I'm glad I've been avoiding intel processors. The newest intel processor I've used is a P166 on a dual cpu MB. I've preferred and recommend amd to friends for years. Now Ihae another reason to avoid intel products.
I've decided that he easiest way to protest the way the new tld's was handed out is to just say no. I plan on modifying my name server to prevent anything using the new tld's from reaching my systems.
Check the yellow pages. Some state bar associations have a referral service you can contact so you can get the right type of lawyer. different lawyers specialize in different aspects of the law. You want an attorney who works with employee contracts, business law, intellectual property situations. When you go to see tha attorney, make sure you take a copy of your employment contract. If you have any records of the work you've done on your own, make sure you have these records organized. Diaries or log books can be real handy.
Soudns great for the apartment complex, just think, all you need is the controller, you can use everyone elses's drive for storage. Just the way to store all that illegal porn so if the police arrives your machine is clean, as its on someone elses drive;)
RE #1, don't make it free,but do make the cost reasaonable. You can currently register domains for as low as $10/yr, which is a pretty reasonable price. It should be a enough to prevent some squatting, but it slow enough that its not an impedement. It should also be enough to cover most of the basic costs of running the name service equipment.
My employer (www.catharon.com) is working on an easy to use cross platform language. An old version (16 bit windows), soon to be replaced (win/mac immediatly, linux/beos later), is running the catalog site www.countrycurtains.com.
My employer is looking for a few alpha testers for the version to really shake the bugs/problems out.
He who has the gold, makes the rules and the ILEC's and cable companies are all buying politicians as needed to prevent any incursion into their monopolies. I used to co-own/operate and ISP and my experience to date says the broadband report is at best optimistic compared to reality.
Read the AOL/TWC terms of service, would you want to work for someome who said we get 75% of your gross income to start plus these additional terms and fees? The only reason for the outrageous terms is to prevent anyone from being able to afford to even think about sharing access with AOL/TWC.
I think I'll add aol.com and rr.com to my mail filters on my personal machine and just reject any email from them as well as verizon and bellatlantic. I have no desire to talk to a monopoly.
If the RIAA goes poof, it won't cause a dearth of new music, it will just allow the world to change to modern methods of distribution without the anchor of the RIAA dragging things back to the drk ages.
I don't mind the insulin so much with the 29ga needles, so small I usually don't even feel them. It's the fingersticks I really hate. Its not that easy typing when all your fingers hurt. I just don't do them as much as I should.
I'm hoping they can start cloning organs or at least the parts of the pancreas that make Insulin (and I won't try to spell them without a dictionary;)
I tried reading the patent, but I'm confused by the language. What's the difference between themes and any *nix system w/your favorite X11 window manager be it twm, kde, gnome, etc?
Looks like the Multics ACL setup from the 60's, though I'm not sure it as well thought out yet. See http://www.multicians.org for more information on ACL development in the 60's.
It may not be for everyone. I'm diabetic and have uncorrectable vision in my right eye and barely make 20/40 in my left. I've looked into Lasix and been told I'm not a good candidate. If this works for me, it would be great. At this time, I'm not sure how much linger I'll be able to work or use compters from my vision problems.
Programming is both an Art and a Science. The science helps you know alot about what does and does not work as well as how well things work. It is an art in that there are many ways to accomplish the same task. The ability to be creative helps discover new and hopefully better ways of doing things.
Painting is both an Art and a Science. Does everyone remember the color wheels and color combinations? How about perspective? It's based on science, but the implimentation can be an art.
It may be worse then that. A friend of mine is connectred via a covad reseller. Covad is supposedly shutting down the dslam at the end of february. The reseller has yet to officially tell my friend that his business DSL is going away about 22 months early on the 2 year contract. My friend has called covad who has said the dslam is closing down.
I guess on March 1st we will find out what's going to really happen.
The real reasons for these restrictions in the TOS is they are overselling their bandwidth. If all the customers actually tried to use anywhere near the bandwidth promised, the performance would drop to worse then a 56K dialup connection.
At last check, a real T1 (1.5Mbit/sec) runs around $1000 to $1500/month, a T3 (45Mbit/sec) runs around $15,000 to $30,000/month (excluding local loop). Because of the bursty nature of usage, overselling 4:1 works pretty good most of the time, but for DSL/RR they are overselling closer to 100:1. I keep hearing complaints from friend who have RR about how the promises on performance have been heavily dropping the last couple years and I've noticed it in the local RR advvertizing as the claims have dropped.
