The cost of the OS is a factor with the new crop of PCs that cost less than $400. Once you get below the $400 mark, the $100 cost for Windows becomes significant enough that you either don't include an OS, or have the system in question run Linux or BeOS.
The OCF in Berkeley used this naming convention for the old Apollo Domain/OS + BSD servers. We had many of the same names you listed--tornado, hurricane, plague, earthquake, and some others--monsoon, firestorm, and planecrash. One of the common debates was wether "Plane Crash" could be considered a natural diastar.
RedHat 4.2 is still being maintained by RedHat, in the sense that when a security patch is released by RedHat, they release three patched RPMs, one each for 4.2, 5.2, and 6.1 systems.
If you don't like Grafitti, the Fitaly on-screen keyboard. is an excellent alternative. The learning curve is a bit steep, and it costs a whopping $25, but once you know how to use it, it is twice as fast as Grafitti.
The (just kidding) was put in after this suit was started. The original ad said "Harrier Jet 7 million points" with no disclaimer.
When I saw the ad, the buddy I was with said "You know, if someone actually got 7 million points, they would have to give them the jet". We knew it was a joke, and we knew Pepsi had no intention of giving anyone a Harrier jet, but we felt that someone with that many points would have a strong legal case.
You know, I get the sense El Camino Real, a major road through silicon valley, is not coordinated. I notice that most of the lights have diamonds, and that the red lights are always holding up traffic.
Is it common to have a given stoplight be both diamond-activated at low-traffic hours and coordinated during medium-traffic hours?
Here, in the bay area, the only series of coordinated lights I know of are in the city (San Francisco).
I think one of the areas where city planners can improve things out there is with stoplight design.
For example, the "diamond" stoplights (stoplights that detect cars at the light, and change accordingly) are an excellent design when traffic is extremely light, such as the middle of the night. It is a terrible design when traffic is moderate to heavy.
What happens when traffic is moderate with diamond stoplights is this: they slow down traffic. Since the lights are controlled by traffic, which is essentially random, the chance of a given stoplight being green is simply a flip of the coin. This makes "liquid" traffic "solid" traffic.
The ideal design once traffic hits the "liquid" state is to have the stoplights be timed lights. In other words, If one is going down the road at 40mph, all of the lights are timed to be green at the time one drives throught them.
Once traffic gets really heavy and enters a "solid" state, all bets are off. The only options traffic lights have are to either be timed at a slower driving pace (10mph or whatever the traffic can handle). One also needs to keep the main artery intersections green for as long as possible.
Access to Network Solutions' WHOIS information is provided to assist persons in determining the contents of a domain name registration record in NSI's registrar database. The data in this record is provided by NSI for informational purposes only, and NSI does not guarantee its accuracy. Compilation, repackaging, dissemination, or other use of the WHOIS database in its entirety, or a substantial portion thereof, is not allowed without NSI's prior written permission. By submitting this query, you agree to abide by this policy. All rights reserved.
In other words, "bug off, spammers". May I point out that I have not received one piece of spam to my whois contact email addresses since NSI added this agreement to the whois record. May I also point out that I would get about two or three spams a week (if not more) sent to my whois address as recently as last fall, before NSI added the agreement.
NSI is doing the right thing my making spammers legally responsible if they use WHOIS information to harvest spam addresses.
Actually, Blowfish is not the best cipher for a small, embedded system. The main disadvantage to Blowfish is its 4k RAM requirment.
If you want a small-memory cipher that uses a Feistel network, Twofish is an excellent choice. If you want something even thinner than Twofish, and do not need to use a Feistel network, Rijndael (pronounce it "Rain Doll") or Crypton are excellent choices.
I notice that the person who wrote the web page did not have knowledge of the average file size in ZDNet's webbench, forcing him to fudge around.
The average file in ZDNet's WebBench (You can download it, if you wish to) is approximately 10kb big. 10342.3 bytes, to be exact. Use this number when reading the web page.
In other words, a single-processor 256meg box can saturate a T3 with plenty of room to spare (107 MBps). The four-processor Linux box will almost saturate an OC3 (150 Mbps).
I remember a Usenet thread in comp.os.linux.advocacy where a reporter noted that, for every flame he got from a NT person, he got ten flames from Linux people. This was in response to a posting cross-posted to.linux.advocacy and.nt.advocacy asking for a comparison.
