The DMCA needs to be slimmed WAY down to prevent this kind of blatent abuse. Or better yet - repealed all together.
What ever happened to the 1st amendment and free speech??
There is only one clear way for Joe Consumer to fight back against the abuses of Corporate America. Ok, well lets make that two ways:
1. Join the EFF and make regular donations!! There are very few political causes as noble as the EFF.
2. Boycott the chains of retailers who practice this insidious abuse of the law. Support your local mom-and-pop stores and stop going to the big chains. You'll be surprised how much better some of these smaller privately owned stores are!!
The point would not be to impress the microsoftie who lost his data. the point would be to impress upon him the inherent lack of security in the microsoft windows security model.
another point to press upon him would be microsoft's lackluster performance when it comes to fixing said hole.
If more microsoft users out there were negatively impacted by each security hole discovered, I guarantee you there would be much fewer microsoft users in the near future - either that, or microsoft would get off their ass and produce stronger products.
Why the hell did you do it for free??? At a minimum, I would have written up a brief contract and charged an outrageous fee (as you said, you're the only one who knew how to fix it) like $300/hour + travel expenses. They wouldn't say no... trust me.
FYI I'm running Athlon SMP (tyan tiger mp) with 2.4.19, preemptive patch, NVidia drivers, and haven't had a single problem. I use my machine heavily for gaming, web/email, 3D rendering, DIVX movie encoding, and i have two folding@home threads running in the background the whole time. I guess it's a YMMV thing.
1) Perhaps you haven't ventured over to freshmeat lately. There is TONS more software for Linux than for Windows. Unless you like paying for every single program and utility, which is what Windows requires you to do. Any decent application for Windows costs money - Winzip, ws-ftp, Office, and the list goes on. These are free under Linux.
Also, try and find good audio/video software for Windows that doesn't cost a small fortune. For Linux, there's the excellent transcode program and it's utilities.
2) Correct me if I'm wrong, but the original P2P program GNUtella was for Linux first. Get it? GNU-tella? GNU? Never mind...
3) And I believe Quake 1, Quake 2, Quake 3 are all available for Linux? Or am I wrong about that too? Ever heard of Transgamers WineX? Probably not. Never mind...
In a world filled with clueless sheep buying Microsoft products just because that's what the guy before him uses, I figure I must be doing something right if my choice in OS and software disturbs your delicate sensibilities. Consider my Tux the penguin poster to be a big one-fingered salute, as a I fly past you on the information superhighway.
Then why are all the serious (i.e. UNIX based) CAD/CAM, animation and 3D design workstations UNIX (and X) based?? I cant hear you??
And why do I get higher frame rates in my FPS games under Linux than under Windows??
And since when does Windows 2000 run on anything??? Last time I checked, it only ran on P2 or P3 machines with oodles of memory?? How does that even remotely compare to the dozens of platforms Linux runs on, and dozens more that NetBSD runs on??
Please come back when you have a *real* argument.
In a world filled with clueless sheep buying Microsoft products just because that's what the guy before him uses, I figure I must be doing something right if my choice in OS and software disturbs your delicate sensibilities. Consider my Tux the penguin poster to be a big one-fingered salute, as a I fly past you on the information superhighway.
Myself, I'm not a Windows user. I have three computers at home: A dual-Athlon workstation running RedHat 7.3, a dual-P3 server running RH7.3, and a Mac Powerbook which is dual boot w/ MacOS and YellowDog Linux.
I believe that most people are hung up in Windoze due to three major factors.
1) Even though OpenOffice or StarOffice has very good MS file filters, they aren't always perfect - and most people, especially business users are going to require 100% MS Office compatability - not 80% or 90%.
2) Email attachments. Especially all the funny "joke" and humor programs that are in.EXE format. Don't forget the.ASF and.WMA media files. The average user is not going to want to compile mplayer, making sure to have all the dependancies compiled and installed beforehand, and then setup their email client to use mplayer on these file types - They want it to work out of the box. RedHat not including MP3 support in RH8 is a step in the wrong direction.
