Actually, IBM has a very nice office on State St. I can't remember the cross street, but you can walk to the Pepsi Arena from there. I worked up there in February. 60mph winds and rain/ice that felt like freaking needles in your face.
I too started on Slackware in 95. Unfortunately it became worse than Windows wrt "keep installing stuff until you can't take it anymore and blow it away". Read as: no uninstall. It was damn near impossible to find all the little nooks and crannies where tarballs dump files on make install. So I moved to RedHat after 2 years for the package management. Now I'm learning Debian for the "real" package management and sweet system upgrades.
If tgz releases are now adding a "make uninstall" (which I have seen on just a few) then Slackware is usable for anything beyond a basic "set it and forget it because no one can hack it where it's sitting" setup. I never cancelled my Slackware subscription, so Patrick still gets my money. I haven't used it in ages, particularly once I got the Linuxcare business card cd.
I'm assuming you're asking who are IBM's competitors for this product.
Websphere started out life as a Java servlet engine. Therefore, it was basically an outgrowth of Apache JServ and subsequently Jakarta. So much so, that IBM even included the Apache HTTP server and threw a management GUI on it. Other than the Apache line, BEA's WebLogic line is the only real competitor to IBM.
Exactly. I saw all these posts about neighbors spoofing your MAC address to steal bandwidth and setting up home LANs. The main points that come to mind are:
they probabaly give you a NIC and register its MAC
their access point probably only allows your MAC address
when "soft" MAC addresses are applied at the OS level, they typically occupy the range from "400000000000" on up, not the burned-in range
although I believe PRISM2 cards can spoof ANY MAC address
being able to spoof MACs with your Linksys is of no use since there won't be an ethernet port
having said all this, there's nothing stopping anyone from putting a PCI to PCMCIA adapter for the NIC in a Linux box and making that the new firewall.
I'm a 7 year Linux user and RHCE so I don't consider myself a Linux newbie. I decided to try Debian out recently. I was getting tired of the RH bloat and wanted a thin but functional install to run on a P75 w/48MB without X. No CD-ROM so I built net install floppies for stable and unstable. This is an IDE system with S3 video (no X anyway) and an Intel eepro100. No other peripherals at all. Should be cake, right?
Stable works perfectly every time, but the damn unstable install was shoddy at best. The initial floppy load would go, but upon rebooting for the additional package loads, it would pull packages from the stable directory off the mirrors, resulting in many failed package installs. It would eventually get to the point where it would say, "your system has failed to install critical packages. you may choose to ignore this error, but your system will most likely be rendered unusable" or something along those lines. It finally got to the point where the package database was locked and I couldn't add or remove any packages from the system. Just a complete failure, on many attempts, too. I'm sure the CD install goes better, but the Woody floppy install is just plain useless.
I'll stick with stable for now. I get a usable system in just 96MB of used disk space.
I should have done this first, but Google for "25 hour day".. i think the quotes are significant to the search. A front page hit is this article from Harvard. The next hit says the brain's day is 24 hours, 11 minutes long, not the 25 hours earlier studies concluded.
Exactly what I thought of, too. I think it was a NASA study done years ago to figure out how to best structure work schedules for long stays in space.
I remember this particular study involved moving people into a house a la Big Brother, but actually having that house built completely within a set, kindof like the Truman Show, but more like just limited to controlling the light coming in through the windows to give the residents a sense of sunrise, daylight, sunset and nighttime. They may have even cycled the light every, what, 45 minutes(?) to simulate orbiting the earth.
I don't remember anything about specially controlled clocks that run a little slower to add the extra hour a day. If there are 3,600 seconds in an hour and 86,400 seconds in a day, then each move of the second hand on each clock actually needs to take 1 + 3600/86400 or 1.041666 seconds.. barely noticeable. Don't worry, you're not nuts. I most definitely remember the 25 hours too, not 27 like another poster mentioned, but I think we're remembering a 20 year old study, too.
My firewall config had a Linux box on the outside with a crossover cable into a Linksys. The perimeter firewall has now come inside. I run NTP on 6 Linux boxes and used to run w32time on an NT Server.
Only problem is, I could never get the firewall (or any single NTP client) to become a server for the rest of the network, so my boxes are not very polite right now. I've read tons of docs and google hits, and they all seem to indicate that once an NTP client syncs, it will also become a server. Not so here.
