So if you have website connected to your DSL, and the ISP changes the dynamic IP address... your site is down for 20 minutes while it contacts the dynamic dns service with the updated IP. Your site is down, your email is down, they've forced a denial of service on your website.
Does that count? It was intentional. It most certainly caused failure of service to your website. Any reasonable person with the knowlege of how DNS works could tell you a new IP will distrupt traffic. So will ISPs be forced to give out static IP addresses to anyone who asks?
I remember a few horrible rocket designs. One was the "Enterprise", which I'd gotten as a gift. It was flimsy just sitting on my desk, I knew there was no way it was going to fly. But I tried anyway, I was young and felt that Estes wouldn't build something that wouldn't fly. The thing completely disintegrated on launch. I never found the main body (where the rocket engine and chute were located), but the saucer section and engine nacelles (those two things hanging off the back) were scattered about the launch site.
Another was the Pershing Missile. Huge rocket, like three feet tall, six inches in diamter. The nose cone must have weighted at least two pounds. I think it used a single C engine, which made no sense but I figured if that's how they designed it, I'd give it a try. Yeah, it launched, about 15 feet in the air and came plummeting back down. The nose cone never separated; not that it would have helped since it was too low for a parachute, but the weight of the nose cone crushed the body. Oh well, I guess some rockets were designed simply to build and display. I had to build a special launch pad too, since the flimsy 3-legged one kept tipping over.
Speaking of tipping over, we forgot to tighten the wingnut later (I think it got partially stripped when I put the Pershing on it), and just as my friend was launching his Mosquito, the rod slipped. The Mosquito fired about 10 degrees above vertical. Now, that was a sight! The mosquito screaming across the field an slamming into a woodshed about 150 yards away.
Another carzy model was the "Drifter". It came with a huge parachute, like 36" for a small rocket; I was too young to figure out what was going to happen. That thing drifted at least a mile and a half as we chased it down on our bikes. We lost sight of it, and didn't find it until a week later, hung up in a tree.
I doubt anyone back in my hometown does it anymore; the burbs have grown more crowded, the people are more paranoid, and kids more apt to stay inside. It's a shame, because I have some great memories from my rocketeering days.
Arrive robbert.
"Robot, this is not the car you're supposed to be guarding." says the robber.
"This is not the car I'm supposed to be guarding." echoes the robot, thinking hard about Asimov's second law.
Then the robot Dr.Watsons with the above error message.
Robber then walks off with the car while the robot is rebooting.
Moral of the story? Don't buy a robot until at least SP2.
From what I've seen in Japan, they're not being marketed to the business man sitting in traffic, nor the mom in the minivan rushing to do chores.
All these cool features are aimed right at the young, hip, high school and college aged kids. I have a dozen female high school aged cousins, and they all had the latest and greatest phone that had every feature you could imagine.
The parents, on the other hand, being much more conservative, had the standard plain vanilla phones... which means they had eight times more features than my US Sprint phone and weighted 50% less.
The greatest feature I've seen with their phones is the lightweight battery chargers- size of a matchbox. The one thing I really hate when I travel is having to carry around 20 pounds of bricks to charge all my appliances. Oh, and the LCD clock, the screen turned into a nice, analog clock when the phone was on standby. That was nice touch.
Now, that would be cool, a watermark emitting device that shuts off a cell phone. No more having to listen to someone babble on the train, no worries about current jammers which (are illegal in the US) use rf on the same frequencies as the cell to jam them.
I'm sure hackers will find away around watermarks for anything we need to do, but I doubt the guy who's going on and on about his hot date won't have a clue.
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Yes, I have no patents, copyrights, or trademarks. Let we who have nothing to lose make the rules!
You can bet that if I did have one of the above, one that was capable of making boatloads of money, I would be defending the current IP laws with the best lawyers and politicians I could buy. Until I could suck no more money from the people- then I'd let it pass into public domain.
Since I'm unlikely to be in that situation, I say down, down with the institution! Share the wealth! Down with current IP and patent laws!
Yes, SIDS is tragic and all. Is it more important to us than a hollywood star that is near and dear to many people? Well, it shouldn't be, but let's face it, it's not an ideal world were talking about.
How much do we spend on internet access a year? How much do we spend on cable? How much on going to the movies? And compare that to charitable donations? No, it's definitely not an ideal world.
I donate money monthly, and I manage to convince myself that "it's enough" or "all I can afford". Posts like those these bring up those "I should be doing more" feelings; and who of us really wants to be reminded that we're not ideal humanitarians? If every site I visited had only "important" stories like that... I'd give up surfing altogether, there's only so much guilt I can live with.
