Yes, that's right, I'm still labelling you a troll. I'm even more sure of it now. You make claims with no proof (or even examples) to back yourself up. Your participation in the flamewars you start serves only to lengthen the argument--not shorten it.
In particular: "would you buy a 900lb burger ? No of course you wouldn't, because it makes no sense. "
Specifically HOW doesn't it make sense? Remember that I've posited the existence of an easy way to cart the thing home AND that it won't spoil. So you've got a big slab of meat (plus some extras) for $.20. How is that a bad thing? --
"...(since Freenet will just cache it on a node right beside you, and all of your requests will be soaked up by it). "
But doesn't this then serve to identify the FreeNet node location?
Let's say there was a law passed against a certains kind of document (porn, political manifestos, whatever). Let's call such a document D. I'm the FBI looking for D. I have a suspect list already, so here's my procedure:
1) Identify the ISP of suspect S 2) Get an account with that same ISP 3) Fire up a FreeNet search for D 4) Repeat step 3 until I'm certain that D is cached on a FreeNet node nearby to me. 5) Beat down the door of S and search his hard drive for D. 6) Prosecute and repeat.
(this procedure might have to be changed depending on the definition of "nearby", but you get the idea)
Furthermore, there's another similar, potentially worse problem. Let's say D is very popular (like the Starr Report, for example). A LOT of people will be requesting it from FreeNet, so it will likely be cached on EVERY node. So the FBI doesn't even need a procedure: just port-scan at random and arrest anyone running FreeNet--if they run FreeNet they surely have the popular D.
Which leads to an EVEN WORSE situation: It doesn't really matter if there is a single popular D out there. There are many many D's. Surely one of them is illegal. Just bust every FreeNet node owner a priori--don't worry, you'll find something illegal once you do the (ex post facto) search. Can't happen? --
Yes, a (not-so-) longstanding has been broken today: Dumbest post ever. I can only assume that this is a troll. However, for those about to be sucked in:
The reason I wouldn't buy a 900lb hamburger for $.10 is not "because I'd never eat it all". It's because that's a waste. There's too much cost (in environmental terms) for the value (a couple of meals at most before it goes bad). Similarly for the movie: The cost ($7.95 + 3 years of my life) is too high for the value (a movie). As an example, what if the 900lb hamburger was guaranteed to never go bad and it was easy to store at your house? The economics start to look a little more attractive, don't they?
But big harddrives don't have a cost the same way. Given a choice between a Palm with 8MB of memory for $150 and a Palm with 400GB of memory for the same price, I'd choose the later in an instant and so would every sane person. What reason would there be to NOT do it? --
From www.ora.com: Slashdot.org book reviewer Greg Smith awards Unix Backup & Recovery a rare 10/10 rating and says it "is the first title I've ever seen that covers this territory in full detail." Read the entire review and discover why this book is essential reading for the well-prepared sysadmin.
(emphasis added)
People wonder why I complain about the lack of real journalism on Slashdot. They also wonder why I complain about the consistently (and usually undeservedly) high ratings ALL book reviews get (I've never seen anything below a 6).
Well, folks, here's the reason: Because whether Slashdot is real journalism or not, people will treat it that way. Like it or not, what Slashdot says is the perceived reality. Let's make sure perceived reality and actual reality are at least on speaking terms, shall we? --
My read of the question was "will Evolution replace Exchange?". Miguel's answer was "corba is great, gnome is great, etc etc etc, btw, Evolution allows you to replace Exchange"
My comment is only to mention a product that provides the actual drop-in replacement. --
BTW, this product is unfortunately not Open Source (yet, anyway--I have the ear of the CEO). However, it IS "open" in the traditional Unix sense: standards compliant, flexible, sciptable (command line interface), etc. --
Disclaimer: I work for the company I'm about to mention.
I see a question about "Will Evolution replace Exchange Server". After much hand-waving and exposition about how great Evolution is, the answer seems to be "no".
HOWEVER, for those of you wanting to run a MAPI-capable mail server on Linux (or Tru64 or AIX), I CAN recommend another product. MailOne produced by OpenOne (www.openone.com).
MailOne is the descendent of (and official upgrade path for) DEC MailWorks. It's a really good product--I should know, I did the Linux port. We're shipping Beta 1 this week. Check the website for more information. --
Going over the gov site, I came across the following gem: It is also well settled that a copyright holder is not by reason thereof entitled to employ the perquisites in ways that directly threaten competition.
My day job is programming. I started this job in early November and I already have the entire 250 MB source tree ported to Linux. We go to beta 1 this week. That was done all by myself with zero documentation and only one other engineer who knew even the basics of the code.
I'm not saying I'm a genius: the program mostly worked on the existing platform so it was just a matter of finding incompatibilities. My point is that each modification teaches you something and the next mod becomes even easier.
Sure it may take you a week (or more) to fix that first bug--but the 10th one will take you an hour.
