BTW, -CLIT-.......slashdot has a neat section that features writing reviews.....review yourself, and post your story accordingly. Or face the bitch-slap of moderation, killing your karma forever.
In case you haven't noticed, this dick is using a different account for every one of the 400+ posts he's made in this thread. He must have written up some auto-posting script. Probably in Perl, which is why it should be outlawed! =)
When I read the title, I thought maybe Taco was going to explain why Slashdot has been as stable as a Windows 3.1 box on a Packard Bell for the last few weeks.
Well that's true, unless the IP is encapsulated in some other NASA protocol. This could be useful by letting various shuttle devices talk plain old IP, while a shuttle computer encapsulates it into another transport medium. Think something like a wireless DOCSIS.
Ok, I read that little attached blurb, and I'm a little curious about all the references to "Debian GNU/Linux". That article was dated April 1, 1997. Was Bruce Perens and the gang using the phrase GNU/Linux back in 1997, or is this some revisionist history?
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When I was at Penn State, I remember reading a newspaper story about the prestigous Atherton Hotel. Apparently it had been under mortar fire from a potato gun for several weeks straight! I wish I had known who did it. I think the idea of urban potato warfare in State College would have been a blast =)
That's cool. I'm about to start my own project, called MyLifeBites. It'll be a focus group helping nerdy Slashdotters come to grips with the fact that there's nothing in their lives worth backing up.
It's kind of funny you mentioned him. I was having a discussion the other day about 1984, and I mentioned that George was eerily accurate when talking about the future with one mistake - it won't be the government watching every move we make and causing us to disapear, it will be the corporations.
Point taken. Also, perhaps I should have phrased it like "how much beer and how many hoes", since "how much hoes" seems gramatically incorrect to me. But then again, I'm an engineer, what do I know about English?
I was with ATT and now I have no connection. See if I'll ever sign up with @Home again. Alot of people are blaming ATT for being the asshole, and causing @Home to go bankrupt.
I'm not very happy with either company, but I have to say I think @Home is the real asshole. ATT may have been providing the acutal wiring to the house, and the installation, etc - but I considered myself an @Home customer. Now I just got ditched by them. Ditching a large percentage of your customers, what kind of recovery plan is that? Do the ever think I'll go back to them,now that I've seen their customer loyalty?
Yeah, that's great for some people (like me so far). EVERYBODY else that I know in State College, PA has lost their service. They've also taken people off who use DHCP.
I got an email from AT&T yesterday:
Dear *************,
As you may be aware, Excite@Home, our service provider, recently filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. In order to continue providing you the quality and reliable high-speed cable Internet service that you expect, AT&T has submitted a proposal to purchase the Excite@Home network. If AT&T is able to purchase and manage the Excite@Home network, there will be no immediate change to your current service. If the network purchase is approved, we will notify you via your AT&T@Home email account as soon as possible.
As a precautionary measure, AT&T Broadband also has been building its own network and service in the event that AT&T is unable to purchase the Excite@Home network. If the proposal to purchase the Excite@Home network is not approved, your service may be temporarily interrupted and it will be necessary to move your service to a new AT&T Broadband network.
In any event, AT&T Broadband is deeply committed to providing you the best cable Internet service possible and communicating any upcoming changes. Be sure to frequently check the "Announcements and Updates" section of our Web site for the latest information about your service: http://help.broadband.att.com/
In the meantime, please check your AT&T Broadband email account(s) on a daily basis. Doing this will automatically save your email to your hard drive as well as ensure timely receipt of important future communications from AT&T Broadband. Also, if you use our Personal WebSpace feature, we recommend you backup your personal web page(s) by copying it to a diskette, CD, or to your computer hard drive.
If migrating your service to the AT&T Broadband network and service becomes necessary, we will call to notify you of the migration timing. A message will be left on your voicemail or recorder if no one is available at the time of the call. As a precaution, we are providing you the following instructions, which will enable you to connect your computer to the new AT&T Broadband network. Again, you will only need to follow these steps in the event you receive a call from AT&T Broadband instructing you to do so.
