The story hasn't been up for 10 minutes, and look what we have:
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Oh well... I'll just have to keep on hitting "reload".:)
That wasn't exactly the contrast that I was going for. The high-end and the low-end was what I was trying to portray.
On your comment, I somehow doubt that your hard-diskless floppy-booted BSD would make that great of a mailserver... Would you trust your/var/mail directory to a RAMdisk? I send 2 meg emails more often than I like to admit.:)
- 2 Dual PIII-800s with 72 gig 10k RPM SCSI-3 disks and 256MB of RAM each.
- A T1.
- A 100BaseTX switch.
- FreeBSD.
- 2 hours of your time.
Mix and stir...
Recipe 2: Ingredients:
- A shaggyass 386 with a 80 meg MFM disk, 24 megs of RAM.
- Cable or xDSL(A or S works).
- Linux 2.2 with ipchains.
- A 10BaseT hub.
- Steal, barter, extort, obtain, get, acquire, buy, seize or rent DNS.
- A few hours to burn.
I do my HTML by hand too, and I find it amuzing when I see pages that look like they were made by Frontpage, because 99.9% of the time they are. HTML might not be a programming language, but for some of us, it's a science. I don't know about HTML as a hobby tho, you'd have to have some pretty l33t sk1llz.;)
No, but using Galeon as a web browser surely means you're not using Netscape. Even if Galeon is based on the Mozilla windowing framework, using it instead of the Mozilla browser itself speaks volumes about it...
What about sampling? I'm no MP3 fan, but I hate the fact that I can't return a CD when I find out that the album really sucks.
Start by making a set of rules that is conducive to people buying CDs and maybe we will start to see a reversal in the current trends. If it's easier or more convenient to pirate CDs, it's not rational to expect people to buy any. Artists and their labels were led by a foresightless RIAA who cared more about their immediate profits than the industry's future and long-term goals. It wasn't by fighting MP3 to death that you were going to stop piracy. People lend tapes/CDs all the time and there's nothing anyone can do about it (fair use).
Don't get me wrong, MP3s are not fair to the musicians/artists who create the tracks. I think that there's a problem when they don't get rewarded for their work. There's also a problem when the RIAA and the labels don't care about you, the customer. They see you as a money-pool ("consumer"). I've worked in a consulting company long enough to tell you that you can't stay in business if you don't cater to your customers needs. The music industry didn't do it's homework and chose greed over technological advances. I'll continue to stay MP3-free and buy CDs, but the music industry in general will suffer as DSL/cable gets more available (Festering wound type of deal). That said, MP3 is the people's reaction to overpriced music, of which the artist only gets about $1. Customer gouging can only go so far. It's not by increasing the levy on your paying customers that you're going to solve the issue; They'll start to pirate music too.
What the industry should do is deflate the artificially high CD sticker price down to a reasonable level (about $4-5) as to encourage volume over margin. It only costs 89 cents to make a shrinkwrapped CD (with an insert). Why the extra 15 dollars at the store?
PS: I'd rather fill the jails with dope smokers/dealers than music fans. Our children are the victims. I'm a concerned parent.:)
Linux has supported RS/6000 hardware through kernel patches for a while. Only recently have we seen the merging of these patches into the main tree.
I think it's funny to see Apple move to a modular kernel in their upcoming MacOS X release. The BSD core that they will be using will allow them to do some "emergency CPU switching" should their PowerPC-based offerings not bring in as much cash as they'd need them to.:-)
Apple is the king (queen?) of proprietaryness and a radical move such as this is an attempt to re-invent themselves in a UNIX [nut,bash,csh,echo $SHELL]shell. Steve Jobs is finally steering the company in the direction it should have been in about 10 years ago, when Apple was, IMHO, at it's peak.
Linux isn't all about custom hacks. By design, it's very concept is a hack.:-)
What about internet transactions? I can order stuff from the Shop-down-the-street(tm) and something from australia five minutes later. How are they supposed to respond to someone who has such a sporatic buying pattern?
You can't do this anymore. The.com zone is not available for download. FTP to rs.internic.net. You simply can't download it without a login id.
