... but it still doesn't make it any easier for me to deal with. The brutality of the Redmond re-education camps is nothing short of legendary... what other corporation could get away with branding their employees like cattle, and then laugh it up in a department-wide memo?
... of the Software Publisher's Association meeting room. How many times do you think some marketing guy has asked why they can't do the same thing for CD-ROM's?
If it's happened less than 3 dozen times, I'm utterly shocked.
Misread this at first. Thought you meant "Neutrino ice cube detector" which would have been a really convoluted way to detect ice cubes. Then again, is there a better way to detect them?
How about the fact, that early in Paypal's history, their business model was built on profiting from the "float", the interest that they earn while money is in their possession? Sounds great, they make money, give us a service we all want... until they decide, not that many months ago, that they'd rather fee us to death. I only buy and sell a few items per year, but now with their bait-and-switch tactics, this is no longer practical. I might as well get a real banking business account, they'd let me accept MC/Visa too, and if there were too many illegit chargebacks, I could go straight to their office and complain to someone in person. Doesn't cost much more, it's a _REAL_ bank, and they've already fee'd everything they can, no more suprises.
Oh, and I'm pretty sure I could keep a real bank from spamming me mercilessly.
Hmm, well for instance, what I want right now, more than anything, is a system that sits in between the video system and the TV display, and can add graphics to the picture. I'm thinking something along the lines of a "doorbell" icon if the doorbell rings and the volume is too loud, or maybe an email icon. But the most important use, would be a phone icon... so I can actually tell whether its my phone, or the damnable tv show doing it. By icon, I mean something small, up in the top corner, nothing obtrusive.
I'm also working with some pics, I'm considering building... how can I describe them? Small triangular speaker boxes in the corner of each room in the house. In these, will be a speaker, a mic, and IR transciever, and some sort of networking, hooking them back into the main server. Mostly to bounce remote control signals back and forth... that, and some digitally controlled rg6 switcher, and we can watch dvd's upstairs, things like that.
And I'm even considering just putting small sensors everywhere I can, in and outside the house. Something simple to network them is required, but I want to see what I can do with the data. By sensors, I mean everything imaginable. Temperature, humidity, microphones, vibration sensors, light level, wind speed, em noise. Applications would include super accurate fire alarms (in addition to the traditional fire alarms, I'm not stupid, I don't bet my life on experimental equipment), burglar/intruder alarms, you name it. Maybe so the household net has an idea of the weather, and won't send mowbot out when it's pouring rain. Maybe so X10 can turn lights on and off in an intelligent manner. My girlfriend keeps asking about some sort of sensor to let her know when to clean the fish tank... some of her fancy fish are sensitive to certain nitrogen levels and such. Not even sure how to go about that yet.
Voice control? I'd have to really have to invest alot of training time and cpu power, I'd think. It's nice, and I plan on building some necessary subsystems, but other than that, I'm not sure how to proceed. Everything is either too expensive for me, or really geared to another use (dragon natspeak).
Oh, and then every time there is a slashdot story about some guy building a jet engine in his garage, I have dreams of little VTOL aerial robots, with 100Kvolt saline squirtgun/taser cannons guarding the house... that would be a hoot wouldn't it? Not that I'd do anything illegal, but what if some overzealous fbi cybercrime unit tries to raid me? They run up to the door only to be ambushed by my drones which swarm them. Damn I can't wait til I have a true machine shop...
Day job? Drawing unemployment... thank god I didn't waste it 8 months ago, managed to struggle along with 3 day temp jobs. Now, those aren't even available. The next project my former employer has, will last half as long as they say it will, will start 2 months later, and they'll want to drop my pay another $2 per hour. Oh, they only think I'm an A+ type tech, and that I'm a macintosh expert. (Simply the MCSE's apparently knew even less than Slashdot typically credits them for, still pissed most were making $5 more per hour, than I was) Go figure.
I live in the Washington DC area, at least its a tolerable commute. I've never seen any of these jobs. I doubt they'd consider me for them anyway.
