this guy actually seems like a clone of Theo DeRaadt. an abrasive asshole who insists on acting like a child. I'm sure he busts his ass doing the fink work but he really goes about all this the wrong way. you catch more flies with honey than with SULFURIC ACID.
again, as people told you before in reference to your other incorrect post, you're getting your facts mixed up.
IEEE is not IBM; IEEE is the standards body (not really that, but let's just play along). just like IEEE 1284 is a standard for parallel printer cable interfaces.
It's a bunch of engineering geeks agreeing how the interface should work. apple is their own enhanced version, which they helped to create so it's their wont to do so.
Wow, was it seriously that bad? you seem more on par with how I feel going to these sorts of movies; when someone willing to accept all the usual faults (and to whom bad dubbing is totally transparent and not even a factor) says it sucks, then maybe it does...
if so, that's a shame. I've always admired Jet Li's amazing skills, and I still wish he hadn't passed on the lead role in Crouching Tiger. that role would have much, much more appropriately fit a 3 time Wushu champion than Yun-Fat Chow (who, let's face it, is best in his shoot'em up roles in John Woo films.)
ah well, can't have your almond cookies and eat them too...
oh, I'm a huge fan of his. Fist of Legend is a wonderful flick, as is "The Enforcer" (at least in my opinion.) I think Jet Li is great, and some of his movies really have a plot and some emotional depth to them. just not all of them. I'm still a loyal fan regardless:)
Who *really* sees Jet Li / Jackie Chan / etc movies with any intention of good screen writing, a plot, or any sense of meaning? just enjoy the gags and the moves. if you're poor buy it 3 years later from walmart or steal it or something.
I see every jet li flick I can, even if I know it's going to "suck", because the man is amazing. then again I guess I have low standards, since I don't even pretend to care about the existence of a plot line. bah.
absolutely! you have no idea how those mpeg files build up. err...
actually, I just download a lot of legally purchased MP3s from www.emusic.com, which has some of the best selection of punk, ska, and hardcore out there, as well as tons of other types of music. It's all legally licensed from smaller labels and indies, like epitaph and asian man records, etc. very cool, and you help support your favorite bands financially.
I'm sure that's not what you were looking for, but that's your fault not mine:)
40G is not enough. something with at least 100 or 200 GB is more appropriate... maybe mirrored as well to ensure data safety. I'd hate to lose my 90GB of music due to a cheap ass IDE drive failing on me.
I know that sounds a bit silly but for $999 bucks I expect more from them:)
I'm so glad that I'm not the only person who worries about this. the little server I leave running 24/7 is using a 466 celeron clocked down to 333 (on a slotket.) this is specifically so the tiny box will run with minimal noise and heat, so I won't have to worry about some sort of massively hot system short circuiting and roasting my living room.
I love big computing equipment, but not when it's sitting in my house making noise and sucking power:)
Cisco IOS updates easy to get. if you have a serial # on your router, you should be able to finagle yourself a CCO login from that. either that or find someone else who has one to use.
And even if you aren't LEGALLY supposed to use the update, it's not much of a big deal really... quite a few people I know just update them, and don't care much about the actual licensing part of it. it's abstract enough that few can find out about it anyway.
I'm not advocating theft, but to say that you don't have a CCIE around is a load of BS.
I'm not going to let the lack of a support contract stop me from securing a product that I spent a bunch of money for.
besides, when you have a WAN with say, 200 2600's or so, you only need a few registered routers. just switch around between good/bad ones for support calls:)
actually no, it's not a lack of compassion or action. I work with a large number of non-profits, churches, and some larger NGO's for free. I donate a lot of hardware and software, and more specifically time and effort. I could be charging someone for my time but I make an effort to help out when and where I can. this usually doesn't cost me money, either.
I believe that there is much more to be gained by an individual doing what they can to help than by feeding huge sums of money into governmental assistance programs. I have yet to meet anyone truly helped by something like this; whereas I have met many many people, ranging from children to old folks, who have had their lives changed by the actions of a single individual.
sometimes people have to open their mind a little.
I've been using the Win32 Qt 3.0 for a while, and I have to say that I've vastly enjoyed it. Trolltech earns my vote for one of the best companies I've worked with so far.
