Ouch. My TOS is that I can do anything I want with my connection that doesn't violate the law. I host DNS for quite a few domains, run about 10 websites, and serve about 20 email domains. I also host the local Usenet feed since my ISP wasn't able to financially justify providing one anymore. They configured their upstream server to allow my little Leafnode server to pull from it, so one of my FreeBSD jails is now "news.myisp.com".
My other main broadband option (which doesn't include cable since I needed to run servers) is highspeed wireless, which would actually be slightly cheaper than DSL but not quite as reliable.
I was more than a little shocked when moving from a city of 200,000 to a town of 25,000 netted a huge improvement in cheap broadband options.:)
Unfortunately, I'll still have to deal with Comcast for Internet
Is DSL even an option for you? Where I live, a 1536Kbps down / 1024Kbps up circuit is $24 per month. Unrestricted, unmetered, static-/29-netblock service from a local ISP is $17 per month. My total monthly bill is $41 for great service and good speed. I know my situation isn't universal, but is it even close where you live?
We got our first Starbucks in March of this year. Digital cable is a long way off for us!
I live in a small town (pop. ~25,000) in Nebraska. Somehow I don't think we're on the forefront of technology, although we do have wonderful, cheap DSL service.
I don't want to have to put a receiver that's the size of a DVD player when I bought these TVs for their small footprint.
Check this out. It's a dual-tuner receiver that drives two televisions, with two RF remote controls that have a pretty long range. My mom got this setup when she started satellite service a few months ago and it works perfectly. I have the old one-receiver-per-TV setup, and when I recently visited my mom I was surprised that I was flipping through the channels on a receiver at the opposite end of the house from the TV I was watching.
Even with our "legacy" setup, the receiver we use in our bedroom for our 13" TV is only about 1 inch thick and not significantly wider than our TV (which sits on it).
You don't get it. The post I was replying to described startup times much longer than mine on hardware faster than mine. I was posting orange-to-orange numbers for comparison.
Also consider that startup time is not linearly related to CPU speed. Many other factors, such as hard drive speed and DNS resolution, can affect how quickly a given application becomes available. Startup times on my K6-3/333MHz laptop are not 8 times longer than on my P4/2.4HGz desktop. Twice? Sure, but that's far different than what you'd expect from the ratio of processing power alone.
I use Debian/unstable on a P4/2.4GHz, 64MB nVidia onboard video, 40GB drive.
OpenOffice.org Writer opens in 5.8 seconds (measured by running time oowriter from a prompt and killing the program as soon as it starts - not entirely accurate, but at least in the ballpark). The same experiment with Ethereal took.65 seconds. Mozilla Thunderbird took 6.7 seconds on the first load, and 2.0 seconds on subsequent loads.
I don't know what to tell you. Maybe you need to try a different distribution? The "slow" programs you're having trouble with load pretty darn quick on my slightly slower system.
systems that don't need multiple horns on the dish
My current dish has two horns, one for each satellite that it tracks (not one per TV as you state). Later this month, I'm getting a free upgrade to a dish with three horns so that I can receive local channels which are broadcast from a different satellite than the two I'm currently tracking. The dish is the exact same size and looks almost identical. It's not like I'm suddenly getting a 50%-bigger dish on the outside of my house.
sattelite TV receivers built in
Here's the deal: analog cable is dying, and dying quickly. So let's ask a parallel question: what TV's have digital cable receivers built in?
you're not charged an extra fee for hooking up another TV yourself
Right now, Dish Network will install up to three extra receivers for an additional $5 per month. How much do you pay for three extra digital cable receivers?
Right now I can run to Radio Shack and pick up a $3 splitter and $5 of CATV cable and let my fiance's little brother watch TV in his own room in about a half hour.
You're right - today. The same probably won't be true next year. For example, I don't think I even have the option of getting analog cable now even if I wanted it. My choices are digital cable and digital satellite. Both have similar advantages and disadvantages, but the latter is much cheaper for the viewing package I want.
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Printing out checks and certain forms will always be done in CAPS so as to not confuse the other parties.
That has nothing whatsoever to do with data entry. If the spec calls for information on a check to be printed all-caps, and the programmer can't bother to write
which to me seemed analogous to saying that IIS is better than Apache, because the average IIS server gets 50 hits per day, and the average Apache server only gets 40 (numbers obviously fabricated). At loads that small, any reasonably competent package should be able to hand the task.
TinyDNS is popular with admins that have lots of domains because there is one configuration file for the domains, the default bind way sucks if you have any number of them
In BIND, you add a record with the domain name and the file storing its contents to named.conf. I have a hard time imagining a much simpler way to configure that information. You can also point multiple domains to the same zone file if you have a default you'd like to use.
