This is 3rd-hand info, but I was told once how actually no movies make a profit. Anything that would be a profit gets moved into partnership companies, etc. That's why no one asks for percentages of the profit any more.
These folks have been playing creative accounting games for decades. Enron and Arthur Andersen are bush-league compared to Hollywood. Their support of politicians (mainly Democrats, the number of significant actors, producers, directors etc. in Hollywood that are active Republicans can be counted on one hand) combined with using their fame is what has kept them from being investigated and prosecuted six ways from Sunday.
Will it be where in the EULA they say that you have to give them your firstborn child?
I don't care if they write software that guarantees peace in the Middle East, they don't have the right to harass people that are not breaking the law in order to get to people that are. Period.
The DOJ cleared the way by showing in court that Microsoft is a monopoly. Now AOL/etc. can drive their lawsuit truck down the freshly-cleared road, since the worst part of their work has already been done for them. Easy money.
Purdue had a simple but effective cheater-detector back in 1987 or so when I was in grad school there. It ignored variable names and comments, and simply stripped a program down to a list of keywords and tokens (for C, things like if, switch, =, etc; there was a Fortran one too). Then it took the case-insensitive token list, and ran sum on it. Then it took the sums of all the student programs, sorted the list, and ran uniq -d on it. (This was more efficient than just running a massive diff.) Matches were considered potential cheating cases, and were examined by hand. Usually they were, and usually it was fairly obvious that they were. This method didn't care about renaming variables, or comments, or indention, so those common methods of hiding cheating failed. It was effective enough to keep freshmen and sophmores honest, so it did its job.
Several months ago I was offering the general public a free copy of the popular OS called Linux 8.0. This is a freely distributable program under the general license agreement. The customer only had to pay for shipping. ($5.00 US dollars)
I had hundreds of people that responded to the offer and I delivered the program as offered and according to the law. PayPal sent me an e-mail saying that they were going to suspend my account unless I could provide proof that I had permission to distribute this software.
Well, I e-mailed them back several times and explained to them that I did programming on my own and would never consider distributing software that was against any law. PayPal said that I had to prove that I had permission from Microsoft to distribute the software. Microsoft has nothing to do with Linux. Linux has always been to my knowledge, a free OS.
I am e-mailing you first before taking legal action as this is the professional way to do business.
They have closed my account, which is fine accept that they hold my funds without paying me interest on the funds and refuse to return the funds.
I've heard 2 different stations (both classic rock) do the gimmick of 'play everything in the playlist in alphabetical order'. The station in Oklahoma City took about 10 days to do so, whereas the one here in Atlanta took 21 or 22 days. I dunno how good mp3 compression is at high bitrates nowadays, but some quick back-of-envelope (ok, so I did it in bc, but) calculation comes up with 9250 minutes or around 6.4 days worth of space for raw wav files in 80G.
SafeSurf needs to find an ISP that doesn't host spammers. That's the business that needs to be taken elsewhere. SafeSurf should complain to their ISP about the situation, instead of whining pathetically to the Internet at large. Basically, their ISP is being a bad netizen, and MAPS has called them on it. The actions of MAPS and by proxy TeleGlobe may be extreme, but once you look at the whole context, they make a lot more sense. Sucks for SafeSite that they need to move, but if their ISP is giving them a cheap rate by subsidizing it by hosting spammers, then well you get what you pay for.
A friend of mine was being hired as a contractor in the Boston area. Before she showed up to work, she asked what the dress code was. "Oh, it's relaxed, wear whatever you want", she was told. So she shows up wearing a tie-dyed shirt and bluejeans. Most everyone else there is wearing shirt&tie or otherwise 'professional' clothing. So she asks around, "is what I'm wearing ok? I seem to be out of place here" but is told "no, that's fine, wear what you want". Later on she found out that the presumption in the company was that the real Unix wizard-types wear tie-dye or what have you, so she was inadvertantly reinforcing their perception.
What I'm wondering is how working on 4.x and 5.0 at the same time will affect FreeBSD. Is most of the work being done on 5.0 independent of the work involved in 4.x++ ? I'm just hoping that FreeBSD working on 2 different streams at the same time doesn't significantly slow down progress.
