Am I the only one here that is happy Mozilla 1.3 is out? After reading the posts here it sounds like/. would bitch if they were hung with a new rope.
What is wrong with Mozilla? "Bloat" what exactly is "bloat" memory footprint? HDD footprint? Load Time? Compaired to IE I find it to be very compeditive, plus you are not helping lord gates and mount redmond take over the net/world. You are providing them with a serious challenge which is better for everyone.
Sorry, I just work up and I'm a little cranky. I don't meean to bitch at the parent post specificly just people that are complaining about nit picky stuff while overlooking all the time/energy spent giving them a free speech/beer answer to IE and redmond (something/.ers also complain about)
Well how about Wi-Fi? Bridging the last mile with wi-fi sounds like a great way to give the finger to Ma Bell.
Damn I hate that bitch.
There is a group mentioned on slashdot a while ago that has finished work on mesh-AP routing. Locustworld Has also got hardware pre-built, and software to D/L. Ma Bell dosn't want compitition huh? How about no customers as well.
Damn I hate that bitch. A Lot.
Free market disobediance? hmmm....
Sorry if I sound a little crude in this post, but I am so damn mad I could just *censored*!!!
I have been folowing an OSS project for some time now. BOINC from berkley. I wonder if the SETI gruop is aware of this and if the opening of the software is in co-op with BOINC.
BOINC is a framework on which to build distributed computing projects with ease. The overview is rather complete, in my humble opinion.
What I am kinda wondering is if IBM will put some of it AIX experence into Linux kernel improvments and related tools for really large machines (big iron) and if they do are they going to be nice and release them as GPL or similar OR are they going to try to keep any changes improvments whathave you as IBM property...
Anyone have any IBM experence or thoughts?
My post was an attempt at humor... Sorry. It was trying to make light of the fact that MS tries to use "more secure" as a selling point to keep people upgrading.
From the looks of things it just wasn't that funny.
Well, it has a lot to do with the worlds economy. It is already in the crapper and if a net worm was really nasty (as noted in my post) it could cause real damage. How many machines were infected with code red? Now what would happen if all of those machines were destroyed (its drives formatted or something) How much would that cost in dollars to repair/restore? hundreds of millions to tens of billions? All over the world... A hypothetical Sircam III that erases all emails in your in box, out box, and contact list? That can do major economic damage to business.
...and you and I know, nobody runs backups like they should...
So wil it be this year that MicroSquash will sell us the fix for this, or will the release date slip.
Ya know... On a more serious note, one of these days one of these little worms will have a really mean and nasty payload attached. Instead of just swamping us with annoying packets it could do some major harm. Remember Code Red? something like 90% of infectable hosts infected in 26 hours... the thing could have destroyed the server's OS/file system/whatever. It was the kindness of the coder that he/she spared us from that. We should not let the world economy's security be handeled by the kindness of these worm/virii coders!!!
I say we should shoot l4m3r windows sysadmins on sight... for the sake of the world... and our beloved Internet.
I have been doing xDSL installs for a few years and I have noticed a strange thing...
All of your big boy companies have crappy passwords. PacBell (now SBC say their commercials) I have found to be the worst... When I notify the customer they all have the same reaction *blank_look*what password*/blank_look*.
In contrast some of the smaller xDSL providers seem to be more on the ball with these things.
I usually change the password and write down the password and network info then tape it to the top of the modem with my company tech support number. What really gets me mad is the big boy providers never even bother to tell their clients about the need to change the password... I mean how goddamn hard is it to tell em that.
One more thing... one more luggage joke and I'm going to have to kill someone...
Vidomi Killer media player and network distributed video encoder.
Yeah! Right on... I played with apache MP3 M3U for a few minutes and presto! streaming blog. No bullshit No media server No big media companies No *special* client
It ust works
I'm also looking into streaming XviD for video just need a faster pipe (or hosting service).
I must be missing something, somewhere because all of these websites I visit stream video in Real or MS mediaplayer. Why? M3U and a good MPEG1 stream or a MPEG4 (XviD?) would work so well and I would not need a *special* client. Most modern media players understand the whole M3U thing and deal with it fine. *shrug* I dunno.
IS there a reason that they use one of these streaming servers... I mean a technical reason... or is it just a brand recognition thing...
Vidomi Kick ass media player and network distributed video encoder.
Yeah, but then readers would be required nation-wide which is costly to say the least. The resaon 'automated roads' have been back-burnered is the astronomical expense of implementing it in any large scale.
Well go to traffic.com and you can see up to the minute traffic info for most of the US metro areas. They have installed sensors every 1/4 to 2 miles in damn near all freeways and a number of streets. Just 1000 feet away from me right now is one of those things in the street to trigger the new traffic signal "for better traffic flow" and monitoring by the city. It would take very little to add 1 more sensor for RFID data to be passed back over the same system...
