This isn't competition, it's monopoly. I can't choose to stop paying my taxes if I decide not to use the government-offered service. I'd be thrown in jail and my assets would be siezed.
That's never happened to me for choosing Burger King instead of McDonald's.
Internet Mapping Project
Bill Cheswick, Lumeta Corp.
Hal Burch, Lumeta Corp
The Internet Mapping Project
The Internet Mapping Project was started at Bell Labs in the summer of 1998. It's
long-term goal is to acquire and save Internet topological data over a long period
of time. This data has been used in the study of routing problems and changes,
DDoS attacks, and graph theory.
In the fall of 2000, Ches and Hal moved to a spin-off from Lucent/Bell Labs named
Lumeta Corporation. This company applies our topological discovery techniques
to discover the perimeter of our clients' intranets.
The Internet Mapping Project continues at Lumeta. As a result, The Internet
mapping host is changing. Since 1998, the trial packets came from
ches-netmapper.research.bell-labs.com, (204.178.16.36).
The same software will soon be running from a new host,
netmapper.research.lumeta.com, 65.198.68.56
In these troubled times, the scans may be run a bit more frequently than before,
but still only one traceroute per announced or registered network.
Our test packets are lightweight and non-invasive. But if they are a concern
to you, we will be happy to include the CIDR blocks you supply in a don't-scan
list, if requested.
Introduction
This mapping consists of frequent traceroute-style anal probes, one to each
registered Internet entity. From this, we build a tree showing the paths to
most of the nets on the Internet. We have no interest in the specific endpoints
or network services on those endpoints, just the topology of the center
of the Internet.
These paths change over time, as routes reconfigure and the Internet grows.
We are preserving this data, and plan to run the scans for a long time. The
database should help show how the Internet grows. We think we can even make
a movie of this growth someday.
The simple layout algorithm produces some nice maps.
Map gallery.
Recent raw Internet mapping data.
Some maps of Serbia showing damage during the war.
Maps
This data yields a large tree-like structure. It is not easy to lay out a tree
with 100,000 nodes. (Standard graph-viewing programs have traditionally considered
800 nodes a large task.) Our programs jostle the nodes around according to half
a dozen simple rules, simulating various springs and repelling forces. A typical
layout run requires 20 CPU hours on a 400 MHz Pentium.
We have made some maps from this layout. A map helps us visualize things, to
pick out points of interest, and find things that warrant closer inspection.
Once the layout is computed, the map can be colored to show a number of things.
We don't try to lay out the Internet according to geography---people like John
Quarterman are working on that. Besides, the Internet is its own space.
The layout can be colored in many ways: with geographical clues, network capacity,
etc. An Internet atlas would be interesting. We currently have maps colored
by distance from the test host, IP address, and geographic region.
These maps are quite smashing, if we do say so ourselves. The December 1998
issue of Wired Magazine has the layout generated from data collected in mid-September.
Hal generated a color scheme based on the IP address of the nodes. This sick
idea (Excuse me, may I have a prettier Internet address please?)
creates a color scheme that seems to match Wired's traditional typography. But
it actually does show communities that share similar network addresses.
Here is a.gif of the layout appearing in Wired.
Where are you on the Wired map? Don't ask. With nearly 100,000 nodes on the
map, an index would be a huge sea of small type. Perhaps we'll make a web page
where you can look it up some day.
We are actively working to make some versions of these maps available commercially
as posters and perhaps other items.
...native SATA support! I bought a 120GB SATA drive so I could dual-boot Mandrake/Windows, and much to my displeasure, the Linux installation will not recognize the SATA controller.
This is probably more of a kernel issue than a distribution problem, but to me, is utterly unacceptable. SATA has been out for several years now, and is still unsupported by Linux.
Oddly enough, Windows had no problem installing on the drive.
...but thank goodness your theory isn't going to be put to the test, right? It's easy to speculate good intentions when they don't have to be backed up with substance.
I, for one, honestly don't think "the community" would put its money where its mouth is, at least not in the scale of what a legal defense fund constitutes these days.
I like most of my generation grew up watching the Smurfs. I loved them so much that I tuned in every Saturday morning to see what crazy hijinks those lovable little blue creatures would get up to.
It is just now that I have realized what I was really tuning into each and every Saturday morning was in actuality Socialist Propaganda!! Yes that is correct, Papa Smurf and all of his little Smurf minions are not the happy little characters Hanna Barbara would have us believe! The cartoon was really created by the Russian government in order to indoctrinate the youngest members of western society with Socialist beliefs and ideals thus destroying their resistance to the imminent Russian invasion that was to occur when this generation (my generation) grew up.
