Where did you get the information for that conclusion? It was not in any of the links given. I experienced slowdown on a lot of sites, but if the XP activation servers have gone offline then that would indicate to me that they have been affected more directly - in that they were vulnerable themselves.
Apple invented Firewire. What slowed it's adoption by the PC world for a long time was their Royalty demands, something like $5 per system if I remember correctly. Given that Firewire is as old as USB 1 and is still better (faster, simpler) than USB 2, not paying that price is a decision based purely on principles and one that costs users extra.
Samba runs on a large number of Unix variations and tries to emulate M$ networking. Since M$ networking is available natively on Win98 and XP (+ the others), why should anyone want to write a free third-party package for Windows? Maybe there is something significant here when you talk about 'mangling filenames', but the M$ implementation is by definition the reference implementation and the one that Samba has to be able to handle. Or have I missed something fundamental here?
My 'main machine' is a VIA 866 with 256MB DDR. I do not play games and it is both quiet and fast enough to handle DSL. I originally bought it as a low-power firewall machine but it was just to good for that. Yep, I would love to test a Transmeta system, but Mobo+Processor are around $800 more expensive (ok, 5 times the price) and it is simply not worth it. Maybe this offer should have been available 2 years ago and at a sensible price, at the moment I see no reason to change. Now, for a fast machine, the AMD Hammer should be interesting. I am seriously thinking of getting one of them in 6 months.
It looks as though there have been no changes since November, I am not about to download a CVS build because that cure is liable to be worse than the disease.
I use Putty as a client to administer two remote Linux servers on a company internal network.
In.de, net access via cable is only available in very limited areas for the reasons you give. DSL is afaik available to more than half the population - those within around 4km (2 1/2 miles?) of a Telco repeater. Something called DSL-Lite has just become available which extends that range slightly, the speeds are 50% down on normal DSL but the price is the same.
I think you will find that people in rural areas have less choice all over the world.
At least T-Online is offering some form of Satellite connection (called something like Sat-DSL although it has nothing to do with DSL) for people out in the sticks. W-Lan and UMTS are also on the way.
He was supposed to diagnose that you (ok, your mother) had a bum modem? You wanted him to fix a phone line that was not broken?
I also know very little about electronics, modems or software protocols, but I know enough to try plugging a modem into another phone line to see if it works there.
I assume that you are correct and that a modem is quite enough for your mother's online usage, but you do not seem to have helped with your insistence that he fixed something that was working fine. Or have I missed something?
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I live in Germany and my area has had DSL for around 18 months. The main German Telco has an ISP subsiduary which has been pushing DSL massively for around 2 years. A guy at work comes from the Netherlands (Holland to the uninitiated) and cable is what is available to him. Now my immediate vicinity is getting access to Cable, 4 x speed for slightly less money (flat rate in both cases). I am in the process of switching.
Now to the article. This William V. Rodey considers it a national catastrophe that the US has a lower proportion of DSL users than parts of Europe, and considers that Politicians should get involved:"If you show a politician some of these numbers, this should get them into action," Rodey said. Why? What the hell has this to do with politicians? I just want the best service for the least - the only way that politics impinges on this is that they should act to inhibit monopolies.
This article says as much about venal interest-groups as about anything technical.
So I'm incompetent. I had another major problem with a nic that was fixed in 2.4.20 and moved up this morning after having waited a week for bug reports. My root partition is ext3 (most of the others are Reiserfs) but I do not use journalling in the way that causes the problem.
Actually, the server is an emergency backup / mirror server and it has been pretty unreliable for ages. I am not allowed to replace the nic and a kernel that does not require me to pull the power cable every time things go wrong is a big plus. Maybe there was another solution, but anything more than a day per month on that project is seen as lost time for me.
As to you other point, I hope that Linus's feature freeze does not preclude fixes for problems like this making the next stable set of kernels. Whatever they are called.
I asked one of the Samba team that question at a Linux fair in late October. It seems that the TNG team is down to it's one original (and allegedly rather cantankerous) member. TNG has apparently ground to a halt and has been overtaken by the main Samba branch.
