... why you people bother posting just for the sake of jagging this guy is beyond me... if he truly upset you you'd turn him off with your slashboxes. And if you didn't log in, well you're free to leave anytime.
Aside from that, Katz overlooked the movie based on exactly this notion: Gattica. Everyone is screened, blood and urine tests at every corner, "gene-ism" (as opposed to racism) abounds if you're not 6', thin, blue eyes and blonde with 20/20 vision. I won't ruin the movie ofr those who haven't seen it... go see it; it's pretty good.
As a parent, what Jon describes is both prayers answered and nightmares brought to life. What parent doesn't (secretly) desire to know what their child will look like, be like, whether they'll have the heart disease or cancer that runs in the family. What parent doesn't wish they could get a solid guarantee that the child will be born without mental retardation or other genetic disease? Or with six fingers or two heads for that matter?
I know as my daughter was growing inside my wife that I worried about these things. Amniocentesis isn't 100% accurate. What if we had that done and it came back that the child has trisomy-21 or some other genetic disease? I'm firmly against abortion but facing a child who will die early or who has a quality of life seriously rivaling navel lint... I'm not so sure anymore.
Thankfully the cards played out and she's a healthy baby girl. She has a few "defects", if you'll call them that -- she has my strange feet and square hands, but she looks very much alright. Who knows what genetic information we gave her which affects her mind and body that we won't see for years to come?
Will this technology bring about "generic" kids? Will everyone want their child to look like a model and be hyperintelligent? The desire for such a "great" feature-set is enormous, but what becomes of us as a society? It's like natural selection in the hands of man.
I am sick to death of the way our media, our political systems, our culture, and our education systems are being hijacked by a single minority. For this I'm branded a homophobe. Actually, I'm just normal. And I'd like the chance for my children to grow up normal without being "educated" about "alternative life choices".
Welcome to the curse of the straight white male. The whole "play to the minorities" that North America's (it's not just the US) political system abides by makes me sick.
You can have Black TV. Or Feminist TV. Or Gay Pride week. But if I want to do something along those lines for whites, or straights or males... I'd be arrested.
Mind you we've got another problem in Canada that you guys don't have: the Seperatists. In Quebec it's illegal to have an all-English sign (and in some areas it's illegal to have ANY English on your signs!), yet the rest of the country is forced into bilingualism. What utter bullshit!
Sure, you could rant and rave about how bad cookies suck - but what would you do without shopping carts, user preferences, and *GASP* slashboxes?
Actually cookies DONT'T suck at all... the implementation by braindead web-developers sucks... I mean think about it...
why have a cookie with all that info, just return a GID-style string that is unique for you and keep all the state info on your own goddamn server, just asking the end user for his/her/its ID?? no more problems.
This kind of system gives a small to medium size isp a chance to break the monopoly on broadband (DSL/Cable) Internet connections
You're joking, right? $150k base station cost? What of a tower? Another $15-20k there... Small to medium-sized ISPs can't hardly swallow $50-$75k startup costs!
I think they are trying to stave off any attempts at unionizing the IT industry, as there have been some rumbling from out west. Boy, wouldn't the UAW like to get its' freedy paws on a percentage of OUR salaries. Just my 2 cents..it's a real balloon buster. If anyone has any further information other than the quick email I saw from the Corporate HR director to the satellite offices, I'd appreciate it.
The day a union gets one cent from me is gonna be a cold cold day in hell. I abhorr unions as a general rule these days. They used to be necessary, but now with the auto unions and the bricklayer's unions and teacher's unions and all this bullshit... No way. No goddamned way.
...and even very senior people feeling powerless to change much or even to have their input heard. To me, it is these things that are most important, especially in a fulltime regular employee situation. Empower your people, involve them, challenge them and regularly reward them. Whether they get time and a half for overtime is pretty irrelevant. I can get time and a half at McDonalds.
AMEN SISTER! (brother?) It's so hard to tell on/.:-)
Money isn't everything. If you are able to keep your employees happy, it doesn't really matter about time and a half, salary, hourly, whatever. You need to make them feel like they're important and that their input really does count. They'll be far happier and more productive than if your internal systems blow sheep but golly-gee, they get that 1.5x pay for overtime, 2x after that.
Interestingly enough, it's my job at the company to make the networks work for the people, not the other way around. I'm always talking to the people on the shop floor and in the office, finding out what they hate about the system or what they'd like to see. I love web development, but would like to do this for more companies... How does one get the word out?
