You're not wrong there! This project is like creating a full-scale battleship out of Lego. Ridiculous and slighlty comical - but fascinating at the same time.
>If you don't like the lack of professionalism at Slashdot, don't go here.
The man was pointing out the FACT that when/. calls attention to something like this, then OTHER PEOPLE suffer.
Don't give me this lazy "Oh yah it's like free speech, man, you don't have tuh..." cod philosophical bollocks.
We're talking about CONSEQUENCES of ACTIONS here, you fool. You come across like a 13-year old schoolboy who's just read Teach Yourself Existentialism, and I'm frankly astounded you were modded up for it.
"Ironically, a large number of the websites were defaced..."
Where is the irony in that? They move to Windows, they get hacked. Depending on your point of view that's either bad luck or just plain stupid.
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I think there might be a few "me too" replies here...
My story is similar - it took about three attempts and about two hours in total to read up and undertand the product line before working out how to actually *buy* some licenses. I'm in the the UK, I had to deal with a reseller, which in turn had to ship it from Amsterdam. After *six weeks* we finally got 10 licenses boxes and through the post. That was about four months ago.
PGP 7 was a good Windows product in my opinion, and I use a lot of Windows products from similar-sized companies as NAI. What really stood out was their utter inability to effectily market the thing.
Put your KVM switches in FIRST (before all your other stuff) in the MIDDLE of the rack, or at least in a central point within all the racks. VGA cables are always shorter than you think - and you don't want to have to move stuff about simply because you can't connect boxen to the switches.
RMS he say: Open Souce != Free Software. Therefore, Hurd fulfils political ambition of a truly free-as-in-speech kernel to go with all free-as-in-speech other bits. I think.
I heard him do one of his talks about copyright in London a few weeks ago. I was a sceptic on some of this views, but the extremity of some of them now seems to be matched by the extremity of the legislation we are now seeing around the world (DMCA, the EC thing, and now the Canadians).
I would recommend we all take his advice and boycott action that infringes the right to share information.
He must have meant "compression" - if not he's insane. No wonder nobody's replied to his post. Mind you, if he does mean compression, then it's an interesting observation he's making, if it can be proved.
Personally though, I think the whole HTTP compression thing is overblown - causes more problems than it solves sometimes, and if you're compressing to please modem users, I'd prefer to simply put a banner on my site saying "Burn your modem, you fewl".
The Act isn't explicit about email addresses as far as I know, but it certainly is implicit: data is "personal" if it can be used to identify a living person. I think most courts would not accept a defense if you tried to claim that an email address like john.doe@hotmail.com was NOT personal data. They probably would also take the same view about 122492,29910@compuserve.com as well.
Does anyone understand what this guy is talking about?
Why would anyone seriously put any effort into IP "optimisation" at this level? To get 5% faster download speeds? To save 2% off their monthly bandwidth bills?
What are we all going to start using 9600 modems or something? I'm all in favour of geek research and stuff, but this is pushing it. If you want to get stuck into IP programing and stuff, at least concentrate on some future thing like IP6!
Don't forget that quantum physics is also being applied by cryptographers and successfully encrypted packts have been sent using such means over quite long distances (over 1KM I believe).
Even if we see a huge surge in the power of quantum computing, it will NEVER be able to crack quantum cryptography. If it did, then the very laws of physics on which these principles are based would be wrong.
I would think that BeOS's time has come... and gone.
The world can only accomodate so many operating systems - and since this one was aimed at the desktop at time when Bill and his minions had 95% market share, I think it had veeery little chance to survive.
The last time I used a Mac was about a year ago and it was running OS9. Prior to that I had been using Macs a lot around about the time they were going over to PowerPC (OS7-7.5?). In between I've been using Windows (and Linux and Solaris, but I don't use X).
I've always thought that the "look and feel" thing is purely personal preference. I've never seen anyone sit down at a Mac for the first time after using Windows and go "Hey! This is easy to use!" - it's just what you're used to, not some objective good. Like saying a potato looks undeniably better than a turnip.
But the thing that has always struck me about Macs is their staggering instability. Mac users seems to accept a system crash as being OK about once a day (assuming intensive use). It was not uncommon to find apps or the whole OS crashing on me up to five times a day at one point, and that was with minimal extentions and 3rd party apps running.
Indeed - the trouble with purely procmail-based stuff like this is that it all gets a bit fiddly to set up. I'm now using SpamAssasin as well (which uses Razor, BTW) and it is very nice. A doddle to set up and maintain as well.
