However, take note: interfacing with a portable player involves transferring the data via some client application. Who's to say that the client can't automagically convert the file to.ogg for the device, regardless of whether the source file is.wav,.pcm,.mp3,.wma, etc?
The sooner.ogg support is available, the better.. Even if it requires some transition hijinx to start.
Your Working Boy,
- Otis (LICQ: 85110864)
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I have to say that I find it rather odd how much karma and posting has taken over. I think most of this has to do with my view of slashdot. I mainly view it as a news site, never a discussion site. Kur5in I'll view as a discussion site.
Strange, I find the discussions here much more informataining than the 'news' content.. I prefer The Register for my news coverage, since their writers are wittier and tend to spel correcly..
Maybe I'm the bad guy, but I do read at a score of 1 or higher, newest first. I tend to not moderate or metamoderate, unless something's unusually funny or interesting.
I check off the 'no +1' box unless it's something I really give a shit about or if I forget (making the 'no +1' box on by default would be smart IMO).
Karma: it's a number. An interesting mechanism to keep people involved. A mild behavioral check. It really doesn't actually count for shit (like CN said: where do I redeem Karma for valuable cash prizes? or hell, maybe a/. mug or something?) but it's harmless fun. Hell, it's not even a high-score list!
Karma Whoring: obnoxious, but _someone_ is spending mod points on it.. Whatever. People shooting for Karma are either preaching/pandering/whoring to the converted (and are easily revealed as doing so), providing an interesting counterpoint (where couching in 'mod me down, BUT..' is more offensive than just getting to the fucking point), revealing some truth about themselves or the community as they see it, or something that gets a laugh. Figure out which is which.
Personally, I post what I think, behind the comfortable safety of a mildly-concealing pseudonym. I _am_ philosophically inline with the community, which is why I read this site in the first place, so that's no surprise. But I never woke up thinking 'gee whiz, how do I garner more karma today?'. I'm _happy_ to have found a like-minded community, because finding such a motley band in meatspace is remarkably difficult, and I'm happy to contribute where I can as I can.
I mean geez, how much of this is not obvious? But it needed to be said at some point..
... they keep you sharp and give you exposure to new and different ways of doing thigns.
OTOH, I find younger folks can be more easily suckered by vendor hype (or am I just a crusty old man?). Also, younger folks (or, actually, those with less experience with different companies regardless of age) tend to let their passion with a single project cloud their judgement regarding their personal needs.
If there were anything I could tell myself as a younger man, I would say 'stop for a second and smell the fucking roses!!!!' Don't let a single-minded devotion to work turn you into an asshole. Your sanity is worth more than any job, and finding personal happiness should still be your first priority. Hopefully coding, testing, hacking, building hardware, testing clock settings, etc are things that make you happy, but try other things and don't let the fun you have with computers cloud your best interestes and don't let people take advantage of you... Or not. Do what you want, I guess.
I tend to have more sympathy for them, especially lately since this is probably their first economic downturn. And this one looks like it won't even be so bad.. Read a little history now and then, it'll do you some good. I recommend 'Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds' by Mackay, and 'The Reckoning' by David Halberstam for some fun reading in these strange economic times..
Ehh, just some gross generalizations from a 28 year old codger...
Only problem with that is if you block DDoS at your router, it's still wasting your bandwidth! That's enough for most DDoS.. Our link (a T1) couldn't overload any of our web, dns, or mail servers (Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NT, 2000) in terms of CPU, net or disk I/O, but doing that would significantly fuck our users trying to do surfing, mail transfer, etc since their traffic would be lost in the crap.
The only fix for that is to have your ISP's end of the link put in rules, which depending on the skill of the DDoS'er or his scripts, would block out most incoming traffic, including legitimate inbound requests from clients, telecommuters, etc. The real sneaky thing about smart DDoSers is that they forge IP addresses from all over the IPv4 space and so you can't actually tell genuinely which net they're sourcing from without an extensive & laborious backtrace or software that can perform such backtraces by negotiating between peers automatically..
Pointy-hair summary: It's ugly any way you slice it:(
Why don't sysadmins start blocking off invalid TCP/UDP packets that the router?
