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Please, no flames right now, I'm too drunk to reply sanely....so here goes: 2 fucking minutes? On a new machine? I'm going to hazard a guess and say that since your reading slashdot your running linux..(please correct me if wrong), but if you are, it isn't the machines fault. If you hate boot time, run XP. Boots in seconds. That said, you'll know that time exactly, because you'll be booting it more often than a linux box. Thankfully Bill figured out that to make the reboots less painful, they must take MUCH less time. OK, drunken rant over.
Two little geeks, 1 big linebacker? Please. You might want to send a few more geeks. That said, myself am a geek, but am not very small. (6' 194 lbs to be exact)
Holy christ, did I just put a personal up on/. ?
The only problem with this is that worms have a very nasty habit of being...well...wormlike. The very nature of a true worm would cause that worm to find its way out into the wild, someway, somehow (roving laptops come to mind). That said, I like the idea. Maybe we just need custom worms that will only infect our own address spaces. Again though, if your address space is one of the private spaces, there's a chance a roving laptop could spread it to another private ip space.
OK, bad form on me for replying to my own post, but I just thought of another example that helps prove my point that sharing is legal, but downloading is not, and it goes back to an already established system...the library again.
Go to almost any public library, and grab a book. Take that book over to the photocopier and read the notice typically found on the copier. It says something to the effect of "copying of copyrighted works without authorization is illegal"...., essentially, the honus is on the person checking out the work, not the library.
So....the think of the library as P2P host with lots of copyrighted works and any given downloader as that person using the photocopier. To me, that makes the downloader the copyright infringer...and that's the way it has been for a long time.
Well, you'd better define distribute first, and perhaps I had better define share.
Yes, we know that most, if not all P2P sharing programs make copies of files, and don't actually swap, but if they actually did swap song for song (or do a timed use kind of thing), then sharing the files on the internet is not illegal. It is covered under fair use and is essentially an electronic library. Certain sites like netlibrary already do this. They purchase x copies of a book, and only so many people can check them out electronically. So I say, P2P posting is not illegal, but the downloader who makes a copy of the song is violating copyright.
Most people know that SCO is Santa Cruz Operation, but how do you say SCO? I ask, because Perens writes
"An SCO presentation shown in Las Vegas"...
implying that he just says the letters, saying it like ess-see-ohh, but I've always said (as well as all of my colleagues) it as a word, sounding like "skoh". Stupid post, and way offtopic, but I'd be interested in the replies!
Christ...I think you forgot your sense of humor somewhere....
He was just trying to make light of the fact that traditionally, AMD CPUs (at least of the x86 variety since the K6) have generated very large amounts of heat. Don't believe me...go ahead, check their specs..
He wasn't trolling, just being funny, but apparently you missed that.
Troll, huh...so who's posting AC? And yeah, encryption is exactly what I'm thinking...I'm sure you heard of things like ipsec or any kind of encrypted vpn, right? RemotePC and VNC suck over any dial-up...rdp and metaframe work much better, especially if you know how to configure them...I'm sure you don't. Now why don't you go back into your corner and jerk off to your ascii porn, mmmkay?
Almost everything that you can do in the gui with windows you can do from the command line. The difference here is that since most people ONLY use the gui for administration, they don't know how to do it from the command line. Windows does have a built in telnet server (and you can secure telnet, contrary to popular belief) for command line access. If you don't like that, install an ssh server. I believe there are free windows ssh servers (cygwin comes to mind for some reason).
Also, FWIW, I use standard terminal services over my cell phone connection (14.4 connection), and it's just fine. Citrix metaframe works even better at 14.4.
In a somewhat similar vein, why not simply sue DTV for the very same reason they're suing you? They've got to have readers/programmers as well, right? Well, surely they MUST be using them to steal programming! Jesus Christ...this country has gone to hell.
They still are. The USA doesn't really have digital mobile phones yet. Most of the phones only work in a really small area without incurring a roaming charge, and the digital phones they have devour batteries and have a short range.
