"If you're buying a book online, it's not critical that I know your ID," said Mariah Scott, manager for Intel's authentication services unit. "If you're talking about accessing your health records online, you really need to know that this is a physician," Scott said.
I hope they live up to that. If not, I may just have to find me a country doctor who don't know diddly about computers.
"Well, Mr. Smith, I see you have an impressive resume, but our records indicate you have heart problems and that makes you an unacceptable risk. And you would push up our health insurance premiums."
I don't like this new world, can I have the old one back?
Hmm. Can you say "DON'T OPEN UNKNOWN FILES!". Duh. This is even better than Worm_Explorer_zip.
I mean jeesh. None of this is real "hacking" or even "cracking", it's all social engineering. Not that that's not interesting, but is would seem that people would catch on after a while.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me 1000 times, I must be used to windows.
Yeah, but from a machine tool perspective, it's usually nicer to end in a 1. Just makes counting handwheel revolutions a little easier.
BTW: I'm a mega-newbie when it comes to metalworking, but this is what I've been told. If you want to see a REAL flamewar, go search for Imperial v Metric in the rec.crafts.metalworking newsgroup! You even get meterologists joining in (science of measurements, FYI).:-)
Talk about a subject that goes straight to the hindbrain and bypasses all rational thought.
First - Let's get rid of all the slippery slope arguements. You can't say "Wrong Haircolor buddy", that's not what this debate is about. It's a dangerous subject, yes, but still.
Second - I'm admitting that I have a HEAVY emotional investment in this kind of issue. My brother in law (and a good friend of mine) has Muscular Distrophy and will probably die of heart failure in about a year or two. He's the same age as I am (22) and ever since he was 10 has been confined to a wheelchair. Due to family circumstances, which are (IMHO) a fairly direct result of his illness, he rarely if ever gets outside. He is intelligent, witty, friendly and probably smarter than I am, but he never enjoyed school (due to the teasing he endured) never went on to university and has spent the majority of the 5 years I've known him inside. He can no longer lift his arms above his head and I can see him getting weaker by the year. His total number of friends is probably 5. The number he sees in the average week is maybe 2. Think about it. NO. THINK ABOUT IT. Really. He LIVES on the internet. He plays quake all day. He composes music on his computer. He has little to no human contact, and spends most of his time depressed.
I also have a cousin who has a strange little inherited disease my family carries. She is 7 with the mentality of a 1 year old. She is deaf, she still wears diapers. She will NEVER be capable of normal adult thought. Hell, she'll never have normal CHILD thoughts. Due to a sucessful bone marrow transplant, though, the primary symptom of the disease, no immune system, has been eliminated, so she'll probably live a normal lifespan. My aunt and uncle are probably two of the most emotionally strong people I know. They now have an infant to take care of for THE REST OF THEIR LIVES. THEN they'll have to provide for some sort of care for her after they're gone. My family is pretty close-knit, so it may well be a relative, but it could just as easily be a group home of some sort.
Now, put yourself in the situations of the parents of these children. I know I have hundereds of times. What's the answer? I'll be fscked if I know. Abortion? It would now have been an option in my Brother in law's case, there are pre-natal tests to determine the presence of his type of MD. Euth? How can I say. I have NO IDEA WHAT IT'S LIKE. NONE. These are two people I see and deal with regularly, but I can't even claim to have the right to express an opinion. My brother in law is the only person who can make these decisions for him. My cousin's parents are the only ones capable of making their decisions. Who am I to say what choices they should and should not have?
For my part, both myself and my wife are carriers for our respective diseases. If we were to have a child, there's a good chance that it would have either MD (something like 85%) or my family's disease (something like 25%). We have decided that if we ever wish to have children that adoption is our only option.
I'm going to fire off an e-mail to my BIL, asking him to participate in this dicsussion. I don't know if he will, but if we don't take into consideration the opinions of those involved, then what are we?
