But, if you spend serious time (14-18 hours a day) looking at screens, you need top of the line CRT's. CAD, DTP, video production, etc..
Even hard core gamers will tell you that CRT is the only way.
Wow. Are CRTs the new vinyl?
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I'll wrap it up here, to say that I really, truly hope someone replies to this, saying "you're wrong", with a link to a live, vibrant, active Free/Open Source software routing project. That would be the best christmas present I could have.
You're wrong. The OpenBSD developers released OpenBGPD with OpenBSD 3.6 a little while ago. It's already working well and is under active development, so expect even more exciting features and power with the next OpenBSD release in ~5 months. Combined with OpenBSD's PF packet filter and Common Address Redundancy Protocol, this makes OpenBSD the perfect software router. You have powerful packet filtering (including load balancing, QoS traffic shaping, NAT, etc.), BGP route distribution (including optional IPSEC encryption on BGP traffic), and automatic fail-over if you want to set up a pair or cluster of machines to act as a single logical router.
VLC will play Quicktime files (and many others, including DVDs) without asking you to buy the pro version. It will also play fullscreen, unlike the standard Quicktime player. It's a remarkably good piece of software.
If you can find a way to install his music on your Mac he wont [sic] stop you. However no company can throw money away by supporting a platform that wont [sic] recoup the cost of devlopment. [sic] This is just sound buisness [sic] stratagy. [sic]
It's also a sound business strategy for Apple to deny Real access to the iPod. It waters down Apple's "we control everything, so it all just works" credo and it risks technical support problems and customer dissatisfaction if a future iTunes upgrade unintentionally breaks the Real backdoor. So, by your argument, Glasser should stop whining, too.
I heard something similar when I, a "Canadian English" speaker, spent 8 months in Australia a few years ago. I lived in a student residence with a lot of foreign students from Brazil, India, Germany, etc. and a number of them commented that I was easier to understand than the Australians. I think it's because Canadians tend pronounce all the letters. For example, when we want something to drink, we say "water" while Australians say "wawta" (or "beer" vs. "bee-ah"). Australians also use far more slang in conversation, abbreviating words whenever they can.
Exactly. The passport's reliability is not an issue. As Schneier and others have noted, the 9/11 hijackers all presented valid documentation. They weren't pretending to be anyone else. A fancier passport would have made *zero* difference.
A lot of people are proposing new ID systems as a solution. The question is what problem do they solve?
On a side note, I believe that in order for rendevous to succeed, Apple needs to open it up, and allow M$ and Linux to interoperate with it.
What, like releasing it as an open source technology and submitting it as an IETF standard? Yeah, that's a great idea. I wish Apple had thought of that.
Does anybody know if there are any problems with FreeBSD (the letter just mentioned OpenBSD and NetBSD)...?
I've installed OpenSSH 3.3 on a few FreeBSD release versions and haven't noticed any problems. The only point to watch is that you need OpenSSL 0.9.6d, which may (though I'm not sure yet) require you to recompile other things like mod_ssl.
These requirements must be satisfied even if you do not intend to utilize the privilege separation feature. The daemon fails to start without them.
If you're upgrading remotely, you can kill the sshd listening process without killing your login session. OpenSSH normally has a file like/var/run/sshd.pid that contains the PID of the "main" sshd process. Kill that one, start up your new sshd, make sure you can log in, then you can close your existing login session and not worry about being locked out.
P.S. If you're not sure of the correct method for creating the new sshd user and group, the OpenSSH page at http://www.openssh.com/openbsd.html has some straightforward directions that aren't specific to OpenBSD, as long as your OS has vipw (just a special vi for editing your password file).
Wrong. Aside from doorstop and paperweight manufacuturers, no industry makes a product that does everything out of the box without any consumer knowledge.
When you buy a car, do you expect the dealer to teach you to drive?
When you buy the latest issue of your favourite magazine, do you expect the publisher to teach you to read?
When you order a steak at a restaurant, do you expect the waiter to teach you to use a knife and fork?
When you go on a trip to France, do you expect the airline (or maybe the French government) to teach you the language? Or how to pack?
Using a computer for basic tasks like word processing, email, connecting to the Internet, etc. requires some basic skills. Consider that people spend months or years to learn skills like driving and reading, but expect computers to magically do everything right away. If consumers took responsibility for learning basic computer use, I bet it would eliminate more than half of all tech support calls. Either that or realize that companies will need to charge more to cover the costs of all this hand-holding that Katz demands.
I do want manufacturers to post good documentation on their web sites, write good user manuals, and create good interfaces. I don't want them charging me more money to subsidize the personal tech support required to teach other people skills that they should be learning on their own. I don't know much about cars (I'm not "part of the industry"), but I don't call Ford every time I need to fill up the gas tank.
