The ability to log messages is really keen. Accountability is important in a business setting; I witness Jabber developers' use of conference logs almost daily. The adoption of jabber in a messaging infrastructure by government makes sense.
The funny thing is, i am president of computer club, and my sponsor _is_ the school's network administrator. Decisions regarding which sites get blocked have been delegated to him by his superiors. Many classes have computer lab days where we are required to work on computers for class credit.
The school board is not about to disagree with a community of parents who are very wealthy and conservative. Taxpayers in the area want to see more and more technology, with less dependence on human teachers. Stevenson high school makes this school look foolish. There is a push (starting 3 years ago) to increase the technology budget here up to 100 million dollars.
I'm a senior, so i guess i won't have to deal with this much longer. However, my little sister is 11, and i fear she will not have objective exposure to the internet. She lives with my father and step mother, who are techno-nazis and limit computer use to 30 minutes every two days. Every minute she visits me at mom's house, it's "Eric? can i go online?" Inccidentaly, she's learning how to navigate my GNU/Linux-based laptop software, which gives me some hope.
At my highschool, the current system for blocking webpages was introduced as a means to cache commonly used pages and make the District 225 intranet faster. The superintendent and members of the district board know very little about computers, so naturally it is approved. After the Columbine incident, a new feature was tacked on that blocked certain objectionable web sites. The recent WTC attack caused even more areas of the net to be restricted. Today, when i want to search "terrorism" for a paper on the war afghanistan, my results are blocked. Teachers have informed us that we must use the one non-blocked computer in the tech room, or do research at home.
my friend set up an anonymous web surfing proxy at his home computer, and using this i can get whatever i want.
there are publically available anonymous port-80 proxies still around.
A few summers ago i worked as an administrator on a University network. My job consisted of answering calls, keeping the architects in the upstairs office out of the pr0n, (re)building computers, and updating hoardes of wintel software. This kept me busy in the afternoon coming from highschool football training. Time goes on, there is literally not much to be done; i've automated everything complicated with VBS and Perl scripts.
Three more guys are hired, and the boss is upset with our inabillity to look busy. Boss takes a request from the architects, the result of a contracting dispute, and sends us to survey the amount of concrete used for the entire campus.
In exchange for the three guys doing grunt work of concrete measuring, i download songs ala AudioGalaxy and burn to CD for them. I was the guy who is in charge of preventing that very type of network abuse.
The boss was pretty upset. I pointed out that he does the same thing on _his_ lunch break. I was promptly fired the next week.
Putting a scare into management is one thing, selling a product with good old FUD is another.
"Workers are NON-Productive when allowed free reign of network resources! Use AmazingBlazing Firewall to fix this productivity showstopper."
When exactly *is* 500,000 years? let's say that the next-nearest Nova goes off somewhere in a galaxy far far away. the actual light wouldn't reach for half a million years?
I'm sure this is rocking a dead baby, but how do the "experts" signify exactly *when* things happen, and what specifically that means. Do the anomolies happen and are observed later, the event of which is estimated in reverse?
Does this mean if i put instant coffe in a microwave, i'll go backwards in time?
The writer of this news item says he's running a BSD, not Linux. ACPI support for kernel 2.4.x has always worked for me on my toshiba satellite 2805s401 laptop when enabled.
Sir, you have misinterpreted the information suggested on that [cknow.com] link. APM was superceeded by ACPI. ACPI defines a wider range of power and system status related functions. There is an interpreter, and the ACPI spec is well defined.
If it isn't a product you can use, send it back. Enough people use OSes besides Windows XP nowadays, if they can't use this hardware and get their money back the seller will notice.
if you can't send it back?
Linux 2.4.x has pretty stable (if limited) support for ACPI extensions.
Present trends are to merge all channels of information into a bundled, $200 / mo. package.
AT&T offers cable, broadband internet, residential telephone, all on one bill of like $109 / month in my area. I think it's a good deal, but I never need long distance telephone (use cell phone on sunday for unlimited wherever calls).
My friend Tom did sign up for the AT&T deal. AT&T techs came to Tom's house, but didn't have a ladder tall enough, and refused to use the one in the garage. For the next 3 months, 2 visits a week, technicians showed up without a ladder at all. Meanwhile AT&T is sending a $109 / month bill to the house.