Don't flame them too much for charging money for stuff- everyone has to earn a living somehow:P
My experiences with them and trying to get DR-DOS to work were enough to convince me of microsoft's intentions.
I personally dislike large corporations, and I'm quite fond of the concept of the "Corporate Death Sentence". It goes along with the concept of giving corporations limited rights as "person(s)". why not hold them completely responsible? It's an interesting idea, anyway.
I do agree that most of my peers in the sub-30 age group are pretty clueless about computing history. and you know what they say about history, right?
For some people, we don't have the choice of throwing away money just to help people. not everyone comes from pristine beginnings and has the luxury of an all expense paid visit to collegeland.
I busted my ass working 2 jobs to get through school and I sold my soul the minute I could. that paid for things like a working car, a clean house, good food, and other things I never had until then.
I'm all for helping people and working to better the community but please realize that the lower on the food chain you are, the less idealistic your goals tend to be. homeless people don't worry about your MP3s or your digitally-encrypted whatever. they care about food, warm places to sleep and other basics.
sometimes there's a certain degree of perspective to be gained.
exactly my point. it is VERY difficult, when you start pricing the cost of desktop OS licenses + server licensing + backoffice/mail/sql/whatever licenses they need. even with VAR discounts and OEM pricing for some new hardware purchases this is still a LOT of money. I try to sell customers as little MS as I can, and push some opensource solutions (MySQL is quite good, and using a free *nix for mail/dns/squid/etc is great.) this lowers the cost for software and increases consultancy fees, which saves them money and makes me more of it.:) however, when your competition blatantly pirates it all and charges them a flat rate 1000 bucks or so, you've got no chance whatsoever.
Thanks for actually reading what I was saying. I came off a little badly about my efforts to bust pirates (it's a long story and I'm not being particularly evil about it) and it's not like I wanted to. sometimes you have to do things to stay in business, and I also dislike seeing my local customers and friends unknowingly using pirated software, which could hurt them from a business perspective down the road.
I don't condone piracy whatsoever, but as I've said in reply elsewhere I don't feel donating older legacy software is a crime. this is especially true if you are doing it for a good purpose (that annoying Judeo-Christian moral thing comes in to play, sorry.)
but if you're a script kiddie who wants to get your leet 0-day warez for free eternally, you're just hurting legitimate people who make and sell the software. Yes, MS is a huge monopoly, but they're not inherently evil. they're just a massive corporate entity. (some might say this makes them evil too but that's another topic!)
anyway, thanks for the comments. much appreciated.
I'm just pointing out that Microsoft's heavy handedness really only extends to other businesses. I routinely set up machines for non-profits, churches, and the like by using older operating systems, with the original licenses. I feel that there is nothing wrong by charitably donating them, and it's good to know that you can do so without actually risking any danger with MS and the BSA.
And keep in mind while the BSA sends out it's threat letters all the time, it rarely ever follows up on any of them. it's a scare tactic. No good press would be won by Microsoft trying to prosecute a church group in court for using windows 95 on their donated pentium 133's, or the non-profit trying to improve inner-city literacy rates on those same sorts of systems.
If you are a reseller who pawns pirated software off on your customers so you can undercut the market, then by all means you should be busted. You may have higher ideals than I do when it comes to this, but I also have to put food on the table for my kids.
but that's a digression from the point of the article:)
I should point out that microsoft rarely goes after people selling pirated or improperly licensed MS software when the amount is under $50,000 (US) or so. I have tried several times in the past to have marketplace competitors shut down for blatantly pirating software, and each time Microsoft has been primarily interested in the money value of the software in question. I suspect that there is a cost limit for them, and under a certain value there is nothing gained by prosecution or even basic legal action.
So with the obvious eBay incidents aside, I get the feeling you can quietly pirate your software to your heart's content, as long as you stay under the high-water mark.
that is the sad disgusting truth, isn't it? my only serious beef. it's also bad that many major ISPs (especially so-called "broadband" providers) block IPSec. @home is a good example- for them to allow that traffic you need to pay another 40 bucks a month for "@work" instead.
that being said, I've been trying at work to come up with many ways around the whole NAT blocking scheme, and there really many. the best you can do for firms that connect to yours is try mapping IP addresses on their firewall. this doesn't help if they are using DHCP in a heavy address turnover style (NT dhcp, anyone?)
what are you going to do? shit happens, I guess. all of our important stuff has to be done over IPSec as part of our usage policy, so at least I have that to fall back on when I tell someone their new swanky cable modem won't work and they have to use dialup instead:)
if you're using pptp vpn's, please don't replace them with poptop. maybe now is the time to move your users to IPSec? it's quite a bit more secure, and isn't so trivially easy to decrypt/read.
that being said, it's not so easy to get everyone playing on the same IPSec field, what with win2k and their stupid L2TP/IPSec tunneling crap. crack smokers. blah.