My theory is that the sort of people who flame a lot have issues with powerlessness over their world, and Linux is more accessible to such people.
Keep in mind that those FAQs do not have a legal precedence to cite (no one has ever taken this sort of thing to court), so their opinion is just as much a IANAL opinion as my opinion is.
This case is a strong precedent that one can not use copyright to protect one's privacy and reputation, the only real damages that the people who wrote these flame emails can claim to collect.
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For some reason, Slashdot chopped all of the HTML tags. Yes, I previewed, and it looked fine in the preview. Sigh.
Their claims of not being able to support 39 distributions insipres absolutely no confidence in me. There is no way in hell I would pay for a product that is so poorly supported that its open source competitors look good in comparison.
A commercial company's idea of support is different than the open source idea of support. People have a number of expectations with a piece of commercial software that they do not have with a piece of GPL software. For example, just because Perl is "supported" in Debian does not mean that Larry Wall is knowledgable about how to make a.deb package, or how to get Perl to compile on a Debian system. It just means that someone on the net has managed to compile, and perhaps make a.deb package for a single version of Perl. It doesn't mean that the particular 5.00X release you need to make all your scripts work will compile in Debian, much less that there is a.deb package of the version of Perl you need compatible with the version of Debian you have.
Compare this to the expectations of commercial support. If MetroWorks said "Debian" on the box, you would expect that there were.deb packages suitable for all releases of Debian currently in use. You would expect that MetroWorks technical support hotline would be trained in Debian-specific issues. You would expect that there would be no nasty bugs that only pop up because of Debian's particular eccentricities. Which, to MetroWorks, means they would have to perform an additional SQA (Software Quality Assurance) testing round for the Debian version.
When it comes to commercial software, "Support" does not just mean "it can work with a little hacking" or "We managed to compile it for this distribution". It means a large investment of time and money.
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Their claims of not being able to support 39 distributions insipres absolutely no confidence in me. There is no way in hell I would pay for a product that is so poorly supported that its open source competitors look good in comparison. A commercial company's idea of support is different than the open source idea of support. People have a number of expectations with a piece of commercial software that they do not have with a piece of GPL software. For example, just because Perl is "supported" in Debian does not mean that Larry Wall is knowledgable about how to make a.deb package, or how to get Perl to compile on a Debian system. It just means that someone on the net has managed to compile, and perhaps make a.deb package for a single version of Perl. It doesn't mean that the particular 5.00X release you need to make all your scripts work will compile in Debian, much less that there is a.deb package of the version of Perl you need compatible with the version of Debian you have. Compare this to the expectations of commercial support. If MetroWorks said "Debian" on the box, you would expect that there were.deb packages suitable for all releases of Debian currently in use. You would expect that MetroWorks technical support hotline would be trained in Debian-specific issues. You would expect that there would be no nasty bugs that only pop up because of Debian's particular eccentricities. Which, to MetroWorks, means they would have to perform an additional SQA (Software Quality Assurance) testing round for the Debian version. When it comes to commercial software, "Support" does not just mean "it can work with a little hacking" or "We managed to compile it for this distribution". It means a large investment of time and money. - Sam
Listen, guys. There are certain things that you plain simply do not do. One of them is f*ck with the FBI.
If you f*ck with the FBI, they will catch up to you. Sooner or later. And, your ass will be grass when they do. At best, you will lose your computers, and your parents will have to spend tens of thousands of dollars hiring a lawyer.
I remember someone in Isreal, who, in his arrgogance, thought he was too good to be caught. Think again. They caught him.
Think of Linux 4 years ago and tell me that is a good place for Linux to live?
Linux was fine four years ago. Mind you, one had to find out if a given piece of hardware was listed in the Hardware-Compatibility HOWTO instead of looking to see if "Linux" was written on the box, and hardware took a little time to become Linux compatible. Some pieces of hardware were not compatible, but the issue was usually a NDA issue instead of a Linux issue per se.
The UI of four years ago still works fine today, although it is not for everyone.
The problem is I have way better things to do with my time that reinvent the wheel for the 600th time. I'm not going to write an Outlook clone just so I can use linux. I'm only going to use linux when there is an Outlook available.
