I'm OK with what you said: I'm just surprised we hadn't reached Godwination yet, but I have trouble finding how this is humorous?
What happened is pretty simple: messing with someone at their job by turning off the monitors being used to ply their trade in an appropriate place and where the use of TVs is expected. There was no point to prove other than being a smartass.
The mising link is how to get the CO2 that is now emitted from the cars burning said converted fuel. I suspect that it might not be enough to offset that through simply removing CO2 from the atmosphere in equal amounts, but I digress.
The fact that this kind of secondary use of solar energy is starting to come about is a much more interesting development. Sure, you can generate electricity/heat water/etc from solar, but what else can we do with that energy that is also beneficial? THAT's interesting.
we had invented everything that was possible. I don't see it as any different now to have the prognostication that innovation is slowing to the point of stasis being proven wrong (again) at the end of the century. The author of the article may well keep in mind that a staggeringly useful enabling tool was created in the last 100 years - the computer - and that it is opening up whole new areas of research and innovation.
Interesting article, but preloading those values will invariably lead to out of sync conditions when the backend changes. Nothing mentioned in the text as to how to cater for that eventuality.
whoa, easy there Tex. Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater yet.
How about applying a firewall to your hosts to limit 617/tcp connections to your backup host? Firewalls on internal hosts should be there already, as should the host-based IDS.
Only a nit to pick - Linux has nothing to do with open/closed source. The Free Software Foundation is what you're referring to. Linux was just a cool project for Linus to work on.
Redhat doesn't charge for everything, just for the things that cost them money to support. And by the by, it's about the same cost of buying a Microsoft enterprise capable platform, at least from a licensing and support cost perspective. You just need to buy less of them:-)
Even a few VMWare instances placed here and there can make a whole bunch of difference. If you're able to consolidate some maintenance expensive servers, even better. That's real money out the door each year that you will save.
Mine software licences.
Track every licence that is in use, track it and reclaim it when you decomm a server. Keep it in inventory and if you know you're never going to use it, terminate maintenance on it and save those dollars.
Deploy/Build rapid provisioning tools
Costs are also in time to deploy apps/systems. Invest people's time to figure out how to automate these kinds of activities and you will be able to quantify the value you are providing.
The number one thing that I love about this device is the Rio DJ - Entertain me! function. What it does is looks at the most played tracks in a certain time period (15 minutes to everything on the Karma) and then plays a random mix of them. Awesome!
The second best thing is the crossfade feature under the Equalizer function. It basically makes a nice seamless mix of music that fades in and out of each track.
Battery life is great! I regularly get 10hrs of music out of it.
The only downsides I've discovered are that the little stick selector is flimsy, and the ethernet port is very flaky when it comes to working with switches. Neither my D-Link or Netgear 10/100 switches work with it, so I have resorted to loading the Windows software to load music.
There's likely to be a great deal of demand for it. Sporting events broadcast by radio, your favorite DJ's zaniness, or in my case, not being able to listen to Fox Sports Radio because I'm still at work but wanting to catch Steve Czaban's show sometime later.
The "when I'm doing something else" part doesn't change, it just makes it more convenient for me to listen to something interesting when I want to.
There was some work done on the news server side to do the same thing based on a MD5 hash of the article ID. It's an interesting idea that is in the class ofr a firewall - it's not going to stop the idiots, but it's going to slow them down enough that you've got a chance to block them via other means. The really neat part would be to write the log file analyzer that can show the backed-off connections (and rate at which they've slowed) in a useful format.
WLNP - Wireless Local Number Portability. It promises to deliver what you're talking about, of course without addressing the contract you have with your provider for service.
Since when has Internet access been as necessary as phone or water service for everyday life?
Remember, Internet access is a "want", not a "need" in order to survive in today's Western world. It's definitely nice to have, and the customer relationship management world is embracing the Internet as a cost cutting measure on the business side. For the home users, however, it remains a convenience.
The ubiquitousness of the phone network is a recognition of the importance the telephone plays in everyday life. The moment the Internet achieves the same level *to the average user*, then the water pipes will be built and the ROI on something like ION will be real. Up until now, it has been a money pit for Sprint, and as the FAQ says, today's financial landscape doesn't allow for this.
