Just a quick question. Not a troll, but a comparison of real work tactics that are similar. Is everyone in Syria or Cuba bad? Does everyone support communism or harbor terrorist cells? So why does everyone get an embargo against them? It's the same thing. It forces the government (ISP) to clean up their act by affecting their citizens (users). Maybe Telstra will start policing their users better to prevent spamming? Who knows.
This brings back memories of CHRP. I was so pumped up when that was all about to come out. Geez middle school was great. Hehe. Then they had to kill them right when Power Computing had that sweet G3 CHRP design.
-Tim
I would never recommend D-Link. I've had problems with their products and their tech support have either been no help or they just never respond to e-mails. And people wonder why it's cheap. There's a reason
-Tim
It's been said already, but this is the way to go. Get a Linksys router. Linksys offers what I consider to be the best bang for the buck. Mine rarely goes down, they constantly update the firmware for older models to keep them up to date with new technologies, they offer a web interface so Mac users get screwed, and they are pretty cheap. The Linksys BEFSR41 is a router with a 4 port switch built in. There's also the BEFSR81 with the 8 port switch built in. They can do Mac cloning and keep alive on PPPoe so you can keep an IP until the power goes out or you reset the unit.
$50 BEFSR41
http://shop.store.yahoo.com/7-24outlet/lindslcabro u.html
$80 BEFSR81
http://shop.store.yahoo.com/techonweb/befsr81.html
The thing I love is the Cisco switch at WeirdStuff. I forget what model it is, but they try to sell it to me for 4 grand each time I go there. I just laugh. Great store, but true their prices aren't exactly the best
I've taken 7 of their small shopping carts full of stuff to the back. They are the best recycling center for computer junk out there. Our high school kept about a full dumpster out of a landfill thanks to them. Now go spend some money there and buy all our old junk.
This is a real question not flame bait. Why would you keep 2.2? What is there in 2.4 that makes it so bad? It seems like it's pretty mature now so what's wrong with it?
At my old ISP anyone with an ftp account to upload their website was dropped at the root of the server were they had to navigate to the location of the webserver. They had read access on every file on the server including all financial info on employees and customers. I e-mailed the admin to let him know and he said he was knew, but had know for about a month. He also told me he'd fix it sometime. I'm not with that ISP now for obvious reason. The funny thing is I used their account list to figure out I was the first paying customer.
-Tim
Is it a yellow Type R sticker? Yellow adds more horsepower! If IBM put a yellow type R sticker on the processor it would be worth at least a Ghz or two. BTW I drive an import. You will never find a type r sticker on it though even though it's faster than a Type R.
I really hate when people say stupid stuff like this. Windows is not $200! It's only $200 if you're stupid enough to walk down to K-Mart and pick up a copy. Any mid-sized company can get a Select license and buy the stuff for like $40. $40 for Office too. Consider that when people talk about TCO and Linux/Windows. Yes Windows is expensive, but not as expensive as most people on Slashdot believe. BTW: When Windows 98 came out it sucked for secure environments. All the people here make it sound like Microsoft tweaked Windows 2000 Server to make it suck in a secure environment. You shouldn't expect them to redesign a home product to work in the business environment (years later) because that's what you want an employee to use. I've run a 250 machine environement of 2k Pro and 2k Server. We tried to throw a 98 box in there. It's not pretty, but neither was 98 with NT Server.
-Tim
Deisel buses are gas guzzlers if they are run with just a few people on them. In my experience when there aren't a lot of runs and the system isn't reliable then few people ride it. You have to build it up before the riders will come. It's the old chicken and the egg thing. A lot of cities are using natural gas buses now which are very very efficient. I hope that more cities around the country will adopt natural gas for mass transit. If every school bus was natural gas it would make a nice little dent in the polution problem from automobiles.
-Tim
Does anyone know why I always have screwed up permissions on./System/Library/Filesystems/hfs.fs/hfs.util. Everytime I run the permissions fixer the things is messed up.
