And the most important thing about actual printed books in my opinion is that they can be read ANYWHERE. I wouldn't want to take a laptop while taking a long hot bath nor while sitting on the john.
i think the reason for this, as someone else has pointed out, was that the developers had to BUY an OS just to port the product and the fee was related to that.
As much as I dislike the Microsoft business practices, I wouldn't say they abused Kerberos. They worked within the letter of the spec alltough I think the Kerberos team was expecting whomever used the ability to extend it would release that information back to the public.
A few reboots per month perhaps, if you really stretch the system and write strange code Okay maybe I'm the only one but explain to me why I should have to reboot my machine for anything OTHER than a new kernel or to add new hardware? People have become used to rebooting machines to fix problems. Reboot == downtime. It's that simple. Downtime means less productivity. Unless of course you like using a forced reboot to justify another smoke break or something. It's like our lab here. We have a lab full of win2k machines for some of the tests we do. I noticed at the new login screen it actually provides "HELP" for using ctrl-alt-delete. I would gather at this point most people know exactly what a ctrl-alt-delete is. They've been using Windows long enough now. This isn't intended to be an anti-MS post but I've had to deal with alot of MS bs since I got back from India and it really has me frustrated.
The pdf writer plugin does the same thing. When we deliver documents to our clients like finished test plan results, all the people here do a print to pdf (they think word is actually GOOD for technical documentation).
I hate to disagree (but that won't stop me;>) but I think that SAM (HP-UX) is a much better admin tool than SMIT. Of course I'm biased as H(ockey)PUX was the first unix with which I worked. SMIT *IS* a nice admin tool and second on my list. Sun's admintool is at the very bottom;)
Didn't Jackyl have a video where they taped on the back of semi trailer flatbed? Cause I think they filmed that down the street from my house in high school.
I was thinking the same thing. I've always been a fan of hers but in this speech she addressed the problems with napster *AND* the RIAA in wonderful form. Finally an artist who had something (or something scripted) that was intelligent to say.
This little diatribe has all the cordiality of a US/Russia cold war period meeting:
4 MR. GARBUS: It occurs to me, 5 Mr. Gold, that you just might have an 6 objection if I ask for that file. 7 MR. GOLD: I think I would. 8 Although you might have been so amazingly 9 clever I wouldn't have recognized it. I 10 gave him a compliment and I think it 11 deserves to be on the record.
My opinion is that the water and power problems (which happened at least twice daily in Bangalore) are due to the government's greed. If they would open up infrastructure to commercial companies then maybe these things would cease to be an issue.
I just got back from India after a 3 week business trip recruiting technical candidates. I met some of the most amazing men and women there. One group that still has my attention is a group of people who are working on a project sponsored by the government to basically build the Indian version of arpanet. 6 major cities connected, then 16 minor cities connected to those major and then 32 outlaying cities connected to the minor ones and so on outward. My only gripe about India during the trip (despite the heat in New Dehli and the traffic in Bangalore) was the poor quality of internet access and extortionate phone charges levied by the government. The hotels I stayed at (Le Merdien) were charged Rs 150 just to get a dialtone by the government. I used my calling card the entire time to dial into the US for ISP access because it was faster, more reliable and cheaper than dialing locally.
To all the slashdotters in India, I can't wait to come back and see more of the country.
P.S. For some pictures of the trip if you are interested check out this link.
I actually heard about Zyan on 99x before Telocity so I signed up with them. I have been nothing but happy. I use them for two dsl lines here at the office (one northpoint, one covad) and I have a 1.1M SDSL at home (covad) and have been nothing but happy with them. There were a few slow spots here and there during the install but nothing major since then. They even provided me with contact numbers at Northpoint AND Covad when I asked. I haven't had to use them yet but it's nice to know.
Your main problem is using Flashcom. They have the reputation as one of the worst DSL providers in the country. Don't take this is flamebait or a troll but check out the reports on dslreports.com. I looked there before I got my DSL line. As far as dealing with 3rd party, I have lines through both Covad and Northpoint. I've had problems with both of them. I think it quite honestly is the nature of the beast at this point. DSL providers are horendously slammed with new orders and I fear that at some point they will need to put a moratorium on new orders and catch up any outstanding calls they have at this point.
This probably goes without saying but if 50% of the population were stealing from the other 50% does that mean stealing needs to be legal? Mob mentality and majority rules does NOT always make something right.
does this actually stop malformed or otherwise decided to be bad by policy network data? it seems to claim that each entire packet can be scanned for arbitrarily defined "evil data
Wouldn't that be a feature of any stateful inspection proxy? Or am I misinterpreting staeful inspection.
errr unless I'm mistaken (and I could be as the heat in India has fried my brain at this point) but isn't that what OSPF,BGP,EIGRP et al are for? The only problem with those is that you have to cooperate with your provider to set that up.
Unfortunatly at the company I work for we run exchange. As far as OWA goes it won't do anything until you run it. Depending on your IE settings it will ask you when you click on the attachment to open it from here or save to a file. of course the obvious choice is to save to disk but that would require thought from most people.