Here's a url [clearchannel.com] off their website that lets you find out which stations in your area are owned by them, so you know who to complain to/not listen to.
At least I'm posting as myself and not an Anonymous Coward.
I don't have the time to go searching through score 0 posts looking for AC posts to mod up. Better to put modpoints to some use than just let them expire, IMHO. And if you think *BSD is dying trolls are worth being read, then your opinion on anything is so laughable as to not even be worthy of a reply. I shudder to think what would happen to slashdot if you were a staff member.
Do what I do to the *BSD is dying troll: every time I get moderator points, I go into BSD and moderate them down (-1, Troll). I generally end up spending anywhere from 2 to 4 modpoints that way every time. All it takes is a few of us that get moderator points and we'll have the problem taken care of.
Of course, since I've now posted to this thread, I won't be able to mod down the troll in this article even once I get modpoints again. Ah well.
Looks like djb doesn't want to play by Theo's rules. No matter, that's his choice. But Theo chose what he wanted for OpenBSD a long time ago, and if djb doesn't like that, then that's his problem. Personally, I agree with Theo on many points:/usr/ports should stick to/usr/local for where they write stuff (I've never liked the whole damn/opt idea that Solaris popularized), and for pity's sake, anyone that thinks their software is important enough that it needs its own directory off / needs a serious ego-deflating! For all that people critisize RMS and his ego, all of the GNU tools are very well-behaved in that department. Would that others were equally as nice.
The reason big companies can have so much web traffic is pretty obvious: they have the money to pay for the bandwidth.
It's easy enough to put up a web site off your DSL link or what have you, but once you get some serious traffic, such as the well-known slashdot effect, boom no one can get to your site any more. This is why no private individual that's not independently wealthy could ever try to compete toe-to-toe with cnn.com, say.
But that's not necessary. Very few people, with the exception of Matt Drudge of the self-named Drudge Report, want to compete with CNN. And it's much easier to compete on the web than it is in TV markets-- anyone can put up a web site overnight, but good luck starting a cable channel and getting cable TV carriers to carry it. The independent web is alive and well, and any talk of the death of it is greatly exaggerated.
The only thing that could possibly kill the web is control of the browser, which would be Microsoft. And you know that AOL-Time-Warner will fight them tooth and nail on that. Now if those two ever merge, then we should all be Very Very Afraid.
Problem is, the browser war has been mostly lost
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The hard part of that plan is keeping the project cross-platform and cross-browser. You'll run headlong into weenies that want to write for IE only. And in a perverse way, they have a point-- certainly is easier to write for only one browser. Not that I agree, of course. What would be interesting, though, is to try to document how different things break depending on which version of IE you're running. Then the argument can be made that if you're already going to have to write your web interface to work on all these versions of IE, you might as well make it fully cross-browser while you're at it.
There's a fundamental (no pun intended) problem with Yahoo's action: everyone is offended by something. Porn offends Christians. Christianity offends atheists. Pop music offends anyone with a brain. And so forth. Where does it stop? Who gets to decide whose opinions get to make law/company policy/the rules of this particular little fiefdom? The only 'fair' way to do it is to pay attention to no one's offendedness, or to everyone's, and in that latter case eventually you end up with Fahrenheit 451 or the first Christmas episode of South Park.
I'd recommend anyone that believes in free speech to abandon Yahoo clubs and groups. Let it devolve into mindless banter about the pop culture event of the moment and not much else. The problem I have is that I can't find anywhere else to replace it with. The most open equivalent is (shudder) communities.msn.com and even apart from the issue of who's bringing it to you, their interface is painful and clunky at best. Anyone have any suggestions?
Where AIX kicks butt (and others need to catch up)
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A few years ago (1995-1997) I actively maintained several AIX boxes as part of my job as a Unix sysadmin, and thus got to know the nasty beast first-hand. Granted, AIX is twisted and mutant, but there are a couple of areas where it does rock.
First let me pass along an analogy told to me (alas I don't know its origin). There were these two intelligent alien races. They didn't know each other's language, but they did have a universal translator that could translate between them; however it was somewhat buggy and didn't always do a terribly good job, but it was good enough most of the time. The first alien race had BSD Unix, and knowledge of System V Unix, and told it to the second alien race through the broken universal translator. The second race, thus enlightened, went off and wrote: AIX.
