The machines I have that do *real* work (web hosting, mail, squid proxy, mp3 jukebox, dhcp, dns, etc) are a pentium 233(hacked to be that way by adding a resistor to the motherboard) and a Pentium 133. The former has 128MB of ram, the latter a mere 48 (and he's doing a lot of embedded perl stuff along with running an IRC server and mail server, and is also an IPChains firewall)
Where I used to work, many of us used Linux as our desktop, and all of us used linux for the actual job (monitoring network packets, custom filters, custom network sniffing, etc)
In addition to those desktops, we used linux for test nodes (the company tests commercial firewalls and VPNS)...so at least 130 linux boxes there, probably more.
The company also used linux/freebsd for much of its network infrastructure (pop, smtp, dhcp, dns, etc). This was mixed in with microsoft exchange and NT/2000 file/print servers.
actually, what they did to lyrics.ch gets them less money. If you hear a song, and want to buy the CD, how do you figure out what the fucking song title is and which CD it is on without being able to somehow search on lyrics????
In its original form, Lyrics.ch caused me to buy more music than I ever had before. Not even Napster gets me that motivated to go out and buy CD's (although the RIAA makes it very hard to get motivated about being overcharged, but I digress). It was very easy for me to search for a song from over 15 years ago and find out what it was. With that knowledge I would look for the best priced CD containing that song.
And that is the point the idiots totally fail to see, (and sadly so do many of those posting here at slashdot).
That's exactly what I used to use the lyrichs server for. I would hear some words to a song, not know what it was, then go look it up so I could purchase the CD.
This was a unique search engine. There really was no other way to figure out a song's title and artist based on what you heard. What is wrong with HFA? Are they REALLY this stupid, thinking the main use of this site was so that people could somehow rip-off the artists? I'm sure any cover band who wants to play a song would buy the sheet music, with lyrics, if they needed to. But you can't do what lyrics.ch did if your only resource is to buy sheet music. You can't search lyrics on paper to figure out a songname, just like you can't go to a library and read EVERY BOOK just to figure out where a certain passage was quoted.
..that @home didn't gobble up our local broadband ISP, planetcable when the cable company switched over to comcast.
The service isn't always the most stable (more crappy line to my house related than anything, I think), but I like the way they run the business, allowing me to do as I please with the bandwidth they provide. Having your own mail server and web server to do anything you want with is wonderful.
If collegs are allowed to get other domain names, then the next domain name I want is neema.edu.
That's a good point. Actually it's a great point for very damned business out there. You only need ONE damned domain name. All your other machines, or whatever, can be pieces of that. Drexel should be happy they have an.edu. I certainly wouldn't want businesses being able to grab those!
Similarly, if I ever register my own domain, I certainly wouldn't want to be a.com. Look at PSU:
http://www.linuxdoc.org should get you started. A VERY good book on the subject, geared towards I want to do "X", but I don't know the command, is "Linux Essential Reference" by Ed Petron, published by New Riders.
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I couldn't believe it. It used the same stuff that (tedit?) used on my old TRS-80 color computer! Obviously the coco took its ideas (and code?) from vi, but it was really cool and nostalgic to actually know what I was doing with the editor in linux:)
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Actually, why would EITHER of them even friggin' need it???
There are ways to create FTP 'filesystems' (OS/2 was doing it in 1994ish?) Failing that, you can easily write an external script and bind it to a macro in the editor.
Too many unnecessary features that are better taken care of elsewhere. Oh well.
Geez...what inspires you to 'know' so much about star trek time lines? It's ENTERTAINMENT. Get over it. How many of those Star Trek books you are so into were written by Gene anyway? That's right. Now shut up and go pester somebody else with your vast, superior trekkie knowledge, nerdboy.
Looks like he wasn't so innocent after all, and justice was served.
Now...why do legal people send stuff in microsoft-mangled RTF? They made that 'open' standard to share documents, and then they use it in a nonstandard way. dammit.
And on many of my exams, I had to, by hand, write out all the equations and solve them for problems that you would normally use a computer for (Finite Element Data for a Wing Structure for example).
