Not all geeks are.. well.. geeks. Here in crappy ole Iowa, we recently had our first really big lan party. I saw ALOT of case mods. When I talked to the kids that had done the mods, most of them didn't know what linux was, and couldn't do much with their box other than word proccessing, play quake, and IRC/IM. *shrugs* The world changed somewhere along the line.
What about the rumors people have spoke of concerning paypal locking up their accounts? Considering the fact that I live pretty close to a 'paycheck to paycheck' budget, I sure as hell am not going to risk losing the money in my account.
Great, so when I forget my computer is on with mIRC open, and me and my woman are getting it on, the chat rooms gonna be getting some nifty insight on why I'm so odd? GREAT!
I did the math in my head after that wanker gave his speach, the numbers just didnt add up. I did something like, 6000 mp3's/2 days = 3000 a day
3000 a day / 3 peeps = 1000 a day per person
1000 a day / 8 hours = 125 mp3's an hour
which means about 2 mp3's a minute (on average) for 8 hours! I'm guessing they were on a bit more than the average speed of a DSL or Cable line. Anyways, glad to see it got out in the public.
I'm thinking their talking specific model of hardware or something. My crappy USR modem sits under my desk anyway. But regardless, is this like packet sniffing, but more.. 'light sniffing' or eh.. I dunno. Anyways, what they going to steal of my IP_masq network? My dad downloading p0rn?
Uhm, I can't see the FCC sending out the swat team because a senator's phone is on the fritz, or because he can't watch his HBO pr0n..er... CNN. I run quite a few of my machines without covers on them. I do notice when I crack down for a compile that my cable TV gets a bit fuzzy, but nothing else in my house is effected. I really can't see a PC causing interference for more than say 20 feet at most. But I'm not an RF engineer =)
Why can't all you lawyers and money hungry business peoples just get the hell away from the internet so I can be a geek without having to worry about all this stupid licensing bullshit, and who owns what, and who I'm making mad. I mean, if I write a small shell script called 'microsoft.makes.me.want.to.kill.myself.sh' and have it echo 'I HATE MS!' over and over, then execute it from putty on a windows machine, am I going to face a lawsuit for making slanderous comments about MS while using an MS product? Probably..
Redhat Redhat Redhat.. How many distrobutions are there? 20? 30? More? I'm not bashing your comment about it having a better hardware detection system, which it probably has one of the best amoung the distrobutions. But its not the ONLY distrobution. Their has been alot of times where I've read articles dealing with linux, and most of them focus on the user friendly distrobutions. I'm not here to start a flame war about which distro is best, but rather which distro is best for you. Why is it all I ever see is RH, MDK, and SUSE?
Anyways.. I'm starting to just rant. I guess the point I'm getting to is that you can't successfully compare linux and windows, because linux can't be completely represented by a single distrobution. Personally I like Slackware for both workstation and server. I feel like I can streamline it down with more ease than RedHat. But for production servers, I'd rather use Redhat, due to the number of 3rd party software venders that make packages for it.
But I've also played with Mandrake, and Debian, and have seen features in them that I like too. So I guess if your gonna compare "Linux", compare EVERY distribution.
Excuse me while I beat you with a clue stick. He said call the receptionist. Receptions isn't exactly the same as an insurance salesman, banker, or lawyer. Regardless, if you doubt it that much, I'll drive the 10 miles to Clear Lake, and say 'CLIT CLIT CLIT' for ya.
I drive through Clear Lake every day on my way to work, funny to see that it made it onto/. Now.. the funny part is, this is just like Iowa news. "We've got the LATEST tech-toys out there", "State of the art", and "Brand new technology", well, they left out the part that Iowa is ghetto, and the only thing that makes it new is that its new to Iowa! Dur.. Anyways, enough bashing my home. Its funny though, I've watched mediacom bust their butts all winter to drop fiber into the ground, and now they get some real competition.
They did this in a larger city.. why can't I have this in my small town!? Then I could trade files with my brother like he's in the other room. Oh yeah... thats right.. small towns aren't proffitable and don't get high speed access =( *sniffle* Guess I'll enjoy my dialup untill that becomes unreasonably expensive too! Atleast I've always got ham radio! hehe
This is the true human spirit. It don't matter how much money you have. Hell, look what Hitler had to work with. Didn't he kill himself? RIAA, you could take tips from Hitler!