I have domain entry scripted so it takes seconds to add a new domain.
This is also trivially possible with BIND.
Not having to restart TinyDNS when your domain file is changes is a big plus too.
rndc reload not good enough for you?
Use whatever you want - it makes no difference to me. But every reason you gave for using DJB's tools apply equally to BIND, so I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.
Ratio of BIND domains serviced to installs: 24,335,752 / 340,345 = 71.5 domains/server.
I serve DNS for about 65 domains on my BIND server. Even though it's also a fairly busy webserver and a mailserver with lots of spam filtering, my long-term load average is currently sitting at 0.02.
I am not limited to the number of served domains because BIND isn't capable of any "heavy lifting" - I just don't have any more that I need to serve. TinyDNS may or may not be more capable of serving thousands of domains on the same machine, but the tiny numbers you're trying to draw conclusions from wouldn't put a dent in any sane server.
You're completely wrong. Simply put, in certain arenas all of the "easy things" have already been invented. The things left are incredibly complex and costly to develop. What motive does Drug Company 1 have to create a new pharmaceutical if Drug Company 2 can immediately turn around and start selling it without having had to invest hundreds of millions of dollars of their own money in the process? The answer: none whatsoever. Why do your own research when you can just let the other guy do it for you?
Of course, you could make the process less costly - just eliminate the FDA and liability law. Who cares about the next thalidomide, as long as it's cheap?
synergistic mixtures of drugs
If you thought clearing one drug through the FDA was difficult and costly, try clearing a mixture. Even if it passes that phase, then you still get nailed in the courts if you've accidently whipped up Fen-Phen 2.
I can't think of any industry in the world with an entry barrier as high as in pharmaceuticals, and it's not all due to greedy "capitalist fascists". Some things are inherently expensive. If you remove the profit motive from them, people will stop doing them.
I for one like modern medicine, and I want it to continue to improve. If you don't, more power to ya.
...elminate patents all together...
Its an out dated concept, we no longer need to protect incomes due to invention. If you make a good product you will make money.
Excellent! Out of curiosity, who pays for the 15 years of concept-to-market research required to create new medicines? Because without that short-term monopoly on manufacturing new creations, no company will be stupid enough to invest hundreds of millions of dollars on a cure for cancer when their competitors will be able to make it themselves the day after it's announced.
Of course, medical technology has been stagnant for decades, and noone still makes new drugs - we already have all of the medicines we're destined to ever have.
Great idea, haplo21112. Let's take the profit motive out of invention once and for all!
No. Most ports are available as packages, but there are quite a few distribution-restricted programs in there. If you want Java2, for example, be prepared to build it yourself.
On a 700MHz imac - less than 2 years old - this sometimes takes 15 minutes or more.
There's something seriously wrong with your system. The last "Optimizing your system" message I saw on my 800MHz iMac lasted for about 20 seconds. Do you have enough RAM in your system? Our iMac shipped with 256MB, but we bumped it to 768MB about 2 days later.
Ah, the logical fallacy of thinking that because that you don't like today's music, it means nobody else does.
That's actually a pretty accurate statement. Not so long ago, most music appealed to most of the population. Call it cheezy or corny, but entire families would listen to the stuff they now play in Branson. I'm sure there's always been "kid music" that adults hate, but that was the exception rather than the rule.
Now, however, I challenge you to find any mainstream music that is halfway palatable to anyone over the age of 30. The music industry has completely abandoned two thirds of the population with the excuse that older people don't buy music. Newsflash: I have a lot more money than 99.99% of teenagers. I think nothing of dropping cash on a nice satellite TV system, so what makes you think that I would steer a few of my entertainment dollars your way if you made music that I actually enjoyed?
I will never buy anything by Usher, 50 Cent, or Limp Bizkit. As long as the major labels market to kids, they won't receive a penny from me. Do you really think that I have a radically different opinion than the majority?
You're implying piracy will go down if they make good music, which begs the question--why are people pirating music they think is bad?
Most people aren't. A lot of kids are pirating the junk that they hear on their local ClearChannel affiliate. Trading music has almost always been a "youth thing"; older people tend to buy the things they want to hear. It's almost like saying that most people love Bud Light because they'll happily pay $5 for admission to a keg party; it completely ignores the huge portion of the populace that stays home and pays full price for the good stuff.