I'm *really* interested in talking to you... since I can't get your email address, would you mind emailling me? just remove the spam blows part. thanks.
The P3 serial number clearly violates European Law on privacy. Never mind the "free trade" argument someone else gave, if someone breaks the law, they don't deserve absolute freedom of trade.
What of the Alpha serial numbers? Why the big outcry on only P3? Am I missing something?
I live in San Jose, within about a half mile of a telco CO, and get the full 1.5M/128K speed. But, when a housemate turns on a dimmer light, it goes completely down the toilet! The ADSL box craps out completely, losing sync and dropping TCP connections.
Sounds like you need a crash course in EMI/RFI elimination.
Try using shielded cable for your ADSL modem (as in install a shielded cable, shield grounded at one end only) from the demarcation point to your modem. Make sure the modem's grounded. If you wanna take it to the n'th degree, make sure your computer and the network cable between the computer and the modem are grounded. Ideally you want a single-point (star) ground. Make sure the dimmer's grounded.
Use good RF grounds. (copper braid either to your copper cold-water pipe coming in from outside or to a network of 8' to 12' copper rods which you drove into your backyard)
Get a dimmer that dims on whole-cycle periods instead of chopping up each cycle. That in itself will eliminate a LOT of interferance. Take a ferrie rod and wrap the power lines from the dimmer to the panel around it a few times, like this (may need to view in a monospace font):
\\ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^// --- line and neutral @@@//@@@//@@@//@@@//@@@//@@ --- ferrite rod VV VV VV VV VV
Do the same for the power cord for the modem.
As I stated, it shoudl go between the panel and the dimmer, like this:
That's why we have FM now !! wake up ! What do you think will be more important 10 years from now ? The old low-quality mono AM radio or high speed net access ??
AM will be around for a very long time to come. AM transmitters and receivers are far simpler to design and use far less components than FM.
Yes FM is higher fidelity but AM wins hands-down in the "simple to set up" category, which is important in any kind of emergency (I'm thinking TEOTWAWKI) situation.
I think that it is also the responsibility of every developer to think about the potential illegal uses of their code, and the damage that their programs could cause. Since it requires a certain degree of brain power to be a developer in the first place, it shouldn't be too hard for everyone to realise that if they write a virus/scanner/exploit, and release it to the public, it will innevitably wreck someone's day, and cost someone money. Just put yourself in the position where you miss dinner with your family/have to stay up all night fixing a server because of some script-kiddie/have to pospone the family holiday because your data was wiped off your servers, and you miss a contract deadline as a result. It doesn't take long to decide not to release malicious code does it? Just remember that there's always some arsehole who think's it's cool to screw things up, and he might be doing it with your code.
That's why I would strongly suggest to all exploit writers that they do not make the code available for... oh say... two weeks after notifying the company that they have said exploit. If the company is unresponsive or gives the "who cares" attitude, release it. It's not the developer's fault anymore.
The bulk of responsibility does lie with the user, and I believe that it is the person who uses the utility that should be held to account, but there is a line that must be drawn between useful utilities that may be used by the unscrupulous(sp?) to do illegal things, and programs created with the intention of letting people crack systems or whatever more easily.
I don't agree... The responsibility lies solely on the user. As one poster mentioned, many companies refuse to fix a problem until someone writes a program which makes it easy to exploit a bug. In other words, those people who wrote the malicious code are helping keep things safe by making the companies react.
Now in an ideal world we wouldn't need that. Companies would feel compelled to fix it on their own or, more importantly, code better in the first place. Unfortunately this doesn't happen. It's cheaper to sweep it under the rug so you need to make it costlier to keep it hidden.
Another use for those exploits... As an admin I often run them on my own system to see if I'm vulnerable. Or to see if my firewall rules can keep it out. Sometimes when a program says it fixes problem 'x' it doesn't fix it all the way.
Buying groceries wastes my valuable time. I have to needlessly spend time doing something that is neither enjoyable nor profitable.
insightful?? ermmmm...yeah...
My grocery trips take no longer than 20 minutes at most, with maybe a couple of minutes for parking. Throw on 5 minutes to get the groceries in the house and away. If I'm lazy I'll go up and down most of the aisles but 95% of the time I know exactly what I want and within 50' know where it is.
That's tops a half hour. You're telling me that you can't spend one half our getting food? Christ some of my stare-out-the-window breaks are longer!
