How do we know it hasn't happened at Microsoft or any other company? It would be suicide for a company to acknowledge even a minor event.
Of course, what if it was supposed to be found? Hack into the machine, change code that you know will be detected, and then proclaim that if it weren't for "open-source" the intrusion would not have been detected. Sounds like this is a good thing.;-)
I say we get underground for the next million years or so until this blows over.
NORAD is more than just "Deter, Detect and Defend." It will be the hidey-hole for those in the know when things really get cooking.
My phone company gives me 7 cents a minute, billed in six-second increments with no monthly fee or minimum. If AT&T and MCI are your only options, where do you live? I live in small town with a year-round population of only 20,000 or so.
I can guarantee you that the calls are NOT monitored for quality assurance.
I know for a fact they are monitored... but not for "QA" as you see it. AT&T pays big bucks to telemarketing firms, so the companies will monitor the call to make sure the person calling you is as agressive as possible in order to make a sale. Plus, the agent making the sale typically gets a commission from the sale as an added incentive.
Dude, if you're going to troll, at least put some effort into it and spice it up with some links. Your ability to cut and paste is extraordinarily ordinary. How dry. Try this:
You don't keed to be Kreskin to look into Microsoft's future. Even a child knows that Microsoft is dying. All major marketing surveys show that Microsoft has steadily declined in market share. Microsoft is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim.
Due to the troubles of Santa Claus, scientific investigations and so on, Christmas went out of business and was taken over by Microsoft. Now Rudolph is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
The numbers continue to decline for Santa but Microsoft may be hurting the most. Look at the numbers. The loss of user base for Microsoft continues in a head spinning downward spiral. In truth, for all practical purposes Microsoft is already dead. It is a dead man walking. It's a fact: Microsoft is dying.
one notable indcident being it's slow process to adopt TCP/IP as a 'core' protocol over the inefficient IPX/SPX suite
My understanding was that IPX/SPX was more efficient than TCP/IP for local networks. It's inefficiency with increasingly common non-local networks is what spelled its doom.
If nothing else, at least they are embracing new technology instead of sticking to a proprietary solution like 3Dfx and Aureal.
I guess that soon we'll finally be able to answer the question: If the sun were to explode, would we feel the sudden loss of gravity immediately or would we feel it 8min 23sec later?
Marc Balmer wrote:
> Was the name CARP deliberately choosen? There already exists CARP since
2001, see RFC 3040 (Cache Array Routing Protocol)
I suggested a different name (same four letters, different order, took
a cheap shot at Cisco in the process), but Ryan didn't seem to care
for it for some reason. 8)
BTW, the kerneltrap article renders perfectly in IE, but not Mozilla 1.4?!
My friend in the cube next to me has a Fujitsu Lifebook with the Transmeta chip. It has a wide-screen and lasts 9 hours with the extended battery. I do a lot of drooling myself, but at $1200 it's beyond my reach.:(
BTW, he tells me that ACPI doesn't work on it even with the latest linux 2.6-test kernel. You'd think that since Linus worked there they'd take a little extra effort to make sure its #1 feature -- low power consumption -- works properly in Linux!
On the contrary, Your AC posting sounds suspiciously like FUD.
by calling Microsoft's "C# Open Standard" bluff, Mono has thrown a huge monkey-wrench into Microsoft's plans.
I strongly disagree. Microsoft is well aware of the open-source community's skill at developing compilers. There are open-source compilers for more languages than you can shake a stick at. To assume that Microsoft didn't think anyone would develop a compiler for C# is incredulous. Rather, I expect they planned on it.
Fear #1: Microsoft will change the APIs/protocols
Why not? They have a long history of it: DirectX is on version 9!
Fear #2: Microsoft will attack Mono with patents
The Mono FAQ says it isn't patentable, but when you ask Microsoft... A quote from "Microsoft and Patents": In 2002/03 Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, declared that Microsoft's new standard DotNet was protected by patents and free implementations would not be allowed. In 2003/04 Microsoft published patent license terms for CIFS which disallow the use ore reimplementation of this communication architecture by GNU software. In late 2002, Microsoft began dissuade corproporate customers from introducing GNU/Linux by pointing out that if they use free software nobody would protect them from being sued for patent infringement.
