Imagine a virtual cluster of these? Is there anything useful to do with 10,000 web broswers running on the same box? I guess you'd have to virtualize the C64 on x86 but someone's already done that, right?
*sigh* really, you should know better, working outside the MS Patch Machine (windows update) is insane. - while I haven't set up an internal patch server (so I can't say if it works as well as MS says, but their description does sound good) I have worked with patches that undo other patches, patches with complicated prerequisites. Patches that are ununinstallable and patches that say they break other things (and more that don't but do anyway) so for each one you have to carefully read the damn MS security announcement. You can string them together using the bulk patchifier tool MS provides but figuring out which ones to pick and how they interact with eachother is insane.
We used to use Install Shield to detect what the patch does, then generate our own install (either using script or install shield) and distribute it to test-groups-then-users. Serious pain in the ass, and no one has time to do all that (unless it's, like, their job. MS would love that, add to MS TCO the cost of a full time Patch Master. MCPM cert.?
People don't trust the banks, that's why they get statements and keep their own copy of transactions (cheque book?). They don't trust CC companies, the vendors I've done work for process their transactions w/ visa separately from their inventory transaction so they always have 2 copies (well, they trust visa to pay what they're owed at the end of the month but that's not trust in visa as much as trust in the System).
People don't trust the phone company, I don't know about you but I've called many times when they've screwed up my bill and I noticed because, well, I keep my own records.
If people had to trust pepercorn w/ no independent records on the client/customer's side that -would- be a unique trust issue. I'm not sure they do but...
One standard access control policy language to rule them all, One standard access control policy language to find them, One standard access control policy language to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
Scroll Lock is the perfect example - how would I operate my KVM from my keyboard w/o a scroll lock (double scroll lock + up arrow operates all the KVM's I've used). I love my scroll lock, though I never did understand why it was called scroll lock and not KVM switcher and the fact that it has a light is, well, rather odd but it's nice, I guess, when my music is loud and I can't hear the KVM's beep.
Personally, I'd like to see each keyhead with a LED screen that displays what that key will do.
Oh, one last thing, we weren't sending out porn, or advirts for porn sites. The sites we host are for local clubs (you know, lap dance places), they get low traffic (under a thousand hits a month) and a single email goes out once a week which are just coupons for free admission or events announcements. For the record, I took over as network admin and inherited the sites and the subscription services at that time. I didn't make a scene to the managment about the lack of confirmation because, like I said, they weren't getting enough traffic or sign-ups for me to be able to say hey, you should spend $xxx (or $x,xxx) to add confirmation to your mailing lists in case someone signs up a priest as a gag and they report you to spamcops and they shut off our internet service. It wasn't even something that crossed my radar screen given the other problems that existed (technical problems mostly, the servers were a total mess when I got them).
I patch and firewall my servers, code red (and slammer and nimda and all the others) never once made it on to any of them. My mail relays are closed. In all other ways I try to be a responsible net admin and I hate spam as much as everyone else; I was shocked, dumfounded, when all this happened. I still don't see myself as a spammer or vector for spam and I still am not convinced that this was anything other than someone who wanted to get us in trouble (the complaint might not have been valid, that is, the recipient might not have felt spammed).
The response was totally out of character with the offense. It's not so much spamcops that I blame, they get a million emails a day and it's not their job to research each one, it's my ISP who took spamcops word for it w/o even asking us what's going on that really pissed me off.
OK enough venting. Like I said, I'm really interested that something that seems so clear-cut to me could be seen in such a different way by others. Do you really think that the ISP terminating two sites' connectivity w/o warning was an appropriate response? If so, why don't we take everyone who gets infected with the next worm (b/c they didn't patch their servers) and immediately terminate their internet connection at the ISP. OOOH that DOES sound good doesn't it?
Seriously, there's too much authoritarianism masquarading as Good Figh Idealism running around on the web (and in the world) right now.
I think the two responses defending spamcops were awsome, it's not every day that something that appears so obviously black to me may appear white to someone else. I truly don't understand how my post is an advirtisement for spamcops. Let's refresh: 1) there was a mailing list of under 3,000 people all of which I believe were on that list because they requested to be on it.
2) we made no attempt to hide our identity, we used standard gateways, had a valid reply-to email address, we were way out in the open (which ironically made us easy targets to get shut down, maybe someone was frustrated with the trying to bust real spammers to they picked on us?)
