Thanks guys. That's our server you've slashdotted. Took us a 15 minutes to figure out why to load was hovering over 5 with 150 httpds running. Since it also handles our imap stuff..... no email for us!
I just happened to visit slashdot in frustration (don't we all?) and noticed the Timbot stuff on the front page. Mystery solved.
Maybe I'll got across the hall and tell the Timbot guy why his email is not working right now, or I'll just sit here and wait it out.
The server has 12 85MHz procs & 1.5 Gigs of ram. It is a big, literally the size of a fridge, older Sun server.
I just wish I had a picture of the thing to link to. Big monster, huge slashdotting. Slashdot wins again.
StarOffice was already free for educational institutions, site liscence and all. We love it here and more and more of our people are using it. It costs us less to deploy each copy, both monetarily and time-wise.
If you dig around the educational parts of Sun's website you'll find much of their sofware is already very cheap for schools.
I agree that people unable to install a WAP without disabling the DHCP server in it shouldn't have access to the network for a while, but I don't feel that they should be banned. If the service is not provided by the university, then students should have the opportunity to try it/install it themselves, hopefully with university guidence. When they sign up for their account, one of the things on the front page of your contract should be the WAP rules, including how to get help if they *really* want one on your network. Yes, this is effort for the ITS group, but people are at a university to learn and computers are part of that.
As to a solution to your bandwidth issues. The most non-intrusive way I've seen so far is to use a bandwidth shaper to break the day into two pieces. During working hours & up until about 8:00 at night P2P are given lower priority so that the university campus can function at full speed. Overnight, though, the sharing was let to go at full speed. The students quickly noticed the pattern and started doing most of their big downloading overnight.
The administrators could come to work and the internet connection was snappy and the students could do what they wanted in the evenings/weekends.
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Actually, I think there is an answer to this one:
1. Release music under GPL license.
2. Perform it for a live audience who buys tickets.
3. Profit!
You need to make sure to use your nukes right before your next biggest competitor is about to get the SDI inititive stuff. That way you can cripple him just before he becomes much more invulnerable to your nuke subs you've been camping off his coasts.
Hopefully you've already got the SDI and when what's left of him retaliates you don't get hurt *too* much.
Since you are then the only real world power (having vaportized your main opponents) you get a major tech advantage and it's all over from there on out.
Strategy games are all about timing. Sure they hate you, the world pollution scale goes hog wild and it'll take way too many years to clean up the land after it, but you *win*!
Also, if someone gets in trouble for something they did before this law was updated, scream bloody murder.
Not that they have been paying attention to the US Constitution for some time now, but it is against the Constitution to make a law and prosecute people who did the newly outlawed thing in the past.
If something gets included with distributions, it spreads much faster
As BILL, father to all ye little computer consumers has discovered, packaging something with an operating system will get it used, mostly because it becomes something other systems rely on to be there and lazy users don't care.
A well packaged operating system is very nice. The difference between good packaging and monopolistic integration is not much, though it does take money to make it illegal.
Well I pretty much agree, but I think you've missed the big picture.
Wouldn't lasers work rather nicely in space? All that physics stuff having to do with intertia and momentum goesout the window when you deal in energy only (well, at least in the small amounts we do at this point). Plus, the cooling times can be much shorter, the energy supplies much bigger, and cleanup somewhat simpler as most of your target burns up in the atmosphere.
This is just a warm up for orbital combat. I'm sure the USAF is waiting with bated breath until they can take out other nations' comm satelites with lasers.
I'm waiting until coporations start taking out each others' systems in orbit. That's going to be a real show.
I call it OpenBSD and it runs great. Take a 486 with 16+ megs of ram (32 is nice) and you've got all of that.
No, it's not Linux, but it does have those good security defaults you asked for.
I'm currently running two 486's as firewalls for my DSL line and I feel very confident that I'm locked down and secure here. When I need an Apache, Samba, Perl, PHP, or MySQL (never used Postgres) server I've got another 486 in the DMZ (between the two firewalls) that I muck with and viola! All that on less that 500MB per machine.
