Option 3 Perl or similar launguage scripts that get run to parse the old file, and copy out customized settings...and reslove changes, deprecations, and additions that have occured....
Come on this is what Perl is ment to do after all.
I am not a regualr user...and 128 is not enough by a long shot...
Thats whats wrong with the whole damn universe... people who support the cable company screwing the users who need/want a little...saying "oh whatever you give us is fine with me"...for your information I use my account to push around alot of content for stuff I am working on with friends, and 128 is just not sufficent for the size of the files we work on....its got NOTHING to do with running servers...and honestly if I want too, I oughta be able too any way....
Business accounts cost are NOT justifed by what I need to do...they should have non-business, power user accounts I am willing to pay for for what I want, however $110 for an extra 256k upload is completely insane....
The only thing I would change....
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...about slackware is what I would change about most linux distros I have used...
Upgrades do not work as smoothly as they ought to work needs to go into some code in the upgradepkg utility that can migrate the settings, rather than plopping down a new copy of the file and saying you might have to look at it....
Gentoo, my other favorite distrobution suffers from the same problem...
And yes I know if I really want this feature I oughta code it myself and submit patches etc.... I'm to lazy, and my real job takes more time tahn I'd like, so between work and having a life I just haven't got the time...OK...OK
While I applaud my cable company for this change, I have many cautions in mind when thinking about...the Charter network is already bandwidth poor...now we are going to be encouraging downloads of Music and such....Ouch!
They recently(March), dropped everyones upload speeds on the network to 128, where as many customers (me) used to get 512 or higher...this is not a good sign for a company planning to add aditional digital services....
Ok, from his discriptions in the article...I highly doubt that there really is infringement going on...
Lets face it there only only so many ways you can write a procees scheduler, or a memory manager, or a stack, etc...in the end the same problems demand the smae or similar solutions....
Unless they can proven the code was lifted outright...same variable names, macro's and such (which how can they realistically prove, since thier source isn't open for all we know they have changed portions of the SCO code Unix code to match the stuff thats public knowledge in the Linux Kernel code)...
...except its nearly impoosible to set one up when you only have a single IP for your domain... I know there are tricks, one can play but i have yet to see one that works acceptably...or am I not reading the right HOWTO's...
My domain is hosted on the single IP I get from my cable modem. My DNS/WEB/Mail/etc are all hosted on the box connected to that cable modem... so if a reverse DNS is required to get mail from me, I guess its impossible for me to send mail to such a system, because I have yet to get the DNS server to reverse map me correctly...I've tried...
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That is exactly what I meant in my comment...if they all get their way I can't even compile my own software....
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I shouldn't even have to enter in to such a situation... Media has been unencrypted for 1000's of years...why does advancement of technology mean it needs to be....?
I think Linus Missed the Point....
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Signing the Kernel sources or even the Binary...No problem....
Making the Kernel Compliant so that it will refuse to let certain media types run because the OS/System doesn't have the secret key to that media type...NOT OK...
The Preblem is in the furture inorder for some media types to run in the future to run public/private key stuff is going to hace to happen...however how can that happen in an OS kernel whose source code is public...the private key is then exposed to the world, which the media people who want this crap will never stand for...it could be wrapped up in a shared lib...but that violates everything OSS stands for...
DRM for the kernel to run on hardware which requires a signed binary is OK, I suppose although how do you control that since if I complie up my own kernel I need to sign it somehow to get it to run on my protected hardware, which means I have the ability to sign any binary to make it run on protected hardware...including a virus...and also I don't see myself spending 100's to 1000's of dollars to aquire the right to make binaries that run on my own computer....which is really where this discussion ultimately heads...
Its a legal music Mafia...perhaps if the US government would work up the balls to start looking into the RIAA and the Music Companies, and realizing that, the music fan might make some progress. RIAA, and the Music companies need to be tried in the same courts, with the same laws as the Organized crime, because it is organized crime...unfortunately its organized crime that owns Congressmen....
Musicians are the Whores and the RIAA is the Pimp...
I would prefer to pay musicians directly for their music personally...in my opinion 50% of the cost of that CD I just bought ought to be ending up in the Musicians Pocket....
I don't think this is the answer...not by a long shot...
A better way would be to reduce the price of CD's so more people will by them...and not care what the hell they do with them after the sale.
The prices for CD's are insane these days and they don't have to be. Places like Newbury Comics in New England where CD's are deeply discounted prove it...
a little Compare for prices:
At the large Music chains the latest Linkin Park disc "Meteora(Special Edition)" is approx $26.99 sale price since it was just released (observed this past weekend at Stawberries, Sam Goody, and HMV) At Best Buy it was $19.99 a bit better... At Newbury Comics $16.99 a $10 discount! Which by the way is still $3.00 less than the majors are charging for the standard edition of the disc.
I digress...
