convert all satellite communications to ATP (ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1149.txt, ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2549.txt), then use the pigeons to lift the wire. Simple, really.
An added benefit is that we can then simply implement Electricity over IP (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3251.html) in order to provide backup power to the satellites and cooked pigeons to the poor people of the world.
I haven't seen NAT cause an FTP problem since 1998 or 1999. Firewalls know how to proxy it now, end of story, and if they don't then they're crap that should be canned instead of relied on. Anyway, it's hardly like FTP is some jewel of a protocol that desparately needs to be salvaged -- it's somewhat more efficient than transferring with HTTP, but it and its implementations are so rife with security holes that the cost/benefit picture is not at all clear.
domain parkers represent a lot of the "users" in Netcraft's graphs, so a single company switching back and forth or two companies merging (thereby switching back and forth) has an effect. There was talk a while back of massaging the data to de-emphasize these big do-nothing chunks, but I don't know if it went anywhere.
which is why no one has done such a thing, because quality is very difficult to measure.
I pay about $10 a month more than the average DSL customer in my area, $20 a month more than the people who sign up with special promotions at cheap providers. I also get a static IP, zero guff about AUP, clean Ethernet rather than PPPoE, and direct access to the engineer who built and maintains the network (including after-hours). I wouldn't change and I recommend mom-n-pops to anyone who asks.
Well if he has a long beard then he clearly is a terrorist. Don't you look at the pictures in the news? The guy probably slaps a towel on his head and violently subverts the dominant paradigm every time he gets a chance. In fact, I bet he's bought fuel and fertilizer in the last ten years, and probably fudged something on his taxes. One way ticket to... well, you don't need to know where, neither you nor any lawyer will every see it.
That would be hilarious if it wasn't so painful. I've tried Visio 2000 under Crossover Office and straight winhq Wine. I have nothing but praise for the work those folks are doing, they've worked wonders with Word and Excel. But Visio is realistically unusable on a practical basis, and I don't even do any VB automation.
Yeah, KDE's really cool. I like the way that you can navigate through Konqueror to ~/foo/bar and double-click a text file, which changes your Konqueror window to a text viewer. Then if you click the UP button you go back to where you were with the same settings (vis a vis icon size, tree vs. icon view, hidden files), but if you click the BACK button you go to a default Konqueror window, like as not looking at your home directory instead of where you just were in bar. I also dig how easy it is to select an icon for a non-KDE application on the dock. And the forty-five second wait for it to come up on a Duron 750 or Nehemiah 1GHz gives my family plenty of time to do other things. Then there's the sound daemon that prevents Crossover and native Mozilla plugins from playing sound and requires special configuration of all apps in order to make them play sound; configuration that works reliably in about half the cases but in the other half produces either silence, static, or a five second delay between action and sound (Try playing Maelstrom with a five second sound delay).
I agree, those are pretty nasty. I hate the idea of shortcut icons -- just give me a two panel window with the filesystem tree on the left and the current folder on the right. Tab completion should work, it should be blindingly fast, and forgettably easy to use. You know, like the current file selector!
About this much time. In my home network, there's the Linux system which locks up if its user enables DPMS in the KDE screen-saver, the Linux system where hardware detection keeps helpfully switching from the wireless card to the un-connected wired Ethernet card, the Linux system where OpenOffice gets wedged with dead files in/tmp and won't start, and all of the Linux systems where multimedia plugins may or may not start, may or may not crash Mozilla, and will almost certainly be unable to play any sounds unless artsd is killed and esd is used (which produces a burst of static at the beginning of every sound).
Would it be better if it said "ran MandrakeUpdate" or "ran apt-update" or "ran up2date" instead of "Windows XP security updates"?
How long does it take you to sit down and diagnose why Google doesn't come up when you click the button? Do you automagically know that it was your ISP, or do you start by looking at your PC, your switch, your router/firewall, your caching name-server...