Because many ISPs can't be bothered. UUNet, for example, refused to do backtraces on a DoS attack on my network at all. Multiple ISPs would need to cooperate in a very thorough way, and they don't see the $$$ in it I suppose.
I know at least 1 piece of software (Manhunt) is looking to get installed within ISPs to monitor routers and automate this backtracking and concomitant inter-ISP coordination, but I don't know if that's gotten anywhere.
Yah, it's in my backyard, and I don't really see the need. I deal with enough unix weenies on a daily basis as it is that I don't have to go and find more..;)
And I won't go without adequate swag to attract me.. The last 2-3 shows I've attended have been quite disappointing:(..
Mandrake's distro starts at i586 for most packages nowadays.. Any interest from RH in doing something similar, or providing updates to upgrade RPMs to iX86 where X>3?
Just last week the Microsoft DNS system was down, and they point to the BIND exploit as being a major _LINUX_ security hole! LOL... It doesn't get better than this!
It sure does.. do a queso on the Akamai servers M$ is using to shore up their pissant DNS structure.. What're they running?
How would the world of networking have been different if the world's most popular personal computer inn the early 1980s had shipped with a modem?
Nope, it was even more subversive than that.. A computer-controlled bluebox.. Imagine having a easy-to-use, software programmable interface to control the phone system?
NewtonOS and NewtonScript were, if anything else, very interesting animals...
And I'm damned if __ANY__ other PDA can match its interface for intuitiveness and ease of use. The data soup model is _perfect_ for such devices. And their third party software was also amazing. I have a palm IIIc. Nothing yet has approached the usefulness of MoreInfo (from SilverWare) for PIM functionality. And BTW, people don't buy PDAs to watch video clips or host webservers, they buy them to manage their time and tasks, as well as offer a window into their information sphere. Newton was the best at it, and to many it has yet to be matched.
Maybe in a few years we'll have a PalmOS or other PDA system that is as good as NOS2.x was in 1997. I certainly hope so.
Let's hope the open source community, in developing OSS PDA ware, sees fit to appreciate what the Newton did well, and steal it wholesale, thus leapfrogging current limited PDA designs.
(let's put it this way: The Newton is to the Palm what a vintage Porsche 911 is to a modern japanese subcompact: The Porsche is more powerful, more exclusive, more beautiful, more viscerally pleasing to the driver, but is also more expensive, more temperamental in handling, more difficult to maintain, and ultimately less successful in mass-market monetary terms than the japanese subcompact.)
... such as collective pricing on insurance, registry of good/bad employers (our own black/white lists), legal counsel, etc. without a traditional labor union?
There are features there that I'm interested in, particularly since it would help reduce the risk in going independent.
Someone mentioned the idea of a 'guild', which is really very interesting, and probably the best fit. SAGE is AFAICS a mostly skills/interest group, what I'd be interested in is something like that but with the addition of services at group prices. I can get 25% off ORA books with a Usenix/SAGE membership, howsabout 25% off Sun or Cisco hardware?;)
However, they don't handle some of the DDNS stuff he way the W2K stuff does. I suggest using a W2K box for DDNS - I find much less hassle (but I'm not a control freak) this way.
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However, take note: interfacing with a portable player involves transferring the data via some client application. Who's to say that the client can't automagically convert the file to .ogg for the device, regardless of whether the source file is .wav, .pcm, .mp3, .wma, etc?
.ogg support is available, the better.. Even if it requires some transition hijinx to start.
The sooner
Your Working Boy,
- Otis (LICQ: 85110864)
I have to say that I find it rather odd how much karma and posting has taken over. I think most of this has to do with my view of slashdot. I mainly view it as a news site, never a discussion site. Kur5in I'll view as a discussion site.
/. mug or something?) but it's harmless fun. Hell, it's not even a high-score list!
Strange, I find the discussions here much more informataining than the 'news' content.. I prefer The Register for my news coverage, since their writers are wittier and tend to spel correcly..
Maybe I'm the bad guy, but I do read at a score of 1 or higher, newest first. I tend to not moderate or metamoderate, unless something's unusually funny or interesting.
I check off the 'no +1' box unless it's something I really give a shit about or if I forget (making the 'no +1' box on by default would be smart IMO).