Different parts of a college have different needs and goals. It might be best to have the mangaement/finance part run by professionals (which might include paid students) where all the confidential and real secure data exists.
As you work out to the more academic areas, you could have more student run services.
At RPI college, the student chapter of the acm (acm.rpi.edu) has their own small network as well as a section of space on the campus system where they support software that is not supported by the administration. I'm not sure what the current setup is, but the rpi-acm supported several popular window managers and email clients that allowed everyone more choice in what they used for their everyday software needs.
I don't think/. is any more youth biased then the rest of the world. My experience from college was that the hardest part was getting permission/access to the resources needed to do something then to do it. This was back in the early 70's when I had several proposals shot down of things I was interested in doing, like writing an interactive OS for the IBM mainframe, something equivalent to a combination spreadsheet program/database manager, and other things that are common today. The Campus computer ran on 'funny money' so you had to get funding for any projects. Compute money was hard to get. It made several projects significantly harder as you'd spend more time getting computer funds then working on a project.
If we can clone body parts, like livers, kidneys, pancreas's, etc we may be able to take someones damaged organ, clone a new one and replace it without the current rjection problems in transplant surgery.
I've got type 2 diabetes. If they could clone the insulin producing cells from my pancreas and then insert them, it might be a cure for at least some types of diabetes.
If you take a very liberal interpretation of the attorney general decision, it makes operation of an ISP or providing any type of internet access illegal in NYS.
Based on this decision, all anyone has to do to get a newsgroup banned in nys is anonymous dump anything resembling kiddie porn into the group. I can see the usenet hackers/crackers having a field day targetting different groups every few days and getting them banned until there are no groups left.
I know that people can access kiddie porn the net, based on a strict interpretation of the AG's case, that meand all internet access is illegal as everyone knows the internet can be used to access kiddie porn. There's no reliable way to stop it. Newsgroup names do not necessarily have anything to do with the newsgroup content.
Its been about 15 years or so, but the group alt.pedophelia (IIRC) was created by people who wanted a place to talk about how to handle/prevent/stop kiddie porn on the net. The religeous right got ahold of the name and came down real hard on the group. I always wondered why they wanted to prevent people from stopping kiddie porn.
I used to run an ISP in upstate NY and followed the original dreamscape/buffnet case closely. The
NYS AG basically said that a newsgroup was illegal in nys as it was found to contain kiddie porn. Any newsgroup can contain kiddie porn, all you need is a determined enough poster and unsecure news servers (of which there seem to be many).
I suspect any company trying to develope an open standard with multiple companies invovled may need to really work hard and beef up the membership contracts to prevent things like this from happening again. If everything developed at a joint meeting is automatically owned by the standard committee, it might help alliviate some of the problems.
Does this then mean that Microsoft owns the word windows and the presence of any directory on a persons computer names windows is illegal?
Does this mean makers of glass windows can't use the word windows to advertize their products on the net?
I voted with my feet. I stopped buying music cd's a few years ago. If enough people stopped buying or reduced their buying so that copy protection increases resulted in reduced sales, it might become less of an issue.
If you drop a paper book, you get maybe a couple bent pages, you drop a palm pilot/ereader, etc and you most likely have scrap.
Its also fun to browse the books on the shelf and randomly look at one now and then as a title or author catches your eye, its alot harder to causally browse the computer.
The company I work for is preparing an internet/web development environment that will allow any product developed to run initially on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Beos without any changes to the code. They are currently looking for alpha testers and technology partners from around the world. You can find out more about them at http://www.catharon.com/.
You can see a live sample of the old 16 bit windows only version runing an online catalog/ordering system at http://www.countrycurtains.com/. The catalog starts as a plugin, but once downloaded runs independent of browser. A new Mac/Windows version should be up later this month with the linux/beos versions close behind. I've seen the internal demos and there are a few available for alpha testers that include a shared interactive whiteboard.
email multics@sgeinc.com, the name service for ruserved.com was messed up so it may or may not work for some people.
