As someone who has a long history of problems with AT&T @Home, as the shutdown deadline approached I had planned to lose connectivity, probably for a few days. I must say I am impressed with AT&T.
I was online until about 01:00 today and did not lose connection. When I got up this morning I had no connectivity. I followed the instructions that AT&T had sent to all subscribers via email and snail mail, and lo and behold, AT&T's backup network was in place! My total time lost was maybe 10 minutes to reconfigure my router/firewall.
I currently have a part time job as a ramp agent at an airport in a metro area. I'm on the airfield, driving, working with planes, etc.
On the way into work, they use a handheld wand metal detector on us. We're not allowed to bring any sort of cutting instruments onto the airfield (this is assinine... I can walk up and touch the airplane engines but I can't have a mini leatherman). They also search all bags/backpacks/lunchboxes. It's a pain in the arse but probably a good move in light of recent events.
What makes it all hilarious, but not really, is that we get an even more extensive search on the way out to make sure that we're not stealing anything... you can sure tell where the priorities of the company lie.
Thanks Jon. I used to have my/. prefs set to exclude you from my home page. I heard you wrote some interesting things the other day about this event. So I went back and have read your postings.
You've again demonstrated why I don't read your babbling. Back onto the killfile you go...
Just wanted to pipe and and say "Amen"... Powell's Technical Books in Portland is a geek haven. You walk in and are confronted by the smell of books, aisles and aisles of anything and everything technical... computers, engineering, physics, mathematics... you name it.
There's something to be said for seeing an entire bookcase about 15' high and probably a good 30' long with nothing but O'Reilly.
All I know is that right now my entire company (leading manufacturer of graphics tablets in the world) is without email because our Exchange server is down because some idiot ran a vbs attachment.
This might get labeled as flamebait but hear me out...
Every time there is an article about the internet in China, there are a ton of posts here on Slashdot about how bad it is that the Chinese government wants to control the access.
It's China. It's the Chinese communist government. The fact that they are furthering the exact same restrictive policies that they have performed for decades is not news.
It's typical making fun of a politician. And because/. is a forum on the internet and with a bunch of 'net geeks, then Algore's comment is particularly amusing.
It's no different than how everyone poked fun at Dan Quayle for many years after his misspelling of a certain vegetable...
8534517009 Here is your navigator : Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt) Just a security hole of Slashdot. You can find this kind of hole in all sites which has a forum. I think that in site like e-trade you can make some people asks for stocks. You can contact me there : Krakus.Irus à voila.com If you want to retry. If you want to know more.
Is the domain being used for anything? It appears not to have a website, and whether or not it's being used for e-mail purposes is unknown.
I would say that unless the owner of coke.ch is using it, the Coca-Cola company has a legitimate gripe. The submitter says that he at one point thought about doing a cocaine-support site. That's great, but that's not what's happening. I think the issue would be very different if www.coke.ch was an active site. As it is, it's pretty easy to make a case for "well if he's not using it, and it's our trademark, we should have it"
You say that you can't believe that Amazon expects to get these, but put yourself in their shoes... if the USPTO is going to grant stupid patents, why not apply for them?
What's the worst that's going to happen to them? The USPTO will revoke the patents? Big deal.
I'm looking at the article, which states that until last year the Navy had a license with Lotus for competing products.
I am then assuming that they dropped Lotus and switched to Microsoft... a move that undoubtedly used hundreds of thousands (if not more) tax dollars for re-training employees. Now they're possibly looking at switching again. How much is that going to cost me?
Here's a suggestion: evaluate a product before you buy it.
I just called CI Host to have them cancel one of my accounts, took 4 tries to get through but the lady was polite. She informed me their accounts database is down and that to cancel my account, I needed to fax them and they will do it once their system is back up.
I am one of those who has a couple domains hosted with CI Host. I also understand that crashes happen. If things had crashed, they'd admitted that things crashed, and then fixed it, I'd be satisfied. But their system crashed, they were totally unreachable, and it took them over a week to have my sites' DNS working correctly. A week of downtime is what is unacceptable.
What started this whole mess was some "upgrades" that included new IP assignments for (as I understand it) all domains. My domains were working correctly for a day or two on the new IPs. My domains hosted there are now resolving... to the OLD IPs... and then nothing works. Lets hope they can get the new DNS correct. As said before, after 3 days of a non-functional web presence, it's not a lot of fun counting up the lost $$$
Last time I checked, Lycos and HotBot were tightly partnered. Adding Altavista to the mix could be interesting, since I see Altavista and HotBot's search functionality essentially the same, and in fact I would guess they view each other as competitors...
