Before people jump and say that we don't need IPv6 because NAT is good enough: No, NAT is not good enough. While I am grateful for NAT (and I am sure every other pood sod stuck with a single address only is grateful too), NAT has some serious shortcomings and limitations which increase the need for sometimes ugly, drastic or awkward workarounds for many things. It would be nice to be able to communicate with machines behind routers directly, though the security aspect that NAT provides really is useful.
I realize that. But read the article, its titled Bad keystroke leads to $251 million stock buy , and it mentions The trader with Fubon Securities miskeyed in a small order from Merrill Lynch on Monday (emphasis mine).
To me, this sounds as though she simply didn't double-check what she typed, and that she was supposedly unfamiliar with that "new systems" sounds like an excuse.
I would have fired her too. I would fire anyone who's not able to use a keyboard, or doesn't check their input twice, especially when they are responsible for huge amounts of money.
Also, it is merely a happy coincidence that they will probably profit from the stock. It could be much worse.
By the way, I do realize that even high-quality hardware and software willfail sooner or later. And when that happens, I hope companies won't charge way too much for their support. It seems to become a new trend to try to cash in with ridiculous prices on the customers' problems that often the companies themselves created in the first place.
This, of coursed, implies assuring high quality, durability and ease of use, in both software and hardware. But sadly, it seems companies are more focussed on producing and manufacturing as cheaply as possible.
A bunch of your Senators have that area stretched to extreme proportions quite regularly. They refer to this as "Political Fund Raising".
A bit of cream helps.
Seems like we're close to finding out who Goatseman really is.
Telecom New Zealand is seeking compensation from the electricity company it says is responsible for knocking out another pipeline which eliminated backup services.
Surely the electricity company put clauses in the contract excluding them from liability for failures and damages caused by things outside of their control? I take it for granted that every big company offering services of any kind have clauses for those cases.
I wasn't complaining about the fact that it hasn't been MFC'ed yet, I was expressing my worries about the fact that overall support for things I consider essential (like USB 2.0, WPA, and even the possibility of a higher console resolution) has been started rather late compared to other OS's.
Are Linux and Free/OpenBSD the only real options now?
I don't know if you left it out on purpose or merely forgot to add it to your list, and I hardly ever use it, but NetBSD is a damn fine BSD variant too. It just doesn't get the press it deserves, focus seems to be on Linux and Free/OpenBSD mainly.
Well, then there's The Hurd, but it's barely usable. So, yes, I guess those are the only real options now.:)
My experiences with wireless support have been great. But I run a Centrino, which isn't really uncommon hardware. I have used both NDISulator and Damien Bergaminis excellentipw driver. I recommend using the latter to anyone using a Centrino-based laptop, it works flawlessly.
I enjoy FreeBSD a lot, it is a great OS and it's fun to use, and I'd like to thank everyone involved.
Having said that, there are a few areas where FreeBSD sadly lacks behind Linux. For example, support for USB 2.0 is flakey, devices often don't work or behave oddly, and if you have atapicam compiled into the kernel, good luck with your iPod (firewire works flawlessly, though).
Another thing is WPA, there's no support for it in the stable branches, only in -CURRENT. I find support for USB 2.0 and WPA to be very important for an OS 2005, and frankly, support for both should be taken for granted, I think.
Other than that, it's a great OS and I am looking forward to 6.0. And I encourage everyone who is unfamiliar with FreeBSD to try it out - you might love it.:)
And pay again when something stops working. And again when they get a new computer that needs to be connected to the network. Oh, and then there's also the disadvantage of having to associate with the likes of us and to invite fat and sweaty geeks to do things for you. What will the neighbors say?
It's nice to see they care about newcomers, but I'd rather they invested more time and effort in their wireless products. They were a nightmare to get to work, at least they were when I tried to integrate a few notebooks into an existing WLAN using Linksys wireless cards awhile ago. Has anyone else had problems with Linksys? Back then I vowed never to use Linksys products again, but maybe they have improved in the meantime. Can anyone comment?
They've been selling beta versions of Zeta on German television for months touting it as virus and trojan free, and claiming it was actually "faster than Linux", whatever that's supposed to mean, showing it to run on a (supposedly) P1 with 128 MB while playing 6 video files simultaneously. I always got a good laugh out of that, but I'll probably try it out soon nonetheless. Can anyone comment on the quality of the beta version?
I actually tried all BSD flavors (i.e. the main three). I decided to go with OpenBSD for the router (OpenBSD's pf is an amazing piece of software and wasn't available for the other BSDs at the time) and with FreeBSD for my desktop machines - it just felt a little nicer to use than NetBSD, which, I am sure, makes for a nice desktop machine too.
