Baen Books has been publishing on the web for over a year now.
This is just the first person that is gennerally known doing this. My reaction is half "So what?" and half "Yippee!". So what because it's nothing new, and Yippee because this could be the death knell of Big Publishing, a dinosaur that won't die.
Anyone doing a bit of writing knows that Big Publishing, by and large, does not care about anything other than dollars. Most authors I've spoken to feel cheated by Big Publishing with respect to the amout paid for the work. Only the big names get the big bucks, and they still get big bucks even when the work is a flop.
They mis-ordered my equipment twice, the third time the installer just happened to have a DSL router on his truck.
The link was mis-routed for three weeks. Packes went out, but nothing came back. Testboard insisted that "I didn't do it right".
No one, no a single person, ever had one iota of an idea as to what, exactly, a network was.
It took threats of FCC and PUC complaints, and moving our phone service to a competitor to get them to fix the DSL route table.
I know it was the route table because I could hear the guy in the background say "Gee, this guys route is set up to leave on one DSLAM and arrive on another one."
I've also ordered DSL for five other people, and every single last one of them was put off at least three times. Every one of them.
Now that I've got the people that actuallyhave DSL installed working, I'm mostly happy with it. But I'm ordering from other providers now, not SBC. Too much like the keystone kops with SBC.
I'm not bothering to send in stuff anymore. I sent this in shortly after it was posted to the web, and it was refused. Now it's up. WTF? I guess I don't have "The Touch".
Time/Warner filed to remove our hero, Martin Garbus, because the law firm he is a partner in is representing Time/Warner in another, unrelated matter.
The judge ruled that the matters are unrelated, but before he did, he ordered Garbus not to interview any people from Time/Warner.
I think he wants to still control all the companies. As "Software Direction Advisor", is isn't the president anymore, so he can freely associate with all the "baby bills". Thus he can do the very thing the DOJ wants to prevent; coordinate development of all M$ products.
Hell, with over sixty billion in the bank he should sit back and enjoy his family and the things that money can buy. Maybe do a bit of good with it if he wants. Space? Health?
Like AT&T, Microsoft pushed technology in a direction. Like AT&T, baby has grown up now, and doesn't need parent to mess with anymore.
Now turn off flame mode guys, but we do owe Bill some thanks for coordinating technology to this point. We can argue if that coordination was good or bad, but it was sorly needed at the time. If you are too young to know CPM, then you are too young to know the confusion and terror of management at the time to buy anything that didn't say IBM on it. BG and M$ allowed business to be fairly sure that they knew what they were getting. Be it bad or good.
The fact is that now we don't need our hands held; it is time and past to let us decide what we need and what we don't need.
Actually, I've got ten simular servers running as five logical computers. This is an OLTP, so down time has to stay very low during production hours. I used Dell 2300's with single cpu at 450mhz, 512meg ram, Dell PERC raid controllers with 16Meg cache,2 3Com 905's each, 2 9 gig LVL drives each, Cisco switches, and 1776 soft Fault Freedom II on SCO 5.0.5 with rs505c, oss471e, oss600a, and oss497 patches loaded. I avoided SMP because 1776 has problems with SMP, (some say SCO's SMP is buggy, others it 1776's problem).
At first, I was using the built in Adaptec 78xx chipset, but I found there were problems with FF2 and soft read errors. I bit the bullet and got the RAIDs at that point, and the systems have been humming along with no problem, other than the tapes don't always get switched on time. (Oops!).
If all you are doing is serving web content and e-shoping, then you may want to look at FF2 on SCO. (Alright! I *know* it's sys V, down muggy!).