Your first point is accurate. OptusNet, the old Microplex, was purchased by C&W Optus prior to the listing of CWO on the ASX. They've had a spam problem for a while now.
Optus and Telstra are the major backbone providers out of Australia. Yes, UUNet is a in-Australia provider, but they will ultimately be using Telstra for their last-mile connections. The last time I looked, UUNet was still using Singtel Optus for upstream connectivity, mostly because of the big fat OC-3 pipes to C&W's Global.Net. And they certainly have to use the transit connections to Telstra to reach the Telstra connected sites, as I don't recall seeing any IX announcements of Telstra, SingTelO and Connect/UUNet being made.
so we encourage those business to go for the middle ground. Linux as the server end, Win* at the client end.
That's what bugs me most about the MS paper - they presumed that the businesses involved would go either totally Windows or totally Linux. The truth of the matter is that I would never go one or the other, I would take both. Use the good points of both to outweigh the bad parts of both.
Of course, the conclusion will be the same "Windows2000 rules!", but it would also be far more realistic than the all-or-nothing model presented.
Are you done with your ill-directed venting now?
"Common carrier" does not mean what you think it means. The protections (and obligations) that common carrier status carries are not applicable to a forum such as slashdot. Slashdot does not meet any of the criteria laid down for a carrier.
Your assertion that "all attempts to censor material should be fought" is a noble one, but ultimately, it's flawed. If you'd bothered to read the original explanation, then you would have seen that part about "copyright material" being the primary driver for the Scien*ology demand. Whether you agree with the Scien*ologists or not, the law on copyright applies equally to all who publish material - whether you agree with them or not. Even if the Scien*ologists are using copyright as a mask for their agenda to keep their organisation secrets, that doesn't change the fact that copyrighted material was posted and that if the matter was contested in court,/. would probably lose. As would kuro5hin.
One parting thought - the moment you mentioned "founding principles" I knew you were trolling.
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I'm OK with what you said: I'm just surprised we hadn't reached Godwination yet, but I have trouble finding how this is humorous?
What happened is pretty simple: messing with someone at their job by turning off the monitors being used to ply their trade in an appropriate place and where the use of TVs is expected. There was no point to prove other than being a smartass.
Be funny, but don't be stupid.
The mising link is how to get the CO2 that is now emitted from the cars burning said converted fuel. I suspect that it might not be enough to offset that through simply removing CO2 from the atmosphere in equal amounts, but I digress.
The fact that this kind of secondary use of solar energy is starting to come about is a much more interesting development. Sure, you can generate electricity/heat water/etc from solar, but what else can we do with that energy that is also beneficial? THAT's interesting.
we had invented everything that was possible. I don't see it as any different now to have the prognostication that innovation is slowing to the point of stasis being proven wrong (again) at the end of the century. The author of the article may well keep in mind that a staggeringly useful enabling tool was created in the last 100 years - the computer - and that it is opening up whole new areas of research and innovation.
Interesting article, but preloading those values will invariably lead to out of sync conditions when the backend changes. Nothing mentioned in the text as to how to cater for that eventuality.
whoa, easy there Tex. Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater yet.
How about applying a firewall to your hosts to limit 617/tcp connections to your backup host? Firewalls on internal hosts should be there already, as should the host-based IDS.
The BBC has had this story since yesterday!
From what I read on http://news.bbc.co.uk, the "missing" plutonium was a result of the way in which material was accounted for, not an actual loss.
Only a nit to pick - Linux has nothing to do with open/closed source. The Free Software Foundation is what you're referring to. Linux was just a cool project for Linus to work on.
:-)
Redhat doesn't charge for everything, just for the things that cost them money to support. And by the by, it's about the same cost of buying a Microsoft enterprise capable platform, at least from a licensing and support cost perspective. You just need to buy less of them
Consolidate servers.
Even a few VMWare instances placed here and there can make a whole bunch of difference. If you're able to consolidate some maintenance expensive servers, even better. That's real money out the door each year that you will save.
Mine software licences.
Track every licence that is in use, track it and reclaim it when you decomm a server. Keep it in inventory and if you know you're never going to use it, terminate maintenance on it and save those dollars.
Deploy/Build rapid provisioning tools
Costs are also in time to deploy apps/systems. Invest people's time to figure out how to automate these kinds of activities and you will be able to quantify the value you are providing.