-Tim
I'm typing this on a mirror drive G4, but the fact remains that they are still a very outdated design. They have completely redone the interior design with the introduction of the mirror drive PM and they have tweaked the design of the exterior a bit, but it's still as old as the blue and white G3s.
-Tim
If you want to run KDE on a DESKTOP then get a PC. Desktops are desktops (at least while Apple has a plain old boring design on the PowerMacs). Now laptops are a whole different story. Apple does a great job of making interesting and neat hardware to use. This is very important in laptops. I've used a lot of PC laptops and while they might be faster than Apple laptops they just aren't very functional. Big bulky with poor design. It's all about the little things and I think that Apple understands that.
Last summer I stopped selling on eBay. I had been selling since Nov of 97 to make a few bucks on the side. I'd probably sold 2000-3000 items and 99% of the transactions went perfectly. Over that summer I had a huge number of people leaving me feedback for totally bogus reasons. People would pay with a money order with no return address and no note of what it was for even though I e-mail out detailed instructions. When I didn't mail the item (since I didn't know what the payment was for) they would just leave negative feedback without e-mailing me first. I would also get negative feedback from people a week after they made payments. They claimed I had failed to ship items even though these people were paying for parcel post mailing which takes up to 2 week sometimes. I think that there is a new wave of people on eBay that forget they are dealing with people and not businesses. Remember catalogs quote 4-6 weeks. Dont expect a week off ebay. If you need it the next day go to CompUSA or Fry's and pay full price. If you dont want to pay full price dont expect lightning fast delivery and perfect items. They're on eBay for a reason.
Wouldn't a system that combines the ease of use of XP and the power of Unix be OS X? Well maybe not today, but that is certainly the goal. It's no simple task. I really don't think Microsoft would want to undertake the task and break compatibility while doing so. It took long enough to get people to update their apps for NT/2000/XP. This would be even worse.
Now that FreeBSD has cardbus support can we expect Apple to grab some code and improve their cardbus support. While Apple's CardBus support does the basics there are many drivers that I have heard could not be written simply because the API support did not exist. Is this something Apple can grab. I'm not funny up to date on what Apple grabs from which various BSD projects.
-Tim
I'm not sure about the content, but Apple has had these carts available in the US for sometime and in other countries for quite a while. The idea of a wireless cart is very nifty. My school bought a cart from a company called MobileLAN. It was a pretty neat and cheap setup. You told them what laptops you wanted and they could buy them or you could ship them. Then they provided you with a cart with a motor in it that went forward and backwards at about 2-3mph. The cart was just a big powerstrip inside with a bundle of laptop power adapters in a covered shelf at the bottom. They simply ran the cables the cart and put the plugs in a convenient area so you could slide the laptops into these 3in shelves (backwards) and plug the power cable in. The system took a 10mbit ethernet connection into a lucent tranceiver that had 2 pcmcia slots. We upgraded to new laptops and simply pulled all the power plugs out and put new 128bit cards in the basestation. Very simple.
Your actually wrong here. If you sell your computer to Jo Bob down the street the copy of Windows is actually illegal. Microsoft was sending out fliers to schools and other non-profits recently that explained how they had to be careful with licenses on computers.
Traffic shaping is a beautiful thing, and here at San Jose State it has really made a difference in the past, but we're experiencing problems now that even traffic shaping cannot fix. We have a Packeteer PacketShaper 6500 that "shapes". It's a very powerful box that can shape up to 100mbit of traffic. We put Kazaa and Gnutella into a group and assigned them 2mbit. Well the first week of school I downloaded 1000k a second. Not bad at all, but come the second week when everyone had moved in I was downloading at 5k a second. It turns out we were actually using less traffic the 2nd week than the first. The problem was the way Kazaa's network works. We had over 40,000 incomming connections into the building every 30 seconds. This left our router running at 100% utilization ALL day ALL night. The routing table was constantly being rebuilt and it crippled our network. Right now I can download at 5k on average, 20k on a good day, and.5k all to often..5k! Screw Kazaa. Even when they put everything but port 80 into a group with 1mbit it still downloaded at.5k. Our school now has to spend $40,000 on a new router that will only allow us to survive with Kazaa. I would really like to see Kazaa shutdown. It ruined our network.
