bin/true is at version 1.6. What did the earlier versions do? How does one enhanse or fix a null program?.... 6 times!
What's really amazing is that the comments indicate that
No. And that is the problem. We never actually developed the technology to allow sustainted occupation of the moon. We went for the quick, multi-billion dollar publicity stunt instead. If going to the moon was a test then we didn't pass, we cheated. Why didn't we even try to go on to Mars? Because we never actually learned the lessons we were supposed to learn going to the Moon.
Now we have nothing. The Moon is no longer the lure to inspire people to think of space and it's challanges. And yet, the job still isn't done.
Is it any wonder that space technology has stagnated? The prize is gone. All that's left is the work.
There are essentially two kinds of sites
1) Sites that have their own domain.
2) Sites that share their domain with others.
Sites with their own domains can be found simply by searching domains. I would think that NSI and other registries would be willing to part with their zone data for research purposes by a reputable organization.
Sites that share a domain are harder. These could probably be estimated by finding the ratio between pages reachable from the domain's home page and those not reachable for known sites and extrapolating.
Another useful source, if they can get it, is Alexia's data. Alexia tracks pages as the user visits them. As a result, any page that any user (using the Alexia plugin) visits, Alexia can catalog. I have caught alexia crawling pages of mine that were deliberately set up to not have any links to them.
"Here we are the site of the site of the latest nuclear test. As you can see the tremendous forces unleased have transformed this once prestine wilderness into a barren moonscape.
....Hang on...."
...are nil.
Back then, people actually understood how usenet works rather get it get into a huf that "ooh. Someone might see that I was a dork once. Oh my god! Nuke! Nuke! Nuke!".
With longer latency and less volume, typical expire times were longer. Two weeks was the standard for a long time.
Seriously, usenet has been archived for as long as it has existed. (~1980) And it's still being archived, even the postings with X-no-archive. Get over it.
It's too late. Really. If we start mucking with the HDTV spec now, sales of existing televisions and existing broadcast equipment will fall through the floor. We'll be back to square one again. And, if you've been following the HDTV effort you will know that maketing HDTV a reality has been a long and painful process.
And, it's not like you can just change a cheap component and be done. OFDM is significantly more complex than 8VSB. And end user equipement will need to support both. 'Does wonders for the cost model of already too expensive HDTV receivers.
BTW, in the wired world, OFDM is called DMT. Alcatel's version of DMT is the standard for ADSL.
Those are really the only options.
Opening the source code is unlikely to accomplish anything. I expect it would be a year or two to before anyone outside of Microsoft got the source to *compile*. This is like Mozilla but a *lot* worse.
If you're trying to restore a competitive environment, regulation is a lousy way to do it. The company will have to be micromanaged in order to prevent monopopy abuses. They'll be just like SBC in the telephone market. Yuck.
A breakup, on the other hand, can actually work. It's the only method, in my estimation, that can actually work.
PayMyBills is almost there. The amounts (variable) are available online and you can schedule automatic payments.
What you can't do is schedule automatic variable payments. Do that, and they'll have my business.
I treat my credit card transactions like checks. If I couldn't write a check for the same amount, I can't charge it either. Simple, really. Credit cards are also nice in that the bills are itemized so that I always know what I spent things on without having to track it myself.
Unlike debit cards, the charges nicely integrate back into my checking account with one entry. Less security risk too.
The 8086 was a hack. Intel knew it was a hack. The chip they really wanted to define their future was the 432
Unfortunately, the 432 was rediculously big, complex, and slow. It failed misserably in the marketplace.
All signals are analog. All signals that carry information are modulated in some fashion. The simplest modulation is on-off keying. For example, 2.6V-5VT is defined as "1" and below 2.4V is "0". That's probably what your thinking of as "pure digital" but, aside from *short* range copper and fiber, nothing is on-off-keyed.