To prove my point I submit that 1.) They live in a communal village and are discouraged to leave the village without the company of their fellow Smurfs. 2.) Every Smurf has his own specific job and does not deviate from that job. The job even becomes part of their personality and their name (Brainy Smurf, Handy Smurf, etc.) 3.) If ever a Smurf decides to strike out on his own he is cast into danger in some way of another and it is up to the collective to save him. 4.) Papa Smurf looks an awful lot like Karl Marx plus, he wears all that red.
And let us not forget Smurfette, the lone female Smurf and the embodiment of community property.
In the face of such convincing evidence, it is easy to mark the Smurfs as the Socialists they are, and their nemeses Gargamel (and his maladjusted cat Azrael, a not so subtle attack on ISRAEL) is the personification of Capitalism; out for himself and profit trying to destroy the peaceful commune of Smurfs.
Thankfully our resistance was not destroyed, thanks to the determination of other cartoons such as G.I. Joe and Richie Rich who's goal it was to instill in the children of the western world the morals and values of Capitalism.
Of course, the reason lies behind the leftist slant prevalent on Slashdot. They'll take advantage of anything that makes Fox News look bad.
Sure, it's silliness at it's best, but it's nothing more than a clever tactic by the Slashdot crew to stir up the anti-republican, anti-conservative, anti-Fox News crowd into the frothing madness that characterizes so many of this site's readers.
"But by default you are encouraging people to look at a new system, which also happens to be free."
In this case, however, that would more accurately read "But by default you are forcing people to look at a new system, which also happens to be free."
The grandparent post is 100% dead on. How can you call anything that is forced upon someone "free"? I thought the OSS community was above that sort of nonsense. Oh wait, this is Slashdot.
And no, "because Microsoft does it too" is not an excuse. If anything, that should be every reason why NOT to force open source upon anyone!
"As Jani Laaksonen writes, the new release includes 'numerous security advisory fixes...'"
So does this mean that the FreeBST team isn't patching security issues as they are reported, and are instead fixing them over the period of (presumably) scheduled release iterations?
If this is the case, why isn't the/. community all over them like they are Microsoft?
"Does anyone know why the US does not have a system for aiding people in legal battles, and why when a motion in court is found to not be enforcable in law, does the person who brought the suit (and therefore a large monetary cost) to someone erroneously, does not have to pay?"
The attorney lobby here is so strong that such a system would be impossible. They oppose, on principle, anything that could possibly take a dime out of a lawyer's pocket. Lawyers have got us by the sack here, and there's not a whole lot we can do about it.
Personally, I'm glad we built up a huge nuclear arsenal; it was instrumental to winning the cold war.
Maybe they weren't used in the way they were designed to be, but they were indeed used. The only thing deterring the Soviet Union was the understanding that if they went to war with the U.S., they would be utterly destroyed. I would submit that our nuclear stockpiling is the sole reason why the Soviets didn't take over the world.
"Anyway, if it is invalid, then Linus should file suit immediately regarding their unauthorized distribution."
I'm afraid that would only validate SCO's claim that the GPL is invalid. I'd say, in this case, the damage that could be done to SCO in such a lawsuit is insignificant compared to the damage that eliminating the GPL would do to open source software.
I first became concerned for my job three weeks before my employer purchased the lisences, when I noticed our mail administrator returning from a meeting with our comapny's board of directors. The conversation had gotten rather heated, as there had been a good deal of shouting and cursing coming from the board room. Two days later he was fired.
Rumors began spreading when 3 more people were laid off under similar circumstances, and the general consensus was that these people had been unfairly screwed by management.
I had no idea how true those rumors were. I soon found myself before the board of directors, being asked what I thought about purchasing Linux lisences for our servers from SCO. I answered truthfully: that not only was such an investment a waste of money, but that SCO's claims regarding intellectual property in Linux were questionable at best. My supervisor considered this thoughtfully for a second, nodded, and the secretary locked the door of the office. Two of the directors, with deceptive strength and agility, bound and gagged me. My memory is somewhat blurry about this part, but I remember having my pants torn from my waist, and then all of the board members took turns ravaging my virgin cornhole. The rumors were true: there I was, being screwed by management because of my opposition to SCO's Linux IP claims .