Jon, I am usually one of the people that supports your opinions for the most part. There have been a few times (regarding religion) where I disagree and this is one of them. I am all for anonimity on the internet but lately I have been struggling with people who claim anonimity as the cure all and anything otherwise is an invasion of privacy. I am truly tired of people not taking responsibility for thier own actions. I understand that most of these people on napster are high school kids or college students but enough is enough.
I use napster. All the time. I want to hear an album before i buy it. I want to know if all the songs are what I want to hear or just one good song. Eight times out of ten I buy the album if I like it enough. I have no problem paying for stuff. Not if it's worth it. But there are people who have completely stopped buying cds and are flocking in droves to napster to download album after album with no concern for the artists welfare. I used to be one of those people. To some extent I am. Maybe it's because I'm getting older but some things are just wrong. Mp3's in and of themselves are not illegal ( despite what the RIAA says ) but copyrighted music being distributed via mp3 without the sanction of the artist IS. There is no way around this. Whatever you think about copyright laws, it is just plain illegal.
Stop trying to get something for nothing. Grow up and take some fucking responsibility for your actions. When i was a child i spake as a child and all that.
And for those of you thinking I'm trying to make a point about opensourse software with that last comment about something for nothing you can blow it up your ass. I'm a rabid opensource advocate but this is something completely different. Don't read more into it. Flames and comments welcome.
I'll be damned I didn't know that. I've been crimping cable for ages and had NEVER heard that. Blame it on the person who taught me. Is that a commonly known fact or something that an engineer would only know? I'll be sure to pay attention to that next time. Is it just on cheaper cable or on all cable? I just bought two 1000ft spools of some high dollar stuff.
I know what you are saying about standard colors for pairs but I actually had a guy tell me once while he was making a patch cable for me that the colors HAD to be in this particular order. I told him electrons don't give a shit about colors. heh.
Luckily I don't even need a rebroadcaster. My cd player (a sony) in my car has a 3 1/2 female jack on the face of it for the purpose of piping something else in. Kinda nice that way. The issue I would have with a rebroadcaster is how much degredation happens with the sound? I don't have a killer soundsystem in my car for nothing.
I sent an email similar to this not long after the site changed over. My argument was that the lyrics were user contributed and gleaned from sources such as newsgroups. I told them thier java applet hung a bit and efectively locked out some alternative platform users. Pretty much the same argument as yours.
Let's just say I'll be using this russian site from now on.
greatly increased the threat My god I didn't even notice that. I sort of tune out when that bile spews from the mouth of the MPAA attorneys. Since when did a threat cause justification for this sort of thing? I can understand in the case of murder and what not but gun manufacturers aren't being taken down because guns increase the threat of violent crimes. This may not be the best example so please avoid all NRA type arguments for now and try and see the point I want to make here.
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And the most important thing about actual printed books in my opinion is that they can be read ANYWHERE. I wouldn't want to take a laptop while taking a long hot bath nor while sitting on the john.
i think the reason for this, as someone else has pointed out, was that the developers had to BUY an OS just to port the product and the fee was related to that.
As much as I dislike the Microsoft business practices, I wouldn't say they abused Kerberos. They worked within the letter of the spec alltough I think the Kerberos team was expecting whomever used the ability to extend it would release that information back to the public.
Here here! although guiness is Irish ;)
A few reboots per month perhaps, if you really stretch the system and write strange code Okay maybe I'm the only one but explain to me why I should have to reboot my machine for anything OTHER than a new kernel or to add new hardware? People have become used to rebooting machines to fix problems. Reboot == downtime. It's that simple. Downtime means less productivity. Unless of course you like using a forced reboot to justify another smoke break or something. It's like our lab here. We have a lab full of win2k machines for some of the tests we do. I noticed at the new login screen it actually provides "HELP" for using ctrl-alt-delete. I would gather at this point most people know exactly what a ctrl-alt-delete is. They've been using Windows long enough now. This isn't intended to be an anti-MS post but I've had to deal with alot of MS bs since I got back from India and it really has me frustrated.
The pdf writer plugin does the same thing. When we deliver documents to our clients like finished test plan results, all the people here do a print to pdf (they think word is actually GOOD for technical documentation).
I hate to disagree (but that won't stop me ;>) but I think that SAM (HP-UX) is a much better admin tool than SMIT. Of course I'm biased as H(ockey)PUX was the first unix with which I worked. SMIT *IS* a nice admin tool and second on my list. Sun's admintool is at the very bottom ;)
HAHAHAHA
Didn't Jackyl have a video where they taped on the back of semi trailer flatbed? Cause I think they filmed that down the street from my house in high school.
I was thinking the same thing. I've always been a fan of hers but in this speech she addressed the problems with napster *AND* the RIAA in wonderful form. Finally an artist who had something (or something scripted) that was intelligent to say.
4 MR. GARBUS: It occurs to me,
5 Mr. Gold, that you just might have an
6 objection if I ask for that file.
