Im sure the DMCA will help fight terrorism, therefore we Canadians welcome any otherwise draconian laws to fight those dirty muslim extremists even if it does take away all our fair use rights. We'll be thankful when they can't use illegally decrypted e-books in the crashing planes into canadian landmarks for dummies series against us.
This is what I have always done. I have a Kenwood receiver I bought off a friend for pretty cheap, and a set of 80W Paradigm bookshelf speakers speakers I stole from my father. This setup has always been descent, and my computer is by far the principle sound system of the house (before it was CD's, now its mostly MP3's, and I would never ever listen to radio [advertising] at home).
As for my soundcard, I am still using the EISA SoundBlaster 16 card that came with my 486 6-7 years ago. For music listening, there is nothing wrong with it, and I'm sure they are very cheap these days. And Linux support for it is seamless.
actually, i saw on the news this morning that box office sales this weekend were consistent with the norm. Whatever benchmark they use I have no idea because i hate most movies anyway
Some how I do not think this is an ideal solution. A cisco 2513 is designed to be an access router, not for not for switching between its 2 lan interfaces. They are merely a convenience on that particular model. I searched through the product literature but can't find its bus speed. Considering its designed for a maximum bandwidth of 2 2.038mbps E1's, I doubt it's anywhere near the 533Mbps & 1 Gbps 7000 & 7500 series routers which are actually designed for this. Coincidently, they also cost a lot more. But I doubt you'd get anywhere near wire speed (16mbps) switching between the ethernet & token ring ports on a 2513 (please correct me if I'm wrong).
You'd be just as well of assembling a 486 with an ethernet and token ring card, and one of the tiny Linux distributions that do routing. This still isolates you into your own segment however. I'd be interested in knowing whether linux can bridge the interfaces rather than route..
Yes but Dimitry Sklyarov committed his crime under US law. The US has the highest incarceration rate in the world. The wristslapping in the last few days occured outside America, and hence, the sentancing is a little more level headed.
Or lack thereof, rather. Everyone knows television is super addictive, its just that the relentless advertising finally takes its toll on our brain and we are forced to turn it off. Think about it, when was the last time you've seen four straight days without an ad in sight?
It's probably NEVER happened before and this is what's causing the widespread television addiction. Full length interviews, they don't force the callers off the line because they have to "take a short break". Im dead serious about this folks.
I have a feeling its american media in large part. Many americans just don't get the information about these sorts of things from CNN. For example, I think on Monday there was a news story on the Canadian CBC network about our trade minister in washington pleading with officials to reconsider the 19% duty they are schedualed to impose very shortly on our softwood lumber exports (so much for NAFTA). This has been a big story in Canada for a long time and we have won WTO decisions regarding this issue in the past.
What is particularly interesting about this report was that the minister had pleaded with the Washington Post to at least print a blurb about his visit to Washington, and asked CNN to discuss the issue on Hardline, and whatnot. But _NO ONE WAS INTERESTED_ . The Washington Post would not even print a blurb about this big and lingering story in Canada.
The point is that the average american has no idea what softwood lumber is or that a large portion of it comes from Canada. And a big part the reason is that American media was much more interested in Gary Condit than trade disputes with their biggest trading partner (despite Bushes snubbing of Canada in favor of Mexico last week).
Who's to blame? It's a tough question, but I sincerely believe American media and politicians do not necessarily reflect the values of most Americans, and I base this on the fact that I in no way feel that my politicians or media truly represent me here at home in Canada.
I'd also like to point out that over 200 planes were diverted to Canada which had been bound for the United States. By the news reports today, it sounds like many, many Canadians were helping out, taking these stranded passengers into their homes, and feeding them, and other things. When the head United States Transportation official was giving a speech about the situation, he did indeed thank Canada for our part in the efforts. I switched to CNN to see if was being carried live, and, of course, it wasn't. So again, this is not the average american, its just their media largely ignoring others. If theres one thing that comes out of this, I think its going to awaken americans to the realities of the world.
How on earth would acquiring Novell be of strategic advantage to Cisco?
Yesterday, GlobeInvestor had an article about Cisco potentially taking over Nortel, seeing as its stock price is very low right now. Today there is an article with Nortel denying it.
Ok, I see both of your points. Its the same as if Canadian officials say Brazilian beef has ecoli, I'm very much inclined to believe them -- regardless of what any world trade organizations have to say about the matter.
