So we are going to have these kids learn Linux and OpenOffice or maybe StarOffice or maybe KOffice and they are going to go about their daily duties with those applications...
School and learning is not supposed to be about very specific things. The goal is for you to be able to think for yourself and learn and use problem solving skills. Learning one very specific software package is NOT going to be an advantage to you later in life. Have you ever worked in an office that did not have at least 5 applications that were not "mainstream" or some oddball accounting package or invoicing system? How are people able to pick up on those? Trying different things and exploring are how people learn to learn.
When I fininshed HS in 1988 we still had typewriters and Apple IIe's. I doubt I am the only one from that time frame that has been successful in IT now.
They also gave them advice on how to get (pay for) favorable "reviews and case studies" for your products, how to leverage the FUD campaign, and how to advance your benchmarks scores. ATI will be training the marketing and PR departments on the new procedures early next week. Although the products and drivers are not actually changing, ATI believes the new changes and web site design will result in a much faster and more reliable experience for anyone with an ATI video card.
How many of those people would not have watched those shows at all if they did not have a TIVO? With my schedule and general lack of interest in television entertainment, I only watch television when I go to bed (life long habit of leaving the TV on all night). So I bascially watch nothing but reruns or whatever comes on in the 11pm-1am time frame. If I had a TIVO, I'd probably record shows from earlier in the day and watch them then and I WOULD the skip commercials until I fell a sleep. The bottom line is I would not have seen them anyway so what's the difference.
Since the FTC site is down, The Direct Marketing Association is offering a service that will take down your name, number, social security number, address, number of people living in your household, your annual income, and email address and will forward it on to the FTC database for you. They are offering this service for a limited time only for the low low price of $19.99 or two easy payments of $15.99.
I was playing that game trying to beat a score they had in some competition Mattel was running at the time. I figured out that pressing 9 and 1 or 3 and 7 at the same time would pause the game (I believe this trick was not officially known until months later). All was going well for roughly three days until my mom unplugged the console to plug the vaccuum in.
A text list of supposed files from Kazza_light_user@Kazza will not stand up in court. There is nothing that prevents/dev/random from making files with Metallica - Ride The Lightning.mp3. The fact that P2P is distributed makes it even harder to prove that the file was only from YOU. I would suspect they would have to include traceroutes, time stamped logs cross referenced to the ISP's logs, and the actual file downloaded from your computer. Again, a list of file names is not a copyright violation.
Your security concern does not make sense. On your own wi-fi network that you are securing, what happens to the packets that leave your gateway? You have no control beyond that point. You have the same lack of control over the cellular network once the packets leave your phone. What is the difference?
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At home I have an SMC Barricade SMC7004VBR and a Siemens SpeedStream SS-2604 (Not a bad deal for $25 and includes a printer port). I have also worked with a few of the Linksys and Dlink models.
Making a port forward to another machine with them is often impossible.
I have not found this to be the case. Every one I have ever used has offered configurable port forwarding, port forwarding with a trigger port option and a blanket DMZ forward all rule (ouch).
A true firewall includes things like proxy services, if only to make sure your LAN isn't going to open your network up to the world, not to mention the possible performance improvements with caching.
I agree with you that home routers do not have these abilities, but I have never expected such devices to be able to do that, specially since they cost less then $35. I use my Linux machines behind the router for those functions. Why would you want your router to do those functions anyway? The less it runs the easier it is for you to keep secure.
Why people think a $100 or even a $200 router from a retail outlet is capable of being a bastion for security I'll never know.
Again these devices cost less then $35USD, not 100 or 200. They are much better then hooking up a pc directly to the wire and way more secure then an unpatched/uncared for Windows or Linux machines running the show.
They do have easy to use setup screens and do offer quite a bit of filtering, VPN, rulesets, and forwarding options but each has something the other does not. My main issue I have with these home routers is I have not seen one that defaults to deny and I have not found one that can block outgoing requests to specific ip addresses. That is why I still keep my floppy based Freesco router that runs on my old DX2/66 around, plus I can dial in on it.