The arp problem can be handeled by turning arp_keep and arp_prune down in the nic configuration, and the switch/router's can get handeled by aging the arp cache every 15 seconds. That would give you a window of (worst case) sixty seconds down between switchover, which is automatic. FF2 keeps the mirrored drive slice sync'ed with the second nic. (You can also alias in the "floating" ip, alias out the "fixed" ip, then ping the router. That will force the router to update the arp cache with the proper mac addy.) The second nic is only for mirror traffic, so if you want to seperate the systems by a few miles, that's kosher as long as the pipe between systems is at least 56K. I'd say that with moderate transactions, you would need 128K minimum. If the distance were short, order 2 SDSL modems and a shortest path copper loop from telco. You will also need a low bandwidth connections for the heartbeat between system. The heartbeat can use any path (up to six) to talk to the second half, and vice versa.
If you can't take sixty seconds down time, then look at IBM's RS6000 HA50. If you've got the price, then this is for you.
In the many, many times people tell me "It HAS to say up ALL THE TIME!" I find that a few minutes of down time becomes very acceptable when confronted with the price tag of a system that really will stay up all the time.
Nope. The mob was alread around. Like any bacteria, it just got bigger when it had more to feed on. A small point, but an important one.
I fear the AOL/TIME-WARNER merge. It's just too powerfull. Heuy Long said, "I'd don't care who does the electin', long as I get to do the nominatin'." In other words, when you controll information, you control the way people think. For instance, you haven't seen CNN ballyhoo the rights of the people, but you sure hear about those "evil hackers" that wrote DeCSS.
First, talk to the FSF. Next, depending on what they say, decide what you want. Then talk to the boss. Be ready to change jobs. Management tends to see someone bringing up a problem as the person that caused the problem. You may be blamed for a problem that really isn't your fault. On the other hand, management should see that you have actually been working for them since they started using your program.
Maybe you'll luck out and management will be willing to talk.
The most important question you have to ask is What do I want from this?. You really don't want to go the law suit route. Nobody wins those arguements.
I bought 9 Alton motherboards. Worst mistake I ever made. Tossed those, then bought 9 more Boardrunners. Not too bad, but it turns out that 2 of them have the i820. Crap. Can't win. Can't break even. Can't quit the game. SOL.
Signed up with Napster using my real name/e-mail. Downloaded every bit of music I own, and not one bit more. I didn't even down load stuff I'd bought then had stolen. Only stuff I can put my hands on. Now, sue me Lars. Come on, take your best shot. Soon as you file, I'll be after that huge pile of cash you call your wallet.
SCO has many corporate clients such as Auto Zone and Glidden Paint, several legacy applications such as Fox+ (installed in fleet management, print & tool shops, medical offices) and even, to this day, Xenix applications. Many of these applications are older, and no longer maintained. Several Fox+ applications are dead as far as development and bug fixes go, but are essential for those businesses still running them.
Does SCO plan to open source any of these older applications? Some of these older applications are just not economically viable to port to new platforms, and moving the valuable history is prohibitive.
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The reason you should care is that you are a wage slave. If you don't have a job, you don't eat. If the companies' stock drops by a mile, then management tends to look at what jobs they can cut to save money and improve the bottom line. Many times, it's those nerds in the back that take it in the neck. Perhaps you are not old enough to have worked in the '80s, but THAT was a Bad Time(tm) for a wage slave. This promises to be worse. Much worse.
While unrestricted growth is not a Good Thing(tm), unrestricted anti-growth is not a Good Thing(tm).
In an about-face, Rep. J.C. Watts (R-Okla.), chairman of the House Republican Conference and the No. 4 person in House GOP leadership, moved from criticizing the Justice Department's victory as a crushing blow to the "new economy" to commending the Justice Department's win in federal court.
Sounds like a guy that doesn't need to be re-elected.
As far as what the unwashed masses think about the case, it's obvious that most of the non-techies think IE is a great program, and that Windows 2000 is a fine os. They wouldn't know a fine os if it didn't crash on them.8)
Control information, you control the people. All dictators know this. "I don't care who does the electin', as long as I get to do the nominatin'." This is why I think AOL-TIME-WARNER merger should have been blocked.
