What? "Checking the top links google turns up?" That was exactly my whole point, and exactly what I linked to! It was indeed my entire purpose for having posted. The solution I pointed to is exactly the same you point to now, was never previously addressed, and is the correct solution. I'm afraid you're totally inverted somewhere.:)
There should be a note on the submitter page for Slashdot reminding people to first use google and go to the canonical source of information on a given subject, before posting.
Anyhow, there is the solution the google link above. "Ask Slashdot" to the rescue, clicking on google for you 24/7!
"The concern I share with a lot of other people is a general lack of confidence in Microsoft's code: We don't really know what is well-written versus what is held together by duct tape,...."
Held together by duct tape? Luxury! How about that which is implanted by Phineas Gage style brain surgery, such as the kernel mode web browser and the OLE-binary-dump file formats?!?!
"Open Source Web Design is a community of designers and site owners sharing free web design templates as well as web design information. Helping to make the internet a prettier place!"
I think each of these two following documents I'm about to quote tread awkwardly on the reflexive difficulty of gender bias. Of course the primary failure is that they target one specific gender as being biased against, the targeting of which inherently creates bias. They try to define what bias is and isn't, and hence how "women are" and how "women aren't". But they're a decently relevant resource.
Every gender bias related paper I've read is about why women are the inherent underdog, not about the nature of gender bias and programming. Gender bias and programming are inherently equal opportunity victimizations and aggressions perpetrated by society, by natural situations, and by self.
The only equal-opportunity social anti-bias resource I've seen yet is VHEMT.;-)
Any sane VoIP system for end users, such as Vonage, is not in any way server related. It has an appliance or software phone that keeps a continuous but idle connection open to Vonage's servers, and does a periodic heartbeat over that connection. Vonage's servers only push the call notification to the appliance or software phone via a response to that client's outbound connection. It works fine, unmodified and not-specially-configured, behind NAT. It's not a server.
All of that is completely mistaken. It does not mean no more updates. It means essentially nothing at all to the end user and to anyone who's not a core developer. It simply means the distro version migrates to being managed by the Fedora Legacy project for updates. Besides that, any product needs a feature freeze upon initial release anyway, or else it's not a product. So security and bugfix updates will come for a very long time. Absolutely nothing to see here.
I forgot to mention that FFXI also goes a long way toward promoting nonviolence as an in-game lifestyle and society. They have guilds based on magic, art, and cooking. They even have pseudogames to unite all in-game nationalities that exist for the purpose of celebrating nonviolence and unity. And it'll continue over time.
In the meantime, Second Life is a fully scriptable and physics-enabled virtual world with optional damage-enabled zones, where players can create their own RPG and other lifestyle environments from scratch. They encourage economy in and out of the game. You are encouraged to make real money playing it, while they also provide for all players. Their architecture is based on open standard technology and runs on MacOS and Windows, with a Linux client on the way. The Windows client runs on WineX 3.
Gah, now I can't stop thinking about how cool a DS Zelda MMORPG would be. Thanks!
hahahaaa!! I know!
Yeah hey if it was simply done in Nintendo fashion, I think any of those franchises would just nail it. And that's part of the "problem" -- Nintendo can't do anything without doing it 100000%. It's all or nothing. They have such engaging characters with enriching relationships that you actually care about. Think of Epona in Zelda64, whose life you touch in so many ways. Her song is ingrained in your character's soul, connected to your innate magic, and a necessary part of getting along in the game. You help her and her family, you hang out at her house for days, you find all the secrets underneath it. And she's just an average type of character with no magic or weapons.
I spent a whole weekend playing Final Fantasy XI on Playstation 2 at a friend's house. I am endeared to the altruism that the game promotes, and to the people I met (see my pics of my adventures and friends). And it looks and sounds great with an keyboard controller that's as much of a breakthrough as the N64's controller was. But that's it. For me to be truly immersed in it, I'd have to truly care about the game, the world, the purpose, the characters, and the players. FFXI is a wonderful work of art but has only the players and has a little bit of purpose in the sense of teamwork and nationalism, whereas Nintendo would instantly have all of the above.
