Generally you pay about $10 a year per IP address if you are a new user, you simply cannot get Class A or Class B sized blocks anymore. About $100 a year will get you a 8-10 IP address block.
IBM with 9. and the others with class A's all to themselves do not pay for their class, which means they have very little incentive for returning them.
Here in europe the geeks would be the ones on the phones taking photos of the screen with messages saying "IM AT THE PREVIEW SCREENING OF LOTR3!!!!!":)
My god, can you imagine watching LOTR part 3 with a cinema full of people really dedicated to seeing the movie?
I remember watching Star wars episode 1 with a friend who was a totaly fanatic, he'd read the leaked scripts online and so on, downloaded the divx version from america so he could see if before it was out here, he was saying the lines out loud as the characters said them - he was a friend and I wanted to punch him, let alone a cinema full of people doing that!
I've got a PC at home booting of CF at the moment, compact flash is ata-compliant so all you need is a dirt cheap ide/cf connector. No need for BIOS support, etc.
Of course, its awfully slow if you just have the filesystems on the card, instead you need to play around with using a ramdisk for/tmp and/var and make sure you aren't swapping to the card or every time a program starts everything will slow to a crawl.
If you created some software which you GPL'd, you could later take that same original code and relicense it for another purpose, as long as you hadn't accepted any changes back into the codebase which you had GPL'd. The original version would remain GPL'd of course, you can't take that away.
For example mozilla is dual-licensed to allow Netscape to remain closed source, and have mozilla as open source. Some more info on it is available here.
IBM already sells a more powerful server than anything Sun sell, and it runs linux as well as AIX, the p690 - check out the world top 500 computers to see the list of p690 clusters at http://www.top500.org/list/2002/11/
I guess 95% of these will be running purely AIX, but im sure quite a few will have linux installed alongside in a partition.
Almost all of IBM and other large corporations internal software development now is done using Java, if you need to use one of those programs you will almost certainly have java1.3 or above installed on your PC.
Unfortunately all this is not true, here in the UK we have:
The National Insurance number, 1 number per person, allocated at about the age of 15.
Freedom of travel, umm, I guess we do, except to places the government doesn't want us to go.
Driving licenses now have photos, as of about 3 years ago.
We don't have any formal freedom of speech, the government can and does restrict what can be said.
Despite all these things Britain is still fairly free, we don't have a constitution but we do have 800 years of common law which gives us most of our rights, and the european bill of human rights, which gives us a bunch more.
I seem to remember reading that painters explicity limit what paints/colours/materials they use to increase the "creativity" of their work, i guess it makes it easier to think abstractly if you can't possibly make skin pinkishwhite and so on.
Pretty much everyone who is a project manager type person at my work will use outlook scheduling or something similar to manager their calendar, check when other people are available, and arrange meetings.
When limewire connects it goes not to a central server, but another limewire client. Limewire happens to provide 4 or 5 default client ips to connect to (router1.gnuetta.org, router2, router3, etc if i remember) but if 1 or all of those 5 were to go down, then you could type in a replacement yourself which you could find from a website. With morpheus/kazaa etc, you can't change the IP you connect to first.
So the people who made the site worth reading (the people who comment lots), are now going to be charged more than the people who don't give anything of value to the site?
If half of that 1.5% who will have to pay over $60 a year to access/. without reading huge ads stop posting to the site as much, then the amount of content (and thus the sites value to the more passive readers) will fall dramatically. As the number of passive readers falls, the money/. will receive from the adverts will fall, and the charges will have to go up to make up the shortfall, making the "expensive" users use the site less, making the site less popular with the passive readers, reducing the income from the adverts...
Sorry but I just don't see how charging people who are content producers as well as the heavy content consumers is going to help the site? Perhaps people should now be paid for each submission posted to the site, after all a good story will increase the views, and thus the revenues incoming to./
Interestingly, while Sun are funding a lot of Gnome development, IBM have already shipped AIX5L with both Gnome and KDE available alongside CDE as the desktop.
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Generally you pay about $10 a year per IP address if you are a new user, you simply cannot get Class A or Class B sized blocks anymore. About $100 a year will get you a 8-10 IP address block.
IBM with 9. and the others with class A's all to themselves do not pay for their class, which means they have very little incentive for returning them.
Here in europe the geeks would be the ones on the phones taking photos of the screen with messages saying "IM AT THE PREVIEW SCREENING OF LOTR3!!!!!" :)
My god, can you imagine watching LOTR part 3 with a cinema full of people really dedicated to seeing the movie?
