I guess the problem is these DSL providers have the same issues of popularity / demand / scalabilty as the ol' days of unlimited dial-up.
As soon as any particular service got a good reputation; thousands signed up; thus rendering the service overloaded and useless.
I guess from the A&A website that they are trying to avoid mom&pop type customers on purpose; perhaps to save on support costs. They are a bit pricier than freeserve/openwoe etc. etc.
Nobody should shun any alternative aproach to software development in favor of established "software development practices" when a huge percentage of projects, very very close to 100%, come in late and massively over budget.
The official IT support unit can take some weight off their own shoulders by not being so anal about ownership of administration passwords and allowing some of the more tech savy non-IT employees domain admin rights or admin passwords.
You know the sort of employee I mean - the one who works in Marketing but knows more about XP than most people in IT support.
That way, they can sort out many of the problems that occur within departments and not have to bother IT support.
You're probably saying to yourself "you can't let non-IT staff have admin passwords - you never know what might happen." Like I said, stop being so anal about it.
It's not so much incoming mail that's the problem - your identity can easily be stolen from stuff you throw out - especially if you have those large community bins and not a private wheely bin.
Pre-printed credit card application forms are the killer - not only do they give the thief a name and address; but the application has probably been pre-screened so you know that the victim is credit worthy.
Take a thrown out bank statement and a utility bill into Comet and you can walk out with a home cinema system.
If you're in the UK; you can register your name / address combination with CIFAS:
http://www.cifas.org.uk
The service is operated on behalf of the UK financial institutions by Equifax; and will add a layer of authorisation to your name / address combinarion when arranging credit etc. It probably means that you won't be able to buy stuff on instant credit; but the for the hassle that identity theft can bring I think it's worth it. Registration costs 12 quid for 12 months.
Personally i'm amazed that institutions will lend large amounts of money without a definite proof of your identity; but I guess that's consumer forces for you - Dixons want you to be able to walk out of their store with that 32" wide screen TV purchased on instant credit. For all the sales that brings; they absorb the liability.
Re:alltheweb has ftp indexes!
on
Google Turns 5
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· Score: 1
One way to find files that are on HTTP servers is to search on:
Word 97 is a perfectly adequate word processor. So was Word 95 for that matter.
Word 2004 can't be many lines of code from self-awareness.
MS went absolutely over the top with Office; you get "features" now that well over 99% of their user base will never even SKIM the surface of.
Clever marketing and PHB one-upmanship are what convinced the masses to go with this ridiculous and unnecessary upgrade path.
Operating Systems progressing through research and improved hardware I can understand; but you DO NOT need a new version of a bleedin' word processor every year.
You cannot take an article that proposes to dish out $25,000 to everybody and not mention the word inflation once seriously.
I know posts above have already mentioned inflation; and whatever the argument the author of this must still cover the issue to show that he understands the possible consequences of his plan.
some strong feelings to hold companies fully accountable for losses caused by their products' defects
I can see where this view is coming from, but seriously; the litigious culture that is developing in the USA (and therefore no doubt on this side of the pond before long) could have a grave impact on your economy.
You have to take a certain degree of responsibility for your own action. Otherwise, everybody will just be too scared to do anything, and every American will just stay in bed all day.
You NEED suppliers to be a viable business yourself; and in return those suppliers deserve a leniency from you as far as accountability goes.
In return you get leniency from your customers as far as your own liability goes.
As the owner of a small software business, I feel comfortable with the fact that whilst I cannot sue Microsoft's ass if something goes terribly wrong; neither can my customers sue my ass.
In the commercial Internet, the mechanism by which you find commercial sites must be
paid for
by the sites which you find, otherwise basic economics breaks down and it will not work (abuse etc.).
Thousands of companies provide $product - free search engines simply direct all users to one supplier of $product. That's not right.
Searching for a supplier of $product is not like searching for information - it is not something that can be done outside of payment by the supplier of $product.
Slashdot Mirror
installing it on a high shelf.
The only proof of commercial viability of any advertising mechanism is that of clients who
have tried it RENEWING THEIR ACCOUNT.
Nothing else matters.
This will be handy for those short-sighted sysadmin types that name their servers after finite sets like planets.
Now they'll be able to buy up to 10 servers before re-thinking their naming strategy.
So what's the secret?
More oil than you could possibly imagine.
Search Google for "recipe + whatever you fancy cooking"; skip the first couple of results (unless you like SPAM ;) and you'll find hundreds of recipes.
All somebody needs do to contribute is post their favourite recipes to their personal web and let the search engines do the rest.
When I last spoke to someone there, they had somewhere in the region of 2 million individual web pages within the bbc.co.uk domain
At least 2.4 million indexed by Google!
look where they're going?
Are you telling me that birds simply fly along on the assumption that their path is clear?
Sounds like Darwin to me.
"Never before in the history of computer science, has so much been said by so many, about so little."
Couple of friends have recommended Pipex.
