Do you even know what a heirarchical name space is? A flat name space? No. You are just a complete fuckwit mouthing off about something you know nothing about.
And what wanker moderators gave this tosspot a score of 5?
If you want to see what *should* be done with the DNS system have a look at the following link:
They're pinging everything to see what's out there? Well. I think we should show them. Make it easier for them and all that.
Everybody ping them back and run traceroutes to their systems.
Go on, ping www.quova.com today.:)
I said as much months ago.
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Look.
The current generation of phones are pretty crap for accessing the internet. WAP just doesn't cut it. The phone manufacturers know this. They've known for years. They have a new generation of phones on the way (in production, not just design) with large screens and high bandwidth (faster than modem) network connections. More like PDAs than phones.
The networks behind these phones are going in to Europe as I type and will be available as soon as they can get their marketing arses into gear.
WAP is dead. No point in re-engineering everything towards it.
Nah, they've no idea what they're doing. You could replace them with an expect script and be more effective. Automate the whole process.
Basically the moral is, take care of basic security. Get rid of stuff you don't need on the box. Use tcpd. stop and comment out all unneeded services from inetd.conf.
You know, the 'Committee for the fiscal stability of America' sort of thing. Where they are made up of 'grass roots' support and not really just fund raising fronts.
The media of the future is going to be/. or maybe K5 like systems. I already get far more *useful* information from/. and K5. It'll spread to the general populace.
Course, there's a load of junk here too but at least you have the chance to get rid of some of it.
Next it'll be rats, spiders, snakes, ants and women. Then we'll all be living in a real live B movie. Actually, come to think of it, giant mutant women might be quite interesting.
The report talks about privacy and the fact that connections are logged with connection times, IP addresses etc etc.
Only an administrator who was out of his mind would not log everything possible. It's specifically designed to allow the admin to check that there is nothing amiss. Yes and the logs are backed up and stored for years as well.
I could see his bloody point if he was complaining about plaintext passwords and unencrypted sessions but not about logging.
And WHY do I have to keep turning off this bloody No score thing? Why isn't it turned off by default?
You saw what happened to Mozilla. Open Sourcing something isn't a panacea.
ERP applications are an order of magnitude larger and more complex than things like Mozilla. It'd take years just to get up to speed with the existing code. If the Open Source developer was even able to do it at all.
Plus, the problems that Baan have aren't even to do with the system at all. They have been caught by the latest 'corporate fashion' for Oracle.
Corporate ERP systems are 'd'rigueur'. You'll find that any large corporation has multiple projects in multiple departments on the go to change the current particular ERP system to some other particular ERP system. Then they change them back again in 18 months.
I'm glad this is happening. I reckon that the DOJ and the MMC in the UK should allow a minimum number of major players in any particular market. Say 3 or 4. Stop mergers and acquisitions which would cause this number to be reduced but otherwise keep out of it.
It would keep em at each others throats, keep the prices down and encourage open standards.
Ok, we have the worlds most expensive meccano set gradually being built and bolted together.
Do we know what we're going to do with it once it's in place? Nope.
It's just a case of meccano envy. The Russians have a large meccano set in space (gradually falling apart but there) and the Americans want one too except they can't afford it and got the Russians and everyone else to help build it.
You have to remember that these will be initial run motherboards. They won't have the volume in place and we'll still be paying for the initial development costs.
The same will also be true of the POP PPC motherboards that should be available soon. The initial runs will be expensive.
If they can get the volumes up then the price will become more reasonable. Will they compete with AMD/ATX? Don't know but they'll certainly run cooler and consume less power.
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If you implement a web site which 85% of the population can access, the other 15% will simply not use your site. They will use some other site.
Your sales (on a sales oriented web site) will only be 85% of what they what they would be if 100% of the population could access the site.
Now, how many companies can afford to throw away 15% of sales just because a site designer is incompetent?
BTW. I dispute the 85% figure. My stats are closer to 70/30.
I thought that the licensing stuff was to do with the use of the radio bandwidth rather than the fact that content is being sent to consumer.
If this is the case then WTF do they think they have the right to try to license streaming over the internet.
Someone enlighten me please?
Do you even know what a heirarchical name space is? A flat name space? No. You are just a complete fuckwit mouthing off about something you know nothing about.
And what wanker moderators gave this tosspot a score of 5?
If you want to see what *should* be done with the DNS system have a look at the following link:
http://www.yelm.freeserve.co.uk/dns/
They use the bog standard normal protocols pal.
http://www.yelm.freeserve.co.uk/spamido/
Add a centralised LDAP server that can be used to check the senders address and spammers will be put out of business big time.
