All the MPAA chasing after random sites has done is move people to new pastures , they kill one torrent site and another three pop up in various locations , it has exponentialy increased anon trackers and sites which link to external torrents.
I really fail to understand why everyone is making this such a huge problem.
All these torrent website operators need to do is host their content in eastern European (Russian) networks and all their problems magically go away. Why is this so difficult to understand?
The other problem is the mentality of these operators. I have tried to help them on numerous occasions to realize the simple fix to their problems (by donating free bandwidth in eastern European networks to them). Have you been on any of these type of IRC channels? These guys all have enormous attitudes and think themselves on a level of no less of God himself. They tell me that I don't know what I'm talking about. As an owner and operator of a large ISP in eastern Europe, let's just say that indeed I do know what I'm talking about. I can host anything I want, completely free of worry of European or American jurisdiction and laws.
The networks here are the wild, wild west of the Internet. No local authorities (laws or jurisdictions) or higher level ISP's block or attempt to block content infringing on copyright and/or intellectual property.
So, until these website operators learn to host their content on webservers outside of American or European jurisdiction, their problems will never go away. Unfortunetly, their heads are too big to realize simple truth.
How about an implantable encyclopedia for your brain? Would be better if it could be updated, of course, but you have to have certain trade-offs for it being so small.
tell you what, I'll work on the storage medium, you work on the interface, deal?
guess I'm just ignorant. Seems strange that according to their stats that Mandrake makes up the same user base as SuSE and RedHat COMBINED...
man, you're not kidding! All the desktop linux users that I know (and all the people that they know) the are either running gentoo or Fedora on their desktop.
Perhaps it's just an "area" thing. It seems that in some geographical areas, certain distros or apps or more prevalent. As an example, I was in Sweden recently and had a group of Swedish linux enthusiasts watching a small learning tutorial I was giving. When i launched vi to edit a file, they all started giving each other strange looks. Finally, one of them asked me why I didn't use nano. I told him that I prefer vi. They all looked at me like I was nuts.
I left there and travelled a bit north. I was working as a linux security consultant for a large firm that did have a linux admins, but wanted a second opinion on security. Again, I launched vi to do something and the linux guys there looked at me like I was an oddball. Sure enough, they absolutely could not believe that I didn't use nano for an editor.
Now, I don't know a single person that uses Ubuntu or any Debian based distros. The only people I know using Mandrake are a couple of friends that are new into linux.
However, I know that many people are using Debian based distros for desktops, but I just don't know any. Perhaps I don't live/work in that part of the world where they are as popular as Fedora or gentoo.
Any debian using moderator will mark this as a troll, but I'm really just giving an honest account of my experiences. Perhaps the debian users can all mention where they are from so we can get an idea what part of the world Debian is so popular in.
Microsoft has a lot of money. Giving away $50,000 to fix an exploit is far more cost effective than getting bad press about some new exploit and having your customers suffer.
I mean, if I had knowledge of some little or unknown IIS exploit, an XBox wouldn't do a thing for me.
No no no, Russians sell stolen hacked ICQ accounts because everyone wants either an easy to remember ICQ# or a really low ICQ#.
I frequent these Russian forums frequently where they are giving away 5 digit ICQ# to the first person to read the post.
However, the most amazing thing is, if I had the ability to direct 10,000 zombie systems to attack websites for extortion money, you could bet that every type of online communication I engaged in would be done thru no less than 5 different proxies, for every type of service, with an excrypted tunnel between me and the first proxy, and with complete control of that first proxy to erase full logs afterward.
You think that these guys are brilliant, but they're really just a bunch of stupid script using kidhacks.
I would be interesting to know what percentage of the zombie machines were windows...
ALthough Azureus is one of the better java written applications I've used, it still feels like java.
Everything updates just a little slow. You can be downloading via torrent something and have like 18%. Then, go to another workspace and then later when I click back onto the Azureus workspace, it still shows 18% for about a second, then bam, all the values update. It's not my machine (p4,3.0ghz, gig ram).
Azureus, as an application, totally rules. It would be excellent in C or even python.
You're not doing any forward thinking. Of course, by using todays methods, being able to organize and effectively use that much data is impossible.
This "information age" will be at the forefront for at least 100 years. We are just at the beginning of understanding how to store and use large amounts of data effectively.
