I have a lot of friends that are AT&T employees in R&D. On day 8 of the MCI outage, I mentioned the MCI outage to them. They hadn't heard about it and were damned pissed about it also. After April 1998, when they saw AT&T outage on the front page, etc. and all the heads rolling around them, they couldn't believe that MCI wasn't being eaten alive. 8 days! Then MCI goes and blames it on Lucent. That really got these guys going since Lucent all but shares buildings with them (actually they did up until 3 months ago).
Thank god one of the journalist crowd has a clue about this and published. Very impressive.
Same here. I work(ed) (still part time when they need me) for a small ISP (no T3's there anytime soon) that used Sprintlink for backbone and Sprint for local service. First, their local guys kick ass. After all the local telco jokes, these guys were a pleasant surprise. They knew how to do it and could deliver a channelized T1 or PRI a week within ordering, 2 weeks in the worse case. Another ISP I have had contact with in GTE land has to order 3-4 months ahead and the usual reaction is T-what?
Sprintlink has been very reliable. We had a little trouble with not enough bandwidth leaving the local POP we connect to, but they got it figured out eventually. In fact, we were going to replace them with someone cheaper, signed the contracts, got the new feed in, and after testing it, are trying to get out of the contracts. They sucked. Sprintlink is well worth the extra money.
Yup he did, and it doesn't surprise me. I'm ready to go out and get serious disk space like that as soon as I get established and ready to rip CDs. I'm tired of CDs. I have 300+ and have run out of room in the CD case. So instead of building/buying a new case, I'm buying hard drives, throwing them into the server I already have, and recycling a little used computer as a player (for my stereo, the computers can do it themselves, of course).
Anyways, 300 CDs at ~50meg a pop is 15gig. My collection ain't huge. With prices like $210 for 20.4 gig, why not go mp3s?
Yup. I was about to post something similar about OS/2. OS/2 gained a lot on the desktop market waiting for Win95, then some on the server market waiting on WinNT. When MS finally released, OS/2 started declining.
For MS, the FUD worked. If they hadn't been promising 95 and NT earlier, more people would have switched to OS/2. And if they had waited until their products weren't buggy, even more people would have been OS/2 users.
The crucial difference, though, is that IBM of that time does not resemble the Linux development community of today. IBM was drooling over the NT server market more than the OS/2 market. Hell, you had to twist their arm to preload OS/2 on their own machines. It seemed IBM was fazing out OS/2 and stopping development, at the very least, they didn't seem interested. The result, when 95/NT came out, IBM was quick to preload and so was everyone else. If OS/2 wasn't good enough for IBM, how could anyone else run it.
The linux development community is not showing nor will be showing the same eagerness for Win2k. Even suggesting this would make them laugh. Further, things have changed so much that IBM is seen gearing up to support Linux more than it ever supported OS/2. IBM has made very little mention of Win2k and its place on their servers.
Another point, people ran OS/2 for 32-bit multitasking, stability, and a nice GUI they couldn't get from Windows. People found this, relative to 3.1/NT 3.51, when 95/NT was released. Now they are using Linux primarily for the stability and low cost of ownership that MS can't produce. I don't think they will be able to after Win2k is realeased either.
This is tough. Linux and *bsd's are pretty dependent upon 32-bit (or better) processors. The 286 is 16-bit. Also the 286 doesn't have protected mode operation and virtual memory handling that was introduced (for Intel) in the 386. It is very difficult to write a multitasking, multiuser OS without either of these.
If you can find it, minix is something to play with. I never have, but I've never heard anything good about its stability/usability.
If it was me, I'd find my Ancient Art of War disks and kill things: Archers Attack! Barbarians Attack!
I just reincarnated my trusty 486 with BIOS dated '94. That beast has taken on numerous forms, originally my OS/2 workstation, a Linux server, a short stint as an NT box for VPN purposes, and now a VPN firewall/web cache/DNS caching server/MP3 file server/mail server. It is now running Linux of course. Somehow a 486 still has plenty of horsepower to do all of this. Granted its not the same as it started, 4 meg RAM and 340 meg HD, now it is 32 meg RAM and 10 gig HD, but the CPU hasn't changed.
Hell, I'm even thinking of letting it do SETI@home or distributed.net work when it is bored.:-)
This may be a stupid question, but it won't be my first nor my last: If I am in a US state where it is made illegal to reverse engineer, but remotely used hardware in Australia for exactly that purpose, do I go to the big house and lose my life savings? How about if I write and store all of my notes on the Australia box?
