Computer shopper magazine is at 500,000 paid subscriptions.
PC Gamer is 300,000 paid subs
Maximum PC is 315,000
It's a bit apples and oranges, but with 2.5 million pages a day,/. is probably in the same range as these other magazines: and, it's been posting one article about SCO every eight or nine seconds lately...
I dunno - I'd be willing to bet that the readers of slashdot probably control IT budget money that's collectively greater than (say) eCRM magazine's readership. There's a crapload of fringe publications out there with readership in the 10,000 range- anyone know what the current biggest slashdot ID is?
I found 6 unencrypted networks by sniffing right outside an office window. (38th and sixth, and all the sids were "linksys"...)
In dense metro areas, new networks are being constantly installed by clueless desktop monkeys. I could easily see an application for this, just to know what was going on in the rf space around your city.
Boies was (IIRC) the leader of the successful antitrust prosecution against IBM, back in the eighties- this was the first big high-tech antitrust case, and was clearly pretty successful.
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MORE INFO: Connelly sues to keep spamming: http://www.frc.org/legal/lf99j05.html http://www.freedomforum.org/speech/1999/10/20laspa m.asp http://www.mediainst.org/digest/fall1999/pa ge8.htm l Wife Florence Fox sued for Nu-Skin Pyramid Scheme: http://www.attorneygeneral.gov/press2/mon ths/Feb98/feb23pr1.htm
Me, I'm thinking some letters of marque and reprisal are the answer...
In my experience, MySQL has been faster at doing select-type operations. I use it for a web-based CMS, where transactions are unimportant, and the majority of database work is grabbing stuff from the DB and displaying it.
I use postgres when I'm concerned about data integrity, and speeding up writes to the database- if I'm doing a sufficiently complicated write to the DB, postgres' stored procedures make it a much better idea. I've used it for embedded-type monitoring and data collection applications.
So there are situations where one or the other is better- like sometimes perl is better, sometimes C is better. Different tools for different jobs.
Towards the end of the article, Gleick makes a really interesting point- he says that as commercial speech, spam isn't entitled to any particular first amendment protection:
The Supreme Court has made clear that individuals may preserve a threshold of privacy. ''Nothing in the Constitution compels us to listen to or view any unwanted communication, whatever its merit,'' wrote Chief Justice Warren Burger in a 1970 decision. ''We therefore categorically reject the argument that a vendor has a right under the Constitution or otherwise to send unwanted material into the home of another.''
Looks like we have the supremes on our side; if we could just congress to issue some letters of marque and reprisal on the spamhausen, we'd be getting somewhere...
Actaully, suing an australian company in a US-based court seems pretty reasonable, after the recent libel suit in australian courts against a US-based company...
The question of whether kazaa is, in fact, violating the law should be settled in court somewhere, and somehow it doesn't seem like vanatu is the venue.
Nagios depends on a wide variety of plugins to do its job (in a way, like nessus). To what degree do you find outside developers contributing patches to the main codebase, vs. contributing plugins? Is there a path where developers add plugins, and then "graduate" to core patches? I think I see a similar path in both Linux and Apache, where one might write modules and then get involved in some of the deeper magic- and I wonder if that architectural decision may be a key to the project's long-term success.
I wouldn't worry too much- congressman (representatives and senators) routinely ignore email- most of it is astroturf. If you really want to influence a decision, call or write in the real world...
Umm, you could just buy a cert for your micr0s0ft company- as long as you can produce legal documentation stating you were entitled to use that name (and you may be able to do so in.ru, different legal system and all), then the cert would validate- there would be no probs with the DNS. Remember, there can be several companies with the same name as long as they are in different industries- and that's just in the US. Cross a couple borders and you can probably get any name you want- 'specially if it's spelled with letters in the local alphabet.
A buddy of mine's been working on Omega CMS - a content management system generator: you enter in your primitives and it sets up the DB, creates a bunch of java accessors, and builds some standard JSP templates- you can customize them to your heart's content, as they are straight JSP at that point. It isn't GPL, but it's freeware if you use an open-source database like postgres or mysql.
They probably haven't got a blanket patent- there's a VHF spec out there for transmitting GPS coordinates along with the VHF signal- it's intended for marine use, when calling friends or the coast guard for help. Models are already out on the market now, with support incrementally being phased in at all the coast guard monitoring stations- IIRC, they should be available across the US coastal waters by 2004.
been to new york lately? I used to work about a block and a half from WTC- those jackoffs took out one of verizon's CO's- took out huge hunks of bandwidth.
Trivial, but without the assurance that some zealot won't pilot an airplane into your neighborhood, all the bandwidth in the world is somewhat pointless.
Much longer series on Salon this week
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There was a much longer (and I think a bit more sympathetic) review of Shippey's book on Tolkien over at Salon- it's in 2 parts:
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Wow, that's a bunch. So there's like 700,000 registered users (i'm sure a bunch are stale, so call it 600K).
/. is probably in the same range as these other magazines: and, it's been posting one article about SCO every eight or nine seconds lately...
According to Audit bureau of Circulations:
Computer shopper magazine is at 500,000 paid subscriptions.
PC Gamer is 300,000 paid subs
Maximum PC is 315,000
It's a bit apples and oranges, but with 2.5 million pages a day,
you're absolutely right. I should rtfm before I tell somebody else to...
Not in this case- it's a public time server. If it wasn't, they'd be able to just block inbound UDP for the ntp port at the firewall.
