It's actually being used to treat people with narcolepsy. Problem is it tends to keep certain people 36 hours at a time on the smallest dosage. I don't think I'd want to take this as a caffine replacement.
Although Free/Open security software is widely acknowledged to be better than commercial alternatives, it's rarely been trusted in the enterprise - the article points out that, although the NSA use Free software, the need for an expensive government audit prevents the government from saving money and improving security."
while it is expensive to audit code, I'd really doubt that microsoft or a few other closed source platforms would even be willing to give up the code to the government for auditing in the first place. Secondly while it may be expensive for the audit we could look at the expense differently and think of how much we are saving by preventing problems and hacks before they happen. Repairing a compromised system I would guess is no small job at that level and Think of all the money lost because of compromised information.
Apparently some web site is changing peoples startup page so that every time they open thier browser they get a lovely popup add. This of course makes who ever their start page look terrible if the user isn't very internet savvy. I had this problem a couple of days ago and noticed when slashdot loaded it wasn't loading slashdot first, instead i saw this:
http://216.130.216.24/s.php?=slashdot.org
not sure how that got there, i certainly didn't do it, and i don't think slashdot would be the right consumer group to advertise herbal viagra so I'm going to go out on a limb here *sarcasm* and say it's not slashdot either. I don't think it was any software I installed since I haven't installed anything in quite some time so it must be a website doing this.
hmmmmm could it be http://pythonvideo.com behind this???
Pythonvideo Inc (NETBLK-PYTV-BLK-3A)
107 Atlantic Ave.CA
US
For a while Asus had a poll about their TNT asking if the "see through walls feature" should be added to their drivers. Of course the poll was overwhelmingly if favor of excluding the see through walls feature, and was not included with the TNT's then. It's a shame that after that they decide to slip it into the Gforce drivers (which presumably will work for the TNT's as well).
I run several game servers for NETDOOR ranging from quake 1 to tribes 2. Cheating has always been a problem especially on our heavily populated servers like quake 2, but until now it has always just been software which was the cheat, now cheaters can go in a whole new direction and use hardware to do this. It's really sad when you think of all the work that newer games have put into preventing cheating will now be null and void because of a video card. I will never buy an asus product again. I realize it's just a game, but I think the fact that they are knowingly contributing to ruining games for everyone for the sake of "marketing" is justification enough to look into other manufacturers. Looks like I'll be using ABIT motherboards from now on...
Well, when the Dune mini-series came out on VHS I rushed to get it ASAP since I don't get the scifi channel and unfortunately missed it. While I love the Move, the book and even the Mini Series I was really disappointed with the VHS quality. The whole 6 hour epic was shoved on one tape! They were to cheap to make it 2 or even three higher quality tapes which I would have gladly paid more for. The more you shove onto a tape the more the quality degrades. The video was ok, pretty clear, but it could have been better. The audio was horrible. I had to endure static and hissing through out the ENTIRE film. I was really disappointed because of that. It's not like it was a little hiss here and a couple of pops and cracks there. Instead it hissed the entire movie and not just a little soft hissing, very loud distracting hissing.
At first I thought it was equiptment failure, so I cleaned my tape heads and checked all the cables. I even tried other movies and none had the hissing so only the tape was left. I tried the tape on another vcr and television with the same results.
It looks like the only way to get decent audio is with dvd, but apparently the video will be "fake" On the VHS the Video was ok but the audio sucked so if you want a copy better decide which is more important. I was very displeased since I loved the miniseries and really wanted a good copy. oh well....
well, at least Mandrake still has a free update agent so if you are just using your redhat box as a workstation and really want an auto update switching is pretty painless. However, if it's a server you probably should be updating it manually anyway so it's no big deal. I have to admit it's sad that one must pay for something like that, but if people are willing then businesses will try it.
"These Things take a while to prepare, so I wonder if this is something that was developed under the Clinton Administration, and then now has the blessing of the Bush. It is doubtful that the Bush folks would have put something like this just since the swearing in, or even since the election, since they were so distracted with other business."