By your reasoning, the "rate at which data is being produced is growing exponentially", but wouldn't our ability to handle and use large amounts of data also grow exponentially?
A thousand years ago, the Vikings were still getting converted to Christianity. Do you know where the big parties have been at this time? If I told you that Bjarni Hrolfsson and Erik Karlsson (made up viking names) had this fabulous party 1000 years ago, would you even know when and where to go?
What you are forgetting is that in this day and age, more information is being recorded and stored each day than ever before. In a hundred years, I would expect for us to at least have some sort of storage media that is unaffected by time.
Imagine the massive backends and intuitive frontends people will build on all this data. For future time travelers doing research on people's past conceptions of time travel, finding a "Time Traveler Convention" should be fairly easy.
just slap a webserver on each DSL line and have them share a share a single database, or use a single server with two network interfaces or just use a single interface with an alias.
Then, direct traffic to both of these webservers (or network interfaces) simultaneously with round-robin DNS.
Just add the two A records for a single host. www 60 IN A 208.201.239.36 www 60 IN A 208.201.239.37
Be sure to set the TTL low enough (about 60 seconds) to prevent any intervening caching DNS servers from hanging onto one sort order for too long, which will hopefully help keep the number of requests to each host more or less equal.
You should spend more than 1 minute checking out the spatial capabilities of Nautilus. The only behavior that is similar to win95 is the fact that a double click opens a new window. However, that's when the simularities stop.
Each folder acts like it's own living entity. The scrollbars, icons and placement are all remembered. Basically, the folder looks exactly the same as the last time you've seen it, enabling you to quickly find that document you were working on last week.
I also used Yahoo exclusively for web searching. However, I hated how 'busy' their site was and the time it took to load up all the flashy bits.
When I first discovered Google, sometime in 98 or 99, the number one thing that attracted me (besides good search results) was the non-obstrusive nature of their webpage. It was nice and simple and loaded quickly because of the content (or lack thereof).
One thing that I can't stand are web pages that are so busy looking, I can't easily figure out how to get the information I need.
The nice thing is since it's command line, you can quickly create a script that does exactly what you want. e.g. when you run it, make it ask you what the output path and filename should be, or what encoding rates and/or codecs you want to use. The possibilities are endless. Welcome to Linux.
There are also a few really good DVD ripping and encoding graphic applicaitons you should check out. Offhand, I remember AcidRip, but use google to find more.
What exactly is the difference between routing with a dedicated linux box and routing with a hardware (rack) router?
We have about 300 customers going thru our linux machine (@ 100mb/s), and the box is really bored to death. However, other people in my office keep telling me how 'software routing' sucks and that this linux machine can't hardly be doing that good of a job. I beg to differ.
Well, it happened. They walked in with a Dlink DES-3326S. So, down goes the linux router and up comes this new solid state one. Once configured, it appears to do a pretty good job, although it didn't have half the features of proper packet classification and marking that linux gives you.
However, a week later, the thing crashes! No big deal, reboot. The next day, another crash! WTF? Call to tech support, they say grab latest firmware. No problem, did exactly that. The next day, CRASH!
That's it, I turned the blasted thing off, put the linux box back on and we've been smooth sailing ever since.
I'm starting to get the idea that the only reason these solid-state routers sell in the first place is because most people don't know how to configure linux to do what they want.
Am I wrong here? I mean, what's the real scoop here.
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Odd, they must have been out of the small ice tea with sweet 'n low.
All the MPAA chasing after random sites has done is move people to new pastures , they kill one torrent site and another three pop up in various locations , it has exponentialy increased anon trackers and sites which link to external torrents.
I really fail to understand why everyone is making this such a huge problem.
All these torrent website operators need to do is host their content in eastern European (Russian) networks and all their problems magically go away. Why is this so difficult to understand?
The other problem is the mentality of these operators. I have tried to help them on numerous occasions to realize the simple fix to their problems (by donating free bandwidth in eastern European networks to them). Have you been on any of these type of IRC channels? These guys all have enormous attitudes and think themselves on a level of no less of God himself. They tell me that I don't know what I'm talking about. As an owner and operator of a large ISP in eastern Europe, let's just say that indeed I do know what I'm talking about. I can host anything I want, completely free of worry of European or American jurisdiction and laws.
