We had a discussion here some months ago about whether geeks are naturally inclined to believe in a deeper dimension to life and to feel a strong inner urge to hack for the truth in life. Whether or not the motive behind hacking the machine is a desire to hack one's own mind and the nature of the universe and life, this attitude seems to be more common among geeks somewhere in their twenties or thirties.
So, what do you believe? Is the Matrix just a movie? What are you looking for in life?
SuSE does have some nice features to use as a server out of the box. Firewalling and Masquerading are both fairly easy to install & don't require you to write lengthy scripts. I also approve of the default configuration of/etc/inetd.conf that disables several (risky) services that are enabled by default in other distributions. I've installed 7.0 twice so far and was amazed at the speed and ease. However, I recommend choosing Yast1 to install instead of Yast2 that tries to "do everything for you" and ends up depriving you of additional configuration options. Another adavantage of SuSE is the extensive & very up-to-data online-database at www.suse.com.
The page is still slashdotted. In the JFS for Linux-FAQ's it says "We were able to get JFS on 2.5 list of items to be merged....", however, the JFS core team wants to wait until an alpha version is ready (a beta version is excpected ro be released this month) before any real attempts to make the JFS part of the (standard) kernel are made.
Of course the licence Digital Convergence uses for CueCat is not open source. But - where is the problem with that? We've had lengthy discussions here about what should be open source and what shouldn't and the general conclusion seemed to be that there are still a number of cases where open source is not going to offer a noticeable advantage to the company pracising it. Keeping that in mind, what's so bad about developing new licence-styles that embrace as much of the open-source-idea as possible? While I don't want to imply that the term "open source" may be used lightly, I am convinced that on the long run there will (and have to) be a number of new forms of open or half-open licences. Obviously though, if we want to take part in their design we won't be able to do without some openmindedness.
I agree - the examples & statistics quoted by the article relate to drug-abuse due to stressfull working-conditions rather than to any imagined connection between drug-taking and geek-mentality. Sadly though, quite a large number of readers will be quick to take the article as an opportunity to denounce tech-culture & conclude that techies are particularly inclined to take drugs.
If you need your brain not to make money but to pursue a thirst for knowledge drugs are an entirely unsensible choice.
we all know the brain is the most erogenous zone
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Desire In Cyberspace
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Lots of terms are used in connection cyberspace, but "sexy" and "desire" are not usually among them. The human brain is known to be the most erogenous zone of our body, it it what makes us perceive a physical sensation as sensual or exciting. Encounters of any kind in cyberspace rely entirely on the mind/brain-dimension, by sending signals directly to our brain they can achieve a new/different kind of intensity. However, that is neither new nor limited to erotic encounters; we've all long known the thrill of a high-level intellectual discussion with another fascinating "mind" on the net.
While I really don't mean to join into the generall trolling of Jon Katz, this posting makes me wonder just what people who deliberately spend large amounts of time with a medium that obviously holds this intense fascination to them are supposed to do with a book that tells them about the "adventure of going online" and the "exotism of the intersection of the individual and cyberspace". I wonder whether it might really make more sense for a visitor to the community to post sociological/philosophical/whatever news that a geek is really unlikely to come up with by himself instead of telling us "new" stuff about the world we've basically chosen as ours.
They also misspelled "department": from the w00h00-departement dept. - due to the close association of the Netherlands to the French language. Also, CmdrTaco & the other/.guys would not tautologically state "department" "dept." twice. That's what I noticed first about the post as somewhat odd...
The poster, I assume, was Nohican - given away by his fondness of using "&&" in the post;)
I'd like to say: thankyou the two of you for one interesting thursday night;)
Wired says Akamai and Sandpiper were the first to "use the trick of rewriting URLs as a hook into the alternative system." That is, Akamai's technology doesn't just perform routing-optimization, it breaks the connection between domain and location and rewrites the address entirely, using any of a large number of servers for the new route. A short time later or connecting from a different machine the redirection taking place is likely to be entirely different.
Wired's article (dated August 99) states clearly Akamai and Sandpiper were the first companies to use algorithms for actual rewriting of addresses. The cofounder of Akamai, Danny Lewin wrote the algorithms as part of his thesis and mathematics and patented it.
In this entire article, there's nobody stealing copyrighted works, nobody hacking some company's software/hardware, no mention of Napster, DeCSS, CueCat, RIAA or the MPAA.
That's right, nobody is cracking anything there. The article is about the spreading of the community and its culture in a country that has recently been starting to move out of the troubles it's been having for centuries.
I read the article with great interest. There is a certain shift towards more freedom in the working-culture in the US and other parts of the world through Internet- and Open-Source-culture. During the last few months, the african economy has been recogniced to show promising signs of growth even though it is, of course still small. If it could learn from the Insights the western world has had and take up some new paradigms from the start there would no doubt be a tremendous benefit to Africa, but also to the community as a whole.
Free software is different from freely availably music because it serves the purpose of enhancing the development of more (free) software. This is not about money and not wanting to pay for something. If it's commercial you can buy it and use it for a certain, limited, purpose, if it is free it can be used in any way, it is more than just functional - and that is what people normally pay for. Free code inspires learning and evolution of abilities and insight.
"They can only hope that the hacker does not succeed and sell their data to the highest bidder" - I am sorry but that is bullshit. You cannot be a child-molester without doing someone harm, while getting unauthorized access to a network not only does not harm anyone by itself but furthermore doesn't need to involve any "bad" intentions like wanting to harm the company or making money on the data acquired in that way. Society defined illegal actions in the first place because they were automatically to the disadvantage of someone else. While society as a whole cannot easily overthrow or even rethink the term "illegal" companies who want to hire security-experts should have in mind that there is a difference there.
