"...A free replacement for Visual Basic which works with GNOME would be a major step forward; any capable team that wants to launch this project should please contact gnu@gnu.org." [RMS}
Ya. I was having my cup of coffee this morning and thinking, "Man, it's been a long time since I've been infected with a solid high quality virus. I should go install W2k."
Whoa. Slow down. Assuming that the government (and in turn, you, I suppose) pay for broadband, *gasp* you'd have access to it as well. And tax money is used for stupider subsidies than broadband.
This isn't running water or telephone or electricity...but in some ways broadband is indistinguishable.
All 4 are services that are provided by a seperate, usually private entity. Actually, no! Please tell me how your telephone service is different from broadband (besides the obvious talk-on-one-gank-mp3s-on-the-other). Both are services you pay for, yes? The installation of telephone lines was once subsidized by the US government, wasn't it?
All these ideas about cheap broadband for the entire country are great. I love them. Heck, I'd *love* to have inexpensive ($30/mo) broadband where I live (rural WI)...but I don't see it happening soon, unless a lot of unavailable tax dollars are thrown at it.
It's the same basic reason that broadband came to metro areas first: they can afford it and most of the neccesary infrastructure is already there. Now take an area like a town in the midwest with a population of around 15,000. Even better, a town that used to have a thriving industry at some point (be it a steel or paper mill or whatever). What reason does a cable company (or phone company to get the people just outside of town) have to offer broadband? The meager monthly charges coupled with the lower population density just cannot justify the huge costs of implementation.
Well, maybe it *could* justify the cost, if utility companies were willing to look 5 or 10 years ahead. Over that stretch of time, the costs could be recovered, but that's a *very* long term investment, especially with the bad case of the flu dealt to the US economy of late.
Again, I'd love to have cheap broadband everywhere, but let's get serious. It ain't gonna happen by some altruistic whim. Somebody in DC is going to have to get it into thier head that this is a Good Thing and push to see it happen. But then again, the FCC has been trying to get HDTV adopted as well for 5 years now, and it'll be surprising if we make *that* deadline 5 years from now.
MPEG2 is good, but more recent WM codecs include bits and pieces of the MPEG4 / DivX:) codecs, which are admittedly superior when space becomes a concern. I wouldn't mind taking all my VHS anime (some of which are deteriorating at a staggering rate) and burning them all onto disc. I agree, more formats is good
Were I running sendmail, I would. Used to. But I'm on a multiuser system now, and with Postfix, no less. I've got a procmail rule that removes 99% of it, but its still a PITA.
yeah, I know. nice catch. the other problem is that it runs "ipchains -L -n" A LOT. I mean, the box is a 550 that doesn't do a whole lotta work, so wasting some sub-shells didn't bother me much. I just scratched it together real quick.
this is what I like about/. . What other publication corrects your typos for you after distribute to the public? : )
Agressive but directed? You mean like shutting off my friggin port 80 access again?
I agree that my script will only work after they've come, hit my box, and moved on. But it'll stop repeat attempts. At least slow them down a wee bit as successive port 80 attempts will have to timeout (not that I DENY'd and not REJECT'd).
...try this. its a pretty quick hack, and you'll need to modify the path to your apache logs in the grep line. but its what I just whipped up. hope its useful. I just ran it and it works for me.
#!/bin/sh
for LUSER in `grep "winnt"/var/log/httpd/error_log | awk '{print $8}' | sed -e s/]//`; do
if [ ! "`ipchains -L -n | grep $LUSER`" ]
then ipchains -A input -s $LUSER -d 0/0 -j DENY
fi
done
But the hardware HAD to be bought. The software? Well, they have a choice. And you can run a PII -266 with 64MB of RAM all over the net and have it be plenty responsive under linux (well, maybe not Moz yet). IE5 on NT? I tried NT 4 on my laptop with those specs and it blew.
Linux will continue to run well on antiquated hardware (by virtue of turning off bells and whistles), while Windows will not.
Hey hey hey. Be nice. If you actually READ what he said up there, you'd notice that they have no need for Linux internally. Linux isn't ready for the desktop yet. And since they have other VERY diesel OS's of thier own, it makes sense to use those, especially because of the company's scale.
That doesn't immediately mean that their commitment to the platform isnt there. If a Honda salesment drives a Dodge pickup instead, it doesn't immediately that Honda's suck. They just don't suit his needs.
Well, in high school we figured the amount of velocity that a mosquito would have to carry in order to penetrate a VW mini-bus's windshield (wanted a near perpendicular impact). The value we came up with was just over the speed of sound (and assuming the VW was going 50mph). We never found a mosquito motivated enough to actually prove our math...
...but my point is, that, given thier shields were down (which they were...the bridge commander was yelling about it just before the A-Wing parked itself at the conn), and that the A-Wing was grooving along at a handsome rate, its not that impossible to pass through a few layers of glass and steel. The fighter's mass alone probably gave him the intertia neccesary.