Karma: it's a number. An interesting mechanism to keep people involved. A mild behavioral check. It really doesn't actually count for shit (like CN said: where do I redeem Karma for valuable cash prizes? or hell, maybe a
Karma Whoring: obnoxious, but _someone_ is spending mod points on it.. Whatever. People shooting for Karma are either preaching/pandering/whoring to the converted (and are easily revealed as doing so), providing an interesting counterpoint (where couching in 'mod me down, BUT..' is more offensive than just getting to the fucking point), revealing some truth about themselves or the community as they see it, or something that gets a laugh. Figure out which is which.
Personally, I post what I think, behind the comfortable safety of a mildly-concealing pseudonym. I _am_ philosophically inline with the community, which is why I read this site in the first place, so that's no surprise. But I never woke up thinking 'gee whiz, how do I garner more karma today?'. I'm _happy_ to have found a like-minded community, because finding such a motley band in meatspace is remarkably difficult, and I'm happy to contribute where I can as I can.
I mean geez, how much of this is not obvious? But it needed to be said at some point..
Your Working Boy,
- Otis (LICQ: 85110864)
Sorry for the "OT" question, but what exactly does the www.tuxedo.org site do?
The block's probably for the gun page...
Your Working Boy,
- Otis (LICQ: 85110864)
Three words:
Smell The Glove.
Your Working Boy,
- Otis (LICQ: 85110864)
Well, you'd need a lot more fuel to get the thing back to Earth orbit.
;)
Naah, just target it for an earth-orbit-crossing asteroid and let it sit there until it gets back...
Your Working Boy,
- Otis (LICQ: 85110864)
I'll wager that LinuxPPC seats outnumber Linux Alpha seats.
I'm sure, but how about the # of _shelves_?
I'd _love_ to be able to afford a quick Alpha for workstation duty, but it'd be relatively easy (and apropos) to get one for server duty..
Your Working Boy,
- Otis (LICQ: 85110864)
Is PVM/MPI even available in assembly?
Remember, this code is meant to run on Beowulf clusters....
Your Working Boy,
- Otis (LICQ: 85110864)
Get yourself some audio software and make your own techno and upload it--you don't even need a microphone!
It may not be OSS, but it's cool..
Reason
Your Working Boy,
... they keep you sharp and give you exposure to new and different ways of doing thigns.
OTOH, I find younger folks can be more easily suckered by vendor hype (or am I just a crusty old man?). Also, younger folks (or, actually, those with less experience with different companies regardless of age) tend to let their passion with a single project cloud their judgement regarding their personal needs.
If there were anything I could tell myself as a younger man, I would say 'stop for a second and smell the fucking roses!!!!' Don't let a single-minded devotion to work turn you into an asshole. Your sanity is worth more than any job, and finding personal happiness should still be your first priority. Hopefully coding, testing, hacking, building hardware, testing clock settings, etc are things that make you happy, but try other things and don't let the fun you have with computers cloud your best interestes and don't let people take advantage of you... Or not. Do what you want, I guess.
I tend to have more sympathy for them, especially lately since this is probably their first economic downturn. And this one looks like it won't even be so bad.. Read a little history now and then, it'll do you some good. I recommend 'Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds' by Mackay, and 'The Reckoning' by David Halberstam for some fun reading in these strange economic times..
Ehh, just some gross generalizations from a 28 year old codger...
Your Working Boy,
Only problem with that is if you block DDoS at your router, it's still wasting your bandwidth! That's enough for most DDoS.. Our link (a T1) couldn't overload any of our web, dns, or mail servers (Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NT, 2000) in terms of CPU, net or disk I/O, but doing that would significantly fuck our users trying to do surfing, mail transfer, etc since their traffic would be lost in the crap.
:(
The only fix for that is to have your ISP's end of the link put in rules, which depending on the skill of the DDoS'er or his scripts, would block out most incoming traffic, including legitimate inbound requests from clients, telecommuters, etc. The real sneaky thing about smart DDoSers is that they forge IP addresses from all over the IPv4 space and so you can't actually tell genuinely which net they're sourcing from without an extensive & laborious backtrace or software that can perform such backtraces by negotiating between peers automatically..
Pointy-hair summary: It's ugly any way you slice it
Your Working Boy,
Why don't sysadmins start blocking off invalid TCP/UDP packets that the router?
