Eh nasa doesn't protect you from near earth objects. By their own account they don't know that much about potential collisions. The guys who might be able to help would be the air force.. not nasa..
Find a friend with a linux box on a high speed connetion who don't mind you eating his bandwidth or have some to spare and VPN there and out to the net for your P2P needs..
I think most of us know the feeling cramming the night before the exam. When alot is at stake it's suddently very easy to concentrate as long as you don't freak out.
This is great news really. With the supercomputers built for weapons research naturally people doing "normal" research will have problems getting access.
After all they don't want just anyone poking around and finding things they shouldn't.
But with non weapons research systems I can see academics from all over the world getting easier access and maybe something interesting can happen.
No longer The Star-Spangled Banner but "Start Me Up" followed by "Ray of Light" and people floating around. and maybe with the intel sound at the end because of marketing agreements....
Personally for 5 bucks a month i much rather support redhat networks.
Why? Cause mandrake update sucks! No centralized ftp plus unrealiable mirror updates. I have to wait ages for the mirrors to get those much needed security updates.Then i have to watch mandrake update tells me whoops although we think you didn't have this rpm you turn out to have it or whoops the mirror's version is corrupted. Leaving me wondering if i needed the patch or if i have it or what. Good thing i am behind a firewall.
Sure i could have just downloaded them manually but seriously with up2date is so much easier to use in redhat i am just annonyed.
Plus there is no text version of mandrake update. How do you expect to run anything but a desktop off it.
Don't get me wrong I used mandrake on my desktop and I like it fine. But i'll never trust it for anything serious.
Not really. Communist believes from each his/her best and to each their needs.
Open Source is sort of do for others as been done for you.
There are differences between them. The former communist states all attemped state control of everything so that everyone gets a equal share. While opensources means you control your own stuff only you have to let others borrow off you.
I rather think microsoft's notion is more communist really. They know best so they control because you silly weak minded fools can't be trusted to do what's best for everyone.
I don't see this as being valid. First off to pirate their game all u need is a friend's copy and their cd key. The ability of blizzard to keep their games from being pirated is moot. You can copy diablo2 or warcraft or any of their games for single player mode or lan game no problems.
When you go on bnet is the cd key validated and only one key can be used at a time. This involve some sort of server on bnet most likely a massive machine.
The thing is i don't see why bnet can't work with the developers of bnetd to add key verification to bnetd. It doens't have to mean that their algorithm is exposed. All the bnetd server does is sent off a message to bnet and get a respond. The request could easily be public key signed so only the bnet server can understand it.
Now sure that doens't solve the problem of people producing versions of bnet that'll by pass this ssytem. But then that's not the problem of the bnetd people right? They are not commiting the crime. So in this way you can get better ping for your slow connections and still make sure people are using real copies ot play online.
I know it does have possibilities of being quitte a logistical nightmare. But i think blizzard should look into this before pulling out the lawyers.
Quite clearly with so many 1 G cpus it is a rather diapppointing performer. Concidering IBM built two other clusters using 256 1 G cpus and it's about a 66 places higher putting out 66 GFlops more.
That's doesn't make the windows cluster look too hot. Maybe it's cause dell's not used to doing this kind of work. Or maybe the GUI does end up sucking quite a bit of resource.
Well from my point of view.. So.. you can blow your enemies to pieces, put bits of lead at mach speed through their bodies and hack them to death with your combat knife but laser would be too inhumane?
First off all your spending habit is normally kept in a database somewhere by your credit card company. How else can they bill you? What's the difference between that and this? Are you going to send your email over the net that's sensitive unencrypted?
Further more as many have pointed out without success this sounds just like a transparent proxy. Which is a perfectly valid network influstructure.
I could think of at least two distro that'll make better purchase for AOL then redhat.
Sure redhat is the biggest and it has alot of good things going for it. But if AOL buys RedHat redhat will bring alot of baggage in support contracts and their current focus on servers don't make them the best desktop distro.
I see buying Mandrake or what's left of corel's distro being a better choice. First off you already have a nicer interface then what redhat has. KDE still beats gnome when it comes to first time users.Also without so much business as redhat has distros like Mandrake could be easier to mold into what AOL wants and so on.
However dispite all this i still think AOL buying any linux distro instead of say investing and supporting our development is a bad idea.
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Eh nasa doesn't protect you from near earth objects. By their own account they don't know that much about potential collisions. The guys who might be able to help would be the air force.. not nasa..
Cause they are busy fighting terror else where in the world. :P
Find a friend with a linux box on a high speed connetion who don't mind you eating his bandwidth or have some to spare and VPN there and out to the net for your P2P needs..
That an interesting point of view.