My god. I can't believe I just spent five minutes of my life trying to defend a flippin' sci-fi movie.
Maybe I'm a little old skool because I learned with C, but I think starting off with Java is a bad idea at the collegiate level. Sure, its great lexically, but I think Java is much easier to appreciate by first coding in C/C++.
I think that new coders SHOULD have to deal with typing your variables, and being careful with pointers.
Maybe if Intro to Programming was a seprate course that just taught the basics of logic, that'd be okay. CS majors could skip that one (presumably CS101) and start with a more structured intro class for CS majors (CS120...programming in C++?).
The structure is important if we want to in any way discourage writing bloated code and letting the VM manage memory.
The light glare off of a round monitor / TV would suck big time. I've got a VVega, and I've STILL got reflections.
Would the main display brighten as well to offset the increase in ambient lighting. The human eye would see the main display get "darker" when the ambient lighting went up. You'd lose some contrast as well.
I'd think it'd be more of a distraction than anything else.
I used to read Wired all the time. But every other article was about how X was going to change the world. Push media! Stupid meetings of really smart people who overstate the obvious!
They make a few valid points. It gets old, all of this new-age evangelism. Tomorrow won't be very different from today.
So, assuming that I am, and you're not (respectively), it means that if you pay for thier upper tier support, and you're running software RAID, they'll help you fix your shit. The basic support won't help you with any advanced voodoo.
Our company recently recieved an intersting little letter from MS. The gist of it was "We know licensing is very important to our customers. Please let us know what we can do to help you maintain compliance."
Uh-huh. Talk about a thinly veiled threat. We had just done a software audit a couple weeks beforehand, so we were cool. But still, the damn thing read like some Mafia protection letter.
I have a hard time believing that would stand up in court.
In question three in Rep. Boucher's interview (how timely!) addresses just that. There was a ruling in a case involving Betamax that stated if a product has a primary, lawful use, then the entire product was lawful, even if it has unlawful uses.
The DCMA looks like it attempts to superceed that ruling.
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"...A free replacement for Visual Basic which works with GNOME would be a major step forward; any capable team that wants to launch this project should please contact gnu@gnu.org." [RMS}
Ya. I was having my cup of coffee this morning and thinking, "Man, it's been a long time since I've been infected with a solid high quality virus. I should go install W2k."
werd to that
my connection is even more frustrating. I get 22kbps during the day, but can get the modem to train at 48kbps after 9pm. figure that one out.
Whoa. Slow down. Assuming that the government (and in turn, you, I suppose) pay for broadband, *gasp* you'd have access to it as well. And tax money is used for stupider subsidies than broadband.
This isn't running water or telephone or electricity...but in some ways broadband is indistinguishable.
All 4 are services that are provided by a seperate, usually private entity. Actually, no! Please tell me how your telephone service is different from broadband (besides the obvious talk-on-one-gank-mp3s-on-the-other). Both are services you pay for, yes? The installation of telephone lines was once subsidized by the US government, wasn't it?
All these ideas about cheap broadband for the entire country are great. I love them. Heck, I'd *love* to have inexpensive ($30/mo) broadband where I live (rural WI)...but I don't see it happening soon, unless a lot of unavailable tax dollars are thrown at it.
It's the same basic reason that broadband came to metro areas first: they can afford it and most of the neccesary infrastructure is already there. Now take an area like a town in the midwest with a population of around 15,000. Even better, a town that used to have a thriving industry at some point (be it a steel or paper mill or whatever). What reason does a cable company (or phone company to get the people just outside of town) have to offer broadband? The meager monthly charges coupled with the lower population density just cannot justify the huge costs of implementation.
Well, maybe it *could* justify the cost, if utility companies were willing to look 5 or 10 years ahead. Over that stretch of time, the costs could be recovered, but that's a *very* long term investment, especially with the bad case of the flu dealt to the US economy of late.
Again, I'd love to have cheap broadband everywhere, but let's get serious. It ain't gonna happen by some altruistic whim. Somebody in DC is going to have to get it into thier head that this is a Good Thing and push to see it happen. But then again, the FCC has been trying to get HDTV adopted as well for 5 years now, and it'll be surprising if we make *that* deadline 5 years from now.
MPEG2 is good, but more recent WM codecs include bits and pieces of the MPEG4 / DivX:) codecs, which are admittedly superior when space becomes a concern. I wouldn't mind taking all my VHS anime (some of which are deteriorating at a staggering rate) and burning them all onto disc. I agree, more formats is good
D.
Were I running sendmail, I would. Used to. But I'm on a multiuser system now, and with Postfix, no less. I've got a procmail rule that removes 99% of it, but its still a PITA.
That still isnt going to eliminate the stupid Taiwanese spam I get all the time.
I mean, US spam, I at least can read.
yeah, I know. nice catch. the other problem is that it runs "ipchains -L -n" A LOT. I mean, the box is a 550 that doesn't do a whole lotta work, so wasting some sub-shells didn't bother me much. I just scratched it together real quick.
