Jämtkraft is a major regional power producer/distributor that last year formed a Telecom subsidiary together with some major (inter)national telcos (among them Telenordia, heavily owned by BT) and they offer Breezenet-powered 802.11 broadband access to most of Jamtland, a mostly rural region in the northern parts of Sweden.
I have two of these, one at home and one at work. Due to their creative billing capabilities, I only pay for one of them.:-) The high cost of end-user equipment is offset by a one-time payment (non-refundable) of ~600 USD. This gives you 5 or 10 meters of high-gain RF cable, a choice of three antenna sizes (medium, large and Mr T), a Breezenet SA-10 Station Adapter and some clamps to put the antenna on your TV antenna pole, chimney, wherever. The monthly fee is $30 for up to 3 Mbps (this is the maximum radiolink bandwidth, you have to be pretty colse to a tower to get that, I typically get 2 at work and 1 at home (longer and there's a tree in the way. Now, where did I put that chainsaw?).
Authentication is done by logging in to a webpage (DNS and traffic within their network works when logged out, but port 80 is basically blocked without the login. This means that I can ssh or do a Terminal Server login from home to work even if both networks are logged out). They log you out for inactivity, but a ping -i 600 wherever.com seems to keep it alive. The DHCP lease is for 24 hours and I have lost my (public) IP three times in a year, all of them due to major maintenance of the login servers.
This all works beautifully, except for Telenordia's inability to manage 24/7 server capabilities. I get some rain fade and snow issues (especially with the large, wet flaky, kind) but no fried sparrows and no other major issues - both my kids have just one head each.:-)
In Sweden, most cars are equipped with electric engine heaters. No pollutants, no noise and easily timer-controlled. Besides, since 95% of all Swedish (and something like that for the rest of Europe) cars have stick-shifts, a remote-starting mechanism would be like asking for acci-dents (pun invented here).
This concept is like the American "Rush hour" where thousands of cars are standing completely still: Incomprehensible to a civilized person.
Comg back on topic, I'll get redundant instead: Modern cars have become more and more hackable since more and more onboard systems are computer-controlled. My first car was a 1967 Volvo 121 Amazon. It had a grand total of four (4) circuit breakers to the entire electrical system. The little woman's current car, a 1995 VW Passat TD, has in the range of 30 and a large assortment of relays, computer control boxen and whatnots. I was most miffed when I learned that the newer TDi model is easier to hack since it has an electronic control box for the turbo and injection systems.
You run a current through it and it automatically incinerates your shitsmears
Eh, wouldn't that burn your butthair? Then again, maybe that's better than stea^H^H^H^Hborrowing the SO's Ladyshave and having to explain why it needs a new blade every week. OK, I'm all for it.:-)
According to the Pegasus link in the submission, the Pegasus system uses a modified Lockheed L-1011 airliner jet named Stargazer, not B-52s. Methinks someone has overdosed on CNN again...
Ah, the good old days. The older, the better. I wonder if that disk still works, it's gotta be close to fifteen years old now. But first I gotta find it... Ah, a project! Good, now I can put off work another hour!:-)
In all other walks of life people seem to find investors that believe in them and their art. From writers to hockey players, race car drivers to actors. None of these groups of people have to resort to legalized slavery to fund their startup years (OK, hockey players come fairly close, I give you that).
On the other hand, none of those groups have to suffer the indignities of competing with 'created' phenomena like (insert any boy band here) or (any other boy band). And created by 'their own' industry, no less.
How many people watched Men in Black and then went out and got a new ticket because they forgot they saw it already? And if no one saw them, did they make a sound?
BTW, this is the reason no one can figure out what the deal is with Daylight Savings Time. By the time we reset our watches, we forget what we were thinking an hour earlier. Of course, in my case, this happens every day...:-)
It is not a technology that can be circumvented by a device anymore than you can travel in time by resetting your watch.