*I get knocked down, and then I get up again, never gonna keep me down*
Oh.. I better delete that mp3, I got it from napster =P
I wonder if technology will progress enough that by the time my son is in high school (Yes, I realize this was a bunch of university students), he'll be designing and building RF(something better?) controlled selfpowered jets and the whatnot with hacked guidance systems. The coolest things I ever did in high school were with computers, and they weren't exactly part of any class. But When it comes down to it, I almost want to go back to school JUST for all of the cool projects I could be involved in! Regardless, way to go to the students who got to do this, and succeeded!
Who's more evil? Well, what if after all the fighting, they both said, 'Oh, how silly we all act! Lets be lovers not fighters, and monopolize absolutely EVERY computer on earth!'
Microsoft and AOL in bed togather.. *shudder* If someone flew a plain into the HQ of MS/NBC/AOL/Timewarner/etc/etc/etc, I'd call them a hero not a terrorist!
I can't really see this as a good or bad thing at first glance.
If AOL wins:
Pro: Microsoft Takes a beating
Con: AOL/Time Warner has more money
If AOL loses:
Pro: HAHA AOL fell on their face!
Con: Microsoft didn't take a beating
Considering the fact that I view both of these companies as fat piles of shit that can't move or produce anything of any quality lately, I guess its become more of a 'lesser of two evils' for me.
I'm guessing it won't take too long. It seems that anytime any digital rights management scheme comes out, its either so tight that the product can't be used (you get your CD in a block of concrete?), or its so lame that it gets cracked right away (ebooks anyone?)
I run 2.4.X on my production servers. The first move we made was around 2.4.9(?), and we had quite a bit of problems with it. Lockups, crashes, services going crazy. But we upgraded to 2.4.12(?), and everything seemed to settle down. Other than the initial streak of bad luck, I've been pretty happy with it. Hell, my desktop is even pulling a 50+day uptime with 2.4.13. So it can't be all that bad =)
So I can't transmit a TV signal from my bedroom, down the hall, and to my kitchen? Oh well, I'll just put an antana outside my bedroom window, transmit it outside, to my kitchen window, they didn't say anything bout that. Then again, I could just run coax like everyone else suggested, but thats just too simple.
Try getting it someplace where bandwidth is mad expensive! Say.. Iowa? In a city of 30,000, we had 1 broadband provider, ATT@Home.. Mediacom bought them out... We really don't have much for broadband considering my dialup is faster than MediaCom is in this area.
I'm just saying I'm happy with what I got. I could almost care about the 'quality' Which is what MS is trying to brag about right? The only reason I get the DVD's is for the special features!
Amen! My dvd player cost $100 at target, plays Mp3's, and is hooked up with RCA cables to the video in on my vcr, and the audio in on my crappy $150 sterio (amazing it has a line in). Once in a while the coax or the VCR picks up noise, blah blah blah, so the amazing quality and compression of windows media format could almost make me give a shit, since I cant even get the best out of the current technology. Add to that, EVERY FREAKING DVD I buy is in wide screen format. Wide screen..... yeah, I'm gonna pay $1000+ just so my DVD's will play full screen... right... Like the guy said. Leave my dvd player alone, cuz I don't want to have to call tech support when my DVD player throws a GPF at me.
I could see this being abused at a high level. Someone could definately take this technology, and make it into a form of tool. For instance:
Good: Company had 4 divisions: US, UK, China, Brazil. The company sets their website up to detect browser's location, and directs them to the site for the proper division.
Bad: Company has banner adds on their site. When someone from Las Vegas goes to their site, they advertise hookers and casinos, (since they are legal in vegas, lets entise the natives to go boost the economy!). Someone sitting in California goes to the same site and gets a banner for suntan lotion. Wow.. we just geographically marketed our products!
I went there, and tried to sign up. The program they use to detect your location seems to take forever (over 5 minutes)! Probably because I'm in the US =P
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Not all geeks are.. well.. geeks. Here in crappy ole Iowa, we recently had our first really big lan party. I saw ALOT of case mods. When I talked to the kids that had done the mods, most of them didn't know what linux was, and couldn't do much with their box other than word proccessing, play quake, and IRC/IM. *shrugs* The world changed somewhere along the line.
