Since we're thinking about satellite and Internet in this discussion, I've been wanting to ask what satellite usenet options are out there.
In particular, I've been interested in a feed that pumps through something like a configurable cable modem or cable box that just jams articles over ethernet via the NNTP protocol to an NNTP server you specify. Then, any old NNTP server can be dual-homed between the sat and your LAN, and you just better hope you have lots and lots of disk.
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Nice rant, but FYI, Visa sends out a daily "compromised cards" list to all issuers. Its up to the issuers to do something about it. Wachovia immediately cancels all of their cards that turn up on the list. I know. It happened to me a week ago. So if you're not getting good protection, maybe you should switch issuers.
Mine is protected. Still going through this. I hate, no, despise credit cards. So I only have a debit card against an account for cash and non-cash investments. Pretty risky behavior.
Came home last week (ironically from laying down a down payment on a new car) to a message on the answering machine stating that my Visa card # has been compromised and that the card's been cancelled. I panicked, and checked the account, but no strange charges were appearing. When I asked them what evidence they were going by, and they said they get a daily list of compromised cards from Visa. She said that when a card # shows up, "that usually means they were able to buy your card # off a hacker website." I was glad that no unauthorized charges came through, but I asked about their policy and they said I wouldn't be responsible for one dime. All I have to do is point out the unauthorized charges and it'll be taken care of.
Which reminds me, I should check the account and see if anything has trickled in since then..:) Sometimes it takes a few days to post transacations.
OTOH, IBM has used their own IM server product, Sametime, for years. There are more employees in my division than AT&T has *worldwide*, and a lot of us need to consult with each other. Sure, we have "follow me" phone numbers, but to successfully use the phone, a) you actually have to tell the system the number you're at, and b) you either have to run up your own phone card charges or the customer's phone charges.
I regularly IM people in Paris, London, Atlanta, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles (all work related) within minutes of each other or in parallel. Imagine if I took your advice and called all those people!
Finally, there's a great new system under development that rides overtop of Sametime and allows employees to post a question to organizational groups (all the way up to "everyone") The question slides in on the corner of the recipients' desktops for a few seconds with a button to click if anyone wants to provide an answer.
You may have only been thinking about a small business in one facility, but expand your horizon and you'll see its a very different world when you go global.
IBM has been developing a new Sametime client for internal use only for quite some time. It runs on Sash, IBM's RAD (sort of) platform. The external "weblication gallery" there is a subset of the internal one. What's really nice is that the "weblication manager" automatically updates managed apps a few times a week, without requiring a reboot. Its really very cool. Here is the Redbook on Sash.
Does anyone still make a 1U MP3 or Internet Radio Streamer? What about that tiny MP3 streamer that was the size of a nameplate? Is that still in production?
Seems like a perfect opportunity for amateur radio clubs to line up to purchase new facilities. In addition, these things seem great for building out a high-bandwidth microwave infrastructure to give hams VOIP.
Great place for an APRS node, ATV repeater, or even just a regular old 2m or 440 repeater.
what did you use to rip the audio? what about splitting the songs? did you do it by hand? I have several hundred lp's to rip and am poking around how to go about actually doing it.
I'm wondering if anyone has attempted to link the knowledge stores of an AI chatbot like Alicebot.
I enjoy the fact that she can learn, but it seems she would learn at a much faster pace if she could link with other Alicebots via Jabber to syncronize her data stores.
Gnome terminal. I don't know why the authors bothered to even write the Edit menu complete with Copy (Alt-C) and Paste (Alt-V). I may be doing something completely wrong but that has never worked for me.. in years.
I use pine on a remote box for low-bandwidth, centralized mail services that's immune to the virus-of-the-day. But copying and pasting long URLs to my local browser (usually updated bugzilla tickets and replies to Sourceforge bug reports) has always been a real pain.
Hints anyone? In putty on Windows, just highlighting text puts it in the clipboard..
That's funny, I just heard in class today that customers are telling us that while they recognize that B2C is pretty much dead, B2B and infrastructure update plans are still going forward full force. Bandwidth updgrades, SAN strategies, moving legacy apps to the Intranet -- they're all continuing to move ahead, even in the current economic conditions.
Sure the.bomb was an interesting picture show, but more importantly, I think it helped companies realize that you really *can* dramatically alter -- and improve -- the way you do business, with the right technology. I'm not talking about betting your business on ad revenue, either.
