If the root were completely open, then they would just squabble over who has the trademark rights for gTLDs rather than second level domains. You're only substituting one limited resource for another...
Damn it, I'd be happy if they would just release Season 2 on DVD region 1!
I have Season 1, but it didn't really get good until 2+ (I have about half of season 3 on home-made CDs; 320x480 MPEG-2 at 1.9MB/s actually looks pretty good)
Actually, one of the problems is that it is indeed "Joe General Public" who's running many of these servers. They do a full install of NT or W2K on their home or office PCs, or got their machine with the full OS pre-installed, and don't realize that IIS is included and running.
Who buys a new PC with an OEM version of NT or 2k Server preinstalled? Last I checked, IIS wasn't even available for Workstation/Professional.
Oh yeah, and PWS (personal web server) doesn't use the index server so Code Red can't hit it.
ahde wants to install Gnome without having to deal with "dependency hell." My suggestion (phrased glibly in my original post, admittedly) is to switch to a distribution that would allow him to do exactly that. I'm sorry you don't consider that constructive advice.
Yes that's right, that's why a Linux emulation layer is a key feature in all of the Free Software *BSD's and a rapidly increasing number of commercial Unices. AIX is putting its future on having Linux emulation.
That's because Linux developers don't know how to write proper code. Hear me out -- this isn't meant as a troll.
Anything written for *BSD or most other UNIX systems are written with the idea that they will be compiled on pretty much anything. So almost any code you find on *BSD (other than kernel code), you will be able to compile and run on Linux with no problem.
However, a lot of Linux programs (add-on packages; the GNU base is relatively portable) are written with a much narrower view of the world. They assume that you're running glibc, or that you have Linux-specific IOCTLs. Whether this is due to arrogance or simply a lower skill level I cannot say. It may simply be that many newbie programmers don't know any better.
Notice I did not say all Linux software suffers from this problem. There are more than a few talented developers out there, however there signal-to-noise ratio makes them hard to find. One of the reasons that FreeBSD has a Linux compatibility layer is that there is a lot of Linux-centric code floating around that hasn't been ported yet. The other is of course closed-source software.
Unix: Where/sbin/init is Job 1
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Yep, Stargate is an awesome show! For those who have seen the movie, it's a bit more character and plot oriented. I recently bought Season 1 on DVD (saw it on the official website -- they said it would be available shortly, so I hopped over to dvdplanet.com and they aready had it in stock for almost $30 less:)
Just a warning, season 1 was okay, but it didn't really get good until season 2.
Too bad Emmerich is unhappy with the direction they took the story in the series. Other than a few slip-ups with the dialing system they've done a pretty good job of keeping the universe consistent.
So how does my machine know what name servers to use when I type opennic:? Or icann:? What if opennic changes their DNS servers? What if I want to start my own alternative DNS? What if I name it alternic too?
You're adding another level of indirection, but you still have to have a master authoritative list somewhere or you wouldn't know which DNS servers to use. You can't make DNS fully dynamic -- that would defeat the purpose of having it in the first place.
I DARE someone to sniff my IR communications from hundreds of yards...
Ok, no problem. The original discussion about this (almost a month ago!) touched on IR devices as well. All you need is a line of sight to the beam. Once you have that you can send another IR beam through it (won't affect the communications because the frequency is different) and then sniff by detecting shifts in the interference patterns. Not quite as trivial as RF but certainly possible. Just a couple tiny holes in the wall and you're all set...
What are you defining as the "younger generation"? I'm only 19 now and I DID grow up using DOS, text-based interfaces, LangWin (a text-based windowing system for BASIC), and the like... Perhaps younger people who started using computers later may have started out on GUIs but I can definately remember when Windows 3.0 was nothing more than a novelty toy.
Palm Pilot + HotSync(TM) Cable + Cisco DB9 Adapter
Grab a little program called ptelnet and you're all set. It can be a bit painful but you should only need the serial cable for when something is totally hosed and you just need to get IP up and running again.
Damn it, why does previewing always forget my password and post anonymously!!!
Not that I consider it to be a great text editor or any sort of authority in the matter, but the MS Visual Studio editor uses 4-space tab stops by default.
And though I can't remember the name, I swear back in my DOS/DJGPP days I used a text editor that defaulted to 6-space tabs. There are also (broken, IMHO) editors which will convert ALL tabs to spaces when saving.
Sharing C code with people who use editors like these is difficult enough; I can't imagine working with them in a language where indentation is critical.
Seriously, who do they think they're kidding here? Slashdotters WILL notice that people like YOU have NO IDEA what they're talking about. They'll read other posts by people who actually bothered READING the ARTICLE instead of posting KNEE-JERK reactions to the summary.
Um, well about the "emulation" comment, I feel I should point out that FreeBSD's Linux compatibility layer is *NOT* emulation. It remaps the system calls to BSD equivalents, so there is little or no performance loss. In some cases, I've seen Linux apps run FASTER on a BSD box...
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Wow, I think this is the first time a goatse.cx link has ever been modded *UP*
This is a sure sign of the apocalypse...
No, Plutocracy.
Government by a cartoon dog?
I don't think he's really apologizing to the people for astroturfing per se, it's more of an apology to the stockholders that he got caught.
If the root were completely open, then they would just squabble over who has the trademark rights for gTLDs rather than second level domains. You're only substituting one limited resource for another...
Season 4?!?!?!
Damn it, I'd be happy if they would just release Season 2 on DVD region 1!
I have Season 1, but it didn't really get good until 2+ (I have about half of season 3 on home-made CDs; 320x480 MPEG-2 at 1.9MB/s actually looks pretty good)
Actually, one of the problems is that it is indeed "Joe General Public" who's running many of these servers. They do a full install of NT or W2K on their home or office PCs, or got their machine with the full OS pre-installed, and don't realize that IIS is included and running.
