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Any programs that don't further the company in some way are certainly questionable when considering efficiency. That doesn't mean that I'm a heartless bastard. It just means I think that if people in the company want to start such a foundation, then they can in their own free time. As
True, but you have to consider the good will that it fosters. When bill gates gives 3 billion dolars to vacinate children in africa, it creates 'good will' amoung people who think thats a good thing. (and certanly, it is). This is a cynical viewpoint, but its impornant to remember that 'good deeds' by companys get rewared by good will from the people. And that can be converted into hard, cold cash.
What would that difference be, exactly? Its all information, the only difference is that some of it has had arbitrary restrictions placed on it in an attempt make information creation more profitable. Both for individuals, and later corporations (copyrights now last 90 years after the creators death).
But, that doesn't change the fact that Human beings still have a natural inclination to share information with each other (witch is what 'information wants to be free' really means)
It's a bit like some Paris intellectual saying "All people are free," and then Thomas Jefferson saying "Yeh," and then still owning slaves.
Lets take the slavery analogy a bit farther. It was just as illegal to smuggle a slave up to the north, or Canada as it is to pirate an MP3, or some Microsoft software (well, the penalties were probably higher). And it was still stealing. But that doesn't mean that it shouldn't have been done.
Just for the record, I do think piracy of Software and music and movies and such is 'wrong' just not 'wrong enough' for me to care. And certainly not wrong enough for me to loose civil rights.
Well, technically he may be right, however, it is not something that you are supposed to do. In my English class you'll loose points for it, and that is based on university wide guidelines, not some PC thug teacher. It's like writing a C++ program with nothing but GOTOs, Syntactically right, but Semantically wrong.
for a person such as yourself, who must have been witness to some kind of linguistic evolution, I'm surprised you take that position. A human language is defined by how it's spoken, not how it's written. When speaking 'English' people use the word 'they' and 'their' to refer to single entities now. Is it grammatically wrong? Yes. Can you still understand the sentence? yes. So, who cares? The English language is going to change; there isn't anything you can do about it. Unless you want to try and get people to use another word, then shut up. (I'd rather read they then him/her any day, personally)
Umm...the English language uses the masculine form of third person pronouns to indicate either male or female subject/objects when the distinction is ambiguous or irrelevant
Maybe you havn't had an english class in the last 20 years, but, No, it dosn't...
Well, I'll certainly admit that e2fs is fragile in power loss. Way more then FAT, or FAT32 even, in my experience. But I don't really see what that has to do with a server's over all stability. If the power goes out, its still going to stop responding:P
As for the stability issue, I'm not sure your right. Linux handles huge websites pretty well.
And as far as whether or not it crashes, that has just as much to do with code complexity as it does with CPU load. I mean, I could run A: jmp a;, and in a preemptive multitasking OS, not worry about it crashing (the only non preemptive multitasking OS in wide use now is MacOS). I would imagine that and FTP server probably isn't a very complex, unstable application.
And the other thing is, why would anyone want to run a 6000 user FTP server from a single CPU computer? I mean really. Wouldn't it make a lot more sense to run cdrom.com as a bunch of smaller servers separated geographically, and possibly even by content? As it is, CDROM.com chokes when a new release of quake or whatever comes out. What's the purpose of having them all on the same, uniprocessor box, unless, of course, you want to show how 'l33t, and non-SMP enabled your OS is, at the exspense of people who use the server. cdrom.com can't always keep up with the load. I guess that means that freebsd is a failure.
Negro means black in spanish, witch, I guess is where they got the term in the US. It, in and of itself, is not raciest. However calling someone a 'nigger' might be (depending on if you are a rap star or not).
On the other hand, the post mentioned getting homosexualy rapped, so it could be considered offensive, I guess.
I didn't attack him, I simply told him what I thought was true, based on other posts I've read on slashdot, that If you want any credibility around here then you shouldn't mention that you are an MCSE. I don't have a problem with this person, but in every post he's made he's mentioned that he's MCSE, and CCA. But, instaid of bosting his reputibility, hes harming it. Now, if I was arguing, I would also need to have a position, witch I didn't mention in my post.