[...] but it's clunky interface (and higher learning curve) is keeping from being a top notch
workstation (a la FreeBSD, Linux)
I have to disagree with that. OpenBSD makes a fine workstation OS. Just for starters, the generic kernel has sound support built in, unlike the generic FreeBSD kernel. What clunky interface are you talking about? csh (or tcsh/bash/etc. if you prefer) is virtually the same on any Unix-like OS. Windowmaker, KDE, etc. are in the ports tree if you like pretty windows.
I don't want to get involved in the *BSD vs. Linux holy war, but I don't see why you think OpenBSD is less suitable as a workstation OS than FreeBSD.
i can run same binaries on every linux distro, thus linux is same os (imo anyway) and is not fragmented into different incompatible os.
Great. You can run them on some of the BSDs too. As a recent example, my coworker got fed up with his Unreal Tournament server running on Red Hat and just copied the UT files directly to an existing FreeBSD server we had lying around. Thanks to the Linux compatibility, we are now enjoying UT running on the solid FreeBSD foundation.
Even if you assume that all Linux binaries will run on every distro (which is false, but close enough), the config file layout changes so much from one distro to the next that it really doesn't matter. At least the BSD folks have the presence of mind to give the projects different names, instead of trying to say that they're the same thing, just in a different distribution. If you can compile something on one BSD, you'll most likely be able to compile it on the others.
btw can i run for example binaries compiled for nbsd on fbsd or bsd/os without any kind of emulation? if not than bsd is much more fragmented than gnu/linux is.
Who cares if it's using emulation? If the binaries run, that's all that matters. Are debs and rpms compatible without installing extra software? Also a pointless discussion.
Anyway, use whatever you want. It's not about forcing everyone to use the same OS. It's about making a good OS that fits your needs. I find Open/FreeBSD nicer and easier to use than Linux, so I use them. That's it. ---
From the article: "Contrary to the belief that we cannot distinguish anything over 30 fps, we can actually see and recognize speeds up to 70+ fps. How can you test this? You can quickly do this with your monitor at home. Set the refresh rate to 60 Hz and stare at it for a while. You can actually see the refreshes and it is very tiring to your eyes. Now if we couldn't see more than 30 fps, why is it that flicker free is considered to be 72 Hz (refreshes per second)."
The reason you notice flickers at 60 Hz is most likely because the lights around you are also running at 60 Hz. The monitor refreshes will happen at very nearly the same time as the room light refresh, so you will see (or somehow be aware of) the blanks in between. This phenomenon is widespread. For example, machine shops can't have fluorescent lights because any tools spinning at 60 Hz will appear to be standing still (leading to all kinds of nasty accidents). If you had a dark room and a strobe light that you could set to 72 Hz, I'll bet you'd notice the flicker on a monitor refreshing at 72 Hz.
I'm not sure what the eye's "maximum refresh rate" might be, but I know this is a stupid way to measure it. They should at least do it outside in full sunshine. ---
We have, per capita, the most people on the Internet
Uh, no. According to many people, the USA holds a modest 4th place in terms of per capita Internet usage. Should we be putting Finland, Norway, and Iceland at the top of the list as well?
I'll bet you want everyone to speak English when you visit a foreign country too, right? Or have you never left the confines of your perfect little country ---
Larry Wall once said "I believe a person's worth is measured more by what they can give to the world than by what they can acquire from the world."
Perhaps Damian is altruistic enough to share that view. I'm sure anyone as qualified as Damian (or Larry) would have no problems finding a higher-paying job if that's what they wanted.
You are mistaken. They used to be MIPS, but they moved to AMD some time ago. Read the documentation on their site. It says "x86-compatible processor". I have seen inside many 3i and 4r models.
have never seen a rack-mountable server machine which packs AMD processors. I just checked three vendors (Telenet Systems, VA Linux, and Penguin Computing) and none of the are shipping AMD products.
Well, there is a little company called Cobalt Networks that makes a little server called the RaQ that is both rack-mountable and AMD-based. Not suitable for high-end computation work, but certainly a nice web server.
No kidding. And did you hear what his next topic was going to be? "How to keep your images safe" from "web pick-pockets".
After thanking Larry for giving away such a great gift to the world, he wants to talk about dumb ways to disable right-clicking using javascript or something. How crass.
It's a pity you can't really expect more fromm ZDNet. ---
BSD seems to be mainly used for servers. While it might be cool to have a quake server or unreal tournament server, or for some other type of game, I don't really see why someone would want to play games on BSD. I'm not a big expert on BSD, but from what I see, linux has support for more
hardware than bsd as far as graphics cards, soundcards, etc.
Linux seems to be mainly used for servers. While it might be cool to have a quake server or unreal tournament server, or for some other type of game, I don't really see why someone would want to play games on Linux. I'm not a big expert on Linux, but from what I see, Windows has support for more hardware than Linux as far as graphics cards, soundcards, etc.
