I've had free 802.11b access in my apartment complex in Dallas for months. If you're just south of Skillman/635 in Dallas, you have a fair chance of being able to connect, lease an IP address, and surf off my DSL connection. It's great fun to be able to sit down at the pool with my IBM 240 laptop and surf, ssh into the corporate servers, read email, what-have-you...
Gee, maybe they outht to throw away all that old, buggy code they've been building on and start from scratch - this time, using accepted coding practices? The quality of code in a project can be measured by the number of bug reports...
I'd stay away from Debian, Slackware, and other technically-oriented Linux distros, especially if you're coming from Windows. The amount of setup and decision-making will floor you, amaze you, and finally frustrate you as you try to figure out what IRQs are assigned to what, and exactly what hardware is in your box, down to the last minute detail of versions of firmware. Stick with RedHat, where most of that crap is figured out for you.
Linux will NEVER gain any signifigant advantage in the desktop market until idiot geeks and technogods figure out that computers aren't supposed to be for geeks only, and one shouldn't have to have a PhD in CompSci in order to install and run software. Sheesh.
I've had SWB DSL for over a year now, and it took their un-help desk 6 weeks to figure out that they had provisioned me for DHCP instead of PPPoE. Whe the tech wanted to know if I wanted to switch, I almost screamed into the phone "NO! NO! NO!" He laughed and said, "I don't blame you!"
I've been running Linux on a homebrew NAT/router 486/50 laptop with no hard drive and 16 MB of RAM for over a year now.
That's just nonsense. It's just as easy to set up multiple DHCP providers on a network - I do it all the time for clients. Since DHCP provides a lot more than just an IP address and a gateway IP (printer IP, etc.), I can use multiple DHCP servers (running Linux) to serve multiple business units with their own set of server addresses.
Truth is, PPPoE is a horrible hack. It's useless. There's *nothing* you can do with PPPoE that I can't do with DHCP except authntication, and tht I can do with MAC addresses anyway, just like BellSouth does it.
Why is DHCP not even mentioned in this article? Your article doesn't even mention the fact that running PPPoE adds another layer on top of TCP/IP, making it less efficient than DHCP. Your article makes it appear that it's an issue of PPPoE/dynamic addressing versus static addressing, and this is simply not true. Dynamic vs. static is completely independent of PPPoE.
It's really an issue of DHCP vs. PPPoE, and since PPPoE adds another layer on top of TCP/IP, it's inherently less efficient, letting SBC offer DHCP while forcing everyone else to use PPPoE and being able to claim higher throughput.
Nonsense. Look at Microsoft, look at Apple. They've poured millions into human interface design (HID) - in fact, Apple even wrote a book about it (which I still have on my bookshelf) about 10 years ago. You may complain that Micro$oft does crappy software, and *you* may not like the interface, but there are a *lot* of Joe and Jane Sixpacks out there that would disagree with you.
Remember, techies don't determine the direction of desktop software (much as they'd like to believe they do), real-world users do. And that's why Linux has, so far, been a dismal failure on the desktop and will continue to be a failure until applications are developed that are (1) useful, (2) fast (StarOffice is painfully slow), (3) run under a windowing system that is a lot more lightweight than X, and (4) are as easy to develop under as writing Visual Basic apps for Windows is.
Nonsense. Linux in late '92 was just as stable as it is today, if you ignore the Fred v. K./Alan Cox networking flamewars and all the "advanced" and "cool" immature trash that people were trying to force Linus into putting into the kernel. And the most important quality of any new OS is (1) stability and (2) speed. Ease of implementation is relative, and not many production-oriented or biusiness-oriented folks give a damn about how easy it is to write code for the system - only in how easy it is to write *solid* code and how well that code runs.
The C vs. C++ war is (1) a matter of opinion, and (2) a religious issue anyway. I've seen beautiful code written in both, and horrible code written in both. Personally, I prefer C, but that's because it's *still* more portable than C++ (I still have C compilers for MS-DOS lying about).
Oh, come on - Adobe got EXACTLY what they wanted, and that was for the protests to be postponed. They're playing the EFF, pure and simple, and the EFF fell for it.