What ever happened to staying within your University's network and never hitting the any Internet link, traditional or Internet2??
Then, your bottleneck will be the slowest link between your dorm and the server. (kids, this doesn't count if you live in off-campus housing and have a cable modem) And FYI, I live in Pennsy, and often get over 2 Mbit/s with Red Carpet from Univ of Michigan via Comcast.
Yeah, high school. Even in '87, I learned COBOL on punch cards. I don't remember what language I was learning on the "mainframe", but I also learned how to read hands typing passwords (still useful today for learning numeric passwords on door locks) When we figured out how to IM each other, the operator interrupted our class because we were "slowing down the mainframe" with our instant messages.
Because it is run as root, you are leaving your machine wide open to anything the trojan wants to do.
How about LIDS? LIDS lets you set r/w perms on files and directories and restrict actions that all users, even root, can perform. With a tight LIDS setup, root isn't even root. A simple example is setting/var/log/messages to read-only for everyone (that's users AND executables) except syslog and cron, and cron gets read-write perms only during the 1 minute a week it needs to rotate the log file.
I start working a couple blocks away in two weeks..
on another note, who's going to be the first in the US to do 3G with a bluetooth phone? how about stapling together a 3G palm phone with bluetooth connection sharing? can you do it today?
Fleshmeat? I've heard of meat-space and "rl", but I've never heard that phrase
Exactly. That bugs the crap out of me, too. The Wall Street Journal recently ran a tech article that talked about retail stores now putting web kiosks in stores like Barnes & Noble and the Gap. The author called retail stores with a web presence "clicks & bricks stores". That's funny, I could have sworn that as we were actually going through that phase of the bubble, they were called "click & mortar stores".
You'd love the stint I left to start consulting.. it began as a server room (behind 2 swipe card protected doors) with about 15 of us. Then the room was split in 1/3rd-2/3rds, leaving about 5 of us on 1 side. One by one they all left to join the general population, but I refused to go. Yes, refused. I told them, "if I leave this room, I'm going all the way out the front door." For the last 18 months, my desk the was only one in the server room.. ahh bliss.. just me and about 80 servers.. had the best cubicle in the building. Had my Compaq Insight Manager and Big Brother consoles up all the time.. when the shit hit the fan, I was on it in seconds, which they appreciated.
People used to ask how I was able to take it down there.. I always replied, "it's great! if I ever want it to be quiet in here, I just stop talking to myself!!":)
Way OT.. just wanted to say that I wonder how many people are aware that when their cellphones receive a text message and beep loudly with "dit-dit-dit, dah-dah, dit-dit-dit" their cellphones are actually sending "SMS" in morse code -- SMS, "SMS", get it?:)
I commute in the masses making their way to and through NYC everyday, and I must hear that four times a day on the train.
Someone gave me a RaQ4 because his house power was too flaky and the box kept rebooting.
Well after bringing it home and reloading it from the "network gold disk" I started using it. After a short while, the box became very slow to respond. The load had gone up to 33 (yes, the O'Reilly Performance Tuning book says the load shouldn't go over 2.0 x the CPU count -- this went up to 33 on idle). It was the damn LCD control app. Once I chmodded it to -x, the load hasn't gone over 0.02 in over a year. Of course the LCD is useless now, but its better than having the whole server useless.
I brought it up to my friend (who was managing about 800 of the bastards at an ISP) and he replied, "oh, no wonder the damn things are so freaking slow".
So, lately I've been reading up on the System Installation Suite so that I can setup my own tftp server-based install of Debian. If you also anticipate Sun dropping support for these bad boys, you may want to look into it too. It would be nice to have the box feel like a normal one and who knows, maybe the lcdproc isn't such a resource hog now. Maybe the market will be flooded with them once they're abandoned, and SISuite will breathe new life into them.
Albany may have nice areas, but its a lot like Baltimore. Like 3 square blocks that are nice, and the rest are totally blown out. I was driving through there, and kids pelted my truck with ice balls. With rocks in the middle. Luckily they didn't see the police car behind me.
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Since we're thinking about satellite and Internet in this discussion, I've been wanting to ask what satellite usenet options are out there.
In particular, I've been interested in a feed that pumps through something like a configurable cable modem or cable box that just jams articles over ethernet via the NNTP protocol to an NNTP server you specify. Then, any old NNTP server can be dual-homed between the sat and your LAN, and you just better hope you have lots and lots of disk.
Any takers?