How can anything be 'easier to use' then ethernet? Of all the computer technologies I've ever used Ethernet has probably been the easiest to use. Basicaly just plug your computer in and go. I suppose it requires some planning on huge networks, but I don't see how firewire would be better there, especial since they are only now getting to be 100 meters, whereas ethernet has been that long for aeges.
Gbyte ethernet is NOT cheap. Ethernet is NOT hot-swappable (unless you've already set up IPs, and gone through the networking pains in advance, etc).
Ethernet is most certanly hot-swappable, I've done it dozens of times. I guess you just don't know jack. Yeh, you'll need to set up IPs, but you can use DHCP to do that automaticaly if you want. I don't see how fire wire will make it so you don't need to set up IP networks. Both of them are phisical transport layers and don't really have any thing to do with TCP/IP.
Ethernet canNOT hook two computers directly together using one cable without using a special cross-over cable.
Yes, but you can do it, you can use base-T cables, or you can flip the the cat5 cable. And with gigabyte eth cards you don't even need to do that (the cards can detect automaticaly if they are connected to a hub or another card). Don't tell me I can't do something that I've done myself. Well, now it's sealed, you are a TROLL. Everyone knows that FireWire/IEEE 1394/i.Link is licensed at $0.25 per a device with no limit on number of ports. The money is not to Apple but to a pool of companies who collectively own the various patents used in 1394.
Well, not every one knows that. And, apple really screwed firewire over when the anounced a $1 charge per port (that was later changed). The poster isn't a troll, he just has out of date information
I remember using computers, uh, 'blessed' with there software. They have some of the uh, 'best' programmers in the world. I think all computer security should be done by fool proof corporation, think about how much more secure everything would be!
They didn't explicitly state it in the article, but having done research into telnet to write my own I/O driver I came across that option, and I couldn't figure out how to get it to work, so I just sent back Telnet WON'T and telnet DON'T. The system works by sending byte 255 'TELNET-IAC' (interpret as command) and then a 257 (subliminal message option). And then subliminal message code.
If this is the case, that means the CCA/MPAA has code the first full implementation of telnet, perhaps some prodigious hacker can reverse engineer there code again to find out how they did it. Everyone has been complaining about 'out of range data' (whatever that's supposed to mean). But I felt deep down that it was BS, I mean, why would they put it in the spec if no one knew how to use it?
How about the fact that a G4 has an incredibly powerful processor, and it might run Linux, and Linux applications faster than your standard PC?
The G4 is certainly a good CPU, but there is no way in hell that it's TWICE as fast as an Athlon, clock for clock. Last time I checked the fastest PPC was 500 MHz, vs 1Ghz for AMD. And your talking at most $1600 for an Athlon box, as opposed to twice as much for an equivalent Mac.
No, Apple won't release a binary Sorenson codec for one reason: Apple doesn't own the codec! Sorenson does, and their pre-existing licence prevents them from distributing their codec for anything other than QT.
The ones that have a hardwired on/off switch. FAT32 dosn't really seem to have much of a problem with sudden powerloss that the fragile ass e2fs does. I've turned my win31/95/98 box off hundreds of times from the powerswitch, and I've only messed up a hard drive once (I stopped doing it after that:P).
On the other hand, hard resseting a linux box after an X-lockup caused some loss on the HD. It was quite annoying.
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Any programs that don't further the company in some way are certainly questionable when considering efficiency. That doesn't mean that I'm a heartless bastard. It just means I think that if people in the company want to start such a foundation, then they can in their own free time. As
True, but you have to consider the good will that it fosters. When bill gates gives 3 billion dolars to vacinate children in africa, it creates 'good will' amoung people who think thats a good thing. (and certanly, it is). This is a cynical viewpoint, but its impornant to remember that 'good deeds' by companys get rewared by good will from the people. And that can be converted into hard, cold cash.
my viewpoint may be a touch skewed since I'm re-reading Atlas Shrugged right now
a touch skewed?