The networks here are the wild, wild west of the Internet. No local authorities (laws or jurisdictions) or higher level ISP's block or attempt to block content infringing on copyright and/or intellectual property.
So, until these website operators learn to host their content on webservers outside of American or European jurisdiction, their problems will never go away. Unfortunetly, their heads are too big to realize simple truth.
How about an implantable encyclopedia for your brain? Would be better if it could be updated, of course, but you have to have certain trade-offs for it being so small.
tell you what, I'll work on the storage medium, you work on the interface, deal?
guess I'm just ignorant. Seems strange that according to their stats that Mandrake makes up the same user base as SuSE and RedHat COMBINED...
man, you're not kidding! All the desktop linux users that I know (and all the people that they know) the are either running gentoo or Fedora on their desktop.
Perhaps it's just an "area" thing. It seems that in some geographical areas, certain distros or apps or more prevalent. As an example, I was in Sweden recently and had a group of Swedish linux enthusiasts watching a small learning tutorial I was giving. When i launched vi to edit a file, they all started giving each other strange looks. Finally, one of them asked me why I didn't use nano. I told him that I prefer vi. They all looked at me like I was nuts.
I left there and travelled a bit north. I was working as a linux security consultant for a large firm that did have a linux admins, but wanted a second opinion on security. Again, I launched vi to do something and the linux guys there looked at me like I was an oddball. Sure enough, they absolutely could not believe that I didn't use nano for an editor.
Now, I don't know a single person that uses Ubuntu or any Debian based distros. The only people I know using Mandrake are a couple of friends that are new into linux.
However, I know that many people are using Debian based distros for desktops, but I just don't know any. Perhaps I don't live/work in that part of the world where they are as popular as Fedora or gentoo.
Any debian using moderator will mark this as a troll, but I'm really just giving an honest account of my experiences. Perhaps the debian users can all mention where they are from so we can get an idea what part of the world Debian is so popular in.
I couldn't agree more.
Microsoft has a lot of money. Giving away $50,000 to fix an exploit is far more cost effective than getting bad press about some new exploit and having your customers suffer.
I mean, if I had knowledge of some little or unknown IIS exploit, an XBox wouldn't do a thing for me.
$50,000 however...
No no no, Russians sell stolen hacked ICQ accounts because everyone wants either an easy to remember ICQ# or a really low ICQ#.
I frequent these Russian forums frequently where they are giving away 5 digit ICQ# to the first person to read the post.
However, the most amazing thing is, if I had the ability to direct 10,000 zombie systems to attack websites for extortion money, you could bet that every type of online communication I engaged in would be done thru no less than 5 different proxies, for every type of service, with an excrypted tunnel between me and the first proxy, and with complete control of that first proxy to erase full logs afterward.
You think that these guys are brilliant, but they're really just a bunch of stupid script using kidhacks.
I would be interesting to know what percentage of the zombie machines were windows...
ALthough Azureus is one of the better java written applications I've used, it still feels like java.
Everything updates just a little slow. You can be downloading via torrent something and have like 18%.
Then, go to another workspace and then later when I click back onto the Azureus workspace, it still shows 18% for about a second, then bam, all the values update. It's not my machine (p4,3.0ghz, gig ram).
Azureus, as an application, totally rules. It would be excellent in C or even python.
what if some idiot user on the network accidently activates his own dhcp server? if two dhcp servers are configured for the same subnet, who wins?
You're not doing any forward thinking. Of course, by using todays methods, being able to organize and effectively use that much data is impossible.
This "information age" will be at the forefront for at least 100 years. We are just at the beginning of understanding how to store and use large amounts of data effectively.
By your reasoning, the "rate at which data is being produced is growing exponentially", but wouldn't our ability to handle and use large amounts of data also grow exponentially?
If that's the case, then why does his post exist at all?
A thousand years ago, the Vikings were still getting converted to Christianity. Do you know where the big parties have been at this time? If I told you that Bjarni Hrolfsson and Erik Karlsson (made up viking names) had this fabulous party 1000 years ago, would you even know when and where to go?
What you are forgetting is that in this day and age, more information is being recorded and stored each day than ever before.
In a hundred years, I would expect for us to at least have some sort of storage media that is unaffected by time.