Nah, the Berlin U2 won that one on 'prior usage'. Bono would have had to move his date of birth back around 75 years. You are right about where the U2 is, though:-)
They have all re-opened, and there were always 2 guards so they could watch each other. I seem to remember that one guard was at each end so they could not collude into escaping together.
Ostbahnhof was close to the wall, but it was on a section of the S-Bahn entirely contained in the East and was never closed.
After the war, the U-Bahn and the Buses were run by West Berlin and the S-Bahn + Trams were allocated to East Berlin. The U in U-Bahn means Underground, although they often run about 30 feet above ground. The U-Bahn runs in the built-up areas. The S in S-Bahn means Stadt (city), they went way out into tge surrounding areas.
There were 4 U-Bahn lines affected by the wall:
U1, the station at it's eastern end was Warschauer Brücke and was cut off by the wall and closed.
U3, there were 2 seperate ones for years, one in the West (3 stations) and one in the East (12 stations). The 4 stations between them (Nollendorfplatz, Bülowstraße and Gleisdreieck in the W, Potsdamer Platz in the E) were closed. The 3 W stations more-or-less duplicated another line, Bülowstraße was a permanent (!) Flea Market.
(The U5 was entirely in the E and ran normally)
U6, Runs N to S. 5 Stations in the E (one was called Nordbahnhof) were closed for years, a sixth (Friedrichstraße) was a border crossing. The trains used to slow down a bit in their way through the others and there were armed guards at each one
U8, parallel to the U6 had 6 stations closed with armed guards.
All stations on all U-Bahn lines have now re-opened.
The S-Bahn was more or less boycotted after the wall was built in 1961. When the staff went on strike around 20 years later, the E-Germans reacted by closing most of the existing lines and stations. All (I believe) are open again.
Nah. Back in the days I used to run computers under Windows, Win95b came out with the vfat32 file system as an option. It was new and an improvement over it's predecessor, but bug free it was not.
Coming closer to home, Linus released a 2.4 kernel a year ago (Thanksgiving 2001? The Turkey kernel) with a major data-corruption bug which was far worse than this one and affected configurations used by the majority. I don't use ext3 like that and can live with this new problem.
SME's new Label Gate CD consists of two kinds of music data -- one is data for audio devices to replay and the other is encoded compressed data for PCs to replay. Of course, since some car CD players work on the same principle as PC CD players, they would be unusable. I normally play my CDs in the car. I have more or less stopped buying CDs altogether. Go Figure.
They paid me by the hour. If I had carried on working there, I would have been paid by the hour to fix it. All I was looking for was that status for those two hours - they certainly had the budget for it because they had not replaced me. I had written a substantial part of the project so a bug or three is inevitable.
Someone there had actually worked out exactly what the problem was, but fixing it involved manipulating a file physically rather than logically (ok?) and no-one else there had the ability to write the tool necessary inside a few minutes.
It was probably partially my fault anyway, I left at vary short notice around the time the project went online and told them that they could speak to me about any problems in the stuff that I had written.
This is around 16 years ago, I had been contracting through an agent to a large company - baing paid by the hour.
The agent pushed me around once too often so I left the customer for a job that paid around 50% more (this broke my heart), I had had no quarrel with the customer. A couple of months later, my old boss at the old customer rang me and told me about a bug in my coding that had come up in production. It was not really worth my time (hourly rates) but it only took me a couple of hours to fix the bug and repair the resulting damage, all my old co-workers went out of their way to give me all the access I needed. Then my ex-boss simply refused to pay me - he seemed to think I had a moral obligation to fix any bugs.
It was not worth suing for (at a guess) $140 so I simply made it clear that any help from now on was going to be on the telephone if I had nothing else more important to do at the time. The guys rang once more, I gave them 5 more minutes of my time and that was it. They offered me a job when I was looking for something 14 years later so I suspect not antagonising them was a safer course, I found something else though:-)
Ciccolena was elected. Under proportional representation with (at a guess) 500 seats in the parliament, this would require around 0.2% of the electorate voting for her.
0.2% is about as much influence as she had in parliament - it was good as a publicity stunt but not much else.
When I vote, it is for whoever I believe will do the best job, or at least the 'least worst' job. If I thought I could do a better job than them and wanted to spend all my time in comittees, I would consider standing myself. I know my limitations and prefer my own job anyway.