Let's see here... fruit, veggies, meat, milk, eggs, bread... Maybe some munchies and a treat? Yeah it's a pretty standard family shopping list... and it's for four people. It sounds like it takes you an hour and a half to do the groceries. Someone has to work on a fairly well-needed optimization problem if you ask me.
I remember getting a bunch of 286s in which were 16MHz machines... cracked the case and looked at the processor... i80286-(orange blob)... Scratched that off and lo and behold, it was a 10MHz part. All they did was put a faster crystal on the motherboard, blob the speed and sell it as faster.
Never had trouble with them, but this kind of stuff is so fraudulent.
Overclockers have been and will be around forever. As technology increases all you're gonna do is stop the Joe Garage computer shop, just the same as the region locks and the encryption only stop the Joe Garage DVD piraters.
I see nothing wrong with overclocking a chip -- so long as I am doing it for my own stuff, or for someone and they know I'm doing it. This kind of bullshit should have heavy heavy fines slapped down on the shops to do it. And I'm talking dozens of thousands of dollars, not little $1000 fines.
... I had a 19MHz XT too... 1 meg of memory but no (documented) way to access the upper 384k. It was a V20 though, so I imagine they could run faster than a real 8086:-)
As an example, I had a Redhat 5.1 server which was working perfectly well. I kept up to date with all the security updates, installed programs both from source code and from RPMs. It all worked perfectly well, but I could tell that things were slowly getting messier - different versions of binaries sitting around, compiled for different versions of the libraries.
You're right... but at least with a Linux-based system I can find out what libraries are used by what software or take a look at the last accessed/modified dates and trim to my heart's desire. I used to do that in Windows... I had a "/junk" directory and I'd move the full path of files I thought were useless into it and run for a while... if I didn't use it in a couple weeks, it vanished.
In the end it became a choice between updating all the packages by hand, or installing from a later distribution and porting across all the config changes. I chose the latter because it is a fact that entropy increases in any system over time.
Again correct.:-) You can't beat the system, but as mentioned, you can sure stretch the time between installs. Personally I like to update everything by hand, but to each his own.:-)
Slashdot should just allow all users the ability to check who moderated any post. Essentially moderators get to act as anonymous cowards in regards to their moderation. There's no accountability, so anyone who wishes to try and surpress a viewpoint through moderation, does so with no worries.
That's what Meta Moderation is all about. The system knows who moderated who to what. Meta Moderation, if in disagreement, costs the moderator a little karma, if I'm not mistaken.
As far as filtering based on score, that's exactly what moderation is about. And for those who don't have the time nor the inclination to read 180 messages, setting their filter to 2 or 3 is great. Yes you will miss some good comments, but you will also miss most of the useless ones. Let's be honest -- in 180 comments, how many are truly "big" enough to warrant being read? Maybe a dozen. The information scourers like myself will stay at zero to see (almost) everything, but most busy people will sit at the higher levels to just skim.
Of course they lie. I remember one posting regarding security where a guy claimed that he will continue using Linux and recommending it for his company no matter how many security flaws and oversights were found...because it wasn't microsoft. These people are generally psychos and they're looking for a club to belong to and the "Linux Enthusiasts Club" has got very low standards.
Interesting... I'm not calling you a liar but the mantra of "I don't care how many bugs and oversights it has, I'll continue using it" is the usual windows user mantra. I deploy Linux in server/firewall applications because I feel far more confident in my not recieving a page/call at 5am saying something went down, and because anything that does come up (DoS and other exploits) is patched usually within 24 hours, as opposed to months with Microsoft.
Coupled with the fact that I've got a few busy Linux servers with uptimes nearing a year now and the nearest match I've got on a similarly-deployed busy NT server is about 3 weeks I'll stick with the Linux boxen, thanks. I'm fairly certain I know how to configure the equipment, it's the use that kills NT: I've got about three months' uptime on an NT server doing just basic Exchange Server and PDC functions. I've heard BSD security is better, so i'm gonna be taking a look into that RSN.
Yes, there are linux zealots out there, but there's bad examples in any group of people.
I couldn't get a framerate that was even close to playable in 1.08, but in 1.09 it runs just fine. In addition to the already mentioned use-16-bit color tip, you also need to use the right libGL.so. The one from/usr/local/lib didn't work for me, but I copied the one from my glx source tree (what I should have done in the first place) and it worked fine.
