In theory yes, in pratice big business pushes
for most of the laws.
We who believe in open source have won a few
but we have the same problem the indians had
when the amercas were discovered.
The indians believe that land belongs to no-one.
This is why they "sold" land for little or no
money.
The settlers took full advange of this. Now indians live on reserves and "americans" own the land.
Most people on slashdot thank that standards
should be open. However open standards do not
allow big business to leverage markets so
big business will fight this by lobbying for
new laws and patenting every thing in site.
As much as I am voting for companies that promote
open source software and standards (redhat, valinux etc )it seems that companies who make money keeping standards and software development
closed (ala microsoft) will have several advantanages.
Unless our goverment leans real hard to the left
big business will have an advantage.
The real challange for open source is not just
write better software and open standards but
to also learn how to market it and leverage it
better than closed source companies.
Lets face it. Most people that are using open
source are not paying for the software and are
paying little to no money for support.
Everything else being equal closed source comanies
have a lot more money to market there products and
lobby goverment with.
Sadly unless something changes in our laws or
someone finds a way to make open source more
profitable than closed source we have a hard road ahead of us.
I am currently using a p166 vaio lap top. I
have had it for years and have beat it all to hell. The damn thing still looks and works great.
The new one sucks
Maybe that's suppost to be a tough book version?
The white ring around the screen looks like it
be a soft rubbery type stuff to protect it.
It's sad when my 4 year old laptop looks cooler
than the new model.
"So basically Microsoft is saying "The only OS worth installing, the only OS you are going to install, the only
OS you can install, is our Windows OS, so why not just buy it with the computer already?" "
looks like the site is about to be./ed (it was dead slow for me and I am on a T1) So here's the FAQ's
1. What is Mojo Nation?
Mojo Nation is a worldwide system that enables us to publish and share any kind of data, like
text, sounds, moving and still pictures, and other binary files.
1.1 What makes Mojo Nation different from other file-sharing systems?
Other file-sharing systems are plagued by "the tragedy of the commons," in which rational folks
using a shared resource eat the resources to death. Most often, the "Tragedy of the Commons"
refers to farmers and pasture, but technology journalists are writing about users who download
and download but never contribute to the system. In Mojo Nation, every transaction costs some
Mojo, and as one's Mojo credit limit is reached, one must contribute *something* -- whether
resources or cash -- to the community.
1.2 Is Mojo Nation rated G, PG-13, R, or XXX?
We have no idea. Each file published to Mojo Nation is broken into several small pieces, and
then each of those pieces is broken into eight more pieces and encrypted so securely that finding
the key to the code is as difficult as finding an atom in the sun. The result is that one cannot learn
whether a file is on Mojo Nation or not except by trying to download that specific file.
2. Why isn't the Mojo Nation software working for me?
The three most common reasons we have encountered are:
* The user hasn't started his Broker before launching the gateway page on his web browser.
Under Windows, double-click "Start Mojo Broker" on the desktop. Under Linux, run Broker in
the command shell.
* The Windows software didn't install because Internet Explorer for Windows stripped the.exe
extension from the installation program.
Right-click on the label under the mojonation-beta-0_90-win98 icon and rename the file
mojonation-beta-0_90-win98.exe.
* The user hasn't set the web proxy.
Internet Explorer 4.0: Go to the View menu, pull down "Internet Options...", then click on the
"Connection" tab. Select the "Access the Internet using a proxy server" checkbox, and enter
"localhost" into the "Address:" field and "8000" into the "Port" field. (Users running a later version
of Explorer also have to click "LAN Settings".)
Netscape Communicator 4.7: Go to the Edit menu, and pull down "Preferences". In the Category
window, select "Advanced". The "Advanced" tree will open, then select "Proxies". The Proxies
configuration window opens, then select the "Manual proxy configuration" radio button, and click
the "View" button.
