Broadcast radio will never die, for lots of reasons that people who've never *done* disaster recovery work tend not to think about.
This is also true of broadcast television (and cable, as opposed to internet streaming) for reasons that people who have never had to pay the bill for 25 *million* simultaneous RealServer connections tend not to think about.
I'm so pleased to see that Spider has posted that on his own site (in addition to it being up at the Baen Free Library), and that it's under a CC-BY-NA-ND license. I spoke to Spider at the Heinlein Centennial back in July in KCMo; he'd been represented as having changed his mind about the ideas it espouses on copyright, and that troubled me.
Apropos of the amount of time he had to think about it walking down a hall from one panel to another (Damn, that was a great weekend), he clarified that he hadn't *reversed* his opinion... but more realized that the question isn't as small as it might appear. (I believe I'm representing his opinion correctly; if not, my apologies).
It's a really great story, though, and exactly on point for this subthread.
I concur with this, and I've dropped a note to info@archive.org suggesting that they do a final update-crawl of the site to catch its current state before it dies.
I don't expect it would hurt if a couple thousand others of you did as well.
Be polite.:-)
Additionally, in case some domain squatter *does* get it, they'll probably need to be asked to override their customary current-robots.txt-file-can-lock- out-the-old-archives policy.
It's the 3rd or 4th outing. TMBG have been offering downloads (in FLAC, as well as MP3; go, TMBG!) for quite some time now, and at least one other sizable artist I can't recall just now has done something like this, if not a couple.
On the other hand, there are times when telling the customer "you go to hell" is justified: customers shouldn't be abusing your and your cow-orkers; you don't get paid to take that kind of abuse: that's Agnew's area.
Of course, you have to consider that you may be firing the client.
Lastly, I really wish I could screen specific sellers. If I'm looking for a telescope I don't want to see anything from Taximarket -- nothing personal, but they're catering to the low end of the market and flood the listings with GREEN, SILVER, BLUE, whatever colour telescopes they have. I'd like to scan for telescopes without seeing all their offerings because nothing they have I want. This can be carried over to sporting goods and other categories where a lot of inexpensive Chinese commodity goods or knock offs are listing.
As it happens, I've recently discovered that you *can* filter specific sellers -- up to 10 -- out of searches, using Advanced Search. I recently had a problem trying to *buy* a laptop. One seller had a nice batch of the model I wanted, but my bids (with eSnipe) kept bouncing, so I bid one by hand, and discovered that the seller had limited, in some fashion, his acceptable bids to those buyers "who had linked their eBay account to their PayPal account".
Only problem is, detailed inspection of the profile control panels on each side showed me *no way to do that*. So I guess eBay will permit sellers to restrict buyers to a category that doesn't -- and cannot -- exist. Way to go, eBay.
So I rebuilt that search, and filtered out IT-BuySmart, and... then I ended up buying my boss's laptop, since he got a new one. He hates Vista.:-)
If we have *enough* TLDs, then people will (forcibly) stop {succumbing to,giving} advice to register their trade name in "every available TLD"... which is a) moronic, b) counterproductive, and c) breaks the DNS rather badly.
Chris Ambler (whose.web proposal is *still* on the shelf, almost 10 years later) had this stuff figured out years ago: let anyone who wants to become a registry, as long as they prove financial and technical aptitude, and post a bond, along with plans for what happens if they tank.
But no, it's all Layer 8 and 9 crap, instead of engineering, as usual.
Scholars and researchers are who this stuff is for.
If you're comparing it to buying even hardcovers, you're not paying attention. It is, however, *substantially* cheaper than airfare and motel bills to Santa Cruz...
Heinlein never had children, with any of his three wives, but he does have a granddaughter, Amy Baxter.
Amy is the reason why Spider Robinson has seen fit to... not to "renounce" his opinion about copyright, embodied in his Hugo-winning short "Melancholy Elephants" (which asserts that eternal copyright would be culturally crippling), but to rethink the stance, and opine that perhaps not all the returns are in -- it was the one question (of 5 or 6) that I had to ask him whenever I finally met him which I did actually get asked at the Centennial.
The "three stinkeroos" are in Off The Main Sequence, which I believe was actually a book club book; "My Object All Sublime" is one of them, and I can't remember the other two.
This was actually rolled out 7/7/7, at the Heinlein Centennial; not all the material may have been on line then, though.
It *is* clear that the purpose of that tape was to pump up *retail salespeople*, right?
It wasn't customer focussed at all.
It does show the truth, though, of Dave Barry's assertion that the secret to Bill Gates' collection of approximately 247 personal jet airplanes, is....
It's fanon, of course, but the topic is covered in some depth in Don Sample's altogether excellent Harry Potter and the Key of Dagon. If you don't already know what that's a crossover to, don't feel bad, I didn't either...
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*What* will be fixed in the next version of Zimbra; the fact that *Yahoo* allows cleartext passwords?
Cause that's not Zimbra's fault.
In fact, the *Zimbra* server-side component, while it permits you to allow clear-text POP and IMAP logins, defaults that switch to off.
What's that tag again? Badsummary?
Broadcast radio will never die, for lots of reasons that people who've never *done* disaster recovery work tend not to think about.
This is also true of broadcast television (and cable, as opposed to internet streaming) for reasons that people who have never had to pay the bill for 25 *million* simultaneous RealServer connections tend not to think about.
Obligatory Melancholy Elephants pointer.
