You'd be surprised just how awful telephone service from Verizon can be in some locations. I just had an outage on a clear day in the middle of a Wednesday afternoon and was told that the soonest they could send repairs would be on Sunday. I terminated my service with them since I was running Vonage in parallel as a test. Even before this incident Verizon appeared to want to do absolutely nothing to resolve any of the intermittent interference problems on the line. Some days the quality of service was unusable.
Yes, deep down I want ot replace the phone company with something that cares enough to do an adequate job.
When animals get to eat at restaurants and/or supermarkets I will feel you are right about which is the working species. How many of the animals you eat were killed and skinned by you?
How do you identify someone to compare them to what's on your black list? IP address? Good luck cause you have to deal with DHCP and NAT. Use a token instead? What's to keep them from using a new token whenever they like?
Its easy to say, just use a list but it's not easy to do that.
A white list setup leaves you with a WASTE-like network not an anonymous one.
It used to be that it was easy to run Windows since patching it all the time was unheard of and VPNs were unheard of. Now when I see somebody struggling with Windows I always take the opportunity to say "Isn't Windows supposed to be easy?"
But a Sunnie told me some time ago, that they are currently investigating how to get rid of Xsun and get back closer to something more popular like XFree86 or the new X.org X11R6.7.
Moving from CDE to Gnome is already accomplished. The idea that this move was part of the plan to go FOSS is not that far fetched to me.
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Their banner seems so out-of-date. I guess it must be paying homage to the first inexpensive, mass-marketed electronic/electro-mechanical device that moved information duplication capabilities into the hands of the un-incorporated populous.
Who cares? Today I have witnessed Debian-like support on a Redhat 7.2 box. Whoda thunk it?
Nobody could make money on a system which keeps customers from upgrading. Redhat's done the right thing by moving on.
I'm stuck with admining boxes I'd like to drop off the edge of the earth due to people in charge who don't have a clue what goes on at my level. When companies grow to a certain size no one can see from one end to the other.
Try putting /etc into CVS when you build a Gentoo
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It's funny that I started using CVS and Gentoo around the same time and I decided to put as much of/etc on the Gentoo box I was planning on building into CVS as possible.
I love it this way, I can run "cvs -q diff -u" on/etc after an "emerge system" and see exactly what got changed. Many times "etc-update" prints that it's making "trival changes" to files without bothering to show you. This way you can see the whole thing. Once you are satsified with/etc you can commit the whole thing with one command back into CVS.
Gentoo is also the first system I used that actually build/etc/ntp.conf from DHCP server info. I would not have noticed/etc/ntp.conf changing when the system was rebooted if not for "cvs -q diff -u".
PHK should be getting corporate funding for doing development work on a feature like SMP which enterprise users would want much more than home users.
Yahoo! got started on FreeBSD and now the news is they are having record profits. Where's the Yahoo! funding? Where's the Apple funding? Where's the corporate funding at all?
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I remember when Blue LED's were first introduced in the April 1 issue of Byte Magazine (sometime around 1987 IIRC) as an April Fool's joke! Finally, two or three years later they were actually invented!
I remember the same thing about 3" disk drives. Is it worth going back through old April Fool's Day issues of Byte looking for what's next?
A console driver that requires the client to trust the host enough to compile and run source code it sends.
Plus the origins of another big security problem: active mode FTP.
To initiate this class of link, user level programs at both ends of an established TTY-like link must request the establishment of a file-like connection parallel to the TTY-like link.
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Would using flash instead of a hard drive save power?
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How many people have land line + cell phone. Why can't they switch to VoIP + cell phone.
The 911 problem. Call the Police or Fire department directly.
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So use cable Internet instead.
You'd be surprised just how awful telephone service from Verizon can be in some locations. I just had an outage on a clear day in the middle of a Wednesday afternoon and was told that the soonest they could send repairs would be on Sunday. I terminated my service with them since I was running Vonage in parallel as a test. Even before this incident Verizon appeared to want to do absolutely nothing to resolve any of the intermittent interference problems on the line. Some days the quality of service was unusable.
Yes, deep down I want ot replace the phone company with something that cares enough to do an adequate job.