1) There are not enough PARCs (Peer Advisor for Residential Computing: the students that get ppl up on the net) to have them go around securing ppls boxes all day long
2) When schools try to educate students on how to secure their computers they tend not to listen. You might listen as a computer geek, but I can tell you right now that 99% of the people in my dorm building could care less about installing Windows 2000 SP3. I dont see this as UCSB saying that XP is more secure than 2000 because I believe that XP SP1 vs 2000 SP3, 2000 will win hands down. I believe that UCSB is realizing that 90% of students dont install patches and by having students run XP they are getting machines with 2 years less security holes plus an auto updating system to ensure that patches are regularly installed (assuming students ok the patches).
3) Why dont they just block the ports. Two things here. I was at a school with 350 machines that were regularly updated with security patches. Every box in the building had an image with the latest version of every app reimaged once a week. Even with this an a Cisco PIX firewall and NAT we still got hit by Nimda. All it took was one stupid student opening up an attachment and the thing flew by administrative shares. Blocking ports doesn't always help. Second thing I'm not sure how UCI (the UC system's ISP) works by 4C (The CA State College's ISP) is really tough about blocking ports. If the school blocks the port for Kazaa or Half Life the school loses their internet connection. Pretty tough, but they have strong feelings that the internet should not be censored. I agree with them even if it makes things difficult somethings.
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Just a quick question. Not a troll, but a comparison of real work tactics that are similar. Is everyone in Syria or Cuba bad? Does everyone support communism or harbor terrorist cells? So why does everyone get an embargo against them? It's the same thing. It forces the government (ISP) to clean up their act by affecting their citizens (users). Maybe Telstra will start policing their users better to prevent spamming? Who knows.
This brings back memories of CHRP. I was so pumped up when that was all about to come out. Geez middle school was great. Hehe. Then they had to kill them right when Power Computing had that sweet G3 CHRP design. -Tim
I would never recommend D-Link. I've had problems with their products and their tech support have either been no help or they just never respond to e-mails. And people wonder why it's cheap. There's a reason -Tim
It's been said already, but this is the way to go. Get a Linksys router. Linksys offers what I consider to be the best bang for the buck. Mine rarely goes down, they constantly update the firmware for older models to keep them up to date with new technologies, they offer a web interface so Mac users get screwed, and they are pretty cheap. The Linksys BEFSR41 is a router with a 4 port switch built in. There's also the BEFSR81 with the 8 port switch built in. They can do Mac cloning and keep alive on PPPoe so you can keep an IP until the power goes out or you reset the unit. $50 BEFSR41 http://shop.store.yahoo.com/7-24outlet/lindslcabro u.html
$80 BEFSR81
http://shop.store.yahoo.com/techonweb/befsr81.html
I've always assumed that lots of porn movies and skate movies were made with iMovie. You don't need much more.
The thing I love is the Cisco switch at WeirdStuff. I forget what model it is, but they try to sell it to me for 4 grand each time I go there. I just laugh. Great store, but true their prices aren't exactly the best
I've taken 7 of their small shopping carts full of stuff to the back. They are the best recycling center for computer junk out there. Our high school kept about a full dumpster out of a landfill thanks to them. Now go spend some money there and buy all our old junk.
This is a real question not flame bait. Why would you keep 2.2? What is there in 2.4 that makes it so bad? It seems like it's pretty mature now so what's wrong with it?