But telling/. editors to change their priorites? Why not just mirror PBS and let the PBS crew decide what matters? Then obviously we'd see the Cringley post. Why not mirror E! and we'd see the Doohan post. Just mirror CNN?
I come here for the news that "doesn't really matter in my life but is pretty interesting". To find out what's coming down the line from MS that I'm not going to bother touching until SP1. To see how other enthusiasts are using their time building lego DAT changers. To learn how to use an electronic flash to detonate nanotube structures. To see a hundred posts that say it's a little known fact that he's missing a finger.
If you expect more from the editors, well, maybe you should just go to Salon.com or post at the Well. I don't think/. editors are doing too bad a job, they keep me entertained and mildly informed, which is why I come here.
I started playing the Ultima series way back when, because it gave me the opportunity to leave behind my mundane life and become a hero in another realm. Along the way, I've played most of the RPGs on the C64, PC, and game consoles, as well as others like Monkey Island and The Longest Journey. I played the hero. I directed the action (well, as far as you can in the storyline).
I've put my time in a couple of MMORPGs, at one point putting in a good 10 hours a day for several months. For what? So I can be just another semi-powerful warrior among thousands of others all trying to accomplish the same quests? Running into the same people, who just like me are trying to escape our "real" lives for a few moments... why do I really want to talk to them? If I wanted to talk to them I could do so on ICQ for free, or head down to the local pub and meet with my friends.
As much as I didn't like the story driven nature of FFX, it was fantastic. The conversations between Tidus and Yuna, Auron's mysterious demeanor, poor Lulu... that's why I bought and played FFX. Why I bought every other FF game. Why I play RPGs. Why I no longer play MMORPGs. I don't want to meet a group of heros and listen to how they had a miserable day at work, how the dog shit on the rug, how the car needs an overhaul. How there's a group of campers by the mystical sword each one of us needs for a quest and how we're going to have to get 6mil gold apiece to buy from the campers. I want to meet characters who were brought together by some epic destiny, not those who happen to live in the same time zone. I want to hear scripted conversations that took months of thought and use professional voiceovers, not the half-hearted attempts at role playing and old English phrases lifted from "Robin Hood".
We did not get infected, did not see the virus within our system. Yet how many man hours did we waste fighting this virus?
Couple man hours ensuring virus sigs up to date on all servers, distributed to all desktops.
Couple hours reasearching the virus. A few hours checking out the sandbox to see what the virus is doing. An hour writing a report and sending a summary to users. Several hours answering users questions.
Then the virus starts spreading. Yes, we know the virus forges the sender's address, but every bounceback and claim of viruses originating from here were checked (due diligence). Dozens of man hours spent scanning machines we knew were clean. Spent checking email logs to ensure the original message never actually passed through our email server.
More hours spent answering calls about users who are now getting bombarded with the virus emails, who don't yet understand that "virus stripped" means it's clean and can simply be deleted.
How many man hours is that? Close to 100 hours by my estimate; $5000 wasted on this... and we weren't even infected. No system downtime. No lost files. No (major) interruption of resources to users. Just me and four other techs taking time out of our regular schedules to do fight this.
I don't have any idea how much it would cost, in terms of man hours alone, if we were to get infected. I'd hate to find out.
My glasses are almost six years old, my contacts at least two (i ordered bulk a while back), so everything beyond six feet appears a tad blurry. I'm wondering now if I should get my prescription updated just for this.
I wonder how many out there are in the same boat? Oh, and that digital dolby doesn't do much either, my hearing took a beating from all those Ozzy concerts.
Man, I thought it was a 50 hour movie that just stopped every 10 seconds in case I needed to run to the bathroom. Pressed (x) a few times and it would return to the movie. Huh, a game you say?
Heh heh... maybe the judge just couldn't beat the final boss and missed out on the closing fmv and thus didn't get the entire story?
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The lifetime warranty only applies to hand tools, non-powered tools like wrenches and screwdrivers. The Craftsman power drills, saws, sanders, etc. all have a limited warranty- don't remember how long but it's pretty standard.
Of course, I don't abuse my power tools, but break enough screwdrivers to make buying at Sears worthwhile.
Yeah, I shudder whenever I look in them. Have you seen the games they toss in there? Ok, once in a while you'll find a decent game that got misplaced there, but the ones with two dozen copies in that bin should be taken outside and burned.
By your reasoning, nobody should be allowed to sell something used because it hurts the sale of new.
