Hello!
I would like to comment on this subject.
Now I have read the RFC and all the posts here and I am beginning to suspect that it is a April fools joke.
Yours truly,
Homer Simpson
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Heh, I just wanted to be another one who made the "discovery", and needed to show everyone that I am clever.:-) --------
Hey, excellent, thanks.
I have got to check that out. Now I have the system up and running, but I think I'll start by checking out NVIDIAs Linux drivers. Better have them running properly first --------
The only thing that keeps me from erasing my Windooze partition is that I like to play Counter-strike from time to time. The day I can play the few games I like(Q3A is not one of them) Id erase it.
Right now I am waiting for Mandrake to finish it's installation on my desktop PC because I will try to see if everything else I do on my home PC can be done from Linux. I have been using FreeBSD and Linux as servers for years, but I have always felt that it could not replace Windows as my desktop because all the neat little utilities I use is for Windooze. But now I am going to give it a try. Since the the Linux crowd is so big, I am fairly sure that I can find a replacement for most, if not all, the programs that I use.
My only concern right now, will I get it to work with my GeForce card. I guess I'll know in 22 minutes:-) --------
We all know that the RIAA(and alike) will not be happy until Napster is rendered useless. They have gotten in a fight that they can see that they can win so why stop until the enemy lies bleeding and dying on the ground. --------
The reason vira still spreads so well is that there's a lot of people in the world using computers without have much knowledge about them. That is not a bad thing, but it requires that the people that has the knowledge and power(admins) do their work.
The reason it spreads well on Windooze compared to Linux is not just because it's easy(Outlook etc), but because not many people without much computer knowledge use Linux. It's more likely that they will use Windows and they can't see the consequences of their actions like clicking on a exe file in their mail.
Then there is the reason about administrators not paying proper attention to their mail system. It's not that hard to protect your Exchange mailserver. Install a virus email scanner and deny attachments that could contain a vira.(exe vbs etc.) In my work as a network consultant I see many places where they don't takes the few easy steps to shut these simple holes. So what if the users can't recieve a VBS file. EXE files should be denied too, If they really want to email a EXE file (or recieve one) and they don't have the knowledge to find a way to send it anyway(zip it whatever), they should ask someone who knows a bit more about computers.
You will allways get the standard excuse then you come to clean up their mail server, like too much work and "I'm just started working here". Granted the high frequency of job rotation in the IT-sector is a problem with people not knowing everything about the system the administrate. I just don't accept the "too busy" excuse. You know that the world will see a email vira explode, at least once every year. So stay at work until midnight one day to check if your system is protected and if not then figure out how to secure it. It's a lot better than have to work all night to weed out the problem when you are attacked. As extra bonus, you'll avoid angry users thinking you are an idiot.
If I saw someone sitting at their desk with a dot on their forehead, I'd be screaming "DUCK" and heading for cover myself.
I may have been watching too many movies.
Note: Above may not apply if you live in India. --------
no it just stupid. like this: FreeBSD has a reputation of being the "fastest" BSD on x86 hardware. Actual memory bandwidth performance is a fraction of all of Sun's offerings.
eeh, so I guess that Linux is even worse?? Many tests has shown FreeBSD to be faster and more stable than Linux(Not trying to troll myself:-)), So if he says that BSD sucks, then he also says that Linux is crap.
And even that is not 100% true anymore. Kimberly-Clark to introduce wet toilet paper
What can I say, go figure.:-)
I inveted that years ago, something to do with it falling into the bathtub.:-) --------
It seems to me that many times fan sites gets left alone until a certain point when the show(or whatever) takes off. Until then, they don't seem to mind too much about fan sites providing pictures, video/audio clips. But once it hits the big bucks fortune and fame, the fan sites gets shut down faster than you can say/.
So in my mind, the "companies" are already playing on this, which I think, sucks.
We have seen it a lot of times where faithful fans were treated as criminals as soon as the "company" don't need their free advertising and trolling.
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I didn't say that it was in the box, just that it always ends up in my installation, and it does. I figure that it is with internet exploder, but then again, windows does not interest me very much. --------
Of course the M$ messenger is more popular. It always ends up on my Windooze installation somehow. Not that I have ever used it, or ever will. But somehow it seems to get down there into my taskbar. sigh. So I uninstall it.
