The magma website reports that their PCI systems work under Solaris. Its reasonable to say that it should also work under linux as it is of course just a simple PCI-PCI bridge.
- hyperbolix
Well I'm just gonna through this out there:
Anyone here attempting to play Star Wars X-wing under windows 98? I got EMS to work right but it returns a Divide By Zero when I try to configure my joystick. Anyone else had that problem?
- Hyperbolix
Well most space food is in a paste or freeze dried format to boost nutrient intake anyway so it wouldnt matter.
Not true. At least not any more. I saw it on the Discovery Wings channel. They actually have crunchy cereal and all that good stuff.
- Hyperbolix
Teraterm (available for free download here) has several SSH extensions. I beleive one of them has you type in the password all at once and then sends it as a single string, which means that key timing can't be determined. Just my 2 cents.
- Hyperbolix
Ok, now if I know what I think I know, then the hotsync functions use either USB or serial. On that premise I guess sending a certain high voltage to that port could certainly fry components. I do, however doubt that a palm product is capable of producing the necessary voltage to damage some part of a motherboard. IT couldn't be a short I doubt because (again this is only as far as I know) the highest voltave from either port is 5 volts. Maybe a short? to what? ground? that'll do no damage. a short to anything else would just register a + signal right? ok, enough from me.
- Hyperbolix
In all the anger and frustration over mergers of this sort, one must not forget the increased workload that will befell the helpdesk technicians at these companies. An ISP I worked at got bought out by another local ISP and we had one hell of a time transitioning our puny 1500 person client base. While people may be angry, remember, technicians are humans too and this is gonna suck for them (the lucky ones who keep there jobs).
- Hyperbolix
I think an appropriate question for someone with more technical background than I would be whether or not more than one program can watch for a ring at once. I would think there would be a device locking mechanism. If so, the answer lies in software that routes this stuff, or a single program that does it all. Thats just my 2 cents. -Hyperbolix
I disagree with this. There are idiots in every group of people and the open source community is no exception. There are completely clueless peopl e out there using windows stirring up just as much horse shit as the next group. Thats just my 2 cents.
- Hyperbolix
You know this may actaully be a good thing. Educate kids on why its illegal (and I use the word illegal, not wrong intentionally) and you may end up with much in class discussion on the topic. Those few overactive classes may even write letters to government persons. I do want to stress the point that while kids are influenced easily, they do make choices on there own, and I would know having grown up in a catholic schools yet being uneffected and remaining athiest. Just my 2 cents.
- Hyperbolix
Unless something is created as a "Work for hire", you own it. IANAL, but the way this is layed out is "Its yours unless (A) you transfer ownership to another entity or (B) it was made as a work for hire". I'm pretty sure that by handing in a project one is not transfering ownership, simply releasing a free copy, no?
- John Byrne
johnSAYSNOSPAM@hyperbolix.net
www.hyperbolix.net
"they claim to have gotten the price down to $.50 / gallon"
I sincerely doubt this statement can hold true. According to the rules of Supply and Demand, the higher the demand, the higher the price. If many people move to this renewable resource, the demand will certainly increase, and if supply stays constant, then the price will increase dramatically. Thats just what I think. I could be wrong, and I don't know how quickly the vegetable oil industry can ramp up production.
- Hyperbolix
May not be very helpful, but you can save alot of money and time (no need for clustering) by just using DistMP3. Its a distributed client server system that offload encoding to many computers. Like distributed.net.
I used to work for a small ISP that had been forked off of a profitable consulting firm. We went under because the ISP part had only about 1000 users, and equiptment costs were just being pulled from profits of the consulting firm. The balance of profit/spending died, and so we sold our customer base to another larger local ISP (about 10000 users) which was basically the same setup (ISP branch from consulting firm). I was offered a job there, and the customer base was migrated in a very, very gruelling process (if the username at the new ISP was taken, we had to call the customer and have them choose a knew one. Nobody was very happy about that). As for equiptment, our modem banks were not used at the new ISP because they took ISDN wiring and it would be to expensive to rewire to accomadate for that. Some big technical reason that was hardware related, which, I, as a poor sysadmin, couldn't really understand. Yup. It actually happens pretty often. At the new ISP, we gobbled up a few others also while I was there.
