Interesting. I think we should vote for candidates solely based on their web server choice.
NetCraft: The site www.deanforamerica.com is running Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.6.5 OpenSSL/0.9.6e ApacheJServ/1.1.2 mod_fastcgi/2.2.10 on FreeBSD.
In Feb it was IIS5/Win2k, tho, and at a different hosting provider.
Remember Gore's 'secret' HTML comment in the webpage?
"This technique was used most famously by the Gore Presidential campaign, which included a hidden message in the campaign web site. The message began, "Thanks for checking out our source code!... The fact that you are peeking behind the scenes at our site means you can make an important difference to this Internet effort." From there, the message asked web designers to submit ideas for improving the campaign web site "in the spirit of the open source movement." Ironically, this clever attempt to build credibility among web professionals backfired. Gore was given some credit for the cleverness of the technique, but the internet community roundly criticized him for hypocrisy in claiming to support the open-source movement when, in fact, his entire web presence was built on closed-system technology developed by Microsoft. One Apache programmer likened the message to putting a "Buy American" bumper sticker on a Honda." ---http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?no de=HTML%2 0comments
I got curious as to the current top holders of SCOX. Mostly, it's their execs, who've been selling it off like a prostitute sells BJs.
But that's hardly interesting, the institutional holders are the interesting ones. There's two big investment peoples in it. I began researching one , Integral Capital Partners and came across another geek who's ahead of me:
The short of it is that Integral Capital Partners is the biggest outside holder of stock (over 4mil, reported Jun '03) . They have the same position in Drugstore.com. To quote the guy who researched the info in the link above, "> And lo and behold, guess who was just elected a director of Drugstore.com? Melinda French Gates. Yes, that Mrs. Gates. "
The other major holder, Pequot Capital Management, I've yet to find anything juicy on. They have Giga in their portfolio, and Securify... I'm still digging on them, feel free to peek at https://www.pequotventures.com/ for their website.
"My hard drive [copyright evasion device] is almost full of audio and video files [pirated materials]. The OS [Piracy enabler] is Windows [OS which is easily taken over by pirates. arrrr], and I run Windows Media Player [Pirated materials viewer] to watch my files [generic term for pirated materials].
I hope to upgrade [verb, to improve the piracy capacity of a system] my RAM [temporary storage for pirated material], however, and I hope to install [add software or hardware sued to illegally copy or trade or view pirated material] a broadband connection [PIRACY! PIRACY! RAMPANT PIRACY DEVICE! KILL! KILL THEM ALL!!!]."
so, pirate the first run for your fix (or just do without), and buy the cool box-set thing when it comes out. This is not rocket science.
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Also, look at Mozilla vs IE as opposed to OpenOffice vs MSOffice -- Mozilla is easily better than IE in functionality, interface, and features. Selling people on Moz is as easy as installing it for them (because they don't know, and hate netscape), and showing them that it blocks pop-ups and can block ads and tabbed browsing (drool). Selling OpenOffice to someone's a bitch, because it hasn't (yet) surpassed MSOffice in the interface and features (tho the backend is much better, standards-friendly, etc, that matters to us, but not your average user)
OO needs to do some serious work, as will OG.o . Further, if OG.o really wants to replace Exchange, and not just provide an alternative, they'll have to port to Win platforms soon...
In any case, it's exciting, and they have a lot of work ahead of them. Perhaps they could look at some of those P2P groupware things like Groove, and get some good ideas to integrate in to leapfrog over Exchange features...
Or rather, they didn't learn the established language, as slang are valid dialects, and some more established slang is almost its own language. I'm not convinced yet in the case of ebonics, but there are 'slang' languages, like Jamaican Patois, where it is so different in vocab and verb conjugation and sentence formation...
ah, apologies. I try to focus on clerks/chasing amy/dogma, and not the others, generally speaking.
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Exactly! The problem will be who controls the system -- and with only 128 bits of information, good crypto won't be very available, so it'll be protection by the limited radius of detection for lots of stuff, and security-through-obscurity, with all its inherent weaknesses.
But nevertheless, lots of power for automation and data-enriching of boring everyday things.