I'm feeling this pain lately. Last night I tried to watch a movie with Xine only to find that the folks at XFree86 broke XV support for i810 chips in their last update. There went thirty minutes diagnosing it and looking for a workaround.
Just now, I sat down to look at/. and found my laptop locked up and spewing IDE subsystem failure messages to the console. Why? Something screwy in Mandrake Cooker. What? Damned if I know -- if it happens over and over again I'll be able to reproduce it and get hardware fixed or write a bug report, but that doesn't seem likely based on past systems behavior.
Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.
Mayor: What do you mean, biblical?
Ray: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor... real Wrath-of-God-type stuff. Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies.
Venkman: Rivers and seas boiling!
Egon: 40 years of darkness, earthquakes, volcanos.
Winston:The dead rising from the grave!
Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats, living together... mass hysteria!
Good point, though I'm sure you'll admit it was an isolated example fueled more by Henry's own ideology than a common corporate best practice. A modern analogy might be In-N-Out Burger's paying higher wages than any other chain, which is motivated by the owner's religious and ethical stance rather than anything they learned in an MBA program.
On a side note, have you ever seen the neighborhoods built for his workers? Row after row of weird, tiny little brick cottages that decades of alteration have been unable to dress up significantly.
I think that's the most insane thing I've read in a while, where insanity is defined as doing the same thing over again and expecting different results. Show me an example in American history of employee welfare having one iota of influence on corporate direction? The only thing I can think of is the unionization battles of the 1880s through the 1940s, and there you're looking at a clear example of business being forced into action through bloodshed and sabotage. I don't think any one in this industry is desperate enough to strike yet, much less lay their life on the line.
Okay, I'm gonna have to bust you for this. Quoting source material is a minor infraction of the Slashdot rules, but quoting it in a way that implies that you've READ IT, that's a major infraction. Remember, it's shoot from the hip, flamethrowers on full blast. Reading is for the weak. Keep it up and you'll have the rest of your karma revoked.
Actually, you can thank the backroom politics of Werner von Braun and his friends, plus the fact that chemical rockets made more sense to the politicians with the bags of money. These decisions were made before treehugging NIMBYs were a serious political force in America.
Besides, treehugging NIMBYism isn't the only reason to be skeptical of using nuke power to get from the surface to orbit, although I suppose a lot of backyards did catch pieces of Columbia.
Further reading of interest: Project Orion, The Making of The Atomic Bomb, and Catch-22.
the story as bandied about on the web is that their financial troubles stemmed from allowing vuture capital to bring in management which harebrained off onto a bunch of wild goose chase tangents. Bankruptcy was the only way to throw the vulture capitalists and their managers out and return to focus on the core products. The financial statements of late are certainly looking pretty decent, and I can certainly buy that storyline after having worked for some of the sorts of people that vulture capitalists will bring in.
(Direct quote here: "we don't need all the new sales engineers to be technical, they just need a good Shockwave presentation which explains how the prduct works. If they get into trouble with technical issues in a meeting, they can just call you.")
while laptop bags are made to look okay in a boardroom. I use a Timbuk2 messenger bag with a padded laptop insert that I removed from some Targus PoS when it died. It's lasted through five years of Fight Club-level travel, and I'm confident it could handle five years of Arthur Dent-level travel too.
The bag is also large enough to accomodate some tools, a book, and up to two days of clothing, meaning that I haven't checked baggage for a business trip in a long, long time. The smoothness of your travel experience is directly related to your ability to get from one end of a major hub airport to the other in the ten minutes between getting off of plane A and plane B's planned departure. If there are trams involved, this sort of trick is very likely to result in the death of your classic laptop bag's shoulder strap.
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23 minutes after the /. post and the site is toast. I'll try again tomorrow though, sounds like it might be good.
convert all satellite communications to ATP (ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1149.txt, ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2549.txt), then use the pigeons to lift the wire. Simple, really.
An added benefit is that we can then simply implement Electricity over IP (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3251.html) in order to provide backup power to the satellites and cooked pigeons to the poor people of the world.
