K, thanks, didn't hear about that one. Sure that makes a world of difference ( ----> me going to the mailbox in anticipation as I am a wired subscriber)
>If you were sent a:CueCat as unsolicted merchandise through the US Mail
But are they really unsolicited? I've only seen where you go to the website and ask for one to be sent for a nominal S&H charge. I hadn't heard that they were mailing them out like AOL CD's. If that is what's happening, I just hadn't heard.
I thought this reg was there to stop the practice of mailing out unordered products and then sending a bill?
I guess after reading his site I'm not clear on what he hopes to accomplish other than flooding the USPS with complaints and causing some inconvenience to the Postal Inspector's office. I don't see how this really helps with the open source reader issue?
I would have tought most of us use junkbuster or the like already. Hits is hits. The summary comes from the person who sumbits the story. Granted, Taco and crew pick the submissions - has to be hard to resist a juicy MS-bashing title and summary. This sort of bait-and-switch has long been tolerated here on/. and at the end of the day, it's all about eyeballs. As long as people want to see stories like this (evidenced by the 150+ comments at this point) they are going to keep posting them.
Dunno, didn't they supposedly try to migrate hotmail to nt? If it was working and making money, why mess with it? But, if the story is true, they did. Motivation? All that expensive BSD license fees? The prestige of putting a service like hotmail on your *cough* flagship product? The humiliation of having to use a 'free' alternative OS? In general, I would think they care. In this case, sounds like someone *cough* is trying to make a mountain out of a molehill.
Funny. But the space doesn't go away, BTW. It goes white and supposedly plays a visualization when audio is played with winamp. Cool hack. Even cooler because it thumbs his nose at AOL/TimeWarner.
>GM finally paid Perot huge bucks just to go the hell away
Really? Seriously, I didn't know that's what happened. Thought I remembered he resigned about the time he decided to run for president to avoid 'conflicts', whatever that means. Interesting that be was bought off by GM to leave. Any links to back that up? I'm curious.
Man, I can totally agree with this. I started out on RedHat because it seemed the easiest distrubution to start out with. It served me well, but I have to say that I'm very happy after making the move to Debian.
True, I would have had a much harder time installing Debian as a first-time user vs RedHat, but once you know your way around a bit, Debian is a treat to work with.
I still have RH on my laptop, but my other boxes run Debian and I love it.
Yes, exacly, please mod this up. Saying that Microsoft has been giving away updates free while RedHat has started charging for them is a troll, not interesting nor insightful.
$189 for Win2K and free service packs and critical updates that are virtually inaccessible the first day they are released and require a reboot; compared to $70 for RedHat (well, that's what 6.1 went for, not sure about 7.0) unless you want to download it for free and forego support and then upgrades and bugpatches are some subscription price for access to high-priority, high availability downloads unless you want to download from the regular 'public' servers in which case it is free.
I've wanted to do something like this for a while. I have a Pentium 150 as my masq box at home tying up a 2.5 gig drive and 48Mb of ram. I'd like to replace this machine with a 486 I have to be able to use the P150 for something else.
How much ram do you figure you need for a diskless box that needs only the basics to masq to a cable modem? There is 16 mb in this machine and I have a 200 Mb drive that I had considered using at one point. Early on, I only knew RedHat and I didn't have any luck getting a working system to fit on the drive and I have no CD in the machine.
Now I'm using Debian and I've thought about trying to install Slink on that 200 drive (hook the drive up temporarily to the P150 with a CD and then transfer it to the 486).
If I could have a system that boots off floppy and runs from a ramdisk, that would save the headache of using that 200 Mb drive (plus, the drive is _really_ old and probably won't work for long anyway).
Well, I guess I can see that. I can kind of relate because I had all my karma taken away at one point for violating am unwritten rule, moderating down signal 11. I guess I judge how much my contribution to/. is by how much discussion my comments start.
Karma shouldn't be an incentive to post, though. I see it more as an equalizer to keep people with something to say that the majority thinks should be heard from being drowned out by those who have nothing to add to the discussion.
Just curious, but why? I love it. Negates the whole "karma-whore" accusation syndrome. You get to 50, you have all the karma you'll ever need to be able to MM, Moderate and have +2 scores, why would you want to be able to get more?
realizing it and having demonstrated proof are different things. No, they probably don't care about bas press all that much, but maybe, kjust maybe, the judges and legislators will finally see them for what they are.
Well, his area of focus was medical directory sites, not overall search engine coverage.
