he primary source of income for artists who write their own songs is mechanical royalties. Typically, a performing songwriter owns his or her own publishing company. That company enters into a copublishing agreement with a larger publishing company whereby the two companies co-own the copyrights to the songs. Of the mechanical royalty income, the songwriter receives 50 percent, the songwriter's publishing company receives 25 percent, and the larger publishing company receives 25 percent.
At least that's a good new thing I learned there. The creator of the work gets rewarded.
What does it have in common with creators of software?
Note that the root servers serve up the names for the.COM/.NET/.EDU/.ORG/.MIL/ + the new ones like.BIZ/.INFO + the country domains. The largest one of them all,.COM, is served from a different set of servers.
Now if I could only get a copy of the nameserver list for all those.COM's...
I could make my own local cache.
For comparison:
$ dig ns .
vs
$ dig ns com.
(apologies to non-BIND users, you don't use 'dig')
Content Delivery Network companies such as Adero and Akamai don't work with the IP layer. Instead, they direct the web browser to the nearest mirror of the content.
Actually the situation here is something like this. The telcos claim to subsidize the cost of expensive local loop with international calls.
International calls to the US going rate now is from US $0.40 to $1/minute.
What the developments now are referring to is not Voice over IP over the computer, which cannot be regulated at all. Instead, what is referred to is ISP's connecting to the phone network/PSTN, and allowing customers to [b]use the phone[/b] to call up the ISP and then be transport the call to the VoIP gateway and to the destination of the call.
Therefore, what the telcos want blocked is International Simple Resale (ISR) over IP. This is much more attractive because Internet penetration in this country is less than 1% of the population. With the creative use of Voice over IP the rest of the country could benefit by using the Internet over a voice phone to carry calls.
However, given the quality of Internet here (congestion and all), voice over the public Internet wouldn't be all that great.
I'm also watching the Linux Professional Institute with interest... they're working towards professional certification for Linux - though that seems to be a controversial topic all by itself.
Now with this funding they should be able to provide better support services - both for paying mission-critical customers, and for casual users too by improving their knowledge base. I'm personally interested in improving the set of Linux knowledge bases that are freely available and Linuxcare should be a good "helpdesk".
I haven't found a recent Open Source indexing engine that could do 1/10th the scale of Google assuming you had the hardware to spare. If there were, then folk can run Open Source indexing engines on small parts of the net (distributed by network topology or geographically) and a meta-index can handle those. Then we have local customizations for dealing with dynamic content.
Our ISP recently became an indirect victim of spammer(s) apparently coming from IDIRECT.COM. The spammers apparently delivered their PORN SPAM to Hotmail users, using our domain name! Our abuse@ address got a whole lot of complaints, and of course it ruin yours name too...
Slashdot Mirror
What does it have in common with creators of software?
Note that the root servers serve up the names for the .COM/.NET/.EDU/.ORG/.MIL/ + the new ones like .BIZ/.INFO + the country domains. The largest one of them all, .COM, is served from a different set of servers.
.COM's...
I could make my own local cache.
Now if I could only get a copy of the nameserver list for all those
For comparison:
$ dig ns .
vs
$ dig ns com.
(apologies to non-BIND users, you don't use 'dig')
Hope davidu could find the offsite host he's looking for.
On a related note, what are the largest installations of free software databases... especially the most popular, PostgreSQL and MySQL?
Any war stories?
How about building Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Database Hosts?
172.31.34.15, 172.18.145.1
No way I could connect to those from here.
So much sunlight and not a drop to drink - err, a particle to convert into electricity. What's up in this field of technology?
Whatever happened to the CDN's who were supposed to distribute net content across the Net? Did they run out of dot com customers?
Content Delivery Network companies such as Adero and Akamai don't work with the IP layer. Instead, they direct the web browser to the nearest mirror of the content.
Take a look again, Amazon is an affiliate of CarsDirect.com. They would not be competitive getting into a very different business.
You also need to put "$TTL 86400" or similar at the top of your zone files, if you don't have it yet.
www.pldt.com
... this is:
www.pldt.com.PH
Ranked among Google's top Satire sites...
International calls to the US going rate now is from US $0.40 to $1/minute.
What the developments now are referring to is not Voice over IP over the computer, which cannot be regulated at all. Instead, what is referred to is ISP's connecting to the phone network/PSTN, and allowing customers to [b]use the phone[/b] to call up the ISP and then be transport the call to the VoIP gateway and to the destination of the call.
Therefore, what the telcos want blocked is International Simple Resale (ISR) over IP. This is much more attractive because Internet penetration in this country is less than 1% of the population. With the creative use of Voice over IP the rest of the country could benefit by using the Internet over a voice phone to carry calls.
However, given the quality of Internet here (congestion and all), voice over the public Internet wouldn't be all that great.
I'm also watching the Linux Professional Institute with interest... they're working towards professional certification for Linux - though that seems to be a controversial topic all by itself.
Now with this funding they should be able to provide better support services - both for paying mission-critical customers, and for casual users too by improving their knowledge base. I'm personally interested in improving the set of Linux knowledge bases that are freely available and Linuxcare should be a good "helpdesk".
I haven't found a recent Open Source indexing engine that could do 1/10th the scale of Google assuming you had the hardware to spare. If there were, then folk can run Open Source indexing engines on small parts of the net (distributed by network topology or geographically) and a meta-index can handle those. Then we have local customizations for dealing with dynamic content.
Our ISP recently became an indirect victim of spammer(s) apparently coming from IDIRECT.COM. The spammers apparently delivered their PORN SPAM to Hotmail users, using our domain name! Our abuse@ address got a whole lot of complaints, and of course it ruin yours name too...
What are the regulatory issues associated with this?
Any thoughts on how this relates with Video on Demand?
Any chance that Google would go open source? =)
Or are the mathematical/search algorithms the Crown Jewels?
Pessimistically, I don't think any Internet-size search engine would go Open Source? (not counting HtDig, Harvest, etc.)
Also, how do they implement the Linux search for Red Hat, would they support other Linux sites doing that type of search on them?
---m