I personally have had problems with the 2.2 kernels that are probably related to the TCP/IP stack. I'm still trying to nail down exactly what's wrong.
Statistics were posted to/. in the last day about FreeBSD vs. Linux web server performance.
It's generally agreed that Linux/Apache lost to IIS in the revised Mindquest comparison (NOT the original, insanely loaded one) because of the Linux TCP/IP stack.
Using linux without considering alternatives is bigotry.
Well, the article mentions that the device would look for a sudden change in heartrate. So long as you warm up first, exercise shouldn't be a problem.
I'd worry more about false alarms from things like a woman noticing a big hairy spider on her arm. That is, things that might cause genuine fear for a second, but aren't threatening enough to warrant calling the police.
Most colleges and "academic environments" have official rules that cover things like this. Hackers and 3133t war3z d00dz have been around for long enough that almost every university with an internet connection has policies in place for appropriate content.
Colleges also tend to have a high level of trust. If you work for the college in any sort of technical capacity, you can get away with a lot of things, because it's assumed that you have a good reason for breaking the rules.
It's pretty common for people around here (CMU) to have vanity domains and private web servers on their work machines. It's also pretty common for people to create accounts on their machines for friends, or even put machines on the network for outside friends to play with. This is all strictly against policy, but so long as nobody complains, we don't worry about it too much.
If we were to get a letter from someone who was threatening to sue us because of the actions of someone who isn't even affiliated with the university, we'd stomp on them hard and fast. Covering our collective ass is more important than looking the other way while someone breaks the rules.
I don't know if this was the situation between Harvard and Packetstorm, but it does sound that way. Universities run on paper, and there's no way that they'd officially permit an outsider to run a machine on their network with only a verbal agreement.
Actually, the World Series was names after the newspaper who was the main corporate sponsor of the first series. It wasn't meant to include the whole world.
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hardware options already exist to connect Palm Pilot/Pro/III/IIIx/VII to wireless LAN's.
URL?
I'm looking for a way to hook a Palm to a wireless ethernet (IEEE 802.11) network. We're using Windows CE devices now, for lack of alternatives.
We wanted to use Palm devices, but couldn't find any wireless network cards. Ricochet doesn't seem too interested in selling its base units, even though they don't provide service around here.
Perhaps if the NIH allowed for peer comments below articles, a la slashdot, problems could be spotted faster, objections could be noted at an earlier date, and "innocent killer typos" ("was that quinine or stricnine?") could be eliminated.
Of course, this would lead to more people being cited in research. While this would be a good thing for the community at large, it would be bad for glory hounds (there are many in medical research) and for "publish or perish" professors.
It would also be important to restrict who could post. Perhaps only licensed MDs? You wouldn't want the chaff level to get too high as quacks ("What about my miracle powder?") and crazies ("The voices in my head recommend this approach") chimed in on preliminary research.
MP3.com seems to burn their DAM CD's from the exact same MP3 files that you can download, which is really unfortunate
This has been my biggest disappointment with the DAM CDs. There is a lack of quality control from mp3.com, and a lack of technical knowledge on the part of the musicians. An mp3 can sound great, but not if it's encoded with a xing encoder at 128kbps.
I ordered a CD a few months ago, and it was impossible to make out the lyrics on some of the songs because of the low encoding quality. When I sent email to the band, one of the band members wrote back and told me that they had converted to and from mp3 when they bounced the songs around between band members, and some of the songs had been decoded, manipulated, and encoded again half a dozen times. He didn't realize how much of an effect this had on the finished product.
On the other hand, the cool thing about DAM is that the musicians take home 50% of the purchase price. If they hired audio technicians to handle stuff like this, they'd go back to getting the same tiny percentages that they get from the major labels.
Windows really needs a good scripting language. VBScript and JScript are okay, but not great. Perl is great for unix, and would probably be really good for unix.
There are a few tasks, though, that can't be easily done in a graphics-based OS like windows with a command-line based tool like perl. The ability to have the script emulate a user pressing Control-Alt-Shift-F7 (or whatever else), or clicking on the third icon from the left would be really handy in windows. Since unix is command-line based, it wouldn't benefit as much from something like this.
