Here's the letter I received from Serverbeach yesterday afternoon:
July 17, 2003
Notice to Customers: Maintenance Window, July 18, 2003 - 12:00-2:00 am CST
Dear XXXX:
This letter is to inform you of a network maintenance window that will take
place this evening, July 18, 2003, from 12:00-2:00 am central time.
We received an advisory today, sent to all Cisco IOS customers, that requires a network patch to ensure ongoing security and performance of the system. We have made the decision that, given the urgency of this notice, we should install the patch this evening. Customers may experience a disruption or reduction in network performance during this window.
We maintain our commitment to providing the highest level of service and network performance for our customers. Thank you for your business.
Feel free to contact me with questions or comments at ####@serverbeach.com.
These threats have been against sites that blatantly posted links to known copyrighted material.
The sites mentioned where havens for movie rips, commercial music, anime, tv shows and commercial pornography. They were sent cease and desist letters and I'm fairly confident that if they chose to reopen, sharing only legitimate files they would slip right back into lawyers blind spot.
Bittorrent as a technology is doing fine and I'd look forward to seeing its legitimate use continue to increase. Slashdot is a prime example of a site that is ahead of the technical curve there, making honest and informed use of this beneficial (mostly to us) technology.
I don't think so. Bittorrent is just going to go back to be what it was really designed as: a great way to distribute legal files.
The Torrentse's and the Bytemonsoon's where just taking advantage of a hole in the media companies radar.
I'm surprized they lasted as long as they did.
But I think value *can* be added. I agree if you put a price on something that you can already get for free you've got a tuff sell, but thats not what I'm talking about.
WineX gives you voting, nicely packaged releases and propreitary extentions. Basically you end up with a very proffesional package at a reasonable price.
Of course you can get it for free, but only some of it and you have to compile and install it yourself.
I think OSS is growing beyond its original roots and projects are becoming more complicated *and* more neccisary then ever before. There is a market there and I think the principals of OSS can be maintained while creating a marketplace that can support its development.
I mean we can't keep asking these projects give more without being willing to give a little ourselves. Proffesional graphics require artists, which in turn require finances. I like well designed, well thought out interfaces and I'd pay a little extra for those kind of features in a heartbeat (Mandrake Club member!).
..is that a lot of business won't use open source *because* its free. There has got to be a way to leverage that.
I work for a company that would ask a few quick questions before dismissing more OSS for business use.
What about mixed licensing? Main project becomes a commercial project (with expected enhancments, gui, stability) and feeds back into the pool after so long.
Or the club. Mandrake or WineX style. Members get to vote on what features get more focus.
I've been thinking about this more and more from the other side of the coin, as a young OSS user who would like to support developers *and* would like to see more polished projects.
Audacity is a great example of a really cool open source project that could also use a little shine. One way or the other its a terrific project (if you haven't guessed, I'm a user).
What about getting artists to sign fee waivers? Would this be legal? I'm preparing to start my own internet radio station and have started wondering about the feasablity of broadcasting only artists who agree to permit me limited (for web radio only) rights to play their music.
I've come across a few examples of waivers (or similar) on the web, but not much.
This is actually my project for the day and I just happened to come here first (out of habit).
Anyhow, if anyone out here has any ideas I'd love to hear it. I'll be playing 100% independant music and don't expect I'd have much trouble getting a reasonable waiver signed by enough artists to give me a reasonable play-catalog.
TeamSpeak was primarily designed to work for people who are behind a NAT
router (share internet). Further more it was designed for gamers. That mean
to us it had to use as little bandwidth as possible, while having a
reasonable voice quality. We think we achieved that with the 650 bytes/s
maximum CELP codec.
Support for lower latency. (Theoretically as low as 50 ms)
Support for better quality codecs. (CELP and GSM)
Support for user based logins.
Support for per channel passwords.
Support for temporary channels.
Support for sub channels.
Support for moderated channels for conferencing.
Linux client.
TeamSpeak uses fewer threads on a server now. Helps to conserve resources.