I disagree with those who say that we are no different than animals. We have a greater responsibility and greater potential. We also have a responsibility to prevent pain and suffering where it falls within our power.
Does that mean we don't have the same options? Who knows.
Surprise? I've encountered plenty of people who feel the same.
Click Here to read my study for ACT and ASCII calculating the costs that would accrue to software producers if Windows were broken into three 'competing' flavors. It is very conservatively estimated at $30 billion.
Heard it before, don't believe it now either.
I think these guys just like whatever is best right now. They feel QWERTY is better than DVORAK RIGHT NOW, probably cause somebody paid them too. They feel that MS is better than No-MS because MS pays a LOT of economists to think that way.
The fundamental point of view of an economists is "Anything that causes money to flow from other people to me is good for the economy."
I don't mean to be hypocritical, that's the way I feel, too, but I don't get cited as an expert on these things.
Sorry about the flamage that resulted from this. A few clarifications on my POV.
1. I think metric is a really nice system. For science stuff. 2. I think Imperial is a beauty of a system for anything you've actually got to DO. I do a little hobbiest level metalworking and I have to agree with the comments I've seen from other machinists,.001 inch is a real nice measurement, wher.01 mm is way too picky and.1mm is way too large.
3. I do wish we could get away from the whole fraction thing in Imperial, but in the end it works quite well, really.
4. The only failure in the NASA thing was the testing. If you don't realize that a place where a unit conversion is being done is a potential failure point, it's time to go back to QC school.
5. I know that the cost for conversion would be astronomical. HUGE. It'll NEVER happen, not in my lifetime anyway. 5.a. "BUT It's a one time cost!" Yeah, but a trillion dollars is still a trillion dollars. Up Front. In cash. From EVERYBODY in the economy. There are business who aren't bothering with Y2K cause they can't afford it, do you really think they'd bother with this?!? 5.b. "You've just got to retrain the school children!" See somebody else's post about that one. You also have to convert ALL the machinery. And all the code. And all the bolts. etc. etc. etc.
I personally think we missed our chance at metric conversion back in about 1820. After you've got a few big systems (like the rail road) running on a measurement system, the cost becomes prohibitive.
And, In response to somebody else's comment, yes, one system is just as good as another, it just requires being able to do more than move a decimal point!:-)
Summary: Us 'mericans are using the Imperial system and if we change, that's fine, but it's NOT going to happen. Least, not till we accidentally KILL somebody due to a metric conversion error. Loosing a $150Mill space probe aint a drop in the bucket.
My understanding is that it's a matter of suppliers. If NASA makes everything metric but they want it built in the US, they wind up paying through the nose for metric parts, simply because nobody else here wants them! The contractors (e.g. Lockheed-Matrin in this case, IIRC) want to keep costs down so they want to do it in the most readily avalible method (Imperial), so they bid it out that way.
IIRC the ISS was going to be all Metric until NASA worked out that if they did the US parts in metric it was going to be a LOT more expensive, (like 100s of Millions - 1 Billion dollars), so the US parts are imperial with metric interface sections.
We could use all the Nukes we've got lying about! Then all living humas would be using the Imperial system and everything would be fine!
A standard only works if everybody uses it (witness Microsoft and the broken DNS (twice now!)).
Either everybody else goes Imperial system or we go metric system. 250 Million people to learn a new system v.s. 5.75 Billion. Hmm, that'll be a tough choice!
One system is as good as another, as long as everybody uses it.
On a side point, why in the HELL wasn't this caught in Quality Controll?!?
/me GRUMBLES and goes back to trying to convert British BA thread forms to US SA threadforms for a simple metalworking project.
XF86 3.3.4 (the latest one with Debian packages when I upgraded last).
I usually run my desktop at 1024x768x16, but I've tried x15, x32, 640x480x* and 800x600x*.
So as not to clutter up/., anyone interested could post to local.linux.nvidia.problems on handorf.penguinpowered.com. It won't be up all the time, but hopefully it'll stay up for a while.