In the kind of shock that only comes with a brutal ass-raping, I stumbled back to my desk, thankfully unaware of the small stream of blood, liquified stool, and man-cheese that had stained my underwear, oozed down my leg and began to pool in my shoe. To complete my utter humiliation, I was given my pink slip 3 days later, before I had even recovered from my ordeal.
I have always been concerned about SCO's dubious legal claims, but I could never have prepared myself for the amount of personal violation that opposing the corporate bully would bring.
This might mean more than what you read here, so be careful. My former employer was
considering acquiescing to SCO's lisencing demands, and because of my objections, I ended up
losing my job.
I first became concerned when I noticed our mail administrator returning from a meeting
with our comapny's board of directors. The conversation had gotten rather heated, as there
had been a good deal of shouting and cursing coming from the board room. Two days later he
was fired.
Rumors began spreading when 3 more people were laid off under similar circumstances, and
the general consensus was that these people had been unfairly screwed by management.
I had no idea how true those rumors were. I soon found myself before the board of
directors, being asked what I thought about purchasing Linux lisences for our servers from
SCO. I answered truthfully: that not only was such an investment a waste of money, but
that SCO's claims regarding intellectual property in Linux were questionable at best. My
supervisor considered this thoughtfully for a second, nodded, and the secretary locked the
door of the office. Two of the directors, with deceptive strength and agility, bound and
gagged me. My memory is somewhat blurry about this part, but I remember having my pants
torn from my waist, and then all of the board members took turns ravaging my virgin
cornhole. The rumors were true: there I was, being screwed by management because of my
opposition to SCO's Linux IP claims .
In the kind of shock that only comes with a brutal ass-raping, I stumbled back to my
desk, thankfully unaware of the small stream of blood and man-cheese that had stained my
underwear, oozed down my leg and began to pool in my shoe. To complete my utter humiliation,
I was given my pink slip 3 days later, before I had even recovered from my ordeal.
I have always been concerned about SCO's dubious legal claims, but I could never have
prepared myself for the amount of personal violation that opposing the conglomerate would
bring.
"The fact remains that while there will always be a few teenage hobbyists who actually do use computers to run Linux, MOST kids use them to circumvent copy protection and play copied audio, video, or games."
Apples and oranges. Mod chips were created with very limited functionality in mind. And as much as people here refuse to acknowledge, their primary purpose is to let people play copied games. That's why things like gun silencers are illegal, despite their potential for responsible use.
Slashdot Mirror
That's never happened to me for choosing Burger King instead of McDonald's.
No, they don't have a right to make money.
"Best Buy should have guarded their pricing info better."
Yeah, and that rape victim shouldn't have worn that short skirt either, right?
Is that geek-speak for "whenever the organizers decided to drop the bong and get things started again"?
Bill Cheswick, Lumeta Corp.
Hal Burch, Lumeta Corp
The Internet Mapping Project
The Internet Mapping Project was started at Bell Labs in the summer of 1998. It's long-term goal is to acquire and save Internet topological data over a long period of time. This data has been used in the study of routing problems and changes, DDoS attacks, and graph theory.
In the fall of 2000, Ches and Hal moved to a spin-off from Lucent/Bell Labs named Lumeta Corporation. This company applies our topological discovery techniques to discover the perimeter of our clients' intranets.
The Internet Mapping Project continues at Lumeta. As a result, The Internet mapping host is changing. Since 1998, the trial packets came from
ches-netmapper.research.bell-labs.com, (204.178.16.36).
The same software will soon be running from a new host,
netmapper.research.lumeta.com, 65.198.68.56
In these troubled times, the scans may be run a bit more frequently than before, but still only one traceroute per announced or registered network.
Our test packets are lightweight and non-invasive. But if they are a concern to you, we will be happy to include the CIDR blocks you supply in a don't-scan list, if requested.
Introduction
This mapping consists of frequent traceroute-style anal probes, one to each registered Internet entity. From this, we build a tree showing the paths to most of the nets on the Internet. We have no interest in the specific endpoints or network services on those endpoints, just the topology of the center of the Internet.
These paths change over time, as routes reconfigure and the Internet grows. We are preserving this data, and plan to run the scans for a long time. The database should help show how the Internet grows. We think we can even make a movie of this growth someday.
The simple layout algorithm produces some nice maps.
Map gallery.
Recent raw Internet mapping data.
Some maps of Serbia showing damage during the war.
