Maybe (to make it super simple) allow any registered user to self-down-moderate, with karma penalties... Hmm, maybe after the departmental meeting, time to patch moderateCid..;)
... is to boycott BMG in all its forms. I won't let this crap stress me. I have enough to do at work and home (laundry! AIEEE!) to let some junk like this bother me.. who's on the BMG roster anyway?
Though if Verve or Blue Note (or Def Jam;) started with this, it'd be time to whip out the old tires and do some executive necklacing...
IBM, by comparison, is more honest in their approach. IBM knows that in the coming decades, whichever OS the users use is not important, what is important is that the APPLICATIONS and the HARDWARE the users will choose. That is why IBM has embarked on its journey in adopting Linux, and IBM is not apologetic on what they are doing.
Don't forget, also, where IBM's bread is increasingly buttered: Services! The service end of their business doesn't care whit one what kind of tech gets sold and (more importantly) supported, as long as they get that big fat margin from providing the aformentioned service!
I wonder when Sun will steal the whole services idea from Big Blue: they stole the ideas for mission-critical systems design right out of the mainframe playbook...
The Internet was never conceived as a the sole preserve of technologically skilled young white men.
Actually, the protocols were conceived for military preparedness during the 1960s and 1970s, and the designers, developers and maintainers of that military technology were?
Technologically skilled young white men.
I know this is the Internet, but as a 'public figure' (particularly writing about flames!) I'd proofread a bit more...
And this is not to say, obviously, that the Internet should go back to those days. Sheesh, many of our jobs rely on the tech-civilians and their ignorance of the net and its related hardware and software.. Just know where you're coming from...
But if they want to treat workstation practicality as being equivalent to server practicality, that's an all too common fallacy.
SCSI subsystems usually feature more mature and faster chipsets and better busmastering, and SCSI controllers tend to load the CPU less than any IDE/EIDE controller I've ever used.
If your workstation is really a workstation, where you're doing local rendering or driving large compiles or anything which requires lots of CPU, and you're willing to pay for performance, SCSI still holds court on the top end. The difference now is that the top end is getting thinner and thinner as ATA continues to raise the bar.
Frinstance, when I finally buy my 2 HDDs for video editing (to mirror together), 99% sure they'll be ATA66 Quanta. If I was a video pro, though, and had the $$$ and needed to get 24bit uncompressed RGB video at 29.97fps, striping across 6-7 HDDs and having lots of controller cache would still mandate SCSI.
Still, it's not a religion, just stick with what's fast enough for your needs..
What do you expect? Most low-budget hosting operations are run on minimal (if not nonexistent) margins, staffed by unhappy people, and managed by slavedrivers. The hosting business sucks ass until you get into the revenue-generating parts (like offering e-commerce features) because there is so much competition that any non-essential service gets reduced to come in under the competition.
Competition is good, but you guys have _got_ to stop using hosting services that shaft you, otherwise you're proving that price is more important than service.
Kee-rist, it's _not hard_ to run a hosting service, as long as you get your technology and TOS right (don't handle porn unless you have a pipe big enough, force CGI protections thru cgiwrap or suexec, don't use M$;)....
You forgot to mention that at 8 years old you'll understand less than half of the jokes. But most of them will still be fun.
Perhaps, but what I've found over the years is that my favorite things (HHG, Python, Discworld, etc) got better over time as I learned more and could see more each time I reread or reviewed the stuff. I could never figure out who the hell Reginald Maudlin was and why Pythons would rip on him so, until I learned more.. And gods, imagine being a history major and being able to appreciate Holy Grail or Life of Brian on a whole different level after studying the Arthur legends or Roman Judea.. Hell, I got an A on a paper for my Roman Empire class writing about Life of Brian...
MST3k also does this for me a bit, but I got into it late and thus know almost every riff ref;);)
I dunno, my favorite has to be The Cyberiad.. I particularly like the story of the 2 warring nations whose princes had Trurl and Klaupaucius build conduits into their armies' heads, to connect them together and allow for exact maneuvers. IIRC it was Sally 7, but it's been awhile..
in my experience, most people do not wish to challenge the modes of thought that they have unthinkingly used all their lives.
Which is why, in the modern age of accelerating change, they're dinosaurs. I'm not sure if Philosophy is as important as studying Philosophy, because the act of considering alternate viewpoints as legitimate competitors to your own provides the flexibility needed to cope with change. Knowing the people and language of the Philosophy discipline is important if you wish to spread yours or have people understand it, but honestly life is getting so individually-tailored that soon (if not now) it will be futile to try and categorize philosophies.
