Sorta dedicated. Yeah, you have a PVC. But it's UBR. (Unspecified Bit Rate, or First Over The Side in the Event of Trouble (FOTSET - my own acronym!).) Besides, your PVC is terminated early on, probably at the Redback, when oversubscription kicks in.
Stopping people from cheating is like stopping people from looking at pr0n, downloading warez, or win-nuking their neighbors while at work. You might be able to stop this week's attack or misuse of choice, but you won't be able to stop next week's until well after your first detection of it, which will be well after it first happens. As the person trying to prevent this from happening, you're in a Catch-22 which resembles Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle: The harder you try to detect misuse, the more detection countermeasures will be used. In other words, if you treat your community (users, gamers, &c) like children, they'll act like children. Children with patience and a hefty knowledge of computing and the Internet, if you're unlucky.
I think opensourcing of old games is fantastic, and companies like id should (please!) keep doing it. Take no measures to prevent cheating, and the community will take its own measures. These measures may be technological, such as writing code to detect the use of cheats and disconnect the cheater. But the effective and final measures will be social, and as old as gaming -- I won't play with you if you're going to cheat.
Yeah -- 4 hps isn't enough to make your ISP turn off your T1, which is what happened to www.xfce.org when/. posted the announcement of version 3.2.0!
On the other hand, an academic article like the three examples is only going to pick up the cream of slashdotters. I'd say that hitrate is at least quadrupled if you look at something that gets people more worked up, like Mindcraft.
Then I'm sure there must be another reason for StarOffice taking three minutes to start on a P200 with 64MB (five minutes if Netscape was already open). Any idea what that reason is?
check out malsync, but use caution. I couldn't get it to work right, but it did seem to mangle OS 3.1 nicely. Uninstalled quickly, frankly took out AvantGo too as I never read any of the stuff I downloaded. Neat idea, but not worth the trouble.
That is a little pricey, but still beats the shit out of a fractional T1, huh:-) IIRC, Bell Atlantic uses Alcatel -- your "modem" is a black rectangle, smaller at one end, labelled 1000 ADSL? If that's the case, your ATM PVC is just giving you a bandwidth 'guarantee,' not security. Your ethernet is bridged out via RFC 1483. Have a look at Linux Router Project and enjoy.
Can you say Unspecified Bit Rate? Can you say DSLAM software upgrade takes out half the Bay Area for nearly a week?
Actually, at PacBell (disc: I work for their Network Integration arm) about half of the people seem to realize that this is an issue, the other half think that people will pay more for better service. I think that about half the people will pay more for better service and the rest will shift their WANs onto DSL and ride through the rough spots.
Anyway, last time I checked all the CLECs were heavily invested into CAP technology which requires them to use a complete pair (no voice services sharing the pair). If I'm reading the FCC correctly, the justification for changing the rules is that the RBOC could offer split billing for the loop (voice bill goes to RBOC, data bill goes to CLEC). That justification is invalid unless the CLECs replace their infrastructure with DMT.2 gear, which is a significant cost. I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for Covad to get $20/mo cheaper...
For home use? Not me. I read or write a StarOffice doc about once every two weeks on my home machine, so the incredible slowness is alright.
For work use? I'd pay for a Linux office suite with the speed of any of the big three from Windowsworld (MS, Corel, Lotus). Work (for me) means producing big and complex Excel, Word, and Visio files. That's why work happens on my NT Workstation, and everything else happens on Linux -- I'd be losing money if I put up with StarOffice every time I wanted to write a 30 page scope of work.
Granted, my NT laptop dualboots to Linux so I can use nmap, tcpdump, and similar tools that just don't exist in Windowsworld:-) But that angle of my work doesn't happen as much as the writing, PDF'ing, and mailing of documents.
Yeah, conduits would be nice if you used the "productivity apps" that come with KDE or GNOME. Of course, if those were productive they would be able to import/export info from/to something else. Anything else. CSV or tab-delimited would be something else.
That said, I sync my Palm III up to JPilot. It's still a little buggy but over all quite excellent at what it does. If it could play front end to the mal-thingie that syncs with Avant Go, I'd be a very happy camper:-)
>> applications that Miguel has been involved in have been mostly bug-free and don't have much of a learning curve.