Imagine the massive backends and intuitive frontends people will build on all this data. For future time travelers doing research on people's past conceptions of time travel, finding a "Time Traveler Convention" should be fairly easy.
just slap a webserver on each DSL line and have them share a share a single database, or use a single server with two network interfaces or just use a single interface with an alias.
Then, direct traffic to both of these webservers (or network interfaces) simultaneously with round-robin DNS.
Just add the two A records for a single host.
www 60 IN A 208.201.239.36
www 60 IN A 208.201.239.37
Be sure to set the TTL low enough (about 60 seconds) to prevent any intervening caching DNS servers from hanging onto one sort order for too long, which will hopefully help keep the number of requests to each host more or less equal.
Good luck!
When it's ready to go public, they're going to drop the cryptic development name of "Longhorn" and go with "XP Service Pack 3" instead.
Oink anyone?
You should spend more than 1 minute checking out the spatial capabilities of Nautilus. The only behavior that is similar to win95 is the fact that a double click opens a new window. However, that's when the simularities stop.
Each folder acts like it's own living entity. The scrollbars, icons and placement are all remembered. Basically, the folder looks exactly the same as the last time you've seen it, enabling you to quickly find that document you were working on last week.
Works for some, not for others; works for me.
So is Intel buying more than just one of these magazines? Are they offering 10k to everyone who can come up with that magazine?
Why would they want more than one copy unless it's just a publicity stunt?
Perhaps this isn't about the Moore's Law article.
Perhaps Intel has recently found they are violating a patent and the only proof of this can be found in that particular magazine.
Either way, buying more than one seems a bit strange to me.
I also used Yahoo exclusively for web searching. However, I hated how 'busy' their site was and the time it took to load up all the flashy bits.
When I first discovered Google, sometime in 98 or 99, the number one thing that attracted me (besides good search results) was the non-obstrusive nature of their webpage.
It was nice and simple and loaded quickly because of the content (or lack thereof).
One thing that I can't stand are web pages that are so busy looking, I can't easily figure out how to get the information I need.
The nice thing about linux is you can do everything from the command line.
First, if you really were a linux user, you would already have known that google is your friend.
Here you go. A single command that rips and encodes in one pass: (you'll wanna play with the options)
mencoder -aspect 16:9 -dvd 10 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=694 -vop crop=640:272:0:44,scale -zoom -xy 640 -oac mp3lame -lameopts abr:br=128:vol=9 -o youmovie.avi
The nice thing is since it's command line, you can quickly create a script that does exactly what you want. e.g. when you run it, make it ask you what the output path and filename should be, or what encoding rates and/or codecs you want to use. The possibilities are endless.
Welcome to Linux.
There are also a few really good DVD ripping and encoding graphic applicaitons you should check out. Offhand, I remember AcidRip, but use google to find more.
Wow, it takes two seperate windows virtual machines to do that?
And people are here crying about their anti-virus and firewall sucking up all their cpu power in their windows machines?
I use winxp to play a game here and there, but for productivity, what the hell, does windows really suck that bad?
no no, he has all the Babylon5 DVD's on his shelf, right next to Days of our Lives and Ryan's Hope.
What exactly is the difference between routing with a dedicated linux box and routing with a hardware (rack) router?
We have about 300 customers going thru our linux machine (@ 100mb/s), and the box is really bored to death. However, other people in my office keep telling me how 'software routing' sucks and that this linux machine can't hardly be doing that good of a job. I beg to differ.
Well, it happened. They walked in with a Dlink DES-3326S. So, down goes the linux router and up comes this new solid state one.
Once configured, it appears to do a pretty good job, although it didn't have half the features of proper packet classification and marking that linux gives you.
However, a week later, the thing crashes! No big deal, reboot. The next day, another crash! WTF?
Call to tech support, they say grab latest firmware. No problem, did exactly that.
The next day, CRASH!
That's it, I turned the blasted thing off, put the linux box back on and we've been smooth sailing ever since.
I'm starting to get the idea that the only reason these solid-state routers sell in the first place is because most people don't know how to configure linux to do what they want.
Am I wrong here? I mean, what's the real scoop here.
Nothing. I'd relax, I would sit on my ass all day, I would do nothing.
Nothing.
Besides two chicks at the same time?
That's it? If you had a hundred dollars, you'd do two chicks at the same time?