Of course, discrimination is also important: reflexive flexibility is extremely dangerous, you should definitely develop good filters..
Nor would they be intimately aware with the number of emails or phone calls the @Home abuse department has made to their customers to correct misconfigured proxies.
The wonderful thing about the UDP is precisely that it forces the spam issue regardless of the ISP's internal issues. The UDP folks look (rightly, imo) at ISPs as basically black boxes which either generate/perpetuate spam or do not, and act accordingly.
Look at it from another angle: Joe Ethical Admin has been bugging Sandy Clueless Manager for weeks or months about this, but gotten no real mandate to put fixes in because of low priority. UDP drives that priority up, and actually _helps_ Joe do the right thing!
As long as UDP remains ethical and fair in the 'prelude' phase (documented, adequate time to repent, adequate technical assistance) I have no problem with it, or with the pain it causes target ISPs. Sometimes you need to feel pain to know something needs fixing.
The bottom line (IMO) is that USENET has given @Home an ultimatum, and @Home is responding. But this is not the sort of problem that @Home can fix overnight.
Well, if they are responding adequately, I'm sure the UDP will be suspended or lifted. Check up on the history of the UDP: the 'judges' are pretty forgiving of truly repentant offenders.
The nature of their service and the shared network topology inherent in the cable network design create some unique security hassles. Everyone should do their best to understand the nature of the work required before they blast @Home for being unresponsive or for just not caring.
If they didn't think of abuse issues ahead of time during the design phase, they deserve what they get! It's not like IP networking hasn't existed for 20+ years.. There's solutions to this, which quite honestly should have been documented and applied at the time of the network rollout. And if the technically correct behavior is being stifled by non-technical considerations, it's things like UDP and MAPS that help force technical concerns up higher in the list, and that's nothing but a good thing.
I love seeing people get paid for writing OSS... I'm wondering though, will PI get into the OS$ (Open Source $upport) biz? I can imagine them either doing X support direct or thru commercial distro companies on a model similar to RH's support structure...
On the other hand maybe RedHat likes being able to charge more to have you order their Commerce Servers direct from them:-)
This is more for licensing the use of RSA-patented algorithms in the commerce server package. $149 buys you a license to use the SSL server in the states.
My question is, though, when does the RSA patent expire? It's mildly ontopic..
Nah, I like my WWII/Guns/Mystery channels, PBS, and my DVD collection. Still, my next set will come sans tuner and fully VGA/HDTV compatible. It's looking like Sony's VW10HT.
Any good science fiction suggestions for an 8 year old boy?
The Stainless Steel Rat series. Big fan of that at age 8. I'd also recommend Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and possibly the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett. I read 1984 when I was 9, but I don't necessarily recommend Orwell at that age;)
If something better came along that does not break compatibility with our existing equipment, I don't think you would be hearing these (justified, IMNSHO) complaints.
But at what point to you simply ignore the complaints and drive ahead?
I mean, I'm sure there were complaints from the buggy-whip camp when autos became available, or from typewriter users when the first wordprocessors were available. Imagine society if we had not ignored them.
(then again.. sounds like a tech-free vacation to me, but I definitely wouldn't want to live there..)
Hi, I have one (an I3k 266mhz PI) that's basically been mangled to death. However, I have a bunch of bits for it I quite like (2 64MB SIMMs, 6.4gb HDD never stained by M$ (built the ftp install disk on a SPARC and bought the unformatted HDD from MegaHaus)), so the question is...
Any other boxes use Inspiron 3000 SIMMS? The HDD is IIRC either 6mm or 9mm, and I assume I can just bolt it into a bracket..
(Then again, I can sitll use the thing as a battery-backed server;)
Your Working Boy,
Basic flaw: demand is not considered.
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At least in the US, media outlets are for the most part for-profit entities. If their work generates ample profit, they will continue performing that work. There is apparently a lucrative market for this information out there. Just because you're not a part of it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
The 'Regulon' of the media is the pocketbook. When they can't rent eyeballs or eardrums, or sell dead trees or plastic, they will wither like the casualties of an overused food source. I can only hope that paid propaganda will be anathema enough for journalists to profitably expose.
