I've still got clients running 3.12 as a basic print and file server. Some servers have uptime of well over a year. It might be old an clunky but it still works.
How many of you actually keep the default settings on your windows boxes? Linux, and open source software in general, is very flexible. If you don't like the defaults, just change them.
-ted
Yeah, that's a MUCH better business model....
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The Porn Of Napster
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"Private Media said it plans to use the Napster trademark to offer millions of adults worldwide the ability to swap adult-oriented content for free and to also gain access to "top quality" content at a reasonable price."
So one guy/gal buys the "top quality" stuff and then trades it to the rest of the Pornster users for free. How, exactly, does one make money this way?
Building out a high speed network "beefs up" the economy by providing high-tech jobs, encouraging spending on high-tech networking gear, built by high-tech employees....etc.
When the telephone was invented, the immediate application was for voice traffic only...that "voice only" network evolved into a massive data network that connects millions of computers (T1, T3, OC192, and others are really telephone circuits). Broadband to every household has an immediate application...the internet, but it will eventually evolve into a medium capable of carrying other services...video on demand (no more blockbuster trips), and other things not yet imagined.
Like the pharmaceutical industry, many new technological ideas evolve from unintended applications of existing technology. The military has advanced research projects that may, or may not, turn into useful defense technology, yet the research proceeds(the ARPANET turned into the present day internet). Unfortunately, many people in washington and wall street think like you, and are too focused on the short term. America needs to invest in its technology infrastructure to secure a better future.
There are some open license keys floating around the internet that will stop working. Can you imagine the fallout from this?
You are a systems administrator for a large company and your whole tech staff has taken home the open license keys (illegally) for their home machines...and then they get on the internet. Now, after deploying XP sp-1, all your corporate desktops stop working. Your company hasn't done anything illegal, yet the company will suffer the consequences.
It may be convenient to blame 300 pound gorilla monopolies, capital markets, and even the FCC chairman for the pitiful state of broadband in this country....but the real story is way more complicated that that.
Throughout America's history, every nationwide, life altering technology was deployed by private companies with financial assistance from the federal government. Technologies like electrical power, public roads, running water, fuel, even the telephone, were all deployed with the assistance of the US government. This is why most households have access to running water, electricity, and telephones.
How do the people on captital hill expect broadband to have universal, affordable deployment without government help? It is painfully obvious that the private sector and capital markets are not up to the task. These instiutions require a quick return on investment to keep the rank and file happy. Deploying a network on this scale is VERY capital intensive and will not show big returns for decades due to slow adoption rates (it took cell phones 20 years to get to where they are now).
Wake up Washington! If you want to get the economy going, it's time to create a government authority with the money and resources necessary to deploy (or assist in the deployment) of a nationwide broadband network. This program would have a similar effect as the parks program during the depression...it will create jobs, better the nation's infrastrucutre and feed a future economic recovery.
Geez, someone moderated me as a troll. What ever happened to a sense of humor on slashdot? I started regularly reading slashdot for the satirical posts.
Slashdotters out there....lighten up a little. You got into technology for fun, not to fix all the world's problems.
"Chris Riggall, a spokesman for the secretary of state's office, attributed the problems to errors by poll workers, a glitch in the Windows operating system that runs the machines and problems with electronic cards that replace paper ballots and ballot boxes."
A "glitch" in the Windows operating system???? Stupid poll workers around the average age of a walmart greeter! Gee, it's a miracle they didn't have more problems.
1. Some computers that appear in the Chooser do not appear in the Connect to Server dialog.
2. The following message appears in an alert box when you attempt to use the Chooser in the Classic environment: "The AppleShare server you are trying to connect to appears not to support the IP protocol required by Mac OS X. Check with the server's administrator if a 'Server IP Address' is available."
Products affected
Mac OS X 10.0 to 10.0.4 Mac OS 9.0 and later Mac OS 8.6 and earlier AppleShare IP 5.0 and later AppleShare IP 6.0 and later Windows NT Services for Macintosh Any other third-party server that offers AppleShare (AFP) over AppleTalk only
Solution
Update to Mac OS X 10.1, which can connect to AppleShare over the AppleTalk protocol. The following section is useful if you do not yet have the Mac OS X 10.1 Update. It may also provide you with useful background information.
Connecting in Mac OS X 10.0 to 10.0.4
Mac OS X versions 10.0 to 10.0.4 only connect to AppleShare volumes over the TCP/IP protocol. Mac OS 8.6 and earlier, as well as some third-party server products, only offer AppleShare over the AppleTalk protocol. Since Mac OS X cannot connect to them, you can reverse the sharing relationship as a workaround: Set up File Sharing on the Mac OS X computer and then connect from the Chooser of the AppleTalk-only computer. Using this method, you can still copy files between the computers. Alternatively, you can update the earlier operating system to Mac OS 9 or later to achieve true bidirectional sharing.