I'll agree with you that the US-running the root-servers is alarming to some people. But equate that to cdlu, Emmett and CowboyNeal running #slashdot on OPN... It's not that bad, now is it?;)
Well... I guess this was inevitable considering all the hype around the case. My question is, even if this does go through and Microsoft doesn't appeal (which I'm assuming it will), will this in fact be beneficial for the industry as a whole? I'm not just talking about competition, which the plaintiffs made a key issue in the case; I'm talking in terms of decentralisation of all the industry momentum that was merged into the "old Microsoft".
Does this mean that we will finally see an increase in software quality and a decrease in prices? If this happens, I'd tip my hat to the justice department and the government as a whole.
On a planetary scale, every little bit counts. Remember what was said in the first days of recycling (as we know it)? Just look at what it has achieved in it's first 20 years. Millions of trees have been spared, millions of tons of ore didn't need to be mined and the list goes on...
I'm scared of what a company could do if it receives a patent for something (process or equipment) that is crucial to further study of the human genome project. A lot of public funds have been poured into this project and I think that it's only fair that the taxpayer gets a little in return for his buck. I don't mind giving credit to the company that "discovered" something about our genes, but it's a different thing when they try to tell us what we can and cannot do, which is what this ultimately boils down to.
In the case of studies that were made with private funds, it would be nice if they published their findings, so that public projects don't have to "rediscover" DNA sequences, but that is totally up to them. In return, such projects could draw from what has been learned from the public projects, which I'm sure they already do, or have done.
Let's try not to make Aldous Huxley's Brave New World a reality and share the wealth of information that has already been gathered. Like I previously stated, that would be a Good Thing (tm).
Patenting should not be allowed in this field of research. Just imagine the consequences this could have if companies start patenting the various processes that are required to map DNA sequences. This would simply "not be beneficial"(tm) for anyone but the executives of the companies involved. Let's not have companies that work for themselves, but rather to further 'our' knowledge and help us solve our worldly problems. *That* would be a good thing(tm)!
Who does the government answer to? Aren't copyrights supposed to benefit the citizens of a country? They are obviously not used to do so in this day and age. What I think needs to be done is a review of the copyright system and the appointment of a copyright review board. It is way too easy for a company to obtain a copyright on anything, even when they didn't come up with the idea.
What I'm having trouble believing is Microsoft's audacity to "claim" that they invented or innovated "Kerberos" when 95%+ of the code they used to be interoperable with Kerberos is "free". If this becomes a copyright infringement case, I would expect any judge in the nation to dismiss the case on the notion that Microsoft did not invent Kerberos and fine Microsoft for trying to break an open-implementation of a well-defined protocol, and trying to make it uninteroperable between software platforms. (That's a mouthful isn't it?)
Upon careful review of the DMCA, Microsoft's implementation of Kerberos could be could considered as the "reverse-engineering" of the Kerberos package (even when they had the source code, they HAD to port it) in order to make it operable on Windows NT systems, which in itself is acceptable by the DMCA. But, the additions that they've made to Kerberos were added with the clear intent of breaking current Kerberos implementations and leveraging their own propriatary system through the use of their Desktop Operating Systems market domination. This is itself is an anti-trust issue, and clearly violates the Sherman Anti-trust legislation package. When you fight Microsoft in court, fight them with their own tools and explain that everything they do is to stiffle competition in the marketplace by using their Operating Systems division as leverage. Microsoft has already been found guilty of a felony, and is certainly open to similar rulings involving "technology" cases.
Having said this, I wish to add that posters should be a little more responsible when they post such material; Let's not abuse the valuable resources that we have. Because slashdot is one of the free-world's (tm) (as I like to call it) most powerful tools. Call me a karma wh0re or what have you. I'm not saying this to get (Score: 5, Insightful), I'm saying it to prevent similar occurences of the scenario at hand. Let's all do our share, and make slashdot a better place for everyone.