The real questions are: will all this media in its different forms and competencies make for a better-informed citizenry? Will the depressed cost of information provide a wealth of knowledge to the less affluent? Are media consumers discriminating in their intake of information, or are they easily-swayed sheep?
There was a stand-up comic recently on TV talking about how he watched TV news by flipping between several networks, and synthesizing the total news (where some networks emphasized one story that another might virtually ignore) picture. He was making a joke, of course, but the underlying concept is still sound. In order to mitigate the effects of journalistic bias, you need to view the same media thru different outlets, personalities, etc. to get a well rounded picture. Or, you need to be aware of a medium's personal biases and use them to filter out relevant information.
The first computer coders were women. Check your history of computers: they were initially coded by connecting wires in a switchboard configuration. Who do you think did that work?
Hedy Lamarr (besides being a sex symbol) helped design and patent spread-spectrum wireless technologies that were half a century ahead of their time. If you have a PCS phone or 802.11 networking (among other products), you have her to thank.
There are lots of female pros in even the modern sysadmin game. 2 of my most prized sysadmin books were either written (ORA's Unix System Administration) or co-written (USAH, or the Red Book) by women.
RDS is found on a miniscule # of stations in the US, and IIRC there is no 'traffic' feature. In the NYC area for example, IIRC 102.7 WNEW has it, as well as 88.3 WBGO. That might be it.
I have RDS in a crap home theatre receiver of mine, and was psyched until I discovered how few stations had RDS in this bass ackward country.
BTW, teletext is just too neat, though when I was in Munich the RDS confused me somewhat as my German is quite rustig..;)
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Maybe (to make it super simple) allow any registered user to self-down-moderate, with karma penalties... Hmm, maybe after the departmental meeting, time to patch moderateCid.. ;)
Your Working Boy,
Now it's time for those of us (myself included) who have been whinging for months about this to put up or shut up...
Anyone have any feature ideas? (My fave so far: _cancel_ your own messages.. VERY TRICKY to manage those trees, but possible...)
Let the hacking begin!
Your Working Boy,
... is to boycott BMG in all its forms. I won't let this crap stress me. I have enough to do at work and home (laundry! AIEEE!) to let some junk like this bother me.. who's on the BMG roster anyway?
;) started with this, it'd be time to whip out the old tires and do some executive necklacing...
Though if Verve or Blue Note (or Def Jam
Cheers,
Your Working Boy,
IBM, by comparison, is more honest in their approach. IBM knows that in the coming decades, whichever OS the users use is not important, what is important is that the APPLICATIONS and the HARDWARE the users will choose. That is why IBM has embarked on its journey in adopting Linux, and IBM is not apologetic on what they are doing.
Don't forget, also, where IBM's bread is increasingly buttered: Services! The service end of their business doesn't care whit one what kind of tech gets sold and (more importantly) supported, as long as they get that big fat margin from providing the aformentioned service!
I wonder when Sun will steal the whole services idea from Big Blue: they stole the ideas for mission-critical systems design right out of the mainframe playbook...
(and yes, I'm a Big Blue fan.)
Your Working Boy,
.. kinda makes me glad I don't live there...
(and dry heat my a$$.. anything warmer than 20 degrees celsius is simply unacceptable..)
Cheers,
Your Working Boy,
Your Working Boy,
The Internet was never conceived as a the sole preserve of technologically skilled young white men.
Actually, the protocols were conceived for military preparedness during the 1960s and 1970s, and the designers, developers and maintainers of that military technology were?
Technologically skilled young white men.
I know this is the Internet, but as a 'public figure' (particularly writing about flames!) I'd proofread a bit more...
And this is not to say, obviously, that the Internet should go back to those days. Sheesh, many of our jobs rely on the tech-civilians and their ignorance of the net and its related hardware and software.. Just know where you're coming from...
Your Working Boy,
But if they want to treat workstation practicality as being equivalent to server practicality, that's an all too common fallacy.
SCSI subsystems usually feature more mature and faster chipsets and better busmastering, and SCSI controllers tend to load the CPU less than any IDE/EIDE controller I've ever used.
If your workstation is really a workstation, where you're doing local rendering or driving large compiles or anything which requires lots of CPU, and you're willing to pay for performance, SCSI still holds court on the top end. The difference now is that the top end is getting thinner and thinner as ATA continues to raise the bar.