What would that difference be, exactly? Its all information, the only difference is that some of it has had arbitrary restrictions placed on it in an attempt make information creation more profitable. Both for individuals, and later corporations (copyrights now last 90 years after the creators death).
But, that doesn't change the fact that Human beings still have a natural inclination to share information with each other (witch is what 'information wants to be free' really means)
It's a bit like some Paris intellectual saying "All people are free," and then Thomas Jefferson saying "Yeh," and then still owning slaves.
Lets take the slavery analogy a bit farther. It was just as illegal to smuggle a slave up to the north, or Canada as it is to pirate an MP3, or some Microsoft software (well, the penalties were probably higher). And it was still stealing. But that doesn't mean that it shouldn't have been done.
Just for the record, I do think piracy of Software and music and movies and such is 'wrong' just not 'wrong enough' for me to care. And certainly not wrong enough for me to loose civil rights.
Well, technically he may be right, however, it is not something that you are supposed to do. In my English class you'll loose points for it, and that is based on university wide guidelines, not some PC thug teacher. It's like writing a C++ program with nothing but GOTOs, Syntactically right, but Semantically wrong.
OOG,
for a person such as yourself, who must have been witness to some kind of linguistic evolution, I'm surprised you take that position. A human language is defined by how it's spoken, not how it's written. When speaking 'English' people use the word 'they' and 'their' to refer to single entities now. Is it grammatically wrong? Yes. Can you still understand the sentence? yes. So, who cares? The English language is going to change; there isn't anything you can do about it. Unless you want to try and get people to use another word, then shut up. (I'd rather read they then him/her any day, personally)
Umm...the English language uses the masculine form of third person pronouns to indicate either male or female subject/objects when the distinction is ambiguous or irrelevant
Maybe you havn't had an english class in the last 20 years, but, No, it dosn't...
Well, I'll certainly admit that e2fs is fragile in power loss. Way more then FAT, or FAT32 even, in my experience. But I don't really see what that has to do with a server's over all stability. If the power goes out, its still going to stop responding :P
As for the stability issue, I'm not sure your right. Linux handles huge websites pretty well.
And as far as whether or not it crashes, that has just as much to do with code complexity as it does with CPU load. I mean, I could run A: jmp a;, and in a preemptive multitasking OS, not worry about it crashing (the only non preemptive multitasking OS in wide use now is MacOS). I would imagine that and FTP server probably isn't a very complex, unstable application.
And the other thing is, why would anyone want to run a 6000 user FTP server from a single CPU computer? I mean really. Wouldn't it make a lot more sense to run cdrom.com as a bunch of smaller servers separated geographically, and possibly even by content? As it is, CDROM.com chokes when a new release of quake or whatever comes out. What's the purpose of having them all on the same, uniprocessor box, unless, of course, you want to show how 'l33t, and non-SMP enabled your OS is, at the exspense of people who use the server. cdrom.com can't always keep up with the load. I guess that means that freebsd is a failure.
Negro means black in spanish, witch, I guess is where they got the term in the US. It, in and of itself, is not raciest. However calling someone a 'nigger' might be (depending on if you are a rap star or not).
On the other hand, the post mentioned getting homosexualy rapped, so it could be considered offensive, I guess.
WindowsCE?
They also ported NT to PPC, Mips, and Alpha, although those ports have died down.
I didn't attack him, I simply told him what I thought was true, based on other posts I've read on slashdot, that If you want any credibility around here then you shouldn't mention that you are an MCSE. I don't have a problem with this person, but in every post he's made he's mentioned that he's MCSE, and CCA. But, instaid of bosting his reputibility, hes harming it. Now, if I was arguing, I would also need to have a position, witch I didn't mention in my post.
I doubt you could power a whole computer over firewire, so the power aspect dosn't really help you out in networking...
How can anything be 'easier to use' then ethernet? Of all the computer technologies I've ever used Ethernet has probably been the easiest to use. Basicaly just plug your computer in and go. I suppose it requires some planning on huge networks, but I don't see how firewire would be better there, especial since they are only now getting to be 100 meters, whereas ethernet has been that long for aeges.
