...seem to be asking "whats's the deal" or "what's the problem" or "why is this news"...
A lot of people seem to have forgotten, or perhaps never learned, that at least half the stuff posted on/. as "stories" are just post-bait.
Remember, kiddies,/. has no content without the posts you make.
So quite often you'll see "news for nerds" that's nothing more than a cheap attempt to up the daily post count -- remember, it's the volume of posts that make/. valuable to the advertisers...
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How long can this go on...
on
Web Services
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· Score: 2
"...today the price of disk storage is headed down toward a tenth of a penny per megabyte, or equivalently a dollar a gigabyte. It is now well below the cost of paper."
...from the fact that CNet is no judge of anything that's not Micro$oft, and so wedded to Micro$oft that they are oblivious to anything else, the correct answer is really:
Envelope, please..
mutt.
I mean, the real answer is SPM: Sendmail (OK: or Qmail, whatever...), procmail, and mutt.
"...But one thing is certain: the open-source community must try to break free from the current situation of constantly chasing Microsoft's tail. Right now, when Microsoft creates SMB, someone tries to clone SMB; when Microsoft creates.NET, someone tries to clone.NET; when Microsoft creates Word, someone tries to clone Word; and so on. This definitely won't do..."
It's simply time to acknowledge the reality of the situation, and go our own way.
F*ck Micro$oft; f*ck interoperability with Micro$oft; let Micro$oft and its ilk rot in hell, stewed in their own juices, which they most certainly will.
Two worlds, one the world of darkness, and one the world of light.
This underlying falacy was coined (by whom - that would be interesting to research..) by two different sorts of people trying to do two very different things:
1) one was a cost-analysis expert trying to rationalize an expensive investment in hardware and software
and..
2) at the other end of the spectrum, a polyanna futurist concocting a forecast of the brave new world we would soon be joining.
The biggest problem -- and here I'd probably blame the popular media -- is that our culture bought into the idea and it became it's own self-replicating meme.
The big problem is that the fundamental idea is a bunch of cr*p.
At some point, I'm very, very sorry, but at some point we need hard copy.
This will be true for some time, I would think, if not indefinitely...
"new.net is a company who decided that instead of waiting for the new top level domains to be approved, they'd just start up their own root domain servers and sell the new top level domains themselves.
So if you want to buy sweat.shop, you can go to new.net and do just that.
The software in question is a "plugin" that "fixes" windows to use their dns servers when requesting a domain that ends in ".shop" or whatever.
For more info, don't be so lazy and click on the "About Us" button at the bottom of the new.net homepage"
<FONT SIZE="2"><B>from the never-run-out-of-tolkien-characters dept.</B></FONT><BR>
Some random reader sent in: <I>"Hi, I'm wondering what others out there use for server naming conventions. Our data centre right now houses a little under 200 servers, with plans to grow up to 4000 servers within the next five years. We'd like to pick something flexible and easy to manage with any tracking system. The servers we'll be implementing include SUN, HPUX, and AIX servers, in addition to existing Compaq and HP Intel servers, so we'll have to adhere to limitations placed on hostnames by manufacturers (ie HPUX lets you have an 8 character hostname)."</I> We had a similar story a <A HREF="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/10/28/ 1116250">few years ago</A>.
Slashdot Mirror
This attitude is just why klez.*, the Outlook exploit of the hour, the IIS compromise of the day, is always so effective.
"I don't really care about security. It's so much easier to just keep my head in the sand."
Opera's warning you about that for a reason.
And you want the next version to knock it off.
Why don't you just use IE and get it over with?
t_t_b
Who the fsck uses telnet?
This isn't the 1990's...
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Learn a little geography.
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for an explanation of why "child porn" was invoked...
It's a buzz-phrase, designed as post-bait.
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A lot of people seem to have forgotten, or perhaps never learned, that at least half the stuff posted on /. as "stories" are just post-bait.
Remember, kiddies, /. has no content without the posts you make.
So quite often you'll see "news for nerds" that's nothing more than a cheap attempt to up the daily post count -- remember, it's the volume of posts that make /. valuable to the advertisers...
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"News for nerds, stuff that matters"
OK.
Now check this out
"Web Services
Revision 2
March 5, 2002"
umm..