-Tim
At my old ISP anyone with an ftp account to upload their website was dropped at the root of the server were they had to navigate to the location of the webserver. They had read access on every file on the server including all financial info on employees and customers. I e-mailed the admin to let him know and he said he was knew, but had know for about a month. He also told me he'd fix it sometime. I'm not with that ISP now for obvious reason. The funny thing is I used their account list to figure out I was the first paying customer. -Tim
Is it a yellow Type R sticker? Yellow adds more horsepower! If IBM put a yellow type R sticker on the processor it would be worth at least a Ghz or two. BTW I drive an import. You will never find a type r sticker on it though even though it's faster than a Type R.
It's push technology all over again. Someone call Microsoft up they can use all that old code again. And everyone thought it would never come back.
I really hate when people say stupid stuff like this. Windows is not $200! It's only $200 if you're stupid enough to walk down to K-Mart and pick up a copy. Any mid-sized company can get a Select license and buy the stuff for like $40. $40 for Office too. Consider that when people talk about TCO and Linux/Windows. Yes Windows is expensive, but not as expensive as most people on Slashdot believe. BTW: When Windows 98 came out it sucked for secure environments. All the people here make it sound like Microsoft tweaked Windows 2000 Server to make it suck in a secure environment. You shouldn't expect them to redesign a home product to work in the business environment (years later) because that's what you want an employee to use. I've run a 250 machine environement of 2k Pro and 2k Server. We tried to throw a 98 box in there. It's not pretty, but neither was 98 with NT Server. -Tim
Deisel buses are gas guzzlers if they are run with just a few people on them. In my experience when there aren't a lot of runs and the system isn't reliable then few people ride it. You have to build it up before the riders will come. It's the old chicken and the egg thing. A lot of cities are using natural gas buses now which are very very efficient. I hope that more cities around the country will adopt natural gas for mass transit. If every school bus was natural gas it would make a nice little dent in the polution problem from automobiles. -Tim
Does anyone know why I always have screwed up permissions on ./System/Library/Filesystems/hfs.fs/hfs.util. Everytime I run the permissions fixer the things is messed up.
-Tim
I'm typing this on a mirror drive G4, but the fact remains that they are still a very outdated design. They have completely redone the interior design with the introduction of the mirror drive PM and they have tweaked the design of the exterior a bit, but it's still as old as the blue and white G3s. -Tim
If you want to run KDE on a DESKTOP then get a PC. Desktops are desktops (at least while Apple has a plain old boring design on the PowerMacs). Now laptops are a whole different story. Apple does a great job of making interesting and neat hardware to use. This is very important in laptops. I've used a lot of PC laptops and while they might be faster than Apple laptops they just aren't very functional. Big bulky with poor design. It's all about the little things and I think that Apple understands that.
-Tim
Last summer I stopped selling on eBay. I had been selling since Nov of 97 to make a few bucks on the side. I'd probably sold 2000-3000 items and 99% of the transactions went perfectly. Over that summer I had a huge number of people leaving me feedback for totally bogus reasons. People would pay with a money order with no return address and no note of what it was for even though I e-mail out detailed instructions. When I didn't mail the item (since I didn't know what the payment was for) they would just leave negative feedback without e-mailing me first. I would also get negative feedback from people a week after they made payments. They claimed I had failed to ship items even though these people were paying for parcel post mailing which takes up to 2 week sometimes. I think that there is a new wave of people on eBay that forget they are dealing with people and not businesses. Remember catalogs quote 4-6 weeks. Dont expect a week off ebay. If you need it the next day go to CompUSA or Fry's and pay full price. If you dont want to pay full price dont expect lightning fast delivery and perfect items. They're on eBay for a reason.
As long as I can browse newsgroups faster than SBC Pacbell's newsgroup server I'm happy. 12k a second on DSL just ins't impressive.
Wouldn't a system that combines the ease of use of XP and the power of Unix be OS X? Well maybe not today, but that is certainly the goal. It's no simple task. I really don't think Microsoft would want to undertake the task and break compatibility while doing so. It took long enough to get people to update their apps for NT/2000/XP. This would be even worse.