Gbyte ethernet is NOT cheap. Ethernet is NOT hot-swappable (unless you've already set up IPs, and gone through the networking pains in advance, etc).
Ethernet is most certanly hot-swappable, I've done it dozens of times. I guess you just don't know jack. Yeh, you'll need to set up IPs, but you can use DHCP to do that automaticaly if you want. I don't see how fire wire will make it so you don't need to set up IP networks. Both of them are phisical transport layers and don't really have any thing to do with TCP/IP.
Ethernet canNOT hook two computers directly together using one cable without using a special cross-over cable.
Yes, but you can do it, you can use base-T cables, or you can flip the the cat5 cable. And with gigabyte eth cards you don't even need to do that (the cards can detect automaticaly if they are connected to a hub or another card). Don't tell me I can't do something that I've done myself. Well, now it's sealed, you are a TROLL. Everyone knows that FireWire/IEEE 1394/i.Link is licensed at $0.25 per a device with no limit on number of ports. The money is not to Apple but to a pool of companies who collectively own the various patents used in 1394.
Well, not every one knows that. And, apple really screwed firewire over when the anounced a $1 charge per port (that was later changed). The poster isn't a troll, he just has out of date information
Itallicesed text is the submitter, Normal text is the slashdot editor. It isn't a very complex system...
Alex M. Hochberger
MCSE, CCA
If you want any credibility around here, you should probably not mention that you are an MCSE.
is the link that the troll provided. Man, is he lame, I mean really, how much intelegence does it really take to find another picture?
I remember using computers, uh, 'blessed' with there software. They have some of the uh, 'best' programmers in the world. I think all computer security should be done by fool proof corporation, think about how much more secure everything would be!
I followed some of the links in the article, and it turns out this is actually an implementation of RFC 1907, TELNET SUBLIMINAL-MESSAGE Option
They didn't explicitly state it in the article, but having done research into telnet to write my own I/O driver I came across that option, and I couldn't figure out how to get it to work, so I just sent back Telnet WON'T and telnet DON'T. The system works by sending byte 255 'TELNET-IAC' (interpret as command) and then a 257 (subliminal message option). And then subliminal message code.
If this is the case, that means the CCA/MPAA has code the first full implementation of telnet, perhaps some prodigious hacker can reverse engineer there code again to find out how they did it. Everyone has been complaining about 'out of range data' (whatever that's supposed to mean). But I felt deep down that it was BS, I mean, why would they put it in the spec if no one knew how to use it?
You had me going for a second, if I hadn't been online at 3am or so last night to see the first of the April Fools post, I might have baught it :P
desturbing.....
How about the fact that a G4 has an incredibly powerful processor, and it might run Linux, and Linux applications faster than your standard PC?
The G4 is certainly a good CPU, but there is no way in hell that it's TWICE as fast as an Athlon, clock for clock. Last time I checked the fastest PPC was 500 MHz, vs 1Ghz for AMD. And your talking at most $1600 for an Athlon box, as opposed to twice as much for an equivalent Mac.
Just like the Mexican railroad in Atlas Shrugged, it's a way to potentially lose a lot of money.
You managed to make a post about the free market and include an Ayn Rand Reference!
Posting content like that is a great way to prove a point. That is, if your point is that you an idiot.
No, Apple won't release a binary Sorenson codec for one reason: Apple doesn't own the codec! Sorenson does, and their pre-existing licence prevents them from distributing their codec for anything other than QT.
and QT is whatever apple wants, correct?
The ones that have a hardwired on/off switch. FAT32 dosn't really seem to have much of a problem with sudden powerloss that the fragile ass e2fs does. I've turned my win31/95/98 box off hundreds of times from the powerswitch, and I've only messed up a hard drive once (I stopped doing it after that :P).
On the other hand, hard resseting a linux box after an X-lockup caused some loss on the HD. It was quite annoying.