The people in the printing industry I've met tend to believe that copying Photoshop for personal use is okay, but it should be purchased the moment it becomes one's livelihood. The reasoning is that Photoshop is a complicated software package and it takes time to master, and the only way to do that is to spend hundreds of hours in front of your computer learning it. But once it is used to make money, the software will pay for itself very quickly so at that point it is considered an investment.
Having said that, it would be interesting to know how many professionals who now own ligitimate copies of Photoshop for their business once cut their teeth on "pirated" versions. If Adobe stomps out this attitude among the printing industry, then what will happen to the number and quality of new professionals?
This reminds me of a scene in an episode of Drew Carey where Larry complains about there being no couch in the men's room (he was caught napping on the one in the ladies room). Drew's response was, "If there was one in the men's room, would you use it?"
Quite honestly, I tried to avoid touch things in a public toilet as much as possible and these things scream infestation. Unless these things have cool screen savers, they're of no use to me.
I clicked on the link and was presented with an e-mail message which states at the bottom "Please circulate this important notice." I usually delete chain letters and yell at the people who send them to me. Why does this one get posted to/. with no confirmation?
If the cost of a charity stamp is sufficiently small, I think most ISPs would be willing to absorb the cost for the majority of their users much like they do for bandwidth. That is to say that your monthly fee would include X number of sent e-mail messages per month. Spammers using their ISPs mail relays would be billed for the additional usage. If they use their own relays, then they will need to purchase charity stamps for themselves. Not sure about the technical challenges of implementing this but at the rate the spam problem is growing, I think we need to seriously consider every idea.
I do not believe that the author of this article has any experience with medium- to large-scale networks. X is a very chatty protocol and it does not take much to saturate a network, especially if you are going to be running a very graphic-intensive interface like KDE or Gnome. This is going to have a big impact on the end user so I would not get cheap here. I would strongly consider giving each user a dedicated 10 Mbps switch port and put the server on its own 100 Mbps full duplex port. Also, I would probably keep somewhere between a 10:1 or 20:1 ratio of X terminals per server.
People tend to think that the price of ownership is just the cost of the software, hardware and operating system. They seem to forget the fact that you need to hire people to build and maintain the systems. There is also going to be an impact on business if your end users cannot work. Sure, you can save a lot of money by using free software and building bargain basement systems, but this careless approach that the author describes is just going to lead to disaster. All the money you saved on bottom-of-the-barrel equipment is not going to save your company or your job when you have absolutely no upgrade path because you decided to run thin-net instead of cat5 and now your network is saturated with collisions. Or the network card you chose freezes when the network load goes over 5%. Or your users are frustrated from watching their five-dollar graphics card paint buttons on the screen.
I agree that you do not need top-of-the-line systems to build X terminals, but this is just rediculous and laughable.
First, you may be experiencing a problem with the network address translation. If these tables become corrupt or are cleared, then you will experience problems since the association between real and virtual IP addresses will be broken. If you are NAT-ing the entire 10.x.x.x subnet, you could potentially be running into memory/caching issues because of the shear number of IP addresses that are being mapped -- it could explain why rebooting temporarily solves the problem.
Second, you may have an overlap with static and dynamic IP addresses. If you are assigned an IP address by your DHCP server that is already taken by another computer then it is only a matter of time before you run into a problem like the one you described. Changing your IP subnet may have temporarily fixed the problem because no one has assigned a static IP address from your DHCP pool. Yet.
It is unlikely that using the 10.x.x.x subnet itself (other than the problems I have described above) has had anything to do with the failures. It is very common to use it for internal networking. I won't get into a debate as to whether it is good practice or not.
This Christmas, I gave my parents a DeskTop Theater 5.1 DTT2500 Digital from Cambridge Soundworks. Although it is intended as a sound system for a computer, it works very well as a home theater system.
What impresses me the most about this system is the number of inputs that are available and the fact that everything you need to set it up is included in the box.
The sound quality for such an inexpensive system is very good. I am building my own home theater setup in the very near future and I plan to buy one of these systems for myself. For those that are interested, I already have a Sony DVP-S360 DVD Player and I am planning to add the Sony KV-32FV26 32" Direct View television and the JVC HR-S3800 Super VHS HiFi VCR.
I am an English-speaking Quebecois who recently left Quebec (and Canada altogether) to pursue a career in the computer field. I understand the very reason to keep the French culture alive -- just visit Montreal and you will see how different a city it is compared with anywhere else in North America. If the market there where better, I wouldn't have left.
But a culture is not solely based on a language. I feel that the French speaking Quebecois who avoid learning English are simply cutting themselves off from the rest of the world, and the laws to protect the French language in Quebec are just a civilized version of ethnic cleansing.