TeamSpeak Super Server design. One program can start several TS servers.
Web based management interface to the server.
TeamSpeak Client/Server SDK's, for including in your games/applications.
I used it with my Tribes 2 clan and it worked pretty nicely.
Unless its something like 100% accurate and doesn't leave a spam folder I still have to cull through to check for mislabeled emails.
Bayesian filtering gets a lot of attention and I'm guessing mainly because its such a technical solution, but really its just another hack.
So far I've had the best luck with an old fashioned challenge-response type system (ala bluebottle.com) and while its not as sexy sounding as Bayesian filtering, its saving me the sheer frustration of having to weed through other peoples crap advertisements or worrying about dropped emails (except of course automated emails, which I have to use a more spam friendly account for).
If you really want to get away from that wimpy GUI-ness what you need is a real operating system.;-)
Personally I consider Mandrake's gui configuration stuff less of a problem and more of a time saver.
Extra Time=Fun mmmmm fun.
A little out of touch with Linux desktops?
on
Bill Gates On Linux
·
· Score: 2, Interesting
First (and I'm not trying to be a smart ass here) wasn't Windows a direct knock-off of Apple's interface? That alone would make it more appropriate to complain nothing much risky or new has been done in an even longer time.
But thats not really the case. While the basic KDE and GNOME interfaces do seem to be trying to ease users in, there have been plenty of alternatives that look nothing like the standard Windows interface. Blackbox is my personal favorite, nothing but a clean desktop and the applications I'm currently using. For convenience I also use the KDE kicker (example) to provide clickable links and additional eye candy.
Sites like kde-look.org provide great examples of UI enhancements both conceptual and implemented (see SuperKaramba or Slicker). Of course freshmeat.net is an excellent resource for just about every imaginable interface. If theres one thing Linux is good for its developers being free to experiment with new ideas.
But sites like ADP still exist (and ADP is one of the leading payroll processing companies in America). The fact is I cant do business without Internet Explorer, I am locked in to it.
Of course its even more frustrating for the average user, trying to explain why two pieces of software apparently designed to do the same thing, but can't, makes one seem better then the other.
Even worse, the web developers who create these sites are fairly nonplused by this issue (what's Mozilla's market share?). Standards compliance still seems like something of a non-issue, but I really hope tabbed browsing and pop-up blocking continue to help Mozilla make inroads (my mom discovered Firebird on her own and loves it).
Still, reading the announcement for Netscape I was hoping for some real gee-wiz factor. Opera announcements always sound so starry eyed. Just another Netscape without any fanfare won't generate much new interest (do they want to fail?).
Netscape/Mozilla vs. Internet Explorer..
on
Netscape 7.1 Released
·
· Score: 2, Interesting
Problem with the browser war is as an employee or a student there is a good chance you will *need* Internet Explorer, but what's the chance of needing Netscape?
The business I work for tends to do a lot of work online, things like banking and payroll. We use the ADP web entry system (buggy) that is not compatible with Mozilla (haven't tried Netscape) we also have a international booking system which is not compatible with Netscape/Mozilla. A few key features like this is more then enough to turn the average use off of anything but the tool that works. I can't think a single example where it was necessary to use Mozilla instead of IE.
I know none of this is really about Netscape or Mozilla, but Microsoft has their market pretty locked down with proprietary extensions and incompatibilities.
Mozilla will win some users with features like pop-up blocking and on-the-fly html editing. But we need a real zinger to actually pull people away from a built=in browser that works on a larger part of the sites people visit.
I've converted my work place over to Mozilla, but at least once a month someone comes to me complaining that they can't get a page to load and I have to tell them to use Internet Explorer (anyone who uses a site requiring activex more often already knows).
Seriously. And those with excess cash. I was involved in a Tribes 2 clan for quite a while and it would really impress me (some of the systems people put together for the competative edge). Players that don't lag frag. Just thought I'd throw that one out there too.