3) even if someone was signed up to the list without their knowledge that could not have been a widespread practice (the list wasn't that active!) and they had ample recourse. They could have freakin' called us, emailed us, sent smoke signals, anything. everyone who requested to be unsubscribed (we got between 1 - 6 per week or so) were.
4) in case you missed it, we weren't behaving like spammers (fake email headers, etc.) so when someone reported the email as spam, wouldn't it have been logical to think, hrm, maybe we should let these guys know someone complained instead of hrm, lucky for us these guys left us their home address, let's send out the cruise missles?
5) One Complaint Does Not Make Something Spam! This is tyrany of the minority. It's allowing a couple people (the complainer and the secret types at spamcops) to make decisions effecting thousands of other people (the webistes we host and the 3,000 other members of the mailing list who WANT to get the mail we send (I know because we send coupons out which the clubs get back in the hundreds). Come on people, think! this is about as anti-open-process, anti-democratic, anti-intelligent as it gets!
Did we do something wrong by not having a confirmation feature on the sign-up page? Yes, and it was out of ignorance (truly, I didn't think 'prank' signups would be a problem, and they may not have been, I still don't know who complained), not evilness. Is shutting off two sites, 12 servers worth, of internet accounts without a single minutes warning or any attempt to contact us to find a solution (we did implement confirmation about 2 weeks after this all went down) a reasonable response? I don't think so but maybe that's where we disagree?
Ugh, not spam cops - those guys, I think, have become a little unhinged in their anti-spam hatred and have developed some kind of a demigod complex as a result. I helped run a mailing list generated from submissions to a website - they sent out mailings to people who opted-in for various sex clubs (I know, but sex does not automatically equal spam). We never hid who we were, where we were sending from, we told everyone why they got our mail (because they signed up at the website) and had a valid reply-to address as well as an unsubscribe feature.
Someone sent an email from us to spamcops saying we were spamming - I checked our logs and in one day one person sent us 4 unsubscribe requests - they never got another email but I wonder if it wasn't them. Anyway, we were totally shut down with no warning, two different sites (one hosted the website the other hosting the email program) yanked off the internet when spamcops complained to our ISP.
This is downright stupid. One, anonymous complaint (never did find out who did it so we couldn't very well remove them from our list!) and all our websites, over a dozen, art galleries, political sites, stores, and some 'adult dance club' sites (you do what you can to make clients now...) all went down. No warning. And no apologies from our ISP or spamcops when we pointed out they pulled our service with absolutely NO research, no attempt to contact us, no evidence whatsoever other than a sole complaint which could have been posted by anyone (um, competitors to the adult club jump to mind).
My ISP (Speakeasy) eventually got someone in touch with us who really did nothing more than empathize with how angry we were and promised to try and not do it again. That's it. There's a movement afoot to try and reign in this sort of insane overkill, one story here and an a nascent organization against overzealous antispammers is here.
For the record, we did not have confirmation on our opt-in list so theoretically someone could have signed up another (say a priest or something) for our mailing lists. We never got more than a couple new registrations a day so there was no systematic abuse, still, we fixed this and added confirmation (using mailermailer.com, I'm very impressed with them so far) after the complaint (no need to knock us off the web to get our attention, a simple email would have done) and, as I said, we had valid contact info if they had only bothered to ask...
Anyone else been a 'victim' of crazy blacklist providers?
Yea, and Win2k and NT4 insist on writing the ERD (Emergency Recovery Disk, which I have yet to successfully use to actually recover anything but that's beside the point) to floppy only (and there's a baroque set of steps to take if the system data won't conveniently compress down enough, which happens too often.).
I'm surprised at my resistence to this. I feel like 'No, not my floppy! It's my safety blanket, my trusty friend who'll let me into my poor damaged hardware whenever I ask (and I've asked way, way too often).' I understand how to make a bootable floppy, maybe that's the problem, the technology to make a bootable CDRom is completely foreign to me (mcdex or something like that isn't it?).
OK so I have to go RTFM but... but still, it's very emotional, being parted from that which has saved my ass so many times... I feel like so long as I have my trusted w0rm bootable floppy then no problem, vicious dust bunnies included, is too great.