I'm so pleased to see that Spider has posted that on his own site (in addition to it being up at the Baen Free Library), and that it's under a CC-BY-NA-ND license. I spoke to Spider at the Heinlein Centennial back in July in KCMo; he'd been represented as having changed his mind about the ideas it espouses on copyright, and that troubled me.
Apropos of the amount of time he had to think about it walking down a hall from one panel to another (Damn, that was a great weekend), he clarified that he hadn't *reversed* his opinion... but more realized that the question isn't as small as it might appear. (I believe I'm representing his opinion correctly; if not, my apologies).
It's a really great story, though, and exactly on point for this subthread.
I concur with this, and I've dropped a note to info@archive.org suggesting that they do a final update-crawl of the site to catch its current state before it dies.
:-)
I don't expect it would hurt if a couple thousand others of you did as well.
Be polite.
Additionally, in case some domain squatter *does* get it, they'll probably need to be asked to override their customary current-robots.txt-file-can-lock-
out-the-old-archives policy.
DVD's pay writers.
Syndie pays writers.
Reruns pay writers.
"Promotional" online airings don't. Even if they contain commercials.
Need any more on this?
The stock distribution ot Multics depends intimately on the memory segmentation and protection hardware of the Level/68 architecture.
So no, it's not possible to run Multics on any current hardware.
Is there a lot of good skullsweat in there nonetheless? Yes.
How long will those ideas take to get into Linux and *BSD?
I'm betting... about 3 months.
Kudos to the Groupe Bull people who got this done; I gather it took *most* of the last 7 years to clear it all.
No, they don't... but let's be clear, here: the *root* server lookups won't do anyone much good.
What they have to be *selling* here would be GTLD lookups, and they don't *get* all that data... In fact, I don't think they get *most* of it.
It's actually not.
It's the 3rd or 4th outing. TMBG have been offering downloads (in FLAC, as well as MP3; go, TMBG!) for quite some time now, and at least one other sizable artist I can't recall just now has done something like this, if not a couple.
On the other hand, there are times when telling the customer "you go to hell" is justified: customers shouldn't be abusing your and your cow-orkers; you don't get paid to take that kind of abuse: that's Agnew's area.
Of course, you have to consider that you may be firing the client.
Hasn't Tom Peters been walking that beat for 20 years or so?
Wow... Eight 9's.
I can't even get that far with Unix-based stuff.
As it happens, I've recently discovered that you *can* filter specific sellers -- up to 10 -- out of searches, using Advanced Search. I recently had a problem trying to *buy* a laptop. One seller had a nice batch of the model I wanted, but my bids (with eSnipe) kept bouncing, so I bid one by hand, and discovered that the seller had limited, in some fashion, his acceptable bids to those buyers "who had linked their eBay account to their PayPal account".
Only problem is, detailed inspection of the profile control panels on each side showed me *no way to do that*. So I guess eBay will permit sellers to restrict buyers to a category that doesn't -- and cannot -- exist. Way to go, eBay.
So I rebuilt that search, and filtered out IT-BuySmart, and
You're, um, not familiar with it?
You go ask the Ford Car Club of America and the Ford Foundation that...
If we have *enough* TLDs, then people will (forcibly) stop {succumbing to,giving}
.web proposal is *still* on the shelf, almost 10 years later) had this stuff figured out years ago: let anyone who wants to become a registry, as long as they prove financial and technical aptitude, and post a bond, along with plans for what happens if they tank.
advice to register their trade name in "every available TLD"... which is a) moronic, b) counterproductive, and c) breaks the DNS rather badly.
Chris Ambler (whose
But no, it's all Layer 8 and 9 crap, instead of engineering, as usual.
> I think the title originally was "I Will Fear No Editor"
No, no...
that's a Tom Clancy book.
What? "Bug Hunt at Outpost Nine"? That movie?
Wow.
Didn't *anyone* read TFA?
Scholars and researchers are who this stuff is for.
If you're comparing it to buying even hardcovers, you're not paying attention. It is, however, *substantially* cheaper than airfare and motel bills to Santa Cruz...
Heinlein never had children, with any of his three wives, but he does have a granddaughter, Amy Baxter.
Amy is the reason why Spider Robinson has seen fit to... not to "renounce" his opinion about copyright, embodied in his Hugo-winning short "Melancholy Elephants" (which asserts that eternal copyright would be culturally crippling), but to rethink the stance, and opine that perhaps not all the returns are in -- it was the one question (of 5 or 6) that I had to ask him whenever I finally met him which I did actually get asked at the Centennial.
The "three stinkeroos" are in Off The Main Sequence, which I believe was actually a book club book; "My Object All Sublime" is one of them, and I can't remember the other two.
This was actually rolled out 7/7/7, at the Heinlein Centennial; not all the material may have been on line then, though.
It *is* clear that the purpose of that tape was to pump up *retail salespeople*, right?
It wasn't customer focussed at all.
It does show the truth, though, of Dave Barry's assertion that the secret to Bill Gates' collection of approximately 247 personal jet airplanes, is....
"upgrades".
Yes... yes, he is. :-)
"internationally allocated standard carrier frequencies".
Heh.
This was a fun thread, but where'd the PRI CNID spoofing side trip come from?
(30d channels because it's an E-1 based PRI; 32 timeslots.)
It's fanon, of course, but the topic is covered in some depth in Don Sample's altogether excellent Harry Potter and the Key of Dagon. If you don't already know what that's a crossover to, don't feel bad, I didn't either...
> makes it sound like they're having a great time in Kansas City
:-)
We are.