1. Restart your computer to begin the process.
2. Open your Internet browser. You should be automatically sent to an AT&T Broadband welcome page. This page includes instructions on how to download software used to change your computer settings for the new network. If the welcome page does not automatically appear when you open your browser, please go to http://newuser.attbi.com/ (This website will only be available if the service migration is necessary).
3. Follow the instructions on the Web site to run the Automated Configuration Utility (or you can choose to change your computer settings manually).
4. The software will automatically change your Outlook Express email client, your Internet Explorer settings, and configure your computer for the new AT&T Broadband network. Information on how to manually change your settings for other email clients and Internet browsers such as Netscape Communicator and Netscape Navigator can be found at http://help.broadband.att.com/
5. You can now surf the Internet and use email on the new AT&T Broadband Internet network and service.
If migrating your service to the new network is necessary, certain aspects of your service would change. Your current homepage would feature new content and your current email address domain name would change. Please note that your username would remain the same. For example, jsmith@home.com would change to jsmith@attbi.com. If service changes are necessary, a detailed description of all changes will be provided at http://help.broadband.att.com/ in the Announcements and Updates section.
Whether the Excite@Home network is purchased or your service is migrated to the new AT&T Broadband network, your Subscriber Agreement, which outlines the general Terms and Conditions of your service will change. You will be able to view the amended and restated Subscriber Agreement that will apply to the AT&T Broadband Internet service at http://help.broadband.att.com/ Your continued use of the service will constitute your acceptance of the amended and restated AT&T Broadband Internet Subscriber Agreement.
If you need assistance, visit us online at http://help.broadband.att.com/ to chat with a customer care specialist. Please remember, AT&T Broadband will call you if any action is required on your part.
While we realize these potential changes may cause some inconvenience, please be assured that we are doing everything possible to avoid any service disruptions. However, in the event the service is disrupted during a migration, you will receive a credit for those days of interrupted service.
We are working hard to provide you with the best high-speed cable Internet service possible. We appreciate your patience and your business.
Sincerely,
Susan K. Marshall
Senior Vice President
Advanced Broadband Services
I hate to be negative here (as I actually like the idea of satellite power), but the typical radiation pattern of even a high gain satellite antenna is generally on the order of magnitude of an entire state. So you'd need a very large area of land blocked off.
I do think it's possible though. What I want to know is why is everybody here so negative? Jesus, if this place had existed in the early 60s, I'm sure you all would have bitched about how insane/impossible it was to get to the moon too.
What are you, afraid of the possibility of progress?
Or hasn't the RIAA ever heard the maxim "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of CDRs"?
I'm afraid I haven't heard that one either =)
But I must say it sounds good. I've been thinking of ways to safely trade music online. My favorite idea is to set up trading "rings". Basically, you only give access to people you trust. So you might start a ring with 20 people on it, but those 20 people might also be included in the rings of others as well. You can't be connected to more than one ring at once.
This changes things from sharing songs with everybody on the internet to sharing songs with your trusted friends. It's safer, and you most likely will have similar tastes in music with people you know.
Songs will still get around, just a little more slowly.
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In case you haven't noticed, this dick is using a different account for every one of the 400+ posts he's made in this thread. He must have written up some auto-posting script. Probably in Perl, which is why it should be outlawed! =)
When I read the title, I thought maybe Taco was going to explain why Slashdot has been as stable as a Windows 3.1 box on a Packard Bell for the last few weeks.
Well that's true, unless the IP is encapsulated in some other NASA protocol. This could be useful by letting various shuttle devices talk plain old IP, while a shuttle computer encapsulates it into another transport medium. Think something like a wireless DOCSIS.
Ok, I read that little attached blurb, and I'm a little curious about all the references to "Debian GNU/Linux". That article was dated April 1, 1997. Was Bruce Perens and the gang using the phrase GNU/Linux back in 1997, or is this some revisionist history?