The point was - was the bombing of the cities w/ an atomic weapon necessary to bring a swift conclusion to the war and save american lives? I'm not sure that's really addressed in what you say - for example, why bomb nagasaki when the Japanese surely were going to surrender after hiroshima? and why hiroshima and not a more military, less densly populated target (one must have existed).
Were the japanese acting like lunatic criminals? Absolutely. Should we, in turn, do likewise?
I believe at the least IF there was no other way to bring the war to a quick end (and that's debatable) then at least we should have waited longer (a few more days?) between heroshima and nagasaki, and we should have taken a 'shot across the bow' first somewhere other than a city.
We lied when we said we didn't know what would happen to the people, we lied when we said the japanese weren't already near surrender and we lied when we said we didn't drop the bomb out of malice and revenge. We did. If we'd tell the truth about that then maybe we could have a reasonable look at the rest of the story and judge ourselves based on the whole, not just a partial, truth. Nothing wrong with that, right?
many existing p2p programs still support this. Mine does (I won't name it b/c we have a nice community of a few thousand users, too much publicity for a p2p network isn't always a good thing). This is my #1 way of finding good music: I watch what people are downloading from my collection, when someone grabs a song I particularly like (or is particularly obscure or whatever) I browse thier files.
My p2p software also has chat rooms based on music type (which are good for culling new group names from) and, of course, there is always the 'people who bought this album also bought' feature in amazon.com.
It always irked me when napster opponents said it was no good for finding new music - I LOVE finding new music by looking through other people's collections!
mmmm - I was living in DC around '95 when the 50th anniversary of hiroshima was being greeted by an exhibit at the national air a space museum. The original exhibit was critical of the decision to drop the bomb and exposed some lies (like we didn't know about what the radiation would do the the population) and, as I recall, the director of the museum was fired and the script re-written befor the exhibit opened. Here's a little bit of that story, complete with quote:
"One major problem was the consequences of not using the atomic bombs. The earlier scripts implied Japan would have surrendered without an invasion. Dr. Tom Crouch, one of the exhibit's curators explained the evidence for that conclusion:
'(take) The Strategic Bombing Survey team for example. Paul Nitze and John Kenneth Galbraith and the economists who were in Japan in the months immediately after the war to assess the impact of the strategic bombing campaign. They looked at everything I mean at economics, at morale, at what happened to fire departments and particular industries, particular towns. With regard to Japan. Their final comment on the (Atomic) bomb was that their studies indicated had there been no bomb, had there been no invasion, Japan would of surrendered in September-October. Something of that sort. Other Post-War studies said the same thing. I don't think we quote any of the others. Marine Corps and Army immediate Post-War gaming situations in 1946-1947, when they were playing with the political elements suggested essentially the same thing. The collapse was closer than the Japanese themselves realized and would of come at that point. If you see that in the script you're only going to see that as a quote from somebody else. There will be quotes to the contrary.' "
What's up with that anyway? I don't understand why these companies loose so much money. We ran an entire web business, streaming video, store, etc. on a yearly budget way under salon's daily operating costs. Meaning, I guess, that we could be open for the next 365 years on one year of salon's budget. OK so store and media content are not what Salon does, but I still don't understand WTF these people do that costs so much money...
Does this mean it's time to organize? I mean, I don't know about you all, but one of the reasons I like computers is the power-like feeling I get (manipulating systems with a tapity tap tap on the keyboard). I like it because it makes me necessary, and because I get to do things that make work much easier for others (I do app development). If this shat continues however I'm going to feel less like a Golden Technology God then an overpaid fry cook. At which point I'm forming a union.
Unless one of the nodes is hit by lightning at the exact moment a clumsy comp-sci student spills a coke on the server rack and then BZZWRACK!POW Your worm has achieved consciousness.
actaully, sorry, but you're wrong. Office 95-97 was the last time microsoft changed 'the binary format' of word documents - meaning office 97 documents are the same as 2000 and Office XP. There are features in the latter releases not supported in 97 so you may see "office 97 compatability" turned on in the document properties, this, in turn can cause some relatively obscure problems but for the most part Office 97 files work just fine in latter editions and vice-versa. Access is the one exception -.mdb files made in O2K and later are not fully backward compatible (a big part of the problem is O97 VBA for access differed significantly from O2K VBA for access).
There are lots of reasons to not like MS I want to make sure you get some of the good ones - this one is a red herring.
apparently they sleep at night in Panama. Not surprising, I don't think I'd want to be hanging out in the US with a product as legally questionable as this one...