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At the time most people including those in power, really had no clue about the likely impact of Information Technology. My Dad (a retired diplomat) has a copy of a memo he found from the mid 1950's in which the then foreign secretary was considering the subject of demolishing the Foreign and Commonwealth Office buildings in Whitehall to make way for larger "modern" offices better able to accommodate the numbers of typists, clerks and archives that had been increasing steadily over the past fifty years. The plan was postponed on the grounds of expense - they completely failed to foresee the IT revolution, yet were only about a decade away from it. The buildings are now, if anything, too large.
In America they have the right to bear arms. This means that everything is ultimately solvable by shooting something.
While I would not advise gunning down your fellow workmates or passers-by, it HAS been tried on many occasions in the past by people in your state of mind.
I'd like to try it myself sometime, but in Britain, we do not have any similar right.
Here in the UK (home of Totally Ripoff Bandwidth Pricing (tm)), It took us 8 months to get it up and running, but at http://www.hatters.org.uk we are running just such a co-op for the past three years. We're a pretty modest operation (15 members, two servers), but there is also a more recent, but more dynamic, co-op at http://www.crosswired.org.uk.
Mind you, the price per member is about UKP120.00 each (about $250) per year.
If you can't even post to Slashdot without being absorbed in morbidity then that surely is a capitulation.
The way to show your respect is to show it in the way the British and Irish do after being subjected to terrorist attacks on their home soil: refuse to be cowed. Refuse to give in - live life as we intend to go on.
Am I the only person to spot that the list referred to in the article (and the costs quoted) conclusively proves that there is no such thing as anti-virus/worm PREVENTION? There is now only cure.
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> because it tests the extreme uses of a language
You're not wrong there! This project is like creating a full-scale battleship out of Lego. Ridiculous and slighlty comical - but fascinating at the same time.
>If you don't like the lack of professionalism at Slashdot, don't go here.
/. calls attention to something like this, then OTHER PEOPLE suffer.
The man was pointing out the FACT that when
Don't give me this lazy "Oh yah it's like free speech, man, you don't have tuh..." cod philosophical bollocks.
We're talking about CONSEQUENCES of ACTIONS here, you fool. You come across like a 13-year old schoolboy who's just read Teach Yourself Existentialism, and I'm frankly astounded you were modded up for it.
"Ironically, a large number of the websites were defaced..."
Where is the irony in that? They move to Windows, they get hacked. Depending on your point of view that's either bad luck or just plain stupid.
I think there might be a few "me too" replies here...
My story is similar - it took about three attempts and about two hours in total to read up and undertand the product line before working out how to actually *buy* some licenses. I'm in the
the UK, I had to deal with a reseller, which in turn had to ship it from Amsterdam. After *six weeks* we finally got 10 licenses boxes and through the post. That was about four months ago.
PGP 7 was a good Windows product in my opinion, and I use a lot of Windows products from similar-sized companies as NAI. What really stood out was their utter inability to effectily market the thing.
Put your KVM switches in FIRST (before all your other stuff) in the MIDDLE of the rack, or at least in a central point within all the racks. VGA cables are always shorter than you think - and you don't want to have to move stuff about simply because you can't connect boxen to the switches.
RMS he say: Open Souce != Free Software. Therefore, Hurd fulfils political ambition of a truly free-as-in-speech kernel to go with all free-as-in-speech other bits. I think.
G
http://www.stallman.org/
I heard him do one of his talks about copyright in London a few weeks ago. I was a sceptic on some of this views, but the extremity of some of them now seems to be matched by the extremity of the legislation we are now seeing around the world (DMCA, the EC thing, and now the Canadians).
I would recommend we all take his advice and boycott action that infringes the right to share information.
G
OK you talked me into it. I'm compiling mod_gzip right now.
;-)
By the morning all 88 of my web servers will be running it. If I get problems, I'll send 'em to you
G
He must have meant "compression" - if not he's insane. No wonder nobody's replied to his post. Mind you, if he does mean compression, then it's an interesting observation he's making, if it can be proved.
Personally though, I think the whole HTTP compression thing is overblown - causes more problems than it solves sometimes, and if you're compressing to please modem users, I'd prefer to simply put a banner on my site saying "Burn your modem, you fewl".
G
I thought the Critical Update Notification Tool that they brought out the other day was rather good.
That's almost certainly wrong.
