Hopefully this means that 'real bandwidth' will become available. After all, when the same company controls ~99% of the local loop cabling, is the largest ISP (BigPond), supplies >70% data comms, and owns >70% of the pipes going overseas, how much do you think they will innovate. OnRamp ISDN is still ~AU$1000 installation + AU$300/mth. Thats a single B channel. Dont even get me started on the reliability of their services. Oh, and this is the corporation that because 49% is owned by public shareholders (thanks to our idiotic government -- other 51% still govt owned), has a 'responsibility' to gouge it's customers to keep said shareholders happy.
Can you say horizontal and vertical monopoly? Telstra are Australia's own little MS (and are seriously in bed with them).
I personally think they *should* have kept the local loop as a separate organisation, and have it lease access to other carriers.
Mind you, even with all of my rabid dislike for them, they still keep my mobile phone business (decent coverage).
Actually the way Phil Z. exported (and continues to export) the source to PGP 5.0 is even more bizarre.
They take the raw source code, typeset it in a particularly OCR friendly font, and publish it as a book.
At the other end (Europe) they fed said book into a scanner. After many hours of turning pages proofreading, and sucking on paper cuts:) bingo... perfectly legally exported crypto code.
Harsh latency huh?
Yup. The insanity that is the US legal system, while it will not allow you to export source code electronically, will allow, nay defend the right to export it if you stick on a dead tree.
IIRC this method was successfully defended in the US Supreme Court.
A large number of the posts on this topic seem to have a disturbing common element.
"Box X got broken into but we dont know when or how."
More important than firewalls, and much easier to maintain. Logging. The Uni I used to attend would log *ALL* traffic through the core routers.
ie Time, Dest IP, Dest port, Src IP, Src port, Bytes transferred, etc...
The routers would dump these logs to a centralised machine every 10 minutes. These logs were stored for *Months*.
This may not be the 'Rolls-Royce' solution most people recommend. But compared to multiple firewalls segmenting portions of the organisation, its a damn sight more budget friendly *AND* you know exactly what has happened.
Oh and I would recommend scanning the network at least once a week. Makes it easier to look throught the logs:)
Redhat, because they are a business (you know they have wages to pay, shareholders they are responsible to, this is a real world concept(tm)) are unwilling to commit to something that is *PURE VAPOR*.
Describe to me the requirements of LSB compliance. You cannot. It does not exist. Now if Bob Young was to commit to something that is completely unspecified - dontya think that his employees, shareholders and *customers* would be just a wee bit ticked off at his stupidity.
Example {for the obviously clue challenged pimple-faced Slashdot paranoid troll}: to be a 'genuine GNU loving Linux user' you have to agree to do foo - ohh but we are going to tell you what foo is until 6 months from now. Sign up *NOW*.
Six months later it turns out foo is participation in a Jonesville style statement at 'the evils of proprietary software.'
Dont be an idiot. Dont drink the Kool-Aid. Bob Young is AFAIK no idiot.
{Sigh}
Wanna read Stephenson? Check out 'Interface' too!
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Yeppers.
Neal has also written 'Cobweb' under the Stephen Bury pseudonym.
And lo... it rocks also.
...and while I'm ranting about my favourite SF authors
==> Howard V. Hendrix ==
wrote two absol-fragging-lutely amazing novels, 'Standing Wave' and 'Light Paths'.
Thoroughly recommended for people who like books with concepts wild enough to make your brain hurt.
Right up there with 'Godel, Escher, Bach' and the Illuminatus Trilogy.
<sarcasm> But capital punishment is a powerful deterrant. Don't you think that if that was the punishment for convicted murder that the amount of murders would drop? </sarcasm>
Looked at the number of people sitting on death row lately...
Rapists and Murderers are {mostly} mentally ill. Maybe they need to be locked up *and* 'reprogrammed' for better interaction with society. But don't think that a 'big stick' deterrant will influence someone who is mentally unhinged already.
Hmmmm. Will this is at first pass a siff idea, some serious mileage needs to happen first....
1. GPL/APSL cross contamination. Until the two licences are compatible, it can't/won't happen. Read the section on linking in the GPL. Thou shalt not link to non-free code.
2. Different driver model. Linuk has funky monolithic protected mode kernel modules. OSX has DriverKit with funky hardware-server userspace modules. It may be possible to make them talk to each other - and once 1. ceases to be a problem, crib code from each other; after all won't Hurd be using Linux driver modules?
Of course the major benefit of this is yep - an Open Source 1394 layer - Yeeha!
[!]Sorry, DSC is right.
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Ownership of any ideas created while working for that company
So while you are sitting at home, are you 'working for the company'. While camping on the weekend, are you 'working for the company'? While fast asleep in your bed are you 'working for the company'?
<CLUE> Have you heard of this amazing concept called nine-to-five? Basic human rights? </CLUE>
Eeek, cyberpunk is here and I didn't notice. Looks like the CEO of Daewoo failed to meet his contractual obligations huh?
Come the revolution... we're going to need a bigger wall
REMOVE spec-exec and branch prediction.
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[Cough!] Methinks IA-64 is VLIW deep down
Yawn...Waiting for McKinley...HP at least have a clue about real processor design... While we wait...Alpha or UltraSparc anyone?
Come the revolution... we're going to need a bigger wall...
Slashdot Mirror
It's the 'official' GNUStep window manager.
...
Design goals are
It tries to emulate the elegant look and feel of the NeXTSTEP(tm) GUI. It is relatively fast, feature rich, and easy to configure and use.
At this point I'd like to say thanks to Alfred K.
Kojima and everybody else involved in make Wmaker
so cool.
Hopefully this means that 'real bandwidth' will become available.