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I'm glad I've been avoiding intel processors. The newest intel processor I've used is a P166 on a dual cpu MB. I've preferred and recommend amd to friends for years. Now Ihae another reason to avoid intel products.
I've decided that he easiest way to protest the way the new tld's was handed out is to just say no. I plan on modifying my name server to prevent anything using the new tld's from reaching my systems.
Check the yellow pages. Some state bar associations have a referral service you can contact so you can get the right type of lawyer. different lawyers specialize in different aspects of the law. You want an attorney who works with employee contracts, business law, intellectual property situations. When you go to see tha attorney, make sure you take a copy of your employment contract. If you have any records of the work you've done on your own, make sure you have these records organized. Diaries or log books can be real handy.
Soudns great for the apartment complex, just think, all you need is the controller, you can use everyone elses's drive for storage. Just the way to store all that illegal porn so if the police arrives your machine is clean, as its on someone elses drive ;)
RE #1, don't make it free,but do make the cost reasaonable. You can currently register domains for as low as $10/yr, which is a pretty reasonable price. It should be a enough to prevent some squatting, but it slow enough that its not an impedement. It should also be enough to cover most of the basic costs of running the name service equipment.
its not going to do much unless you ground it. If you don't ground it, you might make things worse or at least stand out from the sparks.
My employer (www.catharon.com) is working on an easy to use cross platform language. An old version (16 bit windows), soon to be replaced (win/mac immediatly, linux/beos later), is running the catalog site www.countrycurtains.com. My employer is looking for a few alpha testers for the version to really shake the bugs/problems out.
He who has the gold, makes the rules and the ILEC's and cable companies are all buying politicians as needed to prevent any incursion into their monopolies. I used to co-own/operate and ISP and my experience to date says the broadband report is at best optimistic compared to reality. Read the AOL/TWC terms of service, would you want to work for someome who said we get 75% of your gross income to start plus these additional terms and fees? The only reason for the outrageous terms is to prevent anyone from being able to afford to even think about sharing access with AOL/TWC. I think I'll add aol.com and rr.com to my mail filters on my personal machine and just reject any email from them as well as verizon and bellatlantic. I have no desire to talk to a monopoly.
If the RIAA goes poof, it won't cause a dearth of new music, it will just allow the world to change to modern methods of distribution without the anchor of the RIAA dragging things back to the drk ages.
I don't mind the insulin so much with the 29ga needles, so small I usually don't even feel them. It's the fingersticks I really hate. Its not that easy typing when all your fingers hurt. I just don't do them as much as I should. I'm hoping they can start cloning organs or at least the parts of the pancreas that make Insulin (and I won't try to spell them without a dictionary ;)
I tried reading the patent, but I'm confused by the language. What's the difference between themes and any *nix system w/your favorite X11 window manager be it twm, kde, gnome, etc?
Looks like the Multics ACL setup from the 60's, though I'm not sure it as well thought out yet. See http://www.multicians.org for more information on ACL development in the 60's.
It may not be for everyone. I'm diabetic and have uncorrectable vision in my right eye and barely make 20/40 in my left. I've looked into Lasix and been told I'm not a good candidate. If this works for me, it would be great. At this time, I'm not sure how much linger I'll be able to work or use compters from my vision problems.
Programming is both an Art and a Science. The science helps you know alot about what does and does not work as well as how well things work. It is an art in that there are many ways to accomplish the same task. The ability to be creative helps discover new and hopefully better ways of doing things.
Painting is both an Art and a Science. Does everyone remember the color wheels and color combinations? How about perspective? It's based on science, but the implimentation can be an art.
It may be worse then that. A friend of mine is connectred via a covad reseller. Covad is supposedly shutting down the dslam at the end of february. The reseller has yet to officially tell my friend that his business DSL is going away about 22 months early on the 2 year contract. My friend has called covad who has said the dslam is closing down.
I guess on March 1st we will find out what's going to really happen.
The real reasons for these restrictions in the TOS is they are overselling their bandwidth. If all the customers actually tried to use anywhere near the bandwidth promised, the performance would drop to worse then a 56K dialup connection.