There are differences between used books and used cars. From the viewpoint of the auto maker and the publisher, no, they make their money on the first sale and on repeat buyers. The dealer of cars and books takes his cut. However, the used car generates a lot of side business. The used car needs gas, need oil changes, needs spare parts, needs tuneups. There's a lot of money still to be made off a used car. A used book, on the other hand, generates none of the side businesses.
The used CD market is close, but there is the issue of people buying, copying, and reselling the CD, so it's not exact. The best example would be the used video games (like PS2 or N64) that can't (easily) be copied. Most game stores sell used games close to the new games (but not on the same shelves). Did the game publishers complain when they started doing that?
You're advocating a place where you've got to pay a lot of money to be part of popular culture.
Heh heh... isn't this the case already? Last time I checked my Levi's were 1/3rd the price of Ecko or Tommy.
The world can live without a new stephen king novell.
Well, I agree with you there.
I'll buy a used book for reading in the tub or on the throne. To toss in my backpack when I go hiking. When I want to check out a new author. I buy used most of the time, but sometimes I want an unread book- to feel the pleasure of cracking the spine for the first time. To add it to my permanent library. To give as a gift.
I see no reason not to display new and used items right next to each other. It gives the consumer a choice- more power to the consumer.
For the same reason most people think the Internet was created in 1996. Sure, it existed much longer. I started using email, ftp, and gopher back in the mid 80's. But we didn't have MS Outlook, we didn't have IE, we didn't have Netscape. All the sudden, in 1996, the WWW blossomed, and all these tools became available. WWW became the "Internet". Hardly anyone believes anything could possibly have existed before 1996. Finding a fully graphical web browser that was written in 1975, like finding a massive city over 10000 years old would be a huge surprise- if not impossible.
Homo Sapiens has been around for some 250k years. But they were our predecessors- we are classed as Homo Sapien Sapien- who've only been around for about 40k years. The Cro Mags. The difference between the Homo Sapiens and Homo Sapein Sapiens is that the latter, us, settled down, started farming, domesticating animals, using bows and arrows to hunt.
So while we can't rule out there were massive civilizations by an known race of humans (or aliens), judging by what science has uncovered, the cro mags were the first to settle in community groups that gave rise to civilization as we know it.
They have discovered what they think to be the site of the great flood, around 5500BCE around the Black Sea. The idea is that it was a large, freshwater lake before then judging from the shellfish they've dug up in core samples. After the 5500BCE layer they find only saltwater shellfish. The earth wall at istanbul collapsed and the sea rushed in, doubling the size of the Black Sea.
The Babylons did notice, for there is a legend of Gilgamesh searching for the survivor of the great flood, which eventually turned into the Noah story in Genesis from what I understand of it.
And even if it isn't the origin of the biblical flood, it's still a pretty cool discovery.
Yes, nice product, but I have to install that as well, don't I? Above and beyond the OS. Just how much do I need to install beyond the OS to make it easy to use?
Not everything is out there in the form of RPMs. We're getting there, but not yet. Maybe it's because corporations (with closed source software that you can't compile) don't feel it's necessary to spend the extra effort to create an RPM. Maybe it's because open source software is done by coders on their own time who feel that they're time is better spent fixing bugs than worrying about an RPM- well, I can't blame them for it.
As one reply said, he's sick of replying to this "install difficulty" stuff. Well, if it isn't difficult, why do so many people have a problem with it? Because it's not as easy to use? Because it's not intuitive? Because as a windows users my dad can't figure it out on his own?
And that's damn point.
If we want people to switch, we can't tell them to download this program that makes downloading other programs easier. We can't tell them how to associate.gz files because RH doesn't recognize them (or.rpm either for that matter). They should be able to, out of the box, open their web browser, download the file to their desktop, and execute the install from the desktop. Period. Because that's the way people out in the real world install applications. And if Linux can't do that much, out of the box, then it's never going to make it out in the real world.
Yeah, it doesn't pass my "Dad" test either. When you have to talk someone through opening a console window, ungzipping a file, untarring the file, running make... you realize how wonderful Windows Install programs are. Wizz-bang-click-next-next-next-finish. Really until my dad can install applications without having to open a console window, Linux isn't ready for the average home user.
The case against DeCSS succeeded because MPAA convinced the judge that the possibility of piracy and the potential loss of revenue was more important than the rights of the small community who wanted to use the software legally. Is this any different?
Nintendo will claim the DeCSS case as a precedent, saying it allows people to pirate their games. The users will claim it's fair use. Who's going to win?
