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"I am not talking about putting MP3's on university servers. It is illegal and they should be deleted if they are freely accessible."
Yeah, but what about the legitimate ones from mp3.com? Or maybe the band let out a legit mp3, or maybe its just a zip file w/ a mp3 extension to fool the sysadmins without enough time to do what they actually need to do to maintain the system let alone police servers.
If you start policing content, you have to do it universally, or risk consequences of not policing content. Its in a sysadmins best interest not to delete anything, unless there is a specific reason that is easily enforcable for all such things. (ie 'this user is eating up a significant portion of our bandwidth with a verifyably not legit mp3 from the top 20 charts', not 'this guy has a mp3 that nobody wants to listen to anyhow, and the only person who downloaded it is his mother')
"Vacuous futurist idea: Imagine a very small machine that burrows from a central office/switch to your basement with very little operator attention. As it burrows it's dragging along a strand or two of lovely fiber. "
As it burrows it also cuts lovely little holes through existing fiber lines oops:)
"Vacuous futurist idea: Imagine a very small machine that burrows from a central office/switch to your basement with very little operator attention. As it burrows it's dragging along a strand or two of lovely fiber. "
As it burrows it also cuts lovely little holes through existing fiber lines oops:)
Well I met this one guy in a chat room, and i was always bitching about not having a gf, and then one day my isp (jps.net) suspended my shell account, and i needed one, so he gave me one on his school's student run linux box.
on login it displayed the names of a few new admins, one of which was female, so i asked him about her, and she happened to live not 5 miles from my house, and spring break was coming.
so he (and his gf) hooked us up, and beyond that i won't go into details, other than saying she and i are still together, and i hope we will stay that way.
They did it by giving away(forcing down throats?) IE.
The point of the prior post was that by charging $2k (or whatever) to be able to serve web pages(not whole story, but i simplify), microsoft is shooting itself in the foot.
As long as you use clustering, so any down time is effectively invisible to endusers, and you've taken care of all the security issues you can take care of, i don't see why your choice of operating system and web server would make any difference.
Your language for dynamic content would, but as long as you can do what you need to, its not a big deal.
mysql is a good databse,as others have mentioned, you can use access to connect to it...
perl or php3 would probably be good choices for the language, as both are nice high level things that interact w/ databses easily
i strongly recommend not attemtping to use minivend though, as its a major PITA to get working, and the documentation is old, brief, and in some cases wrong
If a gov't site is inaccessable to somebody in the general public (so like any particular disability, including using some really screwy browser on a vic 20:) they have nobody else to go to for that particular service/whatever.
However if a commercial site is inaccessable to somebody in the general public, they do not have to go there, and can go somewhere else that is accessable to them.
I thought thats how capitialism was supposed to work?
IIRC somewhere in their documentation it explains this.... it infact stands for two contradictory things, one of which is recursive WINdows Emulator Wine Is Not an Emulator
yeah, well read the readme on the decryption stuff.... cd-ram disks are about $25, legit dvds are about $20, i suppose you could copy it to hard drive, but i dunno how economical it would be.... maybe you could fit it on a cd-r if you're lucky?
Unfortunately, the research lab would probably not exist if not for patents, as thats how they get their money, but patents are time sensitive for the same reason.
perhaps the time period should be decreased, and the patent office educated wrt the sheer stupidity of some recent patents, but the usefulness of patents is still in effect.
the nice things about patents is after its expired, everybody has a specific method for doing whatever, unless of course the patent is really general, which according to other ppl on this thread would be enough to cause it to be an invalid patent if anybody cared to challenge it
IIRC thats the way you get the year value from some stanard(ish?) c function call.... i recall seeing in the y2k fear pamphlets how some c coders would just put 19 as a string infront of it, rather than adding 1900 to it like you should resulting in 19120 as the date in 2020
RedHat Secure Server has liscensing issues, due to RSA patents, its a liscence per (linux) box (or one cd per cpu, i don't remember, wouldn't make sense in SMP very well), and you only get one liscense per retail box.....
Doesn't mean you can't do it, but then again, you can always go and get one copy of win2k server and one copy of win2k workstation and install it all over.....
I don't know about the release version, but the release candidates do not check for product-codes or whatever on install.
well i actually drive a SUV made in '78 (back when firewalls were parts of cars as is refrenced in somebodies sig, also my SUV has two layers of steel (not steel re-inforced... actually steel) at i think all points of the body) so i probably won't die, but the poor person infront of me thats another story. except i don't want a cell phone, cause the audio quality isn't that great, and i don't want to be reachable voice all the time
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"I am not talking about putting MP3's on university servers. It is illegal and they should be deleted if they are freely accessible."
Yeah, but what about the legitimate ones from mp3.com? Or maybe the band let out a legit mp3, or maybe its just a zip file w/ a mp3 extension to fool the sysadmins without enough time to do what they actually need to do to maintain the system let alone police servers.