Pure and utter bullshit. And trust me, believe me, I know bullshit when I hear it, probably because I live in the middle of bumfuck upstate NY. We have more cows than people, and that's no bullshit either. And you know what, my *digital* cell phone that I've had for years almost never roams, and is almost always in digital mode. Oh yeah, and my old nokia 5165 had a battery that would last for 5 days, easily. So don't spread anymore of that bullshit, OK?
Everyone remembers win ce, but almost everyone forgets nt embedded (perhaps rightly so). NT embedded was very similar to its namesake in terms of codebase. Just an FYI.
Yeah, but wouldn't you then call trains interlinked chains of large cars? Granted, most of them are electic, but that just shifts the pollution burden somewhere else.
Oh, and yes, I know all about inadequate bus service. I live in an area where there are more cows than people! (no joke!)
Wait, you just said that you don't have mass transit, but then you said you take the bus to work? Which one is it?
And though I have not been to every city in the US, I'd think at least 99% of them have bus service. Maybe no subway, no el, or other train, but at least bus.
Right, they do. But these people already have mass transit. (In fact, I think that owning a car while living in a large city is rather ridiculous) I was just stating that taking away the automobile (as suggested in the grandparent post) wouldn't work for rural areas.
I think you also need to take into account large suburban areas, otherwise known as the land of yank-tanks and land-yachts. Most of these areas, while close to major urban centers, also do not have acceptable mass transit systems. Thus, these people use automobiles.
Believe it or not, there are still places in the US where you can drive for many, many miles without seeing another person, house / car / farm animal, etc... It wouldn't be economically feasible to run rails or buses out to these areas for the 1 passenger that you might get on a busy night. Besides that, even if you did have mass transit service to these areas, you couldn't run the things often enough to accomodate the schedules of the people that would utilize the service. The automobile shines in this area. It runs on my schedule, and it's always there.
I'm 95% positive that the dec alpha code was left in Win2k while it was still in the beta stages. I'm too lazy to google for it, but I'm pretty sure it was there. I know it never made it to Win2k release, but like I said, I'm pretty sure it was there in beta. Could be wrong though.
You have a very good point. It can be difficult to understand what is going on using things like group policy. I fully agree that writing a script that simply logs into the machine and runs the executable is much more.....understandable. However, once you do learn and understand group policy, it becomes very easy to administer and use it to your benefit.
That said, yes, I know very well what is going on when I use group policy. ( I do it on a daily basis) Troubleshooting failed group policy can be major a pain in the ass, but, like anything, once you've done it a few times, you get better at it. Typically I wouldn't monitor traffic flow, although that would give you a good idea if it was actually downloading the software. There are some tools to troubleshoot GP, gpresult being the first one I use. It's not perfect, but I do trust it.
Also, a windows sysadmin could also just write a script to install the pack, you just wouldn't use ssh to log in to the machine, you would use something like sysinternal's psexec.
So, to sum up...yes, I know what it does and I trust it, but that doesn't mean you couldn't do it similar to your method on windows box.
NT wasn't even originally developed for x86. It was developed for an intel processor that I can't remember the name of. When that processor failed to materialize, NT was ported to x86. NT also ran on PPC and Alpha machines as well. Hell, it was that way until late in the Win2K beta days when MS pulled support for the other architectures.
Granted, it never ran on anywhere near the number of architectures that linux / BSD has, but that's not because it isn't portable, just because MS doesn't really need it to right now.
..with Active Directory's group policy. Just create a GPO, set software installation to assign and point it at update.msi (the extracted flavor of win2ksp4.exe). Link the GPO at (site | domain | OU, take your pick) and go away. It'll get installed.
If so, I'd like the login sonicburst, password....:) hey, gotta try, right?
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150 Mbit/s DSL.
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You don't necessarily need a dslam. I know there are a few dsl modem models (ADC megabit modems come to mind) that can run back-to-back, so you just need one for each end.
Also, both Cisco and SMC and others I'm sure make a product called extended ethernet which is designed for just this scenario. Granted, it IS essentially a dslam, it just looks more like an ethernet switch, but you patch it and a filter/splitter into the phone lines. Also, they don't run at 150 mbit, but with this chip, they could.
