What the point of using Usenet now a days; it sucks.
One, you can't get good porn on it anymore. All the right wing nazi anti-porn weenies cancel parts of the multi-part postings, so you can never get the whole message/pic.
Two, the noise to signal ratio is so bad with Usenet. You have to read about 100 messages to get just alittle bit of information. That is not worth it to me.
Three, there is so much traffic that you can't keep up with it and there is too many people talking at once. A newsgroup with tens of thousands of readers and posters is too much. Slashdot is becoming the same way. That is why I like the Ask Slashdot that don't show up on the main page. Lots of signal, no noise.
Four, can't find a good free server. I want to get a feed to my home computer, but as someone pointed out, once everyone finds out and the server gets smoothered.
I tell you, the epoche of Usenet was back in 90-94' where there was few noise and lots of signal. You actually knew the people on Usenet. You knew their personality, and you kinda knew what they knew and they did not. Usenet is a big city with too many "faceless" people on it. I like the small and old town Usenet of yester year.
I dont know what they run (Slashdot, custom), but they add bunch of checks that would prevent such abuses. Post to much; blocked out. Can only submit a X amount of stories. Try to issue too many commands (Automated attacks); blocked from the site. Reload pages to much (Again, a script attack), blocked out. Its just a matter of watching what happens and then adapting. If they need coders, I think a number of people would be avil to write that. No one likes to see the good guys lose.
bash# traceroute www.gmate.co.kr traceroute to www.gmate.co.kr (211.113.71.2), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 209.68.XXX.XXX (209.68.XXX.XXX) 0.643 ms 0.489 ms 0.459 ms 2 pos3-1.hsa1.sdg1.Level3.net (209.245.56.129) 0.709 ms 0.727 ms 0.783 ms 3 lo0.mp1.LosAngeles1.level3.net (209.247.8.241) 4.376 ms 15.523 ms 4.385 ms 4 209.247.10.194 (209.247.10.194) 4.237 ms 4.277 ms 4.264 ms 5 209.0.227.34 (209.0.227.34) 5.811 ms 6.087 ms 6.026 ms 6 corerouter1.Bloomington.cw.net (204.70.9.147) 9.718 ms 9.665 ms 9.136 ms 7 corerouter2.SanFrancisco.cw.net (204.70.9.132) 16.891 ms 19.112 ms 18.515 ms 8 acr2-loopback.SanFranciscosfd.cw.net (206.24.210.62) 17.500 ms 17.286 ms 17.495 ms 9 bpr1.pax.cw.net (206.24.210.8) 18.244 ms 18.103 ms 18.150 ms 10 206.24.241.90 (206.24.241.90) 16.891 ms 16.640 ms 16.506 ms 11 211.47.0.221 (211.47.0.221) 180.773 ms 181.084 ms 181.458 ms 12 211.47.0.105 (211.47.0.105) 180.215 ms 181.265 ms 181.399 ms 13 211.62.63.5 (211.62.63.5) 180.526 ms 180.593 ms 180.843 ms 14 Daebang.LL-TEMP.hitel.net (211.62.33.100) 180.620 ms 182.815 ms 182.763 ms 15 211.113.71.1 (211.113.71.1) 4682.654 ms 4428.250 ms 4502.190 ms 16 211.113.71.2 (211.113.71.2) 4461.430 ms 4618.915 ms 4377.226 ms
You think they could mirror sites that they put up?
Cartoon were cool until I graduated from Middle School...
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If this is true (Dont know if you work at or run Kuro5hin), then it is good. You are gaining traffic for free. All you have to do is become compition with Slashdot.org and people who real Slashdot will also read Kuro5hin. As an example, I never heard of Kuro5hin until now. I guess I'll start reading it.
This is an excellent point--I've come across several folks who are relatively new Linux users (I've been using/developing under Linux since '94) but consider themselves "Linux Gods".
I use FreeBSD at work and I think that is the number one problem that hurts FreeBSD. Elitist in the FreeBSD community is a real turn off to most people, and that is why I think Linux is so much more accepted than Linux. Linux people tend to be alot nicer and helpful than FreeBSD people. I just hope that all the attitude that FreeBSD community has stays with it and Linux people don't turn into assholes.
