No, it's not. I've done a bit of Amiga programming and you have to deal with queues all the time; not just in the OS, but also in the copper chip (although there the queues tend to be pretty short:)
Of course, you're assuming that most of the big distributors are using their own machines, and are traceable.
I think this is not the case. I think most of them are using untraceable, high-bandwidth locations like PCs in university labs. This is mostly because broadband upstream is inefficient, and also because these people have been around since the days of sticking FTP servers on PCs in labs, and that's what they're used to doing. Burn a few CDs, walk into a university lab, copy the files, put Kazaa/whatever in the machine's startup, and go to. Believe me, it's not hard.
FTP is different, and honestly, really difficult to proxy, especially transparently. It's an antiquated protocol though, I wish we would just abandon it. However, that said.
Okay, you can't use the HTTP port for non-HTTP services. That part is true, but generally irrelevant.
The rest of the criticisms, though, are just implementation details. Honestly, HTTP is a protocol that's meant to be proxied. It's so much more efficient that way.
Idiots who didn't even know they had a webserver running got wormed and turned a low-bandwith web server into a massive pipeleech that made my Internet connection horrendously slow for about two months and logged tens of thousands of 404's to apache running off my cable.
And, you know something? Their ISPs could have easily prevented them from ever turning up. There's a technology out there; it's called a transparent proxy server. Perhaps you've heard of it. It takes all connections to port 80 and runs them through the proxy; perhaps Squid. This gives the organization running the proxy numerous benefits, the top one being of course a reduction in outgoing bandwidth and therefore associated cost.
It also means that the organization running the proxy can filter based on URL. And, specifically, can filter out Code Red and its descendants completely. This is just a red herring caused by too many MSCEs in ISPs.
There's a full CERT advisory on the OpenSSH bug and the implications for your particular platform. Sysadmins, read it. Of course, you prolly all got it in your email like me, right?:)
ftp.openssh.org is getting hammered right now... sigh.
I use TD Bank. I've noticed that some branches hand out fifties, while many do not. My perception is that BC branches are more likely to give out fifties than eastern branches, and also more recent branches usually don't keep fifties.
"I'm not saying this is a good or a bad thing," he added. "I'm not writing this to voice my opinions. My concern is the way that the industry looks at the success of a musician or of a record that sells or doesn't sell. Popular artists traditionally sold a lot of records. In the future that might not be the case. In fact, even now that might not be the case. Pink outsells Weezer in the States not so much because she's more popular, but because her fans are more likely to buy, as opposed to burn, her CDs."
That's what Moby said. You can say that 18 sucks, and people aren't buying it for that reason. Moby's talking about something different though; he's talking about something which is simply obvious to anyone who knew any Metallica fans in the '80s. Sometimes, the impact of an artist is way more than what album sales would indicate.
You need a machine running MacOS 9 or MacOS X to create an iTools account, which gets you the email address, iDisk and so on.
However, once the account's created, you can access its services from other machines. The iDisk is accessible by WebDAV and the email by POP3. You still need a Mac to do account management though, like setting vacation messages and forwarding your email; but just checking it, any system will do.
It's true, VMS, properly configured, is extremely secure. And it tends to give you plenty of warnings when it's not properly configured.
Sadly, unbright sysadmins do things sometimes that are not so bright. Like, for example, giving SYSPRV to the DECnet account, because "nobody logs in to that anyway" and it simplifies some things.
It also simplifies greatly the process of using TELL.COM to run AUTHORIZE.EXE:)
(The real irony was, that box was running a BBS program. They didn't even make the account captive, and they gave it NETMBX. So all you needed to do was give a/NOCOM, get a command prompt, upload TELL.COM [no XModem but hell, TELL.COM only took a minute or so over 1200 to paste in] and run AUTHORIZE, and give the non-captive passwordless account SETPRV).
Yup, tripled. I picked up a 256MB stick for $40 (Canadian) about two weeks before Christmas. Now they're well over $100; the normal going price is about $120, which is triple.
There are two possible options: wireless or lithium rechargable.
The problem with waiting until the PDA gets back to the cradle is that the batteries might fail, and data could be lost. Batteries that last a month between charges are one solution; wireless so the fact that the batteries might fail is irrelevant are another.
DSS streams MP3s Shoutcast-style, now. That was a new feature in DSS 4, the current release.
DSS/QTSS are open source products. QT Player/Pro isn't, though, and it would be nice if they were. Unfortunately, most of the codecs QT Player comes bundled with aren't owned by Apple; however, there are open-source codecs that QT knows about (H263) that can be encoded without paying the Sorenson tax.
With Napster, it was different since Napster *did* control what files were/weren't shared.
I think not.
Napster controlled what files could be searched for. However, once you'd identified a Likely Hard Drive, all you had to do was add that person to your hotlist and you could browse their shares.
This is how I found an awful lot of stuff. Including things which failed to appear in hits from the central server.
The popularity of the trademark doesn't affect its effectiveness as a trademark. For example, Philips still owns the Compact Disc Digital Audio trademark. It's whether it's used to describe goods that don't come from the same source as the trademark.
AFAIK, Linux may have been used by a lot of people, but every single one of them was using it to describe a Unix-like operating system based on Linus' kernel. If IBM were to modify AIX and call it IBMLinux, and Linus didn't sue them, then we'd have a problem.
