I am confused - you type in Google's IP address when you go there ?
I personally use google.com
Google lists IP address in it's indexes - I haven't found that for anything that I have searched for - I always end up with a FQDN.
As for replacing DNS with LDAP - lets just say you are replacing an easily proven scalable system, with something that probably won't scale to the size that you would need for true Internet scaling, oh and there is a heck of a lot more control needed for the root.
The UN isn't really about control of DNS, they are talking about control of root A, This little simple file that points to all of the TLDs and their zone servers. This is a rather important service, but frankly - if you don't like the way root A is run, create your own and point your resolvers at it. If enough people do this (you provide a better service that people want to use) root A will become irrelevant and go away. Frankly - everyone knows you can't do that, so they want to corrupt it from the inside
Look at the price of Windows 2K3 vs RHEL 4.0. Oh wait - desktop. Find me a SUPPORTED desktop Linux (and I don't mean comp.linux support either) and see what the support costs you.
The reason that Linux costs more in retail is that it is significantly harder to support by the manufacturer. At a minimum they have to write custommer support scripts for a small portion of their custommers that want Linux. Then they have to train at least some of their agents.
Now you get into the problem with Linux, I call in and say it doesn't work - well, are you running our stock, boring kernel ? Well of course not... Please reinstall 2.4.22.xyz - why should I do that, it doesn't support what I need... Thank you very much, please call back after your installation.
Linux is almost impossible to support at the desktop - it is way to customizable for that.
1. Generate a Boatload of VC Capital saying we will support Linux
2. Give away support for Free - including using Slashdot for advertising
3....
4. **** PROFIT ****
When will we stop seeing Underpants Gnome business models - Right after we see a spell checker for Slashdot posting I assume
Actually - California hasn't sent power back to Oregon for 5 years now... it only goes one way. I can't see how you could make a 2000 mile transmission 95% efficient - I'll take your word that you can however.
This completely violates the "Banana" doctrine - which of course states:
Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anyone
Why do you think they put the large powerplants out in the middle of nowhere, so that only poor people are near them, because if you tried to get a permit to build a small generator in the middle of a populated area - the enviroNazi's would shoot it down in a pile of lawsuits and environmental impact statements.
Nice idea - I have heard that transmission takes about 20-30% of our electrical output (especially when California gets its electricity from the Northern Oregon border, if not even farther away) - so anything to move the generation plant closer to the people that actually use the electricity would be a huge benefit.
Sounds nice - but here is something interesting...
The software development house is taking all the risks. Frankly - any interesting development is going to take 1-2 years to go from idea into a fully coded and tested product. They will have to purchase capital, pay developers, QA, product management, etc.
When they are close to being "Done" the risk goes down that the whole shebang will go up into shambles (ie - you are pretty sure you will get a final product out the door and be able to sell it) you bring marketting on board to start priming the channel, creating contacts, paying advertising, etc.
Yes you need marketting to determine what to build, get some product requirements, do some user studies - but that is far from a full time job in the early stages of a true startup company.
And you can't get my point that if the library has met its needs of providing simple content as cheaply as possible - at that point they are wasting MY money.
If you would like to donate money to a run down relic of a local library feel free - me I would rather have the access at home, and the books that are important to me shipped from Amazon when I need them - frankly, I get better service in both cases, and it doesn't cost nearly as much either (oh wait - you probably are sitting there not paying any taxes sitting in your parents basement so it doesn't cost you anything... The rest of us have jobs and are paying for your free services)
Yeah. Then many of those taxpayers could spend the money on cigarettes, beer, and lottery tickets rather than having you try to buy something that could benefit the community for many years.
As opposed to how long the computers will be good (what 3-4 years ???) - or the wireless access points will still function (who knows). All of these tech toys sure seem like a bunch of frivolous waste to me - Frankly I'd rather allow people the choice of buying beer, saving for their education, or anything that THEY believe will add value to their life rather than the government finding things to do with the money that it takes from its citizens
Please tell me that you don't like Elliot Spitzer.
He is the greatest drain on today's society with these random "Spitzer" taxes on non-illegal behavior. If a custommer is indeed screwed by AOL, take them to small claims court and get your 1500 bucks out of them, problem solved and I have some money to pay for my inconvienience.
Instead Spitzer gets them to give a 1.25 Million to someone (not the people harmed note), and continue on their merry way.
Realize that EVERY time Spitzer has had to go to court (rather than settling with a corperation that is more than willing to give him someone elses money) he has lost, and lost badly.
Rather than spend the money on strange new technologies that you have to uncover on the internet - why not just provide simple service, a quiet room, and more books to checkout/read.
I really hate that my library is spending money on computers, wireless, network access... How about spending the money on books, magazine subscriptions, and other things that a library needs to have.