Domino isn't open standard or open source, and I'd guess that it will initially be released for one version of one linux distribution. Businesses will try to use it with other distributions and versions, it'll crash a lot. They'll complain to Lotus. Lotus will blame linux.
Also, much as I like Linux (I do Linux support where I work), Netware is a good, stable product for its environment. The sort of company who's willing to buy a proprietary groupware bundle is the sort of company who'd probably have better luck with Netware.
The Australian government has admitted to being part of UKUSA. They've said nothing about Echelon, although the news reports make it rather difficult to discern that bit of data.
The difference is significant. It's almost certain that they have the capability to monitor all communications that bounce through a satellite. Whether they have the resources to do this is another issue entirely. They might, but honestly, can you really picture rooms full of top-secret cleared agents listening (mostly) to thousands of people calling their relatives long distance?
Anonimous Coward posts start at 0. Registered user posts start at 1. If an AC post is at 0, it might not have been moderated up yet. The moderators only have a few points to spend, so even if one of them sees the article, they might not be impressed enough to give it a point.
Your post, on the other hand, was moderated down by someone, probably for flaming.
For a long time, I thought that what the web really needed was a Differential-HTTP. This makes particular sense with a site like slashdot. I punch in every few hours, but let's face it: 90% of the page is the same. At most, there's a new blurb or two at the top of the page.
The existing standard is horribly inefficient from a bandwidth perspective. It makes a lot of sense, though, from a server load perspective. It's usually easier on a machine to serve the same page 10,000 times than it is to serve 10,000 different updates. (Okay, so/. is cool enough to generate dynaic pages, but think of the poor IIS admins:)
Right now, the web is designed with the assumption that an extra megabyte is free, but an extra CPU cycle isn't, at least, not at the big sites. If you read the HTTP specs, it seems that most of the recent work is designed to shift CPU load from the server to the client.
Even though end users probably won't see a difference (Let's face it, tracking usage on a modem, or even a 10Mbps DSL line isn't worth the paper and trouble -- this is strictly a game for the serious bandwidth consumers.), we're going to see a sudden shift toward minimizing bandwidth from the standards organizations. This might have a negative impact on the hardware budgets of the larger web sites.
I completely misinterpreted the blurb about this article. I was expecting something like this, or maybe an article about loner geeks who spend their Friday nights digging through server logs.
The NT service pack includes many, many patches. Given that most NT administrators aren't too good at applying the service packs, Microsoft usually doesn't bother to release single patches. Also, NT doesn't change as much as Linux, for better or worse. The 2.2 kernels have a lot of new features in them, while NT is running the same stuff that it's been running for the last few years. If you look at NT5, Microsoft is doing daily builds, and with every build, new things break and new things are fixed.
When I first read the article, I thought that Katz was full of it. I've been using killfiles for years with usenet, and I think the new./ moderation is great.
We are reaching a point, though, where CPU power, internet access, and human frustration are converging. It's one thing when you experience a full, unfiltered discussion then decide to stop putting up with some of the worst elements. It's another when you can press the "block out the idiots" button without ever judging them on your own.
Looking at the situation today, filters are a godsend. In a decade, though, it's concevable that the people who look at the online world without a filter will be rare. Everyone else will be trusting others to sanitize their discussions for them. When that happens, everyone will lose.
While this was my first reaction (shorter is better), here's a counterexample:
Almost any function can be written in one line of perl. That line will probably resemble line noise.
Is it better than a neat, 20 line function? It may show mastery of the language, and it may impress your fellow geeks, but it won't impress the person who has to figure it out 2 years later at 4am.
I've rewritten code before, with a good 20:1 expansion ratio, because the original code was too clever for its own good. I've even rewritten my own code before, when I realized that nobody else (at least, nobody sane) was ever going to be able to figure out how or why I wrote something the way I did, even when the original, shorter way was more 'elegant'.
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I personally have had problems with the 2.2 kernels that are probably related to the TCP/IP stack. I'm still trying to nail down exactly what's wrong.
/. in the last day about FreeBSD vs. Linux web server performance.
Statistics were posted to
It's generally agreed that Linux/Apache lost to IIS in the revised Mindquest comparison (NOT the original, insanely loaded one) because of the Linux TCP/IP stack.
Using linux without considering alternatives is bigotry.
