I am on @Home, but in my area they don't force us to use DHCP (yet). In my area, you have an IP address assigned to the MAC address of your modem and you keep the same IP address. Of course, they have DHCP available, but you don't have to use it. They are planning on forcing everyone to use DHCP in the future, so they can have more IP addresses available at any given time. They have a class A, how many damn ip addresses do they need? I use my IP address for alot of things (network administration from work, web server, etc.) I hope they don't try to make me change it every 2 hours. I imagine it will be awhile, they just barely are getting around to putting the 128 kbps cap on my line:( I guess it was good while it lasted, many market have had the cap on for quite a while.
As for security, that is total bunk. DHCP does not stop the 5cr1p7 k1ddi35 from scanning a subnet and attempting to hack whatever open ports they can find. Once they have control of a machine, it is trivial to have it mail them or signal them (have it ping an address, or do a POP mail check, or even an ICMP unreachable packet). There are a million methods to get the new IP address when it changes. DHCP helps nothing.
In my state, we have a initiative on the ballot to give all the money from these seizures to public schools. Right now the money goes to the police department--for more seizure programs. This just perpetuates the illegal seizures, since the police have something to gain. While I don't agree with the laws (I believe they are blatantly unconstitutional) I will be voting for this initiative, since I would way rather see the schools get the money that the corrupt police.
If you are going to quote Zaphod (or Douglas Adams), please have the courtesy to credit the quote. BTW, that is probably my favorite line in the whole 5 book trilogy:)
I think the RIAA is scared of releasing the results. They are starting to realise that they are a behemoth that is obsolete in the new economy. The major function of the record labels is distribution and promotion, both of which can now be done over the internet by the individual artists. The RIAA doesn't even do that much, really are they are is a lobbying group. Why else would they be based in Washington D.C.? The dolts working for them will never be able to come up with a watermarking scheme that we will not be able to crack. I also saw a CNN article which mentions a "new project" by the RIAA to tag digital music files with a "unique identifier" to track them. They are partnering with another company and expect it to be done by the middle of next year. They are hedging their bets, trying different ways of controlling the distribution of music. I don't think it will work. As soon as a critical number of artists pull their heads out of their asses and start promoting themselves instead of signing with the major record labels, these big power hungry labels will go the way of the dinosaur
You seem to be contrasing Windows and Mac ways of typing files. I have no idea whatsoever what this has to do with a Linux filesystem. Linux doesn't care what extension you have on the end of your file, it can be.bat,.blowme or.foo, it doesn't matter. I think people are quite aware of the limitations of the Windows registered extension system, but at least come up with an original idea instead of copying the Mac idea and presenting it as your own.
I am very happy that Karl won, he was my #1 choice on the ballot. How many other people here actually voted in the election? I hear the turnout (especially for North America) was poor, the reason depends on who you ask. Many people blame the ICANN registration process. I didn't have very many problems registering, did anyone else who is reading this get locked out from the voting due to technical problems (I understand the ICANN site was overwhelmed on the last day to register)? I'm just interested in how involved the/. community was in these elections.
Your argument doesn't hold water. Due to the economy of scale (in addition to all the e-commerce revenue), AOL should be able to provide service at a LOWER price than many other ISPs. Yes, you are correct that I don't have to buy my service from AOL. However, if I want broadband service, I do have to buy from AT&T. They are the only broadband provider in my neighborhood, no AT&T=dialup. I am just worried that many people might be in the same boat with AOL broadband service--they may not have a choice. Just because they have a choice now with dialup does not ensure that they will have broadband choices, since (right now) they are few and far between. If I had a choice between dialup and AOL cable, of course I would use AOL. However, I would much rather use another ISP, even if AOL-Time Warner owned the cable plant. This is what the government is trying to ensure. I have no idea why you would take AOL's side on this, obviously the consumer will have it better if there is more competition in the broadband market.
Since when does AOL cut back on production and raise prices, forcing consumers to pay more for the same product?
