Has anyone else noticed that the only things you can configure on this are the number of ethernet cables you can order with it and the service plans you want? I wonder if they have just not implemented the config. page completely yet, but I would be a lot more impressed with this mini-server if I could change the specs on the box, to make it somewhat less of a mini-server.
This article brings about some good points.. The heavy-handed pronouncements of the WTO and the International Monetary Fund excite warnings about their vast power from many critics, some speaking sinisterly from the left and others righteously from the right.
Yes, but who is listening? We can see how much the Seattle riots are making a difference to the WTO summit. The people who are speaking out against these groups seem to be portrayed fairly often as lunatic commies who dont seem to know that a global economy run by a select few organizations with mammoth political power is the way things should be.
Intergovernmental organizations do play a significant role nowadays, but we must remember that ultimate power still rests in national governments with their police, their armies, and their popular mandates.
While I agree with this in principle, I dont see how these organizations can be stopped from doing things that the people dont want, but the governments do. For the WTO or another super-governmental body to reflect the wishes of its member countries, it has to reflect the needs of the PEOPLE in those countries, not just the party platforms and presidential programs. We can see that the PEOPLE in Seattle are speaking out against the WTO and are unhappy with its programs, and they are being portrayed as criminals and looters, not agents of change. I believe that when a group of people speaks out against one of these supergovernments, their government should listen and not bring in Riot Police and the National Guard, or there will be no way to stop these multinational groups from becoming merely another abstraction of government to transform the wants of the people into the wants of the megacorps.
Yeah, I agree that the floating pt bug was a larger technical issue, but there was really no way that anyone without a simple knowledge of computers could understand it, whereas I think just about everyone can understand that it is a problem that you push the power button... and the computer doesnt come on, and it's Intel's fault.
AMD could have some serious fun marketing this.. I'm sure everyone remembers the hoopla surrounding the floating point bug a few years back, and this seems to be a much larger issue than that, depending on the amount of Coppermines that are affected. AMD should.. um.. enlighten the general computer-buying public to this if they have any sense.
Does anyone have any info on any Dual Athlon Boards in the works? I looked around Tom's the other day and only saw the 5 single athlon boards available at the moment.. does anyone know if any manufacturers are developing a dual board? I would LOVE to find one.. 1.5GHz would make me very happy.
I dont honestly see the point of Katz ranting about this administration-picking-on-the-geeks issue all the time. I am a somewhat recent graduate of one of the top ten public schools in the nation academically, which is a fairly liberal school, and I still got my fair share of harrassment from the administration while I was there. The fact is that if a student in the modern high school system goes against the grain, he/she will be noticed and addressed. My problem with the fascination that Katz seems to have with this issue is that this isnt anything new. I was harrassed much more in other schools that I attended 5-7 years ago.
These FBI Profiling systems and computer behavior tracking systems that everyone is excreting masonry about are just justification and proof for what has gone on in school for years. When Columbine happened and gathered the media into a protect-our-children-from-their-satanist-schoolmat es frenzy, schools had to have some proof that they were doing something about it, and instead of changing the whole educational system (which is what I beleive would be necessary to fully address this issue), they just found new ways to advertise the things they had been doing all along.
Example from my school : In my Junior year (2 years ago, before columbine), there were two incidents where people were found on campus with guns, one of whom was not a student. The student body was not ever informed about these incidents by the administration, we found out about it in the newspaper about a month after they happened. In reaction to that, the administration decided to implement a policy that all students had to wear picture IDs at all times with their student number. This gathered a TON of media coverage and gave the parents a big warm fuzzy. We never wore them. Ever. Nothing at school changed, but it got the media off the administration's back. I get the feeling that these new methods are basically the same thing, a facade being put in place to placate the national media into thinking that the schools are wonderful places again, so that schools can just return to their normal level of discrimination.
Hmm.. I somehow get the feeling that if my old administration got their hands on this I would be pretty high on their little geek profile sheet.. hehe..
But to make my point, I think that Katz should realize that schools dont change, that policies like this are just smoke-and-mirrors techniques that all administrations use to cover up the fact that they will do whatever they want with their students. By stirring up more attention to this issue, he is just causing more pressure on the administration, which will most likely lead to that pressure being placed on the student body in some way or another, whether it be new tracking systems, ID cards or removing the internet's lewd prescence from the classroom. I think it is better left to the student body to forment change they think is appropriate from the inside. These student do have minds of their own, and if they are individual enough to be noticed, they are probably individual enough to stand up for themselves.