Sadly I think big business aleady bought both parties long before the election. Also this case for the majority of the US is widely unnoticed. Aside from geeks, hardcore freedom advocates, and those involed with MPAA not many people even know that their DVD's only play on regional players or have a clue what CSS and DeCSS are
I've asked serveral of my classmates about DeCSS, MPAA and this case. Not a single one had a clue what I was talking about. Our school news paper in the past 6 months has published several articles about Napster, but not a single one on DeCSS. It's partly the media's fault for not giving it more publicity, but mostly I think it tends to be a bit to "technical" for most people and they scan over the articles (on the rare occassion there are articles), see some anacronyms they've never seen before and put it off as being an article about computers instead of our rights.
So in a new age artist aren't intitled to say what happens to their music? That's worse than RIAA... I don't have a problem with tape swapping and file sharing as long as no one is directly profitting off it. At least with gnutella there is no central server owned by corperate garbage making money off someone else's hard work. Napster does. Napster makes money by distributing other artist work and doesn't compensate them for it. Am I the only one that see's a problem with this?
How is Napster selling out... they're buying in. It's a business if you haven't noticed. The main Idea for a business is to make money. Napster is now finally having to "pay" for their product. If they want to make money and stay in business they have no choice.
Now as far as copyright laws and DMCA go, I certainly agree that the copy right laws are in great need of reform (although the last major act aside from the DMCA was the Copyright act of 1978 not the 1700's)
I do think the RIAA has screwed more artists out of royalties than Napster ever will and oppose RIAA collecting internet royalties, much less charging 50% which is outrageous. I'd rather see a nonprofit org collect like ASCAP or BMI who typically charge between 12% and 17%.
I think fair use laws need to be more specific and created to protect the consumer and artist more than the corporations like they do now. The US should aslo work towards breaking the strangle hold that the big 5 have on the music industry.
Napster does to alot of good for the indy idustry and that's fine I won't argue, but if they are going to make money of the indy industry why not give some to the artist? is that too much to ask. I also disagree strongly with RIAA and assorted bands targeting napster users. I'd like to see RIAA kill over dead and napster do the right thing in paying artist there fair share. bottom line, if napster profits, why shouldn't the artist too?
to make something like that and my lack of sculpting ablitity (would end up looking like a jeff k. comic) $475 is a bargain. However, I think I'll stick to something more simple like my jedi knight under-roo's...
The thing is had this been addressed earlier in developement it openssh could have much more easily changed it's name. Instead SSH waited until OpenSSH was popular enough for a sudden name change to confuse people and make things very difficult for them. No matter how you look at it it's very dirty. Obviously OpenSSH is giving SSH communications such a run for it's money that this is the only thing they can find to put a damper on OpenSSH.
It's a shame there is no statute of limitations on trademarks. Just because something is "legal" doesn't mean that it's justified. I hope not everyone thinks this way. What I think is really sad is the fact that OpenSSH in my opinion is even a better product. I've tried on many occasions to get SSH to compile with no success. OpenSSH however worked with minimal effort.
Odd that one of the most secretive organizations is running it's own hack of linux... I wonder if the government will take this into consideration. One certainly wouldn't want to trust a closed source OS with our deepest national secrets. Even if opensource was outlawed I don't think it would die. And if it is I would say it's time to give the US one hell of a revolution...
Böhse Onkelz (a wacky German spelling, but meaning Evil Uncles), operates its own record label and sells about 500,000 albums a year. Its most recent release, "Evil Fairy Tales," was the top-selling album in Germany last spring. But Mr. Weidner said bootleggers produce between 30 and 60 unauthorized albums a year, each of which can result in thousands of unapproved compact disks.
"The problem isn't the individuals who get one of our CD's, copy it on a CD-burner and give it to a friend," he said. "The problem is the professionals, who are organized and do it in a huge way and have factories."