I have somewhere around 60 machines, maybe half of them networked, here at home. My vax is a VAXstation 4000, and my NeXT is the slab, not the cube. Networking? Oh, well I've just added my bargain bin Fore ATM nic to the linux server, and I think its working correctly, but until I can find a switch thats in my budget (estimated to be 45-70 years from now), I won't know for sure. On the other hand, my token ring segment is working well, both IP and tokentalk. The localtalk segment does well, but I've yet to get MacTCP tunneling working as it should. My amigas seem to like arcnet just fine, but forcing linux to use the proper link layer encapsulation is a bitch, and until I can get around to writing a TCPIP stack for my Model II, the Trash80 does nothing but send out some weird packets that flood the arcnet bus from time to time. Lord knows what protocol this was, if there is even a name for it. That and the odd serial slip device, and I can network anything... given a healthy budget and 6 hours, and I'd have a nintendo and a Cray talking as if they had known each other for years.
(If anyone has the Econet PC ISA card that was briefly sold in the UK, would you consider selling it?)
I know operating systems that no one has heard of, or now cares about. A few that no one ever did care about. I'm getting ready to upgrade my 3rd gen server to a 2 node mosix cluster (with gigabit dedicated cluster links), which will give me 4 cpu's to play with. My 4th gen server is in the planning stages, and will see life when some decent paying contract work comes my way (this happens less than it should). For those of you that care to hear, so far it's likely to be about 4 nodes of dual AMD boards(estimating $3000 for mb/cpu's and atx cases), with at least 200 gigs of fibre channel array ($50 for a controller, smaller drives are dirt cheap, and slashdot had a story a few months back on cheap cabling systems for fc).
Oh, and did I mention I now run a alternate DNS root server with over 150 users? Popularity permitting, we should be able to handle well over 100,000 users, distributed across up to 30 root and tld servers. How many hobbyists do that? Dialup users, the wait is almost over, dyndns should be out of beta sometime tonight...
With an insane need to build ever bigger linux servers, jam packed with the strangest nics ever known in networking history, for a household that has only two users (one of them myself), I don't think it's fair to lump me into the same category as your as your average Joe Retard that thinks because he just installed a plug'n'play video card that he deserves an entry level IT position. I want a job. I may be over-confident, but I'm not arrogant. But I doubt I'll ever get a job that pays more than what factory workers make, let alone one that will challenge me as much as I would like.
I won't even bother to tell you about my NDS/AD/Streettalk/Bindery/NTdomain/OpenLDAP plans.
Recruiters, human resources trolls, if you are reading this, I dare you to actually hire me... do you hear me? I DARE you.
So, back to the question at hand. Though I don't speak from experience, I think you need to be dumb as shit, not particularly care for computers or networking, and have a nice, but not too expensive, suit for the interview. At least, thats what all the sysadmins I've ever known had going for them.
Try free long distance voice, to anyone that also has broadband... oh wait, that would cannibalize their phone service markets.
Try being able to create your own content, and host it yourself, making the internet a richer place, even more compelling to buy broadband for. Oh wait, that would cannibalize their media markets. And they'd also have to quit locking down ports 1024... very bad.
Well, there is always one killer app. That's right, high speed marketing (spamming?). With broadband, they can shove banner adds and popups down your throat OVER 20 TIMES FASTER THAN A MODEM*. Sounds like a double whammy, cause after all, everyone knows that I only buy stuff after they suggest them to me, with the brilliant and enlightening product descriptions. Hopefully broadband ISP's realize this, before high speed internet is scuttled.
* Based on average 56k modem download speeds.
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I'm giving away free domains. Can't imagine how it would raise your taxes though.
You use the three 144 petabyte drives for RAID 5. Sure, you only get about 100 petabytes space that way, but you really increase your throughput, assuming that the controller can keep up with it. If you'd rather have the space, I guess you could do raid mirroring...
Well, this comes as a shock, you know. Those 27 friends, fellow experimenters and beta testers must have been lying to me...
I've learned how to set up bind. Maybe you didn't bother to do a proper host command? This isn't an ICANN sanctioned TLD, you know. So until you're willing to cough up the $50,000 application fee, that's not a realistic possibility... why don't you try my homepage instead? http://24.30.242.100:8000 Until you set up your _OWN_ bind properly, it isn't going to work for you.
And of course, anal retentive moderators strike again. Oh well. Who really cares, if its enforcing conformity, rather than trying to maintain a sane signal/noise ratio? *shrug* Can't wait for metamoderation to kick in.
