The Internet won't die. Internet sites will die. AT&T's 3G network will certainly die.
For instance, on 9/11, CNN had to drop to a text only site. They survived that way when their graphical version died like a slashdotted site. But, on 9/11, sites unrelated to news were still readily available. Amazon was still up, TV Guide was up, Travelocity was up.
Yes, the bureaucrats at GAO are 1d10ts. They need to crawl back into their hole. This sounds like some document pre-written by AT&T.
The IT branch spun off by American Airlines, which outsourced operations to EDS (which was bought by HP). Through a few layers of gateways, Travelocity is in the same room (albeit huge) as the TPF system.
They can cluster up to seven of the fastest mainframes to run as a unit with TPF, and have set records for real-time transactions per minute. All this in Tulsa, OK.
Using green on black also helps to warp your brain to where you will think like old-style programmers.
I've used several: Blue on light blue (C64 style), gold on black, purple on a pale blue, and more.
You want some contrast, but not too much. And, chose colors that fit your personality. I remember someone who loved the "hot dog stand" colors in Windows 3.1!
The analogy goes much deeper. Prohibition also encouraged home-brew. The only federal agency at the time that had the manpower was the Internal Revenue Service, ergo the phrase Danged Revenuers, and charges of not paying federal tax were brought against moonshiners.
Now, even if you make your music at home and sell it yourself, an agency of the RIAA has the right to collect royalties on your behalf, empowered by the federal government. If that agency can't find you, they get to keep the money.
You can't find many moonshiners today. The media has changed. Marijuana is easier to grow.
I'm behind a Bluecoat Proxy at work, that I installed. I can browse internal sites, but nothing external. It asks for the proxy password, but says that it is passing it in cleartext. Then it bombs with the "Please tell Microsoft about this problem" error.
I think the cleartext is a hint, since I know the the Bluecoat requires hashed NTLM authentication. I hope Apple didn't blow it that bad on such a simple problem that even lynx can handle.
I took one college quarter of PDP-11 machine language, and then 2nd and 3rd quarters of IBM 370 mainframe machine language. The only machine coding I ever did for $$$ was on a Z-80, some subroutines on a TRS-80. Those were simpler days...
The entire purpose of the Internet is to share public information. No one should be restricted. Let the Goverments that be spider all they want. If they find something, what is different about you finding it with Google? For that matter, why don't they save money and come up with some good Google searches? I am a US Citizen, and would like to have a little less of my tax dollars wasted.
I do remember in the early 1960's that the Atomic Engergy Museum in Oak Ridge had a Californium 252 http://education.jlab.org/itselemental/ele098.html/ source in a tank of water, with a chute that would direct a quarter to the source, hold it for a few seconds, then let it roll on out. Cf252 is a stong neutron source, which activated the silver to a very short-lived isotope. We had fun running quarters through as fast as posible to see how hot we could get them. But, they had to shut it down in 1964, because the copper isotopes (US Treasury changed the quarter to a silver sandwich of copper) lasted much, much longer.
Why should Google mirror and cache everything? This seems inefficient. Why don't they just host the whole Internet?
Maybe they can't because AOL owns the patent for that...
People today voluntarily get radio based ID systems, not RFID in particular. They are called by many names, but are used to automatically pay toll road fees. I had one in Oklahoma. It saved me money (discount) and time.
These have been used to track down cars, to get people fired or arrested.
One of my daughters had a computer class in grades 1 through 6, in a decent funded public school. They had Apple IIs and Macs. They would only allow the Macs to emulate the Apple IIs to be fair to the students. I seriously doubt any student graduated and went on to recommend Apple IIs.
The sad part is that no one cares about the level of tech in the public schools. This would be good news if it meant anything.
Joe user can't easily do those things. I wouldn't trust my manager. For that matter, do you want them to see the command line?!?
Anyway, Linux desktops could be much easier to admin, since you could script Telnet connections to each box, fire an X session back to your desktop, push pre-built kernels, force reboots, whatever your heart desires.
Consider updates (patches): Test in a controlled environment, then move acceptable/needed patches to a local server. Set the APT source to use that local box, and use Cron to nightly download updates. All w/o extra money for the management apps.
I've run an MRTG server on Debian for nearly two years - only downtime was a power outage that extended past my UPS. However, my next generation server will be NetBSD - leaner and meaner, more secure.
I bought a $200 white-box w/o OS from Wal-mart for home use. Tried RH V9 and gave up after third crash. Tried Debian - gave up on KDE and GNOME because of compatability issues, now run TWM and I'm happy. But, I still need to rebuild my kernel for the sound support.
Linux on the desktop? Sure - but you need a guru to rebuild kernels. (But Linux gurus are cheaper than your MCSE's.) Servers - give me a BSD distro anyday. Make me install the options I needed, don't assume I needed them.
RH is commercial bloatware that is envious of Microsoft.
Slashdot Mirror
The Internet won't die. Internet sites will die. AT&T's 3G network will certainly die. For instance, on 9/11, CNN had to drop to a text only site. They survived that way when their graphical version died like a slashdotted site. But, on 9/11, sites unrelated to news were still readily available. Amazon was still up, TV Guide was up, Travelocity was up. Yes, the bureaucrats at GAO are 1d10ts. They need to crawl back into their hole. This sounds like some document pre-written by AT&T.
Developers are also near Dallas, TX. www.aa.com is hosted there. But the servers are in Tulsa.