It would be nice to see a Linux distro that installs as easily and with as much usability as OpenBSD does. Until that day my servers keep running OpenBSD. If you haven't tried it, do so, you'll like it once you got over the shock that there is no GUI installer and the documentation is actually consistant.
I couldn't recommend diving into the mailing lists until you've read the FAQ on the OpenBSD.org site. It's almost all there.
NPR's lockdown seems to equate linking with framing. These two are similar, but not the same.
Linking to or framing of any material on this site without the prior written consent of NPR is prohibited.
By linking to a site, be it shallow or deep, you are making a mere pointer that others can follow to further information. This should always be allowed, it's how the web works.
If you frame a site, you are possibly mis-representing or commiting a copyright violation. This is where things can be troublesome for organizations like NPR and they need to be vigilant to protect their image and content.
To sum up: linking good, make web go! Framing gray, still make web go, have to work with it.
If NPR wants me to have permission to frame their content, I'd be okay with that, but not for a mere link.
Actually, Google doesn't need to do anything.
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The rankings of sites for the Google search engine is corrolated against the number of *links* (those bad things) to your site. If no one links to your site, then Google will find you less important and down the list you go.
In essence, you drop off the web for those of us who use only Google to search if no one links to you irregardless of your content quality.
I'm under the impression that the BSA will contact you and ask for a voluntary audit first. If you don't have the time/money for it, they'll gladly provide their own people to do the audit for you. If you are found in compliance they'll just go away, but if you are found to be guilty they charge you (contrator rates) for the people they provided.
If you ignore or upset them, then the BSA will get help from local authorities. I believe they use the federal marshalls. The Marshalls will knock down your door and tell everyone to take their hands off their keyboards to prevent any deletion of evidence. So far not much gives the BSA the right to do this, but a flimsy EULA and some badly interpreted copyright laws.
No, it's not right or fair, but it is now precedented, so you will need to check your facts before you start using software from BSA members. There are few ways to win against the BSA system because they only get paid if you are charged/fined/extorted money.
Just remember that that fu*k'n paperclip is a member of the mob.
I also live in Portland, and did graduate from a Portland area high school not too long ago.
The computers in the schools are not well organized or supported. This is due to many donations and no money for admins to keep track. When a computer gets donated to a school it ends up in the hands of whoever can use it. If it has a Microsoft OS installed, then it usually just keeps getting used. In many cases there is no documentation provided with that computer. Where is the physical liscence? No one many know.
How do you audit that? How do you prove your conformance to the rules? Up until now it hasn't been a problem because of the leeway given to schools previously.
I feel that this latest stunt by Microsoft (the marketing department anyway) is a prime example of their moral bankrupt attitude to dealing with the world. It is also an example of why any organization (not just companies anymore!) saddling themselves with Microsoft software should be prepared to shell out readily and often.
I'll be applying for a Linux position at the Multnomah school district right away. They'll need me.
I've purchased over $1000 of Linux operating systems and Linux games from Loki (mostly) in the last year.
I own stock in RedHat and MandrakeSoft. Still hanging in there!
I only use Linux for my at-home systems (OpenBSD as well) and am loving every minute of it - two years M$ free and counting.
I'll keep buying. I know my coding abilities are not useful enough for a release product yet, so I'll fall back to money donations for now.
This just shows that I voted for the right candidate for technological views: Not Bush, Not Gore.
Yeah, the trial will continue, and others as well, but it is a good show of how money works, and the impatience of the current government to get things done. How long did it take to break up IBM? One president? Two? Court preceedings take time and I'm sure Bush could have gotten more if he had held out a little longer.
Sorry about the scattered post, I just ate and am a little drowsy.
Sometimes commericals/ads are entertaining. Those I like. Those I actually don't mind - for a while.
Every ad has a limit. I can watch them only so many times before they make me mute the Tele or change the channel. If the cable company was paying attention they'd know to never show me that *^!#$% commercial again because if messes up their nice rating systems.
