i hope you burn in hell for writing closed source drivers.
Sad thing is, this probably isn't a troll. You sound like most of the kernel developers who refuse to make a stable API or ABI.
You wonder why Linux has such shitty support? Your attitude and the attitude of the devs... this isn't 1998 anymore, I understand the need for open source drivers so you can troubleshoot issues with both them and the kernel but, come on now, grow up - either figure out a way to make it so binary only drivers aren't a problem with stability, make a certification process, or forever be stuck with having 1/3rd the devices supported, 1/3rd supported poorly, and 1/3rd oblivious to your existence.
I'll have to check it out, hadn't heard of that one. Unfortunately my job requires heavy Notes DB work so I'll still have to open the 'ol bugger up no matter what.
SameTime is easily the nicest component in the Notes suite, although anything that doesn't make you want to smash your skull through the monitor would qualify for that honor.
Spoken like a true Notes pro!
I do agree with you, Sametime seems to be a really well designed program with really good integration - which is downright shocking considering.
Sametime is actually a fairly nifty little app. It's got far better integration with notes than - say messenger does with Outlook. The ability to important groups from your address book, open a chat based on an email, schedule a web based conferenced, program bots to interface with a Lotus Notes database, etc is fairly cool.
The old version always supported an OSCAR gateway, but it's nice to have it "fully" compatible without a whole lotta effort.
A long, long time ago slashdot used to post this but stopped once it became blindingly obvious (and embarassing) that Windows/IE was around 90% of the hits.
1/10, been used far too much. You people on PVP servers need to come up with new insults to highlight how much better you are than us mere PVE players who play on our "carebear" servers.
A friend of mine once said that everyone remembers the cultural achievements of Athens, but not of Sparta. Why? Because Sparta was a completely militarized society, while Athens was not. Perhaps yet another part of the bill America must pay for our hamfisted approach is that as we become more militarized, the creative and free-thinking aspects of our society become isolated and minimized.
Course, history also remembers Sparta as having perhaps the single best infantry (ah the 300) the world has ever seen as well as the only dual monarchy (that I can recall) the world has ever seen. Sparta had perhaps the single most unqiue governmental/societal structure i've ever come across. While people might remember Athen's culture, they often don't remember who won that titanic struggle. I'll give you a hint, it wasn't Athens:).
On a more serious note, I highly recommened Charles Strauss' works. Absolutely excellent work. IN general, i've found to prefer british sci-fi authors anymore - seems that they produce far better work than their american counterparts. Iron Sunrise, and the whole concept behind it, is very imaginative cool work. Kudos to him.
Heck yeah! I won an ipod during the last promotion... it's nice. Silver mini with a laser engrazing on the back of the pepsi logo with headphones around it.
And what about trojans that grab the smtp server settings from OE? And username/password for that matter. Granted it makes it somewhat easier to identify (and slow down the spread of spam) but if it does that you still have to track down the customer and fix them. This would be a band-aid solution to the problem, spam would die for a bit then rocket back up. Not to mention that - although a small problem - you still run into the occassional "network admin" that runs an open relay or has a rooted windows/*nix box and refuse to believe you because they think they are some sort of computer god. Favorite story on that is a coworker called these people because we were getting spam complaints from their IP. So calls the guy, guy yells at him tells him it's a production mail server and no way in hell its infected, blah blah hangs up on him. Said coworker nmaps the machine, finds VNC running on it with no passwords VNCs in and opens up notepad saying "call us ASAP.";)
At my ISP we already have to deal with too goddam many spam/virus complaints and weren't not massive like these other ISPs. I don't think we've ever done any sort of time analysis to see how much time it takes to get these people cleaned off on a regular basis but i'd say I spend about an hour a week doing it. i'd hate to see the effort that would go into taking care of 1,000,000 consumer computers.
True, true. But hasn't apple learned anything from MS? Automatically running/installing *anything* from the internet is a bad, bad idea. And a widget could, in theory, do things like make widget pop up ads, revolving goatse/tubgirl widget, etc.
Well Verizon could, they'd just have to put their DSLAMs in every CO in the country. And to do that they'd have to, almost certainly, file a lawsuit with every single local telco in the country since while, theoretically legal, no telco will let that happen without a serious fight. Once all those get resolved, in about 5 years, then they could actually start deploying the DSLAMS, hooking them into a SONET ring, etc. All just to compete in a already saturated market place;).
