What about me putting vnc server on my non-geek friends' computers (Yeah, I know you don't believe i have non-geek friends, but for the point of the argument) so I can help them out when they've changed all their settings accidentally? Crackers can't get in, they don't know the password. Wouldn't Microsoft put some security into it?
Oh yeah. Its Microsoft. Sorry.
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Memory prices have doubled in six months. What decline?
I had one of those AOpen A80 drives. I would put perfectly good discs in it, and Windows 2000 would spontaneously reboot. Linux would crash. I sent it back for a refund.
If you can pay $7000, then you can pay $7350. okay then. .. If you can pay $7350, then you can pay $7700. If you can pay $7700, then you can pay $8050. ... If you can pay $287350, then you can pay $287700
It doesn't work that way. You have a finite ammount of money. When its gone its gone.
Debian is by the developers, for the developers. They make it because they want it. And they are nice enough (thank you!) to let us have what they came up with. RedHat is trying to make a profit, so they make it for the users. Linux is customizable. Pick your distro. Whats the problem?
designers should NOT ignore the developers. A user can learn how the computer works. A computer cannot learn how the user works. Programs should be developed for the computer, and users should learn how to use the program. Developers know how the computer works. Users don't. When developers design the system, you get things like *N?X. When users design the system (or the system is designed around the users), you get things like Windows 9x. Users just need to learn the system. Documentation, Documentation, Documentation.
Debian does not need a new installer. I, as a newbie, read the installation guide, sat in #debian on irc.openprojects.net and asked questions when i got stuck, and installed it and compiled a kernel in about 6 hours. (RedHat took me 1 hour, but I didn't understand a thing about the system.) What Debian needs a well indexed book of all the typical problems that people go to #debian with. It should have a list of common and not so common hardware and their chipsets and what kernel modules are needed. It should explain what packages what users might want, and why. It should explain Debian's init script setup. It should have a chapter each dedicated to apt/apt-get/dpkg/dselect, kpkg, networking, modems, cd burning, sound, printing, and XFree86. It should have some examples of files likely found in/etc. It should explain every option in the kernel configuration and suggest why you would or would not need it. It should be sure not to go over the head of newbies. If it is downright boring and unreadable to experts, fine, its not for them. I'd have gladly paid $50 for a book like that.
A web site where people could post exactly what hardware they had and exactly what they did to set up their system would be great. Do a search for your hardware, read what other people did, get yours set up, and post your list.
Yeah, you'll piss off the expert UNIX people. You'll piss off the geeks who understand computers. You will appeal to the MBAs who are still excited about the retractable cup-holders they started putting on the "CPU box thing" back in the mid nineties. And they're the ones who are going to write you a check.
Mozilla won't handle all stuff designed for IE though. I was at the right place and the right time and was given a link to a new website designed to replace the student portal at my university. It works fine in IE. It works in nothing else. (Kinda stupid really, we have a lot of geeks who use *nix, none of them will be able to use it.)
Do people running their own keyservers for their teams help with the bandwidth at all? If they requested (required?) that each time over a certain size run their own keyserver, might it help?
I think taco has many accounts. He misspells things, and then points them out in these accounts, to get +5. He just wants to hit the karma cap as many times as he can.
My university recently send me this: -------- You are receiving this email because you have a computer registered in the [University] Residence Halls or Apartments.
ITS is currently monitoring an increase in campus bandwidth utilization. Our internet connection is currently at 94% utilization for outbound traffic- that is servers on campus sending information off campus. Some of the servers consuming the bandwidth are located in the Residence Halls and Apartments.
ITS will begin DISABLING the Ethernet connections of high bandwidth users beginning Friday afternoon. If you are running a server and have not taken steps to reduce or control the amount of bandwidth that you are using, you may loose your Ethernet connection. You should find settings or preferences or options for your server software to control bandwidth usage and consecutive connections.
If your network connection stops working you will have to contact the Resnet Office (see below) to request reactivation. Any server that is in violation of the [University] Code of Conduct for Computer Use will be documented and forwarded to Campus Safety. The Code of Conduct for Computer Use can be found at: http://www.[University].edu/~750www/Publications /p olicies/code_of_conduct_rit.shtml
If you are NOT running a server but your connection stops working it is likely that your computer has been compromised. Resnet will assist you in securing your computer and restoring your network connection. ------- No mention of what exactly constitutes excessive use. X kbps for Y duration? Z Gb per month? I emailed them to ask, but received no reply. They like to be vague so they can take out whoever they want, and let certain 'friends' slip by.