Hopefully I won't get moderated into oblivion with this comment, but doesn't this remind you of trying to get something running on Windows?
I mean there's still a major difference: You can get intelligent help with Linux, but the base problem still exists... Wrong libraries, bad drivers, undocumented gotchas... Is this a graphics/desktop-related thing? I mean I never have these kinds of troubles on my servers, but sure as shit, I do any kind of desktop apping on Linux and run into the old drivers/libraries problems...
As mentioned, you can actually resolve these problems under Linux, as opposed to the usual "reboot, reinstall, it's the other guy's stuff" answers you get with Windows, but I just noticed this as I read this morning...
4 years having a beeper/cell phone tell me that the stupid NT server is dead while somebody is trying to work at the office made me hate NT.
What apps were you running on NTS? We've got a P166/64M doing Exchange Server for about 20 people but that's about it... all email goes through a linux box running qmail. Web stuff goes through the same box running squid. proxying is done through socks5.
I'm just trying to get a handle on what causes NT to go down... I'm no newbie but this box has been and stayed up for months... Granted it doesn't do a whole hell of a lot...
I refuse to use NT in any way, shape or form (and yes, I know what I'm talking about...I'm a MCSE).
Okay... being an MCSE, why is it you refuse to run NT? I mean I'm a huge linux advocate, but I don't refuse to run NT... Please enlighten us? Or at least me?:-)
Yes its been argued over and over on/. so it must be fact by now, right? Mindcraft choose poorly supported hardware for Linux, as in anything newer than 5 years old.
*rolls eyes* yup... yup, I smell a troll.
You keep on thinking that, and I'll keep using something that works. Never had trouble using Linux as a server, ever. New hardware, old hardware, bleeding edge hardware... no problems. But I digress, I'm now feeding the troll.
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... why you people bother posting just for the sake of jagging this guy is beyond me... if he truly upset you you'd turn him off with your slashboxes. And if you didn't log in, well you're free to leave anytime.
Aside from that, Katz overlooked the movie based on exactly this notion: Gattica. Everyone is screened, blood and urine tests at every corner, "gene-ism" (as opposed to racism) abounds if you're not 6', thin, blue eyes and blonde with 20/20 vision. I won't ruin the movie ofr those who haven't seen it... go see it; it's pretty good.
As a parent, what Jon describes is both prayers answered and nightmares brought to life. What parent doesn't (secretly) desire to know what their child will look like, be like, whether they'll have the heart disease or cancer that runs in the family. What parent doesn't wish they could get a solid guarantee that the child will be born without mental retardation or other genetic disease? Or with six fingers or two heads for that matter?
I know as my daughter was growing inside my wife that I worried about these things. Amniocentesis isn't 100% accurate. What if we had that done and it came back that the child has trisomy-21 or some other genetic disease? I'm firmly against abortion but facing a child who will die early or who has a quality of life seriously rivaling navel lint... I'm not so sure anymore.
Thankfully the cards played out and she's a healthy baby girl. She has a few "defects", if you'll call them that -- she has my strange feet and square hands, but she looks very much alright. Who knows what genetic information we gave her which affects her mind and body that we won't see for years to come?
Will this technology bring about "generic" kids? Will everyone want their child to look like a model and be hyperintelligent? The desire for such a "great" feature-set is enormous, but what becomes of us as a society? It's like natural selection in the hands of man.
I am sick to death of the way our media, our political systems, our culture, and our education systems are being hijacked by a single minority. For this I'm branded a homophobe. Actually, I'm just normal. And I'd like the chance for my children to grow up normal without being "educated" about "alternative life choices".
Welcome to the curse of the straight white male. The whole "play to the minorities" that North America's (it's not just the US) political system abides by makes me sick.
You can have Black TV. Or Feminist TV. Or Gay Pride week. But if I want to do something along those lines for whites, or straights or males... I'd be arrested.
Mind you we've got another problem in Canada that you guys don't have: the Seperatists. In Quebec it's illegal to have an all-English sign (and in some areas it's illegal to have ANY English on your signs!), yet the rest of the country is forced into bilingualism. What utter bullshit!
It's quite obvious, at least to me, that there are hordes of giant red spacecraft-eating Martian beast gobbling these things up like candy.
:-)
Actually I think we're sending over these probes and the Martians are using them as a kind of intergalactic MindStorm set.