"The CueCat is a cheapo bar-code scanner that looks like a marital aid." --Leander Kahney, Wired
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Everyone freaks out about RFIDs, but I remain in the camp that these could be really cool, as long as consumers (ok, geeks) figure out how to control them (by burning them out or just finding the darned things and removing them from unwanted places, like the back of a Yugo [1])
Ever lose your cell phone and have someone call it so you could find it? Imagin being able to do that with any random item? superglue a RFID onto it, and walk around with a semi-portable RFID scanner. OK, not as great due to the limited range of the things, but you could pretty easily determine if the keys were under the couch or not.
Now, the sucky thing will be if (when) manufacturers build RFIDs into places that you can't get to without destroying the item or voiding the warranty.
So, we need an opt-out method for RFIDs, which may be as simple as a way to find the lil' bastards and plier them flat, but beyond the scare, there's promise:
telnet homenetwork : fridgeport Brr! it's cold in here [45F]! Can I have your username? > JoeBachelor And your password? > gotb33r? Welcome to your Refridgerator/Freezer system! >cd fridge >ls Directory of/fridge:
Soda/
Coke (.5)
Mountain Dew (4)
non-caffeinated/ ActualFood/
lunchmeat_ham (1) (warning: use-by-date 1 week expired!)
cheese_cheddar (2) (warning: use-by-date is tommorow!) End of directory. No healthy food available. >man healthy Sorry, you need to install the Mother or Health-Conscious-Girlfriend modules for these extensions >make food Unable to make food. Stop. >exit. Goodbye.
see?!!!!! see! this is my vision!
unrelated, I'm worried about/.s email garble today : Email GriffJon@[ ]mail.com ['Hot' in gap] hot in gap? what does that imply?
[1] That's a "Mall Rats" reference, for the rest of you.
Well, kinda. Let's look at this, tho. Back in the day there was Napster. Napster was very above-ground, and only P2P in the file-transfer sense. Sure, there were other, geekier alternatives to Napster, but c'mon. Napster. Then napster goes down, and the geekier alternatives become much more attractive, and a lot more work goes into making them functional, so we get a better gnutella network, and things like Morpheus and Kazaa. So if these go away, we'll have a new resurgence in work on Limewire, and probably a new, geekier, more resistant to tracing networks, like freenet was supposed to be.
The article focuses on a move towards hosted services served over the Internet. This is good, for some things, like ecards, and bad, for most things, like business critical software. It's one thing to have hired stupidity cause a network failure which loses an hour or day of work, it's another to have external companies you can't fire or even recoup losses from cause unknown downtime due to a lost connection, bad cable, squirrel, or backhoe cutting your upstream.
I think web services will be popular in the future, and will drive down the cost of packages wares, but will not replace them entirely, just because large companies and intelligent IT departments with sufficient budgets would prefer having the software locally, I'd think (again, emphasis on sufficient budgets). YMMV, if you're part of the backbone, multiple connections, etc.
I dunno, what's the/. community feel for managed services? I get shivers down my spine. What if they get hacked? what if they change their licensing/cost? you're stuck, and they have your data in their format.
Slashdot Mirror
127.0.0.1 sitefinder.verisign.com
Fixes my problems!
(127.0.0.1 verisign.com works well also...)
"...the bandwidth of a station wagon loaded down with tape archives travelling across the desert at 60mph."
I guess that's getting outdated, now?
hm...or is hard drive/storage capacity keeping up with it (OK, so buy a newer car than a wagon, too)
I'm far too lazy to do the calculations, though. Should we move to Lear jets and DVD-Rs? Or Segways and alpha IBM technology?
pr0n spam to scroll down my jacket during an interview.
/really/ the target market?)
Better, 'targeted' ads -- penis enlargement posts on boxers (hm, or panties? who's
This'll be fun. No, really. It'll bring the BSOD to the level of a fashion statement!
Interesting. I think we should vote for candidates solely based on their web server choice.
NetCraft: The site www.deanforamerica.com is running Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.6.5 OpenSSL/0.9.6e ApacheJServ/1.1.2 mod_fastcgi/2.2.10 on FreeBSD.
In Feb it was IIS5/Win2k, tho, and at a different hosting provider.
Remember Gore's 'secret' HTML comment in the webpage?
