The irony is that the Atlas V uses Russian made engines that are considered cheaper and more reliable than the American engines they replace. The Atlas VI will use Chinese made clones of the Russian engines and the Atlas VII is slated to use an Indian manufactured system. Americans will still control the commissary. Want fries with that satellite?
I went to my daughters Latin class on parents night. The teacher remarked how lucky the students were because they had a new edition of the Latin textbook. I asked him why they needed a new edition of a Latin textbook. He gave me a condecending look. The irony was lost on him.
I've always thought the real value of OSS was simply the price. I can't afford the cost of most non-OSS products. With Microsoft's new licensing policies I doubt that I will be able to afford the next generation of anything. I won't have anything beyond Windows XP and Office 2000 will be my last office edition.
The tradeoff is that I am an expert in my own arcane little patch of code and if I give it up to the collective good we all benefit. You can use my code if I can use yours. Without OSS there would be no Internet and most of us wouldn't have jobs in this industry.
There is a somewhere.com with 4, count em, 4 MX addresses. I wonder how many million e-mails have been sent to somewhere.com? Would the return addresses be mostly spam or legit? Would the resulting database have any value? It might be interesting from a putely backscatter point of view.
SG
Creating a network of caches is easy. Akamai is really nothing more than lots of Red Hat Linux systems running squid. - The secret is in directing a user to a topologically nearby server.
Without this secret sauce no bandwidth is saved. There are a lot of ways to perform this magic... most of them patented. Do we have a clue how freecache does this?
That's only 40 Meg! 10,000 pages x 500 words per page x 8 characters per word (generous). My palm Pilot with a memory stick does a lot more and costs the same.
Yah this is great news for everyone unless you read the fine print. The hardware colo has been outsourced to The University of Rhode Island and all system administrator has been outsourced to India.
Selling infected IP addresses may be immoral but what is illegal about it?
I run snort on a bunch of systems and have some very large lists of infected IP addresses. I suspect many others do too. Every time snort burps up a new IP address I inform the ISP that "owns" the IP address. The reality is that no one cares. I have been "hit" by 68.162.91.238 over 20 times in the last month by different viruses.
These lists are easy to come by and even easier to generate. If someone is dumb enough to pay good money for a list of infected computers - let me know. I wonder what the going rate is.
If these machines get abused enough maybe, just maybe they'll get fixed.
At a parent/teacher night I went to the Latin class to find out how my she was doing. The teacher was very enthusiastic about the year's progress and remarked on how lucky the students were to have a new edition of the Latin textbook.
The room fell deathly silent.
I put up my hand and asked, "Why would anyone need a new edition of a Latin textbook?"
"Progress," he screamed. The irony apparently lost.
3 years? A 1970 Vega was the first car I ever had. I got it for $150. It had 20,000 miles om it more or less, the speedometer was broken.
It had a brand new engine because the first one, the all aluminium block one, melted.
Replacing the windshield would have been easy since all the metal around the windshield had completely rotted away before I got it. All anyone had would have had to do was get the windshield washers out of the way.
I drive that car for 2 more years until it died in front of a chevy dealer. He gave me $150 bucks in a trade-in on my brand new 1974 Chevy Chevette.
Now that car was a real prize... it lasted twice as long as the Vega. Of course nothing compares to my 1970 Mercedes 220 Diesel. That old stinkpot died in my driveway in 1995 with 487,000 miles on the odometer.
I once worked out of a 3 x 6 foot windowless "office" that I had to share with an IBM Series 1 computer. My terminal, an LA120 printer/terminal, was also the company printer. I had to code, change paper, run reports, checks, invoices, etc then change paper and code some more. The IBM Series 1 could work in a 120 degree windowless environment for ever. I crashed after 3 months.
I once walked I into a bar that was populated by DEC marketing types. I walked up to a woman sitting alone at the bar and asked her what she did. She replied that she "did programmatic development that was educative." DEC deconstructed soon after.
Over a hundred years ago in the US we collectively decided that to be able to compete in the technological world our children needed 12 years of public education. One hundred years later and we still only grudgingly offer 12 years of public education. I believe that we to compete in today's world need to up that ante to at least 16 years of publicly funded education.
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The irony is that the Atlas V uses Russian made engines that are considered cheaper and more reliable than the American engines they replace. The Atlas VI will use Chinese made clones of the Russian engines and the Atlas VII is slated to use an Indian manufactured system. Americans will still control the commissary. Want fries with that satellite?
That's a no-brainer. People with brains would never vote for Bush and he knows it. Why would he embarrass himself?
SG
I went to my daughters Latin class on parents night. The teacher remarked how lucky the students were because they had a new edition of the Latin textbook. I asked him why they needed a new edition of a Latin textbook. He gave me a condecending look. The irony was lost on him.
and so it goes.
Is this one of those 200 patents that Linux violates? I wonder how dumb the other 199 are.