2.1 What does the web proxy do?
If the web proxy is enabled, your browser -- instead of connecting to the host specified in a
http://mojonation.net URL -- connects to the proxy. It is then the proxy's task to make the
connection and return the requested resource. This will be invisible to Mojo Nation users.
2.11 Does using the web proxy reveal my browsing activity to mojonation.net?
No. The proxy runs on your local machine, and it does not log any of your activities nor does it
ever contact mojonation.net for any reason.
When you view a normal web page like "http://www.plastic_daisies_for_sale.com/", the proxy is
transparent -- it doesn't do anything but pass the web page through to your browser, exactly like
normal web surfing. When you view a Mojo Nation page, like "http://mojonation.net/broker/" or
"http://mojonation.net/id/XXXX"[XXXX Zooko: insert cool mojonation id here--Zooko
2000-09-28], the proxy intercepts your request and satisfies it without ever contacting
mojonation.net.
2.2 What if I don't want to use the web proxy?
In Linux, with your Broker running, open the intropage in ~/.mojonation/broker/intropage.html. In
Windows, with your Broker running, open the intropage in C:\Program Files\Mojo
Nation\config\broker\intropage.html.
2.3 Why do I get a symbol not found error from Windows when I try and run the
software?
One error we have seen (most often on Windows NT) is due to older versions of
MSVCRT.DLL being on the system elsewhere and in use by another application (check in
C:\Windows\System\). Our install program does not currently handle this properly. You need to
manually replace the old MSVCRT.DLL file with the new one from the mojonation directory.
3. What is Mojo?
Mojo is Mojo Nation's "digital currency". In the Mojo Nation distributed computing environment,
in which all the computers are joined by a common software, users may choose to contribute
disk space, bandwidth, and processing cycles to the network in exchange for Mojo. Users are
enabled to set their own prices for these online resources.
3.1 How many Mojo are in one dollar?
There is no fixed Mojo-to-dollar ratio. Mojo is exchanged for unused disk space, bandwidth,
and processing cycles, and Mojo is transferred from user to user with tokens -- when we move
past beta, users will be able to buy and sell the tokens for what the market will bear.
3.2 What do the "Mojo coming in" and "Mojo going out" numbers on my Stash page
mean?
The Mojo Nation barter system revolves around credit one user's Broker extends to another.
The Mojo doesn't move until one Broker owes another 10,000 Mojo -- because every
conversation between Brokers on Mojo Nation involves some cost in Mojo, it would be too
burdensome to make a digital token payment each time. So, the "Mojo coming in" total is the
sum of all the Mojo promised to you in an IOU but not yet delivered. The "Mojo going out" total
is the amount of Mojo promised by you.
3.21 I thought beta users were granted one million Mojo to start! Why do I have fewer
than one million Mojo? Auuuugh!
When you first use your account, it takes a little while for your Mojo to gather. Eventually, your
Stash page will report that cool million, give or take that couple of Mojo you earn or spend while
you're on the network. Also, if you halt your Broker while that million is still being credited to
your account, that won't stop the accumulation.
3.3 On my Stash page, I have more Mojo going out than coming in. Why?
The two main reasons are:
It costs Mojo to publish something to the system. When you publish a file, your Broker has to
pay block servers to store the pieces. Further, too much supply, not enough demand. The system
hasn't yet attracted enough users whose Brokers will pay for downloads.
If you're using a relay server, you're paying for it steadily. Mojo Nation users behind a firewall
need to employ a relay server outside the firewall that will hold messages for them until their
Broker goes out to pick them up. However, each time the Broker asks the relay server if there
are any messages there for it, the Broker has to pay the relay server a bit of Mojo.
3.4 How do I earn Mojo?
By running services for other users. Clicking "configure" at the main menu enables you to run
block servers, content trackers, publication trackers, and relay servers, and to set prices for each
of those services.