I remember watching Star wars episode 1 with a friend who was a totaly fanatic, he'd read the leaked scripts online and so on, downloaded the divx version from america so he could see if before it was out here, he was saying the lines out loud as the characters said them - he was a friend and I wanted to punch him, let alone a cinema full of people doing that!
While I hate to say HP-UX is a good OS, it is certainly an OS which runs on Itanium and supports 64 processors.
The new HP Superdome machines with Itanium2 are more powerful CPU-wise than anything Sun makes at the moment.
Ewan
I've got a PC at home booting of CF at the moment, compact flash is ata-compliant so all you need is a dirt cheap ide/cf connector. No need for BIOS support, etc.
/tmp and /var and make sure you aren't swapping to the card or every time a program starts everything will slow to a crawl.
Of course, its awfully slow if you just have the filesystems on the card, instead you need to play around with using a ramdisk for
Because OpenBSD still doesnt support SMP does it? Which makes it useful only for small machines.
http://www.wes-technik.de/English/helistar.htm
only 120grammes, and only 199Euros, which is pretty much $200.
If you created some software which you GPL'd, you could later take that same original code and relicense it for another purpose, as long as you hadn't accepted any changes back into the codebase which you had GPL'd. The original version would remain GPL'd of course, you can't take that away.
For example mozilla is dual-licensed to allow Netscape to remain closed source, and have mozilla as open source. Some more info on it is available here.
IBM already sells a more powerful server than anything Sun sell, and it runs linux as well as AIX, the p690 - check out the world top 500 computers to see the list of p690 clusters at http://www.top500.org/list/2002/11/
I guess 95% of these will be running purely AIX, but im sure quite a few will have linux installed alongside in a partition.
Ewan
Almost all of IBM and other large corporations internal software development now is done using Java, if you need to use one of those programs you will almost certainly have java1.3 or above installed on your PC.
the startmenu gets fixed by right-clicking on the taskbar, selecting properties, clicking on the start menu tab then selecting "Classic Start Menu".
The Control Panel is changed by clicking on "Switch to Classic View" on the left pane of the control panel.
Ewan
windows 2000 server with 10 cals is about 800 uk pounds, 1200 us dollars.
Ewan
Unfortunately all this is not true, here in the UK we have:
The National Insurance number, 1 number per person, allocated at about the age of 15.
Freedom of travel, umm, I guess we do, except to places the government doesn't want us to go.
Driving licenses now have photos, as of about 3 years ago.
We don't have any formal freedom of speech, the government can and does restrict what can be said.
Despite all these things Britain is still fairly free, we don't have a constitution but we do have 800 years of common law which gives us most of our rights, and the european bill of human rights, which gives us a bunch more.
nagios is capable of monitoring thousands of servers yes, but it has had some issues in the past with these very large networks.
people on the nagios mailing list are doing it though, it just takes tuning.
Ewan
I seem to remember reading that painters explicity limit what paints/colours/materials they use to increase the "creativity" of their work, i guess it makes it easier to think abstractly if you can't possibly make skin pinkishwhite and so on.
Ewan
Pretty much everyone who is a project manager type person at my work will use outlook scheduling or something similar to manager their calendar, check when other people are available, and arrange meetings.
It really does work very well.
Not sure about the others, but Tribes 2 absolutely does require a unique key to play on a server on the Internet.
Ewan
AIX5.1 already ships with Gnome and KDE in addition to CDE, though CDE is the default still.
NIS does indeed have that security problem, and it cant be avoided as far as I know.
NIS+ is not as vulnerable, but not as widespread either.
Im not sure about redhat, but cygnus (which redhat now owns) was definitely profitable.
Nope, Konquerer is a completely independant browser, it can use the gecko rendering engine from mozilla, but it doesn't by default.
Galeon is the cut-down mozilla browser.
Ewan
When limewire connects it goes not to a central server, but another limewire client. Limewire happens to provide 4 or 5 default client ips to connect to (router1.gnuetta.org, router2, router3, etc if i remember) but if 1 or all of those 5 were to go down, then you could type in a replacement yourself which you could find from a website. With morpheus/kazaa etc, you can't change the IP you connect to first.
Ewan
That's a good idea, especially the 2nd part, people wouldn't be happy losing money for posting something someone had decided was "offtopic".
If half of that 1.5% who will have to pay over $60 a year to access
Sorry but I just don't see how charging people who are content producers as well as the heavy content consumers is going to help the site? Perhaps people should now be paid for each submission posted to the site, after all a good story will increase the views, and thus the revenues incoming to
Interestingly, while Sun are funding a lot of Gnome development, IBM have already shipped AIX5L with both Gnome and KDE available alongside CDE as the desktop.