Sams club uses xx.91 for thier clearance and items that must move quickly. Thier buying agreements with companies must include some type of stock "buyback" clause as you almost never see out of season items and slow sellers often have instant manufactor rebates applied at the checkout. I guess it is up to the supplier to take the items back that did not sell or let Sams offer it a reduced price to get it out of the store to free up space.
It is hitchhiking technically and that too is illegal in VA. Slugging is looked upon much differently though. The commuter lots built on the side of I95 (many of them) by the seperate localities are designed with slugging in mind complete with signs and staging areas. It is not uncommon for local politicians to show up around election time to talk to people and give the impression that they care about transportation issues. Same with some local businesses that occasionally hand out coffee and donuts to the people waiting. During the DC sniper scare last year there was always police or VDOT crew trucks watching the action in the lots during the slugging times as many thought these would be obvious targets. On the DC end they have signed areas to accomodate the waiting cars to allow them adequate room for the system to function. The system is expanding, one of the lots in my county just expanded to over 2400 parking spaces and it is filled before 8:00am every day with people going mainly to the Pentagon but also various stops in DC. It is defineatly a unique solution to car pooling.
HAHAHA, you would think it would not be safe but thousands of people use this daily and have been for at least 20 years. I guess it would only take a few incedents to trash the whole thing though.
95% of the people are in business attire and many with full suits, dresses and brief cases. Hitchhiking for the working class I guess.
How about "dynamic ride sharing" (AKA Slugging) like in northern VA? I get to and from work using this method EVERY DAY. Slugging in brief is using specific park and ride lots where random people need a ride and random people wanting to pick up riders to use the HOV lanes meet. You wait your turn in line and get in a car. It is a very established system that has been running and morphing for years. We are having the same issues here though as the local government bodies are trying to make it a lane for the rich also or what they call "Hot Lanes", this does not really make sense though as the lanes are already well used by cars with the required 3 in their cars. For those that are not keen on riding with or picking up strangers, there are buses that pick up and drop off in most of the same park and rid lots, the VRE train system, and the DC Metro system. There really is no excuse for those that complain about the traffic on the I95/I395 regular lanes (non-HOV) as they sit in thier cars by themselves with so many other options available.
because more information is passed on by e-mail than anything else.
This method is working great for you as you have a trusted group with similar interests that exchanges information but I doubt that it makes up more volume then public places like Usenet, IRC, and WWW. I take 'reviews' from friends into consideration but I always check online also before buying just about anything of value (maybe $50 or more?).
I have an old AT&T P100 with 64 ram with 2-1GB SCSI drives running Apache, Squid (configured for proxy use and url filtering acl's), Squirrelmail, SSH (port forwarded from router), Samba, and using some PHP scripts to serve NFS shared MP3's via some PHP scripts. It actually runs pretty decent on a four person lan. The unit started at RH 7.0 but is now 7.3 with nothing connected but one rj45 cable and a power cord with nothing X. It has been averaging 120+ days between reboots with a max over 200. My fileserver is a P200 with 256MB ram also running RH7.3 but its only real purpose is Samba, IMAP, and Fetchmail. Sustained file xfers with Samba to a W2K machine can do about just over 5MB/sec which is not bad for my DMA33 controllers. If you do not need to sit at a machine and use a GUI, you can easily get by with very old hardware.
Yeah it would be nice with a bigger drive. So would a LCD monitor, a 128MB 3D video card, 3 piece subwoofer, 512DDR memory, a faster processor, firewire, 10K rpm drives. Of course it would no longer be a $199 computer. As with all computer pricing, there is a price to performance factor. The difference between bottom of the barrel PC ($199) and a decent performer $300-400) is not much but still $100-200 more or 2x the price. $199 is still a very decent price for a full computer.
