Not to be glib (well, maybe just a little glib), but it is generally accepted that all technological improvements (beginning with pottery) are first taken up and exploited in the pursuit of 'prurient interest'. Examples include photography, motion pictures, videotape, ecommerce, and... webcams. Perhaps the technology you seek is already perfected - it's just going to cost you $9.95 / minute to find out how.
I couldn't agree more - and here's my philisophical rant:
This page is 7-8 printed pages of the 'FAQ' for terminal services licensing. It's obtuse, complicated, not clear, but critical to get the damn stuff to function properly. Not one word on that page has anything to do with making my business more efficient, better, easier, anything... it is all about maxmizing Microsoft's revenue stream.
Excuse me, but I obtain tools to perform MY objectives, not someone else's.
"...come from Stanford University, where they worked down the hall with Google founders..."
Bah. What difference does that make? Lots of companies got their start at Stanford. SUN did - hell, their name stands for Stanford University Networks. Google doesn't even use SUN hardware (last time I checked...) Ridge (the winery) was founded by a group of Stanford professors. So is Tableau the next Robert Mondavi? I don't think so.
Here's a nice How-To that covers building an SMTP mail relay with SpamAssassin, Amavisd, DCC, Razor, and Clam AntiVirus all running chrooted on OpenBSD.
Once the relay determines a message is spam, it rejects and drops the message before it is transferred to the 'real' mail server. End users never even know the message was there...
We set up two of these about 6 months ago and eradicated most of our spam problems. (some still get through, on the order of 5 - 10 false negatives on a mailserver handling about 3k messages per day.)
" the concept of 'a process configured to run under an administrative privilege level' which, based on authorization information 'in a data store', may perform actions at administrative privilege on behalf of a 'user process'."
"if the world ever finds another valid form of energy, the problems in the middle east region will go away"
Ah, like the problems in Afghanistan have 'gone away' - hey, they never had any oil money to start with, so Mission Accomplished, I suppose. Ask the Russians how it's going with those no-oil Chechen hick shitkickers. North Korea never had any oil - it's been a net importer of energy since day one. No problems there!
You are an asshat, but you did manage to tangentially strike on the REAL problem affecting dealings with Arab countries, to wit:
Trade With China/ Germany / Japan / South Korea / -insert your favorite country here-:
We buy from them - Beanie Babies, DVD Players, motherboards, car parts, manufacturing equipment, DRAM, televisions, He-Man action figures, crappy flip-flop sandals, oriental porn, crappy beer, etc. etc. etc.
They buy from us - lumber, machine parts, power generation equipment, consulting services, construction equipment, computers, GIS / Mapping software, Disney PC Games, missle technology, North American porn, crappy beer, etc. etc. etc.
Trade with Saudi Arabia:
We buy from them - oil.
They buy from us - F-16s and M-16s.
How does that trade equation benefit Joe Hookah in Riyadh? It doesn't.
Until last year, I would have an employee come to me every 6-8 weeks with a beatup floppy containing their sole copy of some critical spreadsheet or database file... the floppies were clipped to a clipboard or had been flopping around in the bottom of someone's purse - the data was almost always unrecoverable. And despite my warnings, never a backup.
Our solution - new 'legacy free' PCs with no floppy drives. There was initial complaint, but now the users have discovered other ways to tote data around - and we don't lose that critical data like before.
preferred vendor and support contract It's Sun product, supported and serviced by Sun.
they might not be able to use the card Sun's been selling some version of the card for almost a decade - they are all standard PCI slots and AFAIK the old AMD586 units will still work in the latest Blades. Of course, they probably wont' run anything newer than Win 95, but that's not Sun, that's 586.
repurposed to an accountant or returned from lease to the vendor OK, ya got me on that one.
Many of you may have seen last Monday's NYT article reproduced here where orders at Missouri fast food restaurants are sent to a call center in Colorado, a whole time zone away from the drive-through. Do the math. No one is safe now.
I have a Sparc 5-170 (yes one of those Sparcs) and an Ultra 1 in the basement providing firewall / file serving etc. I love the fact that you can manipulate the MAC addresses in the OBP. That has come in handy more than once, when I needed to swap out the firewall box and didn't have time to sit on hold with the cable modem people.
I kept one lunchbox - and IPX - for sentimental reasons, but dumped the rest of them. It was just too crowded down there.
... we have the Transfer Station, which collects all our stuff and trucks it away to dumps far from here. The station tries to recycle as much as they can - especially stuff like appliances, building material, plant material for mulch, hazardous stuff, etc... you drive in and there is a 1/4 mile drive past huge dumpsters, each marked for unique types of trash. I have been known to take my geeky out-of-town visitor friends up just to view the spectacle of metropolitan waste collection.
There are always stacks and stacks of Mac LCs and LC2s stacked at the PC recycling station, but never an FX (snif) or a IIci...