This line reminds me of something that happened one night. One night, I was going out to dinner with some people I didn't know. My wallet was empty, so I stopped by the bank to get some more money from the ATM machine. Except for the fact that my ATM card was bad. So, I ended up having to mooch food that evening.
The people I was having dinner with included Richard Stallman. This experience had me asking myself: Am I mouching software from the FSF and the Linux developers in the same way I had to mooch food for dinner that evening?
Needless to say, asking Richard Stallman for free moo shoo pork instead of egg rolls would have been rude beyone rude. It was bad enough I was having to mooch dinner! Demanding someone in the Linux community to make a free Outlook Express clone, or whatever, is, IMHO, just as rude.
To paraphrase a famous quote, The question I need to ask myself is not what Linux can do for me, but what can I do for Linux.
5) Even though Linux has weaknesses, and is slower on 4-way Xenon Intel processors with 4 gigs of ram, etc., Linux is continuously being improved and will eventually be superior.
I really wish people would not start beliving this delusion. Apache is slower than IIS on a high-end machine, but Apache was never meant to scale to that level of performance.
As for the Samba vs. NT numbers, Samba does better than NT when all the clients are NT workstation, NT does better than Samba when all the clients are Windows95/98. The SMB server to use depends on what kind of clients you have in your enterprise.
Sorry for any typographical errors. Slashdot is too heavily loaded for me to preview right now
My general annoyance with spam is that the majority of spammers out there are seedy people. When these people are investigated on news.admin.net-abuse.email, it is often found out that these people have criminal records, or are investigated for illegal activities. Examples:
The "Lindsey Ontario" spammer (sends a "work at home" fraud one to everyone who posts to Usenet) has a large debt owed to the Canadian government for tax evasion.
"Krazy Kevin" was investigated by the FTC (or was it the FBI) for fraud. Happily, the police visiting his place have stopped him from spamming every single mailing list he can find.
"TCPS" (Michael Alvin) has no respect for the needs of the ISP, and continues to send pornographic spam to any and all email address he can find, with no regard for the age of the person getting the email. He is facing a lawsuit from UUNET, and a lawsuit from Juno.com for disregarding "ceast and desist" orders.
Getting one email from someone like this is enough for me to stop what I am doing, spend the next 30 minutes finding out what ISP he used to send out his garbage, and complain to the ISPs in question. A deja.com search is also not uncommon for me.
Messages from more legitimate corporate entities are less bothersome to me.
Ugh! Even thinking about these spammers can ruin a perfectly good day for me! - Sam
As an aside, I think the expression "that is FUD" is a cop out. If a fact stated is inaccurate, say so, preferably with a link to support the fact. For example, when Microsoft claims that Linux does not have a distributed security model, the reponse should not be "That is FUD". The reponse should be "Yes it does. For example, NIS is a distributed security model that works wiht Linux." Ideally, a link to some NIS page, such as the NIS HOWTO, should be provided.
If the fact in question is true, hey, that's great too. Sometimes, opensource developers need more focus to do the best work they can, and what better focus than a challenge from Microsoft itself!
I always found it silly that the loopback set of IP addresses take up an entire class A block (127.0.0.0 to 127.255.255.255).
The problem is plain simply that people did not see the internet growing the way it has when they released IP in the early 80s. Waste 16 million IP addresses for loopback? Sure, why not.
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- Java for PalmOS
- More Java
- SSH and other crypto stuff for Palm Pilot
- There are free development tools for Linux
- One alternative to Grafitti (There are many)
- Tetris clone
Voice Reconition will come along when they make a mic input for the Palm.- Sam
What you are thinking of are called Chess Variants.
When I saw the ad, the buddy I was with said "You know, if someone actually got 7 million points, they would have to give them the jet". We knew it was a joke, and we knew Pepsi had no intention of giving anyone a Harrier jet, but we felt that someone with that many points would have a strong legal case.
- Sam
You know, I get the sense El Camino Real, a major road through silicon valley, is not coordinated. I notice that most of the lights have diamonds, and that the red lights are always holding up traffic.
Is it common to have a given stoplight be both diamond-activated at low-traffic hours and coordinated during medium-traffic hours?
Here, in the bay area, the only series of coordinated lights I know of are in the city (San Francisco).
