So what will the scary evil gummint do with the knowledge that I'm standing on a street where lots of people know I often stand at this time of day in the city where I'm known to live?
Dunno.
Maybe if they do a database query for your name and serial nubmer collected from the RFID tag in the underwear you haven't changed in weeks, they'll notice you've been standing on that same corner for months, keeping his mouth shut like a good little citizen, and send you off to Iraq for cannon fodder.
There isn't any conspiracy theory. The gummint's track record speaks for itself. People died face down in the mud so you could have the right to go shooting your mouth off son.
I have friends and family members that would be lost without my support.
I'm not gonna take any shit from my wife. I'm not gonna take any shit from my mom. I'm not gonna take any shit from my boss. I'm not gonna take any shit from my brother in law.
You're thinking about this all wrong. Take off your tin-foil hats, nobody really wants to 'track' you.
It's blind trust of the government and corporations, and naievete such as yours, which has lost hundreds of American lives in Iraq. Which parts of the Patriot Act do you like? All of it??
Hey moron, I worked for Apple, am typing this on a Powerbook, got all five right, and was building 8088s while you were still trying to understand your diapers. If you want to look all smart, you tell me how your 1337 soldering skills revived a AMD 486 that was plugged in backwards and smoked the power lines. Uh huh, stupid kids these days don't know how to use a DMM except to jab the probes up their asses.....
Hm. Pretty unprofessional and frankly, just ugly.
With an attitude like yours, and you DO admit to be an Apple aficionado, like I said, just drop out now.
Don't bother taking the test, it's for people who actually know what they're doing with computers, and we certainly wouldn't want your fragile egos injured by failure and embarrassment now would we???
If the sun is out, and the weather's beautiful, dish works beautifully. Under these conditions you probably won't be inside watching tv.
I switched to cable from direcTV. The rain, snow, wind, vibration, installation limitations due to authorized "line of sight", distant tree limbs, and plain bad luck, all caused bad, horrible or no reception. After a rainstorm, my signal would stay at 60% or less because of heavy cloud cover.
I switched to cable, all problems disappeared. Also I noticed the bandwidth on the audio portion was much improved quality and intensity. In retrospect I was not happy with direcTV at all. Couldn't imagine having an Internet connection on it.
Agreed, but in reading this dogfood I thought it negatively affected their credibility on other issues, diluted the seriousness of their work a little.
At least SCO is saving money on Network and Server management; Netcraft does it for them remotely, for free.
Become the Michael Dell of bioinformatics.. forget joining the industry, build something in your garage. The industry sucks. A lot of people who've worked their asses off becoming technically proficient are getting a sharp stick in the eye from managers who know dick about craft or methodology. The game for many engineers has become how to stay employed, not how to build and maintain good things.
Nah, closed source has its place, and it's ok with me. My main gripe is that people don't see how Apple manipulates the consumer just as badly, if not worse than, Microsoft, or any other corporation that never gave a xxxx about consumers to begin with - who would have the balls to use Gandhi and MLK in an advertising campaign? What pompous disregard Those "kind of products" you mention and the public's blind acceptance of them fuel the fires of Vendor Lock In, and this acceptance is the problem. Take a step to one side and look at Apple's product history and then talk to me about the concept of planned obsolescence. The same techniques created a Microsoft monopoly, and brought it to the point where you admit that taking some of Microsoft's market away would be fine by you. Apple and MS are lumped together. The only difference is that the one is smaller than the other.
To say that Apple just took from BSD is disingenuous, they have opened Darwin. You could say that's giving like for like.
"Disingenuous" is what Al Sharpton says about someone when he doesn't want to say "liar" on television.
I don't see the like for like. Darwin runs on what hardware? It cannot be as widely applied as what it was derived from. This is fine by the bsd license, and ok with me, but not "like for like".
If everyone thought it was like for like, maybe there wouldn't be a GNU-Darwin (I noticed Mac aficionados like to laugh him off as a crazy person)
Um, don't you have a Windows security patch to go download?
Um, no. Don't run much windows. Run OSS.
