It's not his wrist I'd like to see slapped. It's his ass by the balls of someone who's not going to take his arrogant shit, but shove it farther into him.
Where do I get things like maybe a dual P2-300 for f'ing around with SMP without paying "I love eBay and I'm addicted to overbidding" prices, buying old things new, or buying new tech?
(Not speaking for my employer, or anyone else, of course)
As one of the HP employees who will not be made redundant, I'm glad that the company is going to try to be profitable to save the jobs of the employees that will be left after all of this is over.
Screw your trolling, or your misguided idealism, whatever it may be. Don't think that it's OK to trash the life of the living to spare the dignity of the dead.
You state a cost of 3 hours per machine to "sanitize" and a cost of 1/2 hour per machine for a security analysis. Huh? One or the other are necessary, not both. Examine one machine, then ghost out a new image using ghost multicast. Not 3.5 hours per machine.
Wired ran a much more in-depth article about this last August. It also discussed worldwide helium shortages which may come about because of such increased demand.
I don't know how far-fetched this is, but given that they're going to rename themselves United Online, and given that Juno has this distributed-app thing going on, is it likely that this will have anything to do with United Devices, a distributed computing company with several of the key players from distributed.net?
Internet2, if it's cheaper for anyone, is so because of the services and equipment which get donated.
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The reason your traffic goes all over the place is largely because of the influence of current or former telecom employees in companies providing internet services.
Let's take a 10-year-old telco, for example. In 1991, if they sold data services, the value was added in getting bits from one place on their network to another. Salespuke: "Hi. MyTelecom will get your bits from your office in New York to your office in LA over our great network. Latency is X, availability is Y"
Contrast that with the internet. Where does the company find its <buzzword>value proposition</buzzword>? If their excellent fiber (or whatever physical asset) is what adds value, then they want traffic *on* their network, and not hopping off of it.
What about private peering? Oh. Well, if I'm selling transit to my customers, why am I going to give it for free to (UUNet, Genuity, Qwest, AT&T, etc.) and if I do, because peering is in my interest, well... let's do it in 3 or 4 places. New York... San Jose... maybe D.C. and Chicago if they're lucky. So... if you're sending something from Dallas to Fort Worth... well... sure, your packets have to go through San Jose, and we're wasting bandwidth on our backbone, but if they want to get better connectivity to us, they're going to have to pay for it.
<cough>
OK... enough free clues. Time to go back to looking for a job.
15 gazillion cameras in the city of London, and when my work laptop got stolen at London Charing Cross train station last week, I immediately went to the help desk thing, waited for the guy to get through to the cops, only to be told that if one turned up, they'd give me a call. WHAT THE HELL?
I have zero privacy while waiting for a train, but nobody gives a crap enough to check the goddamn tapes?
What's the use of giving up rights for temporary security when you don't get any goddamned temporary security?!?!?!?!
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 08:14:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: dante
To: bt @ templetons . com
Subject: Mastercard and Postal Service Violations
Brad,
After reading the cease and desist letter from Mastercard's lawyers, I noticed that they had sent you the notice via Federal Express. US law prohibits using private carriers to deliver first-class mail unless there is a specific need which the private carrier meets, which the USPS cannot. I do not see what need FedEx would fill which the USPS could not, as overnight delivery was unnecessary, and registered mail provides proof of delivery for letters from New York to California.
Legalspeak can be found here:
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/cfr/39p310.htm
While "calling the Feds" really would seem futile, sending them a letter to "cease and desist" using private carriers when not necessary
would certainly be funny.
Am I the only one who feels uncomfortable about this? At the same time as we've got vendors complaining about support for "big iron" not getting into the mainstream kernel, we've got the guy who decides what makes it in being paid make Linux run on small devices.
Wake the fuck up if you're on here bitching that SSH isn't a shell.
"ssh" is a secure replacement for rsh, "slogin" is a secure replacement for rlogin, and "scp" for rcp.
rsh was for remote shell, ssh is for secure shell.
That's why, so if you think you're cool and are allowed to speak just because you popped a RedHat CD into your Packard Bell, please reformat, reload windows, and don't come back.
The consistent mistake that I see young people making is that refusal to let go of idealism.
Idealism plays an important, but limited, role in a production computing environment, and the wisdom given by experience is knowing where to draw the lines. In this Internet age, uptime is king. Slowness is bearable for brief periods, but "Cannot find server or DNS Error" is not. Young people don't always understand that if uptime requires them to stand on a rickety ladder holding in a Cat5 whose plastic retainer clip popped off, then that's what they've got to do.
Older people realize that they need to tie the young guys to the ladder to accomplish that.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
Sounds simple to me. What are you waiting for? -Nev
Their capital expenditures for the box may be a nickel an hour, but that's not the cost to them to own, store, maintain, upgrade, supply A/C and AC, and do various other things necessary to gain benefit from the processor/storage.
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It's not his wrist I'd like to see slapped. It's his ass by the balls of someone who's not going to take his arrogant shit, but shove it farther into him.
Where do I get things like maybe a dual P2-300 for f'ing around with SMP without paying "I love eBay and I'm addicted to overbidding" prices, buying old things new, or buying new tech?
-Nev
(Not speaking for my employer, or anyone else, of course)
As one of the HP employees who will not be made redundant, I'm glad that the company is going to try to be profitable to save the jobs of the employees that will be left after all of this is over.
