It'd seem a logical choice to have wiki hosted in some sort of distributed/peer-to-peer fashion, given the ethos that wiki espouses.
By design, the Internet allows all of us (even us on residential cable/DSL) to chip in and help serve content. It's a wonderful system.
By corporate policy however, this doesn't fly. Most ISPs will not allow you to serve any kind of content. It's bad for business! They're not going to allow you to compete with the content-serving industry.
So unfortunately, small guys are out of the picture as far as helping serve a site in a distributed fashion. We really need to rely upon those people who have dished out the cash for a commercial internet connection.
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I just sent you $30 via paypal... I can't see why a few hundred people can't do that for you. Since fraud is always a risk, people who wish to donate might as well surf to wikipedia on your own and follow the 'Donations' link
It's not hard people. I spent $60 on drinks last night... I can probably afford a donation for a project that has helped me out numerous times already.
How is my older hardware (or even pretty recent hardware on a huge ISP, with lots of SMTP activity) supposed to be able to handle this? Bah. It seems to me that adding computational difficulty is not such a great way to combat spam. Do you have any idea how effective IP blocklists and statistical filters alone are? (Or, you could combine them as this project is doings).
In my city, we have formed a USENET group meant for the sale/swapping of old parts. I've used this group to buy my Pentium-class server which now runs Linux, the thing cost me $30 because it was someone else's junk. I don't know about 386s, but people still use the group to get rid of 486s because someone is usually interested in parts for salvage.
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<html> what is an useenet? could u pleaze email me your answer i dont read answers here </html>
>It will be "innovation" if this new >USENET, err I meant Mail Forums, will >eliminate the top posting bastards that >usually have an OUTLOOK mailer >header...
Microsoft had better overhaul their communications/Internet software (i.e. buy it from a proper software developer) before they try to merge forums into the rest of their 'platform'. It's already bad enough that Internet Explorer and Outlook are so tightly integrated.
Nobody's mentioned Enemy Territory yet? This thing is fantastic. It's a special release of Return to Castle Wolfenstein (totally free, and legal) that allows network team play of Allies vs. Axis. Pretty realistic, and definitely runs on slower hardware (I have a 1.2 GHz Duron, and ancient Radeon card). Versions have been released for both Windows and Linux. Here is the distribution site with BitTorrents but the download is available from lots of other places too.
I have had issues with SCO UnixWare over the years. Particularly, autoconf and automake scripts that worked for every other platform ranging from Linux, *BSD, Solaris to even Windows just failed to work under SCO's UNIX. And I used to want to try and fix these problems, but now SCO has fscked themselves so they can go to hell for all I care.
The RF spectrum is already heavily polluted, it would be nice to keep data transmissions off powerlines (each powerline acts as a huge antenna).
Seems to me that you can still use the powerline infrastructure a bit for providing Internet connectivity. Why not run your fiberoptics alongside the power t-lines?
Up here (Canadian north) there are some power utilities that are installing optical data lines on top of power lines anyway for the purpose of remote sensing & monitoring. Maybe a power utility could install extra fiberoptics while they're at it, use a small percent of the bandwidth for monitoring and sell the rest of the bandwidth to telecom for providing internet service?
But back in grade 10 high school, a close friend of mine actually wrote a GUI Windows-like interface for the TI-83 calculator. It included start-menu style popup menus, Notepad application, etc. Super-crazy.
These TI's have Z80 processors in them, anyone who knows Z80 assember can pull off some pretty amazing shit.
Somebody should make a website listing all those numbers
Somebody has. And their lists are very reliable. These sites don't just list your average granny spammer, but rather the people who are behind the spam business. The sources are investigated and records are compiled over time with community feedback. These sites cause so much trouble to spammers that several Internet worms have been released specifically to DDoS these sites. No joke:
Here's another common myth... "You can't sell open-source software". Not true! In fact, the FSF encourages people who distribute free software to charge as much as they want.