Excercise > higher heart rate > false alarms ?
Well, the article mentions that the device would look for a sudden change in heartrate. So long as you warm up first, exercise shouldn't be a problem.
I'd worry more about false alarms from things like a woman noticing a big hairy spider on her arm. That is, things that might cause genuine fear for a second, but aren't threatening enough to warrant calling the police.
Most colleges and "academic environments" have official rules that cover things like this. Hackers and 3133t war3z d00dz have been around for long enough that almost every university with an internet connection has policies in place for appropriate content.
Colleges also tend to have a high level of trust. If you work for the college in any sort of technical capacity, you can get away with a lot of things, because it's assumed that you have a good reason for breaking the rules.
It's pretty common for people around here (CMU) to have vanity domains and private web servers on their work machines. It's also pretty common for people to create accounts on their machines for friends, or even put machines on the network for outside friends to play with. This is all strictly against policy, but so long as nobody complains, we don't worry about it too much.
If we were to get a letter from someone who was threatening to sue us because of the actions of someone who isn't even affiliated with the university, we'd stomp on them hard and fast. Covering our collective ass is more important than looking the other way while someone breaks the rules.
I don't know if this was the situation between Harvard and Packetstorm, but it does sound that way. Universities run on paper, and there's no way that they'd officially permit an outsider to run a machine on their network with only a verbal agreement.
Actually, the World Series was names after the newspaper who was the main corporate sponsor of the first series. It wasn't meant to include the whole world.
Heil Goodwin!
hardware options already exist to connect Palm Pilot/Pro/III/IIIx/VII to wireless LAN's.
URL?
I'm looking for a way to hook a Palm to a wireless ethernet (IEEE 802.11) network. We're using Windows CE devices now, for lack of alternatives.
We wanted to use Palm devices, but couldn't find any wireless network cards. Ricochet doesn't seem too interested in selling its base units, even though they don't provide service around here.
Perhaps if the NIH allowed for peer comments below articles, a la slashdot, problems could be spotted faster, objections could be noted at an earlier date, and "innocent killer typos" ("was that quinine or stricnine?") could be eliminated.
Of course, this would lead to more people being cited in research. While this would be a good thing for the community at large, it would be bad for glory hounds (there are many in medical research) and for "publish or perish" professors.
It would also be important to restrict who could post. Perhaps only licensed MDs? You wouldn't want the chaff level to get too high as quacks ("What about my miracle powder?") and crazies ("The voices in my head recommend this approach") chimed in on preliminary research.
MP3.com seems to burn their DAM CD's from the exact same MP3 files that you can download, which is really unfortunate
This has been my biggest disappointment with the DAM CDs. There is a lack of quality control from mp3.com, and a lack of technical knowledge on the part of the musicians. An mp3 can sound great, but not if it's encoded with a xing encoder at 128kbps.
I ordered a CD a few months ago, and it was impossible to make out the lyrics on some of the songs because of the low encoding quality. When I sent email to the band, one of the band members wrote back and told me that they had converted to and from mp3 when they bounced the songs around between band members, and some of the songs had been decoded, manipulated, and encoded again half a dozen times. He didn't realize how much of an effect this had on the finished product.
On the other hand, the cool thing about DAM is that the musicians take home 50% of the purchase price. If they hired audio technicians to handle stuff like this, they'd go back to getting the same tiny percentages that they get from the major labels.
Windows really needs a good scripting language. VBScript and JScript are okay, but not great. Perl is great for unix, and would probably be really good for unix.
There are a few tasks, though, that can't be easily done in a graphics-based OS like windows with a command-line based tool like perl. The ability to have the script emulate a user pressing Control-Alt-Shift-F7 (or whatever else), or clicking on the third icon from the left would be really handy in windows. Since unix is command-line based, it wouldn't benefit as much from something like this.
Domino isn't open standard or open source, and I'd guess that it will initially be released for one version of one linux distribution. Businesses will try to use it with other distributions and versions, it'll crash a lot. They'll complain to Lotus. Lotus will blame linux.
Also, much as I like Linux (I do Linux support where I work), Netware is a good, stable product for its environment. The sort of company who's willing to buy a proprietary groupware bundle is the sort of company who'd probably have better luck with Netware.
