I've invested in this new technology - it's a one way, multimedia stream of information, absolutely amazing. I got a huge monitor, it's incredibly simple to setup (just plug it in and you're running) and cheap - 500 UKP only for a 40" monitor! It's called "television", and it's going to be the next big thing!
I think an better way to play something like this would be to see what geek could survive for seven weeks without internet access. I had a holiday recently and went without net access for 7 days - it was hell.
OK. Maybe I'm missing something here. But what's the point in designing a new system of IP addresses if each machine can't have it's own address? When every machine has it's own address, through whatever technology, that will be it's individual identifier - what exactly is IPv6 trying to solve again? I always thought it was an IP address shortage? IP addresses being those things that tell other computers on the internet where yours is.
Ahh, you say that now, but what happens when you become CEO of Blue Hat BSD Distributions and someone brings up that post about the dog and the nun you posted back in 97?
Personally, I think the way that we're going is becoming more in control of how we behave. Looking at it the way these books do is the pessimistic way of looking at it - realistically, all the "real" things that the books claim we're losing are still there, we're just able to enhance and adapt things better, and make better use of everything.
A good company in England to go with is twelveNET. You can register domains with them and they have a hold service if you don't want to do anything with your domain right away.
You can get free.co.uk domains with freenetname. Since Nominet reduced the fees for members to 5 UKP, all hosting companies offering.uk domains have dropped their prices incredibly, resulting in a free isp that gives you free web space, free connection and a free domain. Pretty cool, if you ask me.
What I would like to see is a proper centralized whois database. whois.internic.net doesn't carry information for domains registered with other providers. For example, to find out information about a.com,.net or.org domain registered through register.com, you need to query whois.register.com. That sucks.
Alabanza are absolutely AWFUL. They are one of the worst companies I have ever come across. Taking over THREE MONTHS to provide proper reverse dns, an incredibly simple thing to do (especially when provided with correct db files they need!) is unacceptable. No offence to you or your friend, but do not go with them.
I think it's more an issue of technical difficulties than anything else. If every nameserver had to carry a list of where to get information for all tlds, and you could have any tld that you wanted, dns servers would soon become overloaded unless a new system was in place.
Yup, he's right - we need a massive worldwide sting to wipe crackers off the face of the planet. In fact, I think we should go a step further, and introduce an international key escrow system whereby we all have to hand over private keys for encryption to the government so that they can have access to all of our data at any time. Even better, we should probably all have barcodes tattooed on our wrists that get scanned every time we log onto the internet, so that our activities are logged and there's no way anybody could make any kind of security breach without the people who control the traffic lights knowing about it.
Granted, they have the slow migration path, but Intel is going to be in direct competition with them, which means that it'll be hard for them to convince developers to use their platform.
Personally, I hope they do well; it's about time Intel had some serious competition.
I think that it'll be a bit hard for AMD to persuade developers to write code that'll run on their platform rather than an Intel's - isn't this a bit premature? With the two key people having resigned, and market share lost through Intel's price drops, they're relying too much on the success of the Athlon to give them enough pull. At least, that's how I see it...
Too many cooks spoil the broth is a proverb because they all fight over what's going in the actual "broth"; with an organised system lots of cooks would theoretically make the perfect soup. Because there's an voting system for choosing the next move, the world should hopefully be able to filter out all the bad moves, and be able to at least draw with Kasparov (which it seems might be a possibility now).
That's assuming that all the "not so good" players (ie the majority of the world) are going to be wrong all the time. The majority of the "not so good" players are probably going to be right in their decision, so statistically it's more even sided than you say.
Fravia's Pages of Reverse Engineering are perhaps the most comprehensive pages on the net that cover all sorts of different aspects of the subject. It's great - everything is written in a friendly way and there's absolutely loads of information there.
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I think that's ingrained in the human species as a whole. Part of everybody's DNS makeup. There's no escaping the First Posters.
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It's natural to want superior children, but actually doing something like that is equivalent to Hitler dream of a race of Arian humans.
