This is such a touchy topic. On one hand, spam == evil, but on the other, does one company have the right to censor their portion of the internet with not a single entity they have to answer to? The biggest problem that I personnaly have with spam isn't the advertising facet, ads are a fact of life, deal. The problem is that they are ads sent to me at MY EXPENSE! Everytime some idiot sends out a million e-mails telling me about the latest penis-enlargement, or get-rich-quick scheme, it costs every 'net user money. These costs are incurred in higher access fees, slower networks, etc. If you want to advertise, fine, but don't make others pay for it. (yes, I do understand that ad prices are embedded in product prices anyway, but this is different). On the flip side though, what the hell gives Above.net the right to effecitvely drop sites off of a signifigant portion of the net with no repurcussions. There is no real process to this, it all seems arbitrary.
And what exactly would the Federal Government do about overseas pr0n servers??? Go shut them down?? Yeah, I can really see that happening. Not that they wouldn't try, but for every one site that complies, fifty won't.
I guess when Kevin Mitnick says "Vegas was easy", he isn't talking about the same kind of "easy" that everyone else is. And people tend to take him pretty seriously when he says that there are holes, being arguably the most notorious hacker/cracker in recent years.
All of these changes sound good on paper, but it seems AMD has overlooked one detail. The pentium 4 core was built to allow for an amazing ramp-up of clock speeds. That's why it has a 20 stage pipeline. What Intel definitely understands is that the public thinks Mhz == speed. Yes, the enthusiast crowd knows this is false, but it sells anyway. I wonder how far they can push the improved Athlon core before they hit architectural limits on speed....
Cobalt makes the little Qube network servers, with something like 20 gigs of drive space, some RAM, and proc for under 2000.00. These boxes come with a document control and search engine software installed. They run linux, but I believe that the document control and search is proprietary. Might want to check it out at Cobalt Networks now owned by Sun microsystems.
You do have a point. However, alot of the time these same CIO's ask their top technical staff for recommendations on what vendors to use, and how to implement solutions that accomplish goals. The most common request I get is "we need a solution that accomplishes goal X. Your budget is Y, make it happen". Well, if I can use Free software and come in under budget, I look good. In the past, Microsoft solutions have been popular because of their ease of use, but with the incredible number of front-ends for quality *nix utilities (think Comanche, or SWAT for example), that ease of use is duplicated. Now it comes down to price and deployment time. Which solution will I recommend? Not a tough guess.
I have to admit, I am a tad bit confused by Microsoft these days. Between this subscription model software (pay us every 3 years or we pull your apps), the.NET strategy (Host my applications offsite? I don't think so), and all this verbal warfare against open-source and free-software (we can't buy it, so lets just discredit it). It seems as though they are trying to alienate every hard-core techie out there. Do they not realize that these are the same techies that support their products day in and day out?? I am a rabid supporter of GNU/Linux and Open source in general, but my job is mostly Microsoft-Centric. Next time we budget new servers, will I purchase NT? No, forget about it, especially with all the new features in SAMBA, it's getting easier and easier to find alternate routes. I hope Microsoft comes to their senses and stops pissing off the people who have the most interaction with their business-class products.
I can't wait to see what happens when someone teams up mini-fuel-cell type batteries (like the ones Motorola has in development) with a low-power proc like the Crusoe or StrongARM to build a tablet PC that lasts for a month on a single charge
Maybe I'm nuts, but stuff like this whole.NET thing, and all of the other "let us host your apps and data, it's better" companies make me really nervous. I guess I'm just a control freak, but with the current state of tech support (hold please) I just don't feel comfortable that these folks can do what they say they can. Hell, the phone company can't even keep something as simple as my DSL running right, what incentive do I have to believe that remote apps will be any more reliable.
This is the biggest crock of shit. Invite someone to break your crypto, then threaten to sue them when they do, and want to share the results. When will these idiots learn that security through obscurity and lawsuits doesn't work. Don't get me wrong, I do believe that copyright needs to be protected, and that content providers have EVERY right to compensation for their works, but the consumers have rights too. Like fair use, parody, etc. Making the reverse engineering of these infantile protection schemes (read DeCSS) illegal is wrong. Sorry about the rant, it couldn't be helped.