I guess the problem is these DSL providers have the same issues of popularity / demand / scalabilty as the ol' days of unlimited dial-up.
As soon as any particular service got a good reputation; thousands signed up; thus rendering the service overloaded and useless.
I guess from the A&A website that they are trying to avoid mom&pop type customers on purpose; perhaps to save on support costs. They are a bit pricier than freeserve/openwoe etc. etc.
LOL I came into this thread with every intention of posting a derogatory reference to NTL but you beat me to it!
/.'ers recommend a good DSL provider?
Plus DNS never works either.
Any UK
Death is far too lenient for a spammer, nowhere near enough pain and suffering (except for their family, whom we're not targeting).
I would sentence a spammer to have one kneecap blown off. Apparently that hurts.
Then, if they continue to spam, they should have their remaining kneecap blown off.
If they spam after that, I don't mind.
You will be.
I didn't understand the post, and having tried to read the article I understand it even less.
Look,
.
Nobody should shun any alternative aproach to software development in favor of established "software development practices" when a huge percentage of projects, very very close to 100%, come in late and massively over budget
The official IT support unit can take some weight off their own shoulders by not being so anal about ownership of administration passwords and allowing some of the more tech savy non-IT employees domain admin rights or admin passwords.
You know the sort of employee I mean - the one who works in Marketing but knows more about XP than most people in IT support.
That way, they can sort out many of the problems that occur within departments and not have to bother IT support.
You're probably saying to yourself "you can't let non-IT staff have admin passwords - you never know what might happen." Like I said, stop being so anal about it.
Yep, that's all this is. Working too - front page link on Slashdot.
:)
Don't do it! Don't click - don't forward this link to your friends! That's what Compaq want..
Amazon have launched a viral marketing campaign today - a keyboard costing 1 Million dollars, but I refuse to post the link.
It's not so much incoming mail that's the problem - your identity can easily be stolen from stuff you throw out - especially if you have those large community bins and not a private wheely bin.
Pre-printed credit card application forms are the killer - not only do they give the thief a name and address; but the application has probably been pre-screened so you know that the victim is credit worthy.
Take a thrown out bank statement and a utility bill into Comet and you can walk out with a home cinema system.
If you're in the UK; you can register your name / address combination with CIFAS:
http://www.cifas.org.uk
The service is operated on behalf of the UK financial institutions by Equifax; and will add a layer of authorisation to your name / address combinarion when arranging credit etc. It probably means that you won't be able to buy stuff on instant credit; but the for the hassle that identity theft can bring I think it's worth it. Registration costs 12 quid for 12 months.
Personally i'm amazed that institutions will lend large amounts of money without a definite proof of your identity; but I guess that's consumer forces for you - Dixons want you to be able to walk out of their store with that 32" wide screen TV purchased on instant credit. For all the sales that brings; they absorb the liability.
One way to find files that are on HTTP servers is to search on:
Index+of filename
Word 97 is a perfectly adequate word processor. So was Word 95 for that matter.
Word 2004 can't be many lines of code from self-awareness.
MS went absolutely over the top with Office; you get "features" now that well over 99% of their user base will never even SKIM the surface of.
Clever marketing and PHB one-upmanship are what convinced the masses to go with this ridiculous and unnecessary upgrade path.
Operating Systems progressing through research and improved hardware I can understand; but you DO NOT need a new version of a bleedin' word processor every year.
You cannot take an article that proposes to dish out $25,000 to everybody and not mention the word inflation once seriously.
I know posts above have already mentioned inflation; and whatever the argument the author of this must still cover the issue to show that he understands the possible consequences of his plan.
some strong feelings to hold companies fully accountable for losses caused by their products' defects
I can see where this view is coming from, but seriously; the litigious culture that is developing in the USA (and therefore no doubt on this side of the pond before long) could have a grave impact on your economy.
You have to take a certain degree of responsibility for your own action. Otherwise, everybody will just be too scared to do anything, and every American will just stay in bed all day.
You NEED suppliers to be a viable business yourself; and in return those suppliers deserve a leniency from you as far as accountability goes.
In return you get leniency from your customers as far as your own liability goes.
As the owner of a small software business, I feel comfortable with the fact that whilst I cannot sue Microsoft's ass if something goes terribly wrong; neither can my customers sue my ass.
Swings and roundabout; 6 of one...
UWisc hard codes the date/time on their time time server to 2038-19-01 03:14:00.
After 6 seconds, the netgear will crash and burn as a result of the Y2K38 problem and the requests will be no more.
$6,990,000 USD.
Assuming:
- They still only have 10,000 boxes
- Those boxes are running Kernel >= 2.4
paid for
by the sites which you find, otherwise basic economics breaks down and it will not work (abuse etc.).Thousands of companies provide $product - free search engines simply direct all users to one supplier of $product. That's not right.
Searching for a supplier of $product is not like searching for information - it is not something that can be done outside of payment by the supplier of $product.
True, but I thought the press didn't like people whoring for attention; which is obviously what SCO are doing...