Andrew
Sure, you could rant and rave about how bad cookies suck - but what would you do without shopping carts, user preferences, and *GASP* slashboxes?
Actually cookies DONT'T suck at all... the implementation by braindead web-developers sucks... I mean think about it...
why have a cookie with all that info, just return a GID-style string that is unique for you and keep all the state info on your own goddamn server, just asking the end user for his/her/its ID?? no more problems.
506 418 819 450 514 705 807 204 306 403 780 250 604 403
I think you're missing a few... 613 519 905 416... what'd ya do, skip Ontario?
This kind of system gives a small to medium size isp a chance to break the monopoly on broadband (DSL/Cable) Internet connections
You're joking, right? $150k base station cost? What of a tower? Another $15-20k there... Small to medium-sized ISPs can't hardly swallow $50-$75k startup costs!
Hey, if the Ukranians really need the reacor and they say it is safe, more power to them.
groannnnnnnnn
I think they are trying to stave off any attempts at unionizing the IT industry, as there have been some rumbling from out west. Boy, wouldn't the UAW like to get its' freedy paws on a percentage of OUR salaries. Just my 2 cents..it's a real balloon buster. If anyone has any further information other than the quick email I saw from the Corporate HR director to the satellite offices, I'd appreciate it.
The day a union gets one cent from me is gonna be a cold cold day in hell. I abhorr unions as a general rule these days. They used to be necessary, but now with the auto unions and the bricklayer's unions and teacher's unions and all this bullshit... No way. No goddamned way.
...and even very senior people feeling powerless to change much or even to have their input heard. To me, it is these things that are most important, especially in a fulltime regular employee situation. Empower your people, involve them, challenge them and regularly reward them. Whether they get time and a half for overtime is pretty irrelevant. I can get time and a half at McDonalds.
/. :-)
AMEN SISTER! (brother?) It's so hard to tell on
Money isn't everything. If you are able to keep your employees happy, it doesn't really matter about time and a half, salary, hourly, whatever. You need to make them feel like they're important and that their input really does count. They'll be far happier and more productive than if your internal systems blow sheep but golly-gee, they get that 1.5x pay for overtime, 2x after that.
Interestingly enough, it's my job at the company to make the networks work for the people, not the other way around. I'm always talking to the people on the shop floor and in the office, finding out what they hate about the system or what they'd like to see. I love web development, but would like to do this for more companies... How does one get the word out?
I'm *really* interested in talking to you... since I can't get your email address, would you mind emailling me? just remove the spam blows part. thanks.
Unfortunately, when they're Anonymous Cowards, it gets a bit harder to tell if you've got:
/.????
Sorry for the OT post, but how the hell do you get monospace output on
I've tried the pre, blockquote and tt tags... anyone?
The P3 serial number clearly violates European Law on privacy. Never mind the "free trade" argument someone else gave, if someone breaks the law, they don't deserve absolute freedom of trade.
What of the Alpha serial numbers? Why the big outcry on only P3? Am I missing something?
I live in San Jose, within about a half mile of a telco CO, and get the full 1.5M/128K speed. But, when a housemate turns on a dimmer light, it goes completely down the toilet! The ADSL box craps out completely, losing sync and dropping TCP connections.
// --- line and neutral
Sounds like you need a crash course in EMI/RFI elimination.
Try using shielded cable for your ADSL modem (as in install a shielded cable, shield grounded at one end only) from the demarcation point to your modem. Make sure the modem's grounded. If you wanna take it to the n'th degree, make sure your computer and the network cable between the computer and the modem are grounded. Ideally you want a single-point (star) ground. Make sure the dimmer's grounded.
Use good RF grounds. (copper braid either to your copper cold-water pipe coming in from outside or to a network of 8' to 12' copper rods which you drove into your backyard)
Get a dimmer that dims on whole-cycle periods instead of chopping up each cycle. That in itself will eliminate a LOT of interferance. Take a ferrie rod and wrap the power lines from the dimmer to the panel around it a few times, like this (may need to view in a monospace font):
\\ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^
@@@//@@@//@@@//@@@//@@@//@@ --- ferrite rod
VV VV VV VV VV
Do the same for the power cord for the modem.
As I stated, it shoudl go between the panel and the dimmer, like this:
panel --- ferrite rod --- dimmer --- lamp
These tips should help quite a bit...
That's why we have FM now !! wake up !
What do you think will be more important 10 years from now ? The old low-quality mono AM radio or high speed net access ??
