This book seems like an easier to read version of the silmarillion
Any Tolkien fan will tell you that the of the five books mentioned above, the Silmarillion reads like a cross between the Bible and 1980's VCR instructions. It is heavy with volumes of mythology, unpronouncable names and maps thet Bryce couldn't render. This book seems like an easier to read version of that most enigmatic of JRR's books.
Think Ill go get it and use it as a companion so I can finally finish teh Silmarillion.
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I'm campus contact for College Ave campus of Rutgers U. We've had pretty massive host growth. User education is the KEY to reducing workload on your techs and admin. Three words will set you free:
LITERATURE LITERATURE LITERATURE. Make up pamphlets about the following subjects, distribute them to EVERY ROOM and email them to students and parents over the summer preceeding the semester on the following subjects:
-How to get and install a network card
-How to register for an IP address online
-How to set up IP in various OS's (Win9x, win2k, Mac OS 7, Mac OS X, command line linux)
-What rules you'll have to abide by concerning bandwidth caps, providing access and illegal activities
After you get everyone online youll have users screaming about configuring stupid crap like outlook and AOL. Create online documentation about these and make people aware of them.
Mind you Rutgers doesn't use DHCP, so that registering stuff might sound a little non-kosher to you small network DHCP guys:). We've tried, DHCP just isnt an option across ATM, more than two dozen routers and a few hundred VLANs.
Yeah Bandwidth was capped at 240 mb/day down 240 mb/day up (total of 480 mb/day in both directions). Its done pretty well, with a counter at the gateway, so theres really no way around it.
If you cross the limit you are shut down for an entire week. *ouch*. Its been good for getting kids to not leave napster or gnutela running in their systrays unattended.
Have people found ways around this? A few - but its only been temporary. Someone in my network last year kept hopping blocked IPs. This was learned of and eventually they mapped his MAC every morning and shut whatever IP he was using down. It was tough. He even went so far as to buy new NETWORK CARDS to change his MAC.
After much discussion, we figure dout one way that would work. Get a group of seven guys together - each running the same custom-written client/server proxy software. Each day everyone uses the same proxy. When that IP is shut off the next morning for bandwidth violations, siwtch to the next of the sveen proxy boxes. By the time the seventh gets shut down, the first is being re-activated by the university.
These "30 volunteers" would soon be branded as "30 inmates" if this ever got popular. Why? they're playing with a cool new technology at the bandwidth expense of of their educational and/or corporate providers.
From the article:
the Washington Square network already exists--thanks to a homemade setup [Mr.] Townsend rigged in late July in his nearby office at NYU, where he's a fellow at the Taub Urban Research Center. Townsend, 27, used an antenna to broadcast his connection a few hundred feet out into the park.
So basically what he's doing is leeching off of NYU's pipes to anyone with a wireless card. Maybe I should look for real estate in his area.
Any college Dorm Network Administrator can tell you how expensive reliable bandwidth is. Last month an unchecked DiVX FTP site here at Rutgers trafficked nearly 15 gigs A DAY, costing the university almost 10 grand in surcharges due to it's "bursty-bandwidth" contract. In short, there is no such thing as a free lunch.
Due to its relatively low profile, this wireless project has and will continue to avoid radar screens in city NOCs. Apparently many people dont feel the need to download porn while sitting on park benches:). If they ever do, you can bet people like Mr. Townsend will be disciplined by IT staff, if not fired outright for violating some school network tenet.
Re:Why dont they sell outside of japan?
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Apparently the Japanese version has more hardware standard like a hard drive and some other cool gizmos. The US version with a kernel on it is pretty crippled as compared to theirs. They wont sell theyre kit in the US until theyre sure theres enough interest I guess.
On Tuesday the server went down for about 12 hours because the AA batteries in it died and I had to go out and buy new ones.
And you think this thing can stand up to the usual slashdot-gangbang? Novel idea but you'd better invest in some real hardware if you're gonna put up Geeky cool content like this!