Yep. Not going to happen.
I am somewhat happy that in my home state (Nebraska) Qwest offers Naked DSL for an extra $5 over their current prices. So, for instance with us as your ISP, it'd be $34 for a 256 symmetrical line, and $43 for a 1.5megabit/896 kbit line. Not bad really.
Of course, I'm stuck in the part of the state where we got alltel. Who don't believe in naked DSL and has fought/is fighitng Qwest over access to its market in court for the last bazillion years. And, to top it off, we have a retarded City Council that keeps blocking our local power company (one of the best in the country, thank god for small favors) from offering ISPs access to its (almost completely unused) SONET ring because it would "create a monopoly".
IT departments at Universities loathe CS professors. At least everyone i've ever heard of/worked at did.
Why? Because they are COMPUTER SCIENCE professors and usually know jack and shit about networking and what it takes to keep 30,000+ computers/people running smoothly. Worse than that, alot of CS professors know a lot about a specific field (say mutlimedia) but can't keep their computers clean of spyware for the life of them.
Last thing I would do is involve CS professors, it'll just mean you'll get ignored:)/
I've heard the same thing from a buddy who works at microsoft. AFAIK *ALL* of longhorn will be written in C# (i'd guess except for some low level kernel things) thus eliminating buffer exploits. Microsoft seems understandbly willing to eat the small performance drop for this increase in security. Makes ense to me.
Smartbridges are horrible in noisy wireless enviroments FYI. But they are decent for what he wants them for, where no other wireless equipment is operating.
The same works in Nebraska, at least on our DSL customers - what the previous poster was describing was the taking off of the upstream bandwith limits (like instead of 256 1.5 megabit up) which is a whole different ball of wax.
Also, sweet merciful christ, 100 megs? You can exceed that using dialup!
I think the problem is that the system you described is it would be hard to implement. Currently, for both Cable and DSL, the circuits are provisioned at a set speed - at the DSLAM (for DSL) and at the Cable Modem for Cable. For your system to work you'd have to allow whatever provisioning you'd want at the DSLAM or Cable modem (whatever, 10mbps/6 mbps) and then run QoS controls on a router to traffic shape everything else. This would cost more - you'd have to invest in some beefier routers - and be harder to configure. You'd also run into the problem of what you consider local - is anybody in the state? The country?
Remember, most DSLAMS (and CTSMS for that matter) serve only a few hundred customers then are linked together by DS3's and what have you. It'd also be alot harder to ensure the right speed, Cable has a finite upload bandwith and two/three people on the same CTSM who were xferring gigs upon gigs of bandwith could kill a node. Same with DSL, though to a lesser extent.
It wouldn't be impossible, but you'd have to essentially redesign the entire system to make it work. Currently though most "tier 1" providers implement kindof the system you describe. For instance, one of our DS3's is through Sprint and any bandwith that stays on Sprint's network isn't counted against our Xfer costs.
Hate to break it to you but that's how most ISP's work. Very, very, very rarely do you have more than 5% of your theoretical max bandwith available. IE if you have 1000 DSL customers all at 1.5/384 you can easily get away with having a single DS-3. Very few people (even geeks) use their connections at max bandwith for more than a few minutes a day.
Part of this of course (it's not like ISP's don't want more bandwidth) is the enormous costs of DS-3/OC-3 etc lines. While a 1.5/384 or 8/1megabit, etc line might run the customer $40 a month a single DS-3 in my neck of the woods (even if you are on the fiber loop and they don't have to charge you per mile runs) will easily run > $8,000 dollars a month depending on your service agreements, etc.
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i hope you burn in hell for writing closed source drivers.
... this isn't 1998 anymore, I understand the need for open source drivers so you can troubleshoot issues with both them and the kernel but, come on now, grow up - either figure out a way to make it so binary only drivers aren't a problem with stability, make a certification process, or forever be stuck with having 1/3rd the devices supported, 1/3rd supported poorly, and 1/3rd oblivious to your existence.
Sad thing is, this probably isn't a troll. You sound like most of the kernel developers who refuse to make a stable API or ABI.