What, if anything needs to be done to make a sync'ed NTP client also act as a server? Thanks..
Exactly.. I called my local library to see if they would take some computer books. They would only take the books if their copyright date was less than 2 years old!! I can't bring myself to throwing out the pile of books, but I'm afraid I'm going to just add to the lost and found at Amtrak's 30th Street Station.
I went dumpster diving for over 20 portable dumb terminals. 9" screens with a carrying handle molded into the case. The keyboards fold up and clip on in front of the screen. I had one hooked up to the serial port on my firewall and would also tail -f/var/log/messages. Once you get live ipchains and snort reports, you tend not to want to go back.
But now I'm more interested in finding a good 9-10" X term suitable for keeping Big Brother up 24x7.
Princeton, NJ - David Sarnoff Radio Club
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The DSRC will be hosting their annual Field Day outing on the grounds of the Sarnoff Corporation in Princeton, NJ on Route 1 at Washington Road. Visit http://www.nerc.com/~jdegood/dsrc/ for more details.
If you're going to do Field Day, do it in Princeton, home of Albert Einstein and color television. Not to mention the first place on land to hear the Titanic's distress calls!!:)
I conjecture that IBM has now forgotten the original rationale and is now focusing just on those areas that are most successful.
Most successful, not really. Most profitable? Sure. We still push Linux on every platform Intel to Z, not desktops to mainframes. That was never a big push here. The only way to make money on Intel is to sell software you didn't have to buy from anyone, b/c there sure isn't any money in hardware. I guarantee that if a customer came to IBM asking to have us rollout 20,000 Linux desktops, we would do it.
I, for one, never lost 4 baby teeth. The 4 corners between the incisors and molars; top and bottom. If they fell out, I would do it just to get surround sound!! I could jog dial with long & short tongue presses. If the display was jacked into my visual cortex like the new "blind man driving" glasses, now we're talking Molly from Neuromancer.:)
the old ISO construction method was a complete pile of crap. no matter which mirrors I tried, SOMETHING was always missing.. usually in the docs section.
Their new util, jigdo, worked just fine first time here. Unfortunately, from what I could tell, it doesn't really save bandwidth by letting you fine tune the download. Perhaps you're referring to the ISO for a cd-based network installer.
I don't care for the use of the word geek, so I use nerd. Compare the dictionary.com versions of the definitions of each, and see which one is lacking a particular sense.
From dictionary.com
nerd: A foolish, inept, or unattractive person. A person who is single-minded or accomplished in scientific or technical pursuits but is felt to be socially inept.
geek: A person regarded as foolish, inept, or clumsy. A person who is single-minded or accomplished in scientific or technical pursuits but is felt to be socially inept. A carnival performer whose show consists of bizarre acts, such as biting the head off a live chicken.
So nerds are ugly and geeks are clumsy and do weird things. Otherwise they're exactly identical. Sorry bud, I'm not throwing out my "geek" shirt from ThinkGeek because you would prefer that I consider myself ugly instead of eccentric.
Blessed are the geeks for they shall inherit the Earth. And no, I didn't customize my sig just for you.
one person would pay to download, and everybody else would get it off him for free.
Weren't we just discussing this yesterday?
How about this: the article said that Liquid Audio usually produces encrypted, watermarked files, but that their format won't be used in the end. If their server alters each download by just one bit somewhere in the body of the file, something that no audiophile would notice, that would completely change the MD5 sum. If they let us download WAVs or 320k MP3s, a split second of dead audio at the end of the track would provide for millions of unique MD5 sums usable as serial #'s.
Store the MD5 sum with the paying customer, and look for it to appear in the wild. Voila, a non-copy protected MP3 that can be uniquely traced to the person or persons who purchase and redistribute music. Would you use some kind of editor to tweak bits in an MP3 file before you redistributed it just to make sure that the MD5 sum has changed?
It's not that good. Sure, 1% of drivers (truck drivers, mainly) account for well over 16% of highway traffic. But they also way overpay tolls to support the toll roads they use.