In theory this is true. In the past this has been true. But it seems more and more, competing companies compete with their lawyers and marketing, not with their engineers, prices, or service. The lawyers get rich. The MBAs get rich. The engineers get frustrated, the prices go up, the service deptarment doesn't have resources to fix anything, and the customer STILL doesn't have a better option. (They just think they do cause the TV ad told them so)
They don't care about 'We'. They care about Joe Average. 'We', the/. readers, know what we want and want to get it ourselves. Joe Average wants "that new-fangled internetty thing that uncle Jeb done got" or "to keep up with the Jones, who have the internet on their computer! We are better than them, so we'll get it too. Were do I buy the internet?" Joe Average wants one company to supply everything. Joe Average _needs_ one company to supply everything, because he doesn't want to spend hours and hours reading technical manuals to figure out how to do it all himself. And I really don't blame him.
A drain on what? The community? No, they don't owe the community anything. Themselves? They can drain themselves if they want to. They are free to work on whatever project they like. If you benefit, fine. If you don't, tough.
If I sell doors guarenteed to keep your house safe, but it does so by shooting b.b.'s at anyone who comes near it, who is responsible when the mailman gets hit in the eye?
People (especially business people) think that high cost = high quality. Package the same product two ways: one all glitzy and expensive, the other in a plain box and cheap, and the glitzy one will outsell by a high margin. Don't believe me? Go to the grocery store and start checking the generic foods against the 'good' stuff. Same ingredients. Same order. Same nutritional info. Same patent numbers. Same parent company. If Sun charged $200 for StarOffice, it would sell to the business people.
MRE's a great for camping in bear country. The bears are smart. They learn to knock down bear bags. They'll suck your maple syrup dry, eat your oreos, tear the tent apart, even break the latrine down if you try to put food in it. But they can't smell the MREs and don't touch them. Good thing too, we had a diabetic with us.
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What about me putting vnc server on my non-geek friends' computers (Yeah, I know you don't believe i have non-geek friends, but for the point of the argument) so I can help them out when they've changed all their settings accidentally? Crackers can't get in, they don't know the password. Wouldn't Microsoft put some security into it?
Oh yeah. Its Microsoft. Sorry.
Memory prices have doubled in six months. What decline?
I had one of those AOpen A80 drives. I would put perfectly good discs in it, and Windows 2000 would spontaneously reboot. Linux would crash. I sent it back for a refund.
the key here is the ability to turn it off if you don't want it
NO NO NO NO NO
the key is the ability to turn it ON if you DO want it.
If you can pay $7000, then you can pay $7350. .
okay then. .
If you can pay $7350, then you can pay $7700.
If you can pay $7700, then you can pay $8050.
...
If you can pay $287350, then you can pay $287700
It doesn't work that way. You have a finite ammount of money. When its gone its gone.
Debian is by the developers, for the developers. They make it because they want it. And they are nice enough (thank you!) to let us have what they came up with. RedHat is trying to make a profit, so they make it for the users. Linux is customizable. Pick your distro. Whats the problem?
designers should NOT ignore the developers. A user can learn how the computer works. A computer cannot learn how the user works. Programs should be developed for the computer, and users should learn how to use the program. Developers know how the computer works. Users don't. When developers design the system, you get things like *N?X. When users design the system (or the system is designed around the users), you get things like Windows 9x. Users just need to learn the system. Documentation, Documentation, Documentation.
Debian does not need a new installer. I, as a newbie, read the installation guide, sat in #debian on irc.openprojects.net and asked questions when i got stuck, and installed it and compiled a kernel in about 6 hours. (RedHat took me 1 hour, but I didn't understand a thing about the system.) What Debian needs a well indexed book of all the typical problems that people go to #debian with. It should have a list of common and not so common hardware and their chipsets and what kernel modules are needed. It should explain what packages what users might want, and why. It should explain Debian's init script setup. It should have a chapter each dedicated to apt/apt-get/dpkg/dselect, kpkg, networking, modems, cd burning, sound, printing, and XFree86. It should have some examples of files likely found in /etc. It should explain every option in the kernel configuration and suggest why you would or would not need it. It should be sure not to go over the head of newbies. If it is downright boring and unreadable to experts, fine, its not for them. I'd have gladly paid $50 for a book like that.
A web site where people could post exactly what hardware they had and exactly what they did to set up their system would be great. Do a search for your hardware, read what other people did, get yours set up, and post your list.
Yeah, you'll piss off the expert UNIX people. You'll piss off the geeks who understand computers. You will appeal to the MBAs who are still excited about the retractable cup-holders they started putting on the "CPU box thing" back in the mid nineties. And they're the ones who are going to write you a check.