What about the rumors people have spoke of concerning paypal locking up their accounts? Considering the fact that I live pretty close to a 'paycheck to paycheck' budget, I sure as hell am not going to risk losing the money in my account.
Great, so when I forget my computer is on with mIRC open, and me and my woman are getting it on, the chat rooms gonna be getting some nifty insight on why I'm so odd? GREAT!
As if I run XP PFFFT!
I did the math in my head after that wanker gave his speach, the numbers just didnt add up. I did something like,
6000 mp3's/2 days = 3000 a day
3000 a day / 3 peeps = 1000 a day per person
1000 a day / 8 hours = 125 mp3's an hour
which means about 2 mp3's a minute (on average) for 8 hours! I'm guessing they were on a bit more than the average speed of a DSL or Cable line. Anyways, glad to see it got out in the public.
I'm thinking their talking specific model of hardware or something. My crappy USR modem sits under my desk anyway. But regardless, is this like packet sniffing, but more.. 'light sniffing' or eh.. I dunno. Anyways, what they going to steal of my IP_masq network? My dad downloading p0rn?
Uhm, I can't see the FCC sending out the swat team because a senator's phone is on the fritz, or because he can't watch his HBO pr0n..er... CNN. I run quite a few of my machines without covers on them. I do notice when I crack down for a compile that my cable TV gets a bit fuzzy, but nothing else in my house is effected. I really can't see a PC causing interference for more than say 20 feet at most. But I'm not an RF engineer =)
Why can't all you lawyers and money hungry business peoples just get the hell away from the internet so I can be a geek without having to worry about all this stupid licensing bullshit, and who owns what, and who I'm making mad. I mean, if I write a small shell script called 'microsoft.makes.me.want.to.kill.myself.sh' and have it echo 'I HATE MS!' over and over, then execute it from putty on a windows machine, am I going to face a lawsuit for making slanderous comments about MS while using an MS product? Probably..
Just post the address of the wedding. Then a few million geeks will show up for their wedding.. how cute!
Anyways, Congrats!
Redhat Redhat Redhat.. How many distrobutions are there? 20? 30? More? I'm not bashing your comment about it having a better hardware detection system, which it probably has one of the best amoung the distrobutions. But its not the ONLY distrobution. Their has been alot of times where I've read articles dealing with linux, and most of them focus on the user friendly distrobutions. I'm not here to start a flame war about which distro is best, but rather which distro is best for you. Why is it all I ever see is RH, MDK, and SUSE?
Anyways.. I'm starting to just rant. I guess the point I'm getting to is that you can't successfully compare linux and windows, because linux can't be completely represented by a single distrobution. Personally I like Slackware for both workstation and server. I feel like I can streamline it down with more ease than RedHat. But for production servers, I'd rather use Redhat, due to the number of 3rd party software venders that make packages for it.
But I've also played with Mandrake, and Debian, and have seen features in them that I like too. So I guess if your gonna compare "Linux", compare EVERY distribution.
Excuse me while I beat you with a clue stick. He said call the receptionist. Receptions isn't exactly the same as an insurance salesman, banker, or lawyer. Regardless, if you doubt it that much, I'll drive the 10 miles to Clear Lake, and say 'CLIT CLIT CLIT' for ya.
I drive through Clear Lake every day on my way to work, funny to see that it made it onto /. Now.. the funny part is, this is just like Iowa news. "We've got the LATEST tech-toys out there", "State of the art", and "Brand new technology", well, they left out the part that Iowa is ghetto, and the only thing that makes it new is that its new to Iowa! Dur.. Anyways, enough bashing my home. Its funny though, I've watched mediacom bust their butts all winter to drop fiber into the ground, and now they get some real competition.
They did this in a larger city.. why can't I have this in my small town!? Then I could trade files with my brother like he's in the other room. Oh yeah... thats right.. small towns aren't proffitable and don't get high speed access =( *sniffle* Guess I'll enjoy my dialup untill that becomes unreasonably expensive too! Atleast I've always got ham radio! hehe
This is the true human spirit. It don't matter how much money you have. Hell, look what Hitler had to work with. Didn't he kill himself? RIAA, you could take tips from Hitler!