This comment seems to shoot more holes in their argument than anything else. If the fee/royalty is because of proffesional bootleggers then who does this apply to a burner here and a home computer there? I would think pro bootleggers would be using more than just a presario w/an ide burner otherwise it would seem they aren't to professional. If this is the problem perhaps they should focus more on cd pressing equiptment and leave consumers the hell alone.
Of course I don't believe him at all and it really comes down to "how to maximise profits" and control the media market. The worst thing is 90% of these poor artist that have been suckered into supporting this fee will never see a dime of what is collected.
I still work for a local ISP that's been around since 95. It's a great place to work and a great place to have an account. Over the years I've seen the other small isp's fold, merge, or get sold out. Some seem to happen repeatedly. For instance. techlink.com was bought out by meta3.com whick was bought out by ayrix.net which was bought out by bignetsouth.net. Now I hear bignet is getting bought out. These Isp's seem to be trying to get too big too fast. They expect merging to help, but I think they just end up buying into another isp's dept and crappy equiptment that has to be merged. Bignet is still running techlinks old 14.4 modem racks in some areas of mississippi. Obviously no one wants that. I even remember when cruisenet went out of business they didn't tell half of there customers. Suddenly no one could connect. For about a week we were flooded with calls from angry customers that wanted a new account with us because they couldn't connect or even get anyone on the phone at cruisenet. Little did they know cruisenet went under.
The company I work for is NETDOOR. We've managed to survive, and just opened our own colocation making us the only local isp in MS to have one. People still enjoy good service, we have our own techs (no one is subletted). The president of the company is not only an incredible business exec, but a great admin as well along with the other talented admins.
So far NETDOOR has had a few offers to sell, but none have been accepted. I think we have survived and grown due to our service and equiptment. We have 3 backbones through UUNET Cable and Wireless and Sprint. Plenty of redundancy and extra equitment. So if something breaks there is a backup. These are the things that make us the best:).
The article said it in a nutshell why these isp's die. They wanted to be like AOL. I don't think it's a good idea to try to get that big. The odds are definitly against you. I've seen far to many companies try to get too big to fast. From what I understand NETDOOR doesn't even plan on trying to expand out of Mississippi.
It's sad to see these ISP's shrivil up and die, but I think in the end there will still be a few left. Maybe the customers from these dead isp's will help keep the others profittable by moving to "mom and pop" isp's that have a chance. ISP darwinism.
funny, the whole article can be summed up by saying sloppy html and other formats/languages cause crappy, slow loading, confusing webpages.
Not that the article isn't informative, but hardly anything that most experienced web designers don't already know. Problem is getting the inexperienced and novice designers to follow it, heh, or even understand it. I'd say that the majority of the web is made up of novices.
heh, kinda funny, in a billion years when we've finally fixed the ecosystem after damaging biological diversity by intoducing plants and animals into foriegn ecosystems, dumping our trash, ddt, cfc's, smog, intoducing more plants and animals into foriegn ecosystems to fix the damage to biodiversity from introducing plants and animals into foriegn ecosystems, oil spills, over hunting/fishing, too much farming, nuclear fallout, global warming, intoducing more plants and animals into foriegn ecosystems to fix the damage to biodiversity from introducing plants and animals into foriegn ecosystems that was supposed to fix the damage from introducing plants and animals into foriegn ecosystems, and my 7th grade art teacher's bad breath, strip mining, water pollution, depleted ozone layer, and finally intoducing more plants and animals into foriegn ecosystems to fix the damage to biodiversity from introducing plants and animals into foriegn ecosystems that was supposed to fix the damage to biodiversity from introducing plants and animals into foriegn ecosystems that was supposed to fix the damage from introducing plants and animals into foriegn ecosystems...
we can fling the earth into a new orbit with an astroid and start all over screwing everything up
jeez, these humanoids, can't live with them, and they just won't die:)
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That's great in this circumstance, I won't. But where does this stop? What happens when you have no choice but to sign this type of agreement for a service like power or water or phone where you only have one provider. Sure I'd move, but I shouldn't have to. We have to be careful not to let things like this go to far, what's to stop it later? Sound far fetched? 15 years ago this would have also...
