UUCP worked quite nicely in the days when links were ephemeral, slow, or generally unreliable. This seems like a lot of effort to solve a problem that existed 30 years ago, solved, and even adapted for RFC821 and its successors. There's a reason that Sendmail knows how to rewrite addresses!
You either are, or aren't a customer. If I'm using an Apple product that wasn't stolen, I'm an Apple customer. I received iTunes (along with iPhoto, and i-everything-else) when I purchased my MacBook Pro. That software helped sell the computer.
iPhoto works fine with hundreds of different digital cameras. As it would happen, Apple doesn't make digital cameras. They don't even have to work very hard to support them thanks to standard file system layout. It's clear that Apple has made an exception for iTunes to drive their "attachment rates" in other business units. Sounds like the behavior of an up-and-coming monopoly, doesn't it?
And, I'll conclude by saying that there are *plenty* of alternatives to iTunes, but Apple has been telling us for so long that iTunes is the greatest thing since gravity boots that we just all simply use it because it's the default media manager. Hm, that sounds familiar, too...:)
I interviewed at Apple a few years ago, and a consistent message from the developers was that *everything* they do is to make the customer experience better. Things are not done simply because they're cool -- they have to serve a purpose.
So I find it ironic that, as a MacBook Pro user, Apple has explicitly done something to make my experience *worse*. They went much further than simply failing to "provide support for, or test for compatibility with, non-Apple digital media players." They went out of their way to harm users.
Shame on you, Apple. Have you gotten so big that you've forgotten what it was like to be under Microsoft's thumb?
I've finally run out of excuses to avoid switching to Comcast. I can finally kiss that slow DSL goodbye now that I no feel obligated to support a liberal-minded, independent ISP.
Of course, I'll lose some of that benefit when I have to bounce my traffic off a mule-mounted WiFi repeater in Estonia in order to avoid having my activities scrutinized by the marketing division of The Very Big Corporation of America.
I'm also a relatively happy customer of Speakeasy, but my major gripe with them is a direct effect of their current lack of influence: they can't improve line quality. SBC can, at their discretion, switch you to a closer central office (CO). Speakeasy (via Covad) is unable to do this, so I've been stuck on a crappy line for over three years now (its "length" varies from 13K to 18K feet, according to MLTs). Switching to OneLink (dry copper) helped a bit since the SBC tech didn't realize I wasn't going to be an SBC voice customer. However, all he did was take up some extra line, reducing the distance a couple thousand feet. I can only wonder what might've happened if he had mistakenly thought he was provisioning an SBC DSL circuit.
And yet, I refuse to switch. Anything's better than dropping another dollar in SBC's or Comcast's corporate coffers.
SBC lives by the letter of the [current] law. They won't take any action to improve the service of CLEC customers, and the CLECs can't even pay for anything better. Ideally, I would happily foot the cost of re-running the circuit if I had that option, but that doesn't even figure into their grand plan. I fail to see how anything positive can come out of these new changes; this is effectively a blank check to abuse CLECs to the point of bankruptcy.
Once upon a time, I had a 386/40 board with a bad solder point on it somewhere. When the computer would heat up, it would crash and wouldn't boot again until it cooled down.
I discovered that I could get the computer to boot again (while still warm) if I pressed in on one corner of the board. Being a little strapped for cash, I put the computer on its side, left it open, and placed a drinking glass on the corner to flex the board. As the problem worsened, I just threw more spare change into the glass to apply more pressure. Eventually, the glass filled and I bought a replacement board. Unfortunately, I'd used mostly pennies, so it didn't make for a substantial contribution to the new motherboard.
Before SP1 came out, copies of XP Corporate Edition (which doesn't require on-line activation) had been circulating along with a few known keys or key blocks. It was a simple matter to block that relatively small set of keys in the SP1 software package.
Now, key generators have been out for some time. While Microsoft could graze the newsgroups looking for key lists, the number of "known keys" would be enormous. Combined with the fact that the key generator is widely available, disabling pirated copies in an off-line version of the service pack would be impossible without including all known (and ever-to-be-generated) keys in the new service pack.
It might be more complex than that, but if the goal of your key generation algorithm is to not require you to record every generated key (i.e., it's effectively just a string and a checksum), then this is bound to happen eventually. Best to just roll with the punches, and assume that the pirates probably wouldn't pay for the product if they had to.