When I hear Americans whining about NAFTA, however, it almost seems as though its a personal grudge against Canada, for allowing our corporations to do business there with only the same restrictions has American organizations, including sending Canadian employees and what not.
What I don't understand is the softwood lumber dispute. How there can be free trade for anything the US wants to sell to Canada or needs from us, but then they have the power to slap a 20% duty on lumber because American business' don't like it. What the hell is that? It makes the whole thing seem like a sham. But all in all, 80% of our exports go down south so I don't see how NAFTA can be all that bad of a thing. Plus we are Americas biggest export destination as well, so I don't know how it can be bad for them either.
What I'd really like to see is a secured Canada-US perimeter, including Mexico if they get their act together, in which we could freely move and/or migrate.
Are you saying that they don't have a similar network in the United States?
Judging from all the posts saying America needs to abolish cash payments asap, I'm inclined to think its true. There's no doubt, Interac is what I would conisder ubiquitus. Plus, if you use a financial instution like PC Finacial, there is no service fee at all. Though my question is, what are the Plus & Cirrus networks that our bank cards say they are compatible with? I thought they were US Interac equivalents...
In response to the comment about Americans being instructed not to use debit cards for significant purchases, I must say, I have never ever heard of that being a concern here in Ontario.
"Broadband networking is defined, in the classic sense, as DS-3 (T-3) or greater, providing bandwidth of 45 Mbps or more" -- Communications Systems & Networks, ISBN 0-7645-7522-8.
Broadband is any technology faster than the primary-rate. This how the ITU-T defined it many years ago (If ITU-T standards were open, I'd provide a link). The ATM Forum's definition is in line with mine, however. They wouldn't lie.
Interestingly enough, there was a documentary on Canadas national (government-funded) news network in the last fews days about how Ireland was fast becoming a high tech mecca. I guess not?
I've been pricing it out and here in London, Ontario, DSL is only $29.99/month. Thats pennies in USD.
As far as it being a priviledge. Nothing a corporation offers is a priviledge. Your parents give you priviledges. Broadband is a commercial product offered by greedy and monopolistic cable and telephone companies.
Hmm. Well, I solved the typing slow thing a few years ago by switching to dvorak. (if my nick didn't give it away). As far as the learning curve, everything is hard at first. Windows is hard if you haven't grown up with it.
Secondly, I haven't seen a gui application yet that I religiously envoke from the
command prompt. Get gui applications out of the $PATH! If I wanted to run xcdroast
from the command line every time, I would put a symbolic link in/usr/local/bin
myself!
I don't mean to be rude, but seriously, that has got to be one of the dumbest things I have ever heard on Slashdot. And the fact that at least one person agrees with you is even more disturbing.
First, as has been mentioned, it does not hurt or affect anything. Big deal. On my system most apps are installed in/usr/bin anyway, so it makes no difference whatsoever. It's not like you're wasting an extra 15-20 bytes in your path.
Second, running commands from the console is very efficient. I'd have it no other way. I have no icons on my so called desktop. That is incredibly ugly and unefficient. I had to do some work on a clients computer the last few weeks, and every time I was there every last inch of his Windows desktop was covered with icons -- and I had to find the ones I was looking for by going back and forth across (Looking for ssh to login to a Linux host, of course). Desktop icons are just a stupid concept. The only program I start from an icon is rxvt (from icewm's taskbar).
Think about it. Every time I run Netscape, I can decide how much schedualing priority to give it: will be it be nice -n 19 netscape today, or just plain old "netscape" or "netscape -mail" or whatever else I feel like specifying. If I want to look at pictures, I just have to cd ~/Download/porno; xv&". It's so much more efficient. And once every three months I might not know the name of an app so I just ls/usr/bin |grep xxx where xxx equals something simple like "calc" to see your calculators, or "cd" to see your cdplayers... Really, it's not that complicated..
Coincidently I downloaded it last night, but it seems a little pricey. $39US is a little much for me, when I have Netscape Communicator, which otherwise works fine, for free. Plus it kind of sucked last time I used it, probably a good 2 years ago.
However, I use Communicator 4.75. Therefore, this feature is annoying the hell out of me as well. I do not have the resources to run one of those fancy new browsers. Netscape on a p166 other wise works just fine. Especially when I see no use for setting the cookie everytime. It worked fine before, the user cookie only needs to be set once when I log on.