Thanks for the comments, I'd really like to get this resolved.
Didn't we see a story on deep linking a few weeks ago? What's wrong with all these companies, thinking that they can take the linking out of HTML?
Once again, as The Onion put it, 79% of Americans 'Just Don't Get It'. The whole point of the web is to make the information "Site Transparent". You don't care where you are and you can drift from one server to another as you wish.
Is there anything we can do to stop this stupidity?
I am getting SO tired of this. Where did we put the "Clue Nuke"? Or the "Space Based Clue Laser"?
What sort of reciprocal agreements exist between countries on patents? Does it only count on home territory, or are US companies bound by UK patents (for example)?
I'm not even hoping for 20FPS, but I've got an SMP system and would like to be able to take advantage of it without installing (*SHIVER*) Y2K, er, W2K.
What is the command line that you use? Is it similar to this? : ./linuxquake3 +set r_glDriver libGL.so.1 +set in_dgamouse 0 +set r_fullscreen 0
That's what came down from Zoid at ID. I still can't make it work. I'll spend some time tonight fiddling with the XF86 mode. What are you using?
Tried it. Even fired an e-mail off to Zoid at ID. My TNT just winds up with corrupted video and the X server gets a Sig11. If you have any other links for Q3 on the nVidia stuff, I'd appreciate them!
BTW, I think it's weird that you can grok C and PHP but not perl - syntax is very similar
I think my primary problem is that there are SO many ways to do things in perl. I like to learn by example, but if I read the same example written by two different perl hackers, you not only have two completely different approaches, you get two differents sets of syntax! I swear, every time I look at a new perl script I've got to go work out what the hell is going on in this section cause I've never encountered QUITE that syntax before.
On the other hand, C and PHP seem to have a nice regular syntax. It may not be quite as powerfull, but I usually don't want to do 30 things on a single line anyway.
As far as the caching, it would seem that would be easy enough to fix. If that is the primary preformance thing, I'm not going to get too fussed.:-)
And don't go dissing malloc! malloc is good! I still prefer C/C++ to either scripting language, but sometimes you do have to make unreasonable deadlines.:-)
The BP6 uses the "Old" BX chipset with lots of wierd stuff built onto it by ABIT. It doesn't use the Rambus memory (unless I'm SORELY mistaken), so we don't have a problem.
I highly recommend this motherboard, it's nice and reliable and I LOVE the dual celerons. YMMV of course, but all the reviews I've read say about the same thing.
I personally like to have my single system! I've had friends tell me I'd avoid a lot of problems if I got a second box and used it for my games, but I prefer the all-in-one approach! I've got one box at home that's a web server, database server, workstation, router, etc.
I'm still undecided on "appliances" in general, but I certianly hope that this doesn't mean Linux will stop focusing on the more general boxes! I LOVE my dual celeron... I don't want to do anything to scare it!:-)
He played the Other UASF General, General Turdgeson (sp), who went to the "War Room" and met with the president. Quotes include the one about how skilled pilots could bring the planes in really low and how they should go ahead and bomb the russians full force.
Because Dr. Strangelove is (IMHO) one of the best cold war movies. It seems so far fetched that it's funny, but you can see all of the values that shaped the world around us.
As somebody who didn't really become aware of the world until well after all this past, it helps me to understand why things are the way they are. Why on earth do we need thousands of multi-megaton nuclear weapons? People felt like this.
"Your average commie has no regard for human life, not even his own". It sounds STUPID, but a generation grew up being told that. HECK, go back and watch Regan campaign commercials.
We must remember what got us so close to the brink of war, so we can avoid it. I'm a geek who would like to live well into the next century and I want my primary worry to be that I get enough exercise after sitting in front of this monitor all day.
Here in the glorious Cincinnati,OH (hey, it could be worse!) area the local REBOC has been really pushing it's "Zoomtown" service. For $40 a month, you get the 3XX/7XX K (I can't recall the exact #s right now) ADSL, w/free hardware (Lan card, Cisco 675 router & 3 microfilters).