Nowadays, you could use a palm pilot with most of your tools pre-programmed. I wonder what engineering schools are like these days? When I went, all we had was a calculator and paper. Exams that had only *4* problems, taking 2-1/2 hours! Gotta love when you make a dumb little transposing mistake in your formulas then! Oh the joys of discovering you made a dumb mistake 3/4 of the way into solving one of those beasts! Man how I wish we had easy access to symbolic manipulators back then!
Nowadays, I never carry cash around. Before, I always used cash and ended up spending a lot more money, just because I happened to have it on me. With Debit/Credit, you pay exactly what the goods cost. With cash, you need to take out more than is necessary to cover the cost, and lets not forget the tons of change that (for me at least) ends up just gathering dust all over my apartment and in my car.
When McDonalds starts accepting credit/debit, I think we'll pretty much be there. I eat at McD's maybe twice a year, so it's no big deal to me anyway.
Fast food and race registrations (where I didn't pre-register) are the only places I ever use cash any more. Even my small-town pizza joint accepts credit now. Personally I don't even own a credit card. Just a checking account card with a mastercard logo on it.
Perhaps people should be required to have a license to use a computer, just as they are required to have a license to operate a motor vehicle.
It is the 'information superhighway' after all.
I've often thought about this, and think it is an awesome solution if it could be enforced. People would actually have to understand the damned tool they are using, and might *gasp* use it properly for a change.
By the time the thing hits, me, it has come from some idiot whose machine is infected. This doesn't stop their machine, nor does it tarpit that machine.
My own machine is not vulnerable, so it's already not spreading the crap. So what good would installing this thing really do?
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I dunno.
The machines I have that do *real* work (web hosting, mail, squid proxy, mp3 jukebox, dhcp, dns, etc) are a pentium 233(hacked to be that way by adding a resistor to the motherboard) and a Pentium 133. The former has 128MB of ram, the latter a mere 48 (and he's doing a lot of embedded perl stuff along with running an IRC server and mail server, and is also an IPChains firewall)
Where I used to work, many of us used Linux as our desktop, and all of us used linux for the actual job (monitoring network packets, custom filters, custom network sniffing, etc)
In addition to those desktops, we used linux for test nodes (the company tests commercial firewalls and VPNS)...so at least 130 linux boxes there, probably more.
The company also used linux/freebsd for much of its network infrastructure (pop, smtp, dhcp, dns, etc). This was mixed in with microsoft exchange and NT/2000 file/print servers.
actually, what they did to lyrics.ch gets them less money. If you hear a song, and want to buy the CD, how do you figure out what the fucking song title is and which CD it is on without being able to somehow search on lyrics????
Think before you post next time.
And that is the point the idiots totally fail to see, (and sadly so do many of those posting here at slashdot).
That's exactly what I used to use the lyrichs server for. I would hear some words to a song, not know what it was, then go look it up so I could purchase the CD.
This was a unique search engine. There really was no other way to figure out a song's title and artist based on what you heard. What is wrong with HFA? Are they REALLY this stupid, thinking the main use of this site was so that people could somehow rip-off the artists? I'm sure any cover band who wants to play a song would buy the sheet music, with lyrics, if they needed to. But you can't do what lyrics.ch did if your only resource is to buy sheet music. You can't search lyrics on paper to figure out a songname, just like you can't go to a library and read EVERY BOOK just to figure out where a certain passage was quoted.
Since some folks are having problems getting to the site, here are some addresses:
clientrelations@harryfox.com
licensing@harryfox.com
index@harryfox.com
pr@nmpa.org
What if you hear a song on the radio, want to buy the album, but don't know the artist or song name. Ever think of that?
That was the reason I've always used lyrics.ch. I don't think your method will work at all for finding a song based on the lyrics within it.
..that @home didn't gobble up our local broadband ISP, planetcable when the cable company switched over to comcast.
The service isn't always the most stable (more crappy line to my house related than anything, I think), but I like the way they run the business, allowing me to do as I please with the bandwidth they provide. Having your own mail server and web server to do anything you want with is wonderful.
That's a good point. Actually it's a great point for very damned business out there. You only need ONE damned domain name. All your other machines, or whatever, can be pieces of that. Drexel should be happy they have an
Similarly, if I ever register my own domain, I certainly wouldn't want to be a
domain is psu.edu
www.psu.edu
red.crayola.psu.edu
green.crayola.psu.edu
.