AM will be around for a very long time to come. AM transmitters and receivers are far simpler to design and use far less components than FM.
Yes FM is higher fidelity but AM wins hands-down in the "simple to set up" category, which is important in any kind of emergency (I'm thinking TEOTWAWKI) situation.
I think that it is also the responsibility of every developer to think about the potential illegal uses of their code, and the damage that their programs could cause. Since it requires a certain degree of brain power to be a developer in the first place, it shouldn't be too hard for everyone to realise that if they write a virus/scanner/exploit, and release it to the public, it will innevitably wreck someone's day, and cost someone money. Just put yourself in the position where you miss dinner with your family/have to stay up all night fixing a server because of some script-kiddie/have to pospone the family holiday because your data was wiped off your servers, and you miss a contract deadline as a result. It doesn't take long to decide not to release malicious code does it? Just remember that there's always some arsehole who think's it's cool to screw things up, and he might be doing it with your code.
... oh say... two weeks after notifying the company that they have said exploit. If the company is unresponsive or gives the "who cares" attitude, release it. It's not the developer's fault anymore.
That's why I would strongly suggest to all exploit writers that they do not make the code available for
The bulk of responsibility does lie with the user, and I believe that it is the person who uses the utility that should be held to account, but there is a line that must be drawn between useful utilities that may be used by the unscrupulous(sp?) to do illegal things, and programs created with the intention of letting people crack systems or whatever more easily.
I don't agree... The responsibility lies solely on the user. As one poster mentioned, many companies refuse to fix a problem until someone writes a program which makes it easy to exploit a bug. In other words, those people who wrote the malicious code are helping keep things safe by making the companies react.
Now in an ideal world we wouldn't need that. Companies would feel compelled to fix it on their own or, more importantly, code better in the first place. Unfortunately this doesn't happen. It's cheaper to sweep it under the rug so you need to make it costlier to keep it hidden.
Another use for those exploits... As an admin I often run them on my own system to see if I'm vulnerable. Or to see if my firewall rules can keep it out. Sometimes when a program says it fixes problem 'x' it doesn't fix it all the way.
Buying groceries wastes my valuable time. I have to needlessly spend time doing something that is neither enjoyable nor profitable.
insightful?? ermmmm...yeah...
My grocery trips take no longer than 20 minutes at most, with maybe a couple of minutes for parking. Throw on 5 minutes to get the groceries in the house and away. If I'm lazy I'll go up and down most of the aisles but 95% of the time I know exactly what I want and within 50' know where it is.
That's tops a half hour. You're telling me that you can't spend one half our getting food? Christ some of my stare-out-the-window breaks are longer!
Let's see here... fruit, veggies, meat, milk, eggs, bread... Maybe some munchies and a treat? Yeah it's a pretty standard family shopping list... and it's for four people. It sounds like it takes you an hour and a half to do the groceries. Someone has to work on a fairly well-needed optimization problem if you ask me.
I remember getting a bunch of 286s in which were 16MHz machines... cracked the case and looked at the processor... i80286-(orange blob)... Scratched that off and lo and behold, it was a 10MHz part. All they did was put a faster crystal on the motherboard, blob the speed and sell it as faster.
:-)
Never had trouble with them, but this kind of stuff is so fraudulent.
Overclockers have been and will be around forever. As technology increases all you're gonna do is stop the Joe Garage computer shop, just the same as the region locks and the encryption only stop the Joe Garage DVD piraters.
I see nothing wrong with overclocking a chip -- so long as I am doing it for my own stuff, or for someone and they know I'm doing it. This kind of bullshit should have heavy heavy fines slapped down on the shops to do it. And I'm talking dozens of thousands of dollars, not little $1000 fines.
... I had a 19MHz XT too... 1 meg of memory but no (documented) way to access the upper 384k. It was a V20 though, so I imagine they could run faster than a real 8086
As an example, I had a Redhat 5.1 server which was working perfectly well. I kept up to date with all the security updates, installed programs both from source code and from RPMs. It all worked perfectly well, but I could tell that things were slowly getting messier - different versions of binaries sitting around, compiled for different versions of the libraries.
:-) You can't beat the system, but as mentioned, you can sure stretch the time between installs. Personally I like to update everything by hand, but to each his own. :-)
You're right... but at least with a Linux-based system I can find out what libraries are used by what software or take a look at the last accessed/modified dates and trim to my heart's desire. I used to do that in Windows... I had a "/junk" directory and I'd move the full path of files I thought were useless into it and run for a while... if I didn't use it in a couple weeks, it vanished.