But even if I don't create an account in it, will it still contact M$ and count as a installation, if so it is no wonder that it numbers is raising.
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>Any bets on whether the RIAA's trying to arrange for it to land on Sealand?
I've got a better idea, land it in Iraq,
"oooops, we're sorry we crushed your hidden nuclear bomb lab." --------
Get serious, Europeans. Stop blaming us and reform your own statist economic policies. Then your companies can become more efficient and innovative, and they won't need to resort to bribery to compete.
So US companies are more efficient? I am not saying they suck, but a study showed that European workers are more efficient, even with the lower number of working hours in a week.
Well, of course we can debate how serious a study reported on CNN is. My personal expirence with US companies are that they had long work hours and the people had a low "stress threshold".
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I download the movie with 155KB sec. Normally one should expect a site on slashdot would get, well, slasdottet. Specially when it's a SouthPark movie for them to download
It's nice to see someone thinking ahead and setting up the bandwidth resources needed, I guess that Akamai really works;-) --------
Re:direct links to the movie that is damn funny
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Park Wars Released
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Go to the site instead and download it, because they use Akamai, it will direct you to a server close you for optimal speed, I get 156kb sec. --------
Our local version of ComputerWorld takes a lot of "news" from slashdot. Many times I see a article/post on/. that will appear a day or two later on their site. Last one that I remember was the demise of the Coffee cam. but there's a couple each week.
Most of the times I am quite sure that it's from/. because they are the only media covering the subject besides from slashdot. (and that the subject is very slashdot'tish(?)).
So I read Slashdot and get the news a couple of days before my collegues:-)
Oh another clear case I just remember was that house-Tetris game long time ago.
I tried to watch it too, but it was too wierd and boring.
I guess I lacked the right "stuff" to smoke while watching it.
"all the colors of the 'bow, man'":-)
I remember looking at that cam also in the early days of HTML, when there were no such thing as a "Microsoft Internet Explorer"(as m$ didn't believe in the internet then).
I decided to make my own webcam then using a old black and white survailence camera and and a very expensive framegrabber card on ISA bus. The card was slow and drivers where almost nonexistent, but the documentation for the hardware was good and I was a little hardware hacker at the time so somehow I got it working. (btw. I just saw my old boss at a party and we talked about just how I convinced him to spend money on it since it was paid by the company and it provided no serios use for them whatsoever:-) )
Anyway, I wrote all the programming for it myself as there were no webcam software available. It was the first webcam in Denmark, and I had up to 1000 visitors pr day(in 1996, which I think was pretty good at the time for a personal homepage. The cam has been online since about 96(I think) in many different setups. The first setup was a coffeecam much like the original except that I also made a small browser in visual basic so that I had a small resizable window. Version 2 of my coffeecam included a switch on the coffeemachine that would be triggered when someone took some coffee, the pc that grabbed the pictures would then store pictures of the times when people took coffee so we could see who took the last drop without putting on a new batch.:-)
Today my camera is a old Connectix Quickcam(on parallel port) on a server running FreeBSD. My camera is available on the web most of the time as well on your WAP phone on wap.rud.dk. I really don't know why I am running the camera today(and must admit that I forgot to plug it in yesterday when I moved the server around) but at least there is something that gets updated on my site.:-) It also generate a MPEG movie of all the pictures taken the day before(I still need to activate the cronjobs for my shellscript for that, hmm). All the programs I use for it, are the ones that comes with your FreeBSD CD both for the wap version as well as the mpeg movie generation, kinda neat. The old version in 1996 also did this, only it made a avi file(if I remember correctly) and it was a that time made wich som DOS applications(no not windooze, real DOS).
The downside of using a old parallel port cam is that is uses too much CPU time(100% in 4 seconds for 1 picture) so the cronjobs that takes the picure only runs every 5 minutes because I don't want to waste cpu time on it.