That slots are considered a bad thing nowdays. The trend is to manufacture boards with less expandability, not more. So let's see... Soundblaster 1024 Ultra, or another CPU board... but not both. Then again, I've never been accused of buying crappy consumer motherboards...
And another packet handler!!!!! You had fun learning a completely new firewall, from 2.0 to 2.2, and again from 2.2. to 2.4? Well, the fun never ends with the linux kernel! That's right, folks, get ready for (cue the drums)... packethole! (cue the 2001 theme music). Also, in a related story, the.plan file for 2.8 includes an even newer and completely different firewall tool, chunkywall. One can only wonder, if they can keep this streak going through the 3.x series.
*Note* I'm not a troll, really. I do love linux, and I'll even admit that iptables is much nicer than ipchains. But please.... let me catch up, for crying out loud. I guess it could be worse, microshit marketdriods could invade, and it would be renamed Kernel 2002. *barf*
Everyone is busy trying to do the sums for any number of various technologies, and as uninformed as I am, most of them seem more or less accurate.
But assuming these are fixed cameras... why can he not hope to get better compression ratios? If this is in a warehouse, or factory... then only 8 hours of the day will show very much difference at all (per camera). Even assuming that daylight/nighttime is visible from the camera pov... one nighttime frame will hardly be different from one night to the next. I would think that 25 terabytes of storage could easily hold the mundane video of the place for years, and that another 25 terabytes would hold many years worth of the "difference" frames. The compression you might manage on a fixed location grayscale camera over a period of months should be something phenomenal.
For any given season/hour, the system would have an average frame, and the computer would check to see how different it is. If its below a certain threshold, say 5% over all the pixels, or 2% concentrated in any given area of the frame, store the difference. We're talking 256 possible values for a pixel, and likely pictures that are easily compressed by any number of algorithms.
A more relevant question is what kind of cpu power would it take to do this on the fly...
He's assuming that people are already paying for the bandwidth, which likely they are. I would gladly let people bum some of my bandwidth part of the time, if it also let me triple my peak bandwidth.
Besides, even if it's not internet connected... it would still be cool. Get the neighborhood grocer to run the grocery store website on the NAN. That sort of thing...
No, I fully understand it, hard to believe as that is. I not only think it sucks, but is unethical. In certain cases, its almost as if they didn't want me to have it rahter than they wanted it more than I. I would much rather buy something outright... maybe the price is too high, or not negotiable, but at least the deal is square. I don't have to wonder for 7 days whether or not I am going to get the thing or not (the only sure way to do so would be to put in an outrageous amount, for which the crazy assholes would certainly bid me up to that).
I simply want to encourage the original poster to continue to do BuyitNow. I thoroughly enjoy it, and think it serves me and many others well. Not nearly enough sellers offer it, and I'm scared that he wasn't the only one considering not doing so in the future.
PLEASE don't do this. As a person that doesn't care to buy a $10 item that some yahoo's have run up to $200, BuyitNow is the only way I am ever able to buy something. Sure, I miss out on a million to 1 shot of getting the thing for $1, but the only reason I even still bother with ebay, is once in while I get to purchase with this. I wish their search engine allowed me to see only these...
Just the other day, I decided to bid again (yes, I never learn). The item has been relisted like 4 times, with no bids. So I bid like $5 (the thing might be worth something, under peculiar circumstances, but generally it's at most $26 item). It's 4 hours to go, and some asswad outbids me. I bid it up to $20, and he is still winning... and this is the same story every time. People never bid until I do (I've got some evidence to back this up) and then only at the last minute, for what are unreasonable sums. I fully expect to see it relisted in a few weeks, too. At which point, I can begin again, just to have a non-bidder keep it from me.
But I've yet to see a single palestinian troll post on any terrorism story here. What gives, are they actually ashamed of themselves, or just clever enough to know when to be strategically/politically quiet? Frankly, I'm interested in hearing again about how Israeli soldiers are monsters that live only to kill muslims, or how 4000 jews mysteriously were home sick Sept 11. Go on, tell us some more lies that only those with psychiatric conditions could believe. Those stories go so well with ones such as this....
Nah, way too generous. They'd give half a fuck at most. The point is, I don't care, and I don't need them. But you, Mr. Big Bad Linux User, you have attitude problems. Go find a M$ story to post about, and quit trolling me.
No reselling domain names, and a partial refund if you de-register.
