I don't think google would want external sources 'improving' on their indexing system. it requires too much overhead on their end for managing all the results, requires putting their software out for public consumption, and they would risk of having their database cluttered by people who fake responses.
On the other hand, providing the API doesn't seem like they are losing out on much. If yahoo offered such a service I would use a quick frontend because I hate their website (and no longer visit it). But why bother, google has a few pictures VERY fast results and non-intrusive ads. the worst someone can do is take away the text ads and cut the size of the page down by a few hundred bytes.
I think they are doing this for either subscription based service in the future or are offering it because they know people will just parse the HTML back into the raw data and reuse it, and this saves them spare CPU cycles of converting to HTML in the first place.
maybe im just an oldtimer. i figured it had native smb support by now. the package name is sharity light ( http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/net/shari ty-light/pkg-descr ), and it converts the SMB protocol to NFS. not needed anymore i guess, but thats what i was referring to.
umm... I (used) to run a samba PDC on freebsd, never have ran into a broken package (security problem? thats an issue with the maintainer and is intentionally 'broken'), and have smbclient and can mount smb shares fine (the program isn't called smbmount, but it converts SMB to NFS and is mounted as an NFS share. Can find easily if you look in the ports.)
This really doesn't matter. Maybe bnetd was making too much progress, but I have yet to see any people ACTUALLY playing on servers that do not belong to blizzard. People that actually want to play the game are going to play on the official servers with 99% of the other people, not with 5 other koreans on at 1-4am.
Now my question: Why did they target bnetd and not FSGS. They have made 2x the progress on emulating bnet and have a fairly good service. They are, in fact, emulating several game servers.
I think Blizzard better pull out of it because of the bad PR. I've already decided not to buy their products til they make a Linux port (which wont be soon, i imagine). They are just harming their image more. Occasionally I have used bnetd at lan parties where there was no net access because its so much easier then using IPX (for starcraft).
Now heres someone who doesn't know what freebsd is. His compiler was installed when his OS was installed, and all his applications have been insalled with md5-checksums on compilation (unless he specifies not to). So unless he got his freebsd install and cvs updates from hackme.scr1ptkiddie.com then he should be ok.
of course, if the administrator is incompetant he could easily have been hacked and files then modified, but thats beyond the scope:)
but, to get those speeds you have to be VERY close to the telco. the reason it is advertised as 1mbit/384kbit or 384/384 is because that is the speed that MOST people are going to be satisfied with and MOST people will be able to get. your theory could be true, but I doubt it because if they could push more data down the pipe they would try to offer it as soon as they could to steal cable customers. (Where I live, cable is 10x faster then DSL easily)
what a troll.
the codec is free, the implentations do not exist for that arch though.
And no, the kenwood engineers aren't lazy. Their standpoint is, give us a codebase to support it and we will. I believe that is respectable at this point, as its not profitable for them to support a format that isn't in wide use (yet?).
if you are using rotating dns, there would be no way to update it fast enough. not sure of other load balancing methods that would work.
also my instinct says that comparing file sizes + file existant = security problem, although not that big. sombody/could/ replace it if a mirror ever got hacked (im sure they have no way of managing the security on every one of the mirrors.) this all makes me more likely to download from the official mirror, no problems there (yet, hah).
fyi, AOL/saved/ netscape, not turned it into crap. netscape had been heading downhill for a long time because they did nothing to netscape 4.0 to make it updated and such, and IE kept making great strides.
if anything, aol has turned netscape around to create a great product - mozilla.
could be several reasons. RedHat is an American distro is the first thing that pops into my head. Mandrake is french, iirc. The other one being that RedHat's name is more accepted as a 'standard' Linux distro, has its own certification exams, etc. If AOL would get their stuff together, they could make a neat OS. WinAMP for a media player start, Time Warner for physical network communication, AOL for internet service, Netscape for a webbrowser, etc.
somehow I doubt this will happen, tho. just wierd that AOL is buying up all the pieces that put together microsoft (MSN, media player, the OS, IE)
The problem being, in essence, that Paperboy, once loaded, provided much more fun then Return to Castle Wolfenstein. Now I understand this is a touchy subject, but I feel that I have come to a simple and easy conclusion.
