Just because web pages load five times faster, do not assume your connection speed is five times faster. The basis of the Plus service is a web optimization proxy server that sits between you and web servers. It automatically reduces the size on images, compresses the text, and does various tweaks to squeeze more into your 56k.
Your MP3s and bad porn will still come across just as slow on your gnutella client. Sorry.
From what I read in the article about the increased requirements for background checks and permits for shipping these low-class propellent explosives, I would have say that it looks like it will impact america's favorite patriotic display as well: fireworks.
Bush, the killer of the 4th of July...
-Chris
Damn, and I just thought it was RedHat...
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Many moons ago I used to host a dedicated Unreal Tournament server named "Mr.Toad's Wild Ride". It was on a P3-550 running RedHat 6. The only Linux box in my cabinet, all the other servers were FreeBSD.
One day my network went to crap, and I found that the switch had been overloaded with bogus MAC addresses. Turns out someone had hacked the Unreal Tournament box and put a very nasty packet sniffer on it. (Thank the gods for ssh.)
I had always assumed it was just the default state of a RedHat 6 box that had been easily cracked.
When I had dual T1s installed to my office in June I was told by my UUNet tech rep that they were not offering IPV6 address space because they were not supporting it.
That pretty much kills any possibility that I'll be putting it to real-world use anytime soon.
I have a Sony laptop that uses the BP-7 battery, and its smart circuitry seems to have developed a bit of a problem as well. The battery charges, and according to PowerPanel has a 98% capacity charge. Within five minutes of use it has dropped to 10% and triggers an emergency suspend.
Is two years use unreasonable for a battery that retails at over $200?
"If you just need it for 911 then just get someone's old disconnected phone like the battered women's shelters do for people since they can still dial 911."
No longer true. I gave my old analog phone to a friend to take with him on a road trip, thinking he could dial 911 without an account. Fortunatly, before he left, he tried dialing 911. He was directed to an operator who wanted to assist him in setting up an account. He was told that they did not provide 911 service to phones without accounts. I was surprised that there wasn't a law somewhere that compelled them to provide 911 service, but apparently there isn't.
There are a lot of very qualified folk unable to find a decent job these days, including myself. One of the worst things that can happen is the wearing down of confidence as each day goes by with little prospect of finding a job earning enough to keep the bills paid.
Volunteering your efforts may not pay the bills, but it can provide a much needed sense of accomplishment; and when the bills aren't getting paid anyways that alone can be priceless.
A few weeks ago I had $15 removed from my account, without notice. PayPal claims they sent me to chargeback warnings via email, but my mail server logs showed no such emails.
The amount was a donation to an educational site that I run, but the credit chargeback was because I 'failed to deliver merchandise'. How I failed to deliver on a donation is beyond me.
Unfortunatly, PayPal won't give me time of day over the issue. It is a shame that I would have to be an open source project, and rally the slashdot masses, in order to have a chance at reasonable customer support.
The year was 1989, and I was installing Interactive 386/ix (AT&T licensed UNIX) on a pc. At some point in working on the box I got the error "bad magik". I have loved unix and unix-like operating systems ever since. DOS was always boring.
> So it's cruel when we stuff divers in the hyperbaric chamber with a 100% pure oxygen atmosphere (at 2-3atm)?
I take it you know diving the way that Bruce knows chemistry? If you are certified, but don't know your partial pressures, I hope I never have you as a dive buddy.
Oxygen is toxic to humans at a partial pressure of 2.0, which is why divers shoot for a partial pressure of 1.2 to 1.4 at max depth when diving on a Nitrox mix.
100% pure oxygen at 2atm is a partial pressure of 2.0, so the diver you stuffed in the hyperbaric chamber would be dead by the time you got them to 3atm.
I honestly don't know. I am 'scraping' my info from public sources, and the ISBN number is printed on the back of books, so I am just gathering together into one place data that is available elsewhere. I am not just taking a licensed ISBN database and making it public.
My post isn't generating much interest though, so I'll probably just keep my database private and not have to worry about legal issues.
I am currently building a database if ISBN numbers with the following records: Title, Author, Publisher and Media.
It hadn't really occurred to me that others might like access to this kind of data as well.
