While I am thankful that Saddam Hussein was captured, my foil hat -- which has been tuned to "non-paranoid" mode -- can't help but think that it serves a dual purpose for the Bush administration.
Were we able to find Osama bin Laden? No. The war on terror, originated in Afghanistan, was in danger of stagnating, with a conclusion that lacked the novelistic roundless of rounding up the enemy leader.
The focus of the war on terror was thusly shifted to Iraq. "There are connections," they said, which meant the war would really be over when Hussein was taken.
Now he has been. He, not bin Laden, will be at the forefront of millions of Americans' minds, seen as a defeated figurehead for terrorist activity -- despite the fact that he was not responsible for 9/11.
And this means re-election.
While I agree with some of what you say, I seriously doubt that anyone believes that the "war on terror" will be over until we capute bin laden. I don't think even his capture will end it.
Do I think that we moved on iraq for political reasons? Yes. Still, the failure of the US to capture Saddam, coupled with the continuing failure to capture bin laden, made the US look like they dropped the ball. This is a big event, I just hope that this is better handled than the rebuilding has been.
In any event, the economy has turned around. That means re-election.
That may sound like a bad deal to you, but consider that the foreign national in question may have to have moved an entire family overseas to take the job. It is equally unfair to fire him or her the very moment a qualified and willing American shows up at the door.
I'm sure that's a whole lot fairer than telling the citizen that his job has been replaced by a h1-b, or moved offshore, and his family now has to move to wherever to find a job.
WHile I certainly appreciate the obvious utility of this. After all, don't we really want the computer to do all sorts of meaningless mundane crap. The potential for abuse is amazing.
Tailoring the pop up ads you are constantly annoyed with to your browsing tastes? Watching what you listen to. What games do you play etc. The return of "clippy" except in a new ub3r mode? ARGH!
1) Bandwidth is not free. No doubt they pay plenty for it. If 1% truly are using 16% of their bandwidth then they should pay for it. I know Adelphia (my isp) doesn't buy enough bandwidth and as a result my cable connection sucks sometimes. I know that Mediaone was trying to sell to AOL users so their bandwidth consumption estimates back when are probably low.
2) They see an opportunity to charge power users more. How many people reading/. would pay an extra $10/month for a static ip? an extra $30 a month for a wide open pipe? Remember Joe Q. Public who chats on AIM and sends some email and browses the web for 30 minutes is only using a fraction of his cable, and probably won't notice a drop-off.
Bottom line, they can and will do it, and while we all gripe about it, I don't know a techie who won't pay for bandwidth. If you had nothing but dialup, what would you be willing to pay for broadband?
dewke
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It took me a little longer than 5 mins (bout 20) to cancel Earthlink, and I think I actually spoke to Cindy but they were very professional and nice to me. They did ask if I wanted to keep earthlink as a backup to cable, which is a valid question to ask. I said no, and she said thanks and that was it...
I always find it amusing when people don't have the information you need to do something and then whine about problems....
I work in this specific industry and you need to be careful how you screen companies. There are a few caveats to watch for:
Ask for references but don't be surprised if they can't give a lot. Why? My company does a lot of work for the Federal Gov't as well as state governments and the work is usually under a NDA. You wouldn't like me to say "sure we audited so and so and found 25 holes" either.
Ask for their methodology and review it. Don't always believe the hype about "custom tools" etc.. Make sure they have some level of redundancy. I worked for one firm that used strobe and ISS and nothing more. Ask what tools they are going to use. Be nervous if they don't want to tell you. You'd be surprised at how many "big players" really are scam artists.
Make sure the resume's you see in the proposal are the people doing the work. You don't want to hire and pay for mudge, only to have Tony the pony come run the scan.
Check the reputation of the finalists. You definitely dont want a fly by night shop doing your work, or a company that might not have good ethics.