..to get away from calling it Linux. Richard made some pretty good points in a recent editorial at ZDNet. GNU/Linux aside, maybe its time to stop identifying with the kernel so much and start naming the specific system. As in:
Mandrake
Red Hat
Debian
Gentoo
FreeBSD
GNU/Linux system
Open Source movement
GPL
At least that way Red Hat could be Red Hat and these hackers could just be open source nuts or GNU/Linux terrorists. Or maybe not.
I don't want to look at the spam, ever. I want it to go to/dev/null before I even download my messages.
This is at best a band-aid and with the usual mistakes and slip-ups it hardly seems like a very good one. I mean if I have to sort through my junk box to check for mislabeled emails its not doing me so much of a favor.
All this talk about smart filtering and I'm starting to feel like you've missed the point, your still getting spam. Who cares if its semi-sorted.
Slashdot Mirror
These threats have been against sites that blatantly posted links to known copyrighted material.
The sites mentioned where havens for movie rips, commercial music, anime, tv shows and commercial pornography. They were sent cease and desist letters and I'm fairly confident that if they chose to reopen, sharing only legitimate files they would slip right back into lawyers blind spot.
Bittorrent as a technology is doing fine and I'd look forward to seeing its legitimate use continue to increase. Slashdot is a prime example of a site that is ahead of the technical curve there, making honest and informed use of this beneficial (mostly to us) technology.
I don't think so. Bittorrent is just going to go back to be what it was really designed as: a great way to distribute legal files. The Torrentse's and the Bytemonsoon's where just taking advantage of a hole in the media companies radar. I'm surprized they lasted as long as they did.
And looks great, at least on my Mandrake system.
But I think value *can* be added. I agree if you put a price on something that you can already get for free you've got a tuff sell, but thats not what I'm talking about.
WineX gives you voting, nicely packaged releases and propreitary extentions. Basically you end up with a very proffesional package at a reasonable price.
Of course you can get it for free, but only some of it and you have to compile and install it yourself.
I think OSS is growing beyond its original roots and projects are becoming more complicated *and* more neccisary then ever before. There is a market there and I think the principals of OSS can be maintained while creating a marketplace that can support its development.
I mean we can't keep asking these projects give more without being willing to give a little ourselves. Proffesional graphics require artists, which in turn require finances. I like well designed, well thought out interfaces and I'd pay a little extra for those kind of features in a heartbeat (Mandrake Club member!).
- Is it commercial.
- Does it offer support.
- How long are upgrades included.
- Does it do what I need.
"Its free!" is not the right answer here.That said they love Mozilla.
What about mixed licensing? Main project becomes a commercial project (with expected enhancments, gui, stability) and feeds back into the pool after so long.
Or the club. Mandrake or WineX style. Members get to vote on what features get more focus.
I've been thinking about this more and more from the other side of the coin, as a young OSS user who would like to support developers *and* would like to see more polished projects.
Audacity is a great example of a really cool open source project that could also use a little shine. One way or the other its a terrific project (if you haven't guessed, I'm a user).
I've come across a few examples of waivers (or similar) on the web, but not much. This is actually my project for the day and I just happened to come here first (out of habit). Anyhow, if anyone out here has any ideas I'd love to hear it. I'll be playing 100% independant music and don't expect I'd have much trouble getting a reasonable waiver signed by enough artists to give me a reasonable play-catalog.
<:-O
Opps!
I always thought it was funny how we furiously value our freedom with one hand and then mindlessly give it away with the other.
It's not bad spelling its a glitch in your system. ;-)
Unless its something like 100% accurate and doesn't leave a spam folder I still have to cull through to check for mislabeled emails.
Bayesian filtering gets a lot of attention and I'm guessing mainly because its such a technical solution, but really its just another hack.
So far I've had the best luck with an old fashioned challenge-response type system (ala bluebottle.com) and while its not as sexy sounding as Bayesian filtering, its saving me the sheer frustration of having to weed through other peoples crap advertisements or worrying about dropped emails (except of course automated emails, which I have to use a more spam friendly account for).
