As someone else pointed out, pasting text articles into forum articles is related to the kind of copyright violation issue Viacom is suing over.
So someone posting the comment of the article in the Slashdot discussion, considering the article isn't slashdotted, is, well, funny. But it illustrates that Slashdot is subject to the same types of copyright violation.
IIRC, CmdrTaco and friends already had to deal with it once before, with the Scientologists. (Though that wasn't a copypaste of a linked article...)
Along those lines? Anything that can connect to the Metaverse. But that would kinda require a Metaverse to go with it. And bandwidth to connect to it...
I used to fantasize about Beowulf clusters, but then I learned how there's essentially no desktop-useful software based around the MPI architecture. The other option was OpenMOSIX, which would allow the entire cluster to appear as one system. Essentially, you'd have the equivalent of a multi-processor NUMA computer with horribly slow interconnects.
At that point, if you were really hard-core, you could compile all your preferred applications to run on an OpenMOSIX distro. But you'd only see a notable performance improvement if you ran several calculation-intensive jobs which didn't require many memory accesses outside local nodes, or ran jobs whose data sources were stored on local nodes.
And if you're really running that kind of job, you probably should have stuck with a dedicated Beowulf cluster, and used a dual-core, 8-way Opteron system as a desktop.
You should watch an anime series called Chobits. It's about a guy who essentially has that happen. Well, it's more about the android. And there's no sex. But still.
In the past couple weeks, I switched both of my high-traffic mailing lists away from Google Groups, becuase it was taking 15 hours for an email/reply to make a round trip.
Does Google Apps have a similar service, and was that service seeing similar issues?
We have witnessed the creation of yet another/. mantra, the assumption that anything relating telephony to the Internet is a threat to wireless carriers, and that the carriers will try to quash it.
If it's an assumption, it's not newsworthy. Drop it or don't mention it.
There's something I don't understand, though. If IP addresses are divided into network and host sections, and one route based on the network section, won't you end up with geography-based constraints and waste?
Let's say that you've got thirty/32 networks assigned to companies in New York. That's thirty times the IPv4 address space for a city of a few million people, with the gateways for those networks residing somewhere in New York. That's several billion unused IPs routed through a few points in New York.
Now, there's room for a few billion/32 networks in the IPv6 address space, but what if IANA chooses to allocate/24 networks, or even/16 networks? That's a colossal number of IP addresses with a common routing point. Sure, you could implement things like VPNs, but you're then adding indirection (and thus inefficiency) to the network.
If I'm wrong, somebody please explain. I'm kinda new to routing concepts.
Of course it's a threat to national security. It's difficult to censor, difficult to trace, there's a low barrier to entry, and, worst of all, it allows Freedom.
Teamspeak is available for Windows and Linux, and gives you a decent audio quality if you select the right codec. XFire is Windows-only, but sounds decent.
One caution about doing this for a production environment: Make sure your router is stable. I played Feng-Shui(The RPG, not the mystical-furniture-placement-thing) over XFire Monday night, but the damned 2Wire router kept crashing, sometimes after only a couple seconds of operation. Had I been trying to do a radio broadcast, that would have been a ton of dead air.
I understand Google Talk supports a VOIP setting, but I haven't played around with it. (Anyone know if that works under Linux?)
The user who pirates software is less likely to buy the product. Sure, but even piracy improves the product's value as a developer target. The more machines running an OS, the more likely developers are to develop for that OS. And having more third-party applications available for Windows will drive up sales, or at least will reduce defection.
Think of all the people you've heard of who won't use Linux because their favorite game or tax software won't run on it.
That's strange, because I've been using Firefox since back when it was called Phoenix, and the only issue I ran into was filing my taxes online through H&R Block.
I'm not sure either should be used as an enterprise's first Linux desktop rollout; Windows admins aren't accustomed to their relatively furious rate of major releases.
Debian might have been a better choice, with its slow release cycle and decent security patch rollout rate.
The less obvious problem is the very high cost of Linux support, especially when selling cheap PCs to naive users who don't RTFM... That's why I run a Linux Users Group at my school.
That's funny...In Grand Rapids, MI, you can get a 31-day, unlimited-ride pass to the area busing system for $35. That works out to $420/year. Granted, the buses don't go everywhere; you might end up walking that last mile. Even better, the central bus station is jointly operated with Greyhound, so you can quite literally get anywhere in the country. (If you pay for the Greyhound ticket.)
It's ironic, then, that everyone around here complains that Detroit's proximity kills any potential for a decent busing system. Yeah, it would be nice if the buses ran more frequently, and at nights. But it's still cheap enough that I haven't needed my own car since mine was wrecked last November.
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As someone else pointed out, pasting text articles into forum articles is related to the kind of copyright violation issue Viacom is suing over.
So someone posting the comment of the article in the Slashdot discussion, considering the article isn't slashdotted, is, well, funny. But it illustrates that Slashdot is subject to the same types of copyright violation.
IIRC, CmdrTaco and friends already had to deal with it once before, with the Scientologists. (Though that wasn't a copypaste of a linked article...)
Whoa. I never actually met a techno-sadist. Lots of Windows die-hards, sure. But they don't understand that they're torturing themselves.