Oracle and California signed a contract, California was really REALLY stupid. I seriously doubt that Larry Ellison made California "an offer they couldn't refuse". Oracle is sure as hell not going to refuse the deal. They are a for profit company that sells software...
It is not the companies responsibility to police its customers. If someone comes to my company and offers us 3x what we normally charge for our services we will happily take the extra cash, so will every other company on the planet.
I originally wasn't going to dignify this post with a response, but your ignorance finally convinced me.
ditto...
I would be embarassed if I worked with a consultant who expounded win98 as consultant's tool. FOr god's sake man at least use nt, win2k or winxp pro
For you people who do nothing but play the Xgames and look at porn, sure, Linux will work just fine. However, for those of us who actually do work on our computers sometimes require applications that are (unfortunately) only available for Windows at the moment.
Such as? I WORK on computers every day, as a security consultant. The only applications I can't use in linux are the crappy ones my company forces me to use to record my timecard, submit expenses, and the ubitquous Outlook... At home I choose to use Linux for most things. Sure there are apps I like on winxp. Lets see.... Ghost Recon, NFS, MOH....
For your information there are also commercial games for linux. Quake 3, RTCW and even Ultima Online etc....
Having and using Windows 98 at home has provided me with tools that I have used as a consultant to make myself thousands of dollars. What have you done with your computer lately?
Again what tools? I can do all my consulting work from linux or another unix if I want to. I can program in Linux if I want to in a gui even. Just today I worked on a clients site and spent most of the day in linux. Yes I booted the laptop into win2k so I could run l0phtcrack3 since I was too lazy to install john the ripper, and I made my company several thousand dollars in 2 days of onsite work.
It's pretty depressing to see how slowly KDE and GNOME are evolving. As much as I love Linux, I must admit that Windows and Mac OS X have nicer GUIs. Since they're evolving faster than the Linux desktops, I wonder if we'll ever catch up.
I'll fall for the troll. It's been a while since I chased one;)
What great innovations has Microsoft made? Windows 95-2000 looked identical, and although winxp may be different, but to me it looks like a toy and the only feature that they put in that I liked was the item grouping on the taskbar which gnome has (not sure about KDE).
If you want to truly compare who is evolving faster load up a august 95 copy of linux and see what X looked like then, then install a current one, and I think it is should be pretty apparent that the linux desktop has come a lot farther.
You truly are lucky, I live in the same area as you and my choices are..... Nothing. I can almost see AOL from my apartment complex and if I lived a mile away I could have road runner.
Our local cable bandit does not provide cable modems, although I am now into my 3rd year of promises. Verizon did something screwy with the phone lines, fiber and weird switches, that do not allow for dsl other than idsl, which when I tried to get twice only to have my order cancelled. They say I can get it again, but the $600 installation/equipment charge and $90/month for a little over double a 56k modem is asinine.
I am surprised though, after all the broadband shakeups that people get offended when they (cable/dsl companies) try to make a profit. Excite@home is bankrupt, most dsl providers are either gone, or headed that way, and when the price for gobs of bandwidth creeps up people scream bloody murder.
Besides, most of the those providers couldn't tell VPN traffic from normal traffic so why worry? They don't even disconnect thee r33t h4xx0rz who run sub seven etc and they are going to nail honest users? I think not.
This is oh-so-true. I graduated with a degree in Political Science and Economics. By the time I graduated I loathed politics and working in business was boring, so I started working in IT. I wish I had a CS degree sometimes but c'est la vie.
As long as you can learn you can always find something challenging to do. Don't think that your first shot at a job/career is going to be the be-all job.
Because ingorant, uneducated fools use AOL when there are clearly better options available. Covad only has something like 330,000 customers, while AOL has 25 million.
Sad thing is that Covad and other broadband companies aren't trying to get their service available to new markets. I live in Northern Virginia and there are few broadband options in my county (Loudoun), yet if I go to Fairfax county I can have cable, dsl etc... I have to wonder why neither Adelphia (Cable company) or Verizon haven't pushed to get broadband here yet other counties have both.