There isn't enough bleach nor enough wire brushes to get the dirt off. Why won't it come off? Damn you NeoWin! Damn you all to hell!
The slight hiss is cancelled out by my tinninitis :-)
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention the screen. The scrolling display and decent size makes it easy to read and work with!
I own one of these beasts too.
The number one thing that I love about this device is the Rio DJ - Entertain me! function. What it does is looks at the most played tracks in a certain time period (15 minutes to everything on the Karma) and then plays a random mix of them. Awesome!
The second best thing is the crossfade feature under the Equalizer function. It basically makes a nice seamless mix of music that fades in and out of each track.
Battery life is great! I regularly get 10hrs of music out of it.
The only downsides I've discovered are that the little stick selector is flimsy, and the ethernet port is very flaky when it comes to working with switches. Neither my D-Link or Netgear 10/100 switches work with it, so I have resorted to loading the Windows software to load music.
There's likely to be a great deal of demand for it. Sporting events broadcast by radio, your favorite DJ's zaniness, or in my case, not being able to listen to Fox Sports Radio because I'm still at work but wanting to catch Steve Czaban's show sometime later.
The "when I'm doing something else" part doesn't change, it just makes it more convenient for me to listen to something interesting when I want to.
There was some work done on the news server side to do the same thing based on a MD5 hash of the article ID. It's an interesting idea that is in the class ofr a firewall - it's not going to stop the idiots, but it's going to slow them down enough that you've got a chance to block them via other means. The really neat part would be to write the log file analyzer that can show the backed-off connections (and rate at which they've slowed) in a useful format.
WLNP - Wireless Local Number Portability. It promises to deliver what you're talking about, of course without addressing the contract you have with your provider for service.
Alternatively, make sure that your Samba server can get to the administrative c$ share on each client and just back them up underneath them.
Since when has Internet access been as necessary as phone or water service for everyday life?
Remember, Internet access is a "want", not a "need" in order to survive in today's Western world. It's definitely nice to have, and the customer relationship management world is embracing the Internet as a cost cutting measure on the business side. For the home users, however, it remains a convenience.
The ubiquitousness of the phone network is a recognition of the importance the telephone plays in everyday life. The moment the Internet achieves the same level *to the average user*, then the water pipes will be built and the ROI on something like ION will be real. Up until now, it has been a money pit for Sprint, and as the FAQ says, today's financial landscape doesn't allow for this.
Your first point is accurate. OptusNet, the old Microplex, was purchased by C&W Optus prior to the listing of CWO on the ASX. They've had a spam problem for a while now.
Optus and Telstra are the major backbone providers out of Australia. Yes, UUNet is a in-Australia provider, but they will ultimately be using Telstra for their last-mile connections. The last time I looked, UUNet was still using Singtel Optus for upstream connectivity, mostly because of the big fat OC-3 pipes to C&W's Global.Net. And they certainly have to use the transit connections to Telstra to reach the Telstra connected sites, as I don't recall seeing any IX announcements of Telstra, SingTelO and Connect/UUNet being made.
That's what bugs me most about the MS paper - they presumed that the businesses involved would go either totally Windows or totally Linux. The truth of the matter is that I would never go one or the other, I would take both. Use the good points of both to outweigh the bad parts of both.
Of course, the conclusion will be the same "Windows2000 rules!", but it would also be far more realistic than the all-or-nothing model presented.
Are you done with your ill-directed venting now? "Common carrier" does not mean what you think it means. The protections (and obligations) that common carrier status carries are not applicable to a forum such as slashdot. Slashdot does not meet any of the criteria laid down for a carrier. Your assertion that "all attempts to censor material should be fought" is a noble one, but ultimately, it's flawed. If you'd bothered to read the original explanation, then you would have seen that part about "copyright material" being the primary driver for the Scien*ology demand. Whether you agree with the Scien*ologists or not, the law on copyright applies equally to all who publish material - whether you agree with them or not. Even if the Scien*ologists are using copyright as a mask for their agenda to keep their organisation secrets, that doesn't change the fact that copyrighted material was posted and that if the matter was contested in court, /. would probably lose. As would kuro5hin.
One parting thought - the moment you mentioned "founding principles" I knew you were trolling.