3) This one may sound silly, but I believe many people are holding out simply because Linux does not run Windows applications off the shelf. Yes, I know about Wine, WineX, and Codeweavers. All of these do a very good job, however this is another tool that the use needs to install and configure - i.e. it doesn't work "out of the box" after a Linux distro install. Many users don't have specific Windoze apps that they must run right now, but they want to be able to run them should a new program on the CompUSA shelf all of a sudden look interesting.
I think that items 1 and 2 are more important than item 3. If a Linux distro could have support for all the Windoze media types (as browser plugins and as email attachment associations), and achieve perfect Microsoft Document conversions, I think Linux will REALLY start to take off as a desktop OS. As for me, I've been M$ free since 1997 - and I haven't looked back since.
Perhaps you didn't have any performance issues, but keep in mind that on 100Mbit and Especially in Gigabit Ethernet, TCP/IP has a LOT of CPU overhead. Add to that the packet overhead incured by NFS (which is also a LOT) and pretty quick your performance is anywhere NEAR what it would be when using local storage. Particulatly if your using older machines e.g. even a P3-733 is quickly up to 100% cpu utilization (that's TCP/IP's fault) when you have a Gig-E card running at full tilt... Once we see the TCP/IP stack implemented in hardware, only then will Ethernet be a contender in high performance network storage.
Although you'll only likely notice these things in disk intensive and/or HPTC applications, its always a Good Idea (tm) when choosing connectivity options to keep any protocol overhead to a minimum.
How can you hate VMS? Talk about a powerful and reliable system - VMS had it all! And it ran on the the best hardware at the time - DEC Alpha. I like linux as much as the next/.'er, but Linux has nothing on VMS when it comes to reliability and ease of use.
This should be determined on a case by case basis. Research into technology that could potentially benefit an enemy of the US in OSS form, should not be released as OSS. Other less sensitive research should be released as open source.
just my 2 cents.
Try the Army, Navy or Air Force. I have many friends who are part of the US Armed Services and have traveled the World quite extensively in just a few short years.
has a device called SliMP3 which is an ethernet connected MP3 decoder. I have one and it's great for integrating the MP3 collection with the component stereo. Has a Perl based server software I believe. No current Ogg support, but I've heard its in the works.
Disclaimer: I'm not afiliated with slimdevices.com in any way other than being a satisfied customer.
My local cable provider has two-way cable internet to some neighborhoods, and one-way telco-return to other neighborhoods. I'm in a one-way 'hood.
Since summer of '97, they have promised two-way access to my home "in six months from now". Needless to say, their answer is still the same, and I'm still using cruddy telco-return.
Beware any time frame claims from GS Communications in DC/MD/PA.
Wow you are ignorant. The purpose of the SAN is certainly not ease of installation. And a Maxtor MaxAttach certainly is not a SAN! It's a NAS! Get it straight!
A SAN as it is defined today, MUST be created using FC loops or fabric. There is no other topology (unless it could be done with firewire).
Also, ease of *management* not installation, is the bonus of the SAN. Also, SANs use expensive FC HBA's which have almost 0% cpu utilization even when streaming data at 2Gb/s. Ever checked the CPU utilization on a P200 when streaming data over TCP/IP at 100Mb/s? Or even a P3-733? No comparison to fibre channel. nada.
One less US Soldier is one step in the wrong direction. While any reasonably intelligent human would like nothing better than peace throughout the world, the fact remains that evil people and evil nations will always exist. There must be a powerful force of Good to fight that evil, and that force is the US Armed Forces.
Amen.
Dr. Leonard Kleinrock is known as the Inventor of the Internet Technology, having created the basic principles of packet switching, the technology underpinning the Internet, while a graduate student at MIT. This was a decade before the birth of the Internet which occurred when his Host computer at UCLA became the first node of the Internet in September 1969. He wrote the first paper and published the first book on the subject; he also directed the transmission of the first message ever to pass over the Internet.
http://www.lk.cs.ucla.edu/
FWIW, I used to be a Storage Area Network (SAN) designer for Compaq. The largest cost of creating multi-terabyte storage arrays is not the disks - it's the infrastructure needed to support the disks. i.e. the backplanes, the external raid controllers, not to mention that everything needs to be dual redundant. Further, all modern SAN's are attached to the hosts using Fibre Channel. Fibre Channel switches can run anywhere from $15k each, to over $200k each, depending on the size and featureset of the switch. Also, each host attached to the SAN will require one or more fibre channel adapters which run several thousand dollars a piece.