The Australian government has admitted to being part of UKUSA. They've said nothing about Echelon, although the news reports make it rather difficult to discern that bit of data.
The difference is significant. It's almost certain that they have the capability to monitor all communications that bounce through a satellite. Whether they have the resources to do this is another issue entirely. They might, but honestly, can you really picture rooms full of top-secret cleared agents listening (mostly) to thousands of people calling their relatives long distance?
The Bladeenc home page claims that the source will be available with the next release.
Whoa! Easy there.
Anonimous Coward posts start at 0. Registered user posts start at 1. If an AC post is at 0, it might not have been moderated up yet. The moderators only have a few points to spend, so even if one of them sees the article, they might not be impressed enough to give it a point.
Your post, on the other hand, was moderated down by someone, probably for flaming.
For a long time, I thought that what the web really needed was a Differential-HTTP. This makes particular sense with a site like slashdot. I punch in every few hours, but let's face it: 90% of the page is the same. At most, there's a new blurb or two at the top of the page.
/. is cool enough to generate dynaic pages, but think of the poor IIS admins :)
The existing standard is horribly inefficient from a bandwidth perspective. It makes a lot of sense, though, from a server load perspective. It's usually easier on a machine to serve the same page 10,000 times than it is to serve 10,000 different updates. (Okay, so
Right now, the web is designed with the assumption that an extra megabyte is free, but an extra CPU cycle isn't, at least, not at the big sites. If you read the HTTP specs, it seems that most of the recent work is designed to shift CPU load from the server to the client.
Even though end users probably won't see a difference (Let's face it, tracking usage on a modem, or even a 10Mbps DSL line isn't worth the paper and trouble -- this is strictly a game for the serious bandwidth consumers.), we're going to see a sudden shift toward minimizing bandwidth from the standards organizations. This might have a negative impact on the hardware budgets of the larger web sites.
I completely misinterpreted the blurb about this article. I was expecting something like this, or maybe an article about loner geeks who spend their Friday nights digging through server logs.
The Dialectizer offers several pseudo-translators.
If you're interested in some of MIT's other hacks, go here.
Did something change?
Yes. When originally posted, the article said something like "I don't have pictures yet. If you do, submit them."
Picture at
5 17/us/star_wars_mit_2j8.html
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/p/ap/19990
There's a program called wget that'll do this for unix. You can get it from any of the GNU archives.
The NT service pack includes many, many patches. Given that most NT administrators aren't too good at applying the service packs, Microsoft usually doesn't bother to release single patches. Also, NT doesn't change as much as Linux, for better or worse. The 2.2 kernels have a lot of new features in them, while NT is running the same stuff that it's been running for the last few years. If you look at NT5, Microsoft is doing daily builds, and with every build, new things break and new things are fixed.
at least one of the shootings was motivated by race
The student in question was also a popular athlete.
Last I'd heard, the kid's father was blaming race, but there was no other evidence.
Not to be too contradictory, but can it really be that great if you can't finish it?
I've been slogging through it slowly, and while the writing style is rather dry, it has spawned an incredible number of ideas as I read it.
When I first read the article, I thought that Katz was full of it. I've been using killfiles for years with usenet, and I think the new ./ moderation is great.
We are reaching a point, though, where CPU power, internet access, and human frustration are converging. It's one thing when you experience a full, unfiltered discussion then decide to stop putting up with some of the worst elements. It's another when you can press the "block out the idiots" button without ever judging them on your own.
Looking at the situation today, filters are a godsend. In a decade, though, it's concevable that the people who look at the online world without a filter will be rare. Everyone else will be trusting others to sanitize their discussions for them. When that happens, everyone will lose.
While this was my first reaction (shorter is better), here's a counterexample:
Almost any function can be written in one line of perl. That line will probably resemble line noise.
Is it better than a neat, 20 line function? It may show mastery of the language, and it may impress your fellow geeks, but it won't impress the person who has to figure it out 2 years later at 4am.
I've rewritten code before, with a good 20:1 expansion ratio, because the original code was too clever for its own good. I've even rewritten my own code before, when I realized that nobody else (at least, nobody sane) was ever going to be able to figure out how or why I wrote something the way I did, even when the original, shorter way was more 'elegant'.