This fear of losing one's culture by learning a foreign language is no different than the fears that make up other prejudices. If you visit Quebec you will understand that the political parties that are pushing for Separation are using this fear to gain support, much like the KKK or other such hate organizations use fear to gain membership.
The bottom line is that you are not going to lose your culture by learning another language. You lose your culture by deliberately choosing to abandon it.
A perfect example is my friend and I. We both moved to Boston a couple of years ago. Despite being submerged in American culture, I still consider myself Canadian. On the other hand, he chose to lose his Canadian identity in favour of an American one.
I have enough trouble keeping the syntax errors at bay that I would be in a world of hurt if I had to keep track of whether my variables are masculine or feminine.
I like the orange fault light on the logo. I wonder if it will be programmable so you can automatically send a CTRL-ALT-DEL to the system when the light comes on...
This sounds a lot like what Orson Scott Card did with the descolada in the Ender series. I wonder if we will need to figure out how to go Outside of our universe in order to create a new cancer-fighting virus?
In the long run, the cost of hardware and software is minor compared with the cost of maintaining the computer network. From experience (mine as well as many other people) Windows NT has a very high cost of ownership. We introduced NT in our department for faculty and staff. What a nightmare. A single server and a dozen or so clients took more time and energy to maintain than about a dozen UNIX servers and 50 to 75 workstations. My point is, if universities are concerned about the cost of their computer labs, they ought to think long and hard about moving to 100% NT. Cheap NT licensing might be tempting, but I suspect that it is going to buy a lot of frustration and heartache in the long run.
On the other hand, if universities do get burned, they can easily switch to Linux considering they will have all the hardware.:-)
I am only guessing, but I imagine that W2K integrates DNS and DHCP in such a manner that a UNIX DNS server cannot be used (embrace and extend, anyone?). A FQDN would be assigned to a host regardless of its IP address; the DNS server would update the host's IP address dynamically whenever it changes.
There is nothing that says that you need dynamic DNS in order to associate a FQDN to a specific workstation in a DHCP environment. With DHCP, you can reserve an IP address for a specific workstation simply by giving it the workstation's ethernet address. I set up a bunch of X terminals like this at my previous job. Works great. Less filling.
As a rule of thumb, servers (i.e. hosts that need to be accessed via a specific FQDN) ought to have a static IP address anyway, and it is unwise to create dependencies like this (for example, NIS server needs DHCP server in order to boot).
In my opinion, Dynamic DNS is nifty, but if Microsoft is not keep the standard open, then it is useless.
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Finally received a status page after several reloads, the first all day (it's 6:00PM EST, 8/8/99). Here is what they have to say:
"The Windows 2000 Internet Test Site is so popular we also to got a new machine to add more capacity! We're now running on a 500Mhz PIII with 256Mb of RAM. Today we installed a recent build that has lots of updates since the RC1 build."
This upgrade was done yesterday. Looks like they will need to upgrade again because the server can't seem to stand up to the load. No reason why given as to why the site has been unavailable all morning.
Okay, I can understand the server upgrade -- I don't know why they chose a PII in the first place -- but isn't patching the OS cheating? Let's say the site has been cracked, how do we know that they haven't fixed the exploit and swept the evidence under the carpet?
I can see it now:
Cracker: I broke into the site! Microsoft: Prove it by reproducing it! Cracker: But you patched the exploit! Microsoft: No, we fixed an unrelated bug. Would we lie to you?
It depends where you live. In Boston's Back Bay, you will find that rent alone can cost somewhere around $1500/month for a cramped one-bedroom apartment. Then there's parking. Expenses can quickly add up. Of course, rent gets cheaper the further away from the city you are, but I am caught in an interesting catch-22: to move out of the city so that I can pay less rent I need a car, but I can't afford a car unless I move out of the city.
Though I am making significantly more than what I was being paid in Montreal, I am finding that the cost of living in Boston is so much higher that I am hardly saving any money.
The H-1B is a _work_permit_ not a _visa_. I was _corrected_ by a border inspector on a trip back to Canada when I made this mistake. Like the TN-1, it permits you to legally work in the US. It lasts for three years but you can only renew it once. Unlike the TN-1, you can apply for a green card while holding an H-1B. People usually follow these steps when moving to the US permenantly from Canada:
Slashdot Mirror
How long before they identify a victim by the RFID tag embedded in his or her tooth with, of course, some whiz-bang 3D interface.
The people in the printing industry I've met tend to believe that copying Photoshop for personal use is okay, but it should be purchased the moment it becomes one's livelihood. The reasoning is that Photoshop is a complicated software package and it takes time to master, and the only way to do that is to spend hundreds of hours in front of your computer learning it. But once it is used to make money, the software will pay for itself very quickly so at that point it is considered an investment.