Sputnik offers almost-free ($10 administrative fee) management software for community access points. There's more on the requirements at our site. With luck, you'll be able to install our management agent on some off-the-shelf APs next month (we're testing some now), but you can also get the hardware through us.
The Indiana University School of Medicinewas hit recently. Not just social security numbers, but medical records, too--everything you need to know to become someone else. All these poor folks were patients of their sleep clinic. I guess they have something else to keep them awake all night now...
I always chuckled at that statement for a different reason.
Anyone know how to initiate a TCP connection (or even a UDP exchange, for that matter) without sending the first packet? Every packet constitutes some kind of information. Minimally, you're telling Microsoft that you're attempting to run the WindowsUpdate application!
Certifications can be utter crap. A associate of mine is a personal trainer. He took classes, read books, and sat in on exams to get his certification from "company X." Recently, his gym hired another personal trailer who clicked on the right buttons on an on-line form, and received her equally-valid certification from "company Y." The same deal applies in pretty much all industries. For that matter, is a Ph.D from Harvard the same as one from the local state college? No, but they're both Ph.D's.
Who can really judge what you do or don't know, and whether you have an intuitive grasp of your profession? Formal education itself is a self-perpetuating industry. It's noble cause, I'll admit, but just as subject to the corruption and bureaucracy to which we've grown accustomed in government and large companies.
On the salon bit... if memory serves, a salon is subject to regulation by the local health board if they perform manicures. Manicures are considered a surgical procedure since they involve the removal of skin (albeit dead skin), and sometimes encounter blood products.
...when I used to deal with this stuff (and I was usually on the "serving" end of the subpoena), entities in other states were under no obligation to honor a subpoena from our state. Only subpoenas issued from federal courts are valid across state boundaries.
This subpoena was issued from Massachusetts for an agency in New York. Not far, but far enough.
One wonders what version management software the Bitkeeper authors used when they were writing their product. RCS? Visual SourceSafe? Or, gasp, CVS? No one starts at zero. Even compilers for new architectures are built using a cross compiler on a foreign system first.
Not that it makes a bit[keeper] of difference, since there's no law that they have to practice what they preach WRT their own software, but it's an interesting thought. Those who benefited from open-source software, or even a competitor's product, shouldn't openly disparage that vendor's product (though they don't appear to have done that here).
Companies should remain competitive by making a better product, not by writing legalese that prevents you from using others' products.
Don't use mirrors.hiwaay.net mirror! Bad copy!
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Probably too late, but for those grazing this story later...
The ISO image for disc1 on Hiwaay's mirror is corrupt. It has a large "nulled" section. Don't know if this affects other mirror sites.
These have always been the alternate names for these, and far more suitable for those who haven't figured out why some stick out and some don't.
Jack == female (um, okay -- counter-intuitive)
Plug == male (no better)
I tend to see these used more often in the context of "phone" plugs (the 1/4" big-assed headphone variety and the 1/8" "mini-phone" variety we're all more accustomed to now, found at the end of our "buds").
People with an enhanced sense of entitlement (which justifies their right to interrupt your entertainment) likely consider themselves a couple of notches higher on the IQ scale. Rather than getting mad at them, cheerfully offer to help them set their overly-complex phones on vibrate mode. If they have time in their busy schedules and they have a Nokia phone, offer to help them change the d*mned default ring, too...
Granted, I've been informed that a significant segment of the fairer sex often wears clothing such that it's impossible to directly attach a cell phone (i.e., no pockets or belt), thus making vibrate mode useless. I don't have an helpful advice on this one. Maybe a tiny bluetooth vibra-call device you can discretely attach to another personal accessory...:)
It only took four calls to get that installed. And now that he has MS Flight Combat Simulator, all hope of installing Linux on my parents' overpowered machine have gone up with the proverbial blue smoke.
trancEaddict.com is a great site with live set and single track downloads available.
Another strategy is to pick out certain songs in mixes that you like, and then find other mixes containing those song. Since mixes blend "compatible" songs together, you'll tend to find stuff that is to your taste, and get introduced to music that's just a step away.
Personally, I'm fond of Chicane. And any of the "Euphoria" albums (available on Amazon, at the least) are great.