I completely agree with you. I beleive that whoever posted the original comment should have been able to, and that the comment added to the "debatedness" of the site. To clarify my statements, I was voicing my opinion that this forum is very much in the spirit of slashdot and that such self-debating forums are good for the community, and my comment at the end was more jest than anything else.
I seriously disagree with you on this. Slashdot is, by nature, a forum that is mutable to meet the desires of its readers. What better way for Hemos/Taco/etc to gather the wants/need of us readers than a general forum. Would you rather they just ignore this issue, which in my mind is one that should be raised and questioned, and follow whatever whim they think would be best for the group? This would amount in a historical sense to a dictatorship, which, I beleive, is what Slashdot tries not to be.
If you are complaining that this is not news, might I remind you that it is a Feature, and was not presented as news. If it offends you so much, ignore it, or better yet, filter it.
I would really like more information on the internal workings of this thing. I would like to know how this router will deal with input/output queueing and buffering. Currently, most routers have to buffer data while the logical connnections neccessary for routing to occur are negotiated within the routing table. I wonder how Lucent plans to buffer an optical signal without converting it to an electrical signal and storing it in RAM. I could forsee them employing a cut-through technique with virtual circuits between interfaces, but that would only really be practical in a switching environment rather than a routing environment. I what kind of an engine Lucent has come up with to switch packets without buffering them. Anyone know?
Besides the impressive technology Lucent has managed to create here, think of the possibilities for the internet that this presents. The current backbones of the 'net dont have the capacity to deal with the huge amounts of data that will soon be flowing across them due to the high amount of Cable/DSL circuits that are being turned up all across the country, but if major Tier 1 ISPs start employing these Lucent routers and other all-fibre routers that I'm sure will follow soon, the backbone may just survive the next few years without imploding on itself. Cool.
-Phizzy phizzy@psynet.net
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I was really bored the other day, wandering around, and I found datapimp.net.. apparently someone went out and registered a bunch of pretty funny 7-dirty-word domains.. such as
I think its $15/year for a forwarding and $25 for a POP3.. and no, I'm not in any way affiliated with this guy, I just think it would be hilarious if everyone started using more.. um.. interesting email addresses around here.
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Has anyone else noticed that the only things you can configure on this are the number of ethernet cables you can order with it and the service plans you want? I wonder if they have just not implemented the config. page completely yet, but I would be a lot more impressed with this mini-server if I could change the specs on the box, to make it somewhat less of a mini-server.
//Phizzy
This article brings about some good points..
The heavy-handed pronouncements of the WTO and the International Monetary Fund excite warnings about their vast power from many critics, some speaking sinisterly from the left and others righteously from the right.
Yes, but who is listening? We can see how much the Seattle riots are making a difference to the WTO summit. The people who are speaking out against these groups seem to be portrayed fairly often as lunatic commies who dont seem to know that a global economy run by a select few organizations with mammoth political power is the way things should be.
Intergovernmental organizations do play a significant role nowadays, but we must remember that ultimate power still rests in national governments with their police, their armies, and their popular mandates.
While I agree with this in principle, I dont see how these organizations can be stopped from doing things that the people dont want, but the governments do. For the WTO or another super-governmental body to reflect the wishes of its member countries, it has to reflect the needs of the PEOPLE in those countries, not just the party platforms and presidential programs. We can see that the PEOPLE in Seattle are speaking out against the WTO and are unhappy with its programs, and they are being portrayed as criminals and looters, not agents of change. I believe that when a group of people speaks out against one of these supergovernments, their government should listen and not bring in Riot Police and the National Guard, or there will be no way to stop these multinational groups from becoming merely another abstraction of government to transform the wants of the people into the wants of the megacorps.
-End Of Rant-
//Phizzy
Yeah, I agree that the floating pt bug was a larger technical issue, but ... and the
there was really no way that anyone without a simple knowledge of
computers could understand it, whereas I think just about everyone can
understand that it is a problem that you push the power button
computer doesnt come on, and it's Intel's fault.
//Phizzy
AMD could have some serious fun marketing this.. I'm sure everyone remembers the hoopla surrounding the floating point bug a few years back, and this seems to be a much larger issue than that, depending on the amount of Coppermines that are affected. AMD should .. um .. enlighten the general computer-buying public to this if they have any sense.
//Phizzy
Does anyone have any info on any Dual Athlon Boards in the works? I looked around Tom's the other day and only saw the 5 single athlon boards available at the moment.. does anyone know if any manufacturers are developing a dual board? I would LOVE to find one.. 1.5GHz would make me very happy.