If Nominated I will decline, if elected I will not serve - you get the idea.
Karma seriously affected by a flame war in the 1950s.
Maybe to a certain extent. I thought about this in depth after having posted it and it it seems to be an 'age' thing. I am in my late 40's and have become less inclined over the years to trust kids' rationality. Some will always bite. Or maybe it was an ex-girlfriend who corrupted me, she believed in Ufos because she read something convincing enough for her. It turned out that her Ufo beliefs had more than a passing resemblance to those in the National Enquirer (which she will have never read).
As to your second point, starve them of publicity and they bleed in private.
The original Anti-Nazi laws were imposed by the Allies after the war. They were part of the furniture when both German states (as in nations) were founded and the one remaining state sees no reason to antagonise it's neighbours and dump something that has widespread acceptance.
The Anti-Nazi laws in Germany were imposed on the country immediately after WW2. By the Allies. They have widespread acceptance here - the point being that the sites in question are basically telling offensive lies about what happened 60 years ago (it is not: 'we did it and it was right' but 'it is all lies, we never did a thing'). Most adults are pretty immune to this stuff, it is the kids who are liable to be more impressionable. Most of us went through a phase of: 'it is in print so it must be true', or the printed word at least looking more authoritative at the age when kids are re-evaluating their beliefs. As to the Anti-Abortion sites, it will be the ones advocating killing Abortion Doctors which are being 'hidden', anything else would be totally unacceptable here.
Not being funny, but I think you meant that you *knew* one. What is not clear to me is whose interests are served by extending the copyright period indefinitely? The only clues I have had in the past concerned Ravel (Bolero). Someone apparently bought the rights from his legal heir and then lobbied to change the rules in France to extend the copyright period. This lobbying allegedly included bribery of lawmakers and was ultimately successful.
Beginners - especially self-taught beginners - will not read that or understand the implications if they accidentally saw it. They might even think that it is something they want. I ran across such a 'programmer' a few years back who was updating enormous tables, one record at a time. This was on a mainframe. We noticed him because the Audits that were being written were filling up twice an hour instead of twice a day, and the discs were being thrashed. He claimed that his update was 'optimally programmed' and that the DB driver was at fault. Changing two lines in his routine reduced the run-time from several days (if we had not killed the run) to around 15 minutes.
Interesting. I generally run with the newest stable kde, the newest stable kernel and the newest stable mozilla. The results are an average of a (mozilla) crash a day, sometimes far more. A recent crash while in mozilla left the system autistic from the mouse/keyboard. I could go in from another machine via ssh, and remount partitions read-only, kill some processes but not actually do something more drastic like a shutdown -r. I am starting to suspect that the crappy cheapo nic I am using for DSL has something to do with this state of affairs, everyone else around seems to get far more mileage out of their software than me.
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Where did you get the information for that conclusion? It was not in any of the links given.
I experienced slowdown on a lot of sites, but if the XP activation servers have gone offline then that would indicate to me that they have been affected more directly - in that they were vulnerable themselves.
Apple invented Firewire. What slowed it's adoption by the PC world for a long time was their Royalty demands, something like $5 per system if I remember correctly.
Given that Firewire is as old as USB 1 and is still better (faster, simpler) than USB 2, not paying that price is a decision based purely on principles and one that costs users extra.
Samba runs on a large number of Unix variations and tries to emulate M$ networking. Since M$ networking is available natively on Win98 and XP (+ the others), why should anyone want to write a free third-party package for Windows?
Maybe there is something significant here when you talk about 'mangling filenames', but the M$ implementation is by definition the reference implementation and the one that Samba has to be able to handle. Or have I missed something fundamental here?
My 'main machine' is a VIA 866 with 256MB DDR. I do not play games and it is both quiet and fast enough to handle DSL. I originally bought it as a low-power firewall machine but it was just to good for that.
Yep, I would love to test a Transmeta system, but Mobo+Processor are around $800 more expensive (ok, 5 times the price) and it is simply not worth it. Maybe this offer should have been available 2 years ago and at a sensible price, at the moment I see no reason to change.
