So yeah, they are tapping into pretty much all of the US-based internet.
Not necessarily. Unless ATT is actually controlling the shared switch fabric of the exchanges, they can only monitor traffic flowing inside their own AS. Also, there are 5 to 8 major backbone providers who have peering agreements with each other. They generally don't offer transit to each other, so if the source and destination IP is not advertised by ATT it won't go through ATT territory.
XS4ALL, a large Dutch ISP who tries to maintain an elite status amongst nerds here in holland by suing Scientology, has the nasty and undocumented habit of shutting down people's based on one complaint and with a 2 hour mail notice up front.
They have cut me off a few times because i was sending legitimate traffic on a port which was used by the current Windows virus. So much for experienced system operators.../Marijn
This sounds so familiar. While I'm not blind, but spastic, society treats you like you're some moron. Your esteem for other people kinda drops when you get treated like an idiot day in, day out. If you are able to convert your anger towards other people into something good, ie. acquiring skills, you definitely have an edge.
How you use your skills is another thing, but you generally don't respect the rules of society as much as you should because you feel society doesn't respect you as much as itt should.
I have 4 heads right now and it is a pleasure to work with. Some people may have to get used to it, though. It took me some time to figure out the best setup. At this moment I have all the 'push' content (IRC, news ticker, GAIM, top, xmms) on the outer screens, while my inner screens show my mail, editors and documentation.
I use ion as my window manager, which allow for inter and intra screen switching with your keyboard, making your mouse almost obsolete and speeding up your work.
One word of caution though: I started with two heads and now I have four. It's kinda addictive....
I study EE, but I have a job in software engineering. It doesn't matter what you study, what matters most is your ability to excel in what you do. Attitude blah blah
1 out of 6 is including minor disabillities of course. I find it remarkable however, how few people with a handicap reacted.
If you're a bit spastic like me, but you still can type a bit, get an old IBM keyboard. They're solid and have membranes, so you know for sure when you hit a key (handy with passwords). It's also fairly easy to write a mouse driver which translates the mouse movements. You could make a very slow acceleration curve with a cutoff so your jerks get filetered out. As a windowmanager, I recommend ion. It's designed to be used with the keyboard and you can even beat a normal person with a mouse when it comes to window handling...
Why doesn't the author also mention some of the problems of open-source? Stuff like:
- Boring but necessary stuff usually lies around longer.
- Development is (at first) targeted at fellow programmers, leading to higher costs for companies who wish to employ Linux because Linux admins cost more than MS operators. (As a result, it will eat more market share from commercial Unices than from NT)
- No shipping dates. Ok, MS shipping dates are not known to be the most reliable, but something is better than nothing to some managers.
Not that I care about those issues, but it would have contributed to a more credible article.
Why do they ALWAYS want to know what Linus thinks about MS? If I were him, I'd get really fed up with
reporters.
Just let them monitor the kernel list for a while, then you get a much better idea of Linu[sx]. I really liked the decision to just swap VM systems in the middle of 2.4;)
I'm wondering, WIMP stuff has made computers easier to use, but not more powerful. Are there any examples of (possibly failed) systems that are more powerful than UNIX?
(yeah, you could argue about the meaning of 'powerful', but you know what I mean)
I'm wondering, it's a much used practice to either give away the client part and ask money for the 'server side' or SDK or the other way around. Now they charge for both. Why don't they give away free access for a limited time? That way, everybody could try it out and walk into the MS trap.
That's a bit like they did with windows as well. They didn't give it away, but they also didn't try very hard to stop all the copying for personal use, as long as the big companies bought licenses.
I think (and maybe it's wishfull thinking) MS underestimates the diversity on the Internet. The holes in their Internet related stuff won't help much either...
MarijnZZ
(hmmm, a javascript vi editor would be nice...)
An episode where Bill Gates shows up at a kid's doorstep complaining that he is poor?
I think it's time for open source cartoons;)
Marijn
Remember your own days with lego....
on
Battle Over Blocks
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· Score: 2, Interesting
I mean, almost everybody builded the sets at least one time according to the 'cookbook'. As a (young) kid it took you a lot of time to figure out the directions, which also yielded some new insigths about 2D to 3D mapping.
BUT, after a few days it fell off the table or your brother or sister smashed it and that was the start of the real fun...
So the only thing I'm a bit worried about is all those special purpose blocks...
I don't think the flagfall is a big issue anymore. The average cost of the flagfall is only about 20% of the SMS fee for one SMS. You can call at least 30 seconds for the price of one SMS. My opinion is that SMS is just more convenient for 'one-shot' conversations. Messages like "I'll be late" or "bring my jacket" are handled much more efficient by SMS than by regular calls because you skip the 'hi and bye' stuff.
The younger generation is especially fond of SMS. They even use it for dating. This is partly because they adapt more easily to the tiny keypads in contrast to the older people, but sometimes it gets a bit extreme. I've seen people having 'SMS wars' of 10 to 15 messages in a row, which far exceeds the price of a normal call...
The phenomenon of a SMS war is quite interesting. Sometimes I have one too. You don't realize you have one until it's too late, because with every SMS you think: 'This will be the last one'.:)
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So yeah, they are tapping into pretty much all of the US-based internet.
Not necessarily. Unless ATT is actually controlling the shared switch fabric of the exchanges, they can only monitor traffic flowing inside their own AS. Also, there are 5 to 8 major backbone providers who have peering agreements with each other. They generally don't offer transit to each other, so if the source and destination IP is not advertised by ATT it won't go through ATT territory.