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Please, no flames right now, I'm too drunk to reply sanely....so here goes: 2 fucking minutes? On a new machine? I'm going to hazard a guess and say that since your reading slashdot your running linux..(please correct me if wrong), but if you are, it isn't the machines fault. If you hate boot time, run XP. Boots in seconds. That said, you'll know that time exactly, because you'll be booting it more often than a linux box. Thankfully Bill figured out that to make the reboots less painful, they must take MUCH less time. OK, drunken rant over.
Two little geeks, 1 big linebacker? Please. You might want to send a few more geeks. That said, myself am a geek, but am not very small. (6' 194 lbs to be exact) Holy christ, did I just put a personal up on /. ?
The only problem with this is that worms have a very nasty habit of being...well...wormlike. The very nature of a true worm would cause that worm to find its way out into the wild, someway, somehow (roving laptops come to mind). That said, I like the idea. Maybe we just need custom worms that will only infect our own address spaces. Again though, if your address space is one of the private spaces, there's a chance a roving laptop could spread it to another private ip space.
OK, bad form on me for replying to my own post, but I just thought of another example that helps prove my point that sharing is legal, but downloading is not, and it goes back to an already established system...the library again.
Go to almost any public library, and grab a book. Take that book over to the photocopier and read the notice typically found on the copier. It says something to the effect of "copying of copyrighted works without authorization is illegal"...., essentially, the honus is on the person checking out the work, not the library.
So....the think of the library as P2P host with lots of copyrighted works and any given downloader as that person using the photocopier. To me, that makes the downloader the copyright infringer...and that's the way it has been for a long time.
Well, you'd better define distribute first, and perhaps I had better define share. Yes, we know that most, if not all P2P sharing programs make copies of files, and don't actually swap, but if they actually did swap song for song (or do a timed use kind of thing), then sharing the files on the internet is not illegal. It is covered under fair use and is essentially an electronic library. Certain sites like netlibrary already do this. They purchase x copies of a book, and only so many people can check them out electronically. So I say, P2P posting is not illegal, but the downloader who makes a copy of the song is violating copyright.
P2P sharing of copyrighted works is NOT illegal. Downloading without authorization IS illegal. Think about the difference.
LOL..i assume you mean "SCrOTUM"!
Most people know that SCO is Santa Cruz Operation, but how do you say SCO? I ask, because Perens writes
"An SCO presentation shown in Las Vegas"...
implying that he just says the letters, saying it like ess-see-ohh, but I've always said (as well as all of my colleagues) it as a word, sounding like "skoh". Stupid post, and way offtopic, but I'd be interested in the replies!
Christ...I think you forgot your sense of humor somewhere....
He was just trying to make light of the fact that traditionally, AMD CPUs (at least of the x86 variety since the K6) have generated very large amounts of heat. Don't believe me...go ahead, check their specs..
He wasn't trolling, just being funny, but apparently you missed that.
Troll, huh...so who's posting AC? And yeah, encryption is exactly what I'm thinking...I'm sure you heard of things like ipsec or any kind of encrypted vpn, right? RemotePC and VNC suck over any dial-up...rdp and metaframe work much better, especially if you know how to configure them...I'm sure you don't. Now why don't you go back into your corner and jerk off to your ascii porn, mmmkay?
Almost everything that you can do in the gui with windows you can do from the command line. The difference here is that since most people ONLY use the gui for administration, they don't know how to do it from the command line. Windows does have a built in telnet server (and you can secure telnet, contrary to popular belief) for command line access. If you don't like that, install an ssh server. I believe there are free windows ssh servers (cygwin comes to mind for some reason). Also, FWIW, I use standard terminal services over my cell phone connection (14.4 connection), and it's just fine. Citrix metaframe works even better at 14.4.
In a somewhat similar vein, why not simply sue DTV for the very same reason they're suing you? They've got to have readers/programmers as well, right? Well, surely they MUST be using them to steal programming! Jesus Christ...this country has gone to hell.
They still are. The USA doesn't really have digital mobile phones yet. Most of the phones only work in a really small area without incurring a roaming charge, and the digital phones they have devour batteries and have a short range.