Seriously, is there enough interest that it might be worth the effort to add a request interface that returned an XML object of the data that I have? Would others contribute to it?
I currently have 294,652 completed entries in my database. I'm out of work and bored, and I'll make it publicly accessible if I get some feeback indicating that it would be worth the effort.
> (Ever tried to fix surface mount components > with a soldering iron at your kitchen table? > Don't!!)
Why not?
I just soldered a couple of surface mount memory chips into my Tivo. Sure, the days of using a $12 Radio Shack soldering iron are long gone, but there are inexpensive Weller soldering irons that are well suited to todays ambitions hobiest.
Telling someone not to make that surface mount repair is adding to the very problem you are complaining about. Don't encourage people to be afraid to experiment and learn. You may not be able to make that repair, but that doesn't mean someone else can't.
I've seen what storms on the gulf coast of Florida can do to underwater rock structures, so I have to wonder how you are going to keep your geocache from getting dislodged during rough seas?
In 1994 the company I worked for standardized on Compaq as their equipment vendor, with Novell as their server OS of choice. Our building had four Compaq Proliant servers. Over a six month period we replaced five motherboards in those four servers.
Compaq was called into a meeting to justify our staying with them as our preferred vendor. The Compaq rep told us that we were the only customer having this problem.
I told him to prove it, by tracking the serial numbers of a couple of motherboards for me and showing me their repair history. He said that Compaq did not keep track of that level of detail.
I'm not sure which was the 'bigger lie', but neither was true.
I would love to try Remote Desktop. Could you kindly point me to the FreeBSD version? No FreeBSD version? OK, how about a version for Solaris? None? So, what else does it run on besides Microsoft?
When you can't crush your competition through weilding the club of monopoly, exercise your 'right' to stick innane clauses in your license agreement.
Next up, and likely to be in Windows TX (Total eXtortion):
- You may not use any fax package other than from microsoft to send faxes from Windows.
- You may not use any compiler other than c# to compile software for Windows.
- Tou may not use any internet tools that were compiled without.NET on Windows.
- You may not use any installer tools other than from Microsoft to package software for Windows.
- You may not read web sites with any software other than from Microsoft. (Oops, already did that one.)
- You may not read Slashdot from a Microsoft Browser.
I must say, I am starting to enjoy the sheer humor factor that Microsoft provides. While not yet having been punished for behaving in a monopolistic way, Microsoft goes out of their way to make sure everyone knows just how wide thei are willing to swing their axe.
>For some time now we have been developing a >unique subscription system that we hope will >make our users and advertisers happy.
It was 'unique' when Robin Bandy first wrote you suggesting such a system and asking if there would be interest in one. You blew him off then, and you don't credit him now with presenting you with his ideas.
I am about to ask for a written letter of recommendation from a past manager. Is there a nefarious reason I want it on paper? Nah, I just don't want his reference potential to atrophy when my ex-employer sells out and he returns to places far off to pursue other work. We were never personally close, and I don't even know if he has a personal email address.
Outside of the tech world, written references are more the norm. One of my housemates has beautiful collection of written references from her time serving in a political office. What do I have? A collection of email addresses and cell phone numbers. In three years her references will still be worth something, while mine likely won't.
> I don't think of spreadsheet files as software, > because you can't edit or execute a saved > spreadsheet without it's associated > application. However some can say that anything > that implements an algorithm qualifies for > term. What are your thoughts on the subject?
The are perl scripts programs or data? Just try to run a perl script without the interpreter.
I'm sure the case could be made that Excel interprets the spreadsheet file rather than just displays it, which would make spreadsheets programs of a sort.
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What about good porn? Can that be compressed more efficiently?
:)
Good porn is made with friends in the comfort of your own home; and you certainly don't want anything compressed too much in the process.
-Chris
Just because web pages load five times faster, do not assume your connection speed is five times faster. The basis of the Plus service is a web optimization proxy server that sits between you and web servers. It automatically reduces the size on images, compresses the text, and does various tweaks to squeeze more into your 56k.
Your MP3s and bad porn will still come across just as slow on your gnutella client. Sorry.