A button to have them never show me a particular ad again would be more than welcome. Annoying/bad ads gone after the first view - others after a few views.
So, to sum up:
Feedback about annoying ads? GOOD!
Having AT&T sell my butt (which they didn't agree to the shrink-wrap license for)? BAD!
Somehow a medium needs to be found....
I don't have an answer yet, but you'll be the first to know when I do.
Here's how I believe it works.
The *source* is available for anyone to take, change, and otherwise use with the BSD liscence. You can do whatever the hack you want with it.
The *ISO* layout that is sold by the OpenBSD group is copyright to Theo - that means that you have to get his permission to distribute it. Now, that doesn't mean that you can't make your own ISO and distribute that, but you can't distribute the *official* release. In this case it would be the 2.9 release. I believe this distinction is made so that anyone who wants to get an ISO needs to buy the official one, or make their own.
What are the consiquences?
The source is still free - and it will stay that way. The recent IPF fiasco and subsequent removal of IPF from the OpenBSD source is evidence of that.
You can do a ftp/http install if you like - no problems there:
Ftp download site... The floppy29.fs image is the boot floppy that will allow you to have at it. -Make sure you have a look at the OpenBSD.org site for hardware compatability before beginning.-
The ISO of official releases is only distributed by the OpenBSD group - generating them some much needed funding and giving them an idea of how many users they've got.
The copyright on the ISO makes it illegal (yeah) to distribute that release ISO right off the CD without permission.
Anyone is welcome to fork code, make custom ISOs, use the CD as a coaster, etc. It's still open source.
Is not the same as the further installation of software.
OpenBSD installs with a very minimal set of services and is setup to be "secure by default". Anything you add from there on out is your buisness. Yes, the OpenBSD developers take great steps to make the "3rd party" applications you allude to as secure as possible, but only so much code can be audited by such a small group.
The big difference is that *you* are aware and responsible for the software _beyond_ the default install. This makes it much easier to only install what is _needed_ on the system, not just everything under the sun like all too many Linux distros.
The Pentium II and Pentium III processors all share the same core: Pentium Pro.
Those jokes about Intel just painting another line on the processor are not all the far off the mark.
The core of the Pentium Pro has gone way above and beyond the call of duty for Intel. The Pentium IV is the *first* new core to be developed by Intel for some time now. Unfortunately, market pressures got the Sales & Marketing at Intel to push the P-IV out the door before it was ready. That's why it has more execution units than it has bandwidth. If the P-IV was able to "feed" all of its execution units then it would be a very impressive processor. Sadly, Intel botched the timing and structure.
Right now (for consumer X86 processors) it's all AMD.
Yes, I'm having trouble deciding if you are being serious or not, but unions are not something to be trifled with.
If you are serious:
(Please, I'm not against all unions, but I am against them in the technology realm. Unions changed the face of the commercial realm and did things unheard of before their time.... but I'm not sure they're needed like they used to be.)
The tech industry does not have unions in any large manner because unions would quickly destroy several of the foundations the tech industry relies upon. The tech industry is based on knowlege and skill. If you don't know and/or you can't do, then you are not promoted (and possibly) fired. Every person who participates must be able to do what they claim. If a company has someone not performing, then the company needs to be able to fire them. Unions are many times able to keep that person in a position even though that person is hurting the organization around them.
Also, the wages and positions in the IT world are based on merit, not seniority. There are several places out there were 16-year-olds are on the board of directors making way more than I ever will. These (children?) are on the board because they deserve to be, they're smart, hard-working and good at what they do. I don't begrudge them that. A union would make it difficult to have such things happen. A tradational union would push to put a seniority system in place so that promotions and wages are based soley on how long you've been there, not your ability. In a fast paced, performance workplace this will damage the organization's ability to function, and therefore hurt it competatively.
In addition, the beaurocracy generated by an organized union often results in union leaders being paid 6-7 figure salaries. When these same people order their "minions" to strike it affects them in no way. Its not as if some worker puts down his lathe and says "That's not fair, let's walk boys!", that worker would suffer too, not so in current times.