The extra loading time meaning the that extra 'fun' factor, and making the speed of a commador 64 equal the speed of a recent PC.
Criminals are terrorists too. When people steal you car they are terrorists because you can't get to work to publish your paper. Drugs support the terrorist ideals too - they degrade our society! shut the hell up, christ.
I agree with the comment, but stop calling everybody terrorists. right now i could care less about my karma, just stop using this stupid word to describe everything.
Well, it might shed light that these screenshots are true. Glitches are logical to happen like that. I can't believe they would have made these applications all WORK - the graphics portion may just be running fine, and the rest is frozen/stuck/broken.
If you also notice, the IE window has a huge offset at the top on the first screenshot. Whats up with that? It almost looks like they pasted an IE screenshot into a Linux-ish window.
It is pretty convencing to me, maybe they have somthing. But it is all irrelevant, if people can run windows apps on linux then run windows apps they will, ensuring microsoft's success. Move on, people.
can you say "PLEASE MOD ME UP"? If you want karma, ask for it.
Therefor, I ask nicely. Moderators, please mod this comment up, because I am in need of karma, and I do not have time to post thoughtful comments on slashdot. Trolling is a hard life without karma. Thank you.
I just wanted to say that today, while at school, teachers were constantly trying to load populair websites (which were of course dead). Slashdot, which I immedately mentioned, loaded up instantly and provided very accurate information. Moderation and user comments work VERY well in situations such as this: you get reports from people who actually see the attacks, valid reports get modded up, etc. great job.
Maybe some populair sites will see this and will add such abilities? I love reading comments from people who saw it. The descriptions from a real person form a more vivid image in my mind then any picture or video has.
-- If you build a bad bridge, you will get sued. Try and sue Microsoft.
even though I hate microsoft bashers, thats an interesting point. when you build a bridge, you generally support it (no pun), and when it falls it is the designer of the bridges fault, not the car driving over it. Bridges even tollerate more then what they are designed to.
Why don't software companies support and back their products when they make boo-boos? Why do we expect them not to because we clicked "OK, I Agree" after reading the first line and realizing it is only a bunch of legal mumbo-jumbo?
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wrong, wrong, and wrong. You can't get the source to SunOS without signing a NDA of some sort. You can't use SunOS freely for all commercial applications (large multiprocesser servers..), and Sun Hardware is MUCH better then X86 on the Sun platform. If you run solaris x86, you are on the brink of insanity.
Linux is free, it runs on X86 hardware very well, and the source code doesn't have a NDA attached to it.
Finally, this gives Linux press and 'wow, if they can do it so can we...' type feelings. The more people become familiar with this 'Linux' beast and what exactly it means, the more it is going to grow. It is my opinion that Microsoft will be dead on the server front soon, and the only thing keeping them alive is the clients/workstations needing a NT server. Linux is moving in on the desktop area, taking that over fast. In 3-5 years, I don't see how buying a Linux PC will be much different then buying a Windows PC- The linux one will just be cheaper.
You still have on a single point of failure. What if I get access to the HTTP server, modify this document (or python script) to install my public ssh key to a user account (or root account for that matter). Viola, I now can log into every machine on the network.
Public key authentication is nice, but your HTTP server better be damn secure to do somthing like that.
a guy I know said Yahoo used to have all their servers NFS exports avabile on the internet. as in, you could mount their servers email directories and read through every single users email. don't know how public it got, and I imagine it got patched up VERY quickly.
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To add to this, last I checked Galeon is GTK/Gnome-ish. So if you don't like the default style why not use a fricken theme other then the default?
I tried galeon a while ago and I found it to be very nice, but I still prefer mozilla because it supports javascript very well/themeable/mail-news clients/etc. Lots of people claim this is bloatware, I just find it featureful. The composer is the only thing that I would do away with.
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I don't think google would want external sources 'improving' on their indexing system. it requires too much overhead on their end for managing all the results, requires putting their software out for public consumption, and they would risk of having their database cluttered by people who fake responses.