"2.1. You agree to provide Juno with accurate, current and complete information, to the extent required by Juno for your registration as a subscriber of the Service or at any time thereafter, and to maintain and to update this information as required to keep it accurate, current and complete. You agree in your enrollment and in your use of the Service not to impersonate any other person or entity, and you represent that you are 13 years of age or older."
You only have to be 13 years old!!! It's bad enough to exploit people in general, but now they are going to exploit children. And I thought saturday morning cartoons were bad about commercials.
Now the extra computer in your kids room will have a trojan virus (juno) on it transmitting every site your kid goes to back to juno. Then of course they can have it dial out to them. It's sad, I remember when we didn't have to read license agreements they were.... wait, no i don't nevermind, they have always sucked. It's just really bad, because the average computer user doesn't realize "big" companies do these sorts of things and probably never read the agreements.
And of course we can't forget what a security risk juno could possibly be, but I guess it's only a smudge in light of the OS it runs on;)
I'm going to guess that most of these servers that don't have power management are rack mount and probably don't have a dedicated monitor. Probably remotely adminstrated or use a kvc switch to share one monitor with several machines. Even then I'd doubt the monitor is on or even in use that often. I do agree people should stop being so lazy and turn off their monitors, however I'm not sure that it's that applicable to servers
Does no good what-so-ever if the hardware doesn't support it. I believe this guy is refering to high end server equiptment. It takes a combination of hardware and software support to get power management to work. And even at that it's still so freakin buggy that I wouldn't trust it on a server.
My biggest concern about enabling power management on a server would be instability more than the added time for it to "wake up" I've noticed that on my workstations I occasionally get lockups or hardware failing tor respond until rebooted due to buggy power management.
While it's no big deal to occasionally reboot a workstation due to these problems I don't think I would want the added stress of having to reboot a server because of this. Especially if it means getting out of bed at 5 in the morining because some early bird can't get x document off the file server:).
Apparrently after reading the comments this article is really about how to bash MCSE's for Dummies or Trolling for Dummies... ie. all the dummies that have made statements like:
"I know it's probably a bit too much to expect journalistic integrity out of a site like Slashdot, but can you at least consider the possibility of perhaps posting at least one story that isn't chock-full of anti Microsoft/MCSE bigotry? In case you've forgotten, Slashdot has a huge readership, and you're likely to alienate a large percentage of that readership (and by extension, a large percentage of your banner ad viewership) with statements like the one you make about MCSEs. Has anybody ever explained the meaning of the word "objectivity" to you?
Sure, it's true that Microsoft includes a handkerchief with MCSE certificates so that graduates can wipe the drool off the corners of their mouths. Sure, MCSEs sometimes put their shoes on the wrong feet. Sure, they sometimes have difficulty remembering their middle names. But does any of that justify the sort of blind prejudice that you display in this article? The fact the the certificate is a useless piece of paper that will be obsolete in six months is no excuse for you to lash out at MCSEs the way that you have. "
Wow, what a good person it takes to stand up for generalizing people that way. Such people are surely deserving of the Noble Peace Award. It apparently also gives moderators the chance to mod trolls up +3 funny for MCSE dirt.
Saddly you would think that/. readers would be a little more openminded. Instead of assuming every tech with a cert is an idiot. Sure many are, but many aren't. I've also met plenty of college graduates that are dumber than rocks, yet I don't associate that with all.
It seems like/. would also have enough journalistic integrity to refrain from making such cheap shots. Wonder how many MCSE's are avid linux users also that read slashdot. I know some- MCSE's in the local lug. Surely they aren't idiots if they use linux... then again how would you know if you have never spoken to them?