Pure and utter bullshit. And trust me, believe me, I know bullshit when I hear it, probably because I live in the middle of bumfuck upstate NY. We have more cows than people, and that's no bullshit either. And you know what, my *digital* cell phone that I've had for years almost never roams, and is almost always in digital mode. Oh yeah, and my old nokia 5165 had a battery that would last for 5 days, easily. So don't spread anymore of that bullshit, OK?
Everyone remembers win ce, but almost everyone forgets nt embedded (perhaps rightly so). NT embedded was very similar to its namesake in terms of codebase. Just an FYI.
Yeah, but wouldn't you then call trains interlinked chains of large cars? Granted, most of them are electic, but that just shifts the pollution burden somewhere else. Oh, and yes, I know all about inadequate bus service. I live in an area where there are more cows than people! (no joke!)
Wait, you just said that you don't have mass transit, but then you said you take the bus to work? Which one is it?
And though I have not been to every city in the US, I'd think at least 99% of them have bus service. Maybe no subway, no el, or other train, but at least bus.
Right, they do. But these people already have mass transit. (In fact, I think that owning a car while living in a large city is rather ridiculous) I was just stating that taking away the automobile (as suggested in the grandparent post) wouldn't work for rural areas.
I think you also need to take into account large suburban areas, otherwise known as the land of yank-tanks and land-yachts. Most of these areas, while close to major urban centers, also do not have acceptable mass transit systems. Thus, these people use automobiles.
You obviously don't live in a rural area.
Believe it or not, there are still places in the US where you can drive for many, many miles without seeing another person, house / car / farm animal, etc... It wouldn't be economically feasible to run rails or buses out to these areas for the 1 passenger that you might get on a busy night. Besides that, even if you did have mass transit service to these areas, you couldn't run the things often enough to accomodate the schedules of the people that would utilize the service. The automobile shines in this area. It runs on my schedule, and it's always there.
I'm 95% positive that the dec alpha code was left in Win2k while it was still in the beta stages. I'm too lazy to google for it, but I'm pretty sure it was there. I know it never made it to Win2k release, but like I said, I'm pretty sure it was there in beta. Could be wrong though.
You have a very good point. It can be difficult to understand what is going on using things like group policy. I fully agree that writing a script that simply logs into the machine and runs the executable is much more.....understandable. However, once you do learn and understand group policy, it becomes very easy to administer and use it to your benefit.
That said, yes, I know very well what is going on when I use group policy. ( I do it on a daily basis) Troubleshooting failed group policy can be major a pain in the ass, but, like anything, once you've done it a few times, you get better at it. Typically I wouldn't monitor traffic flow, although that would give you a good idea if it was actually downloading the software. There are some tools to troubleshoot GP, gpresult being the first one I use. It's not perfect, but I do trust it.
Also, a windows sysadmin could also just write a script to install the pack, you just wouldn't use ssh to log in to the machine, you would use something like sysinternal's psexec. So, to sum up...yes, I know what it does and I trust it, but that doesn't mean you couldn't do it similar to your method on windows box.
NT wasn't even originally developed for x86. It was developed for an intel processor that I can't remember the name of. When that processor failed to materialize, NT was ported to x86. NT also ran on PPC and Alpha machines as well. Hell, it was that way until late in the Win2K beta days when MS pulled support for the other architectures. Granted, it never ran on anywhere near the number of architectures that linux / BSD has, but that's not because it isn't portable, just because MS doesn't really need it to right now.
look for a utility called windiff. I think it's actually part of the resource kit, but I can't remember exactly.
..with Active Directory's group policy. Just create a GPO, set software installation to assign and point it at update.msi (the extracted flavor of win2ksp4.exe). Link the GPO at (site | domain | OU, take your pick) and go away. It'll get installed.
If so, I'd like the login sonicburst, password.... :) hey, gotta try, right?
You don't necessarily need a dslam. I know there are a few dsl modem models (ADC megabit modems come to mind) that can run back-to-back, so you just need one for each end.
Also, both Cisco and SMC and others I'm sure make a product called extended ethernet which is designed for just this scenario. Granted, it IS essentially a dslam, it just looks more like an ethernet switch, but you patch it and a filter/splitter into the phone lines. Also, they don't run at 150 mbit, but with this chip, they could.