Mac OS 9 and certain versions of AppleShare IP do not share over TCP/IP by default, so you must select this option. The following sections can help you do this or perform the workaround.
There are so may ways this could break....
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CD Copy Stopper
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"If the card deems the request legitimate"
How exactly is this possible? What authenticates the disc?
Anyway, there is a latency problem as the hardware gets faster. There will be latency in answering the above question...the chip has to decide if the requests are legitimate and then spit out data to the photosensor in the DVD/CD drive. What happens when spin rates get faster? The computational latency will be greater than the rotational speed of the drive....the drive will be waiting for the data, but the card stalls and doesn't produce the data. Current drives won't deal with these "read errors" very well.
This technology has "snake-oil" written all over it.
The first release of OS X didn't, and the one stinkin mac in the company couldn't talk to one of our windows NT servers running Mac file services! Why you ask? Because NT only supports Mac file sharing via appletalk not TCP/IP (as do all older mac servers). Does OS 10.2 finally support file sharing via appletalk?
If so, it may actually be time to get the one mac user off of OS 9.
Seriously, why the hell is anyone using WMF? MP3 has wide hardware support, obviously great software suppport, and sounds great. What compelling argument is there for using WMF? Some people claim superior sound quality.....just ask the guy in the story how good his music sounds since he can't play any of his files.
1. CF and Microdrive support
2. No proprietary software, just drag and drop files
3. Works on windows and Linux
4. Cheap
5. Great battery life
6. No DRM crap
7. Customer service that actually writes back (unlike SonicBlueBalls)
Back in my college days, my CS professors stressed understanding of the concept over understanding of the language. As long as the concepts are reinforced I don't have a problem with implementing them in C#.
I do, however, have a problem with this quote from the article:
Kyriakis said, "We believe we should create ties between the business community and the academic community to ensure that innovation happens into the future."
What does the business community have to do with innovation? Most innovation in this country comes from academia. The biotech industry was built around university research, most of the computer industry from "Stanford University Networks" (SUN) to Cisco had their foundations in academia. The innovation usually flows from academia to the business sector...not the other way around.
Public sector businesses are great at refining the technologies for commercial sale and use, but when it comes to truly groundbreaking work...they stink at it. Research for research's sake costs lots of money and no corporation wants those costs to smack the bottom line.
I've got a suggestion for the people in Redmond. If you want to give "innovation" to academia publish the source code to Microsoft products for academic study.
You can thank the Bush administration for taking the teeth out of the DOJ suit. In an era of corporate malfeasance, you'd think that the Bush administration would put pressure on Microsoft to behave.
The think that kills me is that MS was convicted of abusing their monopoly status and still the DOJ is fighting an uphill battle.
Buy the diamond. Ethics shmethics...when your fiancee's friends see you didn't buy her a diamond you can be certain you won't be getting any for a very long time. Take my word for it. I am engaged and my fiancee told me she didn't want a big diamond...but I bought a big one anyway...and you know what? I've never heard her (or her friends) say anything negative about it.
Thanks to the EULA and WPA an OEM copy of microsoft's OS is inexorably tied to the machine it was purchased with. A few years ago, Microsoft started requiring all OEMs to ship "image restoration CDs" instead of installable discs. This means that you can't do an OS install from scratch...you must re-image the hard drive to the factory default configuration. WPA links a product serial number to a hardware based hash on your machine. This makes your software activation key useless on another machine.
Nice huh? You never really own the product, you are just "licensing" the product and therefore you can not sell what you don't own.
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I've still got clients running 3.12 as a basic print and file server. Some servers have uptime of well over a year. It might be old an clunky but it still works.
-ted
that there is an AMD add right smack in the middle of the page.
-ted
Great, now the embedded web server in my MS Access Point(TM) will be able to spread Nimda and Code Red to everyone within my WAP's range.
This should be fun.
-ted
Just cut the cable, solder in a pair of RCA jacks and presto! Analog output! Feed into your favorite sound card and BAM! Captured audio!
-ted
How many of you actually keep the default settings on your windows boxes? Linux, and open source software in general, is very flexible. If you don't like the defaults, just change them.
-ted
"Private Media said it plans to use the Napster trademark to offer millions of adults worldwide the ability to swap adult-oriented content for free and to also gain access to "top quality" content at a reasonable price."