The RIAA represents the 'record industry', ie the record companies. The record companies are all, by law, required to look after their share holder's (financial) interests. So far, so good. They are doing exactly what they are supposed to do. This should surprise no one. However, the manner in which they look after those interests may be up for debate - what would happen if they started interpreting their mission with long-term goals in mind? All of their current tactics are short-term, stop-gap measures, designed to maximize profits right now. Viewed in a long-term perspective, those same measures are counter-productive. They will 'lose', eventually. Suing Napster and Napster-like phenomena will only work for a while. It will not stop Gnutella and it's peers (pun intended) and it will not make J. Random Listener stop downloading MP3s.
The RIAA is scared since they see a future where they don't exist. A future where the artists have all gone independent and is selling their music and other value-added products online through a number of portal sites. That business model is still not viable, but it will be because it has to be. The genie can not be put back in the bottle. Retail sales of CDs will go down. The current distribution channels will collapse. But people will still want to buy and listen to music and musicians will still want to perform.
There will be ways. We'll all find a way. But the RIAA will be roadkill.
In any case, has anybody seen one of those "dark" addresses sometime?
If you could see one, it wouldn't be dark. And if you did see one, They would have to kill you.
I think this is just another.mil conspiracy - those sites and addresses aren't just parts of badly managed webspace - they are websites of black ops, dark projects, stealth planes and hidden agendas. An intranet for the Anti-Illuminati - the Shadows.:-)
Hence the phrase, "Gone the way of the Commodore" ?
Exactly, except we used to say "gone the way of the Commododo.".:-)
Oh, how I would like to get my hands on Mehdi Ali and Irving Gould and slowly wring the last ounce of life out of their greedy bodies... But I digress.
I just hope Be doesn't prove to be the same kind of unlucky charm the Amiga was. You would have thought Gould and Ali had found the Boing ball in a pyramid or something.
This is so true. When I was in tech support (three years working for TenFour, both in the US and Sweden) one of the first and hardest lessons was that tech support isn't about technology. It isn't primarily about fixing people's problems with their computers and systems.
It's about people. Listening to them. Being there for them. Acting as a vent for sysadmins, a scapegoat for consultans, a pal of Jodi Lightner's (in-joke of the day) and a shoulder to cry on for the rest of them.
If you just give them a quick fix and hang up, they won't respect you in the morning. They EXPECTED that. If you give them sympathy, consolation AND a quick fix, in that order, they'll love you forever.
I have just signed an Executive Order outlawing Microsoft. We start bombing Redmond in fifteen minutes.
Seriously, this is just ridiculous and another fine example that Bush is bought and paid for by the large multinational McCorps of the world. You Americans had better get a grip before Bill decides to buy, I mean run for office.
You should all get a pick-axe and a shovel, go to Washington and push the Cascades down on Redmond. It's long overdue. Wash them all into the sea, I say, and good riddance to them.
What did Bill do to get away with this anyway, buy OJ's defense attorneys? Send Steve to do a lapdance in Ashcroft's lap?
It's time to put an end to Bill and Steve's Horrible Adventure, once and for all. Just say NO to MS.
I'm a scrawny geek, and I'll grow up to be a scrawny geek.
Could be worse. I'm a blonde-haired, blue-eyed fat geek. Then again, I have no immediate plans to partake in this "growing up" business. I think it's just a fad.
Or Richard Dreyfuss.
Don't go there. Just look at the man's career; he's been cast against sharks, tone deaf aliens and tall, hard mountains. (OK, so he got lucky in *one* movie) You'd be better off getting a talking car, at least that'll get you a nice tan eventually.;-)
But Debian doesn't label their boot disk "BOOT" either... it's "RESCUE".
Even the installation CD looks like a rescue disk onscreen. It made me look in the diskdrive to see if I had anything in there it could boot from.:-)
However, that diskette is primarily supposed to be a rescue disk, normally you would want to boot off the hard drive - it just doubles as a boot disk. In MS' case, the partition where NTLDR and BOOT.INI resides is named SYSTEM while the partition where WINNT is, is called BOOT. I honestly don't remember what happens if you have everything on the same partition, I have only made that particular mistake once and that was years ago.
Once in a while, friends call me and want help reinstalling Windows 2k or NT, most of them have one single NTFS partition. I typically have a 2GB FAT partition with an i386 directory in it (SYSTEM) and the WINNT on a separate NTFS partition (BOOT). I sleep much better at night than they do. And my teeth are whiter too.