Yes, you have right to free speech, but I also have the right to not listen to your speech. I also have the right to use a trusted source of my choice. If your speech costs me money (Time and resources dealing with your speech) then I have the right to block your speech towards me. You can talk to whom ever you want, on whatever topic, but I have the right not to listen.
If a customer, that gets email through my machines and resources, does not like that I block some speech for whatever reason, they are free to find a new ISP. There is plenty of competition in the free market.
The problem is that admins don't bother to keep track of problems and fix them. It does not matter how easy or hard it is. For example, I had this idiot come in and tell me he likes *BSD (Any of them) because he can set them up and "forget about them". When I asked him how he fixed problems, he stated that he did not since they were so secure. I just about died.
"One issue is getting it ready so that people can make sense of 5 [million] to 10 million lines of code. There are not many people who know what to do with 10 million lines of code. Freeware, open source is fine when you are talking about hundreds of lines of code,"
Because they are scared.
How much money do you think they have lost due to Open Source software? They put down qmail (Saw it on the mailing list), they "improve" sendmail and bind. However, they lose money everytime an admin decides to install Linux or a BSD.
It is not only software they lose money on, but also hardware. Which is where the money is. Which is why they would slander Open Source software. Without that reason to buy their hardware, no one will. No software that only runs on their playform, no reason to buy Sun hardware.
But I am wandering.
We all know though, that is stupid of them to claim only a handful of people can read and understand the code in their OS (Which is true). But they forget that there are ALOT of us. Alot of people who are willing to take a piece and eat all the code they give us. Then we can take that code and improve on it.
Not only improve their code, but also write better documentation.
Plus, look at who is speaking for Sun. A person who makes alot of money off selling hardware. Not a programmer. Not hardware designer. Not an Open Source programmer.
Your right, it does look cool. I am going to get a big print version of it and hang it on my office wall so everyone will think I am Super Smart instead of Plain Smart.
At my work we usually shoot for AMD K6-II chips running 350 - 450mzh. We try to put 64 megs of ram with good 2D system (I still can not get the boss to spend an extra $50 for higher end 15 inch monitor) and a cheap PCI 100 Mbit card. Our workers need nothing else than MS Word, Outlook Express, Windows 98SE and Goldmine 5. I think we usually get these for less than $500 and they last for 2 or 3 years.
You don't know what those machines are doing. They could be idle for weeks or months. The only way to judge and OS is to run one and know exactly what it is doing.
On top of that, have you ever tried to get a movie off the Internet that is good quality? I got on IRC two nights in a row to get a *telesync* of Gladiator. Then it was in.bin format, so I converted it to.dat, then.mpg. It looks like shit and sounds like it too. I figured I wasted *ALOT* more that $7 of my time trying to get a crappy copy. Next time, I plan to get see the stupid thing with some friends.
Unless someone dumps an exact copy of a DVD into your lap that is aready burned onto CDROM, then it is not worth it.
People love MySQL since it is the right tool for the right job. If you don't need Transaction Support, and your smart enough to get around the the lack of Sub-Selects, then MySQL is what you need. One thing people have to know is that MySQL is *REALLY FAST* and in a web enviroment, speed is everything.
As a side note, when I got hired at this job, that was one of the things I pushed. Our customer database did not need transaction support, so I argued that we did not need MSSQL or Oracle. Why have all that overhead for something that is not needed. When the customer DB is updated, then its okay if I have it do slow updates with locked table. It only takes about.5 seconds on our DB. So in worst case, queries take.75 seconds instead of.25 seconds when updating.
Another thing people don't see in DB is the hardware. We run hardware RAID 5 on our setup. If a disk goes bad, we replace it, and it is rebuilt on the fly. Use ECC RAM to make sure data is not corrupted in memory (Sounds funny, but it can happen). Use a SCSI controller that has a big Cache (Smart RAID 5 with 64 megs of Cache in our case), and give the DB lots of memory. And for God's sake, put the stupid thing on a Battery Backup.
However, if you need transaction support, then use MySQL 3.23 (Still alpha), Oracle, or PostgreSQL.
Do you think that even Big IBM would have done something like this before Microsofts business practices came under carefull eye of the US Government? Nope, not at all. MS would called them up and said, "I think your OEM contract is going to increase ALOT unless you dump Linux". Now with MS under control and getting punished for their past business practices we will now see more thing like this. More companies saying, "Hey! we can release products and hardware that dont support MS products only".