An object's mass remains the same unless the object is acted upon. Weight is a different story... Your weight can be affected by elevation, but your mass certainly doesn't. The way you obtain weight (in Newtons) is by multiplying the mass (in Kilograms) by the acceleration (m/s^2). Mass can be thought of as the amount of matter in an object.
You're correct about G. It's the gravitational constant of the universe. It's empirical value is what is trying to be determined.
I never said that AS/400s run UNIX. I was just wondering why they didn't bench the AS/400 line of machines in the tpmC benchmark. Reread my post.
In regards to my comment about UNIX, I was refering to the use by businesses, big and small, for their mission critical systems where 99.5% uptime isn't good enough. Most companies can't afford the "bigger iron" and will implement UNIX-based systems (Solaris, *BSD, etc.) that will offer characteristics similar to those of the more expensive systems (reliability, track record, user base). Microsoft's NT line of operating systems is infamous in all of these categories. I'm in no position to give out numbers regarding this, but almost all IT managers and SysAdmins that I've come across (online, offline, domestic and international) seem to be of the same opinion.
Doesn't that make you go "hmmm" for a second. Well it ought to. I understand that from the average user's perspective, things might be different, but there's a lot of things that aren't run on Microsoft systems (my desktop just happens to be one of them...;), and that's something that the folks in Redmond won't admit. Well, they might try to, in some Anti-trust lawsuit...;)
Well... It's not a finished product, yet, but it's looking really good! Even the Win32 version.:) One the best ways to put forth your ideas is to talk to the developers on IRC (irc.mozilla.org #mozilla). They're always open to new ideas and criticism (to some extent... hehehe).
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It's okay folks, he hasn't had his medication yet. It's all under control...
The story hasn't been up for 10 minutes, and look what we have:
/usr/www/users/davew/b2tb/geeklog/public_html/comm on.php on line 79
:)
Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Can't connect to MySQL server on db11.pair.com (61) in
Oh well... I'll just have to keep on hitting "reload".
All hail slowaris! :)
That wasn't exactly the contrast that I was going for. The high-end and the low-end was what I was trying to portray.
/var/mail directory to a RAMdisk? I send 2 meg emails more often than I like to admit. :)
On your comment, I somehow doubt that your hard-diskless floppy-booted BSD would make that great of a mailserver... Would you trust your
#Slashdot on OPN!
Shouts go to Odin!
Ok, I'm trolling, sue me.
Recipe 1:
Ingredients:
- 2 Dual PIII-800s with 72 gig 10k RPM SCSI-3 disks and 256MB of RAM each.
- A T1.
- A 100BaseTX switch.
- FreeBSD.
- 2 hours of your time.
Mix and stir...
Recipe 2:
Ingredients:
- A shaggyass 386 with a 80 meg MFM disk, 24 megs of RAM.
- Cable or xDSL(A or S works).
- Linux 2.2 with ipchains.
- A 10BaseT hub. - Steal, barter, extort, obtain, get, acquire, buy, seize or rent DNS.
- A few hours to burn.
Mix, brew, hack and secure.
It's sad to say that I agree with you 1000%. Too bad John Q. Public will take years to realize what's really going on...
And people who were against German rule (like the French "Resistance"). And yes... It's all very FU.
I do my HTML by hand too, and I find it amuzing when I see pages that look like they were made by Frontpage, because 99.9% of the time they are. HTML might not be a programming language, but for some of us, it's a science. I don't know about HTML as a hobby tho, you'd have to have some pretty l33t sk1llz. ;)
No, but using Galeon as a web browser surely means you're not using Netscape. Even if Galeon is based on the Mozilla windowing framework, using it instead of the Mozilla browser itself speaks volumes about it...
What about sampling? I'm no MP3 fan, but I hate the fact that I can't return a CD when I find out that the album really sucks.
:)
Start by making a set of rules that is conducive to people buying CDs and maybe we will start to see a reversal in the current trends. If it's easier or more convenient to pirate CDs, it's not rational to expect people to buy any. Artists and their labels were led by a foresightless RIAA who cared more about their immediate profits than the industry's future and long-term goals. It wasn't by fighting MP3 to death that you were going to stop piracy. People lend tapes/CDs all the time and there's nothing anyone can do about it (fair use).