/. . What other publication corrects your typos for you after distribute to the public? : )
this is what I like about
dirk
Agressive but directed? You mean like shutting off my friggin port 80 access again?
I agree that my script will only work after they've come, hit my box, and moved on. But it'll stop repeat attempts. At least slow them down a wee bit as successive port 80 attempts will have to timeout (not that I DENY'd and not REJECT'd).
dirk
...try this. its a pretty quick hack, and you'll need to modify the path to your apache logs in the grep line. but its what I just whipped up. hope its useful. I just ran it and it works for me.
/var/log/httpd/error_log | awk '{print $8}' | sed -e s/]//`; do
#!/bin/sh
for LUSER in `grep "winnt"
if [ ! "`ipchains -L -n | grep $LUSER`" ]
then ipchains -A input -s $LUSER -d 0/0 -j DENY
fi
done
But the hardware HAD to be bought. The software? Well, they have a choice. And you can run a PII -266 with 64MB of RAM all over the net and have it be plenty responsive under linux (well, maybe not Moz yet). IE5 on NT? I tried NT 4 on my laptop with those specs and it blew.
Linux will continue to run well on antiquated hardware (by virtue of turning off bells and whistles), while Windows will not.
There.
Dirk
Actually, that dates back to the old by-hand printing presses. They had to put it inside the quotes for some strange reason.
my god. i just realized i took flamebait :)
Hey hey hey. Be nice. If you actually READ what he said up there, you'd notice that they have no need for Linux internally. Linux isn't ready for the desktop yet. And since they have other VERY diesel OS's of thier own, it makes sense to use those, especially because of the company's scale.
That doesn't immediately mean that their commitment to the platform isnt there. If a Honda salesment drives a Dodge pickup instead, it doesn't immediately that Honda's suck. They just don't suit his needs.
Dirk
I'll make sure to buy term life insurance.
Well, in high school we figured the amount of velocity that a mosquito would have to carry in order to penetrate a VW mini-bus's windshield (wanted a near perpendicular impact). The value we came up with was just over the speed of sound (and assuming the VW was going 50mph). We never found a mosquito motivated enough to actually prove our math...
...but my point is, that, given thier shields were down (which they were...the bridge commander was yelling about it just before the A-Wing parked itself at the conn), and that the A-Wing was grooving along at a handsome rate, its not that impossible to pass through a few layers of glass and steel. The fighter's mass alone probably gave him the intertia neccesary.
My god. I can't believe I just spent five minutes of my life trying to defend a flippin' sci-fi movie.
Maybe I'm a little old skool because I learned with C, but I think starting off with Java is a bad idea at the collegiate level. Sure, its great lexically, but I think Java is much easier to appreciate by first coding in C/C++.
I think that new coders SHOULD have to deal with typing your variables, and being careful with pointers.
Maybe if Intro to Programming was a seprate course that just taught the basics of logic, that'd be okay. CS majors could skip that one (presumably CS101) and start with a more structured intro class for CS majors (CS120...programming in C++?).
The structure is important if we want to in any way discourage writing bloated code and letting the VM manage memory.
dirk
Nice to see that I've been wearing a tin foil sailor's hat for all the right reasons. I wonder how much 4x8 sheets of 1/8" copper go for?
Laugh.
I know that. If you look close, I spelled it with two V's...just like the sales literature does. It just happens to look like a W...
VV ~= W
The light glare off of a round monitor / TV would suck big time. I've got a VVega, and I've STILL got reflections.
Would the main display brighten as well to offset the increase in ambient lighting. The human eye would see the main display get "darker" when the ambient lighting went up. You'd lose some contrast as well.
I'd think it'd be more of a distraction than anything else.
I used to read Wired all the time. But every other article was about how X was going to change the world. Push media! Stupid meetings of really smart people who overstate the obvious!
They make a few valid points. It gets old, all of this new-age evangelism. Tomorrow won't be very different from today.
And besides, I LIKE BBC programming. : )
dirk
God, I hope that I'm dense and you're kidding.
So, assuming that I am, and you're not (respectively), it means that if you pay for thier upper tier support, and you're running software RAID, they'll help you fix your shit. The basic support won't help you with any advanced voodoo.
dirk
Our company recently recieved an intersting little letter from MS. The gist of it was "We know licensing is very important to our customers. Please let us know what we can do to help you maintain compliance."
Uh-huh. Talk about a thinly veiled threat. We had just done a software audit a couple weeks beforehand, so we were cool. But still, the damn thing read like some Mafia protection letter.
Dirk
I have a hard time believing that would stand up in court.
In question three in Rep. Boucher's interview (how timely!) addresses just that. There was a ruling in a case involving Betamax that stated if a product has a primary, lawful use, then the entire product was lawful, even if it has unlawful uses.
The DCMA looks like it attempts to superceed that ruling.
dirk