Based on current internet list prices, a given SAN will cost roughly $250k per Terabyte. Thats just over $12M for a 50TB SAN. Once you add additional Warranty, onsite service, and installation/configuration services (yes, you must pay for the vendor to come on site and set these things up - they are not simple, nor intuitive), your up closer to the $20M figure in your initial question.
I believe this bit of "art" would be more meaningful if this Linux/Apache box controlling the crusher.... was not in the crusher.....and in the crusher, sat a MS Windows server!
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American cars suck. period. You want hi tech and hi performance? Try a REAL car - Buy German. Audi has a concept coupe that has a rear view LCD.
An excellent telecommuter job is a pre-sales engineer for any tech company. I was a pre-sales engineer for Compaq for two years. They issued me a laptop, and ipaq, a blackberry (wireless email device) and a cell phone. This was my office. Infact, I had no desk or cube in any Compaq facility! I was full remote (i.e. home) office.
I believe most pre-sales tech positions will be similar. Good luck!
Try your programs/compilers on a machine that uses Registered ECC memory. You'd be surprised how many single bit memory errors can occur, especially when the internal case temp of your 'puter gets high, and also when the memory is getting old (as it clearly is in a 200mhz machine).
If you do not have such hardware available, try just swapping out the RAM in that machine for new memory and see if the problem goes away.
BTW I picked up a new SuperMicro DLI motherboard (dual P3) w/ ServerWorks chipset and ECC memory mandatory from ebay for $58 bucks.
Particularly on a software development machine, having ECC memory can prevent you from chasing odd bugs that are seemly random (at least ones that would be due to memory errors).
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The DMCA needs to be slimmed WAY down to prevent this kind of blatent abuse. Or better yet - repealed all together.
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What ever happened to the 1st amendment and free speech??
There is only one clear way for Joe Consumer to fight back against the abuses of Corporate America. Ok, well lets make that two ways:
1. Join the EFF and make regular donations!! There are very few political causes as noble as the EFF.
2. Boycott the chains of retailers who practice this insidious abuse of the law. Support your local mom-and-pop stores and stop going to the big chains. You'll be surprised how much better some of these smaller privately owned stores are!!
The point would not be to impress the microsoftie who lost his data. the point would be to impress upon him the inherent lack of security in the microsoft windows security model.
another point to press upon him would be microsoft's lackluster performance when it comes to fixing said hole.
If more microsoft users out there were negatively impacted by each security hole discovered, I guarantee you there would be much fewer microsoft users in the near future - either that, or microsoft would get off their ass and produce stronger products.
Why the hell did you do it for free??? At a minimum, I would have written up a brief contract and charged an outrageous fee (as you said, you're the only one who knew how to fix it) like $300/hour + travel expenses. They wouldn't say no... trust me.
FYI I'm running Athlon SMP (tyan tiger mp) with 2.4.19, preemptive patch, NVidia drivers, and haven't had a single problem. I use my machine heavily for gaming, web/email, 3D rendering, DIVX movie encoding, and i have two folding@home threads running in the background the whole time. I guess it's a YMMV thing.
Because something needs to process the TCP/IP stack. If it is your host CPU, even a P3-733 can hit 100% cpu usage doing transfers on Gig-E.
One of two things needs to happen before this is even an option.
1) TCP/IP stack is implemented in hardware (which would probably be costly)
2) A new protocol needs to be written so that data frames can be sent over raw ethernet without the use of TCP/IP.
Just my 2 cents.
1) Perhaps you haven't ventured over to freshmeat lately. There is TONS more software for Linux than for Windows. Unless you like paying for every single program and utility, which is what Windows requires you to do. Any decent application for Windows costs money - Winzip, ws-ftp, Office, and the list goes on. These are free under Linux.
Also, try and find good audio/video software for Windows that doesn't cost a small fortune. For Linux, there's the excellent transcode program and it's utilities.
2) Correct me if I'm wrong, but the original P2P program GNUtella was for Linux first. Get it? GNU-tella? GNU? Never mind...