Now that FreeBSD has cardbus support can we expect Apple to grab some code and improve their cardbus support. While Apple's CardBus support does the basics there are many drivers that I have heard could not be written simply because the API support did not exist. Is this something Apple can grab. I'm not funny up to date on what Apple grabs from which various BSD projects. -Tim
I'm not sure about the content, but Apple has had these carts available in the US for sometime and in other countries for quite a while. The idea of a wireless cart is very nifty. My school bought a cart from a company called MobileLAN. It was a pretty neat and cheap setup. You told them what laptops you wanted and they could buy them or you could ship them. Then they provided you with a cart with a motor in it that went forward and backwards at about 2-3mph. The cart was just a big powerstrip inside with a bundle of laptop power adapters in a covered shelf at the bottom. They simply ran the cables the cart and put the plugs in a convenient area so you could slide the laptops into these 3in shelves (backwards) and plug the power cable in. The system took a 10mbit ethernet connection into a lucent tranceiver that had 2 pcmcia slots. We upgraded to new laptops and simply pulled all the power plugs out and put new 128bit cards in the basestation. Very simple.
Hmmm
Your actually wrong here. If you sell your computer to Jo Bob down the street the copy of Windows is actually illegal. Microsoft was sending out fliers to schools and other non-profits recently that explained how they had to be careful with licenses on computers.
Traffic shaping is a beautiful thing, and here at San Jose State it has really made a difference in the past, but we're experiencing problems now that even traffic shaping cannot fix. We have a Packeteer PacketShaper 6500 that "shapes". It's a very powerful box that can shape up to 100mbit of traffic. We put Kazaa and Gnutella into a group and assigned them 2mbit. Well the first week of school I downloaded 1000k a second. Not bad at all, but come the second week when everyone had moved in I was downloading at 5k a second. It turns out we were actually using less traffic the 2nd week than the first. The problem was the way Kazaa's network works. We had over 40,000 incomming connections into the building every 30 seconds. This left our router running at 100% utilization ALL day ALL night. The routing table was constantly being rebuilt and it crippled our network. Right now I can download at 5k on average, 20k on a good day, and .5k all to often. .5k! Screw Kazaa. Even when they put everything but port 80 into a group with 1mbit it still downloaded at .5k. Our school now has to spend $40,000 on a new router that will only allow us to survive with Kazaa. I would really like to see Kazaa shutdown. It ruined our network.
1) There are not enough PARCs (Peer Advisor for Residential Computing: the students that get ppl up on the net) to have them go around securing ppls boxes all day long
2) When schools try to educate students on how to secure their computers they tend not to listen. You might listen as a computer geek, but I can tell you right now that 99% of the people in my dorm building could care less about installing Windows 2000 SP3. I dont see this as UCSB saying that XP is more secure than 2000 because I believe that XP SP1 vs 2000 SP3, 2000 will win hands down. I believe that UCSB is realizing that 90% of students dont install patches and by having students run XP they are getting machines with 2 years less security holes plus an auto updating system to ensure that patches are regularly installed (assuming students ok the patches).
3) Why dont they just block the ports. Two things here. I was at a school with 350 machines that were regularly updated with security patches. Every box in the building had an image with the latest version of every app reimaged once a week. Even with this an a Cisco PIX firewall and NAT we still got hit by Nimda. All it took was one stupid student opening up an attachment and the thing flew by administrative shares. Blocking ports doesn't always help. Second thing I'm not sure how UCI (the UC system's ISP) works by 4C (The CA State College's ISP) is really tough about blocking ports. If the school blocks the port for Kazaa or Half Life the school loses their internet connection. Pretty tough, but they have strong feelings that the internet should not be censored. I agree with them even if it makes things difficult somethings.
Do I think this is a crazy decision: yes
Do I see why they did it: yes