As others have pointed out, that's mainly due to military purposes. However, also remember that the most expensive part of a new road is the land under it. It's not much more expensive to build a 12 foot lane than a 10 foot lane if you've already paid for the right of way, ground studies, permits, and all of the other relatively fixed costs of the project.
Having never been to America, I now have an insight to what the scenery from LA to Oregon is like.
Actually, I think that a lot of Americans got a small glimpse of what other parts of their own country look like. It seems like a common theme on Slashdot is that we should all be taking public transportation for regular travel, but this is a pretty strong visual reminder that large parts of America are mostly empty. Most Americans do not live in large cities, but city dwellers seem to comprise the majority on this site. Remember, folks, not all of us have a bus stop in front of our house. In fact, I don't think that my town even has a bus.
When I was in the Navy and stationed off the coast of Somalia, we took a couple of trips to Mombasa, Kenya for liberty. A few of us took a guided tour of some old ruins, which inevitably ended in a guided tour of the gift shops owned by the guide's buddies. When we didn't buy anything, that turned into a guided tour of a Somalian refugee camp (complete with "F YOU UNCLE SAM" and "AMERICA GO HOME" grafitti).
We did not look like we belonged there. We glanced around a lot. We were scared as hell.
If you can't follow your "universal rules", then a good alternative is to look much like the heavily armed Marines that you're hanging around with.
WEP is so broken that I don't see the need for it. If you happen to be within 30 feet of my house, which is on the end of a cul-de-sac filled with retired people who call me whenever a "strange" car is parked in front (just in case I'm being robbed), and manage to get a link, then you can:
Connect to my password-protected Squid server
SSH via RSA authentication to another machine on my LAN
Make NTP requests
Send an email to someone at one of my domains
My WAP plugs into a dedicated Ethernet card on a DEC Alpha running FreeBSD and a stateful ipf/NAT setup. No system is guaranteed to be perfect, but if you can defeat this, then my WAN security is the least of my problems. However, CNN would count mine as "insecure" since I don't use WEP. Go figure.
Yeah, too bad we got other freedom from that such as free school from 6 years old until you're 18 years.
Does any Western country not offer that? The US certainly does, so this is an invalid point.
Where if you want you can continue with higher education for free! For 3 to 5 more years depending on what your learning.
Four years of tuition at a state university in the US cost me less than 30% of the salary I earned in my first year in the workplace. Put another way, I effectively paid a one-time 30% "education tax" to provide my university education. I don't have to pay that again this year, next year, or ever again. This is an invalid point.
Or how about free dentist help and healtcare up to age 18. Ah I feel like such a prisoner.
Dental insurance for my whole family costs about $15 per month. Healthcare for my children is less than $100 per month. So, the taxes that pay for your socialized medicine amount to less than $115 per month for a family with three children? If that's the case, then maybe we are paying too much for medicine, but I highly doubt that your program is more cost-effective than ours.
We can measure the distances to far off galaxies to get a "radius", but a "radius" implies a center, primarily the Earth.
Not really. It's more analogous to the statement "the earth's circumference is at least 20,000 miles" - no matter where you are, you can go at least 20,000 miles in a straight line before you get back to where you started. That statement doesn't imply that you're at the center of the earth, just that you can treat it as the center for the purpose of describing your observations.
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My other main broadband option (which doesn't include cable since I needed to run servers) is highspeed wireless, which would actually be slightly cheaper than DSL but not quite as reliable.
I was more than a little shocked when moving from a city of 200,000 to a town of 25,000 netted a huge improvement in cheap broadband options. :)
Is DSL even an option for you? Where I live, a 1536Kbps down / 1024Kbps up circuit is $24 per month. Unrestricted, unmetered, static-/29-netblock service from a local ISP is $17 per month. My total monthly bill is $41 for great service and good speed. I know my situation isn't universal, but is it even close where you live?
I live in a small town (pop. ~25,000) in Nebraska. Somehow I don't think we're on the forefront of technology, although we do have wonderful, cheap DSL service.
I don't want to have to put a receiver that's the size of a DVD player when I bought these TVs for their small footprint.
Check this out. It's a dual-tuner receiver that drives two televisions, with two RF remote controls that have a pretty long range. My mom got this setup when she started satellite service a few months ago and it works perfectly. I have the old one-receiver-per-TV setup, and when I recently visited my mom I was surprised that I was flipping through the channels on a receiver at the opposite end of the house from the TV I was watching.
Even with our "legacy" setup, the receiver we use in our bedroom for our 13" TV is only about 1 inch thick and not significantly wider than our TV (which sits on it).