You and me, brother. I'm in the same boat- my wife created a number of the skins used in the update packages (living large, house party, the upcoming one) and she loves the game. well, not the game as much as making things for it; she was looking forward to the interaction. ah well, she'll just have to wait for her copy of sims online to arrive...
are pretty nifty little boxes, about the size of a zip or jaz drive (maybe a little larger.) I've worked with many of MicroTest's products, including some more expensive goodies, and almost everything is linux based. none of it is ever mentioned, either.
based on this discussion i'm going to check out the $2000 network diagnostic tool that I have of theirs and see if it's also linux based; I've always thought it was, but never really looked closely. we'll see.
but back to the original point, there's little reason to build a huge linux box with breakable physical components when you can just use a very simple unit with no moving parts that fits into a 5.25" bay.
plus, it was pretty cheap. worked pretty well for our needs when we used them. YMMV though.
You absolutely made my day. I'm weeping with laughter. It's mostly due to the fact that I'm afraid of the future of personal privacy and security, and this comment just took the edge off. humour in the face of total, blatant, dangerous ignorance is a goodness. thank you:)
boxen comes from an old background- those of us that used multiple Vax systems sometimes referred to them as "Vaxen". from this came several other (sometimes tedious) phrases, like "boxen".
just because you equate it with 13 year old kids who've had too mountain dew doesn't mean it's not a perfectly valid term for us adults to use:P
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this guy actually seems like a clone of Theo DeRaadt. an abrasive asshole who insists on acting like a child. I'm sure he busts his ass doing the fink work but he really goes about all this the wrong way. you catch more flies with honey than with SULFURIC ACID.
again, as people told you before in reference to your other incorrect post, you're getting your facts mixed up.
IEEE is not IBM; IEEE is the standards body (not really that, but let's just play along). just like IEEE 1284 is a standard for parallel printer cable interfaces.
It's a bunch of engineering geeks agreeing how the interface should work. apple is their own enhanced version, which they helped to create so it's their wont to do so.
don't forget i.Link! hahahaha
Wow, was it seriously that bad? you seem more on par with how I feel going to these sorts of movies; when someone willing to accept all the usual faults (and to whom bad dubbing is totally transparent and not even a factor) says it sucks, then maybe it does...
if so, that's a shame. I've always admired Jet Li's amazing skills, and I still wish he hadn't passed on the lead role in Crouching Tiger. that role would have much, much more appropriately fit a 3 time Wushu champion than Yun-Fat Chow (who, let's face it, is best in his shoot'em up roles in John Woo films.)
ah well, can't have your almond cookies and eat them too...
thanks for the heads up!
oh, I'm a huge fan of his. Fist of Legend is a wonderful flick, as is "The Enforcer" (at least in my opinion.) I think Jet Li is great, and some of his movies really have a plot and some emotional depth to them. just not all of them. I'm still a loyal fan regardless :)
Who *really* sees Jet Li / Jackie Chan / etc movies with any intention of good screen writing, a plot, or any sense of meaning? just enjoy the gags and the moves. if you're poor buy it 3 years later from walmart or steal it or something.
I see every jet li flick I can, even if I know it's going to "suck", because the man is amazing. then again I guess I have low standards, since I don't even pretend to care about the existence of a plot line. bah.
absolutely! you have no idea how those mpeg files build up. err...
:)
actually, I just download a lot of legally purchased MP3s from www.emusic.com , which has some of the best selection of punk, ska, and hardcore out there, as well as tons of other types of music. It's all legally licensed from smaller labels and indies, like epitaph and asian man records, etc. very cool, and you help support your favorite bands financially.