Finally, vehicles move. Even a speedy RFID tag that transmits at 12kbps takes 1/46th of a second to send a typical 256 bit message (serial number + checksum + overhead). It takes 5-6 times this in practice to power the tag, interrogate it, and receive a response, in which time the car has moved >10ft at 60MPH. So even if you could have an ultra-high-gain antenna, it'd have to be significantly steerable, too.
Well this might be true but try this... A trafic signal is equipped with the reader and scans while you are sitting at a red light.
Or... the police car is equipped that is moving at 0 MPH relative to your car regardless to ground speed.
Or... The local gas station/minimart/whatever is equipped to track you in the parking lot.
In short the technology is not evil or anything but it is a powerful tool, and with great power comes great responsibility and I have zero faith that the powers that be will use this power in a responsible manner. It is setting the stage for a Bad Thing
I was working at a small local computer shop and one day a machine comes in for service. If I remember the guy wanted a new drive put in because he ever so brilliantly deduced that the old one was not working.
OK no prob...
After looking into the old one I saw his stash of pr0n. I was bored, so I rummaged through it... Hmmmm he likes teens. OK it looks like poloroids on a flatbed scanner. Young teens.
sicko...
The next day he came in to pick up his box, so I carried it out to him and that is when I saw her. I froze, jaw on the ground. I just stood there not knowing what to do... It was his DAUGHTER!
After he left I notified my boss and stopped looking through "bad" or "old" hard drives for some time.
Although I don't read (I can I just choose not to) I do watch a flick or 2 and the first thing that popped into my head was Lain: Serial Experments. A bit long on the order of 6.5 hours, it was worth every minute. So put down your books for a sec and check it out.
This is kinda off-topic but I have to ask....
I have been hearing rumor that MS is looking in buying or becoming a controlling intrest in Pepsi. Presumably for the marketing/brand recognition and market demographics of Pepsi in conjunction with the Xbox and related MS projects in the works.
Has anyone heard anything like this? Any truth to this or is it just BS
I have been hearing rumor that MS is looking in buying or becoming a controlling intrest in Pepsi. Presumably for the marketing/brand recognition and market demographics of Pepsi in conjunction with the Xbox and related MS projects in the works.
Has anyone heard anything like this? Any truth to this or is it just BS
I'm just wondering if FOX is going to turn this into a "when god attacks" or "alien autoposy" or "NASA faked the moon landings" TV spot. It sounds right up their alley.
evil_grin I think I will email them about it... /evil_grin
B5 rocks. Now I heard something about that show that I don't know if it is true or not. Mabey you or someone here could prove/disprove...
B5 had all 5 years of script written out before the first one filmed. That is how they were able to build such an amazingly intricate plotline/timeline.
This show was said on of the best sci-fi shows on TV?! WTF?! This show could not decide if it was space adventure, western, or beverly hills 90210 teenie bopper drama. Pick a damn direction and go with it.
I think the problem was it pissed off the SCI-fi fans due to its lame tech, pissed off the teenie bopper 90210 drama because (and I quote a friends sister here) "all the complicated space stuff" (she would rather watch friends) and it obviously would not fly (ba dum dum) with the western-gun smoke type.
In shout it did not have a core audiance it could depend on to grab the TV for an hour and drag other people into it.
First off that the IETF supporting a working group for XMPP/Jabber kicks ass.
But it will not give us what it promises. In no fault of its own... I am sure it will do what it is designed for from a tech POV. Business (read: AOL MSN Yahoo, etc) don't want it. They more than don't want it, they are probably keeping an eye on it out of concern.
AOL is the best example of this. They get people to sign up because their friends signed up and they can chat (and according to the ads you can even send pictures in email! WOW!) They don't want you to be able to use just any ISP. Or just any anything. They will not use XMPP/Jabber. They will intentionally not work with XMPP/Jabber. AOL excels at not cooperating in the IM client area. They want it to bee this way, not because they could not from a protocol/technology point of view
In the end XMPP/Jabber will only work with itself. A marvel of interoperability.
And this suits me just fine. They can keep their IM-BS. The rest of us can use somthing else.
This is a very cool development, and I can't wait until a network develops in my neighborhood
I don't want to sound like i'm nagging or anything, but why wait. Take the init and plop one down yourself, tell everyone (well everyone that would want to know) and get the ball rolling yourself.
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Am I the only one here that is happy Mozilla 1.3 is out? After reading the posts here it sounds like /. would bitch if they were hung with a new rope.
/.ers also complain about)
What is wrong with Mozilla? "Bloat" what exactly is "bloat" memory footprint? HDD footprint? Load Time? Compaired to IE I find it to be very compeditive, plus you are not helping lord gates and mount redmond take over the net/world. You are providing them with a serious challenge which is better for everyone.