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I think someone made a booboo...
It's actually being used to treat people with narcolepsy. Problem is it tends to keep certain people 36 hours at a time on the smallest dosage. I don't think I'd want to take this as a caffine replacement.
while it is expensive to audit code, I'd really doubt that microsoft or a few other closed source platforms would even be willing to give up the code to the government for auditing in the first place. Secondly while it may be expensive for the audit we could look at the expense differently and think of how much we are saving by preventing problems and hacks before they happen. Repairing a compromised system I would guess is no small job at that level and Think of all the money lost because of compromised information.
Apparently some web site is changing peoples startup page so that every time they open thier browser they get a lovely popup add. This of course makes who ever their start page look terrible if the user isn't very internet savvy. I had this problem a couple of days ago and noticed when slashdot loaded it wasn't loading slashdot first, instead i saw this:
http://216.130.216.24/s.php?=slashdot.org
not sure how that got there, i certainly didn't do it, and i don't think slashdot would be the right consumer group to advertise herbal viagra so I'm going to go out on a limb here *sarcasm* and say it's not slashdot either. I don't think it was any software I installed since I haven't installed anything in quite some time so it must be a website doing this.
hmmmmm could it be http://pythonvideo.com behind this???
Pythonvideo Inc (NETBLK-PYTV-BLK-3A)
107 Atlantic Ave.CA
US
Netname: PYTV-BLK-3A
Netblock: 216.130.216.0 - 216.130.217.255
Coordinator:
Chen, Wen (WC269-ARIN) wen@webkrew.com
416 534 5000
Domain System inverse mapping provided by:
NS.PYTHONVIDEO.COM 216.130.196.20
NS.PYTHONVIDEO.COM 216.130.212.11
Record last updated on 01-Jun-2001.
Database last updated on 5-Jul-2001 23:03:10
EDT.
For a while Asus had a poll about their TNT asking if the "see through walls feature" should be added to their drivers. Of course the poll was overwhelmingly if favor of excluding the see through walls feature, and was not included with the TNT's then. It's a shame that after that they decide to slip it into the Gforce drivers (which presumably will work for the TNT's as well).
I run several game servers for NETDOOR ranging from quake 1 to tribes 2. Cheating has always been a problem especially on our heavily populated servers like quake 2, but until now it has always just been software which was the cheat, now cheaters can go in a whole new direction and use hardware to do this. It's really sad when you think of all the work that newer games have put into preventing cheating will now be null and void because of a video card. I will never buy an asus product again. I realize it's just a game, but I think the fact that they are knowingly contributing to ruining games for everyone for the sake of "marketing" is justification enough to look into other manufacturers. Looks like I'll be using ABIT motherboards from now on...
Well, when the Dune mini-series came out on VHS I rushed to get it ASAP since I don't get the scifi channel and unfortunately missed it. While I love the Move, the book and even the Mini Series I was really disappointed with the VHS quality. The whole 6 hour epic was shoved on one tape! They were to cheap to make it 2 or even three higher quality tapes which I would have gladly paid more for. The more you shove onto a tape the more the quality degrades. The video was ok, pretty clear, but it could have been better. The audio was horrible. I had to endure static and hissing through out the ENTIRE film. I was really disappointed because of that. It's not like it was a little hiss here and a couple of pops and cracks there. Instead it hissed the entire movie and not just a little soft hissing, very loud distracting hissing.
At first I thought it was equiptment failure, so I cleaned my tape heads and checked all the cables. I even tried other movies and none had the hissing so only the tape was left. I tried the tape on another vcr and television with the same results.
It looks like the only way to get decent audio is with dvd, but apparently the video will be "fake" On the VHS the Video was ok but the audio sucked so if you want a copy better decide which is more important. I was very displeased since I loved the miniseries and really wanted a good copy. oh well....
well, at least Mandrake still has a free update agent so if you are just using your redhat box as a workstation and really want an auto update switching is pretty painless. However, if it's a server you probably should be updating it manually anyway so it's no big deal. I have to admit it's sad that one must pay for something like that, but if people are willing then businesses will try it.