A drive that size would not matter in a small office environment either, where all data (in theory) would be held on a server, not on the machine itself.
Not just small offices either. Our laptops and desktops have a minimum of 20GB drives and some are as large as 60GB. The average user has less then 2.5GB total including our non space optimized W2K installs. The most I have ever seen was 5GB from a user that stored backup.pst files from our Exchange servers locally.
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You seem to really care about not using wood but did not care enough to look at old houses made of wood. There are probably almost 100 million structures in the US based on wood and many are well over 50 years old (my moms house and others in the neighborhood are almost 100 years old). I called troll because of your baseless claims of termites, decay, and crumbing are no where near what you think they are. In certain parts of the country like Hawaii and southern Louisiana they have issues with termites and decay and have to take extra precautions but the rest of the country has to spend very little extra to maintain a wood framed structure over any other material. There are compromises that can be made when choosing products but wood 2x4's, sheetrock walls, and plywood roof will last far more then your 30 year figure with no effort on your part. Something like slate shingles would be a nice addition but extrememly expensive, paying $2500 every 30 or so years for new asphalt shingles is a very good alternative.
About 3 years ago in Northern VA I saw a Honda with a license plate that said "AOL 50" with a AOL bracket around it. A quick check of the VA DMV plate selector shows that it is available again but "AOL 80" is taken, HAHAHAHA. I tried "ME TOO" but it's taken also. If you truely have no social life and you're quick you can probably get lifetime moderator by grabbing "VA LINX"
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I assume your trolling but I'll bite.
for some reason people make houses out of wood in this country
Huh? What elese is there? Even a "brick" house is only a brick exterior house. It still has wood as studs and as the floors and joists. Termites live and nest in the ground. They tunnel into wood that is accessible close to the ground and spread from there. If your house has ANY wood products near the ground level (inside or out) you are at risk. That concrete foundation and brick exterior is a minor inconvienence but does not stop them.
[beep-beep] ye ha ge da ah could you da [click] do a yeh za [click][beep-beep]
That's about how our Nextel 2 way works. Eventually you can piece together a response of "screw the two way dude, call my number directly". The phone part of it works pretty good.
No, but you can create a printer on any Linux or Windows workstation that prints PS to a remote computer running GS that can convert the file to PDF for you (or any output that GS supports) and place it in thier home directory, email it back to them, place it on a web server for pickup etc... Instant document conversion and archiving of "printed" documents for one person or an entire office. If this printer is marked as the default in Windows, you can highlight a bunch of files, right click and select print. A poor mans batch conversion but it works well.
I use this at home and in an office environment at work. I also added jpeg and tiff "printers" in Samba also (gs -sDEVICE=tiffg4 -r100x100 for tiff, gs -sDEVICE=jpeg -r300x300 for jpeg)
See here and here if your interested, you can expand and add to this to suit your needs. I've found some good uses of this with Google.
I've had different results. This is a very specific case but still worth mentioning.
At work I was trying to burn a cd from a directory on a file server that contained about 33k small files for a total of about 1.2GB uncompressed. I needed to compress them for the 700MB cd. Bottom line was Winzip 8.0 would hang with long delays when attempting to list and compress the files in the directory, maybe I did not wait long enough but I finally gave up after about 10 minutes. WinRAR 3.11 had no delays and worked fine. When the file was done, Winzip would take over 3 minutes just to show what files were contained in the zip file. I did not try extracting it with Winzip.
But D&M is obviously hoping to get friendlier with the media companies
Under what motivation though? The media companies are not the ones buying the product, consumers are. Unless they are looking to catch a distribution deal with a cable company this does not make sense. The only other thing I can think of is they were offered some type of cross promotion deal or advertising space, in that case I do not think they would get as much a benefit for the required sacrifice as any DVR awareness campaign would benefit all DVR makers and not just them.