Sure Its great that he was referred to as a "grad student" and not a hacker, but take a look at what the article implies about the lecture he gave:
A Russian graduate student named Dmitry Sklyarov was arrested three weeks ago for writing a program that breaks the encryption on e-books.
To my knowledge he didnt WRITE a program, only pointed out that Adobe was using ROT13 as their only encryption
Sklyarov's defenders say he was merely trying to give owners of e-books some of the same rights that owners of printed volumes have.
This implies that he was advocating cracking your E-books. Thats just flat out Bull. He wasn't trying to give anyone anything, besides the knowledge that E-book encryption is a joke. Read his lecture.
Sure they didnt call him a hacker, but they might as well have.
Everytime an Aeron story comes out Im reminded of how much FREEKIN cooler these chairs are. Sure they're almost as expensive as a luxury car, but a Mercedes doesn't have inetrnal fiber ports or room for four moniitors!
n filming ROTJ, lucas leaked "Revenge of the Jedi" as the title to throw off merchandise counterfeiters. Whne I heard that the title of Episode I was going to be "Phantom Menace" I blew it off as another ploy because it was, quite possibly, the worst title ever. To my shock it wasn't.
I can only hope that this isnt the final title of this film. Lucas & Co, Please work on these titles (as well as the movies themselves).
P.S. make the movies better too. Youre dissapointing a whole generation of fans.
That is probably the smartest thing I've ever heard anyone say on slashdot. Ever. Someone Show their skills and write a variant that will run the patch (obviously not locally if they dont have it) from a remote server. Yeah you can hate MS all you want but until someone does something about it we're all going to be sucking bad HTTP requests.
I'll normally defend John to the grave against all the trolls but this crap is just occuring way to often. If you write for a site you should at least read it to not double-post
There is NO way that a registrar could constantly monitor the content on a whole TLD. Of course URLs like hardcoreporn.kids wont be allowed to go through, but I could register sesamestreet.kids and then turn it into a porn site as soon as ICANN (or NS or whoever runs this garbled mess of a hierarchy) turns their head.
On top of that, who are we kidding? ICANN wont enact new TLDs as long as they're in control. How many years have we seen "NEW TLD!" headlines. Anyone see any new ones besides country codes yet?
The BIGGEST problem will be the RATINGS of these bonds. Remember it will be the suits who just got hosed on tech stocks for the last few years giving any software bonds their ratings.
In this market, don't look for too many WS types to hand out many AAA ratings to coding, VC stealin' hippies.
Ok so Im a dork for replying to my own post but heres more clarification on the mandatory opening of AOL's unified IM system:
Instant messaging:
The commission requires AOL Time Warner to guarantee interoperability in its IM services before offering "advanced IM-based high-speed services," such as videoconferencing. The condition does not affect AOL's current AOL Instant Messenger and ICQ services but will affect expected future applications that take advantage of broadband Internet access.
The company may guarantee this by implementing an interoperability standard established by a recognized group such as the Internet Engineering Task Force, or by entering into interoperability contracts with competitors. AOL Time Warner can also seek to have the condition lifted if market conditions dramatically change.
So it looks like we may be heading for an RFC on this after all, but the timline is at best vague. AOL will of course keep itself closed as long as possible, especially since XP will integrate the MSN client into the desktop (sigh) and draw most of us deeper into Bills Clutches. The info was gleaned from CNET, which lists ALL of the provisions of the merger if you're interested:
That the opening of their Instant Messenging servers/protocol was a condition of the merger?
The merger still faces scrutiny by the Federal Communications Commission, but experts predict that is a much lower hurdle for the companies to overcome. Among the issues the FCC is likely to consider is whether AOL Time Warner will open its popular Instant Messaging system -- which allows PC users to send pop-up messages to friends over the Internet -- to rivals such as Microsoft.