Ok, the entire packet isn't examined, only the full header or parts of the header depending on the routing protocol.
Routers examine headers, but they will not read up beyond the transport layer of the OSI model. So a router will not read the "data" that is up in the application layer being transmitted in the packet. So no, beyond the headers, routers cannot "read" any data in a packet.
A sniffer is a separate device that simply grabs packets off the line. It does no routing and does not pass those packets back onto the line. It displays the entire contents of the packet, not just the headers. It is a separate entity from a router, the sniffer does not drop packets back onto the line.
If you have a PC set up as a router, then sure you can have a sniffer running on that PC as well. But that's not what most of the Cisco routers are doing out there- routers are designed to read the first few bytes of the packet to determine where it's going then zip it on its way.
The Internet is unsafe only in that you don't know who has put a sniffer device along the wire. However, if you know there's no sniffer on your side of the demarc, the only real threat is the ISP, an employee thereof, or on behalf of the Feds.
The data passing on the wire is NOT publicly available, at least not technically. I'm not sure about the legality of the data on the wire, but you as a public citizen cannot walk into an ISP and plug in your laptop to sniff the data. Unless you Tempest or something, you cannot see the data on my DSL. So no, it's not "publicly" available, no more than my conversations on a (non-cordless) phone line.
The arguments the labels are using, said Jill Berliner, a leading music lawyer, are exactly the ones Napster made. "And, from our perspective, if the technology is going to be out there and the artist isn't really going to make money, we'd prefer that our fans just get it for free," she said.
Hmm... I wonder. It sounds like a threat just to get the labels to share, but could we really see artists coming out and endorsing free music sharing? Well, I doubt we'll see Metallica doing a 180 on free music downloads.
The main problem as I understand it is that the labels pretty much controls the major arenas. Bands that grow beyond club size need the labels or they won't ever see the stage of a major arena. Flaunting the major players will assure that a band, no matter how many CDs they sell online will never get to play before the big crowds and make the big money. Perhaps this will prompt more of the big bands to take on the labels and change the way the whole industry works and break the control the labels have over the arenas. For the sake of the small bands, I hope so.
Sure it has real uses. Especially in warehouses. My dad ends up walking 5 miles a day around the warehouse. The large warehouse is the ideal place for a Segway, perhaps the only legitimate place. Small, maneuverable, quick, exactly what is needed to carry people around. It would be great for security patrols at night as well.
Another great feature would be to cart stuff around. All deliveries go to the receiving bay, including office equipment. So when they get large boxes for the office, they toss it onto a dolly and wheel it all the way to the front office. If they attached the dolly to the Segway, they could just drive it there, save a lot of time and possibly injuries to the guy pushing the handtruck around.
Is it worth $8000? To balance against less injuries, less fatigue, more productivity, I don't have those numbers, but I'd say it might be high enough to really catch on in warehouses.
Yeah, that's the one, stopped on the way from Rio to Belo. We were going to meet family of my friends, I don't remember anymore where we went- wish I'd kept a better travel log.
Too many people fly into Rio and never leave the city- that's too bad, I found so much more driving around with my hosts and staying with their friends and families in towns outside Belo, Rio, and SP.
Yeah, ditto here. I run a pretty large HP shop, and well that 24x7x4 support has been lacking of late. When I lose a server, I don't need a clueless engineer in 4 hours just to fulfill the service contract. I need someone with a bag full of parts and a brain full of solutions. HP has NOT been providing that lately. I've talked to a few other large HP customers at recent HP roundtables who have said the same thing. We've all been complaining to HP and considering switching to IBM corporate services.
Remember, people buy linux from HP, IBM, and other RedHat because they want the support that comes with the product. Otherwise they'd install linux themselves. With the way HP Corporate Support has been declining, I certainly wouldn't suggest an HP product to the CEO at this time. In fact, he'd laugh if I did.
Heh heh... I was travelling around Minas Gerais, Brazil, when my hosts brought me to the museum. I'd never heard of Santos-Dumont until that point. We debated it for a while, but as my Portuguese wasn't all that good I could never get the finer points across- not that I had any fine points to make since the first "flight" at Kitty Hawk consisted of being flung off a catapult and landing a few seconds later and I really couldn't argue against a self powered takeoff and landing.
But after a magnificent dinner and a night bar hopping around Belo Horizonte, and meeting some great guys and some fine women, and having one of the best nights of my life, I was willing to concede them their spot in history. OK, so I sold out for alcohol and the company of women, but it was well worth it!