And frankly - if you still have money left over, why not give it back to your taxpayers instead of finding random ways of spending it
after all, a lot of compilers have been written in C
A language isn't a real language until it has been implemented in itself. And in reality most compilers are written in lex/yacc/bison/etc. and then tweaked to generate the appropriate machine instructions from the parsing code.
As for parsing - I was thinking more along the lines of PERL rather than Lexigraphical Analysis.
Ah - but the joys of writing fun code is when you have to do things that you aren't supposed to do - like code that is inserted into other processes, like code that watches networking traffic, like code that watches stack frames to see if they are smashed.
So yes, if you want to write just another high level UI - you might as well never know how to do such things, but if you want to write a virus scanner, a personal firewall, or an buffer overflow prevention mechanism - you might want to look a little beyond C.
What I think is funny - is no one has come up with a way of getting C to do such things - they keep pointing out its strengths - all I said is I don't believe the statement that C is the hammer for every nail in your Computer Engineering tool box. There are things you can't do with it and things that it isn't very good at. Thanks for pointing out compiler development as well.
Now tell me, what is ONE thing you can do in C that you can't do in another language? And by another language I can mean anything from machine code, various architecture assemblers, C++, etc.. Now I would like you to list the things you CAN'T do in C, or are immensely difficult in C, but are quite easy in other languages (parsing anyone, memory management, Stack Frame manipulation, raw manipulation of registers - and no _asm bx, 12 doesn't count)
That said - yes you can not get a driver checked into the mainline Linux kernel in anything but C -- but somehow I don't think that is your target audience
Bogodynamics
Well lets see - what you are experiencing is a large quantum bogodynamic field being emitted from various people. Probably in the order of several microLenat's
first, how isn't this a violation of the first amendment garantee of freedom of assembly?
Very easy. It isn't the government taking away your right of free assembly - it is a private entity that you freely entered into an agreement with. When will people learn that your right to free speech doesn't exist in MY house - ie. if you are in my house and start ranting about something stupid, you will be thrown out... I have not violated your First Ammendment rights. Now if the government tells you that you can't say something - you have an arguement
Wasn't this the bug where microsoft "closed" ports under 1024 to non-admin accounts (like most unix boxes had) and Lotus was purposefully using a low port rather than just creating a normal effemeral port.
Lets see - you start a new security policy, and your software violates that policy... Yup - it doesn't work
Lets not forget there is one difference between these two sources...
In the case of deep throat - he was reporting on a crime that someone else committed. At no point did deep throat cross a legal line in reporting what he did to the Washington Post
In the case of the CIA leak - lets just say that who ever their source was COMMITTED a crime by leaking the name to the reporter. By committing a crime, he should be reported and punished to the full extent of the law.
Back to your regularly scheduled First Ammendment ramblings
I love surfing with flaimbait at +3 - that way you never miss the funny comments.
One man's flamebait is another man's reality. Frankly when metamoderating I tend to disagree with all flaimbaits that are obvious (posting goatse links for example).
If you are relatively homogenious - you can use the manufacturers management utilities that will do this. I haven't run across a manufacturer of decent manageable hardware that doesn't ship a management utility that does everything that you want.
If you are in a more hetrogenious environment (or want a better interface) the standards are of course OpenView and Netview (HP, or IBM/Tivolit) that are your standard network management tools.
Don't expect to see them as projects on SourceForge though. There is a little too much value to give away.
Slashdot Mirror
I personally use google.com
Google lists IP address in it's indexes - I haven't found that for anything that I have searched for - I always end up with a FQDN.
As for replacing DNS with LDAP - lets just say you are replacing an easily proven scalable system, with something that probably won't scale to the size that you would need for true Internet scaling, oh and there is a heck of a lot more control needed for the root.
The UN isn't really about control of DNS, they are talking about control of root A, This little simple file that points to all of the TLDs and their zone servers. This is a rather important service, but frankly - if you don't like the way root A is run, create your own and point your resolvers at it. If enough people do this (you provide a better service that people want to use) root A will become irrelevant and go away. Frankly - everyone knows you can't do that, so they want to corrupt it from the inside
The reason that Linux costs more in retail is that it is significantly harder to support by the manufacturer. At a minimum they have to write custommer support scripts for a small portion of their custommers that want Linux. Then they have to train at least some of their agents.
Now you get into the problem with Linux, I call in and say it doesn't work - well, are you running our stock, boring kernel ? Well of course not... Please reinstall 2.4.22.xyz - why should I do that, it doesn't support what I need... Thank you very much, please call back after your installation.
Linux is almost impossible to support at the desktop - it is way to customizable for that.
2. Give away support for Free - including using Slashdot for advertising
3.