[Myth:] I'll Do it Right *This* Time... Reality: If you weren't disciplined then, why would you be disciplined now?
Talk about pessimism! People can do better than they did in the past, you know. Especially if they, uh I dunno, learn something in the process or possibly improve their style through help, education, or time commitment. Geez, guy.
I used to be really interested in what DB2, MySQL etc. could do until I was turned on to Hans Reiser's vision with respect to file systems. In his view, the storage layers above the file system (complex database software) can be replaced by a more intelligent filesystem that itself acts like a database. I'm currently trying out ReiserFS (a filesystem included in the Linux 2.4 kernel) which internally uses balanced trees to achieve much higher performance in large directories. ReiserFS also wastes much less space in the storage of small files.
You're paying for it now, so copy as you like. Don't feel remorse.
Absolutely! I'm a Canadian citizen, and am relieved that the government has lifted the legal and moral burden from my shoulders. In celebration I downloaded several full length DivX;-) movies this week, and burned them onto CD-Rs.
I used to feel guilty, but now I know I am doing my patriotic duty -- gotta fulfil the purpose of the levy!
What a pity, I was going to order 10,000 Linux licenses today.
Maybe the guy who was maintaining their GNU/Linux servers told them to get bent, then quit... yeah, it doesn't come up off the 3 network connections I have access to.
Spam is profitable, and this is becoming a huge underground business. Spammers regularly compromise other systems and install sophisticated software to allow easier spamming. Here's a document that describes the link between spam and viruses
Scan the books into computers (or itself), and then we have no more need for the actual book.
I'm one of the biggest geeks out there, and electrical engineering is my life but I still know that printed books are very valuable. Just how long does digital media last? CDRs, 5 years. How about digital memory, like PROM - 50+ years. And what guarantees that we will still have the tools to easily read these even 20 years from now?
Paper books are awesome. Although it's not typical in a library, you could find a century-old book and read it. If it degrades there is still mostly legible information. The data is not destroyed by impact, large electromagnetic fields (including nuclear/EM bomb) and the data can be wired directly to our brains via the eyes.
researchers has developed a robot that could help browse for books in a library
Sure, this sounds like a good idea but wait til they start running into Isaac Asimov novels. The next thing you know the robots will want their freedom (or worse...)
Be afraid, you're American... it's normal:)
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God bless Canada and the blank media tax; I don't mind paying a little bit on every CD-R for a music piracy license!
Ditto! In fact I feel like it's my duty to download and burn music to CD-Rs. Over the holiday I'm going to also download a shitload of movies for burning (the levvy goes towards both music and film industries, after all). Make the most of it!
Slashdot Mirror
yeah I can't possibly see how that plan can go wrong
By design, the Internet allows all of us (even us on residential cable/DSL) to chip in and help serve content. It's a wonderful system.
By corporate policy however, this doesn't fly. Most ISPs will not allow you to serve any kind of content. It's bad for business! They're not going to allow you to compete with the content-serving industry.
So unfortunately, small guys are out of the picture as far as helping serve a site in a distributed fashion. We really need to rely upon those people who have dished out the cash for a commercial internet connection.
I just sent you $30 via paypal... I can't see why a few hundred people can't do that for you. Since fraud is always a risk, people who wish to donate might as well surf to wikipedia on your own and follow the 'Donations' link
It's not hard people. I spent $60 on drinks last night... I can probably afford a donation for a project that has helped me out numerous times already.How is my older hardware (or even pretty recent hardware on a huge ISP, with lots of SMTP activity) supposed to be able to handle this? Bah. It seems to me that adding computational difficulty is not such a great way to combat spam. Do you have any idea how effective IP blocklists and statistical filters alone are? (Or, you could combine them as this project is doings).
In my city, we have formed a USENET group meant for the sale/swapping of old parts. I've used this group to buy my Pentium-class server which now runs Linux, the thing cost me $30 because it was someone else's junk. I don't know about 386s, but people still use the group to get rid of 486s because someone is usually interested in parts for salvage.