I believe ESR was inferring what I see in many typical helpdesk/tech support situations: if one person calls in with a problem, you can be sure there are at least 10 more others out there that had the same problem; they just figured it out themselves or decided to ignore it.
With apologies to our obfuscatory Secretary of Defense - the 'known knows' are just the tip of the iceberg. BSD code is almost certainly (and legally) in the Microsoft TCP/IP stack. What else is in there that we don't know about?
The fact that you deemed it necessary to install a whole distribution to get MP3 support, when you could have installed one RPM package under Fedora is nothing short of moronic.
A simple google of "Fedora mp3" just gave back 5 good how-tos on the first two pages - no 'hacking' required.
For those of you who are Google-impaired, here's a hint: LIVNA
We have been using 'robots' to collect water samples for many years - I believe the article states that the new breed of robots will directly sense the water quality, with no sampling required. A small but important semantic difference.
He spelled McNealy's name 'McNeely'. Like ten times. If the author couldn't even get the name of a corporate CEO who has been prominent in technology for the last two decades right, why should I give one whit what he has to say about anything?
Maybe it's time for a certain broadcast news organization to 'just fold now.'
Van Gogh, Gaugin, Toulouse-Lautrec, Whistler, Matisse - they were all considered "TRASH OF NO VALUE!" at some time in their career. Good thing the Dr. Gachets of the world don't listen to your ilk. Art is art, science is science. Leave money out of it, it has nothing to do with value.
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Back in the late 70s / early 80s, I had a core groups of friends I played D&D with... but when we wanted to introduce someone new to the concept of an RPG, we always got out those little black Traveller books. The character generation system was nice and fast, and the combat rules were easy to follow (we always dumped the psionics stuff). We must have run the 'Alien 1' style scenario twenty times.
My old D&D stuff (from 76-84) is around the house somewhere... but I know exactly where those Traveller books are. Anyone up for a game?
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Not to be glib (well, maybe just a little glib), but it is generally accepted that all technological improvements (beginning with pottery) are first taken up and exploited in the pursuit of 'prurient interest'. Examples include photography, motion pictures, videotape, ecommerce, and ... webcams. Perhaps the technology you seek is already perfected - it's just going to cost you $9.95 / minute to find out how.
Actually, what he said was:
The enemy understands a free Iraq will be a major defeat in their ideology of hatred. That's why they're fighting so vociferously."
What does he mean by that? Is the enemy shouting too much? Sheesh.
I couldn't agree more - and here's my philisophical rant:
This page is 7-8 printed pages of the 'FAQ' for terminal services licensing. It's obtuse, complicated, not clear, but critical to get the damn stuff to function properly. Not one word on that page has anything to do with making my business more efficient, better, easier, anything... it is all about maxmizing Microsoft's revenue stream.
Excuse me, but I obtain tools to perform MY objectives, not someone else's.
"...come from Stanford University, where they worked down the hall with Google founders..."
Bah. What difference does that make? Lots of companies got their start at Stanford. SUN did - hell, their name stands for Stanford University Networks. Google doesn't even use SUN hardware (last time I checked...)
Ridge (the winery) was founded by a group of Stanford professors. So is Tableau the next Robert Mondavi? I don't think so.
...did someone let a fly in there?
Can you be accused of coordinating with both sides?
Here's a nice How-To that covers building an SMTP mail relay with SpamAssassin, Amavisd, DCC, Razor, and Clam AntiVirus all running chrooted on OpenBSD.
Once the relay determines a message is spam, it rejects and drops the message before it is transferred to the 'real' mail server. End users never even know the message was there...
We set up two of these about 6 months ago and eradicated most of our spam problems. (some still get through, on the order of 5 - 10 false negatives on a mailserver handling about 3k messages per day.)
" the concept of 'a process configured to run under an administrative privilege level' which, based on authorization information 'in a data store', may perform actions at administrative privilege on behalf of a 'user process'."
Hell, that sounds like Klez!
"... hold the door open for old ladies entering a shopping center? is a nice thing..."
Not necessarily, maybe the door was to Best Buy...
"if the world ever finds another valid form of energy, the problems in the middle east region will go away"
Ah, like the problems in Afghanistan have 'gone away' - hey, they never had any oil money to start with, so Mission Accomplished, I suppose. Ask the Russians how it's going with those no-oil Chechen hick shitkickers. North Korea never had any oil - it's been a net importer of energy since day one. No problems there!
You are an asshat, but you did manage to tangentially strike on the REAL problem affecting dealings with Arab countries, to wit:
Trade With China/ Germany / Japan / South Korea / -insert your favorite country here-:
We buy from them - Beanie Babies, DVD Players, motherboards, car parts, manufacturing equipment, DRAM, televisions, He-Man action figures, crappy flip-flop sandals, oriental porn, crappy beer, etc. etc. etc.