Wow, so you can run a computer outside of it's case... big fscking deal. Now if this did something like setting my toast time and temp, I'd be impressed. Especially if I could do it from my WAP phone. Sounds to me like a waste of a perfectly good pizza warmer.
I think this could only work well in a call-center or other repetitive task environment. If all you are doing is running Filemaker, or some proprietary tracking software, it would be pretty cool, but for any kind of real user it sounds like a pain in the ass. Where's my CD-ROM, etc. Plus the part about making workspaces smaller irks me. Soon we will all be working in phone booths, standing up, because it saves space.
This has to be one of the coolest bits of software for *nix. Especially with the ability to act as a PDC, it allows an option of what server you want to use to manage your windows clients. I'll go where I damn well please today, thanks.
It is really good to see some positive reporting on this subject. Alot of times, organizations like these are the only places a bright and slightly off-center kid can be accepted. It provides a good offset to the bullshit that a person like that will get in their public education institution of incarceration. With your computer group, being a "geek" is no problem, it's a solution.
Will the same distribution of linux built for the lesser models also run on this one?? I suppose it might be too early to know for sure, but looking at the specifications, it should run just fine. Now if only they could put some more colors on that little screen......
The one big problem that I have with spam, is the burden of cost. When someone sends out direct mail by snail mail, they have to pay for printing, postage, etc. The cost burden is on the sender. Bulk email, on the other hand, puts the cost burden on the person being marketed to. We all pay for spam in higher ISP costs, decreased available bandwidth, etc. This is wrong. If you want to market to me, don't make me pay for it. Besides that, alot of spammers use mail servers that have been left as open relays (which I believe M$ Exchange does by default). Why should these companies shoulder the burden of someone else who thinks that I just have to know about the latest, greates porn site.
What about the smaller alternative DNS root servers?? Sure they can be a pain to use, and there is alot of infighting among them, but the DO provide a less strictly regulated alternative. I wonder, if ICANN gets more power as backed by several large governments, could they shut down these alternative roots?? Would there really be any legal basis for doing so??
That's very true, especially considering previous incidents with the same pilot. Supposedly this isn't the first time this pilot acted like an idiot. Apparently he pulled this same stunt on another flight, getting so close to the other plane that the american pilots could read a sign he was holding up to the window with his e-mail address written on it.
I guess that we don't have to wait for Germany to start a political info war, we can do it to ourselves. On a bright note, at least they are doing something to stop a no good spamming troll. Free speech must be protected, but I don't think that vandalism counts.
This is a perfect example of why you should not be allowed to patent software. Here's a group trying to create a more universal internet, and they get knocked back by a software patent. This is a prime example of patenting software and stifling innovation. I wonder how much sooner the internationalization would be complete if not for this roadblock.
Let me get this straight. I record a song with my imaginary band, and cut an independent CD. Now this CD, like so many other independent releases, flops. So I say to hell with it and put it up on Napster. Is the RIAA saying that I need their approval that my song isn't one of theirs before it can be shared? Between this and the "copy-proof" cd's, they have just gone too damn far. I'm boycotting them from this point forward. Nothing but Dead, Phish, Black Crowes, Allmans and other live bootlegs. Who needs the corporate money-whores anyway.
I would welcome any advance in flat screens. Especially if I can play Quake on it without getting wicked screen tracers. The big question is how much cheaper they can make them. ~700 for a 15" flat screen is sick.
Haven't the folks at microsoft learned anything from Gateway/3com/epods?? People aren't ready for or just plain don't want these connected 'net appliances yet. Just ask virgin, who had to fold their webplayer service, or 3com, who just dumped kerbango and audrey(audrey didn't even last 6 mo's). Or ask Gateway, whose Transmeta-powered AOL pad isn't selling either. Or ask epods, if you can find them since they folded. I'm not saying give up, but the "build it and they will come" mentality is obviously flawed. Maybe the subscription services sold with the devices is what did them in, maybe just bad marketing or design, but some real research and forethought needs to go into this before someone tries again.