Reading this article, I started noticing some similarities between spamming and drug trade (granted, this is on the heals of having seen Traffic recently). Next time a spammer considers describing his or her trade as legitimate, consider these similarities:
The "establishment" (spammers/traffickers and the businesses on whose behalf they act) claims
that the people want its product, albeit a tiny percentage. Dealers must constantly claim they deal in a legitimate product.
Systems are in place to prevent the trade; traffickers spend a great deal of their time learning to evade the road blocks and checkpoints in order to get their product through. They regard those who put up the blocks as fascist.
Traffickers (spammers) generally work in secrecy, with few knowing their identify. This likely makes business hard to drum up.
Traffickers feel that a few casualties (mules/ISPs) are acceptable, and that they "know the risk" of their chosen business.
Both major parties (the public and traffickers/spammers) resist efforts to regulate the industry: the public fears "legitimizing" the practice such that they'll have to deal with it on a daily basis and have no recourse to object, and the traffickers fear rampant competition, decreased profits, and being taxed or otherwise charged for what they're currently paying nothing.
Traffickers, despite their claims, have little or no concern for the result of their product reaching its destination (fraud/overdose).
Lots of side-to-side shaking. 'Bout time we had some quake action out here. I moved from Indiana because I never saw any of the tornados I was promised, and the SF bay had been largely disappointing 'til now...
Last time I checked my history books, plenty of folks were making music and taking money for live performances before the RIAA and friends figured out how to charge just as much for a version of it on a piece of vinyl or plastic & aluminum.
Free music stifles creativity? Bah. It stifles their way of making money from exploitation. If anything, they're choking off less-popular genres of music by deluding us into thinking that the only way to hear it is their way.
Slashdot is easily one of the sites I hit most; as such, I'd be happy to help out with the administrative costs. However, I haven't a clue how long my $5 subscription would last. If I had some historical data (my own, not the average for all users), I'd be more likely to pony up.
OTOH, from a technical perspective, I understand that it's page views that count. However, people work on a time basis -- they don't like to sit and count. Simply charging for page views isn't innovative -- it's insensitive to how people really operate. You might as well be an evil cell phone company.
Perhaps somewhere in-between would be to throttle a bit. Figure that someone will load 10 Slashdot pages in a day (that's about 3 months for a 1000-page subscription). If they expect to get 3 months out of their subscription, let them. Just let them know when they're hitting too frequently, or send a static page or banner-ad page when they run over a personally-set daily limit.
Slashdot Mirror
UUCP worked quite nicely in the days when links were ephemeral, slow, or generally unreliable. This seems like a lot of effort to solve a problem that existed 30 years ago, solved, and even adapted for RFC821 and its successors. There's a reason that Sendmail knows how to rewrite addresses!
You either are, or aren't a customer. If I'm using an Apple product that wasn't stolen, I'm an Apple customer. I received iTunes (along with iPhoto, and i-everything-else) when I purchased my MacBook Pro. That software helped sell the computer. iPhoto works fine with hundreds of different digital cameras. As it would happen, Apple doesn't make digital cameras. They don't even have to work very hard to support them thanks to standard file system layout. It's clear that Apple has made an exception for iTunes to drive their "attachment rates" in other business units. Sounds like the behavior of an up-and-coming monopoly, doesn't it? And, I'll conclude by saying that there are *plenty* of alternatives to iTunes, but Apple has been telling us for so long that iTunes is the greatest thing since gravity boots that we just all simply use it because it's the default media manager. Hm, that sounds familiar, too... :)
I interviewed at Apple a few years ago, and a consistent message from the developers was that *everything* they do is to make the customer experience better. Things are not done simply because they're cool -- they have to serve a purpose.
So I find it ironic that, as a MacBook Pro user, Apple has explicitly done something to make my experience *worse*. They went much further than simply failing to "provide support for, or test for compatibility with, non-Apple digital media players." They went out of their way to harm users.
Shame on you, Apple. Have you gotten so big that you've forgotten what it was like to be under Microsoft's thumb?
I've finally run out of excuses to avoid switching to Comcast. I can finally kiss that slow DSL goodbye now that I no feel obligated to support a liberal-minded, independent ISP.
Of course, I'll lose some of that benefit when I have to bounce my traffic off a mule-mounted WiFi repeater in Estonia in order to avoid having my activities scrutinized by the marketing division of The Very Big Corporation of America.