No bulk registrations, and not 3 months, but 2 weeks to have some sort of rudimentary site. "This domain is parked" sites don't count.
A single variant of any name can be owned by any one entity. No more Dubya buying up 1000 domains, to stifle disent and parody.
This is the minimum it would take to add some sanity back into the system.
Of course, I want more than a sane DNS system, I want a free and open system also, the way it's truly meant to be. It's not about fencing it in, dividing it up, and selling it off the the highest bidder. Nor is it about finding new ways to force feed us the same junk they've been trying to ram down our throats for 50 years, at triple the cost. How many ISP's think ill of you running a small website on your own computer? They simply can't fathom that it might not be a business which will swamp their bandwidth. How many people think that domain names should only be purchased for money, or that you'd have to pay to have one? (or worse, whore out your thoughts and words to geocities) It should be this immense tropical rain forest, and instead of I get a small town 2 acre park, where the landscaper can't quite figure out how much fertilizer to use.
Um, the sig URL unfortunately only works with some minor reconfigs. Short of using my charismatic personality to convince ICANN that I should be allowed to run a TLD, there isn't much to be done about that. But then, if you aren't running your own dns server, you hardly have cause to insult me.
If you are running bind, I'm trying to get everything working as we speak. (and that includes decent docs on how to set everything up) The db backend stuff seems pretty strong, and automated web registration should be finished yet tonight (nailing some bugs in the beta). Looks like it might be awhile before I finally get dynamic dns working though (for those hardy individuals determined to host on their own dialup lines *grin*).
FYI, I do use Windows 2000 at home, my girlfriend insists on it for hers. However, I use NeXTSTEP, AmigaOS, Linux, BSD, MacOS, TOS/GEM, Ultrix, OpenVMS, DOS, OS/2, C/PM, ProDOS, and Solaris for the most part. I have been known to dabble in other less popular operating systems, though.;P
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... but it still doesn't make it any easier for me to deal with. The brutality of the Redmond re-education camps is nothing short of legendary... what other corporation could get away with branding their employees like cattle, and then laugh it up in a department-wide memo?
... of the Software Publisher's Association meeting room. How many times do you think some marketing guy has asked why they can't do the same thing for CD-ROM's?
If it's happened less than 3 dozen times, I'm utterly shocked.
I wouldn't waste your breath. The moderator that did that, must have just taken a toke off his crackpipe.
Still, I can't wait for metamoderation.
Misread this at first. Thought you meant "Neutrino ice cube detector" which would have been a really convoluted way to detect ice cubes. Then again, is there a better way to detect them?
How about the fact, that early in Paypal's history, their business model was built on profiting from the "float", the interest that they earn while money is in their possession? Sounds great, they make money, give us a service we all want... until they decide, not that many months ago, that they'd rather fee us to death. I only buy and sell a few items per year, but now with their bait-and-switch tactics, this is no longer practical. I might as well get a real banking business account, they'd let me accept MC/Visa too, and if there were too many illegit chargebacks, I could go straight to their office and complain to someone in person. Doesn't cost much more, it's a _REAL_ bank, and they've already fee'd everything they can, no more suprises.
Oh, and I'm pretty sure I could keep a real bank from spamming me mercilessly.
Hmm, well for instance, what I want right now, more than anything, is a system that sits in between the video system and the TV display, and can add graphics to the picture. I'm thinking something along the lines of a "doorbell" icon if the doorbell rings and the volume is too loud, or maybe an email icon. But the most important use, would be a phone icon... so I can actually tell whether its my phone, or the damnable tv show doing it. By icon, I mean something small, up in the top corner, nothing obtrusive.
I'm also working with some pics, I'm considering building... how can I describe them? Small triangular speaker boxes in the corner of each room in the house. In these, will be a speaker, a mic, and IR transciever, and some sort of networking, hooking them back into the main server. Mostly to bounce remote control signals back and forth... that, and some digitally controlled rg6 switcher, and we can watch dvd's upstairs, things like that.