Permissioned Media Inc. Sun Towers, 1st Floor, Office #39 Ave. Ricardo J. Alfaro Panama City, El Dorado Zona 6 Panama
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I bought Suse for... around $70 as my first linux distro. If I had Xandros as an option at the time I would have bought that instead, it seems like a really great first distro that bridges nicely between windows and linux.
Maybe once I'm a 1337 linux d00d then I'll just download and build my own linux but for now linux is hard (a lot of pride-swallowing as I wallow around practically like I've never seen a computer before, taking a half hour to figure out that I can pipe things to grep (still can't write regular expressions) and a couple hours until I finally got rc.d). Anything that made linux more useful, more quickly, is great.
reminds me of a Chris Rock joke (recently heard in Bowling for Columbine)....innocent bystanders getting killed... one simple way to solve the problem, make bullets cost five thousand dollars. That way no one would be shooting them all over the place, you'd be damn sure you hit what you were aiming at (acts like he's looking down at a dead guy) damn, they put $15,000 worth of bullets in his ass, he musta done SOMEthing bad...
Just make everyone who unsuccessfully sues to defend a patent pay for all the court costs for both parties.
yea but you don't usually store really, really imporant data on someone else's node on a peer-to-peer network either. How do you get data integrity (I presume you don't HAVE to leave the desktop on all the time? If you did, you'd just trade 1 big server for 100 (or howevermany) little ones, more of a pain to admin. I thought someone else brought up a distributed peer-to-peer DB on slashdot a while ago...
I think the point was that it would run without exchange - that's the killer part of most small-business email systems, the expense (outright and TCO) of exchange. And try to find commercially hosted exchange servers to use. Don't exist.
I'm all for anything that does an end-run around exchange.
No way, it's the same problem as Final Fantasy - it's too close to something really small so it looks like it fails (to be small enough) rather than succeeds (to be smaller than other laptops). I want a dick tracy watch damnit and I won't be impressed until I see one.
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Imagine a virtual cluster of these? Is there anything useful to do with 10,000 web broswers running on the same box? I guess you'd have to virtualize the C64 on x86 but someone's already done that, right?
*sigh* really, you should know better, working outside the MS Patch Machine (windows update) is insane. - while I haven't set up an internal patch server (so I can't say if it works as well as MS says, but their description does sound good) I have worked with patches that undo other patches, patches with complicated prerequisites. Patches that are ununinstallable and patches that say they break other things (and more that don't but do anyway) so for each one you have to carefully read the damn MS security announcement. You can string them together using the bulk patchifier tool MS provides but figuring out which ones to pick and how they interact with eachother is insane.
We used to use Install Shield to detect what the patch does, then generate our own install (either using script or install shield) and distribute it to test-groups-then-users. Serious pain in the ass, and no one has time to do all that (unless it's, like, their job. MS would love that, add to MS TCO the cost of a full time Patch Master. MCPM cert.?
Naw... my advice is less suicide - I'd say 'you're not crazy. Relax a little. Oh, and you don't die before your 30 either. '
People don't trust the banks, that's why they get statements and keep their own copy of transactions (cheque book?). They don't trust CC companies, the vendors I've done work for process their transactions w/ visa separately from their inventory transaction so they always have 2 copies (well, they trust visa to pay what they're owed at the end of the month but that's not trust in visa as much as trust in the System).
People don't trust the phone company, I don't know about you but I've called many times when they've screwed up my bill and I noticed because, well, I keep my own records.
If people had to trust pepercorn w/ no independent records on the client/customer's side that -would- be a unique trust issue. I'm not sure they do but...
One standard access control policy language to rule them all, One standard access control policy language to find them, One standard access control policy language to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
Scroll Lock is the perfect example - how would I operate my KVM from my keyboard w/o a scroll lock (double scroll lock + up arrow operates all the KVM's I've used). I love my scroll lock, though I never did understand why it was called scroll lock and not KVM switcher and the fact that it has a light is, well, rather odd but it's nice, I guess, when my music is loud and I can't hear the KVM's beep.
Personally, I'd like to see each keyhead with a LED screen that displays what that key will do.