Ummm, I don't know about production, but didn't AOL raise their prices? I believe they cost ~22.95/mo. compared to 19.95/mo. for a conventional dialup ISP (i.e. Earthlink, MSN, etc.). They claim they provide "extra content", but really what they want is to trap people who are interested in finding out about this newfangled "internet" in their own private shopping mall. They are leveraging their stranglehold on the dialup ISP market into providing more shopping and revenue. Many AOLers don't even know what the internet actually is, they think the internet consists of AOL's flashy shopping mall. AOL leveraging their ISP business into providing content, in addition to Time Warner's very large media presence is what have government officials very worried about the possibility of a monopoly. AOL thinks they own the internet, and many of their subscribers agree, because they don't know any better.
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Hmmm, something like this happened recently when AT&T bought TCI and Media One. The feds hammered them about internet access and opening their system for competition. AT&T resisted, but finally gave in and said "Sure, we'll open our lines, we'll allow competition". So where is it? I see absolutely no competition in the cable market in my region. All I see is my cable TV prices rising, my cable internet getting an upstream cap, and AT&T promoting the hell out of the @Home service-oversubscribing the nodes.
I see the same thing happening with the Time Warner-AOL deal. Eventually they will relent and agree to open their networks, but when it comes time for them to actually lease a line to a competing ISP, I wager they will balk. They will argue there are technical problems, or claim the other ISP is being unreasonable, or just sell the line for an outrageous price that would make it impossible to make a profit. Whatever the case, don't count on open access very soon, it just isn't in AOL or Time Warner's best interest.
Yes, they provide digital outputs on full size units, but that is not what I want. If I wanted to lug the full size deck around, I might as well just take a computer and get full PCM audio rather than the compressed audio that a minidisc offers. You say "The portable ones don't - the reason being fairly obvious (why would you need a digital output for a walkman-type application ?)." I explained the real world reason in my post above. I don't want to lug around a full-size deck, I wanted something that was ultra portable. Before I got the MD I would lug a laptop to the show and record with it. It was good (I could get more than 2 tracks as well), but I didn't like having to deal with the extra crap. I got the MD for convienence, but I am disappointed with the output options.
When you say This is nothing to do with the question of software piracy you're right, because software is not involved, but it is very much a question of music piracy. There are certainly a number of reasons to have digital outputs on a portable player, but there are few reasons not to include them.
There is also the SCMS to deal with. A little quote from a MD FAQ:
SCMS stands for "Serial Copy Management System" and is the way copies of digital music are regulated in the consumer market. It is information that is added to the stream of data that contains the music when one makes a digital copy (a "clone"). When making an analog copy only the music is transferred so there is no SCMS, and copying is totally unrestricted. Now, this is not hard to get around, and "professional" decks allow you to manipulate this feature, but not all struggling bands can afford to spend thousands of dollars on a minidisc deck to do a little recording. I have no intention of copying pre-recorded MDs, so the SCMS does not really affect me, but I included the info to make the point that the industry is VERY concerned about piracy and are doing everything they can to stop it, including not allowing digital output from portable recorders.
I have problems with the minidisc. The problem is they don't have any digital outputs, not because it is a technical problem, it is because the industry thinks it will cut down on piracy and wouldn't support the standard with digital outputs. What this boils down to is I can't use my minidisc for the purpose that I bought it (recording live performances by a band for which I mix audio). In addition, it doesn't work with my fancy sound card, because the card only has digital inputs and outputs. I can take a digital signal out of my computer into the minidisc, but if I want to record a show on the MD, I have to transfer it into the computer through an analog sound card, compromising my audio quality with a DA->AD->DA conversion. This new standard sounds like it might be a little better in the digital arena. Since it supports the current CD format, we can use the players we already have to extract digital data from the disc. However, I don't understand why we need a new format, CDs hold quite a bit of data, and as soon as DVD-RWs come down in price I think we will be moving in that direction. Although the new tech is exciting, I don't think it will fly in the face of the technololgies that we already use.
It sounds like you have something wrong with the configuration. I use a RedHat 6.2 box that mounts Win2k AS shares just fine. Instead of the smbclient command, try this:
#mount -t smbfs -o username=administrator//server/share/some/mount/point Make sure you have generated the smbpasswd file on the Linux side (consult the Samba documentation).