3.5 If I accumulate enough Mojo, can I buy beer/friends/France?
Eventually. The best-known distributed computing project -- SETI@Home -- accumulated
about 300,000 years of computing time in its first year of operation. If they shared that time with
Mojo Nation for a year, and ran every service while charging default prices, they'd certainly earn
enough to buy beer.
3.6 Can I earn Mojo in Mojo Nation while writing The Great American Novel in my
word processor?
Yes. You don't have to be using the Mojo Nation gateway in order to earn Mojo, as long as
your Broker is running in the command shell (Linux) or MS-DOS window (Windows). Some of
us leave our Brokers on all day, running in the background while we perform other tasks.
4. What is a relay server?
A relay server works like a mailbox for users who are behind a firewall. When the firewalls block
incoming messages from reaching the Brokers -- the agents which run the whole show -- the
relay servers sit outside the firewall and hold messages for the Brokers. The Brokers can go
outside the firewall and retrieve the messages, then bring them back in for processing.
4.1 Why should I choose to run a relay server?
Users who elect to operate a relay server (by clicking "on" for "Relay Server" on the Configure
page) earn gobs of Mojo because the Brokers who work behind the relay server (that is, those
folks behind the firewalls) are continually asking it if there are any messages there for it and are
therefore paying a steady toll in Mojo.
4.2 I'm behind a firewall, but the Mojo Nation software didn't detect it, so my Broker
isn't getting any replies to the messages it sends out. How can I make sure I use a relay
server?
There is an option on the configure page called "Behind A Firewall" that you should change to
"On", save the config, and restart your Broker software.
Alternatively: edit your Broker configuration file (in Unix systems, it's
~/.mojonation/broker/broker.conf, or in Windows, the default path is C:\Program
Files\mojonation\config\broker\broker.conf) and change the "SERVE_USING_A_RELAY"
setting under "YES_NO" to "yes".
4.21 Editing my Broker configuration file seems to be hazardous, since it determines
how my Broker interacts with the system.
Yes, so keep a backup copy, and keep in mind that the tabbing is vital.
4.3 I'm behind a firewall, but don't want to pay a relay server. How can I punch holes in
my firewall?
Consult your firewall documentation.
4.4 Which TCP/UDP ports should I open for Mojo Nation?
Once you've started your Broker, look in its output or log file for a line containing
"TCPCommsHandler: successfully bound to port NNNN" to find out the port number you are
using.
If you wish to use a specific port number, edit your config file and change these settings:
TRANSACTION_MANAGER_LISTEN_PORT:
This is the port you are actually listening on locally.
TRANSACTION_MANAGER_PICKY_PORT: false
If true, this means "barf if I can't get the listen port listed above." Otherwise it'll keep trying other
port numbers until it finds one that works.
People setting things up behind firewalls with tunnels through them may also need to change
these:
TRANSACTION_MANAGER_ANNOUNCED_PORT:
You are announcing to the rest of the world that this is the port on which you are running. If you
have a tunnel through a masquerading/nat firewall, you want to set this to the appropriate port on
the masquerating/nat firewall.
IP_ADDRESS_OVERRIDE:
This is the IP address that your Broker announces to others. If you have a tunnel through a
masquerading/nat firewall, you want to set this to the IP address of the masquerating/nat firewall.
5. Where's the Macintosh version of Mojo Nation?
Ask again after OS X is released. It will be easier to port Mojo Nation to Macintosh under
Macintosh OS X because it is derived from BSD Unix, and the engineers around here are all
Unix nerds.
6. May I publish content to Mojo Nation that no one else can see?
Yes. In the Publish window, click "Browse" to publish a single file, or type a directory path into
the "Select File or Path" field to publish a group of files. Then pull down "None" from the "Select
Content Type" menu, after which this message will appear:
Warning: Content published under the type "None" is afforded absolute privacy because it will be
invisible to searches and content trackers. That also means that the file cannot be found through
normal means should the file's Dinode be forgotten.
If content is published without a content description, the trackers on Mojo Nation are not notified
of its presence and neither can they find it later. However, if you lose the Dinode URL to the file,
you won't be able to find it again, either.