And just how much does the Forestry Service have to do differently in the forests when campers are around? Assuming the campers are reasonably clean, costs are not dramatically increased by the few campers who use the campgrounds most often. So neither argument really relates to the situation cable companies are facing.
I subscribe to the theory that they just way under estimated how much the bandwidth was going to cost them. It'll be a while before they figure out how to strike a balance between costs to them and how much to charge.
Having said that, I'm thoroughly disgusted with the pricing practices of Comcast. My cable bill is well over $100/mo for basic, mid-tier, 2 lousy HBO's and my cable modem. They were kind enough to put me in a pre-release test group for the cablemodem because I hounded them for so long. It was off to a rocky start, but I haven't had problems in several months, and I regularly see over 2Mbit/s down.
Now I think about it a little longer each time DirecTV calls offering free installation for 4 TV's. DSL is unavailable to me, so I won't completely escape CC's predatory pricing techniques anytime soon.
security thought they found a shortwave radio in the room (which overlooked the towers) of an islamic college student. pretty incriminating, right
It wasn't a shortwave radio, it was a 2-way aircraft band radio (which is much more incriminating). And it *was* in his room. When the pilot who's radio it was called about his radio, the security guard admitted to moving the radio down 10 stories into the student's room to incriminate him.
I'm not defending our nation's actions, your description just annoyed me.
Boy you got some free karma, because it doesn't. It runs on Win2k. If you don't mind having an FBI file, you should really spend time at this site to learn more about Carnivore.
No, he knew what he was saying. When parents see what their teenagers are doing with tech, they often say, "Cool! Can I do that with mine?" They take it to work, show a couple of coworkers, and voila, it catches on with the 35 year olds. Think about how long MP3's were popular in universities before they clogged up corporate servers.
Speaking of which, when does Slashdot plan on giving up its.ORG for a.COM, since its clearly a for profit company, and not a.ORG.
Jesus, I'll bet you're still pissed that AOL was ever allowed to interface to the Internet, too. Oh, and don't forget, the government gave us their poorest-performing version of the Internet to play with so they could keep tabs on all of us in just one place!
Slashdot Mirror
Actually, IBM has a very nice office on State St. I can't remember the cross street, but you can walk to the Pepsi Arena from there. I worked up there in February. 60mph winds and rain/ice that felt like freaking needles in your face.
I too started on Slackware in 95. Unfortunately it became worse than Windows wrt "keep installing stuff until you can't take it anymore and blow it away". Read as: no uninstall. It was damn near impossible to find all the little nooks and crannies where tarballs dump files on make install. So I moved to RedHat after 2 years for the package management. Now I'm learning Debian for the "real" package management and sweet system upgrades.
If tgz releases are now adding a "make uninstall" (which I have seen on just a few) then Slackware is usable for anything beyond a basic "set it and forget it because no one can hack it where it's sitting" setup. I never cancelled my Slackware subscription, so Patrick still gets my money. I haven't used it in ages, particularly once I got the Linuxcare business card cd.
Ya gotta at least TRY around here!
Google for it.
I'm assuming you're asking who are IBM's competitors for this product.
Websphere started out life as a Java servlet engine. Therefore, it was basically an outgrowth of Apache JServ and subsequently Jakarta. So much so, that IBM even included the Apache HTTP server and threw a management GUI on it. Other than the Apache line, BEA's WebLogic line is the only real competitor to IBM.
- they probabaly give you a NIC and register its MAC
- their access point probably only allows your MAC address
- when "soft" MAC addresses are applied at the OS level, they typically occupy the range from "400000000000" on up, not the burned-in range
- although I believe PRISM2 cards can spoof ANY MAC address
- being able to spoof MACs with your Linksys is of no use since there won't be an ethernet port
having said all this, there's nothing stopping anyone from putting a PCI to PCMCIA adapter for the NIC in a Linux box and making that the new firewall.I'm a 7 year Linux user and RHCE so I don't consider myself a Linux newbie. I decided to try Debian out recently. I was getting tired of the RH bloat and wanted a thin but functional install to run on a P75 w/48MB without X. No CD-ROM so I built net install floppies for stable and unstable. This is an IDE system with S3 video (no X anyway) and an Intel eepro100. No other peripherals at all. Should be cake, right?
