Hey, I am going to really look forward to when the copyright runs out on Perl 3 books, Windows 95 annoyances and appleworks 6: the missing manual. In 14 years I will be able pick up all these and write some derivative work without having to worry about the copyright..... Well unless they renew them for another 14 years. Then those computer manuals might be out of date.
But seriously, O'Reilly has done a lot more important stuff in copyright but this is laughable. He is not publishing Steamboat Willie or Moby Dick.
I researched this for a business proposal and found out that there were already a bunch of companies in my area that do this type of work. Although you might find it fun, interesting and cheaper, it will quickly escalate into lots of crap and no payback for you. Yeah, everyone else will be happy but you will be left with a lot of headaches and renewed respect for the phone company - imagine that. Yeah find a little ISP who wants to do it and don't get yourself in the thankless position of getting screwed by your neighbors.
As for what I would do, don't go DSL unless you have to. DSL is only needed if you are really going over the limit of Ethernet and you want the rate limitiing built into most DSL boxes. It ain't like slapping in a Cisco router or your linux router in there.
The sizing should be in the 20 to 40 users per T1 and then you have to do load balancing between them - more fun and games.
And for your friend who is cabling his building project, he should put both CAT5+/6 and fiber. Only expect to use the copper for now but at only 50 bucks a unit to rough it in its worth it when you really want to do it.
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Seems that every discussion about 802.x is all about how to set up the legal (approved) network access points up. But the question of how to really protect your network from someone who puts up a rouge AP is really where most security minded folks fail. After all understand WEP and the other stuff that you need to be doing is important but it really does not do much for you if someone has a rouge AP that they only put up on occasion like a meeting or something ie you won't find it unless you are scanning 100% of the time.
I don't think that most people would be suprised that there is a lot of corporate espionage being done by going down to CompUSA and paying $100 cash for your untraceable security hole.
There are a bunch of different levels that this goes on - First there are new types of programs (p2p and crypto), then there are new languages (Java, etc.) and then there are programming approaches (OOP, etc.) and finally there are organizational approaches (OSS, distributed teams, etc.)
Hey its not great the SCO has decided that their best IP assests are some government documents instead of in creating new stuff. But come on. The OS community will not die even if they win against IBM. The OS community is much bigger than that and even if they win against Red Hat and Suse, so what.
Please put all predictions of doom on the shelf with the other stupid predictions that are made every day about computers and business.
I currently am working on CMS projects (using not programming). I found that there were over 200 CMS's floating about. Looking at it there are only a few that I would recommend to clients - support, depth of features, documentation (any), etc. Clearly if you think that only a handful are install-worthy, the other 190 plus CMS's are failures. And I would say most are failures because they are too close to something that already exists but is worse.
Its like having to buy the knock off of your favorite cereal because its cheaper and you are poor. But in this case, since it is worse than the originals and costs more (time to figure it out), you should never use it.
Open source software today has no cleaning mechanism to remove old junk and concentrate development resources on the cream.
maybe you all don't or have not done telephone work but this is the case (built in eavesdropping) in every telephone switch. Most office PBXes have it too.
So please get your heads out of the collective sand and realize that if your voice, VOIP or data traffic leaves your facilities its going to be picked up if someone wants to see it. So this is not new, nor is it news nor is it any different than what we already have in place.
The real problem is that people leave all kinds of electonic trails and traces, because they want things cheaper. So much of today's cost effective way of doing business all revolve around computers and the capabilities they offer about tracking, correlating and predicting patterns. So the marketer wants to market (and spend money on) to those who will probably buy. You want discounts on things that you like. So you give up some privacy so that the marketer has a clue about what to advertise to you. Well it goes on and on but realistally its not going to chance until people decide that cost is note the biggest driver in their lives.
Recommendation two - get good pics of shuttle in orbit every time. Wow, that should help determine if we are going to tell the astronauts that they have stuff they can't fix.
Honestly, do you have any contingency to examine in space and fix the shuttle if it does have problems? No, well, see you back here in another 10 years.
