Since 9/11, I have been doing a lot for different companies to prevent the load problems like the ones caused by the event. Stuff like load balancing and caching appliance boxes had helped a lot and had proven to handle loads 4 times what came at 9/11 without even slowing down.
Hmm, my Sony TV did cost $1500 for at 29" (6 years ago I think). of course I could have gotten their cheaper version for half the price. But I wanted the one with all the SCART,composite,S-VHS connections in the back and front, with the digital cam filter(I think it is called), being able to play both NTSC, PAL etc. and no other had that that really black screen they all where light gray.
Well, I had my laserdiscs, had my prologic surround sound none of which had caught on here in Europe(and not available in stores) so people were always amazed to see and hear it. heh. But these days I haven't even half of it plugged in anymore.
Have been thinking about buying a DVD player, but it's just that I don't really watch many movies any more. However now that they have begun shipping Simpsons on DVD, I might have to get one anyway.
True, but the displays are often small with limited resolution and colors so you can apply a fair deal of compression. But of course it doesn't leave room for a movie, for that you need one of new Nokia phones with lots of memory.
One could see this as a proof of concept or the opposite depending on how it works in real life. Take WAP as a example, sounded great but real life use of it is a pain in the butt.
RIAA's efforts paying off. eew!
Ok, so there came a new media, a new concept, the world wide web, powered by the internet.
Every single company with a product have tried to wrap itself around it, make their product up to date. Some people failed and some had success.
The only one who were sitting on their hands were the entire music industry, ignoring what was going on. While more than one generation now has embraced the internet into their daily lives as a natural part of it, the music industry still keeps pretending it's a brand new thing. When your friends comes and visit you, their kids are not amazed that you have a internet connection, no, if you can say you have a 2mbit connection, then you might be able to boast a little.
So now "we" have educated people that the only way you can get music from the internet is by using P2P software or the likes. There are no alternative. Just about everybody knows that this internet thing is a great resource for getting information about just about everything and yet there is this big black hole when it comes to music. A couple of years ago, one might say it was time for them to get their act together but now they have a major salvage operation on their hands and it am sure it's not helping telling people that they are criminals without being able to point them in a direction to a legal alternative.
So many people have embraced the use of the internet today, I have family members who I never would have thought would ever own a PC who now has one, uses the internet. Hey, these people even have a more "healty" attitude towards it than me.:) They use it, focused, for the things it is good at and are not addicted, surfing around all day, like me.:) These people wants to use the internet but has not been offered any alternative.
They don't have "banner filters", hell they even have digged out their credit card to pay for Real Player, go figure. And still the music industry can't figure out how to make one cent on the internet.
Of course the fact that there is no legal option, does not make it right but it sure is a lot easier to show people what you thing they are doing wrong if you can show them what you think is right, and buy-the-CD is not going to cut it.
I know, they won't settle for less than total control. Unless they can be 100% sure that it's unbreakable, they won't use it. Maybe that wouldn't be such an issue if they had been able to form the right mind-set from the beginning.(I know, sounds evil). It comes back to what I mentioned before, now we have people growing up with the internet and have learned how you get music which happens to be the wrong way.
I have no sympathy for those whining bastards what so ever, they have had plenty of time to figure out a solution. It's just that 100% control thing I guess.
As long as they are refusing to rethink their entire business strategy and keeps fighting those windmills they are in a never ending battle.
Of course the winds may turn if they can manage to slip their big brother software on Joe sixpacks pc but then again people might also decide that the product they have to offer is not worth the choking feeling of the iron hand.
And then there is the entire issue of them only pushing their low quality crap. I like music made by people who love making music, not by people who love to see themself on TV. But I see no one trolling anything else than a new pair of tits that might can sing. All they semms to want to sell is those "listen to the CD 10 times and trow it away" band. Even most new rock bands these days seems to be so damn molded into something where the image is not about the content of the CD but the cover that the teenage girls can get wet with. All music that gets a decent promotion or heavy rotation on MTV, is in the "buy, listen once and throw away" category. So now that we have taught everyone that music is only entertainment and not an artform, how can anyone wonder that people don't have any respect for it or those that perform.
