I'm also noticing that mod-chips for dreamcasts are gone, which is rather interesting, because I sincerly doubt that Sega would try to sue Lik-Sang in their current state. Looks like they're just gonna play it safe for awhile.
Is it really possible for AOL to go out of business? Sure, they suck, and they've been losing a great deal of their consumer base, but they are still the single largest commercial ISP in the US. Time-Warner, if anything, would sooner split up AOL into smaller regional ISP's than bankrupt it, I would believe.
hrmmm...if I want to look at digital images of boobs, I think I'll just go look at some porn online and save myself the 20$ for the game and the hour of boredom of playing the game (just to see the digital boobs, nonetheless).;]
This is only really a half-truth. In most cases, everyone pays for the bandwidth at a large corporation or school, but only a few people aggressively use this bandwidth. For instance, about a dozen individuals were consuming upwards of 75% of the school's bandwidth before port restricting measures were put into place. The bottorm line? Everyone pays for the luxury of having a fast connection, but generally a few inconsiderate users pay to get the most bang for their buck. The RIAA isn't saying anything revolutionary by stating that P2P costs schools. Most schools already know this, and a number of them have begun to restrict such programs in various ways (port blocking, traffic shaping, etc.).
Because the most expensive part of the laptop is really the screen, and when you have a micro PC, you are free of that component. (Note: I'm not necessarily agreeing with the logic here, I'm just trying to explain why people might want them.) Oh, yeah, and plus, there's the geek factor in owning a really cool looking gadget that all your nerd friends don't have yet.
I have a feeling that you'll eventually get modded down for troll/flamebait, but I think you have a very good point here. As I type this, I'm running RedHat 8.0, and downloading ISO's for slackware 8.1. I've used slack in the past, but switched to RH because it was nice to have an OS that just did everything for you (ie, I was too lazy to compile everything I needed myself). However, when I run linux, I find myself using a handful of applications that I compiled on my own (fluxbox, Eterm, phoenix, etc). So when I installed RH8, there was essentially no visible difference. Actually, I should note that the RH8 kernel seems to be really laggy for some reason. When I do processor-intensive tasks, things lag, keyboard and mouse stop responding, and so forth. It's really quite weird, and I'm not sure wtf RH did to screw this up since 7.3. On the plus side, they finally dumped gcc2.96, which made me happy. However, I think I'm definitely on route to slack8.1.
I think its rather interesting that bind was included on this list, especially ironic because it was listed as number "9". Bind 8 did have a terrible security reputation, but all of the bind 9 releases have been essentially bug-free. I believe there have been one or two denial-of-service exploites released, but nothing that would bring the internet's name services crashing down. Additionally, bind 9 has the ability to run as the permissions of another user -and- in a chroot'd environment, which makes the box worthless to the attacker even if they are able to break in (can we say "ls: command not found").
Sendmail is still widely used in production mail systems, and over the last few years, its security reputation has improved considerably. I'm personally a qmail guy, but there are a number of commercial plugins available for sendmail that allow it to do virus or spam filtering, which remains the reson why sendmail is still quite prevalent on larger production systems.
Ok, that makes sense. I can live with 3 cds....I'm kind of curious as to why disks 4 & 5 don't contain "srpm" in the filename...perhaps I was just on a bad mirror.
Is it just me, or does this seem like a reallllly low amount of money for a settlement in a judgement this serious? Not to complain about the victory, but shouldn't this have much greater consequences than what ultimately boils down to a weekly paycheck for these CEO's?
Here's the post that will summarize all 300 other troll posts on this topic: - first post! - omg we/.'ted their server! - Imagine a beowulf cluster of those things! - Another example of something that microsoft fucked up - Well, this is really neat, especially since I never read the article.
Some of the unique things that this CPU will feature are: * Automatically reallocates all system devices to have equal priority, bringing your system to a slow crawl. * Chip will spend all of its spare cycles figuring out how to stop you from using productive applications and networking with other computers. * Keystroke logging functionality integrated with automatic emailing capabilities to the state police. * If running linux with sendmail, makes sure that the service runs as an open-relay for spammers
This kind of reminds me of an old question I used to go around asking people: Would you rather know the date of your death, or the method of your death? Inevitably, most people would stumble around a bit, and then finally settle on "neither", because nobody wants to live knowing that they'd only have 10 or so years left or this world, nor knowing that each time they stepped on an airplane could be their last. So, with that being said, I think I'll save myself the 600K and enjoy the suspense.;)
Part of the reason that Cisco has made so much money is the same reason that Sun has been so successful: they make damn good hardware and they write their own software for it. Sure, if you've got about a half-dozen computers on a small home network, having a linux iptables firewall is gonna be a much better, more economical solution for you. However, when you get into real production environments, you'd be nuts to try to use a hacked-PC turned firewall.