But if any of you are in FFXI, tell my weekend friends that dtm said hi!
They need to first create a coherent Internet strategy spearheaded by a Pokemon, Zelda, or Mario based MMORPG at least on par with Final Fantasy and Second Life. Only then shall I permit this fragmentation of attention! This..this... childish insolence!
If you can't control the software installations, set your firewall to block destination ports of 6660-6669 so no irc clients can connect from those systems. You should do that anyway.:)
I strongly prefer the N64 controller and hence Adaptoid. If you have Windows, their driver adapts RumblePak to DirectX Force Feedback, and can read/write memory card data. Otherwise, it's a generic USB HID and so you can use it as a keyboard or mouse. Also, N64's controller is physically backward compatible with SNES and NES. I never finished adapting it to Q3A, but I did all my emulation with it on MacOS 9 and 10.
Salina, KS has all public city, county, and school board meetings televised on tv and streaming live and archived on the Internet. Most of the city and county ordinances and other documentation is online. We have our Public Access Mapping (GIS) database online. Almost all of our public nonprofits are online along with matching the public up with their corresponding resources and volunteer opportunities. Most of the big nonprofits have their own web sites with calendaring and everything else, far far too many to mention. Our whole public library catalog is online with renewals, reservations, and live shelf status.
That's just the publicly funded stuff, not counting free classifieds and job listings, home schooling, community access television (publically created, not just publically viewed) etc. We've got more stuff online than most cities I've seen even of a much larger and more affluent scale around the US. My hat's off to any city that has any of this; they're doing more good than they know.
Here's an essay I'm reading, entitled "Why Nerds are Unpopular" but it's actually an analysis of the unchecked institutional violence that is the American public school system. It explains why school is often a useless, kill-or-be-killed, savage environment. And that it's institutionally systematic, not just a matter of individual people or places.
I hope some of you had a better experience, even within the institution. I know it can be done in many locations with the proper familial and professional guidance. I hope someday the system can be rebooted to its innate purpose, but that's virtually impossible without first totally dismantling it.
I once worked with one of the most reprehensible, offensively ignorant, passively hostile, upwardly-brownnosing yet downwardly-hostile, two-faced people ever. She was living proof of how critical the hiring process is because one person can take a company down. Oh, how I must sanitize the details of this message so as to protect the guilty.
So offensive was she that our normally sweet and joyful receptionist said that she'd have flattened this person if the person wasn't pregnant. The person had never heard of our portion of the industry until her interview, was only hired because she knew the CFO, and was on a mission to steadily remove our products' use by our own employees in our own company because she didn't comprehend them. Her mission also was to fire/quit anyone who was insubmissive to her. She had a moustache.
So I got a book called "How to Deal With Difficult Bosses", a sequel of sorts to "How to Deal With Difficult People". I had all kinds of hope when I first saw it! There were a few profiles that *almost* fit her. It turns out that all corrective measures are based on understanding and taking advantage of the person's redeeming professional qualities, whereas SHE HAD NONE.
So I just resorted to keeping the book laid out prominently on my desk. I left the company pretty soon after that.
I'm wondering how to prevent another crushing monopoly, at least in the IT industry. The US government is obviously inept and/or inert at it. It's largely up to the capitalistic market and to grassroots movement. We've experienced a personal computing heyday or two, with the Apple// and then the Internet. The cat's out of the bag that computers are good, and it's proven that standards can drive the industry at a very high level. Government might improve standards adoption, but has no teeth.
But let's pretend that the market itself, driven by Free software and by true Apple-style innovation, solves the current monopoly problem in a few years. Let's pretend that then, Microsoft was still of debatable monopoly status, that it wasn't of blatant, illegal, and/or abusive monpoly status as it is today. Are the open standards and the Free software reference implementations being developed thoroughly enough and quickly enough to prevent another power vacuum, and is competition thorough and competent enough to not hand everything over on a silver platter again when the next big wave hits?