Take a look at his site and you'll see that they (University of Iowa, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences) are one of these directory sites and they saw they were at #15 at one point among their peers. When he noticed a shift in Yahoo! sites going up, while WebMed dropping from #1, he was reasonably suspicious. Seems he presented his information factually, although it would have been better if he had just contacted Google or Yahoo! first. Where everyone got riled up was here on/. where the ugly conclusions jumping occured. _That_ is what I think is lame.
From the original article's author's "partial retraction":
"...Google reportedly says that they are now crawling *all* of Yahoo! as part of their agreement..."
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/notes7a.html
No real big mystery, Google wasn't indexing all of Yahoo's content before for some reason, now they are. If Yahoowent to all the trouble of pushing a pile of money at Google to be their search engine, why wouldn't they expect them to index all of their content?
# Rover is a bad dog <http://www.roverbot.com>
User-agent: Roverbot
Disallow: /
So they let just about anybody index most of their their site, except for the listed exceptions (except roverbot, he is a bad dog:-) ). Google apparently wasn't indexing their whole site for some other reason, now resulting from the new agreement, they are indexing 100%
The presence of a robots.txt file doesn't block crawlers by default. The bots are supposed to look at the contents of robots.txt and follow the rules.
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K, thanks, didn't hear about that one. Sure that makes a world of difference ( ----> me going to the mailbox in anticipation as I am a wired subscriber)
>If you were sent a :CueCat as unsolicted merchandise through the US Mail
But are they really unsolicited? I've only seen where you go to the website and ask for one to be sent for a nominal S&H charge. I hadn't heard that they were mailing them out like AOL CD's. If that is what's happening, I just hadn't heard.
I thought this reg was there to stop the practice of mailing out unordered products and then sending a bill?
I guess after reading his site I'm not clear on what he hopes to accomplish other than flooding the USPS with complaints and causing some inconvenience to the Postal Inspector's office. I don't see how this really helps with the open source reader issue?
I would have tought most of us use junkbuster or the like already. Hits is hits. The summary comes from the person who sumbits the story. Granted, Taco and crew pick the submissions - has to be hard to resist a juicy MS-bashing title and summary. This sort of bait-and-switch has long been tolerated here on /. and at the end of the day, it's all about eyeballs. As long as people want to see stories like this (evidenced by the 150+ comments at this point) they are going to keep posting them.
Dunno, didn't they supposedly try to migrate hotmail to nt? If it was working and making money, why mess with it? But, if the story is true, they did. Motivation? All that expensive BSD license fees? The prestige of putting a service like hotmail on your *cough* flagship product? The humiliation of having to use a 'free' alternative OS? In general, I would think they care. In this case, sounds like someone *cough* is trying to make a mountain out of a molehill.
Funny. But the space doesn't go away, BTW. It goes white and supposedly plays a visualization when audio is played with winamp. Cool hack. Even cooler because it thumbs his nose at AOL/TimeWarner.
I tried that once, made a huge mess on my server. ;-)
>GM finally paid Perot huge bucks just to go the hell away
Really? Seriously, I didn't know that's what happened. Thought I remembered he resigned about the time he decided to run for president to avoid 'conflicts', whatever that means. Interesting that be was bought off by GM to leave. Any links to back that up? I'm curious.
Man, I can totally agree with this. I started out on RedHat because it seemed the easiest distrubution to start out with. It served me well, but I have to say that I'm very happy after making the move to Debian.
True, I would have had a much harder time installing Debian as a first-time user vs RedHat, but once you know your way around a bit, Debian is a treat to work with.
I still have RH on my laptop, but my other boxes run Debian and I love it.
Yes, exacly, please mod this up. Saying that Microsoft has been giving away updates free while RedHat has started charging for them is a troll, not interesting nor insightful.
$189 for Win2K and free service packs and critical updates that are virtually inaccessible the first day they are released and require a reboot; compared to $70 for RedHat (well, that's what 6.1 went for, not sure about 7.0) unless you want to download it for free and forego support and then upgrades and bugpatches are some subscription price for access to high-priority, high availability downloads unless you want to download from the regular 'public' servers in which case it is free.
Rod Serling must be turning over in his grave.
Touche`
>Nice picture by the way.
Yeah, looks like it was scanned from a polaroid of a spray-painted wall or something.
>Do I have to put up NetNanny for the youngsters?
