Let's look at the 802.11x market: the little local guys who used to pull Cat 5 for companies are probably sufferring, because a lot of companies are moving to 802.11x.
Uhm...right. Wireless can't get me 100Mbps or 1000Mbps like cat5/fiber can. Until then, wireless is best suited to PDAs and laptops. At my house, the desktops are all cabled while my laptop and Zaurus are on 802.11. At work, there is some wireless, but security issues have everyone looking for a better solution. The cable pullers are still very much in business here, and I don't think they will be fearing for teir jobs for quite a while.
What I miss is the "bright" and "young" aspect. The Silicon Valley of 2002 seems to have gotten a lot older. It makes sense -- most of the young people like myself moved out when they got laid
Found something more interesting than coding, eh?
you can purchase a non-GPL'd version from MySQL AB
Yea, until MySQL AB decides they don't want to do business with you anymore. Then your commercial version becomes GPL'd and they take you to court. NuSphere licensed MySQL from MySQL AB and look where it got them.
Of course! Because the cable company wants you to get an IP address for each machine connected to the 'net and PAY for that extra connection. [Diety] forbid that we should want to conserve IP addresses by using NAT, which also adds a thin layer of security over direct portscans. Nope, they want their extra $10/IP/mo.
I was doing that 10 years ago with optical cards. You could print an image on the optical surface in a similar way as the CD-RW. Of course, you couldn't put any data on there...and the writers/readers cost $10k each...and they were SCSI only...
No problems. You may want to be there to get everything set up and installed (it'll take a few hours to do), but once that's done, it's as easy to use as a VCR. Heck, easier.
Naming issues only arise if the two are in the same market and could be confused. Which is why I can't go out and call a restaurant "McDonalds", but open a shoe store called "McDonalds". There is a valid reason for the real McD to think consumers will be confused by the two McD restaurants, but confusing a restaurant and a shoe store is more of a stretch (comments about food quality and shoe leather notwithstanding).
Given that "Lilo" in "Lilo and Stitch" are cartoon characters, and "LILO" is a program, I don't think there will be many problems.
It was bad enough when state domains were not administered in the state. For a while, ma.us was being controlled by someone who not only wasn't in this time zone, but never answered e-mails.
Local domains should be controlled in the local area, and prefereably the (elected) govt instead of someone who got the great idea of taking control 5 years ago.
There was an article in the Linux Journal a few months ago (February issue I think) that talked about intelligent network cards. They had an onboard XScale CPU and its own OS and TCP/IP stack.
What would happen is the OS (Linux) would get intercepted at the socket layer and pass the data to the network card. The card would then handle the process of building the packet and all the remaining layers of communication.
This allowed for a high amount of main CPU time left over for actually doing processing while the network card CPU was focused on handling the TCP/IP packet work. IIRC, you could saturate a 1Gb line with data at only 5% main CPU usage.
What if you built a network and nobody came? The February 2002 FCC report also cited a survey from the Strategis Group (Washington, D.C.) that found that only 12 percent of on-line customers were willing to pay $40 per month for high-speed access, a number that rose to only 30 percent when the price was dropped to $25 per month.
That's really strange. Doesn't AOL cost $30/mo already? What this apparently says is that even though users can have 24x7 net access at a higher speed that doesn't tie up their phone line for a lower cost, they'll stick with what they have.
Given that DJB already has implementations of DNS and SMTP around that are heavily focused on security, it wouldn't suprise me if he went into looking at securing NFS (the file system).
Sun makes the money needed to update Solaris by selling hardware - if people by used Sun equipment, that means less money to sun for development.
If peoply buy used CDs, there's less money for the RIAA
If people buy used DVDs, there's less money for the MPAA
If people buy used books, there's less money for the authors/publishers.
Every formerly-Turner station (TBS, TNT, Cartoon Network, Sci-Fi) has ads for some place called "Sonic". While it'd be great to get a Sonic-Freeze-Melt or whatever they're hawking these days, there are NO Sonic restaurants around here.
On a similar vein, there's also (mumble)wood insurance. Some guy in a cowboy hat is telling you about how cool their insurance is, and the ads finished by telling you there's a new office in Phoenix. PHOENIX?! On a nationally-televised ad? Nothing about AZ, but you'd think that would be better for local ads.
WTF do I want to sit through an ad that is targeted at less than 1/4 of their target market? What use is it? If it's because the rates are so cheap, someone tell Red Hat or SuSE. There's probably a higher percentage of viewers that know what Linux is versus wanting to see some nut selling inurance.
The only ad that has been really good over the past few months was one that came before PBS' Frontier House. Georgia Pacific had one of their non-ad ads before the start of each episode:
[Voice over] Life on the frontier would be very different if they had products like blah blah bathroom tissue [shot of kid running into outhouse, sees 4 nasty looking rags on nails] and blah blah paper towels [picture of another nasty looking rag being used to clean dishes] and blah blah plates and paper cups [kid drinking from a pail about the size of his head]
Even though I had all of Frontier House on tivo, I still watched that ad each time. Well done GP!
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Let's look at the 802.11x market: the little local guys who used to pull Cat 5 for companies are probably sufferring, because a lot of companies are moving to 802.11x.
