I have a test machine which I use for Oolite-Linux testing (so I can be sure it'll run on a stock nothing-extra-added fresh build). It is a 1.0GHz P3 laptop with ATi Radeon Mobility graphics, from circa 2000/2001.
I dunno - I use Ubuntu for testing my installer for Oolite-Linux, and it seems pretty trouble free with both the Autopackage installer and home-rolled tarball installer. I don't see anything unusual about Ubuntu that would result in significant breakage.
That's because driving on the right is just...ahem...so wrong. Everything we do in the Western world goes left to right - reading, mathematics etc. so it's only logical that driving should start on the left. The US only drove on the right to spite the British (and copy the French who only did it to spite the British too).
Other than driving on the right, there are plenty of other barbaric practises in the US, such as iced tea (in cans no less) and dropping letters from words!
Not a rabbit from the Isle of Man. That's not our particular superstition. Our superstition is about a rodent that looks like a very large mouse, with a hairless tail. Their name cannot be spoken - we call them "longtails".
RedHat dealt with RPM hell years ago (up2date and yum both work very nicely thank you). For everything else, there is Autopackage (http://autopackage.org/)
Of course the 386 was better than the 68000 - it was considerably newer! The 68000 was a mainstream processor when Intel's 8086 was Intel's mainstream processor.
They can make and sell it - but the rules of business are different for MS because they are a convicted monopolist. Bundling their AV free with Windows is abusing their Windows monopoly to own another area of business (AV software). For an example of what happens when you allow a monopoly to cross-subsidise another area of the business to crush other companies, see Netscape.
ClamAV on the other hand isn't made by a monopolist, and isn't being shipped by Microsoft free with Windows. The OS distros it does get shipped with aren't from a monopoly either.
Apple is not a convicted monopolist. No Linux distro has a monopoly. Microsoft is a convicted monopolist. The rules of business are different for monopolies for a good reason - for example, Microsoft can use its Windows monopoly to cross subsidise other loss making areas until all competition is crushed. This is not legal for a monopolist to do. If Microsoft bundles the equivalent of Symantec AV, Symantec can argue with some merit that Microsoft are doing this to crush the competition - using their Windows monopoly to own the AV business too.
The difference with Microsoft and Linux distributors is that Microsoft is a convicted monopoly in both the US and EU, and no Linux distributor is a monopoly (convicted or not).
Cogent COULD route around the damage - if they wanted to, but they don't.
If the peering point had been taken out by a bomb, the re-routing would have been performed in fairly short order. However, this is not the case here.
Level3 think that Cogent is taking the piss and is not a real peer. Level3 want Cogent to buy transit to reach Level3, either directly from them (or from someone else) because at the moment the peering is very lopsided, and costing Level3 a bucketload of money and giving Cogent a boatload of free bandwidth.
Cogent on the other hand doesn't want to pay for transit to Level3.
Right now, Cogent could route all their traffic for Level3 over transit they pay for. They don't want to do that because it won't force Level3 back into the peering agreement. So what they do is leave the link severed and do not re-route so that Level3 customers cannot get to sites hosted by Cogent. This means Level3 customers will grumble at Level3. Additionally, they offer a year's free transit to single homed Level3 customers just to raise the brinkmanship with Level3 a notch higher. Basically it's war between L3 and Cogent.
If Cogent re-routes their traffic, they are defeated and L3 will never re-peer. What Cogent are hoping is that enough angry customers on the L3 end will whine at L3 so L3 will be forced to re-peer.
For the rest of us in the peanut gallery (i.e. those of us who aren't single homed customers of Cogent or Level3) we can just watch the fun and games and throw peanut shells at the squabbling combatants because we don't see any black hole at all.
And then their is the fact that they are being run by for-profit corporations that pull stunts like redirecting all 404 traffic to ads,
No they didn't. If you got a 404 response from www.cnn.com, you wouldn't be directed to Verislime's Site Finder. A 404 response is a page not found response from a web server that you must have made a successful DNS lookup on to actually reach in the first place. What VeriSlime did was to make a DNS wildcard on *.com so DNS lookups that should have resulted in NXDOMAIN instead yielded an IP address - the IP address of their site finder.