Mac OS X on Linux keeps getting faster
refresh rate
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17.5. 6min10s 5min27s
19.5. 6min01s 5min24s
21.5. 6min01s 5min25s
23.5. 3min48s (!!) 3min28s (!!)
M$ is a software vendor who effectively enslaves hardware vendors like DELL. That's vertical in a way.
NS32000, 88000, WE32000, 68K and VAX are obsolete CISC CPUs while the x86 platform is internally a RISC CPU with a RISC-macro-language-like CISC API.
Intel killed the Alpha, HP just complies with their will.
Sun's not dead, it just smells that way sometimes.
I do agree with you about the cost but IBM is using the technology that they let Apple use so they get double duty from a single CPU family.
Apple can't compete with M$. They must remain vertical (H/W + S/W). The PPC is not going anywhere except over Apple's dead body.
When animals get to eat at restaurants and/or supermarkets I will feel you are right about which is the working species. How many of the animals you eat were killed and skinned by you?
When an unstable country is allows to have a nuclear bomb factory.
The product becomes obsolete
as in "nobody does P2P that way anymore"
Which do you use more these days BT or Kazza?
The patent on a useless technology does not lead to
5. Profit
How do you identify someone to compare them to what's on your black list? IP address? Good luck cause you have to deal with DHCP and NAT. Use a token instead? What's to keep them from using a new token whenever they like?
Its easy to say, just use a list but it's not easy to do that.
A white list setup leaves you with a WASTE-like network not an anonymous one.
It used to be that it was easy to run Windows since patching it all the time was unheard of and VPNs were unheard of. Now when I see somebody struggling with Windows I always take the opportunity to say "Isn't Windows supposed to be easy?"
It's only free if you use the "Freedom" definition of "Free".
Meanwhile it's just gotten a lot cheaper to be on a legacy Red Hat platform.
Product End-of-Life came to Red Hat 7.2 but then there is still life. Do you believe in life after End-of-Life? Miracles can happen.
To replace Wintel it would have to be Linadm.
But a Sunnie told me some time ago, that they are currently investigating how to get rid of Xsun and get back closer to something more popular like XFree86 or the new X.org X11R6.7.
Moving from CDE to Gnome is already accomplished. The idea that this move was part of the plan to go FOSS is not that far fetched to me.
Their banner seems so out-of-date. I guess it must be paying homage to the first inexpensive, mass-marketed electronic/electro-mechanical device that moved information duplication capabilities into the hands of the un-incorporated populous.
Who cares? Today I have witnessed Debian-like support on a Redhat 7.2 box. Whoda thunk it?
Nobody could make money on a system which keeps customers from upgrading. Redhat's done the right thing by moving on.
I'm stuck with admining boxes I'd like to drop off the edge of the earth due to people in charge who don't have a clue what goes on at my level. When companies grow to a certain size no one can see from one end to the other.
It's funny that I started using CVS and Gentoo around the same time and I decided to put as much of /etc on the Gentoo box I was planning on building into CVS as possible.
/etc after an "emerge system" and see exactly what got changed. Many times "etc-update" prints that it's making "trival changes" to files without bothering to show you. This way you can see the whole thing. Once you are satsified with /etc you can commit the whole thing with one command back into CVS.
/etc/ntp.conf from DHCP server info. I would not have noticed /etc/ntp.conf changing when the system was rebooted if not for "cvs -q diff -u".
I love it this way, I can run "cvs -q diff -u" on
Gentoo is also the first system I used that actually build
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Though it would keep comcast from discovering my ssh service.
What? Provided you never use it? Anyone with a packet sniffer on your network can see there's an ssh server when it's in operation.
PHK should be getting corporate funding for doing development work on a feature like SMP which enterprise users would want much more than home users.
Yahoo! got started on FreeBSD and now the news is they are having record profits. Where's the Yahoo! funding? Where's the Apple funding? Where's the corporate funding at all?
Use mplayer on Linux then.
I got to run out and buy some new stuff so I can be bothered by blue LEDs too.
Plus the origins of another big security problem: active mode FTP.