But Alanis couldn't get it past the corporate censors
Oh, but she got "will she go down on you in a theater" and "are you thinking of me when you f*ck her?" right past them...
the "corporate censors" aren't as bad as you think.. (at least in this case).. you should try listening to Nick Cave's Murder Ballads sometime..
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Nice rant, but FYI, Visa sends out a daily "compromised cards" list to all issuers. Its up to the issuers to do something about it. Wachovia immediately cancels all of their cards that turn up on the list. I know. It happened to me a week ago. So if you're not getting good protection, maybe you should switch issuers.
Mine is protected. Still going through this. I hate, no, despise credit cards. So I only have a debit card against an account for cash and non-cash investments. Pretty risky behavior.
:) Sometimes it takes a few days to post transacations.
Came home last week (ironically from laying down a down payment on a new car) to a message on the answering machine stating that my Visa card # has been compromised and that the card's been cancelled. I panicked, and checked the account, but no strange charges were appearing. When I asked them what evidence they were going by, and they said they get a daily list of compromised cards from Visa. She said that when a card # shows up, "that usually means they were able to buy your card # off a hacker website." I was glad that no unauthorized charges came through, but I asked about their policy and they said I wouldn't be responsible for one dime. All I have to do is point out the unauthorized charges and it'll be taken care of.
Which reminds me, I should check the account and see if anything has trickled in since then..
OTOH, IBM has used their own IM server product, Sametime, for years. There are more employees in my division than AT&T has *worldwide*, and a lot of us need to consult with each other. Sure, we have "follow me" phone numbers, but to successfully use the phone, a) you actually have to tell the system the number you're at, and b) you either have to run up your own phone card charges or the customer's phone charges.
I regularly IM people in Paris, London, Atlanta, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles (all work related) within minutes of each other or in parallel. Imagine if I took your advice and called all those people!
Finally, there's a great new system under development that rides overtop of Sametime and allows employees to post a question to organizational groups (all the way up to "everyone") The question slides in on the corner of the recipients' desktops for a few seconds with a button to click if anyone wants to provide an answer.
You may have only been thinking about a small business in one facility, but expand your horizon and you'll see its a very different world when you go global.
The natural Sametime client is pretty raw.
IBM has been developing a new Sametime client for internal use only for quite some time. It runs on Sash, IBM's RAD (sort of) platform. The external "weblication gallery" there is a subset of the internal one. What's really nice is that the "weblication manager" automatically updates managed apps a few times a week, without requiring a reboot. Its really very cool. Here is the Redbook on Sash.
and you STILL haven't RTFA'd. users upload the files you want to share to a shareable file locker. just another bogus article title.
Does anyone still make a 1U MP3 or Internet Radio Streamer? What about that tiny MP3 streamer that was the size of a nameplate? Is that still in production?
Seems like a perfect opportunity for amateur radio clubs to line up to purchase new facilities. In addition, these things seem great for building out a high-bandwidth microwave infrastructure to give hams VOIP.
Great place for an APRS node, ATV repeater, or even just a regular old 2m or 440 repeater.
what did you use to rip the audio? what about splitting the songs? did you do it by hand? I have several hundred lp's to rip and am poking around how to go about actually doing it.
I'm wondering if anyone has attempted to link the knowledge stores of an AI chatbot like Alicebot.
I enjoy the fact that she can learn, but it seems she would learn at a much faster pace if she could link with other Alicebots via Jabber to syncronize her data stores.
I mean, who here didn't use Napster?
Me.
Sorry, had to say it. I'm no angel, but it took me a while to get over it and start peering.
Gnome terminal. I don't know why the authors bothered to even write the Edit menu complete with Copy (Alt-C) and Paste (Alt-V). I may be doing something completely wrong but that has never worked for me.. in years.
I use pine on a remote box for low-bandwidth, centralized mail services that's immune to the virus-of-the-day. But copying and pasting long URLs to my local browser (usually updated bugzilla tickets and replies to Sourceforge bug reports) has always been a real pain.
Hints anyone? In putty on Windows, just highlighting text puts it in the clipboard..
That's funny, I just heard in class today that customers are telling us that while they recognize that B2C is pretty much dead, B2B and infrastructure update plans are still going forward full force. Bandwidth updgrades, SAN strategies, moving legacy apps to the Intranet -- they're all continuing to move ahead, even in the current economic conditions.