The first crew is scheduled to launch at the end of this month (Oct. 30). They are going up in a russian rocket, I imagine NASA wouldn't let our boys ride in it if they thought it might explode (at least I hope not). Go to: http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/10/11/russia.sp ace.ap/index.html for more information. (Hope/. doesn't mangle this URL)
It seems everything that Intel is doing lately is FAILING miserably. The high-profile problems keep cropping up (i.e. the 820 chipset, the 1.13 ghz PIII, etc.) They are full of promises about faster hardware, but they don't seem to deliver very well. AMD is getting great yields and gaining market share, I think Intel is running scared and are releasing things (either chips or press releases talking about chips) way faster than they should. As soon as the business market figures out AMD is making good products and that AMD chips are not the second-rate, unstable things that they used to be I think they will take a larger cut of Intel's market share than they are now. We all should be overjoyed at this newfound competieion in the processor market, it has brought prices down and speeds up more quickly than would of happened if Intel still was the dominant it used to be. However, it means that errata that used to be fixed before release are shipping with chips because they want the chips on the market faster. Their attitude is usually "oh, we'll fix that in the next stepping". I am glad they are delaying the release so they can fix the problem, rather than just releasing the chip as-is, as they have done in the past.
/. really needs to start notifying sites when they print up a story about them, this one has already been slashdotted and the story has only been up for a little while. If we could tell them beforehand, perhaps they could brace for the onslaught.
This certainly is a misguided and bigoted response. You talk of lowering taxes by sending these workers to their home countries, I would wager that H1B workers have a higher salary than the average, paying more taxes, therefore the tax burden would actually rise, not fall. These people don't "deserve help and respect beacuse [they] are a minority", they deserve simple prudence on what the impact to society and induviduals may be. Judging from the hatred and ignorance of your post, I think I would much rather have H1B visa holders working with me than be forced to work with you.
I am not a big fan of the H1B program, but to just kick them out after they have given six years of their lives to help support our economy smacks of facism. These people are hard-working, smart (that's why they got the visa in the first place) and a great contribution to our society. I realize a visa is intended to be a temporary thing, but I see no reason to deport the good people we have a bring in a crop of new recruits. It just doesn't make sense to fire your workforce and start from scratch.
ATI can throw clocks and memory at the problem, but the internal processor architechture in their cards is lacking when compared to Nvidia. All ATI is accomplishing is making expensive cards with large numbers, which the general consumer will eat up. A manufacturer is more likely to use the cheaper card, even if it doesn't afford the same performance. This is why you must do your research when buying components, you buy Nvidia and you get better performance, plain and simple.
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As for security, that is total bunk. DHCP does not stop the 5cr1p7 k1ddi35 from scanning a subnet and attempting to hack whatever open ports they can find. Once they have control of a machine, it is trivial to have it mail them or signal them (have it ping an address, or do a POP mail check, or even an ICMP unreachable packet). There are a million methods to get the new IP address when it changes. DHCP helps nothing.
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Hehe the question I asked was "Are you being slashdotted?" hmmm, guess ya had to be there!
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In my state, we have a initiative on the ballot to give all the money from these seizures to public schools. Right now the money goes to the police department--for more seizure programs. This just perpetuates the illegal seizures, since the police have something to gain. While I don't agree with the laws (I believe they are blatantly unconstitutional) I will be voting for this initiative, since I would way rather see the schools get the money that the corrupt police.
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If you are going to quote Zaphod (or Douglas Adams), please have the courtesy to credit the quote. BTW, that is probably my favorite line in the whole 5 book trilogy :)
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Classic "security by obscurity"
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I think the RIAA is scared of releasing the results. They are starting to realise that they are a behemoth that is obsolete in the new economy. The major function of the record labels is distribution and promotion, both of which can now be done over the internet by the individual artists. The RIAA doesn't even do that much, really are they are is a lobbying group. Why else would they be based in Washington D.C.? The dolts working for them will never be able to come up with a watermarking scheme that we will not be able to crack. I also saw a CNN article which mentions a "new project" by the RIAA to tag digital music files with a "unique identifier" to track them. They are partnering with another company and expect it to be done by the middle of next year. They are hedging their bets, trying different ways of controlling the distribution of music. I don't think it will work. As soon as a critical number of artists pull their heads out of their asses and start promoting themselves instead of signing with the major record labels, these big power hungry labels will go the way of the dinosaur
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You seem to be contrasing Windows and Mac ways of typing files. I have no idea whatsoever what this has to do with a Linux filesystem. Linux doesn't care what extension you have on the end of your file, it can be .bat, .blowme or .foo, it doesn't matter. I think people are quite aware of the limitations of the Windows registered extension system, but at least come up with an original idea instead of copying the Mac idea and presenting it as your own.