Maps
This data yields a large tree-like structure. It is not easy to lay out a tree with 100,000 nodes. (Standard graph-viewing programs have traditionally considered 800 nodes a large task.) Our programs jostle the nodes around according to half a dozen simple rules, simulating various springs and repelling forces. A typical layout run requires 20 CPU hours on a 400 MHz Pentium.
We have made some maps from this layout. A map helps us visualize things, to pick out points of interest, and find things that warrant closer inspection. Once the layout is computed, the map can be colored to show a number of things. We don't try to lay out the Internet according to geography---people like John Quarterman are working on that. Besides, the Internet is its own space.
The layout can be colored in many ways: with geographical clues, network capacity, etc. An Internet atlas would be interesting. We currently have maps colored by distance from the test host, IP address, and geographic region.
These maps are quite smashing, if we do say so ourselves. The December 1998 issue of Wired Magazine has the layout generated from data collected in mid-September. Hal generated a color scheme based on the IP address of the nodes. This sick idea (Excuse me, may I have a prettier Internet address please?) creates a color scheme that seems to match Wired's traditional typography. But it actually does show communities that share similar network addresses.
Here is a .gif of the layout appearing in Wired.
Where are you on the Wired map? Don't ask. With nearly 100,000 nodes on the map, an index would be a huge sea of small type. Perhaps we'll make a web page where you can look it up some day.
We are actively working to make some versions of these maps available commercially as posters and perhaps other items.
Uses
This data has a number of uses, including co
This is probably more of a kernel issue than a distribution problem, but to me, is utterly unacceptable. SATA has been out for several years now, and is still unsupported by Linux.
Oddly enough, Windows had no problem installing on the drive.
I, for one, honestly don't think "the community" would put its money where its mouth is, at least not in the scale of what a legal defense fund constitutes these days.
I like most of my generation grew up watching the Smurfs. I loved them so much that I tuned in every Saturday morning to see what crazy hijinks those lovable little blue creatures would get up to.
It is just now that I have realized what I was really tuning into each and every Saturday morning was in actuality Socialist Propaganda!! Yes that is correct, Papa Smurf and all of his little Smurf minions are not the happy little characters Hanna Barbara would have us believe! The cartoon was really created by the Russian government in order to indoctrinate the youngest members of western society with Socialist beliefs and ideals thus destroying their resistance to the imminent Russian invasion that was to occur when this generation (my generation) grew up.
To prove my point I submit that 1.) They live in a communal village and are discouraged to leave the village without the company of their fellow Smurfs. 2.) Every Smurf has his own specific job and does not deviate from that job. The job even becomes part of their personality and their name (Brainy Smurf, Handy Smurf, etc.) 3.) If ever a Smurf decides to strike out on his own he is cast into danger in some way of another and it is up to the collective to save him. 4.) Papa Smurf looks an awful lot like Karl Marx plus, he wears all that red.
And let us not forget Smurfette, the lone female Smurf and the embodiment of community property.
In the face of such convincing evidence, it is easy to mark the Smurfs as the Socialists they are, and their nemeses Gargamel (and his maladjusted cat Azrael, a not so subtle attack on ISRAEL) is the personification of Capitalism; out for himself and profit trying to destroy the peaceful commune of Smurfs.
Thankfully our resistance was not destroyed, thanks to the determination of other cartoons such as G.I. Joe and Richie Rich who's goal it was to instill in the children of the western world the morals and values of Capitalism.
Of course, the reason lies behind the leftist slant prevalent on Slashdot. They'll take advantage of anything that makes Fox News look bad.
Sure, it's silliness at it's best, but it's nothing more than a clever tactic by the Slashdot crew to stir up the anti-republican, anti-conservative, anti-Fox News crowd into the frothing madness that characterizes so many of this site's readers.
...wouldn't that make it a Shakespeare reference?
In this case, however, that would more accurately read "But by default you are forcing people to look at a new system, which also happens to be free."
The grandparent post is 100% dead on. How can you call anything that is forced upon someone "free"? I thought the OSS community was above that sort of nonsense. Oh wait, this is Slashdot.
And no, "because Microsoft does it too" is not an excuse. If anything, that should be every reason why NOT to force open source upon anyone!
But how many football fields long is that?? Let's try to put that in some context that Joe Sixpack like me can understand!
So does this mean that the FreeBST team isn't patching security issues as they are reported, and are instead fixing them over the period of (presumably) scheduled release iterations?
If this is the case, why isn't the /. community all over them like they are Microsoft?
