If any place shouldn't be censored it's the library!
I'd rather have mandatory censorship at every house than to see the libraries censored (and once the libraries go, so will everything else).
The library should be the one place where one can find _any_ information he wishes. --------
Life is a race condition: your success or failure depends on whether you get the work done on time.
I like the idea of a fibre line with 2 small power lines attached to it. --------
Life is a race condition: your success or failure depends on whether you get the work done on time.
I'm just anonymous because I don't carry my slashdot passwords around in my wallet.
What? You mean you don't use the SAME password everywhere? Shame on you! --------
Life is a race condition: your success or failure depends on whether you get the work done on time.
What if I assemble my apps on another machine from scratch, and run them off the floppy disk (starting from the boot sector)? Surely I don't need an OS, then. --------
Life is a race condition: your success or failure depends on whether you get the work done on time.
No, if this were Microsoft, people would be saying there they go again, late software, boy do they suck. I hope as
organizations close to slashdotters' hearts start to grow up and come to terms with reality, they'll gain more perspective on
why other companies make the decisions they do.</I>
<P>True. I'd like to say that *I* don't ridicule them for releasing something late, I ridicule them for releaseing something late AND still buggy (W2K).
<P><I>At some point the 'no' is required just to get a new stable version
out. </I>
<P>I agree, but at least when he decided to add all the other stuff, he didn't keep the same shipping date, like some companies do.
<P><I>
"In this regard, open source is definitely not very different from any software project -- they are notorious for always being
over-budget both fiscally and time-wise."</I>
<P>Yep.
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Life is a race condition: your success or failure depends on whether you get the work done on time.
I didn't ridicule them. I ridiculed then when they released W2K with the few thousand documented bugs it had. --------
Life is a race condition: your success or failure depends on whether you get the work done on time.
I love this. When software isn't ready, they can say so without any pressure. If this was Microsoft, they'd just ship it and we'd have to deal with the headaches. I wish a few *companies* would do this. --------
Life is a race condition: your success or failure depends on whether you get the work done on time.
Exactly, and what's worse is this sets the precident for banning programmers from being "inspired" by one person's source code to write their own equivalent code.
Dangerous. --------
Life is a race condition: your success or failure depends on whether you get the work done on time.
How is TUX a "bleeding edge webserver"? As far as I knew, it was just the kernel HTTPD on steroids, which will always be an ugly hack on a monolithic kernel.
Or is it not KHTTPD in disguise? --------
Life is a race condition: your success or failure depends on whether you get the work done on time.
So can a dedicated person with adequate resources. I, personally, LOVE the idea of global, static addresses, because it means we can finally make use of purely peer-to-peer protocols, rather than the horrendously kludgy client-server protocols we use now.
(Example: All our internet pagers could have long been replaced by SMTP.) --------
Life is a race condition: your success or failure depends on whether you get the work done on time.
So the ISPs still need to provide a DHCP-like protocol to allow you to have a (somewhat) random prefix. But they don't have
much incentive to do so, because 80-96 bits is so large, they won't run out of IPs. Right now DHCP and PPP automatic
address assignment is so important because IPv4 address space is tight, and if you have a 10-to-1 modem pool, you only
need an IP block large enough for your modem pool and your maximum expected number of customers who disconnect their
computers when they aren't using them.
I, for one, will NOT support dynamic IPv6 addresses in any software I write. The last thing I want is another trend where ISPs get away with giving you a dynamic IP and charge you extra if you want a real (static) IP, and calling it a 'privacy feature'. --------
Life is a race condition: your success or failure depends on whether you get the work done on time.
No, actually I'm not. I'm not saying QNX *should* by released GPL, I'm just saying it'd be cool if something like QNX was GPLled. --------
"I already have all the latest software."
And this would be one hell of a lot easier if Linux was a microkernel. And telling me that monolothic kernels are better is like telling me cooperative multitasking is better; it's preaching what you practice, rather than practicing what you preach. --------
"I already have all the latest software."
Not really. There's a *lot* of geeks that use something other than RedHat (eg. *BSD, Debian, SuSE, BeOS, QNX, Solaris, to name a few) --------
"I already have all the latest software."
The processor in your server is always executing (roughly) that same number of instructions. If utilization is less than 100% the processor will be executing idle instructions.
Ever heard of HLT?
The utilization of the processors in your server will not affect the temperature of the room that it is in to any great extent. Especially with proper ventilation.
Got any proof of this? It's certainly contrary to what every overclocker knows.
The problem with SYN floods is not really the bandwith, it is the fact that the servers maintain arrays of connection
states for all connections and these arrays will overflow with nonexistent connects if you just keep sending SYN's. If
all you wanted to do was use bandwith, you could just send random packets (even to non-existant addresses).
True.
you are probably a troll
Hmm. By saying that, doesn't it make YOU a troll? --------
"I already have all the latest software."
Slashdot Mirror
If any place shouldn't be censored it's the library!
I'd rather have mandatory censorship at every house than to see the libraries censored (and once the libraries go, so will everything else).
The library should be the one place where one can find _any_ information he wishes.
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Life is a race condition: your success or failure depends on whether you get the work done on time.
So, what you're saying is that it doesn't matter how good an idea is, if the communists thought of it first, the rest of us CAN'T do it??? WTF?