On the other hand, providing the API doesn't seem like they are losing out on much. If yahoo offered such a service I would use a quick frontend because I hate their website (and no longer visit it). But why bother, google has a few pictures VERY fast results and non-intrusive ads. the worst someone can do is take away the text ads and cut the size of the page down by a few hundred bytes.
I think they are doing this for either subscription based service in the future or are offering it because they know people will just parse the HTML back into the raw data and reuse it, and this saves them spare CPU cycles of converting to HTML in the first place.
Because Windows XP is a desktop OS. .net server, which will replace windows 2000 server, is currently in beta/development.
maybe im just an oldtimer. i figured it had native smb support by now. the package name is sharity light ( http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/net/shari ty-light/pkg-descr ), and it converts the SMB protocol to NFS. not needed anymore i guess, but thats what i was referring to.
oh well pointless...
umm... I (used) to run a samba PDC on freebsd, never have ran into a broken package (security problem? thats an issue with the maintainer and is intentionally 'broken'), and have smbclient and can mount smb shares fine (the program isn't called smbmount, but it converts SMB to NFS and is mounted as an NFS share. Can find easily if you look in the ports.)
This really doesn't matter. Maybe bnetd was making too much progress, but I have yet to see any people ACTUALLY playing on servers that do not belong to blizzard. People that actually want to play the game are going to play on the official servers with 99% of the other people, not with 5 other koreans on at 1-4am.
Now my question: Why did they target bnetd and not FSGS. They have made 2x the progress on emulating bnet and have a fairly good service. They are, in fact, emulating several game servers.
I think Blizzard better pull out of it because of the bad PR. I've already decided not to buy their products til they make a Linux port (which wont be soon, i imagine). They are just harming their image more. Occasionally I have used bnetd at lan parties where there was no net access because its so much easier then using IPX (for starcraft).
Now heres someone who doesn't know what freebsd is. His compiler was installed when his OS was installed, and all his applications have been insalled with md5-checksums on compilation (unless he specifies not to). So unless he got his freebsd install and cvs updates from hackme.scr1ptkiddie.com then he should be ok.
:)
of course, if the administrator is incompetant he could easily have been hacked and files then modified, but thats beyond the scope
but, to get those speeds you have to be VERY close to the telco. the reason it is advertised as 1mbit/384kbit or 384/384 is because that is the speed that MOST people are going to be satisfied with and MOST people will be able to get. your theory could be true, but I doubt it because if they could push more data down the pipe they would try to offer it as soon as they could to steal cable customers. (Where I live, cable is 10x faster then DSL easily)
what a troll.
the codec is free, the implentations do not exist for that arch though.
And no, the kenwood engineers aren't lazy. Their standpoint is, give us a codebase to support it and we will. I believe that is respectable at this point, as its not profitable for them to support a format that isn't in wide use (yet?).
if you are using rotating dns, there would be no way to update it fast enough. not sure of other load balancing methods that would work.
/could/ replace it if a mirror ever got hacked (im sure they have no way of managing the security on every one of the mirrors.) this all makes me more likely to download from the official mirror, no problems there (yet, hah).
also my instinct says that comparing file sizes + file existant = security problem, although not that big. sombody
jeez you got free karma for a simple math problem?
guys, $10/mo x 12 months/year = $120. Feel free to mod this post up.
maybe try nvidia driver? you never know.
fyi, AOL /saved/ netscape, not turned it into crap. netscape had been heading downhill for a long time because they did nothing to netscape 4.0 to make it updated and such, and IE kept making great strides.
if anything, aol has turned netscape around to create a great product - mozilla.
could be several reasons. RedHat is an American distro is the first thing that pops into my head. Mandrake is french, iirc. The other one being that RedHat's name is more accepted as a 'standard' Linux distro, has its own certification exams, etc. If AOL would get their stuff together, they could make a neat OS. WinAMP for a media player start, Time Warner for physical network communication, AOL for internet service, Netscape for a webbrowser, etc.
somehow I doubt this will happen, tho. just wierd that AOL is buying up all the pieces that put together microsoft (MSN, media player, the OS, IE)
The problem being, in essence, that Paperboy, once loaded, provided much more fun then Return to Castle Wolfenstein. Now I understand this is a touchy subject, but I feel that I have come to a simple and easy conclusion.