I'm sure that's not what you were looking for, but that's your fault not mine
40G is not enough. something with at least 100 or 200 GB is more appropriate... maybe mirrored as well to ensure data safety. I'd hate to lose my 90GB of music due to a cheap ass IDE drive failing on me.
:)
I know that sounds a bit silly but for $999 bucks I expect more from them
I'm so glad that I'm not the only person who worries about this. the little server I leave running 24/7 is using a 466 celeron clocked down to 333 (on a slotket.) this is specifically so the tiny box will run with minimal noise and heat, so I won't have to worry about some sort of massively hot system short circuiting and roasting my living room.
:)
I love big computing equipment, but not when it's sitting in my house making noise and sucking power
Cisco IOS updates easy to get. if you have a serial # on your router, you should be able to finagle yourself a CCO login from that. either that or find someone else who has one to use.
:)
And even if you aren't LEGALLY supposed to use the update, it's not much of a big deal really... quite a few people I know just update them, and don't care much about the actual licensing part of it. it's abstract enough that few can find out about it anyway.
I'm not advocating theft, but to say that you don't have a CCIE around is a load of BS.
I'm not going to let the lack of a support contract stop me from securing a product that I spent a bunch of money for.
besides, when you have a WAN with say, 200 2600's or so, you only need a few registered routers. just switch around between good/bad ones for support calls
actually no, it's not a lack of compassion or action. I work with a large number of non-profits, churches, and some larger NGO's for free. I donate a lot of hardware and software, and more specifically time and effort. I could be charging someone for my time but I make an effort to help out when and where I can. this usually doesn't cost me money, either.
I believe that there is much more to be gained by an individual doing what they can to help than by feeding huge sums of money into governmental assistance programs. I have yet to meet anyone truly helped by something like this; whereas I have met many many people, ranging from children to old folks, who have had their lives changed by the actions of a single individual.
sometimes people have to open their mind a little.
I've been using the Win32 Qt 3.0 for a while, and I have to say that I've vastly enjoyed it. Trolltech earns my vote for one of the best companies I've worked with so far.
:P
Don't flame them too much for charging money for stuff- everyone has to earn a living somehow
My experiences with them and trying to get DR-DOS to work were enough to convince me of microsoft's intentions.
I personally dislike large corporations, and I'm quite fond of the concept of the "Corporate Death Sentence". It goes along with the concept of giving corporations limited rights as "person(s)". why not hold them completely responsible? It's an interesting idea, anyway.
I do agree that most of my peers in the sub-30 age group are pretty clueless about computing history. and you know what they say about history, right?
ah well.
For some people, we don't have the choice of throwing away money just to help people. not everyone comes from pristine beginnings and has the luxury of an all expense paid visit to collegeland.
I busted my ass working 2 jobs to get through school and I sold my soul the minute I could. that paid for things like a working car, a clean house, good food, and other things I never had until then.
I'm all for helping people and working to better the community but please realize that the lower on the food chain you are, the less idealistic your goals tend to be. homeless people don't worry about your MP3s or your digitally-encrypted whatever. they care about food, warm places to sleep and other basics.
sometimes there's a certain degree of perspective to be gained.
exactly my point. it is VERY difficult, when you start pricing the cost of desktop OS licenses + server licensing + backoffice/mail/sql/whatever licenses they need. even with VAR discounts and OEM pricing for some new hardware purchases this is still a LOT of money. I try to sell customers as little MS as I can, and push some opensource solutions (MySQL is quite good, and using a free *nix for mail/dns/squid/etc is great.) this lowers the cost for software and increases consultancy fees, which saves them money and makes me more of it. :) however, when your competition blatantly pirates it all and charges them a flat rate 1000 bucks or so, you've got no chance whatsoever.
Thanks for actually reading what I was saying. I came off a little badly about my efforts to bust pirates (it's a long story and I'm not being particularly evil about it) and it's not like I wanted to. sometimes you have to do things to stay in business, and I also dislike seeing my local customers and friends unknowingly using pirated software, which could hurt them from a business perspective down the road.