Oh well, I must be going home from work now, so that I can get home and read/.
hmm --------
Now let's not get carried away here. I think you have watched too many movies.:-)
And if it turned out that RIAA was not some fat lazy money grabbing monkies from hell, USA is not the world people, they have no business there, they have just as much power there as a ant under your shoe. RIAA can kiss their hairy yellow ass. --------
Oh goodie, finally I get the applications from Linux without loosing that daily reboot.:-)
It's a nice concept, that I am sure that Jim Allchin wants to bring to the goverments attention too.:-)
I have copyright on this text! So I will not permit that any server will forward it to any browser or that any proxy server will cache it!
Sorry but that law is just plain stupid: An estimated five million or more e-mails are forwarded each day around the nation.
Attorney-General Daryl Williams QC has warned Australians that they could be breaking the law, if they continue to forward e-mails from today.
That's what I call lawbraking.;-) Go warn all those people, and you software people, recompile your groupware for sale there, so it dont have that forward button!!
geez
If I remember correctly, about a year ago, the smallest rs/6000(almost pizzabox) was the only only one they supported with linux(Yellow Dog). When I asked if it would work on one of the bigger boxes, they just said, "It might, we just don't support it". I never got around to test it since I liked AIX better than Linux(sorry but I think that it was really better with AIX on that platform).
Anyway I don't think this is a plan to kill AIX and replace it with Linux. There still is Project Monterey. which is a 64bit operating system only,,, and linux compatible. and will be available on Intel platforms(when available). well go there and read for yourself.
btw. if you are interested in seeing the peace-love-linux, thing you can see it here:
IBM'n'Linux --------
Heh, I remember when I started watching TNG, all the old dudes said that TOS was the only real Star-Trek. Now it seems we have moved one series up.:-)
I must admit that I didn't care much for DS-9, too much talk, at least in the EPs I saw, but I have enjoyed watching the EPs of Voyager I could get my hands on.
No channel in the country I live is showing them, except for season 1, so they are a bit hard to come by.
Slashdot Mirror
Hello!
:-)
I would like to comment on this subject.
Now I have read the RFC and all the posts here and I am beginning to suspect that it is a April fools joke.
Yours truly,
Homer Simpson
--------
Heh, I just wanted to be another one who made the "discovery", and needed to show everyone that I am clever.
--------
Hey, excellent, thanks.
I have got to check that out. Now I have the system up and running, but I think I'll start by checking out NVIDIAs Linux drivers. Better have them running properly first
--------
The only thing that keeps me from erasing my Windooze partition is that I like to play Counter-strike from time to time.
:-)
The day I can play the few games I like(Q3A is not one of them) Id erase it.
Right now I am waiting for Mandrake to finish it's installation on my desktop PC because I will try to see if everything else I do on my home PC can be done from Linux. I have been using FreeBSD and Linux as servers for years, but I have always felt that it could not replace Windows as my desktop because all the neat little utilities I use is for Windooze. But now I am going to give it a try. Since the the Linux crowd is so big, I am fairly sure that I can find a replacement for most, if not all, the programs that I use.
My only concern right now, will I get it to work with my GeForce card. I guess I'll know in 22 minutes
--------
We all know that the RIAA(and alike) will not be happy until Napster is rendered useless.
They have gotten in a fight that they can see that they can win so why stop until the enemy lies bleeding and dying on the ground.
--------
The reason vira still spreads so well is that there's a lot of people in the world using computers without have much knowledge about them. That is not a bad thing, but it requires that the people that has the knowledge and power(admins) do their work.
The reason it spreads well on Windooze compared to Linux is not just because it's easy(Outlook etc), but because not many people without much computer knowledge use Linux. It's more likely that they will use Windows and they can't see the consequences of their actions like clicking on a exe file in their mail.
Then there is the reason about administrators not paying proper attention to their mail system. It's not that hard to protect your Exchange mailserver. Install a virus email scanner and deny attachments that could contain a vira.(exe vbs etc.) In my work as a network consultant I see many places where they don't takes the few easy steps to shut these simple holes.
So what if the users can't recieve a VBS file. EXE files should be denied too, If they really want to email a EXE file (or recieve one) and they don't have the knowledge to find a way to send it anyway(zip it whatever), they should ask someone who knows a bit more about computers.
