I think WHOIS data should be *entirely* optional. Just because I happen to run a domain does not mean that I want my email address, home address, real name and telephone number availible to anyone who wishes to see it. If not optional, then it *definitely* should not be criminal to give false information.
In more direct terms, government, get your ugly freakin nose out of the internet.
i picked up a USB headset yesterday for my 11 year old sister, because a bunch of her friends have webcams and headsets. She immediately tried it out with her friends. From what I saw, the quality is still sketchy.
Until they get these messenger/aim/ichat systems up to par with VOIP or other standards, people will still use the telephone.
And, while slightly offtopic - why is it that we have so many different IM networks out there? Why cant we just have a simple single protocol allowing each of the different clients to interoperate. I'm stuck using trillian, lacking half the features of all the others, because i dont feel like running four (aim,icq,msn,yahoo) damn messenger clients.
This guy has packaged firmware flashes that incorporate the most popular expansions. All I wanted was some basic SNMP, and it provided - along with some other handy features.
is that they are technologically impaired halfwits. If they would accually take the time to hire *real* computer experts, maybe they would have a little bit more success in stopping something.
In the past, I could send them detailed logs, including TCP dumps, of people controlling DDOS networks, threatening people, bragging about committing DDOS. And nothing would happen. More recently, a friend of mine had serious threats to her and her child from a stalker - who authorities proceeded to track to Atlanta. But they seemed to miss the fact that he was repeatedly coming from a dialup IP address in Toronto.
Law enforcement on the internet needs to be put into the hands of a capable multinational group with laws that are defined to cross boarders. Until then, DDOS kiddies will still be running around quite loudly proclaiming their existance.
I know the die-hards will nay-say this, but being able to use native Windows drivers would be absolutely great.
Thats because the die-hards know that the biggest stability issue with windows is not the kernel itself, but badly written drivers. If you like linux stability, than windows drivers is the LAST thing you want.
I say we steer right clear of incorporating the ability to wrap windows' closed source drivers into linux. I'll happily wait for open source equivelents - and if we wrap windows drivers, the hardware companies wont make linux native drivers or open their hardware specs so we can write our own.
I think this is a ripoff from the linux fortune poem (paraphrased):
There once was a poet named Dan Whose poetry just didnt Scan. When asked why Dan replied "its because i try to fit as many words into the last line as I can"
Just as a point of reference, there is no bill. Right now they're just trying to get someone to think its a problem worth a bill.
If a bill were to accually pop up, it would garner the wrath of many large companies as well as the open source community. I hope it would die at that point.
Dont underestimate this. Go read that letter. Its designed to appeal directly to the politician in every fasion you can possibly do so. It mentions tax revenue losses, US supremecy in world markets, degredation of copyright laws (which RIAA and the MPAA are yelling in the other ear about), and loss of american jobs.
It stops short of claiming the GPL is the communist revival, but it might as well have.
I'd like to see us respond. We need someone who might make sense to these people. Some rich american. An IBM exec would do the trick. The usual rants from FSF, GNU or EFF people aint gonna help us here.
This cert shouldnt be taken so lightly. I've got my MCSE and A+, and I didnt study or even really pay attention for either.
I've done *nix systems administration and programming for upwards of 6 years now, and I failed the CCNA cert the first time because I underestimated it. It required me to study, which is more than I can say for any other cert.
Its *not* on the same level as an MCSE (which I agree with you on).
Exactly. NAC has been what I would call a "good supporter of internet society" offering decent services and a good location without degrading into a plain and outright capitalist corporation. They've sponsored IRC servers for the major networks free of charge when few others would.
This kind of action is totally uncalled for.
(Disclaimer: I do not work for nac.net, however i have been involved with the administration an IRC network that linked one of their servers.)
Yeah, but he can say that it wouldnt have happened without Microsoft making that claim, and it is therefor Microsoft's problem. Thus, he now wants $20,000.
BSD inits are not runlevel friendly for reasons of nostalgia.
I _HATE_ sysV init/runlevels. You'll find that sentiment amidst many BSD users. I want to be able to write and edit my entire startup routine with only a few keystrokes. I dont want to have to play with large superfluous scripts and assume that it all works.
I like the fact that I grep through four or five scripts and find any part of my boot problems. I like the fact that they arent that complicated.
Runlevels are great for those who dont want direct and complete control over the boot process. Sure, you can have complete control with sysV, but BSD makes it easier.
Its not from some sense of nostalgia. There is a purpose.
My brother and I grew up with TV being a limited asset. Our parents severely restricted our TV time, as it were. My little sister however, was not so closely monitored, as my parents had to get full time jobs to support the three of us. She is now reaching the early teen years, is far more astute to the world around her. She is up on the newest fasions, knows the newest phrases, and wants all the new toys in the commercials.