Then what the hell happened to the Gnome code that shipped with RedHat 6.0 ??? I understand that October Gnome is supposed to be better, but I haven't used it yet.
Small to medium sized American businesses are willing to pay for code, and support, though the latter is a harder sell. Mainly because they buy support once from Microsoft or Compaq and they get the brush off for their trouble. But we all see companies daily where everyone complains about MS instabilities and can show you several any time you want, but everyone also upgrades to every new MS release in the hope that the problems will be lessened. That just goes to show that you can build a successful business out of purposefully shipping lousy products, which makes you wonder why take the trouble to write good products. Unless for OSS bragging rights?
I agree with you because my employer and previous employer have done a lot of work for local and conglomerate medical centers -- the locals are more clueless than the conglomerates, but neither seems to have a problem with ER Admissions being run by a 5 year old box with no disk fault tolerance:-)
However in the spirit of picking nits, there's a difference between software designed to analyze blood samples or calibrate a pacemaker and software designed to transmit information. When you look at a transmission of data problem, it doesn't matter what the data is. All you have to do is establish the importance of the data, which is then used to establish:
1) level of error checking and what OSI layers it's done at 2) what to do if error-check fails (resend or abort?) 3) who and how to alert in the case of an abort
The content could be financial, medical, or neither.
However, if you're working on software designed to calibrate a pacemaker I would want you to be MIT's best and I'd want you to have some damn good doctors and ME/EE grads working with you. Now the problem is bigger than data transmission (which has been pretty damn reliable since X.25). The content matters a lot and has to be accurate.
I haven't run into the length limit-- then again, I keep my gpg passphrase fairly short since I need to type it pretty damn frequently.
The best thing about Strip isn't the ability to keep my own accounts straight, though -- I use my own accounts and could probably remember them. The best thing is keeping the account info of all the relatives and ex-employers that I moonlight for.
Yeah, well one time I installed freecell.exe on my Windows computer and it rebooted all by itself and it didn't have anything on it anymore either and it made this grinding clanking noise and then it burst into flames and the fire department came. Clearly freecell caused this to happen so I will never play any computer solitaire game again.
Please limit the FUD to reality, other items make you (and by extension, us other/.ers) look dumb.
There won't be a difference between human and robot. Robots wil never happen, because nanotech allows for people to be modified to suit the purpose you were going to build the robot for. What would you use a robot for? Mining? War? Service jobs? We have millions of poorly educated and more-or-less self-maintaining people out there who will do the same job with a couple of nanotech tools and some quality propaganda.
I just saw Three Kings and thought it was the best movie I've seen in a very long time. Go watch it, and then ask yourself if the powers that be would or wouldn't chop-n-channel your sorry ass instead of building a robot from scratch.
That happens automatically -- most of the time I don't notice that I had moderator rights until I'm off to something else, because I'm just pg-down'ing through stupid junk.
I think it's going to be an ugly hodgepodge of broken scripting languages, based on the huge number of ASP pages I'm seeing out there.
Actually, Sun is doing a lot with Java by putting the "VM" in a chip (ergo not so V anymore), then running SSL out to the box in question. It still has a way to go, and the complexity of Java will push the average computer guy back to those nasty scripting languages...
Plugins are out. The entire point to thin client is to stop distributing software to desktops!
The way I'd like to see things go is Lotus Notes/Domino go OpenSource and with clients for anything. Granted it is slow and proprietary, but Exchange and GroupWise can't even approach the same functionality ballpark. Building your own out of Apache and a database is probably possible, but how mucch time would be spent reinventing that wheel?
I hesitate to think what these users (a particularly impressive bunch -- where do you work?) would do under these situations, all of which an out-of-the-box RH 6.0 will do:
1) You open your home directory by clicking the desktop icon. You drag some files around, then open some other application. A few minutes later, when you close the other application, your home directory window has disappeared. You click the desktop icon again and there is a new file with a dead-smiley-face icon, labeled "core."
2) You click the foot menu and go to "pick an app that wasn't installed by the sysadmin." You click the list item and nothing happens.
3) You come in one morning after a power outage and the computer is on, at a login prompt. Many services don't work right: you have no sound, CD-ROM, and/or impaired network functionality. You call your sysadmin over, who types: lsmod insmod -a Now stuff works again.