This difference in interpretation means this will be an issue in the future.
Fear #3: Mono will be continually chasing Microsoft's tail
MS doesn't care what Mono does, just as long as it quietly voilates (or even just appears to violate) one of Microsoft's patents. For example, even though the SCO lawsuit is completely bogus, it is costing MS's enemies valuable time and money. A.Net lawsuit could do the same thing -- and I personally believe the SCO lawsuit is a "proof of concept".
Mono will soon be protecting us from a.Net monopoly
To be perfectly honest, I'd really like to think so. However, if you think MS is going to stand idly by while Mono does what Samba, Mozilla, and PHP have already done, you grossly underestimate their cunning. I have a strong feeling that this time, MS is prepared and their weapon of choice will be the patent.
That is, unless we... commit suicide by stopping work on Mono now.
Damned if we do, damned if we don't. Microsoft has done their homework on this one.
Telemarketing is one of the state's big businesses, because it's a One-Party Notification State. As a matter of fact, I work in the same building as an outbound call center (in Oklahoma), and they have hundreds of employees. Rather than a few large telemarketing companies, there are typically several small ones. There are even two in my small town of Stillwater.
Is it just me, or has Oklahoma done some weird things lately?
Question: If computer company X (insert HP/Compaq, Dell, Gateway, etc.) is so awful, how are they still in business?
Truth is, they won't be.
Packard bell and many others are nowhere to be found nowadays. Compaq was on its last legs when the merger occurred. Home computers (not business computers, though -- different world!) are a commodity, and the tier 1 vendors now firmly believe they can save more by shafting the customers that complain than they can gain by supporting them.
Answer: Buy from a reputable local shop where you talk face-to-face with someone about your problems, and their continued existence depends on providing you with a solution.
If you buy a computer from a web site, and you have problems, you are at their mercy -- no two ways about it. Now, they realize they can blow you off or give you the run-around and there is nothing you can do about it (for all practical purposes, anyway). If you return the product, then you aren't a customer, and they don't care about you or your feelings. If you are trying to get them to repair something, they can still nitpick you to death about the warranty and attempt to invalidate it. Should that not be effective, they can harass you with "misunderstandings" and "lost information" until you go insane. Never mind it would be cheaper to help you from the beginning -- it's not about the cost to the company, it's how it's reported. If they can shuffle the cost of not supporting you to a different part of the company, their accounts look even better, in an "WorldCom/Anderson" sort of way.
... they aren't license agreements. They are nag screens with no legal value at all.
Very true...but as SCO has conveniently demonstrated, one does not need merit, or even common sense, to manipulate the legal system for the sole purpose of extortion.
Despite the complete absurdity of the Dell laptop situation, the fact remains that you would have to go to court to prove it is self-contradicting. IANAL, so all in all, I've better things to do with my money, like buy an HP laptop (albeit a different brand of evil).
1 kw/household? Is this 'typical' or 'average'? I have a 750/1500 watt heater. Does that mean if I use the heater on maximum I am consuming 1.5 households worth of electricity?
* 128 + 4 "cold spare" PC nodes, each containing:
o One AMD Athlon XP 2600+ (the 2.075GHz version)
o One 512MB PC2700 DDR SDRAM
o BioStar M7VIT Pro motherboard
o Two Linksys LNE100TX NICs
o Codegen 6042L case with 400W power supply
* 18 BenQ SE0024 24-port Fast Ethernet switches
* 405 Cat5 Fast Ethernet cables
* RedHat Linux 9.0, modified Warewulf 1.11
It's interesting to note that the 1GHz Itanium 2 processor is 65 times more expensive (!) than the AMD Athlon 2600+ $7800 vs. $118
If you had a $40k research grant to build a supercomputer for less than $100 per GFLOP, which would you choose?
I've had a Linksys router/gateway for over a year. Maybe I've been lucky, but the thing has always "just worked". Considering that it even worked with SW Bell's sorry excuse for DSL (PPPoE), I can't say enough good about it.
You are assuming that they are acting from stupidity. I rather expect that they are acting with great skill and that this is an important step to achieving their goal.
Absolutely. But it's not limited to foreign policy.