I even tried to get idsl installed (a step up from ISDN) until Covad cancelled the order 2x for a variety of reasons. Now the prohibitive monthly rate plus the $600 installation fee keep me from getting a trickle of real broadband.
Until affordable broadband is available to more than selected markets AOL and its ilk will continue to own the market.
dewke
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Not necessarily. There are several irc clients that allow you to attack windows to specific servers. I use BitchX and the/window server commands allows me to log into efnet with a window, while I idle ina channel on another. Each server has a window.
If you run windows you can always use something like xirc that has similar features.
dewke
Re:Red Hat remains in red: Posts $27.6M net loss
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Why does it matter whether its a true profit or not? The fact is that Red Hat is actually suceeding is a good thing IMO. With the death of so many dotcom companies one tech company that is not going out of business should be somthing that any reader of slashdot would be happy about, linux user or not.
Is it really any better to force one area to have one cable company simply because company a is too big?
I live in Northern VA. and we have the *worst* cable company I have ever had (adelphia) and I would be very happy if someone else could move into this area so I might finally get broadband (no possibility of dsl here either)
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While I am thankful that Saddam Hussein was captured, my foil hat -- which has been tuned to "non-paranoid" mode -- can't help but think that it serves a dual purpose for the Bush administration.
Were we able to find Osama bin Laden? No. The war on terror, originated in Afghanistan, was in danger of stagnating, with a conclusion that lacked the novelistic roundless of rounding up the enemy leader.
The focus of the war on terror was thusly shifted to Iraq. "There are connections," they said, which meant the war would really be over when Hussein was taken.
Now he has been. He, not bin Laden, will be at the forefront of millions of Americans' minds, seen as a defeated figurehead for terrorist activity -- despite the fact that he was not responsible for 9/11.
And this means re-election.
While I agree with some of what you say, I seriously doubt that anyone believes that the "war on terror" will be over until we capute bin laden. I don't think even his capture will end it.
Do I think that we moved on iraq for political reasons? Yes. Still, the failure of the US to capture Saddam, coupled with the continuing failure to capture bin laden, made the US look like they dropped the ball. This is a big event, I just hope that this is better handled than the rebuilding has been.
In any event, the economy has turned around. That means re-election.
My girlfriend forced me to do the same. I'm actually happy about it because now I KNOW where everything is.
These containers work, and are pretty cheap...
I bid on one of those on ebay (I was stupid and didn't get the SMP model) but it went for well over $120.
I still use a Tyan Tomcat IV with a p120 as a firewall/dns/mail server.
The motherboard isn't 100% Y2K compliant but it runs like a champ.
My favorite was my old Mouseman sensa with the marble finish...
Now I have a mx700 which runs a close second.
That may sound like a bad deal to you, but consider that the foreign national in question may have to have moved an entire family overseas to take the job. It is equally unfair to fire him or her the very moment a qualified and willing American shows up at the door.
I'm sure that's a whole lot fairer than telling the citizen that his job has been replaced by a h1-b, or moved offshore, and his family now has to move to wherever to find a job.
I always feel sad when I read things like this.
The game was hardly the PK-Hell environment it is made out to be. Did people PK, yes. Were there hordes of PK's everywhere? No.
What I find funny about the game is the only people still playing are the ones who like the PvP system and some roleplayers.
If LB and DD hadn't spent so much energy chasing away a lot of the PvP, with stat loss etc... set UO would be a lot more popular.
And if you want to see what DD's ideals on a game are, take a peek at SWG.
Ahhhh good old rk....
.fi or .no usualy worked :)
You needed a fast line and about a little touch of lag. Anything in
dewke
WHile I certainly appreciate the obvious utility of this. After all, don't we really want the computer to do all sorts of meaningless mundane crap. The potential for abuse is amazing.