7 MR. GOLD: I think I would.
8 Although you might have been so amazingly
9 clever I wouldn't have recognized it. I
10 gave him a compliment and I think it
11 deserves to be on the record.
My opinion is that the water and power problems (which happened at least twice daily in Bangalore) are due to the government's greed. If they would open up infrastructure to commercial companies then maybe these things would cease to be an issue.
To all the slashdotters in India, I can't wait to come back and see more of the country.
P.S. For some pictures of the trip if you are interested check out this link.
I actually heard about Zyan on 99x before Telocity so I signed up with them. I have been nothing but happy. I use them for two dsl lines here at the office (one northpoint, one covad) and I have a 1.1M SDSL at home (covad) and have been nothing but happy with them. There were a few slow spots here and there during the install but nothing major since then. They even provided me with contact numbers at Northpoint AND Covad when I asked. I haven't had to use them yet but it's nice to know.
Your main problem is using Flashcom. They have the reputation as one of the worst DSL providers in the country. Don't take this is flamebait or a troll but check out the reports on dslreports.com. I looked there before I got my DSL line. As far as dealing with 3rd party, I have lines through both Covad and Northpoint. I've had problems with both of them. I think it quite honestly is the nature of the beast at this point. DSL providers are horendously slammed with new orders and I fear that at some point they will need to put a moratorium on new orders and catch up any outstanding calls they have at this point.
This probably goes without saying but if 50% of the population were stealing from the other 50% does that mean stealing needs to be legal? Mob mentality and majority rules does NOT always make something right.
does this actually stop malformed or otherwise decided to be bad by policy network data? it seems to claim that each entire packet can be scanned for arbitrarily defined "evil data
Wouldn't that be a feature of any stateful inspection proxy? Or am I misinterpreting staeful inspection.
errr unless I'm mistaken (and I could be as the heat in India has fried my brain at this point) but isn't that what OSPF,BGP,EIGRP et al are for? The only problem with those is that you have to cooperate with your provider to set that up.
Unfortunatly at the company I work for we run exchange. As far as OWA goes it won't do anything until you run it. Depending on your IE settings it will ask you when you click on the attachment to open it from here or save to a file. of course the obvious choice is to save to disk but that would require thought from most people.
I hope you were being funny but as a matter of fact Limp Bizkit *IS* going on a napster sponsored tour this summer.
Jon,
I am usually one of the people that supports your opinions for the most part. There have been a few times (regarding religion) where I disagree and this is one of them.
I am all for anonimity on the internet but lately I have been struggling with people who claim anonimity as the cure all and anything otherwise is an invasion of privacy. I am truly tired of people not taking responsibility for thier own actions. I understand that most of these people on napster are high school kids or college students but enough is enough.
I use napster. All the time. I want to hear an album before i buy it. I want to know if all the songs are what I want to hear or just one good song. Eight times out of ten I buy the album if I like it enough. I have no problem paying for stuff. Not if it's worth it. But there are people who have completely stopped buying cds and are flocking in droves to napster to download album after album with no concern for the artists welfare. I used to be one of those people. To some extent I am. Maybe it's because I'm getting older but some things are just wrong. Mp3's in and of themselves are not illegal ( despite what the RIAA says ) but copyrighted music being distributed via mp3 without the sanction of the artist IS. There is no way around this. Whatever you think about copyright laws, it is just plain illegal.
Stop trying to get something for nothing. Grow up and take some fucking responsibility for your actions. When i was a child i spake as a child and all that.
And for those of you thinking I'm trying to make a point about opensourse software with that last comment about something for nothing you can blow it up your ass. I'm a rabid opensource advocate but this is something completely different. Don't read more into it. Flames and comments welcome.
I'll be damned I didn't know that. I've been crimping cable for ages and had NEVER heard that. Blame it on the person who taught me. Is that a commonly known fact or something that an engineer would only know? I'll be sure to pay attention to that next time. Is it just on cheaper cable or on all cable? I just bought two 1000ft spools of some high dollar stuff.
I know what you are saying about standard colors for pairs but I actually had a guy tell me once while he was making a patch cable for me that the colors HAD to be in this particular order. I told him electrons don't give a shit about colors. heh.
Luckily I don't even need a rebroadcaster. My cd player (a sony) in my car has a 3 1/2 female jack on the face of it for the purpose of piping something else in. Kinda nice that way. The issue I would have with a rebroadcaster is how much degredation happens with the sound? I don't have a killer soundsystem in my car for nothing.
I sent an email similar to this not long after the site changed over. My argument was that the lyrics were user contributed and gleaned from sources such as newsgroups. I told them thier java applet hung a bit and efectively locked out some alternative platform users. Pretty much the same argument as yours.
Let's just say I'll be using this russian site from now on.
greatly increased the threat My god I didn't even notice that. I sort of tune out when that bile spews from the mouth of the MPAA attorneys. Since when did a threat cause justification for this sort of thing? I can understand in the case of murder and what not but gun manufacturers aren't being taken down because guns increase the threat of violent crimes. This may not be the best example so please avoid all NRA type arguments for now and try and see the point I want to make here.