So one guy/gal buys the "top quality" stuff and then trades it to the rest of the Pornster users for free. How, exactly, does one make money this way?
-ted
Yet another bad decision by HPQ's clueless management.
Technology companies become successful by creating innovative products with the best technology. Carly and co. has yet to grasp this concept.
-ted
I could never get by this name. I mean really, how can you trust your data to a device called a "Fireball"?
-ted
What business flunky thought of this idea?
This is a product that early adopters and technically savvy people would buy, and it should be marketed as such.
By imposing all these restrictions on this device HPQ (ticker symbol for HP and Compaq post-merger) loses the "early adopter-enthusiast" crowd.
This product is doomed, and is a sign of things to come from HPQ.
Make yourself some money and short the stock.
-ted
Building out a high speed network "beefs up" the economy by providing high-tech jobs, encouraging spending on high-tech networking gear, built by high-tech employees....etc.
When the telephone was invented, the immediate application was for voice traffic only...that "voice only" network evolved into a massive data network that connects millions of computers (T1, T3, OC192, and others are really telephone circuits). Broadband to every household has an immediate application...the internet, but it will eventually evolve into a medium capable of carrying other services...video on demand (no more blockbuster trips), and other things not yet imagined.
Like the pharmaceutical industry, many new technological ideas evolve from unintended applications of existing technology. The military has advanced research projects that may, or may not, turn into useful defense technology, yet the research proceeds(the ARPANET turned into the present day internet). Unfortunately, many people in washington and wall street think like you, and are too focused on the short term. America needs to invest in its technology infrastructure to secure a better future.
According to the XP service pack 1 website:here
There are some open license keys floating around the internet that will stop working. Can you imagine the fallout from this?
You are a systems administrator for a large company and your whole tech staff has taken home the open license keys (illegally) for their home machines...and then they get on the internet. Now, after deploying XP sp-1, all your corporate desktops stop working. Your company hasn't done anything illegal, yet the company will suffer the consequences.
This may be the best thing yet for Linux.
-ted
It may be convenient to blame 300 pound gorilla monopolies, capital markets, and even the FCC chairman for the pitiful state of broadband in this country....but the real story is way more complicated that that.
Throughout America's history, every nationwide, life altering technology was deployed by private companies with financial assistance from the federal government. Technologies like electrical power, public roads, running water, fuel, even the telephone, were all deployed with the assistance of the US government. This is why most households have access to running water, electricity, and telephones.
How do the people on captital hill expect broadband to have universal, affordable deployment without government help? It is painfully obvious that the private sector and capital markets are not up to the task. These instiutions require a quick return on investment to keep the rank and file happy. Deploying a network on this scale is VERY capital intensive and will not show big returns for decades due to slow adoption rates (it took cell phones 20 years to get to where they are now).
Wake up Washington! If you want to get the economy going, it's time to create a government authority with the money and resources necessary to deploy (or assist in the deployment) of a nationwide broadband network. This program would have a similar effect as the parks program during the depression...it will create jobs, better the nation's infrastrucutre and feed a future economic recovery.
-ted
I've worked the polls once before and i'm just commenting on my previous experience....it was a nightmare.
I'm sure my anecdotal experience isn't a statistically accurate sampling of poll workers, and i'm sure most are competent induhviduals.
-ted
Geez, someone moderated me as a troll. What ever happened to a sense of humor on slashdot? I started regularly reading slashdot for the satirical posts.
Slashdotters out there....lighten up a little. You got into technology for fun, not to fix all the world's problems.
If you want to do that, become a politician.....
****That is also a joke.****
-ted
From the article:
"Chris Riggall, a spokesman for the secretary of state's office, attributed the problems to errors by poll workers, a glitch in the Windows operating system that runs the machines and problems with electronic cards that replace paper ballots and ballot boxes."
A "glitch" in the Windows operating system???? Stupid poll workers around the average age of a walmart greeter! Gee, it's a miracle they didn't have more problems.
-ted
Symptom
1. Some computers that appear in the Chooser do not appear in the Connect to Server dialog.
2. The following message appears in an alert box when you attempt to use the Chooser in the Classic environment: "The AppleShare server you are trying to connect to appears not to support the IP protocol required by Mac OS X. Check with the server's administrator if a 'Server IP Address' is available."