In my timezone, it's April 23..
And we're expected to pay for this "news"?
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But of course we should expect that sort of high quality journalism from a subscription-model place like /.
And further proof as to why I'll never subscribe to this f*cking place: it's the goddam readers who create 99% of the content here, anyway...
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Enforcing the GPL, I
Eben Moglen*
August 12, 2001
Where the "news" is 8 months old.
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Never.
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18-Apr-2002 16:16:05.491 security: notice: denied update from [63.198.141.30].2323 for "168.192.in-addr.arpa" IN
by "a whole lot" i mean we've logged 3.3M of these in the last four hours..."
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um..
It's called "Nimda".
It has nothing to do with a DDoS.
It's become one of the incessant background white noises of the internet.
Hell, I get more than 3000 of those a month, at home on my dialup...
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mutt.
I mean, the real answer is SPM: Sendmail (OK: or Qmail, whatever...), procmail, and mutt.
Total control.
You are in charge.
Not Unca Bill...
Not the spammers...
Not the virus-writers...
t_t_b
From Advogato:
It's simply time to acknowledge the reality of the situation, and go our own way.
F*ck Micro$oft; f*ck interoperability with Micro$oft; let Micro$oft and its ilk rot in hell, stewed in their own juices, which they most certainly will.
Two worlds, one the world of darkness, and one the world of light.
Guess which one is Micro$oft?
Which one will you join?
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"What an idiot."
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This underlying falacy was coined (by whom - that would be interesting to research..) by two different sorts of people trying to do two very different things:
1) one was a cost-analysis expert trying to rationalize an expensive investment in hardware and software
and..
2) at the other end of the spectrum, a polyanna futurist concocting a forecast of the brave new world we would soon be joining.
The biggest problem -- and here I'd probably blame the popular media -- is that our culture bought into the idea and it became it's own self-replicating meme.
The big problem is that the fundamental idea is a bunch of cr*p.
At some point, I'm very, very sorry, but at some point we need hard copy.
This will be true for some time, I would think, if not indefinitely...
t_t_b
and for those of us who apparently do not read:
"new.net is a company who decided that instead of waiting for the new top level domains to be approved, they'd just start up their own root domain servers and sell the new top level domains themselves.
So if you want to buy sweat.shop, you can go to new.net and do just that.
The software in question is a "plugin" that "fixes" windows to use their dns servers when requesting a domain that ends in ".shop" or whatever.
For more info, don't be so lazy and click on the "About Us" button at the bottom of the new.net homepage"
</blush>
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t_t_b
In fact, this is also why I avoid RPM's and the like, whenever possible, which is always...
Read the README; read the INSTALL; if necessary edit a couple files to taste; then it's
make
make install
These are your friends.
It's my computer.
I want to know what's on it, and where.
t_t_b
Merely more evidence of the Micro$oft monopoly...
Despite what is desired, in the abstract, the reality of a competionless marketplace is that providers must go with the dominant vendor.
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(User #49548 Info) [ Neutral ] "
Christ!
Who's moderating today?
A bunch of M$ pimps?
Try (Score:-2, Flamebait) maybe...
t_t_b
Don't mod me down!
I work here!
t_t_b
<FONT SIZE="2"><B>from the never-run-out-of-tolkien-characters dept.</B></FONT><BR> Some random reader sent in: <I>"Hi, I'm wondering what others out there use for server naming conventions. Our data centre right now houses a little under 200 servers, with plans to grow up to 4000 servers within the next five years. We'd like to pick something flexible and easy to manage with any tracking system. The servers we'll be implementing include SUN, HPUX, and AIX servers, in addition to existing Compaq and HP Intel servers, so we'll have to adhere to limitations placed on hostnames by manufacturers (ie HPUX lets you have an 8 character hostname)."</I> We had a similar story a <A HREF="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/10/28/ 1116250">few years ago</A>.
<P>
Now, don't that look better!
<a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/N2613.osdn/B9 60233.2;sz=336x280">
<img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/N2613.osdn/B9602 33.2;sz=336x280"></a>
Now, how 'bout an align=right in there, or some such...
Hey!
Where's my free subscription?
t_t_b
Laugh.
t_t_b