Let us further suppose that after waiting for a while, there were no takers.
Let us further suppose that, purely in an excess of zeal, some one went and hired some hackers to do the RE.
NOW it makes sense as to why they folded so quickly.
but that's just my evil, scheeming, low down and back stabbing mind.
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OK, sure the first major book in electronic format is cool,
Beg to differ, Ashes of Victory by David Weber is the first book on the best seller list to be e-sold that I'm aware of, and I'm almost positve another of his books also got to the best seller list (it DID sell out in two 1/2 days) and was also e-sold... In October of 1999.
the BEST thing is that Baen Books doesn't screw around and make you use some lame software control thingie, it comes as HTML, viewable on line or down loadable.
Remeber when Bush passed a excise tax on boats over 100K? Did we collect millons in taxes? Hell no. The US lost almost every ship yard making boats in this price range and spent more collecting this tax than it got in return. Net result, we drove scores of business to bankrupcy, thousands lost jobs and went on the dole, and a whole industry left the US.
Hmmm. May be we should tax people running for office....
All state and national spam laws have the same problem: Jurisdiction. If they can't spam from CO, they will from Washington.
Now this point: If I'm in VA, and spam some one in CO, does the person in CO sue under CO law, or under VA law? If they use CO law, I can just ignore it because I'm in VA. If they use VA law, I can respond to the court pointing out that the person filing suit isn't under "personal jurisdiction" of the VA court. End of case (IANAL).
If national laws are passed, what happens if I bounce the message off of a china.com server? The spam is now international in origin, do I go to the UN?
I don't really have an answer. I do know that the worst thing to do with spam is to delete it. (Well, responding to the spam is worse...) I complain to the ISP or upstream of most every spam I get. (I exclude those that were not skipped off of someone elses server, I drop a note to the person. Second spam, then BLAM.) I have documented over 200 sites that have been closed after I complained. Now the pukes are just putting in phone numbers. Since every one of them has removed the information from the reverse directory, good luck doggin' 'em down. (And if you have an idea on this, I'd love to hear it.)
I still get 20 to 30 spams a day, and will soon change my username to something else just so I can open my e-mail without waiting 10-15 mins. while the SPAM down loads..... huff huff puff puff.... I'm getting angry....must... control... fist... of... death...
The main use of this kind of technology would be copy protection. Let's say that the DVD encryption standard is improved to the point that it is unbreakable (hah!), and the only way to watch DVD's is with a legitimately licensed DVD decoder.
This assumes that someone doesn't put a digital camera in front of the monitor, rendering the encrypted/copy protected system moot.
And yes, you CAN get fair quaility out of this scheme, the same way you could show 35 mm movies on televison with the right equipment.
You mean you don't want the same OS for your server as you use for your workstations? THIS IS RANK HERESY! Quick Quasimoto! The boiling oil!
Now, if you really want a usefull test, lets test a propery patched, configured and secured server farm and see how long it takes to get root/admin/administrator access on Linux, BSD, Novell 5.0 and NT 4.0.
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This is just the first person that is gennerally known doing this. My reaction is half "So what?" and half "Yippee!". So what because it's nothing new, and Yippee because this could be the death knell of Big Publishing, a dinosaur that won't die.
Anyone doing a bit of writing knows that Big Publishing, by and large, does not care about anything other than dollars. Most authors I've spoken to feel cheated by Big Publishing with respect to the amout paid for the work. Only the big names get the big bucks, and they still get big bucks even when the work is a flop.
10.x.x.x
127.x.x.x
172.16.x.x - 172.31.x.x
192.168.x.x
224+ (I think)
What else?
Installation put off three times
They mis-ordered my equipment twice, the third time the installer just happened to have a DSL router on his truck.
The link was mis-routed for three weeks. Packes went out, but nothing came back. Testboard insisted that "I didn't do it right".
No one, no a single person, ever had one iota of an idea as to what, exactly, a network was.