Yeah, the brainwashing of the consumer. A la Microsoft, a la Apple. A la insinuate yourself into educational institutions and catch 'em while they're young. A way of doing software/hardware/computing in exact opposition to something like, say, the Debian manifesto. Come on, you know, it's been talked about before, the consumer comes last. What do you think Steve Jobs is capable of doing if it means more market share? If it means taking a share out of Microsoft's music downloads market. Taking a share out of the Unix market? The Linux market. He saw the BSD stuff there for the taking, with no obligation to give back. He took.
Steve Jobs is smarter than Bill Gates. Not only is he giving discounted hardware and software to educational institutions k12 on up, he's found another entrance vector through which to enhance the brainwashing - send in an Agent with a "Macs are more secure, too" line.
Those numbers don't change,... They can, and often do.
How often do calls to the "root server" get made
Many millions of times an hour. Each zone (or domain, in practical terms) has expiration and refresh times. In addition to caching host and other data, these expiration (ttl) and refresh times get cached as well. The clock is ticking on the ttl when first cached, and when it expires a new lookup will have to be made (even if the resulting information is, as you said, identical, e.g. it "doesn't change") Just about every time a lookup is made by a tier 3 name server the query will recursively end up at a root server which will point it back down to a gTLD server and down to the tld auth server which finally sends the data to the requestor.
Or something like that:) The root servers have to operate in a highly reliable way, as almost all name servers use them.. There is hardly a service on the 'net that does NOT rely on names (mail, nntp, shoutcast streaming, rss, http, etc), but you are right in that strictly speaking, routing operations are IP address based and have little to do with DNS.
Am I mistaken that all these root servers do is propagate name service information down to other machines until my office DNS can tell met that yahoo.com has address 66.218.71.198?
Correct. But that only happens when everything is working correctly.
Why is name service so dang important?
Try the book "DNS and Bind" (O'Reilly Publishing), pp 1-601.
Solaris is a much better operating system than Linux, so why bother with it if you have Sparc hardware?
Because, by using Linux on a Sparc, you trolling cretin, one can obtain the performance and functionality which is possible on that architecture when it isn't weighted down with an overpriced, bloated and slow, abstruse and limited, with one of the sorriest toolkits in the history of Unix... OS such as Solaris.
You can look on the apple.com discussion forums for 'ibook logic failure' and see the hordes of upset people, or just search google. It is an issue that apple has decided to ignore, which is extremely frustrating to people whom it affects.
I keep saying how apple sucks, in certain regards. They are leading consumers by the nose more than Microsoft, and bless their little souls, love the DMCA as a tool against those who don't cooperate. Read my first journal entry.
Why doesn't Slashdot have a major story about the ibook logic failure - instead of a story about the disappointment of Mini iPod ?? Never mind, that would be off topic.
No, SuSE has sparc port which is fully supported. Debian has a reputation of being BEHIND in library support etc. For years. They're just now improving it. And that is WHY Debian lost so much market share with Linux users starting in 1997 or so.
Who the hell is running anything on sparc these days? It's hardly worth the trouble. x386 hardware is better, faster, cheaper. Using "runs on sparc" as a yardstick to measure a Linux distribution's quality is just... off the point.
Sorry to both of you - I didn't realize this program was in place, it looks fine - then I wonder: why are people bitching and bitching instead of using Apple Care?
So, if you have important "work to do" why would you not have a hot backup machine ready and waiting at all times? For years I've set myself up so any one of my machines could get hit by a sledge hammer and I'd be back up and running within the time it took me to get to my other system and restore some files off a CD. Doesn't everyone do something similar?
I've heard no hardware crap out stories so far about Apple, but what they DO need to make their offering rock solid is on-site support contracts like Dell has - where a person comes to you, bearing a replacement part. I've used this three times in two years, it's been great.
On the other side of the story, comitting to OSX (or any Apple product, or Microsoft product) is comitting to Vendor Lock In.
So stop your whining about "guilt" you little troll boy and use OSS and an more open hardware platform, and then contribute something to the community other than these stupid articles.
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So what will the scary evil gummint do with the knowledge that I'm standing on a street where lots of people know I often stand at this time of day in the city where I'm known to live?
Dunno.
Maybe if they do a database query for your name and serial nubmer collected from the RFID tag in the underwear you haven't changed in weeks, they'll notice you've been standing on that same corner for months, keeping his mouth shut like a good little citizen, and send you off to Iraq for cannon fodder.