And I'm even considering just putting small sensors everywhere I can, in and outside the house. Something simple to network them is required, but I want to see what I can do with the data. By sensors, I mean everything imaginable. Temperature, humidity, microphones, vibration sensors, light level, wind speed, em noise. Applications would include super accurate fire alarms (in addition to the traditional fire alarms, I'm not stupid, I don't bet my life on experimental equipment), burglar/intruder alarms, you name it. Maybe so the household net has an idea of the weather, and won't send mowbot out when it's pouring rain. Maybe so X10 can turn lights on and off in an intelligent manner. My girlfriend keeps asking about some sort of sensor to let her know when to clean the fish tank... some of her fancy fish are sensitive to certain nitrogen levels and such. Not even sure how to go about that yet.
Voice control? I'd have to really have to invest alot of training time and cpu power, I'd think. It's nice, and I plan on building some necessary subsystems, but other than that, I'm not sure how to proceed. Everything is either too expensive for me, or really geared to another use (dragon natspeak).
Oh, and then every time there is a slashdot story about some guy building a jet engine in his garage, I have dreams of little VTOL aerial robots, with 100Kvolt saline squirtgun/taser cannons guarding the house... that would be a hoot wouldn't it? Not that I'd do anything illegal, but what if some overzealous fbi cybercrime unit tries to raid me? They run up to the door only to be ambushed by my drones which swarm them. Damn I can't wait til I have a true machine shop...
Day job? Drawing unemployment... thank god I didn't waste it 8 months ago, managed to struggle along with 3 day temp jobs. Now, those aren't even available. The next project my former employer has, will last half as long as they say it will, will start 2 months later, and they'll want to drop my pay another $2 per hour. Oh, they only think I'm an A+ type tech, and that I'm a macintosh expert. (Simply the MCSE's apparently knew even less than Slashdot typically credits them for, still pissed most were making $5 more per hour, than I was) Go figure.
I live in the Washington DC area, at least its a tolerable commute. I've never seen any of these jobs. I doubt they'd consider me for them anyway.
I have somewhere around 60 machines, maybe half of them networked, here at home. My vax is a VAXstation 4000, and my NeXT is the slab, not the cube. Networking? Oh, well I've just added my bargain bin Fore ATM nic to the linux server, and I think its working correctly, but until I can find a switch thats in my budget (estimated to be 45-70 years from now), I won't know for sure. On the other hand, my token ring segment is working well, both IP and tokentalk. The localtalk segment does well, but I've yet to get MacTCP tunneling working as it should. My amigas seem to like arcnet just fine, but forcing linux to use the proper link layer encapsulation is a bitch, and until I can get around to writing a TCPIP stack for my Model II, the Trash80 does nothing but send out some weird packets that flood the arcnet bus from time to time. Lord knows what protocol this was, if there is even a name for it. That and the odd serial slip device, and I can network anything... given a healthy budget and 6 hours, and I'd have a nintendo and a Cray talking as if they had known each other for years.
(If anyone has the Econet PC ISA card that was briefly sold in the UK, would you consider selling it?)
I know operating systems that no one has heard of, or now cares about. A few that no one ever did care about. I'm getting ready to upgrade my 3rd gen server to a 2 node mosix cluster (with gigabit dedicated cluster links), which will give me 4 cpu's to play with. My 4th gen server is in the planning stages, and will see life when some decent paying contract work comes my way (this happens less than it should). For those of you that care to hear, so far it's likely to be about 4 nodes of dual AMD boards(estimating $3000 for mb/cpu's and atx cases), with at least 200 gigs of fibre channel array ($50 for a controller, smaller drives are dirt cheap, and slashdot had a story a few months back on cheap cabling systems for fc).
Oh, and did I mention I now run a alternate DNS root server with over 150 users? Popularity permitting, we should be able to handle well over 100,000 users, distributed across up to 30 root and tld servers. How many hobbyists do that? Dialup users, the wait is almost over, dyndns should be out of beta sometime tonight...
With an insane need to build ever bigger linux servers, jam packed with the strangest nics ever known in networking history, for a household that has only two users (one of them myself), I don't think it's fair to lump me into the same category as your as your average Joe Retard that thinks because he just installed a plug'n'play video card that he deserves an entry level IT position. I want a job. I may be over-confident, but I'm not arrogant. But I doubt I'll ever get a job that pays more than what factory workers make, let alone one that will challenge me as much as I would like.
I won't even bother to tell you about my NDS/AD/Streettalk/Bindery/NTdomain/OpenLDAP plans.