Is telneting into the Australian box commuting to work? If so, how can I be breaking the law? Does our location decide the laws that we live in or the location of our work?
If our location decides the laws, then since I worked at home, I want the taxes back that I paid to the town my company was located in.
I have no great love for Clinton and Reno, but if the Executive branch wasn't getting together to make sure they're handling this internet thing right, then I would say they weren't doing their jobs.
This is not necessarily about creating new laws, but more likely will be coming up with better ways to enforce the ones that we have. The internet doesn't fit well into the old fashioned law enforcemnt paradigm.
I was one of them. I saw his posted, shot out an answer, and by the time I reloaded the page, another 6 or so were there. Poor guy. I hope he doesn't shy away from answering questions in the future. I'm sure I would be a little intimidated if I opened my mouth and in response 7 people turned immediately with the answer.
I somehow managed to carry a relationship while working long hours (admittedly not 80+) and finishing my master's degree. AND! I got some! Worse, she was just as busy as I was, so scheduling was a pain in the ass.
Eventually, I did wise up. After I graduated, I married her and cut back my hours. I'm much happier. Work is temporary, jobs come and go. Love and life are the forevers.
My suggestion to those that can't find time for their S.O., is to try working at home for a day or two each week. If your mindset is right, this works out well. Get some work done, let yourself be... distracted... get some more work done. After all, you are working above and beyond anyways, you might as well do it at a more leisurely pace. If your S.O. is the right person, it is nice just to have him/her in the same room while you are doing easier tasks. Save the "all mind consuming" things for the office.
Of course it is worth all of the effort. How often do you sit at a light, not waiting for the opposite traffic that has long since passed, but instead just waiting for the light. A smart system would be able to adjust accordingly and let you go on your merry way more quickly. In the mean time, you are saving time, your car is saving gas, and the environment gets a little break.
The only thing that will ever "encourage" people, at least in the states, to be more efficient when driving is $10/gallon gas. I'm not even sure that will do it. A new car already costs half a years income for most people and it doesn't stop them. Going on your own schedule is just too convenient for Americans to be troubled with cost and environmental issues.
Heating isn't exactly what makes a solid into a liquid. More precisely, it is the _exciting_ of the molecules. So instead of heating the cars in a jam, we just need to get them excited! I don't know about cars, but what works for me is a little fender bumping, some hood rubbing, flashing headlights, etc.
Considering M$ is currently in a "battle" with AOL after they reverse engineered their messenging protocol (e.g. AOL Instant Messenger), I doubt M$ will be fighting to make reverse engineering illegal.
In other news, AOL is in court to win the right to use AT&T's cable networks.
The stories aren't completely analogous, but I think AOL is playing both sides of the closed access argument. With AT&T, they are demanding the right to use a network that was built completely with AT&T money. They are willing to pay, but not too much. In this recent battle, they are closing their "network". For this network, AOL has written the software, distributed it, but has not built the bulk of the physical network that it runs on.
While I don't agree with MS for just hijacking a protocol that wasn't open and using AOL servers without permission, I also don't agree with AOL's reaction. If theft is what MS is guilty of, then AOL should be suing/pressing charges and asking for a cease and desist order to keep MS from further distribution until the court decides. This reaction just weakens AOL's position in the AT&T case.
The interest here isn't really about this particular patent. It is more just a piece in the puzzle of just what the f**k Linus is up to at Transmeta. For a guy that bears all in regard to the Linux kernel, Linus is very tightlipped about his work at Transmeta.
Go down Main St. and tell all the shop keepers to leave their front door unlocked and instead spend their time/money to get a bigger safe for the cash and other valuables.
Then, when I woke up at 4:00am and I suddenly had a craving for a candy bar, a book, a new coat, a TV, or a Ferrari, I could just go and get one. Leaving the appropriate amount of cash on the counter... of course.
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I have a lot of friends that are AT&T employees in R&D. On day 8 of the MCI outage, I mentioned the MCI outage to them. They hadn't heard about it and were damned pissed about it also. After April 1998, when they saw AT&T outage on the front page, etc. and all the heads rolling around them, they couldn't believe that MCI wasn't being eaten alive. 8 days! Then MCI goes and blames it on Lucent. That really got these guys going since Lucent all but shares buildings with them (actually they did up until 3 months ago).
Thank god one of the journalist crowd has a clue about this and published. Very impressive.