3) And I believe Quake 1, Quake 2, Quake 3 are all available for Linux? Or am I wrong about that too? Ever heard of Transgamers WineX? Probably not. Never mind...
In a world filled with clueless sheep buying Microsoft products just because that's what the guy before him uses, I figure I must be doing something right if my choice in OS and software disturbs your delicate sensibilities. Consider my Tux the penguin poster to be a big one-fingered salute, as a I fly past you on the information superhighway.
Then why are all the serious (i.e. UNIX based) CAD/CAM, animation and 3D design workstations UNIX (and X) based?? I cant hear you??
And why do I get higher frame rates in my FPS games under Linux than under Windows??
And since when does Windows 2000 run on anything??? Last time I checked, it only ran on P2 or P3 machines with oodles of memory?? How does that even remotely compare to the dozens of platforms Linux runs on, and dozens more that NetBSD runs on??
Please come back when you have a *real* argument.
In a world filled with clueless sheep buying Microsoft products just because that's what the guy before him uses, I figure I must be doing something right if my choice in OS and software disturbs your delicate sensibilities. Consider my Tux the penguin poster to be a big one-fingered salute, as a I fly past you on the information superhighway.
Myself, I'm not a Windows user. I have three computers at home: A dual-Athlon workstation running RedHat 7.3, a dual-P3 server running RH7.3, and a Mac Powerbook which is dual boot w/ MacOS and YellowDog Linux.
.EXE format. Don't forget the .ASF and .WMA media files. The average user is not going to want to compile mplayer, making sure to have all the dependancies compiled and installed beforehand, and then setup their email client to use mplayer on these file types - They want it to work out of the box. RedHat not including MP3 support in RH8 is a step in the wrong direction.
I believe that most people are hung up in Windoze due to three major factors.
1) Even though OpenOffice or StarOffice has very good MS file filters, they aren't always perfect - and most people, especially business users are going to require 100% MS Office compatability - not 80% or 90%.
2) Email attachments. Especially all the funny "joke" and humor programs that are in
3) This one may sound silly, but I believe many people are holding out simply because Linux does not run Windows applications off the shelf. Yes, I know about Wine, WineX, and Codeweavers. All of these do a very good job, however this is another tool that the use needs to install and configure - i.e. it doesn't work "out of the box" after a Linux distro install. Many users don't have specific Windoze apps that they must run right now, but they want to be able to run them should a new program on the CompUSA shelf all of a sudden look interesting.
I think that items 1 and 2 are more important than item 3. If a Linux distro could have support for all the Windoze media types (as browser plugins and as email attachment associations), and achieve perfect Microsoft Document conversions, I think Linux will REALLY start to take off as a desktop OS. As for me, I've been M$ free since 1997 - and I haven't looked back since.
Perhaps you didn't have any performance issues, but keep in mind that on 100Mbit and Especially in Gigabit Ethernet, TCP/IP has a LOT of CPU overhead. Add to that the packet overhead incured by NFS (which is also a LOT) and pretty quick your performance is anywhere NEAR what it would be when using local storage. Particulatly if your using older machines e.g. even a P3-733 is quickly up to 100% cpu utilization (that's TCP/IP's fault) when you have a Gig-E card running at full tilt... Once we see the TCP/IP stack implemented in hardware, only then will Ethernet be a contender in high performance network storage.
Although you'll only likely notice these things in disk intensive and/or HPTC applications, its always a Good Idea (tm) when choosing connectivity options to keep any protocol overhead to a minimum.
How can you hate VMS? Talk about a powerful and reliable system - VMS had it all! And it ran on the the best hardware at the time - DEC Alpha. I like linux as much as the next /.'er, but Linux has nothing on VMS when it comes to reliability and ease of use.
This should be determined on a case by case basis. Research into technology that could potentially benefit an enemy of the US in OSS form, should not be released as OSS. Other less sensitive research should be released as open source. just my 2 cents.
Inside of highrise buildings that have many different companies in them. - use marker on the walls instead of chalk!
Try the Army, Navy or Air Force. I have many friends who are part of the US Armed Services and have traveled the World quite extensively in just a few short years.
has a device called SliMP3 which is an ethernet connected MP3 decoder. I have one and it's great for integrating the MP3 collection with the component stereo. Has a Perl based server software I believe. No current Ogg support, but I've heard its in the works.