I dont know about you, but I think this is a good thing.
I would not throw to much praise to FreeBSD. Having the whole system on CVSup is cool, but I notice that someone broken "make world" in release not to long ago. Although, it was only broken for a couple of hours, there are advantages to not have your system rely on single place. /usr/ports is pretty damn cool. I wish Slackware would get something this.
Have you ever dealt with a poorly ran/dont care ISP? (I know you have, you work at an ISP, but its a retorical question.)
Dealing with Dumb ISP Admins is a losing battle from the beginning. I work at company that provides Email and domain hosting, and we deal with ISP's that relay spam, flood our DNS and generally are misconfigured. When you contact about half of them, they dont care.
I hate to say it, but deleting an account to keep from dealing with a problem that causes us to lose business is the way to go. Ya, I know, it sucks, but dealing with other stupid admin at other ISP's in tracking down problems is not worth it the business of one domain.
One would think that after Tom posted "Voodoo is dead forever" last year next to a paid Nvidia ad on his website, while extolling how his website is "unbiased" nobody would pay attention to this loudmouth hypocrite anymore.
I like Tom as much as the next guy (Which is not much), but Tom is right. Voodoo is dead. They seem to about one step behind NVIDIA since Voodoo3. Although, they are better in supporting non-win platforms, NVIDIA hardware is better.
Tippmann said the robot had been used by IBM Corp. in computer assembly before he refitted the machine to perform a wide array of cooking tasks--eggs, hamburgers, french fries.
Geezzz...from a top rated company to a short order cook. Man, IBM could have atleast retrained the robot for another division or atleast opt-out for early retirement. Talk about getting the short end of the Downsizing Stick.
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I just got done upgrading a couple of servers to 4.0-stable, now 4.1 is out!
I wish they would not release anything for atleast 60 days after I buy it/install it/upgrade it!
I should have majored in Art, where nothing changes for atleast 20 years and the old stuff gets more valuable!
What the point of using Usenet now a days; it sucks.
One, you can't get good porn on it anymore. All the right wing nazi anti-porn weenies cancel parts of the multi-part postings, so you can never get the whole message/pic.
Two, the noise to signal ratio is so bad with Usenet. You have to read about 100 messages to get just alittle bit of information. That is not worth it to me.
Three, there is so much traffic that you can't keep up with it and there is too many people talking at once. A newsgroup with tens of thousands of readers and posters is too much. Slashdot is becoming the same way. That is why I like the Ask Slashdot that don't show up on the main page. Lots of signal, no noise.
Four, can't find a good free server. I want to get a feed to my home computer, but as someone pointed out, once everyone finds out and the server gets smoothered.
I tell you, the epoche of Usenet was back in 90-94' where there was few noise and lots of signal. You actually knew the people on Usenet. You knew their personality, and you kinda knew what they knew and they did not. Usenet is a big city with too many "faceless" people on it. I like the small and old town Usenet of yester year.
I dont know what they run (Slashdot, custom), but they add bunch of checks that would prevent such abuses. Post to much; blocked out. Can only submit a X amount of stories. Try to issue too many commands (Automated attacks); blocked from the site. Reload pages to much (Again, a script attack), blocked out. Its just a matter of watching what happens and then adapting.
If they need coders, I think a number of people would be avil to write that. No one likes to see the good guys lose.