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So if you have website connected to your DSL, and the ISP changes the dynamic IP address... your site is down for 20 minutes while it contacts the dynamic dns service with the updated IP. Your site is down, your email is down, they've forced a denial of service on your website.
Does that count? It was intentional. It most certainly caused failure of service to your website. Any reasonable person with the knowlege of how DNS works could tell you a new IP will distrupt traffic. So will ISPs be forced to give out static IP addresses to anyone who asks?
Check the story at CNN, they also mention "joe's garage"
I remember a few horrible rocket designs. One was the "Enterprise", which I'd gotten as a gift. It was flimsy just sitting on my desk, I knew there was no way it was going to fly. But I tried anyway, I was young and felt that Estes wouldn't build something that wouldn't fly. The thing completely disintegrated on launch. I never found the main body (where the rocket engine and chute were located), but the saucer section and engine nacelles (those two things hanging off the back) were scattered about the launch site.
Another was the Pershing Missile. Huge rocket, like three feet tall, six inches in diamter. The nose cone must have weighted at least two pounds. I think it used a single C engine, which made no sense but I figured if that's how they designed it, I'd give it a try. Yeah, it launched, about 15 feet in the air and came plummeting back down. The nose cone never separated; not that it would have helped since it was too low for a parachute, but the weight of the nose cone crushed the body. Oh well, I guess some rockets were designed simply to build and display. I had to build a special launch pad too, since the flimsy 3-legged one kept tipping over.
Speaking of tipping over, we forgot to tighten the wingnut later (I think it got partially stripped when I put the Pershing on it), and just as my friend was launching his Mosquito, the rod slipped. The Mosquito fired about 10 degrees above vertical. Now, that was a sight! The mosquito screaming across the field an slamming into a woodshed about 150 yards away.
Another carzy model was the "Drifter". It came with a huge parachute, like 36" for a small rocket; I was too young to figure out what was going to happen. That thing drifted at least a mile and a half as we chased it down on our bikes. We lost sight of it, and didn't find it until a week later, hung up in a tree.
I doubt anyone back in my hometown does it anymore; the burbs have grown more crowded, the people are more paranoid, and kids more apt to stay inside. It's a shame, because I have some great memories from my rocketeering days.
Arrive robbert.
"Robot, this is not the car you're supposed to be guarding." says the robber.
"This is not the car I'm supposed to be guarding." echoes the robot, thinking hard about Asimov's second law.
Then the robot Dr.Watsons with the above error message.
Robber then walks off with the car while the robot is rebooting.
Moral of the story? Don't buy a robot until at least SP2.
From what I've seen in Japan, they're not being marketed to the business man sitting in traffic, nor the mom in the minivan rushing to do chores.
All these cool features are aimed right at the young, hip, high school and college aged kids. I have a dozen female high school aged cousins, and they all had the latest and greatest phone that had every feature you could imagine.
The parents, on the other hand, being much more conservative, had the standard plain vanilla phones... which means they had eight times more features than my US Sprint phone and weighted 50% less.
The greatest feature I've seen with their phones is the lightweight battery chargers- size of a matchbox. The one thing I really hate when I travel is having to carry around 20 pounds of bricks to charge all my appliances. Oh, and the LCD clock, the screen turned into a nice, analog clock when the phone was on standby. That was nice touch.
Now, that would be cool, a watermark emitting device that shuts off a cell phone. No more having to listen to someone babble on the train, no worries about current jammers which (are illegal in the US) use rf on the same frequencies as the cell to jam them.
I'm sure hackers will find away around watermarks for anything we need to do, but I doubt the guy who's going on and on about his hot date won't have a clue.
Yes, I have no patents, copyrights, or trademarks. Let we who have nothing to lose make the rules!
You can bet that if I did have one of the above, one that was capable of making boatloads of money, I would be defending the current IP laws with the best lawyers and politicians I could buy. Until I could suck no more money from the people- then I'd let it pass into public domain.
Since I'm unlikely to be in that situation, I say down, down with the institution! Share the wealth! Down with current IP and patent laws!
Yes, SIDS is tragic and all. Is it more important to us than a hollywood star that is near and dear to many people? Well, it shouldn't be, but let's face it, it's not an ideal world were talking about.
/. editors to change their priorites? Why not just mirror PBS and let the PBS crew decide what matters? Then obviously we'd see the Cringley post. Why not mirror E! and we'd see the Doohan post. Just mirror CNN?
/. editors are doing too bad a job, they keep me entertained and mildly informed, which is why I come here.
How much do we spend on internet access a year? How much do we spend on cable? How much on going to the movies? And compare that to charitable donations? No, it's definitely not an ideal world.