Normally I block all cookies through Guidescope, and selectivly turn on cookies for sites which I need them for. However, in Netscape I still have the prompt for each cookie option turned on.
This is very much necessary. If you turn on this option and browse the web for a few days, you will see all the bullshit cookies companies set. Anything including the letters "UID" in the cookie name drives me absolutely insane. They have no bloody right to track my movement across websites. And yes, I know its a bit of an inconvience to selectively accept cookies, and I can live with that. But I don't need Slashdot, my favorite and by far most frequently visited site on the whole entire internet, blatently making things that much harder for me. And the nerve of you to tell me to get a new and modern browser. You sound like a typical enthusiastic Windows user. Damn you.
On another note, I registered a name shortly after Slashdot names were added as a feature. But I continued to post for a long time by just typing in my real name instead (when we could). My account magically disappeared. Now I am stuck with a very unimpressive UID. Damn whoever added that feature as well.
Note, I said I've heard they like to cesor, not that I have experienced it first hand. Please, I would never sign up for a service that dictated terms such as that (well, as long as theres alternatives).
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Yes, that's nice in theory, but in reality, it's must easier to pay someone $75/hour to type in "access-list 101 deny any any eq 80" on each access router than it is to pay them to type in hundreds of such statements corresponding to each specific users IP address on each of their subnets. And never mind the labour costs, the CPU costs to process that access list for each and every packet would be unreal. (Not to dwell on router configuration, but each line would have to be unique, ie. you couldn't group them together in subnets etc as is usually done, and remember, each and every line is processed until a matching one is found).
Officially Rogers@home does not allow web servers, but that URL beside my name is hosted on Rogers in Ottawa, and has been for quite some time. Yet here in London, I've heard its a different story. So I guess maybe they are selective about it.
Personally, I think its my god given right to use allocated bandwidth however I choose. Its one thing to limit bandwidth, quite another to censor what bytes are allowed in my incoming or outgoing tcp segments.
I think the big selling point of a BBS system nowadays is that it would be local. Each BBS fostered a little community. You're not going to find that on a telnet BBS. I know, I logged onto one a couple months ago and LORD just wasn't the same. And we don't need BBS's anymore, we can just join #my_city on IRC.
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Im sure the DMCA will help fight terrorism, therefore we Canadians welcome any otherwise draconian laws to fight those dirty muslim extremists even if it does take away all our fair use rights. We'll be thankful when they can't use illegally decrypted e-books in the crashing planes into canadian landmarks for dummies series against us.
This is what I have always done. I have a Kenwood receiver I bought off a friend for pretty cheap, and a set of 80W Paradigm bookshelf speakers speakers I stole from my father. This setup has always been descent, and my computer is by far the principle sound system of the house (before it was CD's, now its mostly MP3's, and I would never ever listen to radio [advertising] at home).
As for my soundcard, I am still using the EISA SoundBlaster 16 card that came with my 486 6-7 years ago. For music listening, there is nothing wrong with it, and I'm sure they are very cheap these days. And Linux support for it is seamless.
Hold on now, there is absolutely no reason to go and turn this into another Canada bashing discussion. Stupid American.
actually, i saw on the news this morning that box office sales this weekend were consistent with the norm. Whatever benchmark they use I have no idea because i hate most movies anyway
Some how I do not think this is an ideal solution. A cisco 2513 is designed to be an access router, not for not for switching between its 2 lan interfaces. They are merely a convenience on that particular model. I searched through the product literature but can't find its bus speed. Considering its designed for a maximum bandwidth of 2 2.038mbps E1's, I doubt it's anywhere near the 533Mbps & 1 Gbps 7000 & 7500 series routers which are actually designed for this. Coincidently, they also cost a lot more. But I doubt you'd get anywhere near wire speed (16mbps) switching between the ethernet & token ring ports on a 2513 (please correct me if I'm wrong).
You'd be just as well of assembling a 486 with an ethernet and token ring card, and one of the tiny Linux distributions that do routing. This still isolates you into your own segment however. I'd be interested in knowing whether linux can bridge the interfaces rather than route..
Yes but Dimitry Sklyarov committed his crime under US law. The US has the highest incarceration rate in the world. The wristslapping in the last few days occured outside America, and hence, the sentancing is a little more level headed.
Or lack thereof, rather. Everyone knows television is super addictive, its just that the relentless advertising finally takes its toll on our brain and we are forced to turn it off. Think about it, when was the last time you've seen four straight days without an ad in sight?