4) You want to cut and paste from Kedit to Netscape, from Netscape to Gedit, or from Gedit to Kedit.
Make no mistake, I love Linux and I try to get it used where it will shine. But as a desktop it's strictly for power users and hobbyists like you and me, unless it's locked down and minimalized to a degree that makes my hackles rise regardless of the OS being controlled.
This is exactly why the computers I donate to my mom's 4th grade classroom run Linux, with XFCE as the GUI. The last time I got a support call was 10 months ago, and the "problem" was fixed by taping a "do not turn me off!" sign to the machine's case.
1) It's definitely easier than it was under Slackware 2.0:-) However, if you don't have the listed hardware, or you're trying to do something a little unusual (like use the VGA out port on a Dell Latitude CPi), it can get challenging quickly.
2) Looks like you bought a SoundBlaster(TM). My first few installs were with an Aztech Nova16. When I decided to switch over to Linux fulltime, my first action was to go buy a real SoundBlaster. If you have a funky clone card, sound is a major PITA.
Oh yeah, Pi rocked my world, too. Very good movie about where hacking comes from, if not too heavy on the details and tools.
However, as long as we're talking about 'cool hacker portrayals' hasn't anyone mentioned The Matrix? At least it was at attempt to glamorize, and the product placements were all for G-man sunglasses and heavy weaponry, not *sniff* Macs.
It'll be a cold day in Hell before anything as cool as Pi comes out of Hollywood, though.
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Sorta dedicated. Yeah, you have a PVC. But it's UBR. (Unspecified Bit Rate, or First Over The Side in the Event of Trouble (FOTSET - my own acronym!).) Besides, your PVC is terminated early on, probably at the Redback, when oversubscription kicks in.
Stopping people from cheating is like stopping people from looking at pr0n, downloading warez, or win-nuking their neighbors while at work. You might be able to stop this week's attack or misuse of choice, but you won't be able to stop next week's until well after your first detection of it, which will be well after it first happens. As the person trying to prevent this from happening, you're in a Catch-22 which resembles Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle: The harder you try to detect misuse, the more detection countermeasures will be used. In other words, if you treat your community (users, gamers, &c) like children, they'll act like children. Children with patience and a hefty knowledge of computing and the Internet, if you're unlucky.
I think opensourcing of old games is fantastic, and companies like id should (please!) keep doing it. Take no measures to prevent cheating, and the community will take its own measures. These measures may be technological, such as writing code to detect the use of cheats and disconnect the cheater. But the effective and final measures will be social, and as old as gaming -- I won't play with you if you're going to cheat.
SP
Yeah -- 4 hps isn't enough to make your ISP turn off your T1, which is what happened to www.xfce.org when /. posted the announcement of version 3.2.0!
On the other hand, an academic article like the three examples is only going to pick up the cream of slashdotters. I'd say that hitrate is at least quadrupled if you look at something that gets people more worked up, like Mindcraft.
Then I'm sure there must be another reason for StarOffice taking three minutes to start on a P200 with 64MB (five minutes if Netscape was already open). Any idea what that reason is?
check out malsync, but use caution. I couldn't get it to work right, but it did seem to mangle OS 3.1 nicely. Uninstalled quickly, frankly took out AvantGo too as I never read any of the stuff I downloaded. Neat idea, but not worth the trouble.
That is a little pricey, but still beats the shit out of a fractional T1, huh :-) IIRC, Bell Atlantic uses Alcatel -- your "modem" is a black rectangle, smaller at one end, labelled 1000 ADSL? If that's the case, your ATM PVC is just giving you a bandwidth 'guarantee,' not security. Your ethernet is bridged out via RFC 1483. Have a look at Linux Router Project and enjoy.
Can you say Unspecified Bit Rate? Can you say DSLAM software upgrade takes out half the Bay Area for nearly a week?
Actually, at PacBell (disc: I work for their Network Integration arm) about half of the people seem to realize that this is an issue, the other half think that people will pay more for better service. I think that about half the people will pay more for better service and the rest will shift their WANs onto DSL and ride through the rough spots.