Frinstance, when I finally buy my 2 HDDs for video editing (to mirror together), 99% sure they'll be ATA66 Quanta. If I was a video pro, though, and had the $$$ and needed to get 24bit uncompressed RGB video at 29.97fps, striping across 6-7 HDDs and having lots of controller cache would still mandate SCSI.
Still, it's not a religion, just stick with what's fast enough for your needs..
Your Working Boy,
Check out Ghost sites...
Your Working Boy,
What do you expect? Most low-budget hosting operations are run on minimal (if not nonexistent) margins, staffed by unhappy people, and managed by slavedrivers. The hosting business sucks ass until you get into the revenue-generating parts (like offering e-commerce features) because there is so much competition that any non-essential service gets reduced to come in under the competition.
;) ....
Competition is good, but you guys have _got_ to stop using hosting services that shaft you, otherwise you're proving that price is more important than service.
Kee-rist, it's _not hard_ to run a hosting service, as long as you get your technology and TOS right (don't handle porn unless you have a pipe big enough, force CGI protections thru cgiwrap or suexec, don't use M$
Your Working Boy,
Mmmmmm.....
Sixty-four slices of American Cheese....
Your Working Boy,
You forgot to mention that at 8 years old you'll understand less than half of the jokes. But most of them will still be fun.
;) ;)
Perhaps, but what I've found over the years is that my favorite things (HHG, Python, Discworld, etc) got better over time as I learned more and could see more each time I reread or reviewed the stuff. I could never figure out who the hell Reginald Maudlin was and why Pythons would rip on him so, until I learned more.. And gods, imagine being a history major and being able to appreciate Holy Grail or Life of Brian on a whole different level after studying the Arthur legends or Roman Judea.. Hell, I got an A on a paper for my Roman Empire class writing about Life of Brian...
MST3k also does this for me a bit, but I got into it late and thus know almost every riff ref
Your Working Boy,
By far his best book, imho, is Fiasco.
I dunno, my favorite has to be The Cyberiad.. I particularly like the story of the 2 warring nations whose princes had Trurl and Klaupaucius build conduits into their armies' heads, to connect them together and allow for exact maneuvers. IIRC it was Sally 7, but it's been awhile..
Your Working Boy,
in my experience, most people do not wish to challenge the modes of thought that they have unthinkingly used all their lives.
Which is why, in the modern age of accelerating change, they're dinosaurs. I'm not sure if Philosophy is as important as studying Philosophy, because the act of considering alternate viewpoints as legitimate competitors to your own provides the flexibility needed to cope with change. Knowing the people and language of the Philosophy discipline is important if you wish to spread yours or have people understand it, but honestly life is getting so individually-tailored that soon (if not now) it will be futile to try and categorize philosophies.
Of course, discrimination is also important: reflexive flexibility is extremely dangerous, you should definitely develop good filters..
Your Working Boy,
Nor would they be intimately aware with the number of emails or phone calls the @Home abuse department has made to their customers to correct misconfigured proxies.
The wonderful thing about the UDP is precisely that it forces the spam issue regardless of the ISP's internal issues. The UDP folks look (rightly, imo) at ISPs as basically black boxes which either generate/perpetuate spam or do not, and act accordingly.
Look at it from another angle: Joe Ethical Admin has been bugging Sandy Clueless Manager for weeks or months about this, but gotten no real mandate to put fixes in because of low priority. UDP drives that priority up, and actually _helps_ Joe do the right thing!
As long as UDP remains ethical and fair in the 'prelude' phase (documented, adequate time to repent, adequate technical assistance) I have no problem with it, or with the pain it causes target ISPs. Sometimes you need to feel pain to know something needs fixing.
The bottom line (IMO) is that USENET has given @Home an ultimatum, and @Home is responding. But this is not the sort of problem that @Home can fix overnight.
Well, if they are responding adequately, I'm sure the UDP will be suspended or lifted. Check up on the history of the UDP: the 'judges' are pretty forgiving of truly repentant offenders.
The nature of their service and the shared network topology inherent in the cable network design create some unique security hassles. Everyone should do their best to understand the nature of the work required before they blast @Home for being unresponsive or for just not caring.
If they didn't think of abuse issues ahead of time during the design phase, they deserve what they get! It's not like IP networking hasn't existed for 20+ years.. There's solutions to this, which quite honestly should have been documented and applied at the time of the network rollout. And if the technically correct behavior is being stifled by non-technical considerations, it's things like UDP and MAPS that help force technical concerns up higher in the list, and that's nothing but a good thing.
