What I love is that all those old games I have on old 5 1/4 inch floppies are now playable again. All those floppies that died, all those cd's that were scrached, all of them are now available to me again.
Actually, there's some contention about that whole glass melting thing. The majority of classial evidence, old stained glass etc is thicker at the bottom, turns out to be a stylistic thing. Or something along those lines.
The people across the street from me have a pipe running several hundred feet into the ground, water is pumped through and it's supposed to come out at about the same temperature year round. There was a massive initial investment, but it's extremely cheap on a year to year basis. They've also got a small heater and air conditioner to allow for greater control of temperature.
The only problem with your thought is that he speaks about using non x86 hardware, which would mean mucho $ to change, at that point it becomes clearly profitable to keep the old system running.
You think that's bad? I was in Ireland last month, the cheapest cd i could find was $24. Many were up to $40!! Even a blank cd there is at least $6! It's highway robbery, next time I go I'm bringing spindles and setting up shop (as long as they don't tax me to death first)
I've been using a 1 mbps lynksys card for the past 3 months on my firewall. Overall it's worked well, however sped is commonly slow (not as slow as when i connected 2 windows boxen together thought:) ) however this may be because of bad phone wire as our service is suboptimal. As well, despite their advertisments to the contrairy I was unable to get my adsl to share the line with the hpna cards.
1) He was clearly intimating that the backbone servers are in a similar quandry as ICANN. 2) While there is no single backbone to the internet, take out UUNET, PSINet, MCI, and Bell and there are almost no decent routes. 3) While de-centralized nameservers seem fine in theory, there are many security concerns, as well as issues with co-ordination and exclusivity, what if two different name-servers have different records for my domain? Half the people will be sent to the wrong place, opening up further the possiblity of domain hijacking.
There is an addon for ICQ called Top Secret Messenger. It's a public key Eliptical Curve Cryptography thing. Last time I checked the interface was still a little buggy but i haven't upgraded in a few months.
I'd heard about using these as storage devices ages ago. They would work wouldn't they? large storage, reasonable durable, small, low power usage... they'd fill the niche well. Who needs some proprietary sony product?
That of course brings about the point that they may not have had altruistic motives at heart. Thye may not have been abel to figure out a way to squeeze the net for cash and so decided to cut it free... who knows..
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Do you know how annoying this is on a group of rack-mounted servers?
What I love is that all those old games I have on old 5 1/4 inch floppies are now playable again. All those floppies that died, all those cd's that were scrached, all of them are now available to me again.
*lol* This is the funniest thing i've heard in weeks.. Thanks..
I had no idea of the source of the whole thing and yet I still found it funny.
I thought it was Major Leauge Baseball?
Actually, there's some contention about that whole glass melting thing. The majority of classial evidence, old stained glass etc is thicker at the bottom, turns out to be a stylistic thing. Or something along those lines.
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Actually, According to the CRTC the service cannot be sold in Canada, allowing the Bell Expressvue a near monopoly on Canadian satalite tv.
The people across the street from me have a pipe running several hundred feet into the ground, water is pumped through and it's supposed to come out at about the same temperature year round. There was a massive initial investment, but it's extremely cheap on a year to year basis. They've also got a small heater and air conditioner to allow for greater control of temperature.
I thought that was just win.com... :)
The only problem with your thought is that he speaks about using non x86 hardware, which would mean mucho $ to change, at that point it becomes clearly profitable to keep the old system running.
You think that's bad? I was in Ireland last month, the cheapest cd i could find was $24. Many were up to $40!! Even a blank cd there is at least $6! It's highway robbery, next time I go I'm bringing spindles and setting up shop (as long as they don't tax me to death first)
I've been using a 1 mbps lynksys card for the past 3 months on my firewall. Overall it's worked well, however sped is commonly slow (not as slow as when i connected 2 windows boxen together thought :) ) however this may be because of bad phone wire as our service is suboptimal. As well, despite their advertisments to the contrairy I was unable to get my adsl to share the line with the hpna cards.
While the RIAA may be able to scare small companies, but I think that larger companies will escape their wrath.
Looks a little simplistic, but chapter 2 looks like fun :)
1) He was clearly intimating that the backbone servers are in a similar quandry as ICANN.
2) While there is no single backbone to the internet, take out UUNET, PSINet, MCI, and Bell and there are almost no decent routes.
3) While de-centralized nameservers seem fine in theory, there are many security concerns, as well as issues with co-ordination and exclusivity, what if two different name-servers have different records for my domain? Half the people will be sent to the wrong place, opening up further the possiblity of domain hijacking.
Hey! Don't dis rot13! It worked for hundreds of years.. true that was about two millenia ago but...
Does that still work? Damn.. Haven't used that since grade school...
The best i've seen so far is called Putty, it's an open source effort. It's got very good support for colour etc.
There is an addon for ICQ called Top Secret Messenger. It's a public key Eliptical Curve Cryptography thing. Last time I checked the interface was still a little buggy but i haven't upgraded in a few months.
I guess I'm lucky. My ISP not only supports linux but hosts www.linuxberg.com.
I've never dropped one on the floor... but I did drop one in a lake once. :)
I'd heard about using these as storage devices ages ago. They would work wouldn't they? large storage, reasonable durable, small, low power usage... they'd fill the niche well. Who needs some proprietary sony product?
as soon as some american grows a brain big enough to try to make it one.
That of course brings about the point that they may not have had altruistic motives at heart. Thye may not have been abel to figure out a way to squeeze the net for cash and so decided to cut it free... who knows..