Anyway, last time I checked all the CLECs were heavily invested into CAP technology which requires them to use a complete pair (no voice services sharing the pair). If I'm reading the FCC correctly, the justification for changing the rules is that the RBOC could offer split billing for the loop (voice bill goes to RBOC, data bill goes to CLEC). That justification is invalid unless the CLECs replace their infrastructure with DMT.2 gear, which is a significant cost. I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for Covad to get $20/mo cheaper...
For home use? Not me. I read or write a StarOffice doc about once every two weeks on my home machine, so the incredible slowness is alright.
:-) But that angle of my work doesn't happen as much as the writing, PDF'ing, and mailing of documents.
For work use? I'd pay for a Linux office suite with the speed of any of the big three from Windowsworld (MS, Corel, Lotus). Work (for me) means producing big and complex Excel, Word, and Visio files. That's why work happens on my NT Workstation, and everything else happens on Linux -- I'd be losing money if I put up with StarOffice every time I wanted to write a 30 page scope of work.
Granted, my NT laptop dualboots to Linux so I can use nmap, tcpdump, and similar tools that just don't exist in Windowsworld
Yeah, conduits would be nice if you used the "productivity apps" that come with KDE or GNOME. Of course, if those were productive they would be able to import/export info from/to something else. Anything else. CSV or tab-delimited would be something else.
:-)
That said, I sync my Palm III up to JPilot. It's still a little buggy but over all quite excellent at what it does. If it could play front end to the mal-thingie that syncs with Avant Go, I'd be a very happy camper
>> applications that Miguel has been involved in have been mostly bug-free and don't have much of a learning curve.
Then what the hell happened to the Gnome code that shipped with RedHat 6.0 ??? I understand that October Gnome is supposed to be better, but I haven't used it yet.
Small to medium sized American businesses are willing to pay for code, and support, though the latter is a harder sell. Mainly because they buy support once from Microsoft or Compaq and they get the brush off for their trouble. But we all see companies daily where everyone complains about MS instabilities and can show you several any time you want, but everyone also upgrades to every new MS release in the hope that the problems will be lessened. That just goes to show that you can build a successful business out of purposefully shipping lousy products, which makes you wonder why take the trouble to write good products. Unless for OSS bragging rights?
I agree with you because my employer and previous employer have done a lot of work for local and conglomerate medical centers -- the locals are more clueless than the conglomerates, but neither seems to have a problem with ER Admissions being run by a 5 year old box with no disk fault tolerance :-)
However in the spirit of picking nits, there's a difference between software designed to analyze blood samples or calibrate a pacemaker and software designed to transmit information. When you look at a transmission of data problem, it doesn't matter what the data is. All you have to do is establish the importance of the data, which is then used to establish:
1) level of error checking and what OSI layers it's done at
2) what to do if error-check fails (resend or abort?)
3) who and how to alert in the case of an abort
The content could be financial, medical, or neither.
However, if you're working on software designed to calibrate a pacemaker I would want you to be MIT's best and I'd want you to have some damn good doctors and ME/EE grads working with you. Now the problem is bigger than data transmission (which has been pretty damn reliable since X.25). The content matters a lot and has to be accurate.
my 2 cc's of lymph
Strip is the best!!!
I haven't run into the length limit-- then again, I keep my gpg passphrase fairly short since I need to type it pretty damn frequently.
The best thing about Strip isn't the ability to keep my own accounts straight, though -- I use my own accounts and could probably remember them. The best thing is keeping the account info of all the relatives and ex-employers that I moonlight for.
Armadillo, but still at www.gzilla.org. Looks kinda neat, but still very very young.
Likes -- about as fast as Lynx.
Dislikes -- can't display www.gzilla.org properly, trying to configure it via File | Preferences does nothing.
Yeah, well one time I installed freecell.exe on my Windows computer and it rebooted all by itself and it didn't have anything on it anymore either and it made this grinding clanking noise and then it burst into flames and the fire department came. Clearly freecell caused this to happen so I will never play any computer solitaire game again.
/.ers) look dumb.
Please limit the FUD to reality, other items make you (and by extension, us other
There won't be a difference between human and robot. Robots wil never happen, because nanotech allows for people to be modified to suit the purpose you were going to build the robot for. What would you use a robot for? Mining? War? Service jobs? We have millions of poorly educated and more-or-less self-maintaining people out there who will do the same job with a couple of nanotech tools and some quality propaganda.