bash# traceroute www.gmate.co.kr
traceroute to www.gmate.co.kr (211.113.71.2), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 209.68.XXX.XXX (209.68.XXX.XXX) 0.643 ms 0.489 ms 0.459 ms
2 pos3-1.hsa1.sdg1.Level3.net (209.245.56.129) 0.709 ms 0.727 ms 0.783 ms
3 lo0.mp1.LosAngeles1.level3.net (209.247.8.241) 4.376 ms 15.523 ms 4.385 ms
4 209.247.10.194 (209.247.10.194) 4.237 ms 4.277 ms 4.264 ms
5 209.0.227.34 (209.0.227.34) 5.811 ms 6.087 ms 6.026 ms
6 corerouter1.Bloomington.cw.net (204.70.9.147) 9.718 ms 9.665 ms 9.136 ms
7 corerouter2.SanFrancisco.cw.net (204.70.9.132) 16.891 ms 19.112 ms 18.515 ms
8 acr2-loopback.SanFranciscosfd.cw.net (206.24.210.62) 17.500 ms 17.286 ms 17.495 ms
9 bpr1.pax.cw.net (206.24.210.8) 18.244 ms 18.103 ms 18.150 ms
10 206.24.241.90 (206.24.241.90) 16.891 ms 16.640 ms 16.506 ms
11 211.47.0.221 (211.47.0.221) 180.773 ms 181.084 ms 181.458 ms
12 211.47.0.105 (211.47.0.105) 180.215 ms 181.265 ms 181.399 ms
13 211.62.63.5 (211.62.63.5) 180.526 ms 180.593 ms 180.843 ms
14 Daebang.LL-TEMP.hitel.net (211.62.33.100) 180.620 ms 182.815 ms 182.763 ms
15 211.113.71.1 (211.113.71.1) 4682.654 ms 4428.250 ms 4502.190 ms
16 211.113.71.2 (211.113.71.2) 4461.430 ms 4618.915 ms 4377.226 ms
You think they could mirror sites that they put up?
No shit. I can not believe that ./ would stoop to this level.
Cartoon were cool until I graduated from Middle School...
If this is true (Dont know if you work at or run Kuro5hin), then it is good. You are gaining traffic for free. All you have to do is become compition with Slashdot.org and people who real Slashdot will also read Kuro5hin.
As an example, I never heard of Kuro5hin until now. I guess I'll start reading it.
This is an excellent point--I've come across several folks who are relatively new Linux users (I've been using/developing under Linux since '94) but consider themselves "Linux Gods".
I use FreeBSD at work and I think that is the number one problem that hurts FreeBSD. Elitist in the FreeBSD community is a real turn off to most people, and that is why I think Linux is so much more accepted than Linux. Linux people tend to be alot nicer and helpful than FreeBSD people. I just hope that all the attitude that FreeBSD community has stays with it and Linux people don't turn into assholes.
Yes, you have right to free speech, but I also have the right to not listen to your speech. I also have the right to use a trusted source of my choice. If your speech costs me money (Time and resources dealing with your speech) then I have the right to block your speech towards me. You can talk to whom ever you want, on whatever topic, but I have the right not to listen.
If a customer, that gets email through my machines and resources, does not like that I block some speech for whatever reason, they are free to find a new ISP. There is plenty of competition in the free market.
How wrong can you get.
The problem is that admins don't bother to keep track of problems and fix them. It does not matter how easy or hard it is.
For example, I had this idiot come in and tell me he likes *BSD (Any of them) because he can set them up and "forget about them". When I asked him how he fixed problems, he stated that he did not since they were so secure. I just about died.
"One issue is getting it ready so that people can make sense of 5 [million] to 10 million lines of code. There are not many people who know what to do with 10 million lines of code. Freeware, open source is fine when you are talking about hundreds of lines of code,"
Because they are scared.
How much money do you think they have lost due to Open Source software? They put down qmail (Saw it on the mailing list), they "improve" sendmail and bind. However, they lose money everytime an admin decides to install Linux or a BSD.
It is not only software they lose money on, but also hardware. Which is where the money is. Which is why they would slander Open Source software. Without that reason to buy their hardware, no one will. No software that only runs on their playform, no reason to buy Sun hardware.
But I am wandering.
We all know though, that is stupid of them to claim only a handful of people can read and understand the code in their OS (Which is true). But they forget that there are ALOT of us. Alot of people who are willing to take a piece and eat all the code they give us. Then we can take that code and improve on it.
Not only improve their code, but also write better documentation.
Plus, look at who is speaking for Sun. A person who makes alot of money off selling hardware. Not a programmer. Not hardware designer. Not an Open Source programmer.
> http://www.ntia.doc.gov/osmhome/allochrt.html
Your right, it does look cool. I am going to get a big print version of it and hang it on my office wall so everyone will think I am Super Smart instead of Plain Smart.
I totally agree on this.
