This is an absolutely ridiculous statement. People don't use the hood release because they simply do not know its there, or value gained and money saved by learning how to change their own oil.
The same can go for a linux distro. The tools should always be there, but the users should have access to them for if they need them in the future. I switched to linux because I wanted a platform that was actually stable compared to Microsoft operating system.
I am a long time windows user, but within the last three to four years I have begun to use linux. Because of linux I have taught myself C, and for a lot less than having to go out and buy a decent C compiler. I taught myself C because the tools were there and I believed it would be interesting to learn. Users don't have to do this if they do not wish to. That is the joy of using linux. You have a choice, and its far more configurable.
Your comment is utterly revolting. "hackers" as you use are also consumers and are not criminals. I'm tired of seeing the media coined term "hackers" showing up every where. Hackers are merely those that are interested finding out how things work. For example car hacking, electronics hacking, computer hardware hacking, etc. . . I believe you wish to refer to Crackers. Crackers are the ones that break laws by gaining illegal entry to computer systems, break encryption formats, steal credit card information, etc.
BTW the last time I checked consumers wanted to be able to rip their own cds and splice tracks together. And these are the consumers that went out and purchased the product, and all they want is the freedom to do with what they purchase! Additionally, the MPAA is having a fit over letting linux users to use open source tools to view DVD legimitly!
I believe the point is to have the configurations accessible from remote computers on the network or at least a specific machine. A firewall is not going to have a keyboard and a monitor attached to it.
You have exhausted your use of the '*' key! If you use it again, your computer will let out high doses of radiation aimed at your manhood. Luckily for human kind this would rid your strain from the genepool! Have a nice day!
Yes, they are all taking losses. But it is because of the telcos. I present my proof as this. I work for a DSL provider, we started selling ISDN 6 years ago, moved on to DSL because of the hype. PacBell for the last 6 months has been playing hard ball with us because of their own fucked up accounting (being double billed). But only recently have we turned profitable. How you ask? We said "Fuck DSL" and we are now providing Wireless Broadband services. Now we are screwing over the telcos in their own markets by taking their DSL customers and putting them on our own network.
For satellite based networks the latency is probably about 500-800 msecs. However, terestrial wireless networks are a lot different then satellites orbiting at say 200,000 miles above the earth. Distance is the main cause of latency on wireless links. On a properly configured network, even metricom's. You should see ping times from 20-150 msecs (depending on your speed, interferrence, etc)
We had a blow job scandal, now we have a 'jobs' and billions of $ scandal.
I don't really know what you mean here. Clinton was a liar and a sack of shit, I'll give you that much.
Well, ya know. I could of cared less whether or not Clinton got a blow job from a fat intern. What I do care about is the governments involvment with what is going on with Enron. You thought Clinton was a liar, well he was lying to protect his self image. But the Republicans will be lying because they don't want their asses in jail. Now there is a MAJOR difference. I think you will find out very soon how much more scandalous this Enron deal is going to look compared to Clinton getting 'sexual favors' from an intern.
During the Clinton administration we had economic stability and surpluses. But since the 'village idiot' has taken office everything has gone in the toliet. Addtionally, the dot com failures had a extremely minimal effect on the market when they all started to fall apart. After many of them went out of business the Dow did not go up and down as eradically as it does today. Down 200 points one day, up 100 the next. We had economic stability before Bush came to office. I could see what was heading our way, unfortunately about 50% of the voting population didn't.
Ofcourse, Earthlink does not provide cable services, do they? DSL providers typically do not care about their users doing such things(NAT). Infact, my employer will even allow our customers to buy a router from us and we configure it for free!
Again, not true. Casual users will be forced to read HowTo manuals and man pages [linuxdoc.org]. If you follow the link into the several pages, you'll see that some of them are *years* old!
Ipchains is not *years* old as you put it, so the howto's definately can't be. Many of the howto's are old, but that is becuase a lot of things are backwards compatible with the newer kernels.
Cost of upgrading what? Did you even read the article? This is a CLUSTER, not your run-of-the-mill desktop or workstation. I could get linux to easily run on an old 486 motherboard that is somewhere in the bottom of my closet.
If any OS is expensive due to upgrades, it is definately Micro$oft OS's. Can you see Windows XP running on a 486 33 mhz? I thought not.
Additionally linux cost a LOT less to administer by IT shops than Microsoft operating systems. With Microsoft operating systems, you have to *click* here, *click* in this text field,etc. I could have ipchains up and running fast than you could have NAT running on Windows2000.
However, this cluster is a great solution to a lot of problems. It would definately free up colocation rack space, and make it easier to do virtual hosting.