But you, sir...wow.
Along those lines? Anything that can connect to the Metaverse. But that would kinda require a Metaverse to go with it. And bandwidth to connect to it...
My dream machine would be a dockable laptop, but the key component would be the battery.
It would be radioisotope-powered, so I'd have a 30-year battery life.
I used to fantasize about Beowulf clusters, but then I learned how there's essentially no desktop-useful software based around the MPI architecture. The other option was OpenMOSIX, which would allow the entire cluster to appear as one system. Essentially, you'd have the equivalent of a multi-processor NUMA computer with horribly slow interconnects.
At that point, if you were really hard-core, you could compile all your preferred applications to run on an OpenMOSIX distro. But you'd only see a notable performance improvement if you ran several calculation-intensive jobs which didn't require many memory accesses outside local nodes, or ran jobs whose data sources were stored on local nodes.
And if you're really running that kind of job, you probably should have stuck with a dedicated Beowulf cluster, and used a dual-core, 8-way Opteron system as a desktop.
I feel so lucky.
I was born in 1983. My first computer was a 286. Today, I serviced a guy's computer, and he's offered me his old C64.
I have a fascination with old hardware, and I understand the C64 was quite the hardware-hacker's toy. I'm looking forward to it.
You should watch an anime series called Chobits. It's about a guy who essentially has that happen. Well, it's more about the android. And there's no sex. But still.
Eh? The Athlon64 gave us a 40-bit address bus in a PC. You could have a terabyte of RAM.
Personally, I'd want the whole terabyte, so I could cache all my hard disk space and have 250GB to spare.
In the past couple weeks, I switched both of my high-traffic mailing lists away from Google Groups, becuase it was taking 15 hours for an email/reply to make a round trip.
Does Google Apps have a similar service, and was that service seeing similar issues?
That sound like a Cold War tour of duty. How was it?
We have witnessed the creation of yet another /. mantra, the assumption that anything relating telephony to the Internet is a threat to wireless carriers, and that the carriers will try to quash it.
If it's an assumption, it's not newsworthy. Drop it or don't mention it.
There's something I don't understand, though. If IP addresses are divided into network and host sections, and one route based on the network section, won't you end up with geography-based constraints and waste?
/32 networks assigned to companies in New York. That's thirty times the IPv4 address space for a city of a few million people, with the gateways for those networks residing somewhere in New York. That's several billion unused IPs routed through a few points in New York.
/32 networks in the IPv6 address space, but what if IANA chooses to allocate /24 networks, or even /16 networks? That's a colossal number of IP addresses with a common routing point. Sure, you could implement things like VPNs, but you're then adding indirection (and thus inefficiency) to the network.
Let's say that you've got thirty
Now, there's room for a few billion
If I'm wrong, somebody please explain. I'm kinda new to routing concepts.
Of course it's a threat to national security. It's difficult to censor, difficult to trace, there's a low barrier to entry, and, worst of all, it allows Freedom.
Teamspeak is available for Windows and Linux, and gives you a decent audio quality if you select the right codec. XFire is Windows-only, but sounds decent.
One caution about doing this for a production environment: Make sure your router is stable. I played Feng-Shui(The RPG, not the mystical-furniture-placement-thing) over XFire Monday night, but the damned 2Wire router kept crashing, sometimes after only a couple seconds of operation. Had I been trying to do a radio broadcast, that would have been a ton of dead air.
I understand Google Talk supports a VOIP setting, but I haven't played around with it. (Anyone know if that works under Linux?)
Think of all the people you've heard of who won't use Linux because their favorite game or tax software won't run on it.
I used Mozilla prior to Phoenix, even Netscape 6 on Windows, back before I switched to Linux. Rendering bugs never seemed to get in my way.
Don't be so sarcastic...it's just a comment.
That's strange, because I've been using Firefox since back when it was called Phoenix, and the only issue I ran into was filing my taxes online through H&R Block.
To me, Fedora is the RPM equivalent of Ubuntu.
I'm not sure either should be used as an enterprise's first Linux desktop rollout; Windows admins aren't accustomed to their relatively furious rate of major releases.
Debian might have been a better choice, with its slow release cycle and decent security patch rollout rate.
Temperatures like that, my home town shuts down. We're used to normal winter temperatures of 10F, with a wind chill of -10F.
That's funny...In Grand Rapids, MI, you can get a 31-day, unlimited-ride pass to the area busing system for $35. That works out to $420/year. Granted, the buses don't go everywhere; you might end up walking that last mile. Even better, the central bus station is jointly operated with Greyhound, so you can quite literally get anywhere in the country. (If you pay for the Greyhound ticket.)
It's ironic, then, that everyone around here complains that Detroit's proximity kills any potential for a decent busing system. Yeah, it would be nice if the buses ran more frequently, and at nights. But it's still cheap enough that I haven't needed my own car since mine was wrecked last November.
OTOH, when you get the baka that doesn't bother controlling his cholesterol, you'll wind up with a lawsuit against the company for negligence.
Two minutes? That's insane...I'd just walk, at that point, and save the time waiting for the bus.
Nei-ei-ei-eight dead yet?