So technology gets better, everyone lives better, etc. etc. or technology has dark side and it destroys us. Well I believe that the future of everyone's happiness revolves around spirituality not technology. I look at people chasing after such dumb things and well I don't see how this or that technology (nanotechnology, fuel cells,...) really matter to how you feel about your life. In fact, I only see that as people get more and more materialistic, they tend to go on autopilot. Its not that the materialism is bad, per se, but the lack of critical thinking about it is what gets most people stuck in a very unhappy situation - stuck in bad job, stuck in bad marriages, doing things that really don't make them happy.
So its all great that smart thinking people are figuring out what is going on technology wise in 50 or 100 years but too bad most people don't think about what they do everyday. Autopilot really sucks when it steers you right into a hillside.
The problem with IT executives is not that they don't have a book to bring it all together. The information is all around them but they seem to reflexively question it or say yes, yes I understand but we just don't have the time to do it right. And more often than not it takes more time because they cut corners. The book sounds good, too bad all the people who don't need it will get it and all the people that need it will not read it or use it in any real way.
I don't have to buy the book. Not that its not a bad idea its just another one of those "here is this story that points out this fact or direction or whatever". Not that these aren't entertaining if the writer is good (i.e The New New Thing was good) but it really is like reading a newspaper put into a book. (And if wanted that I would buy the Onion's century in review.) And these get oh so stale. I cringe at some of the drivel that still is sitting on book shelves at the local B&N or Borders about new technology that is so wrong, dated and such a waste of paper.
Hope the best for the author but I will not be buying it.
And why put out a book when you have perfectly good web publishing tools, money perhaps??? So for all the talk in the outline about news being different on the web, its really not for the authors - weblog != money for authors.
When I compressed the transcript of the Osbornes, it got increadibily high compression but I don't think they are intelligent life forms. Or maybe I am really wrong.
2. you have those that think this is the greatest thing
Then you have those like myself that see this as just another technology/technique that will find a use or two but in general will just make doing technical stuff more complicated without any real benefit.
This topic is really stale. Every one of these patents has the same basic issues and everyone posts the same stuff each time. Could we just put up stupid, repetitive items (stupid because of USPTO actions) and not allow any comment - cause I read it all before.
AOL does no filtering on the content only on the header information. It does nothing with the content of the email messages. It forwards every mail that is accepted by its mail servers to the users. Thats why AOL only blocks about 50% of the stuff. Even if they accepted the mail, they should be deleting or giving me the option of deleting without seeing every mail that wants to increase my unit's size or my wife's boobs and the pharmacy come ons and the Norton junk. But AOL continues to act like a single lost email is the end of the world. Well give the users some tools and let them decide. No wonder they are losing subcribers, they don't know how to deal with the number one annoyance on the internet today.
And they can track all the money in your pocket and... Oh, please give me a flying break. Please either the phone is powered down or it isn't. For this to be true, the phones have to power completely up and listen for a signal. Now 802.11 card basically turn off their antenna when they are not transmitting but wake up every several hundred milliseconds to check in with the network. Since the signalling is the most power hungry part. But you are talking about pure urban legend.
It seems that everyone who does development work does not feel that they have made a difference unless they leave behind something to point at: A dam, a tall building, an internet... Please although internet access maybe easy to get your hands around, accessible technology that the educated can support and widely available, it really is way behind other issues that need to be fixed. Most countries need better laws, courts, banks not IT infrastructure.
Well at least Cisco and HP are branching into new market and away from the saturated ones.
Daniel has done some good work in micromanaging the available bandwidth to make sure that ACKs get through to minimize retransmits due to drops as well as other causes. When you look at low bandwidth links the time in queue and to transmit can be much bigger than the near instananious transmission times that you expect on high capacity lines.
A little off topic but I always find it interesting that people with hicap gear (Foundry, Cisco, etc.) are always talking about QOS when it really only makes sense most times on low bandwidth lines. So his work is really important when you look at where it is in scheme of things - out at the end users line.
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Although I agree with the poster who said that we should try all kinds of things, the one thing that seems to be missing is fixing the SMTP protocol. SMTP was never meant to be used the way it is today. Quite simply it is a relic of the 1980's originally written by Postel for reliable email communications but not secure, not authenticated and not scalable to the commercial realm. So when I read through these guys that are going to meet 2-3 times a year, I just see no real end in site coming from the standards community any time soon. SPAM will kill email as an effective tool and the costs, both hidden and measureable, are mounting.