Humor aside, my AIX experience was something like "SUCKS" "SUCKS" "SUCKS" "oh wait, this is cool" "SUCKS", heh. What the open source community needs to do is identify the cool parts and add them to our own OSen. An example of what NOT to add would be the way AIX plays fast and loose with/etc/inittab -- it will happily let you edit/etc/inittab and do whatever you want with it, but it will quietly go behind your back and undo all the changes you made. To change/etc/inittab, you have to go through certain AIX commands that I have forgotten. There actually was a reason for this, but the details have slipped away.
Ok, on to the actual cool things about AIX. For those of you that have used Solaris + Veritas, you already know how useful it can be, and what a pain in the ass it can be as well. AIX has had a volume manager for longer than any other Unix, and does it quite a bit better. In 1995, it was no problem at all to take all the data/filesystems on one disk and migrate them all to another disk transparently without taking the OS down or even degrading performance very much. Well, except if you were moving/, because then you had to make sure to make the new disk bootable (and generally every AIX sysadmin would screw this up the first time and destroy the system as a result, but see the second point below). The volume manager lets you create and delete and resize filesystems on the fly; it wasn't so good at shrinking filesystems back in 1995 but I'm sure it's gotten better since then. My sysadmin style between Solaris and AIX was totally different: on AIX I'd create filesystems exactly as large as I needed them at the time, and would only grow them when they got to 99% full or so, whereas on Solaris w/o Veritas I'd simply slice up the disk into as few filesystems as possible and allocate all the disks at system install. The AIX way was lots more flexible, though it did involve the loss of the traditional BSD-style disk slice partitioning.
The other thing that AIX totally rocked on was its backup command, mksysb. This created a bootable tape with the entirety of the root volume on it (generally you'd have a root volume with all the system filesystems, and a data volume for your big-ass database etc.) Literally all you had to do to restore your system was change the keyswitch into 'Service' mode, pop the tape into the tape drive, and power the system on. It would boot off the bootable tape, find all the backup info, and restore the entire system to what it was at the time of the backup. No muss, no fuss, it just worked. It saved my bacon a couple of times, and it certainly made for less frazzled sysadmin nerves, knowing that no matter how badly you hosed the system, you could go to the last backup and you wouldn't have to even think to restore the thing, just pop in the tape, boot it up, let it do its thing, and go have a beer.
Anyways, these were the two brightest shining points of sysadminning AIX when I was doing it. I'd love to have either/both of these features on any OS I'm responsible for, and I'm sure that these are the kinds of things that IBM wants from Linux.
Yeah, and it's been the only test ever that said anything bad about Ogg Vorbis, and it was the worst-administered test of them all too. Any good test will do a double-blind or at least a single-blind test (think: Pepsi Challenge-- how many people would say they preferred Pepsi if they knew it was Pepsi?). This did none of that.
You remind me of the cartoon cat wearing glasses with the bird painted on them so that everywhere he looks, he sees the bird. How hard is it for you to READ the FAQ and notice how it presumes that if you're not running Windows, you're on a Mac? Again, if you had a brain, you'd observe that users are being migrated from a service where all OSen are more-or-less equal to one that is heavily favored in favor of Microsoft, and other operating systems are marginalized or shut out entirely. This is what people don't like: Microsoft is using their leverage to try to make it less and less feasible for people to use other operating systems. This is why there's been this lawsuit by the DOJ and 20 states against Microsoft, in case you haven't noticed. There's my 'careful analysis of the facts', sir. It's the standard Microsoft playbook being run to the letter. My post was factual from start to finish, unlike your posts full of ad hominem attacks that get moderated up thanks to your multiple accounts (how else did your goatse.cx post make it to +4?). Go away, slashdot doesn't need fools like you.
Listen bonehead, I wrote the article, and I have four words for you: Read The Fucking Article.
Notice how the Very First Word is 'Qwest.net'. Therefore, anyone with a couple of neurons to rub together would realize what this applies to. Then notice how the FAQ uses Qwest and Qwest.net pretty much interchangeably. Hmm, gee, I'm not confusing the two any more than Qwest does themselves.