In the end it became a choice between updating all the packages by hand, or installing from a later distribution and porting across all the config changes. I chose the latter because it is a fact that entropy increases in any system over time.
Again correct.
Slashdot should just allow all users the ability to check who moderated any post. Essentially moderators get to act as anonymous cowards in regards to their moderation. There's no accountability, so anyone who wishes to try and surpress a viewpoint through moderation, does so with no worries.
That's what Meta Moderation is all about. The system knows who moderated who to what. Meta Moderation, if in disagreement, costs the moderator a little karma, if I'm not mistaken.
As far as filtering based on score, that's exactly what moderation is about. And for those who don't have the time nor the inclination to read 180 messages, setting their filter to 2 or 3 is great. Yes you will miss some good comments, but you will also miss most of the useless ones. Let's be honest -- in 180 comments, how many are truly "big" enough to warrant being read? Maybe a dozen. The information scourers like myself will stay at zero to see (almost) everything, but most busy people will sit at the higher levels to just skim.
Of course they lie. I remember one posting regarding security where a guy claimed that he will continue using Linux and recommending it for his company no matter how many security flaws and oversights were found...because it wasn't microsoft. These people are generally psychos and they're looking for a club to belong to and the "Linux Enthusiasts Club" has got very low standards.
Interesting... I'm not calling you a liar but the mantra of "I don't care how many bugs and oversights it has, I'll continue using it" is the usual windows user mantra. I deploy Linux in server/firewall applications because I feel far more confident in my not recieving a page/call at 5am saying something went down, and because anything that does come up (DoS and other exploits) is patched usually within 24 hours, as opposed to months with Microsoft.
Coupled with the fact that I've got a few busy Linux servers with uptimes nearing a year now and the nearest match I've got on a similarly-deployed busy NT server is about 3 weeks I'll stick with the Linux boxen, thanks. I'm fairly certain I know how to configure the equipment, it's the use that kills NT: I've got about three months' uptime on an NT server doing just basic Exchange Server and PDC functions. I've heard BSD security is better, so i'm gonna be taking a look into that RSN.
Yes, there are linux zealots out there, but there's bad examples in any group of people.
I couldn't get a framerate that was even close to playable in 1.08, but in 1.09 it runs just fine. In addition to the already mentioned use-16-bit color tip, you also need to use the right libGL.so. The one from /usr/local/lib didn't work for me, but I copied the one from my glx source tree (what I should have done in the first place) and it worked fine.
Hopefully I won't get moderated into oblivion with this comment, but doesn't this remind you of trying to get something running on Windows?
I mean there's still a major difference: You can get intelligent help with Linux, but the base problem still exists... Wrong libraries, bad drivers, undocumented gotchas... Is this a graphics/desktop-related thing? I mean I never have these kinds of troubles on my servers, but sure as shit, I do any kind of desktop apping on Linux and run into the old drivers/libraries problems...
As mentioned, you can actually resolve these problems under Linux, as opposed to the usual "reboot, reinstall, it's the other guy's stuff" answers you get with Windows, but I just noticed this as I read this morning...
4 years having a beeper/cell phone tell me that the stupid NT server is dead while somebody is trying to work at the office made me hate NT.
What apps were you running on NTS? We've got a P166/64M doing Exchange Server for about 20 people but that's about it... all email goes through a linux box running qmail. Web stuff goes through the same box running squid. proxying is done through socks5.
I'm just trying to get a handle on what causes NT to go down... I'm no newbie but this box has been and stayed up for months... Granted it doesn't do a whole hell of a lot...
I refuse to use NT in any way, shape or form (and yes, I know what I'm talking about...I'm a MCSE).
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Okay... being an MCSE, why is it you refuse to run NT? I mean I'm a huge linux advocate, but I don't refuse to run NT... Please enlighten us? Or at least me?
Yes its been argued over and over on /. so it must be fact by now, right? Mindcraft choose poorly supported hardware for Linux, as in anything newer than 5 years old.
*rolls eyes* yup... yup, I smell a troll.
You keep on thinking that, and I'll keep using something that works. Never had trouble using Linux as a server, ever. New hardware, old hardware, bleeding edge hardware... no problems. But I digress, I'm now feeding the troll.