This is an interesting followup to the recent discussion about Linux being the "official" OS of China. I wonder how Linus would feel about his little project being used in a war against him?
...as you evaluate the review and the product, that most of us reading/. are at least one step geekier than Corel's targeted user group... those without linux looking for a desktop platform.
I'm a big fan of privacy, and I believe that everyone should have privacy in most situations. However, if the company has an existing policy that company e-mail is not private and that it is company property, then it is certainly within their realm to scan it. A company is paying for its bandwidth and paying the employees for their time, if an employee is wasting bandwidth and conducting non-work affairs (excuse the pun) with the company's resources, then there is no reason why the company shouldn't be able to take action. The e-mail accounts belong to the company, not the user.
So what's the _real_ reason y'all hate Be?
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I don't understand why so many/.ers seem to have a big thing against Be. I don't want to start a flame war, but I don't understand the feelings. Remember that Be is an end-user OS, designed to compete (or complement) Windows 9x or the MacOS. It's not designed for geeks. True, us geeks like it and mess with it but it's easier to install and configure than any *nix variant. Here's what else y'all seem to be saying:
No apps. Um hello, how many affordable, high-quality apps were there for linux about 3 years ago? Remember that Be has only been on the x86 platform for about 2 years.
It's commercial. True. They charge $60 for the OS. But with RedHat being sold at CompUSA for $79.95, it's hard to say that Linux hasn't gone commercial.
No user base. Again, I ask you how many Linux users there were just 2 or 3 years ago.
So other than the fact that it's not some flavor of *nix, what are the real arguments... or is that the only beef?
Without offending the Debian fans, I would question this choice of distributions. A few weeks ago there was a link here on slashdot to a long essay about how newbies should avoid Debian, and how the Debian community should be for advanced users who, if I remember correctly, have "mastered Slackware".
So Corel is going to take this distribution and shrink wrap it? Somehow I don't think that shrink-wrapping an admittedly complicated and difficult distribution is going to further the Linux cause.
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As someone who has a long history of problems with AT&T @Home, as the shutdown deadline approached I had planned to lose connectivity, probably for a few days. I must say I am impressed with AT&T.
I was online until about 01:00 today and did not lose connection. When I got up this morning I had no connectivity. I followed the instructions that AT&T had sent to all subscribers via email and snail mail, and lo and behold, AT&T's backup network was in place! My total time lost was maybe 10 minutes to reconfigure my router/firewall.
> "Is Microsoft a do-gooder, or up to no good?"
Does anyone expect an objective response on Slashdot?
I currently have a part time job as a ramp agent at an airport in a metro area. I'm on the airfield, driving, working with planes, etc.
On the way into work, they use a handheld wand metal detector on us. We're not allowed to bring any sort of cutting instruments onto the airfield (this is assinine... I can walk up and touch the airplane engines but I can't have a mini leatherman). They also search all bags/backpacks/lunchboxes. It's a pain in the arse but probably a good move in light of recent events.
What makes it all hilarious, but not really, is that we get an even more extensive search on the way out to make sure that we're not stealing anything... you can sure tell where the priorities of the company lie.
Thanks Jon. I used to have my /. prefs set to exclude you from my home page. I heard you wrote some interesting things the other day about this event. So I went back and have read your postings.
You've again demonstrated why I don't read your babbling. Back onto the killfile you go...
I wonder if the Synaptic tool allows me to access the Synapse servers? Look out Gary Winston!
I have AT&T @Home, I had a modem start emitting sparks and their tech. reps were still not sure if my connectivity problems might be modem related.
A full log of my adventures is at my website at http://www.hockley.net/att.
There's something to be said for seeing an entire bookcase about 15' high and probably a good 30' long with nothing but O'Reilly.
All I know is that right now my entire company (leading manufacturer of graphics tablets in the world) is without email because our Exchange server is down because some idiot ran a vbs attachment.
This might get labeled as flamebait but hear me out...
Every time there is an article about the internet in China, there are a ton of posts here on Slashdot about how bad it is that the Chinese government wants to control the access.