I've asked serveral of my classmates about DeCSS, MPAA and this case. Not a single one had a clue what I was talking about. Our school news paper in the past 6 months has published several articles about Napster, but not a single one on DeCSS. It's partly the media's fault for not giving it more publicity, but mostly I think it tends to be a bit to "technical" for most people and they scan over the articles (on the rare occassion there are articles), see some anacronyms they've never seen before and put it off as being an article about computers instead of our rights.
So in a new age artist aren't intitled to say what happens to their music? That's worse than RIAA... I don't have a problem with tape swapping and file sharing as long as no one is directly profitting off it. At least with gnutella there is no central server owned by corperate garbage making money off someone else's hard work. Napster does. Napster makes money by distributing other artist work and doesn't compensate them for it. Am I the only one that see's a problem with this?
How is Napster selling out... they're buying in. It's a business if you haven't noticed. The main Idea for a business is to make money. Napster is now finally having to "pay" for their product. If they want to make money and stay in business they have no choice.
Now as far as copyright laws and DMCA go, I certainly agree that the copy right laws are in great need of reform (although the last major act aside from the DMCA was the Copyright act of 1978 not the 1700's)
I do think the RIAA has screwed more artists out of royalties than Napster ever will and oppose RIAA collecting internet royalties, much less charging 50% which is outrageous. I'd rather see a nonprofit org collect like ASCAP or BMI who typically charge between 12% and 17%.
I think fair use laws need to be more specific and created to protect the consumer and artist more than the corporations like they do now. The US should aslo work towards breaking the strangle hold that the big 5 have on the music industry.
Napster does to alot of good for the indy idustry and that's fine I won't argue, but if they are going to make money of the indy industry why not give some to the artist? is that too much to ask. I also disagree strongly with RIAA and assorted bands targeting napster users. I'd like to see RIAA kill over dead and napster do the right thing in paying artist there fair share. bottom line, if napster profits, why shouldn't the artist too?
to make something like that and my lack of sculpting ablitity (would end up looking like a jeff k. comic) $475 is a bargain. However, I think I'll stick to something more simple like my jedi knight under-roo's...
The thing is had this been addressed earlier in developement it openssh could have much more easily changed it's name. Instead SSH waited until OpenSSH was popular enough for a sudden name change to confuse people and make things very difficult for them. No matter how you look at it it's very dirty. Obviously OpenSSH is giving SSH communications such a run for it's money that this is the only thing they can find to put a damper on OpenSSH.
It's a shame there is no statute of limitations on trademarks. Just because something is "legal" doesn't mean that it's justified. I hope not everyone thinks this way. What I think is really sad is the fact that OpenSSH in my opinion is even a better product. I've tried on many occasions to get SSH to compile with no success. OpenSSH however worked with minimal effort.
Odd that one of the most secretive organizations is running it's own hack of linux... I wonder if the government will take this into consideration. One certainly wouldn't want to trust a closed source OS with our deepest national secrets. Even if opensource was outlawed I don't think it would die. And if it is I would say it's time to give the US one hell of a revolution...
Böhse Onkelz (a wacky German spelling, but meaning Evil Uncles), operates its own record label and sells about 500,000 albums a year. Its most recent release, "Evil Fairy Tales," was the top-selling album in Germany last spring. But Mr. Weidner said bootleggers produce between 30 and 60 unauthorized albums a year, each of which can result in thousands of unapproved compact disks.
"The problem isn't the individuals who get one of our CD's, copy it on a CD-burner and give it to a friend," he said. "The problem is the professionals, who are organized and do it in a huge way and have factories."
This comment seems to shoot more holes in their argument than anything else. If the fee/royalty is because of proffesional bootleggers then who does this apply to a burner here and a home computer there? I would think pro bootleggers would be using more than just a presario w/an ide burner otherwise it would seem they aren't to professional. If this is the problem perhaps they should focus more on cd pressing equiptment and leave consumers the hell alone.