True, but there is a class of constitutional law that says, in effect, that there are certain rights that are inalienable - you *cannot* abrogate those rights, regardless of what you sign or agree to. Most corporations seem to forget that when they try to make you sign odious "agreements".
Of course, most of the constitution (including the bill of rights and the rest of the amendments) generally concern the interaction between citizens and government, but the USSC has also ruled that certain of those protections also extend to interactions between citizens, or between a citizen and an employer or a company.
It has been long established that the use of the word "persons" in the Fourteenth Amendment extends to "all persons" within the jurisdiction of the United States, regardless of their nationality or status. See http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/am endment14/31.html#3
It is my opinion that not only is Sklyarov being held unlawfully (because the original complaint didn't specify exactly *how* Sklyarov violated the DMCA), but the DMCA doesn't apply to him, because (1) encryption circumvention isn't a crime in Russia, and (2) he hasn't committed a crime on US soil! The presumption in the complaint seems to be that since (A) encryption circumvention is a crime, (B) Sklyarov violated the DMCA in that respect (regardless of where he was when he did it), and (C) Sklyarov was in the US at some point, it naturally follows that (D) Sklyarov has violated US law and can be arrested. Uh, no, sorry, go back to law school - and this time, don't sleep through the constitutional law class!
It has also been long established that a person cannot be prosecuted in the US for a crime committed outside the country.
There is one good reason to keep your land-line: 911 and caller ID. If you call 911 from your home phone, the emergency services people can immediately locate you and send someone over. They can't trace a mobile phone call or a VoIP call.
Not yet, that is, until they get GPS installed into every cell phone. Even now, they can tell which sector in which cell you're calling in from, and that will localize you to within a few city blocks.
Does it really matter? If it hurts, I could care less if it's because I hit my hand with a hammer or because I just *thought* I hit my hand with a hammer - the result is the same - it hurts! I had problems with my right wrist earlier in the year - pain, tenderness, inflammation - that went away with a couple days rest, then going back to the computer with a wrist rest for my mouse hand. I didn't care what it was called, all I know was tht it hurt, and $10 for a wrist rest fixed me up. I don't think it was a hoax...
most people I've talked to will be using.NET for back-end server stuff (eg. server scripting) and front-end client stuff.
Don't see why -.NET is a blatant rip...excuse me, a M$ rebranding of existing technologies that work just fine, thankyouverymuch. Why pay M$ for technology that already exists for free?
I'm surprised that no one has gotten the point. It's not about Open Source, it's not about intellectual property - it's about CONTROL, pure and simple. Gutenberg's press did more for individual freedom than all the Crusades put together, and in the future, the Internet will be seen in the same light. For software authors, Open Source and the net is the equivalent of the Gutenberg press. That's why so many organizations (M$, RIAA, etc.) are trying so desperately to control what you can and can't do on the net, all under the guise of "IP control".
If I write a piece of software and give it away for free, that's my business. What pisses M$ off is the fact that they can't make much money off free software (and the only money then *can* make is off free software that they can embed in their apps or their OS). What is amazing to me is the implication that the only people who should be writing software should be working for companies like M$. That implies an arrogance that is truly astounding, that the software world should revolve around Corporate America in general, and around M$ in particular.
"That should reduce the need for highly skilled workers who are in increasingly short supply".
Sure, there's a shortage of IT folks who are willing to be on-call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and work for slave wages while directors and VPs go home at 5 o'clock and make 3 or 4 times the salary of the average IT grunt.
Very easy to do - I've set up several of them. I've used a Color Quickcam to dump snapshots to a drive shared with a Linux box via Samba, then set up a web page on the Linux box that points to the images captured by the camera. Very simple.
And I can prove it. I've been checksumming pagessince about 1993 (I'd have to look up the exact date), and others have, too - check out the Cypherpunks archives where this was discussed back in the early 90's.
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I've had free 802.11b access in my apartment complex in Dallas for months. If you're just south of Skillman/635 in Dallas, you have a fair chance of being able to connect, lease an IP address, and surf off my DSL connection. It's great fun to be able to sit down at the pool with my IBM 240 laptop and surf, ssh into the corporate servers, read email, what-have-you...
