1) he's not talking about electromagnets, but normal magnetized material (Iron prolly though there are a few others that work too. (Like hydrogen:-) ))
1) even if you where to make it electromagnetic, You wouldn't need high voltage if you make the wires thick enough or short enough.
Am I the only one left who wants to keep govt's of the net? I don't see why it's needed. If it can be solved with tech, why let a bunch of people who are 95% clueless get power? Govt's are nice in meatspace, not here.
Yeah, and I've completely had it with using punctuation as thousands seperator. Can't we just all use space ( ) as the thousands seperator? It's much easier to read, doesn't confuse anyone, and _makes sense_. Then again, those are probably all arguments against using it...
I don't want to name names in case they get Slashdotted,
Weehoo, In that case I'll promote the mud I play on a bit (we're running short on mortals atm:-( ): Outerspace. Either enter the mud immediately, or have a look at the mud's webpage.
first of all, if you read the article, he's got 2 comps. a 486 will do fine for firewalling, I've got all my traffic going through a 486DX/2-66, without a problem.
And a seperate box for firewalling will help you. For instance, what if a program binds a random high port? You can't firewall off all your high ports. What if someone writes a bufferoverflow for mutt that runs/bin/sh on port 48002? Ipchains rules on localhost aren't going to help you.
Hmm, consider me interested...
What kind of contract would that give me? Would I be owner of the domain (with my fee being for.cx nameserver usage), or would I be renting the name from you? (Technically it would be the same, but not legally). Do you have some kind of acceptable use for domains, (as nic.cx later got)?
I have a.cx account, but I'm going to get a domain somewhere else real soon now... Here is the email they sent me (one of them anyway), emphasis (with <B>) is mine:
You have received this email because you have previously registered
your details on www.nic.cx or www.niccx.com. Your contact ID is CX22291.
We have received a lot of feedback about our last email and would like
to say a big thank you for that. Although we weren't able to reply to
every single one, we have taken them all into consideration when we
decided about the future of NICCX.COM.
We at NICCX.COM have finally decided not to become a registrar in the
new shared registry system that is currently being developed by Dot CX.
The main reasons for this are as follows:
- Most of you have told us they wouldn't accept to pay any more money
for their cx domain. A substantial increase of registry fees would
be inevitable if we were to participate in the shared registry.
- We have always tried to be 'the registrar with a difference'.
The terms and conditions for registrars in the new registry system
wouldn't leave us too many options on how we handle registrations.
For instance we wouldn't be able to offer 'test registrations'
(ie. you register and set up your domains first, and pay only
after it's all working), or free/discounted domains for certain
groups (open source developers, CX residents, etc) anymore.
We will however continue to provide the same level of service until the
end of your domain's registration term. At the end of that term you will
have to transfer the domain to a new registrar if you want to keep it.
You will be informed about how to do that when your domain expires.
Dot CX have set up a new (draft) privacy policy. It can be found at
http://www.dot.cx/policies.privacy.cfm
Under the new policy, personal details like address, phone number and
email are not accessible via the WHOIS anymore.
Please send your comments and enquiries to policy@dot.cx
Because of the new policy, we have agreed with Dot CX to keep accepting
payments for EXISTENT registrations until the 15th of August (2000-08-15).
This means you can still extend your domain's registration period for the
old registry fee (10.- UK Pounds per year), but have to accept the new
terms and conditions. After that time we will accept NO MORE payments.
Again, thanks for all your feedback and we are looking forward to staying
in touch with you for upto 5 more years.
Have you ever actually used gnutella?;-). As soon as there are more than a few 1000 users on a net you need to have at least t1 to keep things working. Because a lot of the traffic is broadcast to all nodes on the net, so traffic per node increases almost liniarly with the number of nodes.
Ah, like that. Yup, but that's not a problem of the system, just the implementation. if they got off their lazy asses and upgraded the servers/connection they'd work with as many users as possible. (or use opennap, though that's something different of course).
Hmm, I still don't get it, sorry. Must be the radiation from my monitor.
You mean to say, every time somebody extra connects to the network, his bandwidth can be used to upload files, plus the amount of bandwidth there already was? That's just as true for napster.
(Ignoring for the moment that people don't have all available files, and people download too.)
Gnutella is in fact (very slightly) less anonymous than napster. And I don't get the 'potentially unlimited bandwith' statement, unless you mean that it doesn't work right without it.:-). With the server isn't a problem with napster for transfer speeds, transfers never hit the server. aamof gnutella has a lot more bandwidth problems than napster, especially on large networks. But I'm keeping my fingers crossed for GnutellaNG.
Try this hack to make X11-based netscape scale fonts by 10% instead of 20% for each font=n point, add: Netscape*documentFonts.sizeIncrement: 10 to your.Xdefaults or where-ever you keep your X11 Resource manager stuff. credits for finding this go to someone here on slashdot, but I forget who...:-(.
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1) he's not talking about electromagnets, but normal magnetized material (Iron prolly though there are a few others that work too. (Like hydrogen :-) ))
1) even if you where to make it electromagnetic, You wouldn't need high voltage if you make the wires thick enough or short enough.
Am I the only one left who wants to keep govt's of the net? I don't see why it's needed. If it can be solved with tech, why let a bunch of people who are 95% clueless get power? Govt's are nice in meatspace, not here.
Nah, you can still spend a bill after blowing your nose in it. :-O.
-n1? Why?
What, it's allowed to go whereever it wants but isn't allowed to come into contact with computers? Sounds useful.