If Sony thinks they are more determined than the Napster community, they are gravely mistaken. The only reasonable way for them to block this kind of thing would be by blocking the port. If they block it at the ISP, I be that would last, oh, maybe an hour before the port on the opennap servers had been changed and an announcement with the new port number made. If they block it at the software level with, say, a filter program... we would changed the ports on our software. If they block it at the OS, which I could see happening (die microsoft die!), we would switch to linux. If, somehow, they got it into the linux kernel, we would remove it, as Linux is open source. If worst comes to worst, we would use FreeBSD (no offense Mr. Daemon, sir).
The fact is that in this day and age, the end user is in control. We are all powerful. We guard all the gates, we hold all the keys. We hold 'root'. Also, as long as the supreme court remains democratically dominated, I think we will win the legal battle too.
I can just imagine our NRA friends...
"Sony, you can have this napster when you pry it from my cold, dead disk drive."
I am a helpdesk technician for a local Internet Service provider. Just a few weeks ago, our main backbone connection to the internet, a T3, went down. We fell back on our secondary connection, a T1. For those who are "T"-challenged, a T1 is not 1/3rd of a T3. It is about 30 times smaller. Being a helpdesk tech., I could swear I had explained the situation to every one of our 9000 customers. The affair took a whole 36 hours to resolve, and ended up being the fault of upstream provider. Once the line came back up, the huge flood of inbound e-mail that couldn't get through during the bandwidth problem took down our Mail server. This, in turn, killed the Shell server, as the two are highly interdependent. All the problem were resolved within about 72 hours of the line problem. The reason this was solved in a relatively quick time, is because of our highly dedicated systems technicians. One of our systems technicians, thanks to large quantaties of caffeine from Think Geek, awoke at 6:00 the morning of the problem, and did not go to sleep until 10:30 the next day. He spend the entire time working on the problem.
Why? Because it was critical. An FTP server, however, is not as critical. Additionally, with a company such as Time Warner, management is probably too high on its horse to work with the techs and apportion resources appropriately. When something goes wrong here, everyone is effected. And, everyone wants it fixed. We make sure it gets done.
I don't mean to simpathize with Time Warner, but bureaucratic BS probably caused this. To make sure it gets done, I would speak to the highest level person you can, and get an estimate of when it will be fixed, and make sure they are infact working on it. From the perspective of the ISP, thats all the advice I can really give.
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The magma website reports that their PCI systems work under Solaris. Its reasonable to say that it should also work under linux as it is of course just a simple PCI-PCI bridge.
- hyperbolix
Well I'm just gonna through this out there: Anyone here attempting to play Star Wars X-wing under windows 98? I got EMS to work right but it returns a Divide By Zero when I try to configure my joystick. Anyone else had that problem?
- Hyperbolix
Well most space food is in a paste or freeze dried format to boost nutrient intake anyway so it wouldnt matter.
Not true. At least not any more. I saw it on the Discovery Wings channel. They actually have crunchy cereal and all that good stuff.
- Hyperbolix
Teraterm (available for free download here) has several SSH extensions. I beleive one of them has you type in the password all at once and then sends it as a single string, which means that key timing can't be determined. Just my 2 cents.
- Hyperbolix
It looks to me like the new slashdot has been slashdotted. extremely slow response time.
- Hyperbolix
Ok, now if I know what I think I know, then the hotsync functions use either USB or serial. On that premise I guess sending a certain high voltage to that port could certainly fry components. I do, however doubt that a palm product is capable of producing the necessary voltage to damage some part of a motherboard. IT couldn't be a short I doubt because (again this is only as far as I know) the highest voltave from either port is 5 volts. Maybe a short? to what? ground? that'll do no damage. a short to anything else would just register a + signal right? ok, enough from me.