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I've invested in this new technology - it's a one way, multimedia stream of information, absolutely amazing. I got a huge monitor, it's incredibly simple to setup (just plug it in and you're running) and cheap - 500 UKP only for a 40" monitor! It's called "television", and it's going to be the next big thing!
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I think an better way to play something like this would be to see what geek could survive for seven weeks without internet access. I had a holiday recently and went without net access for 7 days - it was hell.
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why was that offtopic? looks like I'm missing more than one thing today.
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As long as you can use it to open bottles of beer, it has a place in my office.
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OK. Maybe I'm missing something here. But what's the point in designing a new system of IP addresses if each machine can't have it's own address? When every machine has it's own address, through whatever technology, that will be it's individual identifier - what exactly is IPv6 trying to solve again? I always thought it was an IP address shortage? IP addresses being those things that tell other computers on the internet where yours is.
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Ahh, you say that now, but what happens when you become CEO of Blue Hat BSD Distributions and someone brings up that post about the dog and the nun you posted back in 97?
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At least, that's what I was told.
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Personally, I think the way that we're going is becoming more in control of how we behave. Looking at it the way these books do is the pessimistic way of looking at it - realistically, all the "real" things that the books claim we're losing are still there, we're just able to enhance and adapt things better, and make better use of everything.
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.co.uk is only 5 UKP...
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Are you thinking of alternet?
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You can get free .co.uk domains with freenetname. Since Nominet reduced the fees for members to 5 UKP, all hosting companies offering .uk domains have dropped their prices incredibly, resulting in a free isp that gives you free web space, free connection and a free domain. Pretty cool, if you ask me.
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What I would like to see is a proper centralized whois database. whois.internic.net doesn't carry information for domains registered with other providers. For example, to find out information about a .com, .net or .org domain registered through register.com, you need to query whois.register.com. That sucks.
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Alabanza are absolutely AWFUL. They are one of the worst companies I have ever come across. Taking over THREE MONTHS to provide proper reverse dns, an incredibly simple thing to do (especially when provided with correct db files they need!) is unacceptable. No offence to you or your friend, but do not go with them.
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I think it's more an issue of technical difficulties than anything else. If every nameserver had to carry a list of where to get information for all tlds, and you could have any tld that you wanted, dns servers would soon become overloaded unless a new system was in place.
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Yup, he's right - we need a massive worldwide sting to wipe crackers off the face of the planet. In fact, I think we should go a step further, and introduce an international key escrow system whereby we all have to hand over private keys for encryption to the government so that they can have access to all of our data at any time. Even better, we should probably all have barcodes tattooed on our wrists that get scanned every time we log onto the internet, so that our activities are logged and there's no way anybody could make any kind of security breach without the people who control the traffic lights knowing about it.
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Exactly - that's what I said "a bit premature".
Granted, they have the slow migration path, but Intel is going to be in direct competition with them, which means that it'll be hard for them to convince developers to use their platform.
Personally, I hope they do well; it's about time Intel had some serious competition.
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I think that it'll be a bit hard for AMD to persuade developers to write code that'll run on their platform rather than an Intel's - isn't this a bit premature? With the two key people having resigned, and market share lost through Intel's price drops, they're relying too much on the success of the Athlon to give them enough pull. At least, that's how I see it...
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What are you currently working on?
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This might be overly picky, but I would say Linux already has a technical competitor - BSD based Unices.
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Too many cooks spoil the broth is a proverb because they all fight over what's going in the actual "broth"; with an organised system lots of cooks would theoretically make the perfect soup. Because there's an voting system for choosing the next move, the world should hopefully be able to filter out all the bad moves, and be able to at least draw with Kasparov (which it seems might be a possibility now).
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That's assuming that all the "not so good" players (ie the majority of the world) are going to be wrong all the time. The majority of the "not so good" players are probably going to be right in their decision, so statistically it's more even sided than you say.
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Fravia's Pages of Reverse Engineering are perhaps the most comprehensive pages on the net that cover all sorts of different aspects of the subject. It's great - everything is written in a friendly way and there's absolutely loads of information there.
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OK, fair enough - Eastern Europe is more accurate.
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