I just saw Three Kings and thought it was the best movie I've seen in a very long time. Go watch it, and then ask yourself if the powers that be would or wouldn't chop-n-channel your sorry ass instead of building a robot from scratch.
SP
That happens automatically -- most of the time I don't notice that I had moderator rights until I'm off to something else, because I'm just pg-down'ing through stupid junk.
I think it's going to be an ugly hodgepodge of broken scripting languages, based on the huge number of ASP pages I'm seeing out there.
Actually, Sun is doing a lot with Java by putting the "VM" in a chip (ergo not so V anymore), then running SSL out to the box in question. It still has a way to go, and the complexity of Java will push the average computer guy back to those nasty scripting languages...
Plugins are out. The entire point to thin client is to stop distributing software to desktops!
The way I'd like to see things go is Lotus Notes/Domino go OpenSource and with clients for anything. Granted it is slow and proprietary, but Exchange and GroupWise can't even approach the same functionality ballpark. Building your own out of Apache and a database is probably possible, but how mucch time would be spent reinventing that wheel?
Well, remember this course was designed and named by the people who thought up Home Economics and Driver's Education.
:-)
I hesitate to think what these users (a particularly impressive bunch -- where do you work?) would do under these situations, all of which an out-of-the-box RH 6.0 will do:
1) You open your home directory by clicking the desktop icon. You drag some files around, then open some other application. A few minutes later, when you close the other application, your home directory window has disappeared. You click the desktop icon again and there is a new file with a dead-smiley-face icon, labeled "core."
2) You click the foot menu and go to "pick an app that wasn't installed by the sysadmin." You click the list item and nothing happens.
3) You come in one morning after a power outage and the computer is on, at a login prompt. Many services don't work right: you have no sound, CD-ROM, and/or impaired network functionality. You call your sysadmin over, who types:
lsmod
insmod -a
Now stuff works again.
4) You want to cut and paste from Kedit to Netscape, from Netscape to Gedit, or from Gedit to Kedit.
Make no mistake, I love Linux and I try to get it used where it will shine. But as a desktop it's strictly for power users and hobbyists like you and me, unless it's locked down and minimalized to a degree that makes my hackles rise regardless of the OS being controlled.
This is exactly why the computers I donate to my mom's 4th grade classroom run Linux, with XFCE as the GUI. The last time I got a support call was 10 months ago, and the "problem" was fixed by taping a "do not turn me off!" sign to the machine's case.
1) It's definitely easier than it was under Slackware 2.0 :-) However, if you don't have the listed hardware, or you're trying to do something a little unusual (like use the VGA out port on a Dell Latitude CPi), it can get challenging quickly.
:-)
2) Looks like you bought a SoundBlaster(TM). My first few installs were with an Aztech Nova16. When I decided to switch over to Linux fulltime, my first action was to go buy a real SoundBlaster. If you have a funky clone card, sound is a major PITA.
3) Quite nice
Oh yeah, Pi rocked my world, too. Very good movie about where hacking comes from, if not too heavy on the details and tools.
However, as long as we're talking about 'cool hacker portrayals' hasn't anyone mentioned The Matrix? At least it was at attempt to glamorize, and the product placements were all for G-man sunglasses and heavy weaponry, not *sniff* Macs.
It'll be a cold day in Hell before anything as cool as Pi comes out of Hollywood, though.
Slashdotter -- daughter of Slash.
Slash -- guitarist from Guns and Roses.
Guns and Roses -- cheesy glamrock band from L.A.
L.A. -- Kingdom of crappy tech movies.
Crappy tech movies -- topic on Slashdot.
Slashdot -- where the Slashdotters live.
It all makes sense now...
Call me paranoid, but I wouldn't brag online that you haven't updated firewall or OS code in two years...
you can have multiple nt swap files -- don't remember how many max, but they suggest using one per drive.
>If you want to see something like this in action,
>install Roxen (GPL web-server) and play with its
>configuration interface. Very slick.
Or just turn on the web functions in Exchange/IIS Notes/Domino. Both have been turning that trick for two years.