At my work we usually shoot for AMD K6-II chips running 350 - 450mzh. We try to put 64 megs of ram with good 2D system (I still can not get the boss to spend an extra $50 for higher end 15 inch monitor) and a cheap PCI 100 Mbit card. Our workers need nothing else than MS Word, Outlook Express, Windows 98SE and Goldmine 5. I think we usually get these for less than $500 and they last for 2 or 3 years.
If your carrying around a 1 gig match book harddrive, then it is safe to say that won't be getting any babe's phone numbers.
You don't know what those machines are doing. They could be idle for weeks or months. The only way to judge and OS is to run one and know exactly what it is doing.
On top of that, have you ever tried to get a movie off the Internet that is good quality?
I got on IRC two nights in a row to get a *telesync* of Gladiator. Then it was in
Unless someone dumps an exact copy of a DVD into your lap that is aready burned onto CDROM, then it is not worth it.
People love MySQL since it is the right tool for the right job. If you don't need Transaction Support, and your smart enough to get around the the lack of Sub-Selects, then MySQL is what you need.
.5 seconds on our DB. So in worst case, queries take .75 seconds instead of .25 seconds when updating.
One thing people have to know is that MySQL is *REALLY FAST* and in a web enviroment, speed is everything.
As a side note, when I got hired at this job, that was one of the things I pushed. Our customer database did not need transaction support, so I argued that we did not need MSSQL or Oracle. Why have all that overhead for something that is not needed. When the customer DB is updated, then its okay if I have it do slow updates with locked table. It only takes about
Another thing people don't see in DB is the hardware. We run hardware RAID 5 on our setup. If a disk goes bad, we replace it, and it is rebuilt on the fly. Use ECC RAM to make sure data is not corrupted in memory (Sounds funny, but it can happen). Use a SCSI controller that has a big Cache (Smart RAID 5 with 64 megs of Cache in our case), and give the DB lots of memory. And for God's sake, put the stupid thing on a Battery Backup.
However, if you need transaction support, then use MySQL 3.23 (Still alpha), Oracle, or PostgreSQL.
Somemore good news about the Microsoft break up.
Do you think that even Big IBM would have done something like this before Microsofts business practices came under carefull eye of the US Government? Nope, not at all. MS would called them up and said, "I think your OEM contract is going to increase ALOT unless you dump Linux".
Now with MS under control and getting punished for their past business practices we will now see more thing like this. More companies saying, "Hey! we can release products and hardware that dont support MS products only".
I dont know about you, but I think this is a good thing.
I would not throw to much praise to FreeBSD. Having the whole system on CVSup is cool, but I notice that someone broken "make world" in release not to long ago. Although, it was only broken for a couple of hours, there are advantages to not have your system rely on single place.
/usr/ports is pretty damn cool. I wish Slackware would get something this.
Have you ever dealt with a poorly ran/dont care ISP? (I know you have, you work at an ISP, but its a retorical question.)
Dealing with Dumb ISP Admins is a losing battle from the beginning. I work at company that provides Email and domain hosting, and we deal with ISP's that relay spam, flood our DNS and generally are misconfigured. When you contact about half of them, they dont care.
I hate to say it, but deleting an account to keep from dealing with a problem that causes us to lose business is the way to go. Ya, I know, it sucks, but dealing with other stupid admin at other ISP's in tracking down problems is not worth it the business of one domain.
No, their domain would be siezed since the .com's are controlled by US Courts/Government.
Kinda blows the point. I play games because they are games. If I want realism, I run around the block carrying bricks until I get tired and pass out.
One would think that after Tom posted "Voodoo is dead forever" last year next to a paid Nvidia ad on his website, while extolling how his website is "unbiased" nobody would pay attention to this loudmouth hypocrite anymore.
I like Tom as much as the next guy (Which is not much), but Tom is right. Voodoo is dead. They seem to about one step behind NVIDIA since Voodoo3. Although, they are better in supporting non-win platforms, NVIDIA hardware is better.
Tippmann said the robot had been used by IBM Corp. in computer assembly before he refitted the machine to perform a wide array of cooking tasks--eggs, hamburgers, french fries.
Geezzz...from a top rated company to a short order cook. Man, IBM could have atleast retrained the robot for another division or atleast opt-out for early retirement. Talk about getting the short end of the Downsizing Stick.
Dont forget that the Celerons 300a had 1 to 1 cache which helped alot in certain apps, like games.