I haven't seen NAT cause an FTP problem since 1998 or 1999. Firewalls know how to proxy it now, end of story, and if they don't then they're crap that should be canned instead of relied on. Anyway, it's hardly like FTP is some jewel of a protocol that desparately needs to be salvaged -- it's somewhat more efficient than transferring with HTTP, but it and its implementations are so rife with security holes that the cost/benefit picture is not at all clear.
except it's been modified to save your settings and files to a USB key.
domain parkers represent a lot of the "users" in Netcraft's graphs, so a single company switching back and forth or two companies merging (thereby switching back and forth) has an effect. There was talk a while back of massaging the data to de-emphasize these big do-nothing chunks, but I don't know if it went anywhere.
which is why no one has done such a thing, because quality is very difficult to measure.
I pay about $10 a month more than the average DSL customer in my area, $20 a month more than the people who sign up with special promotions at cheap providers. I also get a static IP, zero guff about AUP, clean Ethernet rather than PPPoE, and direct access to the engineer who built and maintains the network (including after-hours). I wouldn't change and I recommend mom-n-pops to anyone who asks.
Well if he has a long beard then he clearly is a terrorist. Don't you look at the pictures in the news? The guy probably slaps a towel on his head and violently subverts the dominant paradigm every time he gets a chance. In fact, I bet he's bought fuel and fertilizer in the last ten years, and probably fudged something on his taxes. One way ticket to... well, you don't need to know where, neither you nor any lawyer will every see it.
That would be hilarious if it wasn't so painful. I've tried Visio 2000 under Crossover Office and straight winhq Wine. I have nothing but praise for the work those folks are doing, they've worked wonders with Word and Excel. But Visio is realistically unusable on a practical basis, and I don't even do any VB automation.
It is utterly superb and very themable. Give a try... few ever go back to GNOME/KDE.
Yeah, KDE's really cool. I like the way that you can navigate through Konqueror to ~/foo/bar and double-click a text file, which changes your Konqueror window to a text viewer. Then if you click the UP button you go back to where you were with the same settings (vis a vis icon size, tree vs. icon view, hidden files), but if you click the BACK button you go to a default Konqueror window, like as not looking at your home directory instead of where you just were in bar. I also dig how easy it is to select an icon for a non-KDE application on the dock. And the forty-five second wait for it to come up on a Duron 750 or Nehemiah 1GHz gives my family plenty of time to do other things. Then there's the sound daemon that prevents Crossover and native Mozilla plugins from playing sound and requires special configuration of all apps in order to make them play sound; configuration that works reliably in about half the cases but in the other half produces either silence, static, or a five second delay between action and sound (Try playing Maelstrom with a five second sound delay).
Oh wait, actually those things suck, I forgot.
I agree, those are pretty nasty. I hate the idea of shortcut icons -- just give me a two panel window with the filesystem tree on the left and the current folder on the right. Tab completion should work, it should be blindingly fast, and forgettably easy to use. You know, like the current file selector!
About this much time. In my home network, there's the Linux system which locks up if its user enables DPMS in the KDE screen-saver, the Linux system where hardware detection keeps helpfully switching from the wireless card to the un-connected wired Ethernet card, the Linux system where OpenOffice gets wedged with dead files in /tmp and won't start, and all of the Linux systems where multimedia plugins may or may not start, may or may not crash Mozilla, and will almost certainly be unable to play any sounds unless artsd is killed and esd is used (which produces a burst of static at the beginning of every sound).
Would it be better if it said "ran MandrakeUpdate" or "ran apt-update" or "ran up2date" instead of "Windows XP security updates"?
/. and found my laptop locked up and spewing IDE subsystem failure messages to the console. Why? Something screwy in Mandrake Cooker. What? Damned if I know -- if it happens over and over again I'll be able to reproduce it and get hardware fixed or write a bug report, but that doesn't seem likely based on past systems behavior.
