Though I doubt Deja will ever drop its Usenet archive, I'm sick and tired of leafing through their site to find it. Instead, I use a handy command-line Perl program called "ija", which cuts through all the bullshit and gives me what I want: results from a Usenet search.
...but the plan at NSI is to standardize on ONE PLATFORM -- both hardware and software -- for the root servers. I'm sure you can all grasp the sheer stupidity of such an idea. Let's say there's a documented hole in BIND or another program on AIX. Suddenly, instead of a single root server (or a couple of root servers) being down, *they're all gone*.
Scary, huh?
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I guess it takes all kinds. I'll be impressed, for instance, when Motorola manages to create a chip that runs at the same clock speed as the fastest x86 processors currently do. Call me back when the G4 is at 1GHz...
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Computers are not going to get any slower. Pretty soon, if countries continue to act this way, people won't be allowed to own any computers at all. Obviously something's going to change...
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Here's what it lost: Travolta can't fucking act.
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Plain and simple. He was on Leno the other night and they showed a clip -- he got upstaged by his wife, who has a bit part in the movie. Pretty sad (plus the special effects looked *cheesy*!!)
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Don't worry about electromigration and all the other buzzwords you hear thrown around. I have 486s and early Pentium machines that run so hot you could fry eggs on them. Most of them have passive, fanless heatsinks. Some of them have no heatsink at all. All of them have been running for *years*. Spend the $219 on a bigger hard drive, more RAM, and/or a really good passive heatsink like the Alpha (the company, not the CPU.)
I see no reason to spend more on a heat sink than you did on a CPU (going by pricewatch anyway.)
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How much money do you need, initially, to invest? I'm thinking of investing a few hundred dollars -- will any of the online brokers let me open an account with only this much in it? Or will I have to spend a couple thousand or so?
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You can't just appeal ad infinitum, you know.
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There needs to be significant new evidence in order for a judge to decide that, yes indeed, the ruling might be questionable and a new trial is in order. Microsoft _can't_ continue to appeal forever; they may not even be able to appeal at all, who knows?
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Let's not do the legal thing!
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Instead, let's do whatever it takes to make sure my 401(k) remains robust. I mean, hell, it's still hurting from the AT&T breakup.
Jesus, does the world really revolve around money this much, at the expense of the letter of the law?
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I've got a 520GS running at 1600x1200, and it's difficult to use anything much less. (I pretty much refuse to use anything at 800x600 or worse, and I stay the hell away from refresh rates under 70 Hz -- how the hell can people stand barbaric refresh rates?)
Got it for $500 too. Sweet deal.
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I've been using IRC for 5 years now and this is the first I've heard of it. It can't possibly be an important network, or even a big crappy one like DALnet.
(Switching networks is a royal pain in the ass, though. I kinda feel bad for all the poor shmucks who haven't left TC yet.)
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How do you maintain the network? More tax dollars? Right now, Telstra, through their customer-gouging prices (I've friends who've dealt with Bigpond $0.25 per-megabyte bandwidth charges, for instance) manages to keep the infrastructure running and up-to-date. Putting it back in the hands of the government means you've got to stretch your tax dollar even more. (Didn't Australia just institute a GST? Network upkeep costs could mean even more taxes.)
Just something to think about...
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Besides, in an era in which slashdot announces every Linux 2.3.59_ac3.14_crap patch that comes out, people have kind of given up on the chest-beating.
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/. reinforces the stereotype of humorless geeks.
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So much stuff here that is truly funny gets moderated down as a "Troll" instead of being moderated up as "Funny" by the multitude of stoic, humorless dorks that Slashdot seems to be comprised increasingly of. It's unfortunate that the moderation system is as broken as it is; Slashdot could've been such a good site. It's also unfortunate that, apparently, *so many* of you really *are* the (stereo?)typical spiritless weirdos that TV and movies make geeks out to be.
A shame, really.
I expect to be moderated down heavily for this.
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...they prosecute under the DMCA, which was designed, it seems, so companies can do this? Although the DMCA hasn't really been tested in court, aside from that DeCSS ruling in the MPAA's favor (in New York?), it seems peacefire's chances of a favorable ruling are, at best, a toss-up.
Assuming any company is retarded enough to sue them anyway. Imagine the bad press and negative mindshare it'd get them...
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And that's pretty much it. But don't underestimate the power of mindshare. It'll be interesting to see what AMD's (or Gateway's, or any of AMD's big customers') commercials for a gigahertz CPU look like.
Intel's mindshare with the public is slowly but surely eroding and the x86 CPU war is turning into a fairer fight. Me, personally, I'm just happy I can get a 700 MHz CPU for under $300 now.
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Thing is, I have a crimper with an MMJ adaptor -- but that's the only adaptor it has. So all I can crimp are MMJ cables. I've used the damned thing exactly once -- when I was running a cable down to the basement to connect a linux box in my room to a VT420 in the basement. It worked fine, too, but you have to realize that DEC's MMJ DECConnect cables also had a couple of wire twists in them. A multimeter helped me figure out which ones they'd switched around. Unfortunately, I can't remember offhand which ones those were, and the terminal _will not work_ properly without those cables switched (and it didn't work with a straight cable and a null modem, either.)
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This is why you make everything that uses it that _needs_ to work link the libraries in statically. That way if some fsckwit removes/lib/*expat* you wouldn't be in too much trouble and would still be left with a semi-workable system. This is the same reason I use statically-linked binaries for the _most_ important things on my machines. (once bitten...) - A.P. --
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My Fujitsu 10K drive (which gets about 15 megabytes/second according to bonnie) is barely warm to the touch. Earlier-generation drives were really shitty (the early Cheetahs, for example), but technology has progressed, as it is wont to do, to the point now where 10K drives are pretty cool-running.
I'd stay the hell away from these new 15K drives though until at least a couple of generations from now.
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Slashdot Mirror
Ija can be downloaded from here.
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Scary, huh?
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I see no reason to spend more on a heat sink than you did on a CPU (going by pricewatch anyway.)
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Jesus, does the world really revolve around money this much, at the expense of the letter of the law?
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Got it for $500 too. Sweet deal.
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(Switching networks is a royal pain in the ass, though. I kinda feel bad for all the poor shmucks who haven't left TC yet.)
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Just wondering.
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Just something to think about...
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It'll happen.
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A shame, really.
I expect to be moderated down heavily for this.
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Assuming any company is retarded enough to sue them anyway. Imagine the bad press and negative mindshare it'd get them...
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Intel's mindshare with the public is slowly but surely eroding and the x86 CPU war is turning into a fairer fight. Me, personally, I'm just happy I can get a 700 MHz CPU for under $300 now.
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I'd stay the hell away from these new 15K drives though until at least a couple of generations from now.
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