The rest of this article is ranting based on this false premise. And it even got moderated up to 5, how sad. Good moderator points wasted on someone who posts goatse.cx links in their articles. Check that article out, apparently it got all the way to +4 before being slapped down like the troll it is.
Napster's sysadmins must have it easy now
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Last report I saw, traffic to Napster's web site is down 99%. They must have TONS of over-capacity to serve those pages now...
Normally I actually like Jon Katz's stuff. But reading the statistics he quoted just raised a red flag to me:
In 1997, 67 percent of Americans surveyed believed that...
By last year, the figure had risen to 72 per cent...
In fact, only 13 percent of Americans said global warming wasn't a serious problem, a record low.
... a March 2001 Time/CNN poll found that two-thirds of Americans think the President should develop a plan to reduce the gas emissions that may contribute to global warming.
Now this will sound like a digression, so bear with me for a minute. There is an old story about the nose of the emperor of China. This man wanted to know how long the emperor's nose was. The problem was, that no one in China had ever seen the emperor. So he went around to many thousands of people, asking each of them how long they thought the emperor's nose was. He accumulated a large amount of data, and was able to use the latest in statistical techniques to come up with a very good number, with confidence intervals and the whole nine yards.
However, no matter how good the statistical analysis is, no one had ANY hard information at all, so all the statistical analysis means NOTHING. And this is what Jon Katz's numbers are. Asking what people think about global warming doesn't tell us anything about global warming at all.
Sounds like this would be a great starting spot for an OpenStreetMap project. Certainly we could make better maps than mapquest or mapblast, and certainly keep them more accurate. I'd start something like this, but I know I don't have anywhere near the time and energy needed to get something like this going.:-(
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Breakins like this are why the immutable bit was introduced in 4.4BSD. If you set your important executables immutable (ls, ps, ssh, etc) then even if someone does root your box, they can't change those without taking the machine down to single-user mode and changing it there, which in most cases can't be done without physical console access. This trick works for logfiles too; an immutable logfile can be appended to but not deleted or rewritten.
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You mean like those impartial scientists that falsified the lynx data in the Pacific Northwest?
This is 3rd-hand info, but I was told once how actually no movies make a profit. Anything that would be a profit gets moved into partnership companies, etc. That's why no one asks for percentages of the profit any more.
These folks have been playing creative accounting games for decades. Enron and Arthur Andersen are bush-league compared to Hollywood. Their support of politicians (mainly Democrats, the number of significant actors, producers, directors etc. in Hollywood that are active Republicans can be counted on one hand) combined with using their fame is what has kept them from being investigated and prosecuted six ways from Sunday.
Will it be where in the EULA they say that you have to give them your firstborn child?
I don't care if they write software that guarantees peace in the Middle East, they don't have the right to harass people that are not breaking the law in order to get to people that are. Period.
The DOJ cleared the way by showing in court that Microsoft is a monopoly. Now AOL/etc. can drive their lawsuit truck down the freshly-cleared road, since the worst part of their work has already been done for them. Easy money.
Purdue had a simple but effective cheater-detector back in 1987 or so when I was in grad school there. It ignored variable names and comments, and simply stripped a program down to a list of keywords and tokens (for C, things like if, switch, =, etc; there was a Fortran one too). Then it took the case-insensitive token list, and ran sum on it. Then it took the sums of all the student programs, sorted the list, and ran uniq -d on it. (This was more efficient than just running a massive diff.) Matches were considered potential cheating cases, and were examined by hand. Usually they were, and usually it was fairly obvious that they were. This method didn't care about renaming variables, or comments, or indention, so those common methods of hiding cheating failed. It was effective enough to keep freshmen and sophmores honest, so it did its job.
From: Larry Lawrence (12/6/01)
PayPal continues to hold my $600. Illegally.
Several months ago I was offering the general public a free copy of the popular OS called Linux 8.0. This is a freely distributable program under the general license agreement. The customer only had to pay for shipping. ($5.00 US dollars)
I had hundreds of people that responded to the offer and I delivered the program as offered and according to the law. PayPal sent me an e-mail saying that they were going to suspend my account unless I could provide proof that I had permission to distribute this software.
