I tried to get a slashdotting on my server, by posting naked pictures of myself. So far, it hasn't worked. (there's even a contest.. the first person to actually GET a naked picture from my server, wins $1. And yes, they realyl ARE there.)
If you had actually asked someone in the business that knows what they are talking about, as opposed to a carrier's customer service reps, then you would've known the answer to this to begin with. Who did you change service with? a carrier's store?
Well, I'm sure that something along the lines of "Learn to use Linux in 24 hours" would be quite handy, as long as the people have English skill commonly. (which I obviously don't from the construction of that sentence.. hopefully you get it) Now, "advanced C programming for the Linux 2.0 kernel" (i don't think that's a real title, i just pulled that one outta my arse.. but "Learn to use Linux in 24 hours" is something that's been collecting dust for a good many years on my bookshelf) would be patently useless.
Right, I didn't mean that. But being the drug and alcohol addicted asshat that he was...
The popular view of what happened is skewed by the BBS community having considered Phil some kind of Hero, making the better software. But, he DID use their code, that was NOT public domain to use. At least, that's what the case determined, and I'm not going to argue with a judicial decision.
Phil Katz was a complete and total ASSHAT too, and I think he deserved his massively drunken depressed death last year or the year before..
And you are entirely wrong about the lawsuit. From this link, you can find out lots of great information. Basically, SEA had released the source code, but required their permission to use it for any purpose beyond study. Phil took their source code, modified it, and then re-sold it for $1.50 less than what SEA did. SEA offered Phil an unlimited use license of SEA's code, if Phil would withdraw from offering to the BUSINESS market. (SEA and Phil Katz used to command fees of thousands of dollars per copy of the software.. I think I have copies of the ads at home from the early 80's)
Your views are totally distorted by what you heard in your 133t bbs days.
Well, those of us that use Unix, can actually compress files while we continue to use our computer. Windows, even XP, still has horrible latencies when programs that want a lot of CPU go CPU bound. Unix has very little of that.
Yeah, I did that when I went to move an entire hard drive's data to another hard drive.. the tar file got damaged somehow on the way to the other drive, and i lost a few gigs worth of data.:(
i use zip for just about everything now that doesn't require being communicated with the rest of the Unix world.
I invited about 30 people to my initial friendster account. Five days later, I had 15,000+ people in my connections. Somewhere about 11 people away from me, and all the way across the continent, I found a girl that I had dated in high school, who knew someone who was a very close friend of mine (that i didn't meet until 5 years after high school, on the other side of the state). She's planning on coming by and hanging out for a few days in March. Should be interesting.:)
That's the only thing I've actually done with Friendster. Oh, one person found me from high school with it, but I didn't particularly want to be found by them. lol.
Lots of people are talking about how their spam filters are just automagically filtering it.. Mine isn't - spamassassin. I do have Bayesian enabled, and I have received at least 20 or 30 of them.. I've received a LOT LOT LOT more bounce emails from other places though, regarding it.. grrr.
I still get a bunch of hits from Code Red in my logs, too.. from people on the same cable systems.. I'm collecting all their IP's , and am going to start a mass bomb of "NET SEND/DOMAIN:ip 'GET A GODDAMN ANTIVIRUS PROGRAM YOU FUCKING MORON'"...
I'd rather (and it would probably be faster/easier for me to do so) just write a slide-show like presentation in QBASIC, then have to use the junk I've seen in Powerpoint. I've been forced to sit down with it and try to figure a way to do certain things with it, and if I ever actually do get it done, it's completely by accident.
Hell, it'd be easier to use old-fashioned grade school style transparency projectors, IMO. Just because you're presenting data that you got on a computer, doesn't mean you need to use a computer to do it.
In days before currenty 2.5/2.6 kernel versions, there was a filesystem called UMSDOS, that allowed you to run from within a DOS file system, entirely. My router does that (it's running 2.0.35 still), and it works fine. Except that when it powerfails, it has to run SCANDISK completely before booting, which sometimes runs into something where it wants a keypress, and there's no keyboard or monitor to do so.. which takes the network down until the roommates acll me and say "come home please help"
what do you mean more reliable? lol. my two quad 4's died around 200,000miles.. and both of those were due to mechanical failures of other important components (like oil pumps)
uh... quad was base for 94-95? i thought the quad's end of life was 92.
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I tried to get a slashdotting on my server, by posting naked pictures of myself. So far, it hasn't worked. (there's even a contest.. the first person to actually GET a naked picture from my server, wins $1. And yes, they realyl ARE there.)
If you had actually asked someone in the business that knows what they are talking about, as opposed to a carrier's customer service reps, then you would've known the answer to this to begin with. Who did you change service with? a carrier's store?
Nowhere in the linked article does it say that they can't, or are not, making money.
It just states that the company that owns Napster lost an assload of money because of the expenses that they went through to re-launch Napster 2.0.
Duh. Hello? It costs money to make things.