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I am very happy that Karl won, he was my #1 choice on the ballot. How many other people here actually voted in the election? I hear the turnout (especially for North America) was poor, the reason depends on who you ask. Many people blame the ICANN registration process. I didn't have very many problems registering, did anyone else who is reading this get locked out from the voting due to technical problems (I understand the ICANN site was overwhelmed on the last day to register)? I'm just interested in how involved the /. community was in these elections.
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Actually I read the site in more detail and I see the date on the plans is Jan 25, 1997. I am even more impressed now! :)
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That is pretty neat. Although it doesn't look hard to replicate, it is a nice feat to build the first one :)
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Does it run Linux?
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!
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Your argument doesn't hold water. Due to the economy of scale (in addition to all the e-commerce revenue), AOL should be able to provide service at a LOWER price than many other ISPs. Yes, you are correct that I don't have to buy my service from AOL. However, if I want broadband service, I do have to buy from AT&T. They are the only broadband provider in my neighborhood, no AT&T=dialup. I am just worried that many people might be in the same boat with AOL broadband service--they may not have a choice. Just because they have a choice now with dialup does not ensure that they will have broadband choices, since (right now) they are few and far between. If I had a choice between dialup and AOL cable, of course I would use AOL. However, I would much rather use another ISP, even if AOL-Time Warner owned the cable plant. This is what the government is trying to ensure. I have no idea why you would take AOL's side on this, obviously the consumer will have it better if there is more competition in the broadband market.
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Fiber to the home is already happening around here, but I think it is only 10Mb/s.
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Since when does AOL cut back on production and raise prices, forcing consumers to pay more for the same product?
Ummm, I don't know about production, but didn't AOL raise their prices? I believe they cost ~22.95/mo. compared to 19.95/mo. for a conventional dialup ISP (i.e. Earthlink, MSN, etc.). They claim they provide "extra content", but really what they want is to trap people who are interested in finding out about this newfangled "internet" in their own private shopping mall. They are leveraging their stranglehold on the dialup ISP market into providing more shopping and revenue. Many AOLers don't even know what the internet actually is, they think the internet consists of AOL's flashy shopping mall. AOL leveraging their ISP business into providing content, in addition to Time Warner's very large media presence is what have government officials very worried about the possibility of a monopoly. AOL thinks they own the internet, and many of their subscribers agree, because they don't know any better.
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Do the world a favor! ( Educate || Slap ) an AOLer today!!
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I see the same thing happening with the Time Warner-AOL deal. Eventually they will relent and agree to open their networks, but when it comes time for them to actually lease a line to a competing ISP, I wager they will balk. They will argue there are technical problems, or claim the other ISP is being unreasonable, or just sell the line for an outrageous price that would make it impossible to make a profit. Whatever the case, don't count on open access very soon, it just isn't in AOL or Time Warner's best interest.
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Yes, they provide digital outputs on full size units, but that is not what I want. If I wanted to lug the full size deck around, I might as well just take a computer and get full PCM audio rather than the compressed audio that a minidisc offers. You say "The portable ones don't - the reason being fairly obvious (why would you need a digital output for a walkman-type application ?)." I explained the real world reason in my post above. I don't want to lug around a full-size deck, I wanted something that was ultra portable. Before I got the MD I would lug a laptop to the show and record with it. It was good (I could get more than 2 tracks as well), but I didn't like having to deal with the extra crap. I got the MD for convienence, but I am disappointed with the output options.
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When you say This is nothing to do with the question of software piracy you're right, because software is not involved, but it is very much a question of music piracy. There are certainly a number of reasons to have digital outputs on a portable player, but there are few reasons not to include them. There is also the SCMS to deal with. A little quote from a MD FAQ:
SCMS stands for "Serial Copy Management System" and is the way copies of digital music are regulated in the consumer market. It is information that is added to the stream of data that contains the music when one makes a digital copy (a "clone"). When making an analog copy only the music is transferred so there is no SCMS, and copying is totally unrestricted.