I don't condone piracy whatsoever, but as I've said in reply elsewhere I don't feel donating older legacy software is a crime. this is especially true if you are doing it for a good purpose (that annoying Judeo-Christian moral thing comes in to play, sorry.)
but if you're a script kiddie who wants to get your leet 0-day warez for free eternally, you're just hurting legitimate people who make and sell the software. Yes, MS is a huge monopoly, but they're not inherently evil. they're just a massive corporate entity. (some might say this makes them evil too but that's another topic!)
anyway, thanks for the comments. much appreciated.
I'm just pointing out that Microsoft's heavy handedness really only extends to other businesses. I routinely set up machines for non-profits, churches, and the like by using older operating systems, with the original licenses. I feel that there is nothing wrong by charitably donating them, and it's good to know that you can do so without actually risking any danger with MS and the BSA.
:)
And keep in mind while the BSA sends out it's threat letters all the time, it rarely ever follows up on any of them. it's a scare tactic. No good press would be won by Microsoft trying to prosecute a church group in court for using windows 95 on their donated pentium 133's, or the non-profit trying to improve inner-city literacy rates on those same sorts of systems.
If you are a reseller who pawns pirated software off on your customers so you can undercut the market, then by all means you should be busted. You may have higher ideals than I do when it comes to this, but I also have to put food on the table for my kids.
but that's a digression from the point of the article
I should point out that microsoft rarely goes after people selling pirated or improperly licensed MS software when the amount is under $50,000 (US) or so. I have tried several times in the past to have marketplace competitors shut down for blatantly pirating software, and each time Microsoft has been primarily interested in the money value of the software in question. I suspect that there is a cost limit for them, and under a certain value there is nothing gained by prosecution or even basic legal action.
So with the obvious eBay incidents aside, I get the feeling you can quietly pirate your software to your heart's content, as long as you stay under the high-water mark.
my 2 cents.
that is the sad disgusting truth, isn't it? my only serious beef. it's also bad that many major ISPs (especially so-called "broadband" providers) block IPSec. @home is a good example- for them to allow that traffic you need to pay another 40 bucks a month for "@work" instead.
:)
that being said, I've been trying at work to come up with many ways around the whole NAT blocking scheme, and there really many. the best you can do for firms that connect to yours is try mapping IP addresses on their firewall. this doesn't help if they are using DHCP in a heavy address turnover style (NT dhcp, anyone?)
what are you going to do? shit happens, I guess. all of our important stuff has to be done over IPSec as part of our usage policy, so at least I have that to fall back on when I tell someone their new swanky cable modem won't work and they have to use dialup instead
if you're using pptp vpn's, please don't replace them with poptop. maybe now is the time to move your users to IPSec? it's quite a bit more secure, and isn't so trivially easy to decrypt/read.
that being said, it's not so easy to get everyone playing on the same IPSec field, what with win2k and their stupid L2TP/IPSec tunneling crap. crack smokers. blah.
You and me, brother. I'm in the same boat- my wife created a number of the skins used in the update packages (living large, house party, the upcoming one) and she loves the game. well, not the game as much as making things for it; she was looking forward to the interaction. ah well, she'll just have to wait for her copy of sims online to arrive...
are pretty nifty little boxes, about the size of a zip or jaz drive (maybe a little larger.) I've worked with many of MicroTest's products, including some more expensive goodies, and almost everything is linux based. none of it is ever mentioned, either.
based on this discussion i'm going to check out the $2000 network diagnostic tool that I have of theirs and see if it's also linux based; I've always thought it was, but never really looked closely. we'll see.
but back to the original point, there's little reason to build a huge linux box with breakable physical components when you can just use a very simple unit with no moving parts that fits into a 5.25" bay.
plus, it was pretty cheap. worked pretty well for our needs when we used them. YMMV though.
You absolutely made my day. I'm weeping with laughter. It's mostly due to the fact that I'm afraid of the future of personal privacy and security, and this comment just took the edge off. humour in the face of total, blatant, dangerous ignorance is a goodness. thank you :)
has nothing to do with reading the jargon file, and everything to do with being there. take your numbers and your leetness and go play elsewhere.
:P
besides, vaxen were sweet. nothing has beaten VMS for coolness yet
boxen comes from an old background- those of us that used multiple Vax systems sometimes referred to them as "Vaxen". from this came several other (sometimes tedious) phrases, like "boxen".
:P
just because you equate it with 13 year old kids who've had too mountain dew doesn't mean it's not a perfectly valid term for us adults to use