"AOL, in theory, has open-access to the instant messaging service today, but just under terms that they dictate," said Scott Reamer, Internet analyst with SG Cowen. "Perhaps the FCC will engender AOL to create terms that are more amenable to competitors, accessing the instant messaging system."
Later this point became a REQUIREMENT of the merger.
The original story on CNNfn can be found here:
http://cnnfn.cnn.com/2000/12/14/deals/aoltimewar ne r/
To answer your question, Adobe's NYC offices are only a few blocks from the public library and they will be "marched" upon.
When I saw the original story last week I was mad that there was no NYC protest posted on the EFF page, which seemed to be the biggest shouting block for all of this. I called Will Doherty of the EFF and tried to get an NYC protest listed on their page (not just the boycott Adobe page) but the protests has already been "called off" on account of the impending talks.
Via contacts with friends I tried to organise one of the NYC arms of 2600 to get there but it was already too late. Yes it does look rather pidly but hey, you try explaining to your boss that youre going to miss a halfday of work to go to a techie protest!
To ANYONE anywhere NEAR these protests, I strongly urge you to contacty local media and get some coverage for this issue. There hasnt been a peep of this on any national media and it could become THE benchmark case for the legality of the DMCA. Whatever you do now to draw attention to this will help us before it becomes a status quo piece of legislature.
The DCMA can copyright everything under the sun but the plain truth is that there just isnt a system in place to enforce the current copyright laws. Sure a blatantly public entity like Napster can be brought down with relative ease; They were nothing more than any other p2p that tried to play by the governments rules. But has anyone here had trouble downloading music since the RIAA stepped in? I haven't.
Everytime a means for copyright-sensitive material to be shared is sued out of existence another one steps in to take its place (just long enough to make ad revenue while precedings about its legality meander on in the justice system). Its only a matter of time before a non-accountable, GPLed, efficient and truly peering app lets us share whatever we want - at which point the DCMA will be the moot piece of paper we already treat it as.
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Of the fact dotcoms are realizing that they cannot survive by banners alone. Porn is more permanent than death OR taxes, and I believe we'll see similar sites taking increasingly desperate measures to become profitable (although probably not porn).
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This book seems like an easier to read version of the silmarillion
Any Tolkien fan will tell you that the of the five books mentioned above, the Silmarillion reads like a cross between the Bible and 1980's VCR instructions. It is heavy with volumes of mythology, unpronouncable names and maps thet Bryce couldn't render. This book seems like an easier to read version of that most enigmatic of JRR's books.
Think Ill go get it and use it as a companion so I can finally finish teh Silmarillion.
The boys over at bacon have some of the most incredible cube pics Ive ever seen
For instance, The cube comode
or the nativity cubicle
They also got some classic packing peanut cube pics, but 've all seen those before.
I'm campus contact for College Ave campus of Rutgers U. We've had pretty massive host growth. User education is the KEY to reducing workload on your techs and admin. Three words will set you free:
LITERATURE LITERATURE LITERATURE. Make up pamphlets about the following subjects, distribute them to EVERY ROOM and email them to students and parents over the summer preceeding the semester on the following subjects:
-How to get and install a network card
-How to register for an IP address online
-How to set up IP in various OS's (Win9x, win2k, Mac OS 7, Mac OS X, command line linux)
-What rules you'll have to abide by concerning bandwidth caps, providing access and illegal activities
After you get everyone online youll have users screaming about configuring stupid crap like outlook and AOL. Create online documentation about these and make people aware of them.
Mind you Rutgers doesn't use DHCP, so that registering stuff might sound a little non-kosher to you small network DHCP guys :). We've tried, DHCP just isnt an option across ATM, more than two dozen routers and a few hundred VLANs.
Yeah Bandwidth was capped at 240 mb/day down 240 mb/day up (total of 480 mb/day in both directions). Its done pretty well, with a counter at the gateway, so theres really no way around it.
If you cross the limit you are shut down for an entire week. *ouch*. Its been good for getting kids to not leave napster or gnutela running in their systrays unattended.