6.1 What's a Dinode?
When your Broker submits a file to Mojo Nation, it first breaks up the file into several small
pieces, then the pieces into smaller blocks which are encrypted for privacy and duplicated for
reliability. The Broker draws a "sharemap" to the location of the blocks, and for further security,
tears up and encrypts the map, too. The list of the blocks which makes up the sharemap is the
"Dinode". Nothing on Mojo Nation can be retrieved without the Dinode. References to Dinodes
in the Mojo Nation web interface are almost always presented in MojoID form, a
human-readable URL.
"I think a microprocessor based control system for something that's essentially a fancy remote controlled car is serious overkill."
I disagree. A processor could be used to control
some of the weapons on the bot so the operator can
worry about driving. A processor could be used
to help drive it as well (example: the processor could be used to keep the bot pointing it's best side toward the enemy while you are operating it.)
It could also help avoid the traps in the arena.
Some of the above could also be some with simple
electonics but using a processor would help you
be able to fine tune it faster and be able to change settings quickly for differnt matches.
"When Arthur C Clarke came up with the concept of a comsat, he had 3 huge space stations in mind,
serving the entire surface of the planet, with crews up there for several months at a time."
Arthur C Clarke also came up with the
space elevator in his book 2061. If
memory serves me it was made out of
diamand.
"Has anyone considered what an extraordinary situation it is where government tax collectors are collecting taxes which are funneled
straight to corporations?"
First you need to sent a probe to mars that
launches a smaller probe to the surface
from about 200mi above the surface. The little probe (launched from 200km) would slam into the
martin surface....
"So much for mature software written by professionals. It seems that, internally, Microsoft prefers the stuff "written by college kids in their basements."
'"The weapon is very clever; it uses propellers to boost it out of the sub, then a rocket kicks in at a safe distance, burning liquid propellant," said one British expert.'
"But something has to be done. I do all I can to educate, but as long as criminals are coddled in the courts, and people aren't educated as to the REAL effects of drugs are, I take any solutions I can get."
"criminals" Some criminals might be getting coddled but drug offenders are not. I believe the US has more drug offenders in jail than the europe has people in jail for everything.
"and people aren't educated as to the REAL effects of drugs are"
If this law is passed it will be even harder to educate people. One of the reasons I never tried PCP is because I know it contains fermaldhide and arsonic. The more you know about drugs the LESS likely you are to use them.
"I take any solutions I can get" umm you mean "the end justifies the means"? The war on drugs has already done a lot of damage to the 4th amendment and now this will do a lot of damage to the 1st amendment.
It will still be legal for people to tell you they want medical marijuana legalized but won't be legal for them to tell you WHY they want it legalized. Very convenent for our goverment.
Slashdot Mirror
In theory yes, in pratice big business pushes
for most of the laws.
We who believe in open source have won a few
but we have the same problem the indians had
when the amercas were discovered.
The indians believe that land belongs to no-one.
This is why they "sold" land for little or no
money.
The settlers took full advange of this. Now indians live on reserves and "americans" own the land.
Most people on slashdot thank that standards
should be open. However open standards do not
allow big business to leverage markets so
big business will fight this by lobbying for
new laws and patenting every thing in site.
As much as I am voting for companies that promote
open source software and standards (redhat, valinux etc )it seems that companies who make money keeping standards and software development
closed (ala microsoft) will have several advantanages.
Unless our goverment leans real hard to the left
big business will have an advantage.
The real challange for open source is not just
write better software and open standards but
to also learn how to market it and leverage it
better than closed source companies.
Lets face it. Most people that are using open
source are not paying for the software and are
paying little to no money for support.
Everything else being equal closed source comanies
have a lot more money to market there products and
lobby goverment with.
Sadly unless something changes in our laws or
someone finds a way to make open source more
profitable than closed source we have a hard road ahead of us.