*I get knocked down, and then I get up again, never gonna keep me down*
Oh.. I better delete that mp3, I got it from napster =P
I wonder if technology will progress enough that by the time my son is in high school (Yes, I realize this was a bunch of university students), he'll be designing and building RF(something better?) controlled selfpowered jets and the whatnot with hacked guidance systems. The coolest things I ever did in high school were with computers, and they weren't exactly part of any class. But When it comes down to it, I almost want to go back to school JUST for all of the cool projects I could be involved in! Regardless, way to go to the students who got to do this, and succeeded!
Who's more evil? Well, what if after all the fighting, they both said, 'Oh, how silly we all act! Lets be lovers not fighters, and monopolize absolutely EVERY computer on earth!'
Microsoft and AOL in bed togather.. *shudder*
If someone flew a plain into the HQ of MS/NBC/AOL/Timewarner/etc/etc/etc, I'd call them a hero not a terrorist!
I can't really see this as a good or bad thing at first glance.
If AOL wins:
Pro: Microsoft Takes a beating
Con: AOL/Time Warner has more money
If AOL loses:
Pro: HAHA AOL fell on their face!
Con: Microsoft didn't take a beating
Considering the fact that I view both of these companies as fat piles of shit that can't move or produce anything of any quality lately, I guess its become more of a 'lesser of two evils' for me.
I'm guessing it won't take too long. It seems that anytime any digital rights management scheme comes out, its either so tight that the product can't be used (you get your CD in a block of concrete?), or its so lame that it gets cracked right away (ebooks anyone?)
I run 2.4.X on my production servers. The first move we made was around 2.4.9(?), and we had quite a bit of problems with it. Lockups, crashes, services going crazy. But we upgraded to 2.4.12(?), and everything seemed to settle down. Other than the initial streak of bad luck, I've been pretty happy with it. Hell, my desktop is even pulling a 50+day uptime with 2.4.13. So it can't be all that bad =)
Why don't you put a 50oz magnet next to your filter.. or magnatize the filter.. that should catch a few of them =p
So I can't transmit a TV signal from my bedroom, down the hall, and to my kitchen? Oh well, I'll just put an antana outside my bedroom window, transmit it outside, to my kitchen window, they didn't say anything bout that. Then again, I could just run coax like everyone else suggested, but thats just too simple.
Try getting it someplace where bandwidth is mad expensive! Say.. Iowa? In a city of 30,000, we had 1 broadband provider, ATT@Home.. Mediacom bought them out... We really don't have much for broadband considering my dialup is faster than MediaCom is in this area.
I'd like to be, under the sea...
I'm just saying I'm happy with what I got. I could almost care about the 'quality' Which is what MS is trying to brag about right? The only reason I get the DVD's is for the special features!
Amen! My dvd player cost $100 at target, plays Mp3's, and is hooked up with RCA cables to the video in on my vcr, and the audio in on my crappy $150 sterio (amazing it has a line in). Once in a while the coax or the VCR picks up noise, blah blah blah, so the amazing quality and compression of windows media format could almost make me give a shit, since I cant even get the best out of the current technology. Add to that, EVERY FREAKING DVD I buy is in wide screen format. Wide screen..... yeah, I'm gonna pay $1000+ just so my DVD's will play full screen... right... Like the guy said. Leave my dvd player alone, cuz I don't want to have to call tech support when my DVD player throws a GPF at me.
I could see this being abused at a high level. Someone could definately take this technology, and make it into a form of tool. For instance:
Good:
Company had 4 divisions: US, UK, China, Brazil. The company sets their website up to detect browser's location, and directs them to the site for the proper division.
Bad: Company has banner adds on their site. When someone from Las Vegas goes to their site, they advertise hookers and casinos, (since they are legal in vegas, lets entise the natives to go boost the economy!). Someone sitting in California goes to the same site and gets a banner for suntan lotion. Wow.. we just geographically marketed our products!
Btw.. "visitors try to enter UKbetting.com"
I went there, and tried to sign up. The program they use to detect your location seems to take forever (over 5 minutes)! Probably because I'm in the US =P