I donate money monthly, and I manage to convince myself that "it's enough" or "all I can afford". Posts like those these bring up those "I should be doing more" feelings; and who of us really wants to be reminded that we're not ideal humanitarians? If every site I visited had only "important" stories like that... I'd give up surfing altogether, there's only so much guilt I can live with.
But telling
I come here for the news that "doesn't really matter in my life but is pretty interesting". To find out what's coming down the line from MS that I'm not going to bother touching until SP1. To see how other enthusiasts are using their time building lego DAT changers. To learn how to use an electronic flash to detonate nanotube structures. To see a hundred posts that say it's a little known fact that he's missing a finger.
If you expect more from the editors, well, maybe you should just go to Salon.com or post at the Well. I don't think
I started playing the Ultima series way back when, because it gave me the opportunity to leave behind my mundane life and become a hero in another realm. Along the way, I've played most of the RPGs on the C64, PC, and game consoles, as well as others like Monkey Island and The Longest Journey. I played the hero. I directed the action (well, as far as you can in the storyline).
I've put my time in a couple of MMORPGs, at one point putting in a good 10 hours a day for several months. For what? So I can be just another semi-powerful warrior among thousands of others all trying to accomplish the same quests? Running into the same people, who just like me are trying to escape our "real" lives for a few moments... why do I really want to talk to them? If I wanted to talk to them I could do so on ICQ for free, or head down to the local pub and meet with my friends.
As much as I didn't like the story driven nature of FFX, it was fantastic. The conversations between Tidus and Yuna, Auron's mysterious demeanor, poor Lulu... that's why I bought and played FFX. Why I bought every other FF game. Why I play RPGs. Why I no longer play MMORPGs. I don't want to meet a group of heros and listen to how they had a miserable day at work, how the dog shit on the rug, how the car needs an overhaul. How there's a group of campers by the mystical sword each one of us needs for a quest and how we're going to have to get 6mil gold apiece to buy from the campers. I want to meet characters who were brought together by some epic destiny, not those who happen to live in the same time zone. I want to hear scripted conversations that took months of thought and use professional voiceovers, not the half-hearted attempts at role playing and old English phrases lifted from "Robin Hood".
FF 11 online? No thanks.
We did not get infected, did not see the virus within our system. Yet how many man hours did we waste fighting this virus?
Couple man hours ensuring virus sigs up to date on all servers, distributed to all desktops.
Couple hours reasearching the virus. A few hours checking out the sandbox to see what the virus is doing. An hour writing a report and sending a summary to users. Several hours answering users questions.
Then the virus starts spreading. Yes, we know the virus forges the sender's address, but every bounceback and claim of viruses originating from here were checked (due diligence). Dozens of man hours spent scanning machines we knew were clean. Spent checking email logs to ensure the original message never actually passed through our email server.
More hours spent answering calls about users who are now getting bombarded with the virus emails, who don't yet understand that "virus stripped" means it's clean and can simply be deleted.
How many man hours is that? Close to 100 hours by my estimate; $5000 wasted on this... and we weren't even infected. No system downtime. No lost files. No (major) interruption of resources to users. Just me and four other techs taking time out of our regular schedules to do fight this.
I don't have any idea how much it would cost, in terms of man hours alone, if we were to get infected. I'd hate to find out.
My glasses are almost six years old, my contacts at least two (i ordered bulk a while back), so everything beyond six feet appears a tad blurry. I'm wondering now if I should get my prescription updated just for this.
I wonder how many out there are in the same boat? Oh, and that digital dolby doesn't do much either, my hearing took a beating from all those Ozzy concerts.
Man, I thought it was a 50 hour movie that just stopped every 10 seconds in case I needed to run to the bathroom. Pressed (x) a few times and it would return to the movie. Huh, a game you say?
Heh heh... maybe the judge just couldn't beat the final boss and missed out on the closing fmv and thus didn't get the entire story?
The lifetime warranty only applies to hand tools, non-powered tools like wrenches and screwdrivers. The Craftsman power drills, saws, sanders, etc. all have a limited warranty- don't remember how long but it's pretty standard.
Of course, I don't abuse my power tools, but break enough screwdrivers to make buying at Sears worthwhile.
How about the used software bin?
Yeah, I shudder whenever I look in them. Have you seen the games they toss in there? Ok, once in a while you'll find a decent game that got misplaced there, but the ones with two dozen copies in that bin should be taken outside and burned.
By your reasoning, nobody should be allowed to sell something used because it hurts the sale of new.