I've had some slight problems with them (I moved once and it took them 4 days to work out what was wrong at my new location), but now I get a new IP address about once a day, it's been up straight for about a week, and they don't mind Linux, although they wouldn't touch it for the install. I had to do the linux net config myself (gee, can anyone say ifconfig?)
I even got to turn down the telemarketer from the local cable company last night. That alone is probably worth the $40/month, esp. since the local provider is @home, who, IIRC, still has the limited 128K upstream (any corrections?). That, and they have a stated policy against servers. You serve and @home drops you and fines you.
Another thing to note, though, is that I've got a 4 IP subnet of the 10.XXX.XXX.XXX variety. All Zoomtown subscribers get a unique IP in the 10 class A space. I can use this to get to other subscribers and, if it's enabled, use window's file sharing inside zoomtown. Same disadvantage that the people with the cable modems are talking about, but it doesn't much worry me. People should be using passwords and packet filters, anyway.
The only other annoying thing is that they've blocked port 23 at their routers, but it encouraged me to install SSH anyway, so that was probably a good thing. Other than that, I run FTP, HTTP, SSH, SSH2 and a bundle of other services they don't seem to have any problem with.
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Please! OK, how about...
Are you ever going to produce a product that saves more time than it wastes?
When will you realize that stability is important?
Did you EVER have any sort of class in Project Management? Specifically did you skip the chapter on testing?
Will you give me your money?
Please note that these are all in humor. I'm just venting, my NT box crashed twice today. Already. And I have only been here an hour.
I hope they live up to that. If not, I may just have to find me a country doctor who don't know diddly about computers.
"Well, Mr. Smith, I see you have an impressive resume, but our records indicate you have heart problems and that makes you an unacceptable risk. And you would push up our health insurance premiums."
I don't like this new world, can I have the old one back?
Hmm. Can you say "DON'T OPEN UNKNOWN FILES!". Duh. This is even better than Worm_Explorer_zip.
I mean jeesh. None of this is real "hacking" or even "cracking", it's all social engineering. Not that that's not interesting, but is would seem that people would catch on after a while.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me 1000 times, I must be used to windows.
Yeah, but from a machine tool perspective, it's usually nicer to end in a 1. Just makes counting handwheel revolutions a little easier.
:-)
BTW: I'm a mega-newbie when it comes to metalworking, but this is what I've been told. If you want to see a REAL flamewar, go search for Imperial v Metric in the rec.crafts.metalworking newsgroup! You even get meterologists joining in (science of measurements, FYI).
I can see it now
:-)
*KLAXONS, RED FLASHING LIGHTS*
"What is it, lieutenant? Inbound ICBM?"
"No sir. Inbound pingflood from some 3l33t high school jerk."
"Ah, OK. Standard response. But use the 350 Kiloton yield for being stupid enough not to change the source IP."
"Yes sir!"
Do we really want an office where it's your JOB to overreact to be in charge of electronic security?
Just a thought...
Talk about a subject that goes straight to the hindbrain and bypasses all rational thought.
First - Let's get rid of all the slippery slope arguements. You can't say "Wrong Haircolor buddy", that's not what this debate is about. It's a dangerous subject, yes, but still.
Second - I'm admitting that I have a HEAVY emotional investment in this kind of issue. My brother in law (and a good friend of mine) has Muscular Distrophy and will probably die of heart failure in about a year or two. He's the same age as I am (22) and ever since he was 10 has been confined to a wheelchair. Due to family circumstances, which are (IMHO) a fairly direct result of his illness, he rarely if ever gets outside. He is intelligent, witty, friendly and probably smarter than I am, but he never enjoyed school (due to the teasing he endured) never went on to university and has spent the majority of the 5 years I've known him inside. He can no longer lift his arms above his head and I can see him getting weaker by the year. His total number of friends is probably 5. The number he sees in the average week is maybe 2. Think about it. NO. THINK ABOUT IT. Really. He LIVES on the internet. He plays quake all day. He composes music on his computer. He has little to no human contact, and spends most of his time depressed.