As to why I chose to use BSD rather than Linux - maybe I wasn't clear in my comment above. I started out on SuSE and I enjoyed it a lot, but a few minor constant annoyances made me start thinking about switching to another distro. That's where the problems started, as outlined above. Choice can be a problem, and after reading tons of reviews of and comments on dozens of distros with an ambigious tone as to their specific merits and drawbacks which I didn't find helpful at all, I cringed at the thought of having to install them all and play with them for awhile to see which one I liked the best. With BSD, you don't have much choice, which really can be a blessing. You try them and either like it or you don't. With Linux, I knew if I didn't like a specific distro, I couldn't really blame Linux, but the distro itself, and I'd have to check out the next one. I found the thougt of that tiring. So I gave BSD a try and found it satisfactory.
I am mainly a BSD user (I guess my.sig gives me away), but I have used Linux before I made the jump to FreeBSD (and OpenBSD) a couple years ago. I am not enough of an expert to comment on the technical superiority of one or the other, but it's not for technical reasons that I went with FreeBSD.
The reason is quite simple and probably uncommon: While I realize that Linux is easier to install and to configure (once you get used to the distro specific tools) and has wider hardware support, I just couldn't decide on which distro to use. For every review of a distro, there would be an equal number of comments arguing for or against it. To some, it was the most "polished", "advanced" and "easiest" distro ever, to others it was a "nightmare".
I didn't really feel like trying them all out just to see who was right. There's a plethora of distros all aiming for different objects, and I found that quite overwhelming. So I decided to spend some time exploring FreeBSD and pretty quickly fell in love with it. So, I enjoyed using Linux (SuSE), but I feel more comfortable with FreeBSD - and not for technical reason.
True. I don't know why such absolutely non-informative reviews get submitted in the first place, when there are much better sources of information and reviews. In a post above, I mentioned this one, which I enjoyed a lot.
Slashdot Mirror
Before people jump and say that we don't need IPv6 because NAT is good enough: No, NAT is not good enough. While I am grateful for NAT (and I am sure every other pood sod stuck with a single address only is grateful too), NAT has some serious shortcomings and limitations which increase the need for sometimes ugly, drastic or awkward workarounds for many things. It would be nice to be able to communicate with machines behind routers directly, though the security aspect that NAT provides really is useful.
I realize that. But read the article, its titled Bad keystroke leads to $251 million stock buy , and it mentions The trader with Fubon Securities miskeyed in a small order from Merrill Lynch on Monday (emphasis mine).
To me, this sounds as though she simply didn't double-check what she typed, and that she was supposedly unfamiliar with that "new systems" sounds like an excuse.
I would have fired her too. I would fire anyone who's not able to use a keyboard, or doesn't check their input twice, especially when they are responsible for huge amounts of money.
Also, it is merely a happy coincidence that they will probably profit from the stock. It could be much worse.
This story is so short on details that it's hard to comment, but when I compare
A Taiwan stock trader mistakenly bought $251 million worth of shares with a misstroke of her computer keyboard
to
Fubon said that the trader was unfamiliar with new computer systems,
I wonder if I missed a revolution in keyboard technology that made it impossible to adapt to "new systems" quickly?
Surely this means that 2005 is the year of Linux on the dektop.
By the way, I do realize that even high-quality hardware and software willfail sooner or later. And when that happens, I hope companies won't charge way too much for their support. It seems to become a new trend to try to cash in with ridiculous prices on the customers' problems that often the companies themselves created in the first place.
The most obvious answer probably is:
Not having to call support in the first place.
This, of coursed, implies assuring high quality, durability and ease of use, in both software and hardware. But sadly, it seems companies are more focussed on producing and manufacturing as cheaply as possible.
A bunch of your Senators have that area stretched to extreme proportions quite regularly. They refer to this as "Political Fund Raising".
A bit of cream helps.
Seems like we're close to finding out who Goatseman really is.
I followed the links provided in the submission to this page containing a list of other reexaminations, where I found this gem:
6,520,942 Reexam. C.N. 90/006,758, Ordered Date: Sept. 24, 2003, Cl. 604/290,
Title: METHOD TO IMPROVE PERI-ANAL HYGIENE AFTER A BOWEL MOVEMENT
How fitting.
Telecom New Zealand is seeking compensation from the electricity company it says is responsible for knocking out another pipeline which eliminated backup services.
Surely the electricity company put clauses in the contract excluding them from liability for failures and damages caused by things outside of their control? I take it for granted that every big company offering services of any kind have clauses for those cases.
Hello,
I wasn't complaining about the fact that it hasn't been MFC'ed yet, I was expressing my worries about the fact that overall support for things I consider essential (like USB 2.0, WPA, and even the possibility of a higher console resolution) has been started rather late compared to other OS's.
Yeah. She made internet history with the intensity and brutality of all the flamewars she provoked. I will miss that. :)
Are Linux and Free/OpenBSD the only real options now?