There are differences between used books and used cars. From the viewpoint of the auto maker and the publisher, no, they make their money on the first sale and on repeat buyers. The dealer of cars and books takes his cut. However, the used car generates a lot of side business. The used car needs gas, need oil changes, needs spare parts, needs tuneups. There's a lot of money still to be made off a used car. A used book, on the other hand, generates none of the side businesses.
The used CD market is close, but there is the issue of people buying, copying, and reselling the CD, so it's not exact. The best example would be the used video games (like PS2 or N64) that can't (easily) be copied. Most game stores sell used games close to the new games (but not on the same shelves). Did the game publishers complain when they started doing that?
You're advocating a place where you've got to pay a lot of money to be part of popular culture.
Heh heh... isn't this the case already? Last time I checked my Levi's were 1/3rd the price of Ecko or Tommy.
The world can live without a new stephen king novell.
Well, I agree with you there.
I'll buy a used book for reading in the tub or on the throne. To toss in my backpack when I go hiking. When I want to check out a new author. I buy used most of the time, but sometimes I want an unread book- to feel the pleasure of cracking the spine for the first time. To add it to my permanent library. To give as a gift.
I see no reason not to display new and used items right next to each other. It gives the consumer a choice- more power to the consumer.
For the same reason most people think the Internet was created in 1996. Sure, it existed much longer. I started using email, ftp, and gopher back in the mid 80's. But we didn't have MS Outlook, we didn't have IE, we didn't have Netscape. All the sudden, in 1996, the WWW blossomed, and all these tools became available. WWW became the "Internet". Hardly anyone believes anything could possibly have existed before 1996. Finding a fully graphical web browser that was written in 1975, like finding a massive city over 10000 years old would be a huge surprise- if not impossible.
Homo Sapiens has been around for some 250k years. But they were our predecessors- we are classed as Homo Sapien Sapien- who've only been around for about 40k years. The Cro Mags. The difference between the Homo Sapiens and Homo Sapein Sapiens is that the latter, us, settled down, started farming, domesticating animals, using bows and arrows to hunt.
So while we can't rule out there were massive civilizations by an known race of humans (or aliens), judging by what science has uncovered, the cro mags were the first to settle in community groups that gave rise to civilization as we know it.
They have discovered what they think to be the site of the great flood, around 5500BCE around the Black Sea. The idea is that it was a large, freshwater lake before then judging from the shellfish they've dug up in core samples. After the 5500BCE layer they find only saltwater shellfish. The earth wall at istanbul collapsed and the sea rushed in, doubling the size of the Black Sea.
The Babylons did notice, for there is a legend of Gilgamesh searching for the survivor of the great flood, which eventually turned into the Noah story in Genesis from what I understand of it.
And even if it isn't the origin of the biblical flood, it's still a pretty cool discovery.
Yes, nice product, but I have to install that as well, don't I? Above and beyond the OS. Just how much do I need to install beyond the OS to make it easy to use?
.gz files because RH doesn't recognize them (or .rpm either for that matter). They should be able to, out of the box, open their web browser, download the file to their desktop, and execute the install from the desktop. Period. Because that's the way people out in the real world install applications. And if Linux can't do that much, out of the box, then it's never going to make it out in the real world.
Not everything is out there in the form of RPMs. We're getting there, but not yet. Maybe it's because corporations (with closed source software that you can't compile) don't feel it's necessary to spend the extra effort to create an RPM. Maybe it's because open source software is done by coders on their own time who feel that they're time is better spent fixing bugs than worrying about an RPM- well, I can't blame them for it.
As one reply said, he's sick of replying to this "install difficulty" stuff. Well, if it isn't difficult, why do so many people have a problem with it? Because it's not as easy to use? Because it's not intuitive? Because as a windows users my dad can't figure it out on his own?
And that's damn point.
If we want people to switch, we can't tell them to download this program that makes downloading other programs easier. We can't tell them how to associate
Yeah, it doesn't pass my "Dad" test either. When you have to talk someone through opening a console window, ungzipping a file, untarring the file, running make... you realize how wonderful Windows Install programs are. Wizz-bang-click-next-next-next-finish. Really until my dad can install applications without having to open a console window, Linux isn't ready for the average home user.
The case against DeCSS succeeded because MPAA convinced the judge that the possibility of piracy and the potential loss of revenue was more important than the rights of the small community who wanted to use the software legally. Is this any different?
Nintendo will claim the DeCSS case as a precedent, saying it allows people to pirate their games. The users will claim it's fair use. Who's going to win?