There isn't any conspiracy theory. The gummint's track record speaks for itself. People died face down in the mud so you could have the right to go shooting your mouth off son.
I have friends and family members that would be lost without my support.
I'm not gonna take any shit from my wife.
I'm not gonna take any shit from my mom.
I'm not gonna take any shit from my boss.
I'm not gonna take any shit from my brother in law.
You're thinking about this all wrong. Take off your tin-foil hats, nobody really wants to 'track' you.
It's blind trust of the government and corporations, and naievete such as yours, which has lost hundreds of American lives in Iraq. Which parts of the Patriot Act do you like? All of it??
You miss the point.
Your tag is invalid and useless after your race. The reader is gone.
Hey moron, I worked for Apple, am typing this on a Powerbook, got all five right, and was building 8088s while you were still trying to understand your diapers. If you want to look all smart, you tell me how your 1337 soldering skills revived a AMD 486 that was plugged in backwards and smoked the power lines. Uh huh, stupid kids these days don't know how to use a DMM except to jab the probes up their asses.....
Hm. Pretty unprofessional and frankly, just ugly.
With an attitude like yours, and you DO admit to be an Apple aficionado, like I said, just drop out now.
Don't bother taking the test, it's for people who actually know what they're doing with computers, and we certainly wouldn't want your fragile egos injured by failure and embarrassment now would we???
If the sun is out, and the weather's beautiful, dish works beautifully. Under these conditions you probably won't be inside watching tv.
I switched to cable from direcTV. The rain, snow, wind, vibration, installation limitations due to authorized "line of sight", distant tree limbs, and plain bad luck, all caused bad, horrible or no reception. After a rainstorm, my signal would stay at 60% or less because of heavy cloud cover.
I switched to cable, all problems disappeared. Also I noticed the bandwidth on the audio portion was much improved quality and intensity. In retrospect I was not happy with direcTV at all. Couldn't imagine having an Internet connection on it.
These notices on slashdot about minor bugfix releases /are/ important, especially since this news is not on the front page of Freebsd.org
SO SHUT YOUR GOB.
so they have an opinion of their own
Agreed, but in reading this dogfood I thought it negatively affected their credibility on other issues, diluted the seriousness of their work a little.
At least SCO is saving money on Network and Server management; Netcraft does it for them remotely, for free.
don't forget to patent that before Microsoft does.
How can an old newcomer break into the industry?
Become the Michael Dell of bioinformatics.. forget joining the industry, build something in your garage. The industry sucks. A lot of people who've worked their asses off becoming technically proficient are getting a sharp stick in the eye from managers who know dick about craft or methodology. The game for many engineers has become how to stay employed, not how to build and maintain good things.
Your main gripe is that Apple is closed-sourced.
Nah, closed source has its place, and it's ok with me. My main gripe is that people don't see how Apple manipulates the consumer just as badly, if not worse than, Microsoft, or any other corporation that never gave a xxxx about consumers to begin with - who would have the balls to use Gandhi and MLK in an advertising campaign? What pompous disregard Those "kind of products" you mention and the public's blind acceptance of them fuel the fires of Vendor Lock In, and this acceptance is the problem. Take a step to one side and look at Apple's product history and then talk to me about the concept of planned obsolescence. The same techniques created a Microsoft monopoly, and brought it to the point where you admit that taking some of Microsoft's market away would be fine by you. Apple and MS are lumped together. The only difference is that the one is smaller than the other.
To say that Apple just took from BSD is disingenuous, they have opened Darwin. You could say that's giving like for like.
"Disingenuous" is what Al Sharpton says about someone when he doesn't want to say "liar" on television.
I don't see the like for like. Darwin runs on what hardware? It cannot be as widely applied as what it was derived from. This is fine by the bsd license, and ok with me, but not "like for like".
If everyone thought it was like for like, maybe there wouldn't be a GNU-Darwin (I noticed Mac aficionados like to laugh him off as a crazy person)
"Okay guys, now I want you to send an agent. Here's the script."
"Okay guys, now I want you to send an agent. Here's the check."