Reading through the article it seems to lack a rather small but important item - multiple systems interacting read/write with the same database. This is not a very robust or scalable way of doing things. I wonder how this stacks up to one of the normal ways of improving performance by have one read/write database with lots of read only repicas.
I looked at possibly using the Safari system but had a number of problems with it. Instead of Safari I used the Barnes and Noble method - get a cup of coffee at their in-store coffee bar and look at all the books I want. So here are my pet peeves about the whole idea.
1. The books are generally fire and forget arrangements. Not to say the author didn't write a good book but by the time they finish it, the book is somewhat out of date. Thus you get lots almost up to date material.
2. There is no real linkage between the online book and the online resources. So the book, whether in print or on line, just floats out there as a standalone entity.
3. The point of view/writing style/aim of the author really makes some of the books good to read but not good for reference (online or off).
That said I think that it is great that the service is offered but to me the need for good web based documentation is not fufilled by just putting the books online. It would be great to see an paid online reference that was high quality and well organized. For those of us in the tech world taht have to surf through lots of different disciples, the current crop of books, web sites and vendor support leaves a lot to be desired.
So content management system weren't really protected by either an expired patent or a patent held in public domain or held by a friendly party (or a patent system that makes some sense in the software realm). So Interwoven's lawyers do their job and protect the company from everyone else patenting it and putting them out of business.
Yeah a lot of the stuff they have in their patent is, well, obvious or common practice or whatever they call the stuff you aren't allowed to patent. But they have a completed product and filed. It will be interesting to see what they do about all the other CMS out there. I would love it if they were dumb enough to take on Vignette or any of the other commercial CMS's out there.
all that stuff I see on Alias is real then! Next thing ya know that stuff on Star Trek is real too and they just been keeping it from us. What I really want is for all that Batman stuff to be real - I could really use a big car like batman to get through all this snow around my house.
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But seriously, O'Reilly has done a lot more important stuff in copyright but this is laughable. He is not publishing Steamboat Willie or Moby Dick.
As for what I would do, don't go DSL unless you have to. DSL is only needed if you are really going over the limit of Ethernet and you want the rate limitiing built into most DSL boxes. It ain't like slapping in a Cisco router or your linux router in there.
The sizing should be in the 20 to 40 users per T1 and then you have to do load balancing between them - more fun and games.
And for your friend who is cabling his building project, he should put both CAT5+/6 and fiber. Only expect to use the copper for now but at only 50 bucks a unit to rough it in its worth it when you really want to do it.
I don't think that most people would be suprised that there is a lot of corporate espionage being done by going down to CompUSA and paying $100 cash for your untraceable security hole.
There are a bunch of different levels that this goes on - First there are new types of programs (p2p and crypto), then there are new languages (Java, etc.) and then there are programming approaches (OOP, etc.) and finally there are organizational approaches (OSS, distributed teams, etc.)
"I am so ashamed to be from the same state that Johnson space center is in." - Natalie Maines
Please put all predictions of doom on the shelf with the other stupid predictions that are made every day about computers and business.
Its like having to buy the knock off of your favorite cereal because its cheaper and you are poor. But in this case, since it is worse than the originals and costs more (time to figure it out), you should never use it.
Open source software today has no cleaning mechanism to remove old junk and concentrate development resources on the cream.
So please get your heads out of the collective sand and realize that if your voice, VOIP or data traffic leaves your facilities its going to be picked up if someone wants to see it. So this is not new, nor is it news nor is it any different than what we already have in place.
The real problem is that people leave all kinds of electonic trails and traces, because they want things cheaper. So much of today's cost effective way of doing business all revolve around computers and the capabilities they offer about tracking, correlating and predicting patterns. So the marketer wants to market (and spend money on) to those who will probably buy. You want discounts on things that you like. So you give up some privacy so that the marketer has a clue about what to advertise to you. Well it goes on and on but realistally its not going to chance until people decide that cost is note the biggest driver in their lives.
Honestly, do you have any contingency to examine in space and fix the shuttle if it does have problems? No, well, see you back here in another 10 years.