The Point is that I firmly believe that the high price of CD's is part of the probelm, and a firm solution will only come from a lower per unit cost. CD's are product, file sharing is advirtising, I'd much rather own a perfect copy that hasn't been distorted in the ripping process(although.ogg helps to avoid distortion for the real music fan) I also believe that CD's are an advirtisement of a sort as well the final product is the concert, which I don't think musicians take in its proper context these days...but thats a whole other discussion.
Posters/Slashdot moderators....when posting a NYtimes link change the www to archive it avoids the whole registration thing...much easier and better for the users....
Its important to rememeber that MS has been working on AD for a long time, when NT4.0 shipped the project to build AD had already started. Infact at one point they even planned to ship it as an add-on to NT4.0. They had to create alot of the AD, before people had really beguan to put alot of effort into other x.500 standards...
I would go the route of being a tree(or as you put it subdomain) within their active directory forest. If they built their AD correctly in the first place it should be a snap to make your NT Domain part of their forest. In fact its even easier now with the release of Server 2003, if makes the whole relationship much more robust, and allows established domains to easily join the forest....
Why this solution is Ideal... 1. You still own your domain, and have complete control as you always have. 2. The larger entity, also has control since they are higher up, any thing at their level can flow down to you as an integrated entity, if need be... 3. An OU's purpose is not to for containing entire subdivions of a company as your relationship seems to be...an OU is just that Organizational Unit...so you divide your domain up into the company departments with them.... 4. This will become especially important for using SMS if you folks desire...particularly if you impliment SMS 2003, or whatever the next version beyond 2.0 ends up getting called since its heavily AD oriented...
Only other questions, e-mail me, we have been down all these roads here, and can probably provide insights if you wish...
I wonder if its not the fact that W3C has done the right thing with the new working draft pretty much banning licensing of patented tech in web standards....:>
A company that we contract work out to, called IIS(dumb name)...got spanked for $1 Million because of their MP3 server. Moral of the story: Don't do it!
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Option 3 Perl or similar launguage scripts that get run to parse the old file, and copy out customized settings...and reslove changes, deprecations, and additions that have occured....
Come on this is what Perl is ment to do after all.
I am not a regualr user...and 128 is not enough by a long shot...
Thats whats wrong with the whole damn universe...
people who support the cable company screwing the users who need/want a little...saying "oh whatever you give us is fine with me"...for your information I use my account to push around alot of content for stuff I am working on with friends, and 128 is just not sufficent for the size of the files we work on....its got NOTHING to do with running servers...and honestly if I want too, I oughta be able too any way....
Business accounts cost are NOT justifed by what I need to do...they should have non-business, power user accounts I am willing to pay for for what I want, however $110 for an extra 256k upload is completely insane....
...about slackware is what I would change about most linux distros I have used...
Upgrades do not work as smoothly as they ought to
work needs to go into some code in the upgradepkg utility that can migrate the settings, rather than plopping down a new copy of the file and saying you might have to look at it....
Gentoo, my other favorite distrobution suffers from the same problem...
And yes I know if I really want this feature I oughta code it myself and submit patches etc....
I'm to lazy, and my real job takes more time tahn I'd like, so between work and having a life I just haven't got the time...OK...OK
On Charter's bandwidth poor network...
While I applaud my cable company for this change, I have many cautions in mind when thinking about...the Charter network is already bandwidth poor...now we are going to be encouraging downloads of Music and such....Ouch!
They recently(March), dropped everyones upload speeds on the network to 128, where as many customers (me) used to get 512 or higher...this is not a good sign for a company planning to add aditional digital services....
Patenting an AI is UN-Ethical in my view....
When I am not working on my computer life, I write...Fantasy/Sci-FI
Ok, from his discriptions in the article...I highly doubt that there really is infringement going on...
Lets face it there only only so many ways you can write a procees scheduler, or a memory manager, or a stack, etc...in the end the same problems demand the smae or similar solutions....
Unless they can proven the code was lifted outright...same variable names, macro's and such (which how can they realistically prove, since thier source isn't open for all we know they have changed portions of the SCO code Unix code to match the stuff thats public knowledge in the Linux Kernel code)...
All my machines are connected together in my house with SAMBA. Gives all my machines, UNIX and Windows a common user space file system....
...except its nearly impoosible to set one up when you only have a single IP for your domain...
I know there are tricks, one can play but i have yet to see one that works acceptably...or am I not reading the right HOWTO's...
My domain is hosted on the single IP I get from my cable modem. My DNS/WEB/Mail/etc are all hosted on the box connected to that cable modem...
so if a reverse DNS is required to get mail from me, I guess its impossible for me to send mail to such a system, because I have yet to get the DNS server to reverse map me correctly...I've tried...
That is exactly what I meant in my comment...if they all get their way I can't even compile my own software....
I shouldn't even have to enter in to such a situation...