Sudo has neen around for over 20 years. Just take a look at its history: http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/history.html
I think the folks at Microsoft should learn Linux and Unix. They might get some ideas and stop reinventing the wheel.
I've always thought the real value of OSS was simply the price. I can't afford the cost of most non-OSS products. With Microsoft's new licensing policies I doubt that I will be able to afford the next generation of anything. I won't have anything beyond Windows XP and Office 2000 will be my last office edition.
The tradeoff is that I am an expert in my own arcane little patch of code and if I give it up to the collective good we all benefit. You can use my code if I can use yours. Without OSS there would be no Internet and most of us wouldn't have jobs in this industry.
I fell asleep after the 4th or 5th diagram. Any anti -spam protocol has to be simple enough so that coders can code it without ... oh shiney.
There is a somewhere.com with 4, count em, 4 MX addresses. I wonder how many million e-mails have been sent to somewhere.com? Would the return addresses be mostly spam or legit? Would the resulting database have any value? It might be interesting from a putely backscatter point of view. SG
# units
2083 units, 71 prefixes, 32 nonlinear units
You have: meter
You want: inches
* 39.370079
/ 0.0254
Duh!
Success has many fathers and Linus is their progeny.
Creating a network of caches is easy. Akamai is really nothing more than lots of Red Hat Linux systems running squid. - The secret is in directing a user to a topologically nearby server.
... most of them patented. Do we have a clue how freecache does this?
Without this secret sauce no bandwidth is saved. There are a lot of ways to perform this magic
That's only 40 Meg! 10,000 pages x 500 words per page x 8 characters per word (generous). My palm Pilot with a memory stick does a lot more and costs the same.
Does anyone remember when Ken Olsen called Unix snake oil? About 6 months later that Ken Olsen was history and 10 years later so was DEC.
Just cause Forrester says something doesn't make it so.
isn't it called MS Windows?
Now I know why my Windows system always crash at wierd moments - It's all that polka music I downloaded.
I'm still not sure why people gave up on Fortran.
Why hasn't there been a joke about dangeling chads here?
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If I had a sig I wouldn't share it with you.
Yah this is great news for everyone unless you read the fine print. The hardware colo has been outsourced to The University of Rhode Island and all system administrator has been outsourced to India.
After you're "hired" you'll be "outsourced" to places you wouldn't want to go as a tourist.
The whole world is getting radio active. Where is my tin foil hat now that I need it?
Selling infected IP addresses may be immoral but what is illegal about it?
I run snort on a bunch of systems and have some very large lists of infected IP addresses. I suspect many others do too. Every time snort burps up a new IP address I inform the ISP that "owns" the IP address. The reality is that no one cares. I have been "hit" by 68.162.91.238 over 20 times in the last month by different viruses.
These lists are easy to come by and even easier to generate. If someone is dumb enough to pay good money for a list of infected computers - let me know. I wonder what the going rate is.
If these machines get abused enough maybe, just maybe they'll get fixed.
My daughter took Latin in High School.
At a parent/teacher night I went to the Latin class to find out how my she was doing. The teacher was very enthusiastic about the year's progress and remarked on how lucky the students were to have a new edition of the Latin textbook.
The room fell deathly silent.
I put up my hand and asked, "Why would anyone need a new edition of a Latin textbook?"
"Progress," he screamed. The irony apparently lost.
3 years? A 1970 Vega was the first car I ever had. I got it for $150. It had 20,000 miles om it more or less, the speedometer was broken.
... it lasted twice as long as the Vega. Of course nothing compares to my 1970 Mercedes 220 Diesel. That old stinkpot died in my driveway in 1995 with 487,000 miles on the odometer.
It had a brand new engine because the first one, the all aluminium block one, melted.
Replacing the windshield would have been easy since all the metal around the windshield had completely rotted away before I got it. All anyone had would have had to do was get the windshield washers out of the way.
I drive that car for 2 more years until it died in front of a chevy dealer. He gave me $150 bucks in
a trade-in on my brand new 1974 Chevy Chevette.
Now that car was a real prize
I once worked out of a 3 x 6 foot windowless "office" that I had to share with an IBM Series 1 computer. My terminal, an LA120 printer/terminal, was also the company printer. I had to code, change paper, run reports, checks, invoices, etc then change paper and code some more. The IBM Series 1 could work in a 120 degree windowless environment for ever. I crashed after 3 months.
I once walked I into a bar that was populated by DEC marketing types. I walked up to a woman sitting alone at the bar and asked her what she did. She replied that she "did programmatic development that was educative." DEC deconstructed soon after.
Over a hundred years ago in the US we collectively decided that to be able to compete in the technological world our children needed 12 years of public education. One hundred years later and we still only grudgingly offer 12 years of public education. I believe that we to compete in today's world need to up that ante to at least 16 years of publicly funded education.