Dick Hardt runs ActiveState (the Win32 perl guys). At last year's conference they handed out bumper stickers that said "If you don't know perl, you don't know Dick.":)
Try FreeS/WAN. It is an IPSec package that handles VPNs and other firewalling-type stuff, and it's compatible with most other IPSec packages (meaning you can hook up with Checkpoint VPN-1 and such).
Actually, Windows Update does do drivers. Rarely. It's at the bottom, and it's *always* empty. In fact, I've only ever seen it once, where it gave me a new driver for my ESS-based card.
Yes, but if there's one the the command-line isn't it's primitive. The command-line generally is a much richer environment for getting things done than a GUI.
It seems to me that most people say "primitive" when they mean "not flashy". There are many things that a GUI is better for, but that doesn't mean the command-line is primitive, it's just different.
Many, many universities are now enforcing bandwidth caps (and outright blocking napster). I have never seen a sub-$100/month (unmetered) connection that did not prohibit servers, which napster generally counts as.
Ironically, Speakeasy (my provider, and the ones with the 'screw metallica' ads here on/.) has a usage policy that pretty much says "We know you're going to be running a server. Duh! Why else would you want broadband access?". They also provide static IPs standard. But for the most part, you're right. Providers don't want you filling your upstream bandwidth.
My rent is $600 a month for a huge apartment and gas is about $1.20 (dunno about houses, don't want one). And $1.20 goes a lot further when you're not an idiot paying $50 to fill the tank on an SUV.
I've got a pretty good job doing software development, and I've got so much disposable income I don't know what to do with it.
Yes, $7/hr does not pay the bills, but it's not quite as extreme as you put it everywhere in the country (I can't speak for anywhere other than the U.S.).
Almost all of us -- especially the people reading this -- have less leisure time than ever. We work harder, take fewer vacations for shorter periods of time, report more stress than almost any other demographic group and find the boundaries between work and play increasingly blurred. Computing and communications technologies are destroying the idea of privacy and leisure.
Except in very few situations, this is all by choice. Being in the technology sector, there are more jobs than there are qualified people at the moment. I can choose my jobs carefully. I get 3 weeks of paid vacation (I'm 24 years old), I make almost as much as my mom (she's pissed:), and I work 8:00 to 4:30 except in very rare circumstances.
If you're being forced into overtime, go work for someplace with a better atmosphere. Work *can* be fun. If you're not, stop bitching, it's your choice.:)
I work hard at work, but when work is over, *it's over*, and my employer knows that. I can say I'll have no problems taking all of my vacation this year. Perhapse it's time to think about switching jobs if your benefits don't match your new rising stress level.
Heh, I'm the same way, but I ended up going a step further.
I have downloaded very few MP3s from Napster/Gnutella/Whatever. What I have done is converted my entire (250+) CD collection to MP3s. Then, I set up a streaming MP3 radio station (or, depending on your tastes, a *steaming* MP3 radio station).
I initially did this so I could listen to my entire collection from work. Until you try it, you have no idea what a rush it is to be able to put 2 weeks of continuous music on random.
At that point, I thought "Hey, I'm already streaming this stuff off, why not let other people listen?", so I put my station up to the public, using Live365 to rebroadcast. Then I got tired of having to rely on my Windoze machine staying up to be able to stream, so I set up icecast (GPL'd implementation of the shoutcast server), and grabbed this cool library called libshout, and wrote a small perl script to send my music data out.
Suddenly, not only am I releasing a GPL'd tool for streaming MP3s, but this has turned into a full-blown hobby. And let me tell ya, if you thought putting 2 weeks of music on random was cool, releasing your first free software on Freshmeat is quite a rush.:)
In the last 2 months, I have spent close to $300 on new CDs to add to my "radio station" lineup. Previously, I think I spent maybe $10 or $20 every couple of months on new CDs.
Plus, I write music as a hobby, and those songs are part of my lineup as well, so as the station gets more popular, my music is exposed to more people. I don't charge for my music, people are welcome to download it for free to do with as they please, but I like knowing that people are listening to (and hopefully liking) my music.
All in all, I think the record companies have done quite well by me.
The difference is that the cost of running a radio station that can reach a significant amount of time is quite a bit more than the cost of running a web site of ANY kind.
Pirate radio was a rare underground thing. Pirate news/web/whatever is almost as prolific as porn.
It's not like the internet is gonna get *more* expensive as it becomes more prolific. Just more partitioned and specialized.
If one of our sites is taken down temporarily, we'll have sufficient spare capacity in others to allow customers who have wisely stored backups and hot-spares elsewhere to be online almost instantly.