When I was at Penn State, I remember reading a newspaper story about the prestigous Atherton Hotel. Apparently it had been under mortar fire from a potato gun for several weeks straight! I wish I had known who did it. I think the idea of urban potato warfare in State College would have been a blast =)
Do you own a PS2 by any chance?
You can't use PGP to sign official depositions like that.
It's probably more of a political statement than anything else.
Excuse me sir, but this is Slashdot. I'm going to need you to take your rational viewpoint somewhere else.
project is called MyLifeBits
That's cool. I'm about to start my own project, called MyLifeBites. It'll be a focus group helping nerdy Slashdotters come to grips with the fact that there's nothing in their lives worth backing up.
It's kind of funny you mentioned him. I was having a discussion the other day about 1984, and I mentioned that George was eerily accurate when talking about the future with one mistake - it won't be the government watching every move we make and causing us to disapear, it will be the corporations.
Point taken. Also, perhaps I should have phrased it like "how much beer and how many hoes", since "how much hoes" seems gramatically incorrect to me. But then again, I'm an engineer, what do I know about English?
That's a nice range there.
Me: Hey Jim, we're throwing a party at your house tonight.
Jim: Great! How many people are gonna come? I need to know how much beer and hoes to pick up.
Me: Oh, plan on somewhere between 25 and 400.
OK so they trojaned the source tar.gz, and uploaded it to the server somehow. So why did they not update the MD5SUM also?
The checksums were already on the users FreeBSD machine.
We talked geeky stuff (and complained about the new word based karma system).
Karma? I'm still pissed about loosing moderation priviledges because of this.
Go Steve!
I never knew you had an account on here =)
H:\>apt-get install snort
'apt-get' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
I think I see his problem!
I was with ATT and now I have no connection. See if I'll ever sign up with @Home again. Alot of people are blaming ATT for being the asshole, and causing @Home to go bankrupt.
I'm not very happy with either company, but I have to say I think @Home is the real asshole. ATT may have been providing the acutal wiring to the house, and the installation, etc - but I considered myself an @Home customer. Now I just got ditched by them. Ditching a large percentage of your customers, what kind of recovery plan is that? Do the ever think I'll go back to them,now that I've seen their customer loyalty?
Blah
Yeah, that's great for some people (like me so far). EVERYBODY else that I know in State College, PA has lost their service. They've also taken people off who use DHCP.
I don't know how much longer I have here....
Ban cars! Take baths!
Sure, until one day, while running late, you try to make toast while taking a bath. The toaster slips off that damn railing, and then.....POW!
Who's going to protect you then?!
If that is what you truly believe, then perhaps you should try reading 1984.
What part of the "Copyright" in DMCA don't you understand?
How would this involve copyright law in any way?
I got an email from AT&T yesterday:
Dear *************,
As you may be aware, Excite@Home, our service provider, recently filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. In order to continue providing you the quality and reliable high-speed cable Internet service that you expect, AT&T has submitted a proposal to purchase the Excite@Home network. If AT&T is able to purchase and manage the Excite@Home network, there will be no immediate change to your current service. If the network purchase is approved, we will notify you via your AT&T@Home email account as soon as possible.
As a precautionary measure, AT&T Broadband also has been building its own network and service in the event that AT&T is unable to purchase the Excite@Home network. If the proposal to purchase the Excite@Home network is not approved, your service may be temporarily interrupted and it will be necessary to move your service to a new AT&T Broadband network.
In any event, AT&T Broadband is deeply committed to providing you the best cable Internet service possible and communicating any upcoming changes. Be sure to frequently check the "Announcements and Updates" section of our Web site for the latest information about your service: http://help.broadband.att.com/
In the meantime, please check your AT&T Broadband email account(s) on a daily basis. Doing this will automatically save your email to your hard drive as well as ensure timely receipt of important future communications from AT&T Broadband. Also, if you use our Personal WebSpace feature, we recommend you backup your personal web page(s) by copying it to a diskette, CD, or to your computer hard drive.