Stable works perfectly every time, but the damn unstable install was shoddy at best. The initial floppy load would go, but upon rebooting for the additional package loads, it would pull packages from the stable directory off the mirrors, resulting in many failed package installs. It would eventually get to the point where it would say, "your system has failed to install critical packages. you may choose to ignore this error, but your system will most likely be rendered unusable" or something along those lines. It finally got to the point where the package database was locked and I couldn't add or remove any packages from the system. Just a complete failure, on many attempts, too. I'm sure the CD install goes better, but the Woody floppy install is just plain useless.
I'll stick with stable for now. I get a usable system in just 96MB of used disk space.
and charge you an annual fee just for the right to continue brewing coffee with it each year..
Lemme guess. Ham radio callsign.
I should have done this first, but Google for "25 hour day".. i think the quotes are significant to the search. A front page hit is this article from Harvard. The next hit says the brain's day is 24 hours, 11 minutes long, not the 25 hours earlier studies concluded.
You can read the rest of the Google hits.
Exactly what I thought of, too. I think it was a NASA study done years ago to figure out how to best structure work schedules for long stays in space.
I remember this particular study involved moving people into a house a la Big Brother, but actually having that house built completely within a set, kindof like the Truman Show, but more like just limited to controlling the light coming in through the windows to give the residents a sense of sunrise, daylight, sunset and nighttime. They may have even cycled the light every, what, 45 minutes(?) to simulate orbiting the earth.
I don't remember anything about specially controlled clocks that run a little slower to add the extra hour a day. If there are 3,600 seconds in an hour and 86,400 seconds in a day, then each move of the second hand on each clock actually needs to take 1 + 3600/86400 or 1.041666 seconds.. barely noticeable. Don't worry, you're not nuts. I most definitely remember the 25 hours too, not 27 like another poster mentioned, but I think we're remembering a 20 year old study, too.
My firewall config had a Linux box on the outside with a crossover cable into a Linksys. The perimeter firewall has now come inside. I run NTP on 6 Linux boxes and used to run w32time on an NT Server.
Only problem is, I could never get the firewall (or any single NTP client) to become a server for the rest of the network, so my boxes are not very polite right now. I've read tons of docs and google hits, and they all seem to indicate that once an NTP client syncs, it will also become a server. Not so here.
What, if anything needs to be done to make a sync'ed NTP client also act as a server? Thanks..
Browsing around, and they have a geographic area called "World Wide Web". Sure enough, amazon is already whoring the service.
Then again, maybe not. :-)
Exactly.. I called my local library to see if they would take some computer books. They would only take the books if their copyright date was less than 2 years old!! I can't bring myself to throwing out the pile of books, but I'm afraid I'm going to just add to the lost and found at Amtrak's 30th Street Station.
I went dumpster diving for over 20 portable dumb terminals. 9" screens with a carrying handle molded into the case. The keyboards fold up and clip on in front of the screen. I had one hooked up to the serial port on my firewall and would also tail -f /var/log/messages. Once you get live ipchains and snort reports, you tend not to want to go back.
But now I'm more interested in finding a good 9-10" X term suitable for keeping Big Brother up 24x7.
The DSRC will be hosting their annual Field Day outing on the grounds of the Sarnoff Corporation in Princeton, NJ on Route 1 at Washington Road. Visit http://www.nerc.com/~jdegood/dsrc/ for more details.
:)
If you're going to do Field Day, do it in Princeton, home of Albert Einstein and color television. Not to mention the first place on land to hear the Titanic's distress calls!!
I conjecture that IBM has now forgotten the original rationale and is now focusing just on those areas that are most successful.
Most successful, not really. Most profitable? Sure. We still push Linux on every platform Intel to Z, not desktops to mainframes. That was never a big push here. The only way to make money on Intel is to sell software you didn't have to buy from anyone, b/c there sure isn't any money in hardware. I guarantee that if a customer came to IBM asking to have us rollout 20,000 Linux desktops, we would do it.
I, for one, never lost 4 baby teeth. The 4 corners between the incisors and molars; top and bottom. If they fell out, I would do it just to get surround sound!! I could jog dial with long & short tongue presses. If the display was jacked into my visual cortex like the new "blind man driving" glasses, now we're talking Molly from Neuromancer. :)
the old ISO construction method was a complete pile of crap. no matter which mirrors I tried, SOMETHING was always missing.. usually in the docs section.