Well, I'm sure that something along the lines of "Learn to use Linux in 24 hours" would be quite handy, as long as the people have English skill commonly. (which I obviously don't from the construction of that sentence.. hopefully you get it) Now, "advanced C programming for the Linux 2.0 kernel" (i don't think that's a real title, i just pulled that one outta my arse.. but "Learn to use Linux in 24 hours" is something that's been collecting dust for a good many years on my bookshelf) would be patently useless.
I think drug peddlers actually invented this tactic. The first couple hits are free, you know. And Dave's not here, man.
lol, re: ressurrect the dead in IBM assembly. I would've shot Mt. Dew out my nose, if I had had a Mt. Dew nearby, when I read that one.
I hear that most programmers never really commanded 6 digit salaries here in the U.S... And I made high 5-digits last year, working in Retail. Hmm..
Right, I didn't mean that. But being the drug and alcohol addicted asshat that he was...
The popular view of what happened is skewed by the BBS community having considered Phil some kind of Hero, making the better software. But, he DID use their code, that was NOT public domain to use. At least, that's what the case determined, and I'm not going to argue with a judicial decision.
Host not found. Not a very big deal.
I was attempting to be funny. :P
Phil Katz was a complete and total ASSHAT too, and I think he deserved his massively drunken depressed death last year or the year before..
And you are entirely wrong about the lawsuit. From this link, you can find out lots of great information. Basically, SEA had released the source code, but required their permission to use it for any purpose beyond study. Phil took their source code, modified it, and then re-sold it for $1.50 less than what SEA did. SEA offered Phil an unlimited use license of SEA's code, if Phil would withdraw from offering to the BUSINESS market. (SEA and Phil Katz used to command fees of thousands of dollars per copy of the software.. I think I have copies of the ads at home from the early 80's)
Your views are totally distorted by what you heard in your 133t bbs days.
Well, those of us that use Unix, can actually compress files while we continue to use our computer. Windows, even XP, still has horrible latencies when programs that want a lot of CPU go CPU bound. Unix has very little of that.
Yeah, I did that when I went to move an entire hard drive's data to another hard drive.. the tar file got damaged somehow on the way to the other drive, and i lost a few gigs worth of data. :(
i use zip for just about everything now that doesn't require being communicated with the rest of the Unix world.
I want to be invited too :(
hmm. I can't email from work, but please invite me :) email is in profile.
I invited about 30 people to my initial friendster account. Five days later, I had 15,000+ people in my connections. Somewhere about 11 people away from me, and all the way across the continent, I found a girl that I had dated in high school, who knew someone who was a very close friend of mine (that i didn't meet until 5 years after high school, on the other side of the state). She's planning on coming by and hanging out for a few days in March. Should be interesting. :)
That's the only thing I've actually done with Friendster. Oh, one person found me from high school with it, but I didn't particularly want to be found by them. lol.
Lots of people are talking about how their spam filters are just automagically filtering it.. Mine isn't - spamassassin. I do have Bayesian enabled, and I have received at least 20 or 30 of them.. I've received a LOT LOT LOT more bounce emails from other places though, regarding it.. grrr.
Uhh.. Code Red was an IIS worm, I wasn't aware that it affected those other boxen...
I still get a bunch of hits from Code Red in my logs, too.. from people on the same cable systems.. I'm collecting all their IP's , and am going to start a mass bomb of "NET SEND /DOMAIN:ip 'GET A GODDAMN ANTIVIRUS PROGRAM YOU FUCKING MORON'" ...
I'd rather (and it would probably be faster/easier for me to do so) just write a slide-show like presentation in QBASIC, then have to use the junk I've seen in Powerpoint. I've been forced to sit down with it and try to figure a way to do certain things with it, and if I ever actually do get it done, it's completely by accident.
.PPS .. wtf?
Hell, it'd be easier to use old-fashioned grade school style transparency projectors, IMO. Just because you're presenting data that you got on a computer, doesn't mean you need to use a computer to do it.
Hell, I get jokes in my email that are
Now, I've read almost 200 comments on this thread.. (that's all there is so far).. but has anyone actually seen this operating?
Call me skeptical, but I just don't see it working well.
I see the points (good and bad) for it all, but I just don't see it working well.
In days before currenty 2.5/2.6 kernel versions, there was a filesystem called UMSDOS, that allowed you to run from within a DOS file system, entirely. My router does that (it's running 2.0.35 still), and it works fine. Except that when it powerfails, it has to run SCANDISK completely before booting, which sometimes runs into something where it wants a keypress, and there's no keyboard or monitor to do so.. which takes the network down until the roommates acll me and say "come home please help"
ok, sorry, so i fucked up. lol
and strangely enough, www.ExpertSexChange.com doesn't seem to resolve to anything. LOL!!!!!
Well, you know what Melissa Gates said to her mother, after her wedding night...
"Mother, now I know why he calls it.. Micro... soft."
what do you mean more reliable? lol. my two quad 4's died around 200,000miles.. and both of those were due to mechanical failures of other important components (like oil pumps)
uh... quad was base for 94-95? i thought the quad's end of life was 92.