This is supposed to be simple, right?
Future trend looks pretty much like Ma' Bell of my childhood. I'm sure someone can graph this trend of monopolies split up and merging back together.
so... there's the potential for Google to cache a webpage containing the DeCSS source code in UUEncoded format. what are the legal ramifications? has this sort of thing already happened?
i ask, since if i'm at a friends house on their wintel box, and i need a program i download it. need a registration number? 13 minutes and google.com, i've found a cached page with the info i want.
I see strong supporters of GPL/L-GPL liscensing jumping on the idea that programmers are protected. What about entire groups of programmers, as the case is here? It's not just John & Jimmy Doe versus Joe Schmoe from XYZ company.
"...thus likely that she will not actually address the terms of the GPL itself in her decision, which is a good thing, since there was so little expert testimony about it..."
It's as if open-source software is destined to transcend limits of a hobbyists project and mutate into a corporate-sponsored system. Programmers fill a need with MySQL. Pretty soon, it is MySQL that fills needs within other corporations. Broadcast 2000 video editing software from Heroinewarrior.com was the best bet going. It worked, cost no bones, and featured GPL liscensing. Soon enough, dot bombs pop up and Bcast2k is pulled because of liability concerns. Corporation Soon2be Inc., need video editing and fills that need with Broadcast 2000. Who's liable if a setuid/gid root/usr/local/bcast2000/bcast nukes their production box and months work is lost?
it's looking scary for hackers who share their toys and get organized / sponsored. pitch your product to company Soon2be Inc., and when they merge with Around4Ever Corp., watch yer back.
I find the cube to be more attractive then a bulking beige box. Thinking back to when the Apple G4 Cube was introduced, and how many of my friends said they liked the design, why is it that the consumer market is still dominated by tower-type system housings? What makes Aluminium easier to machine than say, Magnesium or Steel? How marketable are hobbyist case designs to larger consumer-market case retailers/manufacturers?
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Stan Lee knew it all along, come on scientists!
Just your friendly neighborhood sp...okay if you saw the movie, little hairs pop out of Peter Parker character's finger tips.
The ability to log messages is really keen. Accountability is important in a business setting; I witness Jabber developers' use of conference logs almost daily. The adoption of jabber in a messaging infrastructure by government makes sense.
tired as i write this.
The funny thing is, i am president of computer club, and my sponsor _is_ the school's network administrator. Decisions regarding which sites get blocked have been delegated to him by his superiors. Many classes have computer lab days where we are required to work on computers for class credit.
The school board is not about to disagree with a community of parents who are very wealthy and conservative. Taxpayers in the area want to see more and more technology, with less dependence on human teachers. Stevenson high school makes this school look foolish. There is a push (starting 3 years ago) to increase the technology budget here up to 100 million dollars.
I'm a senior, so i guess i won't have to deal with this much longer. However, my little sister is 11, and i fear she will not have objective exposure to the internet. She lives with my father and step mother, who are techno-nazis and limit computer use to 30 minutes every two days. Every minute she visits me at mom's house, it's "Eric? can i go online?" Inccidentaly, she's learning how to navigate my GNU/Linux-based laptop software, which gives me some hope.
At my highschool, the current system for blocking webpages was introduced as a means to cache commonly used pages and make the District 225 intranet faster. The superintendent and members of the district board know very little about computers, so naturally it is approved. After the Columbine incident, a new feature was tacked on that blocked certain objectionable web sites. The recent WTC attack caused even more areas of the net to be restricted. Today, when i want to search "terrorism" for a paper on the war afghanistan, my results are blocked. Teachers have informed us that we must use the one non-blocked computer in the tech room, or do research at home.
my friend set up an anonymous web surfing proxy at his home computer, and using this i can get whatever i want.
there are publically available anonymous port-80 proxies still around.
Isn't this an analouge to the way quantum encryption works? i.e. the forces that be in between source and destination interfere with the stream.
Is this quantum encryption's working model?
A few summers ago i worked as an administrator on a University network. My job consisted of answering calls, keeping the architects in the upstairs office out of the pr0n, (re)building computers, and updating hoardes of wintel software. This kept me busy in the afternoon coming from highschool football training. Time goes on, there is literally not much to be done; i've automated everything complicated with VBS and Perl scripts.