- Sam
I think one of the areas where city planners can improve things out there is with stoplight design.
For example, the "diamond" stoplights (stoplights that detect cars at the light, and change accordingly) are an excellent design when traffic is extremely light, such as the middle of the night. It is a terrible design when traffic is moderate to heavy.
What happens when traffic is moderate with diamond stoplights is this: they slow down traffic. Since the lights are controlled by traffic, which is essentially random, the chance of a given stoplight being green is simply a flip of the coin. This makes "liquid" traffic "solid" traffic.
The ideal design once traffic hits the "liquid" state is to have the stoplights be timed lights. In other words, If one is going down the road at 40mph, all of the lights are timed to be green at the time one drives throught them.
Once traffic gets really heavy and enters a "solid" state, all bets are off. The only options traffic lights have are to either be timed at a slower driving pace (10mph or whatever the traffic can handle). One also needs to keep the main artery intersections green for as long as possible.
- Sam
NSI is doing the right thing my making spammers legally responsible if they use WHOIS information to harvest spam addresses.
- Sam
If you want a small-memory cipher that uses a Feistel network, Twofish is an excellent choice. If you want something even thinner than Twofish, and do not need to use a Feistel network, Rijndael (pronounce it "Rain Doll") or Crypton are excellent choices.
- Sam
The average file in ZDNet's WebBench (You can download it, if you wish to) is approximately 10kb big. 10342.3 bytes, to be exact. Use this number when reading the web page.
In other words, a single-processor 256meg box can saturate a T3 with plenty of room to spare (107 MBps). The four-processor Linux box will almost saturate an OC3 (150 Mbps).
- Sam
My theory is that the sort of people who flame a lot have issues with powerlessness over their world, and Linux is more accessible to such people.
- Sam
This case is a strong precedent that one can not use copyright to protect one's privacy and reputation, the only real damages that the people who wrote these flame emails can claim to collect.
- Sam
Their claims of not being able to support 39 distributions insipres absolutely no confidence in me. There is no way in hell I would pay for a product that is so poorly supported that its open source competitors look good in comparison.
A commercial company's idea of support is different than the open source idea of support. People have a number of expectations with a piece of commercial software that they do not have with a piece of GPL software. For example, just because Perl is "supported" in Debian does not mean that Larry Wall is knowledgable about how to make a .deb package, or how to get Perl to compile on a Debian system. It just means that someone on the net has managed to compile, and perhaps make a .deb package for a single version of Perl. It doesn't mean that the particular 5.00X release you need to make all your scripts work will compile in Debian, much less that there is a .deb package of the version of Perl you need compatible with the version of Debian you have.
Compare this to the expectations of commercial support. If MetroWorks said "Debian" on the box, you would expect that there were .deb packages suitable for all releases of Debian currently in use. You would expect that MetroWorks technical support hotline would be trained in Debian-specific issues. You would expect that there would be no nasty bugs that only pop up because of Debian's particular eccentricities. Which, to MetroWorks, means they would have to perform an additional SQA (Software Quality Assurance) testing round for the Debian version.
When it comes to commercial software, "Support" does not just mean "it can work with a little hacking" or "We managed to compile it for this distribution". It means a large investment of time and money.
- Sam
Their claims of not being able to support 39 distributions insipres absolutely no confidence in me. There is no way in hell I would pay for a product that is so poorly supported that its open source competitors look good in comparison. A commercial company's idea of support is different than the open source idea of support. People have a number of expectations with a piece of commercial software that they do not have with a piece of GPL software. For example, just because Perl is "supported" in Debian does not mean that Larry Wall is knowledgable about how to make a .deb package, or how to get Perl to compile on a Debian system. It just means that someone on the net has managed to compile, and perhaps make a .deb package for a single version of Perl. It doesn't mean that the particular 5.00X release you need to make all your scripts work will compile in Debian, much less that there is a .deb package of the version of Perl you need compatible with the version of Debian you have. Compare this to the expectations of commercial support. If MetroWorks said "Debian" on the box, you would expect that there were .deb packages suitable for all releases of Debian currently in use. You would expect that MetroWorks technical support hotline would be trained in Debian-specific issues. You would expect that there would be no nasty bugs that only pop up because of Debian's particular eccentricities. Which, to MetroWorks, means they would have to perform an additional SQA (Software Quality Assurance) testing round for the Debian version. When it comes to commercial software, "Support" does not just mean "it can work with a little hacking" or "We managed to compile it for this distribution". It means a large investment of time and money. - Sam
If you f*ck with the FBI, they will catch up to you. Sooner or later. And, your ass will be grass when they do. At best, you will lose your computers, and your parents will have to spend tens of thousands of dollars hiring a lawyer.