Same here. I work(ed) (still part time when they need me) for a small ISP (no T3's there anytime soon) that used Sprintlink for backbone and Sprint for local service. First, their local guys kick ass. After all the local telco jokes, these guys were a pleasant surprise. They knew how to do it and could deliver a channelized T1 or PRI a week within ordering, 2 weeks in the worse case. Another ISP I have had contact with in GTE land has to order 3-4 months ahead and the usual reaction is T-what?
Sprintlink has been very reliable. We had a little trouble with not enough bandwidth leaving the local POP we connect to, but they got it figured out eventually. In fact, we were going to replace them with someone cheaper, signed the contracts, got the new feed in, and after testing it, are trying to get out of the contracts. They sucked. Sprintlink is well worth the extra money.
Yup he did, and it doesn't surprise me. I'm ready to go out and get serious disk space like that as soon as I get established and ready to rip CDs. I'm tired of CDs. I have 300+ and have run out of room in the CD case. So instead of building/buying a new case, I'm buying hard drives, throwing them into the server I already have, and recycling a little used computer as a player (for my stereo, the computers can do it themselves, of course).
Anyways, 300 CDs at ~50meg a pop is 15gig. My collection ain't huge. With prices like $210 for 20.4 gig, why not go mp3s?
What!?! You mean someone would waste the precious resources of their employer surfing the net and reading /.???
I'm.... researching! Keeping my technical knowledge up... yeah, thats it!
Yup. I was about to post something similar about OS/2. OS/2 gained a lot on the desktop market waiting for Win95, then some on the server market waiting on WinNT. When MS finally released, OS/2 started declining.
For MS, the FUD worked. If they hadn't been promising 95 and NT earlier, more people would have switched to OS/2. And if they had waited until their products weren't buggy, even more people would have been OS/2 users.
The crucial difference, though, is that IBM of that time does not resemble the Linux development community of today. IBM was drooling over the NT server market more than the OS/2 market. Hell, you had to twist their arm to preload OS/2 on their own machines. It seemed IBM was fazing out OS/2 and stopping development, at the very least, they didn't seem interested. The result, when 95/NT came out, IBM was quick to preload and so was everyone else. If OS/2 wasn't good enough for IBM, how could anyone else run it.
The linux development community is not showing nor will be showing the same eagerness for Win2k. Even suggesting this would make them laugh. Further, things have changed so much that IBM is seen gearing up to support Linux more than it ever supported OS/2. IBM has made very little mention of Win2k and its place on their servers.
Another point, people ran OS/2 for 32-bit multitasking, stability, and a nice GUI they couldn't get from Windows. People found this, relative to 3.1/NT 3.51, when 95/NT was released. Now they are using Linux primarily for the stability and low cost of ownership that MS can't produce. I don't think they will be able to after Win2k is realeased either.
To everyone yelling that Intel will still be preferred for Linux, the author doesn't disagree!
It looks like PowerPC could well become the preferred RISC architecture for Linux.
The author is merely talking about Linux RISC users dumping Alpha and going PPC.
This is tough. Linux and *bsd's are pretty dependent upon 32-bit (or better) processors. The 286 is 16-bit. Also the 286 doesn't have protected mode operation and virtual memory handling that was introduced (for Intel) in the 386. It is very difficult to write a multitasking, multiuser OS without either of these.
If you can find it, minix is something to play with. I never have, but I've never heard anything good about its stability/usability.
If it was me, I'd find my Ancient Art of War disks and kill things: Archers Attack! Barbarians Attack!
BTW, I call it "shovel". :-)
I just reincarnated my trusty 486 with BIOS dated '94. That beast has taken on numerous forms, originally my OS/2 workstation, a Linux server, a short stint as an NT box for VPN purposes, and now a VPN firewall/web cache/DNS caching server/MP3 file server/mail server. It is now running Linux of course. Somehow a 486 still has plenty of horsepower to do all of this. Granted its not the same as it started, 4 meg RAM and 340 meg HD, now it is 32 meg RAM and 10 gig HD, but the CPU hasn't changed.
Hell, I'm even thinking of letting it do SETI@home or distributed.net work when it is bored. :-)
This may be a stupid question, but it won't be my first nor my last: If I am in a US state where it is made illegal to reverse engineer, but remotely used hardware in Australia for exactly that purpose, do I go to the big house and lose my life savings? How about if I write and store all of my notes on the Australia box?
