If this is true, As far as Cogent's hardware is concerned, shouldn't it look like L3 is down? Then isn't BGP set up at Cogent in such a way as to recognize that the routes are "down" at L3 and find another path? I thought that this was a standard feture of routers on the Internet.
Socialism? Have you not read the paper (pdf)(google HTML version) on tit-for-tat that uses economic models from game theory as a basis for the bit torrent protocol? It's pretty capitalistic in my opinion.
That 50% cannot be even close to correct if over 51% of the US is on broadband and there are so many people in broadband access areas that choose to use dialup still.
Perhaps the savings in VOIP will help people phase out their dialup accounts in favor of broadband thereby increasing demand which will increase the value to companies who want to put money in the "last mile" residents but just couldn't make the numbers work until now.
The DMCA has a large section of loopholes written in that allow research on copyrighted works. What law are you talking about that makes it illegal to play with things in the name of research?
I live in southern California. My neighborhood (and most of my city) uses underground cabling to make the city look better. When new lines are run, the simply open up a street cover and run the lines through a pipe that they laid. It's just like running wire through conduit in the walls of a building. It's actually quite easy to work on. When earthquakes hit, the poles move around enough to take out all wired utilities in other areas, but I don't think I've had an earthquake-related outage since I've lived in this city (20+ years) with underground wiring.
I use kubuntu, which comes with kynaptic instead of synaptic. I don't see a place to modify the repositories in kynaptic. And, I still find myself using the command line to install sometimes because it's faster for me. When I show other people how to use the software, I walk them through using the kynaptic instead.
Ubuntu includes webmin in the repositories. Without going to a konsole, you can use synaptic or kynaptic (kubuntu) to install with the mouse. In my opinion, that is worth more than the other tools included with Mandrake and Redhat (on those distributions, I choose Webmin also).
I completely agree. It's all supply and demand. If consumers thought that a longer lasting unit was worth the additional cost, they they would purchase it. It's true that companies are out to make money, but that means that (given competition of course) they need to supply what the consumers demand. It doesn't make them evil.
Now, Microsoft is a different story. They've been found guilty of monopolizing a market sector, and so they need to be more closely watched and perhaps even regulated. This product is close to wiping out the entire anti virus industry, although the likes of Norton and Mcafee are doomed to get much leaner and faster else die from market share loss. At that point, the only anti virus makers left standing will be Microsoft, a new holders on, and perhaps clamAV (open source can't be killed that easily I bet).
So, don't compare Microsoft to Maytag. The washing machine maker is forced by competition to give us what we want (or at least what they think we want until somebody else proves them wrong). Microsoft is only inclined to give us what we want else face competition from Apple or Linux, which is not on their main radar at the moment.
Additionally, the system in the US is "good enough" for the citizens in all of these examples. I can transfer any amount into any checking account given the account number. I do it all the time, from my computer. The problem is that the Credit Card laws are so consumer-friendly in the US, nobody wants to use anything else. If there are any problems with my purchase at all, I only need to complain and, under law, the merchant must give me my money back until THEY prove they had a right to take it out, and then MAYBE they get their money back less roughly $20 (chargeback fee) for the trouble.
Paypal isn't this consistantly reliable for the consumer which is why it isn't as popular in the US.
I'm not sure if you are joking or not.... The grandparent was obviously a joke. There are benifits to coding in OSS. First, the fame often leads to money. If you wrote that faster screen refresh code, you have the right to put that on your resume, and some video game company might like that. Also, many companies see that it's cheaper to use OSS software pay someone (maybe outsourced, maybe in-house) to customize that software for internal use. Many times that customized software is released back into the real version (if it's distributed it comes with OSS source). Lots of kernel code comes from the likes of Red Hat and even Linksys.
There are many moons, but only one Moon - only one Earth, even though dirt (earth) exists on other planets. For the sake of argument, what if The Earth is cut in half by a giant "laser"? Which half would be The Earth? What would we call the other half?
The Internet is The Internet. There are lots of interconnected networks, but only one Internet.
