"Now, you may say that I don't know what I'm talking about because it's different when you're in the position of the artist, but guess what? I'm an alternative rock artist, I fully support P2P filesharing, and in fact I allow people to download entire albums for free off of my website."
But do you think that should be your decision to make? I think it's great that you welcome sharing, and that's exactly my point.
EXACTLY! But, unfortunately, the average signed artist DOESN'T have the ability to make that decision, because they are strong-armed by the RIAA. Support file sharing, and you might end up without a contract.
Here's where you give some sort of justification for why you say that Apple has diverted a huge chunk of their first shipment of top-end G5s to a project where you think they're subsidizing the cost of the hardware.
A Washington Post article says Microsoft Windows is insecure by design. Quote: 'Between the Blaster worm and the Sobig virus, it's been a long two weeks for Windows users. But nobody with a Mac or a Linux PC has had to lose a moment of sleep over these outbreaks -- just like in earlier "malware" epidemics.
Of course, they were too busy upgrading/patching Sendmail.
Most of them are peer-reviewed AFTER the fact, because the whole Linux community is hell-bent on releasing their patches in 4 hours, just to show how much better they are then MS. If mistakes are made, they are usually found after the release.
The hospital system is looking to move toward 802.11b VoIP phones in a big way. 802.11b is tested and heavily installing in out hospitals.
Nextel. Not very friendly with a lot of the wireless biomed equipment we have installed. Likes to stomp all over it, especially using the direct connect. Not a good thing.
Details on how to do this surfaced on some cisco study boards 12-18 months ago. Most of the people on the board were interested in this to be able to add a Pix to thier home study lab. Groupstudy had a very long thread on this. They were dubbed the 'FrankenPix'
Cisco is very well represented on the board, and they never said a word to anybody about not doing this, and sort of allowed it to happen.
On the other hand, when FrankenPix's started appearing on eBay, they cracked down, hard and quick. But, to this day, they still haven't said anything during the discussions o the cisco study boards.
My view on this is they really don't care if people build FrankenPix's for home study, after all, that's just going to help sell more Pix in the long run. (Checkpoint, afterall, will gladly give you 30-day trail licenses for FireWall-1 for home study) But, if you try to build and sell these, they WILL get you. (And honestly, if you want to use these boxes in a professional enviorment for day-to-day usage, you are asking for trouble.)
@Home never blocked ports 80/25. (I have Comcast@Home, and those ports never stopped working. A co-worker has ATT@Home, and they still work for him too)
In other words, it was Cox that blocked your ports, and I betcha they will be blocked with Cox after they are on thier own network.
Are they kidding? This doesn't solve anything; it makes it worse! By providing software _for free_ to such a large number of people, the software now becomes the defacto standard for yet another group of people. These students will grow up in Microsoft(TM) America and like so many people before them be hooked into software that they'll be reluctant to leave in the future.
And, you are going to tell use that teaching them Linux and KDE will make them BETTER suited for the job market? Hightly doubtful. Following that train of thought, lets teach them teach them to type on a DVORAK keyboard. Just becuase most employers don't use it should be a hurdle in good education.
And using poorer schools... that's good. These schools would have previously been a good "target market" for OSS... can't beat the price.
Your right, the rich schools are more deserving. Why bother with poor schools, they are just going to be janitors if they graduate anyways. Go for the rich kids, they need to know how to juggle more then one PC (running Linux with DVORAK keyboards) anyways when the are rich excutives.
From my experience, locking out software engineers and having to do everything for them was far less time consuming then reload thier machines, over and over, because they live by 2 hard and fast rules:
- I know what I'm doing...
- It didn't work last time, but I bet it was a fluke
I got really sick of fixing the same problems, becuase they didn't learn not to do something the first time.
I finally got to the point of ghosting each of thier machines after they were setup for each user, and handing them a self-booting CD when they screwed up..... again
Yeah. Wouldn't want anyone escaping to Canada, eh? Maybe even the mexicans will give up trying to get in the USA now.
Obviously, you don't cross borders very often. INS/US Customs don't give a rats ass who enters Canada. Canadian customs cares. INS/US Customs only care about who enters the US.
When crossing borders, you only deal with the agents of the country that you are entering.
- 2 routers that connect are rearly in the same room. Having to be physically at each one is rarely easy.
- Most of the routers I support aren't in the same building I'm in, let alone city or state (some are in different countries). I really don't feell like doing that much traveling.
At least for Cisco routers, there isn't a 'default' password.
No telnet password is set by default, and the router will not let people telnet in till a password is set. Dumb passwords are becuase of dumb admins. (You have no idea how many routers I've seen using san-fran for enable...)
