They're just listing IP ranges. A complete non-newsworthy item. Consumer machines on broadband/dialup should be going through their ISPs smarthosts anyway... which seems to be standard practice these days, to the point many isps block smtp or redirect port 25 to their own smarthosts.
I feel a disturbance in the force. It's as if a million random number generators cried out all at once... and became silent.
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I bought an 12" iBook (2nd hand off a friend who was buying the next size up) for an upcoming project, as yet I've not managed to get started on/that/ project, but I'm completely in love with the laptop! Well as much as one can be:) Stuff 'just works' wifi, bluetooth, isync (with MissingSync to synch my ipaq)
*nix on the desktop is here, and it's called NeXT^W OSX
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Let's also not forget the PSUs they supply with those PCs (at least the UK specced ones) are a complete waste of time, and fail fairly rapidly, and consitantly.
The FBI and the UK Police (like many enforcement agencies) actually talk to each other. Especially with respect to international computer crimes.
Admittedly Computer Crime Depts are usually poorly funded and have a huge case workload.
What is more likely in this case, is that Rackspace USA told Rackspace UK to comply with the FBI order.
Many ISPs are quite willing to cooperate with law enforcement, especially if there is mention of s'kiddies, kiddie pr0n or other illegal activities occuring on their network. Check Rackspace's TOS I bet you that there is a cause in there that they can suspend the service they provide for any reason they might feel like.
The solution to your problem is a bluetooth (or IR) phone and a PDA (or laptop - with gprs?) that way you can still keep in touch !
Though every so often I go out, and leave my technology behind... watch, phone, pda... I find it quite peaceful:) If someone really needs me they can leave voice mail/textmessage or send me an email.
Oddly some people claim that they can't get hold of me ! They clearly are not trying hard enough !
MySQL seem to be going the trolltech route. ie. "use our software, buy a license or make it GPL"
Now Free to me isn't Libre, but Free as in beer... LGPL == good because if I fiddle with a LGPL project I expect to give my changes back to it.... As a developer I certainly don't want to GPL the stuff that puts food on the table. MySQL seems to want to make a living off some bastardation of mSQL and SAP, while I admit thats a gross oversimplification, I dont thing its something worthy of a purchase of a license.
I'm certainly wasn't going to make any turnkey project that used mysql before this change, and now I'm going to to cut down on the number of projects I do that involve mysql - there are better - and more "free" software to choose from out there than mysql.
Actually, Windows NT has always had the capability of running Windows16,MS-DOS, OS/2 and POSIX applications, with their respective subsystems. The latter being a checkbox requirement to get into the US DoD.
SFU *used* to be just NFS, and a Handful of MKS licensed tools. With the purchase of Iterix, whe filled a gap in the market with a replacement POSIX subsystem they gained a true POSIX subsystem rather than the micky mouse POSIX 0.9 doohicky they had before.
Thats right I said *SUBSYSTEM* not the nasty DLL hack that Cygwin is! They didn't ignore Windows 95/98/ME and just write a POSIX Subsystem, because at the time, a fair amount of people *had* '98 on the desktop, and the NT product hadn't got to the market penitration it has today.
None of this is actually any news. What *IS* news is that they threatening to release it with the O/S. Which is fine by me, as finally they will release a product that will be what they promised us in the mid 1990s with a decent replacement for Windows 3.xx:) Wow only 10 years guys !:)
What would have been really news would be the ability to run OS/2 Warp binaries:) Not that OS/2 should be used anymore:(
Bill Gates Cries into his beer again, look at what he said last time, instead of reading "hobbyists" read "open source developers" and for "BASIC" read "Software"...
AN OPEN LETTER TO HOBBYISTS
By William Henry Gates III
February 3, 1976
An Open Letter to Hobbyists
To me, the most critical thing in the hobby market right now is the lack of good software courses, books and software itself. Without good software and an owner who understands programming, a hobby computer is wasted. Will quality software be written for the hobby market?
Almost a year ago, Paul Allen and myself, expecting the hobby market to expand, hired Monte Davidoff and developed Altair BASIC. Though the initial work took only two months, the three of us have spent most of the last year documenting, improving and adding features to BASIC. Now we have 4K, 8K, EXTENDED, ROM and DISK BASIC. The value of the computer time we have used exceeds $40,000.
The feedback we have gotten from the hundreds of people who say they are using BASIC has all been positive. Two surprising things are apparent, however, 1) Most of these "users" never bought BASIC (less than 10% of all Altair owners have bought BASIC), and 2) The amount of royalties we have received from sales to hobbyists makes the time spent on Altair BASIC worth less than $2 an hour.
Why is this? As the majority of hobbyists must be aware, most of you steal your software. Hardware must be paid for, but software is something to share. Who cares if the people who worked on it get paid?