... The fact that you are peeking behind the scenes at our site means you can make an important difference to this Internet effort." From there, the message asked web designers to submit ideas for improving the campaign web site "in the spirit of the open source movement." Ironically, this clever attempt to build credibility among web professionals backfired. Gore was given some credit for the cleverness of the technique, but the internet community roundly criticized him for hypocrisy in claiming to support the open-source movement when, in fact, his entire web presence was built on closed-system technology developed by Microsoft. One Apache programmer likened the message to putting a "Buy American" bumper sticker on a Honda."o de=HTML%2 0comments
"This technique was used most famously by the Gore Presidential campaign, which included a hidden message in the campaign web site. The message began, "Thanks for checking out our source code!
---http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?n
Trillian's pretty cool. It's #1 on the list of IM clients that I would consider paying for. Of course, that list is about 2 long, so...
Hm. So the IIS version of .htaccess is a bit entabgled.
But obviously from the site, his robots.txt allows spidering.
I got curious as to the current top holders of SCOX. Mostly, it's their execs, who've been selling it off like a prostitute sells BJs.
9 8. qmail@lwn.net.html
But that's hardly interesting, the institutional holders are the interesting ones. There's two big investment peoples in it. I began researching one , Integral Capital Partners and came across another geek who's ahead of me:
http://zgp.org/linux-elitists/20030829144815.37
The short of it is that Integral Capital Partners is the biggest outside holder of stock (over 4mil, reported Jun '03) . They have the same position in Drugstore.com. To quote the guy who researched the info in the link above, "> And lo and behold, guess who was just elected a director of Drugstore.com? Melinda French Gates. Yes, that Mrs. Gates. "
The other major holder, Pequot Capital Management, I've yet to find anything juicy on. They have Giga in their portfolio, and Securify... I'm still digging on them, feel free to peek at https://www.pequotventures.com/ for their website.
The universe of knowledge has not been transfered to the internet.
But somehow, the stupidityis all there...
"My hard drive [copyright evasion device] is almost full of audio and video files [pirated materials]. The OS [Piracy enabler] is Windows [OS which is easily taken over by pirates. arrrr], and I run Windows Media Player [Pirated materials viewer] to watch my files [generic term for pirated materials].
I hope to upgrade [verb, to improve the piracy capacity of a system] my RAM [temporary storage for pirated material], however, and I hope to install [add software or hardware sued to illegally copy or trade or view pirated material] a broadband connection [PIRACY! PIRACY! RAMPANT PIRACY DEVICE! KILL! KILL THEM ALL!!!]."
Yeah, I can see how this could go on....
baloon transmissions... ...could be a network... ...imagine a beowulf cluster of those!
(sorry)
It's the first rumblings of Curious Yellow, I tell ya.
The end is near. So download Linux!
Hat to say I told ya so, but I told ya so. This is public (and often free) information you can get from Yahoo and other stock-info sites
yahoo's Insider Sales is particularly revealing...
everyone's selling!
so, pirate the first run for your fix (or just do without), and buy the cool box-set thing when it comes out. This is not rocket science.
Also, look at Mozilla vs IE as opposed to OpenOffice vs MSOffice -- Mozilla is easily better than IE in functionality, interface, and features. Selling people on Moz is as easy as installing it for them (because they don't know, and hate netscape), and showing them that it blocks pop-ups and can block ads and tabbed browsing (drool). Selling OpenOffice to someone's a bitch, because it hasn't (yet) surpassed MSOffice in the interface and features (tho the backend is much better, standards-friendly, etc, that matters to us, but not your average user)
OO needs to do some serious work, as will OG.o . Further, if OG.o really wants to replace Exchange, and not just provide an alternative, they'll have to port to Win platforms soon...
In any case, it's exciting, and they have a lot of work ahead of them. Perhaps they could look at some of those P2P groupware things like Groove, and get some good ideas to integrate in to leapfrog over Exchange features...
Or rather, they didn't learn the established language, as slang are valid dialects, and some more established slang is almost its own language. I'm not convinced yet in the case of ebonics, but there are 'slang' languages, like Jamaican Patois, where it is so different in vocab and verb conjugation and sentence formation...
ah, apologies. I try to focus on clerks/chasing amy/dogma, and not the others, generally speaking.