-Chris
From what I read in the article about the increased requirements for background checks and permits for shipping these low-class propellent explosives, I would have say that it looks like it will impact america's favorite patriotic display as well: fireworks.
Bush, the killer of the 4th of July...
-Chris
Many moons ago I used to host a dedicated Unreal Tournament server named "Mr.Toad's Wild Ride". It was on a P3-550 running RedHat 6. The only Linux box in my cabinet, all the other servers were FreeBSD.
One day my network went to crap, and I found that the switch had been overloaded with bogus MAC addresses. Turns out someone had hacked the Unreal Tournament box and put a very nasty packet sniffer on it. (Thank the gods for ssh.)
I had always assumed it was just the default state of a RedHat 6 box that had been easily cracked.
-Chris
When I had dual T1s installed to my office in June I was told by my UUNet tech rep that they were not offering IPV6 address space because they were not supporting it.
That pretty much kills any possibility that I'll be putting it to real-world use anytime soon.
-Chris
I have a Sony laptop that uses the BP-7 battery, and its smart circuitry seems to have developed a bit of a problem as well. The battery charges, and according to PowerPanel has a 98% capacity charge. Within five minutes of use it has dropped to 10% and triggers an emergency suspend.
Is two years use unreasonable for a battery that retails at over $200?
-Chris
The is a parody piece I did a few months ago, but its usefullness seems to go on and on and on...
Bush Presses for Identical Twin Ban
-Chris
"If you just need it for 911 then just get someone's old disconnected phone like the battered women's shelters do for people since they can still dial 911."
No longer true. I gave my old analog phone to a friend to take with him on a road trip, thinking he could dial 911 without an account. Fortunatly, before he left, he tried dialing 911. He was directed to an operator who wanted to assist him in setting up an account. He was told that they did not provide 911 service to phones without accounts. I was surprised that there wasn't a law somewhere that compelled them to provide 911 service, but apparently there isn't.
-Chris
There are a lot of very qualified folk unable to find a decent job these days, including myself. One of the worst things that can happen is the wearing down of confidence as each day goes by with little prospect of finding a job earning enough to keep the bills paid.
Volunteering your efforts may not pay the bills, but it can provide a much needed sense of accomplishment; and when the bills aren't getting paid anyways that alone can be priceless.
-Chris
A few weeks ago I had $15 removed from my account, without notice. PayPal claims they sent me to chargeback warnings via email, but my mail server logs showed no such emails.
The amount was a donation to an educational site that I run, but the credit chargeback was because I 'failed to deliver merchandise'. How I failed to deliver on a donation is beyond me.
Unfortunatly, PayPal won't give me time of day over the issue. It is a shame that I would have to be an open source project, and rally the slashdot masses, in order to have a chance at reasonable customer support.
-Chris
Becuase I use an OpenNIC name server, which loads its own copy of the root zone, I never even noticed that there was a problem.
Another strong vote for distributed name systems.
-Chris
The year was 1989, and I was installing Interactive 386/ix (AT&T licensed UNIX) on a pc. At some point in working on the box I got the error "bad magik". I have loved unix and unix-like operating systems ever since. DOS was always boring.
-Chris
> So it's cruel when we stuff divers in the hyperbaric chamber with a 100% pure oxygen atmosphere (at 2-3atm)?
I take it you know diving the way that Bruce knows chemistry? If you are certified, but don't know your partial pressures, I hope I never have you as a dive buddy.
Oxygen is toxic to humans at a partial pressure of 2.0, which is why divers shoot for a partial pressure of 1.2 to 1.4 at max depth when diving on a Nitrox mix.
100% pure oxygen at 2atm is a partial pressure of 2.0, so the diver you stuffed in the hyperbaric chamber would be dead by the time you got them to 3atm.
-Chris
I honestly don't know. I am 'scraping' my info from public sources, and the ISBN number is printed on the back of books, so I am just gathering together into one place data that is available elsewhere. I am not just taking a licensed ISBN database and making it public.
My post isn't generating much interest though, so I'll probably just keep my database private and not have to worry about legal issues.
-Chris
I am currently building a database if ISBN numbers with the following records: Title, Author, Publisher and Media.