Is this fair? One thing you don't do by stealing software is get back at MITS for some problem you may have had. MITS doesn't make money selling software. The royalty paid to us, the manual, the tape and the overhead make it a break-even operation. One thing you do do is prevent good software from being written. Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put 3-man years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product and distribute for free? The fact is, no one besides us has invested a lot of money in hobby software. We have written 6800 BASIC, and are writing 8080 APL and 6800 APL, but there is very little incentive to make this software available to hobbyists. Most directly, the thing you do is theft.
What about the guys who re-sell Altair BASIC, aren't they making money on hobby software? Yes, but those who have been reported to us may lose in the end. They are the ones who give hobbyists a bad name, and should be kicked out of any club meeting they show up at.
I would appreciate letters from any one who wants to pay up, or has a suggestion or comment. Just write to me at 1180 Alvarado SE, #114, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87108. Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software.
Not only that, people are removing their plates to avoid it. Some people are even going to the extremes of false plates. Strangly people hundreds of miles away that HAVE NEVER BEEN INTO LONDON - EVER are getting penalty notices. And these innocent people have had lots of problems with the COMPANY that issues the penalty charges, taking months to resolve. - Remember these people have never been to the capital, yet they are getting their time wasted by a cynical stealth tax.
I have to travel to the east of London, from the west, on a fairly regular basis. I've managed to find a route that allows me to drive through london without hitting the charge zone. Before anyone says "Public Transport" - Try carrying a couple of rack mount servers, and the associated kit that goes with installing them on the train/metro(we like to call it the tube)/bus:(
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Mod parent and grandparent up.
It's soooooo true!
Port redirections?
Really no need to do that, besides, try AdiumX - it's much less braindead than iChat.
gmail.com
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Jabber
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The broken link has been fixed. Thanks for being our first users!
(thats 4am BST)
What broken link ? hmm ?
doesnt seem to work for me in firefox :(
EXTERMINATE!
It's been done already +5 Informative, thankyou please.
They're just listing IP ranges. A complete non-newsworthy item. Consumer machines on broadband/dialup should be going through their ISPs smarthosts anyway ... which seems to be standard practice these days, to the point many isps block smtp or redirect port 25 to their own smarthosts.
Nothing to see here, move along.
I feel a disturbance in the force. It's as if a million random number generators cried out all at once ... and became silent.
I bought an 12" iBook (2nd hand off a friend who was buying the next size up) for an upcoming project, as yet I've not managed to get started on /that/ project, but I'm completely in love with the laptop! :) Stuff 'just works' wifi, bluetooth, isync (with MissingSync to synch my ipaq)
Well as much as one can be
*nix on the desktop is here, and it's called NeXT^W OSX
Let's also not forget the PSUs they supply with those PCs (at least the UK specced ones) are a complete waste of time, and fail fairly rapidly, and consitantly.
Sorry, non accredited Universities do not count I'm afraid.
Derek Smart
Derek Smart
Derek Smart
The FBI and the UK Police (like many enforcement agencies) actually talk to each other. Especially with respect to international computer crimes.
Admittedly Computer Crime Depts are usually poorly funded and have a huge case workload.
What is more likely in this case, is that Rackspace USA told Rackspace UK to comply with the FBI order.
Many ISPs are quite willing to cooperate with law enforcement, especially if there is mention of s'kiddies, kiddie pr0n or other illegal activities occuring on their network. Check Rackspace's TOS I bet you that there is a cause in there that they can suspend the service they provide for any reason they might feel like.
The solution to your problem is a bluetooth (or IR) phone and a PDA (or laptop - with gprs?) that way you can still keep in touch !
... watch, phone, pda ... I find it quite peaceful :) If someone really needs me they can leave voice mail/textmessage or send me an email.
Though every so often I go out, and leave my technology behind
Oddly some people claim that they can't get hold of me ! They clearly are not trying hard enough !
MySQL seem to be going the trolltech route.
... LGPL == good because if I fiddle with a LGPL project I expect to give my changes back to it. ... As a developer I certainly don't want to GPL the stuff that puts food on the table. MySQL seems to want to make a living off some bastardation of mSQL and SAP, while I admit thats a gross oversimplification, I dont thing its something worthy of a purchase of a license.
... another OSS project goes commercial.
ie. "use our software, buy a license or make it GPL"
Now Free to me isn't Libre, but Free as in beer
I'm certainly wasn't going to make any turnkey project that used mysql before this change, and now I'm going to to cut down on the number of projects I do that involve mysql - there are better - and more "free" software to choose from out there than mysql.
bleh
Actually, Windows NT has always had the capability of running Windows16,MS-DOS, OS/2 and POSIX applications, with their respective subsystems. The latter being a checkbox requirement to get into the US DoD.