I also have a cousin who has a strange little inherited disease my family carries. She is 7 with the mentality of a 1 year old. She is deaf, she still wears diapers. She will NEVER be capable of normal adult thought. Hell, she'll never have normal CHILD thoughts. Due to a sucessful bone marrow transplant, though, the primary symptom of the disease, no immune system, has been eliminated, so she'll probably live a normal lifespan. My aunt and uncle are probably two of the most emotionally strong people I know. They now have an infant to take care of for THE REST OF THEIR LIVES. THEN they'll have to provide for some sort of care for her after they're gone. My family is pretty close-knit, so it may well be a relative, but it could just as easily be a group home of some sort.
Now, put yourself in the situations of the parents of these children. I know I have hundereds of times. What's the answer? I'll be fscked if I know. Abortion? It would now have been an option in my Brother in law's case, there are pre-natal tests to determine the presence of his type of MD. Euth? How can I say. I have NO IDEA WHAT IT'S LIKE. NONE. These are two people I see and deal with regularly, but I can't even claim to have the right to express an opinion. My brother in law is the only person who can make these decisions for him. My cousin's parents are the only ones capable of making their decisions. Who am I to say what choices they should and should not have?
For my part, both myself and my wife are carriers for our respective diseases. If we were to have a child, there's a good chance that it would have either MD (something like 85%) or my family's disease (something like 25%). We have decided that if we ever wish to have children that adoption is our only option.
I'm going to fire off an e-mail to my BIL, asking him to participate in this dicsussion. I don't know if he will, but if we don't take into consideration the opinions of those involved, then what are we?
I disagree with those who say that we are no different than animals. We have a greater responsibility and greater potential. We also have a responsibility to prevent pain and suffering where it falls within our power.
Does that mean we don't have the same options? Who knows.
Heard it before, don't believe it now either.
I think these guys just like whatever is best right now. They feel QWERTY is better than DVORAK RIGHT NOW, probably cause somebody paid them too. They feel that MS is better than No-MS because MS pays a LOT of economists to think that way.
The fundamental point of view of an economists is "Anything that causes money to flow from other people to me is good for the economy."
I don't mean to be hypocritical, that's the way I feel, too, but I don't get cited as an expert on these things.
Sorry about the flamage that resulted from this. A few clarifications on my POV.
.001 inch is a real nice measurement, wher .01 mm is way too picky and .1mm is way too large.
:-)
1. I think metric is a really nice system. For science stuff.
2. I think Imperial is a beauty of a system for anything you've actually got to DO. I do a little hobbiest level metalworking and I have to agree with the comments I've seen from other machinists,
3. I do wish we could get away from the whole fraction thing in Imperial, but in the end it works quite well, really.
4. The only failure in the NASA thing was the testing. If you don't realize that a place where a unit conversion is being done is a potential failure point, it's time to go back to QC school.
5. I know that the cost for conversion would be astronomical. HUGE. It'll NEVER happen, not in my lifetime anyway.
5.a. "BUT It's a one time cost!" Yeah, but a trillion dollars is still a trillion dollars. Up Front. In cash. From EVERYBODY in the economy. There are business who aren't bothering with Y2K cause they can't afford it, do you really think they'd bother with this?!?
5.b. "You've just got to retrain the school children!" See somebody else's post about that one. You also have to convert ALL the machinery. And all the code. And all the bolts. etc. etc. etc.
I personally think we missed our chance at metric conversion back in about 1820. After you've got a few big systems (like the rail road) running on a measurement system, the cost becomes prohibitive.
And, In response to somebody else's comment, yes, one system is just as good as another, it just requires being able to do more than move a decimal point!