It was invented in the US, but most of the Internet isn't being paid for by the US - most of the Internet as at today was put in by non-US entities.
Comparing it with the prime meridian is silly - the UK can't just cut off the prime meridian. However, if the US really wanted to - right now, they could essentially disable (or seriously disrupt) networks abroad by blocking access to the DNS root servers. The Internet has now moved on, and it's only right that some root servers should be based in other countries.
Of course, the rest of the world could just set up their own root servers, and if enough of the rest of the world switched to those new root servers, it would be de facto done. But that would result in the balkanization of the Internet. It would be better for all concerned (including the US) to come to an agreement on this and move some of the root DNS servers.
Who says any putative Google office suite will be purely an online, AJAX web based thing? No one has said what it is yet. For all we know, it could be StarOffice seamlessly integrated with some Google developed collaboration system - which would not require full time network access.
Bugzilla is both practical and reliable - and it is used on some VERY large projects (tracking hundreds of thousands of bugs).
We use it to track not just bugs, but feature requests and issues for our IT department. It fits what we need very well. The nearest commercial offering is unjustifiably expensive and is a lot less flexible than Bugzilla. It's always a question of the right tool for the right job - but for what we do (and what many projects out there do), Bugzilla fits perfectly - reliably and practically.
It's nothing to do with hate. I like Sony televisions, but it would be a very bad thing if some new piece of BBC content would only work on Sony televisions. The BBC are doing the software equivalent of instead of using PAL, using some proprietary Sony system that can never work with any other brand of TV.
The BBC is a public service broadcaster. As a public service, they should be making a system that works with their new codec, Dirac - which is an open standard - rather than doing the equivalent of mandating that everyone uses a certain brand of television. The BBC can supply a plug in codec that can be used with Windows Media Player if you want to use Windows Media Player. Or Microsoft can provide it themselves. Or anyone else can make a media player (just like any TV manufacturer can make a TV that works with BBC broadcasts).
Don't just grouse on Slashdot about the BBC using license fee payer's money to promote a closed solution instead of developing the Internet equivalent of the open and free for all PAL tv broadcast system. Tell them why making it Windows Media Player only is a bad thing on their complaints site:
Point out that: 1. Their DRM'd system has considerably less utility than a video recorder at a much greater cost (many UK ISPs have bandwidth quotas). Point out that the utility of the BBC's iMP is so inferior compared to what the pirates offer, it will not help reduce piracy at all - it'll just be a giant waste of license payer's fees to support a crippled service. 2. The EU has convicted Microsoft of monopolistic practises specifically over Media Player - the BBC should NOT be promoting this with license fee payers money. 3. The BBC have developed their own codec. They should be creating an open solution based on this that ALL broadcasters can use - a genuine public service, rather than help consolidating a foreign monopoly.
You have to go to the post office? What about those little blue box thingies on legs with a picture of an eagle taking a dump on them? Sort of down most streets you might drive down? That are so common, you see one getting flattened by a car in every cops and robbers movie?
He's not a kid, he's an adult - it's likely that he is at least 21 and therefore has all the responsibilities that being an adult entails. He may not yet have an awful lot of experience - but this infantising of young adults does no one any good (it patronises them, as well as wrongly excusing judgement errors because this >21 year old is 'just a kid').
Of course, with 4 engines you just have twice the chance of a turbine wheel burst taking out something important. The multiple engine failures I'm aware of have all been issues that would have taken out all four engines in a four engine jet.
Harvey Danger are well known in the United States. Flagpole Sitta was (for one) played endlessly on the usual ClearChannel radio stations in the late 90s. (It became the anthem for our IRC channel).
Have you tried Oolite yet? See my sig below. It's a complete homage to the original Elite, it's easy to expand (and plenty of expansion packs are already available, missions, ships etc.) and still getting new development. Runs on OS X and Linux (and we could do with some help on the Windows port since that's struggling a bit). It's one of those few games that is available for Mac and Linux *before* Windows!
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I have a test machine which I use for Oolite-Linux testing (so I can be sure it'll run on a stock nothing-extra-added fresh build). It is a 1.0GHz P3 laptop with ATi Radeon Mobility graphics, from circa 2000/2001.