Disclaimer: I'm not afiliated with slimdevices.com in any way other than being a satisfied customer.
My local cable provider has two-way cable internet to some neighborhoods, and one-way telco-return to other neighborhoods. I'm in a one-way 'hood.
Since summer of '97, they have promised two-way access to my home "in six months from now". Needless to say, their answer is still the same, and I'm still using cruddy telco-return.
Beware any time frame claims from GS Communications in DC/MD/PA.
I've read "Laser Vision Surgery for Dummies!"
Wow you are ignorant. The purpose of the SAN is certainly not ease of installation. And a Maxtor MaxAttach certainly is not a SAN! It's a NAS! Get it straight!
A SAN as it is defined today, MUST be created using FC loops or fabric. There is no other topology (unless it could be done with firewire).
Also, ease of *management* not installation, is the bonus of the SAN. Also, SANs use expensive FC HBA's which have almost 0% cpu utilization even when streaming data at 2Gb/s. Ever checked the CPU utilization on a P200 when streaming data over TCP/IP at 100Mb/s? Or even a P3-733? No comparison to fibre channel. nada.
One less US Soldier is one step in the wrong direction. While any reasonably intelligent human would like nothing better than peace throughout the world, the fact remains that evil people and evil nations will always exist. There must be a powerful force of Good to fight that evil, and that force is the US Armed Forces. Amen.
Dr. Leonard Kleinrock is known as the Inventor of the Internet Technology, having created the basic principles of packet switching, the technology underpinning the Internet, while a graduate student at MIT. This was a decade before the birth of the Internet which occurred when his Host computer at UCLA became the first node of the Internet in September 1969. He wrote the first paper and published the first book on the subject; he also directed the transmission of the first message ever to pass over the Internet.
http://www.lk.cs.ucla.edu/
FWIW, I used to be a Storage Area Network (SAN) designer for Compaq. The largest cost of creating multi-terabyte storage arrays is not the disks - it's the infrastructure needed to support the disks. i.e. the backplanes, the external raid controllers, not to mention that everything needs to be dual redundant. Further, all modern SAN's are attached to the hosts using Fibre Channel. Fibre Channel switches can run anywhere from $15k each, to over $200k each, depending on the size and featureset of the switch. Also, each host attached to the SAN will require one or more fibre channel adapters which run several thousand dollars a piece.
Based on current internet list prices, a given SAN will cost roughly $250k per Terabyte. Thats just over $12M for a 50TB SAN. Once you add additional Warranty, onsite service, and installation/configuration services (yes, you must pay for the vendor to come on site and set these things up - they are not simple, nor intuitive), your up closer to the $20M figure in your initial question.
Lexmark and HP LJ's have good linux support and come with good toner. I'm refering to the laser jets printers.
I believe this bit of "art" would be more meaningful if this Linux/Apache box controlling the crusher.... was not in the crusher.....and in the crusher, sat a MS Windows server!
American cars suck. period. You want hi tech and hi performance? Try a REAL car - Buy German. Audi has a concept coupe that has a rear view LCD.
An excellent telecommuter job is a pre-sales engineer for any tech company. I was a pre-sales engineer for Compaq for two years. They issued me a laptop, and ipaq, a blackberry (wireless email device) and a cell phone. This was my office. Infact, I had no desk or cube in any Compaq facility! I was full remote (i.e. home) office.
I believe most pre-sales tech positions will be similar. Good luck!
Try your programs/compilers on a machine that uses Registered ECC memory. You'd be surprised how many single bit memory errors can occur, especially when the internal case temp of your 'puter gets high, and also when the memory is getting old (as it clearly is in a 200mhz machine).
If you do not have such hardware available, try just swapping out the RAM in that machine for new memory and see if the problem goes away.
BTW I picked up a new SuperMicro DLI motherboard (dual P3) w/ ServerWorks chipset and ECC memory mandatory from ebay for $58 bucks.
Particularly on a software development machine, having ECC memory can prevent you from chasing odd bugs that are seemly random (at least ones that would be due to memory errors).
Or maybe we're both crazy.