Unions work okay for blue-collar situations, where seniority based systems can fairly accurately reflect the skills of the people in the system. For white-collar and tech situations these same systems would only rot the core of the business and eventually destroy that very company the workers are trying to work for.
If I were to be asked to join a union, or even support one I would say no. It might benefit in the short run, but never for the long one.
I'm willing to listen to *new* ideas for unions in the tech world, but I'd be a hard sell.
Slashdot Mirror
Gack.
Thanks guys. That's our server you've slashdotted.
Took us a 15 minutes to figure out why to load was hovering over 5 with 150 httpds running. Since it also handles our imap stuff..... no email for us!
I just happened to visit slashdot in frustration (don't we all?) and noticed the Timbot stuff on the front page. Mystery solved.
Maybe I'll got across the hall and tell the Timbot guy why his email is not working right now, or I'll just sit here and wait it out.
The server has 12 85MHz procs & 1.5 Gigs of ram. It is a big, literally the size of a fridge, older Sun server.
I just wish I had a picture of the thing to link to. Big monster, huge slashdotting. Slashdot wins again.
*sigh*
--Azimir
I'd be careful running apt-get updates from then on.
Unless you've tweaked the source yourself of course.
Just so you know,
StarOffice was already free for educational institutions, site liscence and all. We love it here and more and more of our people are using it. It costs us less to deploy each copy, both monetarily and time-wise.
If you dig around the educational parts of Sun's website you'll find much of their sofware is already very cheap for schools.
I agree that people unable to install a WAP without disabling the DHCP server in it shouldn't have access to the network for a while, but I don't feel that they should be banned. If the service is not provided by the university, then students should have the opportunity to try it/install it themselves, hopefully with university guidence. When they sign up for their account, one of the things on the front page of your contract should be the WAP rules, including how to get help if they *really* want one on your network. Yes, this is effort for the ITS group, but people are at a university to learn and computers are part of that.
As to a solution to your bandwidth issues. The most non-intrusive way I've seen so far is to use a bandwidth shaper to break the day into two pieces. During working hours & up until about 8:00 at night P2P are given lower priority so that the university campus can function at full speed. Overnight, though, the sharing was let to go at full speed. The students quickly noticed the pattern and started doing most of their big downloading overnight.
The administrators could come to work and the internet connection was snappy and the students could do what they wanted in the evenings/weekends.
You need to make sure to use your nukes right before your next biggest competitor is about to get the SDI inititive stuff. That way you can cripple him just before he becomes much more invulnerable to your nuke subs you've been camping off his coasts.
Hopefully you've already got the SDI and when what's left of him retaliates you don't get hurt *too* much.
Since you are then the only real world power (having vaportized your main opponents) you get a major tech advantage and it's all over from there on out.
Strategy games are all about timing. Sure they hate you, the world pollution scale goes hog wild and it'll take way too many years to clean up the land after it, but you *win*!
Yeah, I've heard of those.
You get 'em at Fry's right?
If something gets included with distributions, it spreads much faster
As BILL, father to all ye little computer consumers has discovered, packaging something with an operating system will get it used, mostly because it becomes something other systems rely on to be there and lazy users don't care.
A well packaged operating system is very nice. The difference between good packaging and monopolistic integration is not much, though it does take money to make it illegal.
Well I pretty much agree, but I think you've missed the big picture.
Wouldn't lasers work rather nicely in space? All that physics stuff having to do with intertia and momentum goesout the window when you deal in energy only (well, at least in the small amounts we do at this point). Plus, the cooling times can be much shorter, the energy supplies much bigger, and cleanup somewhat simpler as most of your target burns up in the atmosphere.
This is just a warm up for orbital combat. I'm sure the USAF is waiting with bated breath until they can take out other nations' comm satelites with lasers.
I'm waiting until coporations start taking out each others' systems in orbit. That's going to be a real show.
I've got one.
I call it OpenBSD and it runs great. Take a 486 with 16+ megs of ram (32 is nice) and you've got all of that.