Tailoring the pop up ads you are constantly annoyed with to your browsing tastes? Watching what you listen to. What games do you play etc. The return of "clippy" except in a new ub3r mode? ARGH!
Let alone what will happen when people crack it.
dewke
I think there are 2 competing issues here.
/. would pay an extra $10/month for a static ip? an extra $30 a month for a wide open pipe? Remember Joe Q. Public who chats on AIM and sends some email and browses the web for 30 minutes is only using a fraction of his cable, and probably won't notice a drop-off.
1) Bandwidth is not free. No doubt they pay plenty for it. If 1% truly are using 16% of their bandwidth then they should pay for it. I know Adelphia (my isp) doesn't buy enough bandwidth and as a result my cable connection sucks sometimes. I know that Mediaone was trying to sell to AOL users so their bandwidth consumption estimates back when are probably low.
2) They see an opportunity to charge power users more. How many people reading
Bottom line, they can and will do it, and while we all gripe about it, I don't know a techie who won't pay for bandwidth. If you had nothing but dialup, what would you be willing to pay for broadband?
dewke
It took me a little longer than 5 mins (bout 20) to cancel Earthlink, and I think I actually spoke to Cindy but they were very professional and nice to me. They did ask if I wanted to keep earthlink as a backup to cable, which is a valid question to ask. I said no, and she said thanks and that was it...
I always find it amusing when people don't have the information you need to do something and then whine about problems....
dewke
Yeah I think you're right. But then again isn't XP just an expanded win2k kernel ;)
Hi,
I work in this specific industry and you need to be careful how you screen companies. There are a few caveats to watch for:
Ask for references but don't be surprised if they can't give a lot. Why? My company does a lot of work for the Federal Gov't as well as state governments and the work is usually under a NDA. You wouldn't like me to say "sure we audited so and so and found 25 holes" either.
Ask for their methodology and review it. Don't always believe the hype about "custom tools" etc.. Make sure they have some level of redundancy. I worked for one firm that used strobe and ISS and nothing more. Ask what tools they are going to use. Be nervous if they don't want to tell you. You'd be surprised at how many "big players" really are scam artists.
Make sure the resume's you see in the proposal are the people doing the work. You don't want to hire and pay for mudge, only to have Tony the pony come run the scan.
Check the reputation of the finalists. You definitely dont want a fly by night shop doing your work, or a company that might not have good ethics.
dewke
It's kind of hard to admit you can't strip down your OS when Microsoft is shipping the x-box, which last I read was running a stripped down XP.
No, there is no difference.
Oracle and California signed a contract, California was really REALLY stupid. I seriously doubt that Larry Ellison made California "an offer they couldn't refuse". Oracle is sure as hell not going to refuse the deal. They are a for profit company that sells software...
It is not the companies responsibility to police its customers. If someone comes to my company and offers us 3x what we normally charge for our services we will happily take the extra cash, so will every other company on the planet.
Caveat emptor...
dewke
I'm sure this will get modded down but...
I originally wasn't going to dignify this post with a response, but your ignorance finally convinced me.
ditto...
I would be embarassed if I worked with a consultant who expounded win98 as consultant's tool. FOr god's sake man at least use nt, win2k or winxp pro
For you people who do nothing but play the Xgames and look at porn, sure, Linux will work just fine. However, for those of us who actually do work on our computers sometimes require applications that are (unfortunately) only available for Windows at the moment.
Such as? I WORK on computers every day, as a security consultant. The only applications I can't use in linux are the crappy ones my company forces me to use to record my timecard, submit expenses, and the ubitquous Outlook... At home I choose to use Linux for most things. Sure there are apps I like on winxp. Lets see.... Ghost Recon, NFS, MOH....
For your information there are also commercial games for linux. Quake 3, RTCW and even Ultima Online etc....
Having and using Windows 98 at home has provided me with tools that I have used as a consultant to make myself thousands of dollars. What have you done with your computer lately?