It's probably NEVER happened before and this is what's causing the widespread television addiction. Full length interviews, they don't force the callers off the line because they have to "take a short break". Im dead serious about this folks.
I have a feeling its american media in large part. Many americans just don't get the information about these sorts of things from CNN. For example, I think on Monday there was a news story on the Canadian CBC network about our trade minister in washington pleading with officials to reconsider the 19% duty they are schedualed to impose very shortly on our softwood lumber exports (so much for NAFTA). This has been a big story in Canada for a long time and we have won WTO decisions regarding this issue in the past.
What is particularly interesting about this report was that the minister had pleaded with the Washington Post to at least print a blurb about his visit to Washington, and asked CNN to discuss the issue on Hardline, and whatnot. But _NO ONE WAS INTERESTED_ . The Washington Post would not even print a blurb about this big and lingering story in Canada.
The point is that the average american has no idea what softwood lumber is or that a large portion of it comes from Canada. And a big part the reason is that American media was much more interested in Gary Condit than trade disputes with their biggest trading partner (despite Bushes snubbing of Canada in favor of Mexico last week).
Who's to blame? It's a tough question, but I sincerely believe American media and politicians do not necessarily reflect the values of most Americans, and I base this on the fact that I in no way feel that my politicians or media truly represent me here at home in Canada.
I'd also like to point out that over 200 planes were diverted to Canada which had been bound for the United States. By the news reports today, it sounds like many, many Canadians were helping out, taking these stranded passengers into their homes, and feeding them, and other things. When the head United States Transportation official was giving a speech about the situation, he did indeed thank Canada for our part in the efforts. I switched to CNN to see if was being carried live, and, of course, it wasn't. So again, this is not the average american, its just their media largely ignoring others. If theres one thing that comes out of this, I think its going to awaken americans to the realities of the world.
How on earth would acquiring Novell be of strategic advantage to Cisco?
Yesterday, GlobeInvestor had an article about Cisco potentially taking over Nortel, seeing as its stock price is very low right now. Today there is an article with Nortel denying it.
Ok, I see both of your points. Its the same as if Canadian officials say Brazilian beef has ecoli, I'm very much inclined to believe them -- regardless of what any world trade organizations have to say about the matter.
When I hear Americans whining about NAFTA, however, it almost seems as though its a personal grudge against Canada, for allowing our corporations to do business there with only the same restrictions has American organizations, including sending Canadian employees and what not.
What I don't understand is the softwood lumber dispute. How there can be free trade for anything the US wants to sell to Canada or needs from us, but then they have the power to slap a 20% duty on lumber because American business' don't like it. What the hell is that? It makes the whole thing seem like a sham. But all in all, 80% of our exports go down south so I don't see how NAFTA can be all that bad of a thing. Plus we are Americas biggest export destination as well, so I don't know how it can be bad for them either.
What I'd really like to see is a secured Canada-US perimeter, including Mexico if they get their act together, in which we could freely move and/or migrate.
How is NAFTA attacking your freedoms?
Are you saying that they don't have a similar network in the United States?
Judging from all the posts saying America needs to abolish cash payments asap, I'm inclined to think its true. There's no doubt, Interac is what I would conisder ubiquitus. Plus, if you use a financial instution like PC Finacial, there is no service fee at all. Though my question is, what are the Plus & Cirrus networks that our bank cards say they are compatible with? I thought they were US Interac equivalents...
In response to the comment about Americans being instructed not to use debit cards for significant purchases, I must say, I have never ever heard of that being a concern here in Ontario.
"Broadband networking is defined, in the classic sense, as DS-3 (T-3) or greater, providing bandwidth of 45 Mbps or more" -- Communications Systems & Networks, ISBN 0-7645-7522-8.
Broadband is any technology faster than the primary-rate. This how the ITU-T defined it many years ago (If ITU-T standards were open, I'd provide a link). The ATM Forum's definition is in line with mine, however. They wouldn't lie.
Interestingly enough, there was a documentary on Canadas national (government-funded) news network in the last fews days about how Ireland was fast becoming a high tech mecca. I guess not?
I've been pricing it out and here in London, Ontario, DSL is only $29.99/month. Thats pennies in USD.
As far as it being a priviledge. Nothing a corporation offers is a priviledge. Your parents give you priviledges. Broadband is a commercial product offered by greedy and monopolistic cable and telephone companies.