Of course I don't believe him at all and it really comes down to "how to maximise profits" and control the media market. The worst thing is 90% of these poor artist that have been suckered into supporting this fee will never see a dime of what is collected.
hahahahahahahahahahahahaha....
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you know when I first saw that comment, i thought "everyone uses nested tables (even slashdot), how bad could it be..."
I guess I'll know when it finishes loading...
I still work for a local ISP that's been around since 95. It's a great place to work and a great place to have an account. Over the years I've seen the other small isp's fold, merge, or get sold out. Some seem to happen repeatedly. For instance. techlink.com was bought out by meta3.com whick was bought out by ayrix.net which was bought out by bignetsouth.net. Now I hear bignet is getting bought out. These Isp's seem to be trying to get too big too fast. They expect merging to help, but I think they just end up buying into another isp's dept and crappy equiptment that has to be merged. Bignet is still running techlinks old 14.4 modem racks in some areas of mississippi. Obviously no one wants that. I even remember when cruisenet went out of business they didn't tell half of there customers. Suddenly no one could connect. For about a week we were flooded with calls from angry customers that wanted a new account with us because they couldn't connect or even get anyone on the phone at cruisenet. Little did they know cruisenet went under.
:).
The company I work for is NETDOOR. We've managed to survive, and just opened our own colocation making us the only local isp in MS to have one. People still enjoy good service, we have our own techs (no one is subletted). The president of the company is not only an incredible business exec, but a great admin as well along with the other talented admins.
So far NETDOOR has had a few offers to sell, but none have been accepted. I think we have survived and grown due to our service and equiptment. We have 3 backbones through UUNET Cable and Wireless and Sprint. Plenty of redundancy and extra equitment. So if something breaks there is a backup. These are the things that make us the best
The article said it in a nutshell why these isp's die. They wanted to be like AOL. I don't think it's a good idea to try to get that big. The odds are definitly against you. I've seen far to many companies try to get too big to fast. From what I understand NETDOOR doesn't even plan on trying to expand out of Mississippi.
It's sad to see these ISP's shrivil up and die, but I think in the end there will still be a few left. Maybe the customers from these dead isp's will help keep the others profittable by moving to "mom and pop" isp's that have a chance. ISP darwinism.
funny, the whole article can be summed up by saying sloppy html and other formats/languages cause crappy, slow loading, confusing webpages.
Not that the article isn't informative, but hardly anything that most experienced web designers don't already know. Problem is getting the inexperienced and novice designers to follow it, heh, or even understand it. I'd say that the majority of the web is made up of novices.
long distant companies will have a fit...
heh, kinda funny, in a billion years when we've finally fixed the ecosystem after damaging biological diversity by intoducing plants and animals into foriegn ecosystems, dumping our trash, ddt, cfc's, smog, intoducing more plants and animals into foriegn ecosystems to fix the damage to biodiversity from introducing plants and animals into foriegn ecosystems, oil spills, over hunting/fishing, too much farming, nuclear fallout, global warming, intoducing more plants and animals into foriegn ecosystems to fix the damage to biodiversity from introducing plants and animals into foriegn ecosystems that was supposed to fix the damage from introducing plants and animals into foriegn ecosystems, and my 7th grade art teacher's bad breath, strip mining, water pollution, depleted ozone layer, and finally intoducing more plants and animals into foriegn ecosystems to fix the damage to biodiversity from introducing plants and animals into foriegn ecosystems that was supposed to fix the damage to biodiversity from introducing plants and animals into foriegn ecosystems that was supposed to fix the damage from introducing plants and animals into foriegn ecosystems ...
we can fling the earth into a new orbit with an astroid and start all over screwing everything up
jeez, these humanoids, can't live with them, and they just won't die:)
That's great in this circumstance, I won't. But where does this stop? What happens when you have no choice but to sign this type of agreement for a service like power or water or phone where you only have one provider. Sure I'd move, but I shouldn't have to. We have to be careful not to let things like this go to far, what's to stop it later? Sound far fetched? 15 years ago this would have also...