Media has been unencrypted for 1000's of years...why does advancement of technology mean it needs to be....?
Signing the Kernel sources or even the Binary...No problem....
Making the Kernel Compliant so that it will refuse to let certain media types run because the OS/System doesn't have the secret key to that media type...NOT OK...
The Preblem is in the furture inorder for some media types to run in the future to run public/private key stuff is going to hace to happen...however how can that happen in an OS kernel whose source code is public...the private key is then exposed to the world, which the media people who want this crap will never stand for...it could be wrapped up in a shared lib...but that violates everything OSS stands for...
DRM for the kernel to run on hardware which requires a signed binary is OK, I suppose although how do you control that since if I complie up my own kernel I need to sign it somehow to get it to run on my protected hardware, which means I have the ability to sign any binary to make it run on protected hardware...including a virus...and also I don't see myself spending 100's to 1000's of dollars to aquire the right to make binaries that run on my own computer....which is really where this discussion ultimately heads...
its already in development as a live action flick....Card himself wrote the script.
Its a legal music Mafia...perhaps if the US government would work up the balls to start looking into the RIAA and the Music Companies, and realizing that, the music fan might make some progress. RIAA, and the Music companies need to be tried in the same courts, with the same laws as the Organized crime, because it is organized crime...unfortunately its organized crime that owns Congressmen....
Musicians are the Whores and the RIAA is the Pimp...
I would prefer to pay musicians directly for their music personally...in my opinion 50% of the cost of that CD I just bought ought to be ending up in the Musicians Pocket....
I don't think this is the answer...not by a long shot...
.ogg helps to avoid distortion for the real music fan) I also believe that CD's are an advirtisement of a sort as well the final product is the concert, which I don't think musicians take in its proper context these days...but thats a whole other discussion.
A better way would be to reduce the price of CD's so more people will by them...and not care what the hell they do with them after the sale.
The prices for CD's are insane these days and they don't have to be. Places like Newbury Comics in New England where CD's are deeply discounted prove it...
a little Compare for prices:
At the large Music chains the latest Linkin Park disc "Meteora(Special Edition)" is approx $26.99 sale price since it was just released (observed this past weekend at Stawberries, Sam Goody, and HMV)
At Best Buy it was $19.99 a bit better...
At Newbury Comics $16.99 a $10 discount! Which by the way is still $3.00 less than the majors are charging for the standard edition of the disc.
I digress...
The Point is that I firmly believe that the high price of CD's is part of the probelm, and a firm solution will only come from a lower per unit cost. CD's are product, file sharing is advirtising, I'd much rather own a perfect copy that hasn't been distorted in the ripping process(although
I had a Pascal Text book in college, that was riddled with errors. Syntax, logic, bugs, overflows...the code samples were just nasty...
The worst part is it was very appearent that the professor had no idea, since she just rattled off the same mistakes as part of the lecture.
Luckly I had already had Pascal in high school with a good instructor...I flew through the class while others struggled due to the crappy book...
I really hope this was meant as joke, because this guy is so full of shit its coming out his nose...
Posters/Slashdot moderators....when posting a NYtimes link change the www to archive it avoids the whole registration thing...much easier and better for the users....
Thanks....
Its important to rememeber that MS has been working on AD for a long time, when NT4.0 shipped the project to build AD had already started. Infact at one point they even planned to ship it as an add-on to NT4.0. They had to create alot of the AD, before people had really beguan to put alot of effort into other x.500 standards...
I would go the route of being a tree(or as you put it subdomain) within their active directory forest. If they built their AD correctly in the first place it should be a snap to make your NT Domain part of their forest. In fact its even easier now with the release of Server 2003, if makes the whole relationship much more robust, and allows established domains to easily join the forest....
Why this solution is Ideal...
1. You still own your domain, and have complete control as you always have.
2. The larger entity, also has control since they are higher up, any thing at their level can flow down to you as an integrated entity, if need be...
3. An OU's purpose is not to for containing entire subdivions of a company as your relationship seems to be...an OU is just that Organizational Unit...so you divide your domain up into the company departments with them....
4. This will become especially important for using SMS if you folks desire...particularly if you impliment SMS 2003, or whatever the next version beyond 2.0 ends up getting called since its heavily AD oriented...
Only other questions, e-mail me, we have been down all these roads here, and can probably provide insights if you wish...
Access is never the correct solution in the enterprise. Put the data in sql and design a web front end to access, update, and delet data...
Lame---Lame----Lame.....
Where is the lameness filter when we need it....
This year has been worse than most, so many of the stories are soooooo....obviously fake.....
I wonder if its not the fact that W3C has done the right thing with the new working draft pretty much banning licensing of patented tech in web standards....:>
A company that we contract work out to, called IIS(dumb name)...got spanked for $1 Million because of their MP3 server.
Moral of the story: Don't do it!