So its all great that smart thinking people are figuring out what is going on technology wise in 50 or 100 years but too bad most people don't think about what they do everyday. Autopilot really sucks when it steers you right into a hillside.
The problem with IT executives is not that they don't have a book to bring it all together. The information is all around them but they seem to reflexively question it or say yes, yes I understand but we just don't have the time to do it right. And more often than not it takes more time because they cut corners. The book sounds good, too bad all the people who don't need it will get it and all the people that need it will not read it or use it in any real way.
Hope the best for the author but I will not be buying it.
And why put out a book when you have perfectly good web publishing tools, money perhaps??? So for all the talk in the outline about news being different on the web, its really not for the authors - weblog != money for authors.
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2. you have those that think this is the greatest thing
Then you have those like myself that see this as just another technology/technique that will find a use or two but in general will just make doing technical stuff more complicated without any real benefit.
This topic is really stale. Every one of these patents has the same basic issues and everyone posts the same stuff each time. Could we just put up stupid, repetitive items (stupid because of USPTO actions) and not allow any comment - cause I read it all before.
AOL does no filtering on the content only on the header information. It does nothing with the content of the email messages. It forwards every mail that is accepted by its mail servers to the users. Thats why AOL only blocks about 50% of the stuff. Even if they accepted the mail, they should be deleting or giving me the option of deleting without seeing every mail that wants to increase my unit's size or my wife's boobs and the pharmacy come ons and the Norton junk. But AOL continues to act like a single lost email is the end of the world. Well give the users some tools and let them decide. No wonder they are losing subcribers, they don't know how to deal with the number one annoyance on the internet today.
And they can track all the money in your pocket and... Oh, please give me a flying break. Please either the phone is powered down or it isn't. For this to be true, the phones have to power completely up and listen for a signal. Now 802.11 card basically turn off their antenna when they are not transmitting but wake up every several hundred milliseconds to check in with the network. Since the signalling is the most power hungry part. But you are talking about pure urban legend.
Well at least Cisco and HP are branching into new market and away from the saturated ones.
A little off topic but I always find it interesting that people with hicap gear (Foundry, Cisco, etc.) are always talking about QOS when it really only makes sense most times on low bandwidth lines. So his work is really important when you look at where it is in scheme of things - out at the end users line.
Although I agree with the poster who said that we should try all kinds of things, the one thing that seems to be missing is fixing the SMTP protocol. SMTP was never meant to be used the way it is today. Quite simply it is a relic of the 1980's originally written by Postel for reliable email communications but not secure, not authenticated and not scalable to the commercial realm. So when I read through these guys that are going to meet 2-3 times a year, I just see no real end in site coming from the standards community any time soon. SPAM will kill email as an effective tool and the costs, both hidden and measureable, are mounting.
Reading through the article it seems to lack a rather small but important item - multiple systems interacting read/write with the same database. This is not a very robust or scalable way of doing things. I wonder how this stacks up to one of the normal ways of improving performance by have one read/write database with lots of read only repicas.
1. The books are generally fire and forget arrangements. Not to say the author didn't write a good book but by the time they finish it, the book is somewhat out of date. Thus you get lots almost up to date material.
2. There is no real linkage between the online book and the online resources. So the book, whether in print or on line, just floats out there as a standalone entity.
3. The point of view/writing style/aim of the author really makes some of the books good to read but not good for reference (online or off).
That said I think that it is great that the service is offered but to me the need for good web based documentation is not fufilled by just putting the books online. It would be great to see an paid online reference that was high quality and well organized. For those of us in the tech world taht have to surf through lots of different disciples, the current crop of books, web sites and vendor support leaves a lot to be desired.
Yeah a lot of the stuff they have in their patent is, well, obvious or common practice or whatever they call the stuff you aren't allowed to patent. But they have a completed product and filed. It will be interesting to see what they do about all the other CMS out there. I would love it if they were dumb enough to take on Vignette or any of the other commercial CMS's out there.
all that stuff I see on Alias is real then! Next thing ya know that stuff on Star Trek is real too and they just been keeping it from us. What I really want is for all that Batman stuff to be real - I could really use a big car like batman to get through all this snow around my house.