At last check, a real T1 (1.5Mbit/sec) runs around $1000 to $1500/month, a T3 (45Mbit/sec) runs around $15,000 to $30,000/month (excluding local loop). Because of the bursty nature of usage, overselling 4:1 works pretty good most of the time, but for DSL/RR they are overselling closer to 100:1. I keep hearing complaints from friend who have RR about how the promises on performance have been heavily dropping the last couple years and I've noticed it in the local RR advvertizing as the claims have dropped.
Different parts of a college have different needs and goals. It might be best to have the mangaement/finance part run by professionals (which might include paid students) where all the confidential and real secure data exists.
As you work out to the more academic areas, you could have more student run services.
At RPI college, the student chapter of the acm (acm.rpi.edu) has their own small network as well as a section of space on the campus system where they support software that is not supported by the administration. I'm not sure what the current setup is, but the rpi-acm supported several popular window managers and email clients that allowed everyone more choice in what they used for their everyday software needs.
I don't think /. is any more youth biased then the rest of the world. My experience from college was that the hardest part was getting permission/access to the resources needed to do something then to do it. This was back in the early 70's when I had several proposals shot down of things I was interested in doing, like writing an interactive OS for the IBM mainframe, something equivalent to a combination spreadsheet program/database manager, and other things that are common today. The Campus computer ran on 'funny money' so you had to get funding for any projects. Compute money was hard to get. It made several projects significantly harder as you'd spend more time getting computer funds then working on a project.
If we can clone body parts, like livers, kidneys, pancreas's, etc we may be able to take someones damaged organ, clone a new one and replace it without the current rjection problems in transplant surgery.
I've got type 2 diabetes. If they could clone the insulin producing cells from my pancreas and then insert them, it might be a cure for at least some types of diabetes.
If you take a very liberal interpretation of the attorney general decision, it makes operation of an ISP or providing any type of internet access illegal in NYS. Based on this decision, all anyone has to do to get a newsgroup banned in nys is anonymous dump anything resembling kiddie porn into the group. I can see the usenet hackers/crackers having a field day targetting different groups every few days and getting them banned until there are no groups left. I know that people can access kiddie porn the net, based on a strict interpretation of the AG's case, that meand all internet access is illegal as everyone knows the internet can be used to access kiddie porn. There's no reliable way to stop it. Newsgroup names do not necessarily have anything to do with the newsgroup content. Its been about 15 years or so, but the group alt.pedophelia (IIRC) was created by people who wanted a place to talk about how to handle/prevent/stop kiddie porn on the net. The religeous right got ahold of the name and came down real hard on the group. I always wondered why they wanted to prevent people from stopping kiddie porn. I used to run an ISP in upstate NY and followed the original dreamscape/buffnet case closely. The NYS AG basically said that a newsgroup was illegal in nys as it was found to contain kiddie porn. Any newsgroup can contain kiddie porn, all you need is a determined enough poster and unsecure news servers (of which there seem to be many).
I suspect any company trying to develope an open standard with multiple companies invovled may need to really work hard and beef up the membership contracts to prevent things like this from happening again. If everything developed at a joint meeting is automatically owned by the standard committee, it might help alliviate some of the problems.
Does this then mean that Microsoft owns the word windows and the presence of any directory on a persons computer names windows is illegal? Does this mean makers of glass windows can't use the word windows to advertize their products on the net?
I voted with my feet. I stopped buying music cd's a few years ago. If enough people stopped buying or reduced their buying so that copy protection increases resulted in reduced sales, it might become less of an issue.
If you drop a paper book, you get maybe a couple bent pages, you drop a palm pilot/ereader, etc and you most likely have scrap. Its also fun to browse the books on the shelf and randomly look at one now and then as a title or author catches your eye, its alot harder to causally browse the computer.
The company I work for is preparing an internet/web development environment that will allow any product developed to run initially on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Beos without any changes to the code. They are currently looking for alpha testers and technology partners from around the world. You can find out more about them at http://www.catharon.com/.
You can see a live sample of the old 16 bit windows only version runing an online catalog/ordering system at http://www.countrycurtains.com/. The catalog starts as a plugin, but once downloaded runs independent of browser. A new Mac/Windows version should be up later this month with the linux/beos versions close behind. I've seen the internal demos and there are a few available for alpha testers that include a shared interactive whiteboard.
email multics@sgeinc.com, the name service for ruserved.com was messed up so it may or may not work for some people.