But "how long it takes to learn the source code" isn't the real complaint here. If it were, people would be complaining about the bugs/missing features in the Linux kernel--this project is even harder to get up to speed on yet people do it all the time. I don't actually know why people are so down on Mozilla, but frankly it's getting a little boring. --
but I hope it isn't loading every time I start mozilla
Don't "hope". Download the source and check. If it's doing something you don't like, create a patch and submit it. Or for that matter create a patch, use it yourself and don't submit it.
Not a programmer? Submit a feature request. Create a bugreport about your claimed security flaws.
Bug reports exist but aren't being worked on? Create a sourceXchange (or similar) project request to do the bug fix.
In other words, IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT, GET OFF YOUR ASS AND HELP. --
Why has this site suddenly become SterlingDot? Either Bruce is sleeping with CmdrTaco or we're just seeing the tip of some Bruce-on-the-Internet iceberg that indicates maybe his books aren't selling so well, so why not rant and rave online (like Pournelle does). --
Presumably ticketmaster.com still doesn't LIKE deep-linking (despite being forced to accept it). So what if they implement a technical solution (of which there are many, some already mentioned here)? We still lose the feature of deep interconnectivity but I'm sure there's no legal recourse: "Hey judge! Make them let us deep link!"
Hold the phone. One of the objections to the GPL seems to be the need for a "written instrument". That is, actual paper with actual pen-marks from the licensor to the licensee. Otherwise the license is "revocable" (presumably by the licensor)
But other shrinkwrap licenses don't have this feature. So that would seem to indicate that the, for example, NT EULA is not binding for MS. So if they wanted to, they could change the license after you bought the software. How's THAT for evil? What am I missing? --
Slashdot Mirror
My second two scenarios aren't framing anyone.
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Yes, that's right, I'm still labelling you a troll. I'm even more sure of it now. You make claims with no proof (or even examples) to back yourself up. Your participation in the flamewars you start serves only to lengthen the argument--not shorten it.
In particular: "would you buy a 900lb burger ? No of course you wouldn't, because it makes no sense. "
Specifically HOW doesn't it make sense? Remember that I've posited the existence of an easy way to cart the thing home AND that it won't spoil. So you've got a big slab of meat (plus some extras) for $.20. How is that a bad thing?
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"...(since Freenet will just cache it on a node right beside you, and all of your requests will be soaked up by it). "
But doesn't this then serve to identify the FreeNet node location?
Let's say there was a law passed against a certains kind of document (porn, political manifestos, whatever). Let's call such a document D. I'm the FBI looking for D. I have a suspect list already, so here's my procedure:
1) Identify the ISP of suspect S
2) Get an account with that same ISP
3) Fire up a FreeNet search for D
4) Repeat step 3 until I'm certain that D is cached on a FreeNet node nearby to me.
5) Beat down the door of S and search his hard drive for D.
6) Prosecute and repeat.
(this procedure might have to be changed depending on the definition of "nearby", but you get the idea)
Furthermore, there's another similar, potentially worse problem. Let's say D is very popular (like the Starr Report, for example). A LOT of people will be requesting it from FreeNet, so it will likely be cached on EVERY node. So the FBI doesn't even need a procedure: just port-scan at random and arrest anyone running FreeNet--if they run FreeNet they surely have the popular D.
Which leads to an EVEN WORSE situation: It doesn't really matter if there is a single popular D out there. There are many many D's. Surely one of them is illegal. Just bust every FreeNet node owner a priori--don't worry, you'll find something illegal once you do the (ex post facto) search. Can't happen?
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Yes, a (not-so-) longstanding has been broken today: Dumbest post ever. I can only assume that this is a troll. However, for those about to be sucked in:
The reason I wouldn't buy a 900lb hamburger for $.10 is not "because I'd never eat it all". It's because that's a waste. There's too much cost (in environmental terms) for the value (a couple of meals at most before it goes bad). Similarly for the movie: The cost ($7.95 + 3 years of my life) is too high for the value (a movie). As an example, what if the 900lb hamburger was guaranteed to never go bad and it was easy to store at your house? The economics start to look a little more attractive, don't they?
But big harddrives don't have a cost the same way. Given a choice between a Palm with 8MB of memory for $150 and a Palm with 400GB of memory for the same price, I'd choose the later in an instant and so would every sane person. What reason would there be to NOT do it?
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Were you just using shorthand or is this a troll?
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10+ MB? Oh yeah, that's tiny.
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From www.ora.com: Slashdot.org book reviewer Greg Smith awards Unix Backup & Recovery a rare 10/10 rating and says it "is the first title I've ever seen that covers this territory in full detail." Read the entire review and discover why this book is essential reading for the well-prepared sysadmin.
(emphasis added)
People wonder why I complain about the lack of real journalism on Slashdot. They also wonder why I complain about the consistently (and usually undeservedly) high ratings ALL book reviews get (I've never seen anything below a 6).