Nintendo.
Ok, the entire packet isn't examined, only the full header or parts of the header depending on the routing protocol.
Routers examine headers, but they will not read up beyond the transport layer of the OSI model. So a router will not read the "data" that is up in the application layer being transmitted in the packet. So no, beyond the headers, routers cannot "read" any data in a packet.
A sniffer is a separate device that simply grabs packets off the line. It does no routing and does not pass those packets back onto the line. It displays the entire contents of the packet, not just the headers. It is a separate entity from a router, the sniffer does not drop packets back onto the line.
If you have a PC set up as a router, then sure you can have a sniffer running on that PC as well. But that's not what most of the Cisco routers are doing out there- routers are designed to read the first few bytes of the packet to determine where it's going then zip it on its way.
The Internet is unsafe only in that you don't know who has put a sniffer device along the wire. However, if you know there's no sniffer on your side of the demarc, the only real threat is the ISP, an employee thereof, or on behalf of the Feds.
The data passing on the wire is NOT publicly available, at least not technically. I'm not sure about the legality of the data on the wire, but you as a public citizen cannot walk into an ISP and plug in your laptop to sniff the data. Unless you Tempest or something, you cannot see the data on my DSL. So no, it's not "publicly" available, no more than my conversations on a (non-cordless) phone line.
The arguments the labels are using, said Jill Berliner, a leading music lawyer, are exactly the ones Napster made. "And, from our perspective, if the technology is going to be out there and the artist isn't really going to make money, we'd prefer that our fans just get it for free," she said.
Hmm... I wonder. It sounds like a threat just to get the labels to share, but could we really see artists coming out and endorsing free music sharing? Well, I doubt we'll see Metallica doing a 180 on free music downloads.
The main problem as I understand it is that the labels pretty much controls the major arenas. Bands that grow beyond club size need the labels or they won't ever see the stage of a major arena. Flaunting the major players will assure that a band, no matter how many CDs they sell online will never get to play before the big crowds and make the big money. Perhaps this will prompt more of the big bands to take on the labels and change the way the whole industry works and break the control the labels have over the arenas. For the sake of the small bands, I hope so.
Sure it has real uses. Especially in warehouses. My dad ends up walking 5 miles a day around the warehouse. The large warehouse is the ideal place for a Segway, perhaps the only legitimate place. Small, maneuverable, quick, exactly what is needed to carry people around. It would be great for security patrols at night as well.
Another great feature would be to cart stuff around. All deliveries go to the receiving bay, including office equipment. So when they get large boxes for the office, they toss it onto a dolly and wheel it all the way to the front office. If they attached the dolly to the Segway, they could just drive it there, save a lot of time and possibly injuries to the guy pushing the handtruck around.
Is it worth $8000? To balance against less injuries, less fatigue, more productivity, I don't have those numbers, but I'd say it might be high enough to really catch on in warehouses.
Yeah, that's the one, stopped on the way from Rio to Belo. We were going to meet family of my friends, I don't remember anymore where we went- wish I'd kept a better travel log.
Too many people fly into Rio and never leave the city- that's too bad, I found so much more driving around with my hosts and staying with their friends and families in towns outside Belo, Rio, and SP.
Yeah, ditto here. I run a pretty large HP shop, and well that 24x7x4 support has been lacking of late. When I lose a server, I don't need a clueless engineer in 4 hours just to fulfill the service contract. I need someone with a bag full of parts and a brain full of solutions. HP has NOT been providing that lately. I've talked to a few other large HP customers at recent HP roundtables who have said the same thing. We've all been complaining to HP and considering switching to IBM corporate services.
Remember, people buy linux from HP, IBM, and other RedHat because they want the support that comes with the product. Otherwise they'd install linux themselves. With the way HP Corporate Support has been declining, I certainly wouldn't suggest an HP product to the CEO at this time. In fact, he'd laugh if I did.
Heh heh... I was travelling around Minas Gerais, Brazil, when my hosts brought me to the museum. I'd never heard of Santos-Dumont until that point. We debated it for a while, but as my Portuguese wasn't all that good I could never get the finer points across- not that I had any fine points to make since the first "flight" at Kitty Hawk consisted of being flung off a catapult and landing a few seconds later and I really couldn't argue against a self powered takeoff and landing.
But after a magnificent dinner and a night bar hopping around Belo Horizonte, and meeting some great guys and some fine women, and having one of the best nights of my life, I was willing to concede them their spot in history. OK, so I sold out for alcohol and the company of women, but it was well worth it!