It took threats of FCC and PUC complaints, and moving our phone service to a competitor to get them to fix the DSL route table.
I know it was the route table because I could hear the guy in the background say "Gee, this guys route is set up to leave on one DSLAM and arrive on another one."
I've also ordered DSL for five other people, and every single last one of them was put off at least three times. Every one of them.
Now that I've got the people that actuallyhave DSL installed working, I'm mostly happy with it. But I'm ordering from other providers now, not SBC. Too much like the keystone kops with SBC.
No, I sent in info on the depo post, right after it went up.
Time/Warner filed to remove our hero, Martin Garbus, because the law firm he is a partner in is representing Time/Warner in another, unrelated matter.
The judge ruled that the matters are unrelated, but before he did, he ordered Garbus not to interview any people from Time/Warner.
Of course, there are always proxies.....
I think he wants to still control all the companies. As "Software Direction Advisor", is isn't the president anymore, so he can freely associate with all the "baby bills". Thus he can do the very thing the DOJ wants to prevent; coordinate development of all M$ products.
Hell, with over sixty billion in the bank he should sit back and enjoy his family and the things that money can buy. Maybe do a bit of good with it if he wants. Space? Health?
Like AT&T, Microsoft pushed technology in a direction. Like AT&T, baby has grown up now, and doesn't need parent to mess with anymore.
Now turn off flame mode guys, but we do owe Bill some thanks for coordinating technology to this point. We can argue if that coordination was good or bad, but it was sorly needed at the time. If you are too young to know CPM, then you are too young to know the confusion and terror of management at the time to buy anything that didn't say IBM on it. BG and M$ allowed business to be fairly sure that they knew what they were getting. Be it bad or good.
The fact is that now we don't need our hands held; it is time and past to let us decide what we need and what we don't need.
Good bye Bill, and thanks for all the GPFs.
I've had an account there since forever, don't use it much unless I need some routers cheap. Told them to pull my account and delete my information.
At first, I was using the built in Adaptec 78xx chipset, but I found there were problems with FF2 and soft read errors. I bit the bullet and got the RAIDs at that point, and the systems have been humming along with no problem, other than the tapes don't always get switched on time. (Oops!).
If all you are doing is serving web content and e-shoping, then you may want to look at FF2 on SCO. (Alright! I *know* it's sys V, down muggy!).
The arp problem can be handeled by turning arp_keep and arp_prune down in the nic configuration, and the switch/router's can get handeled by aging the arp cache every 15 seconds. That would give you a window of (worst case) sixty seconds down between switchover, which is automatic. FF2 keeps the mirrored drive slice sync'ed with the second nic. (You can also alias in the "floating" ip, alias out the "fixed" ip, then ping the router. That will force the router to update the arp cache with the proper mac addy.) The second nic is only for mirror traffic, so if you want to seperate the systems by a few miles, that's kosher as long as the pipe between systems is at least 56K. I'd say that with moderate transactions, you would need 128K minimum. If the distance were short, order 2 SDSL modems and a shortest path copper loop from telco. You will also need a low bandwidth connections for the heartbeat between system. The heartbeat can use any path (up to six) to talk to the second half, and vice versa.
If you can't take sixty seconds down time, then look at IBM's RS6000 HA50. If you've got the price, then this is for you.
In the many, many times people tell me "It HAS to say up ALL THE TIME!" I find that a few minutes of down time becomes very acceptable when confronted with the price tag of a system that really will stay up all the time.
I was left holding the bag for these cards. I threw them out after a few years, as I never could get them to work right.
Others won't agree, but I'm left unmoved by their departure.
Nope. The mob was alread around. Like any bacteria, it just got bigger when it had more to feed on. A small point, but an important one.
I fear the AOL/TIME-WARNER merge. It's just too powerfull. Heuy Long said, "I'd don't care who does the electin', long as I get to do the nominatin'." In other words, when you controll information, you control the way people think. For instance, you haven't seen CNN ballyhoo the rights of the people, but you sure hear about those "evil hackers" that wrote DeCSS.