Three more guys are hired, and the boss is upset with our inabillity to look busy. Boss takes a request from the architects, the result of a contracting dispute, and sends us to survey the amount of concrete used for the entire campus.
In exchange for the three guys doing grunt work of concrete measuring, i download songs ala AudioGalaxy and burn to CD for them. I was the guy who is in charge of preventing that very type of network abuse.
The boss was pretty upset. I pointed out that he does the same thing on _his_ lunch break. I was promptly fired the next week.
Putting a scare into management is one thing, selling a product with good old FUD is another.
"Workers are NON-Productive when allowed free reign of network resources! Use AmazingBlazing Firewall to fix this productivity showstopper."
Who is the beneficiary of this blatent FUD?
When exactly *is* 500,000 years? let's say that the next-nearest Nova goes off somewhere in a galaxy far far away. the actual light wouldn't reach for half a million years?
I'm sure this is rocking a dead baby, but how do the "experts" signify exactly *when* things happen, and what specifically that means. Do the anomolies happen and are observed later, the event of which is estimated in reverse?
Does this mean if i put instant coffe in a microwave, i'll go backwards in time?
The writer of this news item says he's running a BSD, not Linux. ACPI support for kernel 2.4.x has always worked for me on my toshiba satellite 2805s401 laptop when enabled.
Sir, you have misinterpreted the information suggested on that [cknow.com] link. APM was superceeded by ACPI. ACPI defines a wider range of power and system status related functions. There is an interpreter, and the ACPI spec is well defined.
If it isn't a product you can use, send it back. Enough people use OSes besides Windows XP nowadays, if they can't use this hardware and get their money back the seller will notice.
if you can't send it back?
Linux 2.4.x has pretty stable (if limited) support for ACPI extensions.
Present trends are to merge all channels of information into a bundled, $200 / mo. package.
AT&T offers cable, broadband internet, residential telephone, all on one bill of like $109 / month in my area. I think it's a good deal, but I never need long distance telephone (use cell phone on sunday for unlimited wherever calls).
My friend Tom did sign up for the AT&T deal. AT&T techs came to Tom's house, but didn't have a ladder tall enough, and refused to use the one in the garage. For the next 3 months, 2 visits a week, technicians showed up without a ladder at all. Meanwhile AT&T is sending a $109 / month bill to the house.
This is supposed to be simple, right?
Future trend looks pretty much like Ma' Bell of my childhood. I'm sure someone can graph this trend of monopolies split up and merging back together.
so... there's the potential for Google to cache a webpage containing the DeCSS source code in UUEncoded format. what are the legal ramifications? has this sort of thing already happened?
i ask, since if i'm at a friends house on their wintel box, and i need a program i download it. need a registration number? 13 minutes and google.com, i've found a cached page with the info i want.
food for thought.
I see strong supporters of GPL/L-GPL liscensing jumping on the idea that programmers are protected. What about entire groups of programmers, as the case is here? It's not just John & Jimmy Doe versus Joe Schmoe from XYZ company.
/usr/local/bcast2000/bcast nukes their production box and months work is lost?
"...thus likely that she will not actually address the terms of the GPL itself in her decision, which is a good thing, since there was so little expert testimony about it..."
It's as if open-source software is destined to transcend limits of a hobbyists project and mutate into a corporate-sponsored system. Programmers fill a need with MySQL. Pretty soon, it is MySQL that fills needs within other corporations. Broadcast 2000 video editing software from Heroinewarrior.com was the best bet going. It worked, cost no bones, and featured GPL liscensing. Soon enough, dot bombs pop up and Bcast2k is pulled because of liability concerns. Corporation Soon2be Inc., need video editing and fills that need with Broadcast 2000. Who's liable if a setuid/gid root
it's looking scary for hackers who share their toys and get organized / sponsored. pitch your product to company Soon2be Inc., and when they merge with Around4Ever Corp., watch yer back.
I find the cube to be more attractive then a bulking beige box. Thinking back to when the Apple G4 Cube was introduced, and how many of my friends said they liked the design, why is it that the consumer market is still dominated by tower-type system housings? What makes Aluminium easier to machine than say, Magnesium or Steel? How marketable are hobbyist case designs to larger consumer-market case retailers/manufacturers?