just my.02 tho'
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This is such a touchy topic. On one hand, spam == evil, but on the other, does one company have the right to censor their portion of the internet with not a single entity they have to answer to? The biggest problem that I personnaly have with spam isn't the advertising facet, ads are a fact of life, deal. The problem is that they are ads sent to me at MY EXPENSE! Everytime some idiot sends out a million e-mails telling me about the latest penis-enlargement, or get-rich-quick scheme, it costs every 'net user money. These costs are incurred in higher access fees, slower networks, etc. If you want to advertise, fine, but don't make others pay for it. (yes, I do understand that ad prices are embedded in product prices anyway, but this is different). On the flip side though, what the hell gives Above.net the right to effecitvely drop sites off of a signifigant portion of the net with no repurcussions. There is no real process to this, it all seems arbitrary.
And what exactly would the Federal Government do about overseas pr0n servers??? Go shut them down?? Yeah, I can really see that happening. Not that they wouldn't try, but for every one site that complies, fifty won't.
I guess when Kevin Mitnick says "Vegas was easy", he isn't talking about the same kind of "easy" that everyone else is. And people tend to take him pretty seriously when he says that there are holes, being arguably the most notorious hacker/cracker in recent years.
True enough. I hadn't considered that. I have some of the same questions about SOI, but I'm no EE, and therefore have no freaking idea ;-)
All of these changes sound good on paper, but it seems AMD has overlooked one detail. The pentium 4 core was built to allow for an amazing ramp-up of clock speeds. That's why it has a 20 stage pipeline. What Intel definitely understands is that the public thinks Mhz == speed. Yes, the enthusiast crowd knows this is false, but it sells anyway. I wonder how far they can push the improved Athlon core before they hit architectural limits on speed....
Cobalt makes the little Qube network servers, with something like 20 gigs of drive space, some RAM, and proc for under 2000.00. These boxes come with a document control and search engine software installed. They run linux, but I believe that the document control and search is proprietary. Might want to check it out at Cobalt Networks now owned by Sun microsystems.
You do have a point. However, alot of the time these same CIO's ask their top technical staff for recommendations on what vendors to use, and how to implement solutions that accomplish goals. The most common request I get is "we need a solution that accomplishes goal X. Your budget is Y, make it happen". Well, if I can use Free software and come in under budget, I look good. In the past, Microsoft solutions have been popular because of their ease of use, but with the incredible number of front-ends for quality *nix utilities (think Comanche, or SWAT for example), that ease of use is duplicated. Now it comes down to price and deployment time. Which solution will I recommend? Not a tough guess.
I have to admit, I am a tad bit confused by Microsoft these days. Between this subscription model software (pay us every 3 years or we pull your apps), the .NET strategy (Host my applications offsite? I don't think so), and all this verbal warfare against open-source and free-software (we can't buy it, so lets just discredit it). It seems as though they are trying to alienate every hard-core techie out there. Do they not realize that these are the same techies that support their products day in and day out?? I am a rabid supporter of GNU/Linux and Open source in general, but my job is mostly Microsoft-Centric. Next time we budget new servers, will I purchase NT? No, forget about it, especially with all the new features in SAMBA, it's getting easier and easier to find alternate routes. I hope Microsoft comes to their senses and stops pissing off the people who have the most interaction with their business-class products.
I can't wait to see what happens when someone teams up mini-fuel-cell type batteries (like the ones Motorola has in development) with a low-power proc like the Crusoe or StrongARM to build a tablet PC that lasts for a month on a single charge
Maybe I'm nuts, but stuff like this whole .NET thing, and all of the other "let us host your apps and data, it's better" companies make me really nervous. I guess I'm just a control freak, but with the current state of tech support (hold please) I just don't feel comfortable that these folks can do what they say they can. Hell, the phone company can't even keep something as simple as my DSL running right, what incentive do I have to believe that remote apps will be any more reliable.
This is the biggest crock of shit. Invite someone to break your crypto, then threaten to sue them when they do, and want to share the results. When will these idiots learn that security through obscurity and lawsuits doesn't work. Don't get me wrong, I do believe that copyright needs to be protected, and that content providers have EVERY right to compensation for their works, but the consumers have rights too. Like fair use, parody, etc. Making the reverse engineering of these infantile protection schemes (read DeCSS) illegal is wrong. Sorry about the rant, it couldn't be helped.