Have people found ways around this? A few - but its only been temporary. Someone in my network last year kept hopping blocked IPs. This was learned of and eventually they mapped his MAC every morning and shut whatever IP he was using down. It was tough. He even went so far as to buy new NETWORK CARDS to change his MAC.
After much discussion, we figure dout one way that would work. Get a group of seven guys together - each running the same custom-written client/server proxy software. Each day everyone uses the same proxy. When that IP is shut off the next morning for bandwidth violations, siwtch to the next of the sveen proxy boxes. By the time the seventh gets shut down, the first is being re-activated by the university.
Its Genius!
These "30 volunteers" would soon be branded as "30 inmates" if this ever got popular. Why? they're playing with a cool new technology at the bandwidth expense of of their educational and/or corporate providers.
From the article:
So basically what he's doing is leeching off of NYU's pipes to anyone with a wireless card. Maybe I should look for real estate in his area.
Any college Dorm Network Administrator can tell you how expensive reliable bandwidth is. Last month an unchecked DiVX FTP site here at Rutgers trafficked nearly 15 gigs A DAY, costing the university almost 10 grand in surcharges due to it's "bursty-bandwidth" contract. In short, there is no such thing as a free lunch.
Due to its relatively low profile, this wireless project has and will continue to avoid radar screens in city NOCs. Apparently many people dont feel the need to download porn while sitting on park benches :). If they ever do, you can bet people like Mr. Townsend will be disciplined by IT staff, if not fired outright for violating some school network tenet.
Apparently the Japanese version has more hardware standard like a hard drive and some other cool gizmos. The US version with a kernel on it is pretty crippled as compared to theirs. They wont sell theyre kit in the US until theyre sure theres enough interest I guess.
Bullcrap.
ettercap can sniff the log/pass out of an SSH session in REALTIME on a switched network, let alone a share media (eg AIR) segment.
Throw in some promiscuous mode drivers on your wireless card and fsck some shite up.
Not that Im advocating that of course :)
From the site:
On Tuesday the server went down for about 12 hours because the AA batteries in it died and I had to go out and buy new ones.
And you think this thing can stand up to the usual slashdot-gangbang? Novel idea but you'd better invest in some real hardware if you're gonna put up Geeky cool content like this!
Sure Its great that he was referred to as a "grad student" and not a hacker, but take a look at what the article implies about the lecture he gave:
To my knowledge he didnt WRITE a program, only pointed out that Adobe was using ROT13 as their only encryption
This implies that he was advocating cracking your E-books. Thats just flat out Bull. He wasn't trying to give anyone anything, besides the knowledge that E-book encryption is a joke. Read his lecture.
Sure they didnt call him a hacker, but they might as well have.
Everytime an Aeron story comes out Im reminded of how much FREEKIN cooler these chairs are. Sure they're almost as expensive as a luxury car, but a Mercedes doesn't have inetrnal fiber ports or room for four moniitors!
www.poetittech.com
The CNN.com story about this makes no mention of AT&T's woes. Wonder Why?
It because they're one of CNN's biggest sponsors. The online video coverage of the story is even preceded by AT&T commercials :). Now THATS Irony!
Here's the Video . . .
n filming ROTJ, lucas leaked "Revenge of the Jedi" as the title to throw off merchandise counterfeiters. Whne I heard that the title of Episode I was going to be "Phantom Menace" I blew it off as another ploy because it was, quite possibly, the worst title ever. To my shock it wasn't.
I can only hope that this isnt the final title of this film. Lucas & Co, Please work on these titles (as well as the movies themselves).
P.S. make the movies better too. Youre dissapointing a whole generation of fans.
That is probably the smartest thing I've ever heard anyone say on slashdot. Ever. Someone Show their skills and write a variant that will run the patch (obviously not locally if they dont have it) from a remote server. Yeah you can hate MS all you want but until someone does something about it we're all going to be sucking bad HTTP requests.