It's absolutely fine with Ubuntu.
I dunno - I use Ubuntu for testing my installer for Oolite-Linux, and it seems pretty trouble free with both the Autopackage installer and home-rolled tarball installer. I don't see anything unusual about Ubuntu that would result in significant breakage.
Actually, the US is the world's #1 source of spam (see spamhaus.org and its league table of spam originating countries)
That's because driving on the right is just...ahem...so wrong. Everything we do in the Western world goes left to right - reading, mathematics etc. so it's only logical that driving should start on the left. The US only drove on the right to spite the British (and copy the French who only did it to spite the British too).
Other than driving on the right, there are plenty of other barbaric practises in the US, such as iced tea (in cans no less) and dropping letters from words!
Not a rabbit from the Isle of Man. That's not our particular superstition. Our superstition is about a rodent that looks like a very large mouse, with a hairless tail. Their name cannot be spoken - we call them "longtails".
You're thinking of Portland.
RedHat dealt with RPM hell years ago (up2date and yum both work very nicely thank you).
For everything else, there is Autopackage (http://autopackage.org/)
Of course the 386 was better than the 68000 - it was considerably newer! The 68000 was a mainstream processor when Intel's 8086 was Intel's mainstream processor.
They can make and sell it - but the rules of business are different for MS because they are a convicted monopolist. Bundling their AV free with Windows is abusing their Windows monopoly to own another area of business (AV software). For an example of what happens when you allow a monopoly to cross-subsidise another area of the business to crush other companies, see Netscape.
ClamAV on the other hand isn't made by a monopolist, and isn't being shipped by Microsoft free with Windows. The OS distros it does get shipped with aren't from a monopoly either.
Apple is not a convicted monopolist.
No Linux distro has a monopoly.
Microsoft is a convicted monopolist. The rules of business are different for monopolies for a good reason - for example, Microsoft can use its Windows monopoly to cross subsidise other loss making areas until all competition is crushed. This is not legal for a monopolist to do. If Microsoft bundles the equivalent of Symantec AV, Symantec can argue with some merit that Microsoft are doing this to crush the competition - using their Windows monopoly to own the AV business too.
The difference with Microsoft and Linux distributors is that Microsoft is a convicted monopoly in both the US and EU, and no Linux distributor is a monopoly (convicted or not).
Cogent COULD route around the damage - if they wanted to, but they don't.
If the peering point had been taken out by a bomb, the re-routing would have been performed in fairly short order. However, this is not the case here.
Level3 think that Cogent is taking the piss and is not a real peer. Level3 want Cogent to buy transit to reach Level3, either directly from them (or from someone else) because at the moment the peering is very lopsided, and costing Level3 a bucketload of money and giving Cogent a boatload of free bandwidth.
Cogent on the other hand doesn't want to pay for transit to Level3.
Right now, Cogent could route all their traffic for Level3 over transit they pay for. They don't want to do that because it won't force Level3 back into the peering agreement. So what they do is leave the link severed and do not re-route so that Level3 customers cannot get to sites hosted by Cogent. This means Level3 customers will grumble at Level3. Additionally, they offer a year's free transit to single homed Level3 customers just to raise the brinkmanship with Level3 a notch higher. Basically it's war between L3 and Cogent.
If Cogent re-routes their traffic, they are defeated and L3 will never re-peer. What Cogent are hoping is that enough angry customers on the L3 end will whine at L3 so L3 will be forced to re-peer.
For the rest of us in the peanut gallery (i.e. those of us who aren't single homed customers of Cogent or Level3) we can just watch the fun and games and throw peanut shells at the squabbling combatants because we don't see any black hole at all.
The original poster probably meant an internet exchange like Mae East or Mae West or Linx.
No they didn't. If you got a 404 response from www.cnn.com, you wouldn't be directed to Verislime's Site Finder. A 404 response is a page not found response from a web server that you must have made a successful DNS lookup on to actually reach in the first place. What VeriSlime did was to make a DNS wildcard on *.com so DNS lookups that should have resulted in NXDOMAIN instead yielded an IP address - the IP address of their site finder.
It was invented in the US, but most of the Internet isn't being paid for by the US - most of the Internet as at today was put in by non-US entities.