Don't get me wrong, MP3s are not fair to the musicians/artists who create the tracks. I think that there's a problem when they don't get rewarded for their work. There's also a problem when the RIAA and the labels don't care about you, the customer. They see you as a money-pool ("consumer"). I've worked in a consulting company long enough to tell you that you can't stay in business if you don't cater to your customers needs. The music industry didn't do it's homework and chose greed over technological advances. I'll continue to stay MP3-free and buy CDs, but the music industry in general will suffer as DSL/cable gets more available (Festering wound type of deal). That said, MP3 is the people's reaction to overpriced music, of which the artist only gets about $1. Customer gouging can only go so far. It's not by increasing the levy on your paying customers that you're going to solve the issue; They'll start to pirate music too.
What the industry should do is deflate the artificially high CD sticker price down to a reasonable level (about $4-5) as to encourage volume over margin. It only costs 89 cents to make a shrinkwrapped CD (with an insert). Why the extra 15 dollars at the store?
PS: I'd rather fill the jails with dope smokers/dealers than music fans. Our children are the victims. I'm a concerned parent.
Linux has supported RS/6000 hardware through kernel patches for a while. Only recently have we seen the merging of these patches into the main tree.
:-)
:-)
I think it's funny to see Apple move to a modular kernel in their upcoming MacOS X release. The BSD core that they will be using will allow them to do some "emergency CPU switching" should their PowerPC-based offerings not bring in as much cash as they'd need them to.
Apple is the king (queen?) of proprietaryness and a radical move such as this is an attempt to re-invent themselves in a UNIX [nut,bash,csh,echo $SHELL]shell. Steve Jobs is finally steering the company in the direction it should have been in about 10 years ago, when Apple was, IMHO, at it's peak.
Linux isn't all about custom hacks. By design, it's very concept is a hack.
ACs are on the loose!
:-)
Who dunnit?
It must have been Emmett...
What about internet transactions? I can order stuff from the Shop-down-the-street(tm) and something from australia five minutes later. How are they supposed to respond to someone who has such a sporatic buying pattern?
You can't do this anymore. The .com zone is not available for download. FTP to rs.internic.net. You simply can't download it without a login id.
;)
I'll agree with you that the US-running the root-servers is alarming to some people. But equate that to cdlu, Emmett and CowboyNeal running #slashdot on OPN... It's not that bad, now is it?
Well... I guess this was inevitable considering all the hype around the case. My question is, even if this does go through and Microsoft doesn't appeal (which I'm assuming it will), will this in fact be beneficial for the industry as a whole? I'm not just talking about competition, which the plaintiffs made a key issue in the case; I'm talking in terms of decentralisation of all the industry momentum that was merged into the "old Microsoft".
Does this mean that we will finally see an increase in software quality and a decrease in prices? If this happens, I'd tip my hat to the justice department and the government as a whole.
Your european name server doesn't seem to think so when it queries the US-run root-servers.
(Score 3: Insightful)
;)
Maybe I shouldn't troll while I'm logged in...
I'm just wondering. Who, if not Alan Cox whould maintain the ac (Alan Cox) patch-series? 8-)
;)
Anonymous Coward, maybe?
On a planetary scale, every little bit counts. Remember what was said in the first days of recycling (as we know it)? Just look at what it has achieved in it's first 20 years. Millions of trees have been spared, millions of tons of ore didn't need to be mined and the list goes on...
I'm scared of what a company could do if it receives a patent for something (process or equipment) that is crucial to further study of the human genome project. A lot of public funds have been poured into this project and I think that it's only fair that the taxpayer gets a little in return for his buck. I don't mind giving credit to the company that "discovered" something about our genes, but it's a different thing when they try to tell us what we can and cannot do, which is what this ultimately boils down to.
In the case of studies that were made with private funds, it would be nice if they published their findings, so that public projects don't have to "rediscover" DNA sequences, but that is totally up to them. In return, such projects could draw from what has been learned from the public projects, which I'm sure they already do, or have done.