I remember someone in Isreal, who, in his arrgogance, thought he was too good to be caught. Think again. They caught him.
- Sam
Linux was fine four years ago. Mind you, one had to find out if a given piece of hardware was listed in the Hardware-Compatibility HOWTO instead of looking to see if "Linux" was written on the box, and hardware took a little time to become Linux compatible. Some pieces of hardware were not compatible, but the issue was usually a NDA issue instead of a Linux issue per se.
The UI of four years ago still works fine today, although it is not for everyone.
- Sam
Not any more. That contract was made "null and void" in late 1997 or early 1998.
- Sam
This line reminds me of something that happened one night. One night, I was going out to dinner with some people I didn't know. My wallet was empty, so I stopped by the bank to get some more money from the ATM machine. Except for the fact that my ATM card was bad. So, I ended up having to mooch food that evening.
The people I was having dinner with included Richard Stallman. This experience had me asking myself: Am I mouching software from the FSF and the Linux developers in the same way I had to mooch food for dinner that evening?
Needless to say, asking Richard Stallman for free moo shoo pork instead of egg rolls would have been rude beyone rude. It was bad enough I was having to mooch dinner! Demanding someone in the Linux community to make a free Outlook Express clone, or whatever, is, IMHO, just as rude.
To paraphrase a famous quote, The question I need to ask myself is not what Linux can do for me, but what can I do for Linux.
- Sam
I really wish people would not start beliving this delusion. Apache is slower than IIS on a high-end machine, but Apache was never meant to scale to that level of performance.
If you need that kind of web server performance in Linux, you don't use Apache. You use Zeus, thttpd, or mathopd. Here is a UNIX web server performance comparison.
As for the Samba vs. NT numbers, Samba does better than NT when all the clients are NT workstation, NT does better than Samba when all the clients are Windows95/98. The SMB server to use depends on what kind of clients you have in your enterprise.
- Sam
Sorry for any typographical errors. Slashdot is too heavily loaded for me to preview right now
My general annoyance with spam is that the majority of spammers out there are seedy people. When these people are investigated on news.admin.net-abuse.email, it is often found out that these people have criminal records, or are investigated for illegal activities. Examples:
- The "Lindsey Ontario" spammer (sends a "work at home" fraud one to everyone who posts to Usenet) has a large debt owed to the Canadian government for tax evasion.
- "Krazy Kevin" was investigated by the FTC (or was it the FBI) for fraud. Happily, the police visiting his place have stopped him from spamming every single mailing list he can find.
- "TCPS" (Michael Alvin) has no respect for the needs of the ISP, and continues to send pornographic spam to any and all email address he can find, with no regard for the age of the person getting the email. He is facing a lawsuit from UUNET, and a lawsuit from Juno.com for disregarding "ceast and desist" orders.
Getting one email from someone like this is enough for me to stop what I am doing, spend the next 30 minutes finding out what ISP he used to send out his garbage, and complain to the ISPs in question. A deja.com search is also not uncommon for me.Messages from more legitimate corporate entities are less bothersome to me.
Ugh! Even thinking about these spammers can ruin a perfectly good day for me!
- Sam
As an aside, I think the expression "that is FUD" is a cop out. If a fact stated is inaccurate, say so, preferably with a link to support the fact. For example, when Microsoft claims that Linux does not have a distributed security model, the reponse should not be "That is FUD". The reponse should be "Yes it does. For example, NIS is a distributed security model that works wiht Linux." Ideally, a link to some NIS page, such as the NIS HOWTO, should be provided.
If the fact in question is true, hey, that's great too. Sometimes, opensource developers need more focus to do the best work they can, and what better focus than a challenge from Microsoft itself!
- Sam
The problem is plain simply that people did not see the internet growing the way it has when they released IP in the early 80s. Waste 16 million IP addresses for loopback? Sure, why not.
- Sam