Uhm...right. Wireless can't get me 100Mbps or 1000Mbps like cat5/fiber can. Until then, wireless is best suited to PDAs and laptops. At my house, the desktops are all cabled while my laptop and Zaurus are on 802.11. At work, there is some wireless, but security issues have everyone looking for a better solution. The cable pullers are still very much in business here, and I don't think they will be fearing for teir jobs for quite a while.
Yea, but then he'd have to kick out John Williams and replace him with Danny Elfman. Less orchestra, more..uhm...more something.
What I miss is the "bright" and "young" aspect. The Silicon Valley of 2002 seems to have gotten a lot older. It makes sense -- most of the young people like myself moved out when they got laid Found something more interesting than coding, eh?
Uhm...there's only one movie after Dogma.
But Win2k (at least) doesn't implement authentication or encryption. At least I couldn't get it to work with a CUPS server.
Don't waste your time with WEP. If you want to secure your transmission, use SSL/SSH for web sites. Or alternatively, PPTP to a landline PC.
Yea, until MySQL AB decides they don't want to do business with you anymore. Then your commercial version becomes GPL'd and they take you to court. NuSphere licensed MySQL from MySQL AB and look where it got them.
Of course! Because the cable company wants you to get an IP address for each machine connected to the 'net and PAY for that extra connection. [Diety] forbid that we should want to conserve IP addresses by using NAT, which also adds a thin layer of security over direct portscans. Nope, they want their extra $10/IP/mo.
I suggest we start calling Theo not by his full name, but by his initials. It's becoming quite clear that he's just as loony as [ESR|RMS].
I was doing that 10 years ago with optical cards. You could print an image on the optical surface in a similar way as the CD-RW. Of course, you couldn't put any data on there...and the writers/readers cost $10k each...and they were SCSI only...
But the first batch of protected CDs were from outside the US. Which doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
What you said. If I want to read a bunch of half-wits with poor grammar and spelling skills....err...forget it...
No problems. You may want to be there to get everything set up and installed (it'll take a few hours to do), but once that's done, it's as easy to use as a VCR. Heck, easier.
Huh?
Naming issues only arise if the two are in the same market and could be confused. Which is why I can't go out and call a restaurant "McDonalds", but open a shoe store called "McDonalds". There is a valid reason for the real McD to think consumers will be confused by the two McD restaurants, but confusing a restaurant and a shoe store is more of a stretch (comments about food quality and shoe leather notwithstanding).
Given that "Lilo" in "Lilo and Stitch" are cartoon characters, and "LILO" is a program, I don't think there will be many problems.
What happened to Hillary Rosen? Isn't the the head of the RIAA?
Well then you'd have the running whale from the Tick. Goes for a jog across the country, running through The City.
What you said.
It was bad enough when state domains were not administered in the state. For a while, ma.us was being controlled by someone who not only wasn't in this time zone, but never answered e-mails.
Local domains should be controlled in the local area, and prefereably the (elected) govt instead of someone who got the great idea of taking control 5 years ago.
There was an article in the Linux Journal a few months ago (February issue I think) that talked about intelligent network cards. They had an onboard XScale CPU and its own OS and TCP/IP stack.
What would happen is the OS (Linux) would get intercepted at the socket layer and pass the data to the network card. The card would then handle the process of building the packet and all the remaining layers of communication.
This allowed for a high amount of main CPU time left over for actually doing processing while the network card CPU was focused on handling the TCP/IP packet work. IIRC, you could saturate a 1Gb line with data at only 5% main CPU usage.
That's really strange. Doesn't AOL cost $30/mo already? What this apparently says is that even though users can have 24x7 net access at a higher speed that doesn't tie up their phone line for a lower cost, they'll stick with what they have.
Who paid for the study, Disney?
as getting slashdotted. You dork.
There's a bunch of web servers ported to ARM. Heck, my Zaurus can run Apache and PHP.
Given that DJB already has implementations of DNS and SMTP around that are heavily focused on security, it wouldn't suprise me if he went into looking at securing NFS (the file system).
If peoply buy used CDs, there's less money for the RIAA
If people buy used DVDs, there's less money for the MPAA
If people buy used books, there's less money for the authors/publishers.
Every formerly-Turner station (TBS, TNT, Cartoon Network, Sci-Fi) has ads for some place called "Sonic". While it'd be great to get a Sonic-Freeze-Melt or whatever they're hawking these days, there are NO Sonic restaurants around here.
On a similar vein, there's also (mumble)wood insurance. Some guy in a cowboy hat is telling you about how cool their insurance is, and the ads finished by telling you there's a new office in Phoenix. PHOENIX?! On a nationally-televised ad? Nothing about AZ, but you'd think that would be better for local ads.
WTF do I want to sit through an ad that is targeted at less than 1/4 of their target market? What use is it? If it's because the rates are so cheap, someone tell Red Hat or SuSE. There's probably a higher percentage of viewers that know what Linux is versus wanting to see some nut selling inurance.
The only ad that has been really good over the past few months was one that came before PBS' Frontier House. Georgia Pacific had one of their non-ad ads before the start of each episode:
[Voice over]
Life on the frontier would be very different if they had products like blah blah bathroom tissue
[shot of kid running into outhouse, sees 4 nasty looking rags on nails]
and blah blah paper towels
[picture of another nasty looking rag being used to clean dishes]
and blah blah plates and paper cups
[kid drinking from a pail about the size of his head]
Even though I had all of Frontier House on tivo, I still watched that ad each time. Well done GP!
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I'll be there this weekend selling some old crap I don't want anymore.