I'm also a relatively happy customer of Speakeasy, but my major gripe with them is a direct effect of their current lack of influence: they can't improve line quality. SBC can, at their discretion, switch you to a closer central office (CO). Speakeasy (via Covad) is unable to do this, so I've been stuck on a crappy line for over three years now (its "length" varies from 13K to 18K feet, according to MLTs). Switching to OneLink (dry copper) helped a bit since the SBC tech didn't realize I wasn't going to be an SBC voice customer. However, all he did was take up some extra line, reducing the distance a couple thousand feet. I can only wonder what might've happened if he had mistakenly thought he was provisioning an SBC DSL circuit.
And yet, I refuse to switch. Anything's better than dropping another dollar in SBC's or Comcast's corporate coffers.
SBC lives by the letter of the [current] law. They won't take any action to improve the service of CLEC customers, and the CLECs can't even pay for anything better. Ideally, I would happily foot the cost of re-running the circuit if I had that option, but that doesn't even figure into their grand plan. I fail to see how anything positive can come out of these new changes; this is effectively a blank check to abuse CLECs to the point of bankruptcy.
Once upon a time, I had a 386/40 board with a bad solder point on it somewhere. When the computer would heat up, it would crash and wouldn't boot again until it cooled down.
I discovered that I could get the computer to boot again (while still warm) if I pressed in on one corner of the board. Being a little strapped for cash, I put the computer on its side, left it open, and placed a drinking glass on the corner to flex the board. As the problem worsened, I just threw more spare change into the glass to apply more pressure. Eventually, the glass filled and I bought a replacement board. Unfortunately, I'd used mostly pennies, so it didn't make for a substantial contribution to the new motherboard.
Before SP1 came out, copies of XP Corporate Edition (which doesn't require on-line activation) had been circulating along with a few known keys or key blocks. It was a simple matter to block that relatively small set of keys in the SP1 software package.
Now, key generators have been out for some time. While Microsoft could graze the newsgroups looking for key lists, the number of "known keys" would be enormous. Combined with the fact that the key generator is widely available, disabling pirated copies in an off-line version of the service pack would be impossible without including all known (and ever-to-be-generated) keys in the new service pack.
It might be more complex than that, but if the goal of your key generation algorithm is to not require you to record every generated key (i.e., it's effectively just a string and a checksum), then this is bound to happen eventually. Best to just roll with the punches, and assume that the pirates probably wouldn't pay for the product if they had to.
For the record, I work at Sputnik.</disclaimer>
Sputnik offers almost-free ($10 administrative fee) management software for community access points. There's more on the requirements at our site. With luck, you'll be able to install our management agent on some off-the-shelf APs next month (we're testing some now), but you can also get the hardware through us.
Each person that has his purses strings cut is given his own set of tights and instructed to do the same.
Yes, eventually you end up with a very overpopulated forest where all the 'Hoods are desperately trying to rob each other.
And bomb full of attitude adjustment gas goes off at the end of the year and they forget why they're all in the forest.
The Indiana University School of Medicine was hit recently. Not just social security numbers, but medical records, too--everything you need to know to become someone else. All these poor folks were patients of their sleep clinic. I guess they have something else to keep them awake all night now...
I always chuckled at that statement for a different reason.
Anyone know how to initiate a TCP connection (or even a UDP exchange, for that matter) without sending the first packet? Every packet constitutes some kind of information. Minimally, you're telling Microsoft that you're attempting to run the WindowsUpdate application!
"Death Star Productions"
They'd probably run into some logo problems with AT&T.
Certifications can be utter crap. A associate of mine is a personal trainer. He took classes, read books, and sat in on exams to get his certification from "company X." Recently, his gym hired another personal trailer who clicked on the right buttons on an on-line form, and received her equally-valid certification from "company Y." The same deal applies in pretty much all industries. For that matter, is a Ph.D from Harvard the same as one from the local state college? No, but they're both Ph.D's.
Who can really judge what you do or don't know, and whether you have an intuitive grasp of your profession? Formal education itself is a self-perpetuating industry. It's noble cause, I'll admit, but just as subject to the corruption and bureaucracy to which we've grown accustomed in government and large companies.