Your Working Boy,
I love seeing people get paid for writing OSS... I'm wondering though, will PI get into the OS$ (Open Source $upport) biz? I can imagine them either doing X support direct or thru commercial distro companies on a model similar to RH's support structure...
Your Working Boy,
Who in the US is gonna have a party on 29 Sep 2000?
;)
That's when the hated RSA patent expires....
I think we should organize a giant SSL installfest on that day! Any takers?
Your Working Boy,
On the other hand maybe RedHat likes being able to charge more to have you order their Commerce Servers direct from them :-)
This is more for licensing the use of RSA-patented algorithms in the commerce server package. $149 buys you a license to use the SSL server in the states.
My question is, though, when does the RSA patent expire? It's mildly ontopic..
Your Working Boy,
Nah, I like my WWII/Guns/Mystery channels, PBS, and my DVD collection. Still, my next set will come sans tuner and fully VGA/HDTV compatible. It's looking like Sony's VW10HT.
Your Working Boy,
Any good science fiction suggestions for an 8 year old boy?
;)
The Stainless Steel Rat series. Big fan of that at age 8. I'd also recommend Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and possibly the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett. I read 1984 when I was 9, but I don't necessarily recommend Orwell at that age
Cheers,
Your Working Boy,
If something better came along that does not break compatibility with our existing equipment, I don't think you would be hearing these (justified, IMNSHO) complaints.
But at what point to you simply ignore the complaints and drive ahead?
I mean, I'm sure there were complaints from the buggy-whip camp when autos became available, or from typewriter users when the first wordprocessors were available. Imagine society if we had not ignored them.
(then again.. sounds like a tech-free vacation to me, but I definitely wouldn't want to live there..)
Your Working Boy,
Hi,
;)
I have one (an I3k 266mhz PI) that's basically been mangled to death. However, I have a bunch of bits for it I quite like (2 64MB SIMMs, 6.4gb HDD never stained by M$ (built the ftp install disk on a SPARC and bought the unformatted HDD from MegaHaus)), so the question is...
Any other boxes use Inspiron 3000 SIMMS? The HDD is IIRC either 6mm or 9mm, and I assume I can just bolt it into a bracket..
(Then again, I can sitll use the thing as a battery-backed server
Your Working Boy,
At least in the US, media outlets are for the most part for-profit entities. If their work generates ample profit, they will continue performing that work. There is apparently a lucrative market for this information out there. Just because you're not a part of it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
The 'Regulon' of the media is the pocketbook. When they can't rent eyeballs or eardrums, or sell dead trees or plastic, they will wither like the casualties of an overused food source. I can only hope that paid propaganda will be anathema enough for journalists to profitably expose.
The real questions are: will all this media in its different forms and competencies make for a better-informed citizenry? Will the depressed cost of information provide a wealth of knowledge to the less affluent? Are media consumers discriminating in their intake of information, or are they easily-swayed sheep?
There was a stand-up comic recently on TV talking about how he watched TV news by flipping between several networks, and synthesizing the total news (where some networks emphasized one story that another might virtually ignore) picture. He was making a joke, of course, but the underlying concept is still sound. In order to mitigate the effects of journalistic bias, you need to view the same media thru different outlets, personalities, etc. to get a well rounded picture. Or, you need to be aware of a medium's personal biases and use them to filter out relevant information.
Your Working Boy,
The first computer coders were women. Check your history of computers: they were initially coded by connecting wires in a switchboard configuration. Who do you think did that work?
Hedy Lamarr (besides being a sex symbol) helped design and patent spread-spectrum wireless technologies that were half a century ahead of their time. If you have a PCS phone or 802.11 networking (among other products), you have her to thank.
There are lots of female pros in even the modern sysadmin game. 2 of my most prized sysadmin books were either written (ORA's Unix System Administration) or co-written (USAH, or the Red Book) by women.
Think before you speak.
Your Working Boy,
RDS is found on a miniscule # of stations in the US, and IIRC there is no 'traffic' feature. In the NYC area for example, IIRC 102.7 WNEW has it, as well as 88.3 WBGO. That might be it.
;)
I have RDS in a crap home theatre receiver of mine, and was psyched until I discovered how few stations had RDS in this bass ackward country.
BTW, teletext is just too neat, though when I was in Munich the RDS confused me somewhat as my German is quite rustig..
Your Working Boy,