Oh, one last thing, we weren't sending out porn, or advirts for porn sites. The sites we host are for local clubs (you know, lap dance places), they get low traffic (under a thousand hits a month) and a single email goes out once a week which are just coupons for free admission or events announcements. For the record, I took over as network admin and inherited the sites and the subscription services at that time. I didn't make a scene to the managment about the lack of confirmation because, like I said, they weren't getting enough traffic or sign-ups for me to be able to say hey, you should spend $xxx (or $x,xxx) to add confirmation to your mailing lists in case someone signs up a priest as a gag and they report you to spamcops and they shut off our internet service. It wasn't even something that crossed my radar screen given the other problems that existed (technical problems mostly, the servers were a total mess when I got them).
I patch and firewall my servers, code red (and slammer and nimda and all the others) never once made it on to any of them. My mail relays are closed. In all other ways I try to be a responsible net admin and I hate spam as much as everyone else; I was shocked, dumfounded, when all this happened. I still don't see myself as a spammer or vector for spam and I still am not convinced that this was anything other than someone who wanted to get us in trouble (the complaint might not have been valid, that is, the recipient might not have felt spammed).
The response was totally out of character with the offense. It's not so much spamcops that I blame, they get a million emails a day and it's not their job to research each one, it's my ISP who took spamcops word for it w/o even asking us what's going on that really pissed me off.
OK enough venting. Like I said, I'm really interested that something that seems so clear-cut to me could be seen in such a different way by others. Do you really think that the ISP terminating two sites' connectivity w/o warning was an appropriate response? If so, why don't we take everyone who gets infected with the next worm (b/c they didn't patch their servers) and immediately terminate their internet connection at the ISP. OOOH that DOES sound good doesn't it?
Seriously, there's too much authoritarianism masquarading as Good Figh Idealism running around on the web (and in the world) right now.
I think the two responses defending spamcops were awsome, it's not every day that something that appears so obviously black to me may appear white to someone else. I truly don't understand how my post is an advirtisement for spamcops. Let's refresh:
1) there was a mailing list of under 3,000 people all of which I believe were on that list because they requested to be on it.
2) we made no attempt to hide our identity, we used standard gateways, had a valid reply-to email address, we were way out in the open (which ironically made us easy targets to get shut down, maybe someone was frustrated with the trying to bust real spammers to they picked on us?)
3) even if someone was signed up to the list without their knowledge that could not have been a widespread practice (the list wasn't that active!) and they had ample recourse. They could have freakin' called us, emailed us, sent smoke signals, anything. everyone who requested to be unsubscribed (we got between 1 - 6 per week or so) were.
4) in case you missed it, we weren't behaving like spammers (fake email headers, etc.) so when someone reported the email as spam, wouldn't it have been logical to think, hrm, maybe we should let these guys know someone complained instead of hrm, lucky for us these guys left us their home address, let's send out the cruise missles?
5) One Complaint Does Not Make Something Spam! This is tyrany of the minority. It's allowing a couple people (the complainer and the secret types at spamcops) to make decisions effecting thousands of other people (the webistes we host and the 3,000 other members of the mailing list who WANT to get the mail we send (I know because we send coupons out which the clubs get back in the hundreds). Come on people, think! this is about as anti-open-process, anti-democratic, anti-intelligent as it gets!
Did we do something wrong by not having a confirmation feature on the sign-up page? Yes, and it was out of ignorance (truly, I didn't think 'prank' signups would be a problem, and they may not have been, I still don't know who complained), not evilness. Is shutting off two sites, 12 servers worth, of internet accounts without a single minutes warning or any attempt to contact us to find a solution (we did implement confirmation about 2 weeks after this all went down) a reasonable response? I don't think so but maybe that's where we disagree?
Ugh, not spam cops - those guys, I think, have become a little unhinged in their anti-spam hatred and have developed some kind of a demigod complex as a result. I helped run a mailing list generated from submissions to a website - they sent out mailings to people who opted-in for various sex clubs (I know, but sex does not automatically equal spam). We never hid who we were, where we were sending from, we told everyone why they got our mail (because they signed up at the website) and had a valid reply-to address as well as an unsubscribe feature.
Someone sent an email from us to spamcops saying we were spamming - I checked our logs and in one day one person sent us 4 unsubscribe requests - they never got another email but I wonder if it wasn't them. Anyway, we were totally shut down with no warning, two different sites (one hosted the website the other hosting the email program) yanked off the internet when spamcops complained to our ISP.