Mozilla won't handle all stuff designed for IE though. I was at the right place and the right time and was given a link to a new website designed to replace the student portal at my university. It works fine in IE. It works in nothing else. (Kinda stupid really, we have a lot of geeks who use *nix, none of them will be able to use it.)
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Do people running their own keyservers for their teams help with the bandwidth at all? If they requested (required?) that each time over a certain size run their own keyserver, might it help?
coming soon: the IP Ownership of Corporations Patriotism and Anti-Terrorism Act.
going soon: your privacy.
I think taco has many accounts. He misspells things, and then points them out in these accounts, to get +5. He just wants to hit the karma cap as many times as he can.
My university recently send me this:
s /p olicies/code_of_conduct_rit.shtml
--------
You are receiving this email because you have a computer registered in
the [University] Residence Halls or Apartments.
ITS is currently monitoring an increase in campus bandwidth utilization.
Our internet connection is currently at 94% utilization for outbound
traffic- that is servers on campus sending information off campus. Some of
the servers consuming the bandwidth are located in the Residence Halls and
Apartments.
ITS will begin DISABLING the Ethernet connections of high bandwidth
users beginning Friday afternoon. If you are running a server and have not
taken steps to reduce or control the amount of bandwidth that you are using,
you may loose your Ethernet connection. You should find settings or
preferences or options for your server software to control bandwidth usage
and consecutive connections.
If your network connection stops working you will have to contact the
Resnet Office (see below) to request reactivation. Any server that is in
violation of the [University] Code of Conduct for Computer Use will be documented and
forwarded to Campus Safety. The Code of Conduct for Computer Use can be
found at:
http://www.[University].edu/~750www/Publication
If you are NOT running a server but your connection stops working it is
likely that your computer has been compromised. Resnet will assist you in
securing your computer and restoring your network connection.
-------
No mention of what exactly constitutes excessive use. X kbps for Y duration? Z Gb per month? I emailed them to ask, but received no reply. They like to be vague so they can take out whoever they want, and let certain 'friends' slip by.
How bout an 'odometer'? You can tell exacly how much use a used computer has seen.
In theory this is true. In the past this has been true. But it seems more and more, competing companies compete with their lawyers and marketing, not with their engineers, prices, or service. The lawyers get rich. The MBAs get rich. The engineers get frustrated, the prices go up, the service deptarment doesn't have resources to fix anything, and the customer STILL doesn't have a better option. (They just think they do cause the TV ad told them so)
They don't care about 'We'. They care about Joe Average. 'We', the /. readers, know what we want and want to get it ourselves. Joe Average wants "that new-fangled internetty thing that uncle Jeb done got" or "to keep up with the Jones, who have the internet on their computer! We are better than them, so we'll get it too. Were do I buy the internet?" Joe Average wants one company to supply everything. Joe Average _needs_ one company to supply everything, because he doesn't want to spend hours and hours reading technical manuals to figure out how to do it all himself. And I really don't blame him.
"no matter how much of a drain it is."
A drain on what? The community? No, they don't owe the community anything. Themselves? They can drain themselves if they want to. They are free to work on whatever project they like. If you benefit, fine. If you don't, tough.
"what exactly are the new/interesting features...that you'll be providing the 'community'?"
Who says they have to provide anything to anyone? Maybe they are doing it because (*gasp*) they WANT to.
You spelled "innovation" wrong. Although given that it was a GWB quote, perhaps you were quoting him accurately.
Did his speechwriters misspell it? Or did he manage to misspell a word he said aloud?!
If I sell doors guarenteed to keep your house safe, but it does so by shooting b.b.'s at anyone who comes near it, who is responsible when the mailman gets hit in the eye?
People (especially business people) think that high cost = high quality. Package the same product two ways: one all glitzy and expensive, the other in a plain box and cheap, and the glitzy one will outsell by a high margin. Don't believe me? Go to the grocery store and start checking the generic foods against the 'good' stuff. Same ingredients. Same order. Same nutritional info. Same patent numbers. Same parent company. If Sun charged $200 for StarOffice, it would sell to the business people.
Wile E. Coyote was a geek if I ever saw one. Always wanted the latest gadgets, tinkered with them, and not a one ever worked as he thought.
RIP Chuck Jones.
MRE's a great for camping in bear country. The bears are smart. They learn to knock down bear bags. They'll suck your maple syrup dry, eat your oreos, tear the tent apart, even break the latrine down if you try to put food in it. But they can't smell the MREs and don't touch them. Good thing too, we had a diabetic with us.