The extra loading time meaning the that extra 'fun' factor, and making the speed of a commador 64 equal the speed of a recent PC.
Criminals are terrorists too. When people steal you car they are terrorists because you can't get to work to publish your paper. Drugs support the terrorist ideals too - they degrade our society! shut the hell up, christ.
I agree with the comment, but stop calling everybody terrorists. right now i could care less about my karma, just stop using this stupid word to describe everything.
Whats the difference from a cdrom and a read-only mounted harddrive? other then the fact that your harddrive will boot faster (faster read times).
a cdrom drive would just be an overkill.
Well, it might shed light that these screenshots are true. Glitches are logical to happen like that. I can't believe they would have made these applications all WORK - the graphics portion may just be running fine, and the rest is frozen/stuck/broken.
If you also notice, the IE window has a huge offset at the top on the first screenshot. Whats up with that? It almost looks like they pasted an IE screenshot into a Linux-ish window.
It is pretty convencing to me, maybe they have somthing. But it is all irrelevant, if people can run windows apps on linux then run windows apps they will, ensuring microsoft's success. Move on, people.
can you say "PLEASE MOD ME UP"? If you want karma, ask for it.
Therefor, I ask nicely. Moderators, please mod this comment up, because I am in need of karma, and I do not have time to post thoughtful comments on slashdot. Trolling is a hard life without karma. Thank you.
He said Stuff? Thats absolutely great! There are so few interviews on 'stuff' out there, we definately need more quality work such as this.
Oh well, I'm sure they are tierd after yesterday.
I just wanted to say that today, while at school, teachers were constantly trying to load populair websites (which were of course dead). Slashdot, which I immedately mentioned, loaded up instantly and provided very accurate information. Moderation and user comments work VERY well in situations such as this: you get reports from people who actually see the attacks, valid reports get modded up, etc. great job.
Maybe some populair sites will see this and will add such abilities? I love reading comments from people who saw it. The descriptions from a real person form a more vivid image in my mind then any picture or video has.
-- If you build a bad bridge, you will get sued. Try and sue Microsoft.
even though I hate microsoft bashers, thats an interesting point. when you build a bridge, you generally support it (no pun), and when it falls it is the designer of the bridges fault, not the car driving over it. Bridges even tollerate more then what they are designed to.
Why don't software companies support and back their products when they make boo-boos? Why do we expect them not to because we clicked "OK, I Agree" after reading the first line and realizing it is only a bunch of legal mumbo-jumbo?
wrong, wrong, and wrong. You can't get the source to SunOS without signing a NDA of some sort. You can't use SunOS freely for all commercial applications (large multiprocesser servers..), and Sun Hardware is MUCH better then X86 on the Sun platform. If you run solaris x86, you are on the brink of insanity.
Linux is free, it runs on X86 hardware very well, and the source code doesn't have a NDA attached to it.
Finally, this gives Linux press and 'wow, if they can do it so can we...' type feelings. The more people become familiar with this 'Linux' beast and what exactly it means, the more it is going to grow. It is my opinion that Microsoft will be dead on the server front soon, and the only thing keeping them alive is the clients/workstations needing a NT server. Linux is moving in on the desktop area, taking that over fast. In 3-5 years, I don't see how buying a Linux PC will be much different then buying a Windows PC- The linux one will just be cheaper.
You still have on a single point of failure. What if I get access to the HTTP server, modify this document (or python script) to install my public ssh key to a user account (or root account for that matter). Viola, I now can log into every machine on the network.
Public key authentication is nice, but your HTTP server better be damn secure to do somthing like that.
a guy I know said Yahoo used to have all their servers NFS exports avabile on the internet. as in, you could mount their servers email directories and read through every single users email. don't know how public it got, and I imagine it got patched up VERY quickly.
To add to this, last I checked Galeon is GTK/Gnome-ish. So if you don't like the default style why not use a fricken theme other then the default?
I tried galeon a while ago and I found it to be very nice, but I still prefer mozilla because it supports javascript very well/themeable/mail-news clients/etc. Lots of people claim this is bloatware, I just find it featureful. The composer is the only thing that I would do away with.
Just my 2cents...