- Hyperbolix
In all the anger and frustration over mergers of this sort, one must not forget the increased workload that will befell the helpdesk technicians at these companies. An ISP I worked at got bought out by another local ISP and we had one hell of a time transitioning our puny 1500 person client base. While people may be angry, remember, technicians are humans too and this is gonna suck for them (the lucky ones who keep there jobs).
- Hyperbolix
I think an appropriate question for someone with more technical background than I would be whether or not more than one program can watch for a ring at once. I would think there would be a device locking mechanism. If so, the answer lies in software that routes this stuff, or a single program that does it all. Thats just my 2 cents.
-Hyperbolix
I disagree with this. There are idiots in every group of people and the open source community is no exception. There are completely clueless peopl e out there using windows stirring up just as much horse shit as the next group. Thats just my 2 cents.
- Hyperbolix
You know this may actaully be a good thing. Educate kids on why its illegal (and I use the word illegal, not wrong intentionally) and you may end up with much in class discussion on the topic. Those few overactive classes may even write letters to government persons. I do want to stress the point that while kids are influenced easily, they do make choices on there own, and I would know having grown up in a catholic schools yet being uneffected and remaining athiest. Just my 2 cents.
- Hyperbolix
Isn't this just a very advanced way of saying "Pressure in a moving stream is lower than that around it"?
-Hyperbolix
Here is the real one:
Click here
or for you cut/pasters:
http://www.explan.co.uk/hardware/solo.shtml
-Hyperbolix
- Hyperbolix
Unless something is created as a "Work for hire", you own it. IANAL, but the way this is layed out is "Its yours unless (A) you transfer ownership to another entity or (B) it was made as a work for hire". I'm pretty sure that by handing in a project one is not transfering ownership, simply releasing a free copy, no?
- John Byrne
johnSAYSNOSPAM@hyperbolix.net
www.hyperbolix.net
"they claim to have gotten the price down to $.50 / gallon"
I sincerely doubt this statement can hold true. According to the rules of Supply and Demand, the higher the demand, the higher the price. If many people move to this renewable resource, the demand will certainly increase, and if supply stays constant, then the price will increase dramatically. Thats just what I think. I could be wrong, and I don't know how quickly the vegetable oil industry can ramp up production.
- Hyperbolix
May not be very helpful, but you can save alot of money and time (no need for clustering) by just using DistMP3. Its a distributed client server system that offload encoding to many computers. Like distributed.net.
I used to work for a small ISP that had been forked off of a profitable consulting firm. We went under because the ISP part had only about 1000 users, and equiptment costs were just being pulled from profits of the consulting firm. The balance of profit/spending died, and so we sold our customer base to another larger local ISP (about 10000 users) which was basically the same setup (ISP branch from consulting firm). I was offered a job there, and the customer base was migrated in a very, very gruelling process (if the username at the new ISP was taken, we had to call the customer and have them choose a knew one. Nobody was very happy about that). As for equiptment, our modem banks were not used at the new ISP because they took ISDN wiring and it would be to expensive to rewire to accomadate for that. Some big technical reason that was hardware related, which, I, as a poor sysadmin, couldn't really understand. Yup. It actually happens pretty often. At the new ISP, we gobbled up a few others also while I was there.
The fact is that in this day and age, the end user is in control. We are all powerful. We guard all the gates, we hold all the keys. We hold 'root'. Also, as long as the supreme court remains democratically dominated, I think we will win the legal battle too.
I can just imagine our NRA friends...
"Sony, you can have this napster when you pry it from my cold, dead disk drive."
Thats my rant.
Why? Because it was critical. An FTP server, however, is not as critical. Additionally, with a company such as Time Warner, management is probably too high on its horse to work with the techs and apportion resources appropriately. When something goes wrong here, everyone is effected. And, everyone wants it fixed. We make sure it gets done.
I don't mean to simpathize with Time Warner, but bureaucratic BS probably caused this. To make sure it gets done, I would speak to the highest level person you can, and get an estimate of when it will be fixed, and make sure they are infact working on it. From the perspective of the ISP, thats all the advice I can really give.
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