Yeah, and I've completely had it with using punctuation as thousands seperator. Can't we just all use space ( ) as the thousands seperator? It's much easier to read, doesn't confuse anyone, and _makes sense_. Then again, those are probably all arguments against using it...
Anywhere he wants to.
Tomoshi asks for a good mud and is suddenly pounced upon by hundreds of hideous creatures who slap him in the face with urls.
Try outerspace, at mud.stack.nl:3333, or have a look at the webpage first.
I don't want to name names in case they get Slashdotted, :-( ): Outerspace. Either enter the mud immediately, or have a look at the mud's webpage.
Weehoo, In that case I'll promote the mud I play on a bit (we're running short on mortals atm
first of all, if you read the article, he's got 2 comps. a 486 will do fine for firewalling, I've got all my traffic going through a 486DX/2-66, without a problem.
/bin/sh on port 48002? Ipchains rules on localhost aren't going to help you.
And a seperate box for firewalling will help you. For instance, what if a program binds a random high port? You can't firewall off all your high ports. What if someone writes a bufferoverflow for mutt that runs
pdf2ps, and then ps2$FOO, whith $FOO being whatever format you prefer. or just editting in ps would be fine for most..
>nobody really uses USENET anymore
Ha! Usenet has been growing, just like the rest of the net.
Hmm, consider me interested... What kind of contract would that give me? Would I be owner of the domain (with my fee being for .cx nameserver usage), or would I be renting the name from you? (Technically it would be the same, but not legally). Do you have some kind of acceptable use for domains, (as nic.cx later got)?
I have a .cx account, but I'm going to get a domain somewhere else real soon now... Here is the email they sent me (one of them anyway), emphasis (with <B>) is mine:
You have received this email because you have previously registered
your details on www.nic.cx or www.niccx.com. Your contact ID is CX22291.
We have received a lot of feedback about our last email and would like
to say a big thank you for that. Although we weren't able to reply to
every single one, we have taken them all into consideration when we
decided about the future of NICCX.COM.
We at NICCX.COM have finally decided not to become a registrar in the
new shared registry system that is currently being developed by Dot CX.
The main reasons for this are as follows:
- Most of you have told us they wouldn't accept to pay any more money
for their cx domain. A substantial increase of registry fees would
be inevitable if we were to participate in the shared registry.
- We have always tried to be 'the registrar with a difference'.
The terms and conditions for registrars in the new registry system
wouldn't leave us too many options on how we handle registrations.
For instance we wouldn't be able to offer 'test registrations'
(ie. you register and set up your domains first, and pay only
after it's all working), or free/discounted domains for certain
groups (open source developers, CX residents, etc) anymore.
We will however continue to provide the same level of service until the
end of your domain's registration term. At the end of that term you will
have to transfer the domain to a new registrar if you want to keep it.
You will be informed about how to do that when your domain expires.
Dot CX have set up a new (draft) privacy policy. It can be found at
http://www.dot.cx/policies.privacy.cfm
Under the new policy, personal details like address, phone number and
email are not accessible via the WHOIS anymore.
Please send your comments and enquiries to policy@dot.cx
Because of the new policy, we have agreed with Dot CX to keep accepting
payments for EXISTENT registrations until the 15th of August (2000-08-15).
This means you can still extend your domain's registration period for the
old registry fee (10.- UK Pounds per year), but have to accept the new
terms and conditions. After that time we will accept NO MORE payments.
Again, thanks for all your feedback and we are looking forward to staying
in touch with you for upto 5 more years.
Thank you for your attention.
Regards,
Hostmaster@niccx.com
It's been ages since I've used win icq, but iirc you can even set the key combinations for the different functions....
Have you ever actually used gnutella? ;-). As soon as there are more than a few 1000 users on a net you need to have at least t1 to keep things working. Because a lot of the traffic is broadcast to all nodes on the net, so traffic per node increases almost liniarly with the number of nodes.
Come to think of it, gnutella handles high numbers of users a lot less graciously than napster...
And that would help _how_ exactly? This is about installation, not about compression.
Ah, like that. Yup, but that's not a problem of the system, just the implementation. if they got off their lazy asses and upgraded the servers/connection they'd work with as many users as possible. (or use opennap, though that's something different of course).
Hmm, I still don't get it, sorry. Must be the radiation from my monitor.
You mean to say, every time somebody extra connects to the network, his bandwidth can be used to upload files, plus the amount of bandwidth there already was? That's just as true for napster.
(Ignoring for the moment that people don't have all available files, and people download too.)
Gnutella is in fact (very slightly) less anonymous than napster. And I don't get the 'potentially unlimited bandwith' statement, unless you mean that it doesn't work right without it. :-). With the server isn't a problem with napster for transfer speeds, transfers never hit the server. aamof gnutella has a lot more bandwidth problems than napster, especially on large networks. But I'm keeping my fingers crossed for GnutellaNG.
So? Doesn't everybody use the fonts from some old windows cd for their X server anyway?
The Theory of Gravity is quite provable every single time. Pick something up. Let it go. It falls to the ground. Every single time.
You call that proof? 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime. Thus I have proven all uneven numbers are prime.
Ehm, 8 _bit_ colour, not 8 byte. (SCHWEET! :-) not.). This 320x200x8bits=512kbits=64kbyte.
Try this hack to make X11-based netscape scale fonts by 10% instead of 20% for each font=n point, add: Netscape*documentFonts.sizeIncrement: 10 to your .Xdefaults or where-ever you keep your X11 Resource manager stuff. credits for finding this go to someone here on slashdot, but I forget who... :-(.