I was reading thru the known issuses and found this.
"Non HTML4 Strict documents will try to be rendered the way the author intended rather than according to the specification. "
How does it know?
I am currently using a p166 vaio lap top. I
have had it for years and have beat it all to hell. The damn thing still looks and works great.
The new one sucks
Maybe that's suppost to be a tough book version?
The white ring around the screen looks like it
be a soft rubbery type stuff to protect it.
It's sad when my 4 year old laptop looks cooler
than the new model.
"So basically Microsoft is saying "The only OS worth installing, the only OS you are going to install, the only OS you can install, is our Windows OS, so why not just buy it with the computer already?" "
Nope... They say that here.
looks like the site is about to be ./ed (it was dead slow for me and I am on a T1) So here's the FAQ's
.exe
1. What is Mojo Nation?
Mojo Nation is a worldwide system that enables us to publish and share any kind of data, like
text, sounds, moving and still pictures, and other binary files.
1.1 What makes Mojo Nation different from other file-sharing systems?
Other file-sharing systems are plagued by "the tragedy of the commons," in which rational folks
using a shared resource eat the resources to death. Most often, the "Tragedy of the Commons"
refers to farmers and pasture, but technology journalists are writing about users who download
and download but never contribute to the system. In Mojo Nation, every transaction costs some
Mojo, and as one's Mojo credit limit is reached, one must contribute *something* -- whether
resources or cash -- to the community.
1.2 Is Mojo Nation rated G, PG-13, R, or XXX?
We have no idea. Each file published to Mojo Nation is broken into several small pieces, and
then each of those pieces is broken into eight more pieces and encrypted so securely that finding
the key to the code is as difficult as finding an atom in the sun. The result is that one cannot learn
whether a file is on Mojo Nation or not except by trying to download that specific file.
2. Why isn't the Mojo Nation software working for me?
The three most common reasons we have encountered are:
* The user hasn't started his Broker before launching the gateway page on his web browser.
Under Windows, double-click "Start Mojo Broker" on the desktop. Under Linux, run Broker in
the command shell.
* The Windows software didn't install because Internet Explorer for Windows stripped the
extension from the installation program.
Right-click on the label under the mojonation-beta-0_90-win98 icon and rename the file
mojonation-beta-0_90-win98.exe.
* The user hasn't set the web proxy.
Internet Explorer 4.0: Go to the View menu, pull down "Internet Options...", then click on the
"Connection" tab. Select the "Access the Internet using a proxy server" checkbox, and enter
"localhost" into the "Address:" field and "8000" into the "Port" field. (Users running a later version
of Explorer also have to click "LAN Settings".)
Netscape Communicator 4.7: Go to the Edit menu, and pull down "Preferences". In the Category
window, select "Advanced". The "Advanced" tree will open, then select "Proxies". The Proxies
configuration window opens, then select the "Manual proxy configuration" radio button, and click
the "View" button.
2.1 What does the web proxy do?
If the web proxy is enabled, your browser -- instead of connecting to the host specified in a
http://mojonation.net URL -- connects to the proxy. It is then the proxy's task to make the
connection and return the requested resource. This will be invisible to Mojo Nation users.
2.11 Does using the web proxy reveal my browsing activity to mojonation.net?
No. The proxy runs on your local machine, and it does not log any of your activities nor does it
ever contact mojonation.net for any reason.
When you view a normal web page like "http://www.plastic_daisies_for_sale.com/", the proxy is
transparent -- it doesn't do anything but pass the web page through to your browser, exactly like
normal web surfing. When you view a Mojo Nation page, like "http://mojonation.net/broker/" or
"http://mojonation.net/id/XXXX"[XXXX Zooko: insert cool mojonation id here--Zooko
2000-09-28], the proxy intercepts your request and satisfies it without ever contacting
mojonation.net.
