Excuse me while I stoop to the newlevel of this post (No Score +1 Bonus off) so as not to disturb any self-respecting "Browse at 2" reader.
This post is not flamebait. If any ISP had less than 15 hops in their network then I would surely consider them amateurs. The whole reason to use OSPF and BGP is because of lower convergence rates. If changes in the network occured you would not be able to access the page you are looking at now unless you ran OSPF and BGP.
I have nothing more to say - except that I do not, personally, moderate topics that I know nothing about.
What the hell, I'm turning Score + Bonus back on because I feel idiots are moderating me down. It doesn't matter anyway as I seem to have karma to burn.
The three soldiers returning home from war were hungry. When they saw the village ahead their spirits lifted - they were sure the villagers would give them a meal. But when they got there, they found the doors locked and the windows closed. After many years of war, the villagers were short of food, and hoarded what they had.
Undetered, the soldiers boiled a pot of water and carefully placed three stones into it. The amazed villagers came out to watch.
"This is stone soup." the soldiers explained. "Is that all you put in it?" asked the villagers. "Absolutely - although some say it tastes even better with a few carrots..." a villager ran off, returning in no time with a basket of carrots from his hoard.
A couple of minutes later, the villagers again asked "Is that it?"
"Well," said the soldiers, "a couple of potatoes give it body." Off ran another villager.
Over the next hour, the soldiers listed more ingredients that would enhance the soup: beef, leeks, salt, and herbs. Each time a different villager would run off to raid their personal stores.
Eventually they had produced a large pot of steaming soup. The soldiers removed the stones, and they sat down with the entire village to enjoy the first squire meal any of them had eaten in months. From "The Pragmatic Programmer", Hunt & Thomas.
heh. Once, on changing jobs, I managed to get three job offers. I politely declined two of them by saying that I was accepting another offer, but that if it didn't work out perhaps I could give them a call? Even the company I was leaving asked if there was a chance I might come back in the future.
Currently, I still receive "recruitment-spam" from having put myself on job-search lists over a year ago. This isn't the same thing. But I think we can assume that, for this CTO, there isn't a problem in being able to find a new job.
For me, if you execute correctly, you can really leave many options open.
Phew! I'm a quarter of the way down the page, and I find the first person to say "Stick it out".
I have to agree. You cannot really change the top management above you, but you can influence those those in the team below you.
Apart from, it seems, the top managements apparent incompetance (sp?) possibly simply being unable to find funding (In an economic climate, which has made this significantly harder to do, especially when without a concrete plan for profitability)
If everyone bailed out of a company at the slightest indication of a storm ahead, then there would be no successful companies. In my mind nearly all e-companies have gone through that "make or break" phase, some coming out on top and others dissapearing into obscurity.
As far as I'm concerned Slackware 7.2 isn't released until Slackware-current gets move to Slackware-[number] and the ISO folder gets created and populated.
Just because Patrick has put the README72 into the Slackware-current folder doesn't signify a release, impending or otherwise...
having said that... should I go into the office to download possibly available ISOs tomorrow.... hmmm...
Heh... I had a burning desire to play an old DOS game recently (Elite: First Encounters) problem was, I didn't have the floppies, nor the game anymore. (Yes I did buy both DOS and the game previously)
I had a look around on the Internet and not only did I find three Image files containing the disks to MS-DOS6.22, but I also found the three disks for the game (and the patch that was later released)...
It just goes to show.
As for this "feature" in Whistler. I doubt it will apply to the OEM packaged version, more likely just the retail version.
Did you know that the GD-ROM format uses the same wavelength as normal CD-ROMs, unlike DVD which uses a different wavelength laser?
You could feasibly re-write the firmware on some CD-ROM drives to allow it to read GD-ROMs.
Also only some of a GD-ROM drive is actually set at the higher denisty. It is possible to read the inner rim of the GD-ROM with an ordinary CD-ROM drive.
Next time you care to taunt me, why don't you be more complete.
My understanding was that the Dreamcast had a proprietary "GD-ROM" drive that has a capacity of 1Mb or so I asked Is this being used a the boot device for NetBSD?
So I dug around, it looks like the DC is actually capable of booting off a standard ISO-9660 CD-ROM.
I use Slackware and install everything... disk space is so cheap these days.
Seriously though - rather than use expert install have you thought about using the tagfiles feature? The disk sets themselves are pretty stable between releases and if you're missing a tag file then the install will prompt you for an answer.