Products affected
Mac OS X 10.0 to 10.0.4
Mac OS 9.0 and later
Mac OS 8.6 and earlier
AppleShare IP 5.0 and later
AppleShare IP 6.0 and later
Windows NT Services for Macintosh
Any other third-party server that offers AppleShare (AFP) over AppleTalk only
Solution
Update to Mac OS X 10.1, which can connect to AppleShare over the AppleTalk protocol. The following section is useful if you do not yet have the Mac OS X 10.1 Update. It may also provide you with useful background information.
Connecting in Mac OS X 10.0 to 10.0.4
Mac OS X versions 10.0 to 10.0.4 only connect to AppleShare volumes over the TCP/IP protocol. Mac OS 8.6 and earlier, as well as some third-party server products, only offer AppleShare over the AppleTalk protocol. Since Mac OS X cannot connect to them, you can reverse the sharing relationship as a workaround: Set up File Sharing on the Mac OS X computer and then connect from the Chooser of the AppleTalk-only computer. Using this method, you can still copy files between the computers. Alternatively, you can update the earlier operating system to Mac OS 9 or later to achieve true bidirectional sharing.
Mac OS 9 and certain versions of AppleShare IP do not share over TCP/IP by default, so you must select this option. The following sections can help you do this or perform the workaround.
"If the card deems the request legitimate"
How exactly is this possible? What authenticates the disc?
Anyway, there is a latency problem as the hardware gets faster. There will be latency in answering the above question...the chip has to decide if the requests are legitimate and then spit out data to the photosensor in the DVD/CD drive. What happens when spin rates get faster? The computational latency will be greater than the rotational speed of the drive....the drive will be waiting for the data, but the card stalls and doesn't produce the data. Current drives won't deal with these "read errors" very well.
This technology has "snake-oil" written all over it.
-ted
The first release of OS X didn't, and the one stinkin mac in the company couldn't talk to one of our windows NT servers running Mac file services! Why you ask? Because NT only supports Mac file sharing via appletalk not TCP/IP (as do all older mac servers). Does OS 10.2 finally support file sharing via appletalk?
If so, it may actually be time to get the one mac user off of OS 9.
-ted
The complete source to all their products? I had no idea.
-ted
Doc: Well don't do it!
Seriously, why the hell is anyone using WMF? MP3 has wide hardware support, obviously great software suppport, and sounds great. What compelling argument is there for using WMF? Some people claim superior sound quality.....just ask the guy in the story how good his music sounds since he can't play any of his files.
-ted
Info on the Frontier Labs Nex II here
Quick reasons why:
1. CF and Microdrive support
2. No proprietary software, just drag and drop files
3. Works on windows and Linux
4. Cheap
5. Great battery life
6. No DRM crap
7. Customer service that actually writes back (unlike SonicBlueBalls)
Back in my college days, my CS professors stressed understanding of the concept over understanding of the language. As long as the concepts are reinforced I don't have a problem with implementing them in C#.
I do, however, have a problem with this quote from the article:
Kyriakis said, "We believe we should create ties between the business community and the academic community to ensure that innovation happens into the future."
What does the business community have to do with innovation? Most innovation in this country comes from academia. The biotech industry was built around university research, most of the computer industry from "Stanford University Networks" (SUN) to Cisco had their foundations in academia. The innovation usually flows from academia to the business sector...not the other way around.
Public sector businesses are great at refining the technologies for commercial sale and use, but when it comes to truly groundbreaking work...they stink at it. Research for research's sake costs lots of money and no corporation wants those costs to smack the bottom line.
I've got a suggestion for the people in Redmond. If you want to give "innovation" to academia publish the source code to Microsoft products for academic study.
-ted
You can thank the Bush administration for taking the teeth out of the DOJ suit. In an era of corporate malfeasance, you'd think that the Bush administration would put pressure on Microsoft to behave.
The think that kills me is that MS was convicted of abusing their monopoly status and still the DOJ is fighting an uphill battle.
-ted
Buy the diamond. Ethics shmethics...when your fiancee's friends see you didn't buy her a diamond you can be certain you won't be getting any for a very long time. Take my word for it. I am engaged and my fiancee told me she didn't want a big diamond...but I bought a big one anyway...and you know what? I've never heard her (or her friends) say anything negative about it.
And oh yes, I got some that night.
-ted
Thanks to the EULA and WPA an OEM copy of microsoft's OS is inexorably tied to the machine it was purchased with. A few years ago, Microsoft started requiring all OEMs to ship "image restoration CDs" instead of installable discs. This means that you can't do an OS install from scratch...you must re-image the hard drive to the factory default configuration. WPA links a product serial number to a hardware based hash on your machine. This makes your software activation key useless on another machine.
Nice huh? You never really own the product, you are just "licensing" the product and therefore you can not sell what you don't own.
-ted