On the salon bit... if memory serves, a salon is subject to regulation by the local health board if they perform manicures. Manicures are considered a surgical procedure since they involve the removal of skin (albeit dead skin), and sometimes encounter blood products.
...when I used to deal with this stuff (and I was usually on the "serving" end of the subpoena), entities in other states were under no obligation to honor a subpoena from our state. Only subpoenas issued from federal courts are valid across state boundaries.
This subpoena was issued from Massachusetts for an agency in New York. Not far, but far enough.
One wonders what version management software the Bitkeeper authors used when they were writing their product. RCS? Visual SourceSafe? Or, gasp, CVS? No one starts at zero. Even compilers for new architectures are built using a cross compiler on a foreign system first.
Not that it makes a bit[keeper] of difference, since there's no law that they have to practice what they preach WRT their own software, but it's an interesting thought. Those who benefited from open-source software, or even a competitor's product, shouldn't openly disparage that vendor's product (though they don't appear to have done that here).
Companies should remain competitive by making a better product, not by writing legalese that prevents you from using others' products.
Probably too late, but for those grazing this story later...
The ISO image for disc1 on Hiwaay's mirror is corrupt. It has a large "nulled" section. Don't know if this affects other mirror sites.
Just tried dialing direct, and the free FAX service indicated the same thing.
The USA Networks FAX is also off.
These have always been the alternate names for these, and far more suitable for those who haven't figured out why some stick out and some don't.
I tend to see these used more often in the context of "phone" plugs (the 1/4" big-assed headphone variety and the 1/8" "mini-phone" variety we're all more accustomed to now, found at the end of our "buds").
People with an enhanced sense of entitlement (which justifies their right to interrupt your entertainment) likely consider themselves a couple of notches higher on the IQ scale. Rather than getting mad at them, cheerfully offer to help them set their overly-complex phones on vibrate mode. If they have time in their busy schedules and they have a Nokia phone, offer to help them change the d*mned default ring, too...
:)
Granted, I've been informed that a significant segment of the fairer sex often wears clothing such that it's impossible to directly attach a cell phone (i.e., no pockets or belt), thus making vibrate mode useless. I don't have an helpful advice on this one. Maybe a tiny bluetooth vibra-call device you can discretely attach to another personal accessory...
It only took four calls to get that installed. And now that he has MS Flight Combat Simulator, all hope of installing Linux on my parents' overpowered machine have gone up with the proverbial blue smoke.
trancEaddict.com is a great site with live set and single track downloads available.
Another strategy is to pick out certain songs in mixes that you like, and then find other mixes containing those song. Since mixes blend "compatible" songs together, you'll tend to find stuff that is to your taste, and get introduced to music that's just a step away.
Personally, I'm fond of Chicane. And any of the "Euphoria" albums (available on Amazon, at the least) are great.
Reading this article, I started noticing some similarities between spamming and drug trade (granted, this is on the heals of having seen Traffic recently). Next time a spammer considers describing his or her trade as legitimate, consider these similarities:
Lots of side-to-side shaking. 'Bout time we had some quake action out here. I moved from Indiana because I never saw any of the tornados I was promised, and the SF bay had been largely disappointing 'til now...
Last time I checked my history books, plenty of folks were making music and taking money for live performances before the RIAA and friends figured out how to charge just as much for a version of it on a piece of vinyl or plastic & aluminum.
Free music stifles creativity? Bah. It stifles their way of making money from exploitation. If anything, they're choking off less-popular genres of music by deluding us into thinking that the only way to hear it is their way.
Answer: depends on who you are.
Slashdot is easily one of the sites I hit most; as such, I'd be happy to help out with the administrative costs. However, I haven't a clue how long my $5 subscription would last. If I had some historical data (my own, not the average for all users), I'd be more likely to pony up.
OTOH, from a technical perspective, I understand that it's page views that count. However, people work on a time basis -- they don't like to sit and count. Simply charging for page views isn't innovative -- it's insensitive to how people really operate. You might as well be an evil cell phone company.
Perhaps somewhere in-between would be to throttle a bit. Figure that someone will load 10 Slashdot pages in a day (that's about 3 months for a 1000-page subscription). If they expect to get 3 months out of their subscription, let them. Just let them know when they're hitting too frequently, or send a static page or banner-ad page when they run over a personally-set daily limit.