The IT branch spun off by American Airlines, which outsourced operations to EDS (which was bought by HP). Through a few layers of gateways, Travelocity is in the same room (albeit huge) as the TPF system. They can cluster up to seven of the fastest mainframes to run as a unit with TPF, and have set records for real-time transactions per minute. All this in Tulsa, OK.
They do have fantasy reality shows - the original ones, that is. Pro Wrestling.
Using green on black also helps to warp your brain to where you will think like old-style programmers. I've used several: Blue on light blue (C64 style), gold on black, purple on a pale blue, and more. You want some contrast, but not too much. And, chose colors that fit your personality. I remember someone who loved the "hot dog stand" colors in Windows 3.1!
In the good old days, slashdot would shut YOU down. Now other unmentionable sites get shut down.
The analogy goes much deeper. Prohibition also encouraged home-brew. The only federal agency at the time that had the manpower was the Internal Revenue Service, ergo the phrase Danged Revenuers, and charges of not paying federal tax were brought against moonshiners. Now, even if you make your music at home and sell it yourself, an agency of the RIAA has the right to collect royalties on your behalf, empowered by the federal government. If that agency can't find you, they get to keep the money. You can't find many moonshiners today. The media has changed. Marijuana is easier to grow.
I'm behind a Bluecoat Proxy at work, that I installed. I can browse internal sites, but nothing external. It asks for the proxy password, but says that it is passing it in cleartext. Then it bombs with the "Please tell Microsoft about this problem" error. I think the cleartext is a hint, since I know the the Bluecoat requires hashed NTLM authentication. I hope Apple didn't blow it that bad on such a simple problem that even lynx can handle.
So, Mr. Murdoch, here's another web site for you to buy.
How about gigacycles per microfortnight?
I took one college quarter of PDP-11 machine language, and then 2nd and 3rd quarters of IBM 370 mainframe machine language. The only machine coding I ever did for $$$ was on a Z-80, some subroutines on a TRS-80. Those were simpler days...
To display an image with octarine? Hint: Terry Pratchett
The entire purpose of the Internet is to share public information. No one should be restricted. Let the Goverments that be spider all they want. If they find something, what is different about you finding it with Google? For that matter, why don't they save money and come up with some good Google searches? I am a US Citizen, and would like to have a little less of my tax dollars wasted.
the Virginia company? I bet the only way they will turn a profit is by Martian slave labor.
Their briefcase service could be an option.
I do remember in the early 1960's that the Atomic Engergy Museum in Oak Ridge had a Californium 252 http://education.jlab.org/itselemental/ele098.html / source in a tank of water, with a chute that would direct a quarter to the source, hold it for a few seconds, then let it roll on out. Cf252 is a stong neutron source, which activated the silver to a very short-lived isotope. We had fun running quarters through as fast as posible to see how hot we could get them. But, they had to shut it down in 1964, because the copper isotopes (US Treasury changed the quarter to a silver sandwich of copper) lasted much, much longer.
Why should Google mirror and cache everything? This seems inefficient. Why don't they just host the whole Internet? Maybe they can't because AOL owns the patent for that...
People today voluntarily get radio based ID systems, not RFID in particular. They are called by many names, but are used to automatically pay toll road fees. I had one in Oklahoma. It saved me money (discount) and time.
These have been used to track down cars, to get people fired or arrested.
My favorite password is ******
IMax here has 10,000 watt audio, but 4x3 screen Standard has less audio, but 16x9 screen
Matrix 2 was good on Imax, but the sides were cut off.
However, StarWars 2 on Imax had a different sound track - like when a big ship landed, the entire theater rumbled.
I'll probably watch it on IMax and standard both, to get the full experience.
My Black and Decker M200 electric is 12 years old - and I've never changed the oil!
One of my daughters had a computer class in grades 1 through 6, in a decent funded public school. They had Apple IIs and Macs. They would only allow the Macs to emulate the Apple IIs to be fair to the students. I seriously doubt any student graduated and went on to recommend Apple IIs.
The sad part is that no one cares about the level of tech in the public schools. This would be good news if it meant anything.
Saw Opera7 on "The Recruit". So even the CIA preferes it.
Joe user can't easily do those things. I wouldn't trust my manager. For that matter, do you want them to see the command line?!?
Anyway, Linux desktops could be much easier to admin, since you could script Telnet connections to each box, fire an X session back to your desktop, push pre-built kernels, force reboots, whatever your heart desires.
Consider updates (patches): Test in a controlled environment, then move acceptable/needed patches to a local server. Set the APT source to use that local box, and use Cron to nightly download updates. All w/o extra money for the management apps.
What a wonderful world it could be...
I've run an MRTG server on Debian for nearly two years - only downtime was a power outage that extended past my UPS. However, my next generation server will be NetBSD - leaner and meaner, more secure.
I bought a $200 white-box w/o OS from Wal-mart for home use. Tried RH V9 and gave up after third crash. Tried Debian - gave up on KDE and GNOME because of compatability issues, now run TWM and I'm happy. But, I still need to rebuild my kernel for the sound support.
Linux on the desktop? Sure - but you need a guru to rebuild kernels. (But Linux gurus are cheaper than your MCSE's.) Servers - give me a BSD distro anyday. Make me install the options I needed, don't assume I needed them. RH is commercial bloatware that is envious of Microsoft.