Summary: Us 'mericans are using the Imperial system and if we change, that's fine, but it's NOT going to happen. Least, not till we accidentally KILL somebody due to a metric conversion error. Loosing a $150Mill space probe aint a drop in the bucket.
My understanding is that it's a matter of suppliers. If NASA makes everything metric but they want it built in the US, they wind up paying through the nose for metric parts, simply because nobody else here wants them! The contractors (e.g. Lockheed-Matrin in this case, IIRC) want to keep costs down so they want to do it in the most readily avalible method (Imperial), so they bid it out that way.
:-)
IIRC the ISS was going to be all Metric until NASA worked out that if they did the US parts in metric it was going to be a LOT more expensive, (like 100s of Millions - 1 Billion dollars), so the US parts are imperial with metric interface sections.
Don't forget that adjustable wrench!
We could use all the Nukes we've got lying about! Then all living humas would be using the Imperial system and everything would be fine!
A standard only works if everybody uses it (witness Microsoft and the broken DNS (twice now!)).
Either everybody else goes Imperial system or we go metric system. 250 Million people to learn a new system v.s. 5.75 Billion. Hmm, that'll be a tough choice!
One system is as good as another, as long as everybody uses it.
On a side point, why in the HELL wasn't this caught in Quality Controll?!?
/me GRUMBLES and goes back to trying to convert British BA thread forms to US SA threadforms for a simple metalworking project.
Looks like I'll have to give up my online Q3 game tonight. I wonder if I've got any hardcopies... I mean books... around. :-)
What's all that wet stuff outside?!?
XF86 3.3.4 (the latest one with Debian packages when I upgraded last).
/., anyone interested could post to local.linux.nvidia.problems on handorf.penguinpowered.com. It won't be up all the time, but hopefully it'll stay up for a while.
I usually run my desktop at 1024x768x16, but I've tried x15, x32, 640x480x* and 800x600x*.
So as not to clutter up
Thanks for the comments, I'd really like to get this resolved.
Didn't we see a story on deep linking a few weeks ago? What's wrong with all these companies, thinking that they can take the linking out of HTML?
Once again, as The Onion put it, 79% of Americans 'Just Don't Get It'. The whole point of the web is to make the information "Site Transparent". You don't care where you are and you can drift from one server to another as you wish.
Is there anything we can do to stop this stupidity?
I am getting SO tired of this. Where did we put the "Clue Nuke"? Or the "Space Based Clue Laser"?
What sort of reciprocal agreements exist between countries on patents? Does it only count on home territory, or are US companies bound by UK patents (for example)?
I'm not even hoping for 20FPS, but I've got an SMP system and would like to be able to take advantage of it without installing (*SHIVER*) Y2K, er, W2K.
What is the command line that you use? Is it similar to this? :
./linuxquake3 +set r_glDriver libGL.so.1 +set in_dgamouse 0 +set r_fullscreen 0
That's what came down from Zoid at ID. I still can't make it work. I'll spend some time tonight fiddling with the XF86 mode. What are you using?
Which TNT card do you have?
Thx!
Unf, I can't even get into the game. I don't get ANY framerate. I get corrupt video and a dead X server. I ran the command line Zoid sent me:
:-(
./linuxquake3 +set r_glDriver libGL.so.1 +set in_dgamouse 0 +set r_fullscreen 0
but got the same symptom.
Tried it. Even fired an e-mail off to Zoid at ID. My TNT just winds up with corrupted video and the X server gets a Sig11. If you have any other links for Q3 on the nVidia stuff, I'd appreciate them!
:-(
Maybe it's a TNT2 thing.
Does any one know if the Linux drivers for this thing (which have been promised) will be day and date with the cards themselves?
And when will ID start supporting Q3A on the nVidia cards? I HATE rebooting into Windows!
I want one of these SO BAD, but I'm not going to give up XF86 for it!
I think my primary problem is that there are SO many ways to do things in perl. I like to learn by example, but if I read the same example written by two different perl hackers, you not only have two completely different approaches, you get two differents sets of syntax! I swear, every time I look at a new perl script I've got to go work out what the hell is going on in this section cause I've never encountered QUITE that syntax before.