Ok, we can all look at Database solutions from IBM, Oracle, Microsoft and other and see the great features they have.
But there is one very important thing about MySQL and the other free databases.
Without them I would never have been able to make my own websites and applications. If the only databases available were ones that you would have to pay for, the internet would look very different.
I got into making websites with a database backend because I could download one, install and run it for free. If I had to pay for one, I would never have begun working with them and would never have discovered how powerful it is to have all your information in a database.
So I like many others, learned about databases and in the process discovered what I could do with a free database and saw the features in the non-free databases that the free ones lacked.
I have made many small applications for internal/intranet use on MySQL. They would never have been made if I first had to find the money to get a database. After I showed the concept of my application, some of these moved on and got on the "official" system.
So bitch about the free systems, but I still say they have introduced a lot of people to the wonderful world of databases.
So the issue here is should you run your mission critical systems on databases like MySQL?
There is no single answer to this, like in many other projects what you should do is to look at what tools is best for the work at hand. Don't use a hammer to paint the walls, there is no need to buy and electrical screwdriver if you only need to place one screw. On the other hand if your initial stages of your project shows that you might want to build an entire house at one point, it might be a good idea to plan ahead and get the tools that will fit in the long run.
The ones from IBM, Oracle and Microsoft, offers the more than just a db, you can also get an entire platform to build you application on, fx. if you are building anoter e-commerce website, so the idea of getting one of those DBs might not be based on the database itself but also on the development enviroment that's available around it. As I said, in a perfect world you don't define the project based on the tools at hand, but but define what the end result should be and then select the correct tools to get to that. Sadly it is often seen that people have already choosen their tools before they have fully defined the goals of their project. The result is often a product that does not hit right on the spot of what they wanted and countless hours are wasted working on workarounds(making the hammer work as a screwdriver) and compromises that leaves the customer with a feeling that they didn't quite get what they wanted.
And then of course there is the stories of customers wanting to drive in that screw with a hammer and the companies promising that they can make the hammer do that leaving both developers and customer unhappy, but that's another story.
I think I'll keep my JBL SB-5. I can deliver all those sounds that you can't hear but feel.:) A cool device with 4 speakers inside where they are facing eachother 2 by 2 in 3 chambers. PDF tech doc.
I have built subs for my car, but the only problems is that even when you get the sizes calculations right, it just doesn't always sound right. So this time I have settled with a pre-built one, the advantage here was the I tried a few in my car to find the one that sounded right in my car.
There are many options and it is great NOT to see these ugly antennas everywhere. Here is some examples, fake tress, a fake window, or a cross on a church tower.
I filter my mailservers and I like the results.:)
But just don't add those filters without thinking about what you are doing.
Take SPEWS as an example(others apply as well), I am not using them myself at the moment. If you use the service, you should also know that entire subnet's of ISP's have been blocked because they failed to take action to people spamming.
Now I like to keep spammers out of my mailserver but when you choose to use the filtering, you are joining the statement: "So this ISP is bad, we shut them out and hope they will go out of biz.". And maybe it would be for the greater good if the filtering indeed caused them to close down their company. But you need to be aware that you are taking this standpoint, not just "I don't like spam and won't have it" but every company that are connected though the bad ISP are affected as well, even the ones that does not spam anyone.
Does anyone know if support for the SX-6000 controller will be included?
According to this mail from Søren
Schmidt, he had added them to current in July.
I am not too familiar in how it works with the updates.
I saw that 4.6.2 could see the driver, although as TX-100's think, but when it came to see the drives as one, it failed and the installation found no discs to install to.
Just take a look at a "idle" gnutella node, before supernodes or whatever they call them, I could easy spot the times where I had run it, by the graphs in mrtg. Everytime I got a steady 50 kilobytes out every second.