I've never used the feature and haven't found much info on it, but I'm sure volkerdi@slackware.com will be happy to help out.
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Excuse me while I stoop to the newlevel of this post (No Score +1 Bonus off) so as not to disturb any self-respecting "Browse at 2" reader.
This post is not flamebait. If any ISP had less than 15 hops in their network then I would surely consider them amateurs. The whole reason to use OSPF and BGP is because of lower convergence rates. If changes in the network occured you would not be able to access the page you are looking at now unless you ran OSPF and BGP.
I have nothing more to say - except that I do not, personally, moderate topics that I know nothing about.
What the hell, I'm turning Score + Bonus back on because I feel idiots are moderating me down. It doesn't matter anyway as I seem to have karma to burn.
I always thought it was strange that they never looked at Orion, when it was so obvious... hang on... there's someone at the door...
just what is everyones problem?
And for your information, my CCNA is due to expire very soon. Which I would count as the opposite to "passing it recently".
blah blah blah...
Go to Hamburg, Duesseldorf, Frankfurt, Munich, London, Madrid and Paris and ask my users if our network works.
OSPF is explained in RFC1131, later replaced by OSPF V2 in RFC1247.
Explaining the internals of OSPF is beyond the scope of this forum.
You can, however, RTFM RFC1131 and RFC1247. These are in Postscript.
BGP is described in RFC1771
Now, listen up, go get a life!
@home run RIP? or IGRP?
Amateurs!
If they're a real ISP they would be running OSPF & BGP.
All mail domains are obliged to have postmaster@domainname.whatever routed sensibly.
I would therefore send an email (from a different domain/SMTP server) to postmaster@home.com.
If they don't reply to that, or worse, it bounces, they probably don't have a mailman.
I really am sorry, I just can't help myself...
... but Imagine a beowulf cluster of these...
My late uncle did this and showed me. He was a postman.
The three soldiers returning home from war were hungry. When they saw the village ahead their spirits lifted - they were sure the villagers would give them a meal. But when they got there, they found the doors locked and the windows closed. After many years of war, the villagers were short of food, and hoarded what they had.
Undetered, the soldiers boiled a pot of water and carefully placed three stones into it. The amazed villagers came out to watch.
"This is stone soup." the soldiers explained. "Is that all you put in it?" asked the villagers. "Absolutely - although some say it tastes even better with a few carrots..." a villager ran off, returning in no time with a basket of carrots from his hoard.
A couple of minutes later, the villagers again asked "Is that it?"
"Well," said the soldiers, "a couple of potatoes give it body." Off ran another villager.
Over the next hour, the soldiers listed more ingredients that would enhance the soup: beef, leeks, salt, and herbs. Each time a different villager would run off to raid their personal stores.
Eventually they had produced a large pot of steaming soup. The soldiers removed the stones, and they sat down with the entire village to enjoy the first squire meal any of them had eaten in months.
From "The Pragmatic Programmer", Hunt & Thomas.
Worth thinking about...
heh. Once, on changing jobs, I managed to get three job offers. I politely declined two of them by saying that I was accepting another offer, but that if it didn't work out perhaps I could give them a call? Even the company I was leaving asked if there was a chance I might come back in the future.
Currently, I still receive "recruitment-spam" from having put myself on job-search lists over a year ago. This isn't the same thing. But I think we can assume that, for this CTO, there isn't a problem in being able to find a new job.
For me, if you execute correctly, you can really leave many options open.
Phew! I'm a quarter of the way down the page, and I find the first person to say "Stick it out".
I have to agree. You cannot really change the top management above you, but you can influence those those in the team below you.
Apart from, it seems, the top managements apparent incompetance (sp?) possibly simply being unable to find funding (In an economic climate, which has made this significantly harder to do, especially when without a concrete plan for profitability)
If everyone bailed out of a company at the slightest indication of a storm ahead, then there would be no successful companies. In my mind nearly all e-companies have gone through that "make or break" phase, some coming out on top and others dissapearing into obscurity.
First was:r rent/GET_A_CLUE_SLASHDOT.TXT
r rent/THIS_IS_NOT_A_BETA_EITHER.TXT
r rent/CURRENT.WARNING
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/.1/slackware/slackware-cu
Then came:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/.1/slackware/slackware-cu
But Slashdot fools never noticed that:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/.1/slackware/slackware-cu
has always been there.
Another silly person... Read the changelogs and you will see that this was fixed last wednesday...