This is downright stupid. One, anonymous complaint (never did find out who did it so we couldn't very well remove them from our list!) and all our websites, over a dozen, art galleries, political sites, stores, and some 'adult dance club' sites (you do what you can to make clients now...) all went down. No warning. And no apologies from our ISP or spamcops when we pointed out they pulled our service with absolutely NO research, no attempt to contact us, no evidence whatsoever other than a sole complaint which could have been posted by anyone (um, competitors to the adult club jump to mind).
My ISP (Speakeasy) eventually got someone in touch with us who really did nothing more than empathize with how angry we were and promised to try and not do it again. That's it. There's a movement afoot to try and reign in this sort of insane overkill, one story here and an a nascent organization against overzealous antispammers is here.
For the record, we did not have confirmation on our opt-in list so theoretically someone could have signed up another (say a priest or something) for our mailing lists. We never got more than a couple new registrations a day so there was no systematic abuse, still, we fixed this and added confirmation (using mailermailer.com, I'm very impressed with them so far) after the complaint (no need to knock us off the web to get our attention, a simple email would have done) and, as I said, we had valid contact info if they had only bothered to ask...
Anyone else been a 'victim' of crazy blacklist providers?
Yea, and Win2k and NT4 insist on writing the ERD (Emergency Recovery Disk, which I have yet to successfully use to actually recover anything but that's beside the point) to floppy only (and there's a baroque set of steps to take if the system data won't conveniently compress down enough, which happens too often.).
... but still, it's very emotional, being parted from that which has saved my ass so many times... I feel like so long as I have my trusted w0rm bootable floppy then no problem, vicious dust bunnies included, is too great.
I'm surprised at my resistence to this. I feel like 'No, not my floppy! It's my safety blanket, my trusty friend who'll let me into my poor damaged hardware whenever I ask (and I've asked way, way too often).' I understand how to make a bootable floppy, maybe that's the problem, the technology to make a bootable CDRom is completely foreign to me (mcdex or something like that isn't it?).
OK so I have to go RTFM but
that just proves that perl is as scary and unreadable as I thought.
The point was - was the bombing of the cities w/ an atomic weapon necessary to bring a swift conclusion to the war and save american lives? I'm not sure that's really addressed in what you say - for example, why bomb nagasaki when the Japanese surely were going to surrender after hiroshima? and why hiroshima and not a more military, less densly populated target (one must have existed).
Were the japanese acting like lunatic criminals? Absolutely. Should we, in turn, do likewise?
I believe at the least IF there was no other way to bring the war to a quick end (and that's debatable) then at least we should have waited longer (a few more days?) between heroshima and nagasaki, and we should have taken a 'shot across the bow' first somewhere other than a city.
We lied when we said we didn't know what would happen to the people, we lied when we said the japanese weren't already near surrender and we lied when we said we didn't drop the bomb out of malice and revenge. We did. If we'd tell the truth about that then maybe we could have a reasonable look at the rest of the story and judge ourselves based on the whole, not just a partial, truth. Nothing wrong with that, right?
many existing p2p programs still support this. Mine does (I won't name it b/c we have a nice community of a few thousand users, too much publicity for a p2p network isn't always a good thing). This is my #1 way of finding good music: I watch what people are downloading from my collection, when someone grabs a song I particularly like (or is particularly obscure or whatever) I browse thier files.
My p2p software also has chat rooms based on music type (which are good for culling new group names from) and, of course, there is always the 'people who bought this album also bought' feature in amazon.com.
It always irked me when napster opponents said it was no good for finding new music - I LOVE finding new music by looking through other people's collections!