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So we are going to have these kids learn Linux and OpenOffice or maybe StarOffice or maybe KOffice and they are going to go about their daily duties with those applications...
School and learning is not supposed to be about very specific things. The goal is for you to be able to think for yourself and learn and use problem solving skills. Learning one very specific software package is NOT going to be an advantage to you later in life. Have you ever worked in an office that did not have at least 5 applications that were not "mainstream" or some oddball accounting package or invoicing system? How are people able to pick up on those? Trying different things and exploring are how people learn to learn.
When I fininshed HS in 1988 we still had typewriters and Apple IIe's. I doubt I am the only one from that time frame that has been successful in IT now.
They also gave them advice on how to get (pay for) favorable "reviews and case studies" for your products, how to leverage the FUD campaign, and how to advance your benchmarks scores. ATI will be training the marketing and PR departments on the new procedures early next week. Although the products and drivers are not actually changing, ATI believes the new changes and web site design will result in a much faster and more reliable experience for anyone with an ATI video card.
How many of those people would not have watched those shows at all if they did not have a TIVO? With my schedule and general lack of interest in television entertainment, I only watch television when I go to bed (life long habit of leaving the TV on all night). So I bascially watch nothing but reruns or whatever comes on in the 11pm-1am time frame. If I had a TIVO, I'd probably record shows from earlier in the day and watch them then and I WOULD the skip commercials until I fell a sleep. The bottom line is I would not have seen them anyway so what's the difference.
Since the FTC site is down, The Direct Marketing Association is offering a service that will take down your name, number, social security number, address, number of people living in your household, your annual income, and email address and will forward it on to the FTC database for you. They are offering this service for a limited time only for the low low price of $19.99 or two easy payments of $15.99.
Yes, I know /. is slanted.
What makes you a third party? Are you participating from a different dimension where you are not really here?
I was playing that game trying to beat a score they had in some competition Mattel was running at the time. I figured out that pressing 9 and 1 or 3 and 7 at the same time would pause the game (I believe this trick was not officially known until months later). All was going well for roughly three days until my mom unplugged the console to plug the vaccuum in.
A text list of supposed files from Kazza_light_user@Kazza will not stand up in court. There is nothing that prevents /dev/random from making files with Metallica - Ride The Lightning.mp3. The fact that P2P is distributed makes it even harder to prove that the file was only from YOU. I would suspect they would have to include traceroutes, time stamped logs cross referenced to the ISP's logs, and the actual file downloaded from your computer. Again, a list of file names is not a copyright violation.
Your security concern does not make sense. On your own wi-fi network that you are securing, what happens to the packets that leave your gateway? You have no control beyond that point. You have the same lack of control over the cellular network once the packets leave your phone. What is the difference?
At home I have an SMC Barricade SMC7004VBR and a Siemens SpeedStream SS-2604 (Not a bad deal for $25 and includes a printer port). I have also worked with a few of the Linksys and Dlink models.
Making a port forward to another machine with them is often impossible.
I have not found this to be the case. Every one I have ever used has offered configurable port forwarding, port forwarding with a trigger port option and a blanket DMZ forward all rule (ouch).
A true firewall includes things like proxy services, if only to make sure your LAN isn't going to open your network up to the world, not to mention the possible performance improvements with caching.
I agree with you that home routers do not have these abilities, but I have never expected such devices to be able to do that, specially since they cost less then $35. I use my Linux machines behind the router for those functions. Why would you want your router to do those functions anyway? The less it runs the easier it is for you to keep secure.
Why people think a $100 or even a $200 router from a retail outlet is capable of being a bastion for security I'll never know.
Again these devices cost less then $35USD, not 100 or 200. They are much better then hooking up a pc directly to the wire and way more secure then an unpatched/uncared for Windows or Linux machines running the show.