How long does it take you to sit down and diagnose why Google doesn't come up when you click the button? Do you automagically know that it was your ISP, or do you start by looking at your PC, your switch, your router/firewall, your caching name-server...
I'm feeling this pain lately. Last night I tried to watch a movie with Xine only to find that the folks at XFree86 broke XV support for i810 chips in their last update. There went thirty minutes diagnosing it and looking for a workaround.
Just now, I sat down to look at
will Jerry Bruckheimer be inside the projectile? Because that would be poetic justice, really.
> Great! Now what?
Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.
Mayor: What do you mean, biblical?
Ray: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor... real Wrath-of-God-type stuff. Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies.
Venkman: Rivers and seas boiling!
Egon: 40 years of darkness, earthquakes, volcanos.
Winston:The dead rising from the grave!
Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats, living together... mass hysteria!
Good point, though I'm sure you'll admit it was an isolated example fueled more by Henry's own ideology than a common corporate best practice. A modern analogy might be In-N-Out Burger's paying higher wages than any other chain, which is motivated by the owner's religious and ethical stance rather than anything they learned in an MBA program.
On a side note, have you ever seen the neighborhoods built for his workers? Row after row of weird, tiny little brick cottages that decades of alteration have been unable to dress up significantly.
I think that's the most insane thing I've read in a while, where insanity is defined as doing the same thing over again and expecting different results. Show me an example in American history of employee welfare having one iota of influence on corporate direction? The only thing I can think of is the unionization battles of the 1880s through the 1940s, and there you're looking at a clear example of business being forced into action through bloodshed and sabotage. I don't think any one in this industry is desperate enough to strike yet, much less lay their life on the line.
I tried to check number one and now I've got a black mark on my monitor! This is all your fault you insensitive clod!
Okay, I'm gonna have to bust you for this. Quoting source material is a minor infraction of the Slashdot rules, but quoting it in a way that implies that you've READ IT, that's a major infraction. Remember, it's shoot from the hip, flamethrowers on full blast. Reading is for the weak. Keep it up and you'll have the rest of your karma revoked.
Actually, you can thank the backroom politics of Werner von Braun and his friends, plus the fact that chemical rockets made more sense to the politicians with the bags of money. These decisions were made before treehugging NIMBYs were a serious political force in America.
Besides, treehugging NIMBYism isn't the only reason to be skeptical of using nuke power to get from the surface to orbit, although I suppose a lot of backyards did catch pieces of Columbia.
Further reading of interest: Project Orion, The Making of The Atomic Bomb, and Catch-22.
"Stay away from those cans! He hates those cans!!"
Heh, Exodus used to use that strategy in colo hosting deals. It backfired quite a bit when they were solvent, but it really looks silly now :-)
And Win4Lin discounts are available to club members.
the story as bandied about on the web is that their financial troubles stemmed from allowing vuture capital to bring in management which harebrained off onto a bunch of wild goose chase tangents. Bankruptcy was the only way to throw the vulture capitalists and their managers out and return to focus on the core products. The financial statements of late are certainly looking pretty decent, and I can certainly buy that storyline after having worked for some of the sorts of people that vulture capitalists will bring in.
(Direct quote here: "we don't need all the new sales engineers to be technical, they just need a good Shockwave presentation which explains how the prduct works. If they get into trouble with technical issues in a meeting, they can just call you.")
while laptop bags are made to look okay in a boardroom. I use a Timbuk2 messenger bag with a padded laptop insert that I removed from some Targus PoS when it died. It's lasted through five years of Fight Club-level travel, and I'm confident it could handle five years of Arthur Dent-level travel too.
The bag is also large enough to accomodate some tools, a book, and up to two days of clothing, meaning that I haven't checked baggage for a business trip in a long, long time. The smoothness of your travel experience is directly related to your ability to get from one end of a major hub airport to the other in the ten minutes between getting off of plane A and plane B's planned departure. If there are trams involved, this sort of trick is very likely to result in the death of your classic laptop bag's shoulder strap.