Recruiters, human resources trolls, if you are reading this, I dare you to actually hire me... do you hear me? I DARE you.
So, back to the question at hand. Though I don't speak from experience, I think you need to be dumb as shit, not particularly care for computers or networking, and have a nice, but not too expensive, suit for the interview. At least, thats what all the sysadmins I've ever known had going for them.
Try free long distance voice, to anyone that also has broadband... oh wait, that would cannibalize their phone service markets.
Try being able to create your own content, and host it yourself, making the internet a richer place, even more compelling to buy broadband for. Oh wait, that would cannibalize their media markets. And they'd also have to quit locking down ports 1024... very bad.
Well, there is always one killer app. That's right, high speed marketing (spamming?). With broadband, they can shove banner adds and popups down your throat OVER 20 TIMES FASTER THAN A MODEM*. Sounds like a double whammy, cause after all, everyone knows that I only buy stuff after they suggest them to me, with the brilliant and enlightening product descriptions. Hopefully broadband ISP's realize this, before high speed internet is scuttled.
* Based on average 56k modem download speeds.
I'm giving away free domains. Can't imagine how it would raise your taxes though.
You use the three 144 petabyte drives for RAID 5. Sure, you only get about 100 petabytes space that way, but you really increase your throughput, assuming that the controller can keep up with it. If you'd rather have the space, I guess you could do raid mirroring...
Well, this comes as a shock, you know. Those 27 friends, fellow experimenters and beta testers must have been lying to me...
I've learned how to set up bind. Maybe you didn't bother to do a proper host command? This isn't an ICANN sanctioned TLD, you know. So until you're willing to cough up the $50,000 application fee, that's not a realistic possibility... why don't you try my homepage instead? http://24.30.242.100:8000 Until you set up your _OWN_ bind properly, it isn't going to work for you.
Major newspapers in the arab world with front page stories, accusing Israel of prehistoric orbital bombardment with giant meteors.
And of course, anal retentive moderators strike again. Oh well. Who really cares, if its enforcing conformity, rather than trying to maintain a sane signal/noise ratio? *shrug* Can't wait for metamoderation to kick in.
That slots are considered a bad thing nowdays. The trend is to manufacture boards with less expandability, not more. So let's see... Soundblaster 1024 Ultra, or another CPU board... but not both. Then again, I've never been accused of buying crappy consumer motherboards...
And another packet handler!!!!! You had fun learning a completely new firewall, from 2.0 to 2.2, and again from 2.2. to 2.4? Well, the fun never ends with the linux kernel! That's right, folks, get ready for (cue the drums)... packethole! (cue the 2001 theme music). Also, in a related story, the .plan file for 2.8 includes an even newer and completely different firewall tool, chunkywall. One can only wonder, if they can keep this streak going through the 3.x series.
*Note* I'm not a troll, really. I do love linux, and I'll even admit that iptables is much nicer than ipchains. But please.... let me catch up, for crying out loud. I guess it could be worse, microshit marketdriods could invade, and it would be renamed Kernel 2002. *barf*
That we only have agreed to this, to buy time so that our scientists can develop technology to destroy this evil entity once and for all.
Everyone is busy trying to do the sums for any number of various technologies, and as uninformed as I am, most of them seem more or less accurate.
But assuming these are fixed cameras... why can he not hope to get better compression ratios? If this is in a warehouse, or factory... then only 8 hours of the day will show very much difference at all (per camera). Even assuming that daylight/nighttime is visible from the camera pov... one nighttime frame will hardly be different from one night to the next. I would think that 25 terabytes of storage could easily hold the mundane video of the place for years, and that another 25 terabytes would hold many years worth of the "difference" frames. The compression you might manage on a fixed location grayscale camera over a period of months should be something phenomenal.
For any given season/hour, the system would have an average frame, and the computer would check to see how different it is. If its below a certain threshold, say 5% over all the pixels, or 2% concentrated in any given area of the frame, store the difference. We're talking 256 possible values for a pixel, and likely pictures that are easily compressed by any number of algorithms.
A more relevant question is what kind of cpu power would it take to do this on the fly...
I don't believe they teach the advanced techniques to MCSE boot camp cadets.
He's assuming that people are already paying for the bandwidth, which likely they are. I would gladly let people bum some of my bandwidth part of the time, if it also let me triple my peak bandwidth.