:) Wow only 10 years guys ! :)
:) Not that OS/2 should be used anymore :(
SFU *used* to be just NFS, and a Handful of MKS licensed tools. With the purchase of Iterix, whe filled a gap in the market with a replacement POSIX subsystem they gained a true POSIX subsystem rather than the micky mouse POSIX 0.9 doohicky they had before.
Thats right I said *SUBSYSTEM* not the nasty DLL hack that Cygwin is! They didn't ignore Windows 95/98/ME and just write a POSIX Subsystem, because at the time, a fair amount of people *had* '98 on the desktop, and the NT product hadn't got to the market penitration it has today.
None of this is actually any news. What *IS* news is that they threatening to release it with the O/S. Which is fine by me, as finally they will release a product that will be what they promised us in the mid 1990s with a decent replacement for Windows 3.xx
What would have been really news would be the ability to run OS/2 Warp binaries
Lets not forget the real killer of jobs...
Outsourcing.
The one great evil of our time.
First it was outsourcing factory work to asia
Now it's call centers and programming.
The world has gone mad.
Bring back communism! (heh)
Bill Gates Cries into his beer again, look at what he said last time, instead of reading "hobbyists" read "open source developers" and for "BASIC" read "Software" ...
AN OPEN LETTER TO HOBBYISTS
By William Henry Gates III
February 3, 1976
An Open Letter to Hobbyists
To me, the most critical thing in the hobby market right now is the lack of
good software courses, books and software itself. Without good software and
an owner who understands programming, a hobby computer is wasted. Will
quality software be written for the hobby market?
Almost a year ago, Paul Allen and myself, expecting the hobby market to
expand, hired Monte Davidoff and developed Altair BASIC. Though the initial
work took only two months, the three of us have spent most of the last year
documenting, improving and adding features to BASIC. Now we have 4K, 8K,
EXTENDED, ROM and DISK BASIC. The value of the computer time we have used
exceeds $40,000.
The feedback we have gotten from the hundreds of people who say they are
using BASIC has all been positive. Two surprising things are apparent,
however, 1) Most of these "users" never bought BASIC (less than 10% of all
Altair owners have bought BASIC), and 2) The amount of royalties we have
received from sales to hobbyists makes the time spent on Altair BASIC worth
less than $2 an hour.
Why is this? As the majority of hobbyists must be aware, most of you steal
your software. Hardware must be paid for, but software is something to share.
Who cares if the people who worked on it get paid?
Is this fair? One thing you don't do by stealing software is get back at MITS
for some problem you may have had. MITS doesn't make money selling software.
The royalty paid to us, the manual, the tape and the overhead make it a
break-even operation. One thing you do do is prevent good software from being
written. Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist
can put 3-man years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his
product and distribute for free? The fact is, no one besides us has invested
a lot of money in hobby software. We have written 6800 BASIC, and are writing
8080 APL and 6800 APL, but there is very little incentive to make this
software available to hobbyists. Most directly, the thing you do is theft.
What about the guys who re-sell Altair BASIC, aren't they making money on
hobby software? Yes, but those who have been reported to us may lose in the
end. They are the ones who give hobbyists a bad name, and should be kicked
out of any club meeting they show up at.
I would appreciate letters from any one who wants to pay up, or has a
suggestion or comment. Just write to me at 1180 Alvarado SE, #114,
Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87108. Nothing would please me more than being able
to hire ten programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software.
Bill Gates
General Partner, Micro-Soft
Dupe?
Who do you think you are ?
Commander Taco ?
'If he knows you'll faint at the sight of blood, he'll cut himself just to watch you pass out.'"
Sounds like a sociopath to me.
Just sent a email to my hotmail account (from gmail), it went straight into the junk mail folder.
What, and have the messages come out backwards ?
Until you get someone cloning your plates and comitting crime with them.
And you suddenly find yourself being taken in for questioning, or worse liable for a huge fine.
Then you'll see, you'll see.
When they start charging you for entering the city alledgedly for "congestion reducing" purposes - Like they do in London (England) already.
Not only that, people are removing their plates to avoid it. Some people are even going to the extremes of false plates. Strangly people hundreds of miles away that HAVE NEVER BEEN INTO LONDON - EVER are getting penalty notices. And these innocent people have had lots of problems with the COMPANY that issues the penalty charges, taking months to resolve. - Remember these people have never been to the capital, yet they are getting their time wasted by a cynical stealth tax.
:(
I have to travel to the east of London, from the west, on a fairly regular basis. I've managed to find a route that allows me to drive through london without hitting the charge zone. Before anyone says "Public Transport" - Try carrying a couple of rack mount servers, and the associated kit that goes with installing them on the train/metro(we like to call it the tube)/bus