Their new util, jigdo, worked just fine first time here. Unfortunately, from what I could tell, it doesn't really save bandwidth by letting you fine tune the download. Perhaps you're referring to the ISO for a cd-based network installer.
I don't care for the use of the word geek, so I use nerd. Compare the dictionary.com versions of the definitions of each, and see which one is lacking a particular sense.
From dictionary.com
nerd:
A foolish, inept, or unattractive person.
A person who is single-minded or accomplished in scientific or technical pursuits but is felt to be socially inept.
geek:
A person regarded as foolish, inept, or clumsy.
A person who is single-minded or accomplished in scientific or technical pursuits but is felt to be socially inept.
A carnival performer whose show consists of bizarre acts, such as biting the head off a live chicken.
So nerds are ugly and geeks are clumsy and do weird things. Otherwise they're exactly identical. Sorry bud, I'm not throwing out my "geek" shirt from ThinkGeek because you would prefer that I consider myself ugly instead of eccentric.
Blessed are the geeks for they shall inherit the Earth. And no, I didn't customize my sig just for you.
one person would pay to download, and everybody else would get it off him for free.
Weren't we just discussing this yesterday?
How about this: the article said that Liquid Audio usually produces encrypted, watermarked files, but that their format won't be used in the end. If their server alters each download by just one bit somewhere in the body of the file, something that no audiophile would notice, that would completely change the MD5 sum. If they let us download WAVs or 320k MP3s, a split second of dead audio at the end of the track would provide for millions of unique MD5 sums usable as serial #'s.
Store the MD5 sum with the paying customer, and look for it to appear in the wild. Voila, a non-copy protected MP3 that can be uniquely traced to the person or persons who purchase and redistribute music. Would you use some kind of editor to tweak bits in an MP3 file before you redistributed it just to make sure that the MD5 sum has changed?
Excellent point. Mod this up.
It's not that good. Sure, 1% of drivers (truck drivers, mainly) account for well over 16% of highway traffic. But they also way overpay tolls to support the toll roads they use.
And just how much does the Forestry Service have to do differently in the forests when campers are around? Assuming the campers are reasonably clean, costs are not dramatically increased by the few campers who use the campgrounds most often. So neither argument really relates to the situation cable companies are facing.
I subscribe to the theory that they just way under estimated how much the bandwidth was going to cost them. It'll be a while before they figure out how to strike a balance between costs to them and how much to charge.
Having said that, I'm thoroughly disgusted with the pricing practices of Comcast. My cable bill is well over $100/mo for basic, mid-tier, 2 lousy HBO's and my cable modem. They were kind enough to put me in a pre-release test group for the cablemodem because I hounded them for so long. It was off to a rocky start, but I haven't had problems in several months, and I regularly see over 2Mbit/s down.
Now I think about it a little longer each time DirecTV calls offering free installation for 4 TV's. DSL is unavailable to me, so I won't completely escape CC's predatory pricing techniques anytime soon.
security thought they found a shortwave radio in the room (which overlooked the towers) of an islamic college student. pretty incriminating, right
It wasn't a shortwave radio, it was a 2-way aircraft band radio (which is much more incriminating). And it *was* in his room. When the pilot who's radio it was called about his radio, the security guard admitted to moving the radio down 10 stories into the student's room to incriminate him.
I'm not defending our nation's actions, your description just annoyed me.
the carnivore stuff runs linux
Boy you got some free karma, because it doesn't. It runs on Win2k. If you don't mind having an FBI file, you should really spend time at this site to learn more about Carnivore.
No, he knew what he was saying. When parents see what their teenagers are doing with tech, they often say, "Cool! Can I do that with mine?" They take it to work, show a couple of coworkers, and voila, it catches on with the 35 year olds. Think about how long MP3's were popular in universities before they clogged up corporate servers.
Speaking of which, when does Slashdot plan on giving up its .ORG for a .COM, since its clearly a for profit company, and not a .ORG.
Jesus, I'll bet you're still pissed that AOL was ever allowed to interface to the Internet, too. Oh, and don't forget, the government gave us their poorest-performing version of the Internet to play with so they could keep tabs on all of us in just one place!