Spamido - The art of turning a spammers strength against them.
http://www.yelm.freeserve.co.uk/spamido/
They're pinging everything to see what's out there? Well. I think we should show them. Make it easier for them and all that.
:)
Everybody ping them back and run traceroutes to their systems.
Go on, ping www.quova.com today.
Look.
The current generation of phones are pretty crap for accessing the internet. WAP just doesn't cut it. The phone manufacturers know this. They've known for years. They have a new generation of phones on the way (in production, not just design) with large screens and high bandwidth (faster than modem) network connections. More like PDAs than phones.
The networks behind these phones are going in to Europe as I type and will be available as soon as they can get their marketing arses into gear.
WAP is dead. No point in re-engineering everything towards it.
Nah, they've no idea what they're doing. You could replace them with an expect script and be more effective. Automate the whole process.
Basically the moral is, take care of basic security. Get rid of stuff you don't need on the box. Use tcpd. stop and comment out all unneeded services from inetd.conf.
Just take basic security measures.
Helium's biggest two assets are:
You know, the 'Committee for the fiscal stability of America' sort of thing. Where they are made up of 'grass roots' support and not really just fund raising fronts.
The media of the future is going to be /. or maybe K5 like systems. I already get far more *useful* information from /. and K5. It'll spread to the general populace.
Course, there's a load of junk here too but at least you have the chance to get rid of some of it.
Next it'll be rats, spiders, snakes, ants and women. Then we'll all be living in a real live B movie. Actually, come to think of it, giant mutant women might be quite interesting.
The report talks about privacy and the fact that connections are logged with connection times, IP addresses etc etc.
Only an administrator who was out of his mind would not log everything possible. It's specifically designed to allow the admin to check that there is nothing amiss. Yes and the logs are backed up and stored for years as well.
I could see his bloody point if he was complaining about plaintext passwords and unencrypted sessions but not about logging.
And WHY do I have to keep turning off this bloody No score thing? Why isn't it turned off by default?
So why are they using Power CPUs rather than say the latest MIPS? I haven't seen the latest Power stuff but MIPS has been screaming lately.
What's with this +1 bonus stuff anyway? Who asked for it and why do I have to explicitly turn it off?
It'll never be as fast as MySQL unless the MySQL guys start building all sorts of additional functionality in.
I'd rather have the option.
PosgreSQL is by far the more advanced database engine. No question. MySQL is by far the faster of the two.
The reason that MySQL is by far the faster is that PosgreSQL is by far the more advanced.
If you try to make MySQL as advanced as PostgreSQL you will slow it down to the point where it is no faster.
Stop trying to compare them. They do DIFFERENT JOBS.
You saw what happened to Mozilla. Open Sourcing something isn't a panacea.
ERP applications are an order of magnitude larger and more complex than things like Mozilla. It'd take years just to get up to speed with the existing code. If the Open Source developer was even able to do it at all.
Plus, the problems that Baan have aren't even to do with the system at all. They have been caught by the latest 'corporate fashion' for Oracle.
Corporate ERP systems are 'd'rigueur'. You'll find that any large corporation has multiple projects in multiple departments on the go to change the current particular ERP system to some other particular ERP system. Then they change them back again in 18 months.
Baan is no longer fashionable.
I'm glad this is happening. I reckon that the DOJ and the MMC in the UK should allow a minimum number of major players in any particular market. Say 3 or 4. Stop mergers and acquisitions which would cause this number to be reduced but otherwise keep out of it.
It would keep em at each others throats, keep the prices down and encourage open standards.
You'll have to become Bill Gates's towel boy to use them!
Ok, we have the worlds most expensive meccano set gradually being built and bolted together.
Do we know what we're going to do with it once it's in place? Nope.
It's just a case of meccano envy. The Russians have a large meccano set in space (gradually falling apart but there) and the Americans want one too except they can't afford it and got the Russians and everyone else to help build it.
You have to remember that these will be initial run motherboards. They won't have the volume in place and we'll still be paying for the initial development costs.
The same will also be true of the POP PPC motherboards that should be available soon. The initial runs will be expensive.
If they can get the volumes up then the price will become more reasonable. Will they compete with AMD/ATX? Don't know but they'll certainly run cooler and consume less power.
No you don't know what you're talking about so just shut up and go RTFM.
Come back and talk when you DO know what you are talking about.
http://www.icann.org/mbx/
But on the bright side. He need never be sick ever again.