You must be a lot of fun to give a Rorschach test to. I wouldn't have seen anything 'dirty' if you hadn't mentioned it first.
"Just lie back and say the first thing that comes to your mind. What do you see here?"
"A penis"
"and this..."
"A penis"
"and this..."
"A penis"
insightful, my ass
Oh, did I mention that I've been running W2K on my 486/33 and it has been fast as a dream and stable as a rock!
get real
>Ah, my old friend jburkholder,
Same to you.
>well, it just happens my spellchecker corrected that particular word.
uh, yeah, right
>Nothing to see here, move along people...
pretty much true of anything you post, ain't it?
Hey, thanks for that! Looks like that is exactly what I wanted and they say a 486 with 16meg should work fine. Gonna try it this weekend.
p r.html
BTW, if anyone else looks into this, the LRP documentation is pretty hard to follow, but there is an excellent page on how to get started at:
http://www.sepa.tudelft.nl/webstaf/hanss/indexl
I've wanted to do something like this for a while. I have a Pentium 150 as my masq box at home tying up a 2.5 gig drive and 48Mb of ram. I'd like to replace this machine with a 486 I have to be able to use the P150 for something else.
How much ram do you figure you need for a diskless box that needs only the basics to masq to a cable modem? There is 16 mb in this machine and I have a 200 Mb drive that I had considered using at one point. Early on, I only knew RedHat and I didn't have any luck getting a working system to fit on the drive and I have no CD in the machine.
Now I'm using Debian and I've thought about trying to install Slink on that 200 drive (hook the drive up temporarily to the P150 with a CD and then transfer it to the 486).
If I could have a system that boots off floppy and runs from a ramdisk, that would save the headache of using that 200 Mb drive (plus, the drive is _really_ old and probably won't work for long anyway).
Any suggestions?
>astrologically speaking - very, very, unlikely
Why, does it depend on the asteroid's 'sign'?
Here I was doing it the hard way making a symlink in my ~/bin
/usr/share/local/games/quake2/quake2 bin/quake2
ln -s
Well, I guess I can see that. I can kind of relate because I had all my karma taken away at one point for violating am unwritten rule, moderating down signal 11. I guess I judge how much my contribution to /. is by how much discussion my comments start.
Karma shouldn't be an incentive to post, though. I see it more as an equalizer to keep people with something to say that the majority thinks should be heard from being drowned out by those who have nothing to add to the discussion.
>End the +50 karma cap!
Just curious, but why? I love it. Negates the whole "karma-whore" accusation syndrome. You get to 50, you have all the karma you'll ever need to be able to MM, Moderate and have +2 scores, why would you want to be able to get more?
realizing it and having demonstrated proof are different things. No, they probably don't care about bas press all that much, but maybe, kjust maybe, the judges and legislators will finally see them for what they are.
Heh, saw that link on bluesnews this morning and have made it my sig. That is just so great!
Well, his area of focus was medical directory sites, not overall search engine coverage.
/. where the ugly conclusions jumping occured. _That_ is what I think is lame.
Take a look at his site and you'll see that they (University of Iowa, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences) are one of these directory sites and they saw they were at #15 at one point among their peers. When he noticed a shift in Yahoo! sites going up, while WebMed dropping from #1, he was reasonably suspicious. Seems he presented his information factually, although it would have been better if he had just contacted Google or Yahoo! first. Where everyone got riled up was here on
From the original article's author's "partial retraction":
"...Google reportedly says that they are now crawling *all* of Yahoo! as part of their agreement..."
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/notes7a.html
No real big mystery, Google wasn't indexing all of Yahoo's content before for some reason, now they are. If Yahoowent to all the trouble of pushing a pile of money at Google to be their search engine, why wouldn't they expect them to index all of their content?
No, it means that Yahoo!'s robots.txt doesn't block crawlers from 100% of their site like MedWeb was doing:
/gnn
/msn
/pacbell
/pb
:-) ). Google apparently wasn't indexing their whole site for some other reason, now resulting from the new agreement, they are indexing 100%
http://www.yahoo.com/robots.txt
User-agent: *
Disallow:
Disallow:
Disallow:
Disallow:
# Rover is a bad dog <http://www.roverbot.com>
User-agent: Roverbot
Disallow: /
So they let just about anybody index most of their their site, except for the listed exceptions (except roverbot, he is a bad dog
The presence of a robots.txt file doesn't block crawlers by default. The bots are supposed to look at the contents of robots.txt and follow the rules.