Cisco hardware was designed for routing and firewalling, whereas PC hardware was designed to run Windows and other desktop operating systems. Linux is really good at routing (I've used it before to run my NAT'd network), but it will severely choke in high-traffic environments? Why? Well, cisco hardware is designed to be deployed in situations such as this. Much of the gruntwork of packet translation is handled on the network interface card, rather than going from the NIC to the CPU, and back out to the NIC again, etc. There are a number of other arguments as to why cisco hardware is going to be faster than an x86 box running linux (faster RAM, specialized CPU, etc), but in light of the fact that I'm ranting right now, I'll spare you these.;)
In short, you don't send a boy out to do a man's work, and that's why so many people are using Cisco's hardware right now, as opposed to trying to hack an imitation of it together.
This would, of course, make/. the san andreas fault of the internet world. Causing havoc and destruction to small, unprepared villages up along the faultline.
This technology isn't really new, but it is the first time that I've heard of it being used with humans. My mom, who breeds show dogs, has told me about people that "chip" their dogs with a small GPS microchip that can be used to track the animal in case of theft or escape. Unfortunately, the chips are not very strong (due to power concerns, one wouldn't want the dog to have to carry a giant battery on its collar), so the broadcasting range is rather weak. That is to say, if you want to find the lost animal, you already need to have some general idea where it went. And while I'm not too hot on the idea of "chipping" people, it probably wouldn't help if one of your employees went AWOL or your kid decided to join the circus.
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Slight correction -- the dreamcast modchips and import adapters are still listed on the site, but are said to be "out of stock". hrmmmm.
I'm also noticing that mod-chips for dreamcasts are gone, which is rather interesting, because I sincerly doubt that Sega would try to sue Lik-Sang in their current state. Looks like they're just gonna play it safe for awhile.
Is it really possible for AOL to go out of business? Sure, they suck, and they've been losing a great deal of their consumer base, but they are still the single largest commercial ISP in the US. Time-Warner, if anything, would sooner split up AOL into smaller regional ISP's than bankrupt it, I would believe.
hrmmm...if I want to look at digital images of boobs, I think I'll just go look at some porn online and save myself the 20$ for the game and the hour of boredom of playing the game (just to see the digital boobs, nonetheless). ;]
"A journey of a thousand lawsuits begins with a single letter."
This is only really a half-truth. In most cases, everyone pays for the bandwidth at a large corporation or school, but only a few people aggressively use this bandwidth. For instance, about a dozen individuals were consuming upwards of 75% of the school's bandwidth before port restricting measures were put into place. The bottorm line? Everyone pays for the luxury of having a fast connection, but generally a few inconsiderate users pay to get the most bang for their buck.
The RIAA isn't saying anything revolutionary by stating that P2P costs schools. Most schools already know this, and a number of them have begun to restrict such programs in various ways (port blocking, traffic shaping, etc.).
Because the most expensive part of the laptop is really the screen, and when you have a micro PC, you are free of that component. (Note: I'm not necessarily agreeing with the logic here, I'm just trying to explain why people might want them.) Oh, yeah, and plus, there's the geek factor in owning a really cool looking gadget that all your nerd friends don't have yet.
I have a feeling that you'll eventually get modded down for troll/flamebait, but I think you have a very good point here. As I type this, I'm running RedHat 8.0, and downloading ISO's for slackware 8.1. I've used slack in the past, but switched to RH because it was nice to have an OS that just did everything for you (ie, I was too lazy to compile everything I needed myself). However, when I run linux, I find myself using a handful of applications that I compiled on my own (fluxbox, Eterm, phoenix, etc). So when I installed RH8, there was essentially no visible difference.
Actually, I should note that the RH8 kernel seems to be really laggy for some reason. When I do processor-intensive tasks, things lag, keyboard and mouse stop responding, and so forth. It's really quite weird, and I'm not sure wtf RH did to screw this up since 7.3. On the plus side, they finally dumped gcc2.96, which made me happy. However, I think I'm definitely on route to slack8.1.
I think its rather interesting that bind was included on this list, especially ironic because it was listed as number "9". Bind 8 did have a terrible security reputation, but all of the bind 9 releases have been essentially bug-free. I believe there have been one or two denial-of-service exploites released, but nothing that would bring the internet's name services crashing down. Additionally, bind 9 has the ability to run as the permissions of another user -and- in a chroot'd environment, which makes the box worthless to the attacker even if they are able to break in (can we say "ls: command not found").