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We had a discussion here some months ago about whether geeks are naturally inclined to believe in a deeper dimension to life and to feel a strong inner urge to hack for the truth in life. Whether or not the motive behind hacking the machine is a desire to hack one's own mind and the nature of the universe and life, this attitude seems to be more common among geeks somewhere in their twenties or thirties.
So, what do you believe? Is the Matrix just a movie? What are you looking for in life?
SuSE does have some nice features to use as a server out of the box. Firewalling and Masquerading are both fairly easy to install & don't require you to write lengthy scripts. I also approve of the default configuration of /etc/inetd.conf that disables several (risky) services that are enabled by default in other distributions. I've installed 7.0 twice so far and was amazed at the speed and ease. However, I recommend choosing Yast1 to install instead of Yast2 that tries to "do everything for you" and ends up depriving you of additional configuration options. Another adavantage of SuSE is the extensive & very up-to-data online-database at www.suse.com.
The page is still slashdotted. In the JFS for Linux-FAQ's it says "We were able to get JFS on 2.5 list of items to be merged....", however, the JFS core team wants to wait until an alpha version is ready (a beta version is excpected ro be released this month) before any real attempts to make the JFS part of the (standard) kernel are made.
Of course the licence Digital Convergence uses for CueCat is not open source. But - where is the problem with that? We've had lengthy discussions here about what should be open source and what shouldn't and the general conclusion seemed to be that there are still a number of cases where open source is not going to offer a noticeable advantage to the company pracising it. Keeping that in mind, what's so bad about developing new licence-styles that embrace as much of the open-source-idea as possible? While I don't want to imply that the term "open source" may be used lightly, I am convinced that on the long run there will (and have to) be a number of new forms of open or half-open licences. Obviously though, if we want to take part in their design we won't be able to do without some openmindedness.
I agree - the examples & statistics quoted by the article relate to drug-abuse due to stressfull working-conditions rather than to any imagined connection between drug-taking and geek-mentality. Sadly though, quite a large number of readers will be quick to take the article as an opportunity to denounce tech-culture & conclude that techies are particularly inclined to take drugs.
If you need your brain not to make money but to pursue a thirst for knowledge drugs are an entirely unsensible choice.
Lots of terms are used in connection cyberspace, but "sexy" and "desire" are not usually among them.
The human brain is known to be the most erogenous zone of our body, it it what makes us perceive a physical sensation as sensual or exciting. Encounters of any kind in cyberspace rely entirely on the mind/brain-dimension, by sending signals directly to our brain they can achieve a new/different kind of intensity. However, that is neither new nor limited to erotic encounters; we've all long known the thrill of a high-level intellectual discussion with another fascinating "mind" on the net.
While I really don't mean to join into the generall trolling of Jon Katz, this posting makes me wonder just what people who deliberately spend large amounts of time with a medium that obviously holds this intense fascination to them are supposed to do with a book that tells them about the "adventure of going online" and the "exotism of the intersection of the individual and cyberspace". I wonder whether it might really make more sense for a visitor to the community to post sociological/philosophical/whatever news that a geek is really unlikely to come up with by himself instead of telling us "new" stuff about the world we've basically chosen as ours.
They also misspelled "department": from the w00h00-departement dept. - due to the close association of the Netherlands to the French language. Also, CmdrTaco & the other /.guys would not tautologically state "department" "dept." twice. That's what I noticed first about the post as somewhat odd...
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The poster, I assume, was Nohican - given away by his fondness of using "&&" in the post
I'd like to say: thankyou the two of you for one interesting thursday night
Wired says Akamai and Sandpiper were the first to "use the trick of rewriting URLs as a hook into the alternative system." That is, Akamai's technology doesn't just perform routing-optimization, it breaks the connection between domain and location and rewrites the address entirely, using any of a large number of servers for the new route. A short time later or connecting from a different machine the redirection taking place is likely to be entirely different.
Wired's article (dated August 99) states clearly Akamai and Sandpiper were the first companies to use algorithms for actual rewriting of addresses. The cofounder of Akamai, Danny Lewin wrote the algorithms as part of his thesis and mathematics and patented it.
In this entire article, there's nobody stealing copyrighted works, nobody hacking some company's software/hardware, no mention of Napster, DeCSS, CueCat, RIAA or the MPAA.
That's right, nobody is cracking anything there. The article is about the spreading of the community and its culture in a country that has recently been starting to move out of the troubles it's been having for centuries.
I read the article with great interest. There is a certain shift towards more freedom in the working-culture in the US and other parts of the world through Internet- and Open-Source-culture. During the last few months, the african economy has been recogniced to show promising signs of growth even though it is, of course still small. If it could learn from the Insights the western world has had and take up some new paradigms from the start there would no doubt be a tremendous benefit to Africa, but also to the community as a whole.
*sarcasm*Great, no more mails from stupid MS-users ;) Hurray, the first step to a Windoze-free world! */sarcasm*
Free software is different from freely availably music because it serves the purpose of enhancing the development of more (free) software. This is not about money and not wanting to pay for something. If it's commercial you can buy it and use it for a certain, limited, purpose, if it is free it can be used in any way, it is more than just functional - and that is what people normally pay for. Free code inspires learning and evolution of abilities and insight.
"They can only hope that the hacker does not succeed and sell their data to the highest bidder" - I am sorry but that is bullshit. You cannot be a child-molester without doing someone harm, while getting unauthorized access to a network not only does not harm anyone by itself but furthermore doesn't need to involve any "bad" intentions like wanting to harm the company or making money on the data acquired in that way. Society defined illegal actions in the first place because they were automatically to the disadvantage of someone else. While society as a whole cannot easily overthrow or even rethink the term "illegal" companies who want to hire security-experts should have in mind that there is a difference there.