Well, this is the same people that named the boot disk "SYSTEM" and the system disk "BOOT" (Both NT4 and Win2k did this, don't remember about NT3.5x and my XP test box is currently installing Debian so I can't check).
In other words, you claim Thawte has restricted granting code signing certificates to avoid another debacle
Not really, I'm speculating that it may be a (the?) cause for their behaviour. I have no trouble believing that many people routinely accept any signed website, program or aardvark without bothering reading through the provided information first.
With corporate certs, the CA can atleast make rudimentary background checks (I don't know if Thawte bothers though) and assign some kind of responsibility to their use.
I'm no crypto expert, but my guess is that they would want to minimize the risk of an individual acquiring a certificate in a bogus name, creating a virus or something and then signing the virus code with the cert - thus making it appear more valid and getting it to run on more boxes.
This assumes that Thawte's background checks (if any) are more rigorous for corporations than individuals which I have no idea if they are. If so, it would probably make more sense for them to increase the checking for an individual requesting a certificate (if this is possible) than blocking them completely.
Take it easy fellas, you're bashing one of my Gods here.
One of the many legends about Carl Sassenrath is that when Commodore aquired large parts of MetaComCo's TRIPOS OS subsystems for AmigaDOS, Carl locked himself into a room and lived off of flatfood and photons for three weeks and then emerged, holding a stone tablet with the source code to exec in his hands. This was the first pre-emptive multitasking OS kernel in a home/personal computer and he did it basically on his own, in less than a mythical man-month. It's a ueberhack and you gotta respect that.
That said, I've been looking at REBOL now and then for the last few years and while I haven't found any real use for it myself, I can see a few niche applications for it. It seems to be a neat system and I think is has a place. Then again, I will always miss ARexx...
I first read the headline as "Microsoft gets Trolls as.net developers" and bounced. But it would probably be a good way of getting them off of Slashdot.:-)
Copyright is an abstract concept, not a technology that can be circumvented with a device.
I've said this before and I'm afraid I'll probably find reason to do so again and again and again. The RIAA just does not get it and they will not get it until every group, man, woman, child and dog artist have gone independent. Sure, they'll try to sue them back, but in the long run RIAA will be as dead as the dodo with the sole difference that no mad scientist will want to hack DNS strands to get the RIAA back.
I don't like Courtney Love's music and I don't think I would like her personality, but I respect her stand against the industry. I believe her mutiny is just the first and most publicized in an upcoming long line of artists leaving the big labels. I sure hope so, anyway. The big 'uns are to music what Microsoft is to computing - a disease. They are simply too big and it's not healthy. They are cancers - big, fast-growing blobs grabbing all around them for more money to keep growing until they have killed the host.
I'm just thankful I'm not in the US - land of the captive and home of the scared.
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I have two of these, one at home and one at work. Due to their creative billing capabilities, I only pay for one of them. :-) The high cost of end-user equipment is offset by a one-time payment (non-refundable) of ~600 USD. This gives you 5 or 10 meters of high-gain RF cable, a choice of three antenna sizes (medium, large and Mr T), a Breezenet SA-10 Station Adapter and some clamps to put the antenna on your TV antenna pole, chimney, wherever. The monthly fee is $30 for up to 3 Mbps (this is the maximum radiolink bandwidth, you have to be pretty colse to a tower to get that, I typically get 2 at work and 1 at home (longer and there's a tree in the way. Now, where did I put that chainsaw?).
Authentication is done by logging in to a webpage (DNS and traffic within their network works when logged out, but port 80 is basically blocked without the login. This means that I can ssh or do a Terminal Server login from home to work even if both networks are logged out). They log you out for inactivity, but a ping -i 600 wherever.com seems to keep it alive. The DHCP lease is for 24 hours and I have lost my (public) IP three times in a year, all of them due to major maintenance of the login servers.
This all works beautifully, except for Telenordia's inability to manage 24/7 server capabilities. I get some rain fade and snow issues (especially with the large, wet flaky, kind) but no fried sparrows and no other major issues - both my kids have just one head each. :-)
Standard disclaimer: Your bandwidth may vary.