It's a ufo, and they have just made this cropcircle with a binary message in it.
hmm,,, naaah, me thinks it's just a rock:)
And what classifies an object as a planet, shouldn't have a certain size or something? I remember something about a planet being "downgraded".
One good thing about the scanning.
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I normally hate every attempt to snoop my systems. But I can see one good thing about the X-Box chip scanning online.
Now, I don't have a X-box or even played with it, so I don't know all that the chip mods can do.
But let's assume that the gaming network catches on and there will be some very popular online games on the x-box. Couldn't one imagine that some would produce mod-chips that enabled the user to cheat the games in some way? Either by a function in the chip or by modified games.
Cheating ruined my enjoyment with playing Counterstrike( that and the games was getting old), so I would like to play a game where I was sure that nobody cheated. With every major game coming out these days, there's a constant battle with cheats, so the checking of the system could be a way to ensure a fair game.
Still I agree that it sucks and the fact that some servers insisted on scanning my files on my PC for cheats, before I could join a Counterstrike server, really made me say enough is enough. The X-box is not a pc, so maybe most people will not find it quite as bad. I don't know, I'm not going to buy a X-box anyway.
It's good, very good indeed, but I am still looking for a groupware solution. I am working with different startup companies from time to time and when i get the chance to get UNIX in from the start, it's great.:) And with *BSD, linux, whatever you can get a fileserver webserver, router, firewall up and running. So I need a groupware system with email, calendar etc, like you get with Notes, Exchange, GroupWise etc. You should also be able to get agents to sync with your PDA's. I remember seeing a Suse dist. with Notes once, but is it still available and Notes seems like a big mouthful when you are only 10 people. But then again there's room to grow with it.
Well, it seems that some just don't care about figuring out what's it is all about, just as long as there is a cool story, like this. So how is the average reader supposed to get a open view/opinion of the subject. Of course when people read stories like this the public view of it all will crawl towards the dark side.
Now I think we're in the year 2002.
What I find amazing is that scientists until now have assumed that it was some sort of glue, I mean how much work would it take to figure out that it wasn't glue.
Ok so maybe because nobody cared and the glue explanation was an answer that everybody was happy with.
I remember my first expirence with the internet. A dialup line to a unix box, it did cost a fortune.
The amount of machines was small and there were no such thing as a web browser.
Personally I found it to be a great source of lyrics and guitar tabs in ascii format. Could find a tab for every song I wanted to play.
The signal to noise level was good since it was free for spam, ads. etc.
It had little use for my daily work, a few computer companies(like HP) had servers up where you could ftp latest patches, but mostly I had to rely on my CompuServe account to get the latest drivers and patches. The problem I remeber with my CompuServe account was that there were no dial in lines in my country, it came later on though.
I remeber that hardly any of my friends or co-workers found it interesting, I got the account from by boss who had ordered but didn't really find any use for it.
I have always been hooked on computers my primary drive for working with them is that I like the concept of making them work for me, and when I got this fancy new internet console, it was interesting simply by the fact that could access a computer on the other side of the world. Normally one would dial a BBS locally and sometimes when one could afford the 2$ pr min. for a call to the US, I would try it with one eye on my watch.
When the place I worked at later on, got the first internet connection with the fancy new blazing fast ISDN standard(still to expensive for private users), the new mosaic browser came to my attention and we had to open up for port 80 since no one was using the connection for browsing.
I also remember something about we couldn't access all parts of the internet. There was some US backbone parts that were closed, that only got open to us because we were a goverment owned research institution so we could get access to the same lines as the US univ.
Then we started running dual IDSN and my friends had begun showing interest into that internet thing and their envy were hard to hide for them. I woked in a place where I could download with 14 kilobytes pr second!!!. Then we got our 256kb line and I had my friends visiting me at work, just to see this line where I could download with over 20 Kilobytes pr second.