In short, TV has successfully brainwashed her into the ideal little consumer.
Watching television doesnt teach a person shit about being a responcible person. It teaches them how to be a responcible capitalist consumer.
Getting the elevator up is the easy part. Start at geosync orbit, and lower at the same rate as you push away.
The hard part is making the material that can support its own weight when its supporting 44,000 miles of the stuff. Thats where carbon nanotubes come in.
Basically, the elevator would be made out of a ribbon so light and with such a surface area that it would fall to the earth like a peice of paper. At least that section of the ribbon that doesnt burn up while entering the atmosphere.
A space elevator isnt like the ones you read about in Kim Stanley Robinsons Mars trilogy.
I'd also like to add to this very well written coverage - from a casual programmers perspective:
Linux has had some serious problems dealing with large FD tables in the past - meaning it runs into problems with a large numbers (>1024) of simulatanious network connections. Until the 2.4 kernels, FreeBSD was outperforming hand over fist linux in this arena. The 2.4 kernel fixed a lot of the issues with the linux poll() implementation, and made some proper allowances for larger FD tables. But the Linux network stack is, in my opinion, not really designed for high traffic applications. Without doing some decent kernel hacking, you can't really tune a linux system to deal. FreeBSD is much easier to work with in this area.
I have seen a slightly hacked 2.4 kernel handling traffic at roughly the same levels as an equivelent freebsd machine now, which has forced me to change my tune. However, its use of the processor in those conditions is rather disturbing. It will scale, but the kernel starts eating CPU time more than it should. It can reach some of the highest loads we put on it (in a live environment), but not quite as effeciently as FreeBSD.
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agreed - but as an expansion...
I think WHOIS data should be *entirely* optional. Just because I happen to run a domain does not mean that I want my email address, home address, real name and telephone number availible to anyone who wishes to see it. If not optional, then it *definitely* should not be criminal to give false information.
In more direct terms, government, get your ugly freakin nose out of the internet.
i picked up a USB headset yesterday for my 11 year old sister, because a bunch of her friends have webcams and headsets. She immediately tried it out with her friends. From what I saw, the quality is still sketchy.
Until they get these messenger/aim/ichat systems up to par with VOIP or other standards, people will still use the telephone.
And, while slightly offtopic - why is it that we have so many different IM networks out there? Why cant we just have a simple single protocol allowing each of the different clients to interoperate. I'm stuck using trillian, lacking half the features of all the others, because i dont feel like running four (aim,icq,msn,yahoo) damn messenger clients.
Uh oh. Computers, by definition, are cold and logical. They don't have personalities. They don't have moods.
You have obviously never used a windows machine with more than 6 things in the taskbar.
And for the lazyass:
This guy has packaged firmware flashes that incorporate the most popular expansions. All I wanted was some basic SNMP, and it provided - along with some other handy features.
I really hate to be so blunt - but where I'm from we're severely lacking Medical Doctors. Here in Ontario, we really need you people.
Please, stick with your current occupation. You're saving lives there, and I doubt you could say the same in an IT field.
is that they are technologically impaired halfwits. If they would accually take the time to hire *real* computer experts, maybe they would have a little bit more success in stopping something.
In the past, I could send them detailed logs, including TCP dumps, of people controlling DDOS networks, threatening people, bragging about committing DDOS. And nothing would happen. More recently, a friend of mine had serious threats to her and her child from a stalker - who authorities proceeded to track to Atlanta. But they seemed to miss the fact that he was repeatedly coming from a dialup IP address in Toronto.
Law enforcement on the internet needs to be put into the hands of a capable multinational group with laws that are defined to cross boarders. Until then, DDOS kiddies will still be running around quite loudly proclaiming their existance.
The dock idea isnt new. Windowmaker has been doing it for years. Apple just made it prettier, and turned it on its side.
I know the die-hards will nay-say this, but being able to use native Windows drivers would be absolutely great.
Thats because the die-hards know that the biggest stability issue with windows is not the kernel itself, but badly written drivers. If you like linux stability, than windows drivers is the LAST thing you want.
I say we steer right clear of incorporating the ability to wrap windows' closed source drivers into linux. I'll happily wait for open source equivelents - and if we wrap windows drivers, the hardware companies wont make linux native drivers or open their hardware specs so we can write our own.
Hes got a point. Have you thought about seeing if cheep palm-based or winCE based pdas have audio/netmeeting type support?
I think this is a ripoff from the linux fortune poem (paraphrased):
There once was a poet named Dan
Whose poetry just didnt Scan.
When asked why
Dan replied
"its because i try to fit as many words into the last line as I can"
Just as a point of reference, there is no bill. Right now they're just trying to get someone to think its a problem worth a bill.