If the customers can afford to have this data on-hand in a backup or hot-spare (not in the sense of money, but in the sense of culpability/freedom/whatever), why do they need you? Isn't the whole point to have a safe place where "dubious" or unpopular information can go? If they hold onto it themselves, there's no reason to go through all the trouble of pushing it offshore if the feds can still get them for having their backups instead.
Actually, having first-hand experience (I have both a Palm IIIx and a Cassiopiea E115), the interface on PalmOS is MUCH nicer than WinCE's. Too many extraneous taps in WinCE. Granted, CE 3.0x's interface is much cleaned up over the original HPC's interface, but they still have a ways to go to get over the windows "desktop" metaphor.
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It was unofficial, and it sounds like it's going to be (somewhat) abandoned.
But it does do drivers.
Unless D: is the second partition, and it's a logical drive. Then it becomes E: when you add a new HD, and fucks everything up. :)
It seems to me that most people say "primitive" when they mean "not flashy". There are many things that a GUI is better for, but that doesn't mean the command-line is primitive, it's just different.
For anyone else wanting to do this, I formatted RMS's essay in a nice text file for easy attachment (instead of HTML). You can grab it here.
Ironically, Speakeasy (my provider, and the ones with the 'screw metallica' ads here on /.) has a usage policy that pretty much says "We know you're going to be running a server. Duh! Why else would you want broadband access?". They also provide static IPs standard. But for the most part, you're right. Providers don't want you filling your upstream bandwidth.
Or, maybe you're living in the wrong area.
My rent is $600 a month for a huge apartment and gas is about $1.20 (dunno about houses, don't want one). And $1.20 goes a lot further when you're not an idiot paying $50 to fill the tank on an SUV.
I've got a pretty good job doing software development, and I've got so much disposable income I don't know what to do with it.
Yes, $7/hr does not pay the bills, but it's not quite as extreme as you put it everywhere in the country (I can't speak for anywhere other than the U.S.).
Except in very few situations, this is all by choice. Being in the technology sector, there are more jobs than there are qualified people at the moment. I can choose my jobs carefully. I get 3 weeks of paid vacation (I'm 24 years old), I make almost as much as my mom (she's pissed
If you're being forced into overtime, go work for someplace with a better atmosphere. Work *can* be fun. If you're not, stop bitching, it's your choice.
I work hard at work, but when work is over, *it's over*, and my employer knows that. I can say I'll have no problems taking all of my vacation this year. Perhapse it's time to think about switching jobs if your benefits don't match your new rising stress level.
I have downloaded very few MP3s from Napster/Gnutella/Whatever. What I have done is converted my entire (250+) CD collection to MP3s. Then, I set up a streaming MP3 radio station (or, depending on your tastes, a *steaming* MP3 radio station).
I initially did this so I could listen to my entire collection from work. Until you try it, you have no idea what a rush it is to be able to put 2 weeks of continuous music on random.
At that point, I thought "Hey, I'm already streaming this stuff off, why not let other people listen?", so I put my station up to the public, using Live365 to rebroadcast. Then I got tired of having to rely on my Windoze machine staying up to be able to stream, so I set up icecast (GPL'd implementation of the shoutcast server), and grabbed this cool library called libshout, and wrote a small perl script to send my music data out.
Suddenly, not only am I releasing a GPL'd tool for streaming MP3s, but this has turned into a full-blown hobby. And let me tell ya, if you thought putting 2 weeks of music on random was cool, releasing your first free software on Freshmeat is quite a rush. :)
In the last 2 months, I have spent close to $300 on new CDs to add to my "radio station" lineup. Previously, I think I spent maybe $10 or $20 every couple of months on new CDs.
Plus, I write music as a hobby, and those songs are part of my lineup as well, so as the station gets more popular, my music is exposed to more people. I don't charge for my music, people are welcome to download it for free to do with as they please, but I like knowing that people are listening to (and hopefully liking) my music.
All in all, I think the record companies have done quite well by me.
:)
Pirate radio was a rare underground thing. Pirate news/web/whatever is almost as prolific as porn.
It's not like the internet is gonna get *more* expensive as it becomes more prolific. Just more partitioned and specialized.
I know there's got to be a verb in there somewhere. :)
If the customers can afford to have this data on-hand in a backup or hot-spare (not in the sense of money, but in the sense of culpability/freedom/whatever), why do they need you? Isn't the whole point to have a safe place where "dubious" or unpopular information can go? If they hold onto it themselves, there's no reason to go through all the trouble of pushing it offshore if the feds can still get them for having their backups instead.
I say port Direct3D to Linux!
And how, pray tell, is porting Direct3D to Linux not "playing catch-up with Windows"?
"MEGACAR!"
It had up to a meg of ram, and there was a dos program to use it as a ramdisk.