Besides, even if it's not internet connected... it would still be cool. Get the neighborhood grocer to run the grocery store website on the NAN. That sort of thing...
No, I fully understand it, hard to believe as that is. I not only think it sucks, but is unethical. In certain cases, its almost as if they didn't want me to have it rahter than they wanted it more than I. I would much rather buy something outright... maybe the price is too high, or not negotiable, but at least the deal is square. I don't have to wonder for 7 days whether or not I am going to get the thing or not (the only sure way to do so would be to put in an outrageous amount, for which the crazy assholes would certainly bid me up to that).
I simply want to encourage the original poster to continue to do BuyitNow. I thoroughly enjoy it, and think it serves me and many others well. Not nearly enough sellers offer it, and I'm scared that he wasn't the only one considering not doing so in the future.
PLEASE don't do this. As a person that doesn't care to buy a $10 item that some yahoo's have run up to $200, BuyitNow is the only way I am ever able to buy something. Sure, I miss out on a million to 1 shot of getting the thing for $1, but the only reason I even still bother with ebay, is once in while I get to purchase with this. I wish their search engine allowed me to see only these...
Just the other day, I decided to bid again (yes, I never learn). The item has been relisted like 4 times, with no bids. So I bid like $5 (the thing might be worth something, under peculiar circumstances, but generally it's at most $26 item). It's 4 hours to go, and some asswad outbids me. I bid it up to $20, and he is still winning... and this is the same story every time. People never bid until I do (I've got some evidence to back this up) and then only at the last minute, for what are unreasonable sums. I fully expect to see it relisted in a few weeks, too. At which point, I can begin again, just to have a non-bidder keep it from me.
Please, somehow, try to keep using BuyitNow.
But I've yet to see a single palestinian troll post on any terrorism story here. What gives, are they actually ashamed of themselves, or just clever enough to know when to be strategically/politically quiet? Frankly, I'm interested in hearing again about how Israeli soldiers are monsters that live only to kill muslims, or how 4000 jews mysteriously were home sick Sept 11. Go on, tell us some more lies that only those with psychiatric conditions could believe. Those stories go so well with ones such as this....
Nah, way too generous. They'd give half a fuck at most. The point is, I don't care, and I don't need them. But you, Mr. Big Bad Linux User, you have attitude problems. Go find a M$ story to post about, and quit trolling me.
I'll do you one better.
No reselling domain names, and a partial refund if you de-register.
No bulk registrations, and not 3 months, but 2 weeks to have some sort of rudimentary site. "This domain is parked" sites don't count.
A single variant of any name can be owned by any one entity. No more Dubya buying up 1000 domains, to stifle disent and parody.
This is the minimum it would take to add some sanity back into the system.
Of course, I want more than a sane DNS system, I want a free and open system also, the way it's truly meant to be. It's not about fencing it in, dividing it up, and selling it off the the highest bidder. Nor is it about finding new ways to force feed us the same junk they've been trying to ram down our throats for 50 years, at triple the cost. How many ISP's think ill of you running a small website on your own computer? They simply can't fathom that it might not be a business which will swamp their bandwidth. How many people think that domain names should only be purchased for money, or that you'd have to pay to have one? (or worse, whore out your thoughts and words to geocities) It should be this immense tropical rain forest, and instead of I get a small town 2 acre park, where the landscaper can't quite figure out how much fertilizer to use.
It's sad.
Um, the sig URL unfortunately only works with some minor reconfigs. Short of using my charismatic personality to convince ICANN that I should be allowed to run a TLD, there isn't much to be done about that. But then, if you aren't running your own dns server, you hardly have cause to insult me.
;P
If you are running bind, I'm trying to get everything working as we speak. (and that includes decent docs on how to set everything up) The db backend stuff seems pretty strong, and automated web registration should be finished yet tonight (nailing some bugs in the beta). Looks like it might be awhile before I finally get dynamic dns working though (for those hardy individuals determined to host on their own dialup lines *grin*).
FYI, I do use Windows 2000 at home, my girlfriend insists on it for hers. However, I use NeXTSTEP, AmigaOS, Linux, BSD, MacOS, TOS/GEM, Ultrix, OpenVMS, DOS, OS/2, C/PM, ProDOS, and Solaris for the most part. I have been known to dabble in other less popular operating systems, though.