I find this hard to believe. SCSI and IDE are just interfaces. They have nothing to do with MTBF and the color of the platters. You probably just had two different drives that happened to be IDE and SCSI. As far as I know, it's entirely possible to get the same seek times and reliability in SCSI and IDE. The only difference is how the firmware and wires work.
That's odd. I use Mandrake 9.2 and I just threw in a winTV, turned on the machine, and clicked on xawtv in the menu. Under windows, it takes a lot more steps than that because windows doesn't come with the BTTV drivers or a TV viewing application.
Not immediately, but over the course of 2-3 years, several programmers will pick up and be running quite quickly. It would only take a few months to get any decent programmer up to speed enough to start rolling in security patches to keep the thing alive until then. Don't forget that there are a ton of companies (Novell, Redhat, Mandrake) willing to throw lots of money and/or programmers at a project like apache so customers won't be upset. On a project as large and widely deployed as apache, we don't have to worry about that kind of thing.
Thusfar we've gotten by kind of merging FTP and Apache with
directory listings enabled, with custom host names for each "server".
It's stone-axe simple to set up, but lacks reasonable authentication
and that "branding" experience the suits are looking for, and FTP for
uploads bites.
I think you are looking for ssh server and SFTP. It uses one TCP port (22) and goes right through NAT walls. Filezilla
is a good windows "interface" for sftp. If your running Linux or
OSX, it's already installed. Just set u[p permissions and symbolic
links and you are good to go.
Simply put, it's more organized. It's got categories, user permissions, a web editing interface, RSS feeds, and a search engine. The search engine alone is enough when you have hundreds of entries or more and you don't want a GIANT bandwidth sucking page or you don't know the order of the words or phrases you are searching for.
Well the Americans did, even awarding an anti-Bush movie top merits. It
looks like they were finally able to say the things that they've wanted
to for a long time now, but were afraid to back home (look at Moore's
reception at the Oscars) and used the Cannes Film Festival for that
purpose.
Please understand that this is a small and specific
cross section of the American Public. Making an assumption of the
beliefs of the Majority based on a non-random sample is careless.
While American media may be mostly anti-bush, if you look at the
majority of newsgroup postings, American blogs, and most importantly,
polls conducted through true random sampling, you'll see that the
American majority still sides with Bush.
I'm just correcting your statistics, which still got you a +4 as of this writing.
Right, because Sony, Pioneer, these kind of companies
have no connection to DVD Video publishing, huh? And if they don't make
the devices, capitalism dictates that someone else will step in and do
as good a job, right? (No offense, but you're American, right?) Take a
similar existing example: there's a huge demand for standalone video
players with alterative codecs (DivX, XviD, Vorbis etc.) and packages
(OGG, MKV). What's the capitalist response? The big players are not
interested and the demand is (not) met by the Umax/Yamada player (and
not a lot else), which sucks! It's not about 'them and us', not even
about 'them, us and a third party' (RIAA), it's just about 'them' and
their many and intertwined commercial interests...
But you just proved my point. The Umax/Yamada player
died. If there WAS some sort of demand, then it would not have died.
The non-DRM MP3 format is in every portable digital audio player, even
the ones from Sony and Pioneer because that's where the demand
is. There's no big conspiracy. They only care about the
bottom line, and the truth is that even though the RIAA companies work
together to take our money (a monopoly in my opinion) when we buy
music, there is still plenty of competition on the hardware side to
keep their monopolistic hands out of it.
Now, we all know that there were MP3 players before iPod. And
most of us know that Apple doesn't really have a connection to the RIAA
save the contracts to sell iTunes music. So, if there is this
HUGE pent up demand for some radical DIVX player, why isn't Apple
making one? What about Creative, Dell, or Samsung
? Just because Sony has a ton of really cool (and over-expensive)
stuff, it doesn't mean that they or anybody else has control over the
entire consumer electronics market.
Now, for that personal "you must be American" comment - you must be uneducated right?
WRAAAAAG! At times it feels like I'm the only
one who recognizes that fair use does not apply when you have
contractually agreed not to bypass the DRM... for further info, see
some of my other posts in this thread.