mmmm - I was living in DC around '95 when the 50th anniversary of hiroshima was being greeted by an exhibit at the national air a space museum. The original exhibit was critical of the decision to drop the bomb and exposed some lies (like we didn't know about what the radiation would do the the population) and, as I recall, the director of the museum was fired and the script re-written befor the exhibit opened. Here's a little bit of that story, complete with quote:
"One major problem was the consequences of not using the atomic bombs. The earlier scripts implied Japan would have surrendered without an invasion. Dr. Tom Crouch, one of the exhibit's curators explained the evidence for that conclusion:
'(take) The Strategic Bombing Survey team for example. Paul Nitze and John Kenneth Galbraith and the economists who were in Japan in the months immediately after the war to assess the impact of the strategic bombing campaign. They looked at everything I mean at economics, at morale, at what happened to fire departments and particular industries, particular towns. With regard to Japan. Their final comment on the (Atomic) bomb was that their studies indicated had there been no bomb, had there been no invasion, Japan would of surrendered in September-October. Something of that sort. Other Post-War studies said the same thing. I don't think we quote any of the others. Marine Corps and Army immediate Post-War gaming situations in 1946-1947, when they were playing with the political elements suggested essentially the same thing. The collapse was closer than the Japanese themselves realized and would of come at that point. If you see that in the script you're only going to see that as a quote from somebody else. There will be quotes to the contrary.' "
What's up with that anyway? I don't understand why these companies loose so much money. We ran an entire web business, streaming video, store, etc. on a yearly budget way under salon's daily operating costs. Meaning, I guess, that we could be open for the next 365 years on one year of salon's budget. OK so store and media content are not what Salon does, but I still don't understand WTF these people do that costs so much money...
Does this mean it's time to organize? I mean, I don't know about you all, but one of the reasons I like computers is the power-like feeling I get (manipulating systems with a tapity tap tap on the keyboard). I like it because it makes me necessary, and because I get to do things that make work much easier for others (I do app development). If this shat continues however I'm going to feel less like a Golden Technology God then an overpaid fry cook. At which point I'm forming a union.
Anyone want to join?
Unless one of the nodes is hit by lightning at the exact moment a clumsy comp-sci student spills a coke on the server rack and then BZZWRACK!POW Your worm has achieved consciousness.
actaully, sorry, but you're wrong. Office 95-97 was the last time microsoft changed 'the binary format' of word documents - meaning office 97 documents are the same as 2000 and Office XP. There are features in the latter releases not supported in 97 so you may see "office 97 compatability" turned on in the document properties, this, in turn can cause some relatively obscure problems but for the most part Office 97 files work just fine in latter editions and vice-versa. Access is the one exception - .mdb files made in O2K and later are not fully backward compatible (a big part of the problem is O97 VBA for access differed significantly from O2K VBA for access).
There are lots of reasons to not like MS I want to make sure you get some of the good ones - this one is a red herring.
apparently they sleep at night in Panama. Not surprising, I don't think I'd want to be hanging out in the US with a product as legally questionable as this one...
Permissioned Media Inc.
Sun Towers, 1st Floor, Office #39
Ave. Ricardo J. Alfaro
Panama City, El Dorado Zona 6
Panama
I bought Suse for ... around $70 as my first linux distro. If I had Xandros as an option at the time I would have bought that instead, it seems like a really great first distro that bridges nicely between windows and linux.
Maybe once I'm a 1337 linux d00d then I'll just download and build my own linux but for now linux is hard (a lot of pride-swallowing as I wallow around practically like I've never seen a computer before, taking a half hour to figure out that I can pipe things to grep (still can't write regular expressions) and a couple hours until I finally got rc.d). Anything that made linux more useful, more quickly, is great.
reminds me of a Chris Rock joke (recently heard in Bowling for Columbine). ...innocent bystanders getting killed ... one simple way to solve the problem, make bullets cost five thousand dollars. That way no one would be shooting them all over the place, you'd be damn sure you hit what you were aiming at (acts like he's looking down at a dead guy) damn, they put $15,000 worth of bullets in his ass, he musta done SOMEthing bad...
Just make everyone who unsuccessfully sues to defend a patent pay for all the court costs for both parties.
right, this is just another case of linux replacing unix, not windows. cost savings are vs the old unix boxes.
yea but you don't usually store really, really imporant data on someone else's node on a peer-to-peer network either. How do you get data integrity (I presume you don't HAVE to leave the desktop on all the time? If you did, you'd just trade 1 big server for 100 (or howevermany) little ones, more of a pain to admin. I thought someone else brought up a distributed peer-to-peer DB on slashdot a while ago...
I think the point was that it would run without exchange - that's the killer part of most small-business email systems, the expense (outright and TCO) of exchange. And try to find commercially hosted exchange servers to use. Don't exist.
I'm all for anything that does an end-run around exchange.
No way, it's the same problem as Final Fantasy - it's too close to something really small so it looks like it fails (to be small enough) rather than succeeds (to be smaller than other laptops). I want a dick tracy watch damnit and I won't be impressed until I see one.