.
ripsaw.otc.psu.edu
buzzsaw.otc.psu.edu
hacksaw.otc.psu.edu
.
.
*.engr.psu.edu
*.libraries.psu.edu
*.lias.psu.edu
psuvm.psu.edu (yeah, baby!)
etc.
http://www.linuxdoc.org
should get you started. A VERY good book on the subject, geared towards I want to do "X", but I don't know the command, is "Linux Essential Reference" by Ed Petron, published by New Riders.
I couldn't believe it. It used the same stuff that (tedit?) used on my old TRS-80 color computer! Obviously the coco took its ideas (and code?) from vi, but it was really cool and nostalgic to actually know what I was doing with the editor in linux :)
Actually, why would EITHER of them even friggin' need it???
There are ways to create FTP 'filesystems' (OS/2 was doing it in 1994ish?) Failing that, you can easily write an external script and bind it to a macro in the editor.
Too many unnecessary features that are better taken care of elsewhere. Oh well.
...are total nerds with no life.
Geez...what inspires you to 'know' so much about star trek time lines? It's ENTERTAINMENT. Get over it. How many of those Star Trek books you are so into were written by Gene anyway? That's right. Now shut up and go pester somebody else with your vast, superior trekkie knowledge, nerdboy.
I'll mod myself: -1 rude, anti-nerd
Now...why do legal people send stuff in microsoft-mangled RTF? They made that 'open' standard to share documents, and then they use it in a nonstandard way. dammit.
Yeah, really,
And on many of my exams, I had to, by hand, write out all the equations and solve them for problems that you would normally use a computer for (Finite Element Data for a Wing Structure for example).
Nowadays, you could use a palm pilot with most of your tools pre-programmed. I wonder what engineering schools are like these days? When I went, all we had was a calculator and paper. Exams that had only *4* problems, taking 2-1/2 hours! Gotta love when you make a dumb little transposing mistake in your formulas then! Oh the joys of discovering you made a dumb mistake 3/4 of the way into solving one of those beasts! Man how I wish we had easy access to symbolic manipulators back then!
I remember signing up to be notified when my name hit the top of the list to be able to purchase one of these.
I never heard anything.
You have to use a computer and electronic communication to use them. Last I checked, computers, phonelines, and ISP service cost significant money.
Nowadays, I never carry cash around. Before, I always used cash and ended up spending a lot more money, just because I happened to have it on me. With Debit/Credit, you pay exactly what the goods cost. With cash, you need to take out more than is necessary to cover the cost, and lets not forget the tons of change that (for me at least) ends up just gathering dust all over my apartment and in my car.
Good point. I forgot about strip clubs...I guess I haven't been to one in longer than I thought :)
Hey, us 'higher' class folks need to unwind every now and then too.
When McDonalds starts accepting credit/debit, I think we'll pretty much be there. I eat at McD's maybe twice a year, so it's no big deal to me anyway.
Fast food and race registrations (where I didn't pre-register) are the only places I ever use cash any more. Even my small-town pizza joint accepts credit now. Personally I don't even own a credit card. Just a checking account card with a mastercard logo on it.
It is the 'information superhighway' after all.
I've often thought about this, and think it is an awesome solution if it could be enforced. People would actually have to understand the damned tool they are using, and might *gasp* use it properly for a change.
I've been a hacker for about a month and a half now.
Damned allergies. *HACK* *COUGH* *HACK*
Deal with it.
Had?, Were? I STILL get hit by code-red infected machines on a regular basis. Hey! Look! There goes one now!
24.76.145.88 - - [21/Sep/2001:11:53:29 -0400] "GET /default.ida?XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX %u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u 9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7
801%u9090%u9090%u8190%u00c3%u0003%u8b00%u531b%u53f f%u0078%u0000%u00=a HTTP/1.0" 404 205
I admit, I didn't read the article, but...
:)
By the time the thing hits, me, it has come from some idiot whose machine is infected. This doesn't stop their machine, nor does it tarpit that machine.
My own machine is not vulnerable, so it's already not spreading the crap. So what good would installing this thing really do?
Ok..I'll go read the article now...
Somebody mod this up! I posted, so can't :(