Well, folks, here's the reason: Because whether Slashdot is real journalism or not, people will treat it that way. Like it or not, what Slashdot says is the perceived reality. Let's make sure perceived reality and actual reality are at least on speaking terms, shall we?
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My read of the question was "will Evolution replace Exchange?". Miguel's answer was "corba is great, gnome is great, etc etc etc, btw, Evolution allows you to replace Exchange"
My comment is only to mention a product that provides the actual drop-in replacement.
--
BTW, this product is unfortunately not Open Source (yet, anyway--I have the ear of the CEO). However, it IS "open" in the traditional Unix sense: standards compliant, flexible, sciptable (command line interface), etc.
--
Disclaimer: I work for the company I'm about to mention.
I see a question about "Will Evolution replace Exchange Server". After much hand-waving and exposition about how great Evolution is, the answer seems to be "no".
HOWEVER, for those of you wanting to run a MAPI-capable mail server on Linux (or Tru64 or AIX), I CAN recommend another product. MailOne produced by OpenOne (www.openone.com).
MailOne is the descendent of (and official upgrade path for) DEC MailWorks. It's a really good product--I should know, I did the Linux port. We're shipping Beta 1 this week. Check the website for more information.
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The new company will take Cray's name. Tera has a press release from a month ago that spells out some of the details.
The details, spelled out: T-E-R-A
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Going over the gov site, I came across the following gem: It is also well settled that a copyright holder is not by reason thereof entitled to employ the perquisites in ways that directly threaten competition.
Right. That's what a PATENT is for.
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From Nasdaq's "company news" page (which looks like a CNBC link):
VIDEO: Kovacic says the ruling will answer if the company violated the law and the next stage is to implement possible remedies - 4:53
You will need the Microsoft Windows Media Player. Click here for a free download.
Here's a possible remedy: Stop kissing ass by jumping all those and only those technologies promulgated by Microsoft.
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My day job is programming. I started this job in early November and I already have the entire 250 MB source tree ported to Linux. We go to beta 1 this week. That was done all by myself with zero documentation and only one other engineer who knew even the basics of the code.
I'm not saying I'm a genius: the program mostly worked on the existing platform so it was just a matter of finding incompatibilities. My point is that each modification teaches you something and the next mod becomes even easier.
Sure it may take you a week (or more) to fix that first bug--but the 10th one will take you an hour.
But "how long it takes to learn the source code" isn't the real complaint here. If it were, people would be complaining about the bugs/missing features in the Linux kernel--this project is even harder to get up to speed on yet people do it all the time. I don't actually know why people are so down on Mozilla, but frankly it's getting a little boring.
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but I hope it isn't loading every time I start mozilla
Don't "hope". Download the source and check. If it's doing something you don't like, create a patch and submit it. Or for that matter create a patch, use it yourself and don't submit it.
Not a programmer? Submit a feature request. Create a bugreport about your claimed security flaws.
Bug reports exist but aren't being worked on? Create a sourceXchange (or similar) project request to do the bug fix.
In other words, IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT, GET OFF YOUR ASS AND HELP.
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drove in public for the first time around a German test circuit
Was it a live test (as implied by "in public") or was a it a closed track (as implied by "test circuit")?
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The FAQ indicates you are using the GPL (good for you!), but says nothing about how I submit patches (or who I submit them to).
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Why has this site suddenly become SterlingDot? Either Bruce is sleeping with CmdrTaco or we're just seeing the tip of some Bruce-on-the-Internet iceberg that indicates maybe his books aren't selling so well, so why not rant and rave online (like Pournelle does).
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Presumably ticketmaster.com still doesn't LIKE deep-linking (despite being forced to accept it). So what if they implement a technical solution (of which there are many, some already mentioned here)? We still lose the feature of deep interconnectivity but I'm sure there's no legal recourse: "Hey judge! Make them let us deep link!"
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Hold the phone. One of the objections to the GPL seems to be the need for a "written instrument". That is, actual paper with actual pen-marks from the licensor to the licensee. Otherwise the license is "revocable" (presumably by the licensor)
But other shrinkwrap licenses don't have this feature. So that would seem to indicate that the, for example, NT EULA is not binding for MS. So if they wanted to, they could change the license after you bought the software. How's THAT for evil? What am I missing?
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It works just like the REAL Gnutella:
Could not connect to 192.168.100.100:22674
(113) No route to host
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I'm well aware of the difference between "affect" and "effect". Read my quote of him again (don't read his originally--it's been changed).
BTW, to all the other people who have mentioned that despite my humor this is a serious topic: Yes. I know. That's what makes my post so funny.
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What do will it mean, and how will it effect all of us?
It do will mean we all do will stop do speaking English. Just like you do did demonstrate.
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TV in AND out? And you have this working under Linux? What's the URL?
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Is this a different story than this one?
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