Contractually? I believe that it's a "license agreement" not a
contract. That's a big difference. And these licenses
haven't yet been tried by a court. License are intended for
copyright - how I can distribute the program. If I pay for
something, I own it, and nobody but the government can legally tell me
what I can and can't do with it.
Some of those things I can do:
destroy it
dispose of it in an environmentally friendly way
drive over it with my car
yell at it
take it apart and look at it
tell my friends that I have it
make backup copies of it
Some of the things I can't do:
use it to kill people or physically harm them
copy it and distribute it without permission
use it to hurt the environment or some endangered specie
And what kind of pull does hollywood have? Do you have proof, or conspiracy theories? I'm sure the RIAA hates CD-Copying software and burners. And, since an audio CD costs about as much as a DVD with audio AND video on it, the RIAA is making more than the MPAA, so the RIAA would be more likely to have the cash to act on its unhappiness.
Welcome to capitalism. The burners will come because there is a demand. There isn't enough lobby power to stop something that's completely legal.
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If this is true, As far as Cogent's hardware is concerned, shouldn't it look like L3 is down? Then isn't BGP set up at Cogent in such a way as to recognize that the routes are "down" at L3 and find another path? I thought that this was a standard feture of routers on the Internet.
Socialism? Have you not read the paper (pdf) (google HTML version) on tit-for-tat that uses economic models from game theory as a basis for the bit torrent protocol? It's pretty capitalistic in my opinion.
That 50% cannot be even close to correct if over 51% of the US is on broadband and there are so many people in broadband access areas that choose to use dialup still.
Perhaps the savings in VOIP will help people phase out their dialup accounts in favor of broadband thereby increasing demand which will increase the value to companies who want to put money in the "last mile" residents but just couldn't make the numbers work until now.
The DMCA has a large section of loopholes written in that allow research on copyrighted works. What law are you talking about that makes it illegal to play with things in the name of research?
I live in southern California. My neighborhood (and most of my city) uses underground cabling to make the city look better. When new lines are run, the simply open up a street cover and run the lines through a pipe that they laid. It's just like running wire through conduit in the walls of a building. It's actually quite easy to work on. When earthquakes hit, the poles move around enough to take out all wired utilities in other areas, but I don't think I've had an earthquake-related outage since I've lived in this city (20+ years) with underground wiring.
I use kubuntu, which comes with kynaptic instead of synaptic. I don't see a place to modify the repositories in kynaptic. And, I still find myself using the command line to install sometimes because it's faster for me. When I show other people how to use the software, I walk them through using the kynaptic instead.
Actually, even java is pretty easy to install. I wish there was a way to do it without that one text file edit:
http://ubuntuguide.org/
Ubuntu includes webmin in the repositories. Without going to a konsole, you can use synaptic or kynaptic (kubuntu) to install with the mouse. In my opinion, that is worth more than the other tools included with Mandrake and Redhat (on those distributions, I choose Webmin also).
I completely agree. It's all supply and demand. If consumers thought that a longer lasting unit was worth the additional cost, they they would purchase it. It's true that companies are out to make money, but that means that (given competition of course) they need to supply what the consumers demand. It doesn't make them evil.
Now, Microsoft is a different story. They've been found guilty of monopolizing a market sector, and so they need to be more closely watched and perhaps even regulated. This product is close to wiping out the entire anti virus industry, although the likes of Norton and Mcafee are doomed to get much leaner and faster else die from market share loss. At that point, the only anti virus makers left standing will be Microsoft, a new holders on, and perhaps clamAV (open source can't be killed that easily I bet).
So, don't compare Microsoft to Maytag. The washing machine maker is forced by competition to give us what we want (or at least what they think we want until somebody else proves them wrong). Microsoft is only inclined to give us what we want else face competition from Apple or Linux, which is not on their main radar at the moment.