Comparing it with the prime meridian is silly - the UK can't just cut off the prime meridian. However, if the US really wanted to - right now, they could essentially disable (or seriously disrupt) networks abroad by blocking access to the DNS root servers. The Internet has now moved on, and it's only right that some root servers should be based in other countries.
Of course, the rest of the world could just set up their own root servers, and if enough of the rest of the world switched to those new root servers, it would be de facto done. But that would result in the balkanization of the Internet. It would be better for all concerned (including the US) to come to an agreement on this and move some of the root DNS servers.
Who says any putative Google office suite will be purely an online, AJAX web based thing? No one has said what it is yet. For all we know, it could be StarOffice seamlessly integrated with some Google developed collaboration system - which would not require full time network access.
Bugzilla is both practical and reliable - and it is used on some VERY large projects (tracking hundreds of thousands of bugs).
We use it to track not just bugs, but feature requests and issues for our IT department. It fits what we need very well. The nearest commercial offering is unjustifiably expensive and is a lot less flexible than Bugzilla. It's always a question of the right tool for the right job - but for what we do (and what many projects out there do), Bugzilla fits perfectly - reliably and practically.
It's nothing to do with hate. I like Sony televisions, but it would be a very bad thing if some new piece of BBC content would only work on Sony televisions. The BBC are doing the software equivalent of instead of using PAL, using some proprietary Sony system that can never work with any other brand of TV.
The BBC is a public service broadcaster. As a public service, they should be making a system that works with their new codec, Dirac - which is an open standard - rather than doing the equivalent of mandating that everyone uses a certain brand of television. The BBC can supply a plug in codec that can be used with Windows Media Player if you want to use Windows Media Player. Or Microsoft can provide it themselves. Or anyone else can make a media player (just like any TV manufacturer can make a TV that works with BBC broadcasts).
Surely they'd use the (AK-47 based) M-76? I'd have thought the basic AK-47 to be far too inaccurate, even with a scope.
http://www.snipercentral.com/m76.htm
Please - send your comments to the BBC, they won't see any of us grousing on Slashdot.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/make_complaint_st
Don't just grouse on Slashdot about the BBC using license fee payer's money to promote a closed solution instead of developing the Internet equivalent of the open and free for all PAL tv broadcast system. Tell them why making it Windows Media Player only is a bad thing on their complaints site:
e p1.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/make_complaint_st
Make it reasonable and intelligent.
Point out that:
1. Their DRM'd system has considerably less utility than a video recorder at a much greater cost (many UK ISPs have bandwidth quotas). Point out that the utility of the BBC's iMP is so inferior compared to what the pirates offer, it will not help reduce piracy at all - it'll just be a giant waste of license payer's fees to support a crippled service.
2. The EU has convicted Microsoft of monopolistic practises specifically over Media Player - the BBC should NOT be promoting this with license fee payers money.
3. The BBC have developed their own codec. They should be creating an open solution based on this that ALL broadcasters can use - a genuine public service, rather than help consolidating a foreign monopoly.
You have to go to the post office? What about those little blue box thingies on legs with a picture of an eagle taking a dump on them? Sort of down most streets you might drive down? That are so common, you see one getting flattened by a car in every cops and robbers movie?
He's not a kid, he's an adult - it's likely that he is at least 21 and therefore has all the responsibilities that being an adult entails. He may not yet have an awful lot of experience - but this infantising of young adults does no one any good (it patronises them, as well as wrongly excusing judgement errors because this >21 year old is 'just a kid').
Of course, with 4 engines you just have twice the chance of a turbine wheel burst taking out something important. The multiple engine failures I'm aware of have all been issues that would have taken out all four engines in a four engine jet.
Harvey Danger are well known in the United States. Flagpole Sitta was (for one) played endlessly on the usual ClearChannel radio stations in the late 90s. (It became the anthem for our IRC channel).
Have you tried Oolite yet? See my sig below. It's a complete homage to the original Elite, it's easy to expand (and plenty of expansion packs are already available, missions, ships etc.) and still getting new development. Runs on OS X and Linux (and we could do with some help on the Windows port since that's struggling a bit). It's one of those few games that is available for Mac and Linux *before* Windows!