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Q: Will AT&T Charge Extra For [...]?
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Next question.
Wow. Are CRTs the new vinyl?
You're wrong. The OpenBSD developers released OpenBGPD with OpenBSD 3.6 a little while ago. It's already working well and is under active development, so expect even more exciting features and power with the next OpenBSD release in ~5 months. Combined with OpenBSD's PF packet filter and Common Address Redundancy Protocol, this makes OpenBSD the perfect software router. You have powerful packet filtering (including load balancing, QoS traffic shaping, NAT, etc.), BGP route distribution (including optional IPSEC encryption on BGP traffic), and automatic fail-over if you want to set up a pair or cluster of machines to act as a single logical router.
Merry Christmas.
VLC will play Quicktime files (and many others, including DVDs) without asking you to buy the pro version. It will also play fullscreen, unlike the standard Quicktime player. It's a remarkably good piece of software.
If you can find a way to install his music on your Mac he wont [sic] stop you. However no company can throw money away by supporting a platform that wont [sic] recoup the cost of devlopment. [sic] This is just sound buisness [sic] stratagy. [sic]
It's also a sound business strategy for Apple to deny Real access to the iPod. It waters down Apple's "we control everything, so it all just works" credo and it risks technical support problems and customer dissatisfaction if a future iTunes upgrade unintentionally breaks the Real backdoor. So, by your argument, Glasser should stop whining, too.
I heard something similar when I, a "Canadian English" speaker, spent 8 months in Australia a few years ago. I lived in a student residence with a lot of foreign students from Brazil, India, Germany, etc. and a number of them commented that I was easier to understand than the Australians. I think it's because Canadians tend pronounce all the letters. For example, when we want something to drink, we say "water" while Australians say "wawta" (or "beer" vs. "bee-ah"). Australians also use far more slang in conversation, abbreviating words whenever they can.
Exactly. The passport's reliability is not an issue. As Schneier and others have noted, the 9/11 hijackers all presented valid documentation. They weren't pretending to be anyone else. A fancier passport would have made *zero* difference.
A lot of people are proposing new ID systems as a solution. The question is what problem do they solve?
What, like releasing it as an open source technology and submitting it as an IETF standard? Yeah, that's a great idea. I wish Apple had thought of that.
lavarand.sgi.com used to do something like this, except with lava lamps. They seem to have changed things a bit and moved to lavarnd.org.
Does anybody know if there are any problems with FreeBSD (the letter just mentioned OpenBSD and NetBSD)...?
I've installed OpenSSH 3.3 on a few FreeBSD release versions and haven't noticed any problems. The only point to watch is that you need OpenSSL 0.9.6d, which may (though I'm not sure yet) require you to recompile other things like mod_ssl.
These requirements must be satisfied even if you do not intend to utilize the privilege separation feature. The daemon fails to start without them.
If you're upgrading remotely, you can kill the sshd listening process without killing your login session. OpenSSH normally has a file like /var/run/sshd.pid that contains the PID of the "main" sshd process. Kill that one, start up your new sshd, make sure you can log in, then you can close your existing login session and not worry about being locked out.
P.S. If you're not sure of the correct method for creating the new sshd user and group, the OpenSSH page at http://www.openssh.com/openbsd.html has some straightforward directions that aren't specific to OpenBSD, as long as your OS has vipw (just a special vi for editing your password file).
No, that's an unrelated patch. Check the date as well as the cve.mitre.org reference.
Wrong. Aside from doorstop and paperweight manufacuturers, no industry makes a product that does everything out of the box without any consumer knowledge.
Using a computer for basic tasks like word processing, email, connecting to the Internet, etc. requires some basic skills. Consider that people spend months or years to learn skills like driving and reading, but expect computers to magically do everything right away. If consumers took responsibility for learning basic computer use, I bet it would eliminate more than half of all tech support calls. Either that or realize that companies will need to charge more to cover the costs of all this hand-holding that Katz demands.
I do want manufacturers to post good documentation on their web sites, write good user manuals, and create good interfaces. I don't want them charging me more money to subsidize the personal tech support required to teach other people skills that they should be learning on their own. I don't know much about cars (I'm not "part of the industry"), but I don't call Ford every time I need to fill up the gas tank.
Here's an su command for NT.. html
http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/winntutil
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[...] but it's clunky interface (and higher learning curve) is keeping from being a top notch workstation (a la FreeBSD, Linux)
I have to disagree with that. OpenBSD makes a fine workstation OS. Just for starters, the generic kernel has sound support built in, unlike the generic FreeBSD kernel. What clunky interface are you talking about? csh (or tcsh/bash/etc. if you prefer) is virtually the same on any Unix-like OS. Windowmaker, KDE, etc. are in the ports tree if you like pretty windows.