Let's try not to make Aldous Huxley's Brave New World a reality and share the wealth of information that has already been gathered. Like I previously stated, that would be a Good Thing (tm).
Patenting should not be allowed in this field of research. Just imagine the consequences this could have if companies start patenting the various processes that are required to map DNA sequences. This would simply "not be beneficial"(tm) for anyone but the executives of the companies involved. Let's not have companies that work for themselves, but rather to further 'our' knowledge and help us solve our worldly problems. *That* would be a good thing(tm)!
;)
BTW, do I have First post?
Who does the government answer to? Aren't copyrights supposed to benefit the citizens of a country? They are obviously not used to do so in this day and age. What I think needs to be done is a review of the copyright system and the appointment of a copyright review board. It is way too easy for a company to obtain a copyright on anything, even when they didn't come up with the idea.
What I'm having trouble believing is Microsoft's audacity to "claim" that they invented or innovated "Kerberos" when 95%+ of the code they used to be interoperable with Kerberos is "free". If this becomes a copyright infringement case, I would expect any judge in the nation to dismiss the case on the notion that Microsoft did not invent Kerberos and fine Microsoft for trying to break an open-implementation of a well-defined protocol, and trying to make it uninteroperable between software platforms. (That's a mouthful isn't it?)
Upon careful review of the DMCA, Microsoft's implementation of Kerberos could be could considered as the "reverse-engineering" of the Kerberos package (even when they had the source code, they HAD to port it) in order to make it operable on Windows NT systems, which in itself is acceptable by the DMCA. But, the additions that they've made to Kerberos were added with the clear intent of breaking current Kerberos implementations and leveraging their own propriatary system through the use of their Desktop Operating Systems market domination. This is itself is an anti-trust issue, and clearly violates the Sherman Anti-trust legislation package. When you fight Microsoft in court, fight them with their own tools and explain that everything they do is to stiffle competition in the marketplace by using their Operating Systems division as leverage. Microsoft has already been found guilty of a felony, and is certainly open to similar rulings involving "technology" cases.
Having said this, I wish to add that posters should be a little more responsible when they post such material; Let's not abuse the valuable resources that we have. Because slashdot is one of the free-world's (tm) (as I like to call it) most powerful tools. Call me a karma wh0re or what have you. I'm not saying this to get (Score: 5, Insightful), I'm saying it to prevent similar occurences of the scenario at hand. Let's all do our share, and make slashdot a better place for everyone.
An object's mass remains the same unless the object is acted upon. Weight is a different story... Your weight can be affected by elevation, but your mass certainly doesn't. The way you obtain weight (in Newtons) is by multiplying the mass (in Kilograms) by the acceleration (m/s^2). Mass can be thought of as the amount of matter in an object.
You're correct about G. It's the gravitational constant of the universe. It's empirical value is what is trying to be determined.
I never said that AS/400s run UNIX. I was just wondering why they didn't bench the AS/400 line of machines in the tpmC benchmark. Reread my post.
;), and that's something that the folks in Redmond won't admit. Well, they might try to, in some Anti-trust lawsuit... ;)
In regards to my comment about UNIX, I was refering to the use by businesses, big and small, for their mission critical systems where 99.5% uptime isn't good enough. Most companies can't afford the "bigger iron" and will implement UNIX-based systems (Solaris, *BSD, etc.) that will offer characteristics similar to those of the more expensive systems (reliability, track record, user base). Microsoft's NT line of operating systems is infamous in all of these categories. I'm in no position to give out numbers regarding this, but almost all IT managers and SysAdmins that I've come across (online, offline, domestic and international) seem to be of the same opinion.
Doesn't that make you go "hmmm" for a second. Well it ought to. I understand that from the average user's perspective, things might be different, but there's a lot of things that aren't run on Microsoft systems (my desktop just happens to be one of them...
Well... It's not a finished product, yet, but it's looking really good! Even the Win32 version. :) One the best ways to put forth your ideas is to talk to the developers on IRC (irc.mozilla.org #mozilla). They're always open to new ideas and criticism (to some extent... hehehe).