2.2 What if I don't want to use the web proxy?
In Linux, with your Broker running, open the intropage in ~/.mojonation/broker/intropage.html. In
Windows, with your Broker running, open the intropage in C:\Program Files\Mojo
Nation\config\broker\intropage.html.
2.3 Why do I get a symbol not found error from Windows when I try and run the
software?
One error we have seen (most often on Windows NT) is due to older versions of
MSVCRT.DLL being on the system elsewhere and in use by another application (check in
C:\Windows\System\). Our install program does not currently handle this properly. You need to
manually replace the old MSVCRT.DLL file with the new one from the mojonation directory.
3. What is Mojo?
Mojo is Mojo Nation's "digital currency". In the Mojo Nation distributed computing environment,
in which all the computers are joined by a common software, users may choose to contribute
disk space, bandwidth, and processing cycles to the network in exchange for Mojo. Users are
enabled to set their own prices for these online resources.
3.1 How many Mojo are in one dollar?
There is no fixed Mojo-to-dollar ratio. Mojo is exchanged for unused disk space, bandwidth,
and processing cycles, and Mojo is transferred from user to user with tokens -- when we move
past beta, users will be able to buy and sell the tokens for what the market will bear.
3.2 What do the "Mojo coming in" and "Mojo going out" numbers on my Stash page
mean?
The Mojo Nation barter system revolves around credit one user's Broker extends to another.
The Mojo doesn't move until one Broker owes another 10,000 Mojo -- because every
conversation between Brokers on Mojo Nation involves some cost in Mojo, it would be too
burdensome to make a digital token payment each time. So, the "Mojo coming in" total is the
sum of all the Mojo promised to you in an IOU but not yet delivered. The "Mojo going out" total
is the amount of Mojo promised by you.
3.21 I thought beta users were granted one million Mojo to start! Why do I have fewer
than one million Mojo? Auuuugh!
When you first use your account, it takes a little while for your Mojo to gather. Eventually, your
Stash page will report that cool million, give or take that couple of Mojo you earn or spend while
you're on the network. Also, if you halt your Broker while that million is still being credited to
your account, that won't stop the accumulation.
3.3 On my Stash page, I have more Mojo going out than coming in. Why?
The two main reasons are:
It costs Mojo to publish something to the system. When you publish a file, your Broker has to
pay block servers to store the pieces. Further, too much supply, not enough demand. The system
hasn't yet attracted enough users whose Brokers will pay for downloads.
If you're using a relay server, you're paying for it steadily. Mojo Nation users behind a firewall
need to employ a relay server outside the firewall that will hold messages for them until their
Broker goes out to pick them up. However, each time the Broker asks the relay server if there
are any messages there for it, the Broker has to pay the relay server a bit of Mojo.
3.4 How do I earn Mojo?
By running services for other users. Clicking "configure" at the main menu enables you to run
block servers, content trackers, publication trackers, and relay servers, and to set prices for each
of those services.
3.5 If I accumulate enough Mojo, can I buy beer/friends/France?
Eventually. The best-known distributed computing project -- SETI@Home -- accumulated
about 300,000 years of computing time in its first year of operation. If they shared that time with
Mojo Nation for a year, and ran every service while charging default prices, they'd certainly earn
enough to buy beer.
3.6 Can I earn Mojo in Mojo Nation while writing The Great American Novel in my
word processor?
Yes. You don't have to be using the Mojo Nation gateway in order to earn Mojo, as long as
your Broker is running in the command shell (Linux) or MS-DOS window (Windows). Some of
us leave our Brokers on all day, running in the background while we perform other tasks.
4. What is a relay server?
A relay server works like a mailbox for users who are behind a firewall. When the firewalls block
incoming messages from reaching the Brokers -- the agents which run the whole show -- the
relay servers sit outside the firewall and hold messages for the Brokers. The Brokers can go
outside the firewall and retrieve the messages, then bring them back in for processing.