In a Beowulf cluster. (...and a partridge in a pear tree. Hohoho!)
This concept is like the American "Rush hour" where thousands of cars are standing completely still: Incomprehensible to a civilized person.
Comg back on topic, I'll get redundant instead: Modern cars have become more and more hackable since more and more onboard systems are computer-controlled. My first car was a 1967 Volvo 121 Amazon. It had a grand total of four (4) circuit breakers to the entire electrical system. The little woman's current car, a 1995 VW Passat TD, has in the range of 30 and a large assortment of relays, computer control boxen and whatnots. I was most miffed when I learned that the newer TDi model is easier to hack since it has an electronic control box for the turbo and injection systems.
Eh, wouldn't that burn your butthair? Then again, maybe that's better than stea^H^H^H^Hborrowing the SO's Ladyshave and having to explain why it needs a new blade every week. OK, I'm all for it. :-)
According to the Pegasus link in the submission, the Pegasus system uses a modified Lockheed L-1011 airliner jet named Stargazer, not B-52s. Methinks someone has overdosed on CNN again...
Ah, the good old days. The older, the better. I wonder if that disk still works, it's gotta be close to fifteen years old now. But first I gotta find it... Ah, a project! Good, now I can put off work another hour! :-)
On the other hand, none of those groups have to suffer the indignities of competing with 'created' phenomena like (insert any boy band here) or (any other boy band). And created by 'their own' industry, no less.
How many people watched Men in Black and then went out and got a new ticket because they forgot they saw it already? And if no one saw them, did they make a sound?
BTW, this is the reason no one can figure out what the deal is with Daylight Savings Time. By the time we reset our watches, we forget what we were thinking an hour earlier. Of course, in my case, this happens every day... :-)
Copyright is an abstract concept.
It is not a technology that can be circumvented by a device anymore than you can travel in time by resetting your watch.
The RIAA represents the 'record industry', ie the record companies. The record companies are all, by law, required to look after their share holder's (financial) interests. So far, so good. They are doing exactly what they are supposed to do. This should surprise no one. However, the manner in which they look after those interests may be up for debate - what would happen if they started interpreting their mission with long-term goals in mind? All of their current tactics are short-term, stop-gap measures, designed to maximize profits right now. Viewed in a long-term perspective, those same measures are counter-productive. They will 'lose', eventually. Suing Napster and Napster-like phenomena will only work for a while. It will not stop Gnutella and it's peers (pun intended) and it will not make J. Random Listener stop downloading MP3s.
The RIAA is scared since they see a future where they don't exist. A future where the artists have all gone independent and is selling their music and other value-added products online through a number of portal sites. That business model is still not viable, but it will be because it has to be. The genie can not be put back in the bottle. Retail sales of CDs will go down. The current distribution channels will collapse. But people will still want to buy and listen to music and musicians will still want to perform.
There will be ways. We'll all find a way. But the RIAA will be roadkill.
If you could see one, it wouldn't be dark. And if you did see one, They would have to kill you.
I think this is just another .mil conspiracy - those sites and addresses aren't just parts of badly managed webspace - they are websites of black ops, dark projects, stealth planes and hidden agendas. An intranet for the Anti-Illuminati - the Shadows. :-)
No worries, this is Slashdot. You could probably get this story submitted again tomorrow. :-)
Exactly, except we used to say "gone the way of the Commododo.". :-)
Oh, how I would like to get my hands on Mehdi Ali and Irving Gould and slowly wring the last ounce of life out of their greedy bodies... But I digress.
I just hope Be doesn't prove to be the same kind of unlucky charm the Amiga was. You would have thought Gould and Ali had found the Boing ball in a pyramid or something.
It's about people. Listening to them. Being there for them. Acting as a vent for sysadmins, a scapegoat for consultans, a pal of Jodi Lightner's (in-joke of the day) and a shoulder to cry on for the rest of them.
If you just give them a quick fix and hang up, they won't respect you in the morning. They EXPECTED that. If you give them sympathy, consolation AND a quick fix, in that order, they'll love you forever.