You will allways get the standard excuse then you come to clean up their mail server, like too much work and "I'm just started working here". Granted the high frequency of job rotation in the IT-sector is a problem with people not knowing everything about the system the administrate. I just don't accept the "too busy" excuse. You know that the world will see a email vira explode, at least once every year. So stay at work until midnight one day to check if your system is protected and if not then figure out how to secure it. It's a lot better than have to work all night to weed out the problem when you are attacked. As extra bonus, you'll avoid angry users thinking you are an idiot.
--------
If I saw someone sitting at their desk with a dot on their forehead, I'd be screaming "DUCK" and heading for cover myself.
I may have been watching too many movies.
Note: Above may not apply if you live in India.
--------
no it just stupid. like this: :-)), So if he says that BSD sucks, then he also says that Linux is crap.
FreeBSD has a reputation of being the "fastest" BSD on x86 hardware. Actual memory bandwidth performance is a fraction of all of Sun's offerings.
eeh, so I guess that Linux is even worse?? Many tests has shown FreeBSD to be faster and more stable than Linux(Not trying to troll myself
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So now we know where the next explosion in warez sites will be. :-)
Like when Germany's internet went from ultra-bad to good.
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>or cancel their network infrastructure stuff too (switches et al.)?).
Yes they did, they have dropped everything of interest in that area.
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And even that is not 100% true anymore. :-) :-)
Kimberly-Clark to introduce wet toilet paper
What can I say, go figure.
I inveted that years ago, something to do with it falling into the bathtub.
--------
It seems to me that many times fan sites gets left alone until a certain point when the show(or whatever) takes off. Until then, they don't seem to mind too much about fan sites providing pictures, video/audio clips. But once it hits the big bucks fortune and fame, the fan sites gets shut down faster than you can say /.
So in my mind, the "companies" are already playing on this, which I think, sucks.
We have seen it a lot of times where faithful fans were treated as criminals as soon as the "company" don't need their free advertising and trolling.
--------
I didn't say that it was in the box, just that it always ends up in my installation, and it does. I figure that it is with internet exploder, but then again, windows does not interest me very much.
--------
Of course the M$ messenger is more popular. It always ends up on my Windooze installation somehow. Not that I have ever used it, or ever will. But somehow it seems to get down there into my taskbar. sigh. So I uninstall it.
But even if I don't create an account in it, will it still contact M$ and count as a installation, if so it is no wonder that it numbers is raising.
--------
>Any bets on whether the RIAA's trying to arrange for it to land on Sealand?
I've got a better idea, land it in Iraq,
"oooops, we're sorry we crushed your hidden nuclear bomb lab."
--------
Get serious, Europeans. Stop blaming us and reform your own statist economic policies. Then your companies can become more efficient and innovative, and they won't need to resort to bribery to compete.
So US companies are more efficient? I am not saying they suck, but a study showed that European workers are more efficient, even with the lower number of working hours in a week.
Well, of course we can debate how serious a study reported on CNN is. My personal expirence with US companies are that they had long work hours and the people had a low "stress threshold".
--------
I download the movie with 155KB sec. Normally one should expect a site on slashdot would get, well, slasdottet. Specially when it's a SouthPark movie for them to download ;-)
It's nice to see someone thinking ahead and setting up the bandwidth resources needed, I guess that Akamai really works
--------
Go to the site instead and download it, because they use Akamai, it will direct you to a server close you for optimal speed, I get 156kb sec.
--------
Our local version of ComputerWorld takes a lot of "news" from slashdot. Many times I see a article/post on /. that will appear a day or two later on their site. Last one that I remember was the demise of the Coffee cam. but there's a couple each week. /. because they are the only media covering the subject besides from slashdot. (and that the subject is very slashdot'tish(?)). :-)
Most of the times I am quite sure that it's from
So I read Slashdot and get the news a couple of days before my collegues
Oh another clear case I just remember was that house-Tetris game long time ago.
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I tried to watch it too, but it was too wierd and boring. :-)
I guess I lacked the right "stuff" to smoke while watching it.