Maybe you'll luck out and management will be willing to talk.
The most important question you have to ask is What do I want from this?. You really don't want to go the law suit route. Nobody wins those arguements.
I bought 9 Alton motherboards. Worst mistake I ever made. Tossed those, then bought 9 more Boardrunners. Not too bad, but it turns out that 2 of them have the i820. Crap. Can't win. Can't break even. Can't quit the game. SOL.
Signed up with Napster using my real name/e-mail. Downloaded every bit of music I own, and not one bit more. I didn't even down load stuff I'd bought then had stolen. Only stuff I can put my hands on. Now, sue me Lars. Come on, take your best shot. Soon as you file, I'll be after that huge pile of cash you call your wallet.
Does SCO plan to open source any of these older applications? Some of these older applications are just not economically viable to port to new platforms, and moving the valuable history is prohibitive.
While unrestricted growth is not a Good Thing(tm), unrestricted anti-growth is not a Good Thing(tm).
Sounds like a guy that doesn't need to be re-elected.
As far as what the unwashed masses think about the case, it's obvious that most of the non-techies think IE is a great program, and that Windows 2000 is a fine os. They wouldn't know a fine os if it didn't crash on them.8)
--- Confound the government. Think.
Let us further suppose that after waiting for a while, there were no takers.
Let us further suppose that, purely in an excess of zeal, some one went and hired some hackers to do the RE.
NOW it makes sense as to why they folded so quickly.
but that's just my evil, scheeming, low down and back stabbing mind.
Beg to differ, Ashes of Victory by David Weber is the first book on the best seller list to be e-sold that I'm aware of, and I'm almost positve another of his books also got to the best seller list (it DID sell out in two 1/2 days) and was also e-sold ... In October of 1999.
the BEST thing is that Baen Books doesn't screw around and make you use some lame software control thingie, it comes as HTML, viewable on line or down loadable.
Hmmm. May be we should tax people running for office....
Now this point: If I'm in VA, and spam some one in CO, does the person in CO sue under CO law, or under VA law? If they use CO law, I can just ignore it because I'm in VA. If they use VA law, I can respond to the court pointing out that the person filing suit isn't under "personal jurisdiction" of the VA court. End of case (IANAL).
If national laws are passed, what happens if I bounce the message off of a china.com server? The spam is now international in origin, do I go to the UN?
I don't really have an answer. I do know that the worst thing to do with spam is to delete it. (Well, responding to the spam is worse...) I complain to the ISP or upstream of most every spam I get. (I exclude those that were not skipped off of someone elses server, I drop a note to the person. Second spam, then BLAM.) I have documented over 200 sites that have been closed after I complained. Now the pukes are just putting in phone numbers. Since every one of them has removed the information from the reverse directory, good luck doggin' 'em down. (And if you have an idea on this, I'd love to hear it.)
I still get 20 to 30 spams a day, and will soon change my username to something else just so I can open my e-mail without waiting 10-15 mins. while the SPAM down loads..... huff huff puff puff.... I'm getting angry....must... control... fist... of... death...
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Reach out and awk someone!
This assumes that someone doesn't put a digital camera in front of the monitor, rendering the encrypted/copy protected system moot.
And yes, you CAN get fair quaility out of this scheme, the same way you could show 35 mm movies on televison with the right equipment.
*GASP!*
You mean you don't want the same OS for your server as you use for your workstations? THIS IS RANK HERESY! Quick Quasimoto! The boiling oil!
Now, if you really want a usefull test, lets test a propery patched, configured and secured server farm and see how long it takes to get root/admin/administrator access on Linux, BSD, Novell 5.0 and NT 4.0.
Now that would be a kick ankle report!
Did a domain speculator get the name before Al Gore could assert his claim?
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