Seriously, this is just ridiculous and another fine example that Bush is bought and paid for by the large multinational McCorps of the world. You Americans had better get a grip before Bill decides to buy, I mean run for office.
You should all get a pick-axe and a shovel, go to Washington and push the Cascades down on Redmond. It's long overdue. Wash them all into the sea, I say, and good riddance to them.
What did Bill do to get away with this anyway, buy OJ's defense attorneys? Send Steve to do a lapdance in Ashcroft's lap?
It's time to put an end to Bill and Steve's Horrible Adventure, once and for all. Just say NO to MS.
Could be worse. I'm a blonde-haired, blue-eyed fat geek. Then again, I have no immediate plans to partake in this "growing up" business. I think it's just a fad.
Or Richard Dreyfuss.
Don't go there. Just look at the man's career; he's been cast against sharks, tone deaf aliens and tall, hard mountains. (OK, so he got lucky in *one* movie) You'd be better off getting a talking car, at least that'll get you a nice tan eventually. ;-)
Even the installation CD looks like a rescue disk onscreen. It made me look in the diskdrive to see if I had anything in there it could boot from. :-)
However, that diskette is primarily supposed to be a rescue disk, normally you would want to boot off the hard drive - it just doubles as a boot disk. In MS' case, the partition where NTLDR and BOOT.INI resides is named SYSTEM while the partition where WINNT is, is called BOOT. I honestly don't remember what happens if you have everything on the same partition, I have only made that particular mistake once and that was years ago.
Once in a while, friends call me and want help reinstalling Windows 2k or NT, most of them have one single NTFS partition. I typically have a 2GB FAT partition with an i386 directory in it (SYSTEM) and the WINNT on a separate NTFS partition (BOOT). I sleep much better at night than they do. And my teeth are whiter too.
Well, this is the same people that named the boot disk "SYSTEM" and the system disk "BOOT" (Both NT4 and Win2k did this, don't remember about NT3.5x and my XP test box is currently installing Debian so I can't check).
(Yes, you may groan now. Go ahead, it'll make you feel better)
Not really, I'm speculating that it may be a (the?) cause for their behaviour. I have no trouble believing that many people routinely accept any signed website, program or aardvark without bothering reading through the provided information first.
With corporate certs, the CA can atleast make rudimentary background checks (I don't know if Thawte bothers though) and assign some kind of responsibility to their use.
This assumes that Thawte's background checks (if any) are more rigorous for corporations than individuals which I have no idea if they are. If so, it would probably make more sense for them to increase the checking for an individual requesting a certificate (if this is possible) than blocking them completely.
One of the many legends about Carl Sassenrath is that when Commodore aquired large parts of MetaComCo's TRIPOS OS subsystems for AmigaDOS, Carl locked himself into a room and lived off of flatfood and photons for three weeks and then emerged, holding a stone tablet with the source code to exec in his hands. This was the first pre-emptive multitasking OS kernel in a home/personal computer and he did it basically on his own, in less than a mythical man-month. It's a ueberhack and you gotta respect that.
That said, I've been looking at REBOL now and then for the last few years and while I haven't found any real use for it myself, I can see a few niche applications for it. It seems to be a neat system and I think is has a place. Then again, I will always miss ARexx...
I first read the headline as "Microsoft gets Trolls as .net developers" and bounced. But it would probably be a good way of getting them off of Slashdot. :-)
I've said this before and I'm afraid I'll probably find reason to do so again and again and again. The RIAA just does not get it and they will not get it until every group, man, woman, child and dog artist have gone independent. Sure, they'll try to sue them back, but in the long run RIAA will be as dead as the dodo with the sole difference that no mad scientist will want to hack DNS strands to get the RIAA back.
I don't like Courtney Love's music and I don't think I would like her personality, but I respect her stand against the industry. I believe her mutiny is just the first and most publicized in an upcoming long line of artists leaving the big labels. I sure hope so, anyway. The big 'uns are to music what Microsoft is to computing - a disease. They are simply too big and it's not healthy. They are cancers - big, fast-growing blobs grabbing all around them for more money to keep growing until they have killed the host.
I'm just thankful I'm not in the US - land of the captive and home of the scared.