Who buys a new PC with an OEM version of NT or 2k Server preinstalled? Last I checked, IIS wasn't even available for Workstation/Professional.
Oh yeah, and PWS (personal web server) doesn't use the index server so Code Red can't hit it.
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You forgot your closing quote... My VSML (voice synthesis markup language) parser just sat there and said nothing.
That's an interesting question.
What if the "circumvention device" existed prior to the "encryption" being invented?
Oh say, maybe every newsreader ever written including ROT-13...
There's only one way to resolve this...
MORTAL KOMBAT!!!!
ahde wants to install Gnome without having to deal with "dependency hell." My suggestion (phrased glibly in my original post, admittedly) is to switch to a distribution that would allow him to do exactly that. I'm sorry you don't consider that constructive advice.
Like the FreeBSD distribution?
Sorry, couldn't resist! :)>/p>
Yes that's right, that's why a Linux emulation layer is a key feature in all of the Free Software *BSD's and a rapidly increasing number of commercial Unices. AIX is putting its future on having Linux emulation.
That's because Linux developers don't know how to write proper code. Hear me out -- this isn't meant as a troll.
Anything written for *BSD or most other UNIX systems are written with the idea that they will be compiled on pretty much anything. So almost any code you find on *BSD (other than kernel code), you will be able to compile and run on Linux with no problem.
However, a lot of Linux programs (add-on packages; the GNU base is relatively portable) are written with a much narrower view of the world. They assume that you're running glibc, or that you have Linux-specific IOCTLs. Whether this is due to arrogance or simply a lower skill level I cannot say. It may simply be that many newbie programmers don't know any better.
Notice I did not say all Linux software suffers from this problem. There are more than a few talented developers out there, however there signal-to-noise ratio makes them hard to find. One of the reasons that FreeBSD has a Linux compatibility layer is that there is a lot of Linux-centric code floating around that hasn't been ported yet. The other is of course closed-source software.
Unix: Where /sbin/init is Job 1
Yep, Stargate is an awesome show! For those who have seen the movie, it's a bit more character and plot oriented. I recently bought Season 1 on DVD (saw it on the official website -- they said it would be available shortly, so I hopped over to dvdplanet.com and they aready had it in stock for almost $30 less :)
Just a warning, season 1 was okay, but it didn't really get good until season 2.
Too bad Emmerich is unhappy with the direction they took the story in the series. Other than a few slip-ups with the dialing system they've done a pretty good job of keeping the universe consistent.
Okay, but you still have to do some resolution somewhere...
opennic:http://www.somedomain.com
icann:http://www.somedomain.com
alternic:ftp://ftp.somedomain.com
So how does my machine know what name servers to use when I type opennic:? Or icann:? What if opennic changes their DNS servers? What if I want to start my own alternative DNS? What if I name it alternic too?
You're adding another level of indirection, but you still have to have a master authoritative list somewhere or you wouldn't know which DNS servers to use. You can't make DNS fully dynamic -- that would defeat the purpose of having it in the first place.
I DARE someone to sniff my IR communications from hundreds of yards...
Ok, no problem. The original discussion about this (almost a month ago!) touched on IR devices as well. All you need is a line of sight to the beam. Once you have that you can send another IR beam through it (won't affect the communications because the frequency is different) and then sniff by detecting shifts in the interference patterns. Not quite as trivial as RF but certainly possible. Just a couple tiny holes in the wall and you're all set...
I don't know... I think this is a rare occurance of a goatsex troll actually being on topic. Wow.
Stupid crackhead moderators. You WILL pay in metamod...
Haha, nothing makes you feel old like seeing people talk about DOS like it was centuries ago :)
What are you defining as the "younger generation"? I'm only 19 now and I DID grow up using DOS, text-based interfaces, LangWin (a text-based windowing system for BASIC), and the like... Perhaps younger people who started using computers later may have started out on GUIs but I can definately remember when Windows 3.0 was nothing more than a novelty toy.
Palm Pilot + HotSync(TM) Cable + Cisco DB9 Adapter
Grab a little program called ptelnet and you're all set. It can be a bit painful but you should only need the serial cable for when something is totally hosed and you just need to get IP up and running again.
Damn it, why does previewing always forget my password and post anonymously!!!
Not that I consider it to be a great text editor or any sort of authority in the matter, but the MS Visual Studio editor uses 4-space tab stops by default.
And though I can't remember the name, I swear back in my DOS/DJGPP days I used a text editor that defaulted to 6-space tabs. There are also (broken, IMHO) editors which will convert ALL tabs to spaces when saving.
Sharing C code with people who use editors like these is difficult enough; I can't imagine working with them in a language where indentation is critical.
If you're using Vim, try this:
:set listchars=tab:
:list
That should make it pretty clear which indents are tabs and which are spaces :)
(In case some browsers mangle the extended characters, I'm using the vt100 double-right-arrow and centered dot; but you can pick anything you like :)
Let's see if the rule holds up:
I'll bet nobody can fit a webserver written in Java in a 4-line Slashdot sig.
Good luck! ;)
Unix: Where /sbin/init is Job 1
In the immortal words of an Anonymous Coward: "Emacs is a nice OS - but it lacks a good text editor. That's why I am using Vim."
Seriously, who do they think they're kidding here? Slashdotters WILL notice that people like YOU have NO IDEA what they're talking about. They'll read other posts by people who actually bothered READING the ARTICLE instead of posting KNEE-JERK reactions to the summary.
Um, well about the "emulation" comment, I feel I should point out that FreeBSD's Linux compatibility layer is *NOT* emulation. It remaps the system calls to BSD equivalents, so there is little or no performance loss. In some cases, I've seen Linux apps run FASTER on a BSD box...