It hadn't really occurred to me that others might like access to this kind of data as well.
Seriously, is there enough interest that it might be worth the effort to add a request interface that returned an XML object of the data that I have? Would others contribute to it?
I currently have 294,652 completed entries in my database. I'm out of work and bored, and I'll make it publicly accessible if I get some feeback indicating that it would be worth the effort.
-Chris
> (Ever tried to fix surface mount components
> with a soldering iron at your kitchen table?
> Don't!!)
Why not?
I just soldered a couple of surface mount memory chips into my Tivo. Sure, the days of using a $12 Radio Shack soldering iron are long gone, but there are inexpensive Weller soldering irons that are well suited to todays ambitions hobiest.
Telling someone not to make that surface mount repair is adding to the very problem you are complaining about. Don't encourage people to be afraid to experiment and learn. You may not be able to make that repair, but that doesn't mean someone else can't.
-Chris
I've seen what storms on the gulf coast of Florida can do to underwater rock structures, so I have to wonder how you are going to keep your geocache from getting dislodged during rough seas?
-Chris
In 1994 the company I worked for standardized on Compaq as their equipment vendor, with Novell as their server OS of choice. Our building had four Compaq Proliant servers. Over a six month period we replaced five motherboards in those four servers.
Compaq was called into a meeting to justify our staying with them as our preferred vendor. The Compaq rep told us that we were the only customer having this problem.
I told him to prove it, by tracking the serial numbers of a couple of motherboards for me and showing me their repair history. He said that Compaq did not keep track of that level of detail.
I'm not sure which was the 'bigger lie', but neither was true.
-Chris
I would love to try Remote Desktop. Could you kindly point me to the FreeBSD version? No FreeBSD version? OK, how about a version for Solaris? None? So, what else does it run on besides Microsoft?
Now you see the problem.
-CHris
When you can't crush your competition through weilding the club of monopoly, exercise your 'right' to stick innane clauses in your license agreement.
.NET on Windows.
Next up, and likely to be in Windows TX (Total eXtortion):
- You may not use any fax package other than from microsoft to send faxes from Windows.
- You may not use any compiler other than c# to compile software for Windows.
- Tou may not use any internet tools that were compiled without
- You may not use any installer tools other than from Microsoft to package software for Windows.
- You may not read web sites with any software other than from Microsoft. (Oops, already did that one.)
- You may not read Slashdot from a Microsoft Browser.
I must say, I am starting to enjoy the sheer humor factor that Microsoft provides. While not yet having been punished for behaving in a monopolistic way, Microsoft goes out of their way to make sure everyone knows just how wide thei are willing to swing their axe.
-Chris
>For some time now we have been developing a
>unique subscription system that we hope will
>make our users and advertisers happy.
It was 'unique' when Robin Bandy first wrote you suggesting such a system and asking if there would be interest in one. You blew him off then, and you don't credit him now with presenting you with his ideas.
I'm amazed at the scumbag behavior of SlashDot.
-Chris
I am about to ask for a written letter of recommendation from a past manager. Is there a nefarious reason I want it on paper? Nah, I just don't want his reference potential to atrophy when my ex-employer sells out and he returns to places far off to pursue other work. We were never personally close, and I don't even know if he has a personal email address.
Outside of the tech world, written references are more the norm. One of my housemates has beautiful collection of written references from her time serving in a political office. What do I have? A collection of email addresses and cell phone numbers. In three years her references will still be worth something, while mine likely won't.
-Chris
I am a RR customer, and I have NEVER even activated my RR email account. I have email elsewhere and I access it via IMAP over a SSL connection.
Frankly, I would never want any of my email sitting on a server owned by RR.
-Chris
> I don't think of spreadsheet files as software,
> because you can't edit or execute a saved
> spreadsheet without it's associated
> application. However some can say that anything
> that implements an algorithm qualifies for
> term. What are your thoughts on the subject?
The are perl scripts programs or data? Just try to run a perl script without the interpreter.
I'm sure the case could be made that Excel interprets the spreadsheet file rather than just displays it, which would make spreadsheets programs of a sort.
-Chris
Yes, this is a dupe:
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/12/09/044