Now, for a fast machine, the AMD Hammer should be interesting. I am seriously thinking of getting one of them in 6 months.
I use Putty as a client to administer two remote Linux servers on a company internal network.
DSL is afaik available to more than half the population - those within around 4km (2 1/2 miles?) of a Telco repeater. Something called DSL-Lite has just become available which extends that range slightly, the speeds are 50% down on normal DSL but the price is the same.
I think you will find that people in rural areas have less choice all over the world.
At least T-Online is offering some form of Satellite connection (called something like Sat-DSL although it has nothing to do with DSL) for people out in the sticks. W-Lan and UMTS are also on the way.
I also know very little about electronics, modems or software protocols, but I know enough to try plugging a modem into another phone line to see if it works there.
I assume that you are correct and that a modem is quite enough for your mother's online usage, but you do not seem to have helped with your insistence that he fixed something that was working fine. Or have I missed something?
A guy at work comes from the Netherlands (Holland to the uninitiated) and cable is what is available to him.
Now my immediate vicinity is getting access to Cable, 4 x speed for slightly less money (flat rate in both cases). I am in the process of switching.
Now to the article.
This William V. Rodey considers it a national catastrophe that the US has a lower proportion of DSL users than parts of Europe, and considers that Politicians should get involved:"If you show a politician some of these numbers, this should get them into action," Rodey said.
Why? What the hell has this to do with politicians? I just want the best service for the least - the only way that politics impinges on this is that they should act to inhibit monopolies.
This article says as much about venal interest-groups as about anything technical.
Actually, the server is an emergency backup / mirror server and it has been pretty unreliable for ages. I am not allowed to replace the nic and a kernel that does not require me to pull the power cable every time things go wrong is a big plus. Maybe there was another solution, but anything more than a day per month on that project is seen as lost time for me.
As to you other point, I hope that Linus's feature freeze does not preclude fixes for problems like this making the next stable set of kernels. Whatever they are called.I asked one of the Samba team that question at a Linux fair in late October. It seems that the TNG team is down to it's one original (and allegedly rather cantankerous) member.
TNG has apparently ground to a halt and has been overtaken by the main Samba branch.
Nah, the Berlin U2 won that one on 'prior usage'. Bono would have had to move his date of birth back around 75 years. :-)
You are right about where the U2 is, though
They have all re-opened, and there were always 2 guards so they could watch each other. I seem to remember that one guard was at each end so they could not collude into escaping together.
After the war, the U-Bahn and the Buses were run by West Berlin and the S-Bahn + Trams were allocated to East Berlin.
The U in U-Bahn means Underground, although they often run about 30 feet above ground. The U-Bahn runs in the built-up areas.
The S in S-Bahn means Stadt (city), they went way out into tge surrounding areas.
There were 4 U-Bahn lines affected by the wall:
- U1, the station at it's eastern end was Warschauer Brücke and was cut off by the wall and closed.
- U3, there were 2 seperate ones for years, one in the West (3 stations) and one in the East (12 stations). The 4 stations between them (Nollendorfplatz, Bülowstraße and Gleisdreieck in the W, Potsdamer Platz in the E) were closed. The 3 W stations more-or-less duplicated another line, Bülowstraße was a permanent (!) Flea Market.
- (The U5 was entirely in the E and ran normally)
- U6, Runs N to S. 5 Stations in the E (one was called Nordbahnhof) were closed for years, a sixth (Friedrichstraße) was a border crossing. The trains used to slow down a bit in their way through the others and there were armed guards at each one
- U8, parallel to the U6 had 6 stations closed with armed guards.
All stations on all U-Bahn lines have now re-opened.The S-Bahn was more or less boycotted after the wall was built in 1961. When the staff went on strike around 20 years later, the E-Germans reacted by closing most of the existing lines and stations. All (I believe) are open again.
Back in the days I used to run computers under Windows, Win95b came out with the vfat32 file system as an option. It was new and an improvement over it's predecessor, but bug free it was not.
Coming closer to home, Linus released a 2.4 kernel a year ago (Thanksgiving 2001? The Turkey kernel) with a major data-corruption bug which was far worse than this one and affected configurations used by the majority. I don't use ext3 like that and can live with this new problem.