But, from the end users standpoint, there is a large cost advantage to doing the networking work yourself in a co-op, rather then paying someone else to do it plus profit in Co-Loc.
Hell, when you think about $15/month after startup, it starts to get me thinking... hmmmm.
Forgive me if I am falling for a flaim-bait trap here.
..and BTW, there is a big difference between being flame-bait (saying this just to rile people up) and stated on opinion that you know will be unpopular. Forgive me if I just don't happen to agree with the MS-lynching crowd here. I tend to think for myself.
..And, I really don't give a rat-ass if anybody replies to anything I say.
They say they are doing this to limit spamming software. So, tell me, which is easier:
- Stoping the servers from being accessed by SPAM software, but allowing every legit email program in the world to work, or
- Limiting the servers that you wrote to work to work only with the clients you wrote.
It's the simplest solution to what they are trying to achive. They control both the server and the client, and that makes it VERY hard to get spam software to work when they are doing some sort of end-to-end client/server verification.
Open this up to other clients, and you lose that control, and the Spam software can get in.
This is clearly NOT a violations of anybodys rights.. This ISP is private business, and they are out-sourcing thier email hosting to another private business. And THEY have the right to impose ANY DAMN RULES THEY WANT!!.
Just is just as much of a rights violation as:
- Not allowing broadband users to host home servers
- Not imposing limits on the amount of bandwidth you can use
- Not supporting all OS's
- Blocking ports
It's a private business, and it's thier damn business how you use THIER network, THEIR servers, and THEIR routers.
And, it's YOUR damn right to go elsewhere.
Now excuse me. I have to go sue McDonalds becuase they insist on serving me Coke, and it's my right to want and get Pepsi.
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Same thing here.. Even after uninstalling/reinstalling Firefox, it's still hosed.
God, this is like running IE again..
Or...perhaps, laptop users? I tend to find my laptop battery dies if I leave it running in my bag overnight..
EXACTLY! But, unfortunately, the average signed artist DOESN'T have the ability to make that decision, because they are strong-armed by the RIAA. Support file sharing, and you might end up without a contract.
Worked? WORKED?? YOU LEFT???
MORON!!! I don't care HOW little they paid you...FRINGE BENEFITS MAN...FRINGE BENEFITS!!!!
Here's where you give some sort of justification for why you say that Apple has diverted a huge chunk of their first shipment of top-end G5s to a project where you think they're subsidizing the cost of the hardware.
Two words. P R
A Washington Post article says Microsoft Windows is insecure by design. Quote: 'Between the Blaster worm and the Sobig virus, it's been a long two weeks for Windows users. But nobody with a Mac or a Linux PC has had to lose a moment of sleep over these outbreaks -- just like in earlier "malware" epidemics.
Of course, they were too busy upgrading/patching Sendmail.
Most of them are peer-reviewed AFTER the fact, because the whole Linux community is hell-bent on releasing their patches in 4 hours, just to show how much better they are then MS. If mistakes are made, they are usually found after the release.
The hospital system is looking to move toward 802.11b VoIP phones in a big way. 802.11b is tested and heavily installing in out hospitals.
Nextel. Not very friendly with a lot of the wireless biomed equipment we have installed. Likes to stomp all over it, especially using the direct connect. Not a good thing.
Yeah, your correct.
His opinion on Windows has a lot to do with contractors @ Microsoft, and employment laws.
I stand corrected now that I've had the benefit of your wisdom.
Thanks...
/. standard of MS bashing. You are a true example of what makes Open Source advocates shudder.
I had been looking for a completely non-relavent, ranting post. Your post had COMPLETELY nothing to do with the subject or article.
Thank you for upholding the
Gee, it seems that both of those auctions have been delete. How interesting..
--dirt
Details on how to do this surfaced on some cisco study boards 12-18 months ago. Most of the people on the board were interested in this to be able to add a Pix to thier home study lab. Groupstudy had a very long thread on this. They were dubbed the 'FrankenPix'
Cisco is very well represented on the board, and they never said a word to anybody about not doing this, and sort of allowed it to happen.
On the other hand, when FrankenPix's started appearing on eBay, they cracked down, hard and quick. But, to this day, they still haven't said anything during the discussions o the cisco study boards.
My view on this is they really don't care if people build FrankenPix's for home study, after all, that's just going to help sell more Pix in the long run. (Checkpoint, afterall, will gladly give you 30-day trail licenses for FireWall-1 for home study) But, if you try to build and sell these, they WILL get you. (And honestly, if you want to use these boxes in a professional enviorment for day-to-day usage, you are asking for trouble.)
--dirt
Well, I guess that's why he said that 'average' person, and not everybody.