Under the US Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act of 2002, countries whose citizens enjoy visa-free travel to the United States must issue passports with biometric identifiers no later than October 26, 2004.
The next logical step after this is to expand the system by requiring the very same kind of card for a larger group of individuals. Here's why. If you don't think so, then why not? The idea of a "biometric passport" does nothing to insure safety, it only allows the government to track individuals and restrict their movement at the border. Can you imagine what they could do if they extend a system already in place to include everyone in the US? Now they can track and restrict everyone! What fun.
Apathy is something that disturbs me greatly: most people say "this is for passports. It doesn't affect me." However, when one is building an infrastructure, one has to start somewhere. This is the prelude to something that will eventually affect you. Will you care? That depends on your point of view. I've
posted mine before.
They can have my retinal pattern when they scan my dead, cold eyeballs.
There is no such thing as "undeniable proof". Any such subversion is engineered either to provide an ultimate escape clause or is compartmentalized to prevent the logical associations necessary for "proof".
Thus, there will be no "mass reaction" to any large-scale event because it was explicitly engineered to circumvent that possibility.
A conclusion derived from the conspiracy theory you present is that from time to time, it is necessary to provide additional force to maintain "emotional/spiritual inertia", if you will. This inertia is directed in specific ways to accomplish specific objectives. You could view the Iraq wars, space shuttle disasters, OKC bombing, and 9/11 as examples of the expression intense emotional and spiritual energy necessary to sustain this inertia, but you'd be hard pressed to identify the specific objectives -- by design.
Anyone familiar with the military knows it develops things in phases: i.e., "strawman, stoneman, and ironman".
TIA was just the "strawman" phase.
Just like the space shuttle Enterprise was never intended for spaceflight, TIA was never intended to accomplish its publicly-announced goals. It's actual purpose is to 1) Bring the subject into public awareness, 2) Gauge public reaction to the program, and 3) Analyze and identify technical, process, and social issues that represent barriers to implementation.
TIA itself no longer needs funding as other (not publicly associated with TIA) departments are responsible for analyzing the various results and preparing for the next phase.
In short, you were expected not to like it. The plan is to determine how to accomplish specific objectives irrespective of public opinion -- which ICANN and RIAA/MPAA have demonstrated can be done.
This is very suspicious. Unless there is an RMA agreement between Creative and Avant-Tech, opening the case by anyone will void the warranty. Period. The site says:
Items are also warranted... for 1 year by Creative... items outside our 90-day guarantee should be sent to Creative for service.
Creative Zens only have a 3-month warranty. Creative's own customers don't even get a one-year warranty!
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Of course, what if it was supposed to be found? Hack into the machine, change code that you know will be detected, and then proclaim that if it weren't for "open-source" the intrusion would not have been detected. Sounds like this is a good thing. ;-)
I say we get underground for the next million years or so until this blows over.
NORAD is more than just "Deter, Detect and Defend." It will be the hidey-hole for those in the know when things really get cooking.
My phone company gives me 7 cents a minute, billed in six-second increments with no monthly fee or minimum.
If AT&T and MCI are your only options, where do you live? I live in small town with a year-round population of only 20,000 or so.
I know for a fact they are monitored
You don't keed to be Kreskin to look into Microsoft's future. Even a child knows that Microsoft is dying. All major marketing surveys show that Microsoft has steadily declined in market share. Microsoft is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim.
Due to the troubles of Santa Claus, scientific investigations and so on, Christmas went out of business and was taken over by Microsoft. Now Rudolph is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
The numbers continue to decline for Santa but Microsoft may be hurting the most. Look at the numbers. The loss of user base for Microsoft continues in a head spinning downward spiral. In truth, for all practical purposes Microsoft is already dead. It is a dead man walking. It's a fact: Microsoft is dying.
My understanding was that IPX/SPX was more efficient than TCP/IP for local networks. It's inefficiency with increasingly common non-local networks is what spelled its doom.
If nothing else, at least they are embracing new technology instead of sticking to a proprietary solution like 3Dfx and Aureal.
I guess that soon we'll finally be able to answer the question: If the sun were to explode, would we feel the sudden loss of gravity immediately or would we feel it 8min 23sec later?
PARC? I thought he meant 'CRAP'... did I not get the joke?