No, it's not Linux, but it does have those good security defaults you asked for.
I'm currently running two 486's as firewalls for my DSL line and I feel very confident that I'm locked down and secure here. When I need an Apache, Samba, Perl, PHP, or MySQL (never used Postgres) server I've got another 486 in the DMZ (between the two firewalls) that I muck with and viola! All that on less that 500MB per machine.
It would be nice to see a Linux distro that installs as easily and with as much usability as OpenBSD does. Until that day my servers keep running OpenBSD. If you haven't tried it, do so, you'll like it once you got over the shock that there is no GUI installer and the documentation is actually consistant.
I couldn't recommend diving into the mailing lists until you've read the FAQ on the OpenBSD.org site. It's almost all there.
Happy serving!
By linking to a site, be it shallow or deep, you are making a mere pointer that others can follow to further information. This should always be allowed, it's how the web works.
If you frame a site, you are possibly mis-representing or commiting a copyright violation. This is where things can be troublesome for organizations like NPR and they need to be vigilant to protect their image and content.
To sum up: linking good, make web go! Framing gray, still make web go, have to work with it.
If NPR wants me to have permission to frame their content, I'd be okay with that, but not for a mere link.
The rankings of sites for the Google search engine is corrolated against the number of *links* (those bad things) to your site. If no one links to your site, then Google will find you less important and down the list you go.
In essence, you drop off the web for those of us who use only Google to search if no one links to you irregardless of your content quality.
Finger, Trigger, Hammer, Bang, Foot, OUCH.
I'm under the impression that the BSA will contact you and ask for a voluntary audit first. If you don't have the time/money for it, they'll gladly provide their own people to do the audit for you. If you are found in compliance they'll just go away, but if you are found to be guilty they charge you (contrator rates) for the people they provided.
If you ignore or upset them, then the BSA will get help from local authorities. I believe they use the federal marshalls. The Marshalls will knock down your door and tell everyone to take their hands off their keyboards to prevent any deletion of evidence. So far not much gives the BSA the right to do this, but a flimsy EULA and some badly interpreted copyright laws.
No, it's not right or fair, but it is now precedented, so you will need to check your facts before you start using software from BSA members. There are few ways to win against the BSA system because they only get paid if you are charged/fined/extorted money.
Just remember that that fu*k'n paperclip is a member of the mob.
Stupid enter to submit...
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The same mirror
I also live in Portland, and did graduate from a Portland area high school not too long ago.
The computers in the schools are not well organized or supported. This is due to many donations and no money for admins to keep track. When a computer gets donated to a school it ends up in the hands of whoever can use it. If it has a Microsoft OS installed, then it usually just keeps getting used. In many cases there is no documentation provided with that computer. Where is the physical liscence? No one many know.
How do you audit that? How do you prove your conformance to the rules? Up until now it hasn't been a problem because of the leeway given to schools previously.
I feel that this latest stunt by Microsoft (the marketing department anyway) is a prime example of their moral bankrupt attitude to dealing with the world. It is also an example of why any organization (not just companies anymore!) saddling themselves with Microsoft software should be prepared to shell out readily and often.
I'll be applying for a Linux position at the Multnomah school district right away. They'll need me.
I've purchased over $1000 of Linux operating systems and Linux games from Loki (mostly) in the last year.
I own stock in RedHat and MandrakeSoft. Still hanging in there!
I only use Linux for my at-home systems (OpenBSD as well) and am loving every minute of it - two years M$ free and counting.
I'll keep buying. I know my coding abilities are not useful enough for a release product yet, so I'll fall back to money donations for now.
This just shows that I voted for the right candidate for technological views: Not Bush, Not Gore.
Yeah, the trial will continue, and others as well, but it is a good show of how money works, and the impatience of the current government to get things done. How long did it take to break up IBM? One president? Two? Court preceedings take time and I'm sure Bush could have gotten more if he had held out a little longer.
Sorry about the scattered post, I just ate and am a little drowsy.
Sometimes commericals/ads are entertaining. Those I like. Those I actually don't mind - for a while.