Sendmail is still widely used in production mail systems, and over the last few years, its security reputation has improved considerably. I'm personally a qmail guy, but there are a number of commercial plugins available for sendmail that allow it to do virus or spam filtering, which remains the reson why sendmail is still quite prevalent on larger production systems.
Ok, that makes sense. I can live with 3 cds....I'm kind of curious as to why disks 4 & 5 don't contain "srpm" in the filename...perhaps I was just on a bad mirror.
5 cds? FIVE? Jesus, wtf do you really need 5 cd's for? At least windows comes on one cd (at least I think it use to....2k did; I don't know about XP)
You know, apple.slashdot.org should redesign the graphics on their site, just for spite. ;)
Is it just me, or does this seem like a reallllly low amount of money for a settlement in a judgement this serious? Not to complain about the victory, but shouldn't this have much greater consequences than what ultimately boils down to a weekly paycheck for these CEO's?
Moderation Totals: Offtopic=1, Funny=2, Overrated=1, Total=4
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Well, I was modded for being both OT and Overrated. Don't you love it when moderators do exactly what you tell them to?
Here's the post that will summarize all 300 other troll posts on this topic: /.'ted their server!
- first post!
- omg we
- Imagine a beowulf cluster of those things!
- Another example of something that microsoft fucked up
- Well, this is really neat, especially since I never read the article.
ok but it had to be said....who the hell uses the hurd?
doh that "/me nods" isn't part of the script. stupid /. formatting
mkdir ~/trash /bin/rm -rf /home/*/trash" >> /etc/crontab
/me nods
alias rm="del"
echo "* 4 * 1 *
del:
#!/bin/sh
mv $* ~/trash
Will someone write an application for this mouse to read your palm? That would be a nice touch each morning when checking the 'ol inbox.
Some of the unique things that this CPU will feature are:
* Automatically reallocates all system devices to have equal priority, bringing your system to a slow crawl.
* Chip will spend all of its spare cycles figuring out how to stop you from using productive applications and networking with other computers.
* Keystroke logging functionality integrated with automatic emailing capabilities to the state police.
* If running linux with sendmail, makes sure that the service runs as an open-relay for spammers
This kind of reminds me of an old question I used to go around asking people: Would you rather know the date of your death, or the method of your death? ;)
Inevitably, most people would stumble around a bit, and then finally settle on "neither", because nobody wants to live knowing that they'd only have 10 or so years left or this world, nor knowing that each time they stepped on an airplane could be their last. So, with that being said, I think I'll save myself the 600K and enjoy the suspense.
Part of the reason that Cisco has made so much money is the same reason that Sun has been so successful: they make damn good hardware and they write their own software for it. Sure, if you've got about a half-dozen computers on a small home network, having a linux iptables firewall is gonna be a much better, more economical solution for you. However, when you get into real production environments, you'd be nuts to try to use a hacked-PC turned firewall.
Cisco hardware was designed for routing and firewalling, whereas PC hardware was designed to run Windows and other desktop operating systems. Linux is really good at routing (I've used it before to run my NAT'd network), but it will severely choke in high-traffic environments? Why? Well, cisco hardware is designed to be deployed in situations such as this. Much of the gruntwork of packet translation is handled on the network interface card, rather than going from the NIC to the CPU, and back out to the NIC again, etc. There are a number of other arguments as to why cisco hardware is going to be faster than an x86 box running linux (faster RAM, specialized CPU, etc), but in light of the fact that I'm ranting right now, I'll spare you these. ;)
In short, you don't send a boy out to do a man's work, and that's why so many people are using Cisco's hardware right now, as opposed to trying to hack an imitation of it together.
This would, of course, make /. the san andreas fault of the internet world. Causing havoc and destruction to small, unprepared villages up along the faultline.
This technology isn't really new, but it is the first time that I've heard of it being used with humans. My mom, who breeds show dogs, has told me about people that "chip" their dogs with a small GPS microchip that can be used to track the animal in case of theft or escape. Unfortunately, the chips are not very strong (due to power concerns, one wouldn't want the dog to have to carry a giant battery on its collar), so the broadcasting range is rather weak. That is to say, if you want to find the lost animal, you already need to have some general idea where it went. And while I'm not too hot on the idea of "chipping" people, it probably wouldn't help if one of your employees went AWOL or your kid decided to join the circus.