The modulation ISDN uses called 2b1q
ADSL uses DMT. DMT is pretty complex. It envolves sending data across multiple sinusoidal subcariers. It looks nothing like a square wave.
Virtuser table is highly annoying in sendmail.
Let's say, I want to accept may for user@domainname and direct it to user foo.
Simple, eh? Just add a virtusertable entry.
Hmmm. Not working. oops. Gotta add, domainname into sendmail.cw so that sendmail recognizes it.
All done, right?
Oops, fo@domainname is being delivered to fo@mailserver instead of bounceing. Sendmail.cw has the side effect of delivering aliasing *@domainame to *@mailserver. Yuck!
Now, I have to add another virtusertable entry to explicity bounce *@domainname.
There we have it. Three entries, in two files where one entry in one file should have been sufficient.
The only way a clean name space will arise is if there are actual humans looking at each application and rejecting registrations that don't make sense. Without controls, people will do their worst, if not because of beligerance or ignorance then through self defense.
.gov, .mil, some of the country domains) They work because they have people to look at registrations and throw many into the trash.
We now have a pathetically simple set of domains and even this classification system has been completely trashed. There isn't a chance for a more complex system to work without humans manageing the process.
Right now the only domains that "work" are the ones actively managed (.edu,
Having people look at registratoins will be expensive. There's no way around that. But, frankly, I don't this is a real problem. Domain name allocations are permanent. That's an expensive charge against the future. There's no particular reason why it should be monitarily cheap now.
Make them work. Because geography really does matter.
An organization should not be able to register in a global top lovel domain unless they have full time employees (in the case of for-profit) or members in at least 3 countries.
Companies will be permited to have domains in other country domains but only if they have full time employees there.
Set up a personal domain in each country. It makes no sense to have personal domains in international domains. (Unless you can find someone who is a citizen of 3 countries)
Within the US, require registration in a state 2ld unless the company has full time employees in 3 or more states. Since people are much more mobile than compies, I would not restrict personal domains in this way.
Now geography isn't everything and the above won't resolve every conflict, but it will reduce the conflicts. "Type" classification can also be overlayed. There would, for example, be a "restuarants" domain at the root, the us domain, and the ca.us domain.
Nah. They'll aim it straight at Ganymede for a crash landing. Somehow Galileo will soft land and NASA won't be able to figure out how to get the thing to shut up.
There's nothing wrong with having no web server at domain.com. I would argue that is the more correct way to do it. Aliasing domain.com is ugly.
You can't cname domain.com to www.domain.com. You must either use duplicated A records or alias www.domain.com to domain.com. The former is an administrative headache. The later re-enforces notions that a) the Web is the Internet and b) DNS is a flat name space where everything is domain.com
OpenSSH is a pain in the ass to build/install on many systems especialy those, like Solaris, that have no /dev/random. I have it working at home but there's no way I'm going to install it on all the machines at work.
And, BTW, ssh comes in source form.
Land speculation increases demand for land without increasing utility obtained from the land.
Cost of living/doing business goes up. Everyone gets a little poorer in order to pay for the speculators profits.
People don't complain so much about land speculations because:
1) It's more constrained. As others have mentioned, land is more interchangeable. You can's squeese as hard as for unique objects, like domains.
2) It's accepted. Land speculation is old business. Humans have an amazing ability to accept rather henius acts providing it's "always been done that way".
3) There hasn't been any free or nearly free land to resell for a long time. Thus, the obvious unearned windfalls just there.
The trouble with returning the name, is that very likely a domain speculator will grab it first and then auction it off to the highest bidder. Nothing is changed except someone less deserving gets the money.
If you really wanted to score maximum karma points, I suggest selling the name, at a fair price, to the one who you think will make best use of the name.
Set the price just high enough to make the process worthwhile (Don't donante your time and effort to the process. The purchaser should pay you.) and cover the risk that your company may, in fact, need the name later on.
Hellium, really. Elements between Hellium and Iron are created in normal stars. However, without a supernova, these elements never leave the core.