Have you used it? It bounces, it jumps, and it is very loaded with features. (Notably: it's the only MacOS client that allows chat and file transfer through a SOCKS5 proxy, and is also the only IM client on the Mac that supports voice chat. Voice chat doesn't exist on ICQ in any version...)
The announcement did indicate most Athlons were affected by the bug. Perhaps you're one of the lucky few who isn't. If you have no bug, do not worry: do not attempt to fix your computer as it is not broken.:)
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No, it's not. I've done a bit of Amiga programming and you have to deal with queues all the time; not just in the OS, but also in the copper chip (although there the queues tend to be pretty short :)
I think this is not the case. I think most of them are using untraceable, high-bandwidth locations like PCs in university labs. This is mostly because broadband upstream is inefficient, and also because these people have been around since the days of sticking FTP servers on PCs in labs, and that's what they're used to doing. Burn a few CDs, walk into a university lab, copy the files, put Kazaa/whatever in the machine's startup, and go to. Believe me, it's not hard.
Okay, you can't use the HTTP port for non-HTTP services. That part is true, but generally irrelevant.
The rest of the criticisms, though, are just implementation details. Honestly, HTTP is a protocol that's meant to be proxied. It's so much more efficient that way.
It also means that the organization running the proxy can filter based on URL. And, specifically, can filter out Code Red and its descendants completely. This is just a red herring caused by too many MSCEs in ISPs.
ftp.openssh.org is getting hammered right now... sigh.
I use TD Bank. I've noticed that some branches hand out fifties, while many do not. My perception is that BC branches are more likely to give out fifties than eastern branches, and also more recent branches usually don't keep fifties.
Woohoo! Raises for slashdotters everywhere :)
However, once the account's created, you can access its services from other machines. The iDisk is accessible by WebDAV and the email by POP3. You still need a Mac to do account management though, like setting vacation messages and forwarding your email; but just checking it, any system will do.
Sadly, unbright sysadmins do things sometimes that are not so bright. Like, for example, giving SYSPRV to the DECnet account, because "nobody logs in to that anyway" and it simplifies some things.
It also simplifies greatly the process of using TELL.COM to run AUTHORIZE.EXE :)
(The real irony was, that box was running a BBS program. They didn't even make the account captive, and they gave it NETMBX. So all you needed to do was give a /NOCOM, get a command prompt, upload TELL.COM [no XModem but hell, TELL.COM only took a minute or so over 1200 to paste in] and run AUTHORIZE, and give the non-captive passwordless account SETPRV).
Ah, the '80s.
- Boot your system.
- Change the system date to sometime in the future; 2036 should do.
- Start QT Player, ignoring the prompt.
- Exit QT Player.
- Correct your system time, perhaps using an NTP server.
Now, your QT Player will not prompt you again until 2036.Yup, tripled. I picked up a 256MB stick for $40 (Canadian) about two weeks before Christmas. Now they're well over $100; the normal going price is about $120, which is triple.
Okay, three options. :)
The problem with waiting until the PDA gets back to the cradle is that the batteries might fail, and data could be lost. Batteries that last a month between charges are one solution; wireless so the fact that the batteries might fail is irrelevant are another.
DSS/QTSS are open source products. QT Player/Pro isn't, though, and it would be nice if they were. Unfortunately, most of the codecs QT Player comes bundled with aren't owned by Apple; however, there are open-source codecs that QT knows about (H263) that can be encoded without paying the Sorenson tax.
Floppy-sized distros can be burned to an EPROM. That means, basically, your OS is on your NIC. IE, driveless boot.
Reliability? Yup, it's there. Moving parts? Forget it.
I think not.
Napster controlled what files could be searched for. However, once you'd identified a Likely Hard Drive, all you had to do was add that person to your hotlist and you could browse their shares.
This is how I found an awful lot of stuff. Including things which failed to appear in hits from the central server.
50 dollars of beer -- per person?
Well, only if they're engineers. CS students don't drink that much :)
Who knows, maybe you talked to somebody with a 5 GHz chip :)
There's a hardware compatibility list in the ISO. HARDWARE.TXT in the root directory gives it to you. Or: Here's the link.
Recently, they've started producing an HTML version of HARDWARE.TXT as well. Look for HARDWARE.HTM on the ISO.
They cancelled Buffy?
Funny, I watch it every Tuesday night on UPN. Do you Americans not get it? :)
The popularity of the trademark doesn't affect its effectiveness as a trademark. For example, Philips still owns the Compact Disc Digital Audio trademark. It's whether it's used to describe goods that don't come from the same source as the trademark.
AFAIK, Linux may have been used by a lot of people, but every single one of them was using it to describe a Unix-like operating system based on Linus' kernel. If IBM were to modify AIX and call it IBMLinux, and Linus didn't sue them, then we'd have a problem.
AIM is featureless?
Have you used it? It bounces, it jumps, and it is very loaded with features. (Notably: it's the only MacOS client that allows chat and file transfer through a SOCKS5 proxy, and is also the only IM client on the Mac that supports voice chat. Voice chat doesn't exist on ICQ in any version...)
So?
While I doubt this will happen, for many reasons, suppose it did.
What's the result? Stupid people wind up running a stable operating system that doesn't crash a lot.
How is this bad?
The announcement did indicate most Athlons were affected by the bug. Perhaps you're one of the lucky few who isn't. If you have no bug, do not worry: do not attempt to fix your computer as it is not broken. :)