Additionally, the system in the US is "good enough" for the citizens in all of these examples. I can transfer any amount into any checking account given the account number. I do it all the time, from my computer. The problem is that the Credit Card laws are so consumer-friendly in the US, nobody wants to use anything else. If there are any problems with my purchase at all, I only need to complain and, under law, the merchant must give me my money back until THEY prove they had a right to take it out, and then MAYBE they get their money back less roughly $20 (chargeback fee) for the trouble.
Paypal isn't this consistantly reliable for the consumer which is why it isn't as popular in the US.
I'm not sure if you are joking or not.... The grandparent was obviously a joke. There are benifits to coding in OSS. First, the fame often leads to money. If you wrote that faster screen refresh code, you have the right to put that on your resume, and some video game company might like that. Also, many companies see that it's cheaper to use OSS software pay someone (maybe outsourced, maybe in-house) to customize that software for internal use. Many times that customized software is released back into the real version (if it's distributed it comes with OSS source). Lots of kernel code comes from the likes of Red Hat and even Linksys.
There are many moons, but only one Moon - only one Earth, even though dirt (earth) exists on other planets. For the sake of argument, what if The Earth is cut in half by a giant "laser"? Which half would be The Earth? What would we call the other half?
The Internet is The Internet. There are lots of interconnected networks, but only one Internet.
I find this hard to believe. SCSI and IDE are just interfaces. They have nothing to do with MTBF and the color of the platters. You probably just had two different drives that happened to be IDE and SCSI. As far as I know, it's entirely possible to get the same seek times and reliability in SCSI and IDE. The only difference is how the firmware and wires work.
That's odd. I use Mandrake 9.2 and I just threw in a winTV, turned on the machine, and clicked on xawtv in the menu. Under windows, it takes a lot more steps than that because windows doesn't come with the BTTV drivers or a TV viewing application.
Not immediately, but over the course of 2-3 years, several programmers will pick up and be running quite quickly. It would only take a few months to get any decent programmer up to speed enough to start rolling in security patches to keep the thing alive until then. Don't forget that there are a ton of companies (Novell, Redhat, Mandrake) willing to throw lots of money and/or programmers at a project like apache so customers won't be upset. On a project as large and widely deployed as apache, we don't have to worry about that kind of thing.
alias d='apt-get install'
alias m='urpmi'
There. Now they are the same length. Can't we all just get along?
I think you are looking for ssh server and SFTP. It uses one TCP port (22) and goes right through NAT walls. Filezilla is a good windows "interface" for sftp. If your running Linux or OSX, it's already installed. Just set u[p permissions and symbolic links and you are good to go.
Simply put, it's more organized. It's got categories, user permissions, a web editing interface, RSS feeds, and a search engine. The search engine alone is enough when you have hundreds of entries or more and you don't want a GIANT bandwidth sucking page or you don't know the order of the words or phrases you are searching for.
And the only facts I see are pretty small errors. The same types of errors CNN and BBC make all the time, only leaning the other way.
I'm just correcting your statistics, which still got you a +4 as of this writing.
Now, we all know that there were MP3 players before iPod. And most of us know that Apple doesn't really have a connection to the RIAA save the contracts to sell iTunes music. So, if there is this HUGE pent up demand for some radical DIVX player, why isn't Apple making one? What about Creative, Dell, or Samsung ? Just because Sony has a ton of really cool (and over-expensive) stuff, it doesn't mean that they or anybody else has control over the entire consumer electronics market.
Now, for that personal "you must be American" comment - you must be uneducated right?
Some of those things I can do:
- destroy it
- dispose of it in an environmentally friendly way
- drive over it with my car
- yell at it
- take it apart and look at it
- tell my friends that I have it
- make backup copies of it
Some of the things I can't do:And what kind of pull does hollywood have? Do you have proof, or conspiracy theories? I'm sure the RIAA hates CD-Copying software and burners. And, since an audio CD costs about as much as a DVD with audio AND video on it, the RIAA is making more than the MPAA, so the RIAA would be more likely to have the cash to act on its unhappiness.
Welcome to capitalism. The burners will come because there is a demand. There isn't enough lobby power to stop something that's completely legal.
These "receptionists" aren't free as in beer are they?
I think he means a windows server CAL. You need one of those.