Having said that, it would be interesting to know how many professionals who now own ligitimate copies of Photoshop for their business once cut their teeth on "pirated" versions. If Adobe stomps out this attitude among the printing industry, then what will happen to the number and quality of new professionals?
Why not try FreshRPMS with RedHat if you want apt-get?
Maybe mainstream media is silent because they cannot start Office...
Where's the beef?
This reminds me of a scene in an episode of Drew Carey where Larry complains about there being no couch in the men's room (he was caught napping on the one in the ladies room). Drew's response was, "If there was one in the men's room, would you use it?"
Quite honestly, I tried to avoid touch things in a public toilet as much as possible and these things scream infestation. Unless these things have cool screen savers, they're of no use to me.
I clicked on the link and was presented with an e-mail message which states at the bottom "Please circulate this important notice." I usually delete chain letters and yell at the people who send them to me. Why does this one get posted to /. with no confirmation?
If the cost of a charity stamp is sufficiently small, I think most ISPs would be willing to absorb the cost for the majority of their users much like they do for bandwidth. That is to say that your monthly fee would include X number of sent e-mail messages per month. Spammers using their ISPs mail relays would be billed for the additional usage. If they use their own relays, then they will need to purchase charity stamps for themselves. Not sure about the technical challenges of implementing this but at the rate the spam problem is growing, I think we need to seriously consider every idea.
We could just post the URL for the mothership and wait for the Slashdot effect...
I do not believe that the author of this article has any experience with medium- to large-scale networks. X is a very chatty protocol and it does not take much to saturate a network, especially if you are going to be running a very graphic-intensive interface like KDE or Gnome. This is going to have a big impact on the end user so I would not get cheap here. I would strongly consider giving each user a dedicated 10 Mbps switch port and put the server on its own 100 Mbps full duplex port. Also, I would probably keep somewhere between a 10:1 or 20:1 ratio of X terminals per server.
People tend to think that the price of ownership is just the cost of the software, hardware and operating system. They seem to forget the fact that you need to hire people to build and maintain the systems. There is also going to be an impact on business if your end users cannot work. Sure, you can save a lot of money by using free software and building bargain basement systems, but this careless approach that the author describes is just going to lead to disaster. All the money you saved on bottom-of-the-barrel equipment is not going to save your company or your job when you have absolutely no upgrade path because you decided to run thin-net instead of cat5 and now your network is saturated with collisions. Or the network card you chose freezes when the network load goes over 5%. Or your users are frustrated from watching their five-dollar graphics card paint buttons on the screen.
I agree that you do not need top-of-the-line systems to build X terminals, but this is just rediculous and laughable.
First, you may be experiencing a problem with the network address translation. If these tables become corrupt or are cleared, then you will experience problems since the association between real and virtual IP addresses will be broken. If you are NAT-ing the entire 10.x.x.x subnet, you could potentially be running into memory/caching issues because of the shear number of IP addresses that are being mapped -- it could explain why rebooting temporarily solves the problem.
Second, you may have an overlap with static and dynamic IP addresses. If you are assigned an IP address by your DHCP server that is already taken by another computer then it is only a matter of time before you run into a problem like the one you described. Changing your IP subnet may have temporarily fixed the problem because no one has assigned a static IP address from your DHCP pool. Yet.
It is unlikely that using the 10.x.x.x subnet itself (other than the problems I have described above) has had anything to do with the failures. It is very common to use it for internal networking. I won't get into a debate as to whether it is good practice or not.
So, is the United States having mexican tonight?
This Christmas, I gave my parents a DeskTop Theater 5.1 DTT2500 Digital from Cambridge Soundworks. Although it is intended as a sound system for a computer, it works very well as a home theater system.
What impresses me the most about this system is the number of inputs that are available and the fact that everything you need to set it up is included in the box.
The sound quality for such an inexpensive system is very good. I am building my own home theater setup in the very near future and I plan to buy one of these systems for myself. For those that are interested, I already have a Sony DVP-S360 DVD Player and I am planning to add the Sony KV-32FV26 32" Direct View television and the JVC HR-S3800 Super VHS HiFi VCR.
Funny you should mention Quebec.
I am an English-speaking Quebecois who recently left Quebec (and Canada altogether) to pursue a career in the computer field. I understand the very reason to keep the French culture alive -- just visit Montreal and you will see how different a city it is compared with anywhere else in North America. If the market there where better, I wouldn't have left.
But a culture is not solely based on a language. I feel that the French speaking Quebecois who avoid learning English are simply cutting themselves off from the rest of the world, and the laws to protect the French language in Quebec are just a civilized version of ethnic cleansing.
