I have AT&T, live in the Northeast Megalopolis, and have great connections, and never drop a call. Perhaps you live in a bad area, or have a bad provider. And why does "an anonymous reader" get posted to the front page, with such an obviously crap story? Is this "Whinedot" ?
That one division carries a company is NOT an abuse of their monopoly position. Keeping Netscape off the desktop with the threat of higher Windows licensing costs IS. Just because a company makes a profit in 1 area and loses in another doesn't make it abusive. And stop posting anonymously.
If you look at Adobe's stock over the past 3 months, it's been increasing steadily from about 16 USD to 27 USD. See it here. Why run around screaming that the sky is falling?
Taco and Hemos are probably using DONATED TiBooks.... can you say "free advertising"?
Re:mysql port open on www.permissionedmedia.com
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First Worm with a EULA?
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· Score: 3, Interesting
They're using some kind of application-level IP restrictions on it:
Trying 207.250.191.48... Connected to www.permissionmedia.com. Escape character is '^]'. _Host 'a.b.c.d' is not allowed to connect to this MySQL serverConnection closed by foreign host.
Why must all charity projects go to the lowest possible denominator? If folks have spare time that they want to donate, how about helping out in your own backyard first?
It's arguably a noble notion, donating your time to those who have less. But how many of these have-not people and groups are in countries with backward or malevolent political and economic systems? Why should we all join a project to help [INSERT DICTATORIAL REGIME HERE]?
I'd much rather give 5 USD to a local charity or even a street person, than to donate time to helping [INSERT PUBLIC "SERVICE" GROUP HERE] in another country. Where's the benefit in that, compared to helping out with local problems?
Or is this another one of those Soviet-era things - "at least everyone is equally shabby" ?
Impossible. Unless your ISP was so powerful that a NIC manufacturer made a special run just for you, I'd say that one of your tech guys, or you yourse, b0rked something else.
No, it's sad that you live in a fascist, collectivist society. A sale requires the seller's consent. A man who produces and lets others dispose of his product, is a slave.
I did. I sent them a detailed letter why their page was technically flawed as well as underhanded marketing. Let them know that they're suffering for this kind of FUD.
My first thought was "who cares", but the more I thought about it, the more I realized that it was the right reaction. Yes, the DC may be "the hobbyist's favorite console" but it isn't going to get millions more people to try Linux or BSD. Millions more people will try Linux by buying Lindows PCs, or buying RH 8.0 in a store (with a bit of luck on their HW platform during the install). I mean, coolness points for reverse-engineering the modem, but this won't open some Open Source floodgate.
It's not threads, its about hardware. Can *BSD run on a 16 CPU box with hotpluggable CPUs, power supplies and hard drives? Can *BSD allow you to slice up the machine into arbitrary sections, and do resource management at that level?
You buy a box that gives you 5 nines up uptime, and they ship the OS to do it with - its a nobrainer.
Recipe for technology article: 1 paragraph fluff 1 paragraph spin 1/2 cup FUD
Mix in HTML editor. Publish.
Seriously, this article is light on details, and filled with inane comments like "the OS looks dated". While there were some good comments, half of the time it was gushing over the X server, or cheering over the fact that the author can run XMMS. What about performance? Applications? Hardware compatibility/expandibility? Talk to us about the box - does SGI/IRIX know about USB, for instance? FireWire?
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Hopefully Bruce Perens was in the building at the time.
I have AT&T, live in the Northeast Megalopolis, and have great connections, and never drop a call. Perhaps you live in a bad area, or have a bad provider. And why does "an anonymous reader" get posted to the front page, with such an obviously crap story? Is this "Whinedot" ?
That one division carries a company is NOT an abuse of their monopoly position. Keeping Netscape off the desktop with the threat of higher Windows licensing costs IS. Just because a company makes a profit in 1 area and loses in another doesn't make it abusive. And stop posting anonymously.
It's called Vipul's Razor, you insensitive clod!
man dd
find the bits you're looking for and swap them around, done.
Bonus Karma for people who know where the subject is quoted from.
It's IPSec over Bluetooth.
Prock see.
Find an open HTTP proxy out there on the net, and Kazaa away...
(+10, redundant)
Because Taco, et. al. all use TiBooks. Can you say "schwag" ?
If you look at Adobe's stock over the past 3 months, it's been increasing steadily from about 16 USD to 27 USD. See it here.
Why run around screaming that the sky is falling?
No, you don't.
/etc/hosts.[interface] file.
You change the IP address by editting the
Now they make 10/100/1000 "PowerConnect" switches. So why not enter the PDA market?
Taco and Hemos are probably using DONATED TiBooks.... can you say "free advertising"?
They're using some kind of application-level IP restrictions on it:
Trying 207.250.191.48...
Connected to www.permissionmedia.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
_Host 'a.b.c.d' is not allowed to connect to this MySQL serverConnection closed by foreign host.
Why must all charity projects go to the lowest possible denominator? If folks have spare time that they want to donate, how about helping out in your own backyard first?
It's arguably a noble notion, donating your time to those who have less. But how many of these have-not people and groups are in countries with backward or malevolent political and economic systems? Why should we all join a project to help [INSERT DICTATORIAL REGIME HERE]?
I'd much rather give 5 USD to a local charity or even a street person, than to donate time to helping [INSERT PUBLIC "SERVICE" GROUP HERE] in another country. Where's the benefit in that, compared to helping out with local problems?
Or is this another one of those Soviet-era things - "at least everyone is equally shabby" ?
Impossible. Unless your ISP was so powerful that a NIC manufacturer made a special run just for you, I'd say that one of your tech guys, or you yourse, b0rked something else.
No, it's sad that you live in a fascist, collectivist society. A sale requires the seller's consent. A man who produces and lets others dispose of his product, is a slave.
And will they all be favorable?
I did. I sent them a detailed letter why their page was technically flawed as well as underhanded marketing. Let them know that they're suffering for this kind of FUD.
My first thought was "who cares", but the more I thought about it, the more I realized that it was the right reaction. Yes, the DC may be "the hobbyist's favorite console" but it isn't going to get millions more people to try Linux or BSD. Millions more people will try Linux by buying Lindows PCs, or buying RH 8.0 in a store (with a bit of luck on their HW platform during the install).
I mean, coolness points for reverse-engineering the modem, but this won't open some Open Source floodgate.
Or is MS trying to get into the online auction business, and pointed their FUD Cannon at eBay?
It's not threads, its about hardware. Can *BSD run on a 16 CPU box with hotpluggable CPUs, power supplies and hard drives? Can *BSD allow you to slice up the machine into arbitrary sections, and do resource management at that level?
You buy a box that gives you 5 nines up uptime, and they ship the OS to do it with - its a nobrainer.
Where is SpamAssassin for Slashdot when I need it?
Recipe for technology article:
1 paragraph fluff
1 paragraph spin
1/2 cup FUD
Mix in HTML editor.
Publish.
Seriously, this article is light on details, and filled with inane comments like "the OS looks dated". While there were some good comments, half of the time it was gushing over the X server, or cheering over the fact that the author can run XMMS. What about performance? Applications? Hardware compatibility/expandibility? Talk to us about the box - does SGI/IRIX know about USB, for instance? FireWire?
Details please..
I guess the rumors of Lineo's demise were exaggerated.
SpamAssassin works great for me. It eats about 90% of my spam, you just hack up a little procmail file for it, and you're done.
With so many people using SpamAssassin these days, I can't see how this is a timely or newsworthy item. More like from the been-there-done-that-dept..