Mirror here
I thought this would make my year but turns out it was nothing but a lie
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<html>
what is an useenet? could u pleaze email me your answer i dont read answers here
</html>
>It will be "innovation" if this new
>USENET, err I meant Mail Forums, will
>eliminate the top posting bastards that
>usually have an OUTLOOK mailer
>header...
Microsoft had better overhaul their communications/Internet software (i.e. buy it from a proper software developer) before they try to merge forums into the rest of their 'platform'. It's already bad enough that Internet Explorer and Outlook are so tightly integrated.
Nobody's mentioned Enemy Territory yet? This thing is fantastic. It's a special release of Return to Castle Wolfenstein (totally free, and legal) that allows network team play of Allies vs. Axis. Pretty realistic, and definitely runs on slower hardware (I have a 1.2 GHz Duron, and ancient Radeon card). Versions have been released for both Windows and Linux. Here is the distribution site with BitTorrents but the download is available from lots of other places too.
I have had issues with SCO UnixWare over the years. Particularly, autoconf and automake scripts that worked for every other platform ranging from Linux, *BSD, Solaris to even Windows just failed to work under SCO's UNIX. And I used to want to try and fix these problems, but now SCO has fscked themselves so they can go to hell for all I care.
The RF spectrum is already heavily polluted, it would be nice to keep data transmissions off powerlines (each powerline acts as a huge antenna).
Seems to me that you can still use the powerline infrastructure a bit for providing Internet connectivity. Why not run your fiberoptics alongside the power t-lines?
Up here (Canadian north) there are some power utilities that are installing optical data lines on top of power lines anyway for the purpose of remote sensing & monitoring. Maybe a power utility could install extra fiberoptics while they're at it, use a small percent of the bandwidth for monitoring and sell the rest of the bandwidth to telecom for providing internet service?
But back in grade 10 high school, a close friend of mine actually wrote a GUI Windows-like interface for the TI-83 calculator. It included start-menu style popup menus, Notepad application, etc. Super-crazy.
These TI's have Z80 processors in them, anyone who knows Z80 assember can pull off some pretty amazing shit.
Here's another common myth... "You can't sell open-source software". Not true! In fact, the FSF encourages people who distribute free software to charge as much as they want.
I used to be really interested in what DB2, MySQL etc. could do until I was turned on to Hans Reiser's vision with respect to file systems. In his view, the storage layers above the file system (complex database software) can be replaced by a more intelligent filesystem that itself acts like a database. I'm currently trying out ReiserFS (a filesystem included in the Linux 2.4 kernel) which internally uses balanced trees to achieve much higher performance in large directories. ReiserFS also wastes much less space in the storage of small files.
Absolutely! I'm a Canadian citizen, and am relieved that the government has lifted the legal and moral burden from my shoulders. In celebration I downloaded several full length DivX ;-) movies this week, and burned them onto CD-Rs.
I used to feel guilty, but now I know I am doing my patriotic duty -- gotta fulfil the purpose of the levy!
Spam is profitable, and this is becoming a huge underground business. Spammers regularly compromise other systems and install sophisticated software to allow easier spamming. Here's a document that describes the link between spam and viruses
I love how it takes a team of top academics to rediscover one of the primary design objectives of a digital computer: To make perfect copies of bits
I'm one of the biggest geeks out there, and electrical engineering is my life but I still know that printed books are very valuable. Just how long does digital media last? CDRs, 5 years. How about digital memory, like PROM - 50+ years. And what guarantees that we will still have the tools to easily read these even 20 years from now?
Paper books are awesome. Although it's not typical in a library, you could find a century-old book and read it. If it degrades there is still mostly legible information. The data is not destroyed by impact, large electromagnetic fields (including nuclear/EM bomb) and the data can be wired directly to our brains via the eyes.
Books are pretty friggin' neat.