You wonder why Linux has such shitty support? Your attitude and the attitude of the devs
I'll have to check it out, hadn't heard of that one. Unfortunately my job requires heavy Notes DB work so I'll still have to open the 'ol bugger up no matter what.
SameTime is easily the nicest component in the Notes suite, although anything that doesn't make you want to smash your skull through the monitor would qualify for that honor.
Spoken like a true Notes pro!
I do agree with you, Sametime seems to be a really well designed program with really good integration - which is downright shocking considering.
Sametime is actually a fairly nifty little app. It's got far better integration with notes than - say messenger does with Outlook. The ability to important groups from your address book, open a chat based on an email, schedule a web based conferenced, program bots to interface with a Lotus Notes database, etc is fairly cool.
The old version always supported an OSCAR gateway, but it's nice to have it "fully" compatible without a whole lotta effort.
A long, long time ago slashdot used to post this but stopped once it became blindingly obvious (and embarassing) that Windows/IE was around 90% of the hits.
"Carebear crap"
1/10, been used far too much. You people on PVP servers need to come up with new insults to highlight how much better you are than us mere PVE players who play on our "carebear" servers.
.... yes because crime only happens to capitlistic societies.
Go read some ayn rynd or something, you're trolling is becoming even more non-sensical, time to go back to your roots boy.
A friend of mine once said that everyone remembers the cultural achievements of Athens, but not of Sparta. Why? Because Sparta was a completely militarized society, while Athens was not. Perhaps yet another part of the bill America must pay for our hamfisted approach is that as we become more militarized, the creative and free-thinking aspects of our society become isolated and minimized.
:).
Course, history also remembers Sparta as having perhaps the single best infantry (ah the 300) the world has ever seen as well as the only dual monarchy (that I can recall) the world has ever seen. Sparta had perhaps the single most unqiue governmental/societal structure i've ever come across. While people might remember Athen's culture, they often don't remember who won that titanic struggle. I'll give you a hint, it wasn't Athens
On a more serious note, I highly recommened Charles Strauss' works. Absolutely excellent work. IN general, i've found to prefer british sci-fi authors anymore - seems that they produce far better work than their american counterparts. Iron Sunrise, and the whole concept behind it, is very imaginative cool work. Kudos to him.
Heck yeah! I won an ipod during the last promotion ... it's nice. Silver mini with a laser engrazing on the back of the pepsi logo with headphones around it.
;)
I win major points for having that bad boy
And what about trojans that grab the smtp server settings from OE? And username/password for that matter. Granted it makes it somewhat easier to identify (and slow down the spread of spam) but if it does that you still have to track down the customer and fix them. This would be a band-aid solution to the problem, spam would die for a bit then rocket back up. Not to mention that - although a small problem - you still run into the occassional "network admin" that runs an open relay or has a rooted windows/*nix box and refuse to believe you because they think they are some sort of computer god. Favorite story on that is a coworker called these people because we were getting spam complaints from their IP. So calls the guy, guy yells at him tells him it's a production mail server and no way in hell its infected, blah blah hangs up on him. Said coworker nmaps the machine, finds VNC running on it with no passwords VNCs in and opens up notepad saying "call us ASAP." ;)
At my ISP we already have to deal with too goddam many spam/virus complaints and weren't not massive like these other ISPs. I don't think we've ever done any sort of time analysis to see how much time it takes to get these people cleaned off on a regular basis but i'd say I spend about an hour a week doing it. i'd hate to see the effort that would go into taking care of 1,000,000 consumer computers.
I meant they should fix it in not allowing an untrusted remote application to be downloaded on a local computer with no interaction from the user.
The solution to spyware on windows is to turn off activex in internet explorer and set it to run as guest...
It's just common sense.
Seriously though this is a very bad idea and apple needs to fix this ASAP.
True, true. But hasn't apple learned anything from MS? Automatically running/installing *anything* from the internet is a bad, bad idea. And a widget could, in theory, do things like make widget pop up ads, revolving goatse/tubgirl widget, etc.
Basically, bad apple bad. Fix.
Well Verizon could, they'd just have to put their DSLAMs in every CO in the country. And to do that they'd have to, almost certainly, file a lawsuit with every single local telco in the country since while, theoretically legal, no telco will let that happen without a serious fight. Once all those get resolved, in about 5 years, then they could actually start deploying the DSLAMS, hooking them into a SONET ring, etc. All just to compete in a already saturated market place ;).