The only thing I thought was worse than Dogma was that idiotic, verbal jerk-off-session that called itself a "critique" over on Filthy Critic.
You're right - check out http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/nhlcodex.html
Gee, maybe they outht to throw away all that old, buggy code they've been building on and start from scratch - this time, using accepted coding practices? The quality of code in a project can be measured by the number of bug reports...
I'd stay away from Debian, Slackware, and other technically-oriented Linux distros, especially if you're coming from Windows. The amount of setup and decision-making will floor you, amaze you, and finally frustrate you as you try to figure out what IRQs are assigned to what, and exactly what hardware is in your box, down to the last minute detail of versions of firmware. Stick with RedHat, where most of that crap is figured out for you.
Linux will NEVER gain any signifigant advantage in the desktop market until idiot geeks and technogods figure out that computers aren't supposed to be for geeks only, and one shouldn't have to have a PhD in CompSci in order to install and run software. Sheesh.
I've had SWB DSL for over a year now, and it took their un-help desk 6 weeks to figure out that they had provisioned me for DHCP instead of PPPoE. Whe the tech wanted to know if I wanted to switch, I almost screamed into the phone "NO! NO! NO!" He laughed and said, "I don't blame you!"
I've been running Linux on a homebrew NAT/router 486/50 laptop with no hard drive and 16 MB of RAM for over a year now.
That's just nonsense. It's just as easy to set up multiple DHCP providers on a network - I do it all the time for clients. Since DHCP provides a lot more than just an IP address and a gateway IP (printer IP, etc.), I can use multiple DHCP servers (running Linux) to serve multiple business units with their own set of server addresses.
Truth is, PPPoE is a horrible hack. It's useless. There's *nothing* you can do with PPPoE that I can't do with DHCP except authntication, and tht I can do with MAC addresses anyway, just like BellSouth does it.
Why is DHCP not even mentioned in this article? Your article doesn't even mention the fact that running PPPoE adds another layer on top of TCP/IP, making it less efficient than DHCP. Your article makes it appear that it's an issue of PPPoE/dynamic addressing versus static addressing, and this is simply not true. Dynamic vs. static is completely independent of PPPoE.
It's really an issue of DHCP vs. PPPoE, and since PPPoE adds another layer on top of TCP/IP, it's inherently less efficient, letting SBC offer DHCP while forcing everyone else to use PPPoE and being able to claim higher throughput.
I've had 155 hits so far ("grep /default.ida /etc/httpd/logs/access_log") - most of them have been within the last 24 hours or so.
Not that I'm vulnerable (running Linux, OpenBSD, Apache and all), but it's still an annoyance.
Nonsense. Look at Microsoft, look at Apple. They've poured millions into human interface design (HID) - in fact, Apple even wrote a book about it (which I still have on my bookshelf) about 10 years ago. You may complain that Micro$oft does crappy software, and *you* may not like the interface, but there are a *lot* of Joe and Jane Sixpacks out there that would disagree with you.
Remember, techies don't determine the direction of desktop software (much as they'd like to believe they do), real-world users do. And that's why Linux has, so far, been a dismal failure on the desktop and will continue to be a failure until applications are developed that are (1) useful, (2) fast (StarOffice is painfully slow), (3) run under a windowing system that is a lot more lightweight than X, and (4) are as easy to develop under as writing Visual Basic apps for Windows is.
Nonsense. Linux in late '92 was just as stable as it is today, if you ignore the Fred v. K./Alan Cox networking flamewars and all the "advanced" and "cool" immature trash that people were trying to force Linus into putting into the kernel. And the most important quality of any new OS is (1) stability and (2) speed. Ease of implementation is relative, and not many production-oriented or biusiness-oriented folks give a damn about how easy it is to write code for the system - only in how easy it is to write *solid* code and how well that code runs.
The C vs. C++ war is (1) a matter of opinion, and (2) a religious issue anyway. I've seen beautiful code written in both, and horrible code written in both. Personally, I prefer C, but that's because it's *still* more portable than C++ (I still have C compilers for MS-DOS lying about).