Again what tools? I can do all my consulting work from linux or another unix if I want to. I can program in Linux if I want to in a gui even. Just today I worked on a clients site and spent most of the day in linux. Yes I booted the laptop into win2k so I could run l0phtcrack3 since I was too lazy to install john the ripper, and I made my company several thousand dollars in 2 days of onsite work.
dewke
It's pretty depressing to see how slowly KDE and GNOME are evolving. As much as I love Linux, I must admit that Windows and Mac OS X have nicer GUIs. Since they're evolving faster than the Linux desktops, I wonder if we'll ever catch up.
;)
I'll fall for the troll. It's been a while since I chased one
What great innovations has Microsoft made? Windows 95-2000 looked identical, and although winxp may be different, but to me it looks like a toy and the only feature that they put in that I liked was the item grouping on the taskbar which gnome has (not sure about KDE).
If you want to truly compare who is evolving faster load up a august 95 copy of linux and see what X looked like then, then install a current one, and I think it is should be pretty apparent that the linux desktop has come a lot farther.
dewke
You truly are lucky, I live in the same area as you and my choices are..... Nothing. I can almost see AOL from my apartment complex and if I lived a mile away I could have road runner.
Our local cable bandit does not provide cable modems, although I am now into my 3rd year of promises. Verizon did something screwy with the phone lines, fiber and weird switches, that do not allow for dsl other than idsl, which when I tried to get twice only to have my order cancelled. They say I can get it again, but the $600 installation/equipment charge and $90/month for a little over double a 56k modem is asinine.
I am surprised though, after all the broadband shakeups that people get offended when they (cable/dsl companies) try to make a profit. Excite@home is bankrupt, most dsl providers are either gone, or headed that way, and when the price for gobs of bandwidth creeps up people scream bloody murder.
Besides, most of the those providers couldn't tell VPN traffic from normal traffic so why worry? They don't even disconnect thee r33t h4xx0rz who run sub seven etc and they are going to nail honest users? I think not.
dewke
This is oh-so-true. I graduated with a degree in Political Science and Economics. By the time I graduated I loathed politics and working in business was boring, so I started working in IT. I wish I had a CS degree sometimes but c'est la vie.
As long as you can learn you can always find something challenging to do. Don't think that your first shot at a job/career is going to be the be-all job.
dewke
Because ingorant, uneducated fools use AOL when there are clearly better options available. Covad only has something like 330,000 customers, while AOL has 25 million. Sad thing is that Covad and other broadband companies aren't trying to get their service available to new markets. I live in Northern Virginia and there are few broadband options in my county (Loudoun), yet if I go to Fairfax county I can have cable, dsl etc... I have to wonder why neither Adelphia (Cable company) or Verizon haven't pushed to get broadband here yet other counties have both. I even tried to get idsl installed (a step up from ISDN) until Covad cancelled the order 2x for a variety of reasons. Now the prohibitive monthly rate plus the $600 installation fee keep me from getting a trickle of real broadband. Until affordable broadband is available to more than selected markets AOL and its ilk will continue to own the market. dewke
Not necessarily. There are several irc clients that allow you to attack windows to specific servers. I use BitchX and the /window server commands allows me to log into efnet with a window, while I idle ina channel on another. Each server has a window.
If you run windows you can always use something like xirc that has similar features.
dewke
Why does it matter whether its a true profit or not? The fact is that Red Hat is actually suceeding is a good thing IMO. With the death of so many dotcom companies one tech company that is not going out of business should be somthing that any reader of slashdot would be happy about, linux user or not.
dewke
All I can say is "about time".
Is it really any better to force one area to have one cable company simply because company a is too big?
I live in Northern VA. and we have the *worst* cable company I have ever had (adelphia) and I would be very happy if someone else could move into this area so I might finally get broadband (no possibility of dsl here either)
dewke