4.1 Why should I choose to run a relay server?
Users who elect to operate a relay server (by clicking "on" for "Relay Server" on the Configure
page) earn gobs of Mojo because the Brokers who work behind the relay server (that is, those
folks behind the firewalls) are continually asking it if there are any messages there for it and are
therefore paying a steady toll in Mojo.
4.2 I'm behind a firewall, but the Mojo Nation software didn't detect it, so my Broker
isn't getting any replies to the messages it sends out. How can I make sure I use a relay
server?
There is an option on the configure page called "Behind A Firewall" that you should change to
"On", save the config, and restart your Broker software.
Alternatively: edit your Broker configuration file (in Unix systems, it's
~/.mojonation/broker/broker.conf, or in Windows, the default path is C:\Program
Files\mojonation\config\broker\broker.conf) and change the "SERVE_USING_A_RELAY"
setting under "YES_NO" to "yes".
4.21 Editing my Broker configuration file seems to be hazardous, since it determines
how my Broker interacts with the system.
Yes, so keep a backup copy, and keep in mind that the tabbing is vital.
4.3 I'm behind a firewall, but don't want to pay a relay server. How can I punch holes in
my firewall?
Consult your firewall documentation.
4.4 Which TCP/UDP ports should I open for Mojo Nation?
Once you've started your Broker, look in its output or log file for a line containing
"TCPCommsHandler: successfully bound to port NNNN" to find out the port number you are
using.
If you wish to use a specific port number, edit your config file and change these settings:
TRANSACTION_MANAGER_LISTEN_PORT:
This is the port you are actually listening on locally.
TRANSACTION_MANAGER_PICKY_PORT: false
If true, this means "barf if I can't get the listen port listed above." Otherwise it'll keep trying other
port numbers until it finds one that works.
People setting things up behind firewalls with tunnels through them may also need to change
these:
TRANSACTION_MANAGER_ANNOUNCED_PORT:
You are announcing to the rest of the world that this is the port on which you are running. If you
have a tunnel through a masquerading/nat firewall, you want to set this to the appropriate port on
the masquerating/nat firewall.
IP_ADDRESS_OVERRIDE:
This is the IP address that your Broker announces to others. If you have a tunnel through a
masquerading/nat firewall, you want to set this to the IP address of the masquerating/nat firewall.
5. Where's the Macintosh version of Mojo Nation?
Ask again after OS X is released. It will be easier to port Mojo Nation to Macintosh under
Macintosh OS X because it is derived from BSD Unix, and the engineers around here are all
Unix nerds.
6. May I publish content to Mojo Nation that no one else can see?
Yes. In the Publish window, click "Browse" to publish a single file, or type a directory path into
the "Select File or Path" field to publish a group of files. Then pull down "None" from the "Select
Content Type" menu, after which this message will appear:
Warning: Content published under the type "None" is afforded absolute privacy because it will be
invisible to searches and content trackers. That also means that the file cannot be found through
normal means should the file's Dinode be forgotten.
If content is published without a content description, the trackers on Mojo Nation are not notified
of its presence and neither can they find it later. However, if you lose the Dinode URL to the file,
you won't be able to find it again, either.
6.1 What's a Dinode?
When your Broker submits a file to Mojo Nation, it first breaks up the file into several small
pieces, then the pieces into smaller blocks which are encrypted for privacy and duplicated for
reliability. The Broker draws a "sharemap" to the location of the blocks, and for further security,
tears up and encrypts the map, too. The list of the blocks which makes up the sharemap is the
"Dinode". Nothing on Mojo Nation can be retrieved without the Dinode. References to Dinodes
in the Mojo Nation web interface are almost always presented in MojoID form, a
human-readable URL.
"(remember, same config)"
The hardware config might be the same but
software config can't be...
How am I going to heat my house this winter?
2 things really bother me
"I am writing to let you know that I have a new e-mail address: "(new e-mail)."
"users could not edit the wording."
So it is spamming , and not allowing you to change
change the wording to state that it is comming from Micros~1 and not you.