Wow, so you can run a computer outside of it's case... big fscking deal. Now if this did something like setting my toast time and temp, I'd be impressed. Especially if I could do it from my WAP phone. Sounds to me like a waste of a perfectly good pizza warmer.
Yeah, I guess I had hoped for a more humane space saver, but I thinkg you might be onto something.... can we patent it??
I think this could only work well in a call-center or other repetitive task environment. If all you are doing is running Filemaker, or some proprietary tracking software, it would be pretty cool, but for any kind of real user it sounds like a pain in the ass. Where's my CD-ROM, etc. Plus the part about making workspaces smaller irks me. Soon we will all be working in phone booths, standing up, because it saves space.
This has to be one of the coolest bits of software for *nix. Especially with the ability to act as a PDC, it allows an option of what server you want to use to manage your windows clients. I'll go where I damn well please today, thanks.
It is really good to see some positive reporting on this subject. Alot of times, organizations like these are the only places a bright and slightly off-center kid can be accepted. It provides a good offset to the bullshit that a person like that will get in their public education institution of incarceration. With your computer group, being a "geek" is no problem, it's a solution.
Will the same distribution of linux built for the lesser models also run on this one?? I suppose it might be too early to know for sure, but looking at the specifications, it should run just fine. Now if only they could put some more colors on that little screen......
The one big problem that I have with spam, is the burden of cost. When someone sends out direct mail by snail mail, they have to pay for printing, postage, etc. The cost burden is on the sender. Bulk email, on the other hand, puts the cost burden on the person being marketed to. We all pay for spam in higher ISP costs, decreased available bandwidth, etc. This is wrong. If you want to market to me, don't make me pay for it. Besides that, alot of spammers use mail servers that have been left as open relays (which I believe M$ Exchange does by default). Why should these companies shoulder the burden of someone else who thinks that I just have to know about the latest, greates porn site.
What about the smaller alternative DNS root servers?? Sure they can be a pain to use, and there is alot of infighting among them, but the DO provide a less strictly regulated alternative. I wonder, if ICANN gets more power as backed by several large governments, could they shut down these alternative roots?? Would there really be any legal basis for doing so??
That's very true, especially considering previous incidents with the same pilot. Supposedly this isn't the first time this pilot acted like an idiot. Apparently he pulled this same stunt on another flight, getting so close to the other plane that the american pilots could read a sign he was holding up to the window with his e-mail address written on it.
I guess that we don't have to wait for Germany to start a political info war, we can do it to ourselves. On a bright note, at least they are doing something to stop a no good spamming troll. Free speech must be protected, but I don't think that vandalism counts.
This is a perfect example of why you should not be allowed to patent software. Here's a group trying to create a more universal internet, and they get knocked back by a software patent. This is a prime example of patenting software and stifling innovation. I wonder how much sooner the internationalization would be complete if not for this roadblock.
Let me get this straight. I record a song with my imaginary band, and cut an independent CD. Now this CD, like so many other independent releases, flops. So I say to hell with it and put it up on Napster. Is the RIAA saying that I need their approval that my song isn't one of theirs before it can be shared? Between this and the "copy-proof" cd's, they have just gone too damn far. I'm boycotting them from this point forward. Nothing but Dead, Phish, Black Crowes, Allmans and other live bootlegs. Who needs the corporate money-whores anyway.
I would welcome any advance in flat screens. Especially if I can play Quake on it without getting wicked screen tracers. The big question is how much cheaper they can make them. ~700 for a 15" flat screen is sick.
Haven't the folks at microsoft learned anything from Gateway/3com/epods?? People aren't ready for or just plain don't want these connected 'net appliances yet. Just ask virgin, who had to fold their webplayer service, or 3com, who just dumped kerbango and audrey(audrey didn't even last 6 mo's). Or ask Gateway, whose Transmeta-powered AOL pad isn't selling either. Or ask epods, if you can find them since they folded. I'm not saying give up, but the "build it and they will come" mentality is obviously flawed. Maybe the subscription services sold with the devices is what did them in, maybe just bad marketing or design, but some real research and forethought needs to go into this before someone tries again. just my .02 tho'