Hmm. Well, I solved the typing slow thing a few years ago by switching to dvorak. (if my nick didn't give it away). As far as the learning curve, everything is hard at first. Windows is hard if you haven't grown up with it.
I don't mean to be rude, but seriously, that has got to be one of the dumbest things I have ever heard on Slashdot. And the fact that at least one person agrees with you is even more disturbing.
First, as has been mentioned, it does not hurt or affect anything. Big deal. On my system most apps are installed in /usr/bin anyway, so it makes no difference whatsoever. It's not like you're wasting an extra 15-20 bytes in your path.
Second, running commands from the console is very efficient. I'd have it no other way. I have no icons on my so called desktop. That is incredibly ugly and unefficient. I had to do some work on a clients computer the last few weeks, and every time I was there every last inch of his Windows desktop was covered with icons -- and I had to find the ones I was looking for by going back and forth across (Looking for ssh to login to a Linux host, of course). Desktop icons are just a stupid concept. The only program I start from an icon is rxvt (from icewm's taskbar).
Think about it. Every time I run Netscape, I can decide how much schedualing priority to give it: will be it be nice -n 19 netscape today, or just plain old "netscape" or "netscape -mail" or whatever else I feel like specifying. If I want to look at pictures, I just have to cd ~/Download/porno; xv&". It's so much more efficient. And once every three months I might not know the name of an app so I just ls /usr/bin |grep xxx where xxx equals something simple like "calc" to see your calculators, or "cd" to see your cdplayers... Really, it's not that complicated..
Coincidently I downloaded it last night, but it seems a little pricey. $39US is a little much for me, when I have Netscape Communicator, which otherwise works fine, for free. Plus it kind of sucked last time I used it, probably a good 2 years ago.
Mozilla & Konqueror have that option.
However, I use Communicator 4.75. Therefore, this feature is annoying the hell out of me as well. I do not have the resources to run one of those fancy new browsers. Netscape on a p166 other wise works just fine. Especially when I see no use for setting the cookie everytime. It worked fine before, the user cookie only needs to be set once when I log on.
Normally I block all cookies through Guidescope, and selectivly turn on cookies for sites which I need them for. However, in Netscape I still have the prompt for each cookie option turned on.
This is very much necessary. If you turn on this option and browse the web for a few days, you will see all the bullshit cookies companies set. Anything including the letters "UID" in the cookie name drives me absolutely insane. They have no bloody right to track my movement across websites. And yes, I know its a bit of an inconvience to selectively accept cookies, and I can live with that. But I don't need Slashdot, my favorite and by far most frequently visited site on the whole entire internet, blatently making things that much harder for me. And the nerve of you to tell me to get a new and modern browser. You sound like a typical enthusiastic Windows user. Damn you.
On another note, I registered a name shortly after Slashdot names were added as a feature. But I continued to post for a long time by just typing in my real name instead (when we could). My account magically disappeared. Now I am stuck with a very unimpressive UID. Damn whoever added that feature as well.
Note, I said I've heard they like to cesor, not that I have experienced it first hand. Please, I would never sign up for a service that dictated terms such as that (well, as long as theres alternatives).
Yes, that's nice in theory, but in reality, it's must easier to pay someone $75/hour to type in "access-list 101 deny any any eq 80" on each access router than it is to pay them to type in hundreds of such statements corresponding to each specific users IP address on each of their subnets. And never mind the labour costs, the CPU costs to process that access list for each and every packet would be unreal. (Not to dwell on router configuration, but each line would have to be unique, ie. you couldn't group them together in subnets etc as is usually done, and remember, each and every line is processed until a matching one is found).
Officially Rogers@home does not allow web servers, but that URL beside my name is hosted on Rogers in Ottawa, and has been for quite some time. Yet here in London, I've heard its a different story. So I guess maybe they are selective about it.
Personally, I think its my god given right to use allocated bandwidth however I choose. Its one thing to limit bandwidth, quite another to censor what bytes are allowed in my incoming or outgoing tcp segments.
Wow, your story sounds exactly the same as mine, except I discovered IRC and Slashdot.
I think the big selling point of a BBS system nowadays is that it would be local. Each BBS fostered a little community. You're not going to find that on a telnet BBS. I know, I logged onto one a couple months ago and LORD just wasn't the same. And we don't need BBS's anymore, we can just join #my_city on IRC.
Make sure to wrap it in quotation (%22) marks! =)
Uh, you can cut off a port in one direction only you know......