The Act isn't explicit about email addresses as far as I know, but it certainly is implicit: data is "personal" if it can be used to identify a living person. I think most courts would not accept a defense if you tried to claim that an email address like john.doe@hotmail.com was NOT personal data. They probably would also take the same view about 122492,29910@compuserve.com as well.
Oh gawd yeah - wireless. I fully agree that needs all the help it can get.
I take back my previous post.
Does anyone understand what this guy is talking about?
Why would anyone seriously put any effort into IP "optimisation" at this level? To get 5% faster download speeds? To save 2% off their monthly bandwidth bills?
What are we all going to start using 9600 modems or something? I'm all in favour of geek research and stuff, but this is pushing it. If you want to get stuck into IP programing and stuff, at least concentrate on some future thing like IP6!
G
Don't forget that quantum physics is also being applied by cryptographers and successfully encrypted packts have been sent using such means over quite long distances (over 1KM I believe).
Even if we see a huge surge in the power of quantum computing, it will NEVER be able to crack quantum cryptography. If it did, then the very laws of physics on which these principles are based would be wrong.
G
I'm on a bit of a ./ use of English downer at the moment - mod me down - but what's a "false fact" when it's a home? A lie?
If it *is* a lie then why not *call* it a lie. What the's matter? Are you scared of M$?
I would think that BeOS's time has come... and gone.
The world can only accomodate so many operating systems - and since this one was aimed at the desktop at time when Bill and his minions had 95% market share, I think it had veeery little chance to survive.
The last time I used a Mac was about a year ago and it was running OS9. Prior to that I had been using Macs a lot around about the time they were going over to PowerPC (OS7-7.5?). In between I've been using Windows (and Linux and Solaris, but I don't use X).
I've always thought that the "look and feel" thing is purely personal preference. I've never seen anyone sit down at a Mac for the first time after using Windows and go "Hey! This is easy to use!" - it's just what you're used to, not some objective good. Like saying a potato looks undeniably better than a turnip.
But the thing that has always struck me about Macs is their staggering instability. Mac users seems to accept a system crash as being OK about once a day (assuming intensive use). It was not uncommon to find apps or the whole OS crashing on me up to five times a day at one point, and that was with minimal extentions and 3rd party apps running.
Is this still the case with OSX?
G
WTF does "moderately unique" mean?
Either something is unique or it's not, by crikey! Soon we'll have things described as "marginally special" or "slightly dead."
Avoiding off-topic flames like this is just ONE reason to avoid sloppy English.
Indeed - the trouble with purely procmail-based stuff like this is that it all gets a bit fiddly to set up. I'm now using SpamAssasin as well (which uses Razor, BTW) and it is very nice. A doddle to set up and maintain as well.
At the time most people including those in power, really had no clue about the likely impact of Information Technology. My Dad (a retired diplomat) has a copy of a memo he found from the mid 1950's in which the then foreign secretary was considering the subject of demolishing the Foreign and Commonwealth Office buildings in Whitehall to make way for larger "modern" offices better able to accommodate the numbers of typists, clerks and archives that had been increasing steadily over the past fifty years. The plan was postponed on the grounds of expense - they completely failed to foresee the IT revolution, yet were only about a decade away from it. The buildings are now, if anything, too large.
In America they have the right to bear arms. This means that everything is ultimately solvable by shooting something.
While I would not advise gunning down your fellow workmates or passers-by, it HAS been tried on many occasions in the past by people in your state of mind.
I'd like to try it myself sometime, but in Britain, we do not have any similar right.
Here in the UK (home of Totally Ripoff Bandwidth Pricing (tm)), It took us 8 months to get it up and running, but at http://www.hatters.org.uk we are running just such a co-op for the past three years. We're a pretty modest operation (15 members, two servers), but there is also a more recent, but more dynamic, co-op at http://www.crosswired.org.uk.
Mind you, the price per member is about UKP120.00 each (about $250) per year.
JJ
If you can't even post to Slashdot without being absorbed in morbidity then that surely is a capitulation.
The way to show your respect is to show it in the way the British and Irish do after being subjected to terrorist attacks on their home soil: refuse to be cowed. Refuse to give in - live life as we intend to go on.
Am I the only person to spot that the list referred to in the article (and the costs quoted) conclusively proves that there is no such thing as anti-virus/worm PREVENTION? There is now only cure.
G
> All of this being just a theory though. I got no idea if it can realy work.
Well, I have.
Tried it in my Dad's back yard a while ago. Fucking awesome. I used liquid NO2 as fuel though.