I think that there are corporate competitors whose culture has learned its lesson, namely IBM. Free software remains perfectly viable but yet untamed as a de facto, relatively turnkey, solution for the pure practicality of this particular caliber of job.
I'm only talking about cheap dual-ISP redundancy for hot failover only, not for load balancing. It'd work fine for outbound connections from our downstream customers to the Internet, but it wouldn't work for our local server hosting. For the latter, as far as I know, the two choices are either BGP or DNS-based failover.
DNS based failover isn't a good option for servers because of these reasons:
because a T1 is not likely to be down for long and all the stupid Windows clients on the public internet that don't properly respect TTL will not respect either the failover update or the restoration update within that period of time
I'd inherently need to host DNS offsite in order to propagate the new server IP addresses upon failover
As I understand it, BGP must be supported by the upstream ISP in order to work at all. Right?
Have you guys done onsite link redundancy, but with a cheap circuit as a backup? Such as by getting a $50/mo cable connection as a failover for your T1? Does that require ISP support on both sides?
I should probably keep researching Zebra and lartc and stuff.
of course that didnt stop you from offering a sweeping statement about their culture.
Yeah, that's exactly what it did, hence the presence of a generously stated question instead of a statement or conclusion. And thanks to those who offered the insightful responses I requested.
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What? "Checking the top links google turns up?" That was exactly my whole point, and exactly what I linked to! It was indeed my entire purpose for having posted. The solution I pointed to is exactly the same you point to now, was never previously addressed, and is the correct solution. I'm afraid you're totally inverted somewhere. :)
Anyhow, there is the solution the google link above. "Ask Slashdot" to the rescue, clicking on google for you 24/7!
If you install Linux in a virtual machine such as the free qemu then Linux becomes a Windows application. :)
Held together by duct tape? Luxury! How about that which is implanted by Phineas Gage style brain surgery, such as the kernel mode web browser and the OLE-binary-dump file formats?!?!
"Open Source Web Design is a community of designers and site owners sharing free web design templates as well as web design information. Helping to make the internet a prettier place!"
Every gender bias related paper I've read is about why women are the inherent underdog, not about the nature of gender bias and programming. Gender bias and programming are inherently equal opportunity victimizations and aggressions perpetrated by society, by natural situations, and by self.
The only equal-opportunity social anti-bias resource I've seen yet is VHEMT. ;-)
Any sane VoIP system for end users, such as Vonage, is not in any way server related. It has an appliance or software phone that keeps a continuous but idle connection open to Vonage's servers, and does a periodic heartbeat over that connection. Vonage's servers only push the call notification to the appliance or software phone via a response to that client's outbound connection. It works fine, unmodified and not-specially-configured, behind NAT. It's not a server.
All of that is completely mistaken. It does not mean no more updates. It means essentially nothing at all to the end user and to anyone who's not a core developer. It simply means the distro version migrates to being managed by the Fedora Legacy project for updates. Besides that, any product needs a feature freeze upon initial release anyway, or else it's not a product. So security and bugfix updates will come for a very long time. Absolutely nothing to see here.
The only downside is that it'd only run on Nintendo hardware, and I don't have a Gamecube. But I'd get one just for that! A Zelda appliance!
In the meantime, Second Life is a fully scriptable and physics-enabled virtual world with optional damage-enabled zones, where players can create their own RPG and other lifestyle environments from scratch. They encourage economy in and out of the game. You are encouraged to make real money playing it, while they also provide for all players. Their architecture is based on open standard technology and runs on MacOS and Windows, with a Linux client on the way. The Windows client runs on WineX 3.
hahahaaa!! I know!
Yeah hey if it was simply done in Nintendo fashion, I think any of those franchises would just nail it. And that's part of the "problem" -- Nintendo can't do anything without doing it 100000%. It's all or nothing. They have such engaging characters with enriching relationships that you actually care about. Think of Epona in Zelda64, whose life you touch in so many ways. Her song is ingrained in your character's soul, connected to your innate magic, and a necessary part of getting along in the game. You help her and her family, you hang out at her house for days, you find all the secrets underneath it. And she's just an average type of character with no magic or weapons.