Check out the NTPd man pages- I believe this server is a second echelon mirror.
I dunno - I'd be willing to bet that the readers of slashdot probably control IT budget money that's collectively greater than (say) eCRM magazine's readership. There's a crapload of fringe publications out there with readership in the 10,000 range- anyone know what the current biggest slashdot ID is?
rats- it's been slashdotted already.
How am I gonna get my anti-sco bonus now?
Been to manhattan lately?
I found 6 unencrypted networks by sniffing right outside an office window. (38th and sixth, and all the sids were "linksys"...)
In dense metro areas, new networks are being constantly installed by clueless desktop monkeys. I could easily see an application for this, just to know what was going on in the rf space around your city.
Boies was (IIRC) the leader of the successful antitrust prosecution against IBM, back in the eighties- this was the first big high-tech antitrust case, and was clearly pretty successful.
According to Spamhaus:
d en cefile=1070:
http://www.freedomforum.org/speech/1999/10/20laspa m.aspa ge8.htm ln ths/Feb98 /feb23pr1.htm
(http://www.spamhaus.org/rokso/search.lasso?evi
ABUSERS: Ronald R. Scelson
[Birthdate: 12-11-71 or 72, New Orleans, LA, married]
avsrscelson@aol.com / cajunspam@aol.com / avsrscelson2000@yahoo.com / dff@yahoo.com
Amy Hoolahan [wife/sister?]
43 CYPRESS MEADOWS LOOP
SLIDELL, LA 70460 US
Home: (504) 646-2225
Work: 504-649-6248
PHONE NUMBERS: 888-365-0000 ext. 1648 / 800-242-0363 EXT. 2427
888-724-3108 x5413752
504 781 8117 / 504-957-1037 / 504-847-1232 / 504-649-7751
504-781-6615 / 504-649-6248 / 504-781-6655 / 504-831-1595
504-646-2225 / 504-641-0876
FAX: 504 641 0810 / 504-456-0995 / 504-781-6615
MORE INFO: Connelly sues to keep spamming:
http://www.frc.org/legal/lf99j05.html
http://www.mediainst.org/digest/fall1999/p
Wife Florence Fox sued for Nu-Skin Pyramid Scheme:
http://www.attorneygeneral.gov/press2/mo
Me, I'm thinking some letters of marque and reprisal are the answer...
that's gotta be a record. I know subscribers get early access, but geez!
In my experience, MySQL has been faster at doing select-type operations. I use it for a web-based CMS, where transactions are unimportant, and the majority of database work is grabbing stuff from the DB and displaying it.
I use postgres when I'm concerned about data integrity, and speeding up writes to the database- if I'm doing a sufficiently complicated write to the DB, postgres' stored procedures make it a much better idea. I've used it for embedded-type monitoring and data collection applications.
So there are situations where one or the other is better- like sometimes perl is better, sometimes C is better. Different tools for different jobs.
Looks like we have the supremes on our side; if we could just congress to issue some letters of marque and reprisal on the spamhausen, we'd be getting somewhere...
Actaully, suing an australian company in a US-based court seems pretty reasonable, after the recent libel suit in australian courts against a US-based company...
The question of whether kazaa is, in fact, violating the law should be settled in court somewhere, and somehow it doesn't seem like vanatu is the venue.
Nagios depends on a wide variety of plugins to do its job (in a way, like nessus). To what degree do you find outside developers contributing patches to the main codebase, vs. contributing plugins? Is there a path where developers add plugins, and then "graduate" to core patches? I think I see a similar path in both Linux and Apache, where one might write modules and then get involved in some of the deeper magic- and I wonder if that architectural decision may be a key to the project's long-term success.
I wouldn't worry too much- congressman (representatives and senators) routinely ignore email- most of it is astroturf. If you really want to influence a decision, call or write in the real world...
Tim
You do know that NYC is bigger than just manhattan island, right? Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens...
I strongly doubt that 4 million people could physically fit across the GWB, PATH and Metronorth-
Umm, you could just buy a cert for your micr0s0ft company- as long as you can produce legal documentation stating you were entitled to use that name (and you may be able to do so in .ru, different legal system and all), then the cert would validate- there would be no probs with the DNS. Remember, there can be several companies with the same name as long as they are in different industries- and that's just in the US. Cross a couple borders and you can probably get any name you want- 'specially if it's spelled with letters in the local alphabet.
Perhaps I can interest you in a twelve inch pianist? :)
A buddy of mine's been working on Omega CMS - a content management system generator: you enter in your primitives and it sets up the DB, creates a bunch of java accessors, and builds some standard JSP templates- you can customize them to your heart's content, as they are straight JSP at that point. It isn't GPL, but it's freeware if you use an open-source database like postgres or mysql.
They probably haven't got a blanket patent- there's a VHF spec out there for transmitting GPS coordinates along with the VHF signal- it's intended for marine use, when calling friends or the coast guard for help. Models are already out on the market now, with support incrementally being phased in at all the coast guard monitoring stations- IIRC, they should be available across the US coastal waters by 2004.
been to new york lately? I used to work about a block and a half from WTC- those jackoffs took out one of verizon's CO's- took out huge hunks of bandwidth.
Trivial, but without the assurance that some zealot won't pilot an airplane into your neighborhood, all the bandwidth in the world is somewhat pointless.
Part One
Part Two
Definitely worth reading, but set aside some time.
How about Unix? It was cheaply liscenced to universities as fallout from the big AT&T breakup....