Also consider that startup time is not linearly related to CPU speed. Many other factors, such as hard drive speed and DNS resolution, can affect how quickly a given application becomes available. Startup times on my K6-3/333MHz laptop are not 8 times longer than on my P4/2.4HGz desktop. Twice? Sure, but that's far different than what you'd expect from the ratio of processing power alone.
OpenOffice.org Writer opens in 5.8 seconds (measured by running time oowriter from a prompt and killing the program as soon as it starts - not entirely accurate, but at least in the ballpark). The same experiment with Ethereal took .65 seconds. Mozilla Thunderbird took 6.7 seconds on the first load, and 2.0 seconds on subsequent loads.
I don't know what to tell you. Maybe you need to try a different distribution? The "slow" programs you're having trouble with load pretty darn quick on my slightly slower system.
My current dish has two horns, one for each satellite that it tracks (not one per TV as you state). Later this month, I'm getting a free upgrade to a dish with three horns so that I can receive local channels which are broadcast from a different satellite than the two I'm currently tracking. The dish is the exact same size and looks almost identical. It's not like I'm suddenly getting a 50%-bigger dish on the outside of my house.
sattelite TV receivers built in
Here's the deal: analog cable is dying, and dying quickly. So let's ask a parallel question: what TV's have digital cable receivers built in?
you're not charged an extra fee for hooking up another TV yourself
Right now, Dish Network will install up to three extra receivers for an additional $5 per month. How much do you pay for three extra digital cable receivers?
Right now I can run to Radio Shack and pick up a $3 splitter and $5 of CATV cable and let my fiance's little brother watch TV in his own room in about a half hour.
You're right - today. The same probably won't be true next year. For example, I don't think I even have the option of getting analog cable now even if I wanted it. My choices are digital cable and digital satellite. Both have similar advantages and disadvantages, but the latter is much cheaper for the viewing package I want.
That has nothing whatsoever to do with data entry. If the spec calls for information on a check to be printed all-caps, and the programmer can't bother to write
instead ofthen you need to get a new programmer.kirk@pooh:/usr/share/media/music $ find . -name "*.mp3" -print | wc -l
854
kirk@pooh:/usr/share/media/music $ find . -name "*.m4a" -print | wc -l
0
kirk@pooh:/usr/share/media/music $ find . -name "*.m4p" -print | wc -l
0
kirk@pooh:/usr/share/media/music $ find . -name "*.ogg" -print | wc -l
930
Tell me again what we're supposed to be demonstrating?
71.5 domains/server
which to me seemed analogous to saying that IIS is better than Apache, because the average IIS server gets 50 hits per day, and the average Apache server only gets 40 (numbers obviously fabricated). At loads that small, any reasonably competent package should be able to hand the task.
TinyDNS is popular with admins that have lots of domains because there is one configuration file for the domains, the default bind way sucks if you have any number of them
In BIND, you add a record with the domain name and the file storing its contents to named.conf. I have a hard time imagining a much simpler way to configure that information. You can also point multiple domains to the same zone file if you have a default you'd like to use.
I have domain entry scripted so it takes seconds to add a new domain.
This is also trivially possible with BIND.
Not having to restart TinyDNS when your domain file is changes is a big plus too.
rndc reload not good enough for you?
Use whatever you want - it makes no difference to me. But every reason you gave for using DJB's tools apply equally to BIND, so I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.
I serve DNS for about 65 domains on my BIND server. Even though it's also a fairly busy webserver and a mailserver with lots of spam filtering, my long-term load average is currently sitting at 0.02.
I am not limited to the number of served domains because BIND isn't capable of any "heavy lifting" - I just don't have any more that I need to serve. TinyDNS may or may not be more capable of serving thousands of domains on the same machine, but the tiny numbers you're trying to draw conclusions from wouldn't put a dent in any sane server.
Of course, you could make the process less costly - just eliminate the FDA and liability law. Who cares about the next thalidomide, as long as it's cheap?
synergistic mixtures of drugs
If you thought clearing one drug through the FDA was difficult and costly, try clearing a mixture. Even if it passes that phase, then you still get nailed in the courts if you've accidently whipped up Fen-Phen 2.
I can't think of any industry in the world with an entry barrier as high as in pharmaceuticals, and it's not all due to greedy "capitalist fascists". Some things are inherently expensive. If you remove the profit motive from them, people will stop doing them.
I for one like modern medicine, and I want it to continue to improve. If you don't, more power to ya.
Excellent! Out of curiosity, who pays for the 15 years of concept-to-market research required to create new medicines? Because without that short-term monopoly on manufacturing new creations, no company will be stupid enough to invest hundreds of millions of dollars on a cure for cancer when their competitors will be able to make it themselves the day after it's announced.