SME's new Label Gate CD consists of two kinds of music data -- one is data for audio devices to replay and the other is encoded compressed data for PCs to replay.
Of course, since some car CD players work on the same principle as PC CD players, they would be unusable.
I normally play my CDs in the car. I have more or less stopped buying CDs altogether. Go Figure.
Someone there had actually worked out exactly what the problem was, but fixing it involved manipulating a file physically rather than logically (ok?) and no-one else there had the ability to write the tool necessary inside a few minutes.
It was probably partially my fault anyway, I left at vary short notice around the time the project went online and told them that they could speak to me about any problems in the stuff that I had written.The agent pushed me around once too often so I left the customer for a job that paid around 50% more (this broke my heart), I had had no quarrel with the customer. A couple of months later, my old boss at the old customer rang me and told me about a bug in my coding that had come up in production. It was not really worth my time (hourly rates) but it only took me a couple of hours to fix the bug and repair the resulting damage, all my old co-workers went out of their way to give me all the access I needed. Then my ex-boss simply refused to pay me - he seemed to think I had a moral obligation to fix any bugs.
It was not worth suing for (at a guess) $140 so I simply made it clear that any help from now on was going to be on the telephone if I had nothing else more important to do at the time. The guys rang once more, I gave them 5 more minutes of my time and that was it.They offered me a job when I was looking for something 14 years later so I suspect not antagonising them was a safer course, I found something else though
0.2% is about as much influence as she had in parliament - it was good as a publicity stunt but not much else.
If Nominated I will decline, if elected I will not serve - you get the idea.
Karma seriously affected by a flame war in the 1950s.Or maybe it was an ex-girlfriend who corrupted me, she believed in Ufos because she read something convincing enough for her. It turned out that her Ufo beliefs had more than a passing resemblance to those in the National Enquirer (which she will have never read).
As to your second point, starve them of publicity and they bleed in private.
The original Anti-Nazi laws were imposed by the Allies after the war. They were part of the furniture when both German states (as in nations) were founded and the one remaining state sees no reason to antagonise it's neighbours and dump something that has widespread acceptance.
The Anti-Nazi laws in Germany were imposed on the country immediately after WW2. By the Allies. They have widespread acceptance here - the point being that the sites in question are basically telling offensive lies about what happened 60 years ago (it is not: 'we did it and it was right' but 'it is all lies, we never did a thing'). Most adults are pretty immune to this stuff, it is the kids who are liable to be more impressionable.
Most of us went through a phase of: 'it is in print so it must be true', or the printed word at least looking more authoritative at the age when kids are re-evaluating their beliefs.
As to the Anti-Abortion sites, it will be the ones advocating killing Abortion Doctors which are being 'hidden', anything else would be totally unacceptable here.
Not being funny, but I think you meant that you *knew* one.
What is not clear to me is whose interests are served by extending the copyright period indefinitely? The only clues I have had in the past concerned Ravel (Bolero). Someone apparently bought the rights from his legal heir and then lobbied to change the rules in France to extend the copyright period. This lobbying allegedly included bribery of lawmakers and was ultimately successful.
Beginners - especially self-taught beginners - will not read that or understand the implications if they accidentally saw it. They might even think that it is something they want. I ran across such a 'programmer' a few years back who was updating enormous tables, one record at a time. This was on a mainframe. We noticed him because the Audits that were being written were filling up twice an hour instead of twice a day, and the discs were being thrashed. He claimed that his update was 'optimally programmed' and that the DB driver was at fault. Changing two lines in his routine reduced the run-time from several days (if we had not killed the run) to around 15 minutes.
Novell will not fall into that trap . .
Interesting.
I generally run with the newest stable kde, the newest stable kernel and the newest stable mozilla. The results are an average of a (mozilla) crash a day, sometimes far more.
A recent crash while in mozilla left the system autistic from the mouse/keyboard. I could go in from another machine via ssh, and remount partitions read-only, kill some processes but not actually do something more drastic like a shutdown -r.
I am starting to suspect that the crappy cheapo nic I am using for DSL has something to do with this state of affairs, everyone else around seems to get far more mileage out of their software than me.