:)
I don't know if you left it out on purpose or merely forgot to add it to your list, and I hardly ever use it, but NetBSD is a damn fine BSD variant too. It just doesn't get the press it deserves, focus seems to be on Linux and Free/OpenBSD mainly.
Well, then there's The Hurd, but it's barely usable. So, yes, I guess those are the only real options now.
My experiences with wireless support have been great. But I run a Centrino, which isn't really uncommon hardware. I have used both NDISulator and Damien Bergaminis excellent ipw driver. I recommend using the latter to anyone using a Centrino-based laptop, it works flawlessly.
I enjoy FreeBSD a lot, it is a great OS and it's fun to use, and I'd like to thank everyone involved.
:)
Having said that, there are a few areas where FreeBSD sadly lacks behind Linux. For example, support for USB 2.0 is flakey, devices often don't work or behave oddly, and if you have atapicam compiled into the kernel, good luck with your iPod (firewire works flawlessly, though).
Another thing is WPA, there's no support for it in the stable branches, only in -CURRENT. I find support for USB 2.0 and WPA to be very important for an OS 2005, and frankly, support for both should be taken for granted, I think.
Other than that, it's a great OS and I am looking forward to 6.0. And I encourage everyone who is unfamiliar with FreeBSD to try it out - you might love it.
I can't believe I actually browsed your comment history to so see whether you were a troll or not!
And pay again when something stops working. And again when they get a new computer that needs to be connected to the network. Oh, and then there's also the disadvantage of having to associate with the likes of us and to invite fat and sweaty geeks to do things for you. What will the neighbors say?
It's nice to see they care about newcomers, but I'd rather they invested more time and effort in their wireless products. They were a nightmare to get to work, at least they were when I tried to integrate a few notebooks into an existing WLAN using Linksys wireless cards awhile ago. Has anyone else had problems with Linksys? Back then I vowed never to use Linksys products again, but maybe they have improved in the meantime. Can anyone comment?
I doubt it's going to support Linux, ah well, I'll just use a real os then.
May I suggest The Hurd?
I believe SuSE stands for Software- und Systementwicklung (software and system development), so the correct pronunciation would be "su-zeh".
Ah, yes.
They have had quite a few discussions about Zeta. Here are a few of the more recent ones:
YellowTAB Zeta R1 goes Gold
Zeta R1 Screenshots
A Look at YellowTAB's Progress
Thanks for the hint.
They've been selling beta versions of Zeta on German television for months touting it as virus and trojan free, and claiming it was actually "faster than Linux", whatever that's supposed to mean, showing it to run on a (supposedly) P1 with 128 MB while playing 6 video files simultaneously. I always got a good laugh out of that, but I'll probably try it out soon nonetheless. Can anyone comment on the quality of the beta version?
Hello m50d,
I actually tried all BSD flavors (i.e. the main three). I decided to go with OpenBSD for the router (OpenBSD's pf is an amazing piece of software and wasn't available for the other BSDs at the time) and with FreeBSD for my desktop machines - it just felt a little nicer to use than NetBSD, which, I am sure, makes for a nice desktop machine too.
As to why I chose to use BSD rather than Linux - maybe I wasn't clear in my comment above. I started out on SuSE and I enjoyed it a lot, but a few minor constant annoyances made me start thinking about switching to another distro. That's where the problems started, as outlined above. Choice can be a problem, and after reading tons of reviews of and comments on dozens of distros with an ambigious tone as to their specific merits and drawbacks which I didn't find helpful at all, I cringed at the thought of having to install them all and play with them for awhile to see which one I liked the best. With BSD, you don't have much choice, which really can be a blessing. You try them and either like it or you don't. With Linux, I knew if I didn't like a specific distro, I couldn't really blame Linux, but the distro itself, and I'd have to check out the next one. I found the thougt of that tiring. So I gave BSD a try and found it satisfactory.
I am mainly a BSD user (I guess my .sig gives me away), but I have used Linux before I made the jump to FreeBSD (and OpenBSD) a couple years ago. I am not enough of an expert to comment on the technical superiority of one or the other, but it's not for technical reasons that I went with FreeBSD.
The reason is quite simple and probably uncommon: While I realize that Linux is easier to install and to configure (once you get used to the distro specific tools) and has wider hardware support, I just couldn't decide on which distro to use. For every review of a distro, there would be an equal number of comments arguing for or against it. To some, it was the most "polished", "advanced" and "easiest" distro ever, to others it was a "nightmare".
I didn't really feel like trying them all out just to see who was right. There's a plethora of distros all aiming for different objects, and I found that quite overwhelming. So I decided to spend some time exploring FreeBSD and pretty quickly fell in love with it. So, I enjoyed using Linux (SuSE), but I feel more comfortable with FreeBSD - and not for technical reason.
True. I don't know why such absolutely non-informative reviews get submitted in the first place, when there are much better sources of information and reviews. In a post above, I mentioned this one, which I enjoyed a lot.