"all the colors of the 'bow, man'"
--------
I remember looking at that cam also in the early days of HTML, when there were no such thing as a "Microsoft Internet Explorer"(as m$ didn't believe in the internet then). :-) ) :-) :-) It also generate a MPEG movie of all the pictures taken the day before(I still need to activate the cronjobs for my shellscript for that, hmm). All the programs I use for it, are the ones that comes with your FreeBSD CD both for the wap version as well as the mpeg movie generation, kinda neat. The old version in 1996 also did this, only it made a avi file(if I remember correctly) and it was a that time made wich som DOS applications(no not windooze, real DOS). /.
I decided to make my own webcam then using a old black and white survailence camera and and a very expensive framegrabber card on ISA bus. The card was slow and drivers where almost nonexistent, but the documentation for the hardware was good and I was a little hardware hacker at the time so somehow I got it working. (btw. I just saw my old boss at a party and we talked about just how I convinced him to spend money on it since it was paid by the company and it provided no serios use for them whatsoever
Anyway, I wrote all the programming for it myself as there were no webcam software available. It was the first webcam in Denmark, and I had up to 1000 visitors pr day(in 1996, which I think was pretty good at the time for a personal homepage. The cam has been online since about 96(I think) in many different setups.
The first setup was a coffeecam much like the original except that I also made a small browser in visual basic so that I had a small resizable window. Version 2 of my coffeecam included a switch on the coffeemachine that would be triggered when someone took some coffee, the pc that grabbed the pictures would then store pictures of the times when people took coffee so we could see who took the last drop without putting on a new batch.
Today my camera is a old Connectix Quickcam(on parallel port) on a server running FreeBSD.
My camera is available on the web most of the time as well on your WAP phone on wap.rud.dk. I really don't know why I am running the camera today(and must admit that I forgot to plug it in yesterday when I moved the server around) but at least there is something that gets updated on my site.
The downside of using a old parallel port cam is that is uses too much CPU time(100% in 4 seconds for 1 picture) so the cronjobs that takes the picure only runs every 5 minutes because I don't want to waste cpu time on it.
Oh well, I must be going home from work now, so that I can get home and read
hmm
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Now let's not get carried away here. I think you have watched too many movies. :-)
And if it turned out that RIAA was not some fat lazy money grabbing monkies from hell, USA is not the world people, they have no business there, they have just as much power there as a ant under your shoe. RIAA can kiss their hairy yellow ass.
--------
Oh goodie, finally I get the applications from Linux without loosing that daily reboot. :-) :-)
It's a nice concept, that I am sure that Jim Allchin wants to bring to the goverments attention too.
--------
I have copyright on this text! So I will not permit that any server will forward it to any browser or that any proxy server will cache it! ;-)
Sorry but that law is just plain stupid:
An estimated five million or more e-mails are forwarded each day around the nation.
Attorney-General Daryl Williams QC has warned Australians that they could be breaking the law, if they continue to forward e-mails from today.
That's what I call lawbraking.
Go warn all those people, and you software people, recompile your groupware for sale there, so it dont have that forward button!!
geez
--------
If I remember correctly, about a year ago, the smallest rs/6000(almost pizzabox) was the only only one they supported with linux(Yellow Dog). When I asked if it would work on one of the bigger boxes, they just said, "It might, we just don't support it". I never got around to test it since I liked AIX better than Linux(sorry but I think that it was really better with AIX on that platform).
Anyway I don't think this is a plan to kill AIX and replace it with Linux. There still is Project Monterey. which is a 64bit operating system only,,, and linux compatible. and will be available on Intel platforms(when available). well go there and read for yourself.
btw. if you are interested in seeing the peace-love-linux, thing you can see it here: IBM'n'Linux
--------
Heh, I remember when I started watching TNG, all the old dudes said that TOS was the only real Star-Trek. Now it seems we have moved one series up. :-)
I must admit that I didn't care much for DS-9, too much talk, at least in the EPs I saw, but I have enjoyed watching the EPs of Voyager I could get my hands on.
No channel in the country I live is showing them, except for season 1, so they are a bit hard to come by.
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