Three priests are talking to each other how they split the money they get during the service between themselves and the part for the church.
The first priest says: I draw a line in the middle of the table and throw all the money on the table. Everything left of the line is for me, everything right of the line is for the church.
The second priest says: I draw a circle in the middle of the table. Everything which lands in the circle is for me, everything which lands outside is for the church.
The third priest says: I throw all the money in the air. Everything god grabs is for the church, the everything which lands on the floor is for me.
This project works the same: they send a request to a million webservers, everything which doesn't time out is good for them:-)
It's a chicken-or-egg problem. Service providers and developers are waiting for demand from customers. Customers won't see benefits until products and services become available.
I agree that providers are waiting, but developers? It's soo easy to add basic IPv6 support to applications, it's not funny.
Last week I was trying a new MUD-client and it had IPv6 support. I congratulated the author with it and he said "When looking at it it seemed trivial to add so why not?"
The article mentions that it could destroy the serial port of your computer? So what, just replace the serial I/O card and it works again! (hmmm... these days the serial ports are on the motherboard). Unplugged your printer one too many times? Replace the printercard (euh... these days the parrallel ports are on the motherboard). Videocards? On the motherboard. USB ports? On the motherboard. IDE/FDDI cards? on the motherboard. Ethernetcards? On the motherboard. Sounddevices? On the motherboard.
Why is everything so all integrated into one device? Why is there a chance the videocard gets broken when something happens to my serial port?
(click here to tell them how much traffic their silly registration system costs them)
Unless you guys are payed per word that you add to the articles (in which case complaining about the registration system is a nice way to make some extra money) I wouldn't mind if you stopped complaining about it.
The NY Times has setup a website so you can with relative ease access their articles. All they ask is that you register. Enter a random name, a password you forget immediately, an email address which points to your yahoo.com address, set your country to Afghanistan (with their one IP address:-) and some more random information.
If you don't like the way the NY Times handles its website (or the stupidity that you still can read the articles without being registered (hey, why don't you post these links then?)) you should stop posting articles from that site...
Was I brave enough to leave the computer running on a UPS during a thunderstorm, disconnecting the powercable now will also cause my internet connection to be dropped...
Have a look on how FreeBSD does handle this:
Instead of having only one tree, there are two: the -stable and the -current. -current is the tree with the newest features and active development going on, the tree which might, or might not, compile, the tree which might, or might not, break your system. The -stable tree is the tree in which everything works, which has no real new active development (all development is done in -current), only merges from the -current track are coming back into it.
If there is a max user limit, you'll clog up the server for other people who would get the download done much faster.
A 10Mbps-linked server can at fullspeed feed 10 1Mbps clients. Or 200 50kbps clients. I would prefer to be one of the 200 people who can actually download something than being one of the 190 people who have to wait until they can finally login.
Mirroring is the solution, banning isn't.
Re:hmm.. there IS an area where modems are preferr
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It's not only porn:-)
There was a dutch website which showed you how to get from place A to place B with public transport (busses, trains and metros fyi).
One day they announced that their site would be only available through a dial-up line a one guilder per call. Never used it anymore, mostly because... I had a cable-modem.
Edwin, back on 56Kbps right now.
Programmers know this already for a long time :-)
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Euh... Honestly, we had much more fun in cooperative mode than in deathmatch. Walking around in the darkness, trying to find the last monster... You see something move, you shoot, he shoots, you look at the person on the other side of the room, shout "woops, sorry!" and continue your quest for the last monster.
I tried a game of counterstrike last month and honestly it sucked. People waiting in pre-located spots, waiting for something to move and shoot it with their sniper-gun. Well that's great fun. Not.
Six years ago when I was looking for switching from OS/2 to (any) Unix I had the same problem. Single White Nerd looks for New Operating System. Clean harddisk available etc. I didn't understand how Linux worked (regarding organisation and development that is) and I choose FreeBSD because I understood how their development-model worked.
I've made a small script to do this. It takes the hostname or IP address of a machine to find out information from the whois-database or the SOA fields of the zone.
Don't think that this will solve your problems, because there are many many badly inconfigured mailers/dns-servers/whois-databases on the internet. See http://www.mavetju.org/networking/whymailfails.pht ml for an overview.
Edwin
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I've made a small script to do this. It takes the hostname or IP address of a machine to find out information from the whois-database or the SOA fields of the zone.
Don't think that this will solve your problems, because there are many many badly inconfigured mailers/dns-servers/whois-databases on the internet. See http://www.mavetju.org/networking/whymailfails.pht ml for an overview.