Not to get off this thread here. But since when do web designers earn $500,000 a year. I know several that are extremely good, infact know ASP, XML,DHTML, etc and on average they get paid about $70,000. So I can only really read in to your post as saying "I'm a spoiled and want to make everyone else 'feel' like they are lower than me"
So Flarners, please do us a favor and not brag about you "169" IQ, because the number seems like one that you probally would of made up anyhow.
See, I take this very offensively. I am an under paid Network/System Admin, that most likely has way more stress associated with my job, than yours. And yet you insist on trying to 'prove' to everyone that you are better than they are, mostly by saying I have x IQ and make x in a year.
Oh and BTW since when is a CLI interface the only interface to spit out 'syntax errors'?? Gee, Windoze does this to me EVERYDAY. It's called a BSOD. Granted the CLI is not perfect, neither are the GUI interfaces that are in the most common OS's.
Actually, there are teresterial (spelling?) versions of this, but the equipment is horribly expensive. Your best bet is to stick with wireless internet. After all there has been a new 802.11x standard approved, this will make connection options nearly limitless for consumers and wISP's.
I used to work for at&t worldnet when they were testing their fixed wireless.. there are a ton of inherent problems with it.. first off, there are issues with interference from things from birds to weather / snow, etc.. and of course most people who actually played w/ the units and had all the specs usually said "yeah, it works ok, but i wouldnt install it on my house" (as in - the radiation is enough to leave me w/o any functional sperm).. so good luck to earthlink.. perhaps they overcame those hurdles:)
I can not believe this level of misinformation. These wireless links are point to point, not omni directional. You get more radition by standing 10 feet away from a Microwave oven.
The radiation introduced by these systems are extremely minimal, because the radition does not leak outside of the fresnal zone.
Please spread your FUD elsewhere, ppl like you are the ones that often say that using cell phones lead to brain cancer, when research has yet to show that it does.
Actually, I have a bit of information regarding the @home shutdown. I work for a regional ISP that has business relations with Cox Communications.
Cox has told us that this could potentially lead to chaos on the internet, not only because @home is a major cable internet provider, but also because they have one of the more large national backbones on the internet. However, Cox customers may not have to worry because they have been provisioning the use of other backbones so that their customers would have minimal downtime.
In the end, this may affect a large portion of internet services such as DNS and email. Inappropriate routes may still exist that relay through the @home network, even after the network is shutdown
My employer uses Cox for fibre T1's so we have been advised that such services may not work properly, until this situation is resolved. But for most end-users the result may be serious lag times until certain services get re-routed through other backbones.
Slashdot Mirror
This is an absolutely ridiculous statement. People don't use the hood release because they simply do not know its there, or value gained and money saved by learning how to change their own oil.
The same can go for a linux distro. The tools should always be there, but the users should have access to them for if they need them in the future. I switched to linux because I wanted a platform that was actually stable compared to Microsoft operating system.
I am a long time windows user, but within the last three to four years I have begun to use linux. Because of linux I have taught myself C, and for a lot less than having to go out and buy a decent C compiler. I taught myself C because the tools were there and I believed it would be interesting to learn. Users don't have to do this if they do not wish to. That is the joy of using linux. You have a choice, and its far more configurable.
Your comment is utterly revolting. "hackers" as you use are also consumers and are not criminals. I'm tired of seeing the media coined term "hackers" showing up every where. Hackers are merely those that are interested finding out how things work. For example car hacking, electronics hacking, computer hardware hacking, etc. . . I believe you wish to refer to Crackers. Crackers are the ones that break laws by gaining illegal entry to computer systems, break encryption formats, steal credit card information, etc.
BTW the last time I checked consumers wanted to be able to rip their own cds and splice tracks together. And these are the consumers that went out and purchased the product, and all they want is the freedom to do with what they purchase! Additionally, the MPAA is having a fit over letting linux users to use open source tools to view DVD legimitly!
r00tdenied
I believe the point is to have the configurations accessible from remote computers on the network or at least a specific machine. A firewall is not going to have a keyboard and a monitor attached to it.
You have exhausted your use of the '*' key! If you use it again, your computer will let out high doses of radiation aimed at your manhood. Luckily for human kind this would rid your strain from the genepool! Have a nice day!
Yes, they are all taking losses. But it is because of the telcos. I present my proof as this. I work for a DSL provider, we started selling ISDN 6 years ago, moved on to DSL because of the hype. PacBell for the last 6 months has been playing hard ball with us because of their own fucked up accounting (being double billed). But only recently have we turned profitable. How you ask? We said "Fuck DSL" and we are now providing Wireless Broadband services. Now we are screwing over the telcos in their own markets by taking their DSL customers and putting them on our own network.
r00tdenied
For satellite based networks the latency is probably about 500-800 msecs. However, terestrial wireless networks are a lot different then satellites orbiting at say 200,000 miles above the earth. Distance is the main cause of latency on wireless links. On a properly configured network, even metricom's. You should see ping times from 20-150 msecs (depending on your speed, interferrence, etc)
We had a blow job scandal, now we have a 'jobs' and billions of $ scandal.