Exactly! The problem will be who controls the system -- and with only 128 bits of information, good crypto won't be very available, so it'll be protection by the limited radius of detection for lots of stuff, and security-through-obscurity, with all its inherent weaknesses.
But nevertheless, lots of power for automation and data-enriching of boring everyday things.
Nah, they're too small for his biz model...
"The CueCat is a cheapo bar-code scanner that looks like a marital aid."
--Leander Kahney, Wired
Everyone freaks out about RFIDs, but I remain in the camp that these could be really cool, as long as consumers (ok, geeks) figure out how to control them (by burning them out or just finding the darned things and removing them from unwanted places, like the back of a Yugo [1])
/fridge:
/.s email garble today : Email
Ever lose your cell phone and have someone call it so you could find it? Imagin being able to do that with any random item? superglue a RFID onto it, and walk around with a semi-portable RFID scanner. OK, not as great due to the limited range of the things, but you could pretty easily determine if the keys were under the couch or not.
Now, the sucky thing will be if (when) manufacturers build RFIDs into places that you can't get to without destroying the item or voiding the warranty.
So, we need an opt-out method for RFIDs, which may be as simple as a way to find the lil' bastards and plier them flat, but beyond the scare, there's promise:
telnet homenetwork : fridgeport
Brr! it's cold in here [45F]! Can I have your username?
> JoeBachelor
And your password?
> gotb33r?
Welcome to your Refridgerator/Freezer system!
>cd fridge
>ls
Directory of
Beer/
Beer/Shiner Bock (1)
Beer/MGD (5)
Condiments/
Condiments/ketchup package (13)
Condiments/mustard package (2.5)
Condiments/SoySauce package (1)
Condiments/Unidentifiable (5)
Condiments/mayonnaise (1) (warning: use-by-date 5 months expired!)
Vegetables/
Soda/
Coke (.5)
Mountain Dew (4)
non-caffeinated/
ActualFood/
lunchmeat_ham (1) (warning: use-by-date 1 week expired!)
cheese_cheddar (2) (warning: use-by-date is tommorow!)
End of directory. No healthy food available.
>man healthy
Sorry, you need to install the Mother or Health-Conscious-Girlfriend modules for these extensions
>make food
Unable to make food. Stop.
>exit.
Goodbye.
see?!!!!! see! this is my vision!
unrelated, I'm worried about
GriffJon@[ ]mail.com ['Hot' in gap]
hot in gap? what does that imply?
[1] That's a "Mall Rats" reference, for the rest of you.
Um, or download AVG from grisoft.com for free, and aget a lower memory-footprint, and fewer clutter-things than McAfee or Norton.
No need to get illegal here for inferior products.
Well, kinda. Let's look at this, tho. Back in the day there was Napster. Napster was very above-ground, and only P2P in the file-transfer sense. Sure, there were other, geekier alternatives to Napster, but c'mon. Napster. Then napster goes down, and the geekier alternatives become much more attractive, and a lot more work goes into making them functional, so we get a better gnutella network, and things like Morpheus and Kazaa. So if these go away, we'll have a new resurgence in work on Limewire, and probably a new, geekier, more resistant to tracing networks, like freenet was supposed to be.
...unfortunately for the RIAA, they were just all replaced by OGGs...
The article focuses on a move towards hosted services served over the Internet. This is good, for some things, like ecards, and bad, for most things, like business critical software. It's one thing to have hired stupidity cause a network failure which loses an hour or day of work, it's another to have external companies you can't fire or even recoup losses from cause unknown downtime due to a lost connection, bad cable, squirrel, or backhoe cutting your upstream.
/. community feel for managed services? I get shivers down my spine. What if they get hacked? what if they change their licensing/cost? you're stuck, and they have your data in their format.
I think web services will be popular in the future, and will drive down the cost of packages wares, but will not replace them entirely, just because large companies and intelligent IT departments with sufficient budgets would prefer having the software locally, I'd think (again, emphasis on sufficient budgets). YMMV, if you're part of the backbone, multiple connections, etc.
I dunno, what's the