They do have easy to use setup screens and do offer quite a bit of filtering, VPN, rulesets, and forwarding options but each has something the other does not. My main issue I have with these home routers is I have not seen one that defaults to deny and I have not found one that can block outgoing requests to specific ip addresses. That is why I still keep my floppy based Freesco router that runs on my old DX2/66 around, plus I can dial in on it.
Sams club uses xx.91 for thier clearance and items that must move quickly. Thier buying agreements with companies must include some type of stock "buyback" clause as you almost never see out of season items and slow sellers often have instant manufactor rebates applied at the checkout. I guess it is up to the supplier to take the items back that did not sell or let Sams offer it a reduced price to get it out of the store to free up space.
It is hitchhiking technically and that too is illegal in VA. Slugging is looked upon much differently though. The commuter lots built on the side of I95 (many of them) by the seperate localities are designed with slugging in mind complete with signs and staging areas. It is not uncommon for local politicians to show up around election time to talk to people and give the impression that they care about transportation issues. Same with some local businesses that occasionally hand out coffee and donuts to the people waiting. During the DC sniper scare last year there was always police or VDOT crew trucks watching the action in the lots during the slugging times as many thought these would be obvious targets. On the DC end they have signed areas to accomodate the waiting cars to allow them adequate room for the system to function. The system is expanding, one of the lots in my county just expanded to over 2400 parking spaces and it is filled before 8:00am every day with people going mainly to the Pentagon but also various stops in DC. It is defineatly a unique solution to car pooling.
HAHAHA, you would think it would not be safe but thousands of people use this daily and have been for at least 20 years. I guess it would only take a few incedents to trash the whole thing though.
95% of the people are in business attire and many with full suits, dresses and brief cases. Hitchhiking for the working class I guess.
How about "dynamic ride sharing" (AKA Slugging) like in northern VA? I get to and from work using this method EVERY DAY. Slugging in brief is using specific park and ride lots where random people need a ride and random people wanting to pick up riders to use the HOV lanes meet. You wait your turn in line and get in a car. It is a very established system that has been running and morphing for years. We are having the same issues here though as the local government bodies are trying to make it a lane for the rich also or what they call "Hot Lanes", this does not really make sense though as the lanes are already well used by cars with the required 3 in their cars. For those that are not keen on riding with or picking up strangers, there are buses that pick up and drop off in most of the same park and rid lots, the VRE train system, and the DC Metro system. There really is no excuse for those that complain about the traffic on the I95/I395 regular lanes (non-HOV) as they sit in thier cars by themselves with so many other options available.
because more information is passed on by e-mail than anything else.
This method is working great for you as you have a trusted group with similar interests that exchanges information but I doubt that it makes up more volume then public places like Usenet, IRC, and WWW. I take 'reviews' from friends into consideration but I always check online also before buying just about anything of value (maybe $50 or more?).
I have an old AT&T P100 with 64 ram with 2-1GB SCSI drives running Apache, Squid (configured for proxy use and url filtering acl's), Squirrelmail, SSH (port forwarded from router), Samba, and using some PHP scripts to serve NFS shared MP3's via some PHP scripts. It actually runs pretty decent on a four person lan. The unit started at RH 7.0 but is now 7.3 with nothing connected but one rj45 cable and a power cord with nothing X. It has been averaging 120+ days between reboots with a max over 200. My fileserver is a P200 with 256MB ram also running RH7.3 but its only real purpose is Samba, IMAP, and Fetchmail. Sustained file xfers with Samba to a W2K machine can do about just over 5MB/sec which is not bad for my DMA33 controllers. If you do not need to sit at a machine and use a GUI, you can easily get by with very old hardware.
Yeah it would be nice with a bigger drive. So would a LCD monitor, a 128MB 3D video card, 3 piece subwoofer, 512DDR memory, a faster processor, firewire, 10K rpm drives. Of course it would no longer be a $199 computer. As with all computer pricing, there is a price to performance factor. The difference between bottom of the barrel PC ($199) and a decent performer $300-400) is not much but still $100-200 more or 2x the price. $199 is still a very decent price for a full computer.