"2.1. You agree to provide Juno with accurate, current and complete information, to the extent required by Juno for your registration as a subscriber of the Service or at any time thereafter, and to maintain and to update this information as required to keep it accurate, current and complete. You agree in your enrollment and in your use of the Service not to impersonate any other person or entity, and you represent that you are 13 years of age or older."
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You only have to be 13 years old!!! It's bad enough to exploit people in general, but now they are going to exploit children. And I thought saturday morning cartoons were bad about commercials.
Now the extra computer in your kids room will have a trojan virus (juno) on it transmitting every site your kid goes to back to juno. Then of course they can have it dial out to them. It's sad, I remember when we didn't have to read license agreements they were.... wait, no i don't nevermind, they have always sucked. It's just really bad, because the average computer user doesn't realize "big" companies do these sorts of things and probably never read the agreements.
And of course we can't forget what a security risk juno could possibly be, but I guess it's only a smudge in light of the OS it runs on
I'm going to guess that most of these servers that don't have power management are rack mount and probably don't have a dedicated monitor. Probably remotely adminstrated or use a kvc switch to share one monitor with several machines. Even then I'd doubt the monitor is on or even in use that often. I do agree people should stop being so lazy and turn off their monitors, however I'm not sure that it's that applicable to servers
Does no good what-so-ever if the hardware doesn't support it. I believe this guy is refering to high end server equiptment. It takes a combination of hardware and software support to get power management to work. And even at that it's still so freakin buggy that I wouldn't trust it on a server.
My biggest concern about enabling power management on a server would be instability more than the added time for it to "wake up" I've noticed that on my workstations I occasionally get lockups or hardware failing tor respond until rebooted due to buggy power management.
:).
While it's no big deal to occasionally reboot a workstation due to these problems I don't think I would want the added stress of having to reboot a server because of this. Especially if it means getting out of bed at 5 in the morining because some early bird can't get x document off the file server
Apparrently after reading the comments this article is really about how to bash MCSE's for Dummies or Trolling for Dummies... ie. all the dummies that have made statements like:
/. readers would be a little more openminded. Instead of assuming every tech with a cert is an idiot. Sure many are, but many aren't. I've also met plenty of college graduates that are dumber than rocks, yet I don't associate that with all.
/. would also have enough journalistic integrity to refrain from making such cheap shots. Wonder how many MCSE's are avid linux users also that read slashdot. I know some- MCSE's in the local lug. Surely they aren't idiots if they use linux... then again how would you know if you have never spoken to them?
"I know it's probably a bit too much to expect journalistic integrity out of a site like Slashdot, but can you at least consider the possibility of perhaps posting at least one story that isn't chock-full of anti Microsoft/MCSE bigotry? In case you've forgotten, Slashdot has a huge readership, and you're likely to alienate a large percentage of that readership (and by extension, a large percentage of your banner ad viewership) with statements like the one you make about MCSEs. Has anybody ever explained the meaning of the word "objectivity" to you?
Sure, it's true that Microsoft includes a handkerchief with MCSE certificates so that graduates can wipe the drool off the corners of their mouths. Sure, MCSEs sometimes put their shoes on the wrong feet. Sure, they sometimes have difficulty remembering their middle names. But does any of that justify the sort of blind prejudice that you display in this article? The fact the the certificate is a useless piece of paper that will be obsolete in six months is no excuse for you to lash out at MCSEs the way that you have. "
Wow, what a good person it takes to stand up for generalizing people that way. Such people are surely deserving of the Noble Peace Award. It apparently also gives moderators the chance to mod trolls up +3 funny for MCSE dirt.
Saddly you would think that
It seems like