Of course, medical technology has been stagnant for decades, and noone still makes new drugs - we already have all of the medicines we're destined to ever have.
Great idea, haplo21112. Let's take the profit motive out of invention once and for all!
No. Most ports are available as packages, but there are quite a few distribution-restricted programs in there. If you want Java2, for example, be prepared to build it yourself.
There's something seriously wrong with your system. The last "Optimizing your system" message I saw on my 800MHz iMac lasted for about 20 seconds. Do you have enough RAM in your system? Our iMac shipped with 256MB, but we bumped it to 768MB about 2 days later.
Would "Engl-ish" be alright with you? :)
At least, that's what I heard on IRC. Oh, and use about a gram of silicone grease on the northbridge - that'll speed up your RAM.
That's actually a pretty accurate statement. Not so long ago, most music appealed to most of the population. Call it cheezy or corny, but entire families would listen to the stuff they now play in Branson. I'm sure there's always been "kid music" that adults hate, but that was the exception rather than the rule.
Now, however, I challenge you to find any mainstream music that is halfway palatable to anyone over the age of 30. The music industry has completely abandoned two thirds of the population with the excuse that older people don't buy music. Newsflash: I have a lot more money than 99.99% of teenagers. I think nothing of dropping cash on a nice satellite TV system, so what makes you think that I would steer a few of my entertainment dollars your way if you made music that I actually enjoyed?
I will never buy anything by Usher, 50 Cent, or Limp Bizkit. As long as the major labels market to kids, they won't receive a penny from me. Do you really think that I have a radically different opinion than the majority?
You're implying piracy will go down if they make good music, which begs the question--why are people pirating music they think is bad?
Most people aren't. A lot of kids are pirating the junk that they hear on their local ClearChannel affiliate. Trading music has almost always been a "youth thing"; older people tend to buy the things they want to hear. It's almost like saying that most people love Bud Light because they'll happily pay $5 for admission to a keg party; it completely ignores the huge portion of the populace that stays home and pays full price for the good stuff.
As others have pointed out, that's mainly due to military purposes. However, also remember that the most expensive part of a new road is the land under it. It's not much more expensive to build a 12 foot lane than a 10 foot lane if you've already paid for the right of way, ground studies, permits, and all of the other relatively fixed costs of the project.
No, it's not.
Actually, I think that a lot of Americans got a small glimpse of what other parts of their own country look like. It seems like a common theme on Slashdot is that we should all be taking public transportation for regular travel, but this is a pretty strong visual reminder that large parts of America are mostly empty. Most Americans do not live in large cities, but city dwellers seem to comprise the majority on this site. Remember, folks, not all of us have a bus stop in front of our house. In fact, I don't think that my town even has a bus.
We did not look like we belonged there. We glanced around a lot. We were scared as hell.
If you can't follow your "universal rules", then a good alternative is to look much like the heavily armed Marines that you're hanging around with.
WEP is so broken that I don't see the need for it. If you happen to be within 30 feet of my house, which is on the end of a cul-de-sac filled with retired people who call me whenever a "strange" car is parked in front (just in case I'm being robbed), and manage to get a link, then you can:
My WAP plugs into a dedicated Ethernet card on a DEC Alpha running FreeBSD and a stateful ipf/NAT setup. No system is guaranteed to be perfect, but if you can defeat this, then my WAN security is the least of my problems. However, CNN would count mine as "insecure" since I don't use WEP. Go figure.
Does any Western country not offer that? The US certainly does, so this is an invalid point.
Where if you want you can continue with higher education for free! For 3 to 5 more years depending on what your learning.
Four years of tuition at a state university in the US cost me less than 30% of the salary I earned in my first year in the workplace. Put another way, I effectively paid a one-time 30% "education tax" to provide my university education. I don't have to pay that again this year, next year, or ever again. This is an invalid point.
Or how about free dentist help and healtcare up to age 18. Ah I feel like such a prisoner.
Dental insurance for my whole family costs about $15 per month. Healthcare for my children is less than $100 per month. So, the taxes that pay for your socialized medicine amount to less than $115 per month for a family with three children? If that's the case, then maybe we are paying too much for medicine, but I highly doubt that your program is more cost-effective than ours.
Not really. It's more analogous to the statement "the earth's circumference is at least 20,000 miles" - no matter where you are, you can go at least 20,000 miles in a straight line before you get back to where you started. That statement doesn't imply that you're at the center of the earth, just that you can treat it as the center for the purpose of describing your observations.