If you really want to get away from that wimpy GUI-ness what you need is a real operating system. ;-)
Personally I consider Mandrake's gui configuration stuff less of a problem and more of a time saver.
Extra Time=Fun mmmmm fun.
First (and I'm not trying to be a smart ass here) wasn't Windows a direct knock-off of Apple's interface? That alone would make it more appropriate to complain nothing much risky or new has been done in an even longer time.
But thats not really the case. While the basic KDE and GNOME interfaces do seem to be trying to ease users in, there have been plenty of alternatives that look nothing like the standard Windows interface. Blackbox is my personal favorite, nothing but a clean desktop and the applications I'm currently using. For convenience I also use the KDE kicker (example) to provide clickable links and additional eye candy.
Sites like kde-look.org provide great examples of UI enhancements both conceptual and implemented (see SuperKaramba or Slicker). Of course freshmeat.net is an excellent resource for just about every imaginable interface. If theres one thing Linux is good for its developers being free to experiment with new ideas.
But sites like ADP still exist (and ADP is one of the leading payroll processing companies in America). The fact is I cant do business without Internet Explorer, I am locked in to it.
Of course its even more frustrating for the average user, trying to explain why two pieces of software apparently designed to do the same thing, but can't, makes one seem better then the other.
Even worse, the web developers who create these sites are fairly nonplused by this issue (what's Mozilla's market share?). Standards compliance still seems like something of a non-issue, but I really hope tabbed browsing and pop-up blocking continue to help Mozilla make inroads (my mom discovered Firebird on her own and loves it).
Still, reading the announcement for Netscape I was hoping for some real gee-wiz factor. Opera announcements always sound so starry eyed. Just another Netscape without any fanfare won't generate much new interest (do they want to fail?).
Problem with the browser war is as an employee or a student there is a good chance you will *need* Internet Explorer, but what's the chance of needing Netscape?
The business I work for tends to do a lot of work online, things like banking and payroll. We use the ADP web entry system (buggy) that is not compatible with Mozilla (haven't tried Netscape) we also have a international booking system which is not compatible with Netscape/Mozilla. A few key features like this is more then enough to turn the average use off of anything but the tool that works. I can't think a single example where it was necessary to use Mozilla instead of IE.
I know none of this is really about Netscape or Mozilla, but Microsoft has their market pretty locked down with proprietary extensions and incompatibilities.
Mozilla will win some users with features like pop-up blocking and on-the-fly html editing. But we need a real zinger to actually pull people away from a built=in browser that works on a larger part of the sites people visit.
I've converted my work place over to Mozilla, but at least once a month someone comes to me complaining that they can't get a page to load and I have to tell them to use Internet Explorer (anyone who uses a site requiring activex more often already knows).
Seriously. And those with excess cash. I was involved in a Tribes 2 clan for quite a while and it would really impress me (some of the systems people put together for the competative edge). Players that don't lag frag. Just thought I'd throw that one out there too.
..to get away from calling it Linux. Richard made some pretty good points in a recent editorial at ZDNet. GNU/Linux aside, maybe its time to stop identifying with the kernel so much and start naming the specific system. As in:
Mandrake
Red Hat
Debian
Gentoo
FreeBSD
GNU/Linux system
Open Source movement
GPL
At least that way Red Hat could be Red Hat and these hackers could just be open source nuts or GNU/Linux terrorists. Or maybe not.
I don't want to look at the spam, ever. I want it to go to /dev/null before I even download my messages.
This is at best a band-aid and with the usual mistakes and slip-ups it hardly seems like a very good one. I mean if I have to sort through my junk box to check for mislabeled emails its not doing me so much of a favor.
All this talk about smart filtering and I'm starting to feel like you've missed the point, your still getting spam. Who cares if its semi-sorted.
So while your right to direct kudos to Novell, it should be no surprise if we tend to focus more heavily on Linux (er..GNU/Linux).
Say that in a room full of people and they think your speaking in hebrew.
Point being, we shouldn't take things like that for granted when we're trying to share with non-technical people.
OCR.
Its techies. ;-)
Just not quite yet.
;-)