It's China. It's the Chinese communist government. The fact that they are furthering the exact same restrictive policies that they have performed for decades is not news.
My wife works for the air force.
Columbus Day is a paid holiday. Need I say more?
It's typical making fun of a politician. And because /. is a forum on the internet and with a bunch of 'net geeks, then Algore's comment is particularly amusing.
It's no different than how everyone poked fun at Dan Quayle for many years after his misspelling of a certain vegetable...
Great, I suppose that now Microsoft will copyright the ".net" name, meaning that all domain names ending in .net are now in violation.
8534517009
Here is your navigator : Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt)
Just a security hole of Slashdot. You can find this kind of hole in all sites which has a forum. I think that in site like e-trade you can make some people asks for stocks.
You can contact me there : Krakus.Irus à voila.com
If you want to retry.
If you want to know more.
Well, coke is obviously a trademark.
Is the domain being used for anything? It appears not to have a website, and whether or not it's being used for e-mail purposes is unknown.
I would say that unless the owner of coke.ch is using it, the Coca-Cola company has a legitimate gripe. The submitter says that he at one point thought about doing a cocaine-support site. That's great, but that's not what's happening. I think the issue would be very different if www.coke.ch was an active site. As it is, it's pretty easy to make a case for "well if he's not using it, and it's our trademark, we should have it"
What's the worst that's going to happen to them? The USPTO will revoke the patents? Big deal.
I'm looking at the article, which states that until last year the Navy had a license with Lotus for competing products.
I am then assuming that they dropped Lotus and switched to Microsoft... a move that undoubtedly used hundreds of thousands (if not more) tax dollars for re-training employees. Now they're possibly looking at switching again. How much is that going to cost me?
Here's a suggestion: evaluate a product before you buy it.
I just called CI Host to have them cancel one of my accounts, took 4 tries to get through but the lady was polite. She informed me their accounts database is down and that to cancel my account, I needed to fax them and they will do it once their system is back up.
The problems never end...
I am one of those who has a couple domains hosted with CI Host. I also understand that crashes happen. If things had crashed, they'd admitted that things crashed, and then fixed it, I'd be satisfied. But their system crashed, they were totally unreachable, and it took them over a week to have my sites' DNS working correctly. A week of downtime is what is unacceptable.
What started this whole mess was some "upgrades" that included new IP assignments for (as I understand it) all domains. My domains were working correctly for a day or two on the new IPs. My domains hosted there are now resolving... to the OLD IPs... and then nothing works. Lets hope they can get the new DNS correct. As said before, after 3 days of a non-functional web presence, it's not a lot of fun counting up the lost $$$
Last time I checked, Lycos and HotBot were tightly partnered. Adding Altavista to the mix could be interesting, since I see Altavista and HotBot's search functionality essentially the same, and in fact I would guess they view each other as competitors...
This is an interesting followup to the recent discussion about Linux being the "official" OS of China. I wonder how Linus would feel about his little project being used in a war against him?
...as you evaluate the review and the product, that most of us reading /. are at least one step geekier than Corel's targeted user group... those without linux looking for a desktop platform.
I'm a big fan of privacy, and I believe that everyone should have privacy in most situations. However, if the company has an existing policy that company e-mail is not private and that it is company property, then it is certainly within their realm to scan it. A company is paying for its bandwidth and paying the employees for their time, if an employee is wasting bandwidth and conducting non-work affairs (excuse the pun) with the company's resources, then there is no reason why the company shouldn't be able to take action. The e-mail accounts belong to the company, not the user.
I don't understand why so many /.ers seem to have a big thing against Be. I don't want to start a flame war, but I don't understand the feelings. Remember that Be is an end-user OS, designed to compete (or complement) Windows 9x or the MacOS. It's not designed for geeks. True, us geeks like it and mess with it but it's easier to install and configure than any *nix variant. Here's what else y'all seem to be saying:
So other than the fact that it's not some flavor of *nix, what are the real arguments... or is that the only beef?
Without offending the Debian fans, I would question this choice of distributions. A few weeks ago there was a link here on slashdot to a long essay about how newbies should avoid Debian, and how the Debian community should be for advanced users who, if I remember correctly, have "mastered Slackware".
So Corel is going to take this distribution and shrink wrap it? Somehow I don't think that shrink-wrapping an admittedly complicated and difficult distribution is going to further the Linux cause.