.bomb was an interesting picture show, but more importantly, I think it helped companies realize that you really *can* dramatically alter -- and improve -- the way you do business, with the right technology. I'm not talking about betting your business on ad revenue, either.
Sure the
Informative??
What ever happened to staying within your University's network and never hitting the any Internet link, traditional or Internet2??
Then, your bottleneck will be the slowest link between your dorm and the server. (kids, this doesn't count if you live in off-campus housing and have a cable modem) And FYI, I live in Pennsy, and often get over 2 Mbit/s with Red Carpet from Univ of Michigan via Comcast.
I've advocated using a "Linux" Gnutella network name for a long time.
Anyone with a static IP want to be the first node?
Yeah, high school. Even in '87, I learned COBOL on punch cards. I don't remember what language I was learning on the "mainframe", but I also learned how to read hands typing passwords (still useful today for learning numeric passwords on door locks) When we figured out how to IM each other, the operator interrupted our class because we were "slowing down the mainframe" with our instant messages.
The CPU must've been that op's Timex.
Because it is run as root, you are leaving your machine wide open to anything the trojan wants to do.
/var/log/messages to read-only for everyone (that's users AND executables) except syslog and cron, and cron gets read-write perms only during the 1 minute a week it needs to rotate the log file.
How about LIDS? LIDS lets you set r/w perms on files and directories and restrict actions that all users, even root, can perform. With a tight LIDS setup, root isn't even root. A simple example is setting
That's pretty tight.
I start working a couple blocks away in two weeks..
on another note, who's going to be the first in the US to do 3G with a bluetooth phone? how about stapling together a 3G palm phone with bluetooth connection sharing? can you do it today?
Fleshmeat? I've heard of meat-space and "rl", but I've never heard that phrase
Exactly. That bugs the crap out of me, too. The Wall Street Journal recently ran a tech article that talked about retail stores now putting web kiosks in stores like Barnes & Noble and the Gap. The author called retail stores with a web presence "clicks & bricks stores". That's funny, I could have sworn that as we were actually going through that phase of the bubble, they were called "click & mortar stores".
You'd love the stint I left to start consulting.. it began as a server room (behind 2 swipe card protected doors) with about 15 of us. Then the room was split in 1/3rd-2/3rds, leaving about 5 of us on 1 side. One by one they all left to join the general population, but I refused to go. Yes, refused. I told them, "if I leave this room, I'm going all the way out the front door." For the last 18 months, my desk the was only one in the server room.. ahh bliss.. just me and about 80 servers.. had the best cubicle in the building. Had my Compaq Insight Manager and Big Brother consoles up all the time.. when the shit hit the fan, I was on it in seconds, which they appreciated.
:)
People used to ask how I was able to take it down there.. I always replied, "it's great! if I ever want it to be quiet in here, I just stop talking to myself!!"
Way OT.. just wanted to say that I wonder how many people are aware that when their cellphones receive a text message and beep loudly with "dit-dit-dit, dah-dah, dit-dit-dit" their cellphones are actually sending "SMS" in morse code -- SMS, "SMS", get it? :)
I commute in the masses making their way to and through NYC everyday, and I must hear that four times a day on the train.
Someone gave me a RaQ4 because his house power was too flaky and the box kept rebooting.
Well after bringing it home and reloading it from the "network gold disk" I started using it. After a short while, the box became very slow to respond. The load had gone up to 33 (yes, the O'Reilly Performance Tuning book says the load shouldn't go over 2.0 x the CPU count -- this went up to 33 on idle). It was the damn LCD control app. Once I chmodded it to -x, the load hasn't gone over 0.02 in over a year. Of course the LCD is useless now, but its better than having the whole server useless.
I brought it up to my friend (who was managing about 800 of the bastards at an ISP) and he replied, "oh, no wonder the damn things are so freaking slow".
So, lately I've been reading up on the System Installation Suite so that I can setup my own tftp server-based install of Debian. If you also anticipate Sun dropping support for these bad boys, you may want to look into it too. It would be nice to have the box feel like a normal one and who knows, maybe the lcdproc isn't such a resource hog now. Maybe the market will be flooded with them once they're abandoned, and SISuite will breathe new life into them.
Albany is really pretty though.
Albany may have nice areas, but its a lot like Baltimore. Like 3 square blocks that are nice, and the rest are totally blown out. I was driving through there, and kids pelted my truck with ice balls. With rocks in the middle. Luckily they didn't see the police car behind me.
So he fired shot over their heads.