Edwin
for MAC, Unix and Windows
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Make that: for Mac, Linux and Windows.
257 "/pub/netscape6/english/6.1/unix" is current directory.
ftp> dir
227 Entering Passive Mode (205,188,212,74,239,245)
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for/bin/ls.
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 3 5743 bin 96 Aug 1 17:09 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 5743 bin 96 Aug 1 17:15..
drwxr-xr-x 5 5743 bin 8192 Aug 8 09:00 linux22
226 ASCII Transfer complete.
Probably somebody who found out how to use the root.exe executable... I have see this only once so far, the rest are just 404's (in the most exotic languages).
- reverse DNS is not done everywhere. It would be so easy to track things down if forward and reverse DNS were in sync
- email aliases like abuse, webmaster and hostmaster are not common on windows-machines.
- email aliases like abuse, webmaster and hostmaster are not common under domains.
- whois-servers of ccTLD are often hard to find or inoperative (hint to ICANN: we *NEED* whois!)
I really hate these webservers which give me an unreadable (prolly some asian font) page, without any clue on who to inform.
Of the more than 100 unique messages I send out this weekend, more than 80% completly bounced because there was no abuse/webmaster/hostmaster alias.
Anyway, I don't foresee any job-problems for people who try to educate internet-newbies with common rules like reverse dns and aliases for common mail-names...
Re:An Infinite Random Irrational Number
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does this not imply that while pi may contain the complete source code to Office 2000, it also contains all possible incorrect versions, and it is impossible to know which one you have found.
impossible? not really, we already have a bunch of them:-)
Doesn't it mean that somewhere in there the value of pi will be stored, meaning it suddenly has become a repeating string of digits and thus not random anymore?
Slashdot Mirror
Damned, close your tags! Netscape Navigator doesn't show unclosed tables!
Proper HTML in your viri and hacks please!
Three priests are talking to each other how they split the money they get during the service between themselves and the part for the church.
:-)
The first priest says: I draw a line in the middle of the table and throw all the money on the table. Everything left of the line is for me, everything right of the line is for the church.
The second priest says: I draw a circle in the middle of the table. Everything which lands in the circle is for me, everything which lands outside is for the church.
The third priest says: I throw all the money in the air. Everything god grabs is for the church, the everything which lands on the floor is for me.
This project works the same: they send a request to a million webservers, everything which doesn't time out is good for them
It's a chicken-or-egg problem. Service providers and developers are waiting for demand from customers. Customers won't see benefits until products and services become available.
I agree that providers are waiting, but developers? It's soo easy to add basic IPv6 support to applications, it's not funny.
Last week I was trying a new MUD-client and it had IPv6 support. I congratulated the author with it and he said "When looking at it it seemed trivial to add so why not?"
Edwin
My tongue remembers these 9V battery checks....
The article mentions that it could destroy the serial port of your computer? So what, just replace the serial I/O card and it works again! (hmmm... these days the serial ports are on the motherboard). Unplugged your printer one too many times? Replace the printercard (euh... these days the parrallel ports are on the motherboard). Videocards? On the motherboard. USB ports? On the motherboard. IDE/FDDI cards? on the motherboard. Ethernetcards? On the motherboard. Sounddevices? On the motherboard.
Why is everything so all integrated into one device? Why is there a chance the videocard gets broken when something happens to my serial port?
(click here to tell them how much traffic their silly registration system costs them)
:-) and some more random information.
:-)
Unless you guys are payed per word that you add to the articles (in which case complaining about the registration system is a nice way to make some extra money) I wouldn't mind if you stopped complaining about it.
The NY Times has setup a website so you can with relative ease access their articles. All they ask is that you register. Enter a random name, a password you forget immediately, an email address which points to your yahoo.com address, set your country to Afghanistan (with their one IP address
If you don't like the way the NY Times handles its website (or the stupidity that you still can read the articles without being registered (hey, why don't you post these links then?)) you should stop posting articles from that site...
Edwin, tired of this constant complaining
Was I brave enough to leave the computer running on a UPS during a thunderstorm, disconnecting the powercable now will also cause my internet connection to be dropped...
Have a look on how FreeBSD does handle this:
h andbook/current-stable.html
Instead of having only one tree, there are two: the -stable and the -current. -current is the tree with the newest features and active development going on, the tree which might, or might not, compile, the tree which might, or might not, break your system. The -stable tree is the tree in which everything works, which has no real new active development (all development is done in -current), only merges from the -current track are coming back into it.
For more information, see http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/
If there is a max user limit, you'll clog up the server for other people who would get the download done much faster.