On the other hand, C and PHP seem to have a nice regular syntax. It may not be quite as powerfull, but I usually don't want to do 30 things on a single line anyway.
As far as the caching, it would seem that would be easy enough to fix. If that is the primary preformance thing, I'm not going to get too fussed. :-)
And don't go dissing malloc! malloc is good! I still prefer C/C++ to either scripting language, but sometimes you do have to make unreasonable deadlines. :-)
The BP6 uses the "Old" BX chipset with lots of wierd stuff built onto it by ABIT. It doesn't use the Rambus memory (unless I'm SORELY mistaken), so we don't have a problem.
I highly recommend this motherboard, it's nice and reliable and I LOVE the dual celerons. YMMV of course, but all the reviews I've read say about the same thing.
I personally like to have my single system! I've had friends tell me I'd avoid a lot of problems if I got a second box and used it for my games, but I prefer the all-in-one approach! I've got one box at home that's a web server, database server, workstation, router, etc.
:-)
I'm still undecided on "appliances" in general, but I certianly hope that this doesn't mean Linux will stop focusing on the more general boxes! I LOVE my dual celeron... I don't want to do anything to scare it!
He played the Other UASF General, General Turdgeson (sp), who went to the "War Room" and met with the president. Quotes include the one about how skilled pilots could bring the planes in really low and how they should go ahead and bomb the russians full force.
Because Dr. Strangelove is (IMHO) one of the best cold war movies. It seems so far fetched that it's funny, but you can see all of the values that shaped the world around us.
:-)
As somebody who didn't really become aware of the world until well after all this past, it helps me to understand why things are the way they are. Why on earth do we need thousands of multi-megaton nuclear weapons? People felt like this.
"Your average commie has no regard for human life, not even his own". It sounds STUPID, but a generation grew up being told that. HECK, go back and watch Regan campaign commercials.
We must remember what got us so close to the brink of war, so we can avoid it. I'm a geek who would like to live well into the next century and I want my primary worry to be that I get enough exercise after sitting in front of this monitor all day.
Of course, it is also a funny movie.
Time to dig out the Dr. Strangelove DVD and watch it tonight. What a great character!
Between that and his role in "Patton", we should all remember him with fondness.
That, and he was the first person to refuse a major award, calling the Oscar a "Self serving meat parade", according to NPR this morning.
Here in the glorious Cincinnati,OH (hey, it could be worse!) area the local REBOC has been really pushing it's "Zoomtown" service. For $40 a month, you get the 3XX/7XX K (I can't recall the exact #s right now) ADSL, w/free hardware (Lan card, Cisco 675 router & 3 microfilters).
I've had some slight problems with them (I moved once and it took them 4 days to work out what was wrong at my new location), but now I get a new IP address about once a day, it's been up straight for about a week, and they don't mind Linux, although they wouldn't touch it for the install. I had to do the linux net config myself (gee, can anyone say ifconfig?)
I even got to turn down the telemarketer from the local cable company last night. That alone is probably worth the $40/month, esp. since the local provider is @home, who, IIRC, still has the limited 128K upstream (any corrections?). That, and they have a stated policy against servers. You serve and @home drops you and fines you.
Another thing to note, though, is that I've got a 4 IP subnet of the 10.XXX.XXX.XXX variety. All Zoomtown subscribers get a unique IP in the 10 class A space. I can use this to get to other subscribers and, if it's enabled, use window's file sharing inside zoomtown. Same disadvantage that the people with the cable modems are talking about, but it doesn't much worry me. People should be using passwords and packet filters, anyway.
The only other annoying thing is that they've blocked port 23 at their routers, but it encouraged me to install SSH anyway, so that was probably a good thing. Other than that, I run FTP, HTTP, SSH, SSH2 and a bundle of other services they don't seem to have any problem with.
Enough Babble.