I don't want to get involved in the *BSD vs. Linux holy war, but I don't see why you think OpenBSD is less suitable as a workstation OS than FreeBSD.
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i can run same binaries on every linux distro, thus linux is same os (imo anyway) and is not fragmented into different incompatible os.
Great. You can run them on some of the BSDs too. As a recent example, my coworker got fed up with his Unreal Tournament server running on Red Hat and just copied the UT files directly to an existing FreeBSD server we had lying around. Thanks to the Linux compatibility, we are now enjoying UT running on the solid FreeBSD foundation.
Even if you assume that all Linux binaries will run on every distro (which is false, but close enough), the config file layout changes so much from one distro to the next that it really doesn't matter. At least the BSD folks have the presence of mind to give the projects different names, instead of trying to say that they're the same thing, just in a different distribution. If you can compile something on one BSD, you'll most likely be able to compile it on the others.
btw can i run for example binaries compiled for nbsd on fbsd or bsd/os without any kind of emulation? if not than bsd is much more fragmented than gnu/linux is.
Who cares if it's using emulation? If the binaries run, that's all that matters. Are debs and rpms compatible without installing extra software? Also a pointless discussion.
Anyway, use whatever you want. It's not about forcing everyone to use the same OS. It's about making a good OS that fits your needs. I find Open/FreeBSD nicer and easier to use than Linux, so I use them. That's it.
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From the article: "Contrary to the belief that we cannot distinguish anything over 30 fps, we can actually see and recognize speeds up to 70+ fps. How can you test this? You can quickly do this with your monitor at home. Set the refresh rate to 60 Hz and stare at it for a while. You can actually see the refreshes and it is very tiring to your eyes. Now if we couldn't see more than 30 fps, why is it that flicker free is considered to be 72 Hz (refreshes per second)."
The reason you notice flickers at 60 Hz is most likely because the lights around you are also running at 60 Hz. The monitor refreshes will happen at very nearly the same time as the room light refresh, so you will see (or somehow be aware of) the blanks in between. This phenomenon is widespread. For example, machine shops can't have fluorescent lights because any tools spinning at 60 Hz will appear to be standing still (leading to all kinds of nasty accidents). If you had a dark room and a strobe light that you could set to 72 Hz, I'll bet you'd notice the flicker on a monitor refreshing at 72 Hz.
I'm not sure what the eye's "maximum refresh rate" might be, but I know this is a stupid way to measure it. They should at least do it outside in full sunshine.
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We have, per capita, the most people on the Internet
Uh, no. According to many people, the USA holds a modest 4th place in terms of per capita Internet usage. Should we be putting Finland, Norway, and Iceland at the top of the list as well?
I'll bet you want everyone to speak English when you visit a foreign country too, right? Or have you never left the confines of your perfect little country
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Perhaps Damian is altruistic enough to share that view. I'm sure anyone as qualified as Damian (or Larry) would have no problems finding a higher-paying job if that's what they wanted.
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Have you tried GAG? It is certainly the coolest looking boot manager I've ever seen and it's free (speach and beer).
http://raster.cibermil lennium.com/gageng.htm
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The NASRaQ and the Qube are also still listed on their site as being 64-bit processors, which means the MIPS chips.
OK, but we were talking about the RaQ servers. The original ones were MIPS-based. The current ones are AMD-based. That's all there is to it.
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You are mistaken. They used to be MIPS, but they moved to AMD some time ago. Read the documentation on their site. It says "x86-compatible processor". I have seen inside many 3i and 4r models.
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have never seen a rack-mountable server machine which packs AMD processors. I just checked three vendors (Telenet Systems, VA Linux, and Penguin Computing) and none of the are shipping AMD products.
Well, there is a little company called Cobalt Networks that makes a little server called the RaQ that is both rack-mountable and AMD-based. Not suitable for high-end computation work, but certainly a nice web server.
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No kidding. And did you hear what his next topic was going to be? "How to keep your images safe" from "web pick-pockets".
After thanking Larry for giving away such a great gift to the world, he wants to talk about dumb ways to disable right-clicking using javascript or something. How crass.
It's a pity you can't really expect more fromm ZDNet.
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BSD seems to be mainly used for servers. While it might be cool to have a quake server or unreal tournament server, or for some other type of game, I don't really see why someone would want to play games on BSD. I'm not a big expert on BSD, but from what I see, linux has support for more hardware than bsd as far as graphics cards, soundcards, etc.
Linux seems to be mainly used for servers. While it might be cool to have a quake server or unreal tournament server, or for some other type of game, I don't really see why someone would want to play games on Linux. I'm not a big expert on Linux, but from what I see, Windows has support for more hardware than Linux as far as graphics cards, soundcards, etc.
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