Now, this is not hard to get around, and "professional" decks allow you to manipulate this feature, but not all struggling bands can afford to spend thousands of dollars on a minidisc deck to do a little recording. I have no intention of copying pre-recorded MDs, so the SCMS does not really affect me, but I included the info to make the point that the industry is VERY concerned about piracy and are doing everything they can to stop it, including not allowing digital output from portable recorders.
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I have problems with the minidisc. The problem is they don't have any digital outputs, not because it is a technical problem, it is because the industry thinks it will cut down on piracy and wouldn't support the standard with digital outputs. What this boils down to is I can't use my minidisc for the purpose that I bought it (recording live performances by a band for which I mix audio). In addition, it doesn't work with my fancy sound card, because the card only has digital inputs and outputs. I can take a digital signal out of my computer into the minidisc, but if I want to record a show on the MD, I have to transfer it into the computer through an analog sound card, compromising my audio quality with a DA->AD->DA conversion. This new standard sounds like it might be a little better in the digital arena. Since it supports the current CD format, we can use the players we already have to extract digital data from the disc. However, I don't understand why we need a new format, CDs hold quite a bit of data, and as soon as DVD-RWs come down in price I think we will be moving in that direction. Although the new tech is exciting, I don't think it will fly in the face of the technololgies that we already use.
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It sounds like you have something wrong with the configuration. I use a RedHat 6.2 box that mounts Win2k AS shares just fine. Instead of the smbclient command, try this: //server/share /some/mount/point
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Make sure you have generated the smbpasswd file on the Linux side (consult the Samba documentation).
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The first crew is scheduled to launch at the end of this month (Oct. 30). They are going up in a russian rocket, I imagine NASA wouldn't let our boys ride in it if they thought it might explode (at least I hope not). Go to: http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/10/11/russia.sp ace.ap/index.html for more information. (Hope /. doesn't mangle this URL)
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It seems everything that Intel is doing lately is FAILING miserably. The high-profile problems keep cropping up (i.e. the 820 chipset, the 1.13 ghz PIII, etc.) They are full of promises about faster hardware, but they don't seem to deliver very well. AMD is getting great yields and gaining market share, I think Intel is running scared and are releasing things (either chips or press releases talking about chips) way faster than they should. As soon as the business market figures out AMD is making good products and that AMD chips are not the second-rate, unstable things that they used to be I think they will take a larger cut of Intel's market share than they are now. We all should be overjoyed at this newfound competieion in the processor market, it has brought prices down and speeds up more quickly than would of happened if Intel still was the dominant it used to be. However, it means that errata that used to be fixed before release are shipping with chips because they want the chips on the market faster. Their attitude is usually "oh, we'll fix that in the next stepping". I am glad they are delaying the release so they can fix the problem, rather than just releasing the chip as-is, as they have done in the past.
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I don't think it is the box that is the problem, usually the pipe is full before the box starts even ticking over.
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/. really needs to start notifying sites when they print up a story about them, this one has already been slashdotted and the story has only been up for a little while. If we could tell them beforehand, perhaps they could brace for the onslaught.
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Another case for the use of the preview button :-)
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This certainly is a misguided and bigoted response. You talk of lowering taxes by sending these workers to their home countries, I would wager that H1B workers have a higher salary than the average, paying more taxes, therefore the tax burden would actually rise, not fall. These people don't "deserve help and respect beacuse [they] are a minority", they deserve simple prudence on what the impact to society and induviduals may be. Judging from the hatred and ignorance of your post, I think I would much rather have H1B visa holders working with me than be forced to work with you.
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I am not a big fan of the H1B program, but to just kick them out after they have given six years of their lives to help support our economy smacks of facism. These people are hard-working, smart (that's why they got the visa in the first place) and a great contribution to our society. I realize a visa is intended to be a temporary thing, but I see no reason to deport the good people we have a bring in a crop of new recruits. It just doesn't make sense to fire your workforce and start from scratch.
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