Well, I e-mailed them back several times and explained to them that I did programming on my own and would never consider distributing software that was against any law. PayPal said that I had to prove that I had permission from Microsoft to distribute the software. Microsoft has nothing to do with Linux. Linux has always been to my knowledge, a free OS.
I am e-mailing you first before taking legal action as this is the professional way to do business.
They have closed my account, which is fine accept that they hold my funds without paying me interest on the funds and refuse to return the funds.
I've heard 2 different stations (both classic rock) do the gimmick of 'play everything in the playlist in alphabetical order'. The station in Oklahoma City took about 10 days to do so, whereas the one here in Atlanta took 21 or 22 days. I dunno how good mp3 compression is at high bitrates nowadays, but some quick back-of-envelope (ok, so I did it in bc, but) calculation comes up with 9250 minutes or around 6.4 days worth of space for raw wav files in 80G.
SafeSurf needs to find an ISP that doesn't host spammers. That's the business that needs to be taken elsewhere. SafeSurf should complain to their ISP about the situation, instead of whining pathetically to the Internet at large. Basically, their ISP is being a bad netizen, and MAPS has called them on it. The actions of MAPS and by proxy TeleGlobe may be extreme, but once you look at the whole context, they make a lot more sense. Sucks for SafeSite that they need to move, but if their ISP is giving them a cheap rate by subsidizing it by hosting spammers, then well you get what you pay for.
A friend of mine was being hired as a contractor in the Boston area. Before she showed up to work, she asked what the dress code was. "Oh, it's relaxed, wear whatever you want", she was told. So she shows up wearing a tie-dyed shirt and bluejeans. Most everyone else there is wearing shirt&tie or otherwise 'professional' clothing. So she asks around, "is what I'm wearing ok? I seem to be out of place here" but is told "no, that's fine, wear what you want". Later on she found out that the presumption in the company was that the real Unix wizard-types wear tie-dye or what have you, so she was inadvertantly reinforcing their perception.
What I'm wondering is how working on 4.x and 5.0 at the same time will affect FreeBSD. Is most of the work being done on 5.0 independent of the work involved in 4.x++ ? I'm just hoping that FreeBSD working on 2 different streams at the same time doesn't significantly slow down progress.
Here's a url [clearchannel.com] off their website that lets you find out which stations in your area are owned by them, so you know who to complain to/not listen to.
At least I'm posting as myself and not an Anonymous Coward.
I don't have the time to go searching through score 0 posts looking for AC posts to mod up. Better to put modpoints to some use than just let them expire, IMHO. And if you think *BSD is dying trolls are worth being read, then your opinion on anything is so laughable as to not even be worthy of a reply. I shudder to think what would happen to slashdot if you were a staff member.
Do what I do to the *BSD is dying troll: every time I get moderator points, I go into BSD and moderate them down (-1, Troll). I generally end up spending anywhere from 2 to 4 modpoints that way every time. All it takes is a few of us that get moderator points and we'll have the problem taken care of.
Of course, since I've now posted to this thread, I won't be able to mod down the troll in this article even once I get modpoints again. Ah well.
Looks like djb doesn't want to play by Theo's rules. No matter, that's his choice. But Theo chose what he wanted for OpenBSD a long time ago, and if djb doesn't like that, then that's his problem. Personally, I agree with Theo on many points: /usr/ports should stick to /usr/local for where they write stuff (I've never liked the whole damn /opt idea that Solaris popularized), and for pity's sake, anyone that thinks their software is important enough that it needs its own directory off / needs a serious ego-deflating! For all that people critisize RMS and his ego, all of the GNU tools are very well-behaved in that department. Would that others were equally as nice.
The reason big companies can have so much web traffic is pretty obvious: they have the money to pay for the bandwidth.
It's easy enough to put up a web site off your DSL link or what have you, but once you get some serious traffic, such as the well-known slashdot effect, boom no one can get to your site any more. This is why no private individual that's not independently wealthy could ever try to compete toe-to-toe with cnn.com, say.