Is telneting into the Australian box commuting to work? If so, how can I be breaking the law? Does our location decide the laws that we live in or the location of our work?
If our location decides the laws, then since I worked at home, I want the taxes back that I paid to the town my company was located in.
Happy Friday the 13th!
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I have no great love for Clinton and Reno, but if the Executive branch wasn't getting together to make sure they're handling this internet thing right, then I would say they weren't doing their jobs.
This is not necessarily about creating new laws, but more likely will be coming up with better ways to enforce the ones that we have. The internet doesn't fit well into the old fashioned law enforcemnt paradigm.
I was one of them. I saw his posted, shot out an answer, and by the time I reloaded the page, another 6 or so were there. Poor guy. I hope he doesn't shy away from answering questions in the future. I'm sure I would be a little intimidated if I opened my mouth and in response 7 people turned immediately with the answer.
heheh... Get enough answers?
I'm assuming that root telnet access is denied. This is the norm. What this means is that you just have to get in as any user.
With all the kudos for Mackie, where is the URL? I want to see one of these babies if I can. Thanks!
Uh huh... which type of smut... I mean, mail .. are you snarfing down? :-)
I somehow managed to carry a relationship while working long hours (admittedly not 80+) and finishing my master's degree. AND! I got some! Worse, she was just as busy as I was, so scheduling was a pain in the ass.
Eventually, I did wise up. After I graduated, I married her and cut back my hours. I'm much happier. Work is temporary, jobs come and go. Love and life are the forevers.
My suggestion to those that can't find time for their S.O., is to try working at home for a day or two each week. If your mindset is right, this works out well. Get some work done, let yourself be ... distracted ... get some more work done. After all, you are working above and beyond anyways, you might as well do it at a more leisurely pace. If your S.O. is the right person, it is nice just to have him/her in the same room while you are doing easier tasks. Save the "all mind consuming" things for the office.
Of course it is worth all of the effort. How often do you sit at a light, not waiting for the opposite traffic that has long since passed, but instead just waiting for the light. A smart system would be able to adjust accordingly and let you go on your merry way more quickly. In the mean time, you are saving time, your car is saving gas, and the environment gets a little break.
The only thing that will ever "encourage" people, at least in the states, to be more efficient when driving is $10/gallon gas. I'm not even sure that will do it. A new car already costs half a years income for most people and it doesn't stop them. Going on your own schedule is just too convenient for Americans to be troubled with cost and environmental issues.
Heating isn't exactly what makes a solid into a liquid. More precisely, it is the _exciting_ of the molecules. So instead of heating the cars in a jam, we just need to get them excited! I don't know about cars, but what works for me is a little fender bumping, some hood rubbing, flashing headlights, etc.
M$ can't bribe THAT many legislatures
Considering M$ is currently in a "battle" with AOL after they reverse engineered their messenging protocol (e.g. AOL Instant Messenger), I doubt M$ will be fighting to make reverse engineering illegal.
In other news, AOL is in court to win the right to use AT&T's cable networks.
The stories aren't completely analogous, but I think AOL is playing both sides of the closed access argument. With AT&T, they are demanding the right to use a network that was built completely with AT&T money. They are willing to pay, but not too much. In this recent battle, they are closing their "network". For this network, AOL has written the software, distributed it, but has not built the bulk of the physical network that it runs on.
While I don't agree with MS for just hijacking a protocol that wasn't open and using AOL servers without permission, I also don't agree with AOL's reaction. If theft is what MS is guilty of, then AOL should be suing/pressing charges and asking for a cease and desist order to keep MS from further distribution until the court decides. This reaction just weakens AOL's position in the AT&T case.
Further, it would be nice to know what switches were used with each compiler. Any compiler should be able to beat gcc -O6 in compile time.
The interest here isn't really about this particular patent. It is more just a piece in the puzzle of just what the f**k Linus is up to at Transmeta. For a guy that bears all in regard to the Linux kernel, Linus is very tightlipped about his work at Transmeta.
Go down Main St. and tell all the shop keepers to leave their front door unlocked and instead spend their time/money to get a bigger safe for the cash and other valuables.
Then, when I woke up at 4:00am and I suddenly had a craving for a candy bar, a book, a new coat, a TV, or a Ferrari, I could just go and get one. Leaving the appropriate amount of cash on the counter... of course.
Wow. Wouldn't this be nice and convenient.
Woo hoo!!! I'm not crazy!
Thanks man.