This fear of losing one's culture by learning a foreign language is no different than the fears that make up other prejudices. If you visit Quebec you will understand that the political parties that are pushing for Separation are using this fear to gain support, much like the KKK or other such hate organizations use fear to gain membership.
The bottom line is that you are not going to lose your culture by learning another language. You lose your culture by deliberately choosing to abandon it.
A perfect example is my friend and I. We both moved to Boston a couple of years ago. Despite being submerged in American culture, I still consider myself Canadian. On the other hand, he chose to lose his Canadian identity in favour of an American one.
I have enough trouble keeping the syntax errors at bay that I would be in a world of hurt if I had to keep track of whether my variables are masculine or feminine.
I like the orange fault light on the logo. I wonder if it will be programmable so you can automatically send a CTRL-ALT-DEL to the system when the light comes on...
How many of those 20,000 employees are Canadians? ;-)
This sounds a lot like what Orson Scott Card did with the descolada in the Ender series. I wonder if we will need to figure out how to go Outside of our universe in order to create a new cancer-fighting virus?
In the long run, the cost of hardware and software is minor compared with the cost of maintaining the computer network. From experience (mine as well as many other people) Windows NT has a very high cost of ownership. We introduced NT in our department for faculty and staff. What a nightmare. A single server and a dozen or so clients took more time and energy to maintain than about a dozen UNIX servers and 50 to 75 workstations. My point is, if universities are concerned about the cost of their computer labs, they ought to think long and hard about moving to 100% NT. Cheap NT licensing might be tempting, but I suspect that it is going to buy a lot of frustration and heartache in the long run.
:-)
On the other hand, if universities do get burned, they can easily switch to Linux considering they will have all the hardware.
Has anyone noticed that "FIN" is French for "end"?
Read the headline; it's a hoax.
I am only guessing, but I imagine that W2K integrates DNS and DHCP in such a manner that a UNIX DNS server cannot be used (embrace and extend, anyone?). A FQDN would be assigned to a host regardless of its IP address; the DNS server would update the host's IP address dynamically whenever it changes.
There is nothing that says that you need dynamic DNS in order to associate a FQDN to a specific workstation in a DHCP environment. With DHCP, you can reserve an IP address for a specific workstation simply by giving it the workstation's ethernet address. I set up a bunch of X terminals like this at my previous job. Works great. Less filling.
As a rule of thumb, servers (i.e. hosts that need to be accessed via a specific FQDN) ought to have a static IP address anyway, and it is unwise to create dependencies like this (for example, NIS server needs DHCP server in order to boot).
In my opinion, Dynamic DNS is nifty, but if Microsoft is not keep the standard open, then it is useless.
Finally received a status page after several reloads, the first all day (it's 6:00PM EST, 8/8/99). Here is what they have to say:
"The Windows 2000 Internet Test Site is so popular we also to got a new machine to add more capacity! We're now running on a 500Mhz PIII with 256Mb of RAM. Today we installed a recent build that has lots of updates since the RC1 build."
This upgrade was done yesterday. Looks like they will need to upgrade again because the server can't seem to stand up to the load. No reason why given as to why the site has been unavailable all morning.
Okay, I can understand the server upgrade -- I don't know why they chose a PII in the first place -- but isn't patching the OS cheating? Let's say the site has been cracked, how do we know that they haven't fixed the exploit and swept the evidence under the carpet?
I can see it now:
Cracker: I broke into the site!
Microsoft: Prove it by reproducing it!
Cracker: But you patched the exploit!
Microsoft: No, we fixed an unrelated bug. Would we lie to you?
It depends where you live. In Boston's Back Bay, you will find that rent alone can cost somewhere around $1500/month for a cramped one-bedroom apartment. Then there's parking. Expenses can quickly add up. Of course, rent gets cheaper the further away from the city you are, but I am caught in an interesting catch-22: to move out of the city so that I can pay less rent I need a car, but I can't afford a car unless I move out of the city.
Though I am making significantly more than what I was being paid in Montreal, I am finding that the cost of living in Boston is so much higher that I am hardly saving any money.
The H-1B is a _work_permit_ not a _visa_. I was _corrected_ by a border inspector on a trip back to Canada when I made this mistake. Like the TN-1, it permits you to legally work in the US. It lasts for three years but you can only renew it once. Unlike the TN-1, you can apply for a green card while holding an H-1B. People usually follow these steps when moving to the US permenantly from Canada:
TN-1 -> H-1B -> Green Card -> Citizenship
What Microsoft fails to understand is that Canada will tax them to death, and that will be the end of them. Go Canada!