I don't really know what you mean here. Clinton was a liar and a sack of shit, I'll give you that much.
Well, ya know. I could of cared less whether or not Clinton got a blow job from a fat intern. What I do care about is the governments involvment with what is going on with Enron. You thought Clinton was a liar, well he was lying to protect his self image. But the Republicans will be lying because they don't want their asses in jail. Now there is a MAJOR difference. I think you will find out very soon how much more scandalous this Enron deal is going to look compared to Clinton getting 'sexual favors' from an intern.
During the Clinton administration we had economic stability and surpluses. But since the 'village idiot' has taken office everything has gone in the toliet. Addtionally, the dot com failures had a extremely minimal effect on the market when they all started to fall apart. After many of them went out of business the Dow did not go up and down as eradically as it does today. Down 200 points one day, up 100 the next. We had economic stability before Bush came to office. I could see what was heading our way, unfortunately about 50% of the voting population didn't.
r00tdenied
Ofcourse, Earthlink does not provide cable services, do they? DSL providers typically do not care about their users doing such things(NAT). Infact, my employer will even allow our customers to buy a router from us and we configure it for free!
r00tdenied
Yes, as an individual. But as a bandwidth provider they have to right to do so. After all it is 'their' network.
r00tdenied
Again, not true. Casual users will be forced to read HowTo manuals and man pages [linuxdoc.org]. If you follow the link into the several pages, you'll see that some of them are *years* old!
Ipchains is not *years* old as you put it, so the howto's definately can't be. Many of the howto's are old, but that is becuase a lot of things are backwards compatible with the newer kernels.
r00tdeniedCost of upgrading what? Did you even read the article? This is a CLUSTER, not your run-of-the-mill desktop or workstation. I could get linux to easily run on an old 486 motherboard that is somewhere in the bottom of my closet.
If any OS is expensive due to upgrades, it is definately Micro$oft OS's. Can you see Windows XP running on a 486 33 mhz? I thought not.
Additionally linux cost a LOT less to administer by IT shops than Microsoft operating systems. With Microsoft operating systems, you have to *click* here, *click* in this text field,etc. I could have ipchains up and running fast than you could have NAT running on Windows2000.
However, this cluster is a great solution to a lot of problems. It would definately free up colocation rack space, and make it easier to do virtual hosting.
r00tdenied
Is That A Railgun In Your Pocket PC
Or are you just happy to see me!
r00tdenied
Not to get off this thread here. But since when do web designers earn $500,000 a year. I know several that are extremely good, infact know ASP, XML,DHTML, etc and on average they get paid about $70,000. So I can only really read in to your post as saying "I'm a spoiled and want to make everyone else 'feel' like they are lower than me"
So Flarners, please do us a favor and not brag about you "169" IQ, because the number seems like one that you probally would of made up anyhow.
See, I take this very offensively. I am an under paid Network/System Admin, that most likely has way more stress associated with my job, than yours. And yet you insist on trying to 'prove' to everyone that you are better than they are, mostly by saying I have x IQ and make x in a year.
Oh and BTW since when is a CLI interface the only interface to spit out 'syntax errors'?? Gee, Windoze does this to me EVERYDAY. It's called a BSOD. Granted the CLI is not perfect, neither are the GUI interfaces that are in the most common OS's.
r00tdenied
Actually, there are teresterial (spelling?) versions of this, but the equipment is horribly expensive. Your best bet is to stick with wireless internet. After all there has been a new 802.11x standard approved, this will make connection options nearly limitless for consumers and wISP's.
r00tdenied
I can not believe this level of misinformation. These wireless links are point to point, not omni directional. You get more radition by standing 10 feet away from a Microwave oven.
The radiation introduced by these systems are extremely minimal, because the radition does not leak outside of the fresnal zone.
Please spread your FUD elsewhere, ppl like you are the ones that often say that using cell phones lead to brain cancer, when research has yet to show that it does.
r00tdenied
No that is not the correct spelling. It is 'Bayer'
Actually, I have a bit of information regarding the @home shutdown. I work for a regional ISP that has business relations with Cox Communications.
Cox has told us that this could potentially lead to chaos on the internet, not only because @home is a major cable internet provider, but also because they have one of the more large national backbones on the internet. However, Cox customers may not have to worry because they have been provisioning the use of other backbones so that their customers would have minimal downtime.
In the end, this may affect a large portion of internet services such as DNS and email. Inappropriate routes may still exist that relay through the @home network, even after the network is shutdown
My employer uses Cox for fibre T1's so we have been advised that such services may not work properly, until this situation is resolved. But for most end-users the result may be serious lag times until certain services get re-routed through other backbones.
r00tdenied