XS4ALL, a large Dutch ISP who tries to maintain an elite status amongst nerds here in holland by suing Scientology, has the nasty and undocumented habit of shutting down people's based on one complaint and with a 2 hour mail notice up front.
/Marijn
They have cut me off a few times because i was sending legitimate traffic on a port which was used by the current Windows virus. So much for experienced system operators...
This sounds so familiar. While I'm not blind, but spastic, society treats you like you're some moron. Your esteem for other people kinda drops when you get treated like an idiot day in, day out. If you are able to convert your anger towards other people into something good, ie. acquiring skills, you definitely have an edge.
How you use your skills is another thing, but you generally don't respect the rules of society as much as you should because you feel society doesn't respect you as much as itt should.
I have 4 heads right now and it is a pleasure to work with. Some people may have to get used to it, though. It took me some time to figure out the best setup. At this moment I have all the 'push' content (IRC, news ticker, GAIM, top, xmms) on the outer screens, while my inner screens show my mail, editors and documentation.
I use ion as my window manager, which allow for inter and intra screen switching with your keyboard, making your mouse almost obsolete and speeding up your work.
One word of caution though: I started with two heads and now I have four. It's kinda addictive....
I just hooked up a second keyboard to my pc. I had to patch X, but now I have a whole array of extra keys I can program and use. Works like charm.
hmmm,
I wonder if they log half open scans too...
I study EE, but I have a job in software engineering. It doesn't matter what you study, what matters most is your ability to excel in what you do. Attitude blah blah
Marijn
Hi,
1 out of 6 is including minor disabillities of course. I find it remarkable however, how few people with a handicap reacted.
If you're a bit spastic like me, but you still can type a bit, get an old IBM keyboard. They're solid and have membranes, so you know for sure when you hit a key (handy with passwords). It's also fairly easy to write a mouse driver which translates the mouse movements. You could make a very slow acceleration curve with a cutoff so your jerks get filetered out. As a windowmanager, I recommend ion. It's designed to be used with the keyboard and you can even beat a normal person with a mouse when it comes to window handling...
Marijn
"Son, it's so cold in the house"
"But Mom, I don't want to play quake8 again!"
Why doesn't the author also mention some of the problems of open-source? Stuff like:
- Boring but necessary stuff usually lies around longer.
- Development is (at first) targeted at fellow programmers, leading to higher costs for companies who wish to employ Linux because Linux admins cost more than MS operators. (As a result, it will eat more market share from commercial Unices than from NT)
- No shipping dates. Ok, MS shipping dates are not known to be the most reliable, but something is better than nothing to some managers.
Not that I care about those issues, but it would have contributed to a more credible article.
Marijn
Why do they ALWAYS want to know what Linus thinks about MS? If I were him, I'd get really fed up with
;)
reporters.
Just let them monitor the kernel list for a while, then you get a much better idea of Linu[sx]. I really liked the decision to just swap VM systems in the middle of 2.4
Marijn
I'm wondering, WIMP stuff has made computers easier to use, but not more powerful. Are there any examples of (possibly failed) systems that are more powerful than UNIX?
(yeah, you could argue about the meaning of 'powerful', but you know what I mean)
Marijn
Tim has a good point about MS. They just try to make money and they employ the power they have.
;)
So, rest assured, they don't do all this to limit our freedom or give us bugged software, they just try to survive and make money
Marijn
I'm wondering, it's a much used practice to either give away the client part and ask money for the 'server side' or SDK or the other way around. Now they charge for both. Why don't they give away free access for a limited time? That way, everybody could try it out and walk into the MS trap.
That's a bit like they did with windows as well. They didn't give it away, but they also didn't try very hard to stop all the copying for personal use, as long as the big companies bought licenses.
I think (and maybe it's wishfull thinking) MS underestimates the diversity on the Internet. The holes in their Internet related stuff won't help much either...
MarijnZZ
(hmmm, a javascript vi editor would be nice...)
An episode where Bill Gates shows up at a kid's doorstep complaining that he is poor?
;)
I think it's time for open source cartoons
Marijn
I mean, almost everybody builded the sets at least one time according to the 'cookbook'. As a (young) kid it took you a lot of time to figure out the directions, which also yielded some new insigths about 2D to 3D mapping.
BUT, after a few days it fell off the table or your brother or sister smashed it and that was the start of the real fun...
So the only thing I'm a bit worried about is all those special purpose blocks...
Marijn
I don't think the flagfall is a big issue anymore. The average cost of the flagfall is only about 20% of the SMS fee for one SMS. You can call at least 30 seconds for the price of one SMS. My opinion is that SMS is just more convenient for 'one-shot' conversations. Messages like "I'll be late" or "bring my jacket" are handled much more efficient by SMS than by regular calls because you skip the 'hi and bye' stuff.
:)
The younger generation is especially fond of SMS. They even use it for dating. This is partly because they adapt more easily to the tiny keypads in contrast to the older people, but sometimes it gets a bit extreme. I've seen people having 'SMS wars' of 10 to 15 messages in a row, which far exceeds the price of a normal call...
The phenomenon of a SMS war is quite interesting. Sometimes I have one too. You don't realize you have one until it's too late, because with every SMS you think: 'This will be the last one'.
Marijn