But that's not necessary. Very few people, with the exception of Matt Drudge of the self-named Drudge Report, want to compete with CNN. And it's much easier to compete on the web than it is in TV markets-- anyone can put up a web site overnight, but good luck starting a cable channel and getting cable TV carriers to carry it. The independent web is alive and well, and any talk of the death of it is greatly exaggerated.
The only thing that could possibly kill the web is control of the browser, which would be Microsoft. And you know that AOL-Time-Warner will fight them tooth and nail on that. Now if those two ever merge, then we should all be Very Very Afraid.
The hard part of that plan is keeping the project cross-platform and cross-browser. You'll run headlong into weenies that want to write for IE only. And in a perverse way, they have a point-- certainly is easier to write for only one browser. Not that I agree, of course. What would be interesting, though, is to try to document how different things break depending on which version of IE you're running. Then the argument can be made that if you're already going to have to write your web interface to work on all these versions of IE, you might as well make it fully cross-browser while you're at it.
There's a fundamental (no pun intended) problem with Yahoo's action: everyone is offended by something. Porn offends Christians. Christianity offends atheists. Pop music offends anyone with a brain. And so forth. Where does it stop? Who gets to decide whose opinions get to make law/company policy/the rules of this particular little fiefdom? The only 'fair' way to do it is to pay attention to no one's offendedness, or to everyone's, and in that latter case eventually you end up with Fahrenheit 451 or the first Christmas episode of South Park.
I'd recommend anyone that believes in free speech to abandon Yahoo clubs and groups. Let it devolve into mindless banter about the pop culture event of the moment and not much else. The problem I have is that I can't find anywhere else to replace it with. The most open equivalent is (shudder) communities.msn.com and even apart from the issue of who's bringing it to you, their interface is painful and clunky at best. Anyone have any suggestions?
A few years ago (1995-1997) I actively maintained several AIX boxes as part of my job as a Unix sysadmin, and thus got to know the nasty beast first-hand. Granted, AIX is twisted and mutant, but there are a couple of areas where it does rock.
/etc/inittab -- it will happily let you edit /etc/inittab and do whatever you want with it, but it will quietly go behind your back and undo all the changes you made. To change /etc/inittab, you have to go through certain AIX commands that I have forgotten. There actually was a reason for this, but the details have slipped away.
/, because then you had to make sure to make the new disk bootable (and generally every AIX sysadmin would screw this up the first time and destroy the system as a result, but see the second point below). The volume manager lets you create and delete and resize filesystems on the fly; it wasn't so good at shrinking filesystems back in 1995 but I'm sure it's gotten better since then. My sysadmin style between Solaris and AIX was totally different: on AIX I'd create filesystems exactly as large as I needed them at the time, and would only grow them when they got to 99% full or so, whereas on Solaris w/o Veritas I'd simply slice up the disk into as few filesystems as possible and allocate all the disks at system install. The AIX way was lots more flexible, though it did involve the loss of the traditional BSD-style disk slice partitioning.
First let me pass along an analogy told to me (alas I don't know its origin). There were these two intelligent alien races. They didn't know each other's language, but they did have a universal translator that could translate between them; however it was somewhat buggy and didn't always do a terribly good job, but it was good enough most of the time. The first alien race had BSD Unix, and knowledge of System V Unix, and told it to the second alien race through the broken universal translator. The second race, thus enlightened, went off and wrote: AIX.
Humor aside, my AIX experience was something like "SUCKS" "SUCKS" "SUCKS" "oh wait, this is cool" "SUCKS", heh. What the open source community needs to do is identify the cool parts and add them to our own OSen. An example of what NOT to add would be the way AIX plays fast and loose with
Ok, on to the actual cool things about AIX. For those of you that have used Solaris + Veritas, you already know how useful it can be, and what a pain in the ass it can be as well. AIX has had a volume manager for longer than any other Unix, and does it quite a bit better. In 1995, it was no problem at all to take all the data/filesystems on one disk and migrate them all to another disk transparently without taking the OS down or even degrading performance very much. Well, except if you were moving
The other thing that AIX totally rocked on was its backup command, mksysb. This created a bootable tape with the entirety of the root volume on it (generally you'd have a root volume with all the system filesystems, and a data volume for your big-ass database etc.) Literally all you had to do to restore your system was change the keyswitch into 'Service' mode, pop the tape into the tape drive, and power the system on. It would boot off the bootable tape, find all the backup info, and restore the entire system to what it was at the time of the backup. No muss, no fuss, it just worked. It saved my bacon a couple of times, and it certainly made for less frazzled sysadmin nerves, knowing that no matter how badly you hosed the system, you could go to the last backup and you wouldn't have to even think to restore the thing, just pop in the tape, boot it up, let it do its thing, and go have a beer.