I spent a whole weekend playing Final Fantasy XI on Playstation 2 at a friend's house. I am endeared to the altruism that the game promotes, and to the people I met (see my pics of my adventures and friends). And it looks and sounds great with an keyboard controller that's as much of a breakthrough as the N64's controller was. But that's it. For me to be truly immersed in it, I'd have to truly care about the game, the world, the purpose, the characters, and the players. FFXI is a wonderful work of art but has only the players and has a little bit of purpose in the sense of teamwork and nationalism, whereas Nintendo would instantly have all of the above.
But if any of you are in FFXI, tell my weekend friends that dtm said hi!
They need to first create a coherent Internet strategy spearheaded by a Pokemon, Zelda, or Mario based MMORPG at least on par with Final Fantasy and Second Life. Only then shall I permit this fragmentation of attention! This..this... childish insolence!
If you can't control the software installations, set your firewall to block destination ports of 6660-6669 so no irc clients can connect from those systems. You should do that anyway. :)
I strongly prefer the N64 controller and hence Adaptoid. If you have Windows, their driver adapts RumblePak to DirectX Force Feedback, and can read/write memory card data. Otherwise, it's a generic USB HID and so you can use it as a keyboard or mouse. Also, N64's controller is physically backward compatible with SNES and NES. I never finished adapting it to Q3A, but I did all my emulation with it on MacOS 9 and 10.
Okay, hold up now, that's just *Wong*!
That's just the publicly funded stuff, not counting free classifieds and job listings, home schooling, community access television (publically created, not just publically viewed) etc. We've got more stuff online than most cities I've seen even of a much larger and more affluent scale around the US. My hat's off to any city that has any of this; they're doing more good than they know.
I hope some of you had a better experience, even within the institution. I know it can be done in many locations with the proper familial and professional guidance. I hope someday the system can be rebooted to its innate purpose, but that's virtually impossible without first totally dismantling it.
Look up qemu.
You can virtualize it. Run native Linux as a MacOS process using qemu.
To answer the question posed in the article's title, "yes".
So offensive was she that our normally sweet and joyful receptionist said that she'd have flattened this person if the person wasn't pregnant. The person had never heard of our portion of the industry until her interview, was only hired because she knew the CFO, and was on a mission to steadily remove our products' use by our own employees in our own company because she didn't comprehend them. Her mission also was to fire/quit anyone who was insubmissive to her. She had a moustache.
So I got a book called "How to Deal With Difficult Bosses", a sequel of sorts to "How to Deal With Difficult People". I had all kinds of hope when I first saw it! There were a few profiles that *almost* fit her. It turns out that all corrective measures are based on understanding and taking advantage of the person's redeeming professional qualities, whereas SHE HAD NONE.
So I just resorted to keeping the book laid out prominently on my desk. I left the company pretty soon after that.
But let's pretend that the market itself, driven by Free software and by true Apple-style innovation, solves the current monopoly problem in a few years. Let's pretend that then, Microsoft was still of debatable monopoly status, that it wasn't of blatant, illegal, and/or abusive monpoly status as it is today. Are the open standards and the Free software reference implementations being developed thoroughly enough and quickly enough to prevent another power vacuum, and is competition thorough and competent enough to not hand everything over on a silver platter again when the next big wave hits?
I think that there are corporate competitors whose culture has learned its lesson, namely IBM. Free software remains perfectly viable but yet untamed as a de facto, relatively turnkey, solution for the pure practicality of this particular caliber of job.
DNS based failover isn't a good option for servers because of these reasons:
As I understand it, BGP must be supported by the upstream ISP in order to work at all. Right?
I should probably keep researching Zebra and lartc and stuff.
Yeah, that's exactly what it did, hence the presence of a generously stated question instead of a statement or conclusion. And thanks to those who offered the insightful responses I requested.