Yep. Not going to happen.
I am somewhat happy that in my home state (Nebraska) Qwest offers Naked DSL for an extra $5 over their current prices. So, for instance with us as your ISP, it'd be $34 for a 256 symmetrical line, and $43 for a 1.5megabit/896 kbit line. Not bad really.
Of course, I'm stuck in the part of the state where we got alltel. Who don't believe in naked DSL and has fought/is fighitng Qwest over access to its market in court for the last bazillion years. And, to top it off, we have a retarded City Council that keeps blocking our local power company (one of the best in the country, thank god for small favors) from offering ISPs access to its (almost completely unused) SONET ring because it would "create a monopoly".
Sigh.
IT departments at Universities loathe CS professors. At least everyone i've ever heard of/worked at did.
:)/
Why? Because they are COMPUTER SCIENCE professors and usually know jack and shit about networking and what it takes to keep 30,000+ computers/people running smoothly. Worse than that, alot of CS professors know a lot about a specific field (say mutlimedia) but can't keep their computers clean of spyware for the life of them.
Last thing I would do is involve CS professors, it'll just mean you'll get ignored
I've heard the same thing from a buddy who works at microsoft. AFAIK *ALL* of longhorn will be written in C# (i'd guess except for some low level kernel things) thus eliminating buffer exploits. Microsoft seems understandbly willing to eat the small performance drop for this increase in security. Makes ense to me.
Pfft. Us Nebraskan's know how to build a replica stonehenge... I present to thee... Carhenge
Also I apparently didn't notice the part in your post about the firefox/opera thing. That's it, time for bed now. Just ignore me. heh
So what's funny is that despite IE being embedded into the OS Opera still spanks it.
Kindof takes away your argument eh? Firefox could, and should be faster than IE if Opera can handle it.
Smartbridges are horrible in noisy wireless enviroments FYI. But they are decent for what he wants them for, where no other wireless equipment is operating.
The same works in Nebraska, at least on our DSL customers - what the previous poster was describing was the taking off of the upstream bandwith limits (like instead of 256 1.5 megabit up) which is a whole different ball of wax.
Also, sweet merciful christ, 100 megs? You can exceed that using dialup!
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Shit, a T-1 here will run you $1000 a month. OC-3 runs at $12,000 irrc here if you are on the fiber loop, otherwise they charge per mile fees.
I think the problem is that the system you described is it would be hard to implement. Currently, for both Cable and DSL, the circuits are provisioned at a set speed - at the DSLAM (for DSL) and at the Cable Modem for Cable. For your system to work you'd have to allow whatever provisioning you'd want at the DSLAM or Cable modem (whatever, 10mbps/6 mbps) and then run QoS controls on a router to traffic shape everything else. This would cost more - you'd have to invest in some beefier routers - and be harder to configure. You'd also run into the problem of what you consider local - is anybody in the state? The country?
Remember, most DSLAMS (and CTSMS for that matter) serve only a few hundred customers then are linked together by DS3's and what have you. It'd also be alot harder to ensure the right speed, Cable has a finite upload bandwith and two/three people on the same CTSM who were xferring gigs upon gigs of bandwith could kill a node. Same with DSL, though to a lesser extent.
It wouldn't be impossible, but you'd have to essentially redesign the entire system to make it work. Currently though most "tier 1" providers implement kindof the system you describe. For instance, one of our DS3's is through Sprint and any bandwith that stays on Sprint's network isn't counted against our Xfer costs.
sweet jesus that's expensive. For that much you could get a full DS-3 and a fractional here in the states, well at least across most of the midwest.
Hate to break it to you but that's how most ISP's work. Very, very, very rarely do you have more than 5% of your theoretical max bandwith available. IE if you have 1000 DSL customers all at 1.5/384 you can easily get away with having a single DS-3. Very few people (even geeks) use their connections at max bandwith for more than a few minutes a day.
Part of this of course (it's not like ISP's don't want more bandwidth) is the enormous costs of DS-3/OC-3 etc lines. While a 1.5/384 or 8/1megabit, etc line might run the customer $40 a month a single DS-3 in my neck of the woods (even if you are on the fiber loop and they don't have to charge you per mile runs) will easily run > $8,000 dollars a month depending on your service agreements, etc.