Marc Balmer wrote:
> Was the name CARP deliberately choosen? There already exists CARP since 2001, see RFC 3040 (Cache Array Routing Protocol)
I suggested a different name (same four letters, different order, took a cheap shot at Cisco in the process), but Ryan didn't seem to care for it for some reason. 8)
BTW, the kerneltrap article renders perfectly in IE, but not Mozilla 1.4?!
It must be open-mic night at the VeriSign Comedy Club ...
My friend in the cube next to me has a Fujitsu Lifebook with the Transmeta chip. It has a wide-screen and lasts 9 hours with the extended battery. I do a lot of drooling myself, but at $1200 it's beyond my reach. :(
BTW, he tells me that ACPI doesn't work on it even with the latest linux 2.6-test kernel. You'd think that since Linus worked there they'd take a little extra effort to make sure its #1 feature -- low power consumption -- works properly in Linux!
by calling Microsoft's "C# Open Standard" bluff, Mono has thrown a huge monkey-wrench into Microsoft's plans.
I strongly disagree. Microsoft is well aware of the open-source community's skill at developing compilers. There are open-source compilers for more languages than you can shake a stick at. To assume that Microsoft didn't think anyone would develop a compiler for C# is incredulous. Rather, I expect they planned on it.
Fear #1: Microsoft will change the APIs/protocols
Why not? They have a long history of it: DirectX is on version 9!
Fear #2: Microsoft will attack Mono with patents ... A quote from "Microsoft and Patents":
The Mono FAQ says it isn't patentable, but when you ask Microsoft
In 2002/03 Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, declared that Microsoft's new standard DotNet was protected by patents and free implementations would not be allowed.
In 2003/04 Microsoft published patent license terms for CIFS which disallow the use ore reimplementation of this communication architecture by GNU software.
In late 2002, Microsoft began dissuade corproporate customers from introducing GNU/Linux by pointing out that if they use free software nobody would protect them from being sued for patent infringement.
This difference in interpretation means this will be an issue in the future.
Fear #3: Mono will be continually chasing Microsoft's tail .Net lawsuit could do the same thing -- and I personally believe the SCO lawsuit is a "proof of concept".
MS doesn't care what Mono does, just as long as it quietly voilates (or even just appears to violate) one of Microsoft's patents. For example, even though the SCO lawsuit is completely bogus, it is costing MS's enemies valuable time and money. A
Mono will soon be protecting us from a .Net monopoly
To be perfectly honest, I'd really like to think so. However, if you think MS is going to stand idly by while Mono does what Samba, Mozilla, and PHP have already done, you grossly underestimate their cunning. I have a strong feeling that this time, MS is prepared and their weapon of choice will be the patent.
That is, unless we ... commit suicide by stopping work on Mono now.
Damned if we do, damned if we don't. Microsoft has done their homework on this one.
Link: MS patents .Everything
From the article:
Processors should affine to one CPU and will not bounce between CPUs.
Affine is not a verb!
Is it just me, or has Oklahoma done some weird things lately?
Truth is, they won't be.
Packard bell and many others are nowhere to be found nowadays. Compaq was on its last legs when the merger occurred. Home computers (not business computers, though -- different world!) are a commodity, and the tier 1 vendors now firmly believe they can save more by shafting the customers that complain than they can gain by supporting them.
Answer: Buy from a reputable local shop where you talk face-to-face with someone about your problems, and their continued existence depends on providing you with a solution.
If you buy a computer from a web site, and you have problems, you are at their mercy -- no two ways about it. Now, they realize they can blow you off or give you the run-around and there is nothing you can do about it (for all practical purposes, anyway). If you return the product, then you aren't a customer, and they don't care about you or your feelings. If you are trying to get them to repair something, they can still nitpick you to death about the warranty and attempt to invalidate it. Should that not be effective, they can harass you with "misunderstandings" and "lost information" until you go insane. Never mind it would be cheaper to help you from the beginning -- it's not about the cost to the company, it's how it's reported. If they can shuffle the cost of not supporting you to a different part of the company, their accounts look even better, in an "WorldCom/Anderson" sort of way.
... they aren't license agreements. They are nag screens with no legal value at all.