Every ad has a limit. I can watch them only so many times before they make me mute the Tele or change the channel. If the cable company was paying attention they'd know to never show me that *^!#$% commercial again because if messes up their nice rating systems.
A button to have them never show me a particular ad again would be more than welcome. Annoying/bad ads gone after the first view - others after a few views.
So, to sum up:
Feedback about annoying ads? GOOD!
Having AT&T sell my butt (which they didn't agree to the shrink-wrap license for)? BAD!
Somehow a medium needs to be found....
I don't have an answer yet, but you'll be the first to know when I do.
Here's how I believe it works.
The *source* is available for anyone to take, change, and otherwise use with the BSD liscence. You can do whatever the hack you want with it.
The *ISO* layout that is sold by the OpenBSD group is copyright to Theo - that means that you have to get his permission to distribute it. Now, that doesn't mean that you can't make your own ISO and distribute that, but you can't distribute the *official* release. In this case it would be the 2.9 release. I believe this distinction is made so that anyone who wants to get an ISO needs to buy the official one, or make their own.
What are the consiquences?
Is not the same as the further installation of software.
OpenBSD installs with a very minimal set of services and is setup to be "secure by default". Anything you add from there on out is your buisness. Yes, the OpenBSD developers take great steps to make the "3rd party" applications you allude to as secure as possible, but only so much code can be audited by such a small group.
The big difference is that *you* are aware and responsible for the software _beyond_ the default install. This makes it much easier to only install what is _needed_ on the system, not just everything under the sun like all too many Linux distros.
The Pentium II and Pentium III processors all share the same core: Pentium Pro.
Those jokes about Intel just painting another line on the processor are not all the far off the mark.
The core of the Pentium Pro has gone way above and beyond the call of duty for Intel. The Pentium IV is the *first* new core to be developed by Intel for some time now. Unfortunately, market pressures got the Sales & Marketing at Intel to push the P-IV out the door before it was ready. That's why it has more execution units than it has bandwidth. If the P-IV was able to "feed" all of its execution units then it would be a very impressive processor. Sadly, Intel botched the timing and structure.
Right now (for consumer X86 processors) it's all AMD.
Yes, I'm having trouble deciding if you are being serious or not, but unions are not something to be trifled with.
If you are serious:
(Please, I'm not against all unions, but I am against them in the technology realm. Unions changed the face of the commercial realm and did things unheard of before their time.... but I'm not sure they're needed like they used to be.)
The tech industry does not have unions in any large manner because unions would quickly destroy several of the foundations the tech industry relies upon. The tech industry is based on knowlege and skill. If you don't know and/or you can't do, then you are not promoted (and possibly) fired. Every person who participates must be able to do what they claim. If a company has someone not performing, then the company needs to be able to fire them. Unions are many times able to keep that person in a position even though that person is hurting the organization around them.
Also, the wages and positions in the IT world are based on merit, not seniority. There are several places out there were 16-year-olds are on the board of directors making way more than I ever will. These (children?) are on the board because they deserve to be, they're smart, hard-working and good at what they do. I don't begrudge them that. A union would make it difficult to have such things happen. A tradational union would push to put a seniority system in place so that promotions and wages are based soley on how long you've been there, not your ability. In a fast paced, performance workplace this will damage the organization's ability to function, and therefore hurt it competatively.
In addition, the beaurocracy generated by an organized union often results in union leaders being paid 6-7 figure salaries. When these same people order their "minions" to strike it affects them in no way. Its not as if some worker puts down his lathe and says "That's not fair, let's walk boys!", that worker would suffer too, not so in current times.
Unions work okay for blue-collar situations, where seniority based systems can fairly accurately reflect the skills of the people in the system. For white-collar and tech situations these same systems would only rot the core of the business and eventually destroy that very company the workers are trying to work for.
If I were to be asked to join a union, or even support one I would say no. It might benefit in the short run, but never for the long one.
I'm willing to listen to *new* ideas for unions in the tech world, but I'd be a hard sell.