They buy from us - lumber, machine parts, power generation equipment, consulting services, construction equipment, computers, GIS / Mapping software, Disney PC Games, missle technology, North American porn, crappy beer, etc. etc. etc.
Trade with Saudi Arabia:
We buy from them - oil.
They buy from us - F-16s and M-16s.
How does that trade equation benefit Joe Hookah in Riyadh? It doesn't.
Until last year, I would have an employee come to me every 6-8 weeks with a beatup floppy containing their sole copy of some critical spreadsheet or database file... the floppies were clipped to a clipboard or had been flopping around in the bottom of someone's purse - the data was almost always unrecoverable. And despite my warnings, never a backup.
Our solution - new 'legacy free' PCs with no floppy drives. There was initial complaint, but now the users have discovered other ways to tote data around - and we don't lose that critical data like before.
they're expensive $695 is expensive?
preferred vendor and support contract It's Sun product, supported and serviced by Sun.
they might not be able to use the card Sun's been selling some version of the card for almost a decade - they are all standard PCI slots and AFAIK the old AMD586 units will still work in the latest Blades. Of course, they probably wont' run anything newer than Win 95, but that's not Sun, that's 586.
repurposed to an accountant or returned from lease to the vendor OK, ya got me on that one.
"'Every engineer has a Microsoft PC sitting next to their Sun Blade,' said their source."
Why arent they using these?
Many of you may have seen last Monday's NYT article reproduced here where orders at Missouri fast food restaurants are sent to a call center in Colorado, a whole time zone away from the drive-through. Do the math. No one is safe now.
...when you have portaged the very latest version and compiled it from source for your processor and architecture... it still isn't configured.
...which I believe is what this poll is about. Top Ten Configuration Tools.
I have a Sparc 5-170 (yes one of those Sparcs) and an Ultra 1 in the basement providing firewall / file serving etc. I love the fact that you can manipulate the MAC addresses in the OBP. That has come in handy more than once, when I needed to swap out the firewall box and didn't have time to sit on hold with the cable modem people.
I kept one lunchbox - and IPX - for sentimental reasons, but dumped the rest of them. It was just too crowded down there.
... we have the Transfer Station, which collects all our stuff and trucks it away to dumps far from here. The station tries to recycle as much as they can - especially stuff like appliances, building material, plant material for mulch, hazardous stuff, etc... you drive in and there is a 1/4 mile drive past huge dumpsters, each marked for unique types of trash. I have been known to take my geeky out-of-town visitor friends up just to view the spectacle of metropolitan waste collection.
There are always stacks and stacks of Mac LCs and LC2s stacked at the PC recycling station, but never an FX (snif) or a IIci...
He sounds like Winston Smith after his stay at the Ministry of Love.
IIRC, it was the font business that MS trampled first. Then came disk compression, etc. etc. etc... then the browser.
Wasn't 'Bob' the attempt to co-opt Slashdot? You be the judge.
I believe ESR was inferring what I see in many typical helpdesk/tech support situations: if one person calls in with a problem, you can be sure there are at least 10 more others out there that had the same problem; they just figured it out themselves or decided to ignore it.
With apologies to our obfuscatory Secretary of Defense - the 'known knows' are just the tip of the iceberg. BSD code is almost certainly (and legally) in the Microsoft TCP/IP stack. What else is in there that we don't know about?
The fact that you deemed it necessary to install a whole distribution to get MP3 support, when you could have installed one RPM package under Fedora is nothing short of moronic.
A simple google of "Fedora mp3" just gave back 5 good how-tos on the first two pages - no 'hacking' required.
For those of you who are Google-impaired, here's a hint: LIVNA
"... task of collecting water samples..."
We have been using 'robots' to collect water samples for many years - I believe the article states that the new breed of robots will directly sense the water quality, with no sampling required. A small but important semantic difference.
He spelled McNealy's name 'McNeely'. Like ten times. If the author couldn't even get the name of a corporate CEO who has been prominent in technology for the last two decades right, why should I give one whit what he has to say about anything?
Maybe it's time for a certain broadcast news organization to 'just fold now.'
Van Gogh, Gaugin, Toulouse-Lautrec, Whistler, Matisse - they were all considered "TRASH OF NO VALUE!" at some time in their career. Good thing the Dr. Gachets of the world don't listen to your ilk. Art is art, science is science. Leave money out of it, it has nothing to do with value.
Back in the late 70s / early 80s, I had a core groups of friends I played D&D with... but when we wanted to introduce someone new to the concept of an RPG, we always got out those little black Traveller books. The character generation system was nice and fast, and the combat rules were easy to follow (we always dumped the psionics stuff). We must have run the 'Alien 1' style scenario twenty times.
My old D&D stuff (from 76-84) is around the house somewhere... but I know exactly where those Traveller books are. Anyone up for a game?