Oh, come on - Adobe got EXACTLY what they wanted, and that was for the protests to be postponed. They're playing the EFF, pure and simple, and the EFF fell for it.
True, but there is a class of constitutional law that says, in effect, that there are certain rights that are inalienable - you *cannot* abrogate those rights, regardless of what you sign or agree to. Most corporations seem to forget that when they try to make you sign odious "agreements".
Of course, most of the constitution (including the bill of rights and the rest of the amendments) generally concern the interaction between citizens and government, but the USSC has also ruled that certain of those protections also extend to interactions between citizens, or between a citizen and an employer or a company.
It has been long established that the use of the word "persons" in the Fourteenth Amendment extends to "all persons" within the jurisdiction of the United States, regardless of their nationality or status. See http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/am endment14/31.html#3
It is my opinion that not only is Sklyarov being held unlawfully (because the original complaint didn't specify exactly *how* Sklyarov violated the DMCA), but the DMCA doesn't apply to him, because (1) encryption circumvention isn't a crime in Russia, and (2) he hasn't committed a crime on US soil! The presumption in the complaint seems to be that since (A) encryption circumvention is a crime, (B) Sklyarov violated the DMCA in that respect (regardless of where he was when he did it), and (C) Sklyarov was in the US at some point, it naturally follows that (D) Sklyarov has violated US law and can be arrested. Uh, no, sorry, go back to law school - and this time, don't sleep through the constitutional law class!
It has also been long established that a person cannot be prosecuted in the US for a crime committed outside the country.
As John Travolta said in "Battlefield Earth" - "Humans are *so* stupid!"
Not yet, that is, until they get GPS installed into every cell phone. Even now, they can tell which sector in which cell you're calling in from, and that will localize you to within a few city blocks.
Personally, I think it ought to go toward Mark's beer fund ;)
Does it really matter? If it hurts, I could care less if it's because I hit my hand with a hammer or because I just *thought* I hit my hand with a hammer - the result is the same - it hurts! I had problems with my right wrist earlier in the year - pain, tenderness, inflammation - that went away with a couple days rest, then going back to the computer with a wrist rest for my mouse hand. I didn't care what it was called, all I know was tht it hurt, and $10 for a wrist rest fixed me up. I don't think it was a hoax...
Are you kidding? It's not just the Republicans, don't let yourself be fooled. It's *all* politicians...that's the requirements for the job...
Don't see why - .NET is a blatant rip...excuse me, a M$ rebranding of existing technologies that work just fine, thankyouverymuch. Why pay M$ for technology that already exists for free?
I'm surprised that no one has gotten the point. It's not about Open Source, it's not about intellectual property - it's about CONTROL, pure and simple. Gutenberg's press did more for individual freedom than all the Crusades put together, and in the future, the Internet will be seen in the same light. For software authors, Open Source and the net is the equivalent of the Gutenberg press. That's why so many organizations (M$, RIAA, etc.) are trying so desperately to control what you can and can't do on the net, all under the guise of "IP control".
If I write a piece of software and give it away for free, that's my business. What pisses M$ off is the fact that they can't make much money off free software (and the only money then *can* make is off free software that they can embed in their apps or their OS). What is amazing to me is the implication that the only people who should be writing software should be working for companies like M$. That implies an arrogance that is truly astounding, that the software world should revolve around Corporate America in general, and around M$ in particular.
"That should reduce the need for highly skilled workers who are in increasingly short supply".
Sure, there's a shortage of IT folks who are willing to be on-call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and work for slave wages while directors and VPs go home at 5 o'clock and make 3 or 4 times the salary of the average IT grunt.
Very easy to do - I've set up several of them. I've used a Color Quickcam to dump snapshots to a drive shared with a Linux box via Samba, then set up a web page on the Linux box that points to the images captured by the camera. Very simple.
And I can prove it. I've been checksumming pagessince about 1993 (I'd have to look up the exact date), and others have, too - check out the Cypherpunks archives where this was discussed back in the early 90's.