If you start policing content, you have to do it universally, or risk consequences of not policing content. Its in a sysadmins best interest not to delete anything, unless there is a specific reason that is easily enforcable for all such things. (ie 'this user is eating up a significant portion of our bandwidth with a verifyably not legit mp3 from the top 20 charts', not 'this guy has a mp3 that nobody wants to listen to anyhow, and the only person who downloaded it is his mother')
"Vacuous futurist idea: Imagine a very small machine that burrows from a central office/switch to your basement with very little operator attention. As it burrows it's dragging along a strand or two of lovely fiber. "
:)
As it burrows it also cuts lovely little holes through existing fiber lines oops
(the successor to the backhoe of doom)
"Vacuous futurist idea: Imagine a very small machine that burrows from a central office/switch to your basement with very little operator attention. As it burrows it's dragging along a strand or two of lovely fiber. "
:)
As it burrows it also cuts lovely little holes through existing fiber lines oops
My god man, drilling holes in his head is not the answer
(from star trek IV)
sorry that was offtopic
fox paws
pot pour rye
*duck*
she does go to school accross the country from me, so a large portion of the year it is a long distance relationship via the net
Well I met this one guy in a chat room, and i was always bitching about not having a gf, and then one day my isp (jps.net) suspended my shell account, and i needed one, so he gave me one on his school's student run linux box.
on login it displayed the names of a few new admins, one of which was female, so i asked him about her, and she happened to live not 5 miles from my house, and spring break was coming.
so he (and his gf) hooked us up, and beyond that i won't go into details, other than saying she and i are still together, and i hope we will stay that way.
yeah, thats just what we need, more clueless laws from congress about things they can't keep up with.
(sorry thats knee-jerk)
hmmm i'm probably spinning this the wrong way, but that seems like a darn good reason for using open source software.....
:)
If you're really that paranoid, you can check the source to see where your keypresses are going.
They did it by giving away(forcing down throats?) IE.
The point of the prior post was that by charging $2k (or whatever) to be able to serve web pages(not whole story, but i simplify), microsoft is shooting itself in the foot.
Actually yes, IE 4 has/had a SCO Unix version
As long as you use clustering, so any down time is effectively invisible to endusers, and you've taken care of all the security issues you can take care of, i don't see why your choice of operating system and web server would make any difference.
Your language for dynamic content would, but as long as you can do what you need to, its not a big deal.
Apache runs on NT, amazon isn't running apache on NT, according to netcraft, but that doesn't mean it can't be done.
As long as end-users see near 0% downtime, anything is superior.
mysql is a good databse,as others have mentioned, you can use access to connect to it...
perl or php3 would probably be good choices for the language, as both are nice high level things that interact w/ databses easily
i strongly recommend not attemtping to use minivend though, as its a major PITA to get working, and the documentation is old, brief, and in some cases wrong
If a gov't site is inaccessable to somebody in the general public (so like any particular disability, including using some really screwy browser on a vic 20 :) they have nobody else to go to for that particular service/whatever.
However if a commercial site is inaccessable to somebody in the general public, they do not have to go there, and can go somewhere else that is accessable to them.
I thought thats how capitialism was supposed to work?
IIRC somewhere in their documentation it explains this....
:)
it infact stands for two contradictory things, one of which is recursive
WINdows Emulator
Wine Is Not an Emulator
go fig
yeah, well read the readme on the decryption stuff....
cd-ram disks are about $25, legit dvds are about $20, i suppose you could copy it to hard drive, but i dunno how economical it would be....
maybe you could fit it on a cd-r if you're lucky?
I think the issue was w/ the Ford Pinto (cause Chevy Pinto doesn't sound right) was a Pinto none the less
Maybe you should patent that idea so nobody else can do it
sorry couldn't resist
Unfortunately, the research lab would probably not exist if not for patents, as thats how they get their money, but patents are time sensitive for the same reason.
perhaps the time period should be decreased, and the patent office educated wrt the sheer stupidity of some recent patents, but the usefulness of patents is still in effect.
the nice things about patents is after its expired, everybody has a specific method for doing whatever, unless of course the patent is really general, which according to other ppl on this thread would be enough to cause it to be an invalid patent if anybody cared to challenge it
IIRC thats the way you get the year value from some stanard(ish?) c function call....
i recall seeing in the y2k fear pamphlets how some c coders would just put 19 as a string infront of it, rather than adding 1900 to it like you should
resulting in 19120 as the date in 2020
RedHat Secure Server has liscensing issues, due to RSA patents, its a liscence per (linux) box (or one cd per cpu, i don't remember, wouldn't make sense in SMP very well), and you only get one liscense per retail box.....
Doesn't mean you can't do it, but then again, you can always go and get one copy of win2k server and one copy of win2k workstation and install it all over.....
I don't know about the release version, but the release candidates do not check for product-codes or whatever on install.
well i actually drive a SUV made in '78 (back when firewalls were parts of cars as is refrenced in somebodies sig, also my SUV has two layers of steel (not steel re-inforced... actually steel) at i think all points of the body) so i probably won't die, but the poor person infront of me thats another story. except i don't want a cell phone, cause the audio quality isn't that great, and i don't want to be reachable voice all the time
but when you get down to it, can you read /. with one?
if not why bother
well doing the type of things the penguin did also helps in becoming a villain