Ah, and these days, no one is amazed by my 2048 Kbit ADSL line with 512Kbit upstream that I have at home....
Once there were a time where we pathed our Windows machine because we concerned about the security of our machine.
Now we think twice about install a patch because we are concerned about the security of our machine.
And about the new EULA's, it can be a Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, AIX, Solaris, Mac or whatever. I would never want my machine to update some components by itself. For the machine on my desk, I could live with it. But I do have machines running, doing more important tasks where I like to be completly in charge of what's updated.
Sure, it requires more work and attention, but what if the automatic installation of a patch could have implications that would render the service that the machine provides useless, or even worse the entire machine.
That's why you would choose to install updates by yourself. This enables you(with proper documentation) to pinpoint if a update is causing problems with a service, decide if the lack of the update is a threat to the security or uptime of the machine. And you can choose roll back to a previous state to correct the problem.
So while a automatic update is great idea for those without any knowledge about their personal computer that they have at home in their living room, I would never run a system where I could not choose myself if I want to use the automatic updates.
Quote from the interview: "We build to a climax and then the last ten minutes we need to really 'go, go, go, go go!'.
I have always hated that, 35 minutes of the universe going under until someone invents a transplaxmo-sub-dehumidifier that they attach to the microtubularinjectors of some other thingy, and bingo, we have saved the world. Always seems that they are going on with the story until someone realizes that there's too much content for one show and then, presto, they find a solution by thinking up some new gadets, that will end the show in 4 minutes.
In other news, the first WarPost was observed on slashdot, here,, today,,, in this post.
A new website is in the works to catalog all WarPosts and will go online next week.
Meanwhile, here's a short description of the signatures:
(*) WarPost with comments
(!) WarPost to gain karma points
(O) WarPost without any comments
(l7) WarPost from one who wants to be cool too.
(!=) WarPost from Perl writer.
(<?) WarPost from PHP writer.
(<) Warpost from Windows "webmaster"
I'd rather say that people on Internet2 must be used to fast high quality lines where you don't really think about the size of the files.
Ah, to work directly connected to the backbone, and here I am on my slow 2mbit line
Now I live in a place where we do have a ID card, although very low tech.
I think this card looks cool but there is a couple of issues.
Once this new standard is in place everywhere, image having a faulty card. With all the gadets on it, I'd say you would have to take better care of it than your PDA.
So a lot of places would require you to show this card, like taking a loan, getting a card to renting videos, etc. Would I like every shop be able to view all the data that the card could contain. I don't think so.
I would be good to get a single standard id, that is accepted and hard/impossible to fake and that everyone knows what look like.
It seems to me that the current databases of information has shown to be less than 100% correct, ahrm. So it would be needed to verify each and everyone from scratch so give the card any value. What use is it that you know that the card indeed belongs to the person who carries it, if that information was wrong to begin with.
Now, I haven't seen any of those new fancy thingy's. But is it not a problem that the single images slides by instead of being presented as single images with a shutter blocking them until they are in the right place. The only thing I can think of was those old wheels with a image inside where your would turn the wheel, but even those had(if I remember correctly) small cracks between the images so you viewed the images from outside the wheel and the the small holes made sure that you only saw it as a, mostly, still image.
So with the windows close by the wall and the images racing by will it not only be a blur?.
One could make a fancy device that would see when a window was at the right position to the image and then light it up with a strobe light or something.
That part I hate the most about installing W2K is not the installation itself. It's all the post installation crap.
Before you have installed all patches, you have rebooted 20 times. But then again, I don't install W2K very often so the people with Windoze skills might not hit that yes-to-reboot button everytime.
And their web-update thingy, wouldn't let me install patches in only 256 colors. It was about that time I ended my experiment with checking out W2K, so I exchanged the CD in the drive with FreeBSD which was what the machine was intended for in the first place. And I am still bugged by the fact that we still get so many new machines with Windoze licenses even though we have no use for them.