Congrats, you're not average. (you being above or below average is still up for discussion)
--knick
If they did, then your life would serve no purpose.
They are giving you a reason to live. To bitch and point out fault.
BTW, you were the ONLY person to notice this spelling error, so we are VERY glad you posted this.
@Home never blocked ports 80/25. (I have Comcast@Home, and those ports never stopped working. A co-worker has ATT@Home, and they still work for him too)
In other words, it was Cox that blocked your ports, and I betcha they will be blocked with Cox after they are on thier own network.
In other words, you ain't gainin' nuttin'...
--knick
Are they kidding? This doesn't solve anything; it makes it worse! By providing software _for free_ to such a large number of people, the software now becomes the defacto standard for yet another group of people. These students will grow up in Microsoft(TM) America and like so many people before them be hooked into software that they'll be reluctant to leave in the future.
And, you are going to tell use that teaching them Linux and KDE will make them BETTER suited for the job market? Hightly doubtful. Following that train of thought, lets teach them teach them to type on a DVORAK keyboard. Just becuase most employers don't use it should be a hurdle in good education.
And using poorer schools... that's good. These schools would have previously been a good "target market" for OSS... can't beat the price.
Your right, the rich schools are more deserving. Why bother with poor schools, they are just going to be janitors if they graduate anyways. Go for the rich kids, they need to know how to juggle more then one PC (running Linux with DVORAK keyboards) anyways when the are rich excutives.
--knick
From my experience, locking out software engineers and having to do everything for them was far less time consuming then reload thier machines, over and over, because they live by 2 hard and fast rules:
- I know what I'm doing...
- It didn't work last time, but I bet it was a fluke
I got really sick of fixing the same problems, becuase they didn't learn not to do something the first time.
I finally got to the point of ghosting each of thier machines after they were setup for each user, and handing them a self-booting CD when they screwed up..... again
--knick
Yeah. Wouldn't want anyone escaping to Canada, eh? Maybe even the mexicans will give up trying to get in the USA now.
Obviously, you don't cross borders very often. INS/US Customs don't give a rats ass who enters Canada. Canadian customs cares. INS/US Customs only care about who enters the US.
When crossing borders, you only deal with the agents of the country that you are entering.
--knick
You've obviously never administred routers.
- 2 routers that connect are rearly in the same room. Having to be physically at each one is rarely easy.
- Most of the routers I support aren't in the same building I'm in, let alone city or state (some are in different countries). I really don't feell like doing that much traveling.
--knick
At least for Cisco routers, there isn't a 'default' password.
No telnet password is set by default, and the router will not let people telnet in till a password is set. Dumb passwords are becuase of dumb admins. (You have no idea how many routers I've seen using san-fran for enable...)
--knick
Yes...
But, from the end users standpoint, there is a large cost advantage to doing the networking work yourself in a co-op, rather then paying someone else to do it plus profit in Co-Loc.
Hell, when you think about $15/month after startup, it starts to get me thinking... hmmmm.
--knick
Forgive me if I am falling for a flaim-bait trap here.
..and BTW, there is a big difference between being flame-bait (saying this just to rile people up) and stated on opinion that you know will be unpopular. Forgive me if I just don't happen to agree with the MS-lynching crowd here. I tend to think for myself.
..And, I really don't give a rat-ass if anybody replies to anything I say.
--knick
They say they are doing this to limit spamming software. So, tell me, which is easier:
- Stoping the servers from being accessed by SPAM software, but allowing every legit email program in the world to work, or
- Limiting the servers that you wrote to work to work only with the clients you wrote.
It's the simplest solution to what they are trying to achive. They control both the server and the client, and that makes it VERY hard to get spam software to work when they are doing some sort of end-to-end client/server verification.
Open this up to other clients, and you lose that control, and the Spam software can get in.
--knick
This is clearly NOT a violations of anybodys rights.. This ISP is private business, and they are out-sourcing thier email hosting to another private business. And THEY have the right to impose ANY DAMN RULES THEY WANT!!.
Just is just as much of a rights violation as:
- Not allowing broadband users to host home servers
- Not imposing limits on the amount of bandwidth you can use
- Not supporting all OS's
- Blocking ports
It's a private business, and it's thier damn business how you use THIER network, THEIR servers, and THEIR routers.
And, it's YOUR damn right to go elsewhere.
Now excuse me. I have to go sue McDonalds becuase they insist on serving me Coke, and it's my right to want and get Pepsi.
--knick
Think about a reverse La Brea, one that establishes connections, then slooooooooowly gets and discards packets.
Yes.. I understand the concept, but would the first step in slowly getting packets in supplying a real address to send the packets to?
If they spoof a fake address, the connection would never establish, and your PC would never try to send the file.