A drive that size would not matter in a small office environment either, where all data (in theory) would be held on a server, not on the machine itself.
Not just small offices either. Our laptops and desktops have a minimum of 20GB drives and some are as large as 60GB. The average user has less then 2.5GB total including our non space optimized W2K installs. The most I have ever seen was 5GB from a user that stored backup.pst files from our Exchange servers locally.
You seem to really care about not using wood but did not care enough to look at old houses made of wood. There are probably almost 100 million structures in the US based on wood and many are well over 50 years old (my moms house and others in the neighborhood are almost 100 years old). I called troll because of your baseless claims of termites, decay, and crumbing are no where near what you think they are. In certain parts of the country like Hawaii and southern Louisiana they have issues with termites and decay and have to take extra precautions but the rest of the country has to spend very little extra to maintain a wood framed structure over any other material. There are compromises that can be made when choosing products but wood 2x4's, sheetrock walls, and plywood roof will last far more then your 30 year figure with no effort on your part. Something like slate shingles would be a nice addition but extrememly expensive, paying $2500 every 30 or so years for new asphalt shingles is a very good alternative.
About 3 years ago in Northern VA I saw a Honda with a license plate that said "AOL 50" with a AOL bracket around it. A quick check of the VA DMV plate selector shows that it is available again but "AOL 80" is taken, HAHAHAHA. I tried "ME TOO" but it's taken also. If you truely have no social life and you're quick you can probably get lifetime moderator by grabbing "VA LINX"
I assume your trolling but I'll bite.
for some reason people make houses out of wood in this country
Huh? What elese is there? Even a "brick" house is only a brick exterior house. It still has wood as studs and as the floors and joists. Termites live and nest in the ground. They tunnel into wood that is accessible close to the ground and spread from there. If your house has ANY wood products near the ground level (inside or out) you are at risk. That concrete foundation and brick exterior is a minor inconvienence but does not stop them.
[beep-beep] ye ha ge da ah could you da [click] do a yeh za [click][beep-beep]
That's about how our Nextel 2 way works. Eventually you can piece together a response of "screw the two way dude, call my number directly". The phone part of it works pretty good.
No, but you can create a printer on any Linux or Windows workstation that prints PS to a remote computer running GS that can convert the file to PDF for you (or any output that GS supports) and place it in thier home directory, email it back to them, place it on a web server for pickup etc... Instant document conversion and archiving of "printed" documents for one person or an entire office. If this printer is marked as the default in Windows, you can highlight a bunch of files, right click and select print. A poor mans batch conversion but it works well.
I use this at home and in an office environment at work. I also added jpeg and tiff "printers" in Samba also (gs -sDEVICE=tiffg4 -r100x100 for tiff, gs -sDEVICE=jpeg -r300x300 for jpeg)
See here and here if your interested, you can expand and add to this to suit your needs. I've found some good uses of this with Google.
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I've had different results. This is a very specific case but still worth mentioning.
At work I was trying to burn a cd from a directory on a file server that contained about 33k small files for a total of about 1.2GB uncompressed. I needed to compress them for the 700MB cd.
Bottom line was Winzip 8.0 would hang with long delays when attempting to list and compress the files in the directory, maybe I did not wait long enough but I finally gave up after about 10 minutes. WinRAR 3.11 had no delays and worked fine. When the file was done, Winzip would take over 3 minutes just to show what files were contained in the zip file. I did not try extracting it with Winzip.
But D&M is obviously hoping to get friendlier with the media companies
Under what motivation though? The media companies are not the ones buying the product, consumers are. Unless they are looking to catch a distribution deal with a cable company this does not make sense. The only other thing I can think of is they were offered some type of cross promotion deal or advertising space, in that case I do not think they would get as much a benefit for the required sacrifice as any DVR awareness campaign would benefit all DVR makers and not just them.