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Since 9/11, I have been doing a lot for different companies to prevent the load problems like the ones caused by the event.
Stuff like load balancing and caching appliance boxes had helped a lot and had proven to handle loads 4 times what came at 9/11 without even slowing down.
Hmm, my Sony TV did cost $1500 for at 29" (6 years ago I think). of course I could have gotten their cheaper version for half the price. But I wanted the one with all the SCART,composite,S-VHS connections in the back and front, with the digital cam filter(I think it is called), being able to play both NTSC, PAL etc. and no other had that that really black screen they all where light gray.
Well, I had my laserdiscs, had my prologic surround sound none of which had caught on here in Europe(and not available in stores) so people were always amazed to see and hear it. heh. But these days I haven't even half of it plugged in anymore.
Have been thinking about buying a DVD player, but it's just that I don't really watch many movies any more. However now that they have begun shipping Simpsons on DVD, I might have to get one anyway.
True, but the displays are often small with limited resolution and colors so you can apply a fair deal of compression. But of course it doesn't leave room for a movie, for that you need one of new Nokia phones with lots of memory.
One could see this as a proof of concept or the opposite depending on how it works in real life. Take WAP as a example, sounded great but real life use of it is a pain in the butt.
RIAA's efforts paying off. eew! :) They use it, focused, for the things it is good at and are not addicted, surfing around all day, like me. :) These people wants to use the internet but has not been offered any alternative.
Ok, so there came a new media, a new concept, the world wide web, powered by the internet.
Every single company with a product have tried to wrap itself around it, make their product up to date. Some people failed and some had success.
The only one who were sitting on their hands were the entire music industry, ignoring what was going on. While more than one generation now has embraced the internet into their daily lives as a natural part of it, the music industry still keeps pretending it's a brand new thing. When your friends comes and visit you, their kids are not amazed that you have a internet connection, no, if you can say you have a 2mbit connection, then you might be able to boast a little.
So now "we" have educated people that the only way you can get music from the internet is by using P2P software or the likes. There are no alternative. Just about everybody knows that this internet thing is a great resource for getting information about just about everything and yet there is this big black hole when it comes to music.
A couple of years ago, one might say it was time for them to get their act together but now they have a major salvage operation on their hands and it am sure it's not helping telling people that they are criminals without being able to point them in a direction to a legal alternative.
So many people have embraced the use of the internet today, I have family members who I never would have thought would ever own a PC who now has one, uses the internet. Hey, these people even have a more "healty" attitude towards it than me.
They don't have "banner filters", hell they even have digged out their credit card to pay for Real Player, go figure. And still the music industry can't figure out how to make one cent on the internet.
Of course the fact that there is no legal option, does not make it right but it sure is a lot easier to show people what you thing they are doing wrong if you can show them what you think is right, and buy-the-CD is not going to cut it.
I know, they won't settle for less than total control. Unless they can be 100% sure that it's unbreakable, they won't use it. Maybe that wouldn't be such an issue if they had been able to form the right mind-set from the beginning.(I know, sounds evil). It comes back to what I mentioned before, now we have people growing up with the internet and have learned how you get music which happens to be the wrong way.
I have no sympathy for those whining bastards what so ever, they have had plenty of time to figure out a solution. It's just that 100% control thing I guess.
As long as they are refusing to rethink their entire business strategy and keeps fighting those windmills they are in a never ending battle.
Of course the winds may turn if they can manage to slip their big brother software on Joe sixpacks pc but then again people might also decide that the product they have to offer is not worth the choking feeling of the iron hand.
And then there is the entire issue of them only pushing their low quality crap. I like music made by people who love making music, not by people who love to see themself on TV. But I see no one trolling anything else than a new pair of tits that might can sing.