Learn your Ranges, Buddy. 128.x.x.x is a class B. Different search and attack patterns than a full-blown A.
The First Time:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/07/22/1952 24 1&mode=thread
I'll normally defend John to the grave against all the trolls but this crap is just occuring way to often. If you write for a site you should at least read it to not double-post
.kids would be to "kidfriendly" as . . .
.org is to "ONLY" non-profits (see: Andover)
.net is only for web services, ISPs or the like
There is NO way that a registrar could constantly monitor the content on a whole TLD. Of course URLs like hardcoreporn.kids wont be allowed to go through, but I could register sesamestreet.kids and then turn it into a porn site as soon as ICANN (or NS or whoever runs this garbled mess of a hierarchy) turns their head.
On top of that, who are we kidding? ICANN wont enact new TLDs as long as they're in control. How many years have we seen "NEW TLD!" headlines. Anyone see any new ones besides country codes yet?
I didn't think so
The BIGGEST problem will be the RATINGS of these bonds. Remember it will be the suits who just got hosed on tech stocks for the last few years giving any software bonds their ratings.
In this market, don't look for too many WS types to hand out many AAA ratings to coding, VC stealin' hippies.
Ok so Im a dork for replying to my own post but heres more clarification on the mandatory opening of AOL's unified IM system:
So it looks like we may be heading for an RFC on this after all, but the timline is at best vague. AOL will of course keep itself closed as long as possible, especially since XP will integrate the MSN client into the desktop (sigh) and draw most of us deeper into Bills Clutches. The info was gleaned from CNET, which lists ALL of the provisions of the merger if you're interested:
http://technews.netscape.com/news/0-1005-200-442 75 68.html
That the opening of their Instant Messenging servers/protocol was a condition of the merger?
Later this point became a REQUIREMENT of the merger.
The original story on CNNfn can be found here:
http://cnnfn.cnn.com/2000/12/14/deals/aoltimewar ne r/
Light on any impact details, but here it is from the boys who know:
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsyste m/ meteor_eastcoast_010723.html
Yes
To answer your question, Adobe's NYC offices are only a few blocks from the public library and they will be "marched" upon.
When I saw the original story last week I was mad that there was no NYC protest posted on the EFF page, which seemed to be the biggest shouting block for all of this. I called Will Doherty of the EFF and tried to get an NYC protest listed on their page (not just the boycott Adobe page) but the protests has already been "called off" on account of the impending talks.
Via contacts with friends I tried to organise one of the NYC arms of 2600 to get there but it was already too late. Yes it does look rather pidly but hey, you try explaining to your boss that youre going to miss a halfday of work to go to a techie protest!
To ANYONE anywhere NEAR these protests, I strongly urge you to contacty local media and get some coverage for this issue. There hasnt been a peep of this on any national media and it could become THE benchmark case for the legality of the DMCA. Whatever you do now to draw attention to this will help us before it becomes a status quo piece of legislature.
The DCMA can copyright everything under the sun but the plain truth is that there just isnt a system in place to enforce the current copyright laws. Sure a blatantly public entity like Napster can be brought down with relative ease; They were nothing more than any other p2p that tried to play by the governments rules. But has anyone here had trouble downloading music since the RIAA stepped in? I haven't.
Everytime a means for copyright-sensitive material to be shared is sued out of existence another one steps in to take its place (just long enough to make ad revenue while precedings about its legality meander on in the justice system). Its only a matter of time before a non-accountable, GPLed, efficient and truly peering app lets us share whatever we want - at which point the DCMA will be the moot piece of paper we already treat it as.
thats just beggin for karma
Of the fact dotcoms are realizing that they cannot survive by banners alone. Porn is more permanent than death OR taxes, and I believe we'll see similar sites taking increasingly desperate measures to become profitable (although probably not porn).
Man those scientologists were advanced. What am I doing not bowing before them? Oh yeah know I remember - not buying into crap.