Very true...but as SCO has conveniently demonstrated, one does not need merit, or even common sense, to manipulate the legal system for the sole purpose of extortion. Despite the complete absurdity of the Dell laptop situation, the fact remains that you would have to go to court to prove it is self-contradicting. IANAL, so all in all, I've better things to do with my money, like buy an HP laptop (albeit a different brand of evil).
1 kw/household? Is this 'typical' or 'average'? I have a 750/1500 watt heater. Does that mean if I use the heater on maximum I am consuming 1.5 households worth of electricity?
RTFAQ:
KASY0's configuration is:
* 128 + 4 "cold spare" PC nodes, each containing:
o One AMD Athlon XP 2600+ (the 2.075GHz version)
o One 512MB PC2700 DDR SDRAM
o BioStar M7VIT Pro motherboard
o Two Linksys LNE100TX NICs
o Codegen 6042L case with 400W power supply
* 18 BenQ SE0024 24-port Fast Ethernet switches
* 405 Cat5 Fast Ethernet cables
* RedHat Linux 9.0, modified Warewulf 1.11
It's interesting to note that the 1GHz Itanium 2 processor is 65 times more expensive (!) than the AMD Athlon 2600+
$7800 vs. $118
If you had a $40k research grant to build a supercomputer for less than $100 per GFLOP, which would you choose?
I've had a Linksys router/gateway for over a year. Maybe I've been lucky, but the thing has always "just worked". Considering that it even worked with SW Bell's sorry excuse for DSL (PPPoE), I can't say enough good about it.
You forgot: 3) Unemployed because of misappropriation of government property.
:)
Absolutely. But it's not limited to foreign policy.
Under the US Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act of 2002, countries whose citizens enjoy visa-free travel to the United States must issue passports with biometric identifiers no later than October 26, 2004.
The next logical step after this is to expand the system by requiring the very same kind of card for a larger group of individuals. Here's why. If you don't think so, then why not? The idea of a "biometric passport" does nothing to insure safety, it only allows the government to track individuals and restrict their movement at the border. Can you imagine what they could do if they extend a system already in place to include everyone in the US? Now they can track and restrict everyone! What fun.
Apathy is something that disturbs me greatly: most people say "this is for passports. It doesn't affect me." However, when one is building an infrastructure, one has to start somewhere. This is the prelude to something that will eventually affect you. Will you care? That depends on your point of view. I've posted mine before.
They can have my retinal pattern when they scan my dead, cold eyeballs.
There is no such thing as "undeniable proof". Any such subversion is engineered either to provide an ultimate escape clause or is compartmentalized to prevent the logical associations necessary for "proof".
Thus, there will be no "mass reaction" to any large-scale event because it was explicitly engineered to circumvent that possibility.
A conclusion derived from the conspiracy theory you present is that from time to time, it is necessary to provide additional force to maintain "emotional/spiritual inertia", if you will. This inertia is directed in specific ways to accomplish specific objectives. You could view the Iraq wars, space shuttle disasters, OKC bombing, and 9/11 as examples of the expression intense emotional and spiritual energy necessary to sustain this inertia, but you'd be hard pressed to identify the specific objectives -- by design.
Anyone familiar with the military knows it develops things in phases: i.e., "strawman, stoneman, and ironman".
TIA was just the "strawman" phase.
Just like the space shuttle Enterprise was never intended for spaceflight, TIA was never intended to accomplish its publicly-announced goals. It's actual purpose is to 1) Bring the subject into public awareness, 2) Gauge public reaction to the program, and 3) Analyze and identify technical, process, and social issues that represent barriers to implementation.
TIA itself no longer needs funding as other (not publicly associated with TIA) departments are responsible for analyzing the various results and preparing for the next phase.
In short, you were expected not to like it. The plan is to determine how to accomplish specific objectives irrespective of public opinion -- which ICANN and RIAA/MPAA have demonstrated can be done.
I'd expect successive phases in 2005 and 2007.
This is very suspicious. Unless there is an RMA agreement between Creative and Avant-Tech, opening the case by anyone will void the warranty. Period. The site says: Items are also warranted ... for 1 year by Creative ... items outside our 90-day guarantee should be sent to Creative for service.
Creative Zens only have a 3-month warranty. Creative's own customers don't even get a one-year warranty!