All they semms to want to sell is those "listen to the CD 10 times and trow it away" band. Even most new rock bands these days seems to be so damn molded into something where the image is not about the content of the CD but the cover that the teenage girls can get wet with. All music that gets a decent promotion or heavy rotation on MTV, is in the "buy, listen once and throw away" category. So now that we have taught everyone that music is only entertainment and not an artform, how can anyone wonder that people don't have any respect for it or those that perform.
Ok, we can all look at Database solutions from IBM, Oracle, Microsoft and other and see the great features they have.
But there is one very important thing about MySQL and the other free databases.
Without them I would never have been able to make my own websites and applications. If the only databases available were ones that you would have to pay for, the internet would look very different.
I got into making websites with a database backend because I could download one, install and run it for free. If I had to pay for one, I would never have begun working with them and would never have discovered how powerful it is to have all your information in a database.
So I like many others, learned about databases and in the process discovered what I could do with a free database and saw the features in the non-free databases that the free ones lacked.
I have made many small applications for internal/intranet use on MySQL. They would never have been made if I first had to find the money to get a database. After I showed the concept of my application, some of these moved on and got on the "official" system.
So bitch about the free systems, but I still say they have introduced a lot of people to the wonderful world of databases.
So the issue here is should you run your mission critical systems on databases like MySQL?
There is no single answer to this, like in many other projects what you should do is to look at what tools is best for the work at hand. Don't use a hammer to paint the walls, there is no need to buy and electrical screwdriver if you only need to place one screw. On the other hand if your initial stages of your project shows that you might want to build an entire house at one point, it might be a good idea to plan ahead and get the tools that will fit in the long run.
The ones from IBM, Oracle and Microsoft, offers the more than just a db, you can also get an entire platform to build you application on, fx. if you are building anoter e-commerce website, so the idea of getting one of those DBs might not be based on the database itself but also on the development enviroment that's available around it. As I said, in a perfect world you don't define the project based on the tools at hand, but but define what the end result should be and then select the correct tools to get to that. Sadly it is often seen that people have already choosen their tools before they have fully defined the goals of their project. The result is often a product that does not hit right on the spot of what they wanted and countless hours are wasted working on workarounds(making the hammer work as a screwdriver) and compromises that leaves the customer with a feeling that they didn't quite get what they wanted.
And then of course there is the stories of customers wanting to drive in that screw with a hammer and the companies promising that they can make the hammer do that leaving both developers and customer unhappy, but that's another story.
I think I'll keep my JBL SB-5. I can deliver all those sounds that you can't hear but feel. :) A cool device with 4 speakers inside where they are facing eachother 2 by 2 in 3 chambers. PDF tech doc.
I have built subs for my car, but the only problems is that even when you get the sizes calculations right, it just doesn't always sound right. So this time I have settled with a pre-built one, the advantage here was the I tried a few in my car to find the one that sounded right in my car.
There are many options and it is great NOT to see these ugly antennas everywhere.
Here is some examples, fake tress, a fake window, or a cross on a church tower.
Which reminds me that rollercoaster tycoon v2 is out soon.
The old one has always been installed on my notebook, with the addon packs and have provided hours of fun when I have been stuck in a boring hotel.
I filter my mailservers and I like the results. :)
But just don't add those filters without thinking about what you are doing.
Take SPEWS as an example(others apply as well), I am not using them myself at the moment. If you use the service, you should also know that entire subnet's of ISP's have been blocked because they failed to take action to people spamming.
Now I like to keep spammers out of my mailserver but when you choose to use the filtering, you are joining the statement: "So this ISP is bad, we shut them out and hope they will go out of biz.". And maybe it would be for the greater good if the filtering indeed caused them to close down their company. But you need to be aware that you are taking this standpoint, not just "I don't like spam and won't have it" but every company that are connected though the bad ISP are affected as well, even the ones that does not spam anyone.
Does anyone know if support for the SX-6000 controller will be included?
According to this mail from Søren Schmidt, he had added them to current in July.
I am not too familiar in how it works with the updates.