Sorry, I just work up and I'm a little cranky. I don't meean to bitch at the parent post specificly just people that are complaining about nit picky stuff while overlooking all the time/energy spent giving them a free speech/beer answer to IE and redmond (something
Well how about Wi-Fi? Bridging the last mile with wi-fi sounds like a great way to give the finger to Ma Bell.
Damn I hate that bitch.
There is a group mentioned on slashdot a while ago that has finished work on mesh-AP routing. Locustworld Has also got hardware pre-built, and software to D/L. Ma Bell dosn't want compitition huh? How about no customers as well.
Damn I hate that bitch. A Lot.
Free market disobediance? hmmm.... Sorry if I sound a little crude in this post, but I am so damn mad I could just *censored*!!!
I have been folowing an OSS project for some time now. BOINC from berkley. I wonder if the SETI gruop is aware of this and if the opening of the software is in co-op with BOINC.
BOINC is a framework on which to build distributed computing projects with ease. The overview is rather complete, in my humble opinion.
Anyone familar with BOINC or have any comments?
Hey! It's voluntary taxation... Thank the people that play.
What I am kinda wondering is if IBM will put some of it AIX experence into Linux kernel improvments and related tools for really large machines (big iron) and if they do are they going to be nice and release them as GPL or similar OR are they going to try to keep any changes improvments whathave you as IBM property... Anyone have any IBM experence or thoughts?
Finally... someone read more than the first line of the orignal post...
I would tend to agree with your comments as well...
Always give em the chance to fix it, if not then burn em...
My post was an attempt at humor... Sorry. It was trying to make light of the fact that MS tries to use "more secure" as a selling point to keep people upgrading.
From the looks of things it just wasn't that funny.
Well, it has a lot to do with the worlds economy. It is already in the crapper and if a net worm was really nasty (as noted in my post) it could cause real damage. How many machines were infected with code red? Now what would happen if all of those machines were destroyed (its drives formatted or something) How much would that cost in dollars to repair/restore? hundreds of millions to tens of billions? All over the world...
A hypothetical Sircam III that erases all emails in your in box, out box, and contact list? That can do major economic damage to business.
...and you and I know, nobody runs backups like they should...
So wil it be this year that MicroSquash will sell us the fix for this, or will the release date slip.
Ya know... On a more serious note, one of these days one of these little worms will have a really mean and nasty payload attached. Instead of just swamping us with annoying packets it could do some major harm. Remember Code Red? something like 90% of infectable hosts infected in 26 hours... the thing could have destroyed the server's OS/file system/whatever. It was the kindness of the coder that he/she spared us from that. We should not let the world economy's security be handeled by the kindness of these worm/virii coders!!!
I say we should shoot l4m3r windows sysadmins on sight... for the sake of the world... and our beloved Internet.
Mo Zilla
I know that is not what you wanted to hear... But I had to say it...
Vidomi Killer media player and network distributed media encoder
I have been doing xDSL installs for a few years and I have noticed a strange thing...
All of your big boy companies have crappy passwords. PacBell (now SBC say their commercials) I have found to be the worst... When I notify the customer they all have the same reaction *blank_look*what password*/blank_look*.
In contrast some of the smaller xDSL providers seem to be more on the ball with these things.
I usually change the password and write down the password and network info then tape it to the top of the modem with my company tech support number. What really gets me mad is the big boy providers never even bother to tell their clients about the need to change the password... I mean how goddamn hard is it to tell em that.
One more thing... one more luggage joke and I'm going to have to kill someone...
Vidomi Killer media player and network distributed video encoder.
Yeah! Right on... I played with apache MP3 M3U for a few minutes and presto! streaming blog.
No bullshit
No media server
No big media companies
No *special* client
It ust works
I'm also looking into streaming XviD for video just need a faster pipe (or hosting service).
I must be missing something, somewhere because all of these websites I visit stream video in Real or MS mediaplayer. Why? M3U and a good MPEG1 stream or a MPEG4 (XviD?) would work so well and I would not need a *special* client. Most modern media players understand the whole M3U thing and deal with it fine. *shrug* I dunno.
IS there a reason that they use one of these streaming servers... I mean a technical reason... or is it just a brand recognition thing...
Vidomi Kick ass media player and network distributed video encoder.
Yeah, but then readers would be required nation-wide which is costly to say the least. The resaon 'automated roads' have been back-burnered is the astronomical expense of implementing it in any large scale.
Well go to traffic.com and you can see up to the minute traffic info for most of the US metro areas. They have installed sensors every 1/4 to 2 miles in damn near all freeways and a number of streets. Just 1000 feet away from me right now is one of those things in the street to trigger the new traffic signal "for better traffic flow" and monitoring by the city. It would take very little to add 1 more sensor for RFID data to be passed back over the same system...