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Life is a race condition: your success or failure depends on whether you get the work done on time.
I like the idea of a fibre line with 2 small power lines attached to it.
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Life is a race condition: your success or failure depends on whether you get the work done on time.
STFU. I did.
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Life is a race condition: your success or failure depends on whether you get the work done on time.
I'm just anonymous because I don't carry my slashdot passwords around in my wallet.
What? You mean you don't use the SAME password everywhere? Shame on you!
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Life is a race condition: your success or failure depends on whether you get the work done on time.
What if I assemble my apps on another machine from scratch, and run them off the floppy disk (starting from the boot sector)? Surely I don't need an OS, then.
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Life is a race condition: your success or failure depends on whether you get the work done on time.
The guy's probably 27 years old.
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Life is a race condition: your success or failure depends on whether you get the work done on time.
No, if this were Microsoft, people would be saying there they go again, late software, boy do they suck. I hope as
organizations close to slashdotters' hearts start to grow up and come to terms with reality, they'll gain more perspective on
why other companies make the decisions they do.</I>
<P>True. I'd like to say that *I* don't ridicule them for releasing something late, I ridicule them for releaseing something late AND still buggy (W2K).
<P><I>At some point the 'no' is required just to get a new stable version
out. </I>
<P>I agree, but at least when he decided to add all the other stuff, he didn't keep the same shipping date, like some companies do.
<P><I>
"In this regard, open source is definitely not very different from any software project -- they are notorious for always being
over-budget both fiscally and time-wise."</I>
<P>Yep.
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Life is a race condition: your success or failure depends on whether you get the work done on time.
I didn't ridicule them. I ridiculed then when they released W2K with the few thousand documented bugs it had.
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Life is a race condition: your success or failure depends on whether you get the work done on time.
I love this. When software isn't ready, they can say so without any pressure. If this was Microsoft, they'd just ship it and we'd have to deal with the headaches. I wish a few *companies* would do this.
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Life is a race condition: your success or failure depends on whether you get the work done on time.
Exactly, and what's worse is this sets the precident for banning programmers from being "inspired" by one person's source code to write their own equivalent code.
Dangerous.
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Life is a race condition: your success or failure depends on whether you get the work done on time.
How is TUX a "bleeding edge webserver"? As far as I knew, it was just the kernel HTTPD on steroids, which will always be an ugly hack on a monolithic kernel.
Or is it not KHTTPD in disguise?
--------
Life is a race condition: your success or failure depends on whether you get the work done on time.
So can a dedicated person with adequate resources. I, personally, LOVE the idea of global, static addresses, because it means we can finally make use of purely peer-to-peer protocols, rather than the horrendously kludgy client-server protocols we use now.
(Example: All our internet pagers could have long been replaced by SMTP.)
--------
Life is a race condition: your success or failure depends on whether you get the work done on time.
I, for one, will NOT support dynamic IPv6 addresses in any software I write. The last thing I want is another trend where ISPs get away with giving you a dynamic IP and charge you extra if you want a real (static) IP, and calling it a 'privacy feature'.
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Life is a race condition: your success or failure depends on whether you get the work done on time.
It's really quite simple to set up qmail if you READ the docs that come with it.
ls [A-Z]*
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Life is a race condition: your success or failure depends on whether you get the work done on time.
Sourcerors.
'Nuff said.
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"I already have all the latest software."
Precisely. As long as Carnivore is just a separate sniffing box on the ISP's ethernet (eg, not "in between" the ISP and its provider), I don't care.
Nobody who's intelligent uses telnet for anything important anyway.
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"I already have all the latest software."
No, actually I'm not. I'm not saying QNX *should* by released GPL, I'm just saying it'd be cool if something like QNX was GPLled.
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"I already have all the latest software."
And this would be one hell of a lot easier if Linux was a microkernel. And telling me that monolothic kernels are better is like telling me cooperative multitasking is better; it's preaching what you practice, rather than practicing what you preach.
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"I already have all the latest software."
They have the odds stacked against them, because the proof is overwhelming.
Yeah. Right. Just like O.J. Simpson did.
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"I already have all the latest software."
You can install QNX on a separate partition, independant from windoze.
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"I already have all the latest software."
Not really. There's a *lot* of geeks that use something other than RedHat (eg. *BSD, Debian, SuSE, BeOS, QNX, Solaris, to name a few)
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"I already have all the latest software."
The processor in your server is always executing (roughly) that same number of instructions. If utilization is less than 100% the processor will be executing idle instructions.
Ever heard of HLT?
The utilization of the processors in your server will not affect the temperature of the room that it is in to any great extent. Especially with proper ventilation.
Got any proof of this? It's certainly contrary to what every overclocker knows.
The problem with SYN floods is not really the bandwith, it is the fact that the servers maintain arrays of connection states for all connections and these arrays will overflow with nonexistent connects if you just keep sending SYN's. If all you wanted to do was use bandwith, you could just send random packets (even to non-existant addresses).
True.
you are probably a troll
Hmm. By saying that, doesn't it make YOU a troll?
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"I already have all the latest software."
The first thing I'd do is wipe my Linux partition...
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"I already have all the latest software."
I thought it was SSL.
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"I already have all the latest software."