The attorney lobby here is so strong that such a system would be impossible. They oppose, on principle, anything that could possibly take a dime out of a lawyer's pocket. Lawyers have got us by the sack here, and there's not a whole lot we can do about it.
"...but we'll pacify the ignorant public with the appearance of trying to combat spam. That will get us elected to another term, at least!"
Maybe they weren't used in the way they were designed to be, but they were indeed used. The only thing deterring the Soviet Union was the understanding that if they went to war with the U.S., they would be utterly destroyed. I would submit that our nuclear stockpiling is the sole reason why the Soviets didn't take over the world.
New warfare technology has ALWAYS triggered a new "arms race", starting with the first human being who ever beat another to death with a rock.
Imagine their terror when the first knives, attlatls, and later bows & arrows started to be used in combat?
This is simply the latest iteration of an age-old phenomenon.
I'm afraid that would only validate SCO's claim that the GPL is invalid. I'd say, in this case, the damage that could be done to SCO in such a lawsuit is insignificant compared to the damage that eliminating the GPL would do to open source software.
I first became concerned for my job three weeks before my employer purchased the lisences, when I noticed our mail administrator returning from a meeting with our comapny's board of directors. The conversation had gotten rather heated, as there had been a good deal of shouting and cursing coming from the board room. Two days later he was fired.
Rumors began spreading when 3 more people were laid off under similar circumstances, and the general consensus was that these people had been unfairly screwed by management.
I had no idea how true those rumors were. I soon found myself before the board of directors, being asked what I thought about purchasing Linux lisences for our servers from SCO. I answered truthfully: that not only was such an investment a waste of money, but that SCO's claims regarding intellectual property in Linux were questionable at best. My supervisor considered this thoughtfully for a second, nodded, and the secretary locked the door of the office. Two of the directors, with deceptive strength and agility, bound and gagged me. My memory is somewhat blurry about this part, but I remember having my pants torn from my waist, and then all of the board members took turns ravaging my virgin cornhole. The rumors were true: there I was, being screwed by management because of my opposition to SCO's Linux IP claims .
In the kind of shock that only comes with a brutal ass-raping, I stumbled back to my desk, thankfully unaware of the small stream of blood, liquified stool, and man-cheese that had stained my underwear, oozed down my leg and began to pool in my shoe. To complete my utter humiliation, I was given my pink slip 3 days later, before I had even recovered from my ordeal.
I have always been concerned about SCO's dubious legal claims, but I could never have prepared myself for the amount of personal violation that opposing the corporate bully would bring.
Watch your backs, folks!
I first became concerned when I noticed our mail administrator returning from a meeting with our comapny's board of directors. The conversation had gotten rather heated, as there had been a good deal of shouting and cursing coming from the board room. Two days later he was fired.
Rumors began spreading when 3 more people were laid off under similar circumstances, and the general consensus was that these people had been unfairly screwed by management.
I had no idea how true those rumors were. I soon found myself before the board of directors, being asked what I thought about purchasing Linux lisences for our servers from SCO. I answered truthfully: that not only was such an investment a waste of money, but that SCO's claims regarding intellectual property in Linux were questionable at best. My supervisor considered this thoughtfully for a second, nodded, and the secretary locked the door of the office. Two of the directors, with deceptive strength and agility, bound and gagged me. My memory is somewhat blurry about this part, but I remember having my pants torn from my waist, and then all of the board members took turns ravaging my virgin cornhole. The rumors were true: there I was, being screwed by management because of my opposition to SCO's Linux IP claims .
In the kind of shock that only comes with a brutal ass-raping, I stumbled back to my desk, thankfully unaware of the small stream of blood and man-cheese that had stained my underwear, oozed down my leg and began to pool in my shoe. To complete my utter humiliation, I was given my pink slip 3 days later, before I had even recovered from my ordeal.
I have always been concerned about SCO's dubious legal claims, but I could never have prepared myself for the amount of personal violation that opposing the conglomerate would bring.
Video at eleven.
Once I read that, I felt a sudden compulsion to bathe...
You people sound like fucking morons when you say that! It's just as bad as "virii"!
Well that's what happens when you pay for grade-c hamburger and expect tenderloin steak.
"The fact remains that while there will always be a few teenage hobbyists who actually do use computers to run Linux, MOST kids use them to circumvent copy protection and play copied audio, video, or games."
Apples and oranges. Mod chips were created with very limited functionality in mind. And as much as people here refuse to acknowledge, their primary purpose is to let people play copied games. That's why things like gun silencers are illegal, despite their potential for responsible use.