Finally, vehicles move. Even a speedy RFID tag that transmits at 12kbps takes 1/46th of a second to send a typical 256 bit message (serial number + checksum + overhead). It takes 5-6 times this in practice to power the tag, interrogate it, and receive a response, in which time the car has moved >10ft at 60MPH. So even if you could have an ultra-high-gain antenna, it'd have to be significantly steerable, too.
Well this might be true but try this... A trafic signal is equipped with the reader and scans while you are sitting at a red light.
Or... the police car is equipped that is moving at 0 MPH relative to your car regardless to ground speed.
Or... The local gas station/minimart/whatever is equipped to track you in the parking lot.
In short the technology is not evil or anything but it is a powerful tool, and with great power comes great responsibility and I have zero faith that the powers that be will use this power in a responsible manner. It is setting the stage for a Bad Thing
I have one for ya'all...
I was working at a small local computer shop and one day a machine comes in for service. If I remember the guy wanted a new drive put in because he ever so brilliantly deduced that the old one was not working.
OK no prob...
After looking into the old one I saw his stash of pr0n. I was bored, so I rummaged through it...
Hmmmm he likes teens. OK it looks like poloroids on a flatbed scanner. Young teens.
sicko...
The next day he came in to pick up his box, so I carried it out to him and that is when I saw her. I froze, jaw on the ground. I just stood there not knowing what to do... It was his DAUGHTER!
After he left I notified my boss and stopped looking through "bad" or "old" hard drives for some time.
Although I don't read (I can I just choose not to) I do watch a flick or 2 and the first thing that popped into my head was Lain: Serial Experments. A bit long on the order of 6.5 hours, it was worth every minute. So put down your books for a sec and check it out.
This is kinda off-topic but I have to ask.... I have been hearing rumor that MS is looking in buying or becoming a controlling intrest in Pepsi. Presumably for the marketing/brand recognition and market demographics of Pepsi in conjunction with the Xbox and related MS projects in the works. Has anyone heard anything like this? Any truth to this or is it just BS
This is kinda off-topic but I have to ask....
I have been hearing rumor that MS is looking in buying or becoming a controlling intrest in Pepsi. Presumably for the marketing/brand recognition and market demographics of Pepsi in conjunction with the Xbox and related MS projects in the works.
Has anyone heard anything like this? Any truth to this or is it just BS
This sounds about as funny as RFC 1149 IP over Pigeon
I'm just wondering if FOX is going to turn this into a "when god attacks" or "alien autoposy" or "NASA faked the moon landings" TV spot. It sounds right up their alley.
evil_grin
I think I will email them about it...
/evil_grin
ummmm. No. 600 mRem mabey.
LD/50 is 300 rem. Average US background dose is 300 mRem.
B5 rocks. Now I heard something about that show that I don't know if it is true or not. Mabey you or someone here could prove/disprove...
B5 had all 5 years of script written out before the first one filmed. That is how they were able to build such an amazingly intricate plotline/timeline.
Any truth to that?
This show was said on of the best sci-fi shows on TV?! WTF?! This show could not decide if it was space adventure, western, or beverly hills 90210 teenie bopper drama. Pick a damn direction and go with it.
I think the problem was it pissed off the SCI-fi fans due to its lame tech, pissed off the teenie bopper 90210 drama because (and I quote a friends sister here) "all the complicated space stuff" (she would rather watch friends) and it obviously would not fly (ba dum dum) with the western-gun smoke type.
In shout it did not have a core audiance it could depend on to grab the TV for an hour and drag other people into it.
So long and good riddence
First off that the IETF supporting a working group for XMPP/Jabber kicks ass. But it will not give us what it promises. In no fault of its own... I am sure it will do what it is designed for from a tech POV. Business (read: AOL MSN Yahoo, etc) don't want it. They more than don't want it, they are probably keeping an eye on it out of concern. AOL is the best example of this. They get people to sign up because their friends signed up and they can chat (and according to the ads you can even send pictures in email! WOW!) They don't want you to be able to use just any ISP. Or just any anything. They will not use XMPP/Jabber. They will intentionally not work with XMPP/Jabber. AOL excels at not cooperating in the IM client area. They want it to bee this way, not because they could not from a protocol/technology point of view
In the end XMPP/Jabber will only work with itself. A marvel of interoperability.
And this suits me just fine. They can keep their IM-BS. The rest of us can use somthing else.
This is a very cool development, and I can't wait until a network develops in my neighborhood
I don't want to sound like i'm nagging or anything, but why wait. Take the init and plop one down yourself, tell everyone (well everyone that would want to know) and get the ball rolling yourself.
karpe noctum