If a bill were to accually pop up, it would garner the wrath of many large companies as well as the open source community. I hope it would die at that point.
Dont underestimate this. Go read that letter. Its designed to appeal directly to the politician in every fasion you can possibly do so. It mentions tax revenue losses, US supremecy in world markets, degredation of copyright laws (which RIAA and the MPAA are yelling in the other ear about), and loss of american jobs.
It stops short of claiming the GPL is the communist revival, but it might as well have.
I'd like to see us respond. We need someone who might make sense to these people. Some rich american. An IBM exec would do the trick. The usual rants from FSF, GNU or EFF people aint gonna help us here.
This cert shouldnt be taken so lightly. I've got my MCSE and A+, and I didnt study or even really pay attention for either.
I've done *nix systems administration and programming for upwards of 6 years now, and I failed the CCNA cert the first time because I underestimated it. It required me to study, which is more than I can say for any other cert.
Its *not* on the same level as an MCSE (which I agree with you on).
Exactly. NAC has been what I would call a "good supporter of internet society" offering decent services and a good location without degrading into a plain and outright capitalist corporation. They've sponsored IRC servers for the major networks free of charge when few others would.
This kind of action is totally uncalled for.
(Disclaimer: I do not work for nac.net, however i have been involved with the administration an IRC network that linked one of their servers.)
And your father smelled of the dewy decimal system!
Yeah, but he can say that it wouldnt have happened without Microsoft making that claim, and it is therefor Microsoft's problem. Thus, he now wants $20,000.
I would do it.
BSD inits are not runlevel friendly for reasons of nostalgia.
I _HATE_ sysV init/runlevels. You'll find that sentiment amidst many BSD users. I want to be able to write and edit my entire startup routine with only a few keystrokes. I dont want to have to play with large superfluous scripts and assume that it all works.
I like the fact that I grep through four or five scripts and find any part of my boot problems. I like the fact that they arent that complicated.
Runlevels are great for those who dont want direct and complete control over the boot process. Sure, you can have complete control with sysV, but BSD makes it easier.
Its not from some sense of nostalgia. There is a purpose.
Speaking of other options, Lets not forget that Progeny will be offering Redhat support for those distributions as per this slashdot story.
These are the times when you really wish there wasnt the +5 limit. I wish you could just keep modding sky-high, if you so desired.
We should be able to spend our mod points as we choose!
Not only that, but the bandwidth is super expensive, and broadband is not exactly overly availible.
But what im curious about is why he says "I definitely won't be moving back to Finland though." Whats wrong with Finland?
My brother and I grew up with TV being a limited asset. Our parents severely restricted our TV time, as it were. My little sister however, was not so closely monitored, as my parents had to get full time jobs to support the three of us. She is now reaching the early teen years, is far more astute to the world around her. She is up on the newest fasions, knows the newest phrases, and wants all the new toys in the commercials.
In short, TV has successfully brainwashed her into the ideal little consumer.
Watching television doesnt teach a person shit about being a responcible person. It teaches them how to be a responcible capitalist consumer.
Getting the elevator up is the easy part. Start at geosync orbit, and lower at the same rate as you push away.
The hard part is making the material that can support its own weight when its supporting 44,000 miles of the stuff. Thats where carbon nanotubes come in.
If its secret, then you wouldnt know about it, would you. Now shush.
I hate when I see this arguement.
Look at some of the more recent space elevator designs.
Basically, the elevator would be made out of a ribbon so light and with such a surface area that it would fall to the earth like a peice of paper. At least that section of the ribbon that doesnt burn up while entering the atmosphere.
A space elevator isnt like the ones you read about in Kim Stanley Robinsons Mars trilogy.
I'd also like to add to this very well written coverage - from a casual programmers perspective:
Linux has had some serious problems dealing with large FD tables in the past - meaning it runs into problems with a large numbers (>1024) of simulatanious network connections. Until the 2.4 kernels, FreeBSD was outperforming hand over fist linux in this arena. The 2.4 kernel fixed a lot of the issues with the linux poll() implementation, and made some proper allowances for larger FD tables. But the Linux network stack is, in my opinion, not really designed for high traffic applications. Without doing some decent kernel hacking, you can't really tune a linux system to deal. FreeBSD is much easier to work with in this area.
I have seen a slightly hacked 2.4 kernel handling traffic at roughly the same levels as an equivelent freebsd machine now, which has forced me to change my tune. However, its use of the processor in those conditions is rather disturbing. It will scale, but the kernel starts eating CPU time more than it should. It can reach some of the highest loads we put on it (in a live environment), but not quite as effeciently as FreeBSD.