I'm still waiting for an FTP install! I love slack, but I don't have the time to download and burn an ISO...and I'd rather not buy any CDs.
Why not try out the NFS install? It's simple and really really easy.
I use it for all my machines without CD-ROM drives. It's really quick too.
Silly you... you need Slackware 7.x (Mine is 7.1 with updated kernel)
/usr | grep slackware
giles@lemur:~/bannerkiller1.01> make
(cd src; make)
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/giles/bannerkiller1.01/src'
cc -pthread -D_REENTRANT -DDEBUG -c -o proxy.o proxy.c
cc -pthread -D_REENTRANT -DDEBUG -c -o gestion.o gestion.c
cc -pthread -D_REENTRANT -DDEBUG -c -o connexion.o connexion.c
cc -pthread -D_REENTRANT -DDEBUG -c -o filtre.o filtre.c
cc -pthread -D_REENTRANT -DDEBUG -c -o utilsText.o utilsText.c
cc -pthread -D_REENTRANT -DDEBUG -c -o utils.o utils.c
cc -pthread -D_REENTRANT -DDEBUG -c -o global.o global.c
cc -pthread -D_REENTRANT -DDEBUG -c -o debug.o debug.c
cc -pthread -D_REENTRANT -DDEBUG -o bannerkiller proxy.o gestion.o connexion.o filtre.o utilsText.o utils.o global.o debug.o
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/giles/bannerkiller1.01/src'
cp src/bannerkiller .
giles@lemur:~/bannerkiller1.01> uname -a
Linux lemur 2.2.18 #2 Sat Dec 30 20:40:15 GMT 2000 i686 unknowngiles@lemur:~/bannerkiller1.01> ls -l
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jun 22 1999 i386-slackware-linux/
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jun 12 1995 i386-slackware-linux-gnuaout/
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Aug 24 1999 i386-slackware-linux-gnulibc1/
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Jan 3 23:27 slackware-install/
giles@lemur:~/bannerkiller1.01>
As far as I'm concerned Slackware 7.2 isn't released until Slackware-current gets move to Slackware-[number] and the ISO folder gets created and populated.
Just because Patrick has put the README72 into the Slackware-current folder doesn't signify a release, impending or otherwise...
having said that... should I go into the office to download possibly available ISOs tomorrow.... hmmm...
Heh... I had a burning desire to play an old DOS game recently (Elite: First Encounters) problem was, I didn't have the floppies, nor the game anymore. (Yes I did buy both DOS and the game previously)
I had a look around on the Internet and not only did I find three Image files containing the disks to MS-DOS6.22, but I also found the three disks for the game (and the patch that was later released)...
It just goes to show.
As for this "feature" in Whistler. I doubt it will apply to the OEM packaged version, more likely just the retail version.
I always thought that once computers have learnt to recognise when we appriciate their actions they will become hell of a lot more helpful to us.
If didn't deliver me to the page. It delivered me to a page with a link.
It's like saying here's an interesting story...
I agree, even his link is wrong:
It should be www.dcemulation.com
yeah - silly typo...
:-)
still I can always plead "deliberate mistake"
Kilo, Mega, Giga, Tera, who cares!!!
a beowulf cluster of these...
Very good.
Did you know that the GD-ROM format uses the same wavelength as normal CD-ROMs, unlike DVD which uses a different wavelength laser?
You could feasibly re-write the firmware on some CD-ROM drives to allow it to read GD-ROMs.
Also only some of a GD-ROM drive is actually set at the higher denisty. It is possible to read the inner rim of the GD-ROM with an ordinary CD-ROM drive.
Next time you care to taunt me, why don't you be more complete.
My understanding was that the Dreamcast had a proprietary "GD-ROM" drive that has a capacity of 1Mb or so I asked Is this being used a the boot device for NetBSD?
So I dug around, it looks like the DC is actually capable of booting off a standard ISO-9660 CD-ROM.
Interesting? I thought so... Here are some really interesting links on Dreamcast Software Programming and Hardware programming.
It's incredible what's going on. What else has been ported to the DC?
I use Slackware and install everything... disk space is so cheap these days.
Seriously though - rather than use expert install have you thought about using the tagfiles feature? The disk sets themselves are pretty stable between releases and if you're missing a tag file then the install will prompt you for an answer.
I've never used the feature and haven't found much info on it, but I'm sure volkerdi@slackware.com will be happy to help out.