4. **** PROFIT ****
When will we stop seeing Underpants Gnome business models - Right after we see a spell checker for Slashdot posting I assume
Actually - California hasn't sent power back to Oregon for 5 years now... it only goes one way. I can't see how you could make a 2000 mile transmission 95% efficient - I'll take your word that you can however.
Nice idea - I have heard that transmission takes about 20-30% of our electrical output (especially when California gets its electricity from the Northern Oregon border, if not even farther away) - so anything to move the generation plant closer to the people that actually use the electricity would be a huge benefit.
I get Firefox was unable to find any updates for my 1.0.6 firefox installation.
Oh well - time to get P0wed
The software development house is taking all the risks. Frankly - any interesting development is going to take 1-2 years to go from idea into a fully coded and tested product. They will have to purchase capital, pay developers, QA, product management, etc.
When they are close to being "Done" the risk goes down that the whole shebang will go up into shambles (ie - you are pretty sure you will get a final product out the door and be able to sell it) you bring marketting on board to start priming the channel, creating contacts, paying advertising, etc.
Yes you need marketting to determine what to build, get some product requirements, do some user studies - but that is far from a full time job in the early stages of a true startup company.
Not sure if they have better or faster scantron machines today - but I would bet your school has something like it around somewhere.
Ask Slashdot - reinventing the wheel since the late 20th Century
If you would like to donate money to a run down relic of a local library feel free - me I would rather have the access at home, and the books that are important to me shipped from Amazon when I need them - frankly, I get better service in both cases, and it doesn't cost nearly as much either (oh wait - you probably are sitting there not paying any taxes sitting in your parents basement so it doesn't cost you anything... The rest of us have jobs and are paying for your free services)
He is the greatest drain on today's society with these random "Spitzer" taxes on non-illegal behavior. If a custommer is indeed screwed by AOL, take them to small claims court and get your 1500 bucks out of them, problem solved and I have some money to pay for my inconvienience.
Instead Spitzer gets them to give a 1.25 Million to someone (not the people harmed note), and continue on their merry way.
Realize that EVERY time Spitzer has had to go to court (rather than settling with a corperation that is more than willing to give him someone elses money) he has lost, and lost badly.
I really hate that my library is spending money on computers, wireless, network access... How about spending the money on books, magazine subscriptions, and other things that a library needs to have.
And frankly - if you still have money left over, why not give it back to your taxpayers instead of finding random ways of spending it
--- Remember boys and girls --- emacs is a pretty good OS, if only it had a decent text editor
As for parsing - I was thinking more along the lines of PERL rather than Lexigraphical Analysis.
Ah - but the joys of writing fun code is when you have to do things that you aren't supposed to do - like code that is inserted into other processes, like code that watches networking traffic, like code that watches stack frames to see if they are smashed.
So yes, if you want to write just another high level UI - you might as well never know how to do such things, but if you want to write a virus scanner, a personal firewall, or an buffer overflow prevention mechanism - you might want to look a little beyond C.
What I think is funny - is no one has come up with a way of getting C to do such things - they keep pointing out its strengths - all I said is I don't believe the statement that C is the hammer for every nail in your Computer Engineering tool box. There are things you can't do with it and things that it isn't very good at. Thanks for pointing out compiler development as well.
That said - yes you can not get a driver checked into the mainline Linux kernel in anything but C -- but somehow I don't think that is your target audience
Bogodynamics
Well lets see - what you are experiencing is a large quantum bogodynamic field being emitted from various people. Probably in the order of several microLenat's
Why dear god won't they put a real debugger into Linux - it is the only thing missing to make it a world class operating system
Lets see - you start a new security policy, and your software violates that policy... Yup - it doesn't work
In the case of deep throat - he was reporting on a crime that someone else committed. At no point did deep throat cross a legal line in reporting what he did to the Washington Post
In the case of the CIA leak - lets just say that who ever their source was COMMITTED a crime by leaking the name to the reporter. By committing a crime, he should be reported and punished to the full extent of the law.
Back to your regularly scheduled First Ammendment ramblings
duck and cover
My Karma was too high anyway
One man's flamebait is another man's reality. Frankly when metamoderating I tend to disagree with all flaimbaits that are obvious (posting goatse links for example).
Expensive, yes... but so worth it
If you are relatively homogenious - you can use the manufacturers management utilities that will do this. I haven't run across a manufacturer of decent manageable hardware that doesn't ship a management utility that does everything that you want.
If you are in a more hetrogenious environment (or want a better interface) the standards are of course OpenView and Netview (HP, or IBM/Tivolit) that are your standard network management tools.
Don't expect to see them as projects on SourceForge though. There is a little too much value to give away.