I'd almost call it a virus.
"I think a microprocessor based control system for something that's essentially a fancy remote controlled car is serious overkill."
I disagree. A processor could be used to control
some of the weapons on the bot so the operator can
worry about driving. A processor could be used
to help drive it as well (example: the processor could be used to keep the bot pointing it's best side toward the enemy while you are operating it.)
It could also help avoid the traps in the arena.
Some of the above could also be some with simple
electonics but using a processor would help you
be able to fine tune it faster and be able to change settings quickly for differnt matches.
"second first post of the day, and it's my birthday!"
12?
"Just because the enduser has more bandwidth doesn't mean they are going to suck up more bandwidth from servers than they do now."
When I was on a phone line I used to order my linux software from cheapbytes. Now that I am
on cable I just download it.
That is just one of many examples I can give...
"When Arthur C Clarke came up with the concept of a comsat, he had 3 huge space stations in mind,
serving the entire surface of the planet, with crews up there for several months at a time."
Arthur C Clarke also came up with the
space elevator in his book 2061. If
memory serves me it was made out of
diamand.
"Has anyone considered what an extraordinary situation it is where government tax collectors are collecting taxes which are funneled
straight to corporations?"
Happens all the time
$500 hammer anyone?
First you need to sent a probe to mars that
launches a smaller probe to the surface
from about 200mi above the surface. The little probe (launched from 200km) would slam into the
martin surface....
damn it...they already tried that
"So much for mature software written by professionals. It seems that, internally, Microsoft prefers the stuff "written by college kids in their basements."
:-)
Now I feel all warm and fuzzy inside
'"The weapon is very clever; it uses propellers to boost it out of the sub, then a rocket kicks in at a safe distance, burning liquid propellant," said one British expert.'
Clever? sounds like a Roadrunner cartoon to me...
Any one got the info on HOW it was converted to linux. I want to go our and buy one.
Is it me or does the Seti@home client get more
buggy everytime they update it?
I totally agree, also if you are required to obey robots.txt files then you should also be able to stop email harvesting spiders in the same manner.
(or at least be able to sue them if they do not)
Here's a flash presentation about Napster. You might get a kick out of it.
l
http://www.joecartoon.com/buddies/chaos/index.htm
NOTE: this is not for the bandwith challenged and may be improper to view at work...
"But something has to be done. I do all I can to educate, but as long as criminals are coddled in the courts, and people aren't educated as to the REAL effects of drugs are, I take any solutions I can get."
"criminals"
Some criminals might be getting coddled but drug offenders are not. I believe the US has more drug offenders in jail than the europe has people in jail for everything.
"and people aren't educated as to the REAL effects of drugs are"
If this law is passed it will be even harder to educate people. One of the reasons I never tried PCP is because I know it contains fermaldhide and arsonic. The more you know about drugs the LESS likely you are to use them.
"I take any solutions I can get"
umm you mean "the end justifies the means"? The war on drugs has already done a lot of damage to the 4th amendment and now this will do a lot of damage to the 1st amendment.
It will still be legal for people to tell you they want medical marijuana legalized but won't be legal for them to tell you WHY they want it legalized. Very convenent for our goverment.
Be very carefull what you wish for...
"How do I convince a Mac geek to become an Open Source Mac geek?"
Funny how times have changed....did'nt apple have
a pirate flag on there building for a while?
" I first heard about holographic storage research ten or twelve years ago"
:)
I think the first mention of holographic storage was 1968. The Hal 9000 computer in 2001 used it.
If Mr. Mr. A.C. Clark's vision is correct (and he has had some good visions) holographic storage will come of age this year
If MS is truly spilt up will the agreements that
employees signed (i.e. Can't work on other operating systems for 5 years) still be vaild?
A slicker (but more expensive) way to do this would be with a 2 or 3 space rackmount computer case and a skb rack case..
skb racks are for musical gear but they hold rack mount computers just fine and they even custom make stuff.