After all, when the same company controls ~99% of the local loop cabling, is the largest ISP (BigPond), supplies >70% data comms, and owns >70% of the pipes going overseas, how much do you think they will innovate.
OnRamp ISDN is still ~AU$1000 installation + AU$300/mth.
Thats a single B channel. Dont even get me started on the reliability of their services. Oh, and this is the corporation that because 49% is owned by public shareholders (thanks to our idiotic government -- other 51% still govt owned), has a 'responsibility' to gouge it's customers to keep said shareholders happy.
Can you say horizontal and vertical monopoly? Telstra are Australia's own little MS (and are seriously in bed with them).
I personally think they *should* have kept the local loop as a separate organisation, and have it lease access to other carriers.
Mind you, even with all of my rabid dislike for them, they still keep my mobile phone business (decent coverage).
HTH
Daniel
BTW isn't this just hits on the *NEW* slashserver?
Thanks for
a) introducing me to UserFriendly
b) letting me know when to *avoid* ftp mirrors
c) the occasional *amazing* technical discussion
Heres to the next 1E8 hits
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Come the revolution, we'll need a bigger wall.
Actually the way Phil Z. exported (and continues to export)
:)
the source to PGP 5.0 is even more bizarre.
They take the raw source code, typeset it in a particularly OCR friendly font,
and publish it as a book.
At the other end (Europe) they fed said book into a scanner.
After many hours of turning pages proofreading, and sucking on paper cuts
bingo... perfectly legally exported crypto code.
Harsh latency huh?
Yup. The insanity that is the US legal system,
while it will not allow you to export source code electronically,
will allow, nay defend the right to export it if you stick on a dead tree.
IIRC this method was successfully defended in the
US Supreme Court.
Confirmation of my deluded rant can be obtained at
http://www.pgpi.com/project/scanning.shtml
A large number of the posts on this topic seem to have a disturbing common element.
:)
"Box X got broken into but we dont know when or how."
More important than firewalls, and much easier to maintain. Logging. The Uni I used to attend would log *ALL* traffic through the core routers.
ie Time, Dest IP, Dest port, Src IP, Src port, Bytes transferred, etc...
The routers would dump these logs to a centralised machine every 10 minutes. These logs were stored for *Months*.
This may not be the 'Rolls-Royce' solution most people recommend. But compared to multiple firewalls segmenting portions of the organisation, its a damn sight more budget friendly *AND* you know exactly what has happened.
Oh and I would recommend scanning the network at least once a week. Makes it easier to look throught the logs
s/are going to tell/are ==not== going to tell/
Dontya hate it when a tyop ruins a good flame...
Redhat, because they are a business (you know they have wages to pay, shareholders they are responsible to, this is a real world concept(tm)) are unwilling to commit to something that is *PURE VAPOR*.
Describe to me the requirements of LSB compliance.
You cannot. It does not exist. Now if Bob Young was to commit to something that is completely unspecified - dontya think that his employees, shareholders and *customers* would be just a wee bit ticked off at his stupidity.
Example {for the obviously clue challenged pimple-faced Slashdot paranoid troll}: to be a 'genuine GNU loving Linux user' you have to agree to do foo - ohh but we are going to tell you what foo is until 6 months from now. Sign up *NOW*.
Six months later it turns out foo is participation in a Jonesville style statement at 'the evils of proprietary software.'
Dont be an idiot. Dont drink the Kool-Aid. Bob Young is AFAIK no idiot.
{Sigh}
Yeppers.
... it rocks also.
Neal has also written 'Cobweb' under the Stephen Bury pseudonym.
And lo
...and while I'm ranting about my favourite SF authors
==> Howard V. Hendrix ==
wrote two absol-fragging-lutely amazing novels, 'Standing Wave' and 'Light Paths'.
Thoroughly recommended for people who like books with concepts wild enough to make your brain hurt.
Right up there with 'Godel, Escher, Bach' and the Illuminatus Trilogy.
<sarcasm>
But capital punishment is a powerful deterrant. Don't you think that if that was the punishment for convicted murder that the amount of murders would drop?
</sarcasm>
Looked at the number of people sitting on death row lately...
Rapists and Murderers are {mostly} mentally ill. Maybe they need to be locked up *and* 'reprogrammed' for better interaction with society. But don't think that a 'big stick' deterrant will influence someone who is mentally unhinged already.
Hmmmm. Will this is at first pass a siff idea, some serious mileage needs to happen first....
1. GPL/APSL cross contamination. Until the two licences are compatible, it can't/won't happen.
Read the section on linking in the GPL. Thou shalt not link to non-free code.
2. Different driver model. Linuk has funky monolithic protected mode kernel modules. OSX has DriverKit with funky hardware-server userspace modules. It may be possible to make them talk to each other - and once 1. ceases to be a problem, crib code from each other; after all won't Hurd be using Linux driver modules?
Of course the major benefit of this is yep - an Open Source 1394 layer - Yeeha!
Ownership of any ideas created while working for that company
... we're going to need a bigger wall
So while you are sitting at home, are you 'working for the company'.
While camping on the weekend, are you 'working for the company'?
While fast asleep in your bed are you 'working for the company'?
<CLUE> Have you heard of this amazing concept called nine-to-five? Basic human rights? </CLUE>
Eeek, cyberpunk is here and I didn't notice.
Looks like the CEO of Daewoo failed to meet his contractual obligations huh?
Come the revolution
[Cough!]
... we're going to need a bigger wall ...
Methinks IA-64 is VLIW deep down
Yawn...Waiting for McKinley...HP at least have a clue about real processor design...
While we wait...Alpha or UltraSparc anyone?
Come the revolution