Because many ISPs can't be bothered. UUNet, for example, refused to do backtraces on a DoS attack on my network at all. Multiple ISPs would need to cooperate in a very thorough way, and they don't see the $$$ in it I suppose.
I know at least 1 piece of software (Manhunt) is looking to get installed within ISPs to monitor routers and automate this backtracking and concomitant inter-ISP coordination, but I don't know if that's gotten anywhere.
Your Working Boy,
It can have shared-win conditions, though most players are too (delightfully) venal to allow that to happen outright..
Your Working Boy,
Ehh, Vinyl's better.. How much is Wetlands' cover these days?
Your Working Boy,
Yah, it's in my backyard, and I don't really see the need. I deal with enough unix weenies on a daily basis as it is that I don't have to go and find more.. ;)
:(..
And I won't go without adequate swag to attract me.. The last 2-3 shows I've attended have been quite disappointing
Your Working Boy,
I've got a second hand apron...
Your Working Boy,
Mandrake's distro starts at i586 for most packages nowadays.. Any interest from RH in doing something similar, or providing updates to upgrade RPMs to iX86 where X>3?
Your Working Boy,
Yes there could be a subset of MacOS running on x86. It would be appliance centric and a functional subset of MacOS X.
Mmmm... Maya render farms...
Your Working Boy,
Your university just took it up the cakehole.
OTOH, more opportunities for student IT folks, and thus more money for BEER!!!
;)
Your Working Boy,
Just last week the Microsoft DNS system was down, and they point to the BIND exploit as being a major _LINUX_ security hole! LOL... It doesn't get better than this!
It sure does.. do a queso on the Akamai servers M$ is using to shore up their pissant DNS structure.. What're they running?
;)
Your Working Boy,
How would the world of networking have been different if the world's most popular personal computer inn the early 1980s had shipped with a modem?
Nope, it was even more subversive than that.. A computer-controlled bluebox.. Imagine having a easy-to-use, software programmable interface to control the phone system?
Your Working Boy,
Are you on crack?
NewtonOS and NewtonScript were, if anything else, very interesting animals...
And I'm damned if __ANY__ other PDA can match its interface for intuitiveness and ease of use. The data soup model is _perfect_ for such devices. And their third party software was also amazing. I have a palm IIIc. Nothing yet has approached the usefulness of MoreInfo (from SilverWare) for PIM functionality. And BTW, people don't buy PDAs to watch video clips or host webservers, they buy them to manage their time and tasks, as well as offer a window into their information sphere. Newton was the best at it, and to many it has yet to be matched.
Maybe in a few years we'll have a PalmOS or other PDA system that is as good as NOS2.x was in 1997. I certainly hope so.
Let's hope the open source community, in developing OSS PDA ware, sees fit to appreciate what the Newton did well, and steal it wholesale, thus leapfrogging current limited PDA designs.
(let's put it this way: The Newton is to the Palm what a vintage Porsche 911 is to a modern japanese subcompact: The Porsche is more powerful, more exclusive, more beautiful, more viscerally pleasing to the driver, but is also more expensive, more temperamental in handling, more difficult to maintain, and ultimately less successful in mass-market monetary terms than the japanese subcompact.)
Your Working Boy,
... such as collective pricing on insurance, registry of good/bad employers (our own black/white lists), legal counsel, etc. without a traditional labor union?
;)
There are features there that I'm interested in, particularly since it would help reduce the risk in going independent.
Someone mentioned the idea of a 'guild', which is really very interesting, and probably the best fit. SAGE is AFAICS a mostly skills/interest group, what I'd be interested in is something like that but with the addition of services at group prices. I can get 25% off ORA books with a Usenix/SAGE membership, howsabout 25% off Sun or Cisco hardware?
Your Working Boy,
That's pretty scary, considering how fragile those planes' electrical systems are..
Your Working Boy,
AIBO vs. BIG TRAK...
(Too bad Aibo doesn't have that nasally-fitted retractable laser..)
Your Working Boy,
However, they don't handle some of the DDNS stuff he way the W2K stuff does. I suggest using a W2K box for DDNS - I find much less hassle (but I'm not a control freak) this way.
How about bind 9.x?
Your Working Boy,