Um, don't you have a Windows security patch to go download?
Um, no. Don't run much windows. Run OSS.
Yeah, the brainwashing of the consumer. A la Microsoft, a la Apple. A la insinuate yourself into educational institutions and catch 'em while they're young. A way of doing software/hardware/computing in exact opposition to something like, say, the Debian manifesto. Come on, you know, it's been talked about before, the consumer comes last. What do you think Steve Jobs is capable of doing if it means more market share? If it means taking a share out of Microsoft's music downloads market. Taking a share out of the Unix market? The Linux market. He saw the BSD stuff there for the taking, with no obligation to give back. He took.
Steve Jobs is smarter than Bill Gates. Not only is he giving discounted hardware and software to educational institutions k12 on up, he's found another entrance vector through which to enhance the brainwashing - send in an Agent with a "Macs are more secure, too" line.
Shoulda taken the blue pill.
.. nitpickers
I was just going to ask that. Betcha you won't be able to use existing Xbox games on xbox2, a la MS planned obsolescence. I'd be surprised..
Those numbers don't change,
They can, and often do.
How often do calls to the "root server" get made
Many millions of times an hour. Each zone (or domain, in practical terms) has expiration and refresh times. In addition to caching host and other data, these expiration (ttl) and refresh times get cached as well. The clock is ticking on the ttl when first cached, and when it expires a new lookup will have to be made (even if the resulting information is, as you said, identical, e.g. it "doesn't change") Just about every time a lookup is made by a tier 3 name server the query will recursively end up at a root server which will point it back down to a gTLD server and down to the tld auth server which finally sends the data to the requestor.
Or something like that
Am I mistaken that all these root servers do is propagate name service information down to other machines until my office DNS can tell met that yahoo.com has address 66.218.71.198?
Correct. But that only happens when everything is working correctly.
Why is name service so dang important?
Try the book "DNS and Bind" (O'Reilly Publishing), pp 1-601.
Solaris is a much better operating system than Linux, so why bother with it if you have Sparc hardware?
Because, by using Linux on a Sparc, you trolling cretin, one can obtain the performance and functionality which is possible on that architecture when it isn't weighted down with an overpriced, bloated and slow, abstruse and limited, with one of the sorriest toolkits in the history of Unix... OS such as Solaris.
You can look on the apple.com discussion forums for 'ibook logic failure' and see the hordes of upset people, or just search google. It is an issue that apple has decided to ignore, which is extremely frustrating to people whom it affects.
I keep saying how apple sucks, in certain regards. They are leading consumers by the nose more than Microsoft, and bless their little souls, love the DMCA as a tool against those who don't cooperate. Read my first journal entry.
Why doesn't Slashdot have a major story about the ibook logic failure - instead of a story about the disappointment of Mini iPod ?? Never mind, that would be off topic.
No, SuSE has sparc port which is fully supported. Debian has a reputation of being BEHIND in library support etc. For years. They're just now improving it. And that is WHY Debian lost so much market share with Linux users starting in 1997 or so.
... off the point.
Who the hell is running anything on sparc these days? It's hardly worth the trouble. x386 hardware is better, faster, cheaper. Using "runs on sparc" as a yardstick to measure a Linux distribution's quality is just
Sorry to both of you - I didn't realize this program was in place, it looks fine - then I wonder: why are people bitching and bitching instead of using Apple Care?
So, if you have important "work to do" why would you not have a hot backup machine ready and waiting at all times? For years I've set myself up so any one of my machines could get hit by a sledge hammer and I'd be back up and running within the time it took me to get to my other system and restore some files off a CD. Doesn't everyone do something similar?
I've heard no hardware crap out stories so far about Apple, but what they DO need to make their offering rock solid is on-site support contracts like Dell has - where a person comes to you, bearing a replacement part. I've used this three times in two years, it's been great.
On the other side of the story, comitting to OSX (or any Apple product, or Microsoft product) is comitting to Vendor Lock In.
So stop your whining about "guilt" you little troll boy and use OSS and an more open hardware platform, and then contribute something to the community other than these stupid articles.
Thank you.
I for one am pretty sick of shit like "I booted the Freebsd server directly into KDE and that's when the trouble started!!!"