//Phizzy
I dont honestly see the point of Katz ranting about this administration-picking-on-the-geeks issue all the time. I am a somewhat recent graduate of one of the top ten public schools in the nation academically, which is a fairly liberal school, and I still got my fair share of harrassment from the administration while I was there. The fact is that if a student in the modern high school system goes against the grain, he/she will be noticed and addressed. My problem with the fascination that Katz seems to have with this issue is that this isnt anything new. I was harrassed much more in other schools that I attended 5-7 years ago.
t es frenzy, schools had to have some proof that they were doing something about it, and instead of changing the whole educational system (which is what I beleive would be necessary to fully address this issue), they just found new ways to advertise the things they had been doing all along.
These FBI Profiling systems and computer behavior tracking systems that everyone is excreting masonry about are just justification and proof for what has gone on in school for years. When Columbine happened and gathered the media into a protect-our-children-from-their-satanist-schoolma
Example from my school : In my Junior year (2 years ago, before columbine), there were two incidents where people were found on campus with guns, one of whom was not a student. The student body was not ever informed about these incidents by the administration, we found out about it in the newspaper about a month after they happened. In reaction to that, the administration decided to implement a policy that all students had to wear picture IDs at all times with their student number. This gathered a TON of media coverage and gave the parents a big warm fuzzy. We never wore them. Ever. Nothing at school changed, but it got the media off the administration's back. I get the feeling that these new methods are basically the same thing, a facade being put in place to placate the national media into thinking that the schools are wonderful places again, so that schools can just return to their normal level of discrimination.
Hmm.. I somehow get the feeling that if my old administration got their hands on this I would be pretty high on their little geek profile sheet.. hehe..
But to make my point, I think that Katz should realize that schools dont change, that policies like this are just smoke-and-mirrors techniques that all administrations use to cover up the fact that they will do whatever they want with their students. By stirring up more attention to this issue, he is just causing more pressure on the administration, which will most likely lead to that pressure being placed on the student body in some way or another, whether it be new tracking systems, ID cards or removing the internet's lewd prescence from the classroom. I think it is better left to the student body to forment change they think is appropriate from the inside. These student do have minds of their own, and if they are individual enough to be noticed, they are probably individual enough to stand up for themselves.
//Phizzy
I completely agree with you. I beleive that whoever posted the original comment should have been able to, and that the comment added to the "debatedness" of the site. To clarify my statements, I was voicing my opinion that this forum is very much in the spirit of slashdot and that such self-debating forums are good for the community, and my comment at the end was more jest than anything else.
//Phizzy
I seriously disagree with you on this. Slashdot is, by nature, a forum that is mutable to meet the desires of its readers. What better way for Hemos/Taco/etc to gather the wants/need of us readers than a general forum. Would you rather they just ignore this issue, which in my mind is one that should be raised and questioned, and follow whatever whim they think would be best for the group? This would amount in a historical sense to a dictatorship, which, I beleive, is what Slashdot tries not to be.
If you are complaining that this is not news, might I remind you that it is a Feature, and was not presented as news. If it offends you so much, ignore it, or better yet, filter it.
//Phizzy
I would really like more information on the internal workings of this thing. I would like to know how this router will deal with input/output queueing and buffering. Currently, most routers have to buffer data while the logical connnections neccessary for routing to occur are negotiated within the routing table. I wonder how Lucent plans to buffer an optical signal without converting it to an electrical signal and storing it in RAM. I could forsee them employing a cut-through technique with virtual circuits between interfaces, but that would only really be practical in a switching environment rather than a routing environment. I what kind of an engine Lucent has come up with to switch packets without buffering them. Anyone know?
Besides the impressive technology Lucent has managed to create here, think of the possibilities for the internet that this presents. The current backbones of the 'net dont have the capacity to deal with the huge amounts of data that will soon be flowing across them due to the high amount of Cable/DSL circuits that are being turned up all across the country, but if major Tier 1 ISPs start employing these Lucent routers and other all-fibre routers that I'm sure will follow soon, the backbone may just survive the next few years without imploding on itself. Cool.
-Phizzy
phizzy@psynet.net
I was really bored the other day, wandering around, and I found datapimp.net.. apparently someone went out and registered a bunch of pretty funny 7-dirty-word domains.. such as
fuckoff.com
fuckit.com
crack-whore.net
fuck-off.org
fuck-the-world.com
who-gives-a-fuck.com
muthafucka.com
fuckinginternet.com..
and a whole slew more..
I think its $15/year for a forwarding and $25 for a POP3.. and no, I'm not in any way affiliated with this guy, I just think it would be hilarious if everyone started using more.. um.. interesting email addresses around here.
phizzy@pimpmotherfucker.com