A 10Mbps-linked server can at fullspeed feed 10 1Mbps clients. Or 200 50kbps clients. I would prefer to be one of the 200 people who can actually download something than being one of the 190 people who have to wait until they can finally login.
Mirroring is the solution, banning isn't.
It's not only porn :-)
There was a dutch website which showed you how to get from place A to place B with public transport (busses, trains and metros fyi).
One day they announced that their site would be only available through a dial-up line a one guilder per call. Never used it anymore, mostly because... I had a cable-modem.
Edwin, back on 56Kbps right now.
Constants aren't, variables won't...
The fact that he is able to write a document about regulating the web shows that it is not possible to regulate the web :-)
and a much more fun mode called deathmatch
Euh... Honestly, we had much more fun in cooperative mode than in deathmatch. Walking around in the darkness, trying to find the last monster... You see something move, you shoot, he shoots, you look at the person on the other side of the room, shout "woops, sorry!" and continue your quest for the last monster.
I tried a game of counterstrike last month and honestly it sucked. People waiting in pre-located spots, waiting for something to move and shoot it with their sniper-gun. Well that's great fun. Not.
Edwin
Six years ago when I was looking for switching from OS/2 to (any) Unix I had the same problem. Single White Nerd looks for New Operating System. Clean harddisk available etc. I didn't understand how Linux worked (regarding organisation and development that is) and I choose FreeBSD because I understood how their development-model worked.
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See http://www.mavetju.org/unix/whyIdontuselinux.phtm
For more information about Echelon, see the broadcast at http://technetcast.ddj.com/tnc_play_stream.html?st ream_id=423.
It's pretty scary...
Edwin
I've made a small script to do this. It takes the hostname or IP address of a machine to find out information from the whois-database or the SOA fields of the zone.
t ml for an overview.
It's available from http://www.mavetju.org/networking/tools.phtml as coderedspammer.
Don't think that this will solve your problems, because there are many many badly inconfigured mailers/dns-servers/whois-databases on the internet. See http://www.mavetju.org/networking/whymailfails.ph
Edwin
I've made a small script to do this. It takes the hostname or IP address of a machine to find out information from the whois-database or the SOA fields of the zone.
t ml for an overview.
It's available from http://www.mavetju.org/networking/tools.phtml as coderedspammer.
Don't think that this will solve your problems, because there are many many badly inconfigured mailers/dns-servers/whois-databases on the internet. See http://www.mavetju.org/networking/whymailfails.ph
Edwin
Make that: for Mac, Linux and Windows.
/bin/ls.
..
257 "/pub/netscape6/english/6.1/unix" is current directory.
ftp> dir
227 Entering Passive Mode (205,188,212,74,239,245)
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 3 5743 bin 96 Aug 1 17:09 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 5743 bin 96 Aug 1 17:15
drwxr-xr-x 5 5743 bin 8192 Aug 8 09:00 linux22
226 ASCII Transfer complete.
Probably somebody who found out how to use the root.exe executable... I have see this only once so far, the rest are just 404's (in the most exotic languages).
- reverse DNS is not done everywhere. It would be so easy to track things down if forward and reverse DNS were in sync
- email aliases like abuse, webmaster and hostmaster are not common on windows-machines.
- email aliases like abuse, webmaster and hostmaster are not common under domains.
- whois-servers of ccTLD are often hard to find or inoperative (hint to ICANN: we *NEED* whois!)
I really hate these webservers which give me an unreadable (prolly some asian font) page, without any clue on who to inform.
Of the more than 100 unique messages I send out this weekend, more than 80% completly bounced because there was no abuse/webmaster/hostmaster alias.
Anyway, I don't foresee any job-problems for people who try to educate internet-newbies with common rules like reverse dns and aliases for common mail-names...
does this not imply that while pi may contain the complete source code to Office 2000, it also contains all possible incorrect versions, and it is impossible to know which one you have found.
:-)
impossible? not really, we already have a bunch of them
We already have...
...miles vs kilometers
...inches vs centimeters
...yards vs meters
...stones vs kilograms
...gallons vs liters
and to make spacetravel even more difficult...
...pi=3 vs pi=3.14159265359
FLASH! All patents are declared null and void because all patents previously awarded have been found to exist within PI.
:-/
Not really. Everybody who is doing research on PI can be sued for patent-violations
Doesn't it mean that somewhere in there the value of pi will be stored, meaning it suddenly has become a repeating string of digits and thus not random anymore?
just wondering...
First eat the corpse of a floating eye, then wear a blindfold and you will be safe from the affects of the license!