I saw that 4.6.2 could see the driver, although as TX-100's think, but when it came to see the drives as one, it failed and the installation found no discs to install to.
Just take a look at a "idle" gnutella node, before supernodes or whatever they call them, I could easy spot the times where I had run it, by the graphs in mrtg. Everytime I got a steady 50 kilobytes out every second.
It's a ufo, and they have just made this cropcircle with a binary message in it.
:)
hmm,,, naaah, me thinks it's just a rock
And what classifies an object as a planet, shouldn't have a certain size or something? I remember something about a planet being "downgraded".
I normally hate every attempt to snoop my systems. But I can see one good thing about the X-Box chip scanning online.
Now, I don't have a X-box or even played with it, so I don't know all that the chip mods can do. But let's assume that the gaming network catches on and there will be some very popular online games on the x-box. Couldn't one imagine that some would produce mod-chips that enabled the user to cheat the games in some way? Either by a function in the chip or by modified games.
Cheating ruined my enjoyment with playing Counterstrike( that and the games was getting old), so I would like to play a game where I was sure that nobody cheated. With every major game coming out these days, there's a constant battle with cheats, so the checking of the system could be a way to ensure a fair game.
Still I agree that it sucks and the fact that some servers insisted on scanning my files on my PC for cheats, before I could join a Counterstrike server, really made me say enough is enough. The X-box is not a pc, so maybe most people will not find it quite as bad. I don't know, I'm not going to buy a X-box anyway.
It's good, very good indeed, but I am still looking for a groupware solution. I am working with different startup companies from time to time and when i get the chance to get UNIX in from the start, it's great. :) And with *BSD, linux, whatever you can get a fileserver webserver, router, firewall up and running. So I need a groupware system with email, calendar etc, like you get with Notes, Exchange, GroupWise etc. You should also be able to get agents to sync with your PDA's. I remember seeing a Suse dist. with Notes once, but is it still available and Notes seems like a big mouthful when you are only 10 people. But then again there's room to grow with it.
Well, it seems that some just don't care about figuring out what's it is all about, just as long as there is a cool story, like this. So how is the average reader supposed to get a open view/opinion of the subject. Of course when people read stories like this the public view of it all will crawl towards the dark side.
Now I think we're in the year 2002.
What I find amazing is that scientists until now have assumed that it was some sort of glue, I mean how much work would it take to figure out that it wasn't glue.
Ok so maybe because nobody cared and the glue explanation was an answer that everybody was happy with.
I remember my first expirence with the internet. A dialup line to a unix box, it did cost a fortune.
The amount of machines was small and there were no such thing as a web browser.
Personally I found it to be a great source of lyrics and guitar tabs in ascii format. Could find a tab for every song I wanted to play.
The signal to noise level was good since it was free for spam, ads. etc.
It had little use for my daily work, a few computer companies(like HP) had servers up where you could ftp latest patches, but mostly I had to rely on my CompuServe account to get the latest drivers and patches.
The problem I remeber with my CompuServe account was that there were no dial in lines in my country, it came later on though.
I remeber that hardly any of my friends or co-workers found it interesting, I got the account from by boss who had ordered but didn't really find any use for it.
I have always been hooked on computers my primary drive for working with them is that I like the concept of making them work for me, and when I got this fancy new internet console, it was interesting simply by the fact that could access a computer on the other side of the world. Normally one would dial a BBS locally and sometimes when one could afford the 2$ pr min. for a call to the US, I would try it with one eye on my watch.
When the place I worked at later on, got the first internet connection with the fancy new blazing fast ISDN standard(still to expensive for private users), the new mosaic browser came to my attention and we had to open up for port 80 since no one was using the connection for browsing.
I also remember something about we couldn't access all parts of the internet. There was some US backbone parts that were closed, that only got open to us because we were a goverment owned research institution so we could get access to the same lines as the US univ.