If migrating your service to the AT&T Broadband network and service becomes necessary, we will call to notify you of the migration timing. A message will be left on your voicemail or recorder if no one is available at the time of the call. As a precaution, we are providing you the following instructions, which will enable you to connect your computer to the new AT&T Broadband network. Again, you will only need to follow these steps in the event you receive a call from AT&T Broadband instructing you to do so.
1. Restart your computer to begin the process.
2. Open your Internet browser. You should be automatically sent to an AT&T Broadband welcome page. This page includes instructions on how to download software used to change your computer settings for the new network. If the welcome page does not automatically appear when you open your browser, please go to http://newuser.attbi.com/ (This website will only be available if the service migration is necessary).
3. Follow the instructions on the Web site to run the Automated Configuration Utility (or you can choose to change your computer settings manually).
4. The software will automatically change your Outlook Express email client, your Internet Explorer settings, and configure your computer for the new AT&T Broadband network. Information on how to manually change your settings for other email clients and Internet browsers such as Netscape Communicator and Netscape Navigator can be found at http://help.broadband.att.com/
5. You can now surf the Internet and use email on the new AT&T Broadband Internet network and service.
If migrating your service to the new network is necessary, certain aspects of your service would change. Your current homepage would feature new content and your current email address domain name would change. Please note that your username would remain the same. For example, jsmith@home.com would change to jsmith@attbi.com. If service changes are necessary, a detailed description of all changes will be provided at http://help.broadband.att.com/ in the Announcements and Updates section.
Whether the Excite@Home network is purchased or your service is migrated to the new AT&T Broadband network, your Subscriber Agreement, which outlines the general Terms and Conditions of your service will change. You will be able to view the amended and restated Subscriber Agreement that will apply to the AT&T Broadband Internet service at http://help.broadband.att.com/ Your continued use of the service will constitute your acceptance of the amended and restated AT&T Broadband Internet Subscriber Agreement.
If you need assistance, visit us online at http://help.broadband.att.com/ to chat with a customer care specialist. Please remember, AT&T Broadband will call you if any action is required on your part.
While we realize these potential changes may cause some inconvenience, please be assured that we are doing everything possible to avoid any service disruptions. However, in the event the service is disrupted during a migration, you will receive a credit for those days of interrupted service.
We are working hard to provide you with the best high-speed cable Internet service possible. We appreciate your patience and your business.
Sincerely,
Susan K. Marshall
Senior Vice President
Advanced Broadband Services
I hate to be negative here (as I actually like the idea of satellite power), but the typical radiation pattern of even a high gain satellite antenna is generally on the order of magnitude of an entire state. So you'd need a very large area of land blocked off.
I do think it's possible though. What I want to know is why is everybody here so negative? Jesus, if this place had existed in the early 60s, I'm sure you all would have bitched about how insane/impossible it was to get to the moon too.
What are you, afraid of the possibility of progress?
This is the true test of (lack of) intelligence!
> 1 4M 3l337 H4x0r
One what?
> Linux Rules MS Drools
I recommed the book "Under the Radar" by Bob Young, the story of Linux and Red Hat.
> First Post
Try to determine if this is a person or a computer responding. And second?
But the best answer yet:
> BSD is dying
And dying is bsd.
Or hasn't the RIAA ever heard the maxim "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of CDRs"?
I'm afraid I haven't heard that one either =)
But I must say it sounds good. I've been thinking of ways to safely trade music online. My favorite idea is to set up trading "rings". Basically, you only give access to people you trust. So you might start a ring with 20 people on it, but those 20 people might also be included in the rings of others as well. You can't be connected to more than one ring at once.
This changes things from sharing songs with everybody on the internet to sharing songs with your trusted friends. It's safer, and you most likely will have similar tastes in music with people you know.
Songs will still get around, just a little more slowly.