I think most of us know the feeling cramming the night before the exam. When alot is at stake it's suddently very easy to concentrate as long as you don't freak out.
This is great news really. With the supercomputers built for weapons research naturally people doing "normal" research will have problems getting access.
After all they don't want just anyone poking around and finding things they shouldn't.
But with non weapons research systems I can see academics from all over the world getting easier access and maybe something interesting can happen.
No longer The Star-Spangled Banner but "Start Me Up" followed by "Ray of Light" and people floating around. and maybe with the intel sound at the end because of marketing agreements....
sounds like fun.
Google cache sites anyhow. They have tons of bandwidth.
I don't think it's too much trouble for them to cache pages we want quickly provided they get to post a few ads on it.
IBM is like hey buy our stuff. The most like give discounts which is better if you buy in bulk and in packages of items.
Micrsoft is "Hey we know you can't live without us" so you either do as we say and sign this or we'll jack your price up so you can't be profitable.
Quit a bit different eh?
Personally for 5 bucks a month i much rather support redhat networks.
Why? Cause mandrake update sucks! No centralized ftp plus unrealiable mirror updates. I have to wait ages for the mirrors to get those much needed security updates.Then i have to watch mandrake update tells me whoops although we think you didn't have this rpm you turn out to have it or whoops the mirror's version is corrupted. Leaving me wondering if i needed the patch or if i have it or what. Good thing i am behind a firewall.
Sure i could have just downloaded them manually but seriously with up2date is so much easier to use in redhat i am just annonyed.
Plus there is no text version of mandrake update. How do you expect to run anything but a desktop off it.
Don't get me wrong I used mandrake on my desktop and I like it fine. But i'll never trust it for anything serious.
Not really. Communist believes from each his/her best and to each their needs.
Open Source is sort of do for others as been done for you.
There are differences between them. The former communist states all attemped state control of everything so that everyone gets a equal share. While opensources means you control your own stuff only you have to let others borrow off you.
I rather think microsoft's notion is more communist really. They know best so they control because you silly weak minded fools can't be trusted to do what's best for everyone.
News for Nerds werid sex fetish.
I don't see this as being valid. First off to pirate their game all u need is a friend's copy and their cd key. The ability of blizzard to keep their games from being pirated is moot. You can copy diablo2 or warcraft or any of their games for single player mode or lan game no problems.
When you go on bnet is the cd key validated and only one key can be used at a time. This involve some sort of server on bnet most likely a massive machine.
The thing is i don't see why bnet can't work with the developers of bnetd to add key verification to bnetd. It doens't have to mean that their algorithm is exposed. All the bnetd server does is sent off a message to bnet and get a respond. The request could easily be public key signed so only the bnet server can understand it.
Now sure that doens't solve the problem of people producing versions of bnet that'll by pass this ssytem. But then that's not the problem of the bnetd people right? They are not commiting the crime. So in this way you can get better ping for your slow connections and still make sure people are using real copies ot play online.
I know it does have possibilities of being quitte a logistical nightmare. But i think blizzard should look into this before pulling out the lawyers.
I think people should mod this reply up.
Quite clearly with so many 1 G cpus it is a rather diapppointing performer. Concidering IBM built two other clusters using 256 1 G cpus and it's about a 66 places higher putting out 66 GFlops more.
That's doesn't make the windows cluster look too hot. Maybe it's cause dell's not used to doing this kind of work. Or maybe the GUI does end up sucking quite a bit of resource.
Well from my point of view.. So.. you can blow your enemies to pieces, put bits of lead at mach speed through their bodies and hack them to death with your combat knife but laser would be too inhumane?
This world doens't make alot of sense...
WTF? Why is everyone accussing comcast of spying?
First off all your spending habit is normally kept in a database somewhere by your credit card company. How else can they bill you? What's the difference between that and this? Are you going to send your email over the net that's sensitive unencrypted?
Further more as many have pointed out without success this sounds just like a transparent proxy. Which is a perfectly valid network influstructure.
What is it with slashdot and the slashmob?
I could think of at least two distro that'll make better purchase for AOL then redhat.
Sure redhat is the biggest and it has alot of good things going for it. But if AOL buys RedHat redhat will bring alot of baggage in support contracts and their current focus on servers don't make them the best desktop distro.
I see buying Mandrake or what's left of corel's distro being a better choice. First off you already have a nicer interface then what redhat has. KDE still beats gnome when it comes to first time users.Also without so much business as redhat has distros like Mandrake could be easier to mold into what AOL wants and so on.
However dispite all this i still think AOL buying any linux distro instead of say investing and supporting our development is a bad idea.
Isn't the TOC protocol sort of dying at this time?
I know i have had no ends of trouble with licq until i "upgraded" to the cvs version where they finially support the newer protocol.