Then we started running dual IDSN and my friends had begun showing interest into that internet thing and their envy were hard to hide for them. I woked in a place where I could download with 14 kilobytes pr second!!!. Then we got our 256kb line and I had my friends visiting me at work, just to see this line where I could download with over 20 Kilobytes pr second.
Ah, and these days, no one is amazed by my 2048 Kbit ADSL line with 512Kbit upstream that I have at home....
Once there were a time where we pathed our Windows machine because we concerned about the security of our machine.
Now we think twice about install a patch because we are concerned about the security of our machine.
And about the new EULA's, it can be a Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, AIX, Solaris, Mac or whatever. I would never want my machine to update some components by itself. For the machine on my desk, I could live with it. But I do have machines running, doing more important tasks where I like to be completly in charge of what's updated.
Sure, it requires more work and attention, but what if the automatic installation of a patch could have implications that would render the service that the machine provides useless, or even worse the entire machine.
That's why you would choose to install updates by yourself. This enables you(with proper documentation) to pinpoint if a update is causing problems with a service, decide if the lack of the update is a threat to the security or uptime of the machine. And you can choose roll back to a previous state to correct the problem.
So while a automatic update is great idea for those without any knowledge about their personal computer that they have at home in their living room, I would never run a system where I could not choose myself if I want to use the automatic updates.
Quote from the interview: "We build to a climax and then the last ten minutes we need to really 'go, go, go, go go!'.
I have always hated that, 35 minutes of the universe going under until someone invents a transplaxmo-sub-dehumidifier that they attach to the microtubularinjectors of some other thingy, and bingo, we have saved the world.
Always seems that they are going on with the story until someone realizes that there's too much content for one show and then, presto, they find a solution by thinking up some new gadets, that will end the show in 4 minutes.
Not that I don't like to watch the shows.:)
In other news, the first WarPost was observed on slashdot, here,, today,,, in this post.
A new website is in the works to catalog all WarPosts and will go online next week.
Meanwhile, here's a short description of the signatures:
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I'd rather say that people on Internet2 must be used to fast high quality lines where you don't really think about the size of the files.
Ah, to work directly connected to the backbone, and here I am on my slow 2mbit line
Now I live in a place where we do have a ID card, although very low tech.
I think this card looks cool but there is a couple of issues.
Once this new standard is in place everywhere, image having a faulty card. With all the gadets on it, I'd say you would have to take better care of it than your PDA.
So a lot of places would require you to show this card, like taking a loan, getting a card to renting videos, etc. Would I like every shop be able to view all the data that the card could contain. I don't think so.
I would be good to get a single standard id, that is accepted and hard/impossible to fake and that everyone knows what look like.
It seems to me that the current databases of information has shown to be less than 100% correct, ahrm. So it would be needed to verify each and everyone from scratch so give the card any value. What use is it that you know that the card indeed belongs to the person who carries it, if that information was wrong to begin with.
Now, I haven't seen any of those new fancy thingy's. But is it not a problem that the single images slides by instead of being presented as single images with a shutter blocking them until they are in the right place.
The only thing I can think of was those old wheels with a image inside where your would turn the wheel, but even those had(if I remember correctly) small cracks between the images so you viewed the images from outside the wheel and the the small holes made sure that you only saw it as a, mostly, still image.
So with the windows close by the wall and the images racing by will it not only be a blur?.
One could make a fancy device that would see when a window was at the right position to the image and then light it up with a strobe light or something.
Shh, it's a secret!!!
That part I hate the most about installing W2K is not the installation itself. It's all the post installation crap.
Before you have installed all patches, you have rebooted 20 times. But then again, I don't install W2K very often so the people with Windoze skills might not hit that yes-to-reboot button everytime.
And their web-update thingy, wouldn't let me install patches in only 256 colors. It was about that time I ended my experiment with checking out W2K, so I exchanged the CD in the drive with FreeBSD which was what the machine was intended for in the first place. And I am still bugged by the fact that we still get so many new machines with Windoze licenses even though we have no use for them.