Anyways, these were the two brightest shining points of sysadminning AIX when I was doing it. I'd love to have either/both of these features on any OS I'm responsible for, and I'm sure that these are the kinds of things that IBM wants from Linux.
Yeah, and it's been the only test ever that said anything bad about Ogg Vorbis, and it was the worst-administered test of them all too. Any good test will do a double-blind or at least a single-blind test (think: Pepsi Challenge-- how many people would say they preferred Pepsi if they knew it was Pepsi?). This did none of that.
You remind me of the cartoon cat wearing glasses with the bird painted on them so that everywhere he looks, he sees the bird. How hard is it for you to READ the FAQ and notice how it presumes that if you're not running Windows, you're on a Mac? Again, if you had a brain, you'd observe that users are being migrated from a service where all OSen are more-or-less equal to one that is heavily favored in favor of Microsoft, and other operating systems are marginalized or shut out entirely. This is what people don't like: Microsoft is using their leverage to try to make it less and less feasible for people to use other operating systems. This is why there's been this lawsuit by the DOJ and 20 states against Microsoft, in case you haven't noticed. There's my 'careful analysis of the facts', sir. It's the standard Microsoft playbook being run to the letter. My post was factual from start to finish, unlike your posts full of ad hominem attacks that get moderated up thanks to your multiple accounts (how else did your goatse.cx post make it to +4?). Go away, slashdot doesn't need fools like you.
Listen bonehead, I wrote the article, and I have four words for you: Read The Fucking Article.
Notice how the Very First Word is 'Qwest.net'. Therefore, anyone with a couple of neurons to rub together would realize what this applies to. Then notice how the FAQ uses Qwest and Qwest.net pretty much interchangeably. Hmm, gee, I'm not confusing the two any more than Qwest does themselves.
The rest of this article is ranting based on this false premise. And it even got moderated up to 5, how sad. Good moderator points wasted on someone who posts goatse.cx links in their articles. Check that article out, apparently it got all the way to +4 before being slapped down like the troll it is.
Last report I saw, traffic to Napster's web site is down 99%. They must have TONS of over-capacity to serve those pages now...
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By last year, the figure had risen to 72 per cent
In fact, only 13 percent of Americans said global warming wasn't a serious problem, a record low.
... a March 2001 Time/CNN poll found that two-thirds of Americans think the President should develop a plan to reduce the gas emissions that may contribute to global warming.
Now this will sound like a digression, so bear with me for a minute. There is an old story about the nose of the emperor of China. This man wanted to know how long the emperor's nose was. The problem was, that no one in China had ever seen the emperor. So he went around to many thousands of people, asking each of them how long they thought the emperor's nose was. He accumulated a large amount of data, and was able to use the latest in statistical techniques to come up with a very good number, with confidence intervals and the whole nine yards.
However, no matter how good the statistical analysis is, no one had ANY hard information at all, so all the statistical analysis means NOTHING. And this is what Jon Katz's numbers are. Asking what people think about global warming doesn't tell us anything about global warming at all.
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Sounds like this would be a great starting spot for an OpenStreetMap project. Certainly we could make better maps than mapquest or mapblast, and certainly keep them more accurate. I'd start something like this, but I know I don't have anywhere near the time and energy needed to get something like this going. :-(
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Breakins like this are why the immutable bit was introduced in 4.4BSD. If you set your important executables immutable (ls, ps, ssh, etc) then even if someone does root your box, they can't change those without taking the machine down to single-user mode and changing it there, which in most cases can't be done without physical console access. This trick works for logfiles too; an immutable logfile can be appended to but not deleted or rewritten.
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