Screw your trolling, or your misguided idealism, whatever it may be. Don't think that it's OK to trash the life of the living to spare the dignity of the dead.
Like an academic decathlon for adults?
You state a cost of 3 hours per machine to "sanitize" and a cost of 1/2 hour per machine for a security analysis. Huh? One or the other are necessary, not both. Examine one machine, then ghost out a new image using ghost multicast. Not 3.5 hours per machine.
Sounds like you bend over a bit too much.
Wired ran a much more in-depth article about this last August. It also discussed worldwide helium shortages which may come about because of such increased demand.
-Nev
I don't know how far-fetched this is, but given that they're going to rename themselves United Online, and given that Juno has this distributed-app thing going on, is it likely that this will have anything to do with United Devices, a distributed computing company with several of the key players from distributed.net?
-Nev
Nah. Have the bots DDOS the IRC server. :)
Cheaper?
Internet2, if it's cheaper for anyone, is so because of the services and equipment which get donated.
The reason your traffic goes all over the place is largely because of the influence of current or former telecom employees in companies providing internet services.
Let's take a 10-year-old telco, for example. In 1991, if they sold data services, the value was added in getting bits from one place on their network to another. Salespuke: "Hi. MyTelecom will get your bits from your office in New York to your office in LA over our great network. Latency is X, availability is Y"
Contrast that with the internet. Where does the company find its <buzzword>value proposition</buzzword>? If their excellent fiber (or whatever physical asset) is what adds value, then they want traffic *on* their network, and not hopping off of it.
What about private peering? Oh. Well, if I'm selling transit to my customers, why am I going to give it for free to (UUNet, Genuity, Qwest, AT&T, etc.) and if I do, because peering is in my interest, well... let's do it in 3 or 4 places. New York... San Jose... maybe D.C. and Chicago if they're lucky. So... if you're sending something from Dallas to Fort Worth... well... sure, your packets have to go through San Jose, and we're wasting bandwidth on our backbone, but if they want to get better connectivity to us, they're going to have to pay for it.
<cough>
OK... enough free clues. Time to go back to looking for a job.
-Nev
Someone set up us the bomb.
15 gazillion cameras in the city of London, and when my work laptop got stolen at London Charing Cross train station last week, I immediately went to the help desk thing, waited for the guy to get through to the cops, only to be told that if one turned up, they'd give me a call. WHAT THE HELL?
I have zero privacy while waiting for a train, but nobody gives a crap enough to check the goddamn tapes?
What's the use of giving up rights for temporary security when you don't get any goddamned temporary security?!?!?!?!
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
-Nev
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 08:14:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: dante
To: bt @ templetons . com
Subject: Mastercard and Postal Service Violations
Brad,
After reading the cease and desist letter from Mastercard's lawyers, I noticed that they had sent you the notice via Federal Express. US law prohibits using private carriers to deliver first-class mail unless there is a specific need which the private carrier meets, which the USPS cannot. I do not see what need FedEx would fill which the USPS could not, as overnight delivery was unnecessary, and registered mail provides proof of delivery for letters from New York to California.
Legalspeak can be found here:
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/cfr/39p310.htm
While "calling the Feds" really would seem futile, sending them a letter to "cease and desist" using private carriers when not necessary
would certainly be funny.
-Anthony
It won't be long before one of the contestants wanders off, complaining, "I have a horrible pain in all the diodes down my left side."
I wonder if this is the kind of thing which will eventually end up leading to a major government challenge of the legitimacy of the GPL.
-Nev
If there's a code fork from Berlin as time goes on, will it be referred to as "The Berlin Wall" or "The Iron Curtain"? -Nev
I think that most of the world would prefer to pretend that the French don't exist.
Does the copying of the ISN to a reply packet constitute copyright violation of the originating computer's original work?
Am I the only one who feels uncomfortable about this? At the same time as we've got vendors complaining about support for "big iron" not getting into the mainstream kernel, we've got the guy who decides what makes it in being paid make Linux run on small devices.
Makes me a little skittish, that's all.
-Nev
Wake the fuck up if you're on here bitching that SSH isn't a shell.
"ssh" is a secure replacement for rsh, "slogin" is a secure replacement for rlogin, and "scp" for rcp.
rsh was for remote shell, ssh is for secure shell.
That's why, so if you think you're cool and are allowed to speak just because you popped a RedHat CD into your Packard Bell, please reformat, reload windows, and don't come back.
Thank you.
-Nev
The consistent mistake that I see young people making is that refusal to let go of idealism.
Idealism plays an important, but limited, role in a production computing environment, and the wisdom given by experience is knowing where to draw the lines. In this Internet age, uptime is king. Slowness is bearable for brief periods, but "Cannot find server or DNS Error" is not. Young people don't always understand that if uptime requires them to stand on a rickety ladder holding in a Cat5 whose plastic retainer clip popped off, then that's what they've got to do.
Older people realize that they need to tie the young guys to the ladder to accomplish that.
-Nev
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
Sounds simple to me. What are you waiting for?
-Nev
Maybe he "copywrited" them, but all that means is that we wrote copy (a term often used in advertising).
Ah, when will they learn "copyright" vs. "copywrite"?
-Nev
Their capital expenditures for the box may be a nickel an hour, but that's not the cost to them to own, store, maintain, upgrade, supply A/C and AC, and do various other things necessary to gain benefit from the processor/storage.
-Nev
.NET bots? Don't MCSE training courses already make these?
-Nev