Well, tripe to your tripe. At my last job (a stint as a network engineer at a _large_ healthcare/insurance corp), I was continuously evangelizing Linux. What did I hear? "Well, I'm sure it works fine, but who do we sue if it breaks?" This from a very not PHB, my direct report. From the CIO or a director level person I could understand it, but from a geek turned manager? Very frustrating...
>>(albeit on-board) 3Com 10/100 nics. Compaq, HP, and the others I've worked on never seem to put a brand name nic in the machine
IBM's and Compaq's on-board nics are Intel 10/100. They work great on IBM desktops, even when running WinD0ze. All of the recent servers I've installed have this same nic on-board.
Well, I've been developing websites since wheels were square and e-commerce (read shopping carts) for almost as long. Way back in '95, we had a full b2b site developed for a food wholesale consortium (this was even before b2b meant anything). Guess what? One-click. This really applied to pre-defined orders the customer created, not to a single item purchase, but it's the same damn idea. Amazon got the patent because some PHB got a bug up his ass, not because of original thinking. BTW, the site I worked on? Destroyed by dumbass PHB's. Never went online. grrrrrrrrr...
Having grown up watching the space program grow and fall (yes, I'm _that_ old), I'm constantly amazed at the stupuidity that NASA now displays. I truly think the Fed should disband NASA and disperse the people that belong to it to various smaller projects. These smaller projects (research, military, whatever) would then be required to use private launch vehicles. This would then allow for grant based or some other means of funding to go to private, competing companies. Why the hell wouldn't NASA sell a shuttle to that one private company? They know that a private concern would be able to get the thing off the ground more efficiently and cheaper to boot. One of this country's foundations is capitolism and NASA just can't play nice in that arena.
I use @Link Networks for my 384k SDSL connection. I get great bandwidth, averaging ~700k (of course, I'm right across the street from the CO), good response to help calls, they are even doing reverse-arpa and secondary dns for me. I got hooked up within 30 days of signing the contract. The phone line is provisioned from Ameritech (for once, they got something right). All that for $159 per month. No, I don't work for these guys, just a satisfied customer. I guess I must lucky...
The screen shots are pretty obviously taken from a low-res textured environment. I'm guessing 640x480 or so (not sure what res a Mac uses). You can easily see the stretching of the textures inherent in this type of render. Look at the rocks by the lighthouse. The original didn't look like this. It's also pretty easy to tell these screen shots came from a Mac, mainly because of the general dimness or low gamma. Of course, the original was rendered frame by frame on a Mac...
Our mainframe sysadmin's brother is running Linux on a vm on an S/390. She went to take a look and came back convinced. We'll soon have one for ourselves! This is *WAY* cool. Simple things like ftp'ing files to elsewhere are now a simple shell script away. Or, how about a humongo *webserver*? Lessee, PHP, Sybase (yes, we're one of those shops) Bwahahahahahaha...
I happened to be working on a oil drilling rig in Wyoming. Yep, no computers, pagers, cell phones, NT servers, UNIX, or anything else remotely geeky. I was, however, covered in oil much of the time, which does wonders for your skin (think MONDO zits...). It was truly an enlightening experience.
Had to post, mainly for posterity. Everything works, I think we can all pat ourselves on the back for the hard work, long hours, brain sweat we put into this thing. Also, we can now look forward to NOT hearing about the damn Y2K bug every time we turn around.
Well sorta... In my former life, I was a carpenter, cabinet maker, then an architect before I followed the force and got into networking. I simply designed and built my own desk. Split level, corner based, with a 4' wide keyboard/mouse surface. 6' and 8' side wings, split level, following the main workspace, so I could put more workstations there. I designed it for me, so it definitely wouldn't be optimal for anyone else. The chair, is a $300 Office Max fully adjustable, although I'm really interested in the Areon (my chair is like 3 years old and pretty worn out). I recently moved my office upstairs, leaving the desk stuff downstairs. I've now got a semi-circle desk I got from a local furniture store. Looks kinda like a starship control pod. Still fits my 20" monitor though.
Plug and play would be nice, along with a truly simple user interface. I'm currently debating with my self which OS to install on my Mom's new PC. This is no trivial decision, since she lives 3 hours away and I get to support her PC use. I'm leaning towards Mandrake, instead of a MS OS, mainly because I can lock it in to a browser and wordperfect. But the rest of my family that lives in her town all run Win9X. Maybe I'll flip a quarter.
I'm actually motivated to read a biography on the life of George Marshall, simply from reading this excellent article. Thank You, David Brin! ps. Love yer novels
They've probably got their webserver sitting in a DMZ on their firewall. It's actually trivial to drop/reject ping requests from there. You can also do filtering on the router to not accept ICMP packets, yet HTTP will get through.
I like this idea, anyone out there have a clue as to how to start something like this? Please feel free to email me if you do. I'm setting up my own server here at home (dedicated cable) in the next couple of weeks, and could donate some disk space, web design, and bandwidth.
I posted three songs on mp3.com (check it out), about 2 months ago. We've gotten aprox 120 "page views". I think mostly from the email I sent to everyone in my address book. Pretty crappy. On the other hand, I can't figure out any other good way to promote us, without spending the equivalent of a 3rd world countries GNP. Oh well, I guess it's a good thing I love to play, cuz it sure don't pay!
Simply put, wow. ~If~ this works, it'll blow a _lot_ of ISP's out of the water. Anyone know how to write a business plan? Let's see, start with a nice dual 750 Athlon with FreeBSD...
I find it kinda sad that Cray has gone down this far. I remember way back when wheels were square, Crays were the fastest computers on the planet. On the other hand, it's pretty cool for the Open Source movement that Beowulf clusters are taking off and actually being ~very~ competitive in the super computer market. This might even help me sell Linux to my boss. I for one would love to setup a cluster to run our intranet on...
Dune was the first Adult SF novel I read, way back when wheels were square. It was and still is my favorite book. Frankly, the movie had some good bits, but I just about puked when I saw them training soldiers how to use the, ah, um, (God, am I getting senile...) sonic thing. I don't remember any such device in the novel. What i ~do~ remember is wanting to get my hands on some "spice", mainly to see if it was as good as LSD...
Come on people, Microsoft has been doing this for years. They seem to have no ~real~ clue as to how a normal (read "non-Microsoft") operationg system works. I've run into various things, like TCP stacks that don't correctly work, for years. Blame this on ineptitude.
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Well, tripe to your tripe. At my last job (a stint as a network engineer at a _large_ healthcare/insurance corp), I was continuously evangelizing Linux. What did I hear? "Well, I'm sure it works fine, but who do we sue if it breaks?" This from a very not PHB, my direct report. From the CIO or a director level person I could understand it, but from a geek turned manager? Very frustrating...
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>>(albeit on-board) 3Com 10/100 nics. Compaq, HP, and the others I've worked on never seem to put a brand name nic in the machine
IBM's and Compaq's on-board nics are Intel 10/100. They work great on IBM desktops, even when running WinD0ze. All of the recent servers I've installed have this same nic on-board.
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Well, I've been developing websites since wheels were square and e-commerce (read shopping carts) for almost as long. Way back in '95, we had a full b2b site developed for a food wholesale consortium (this was even before b2b meant anything). Guess what? One-click. This really applied to pre-defined orders the customer created, not to a single item purchase, but it's the same damn idea. Amazon got the patent because some PHB got a bug up his ass, not because of original thinking. BTW, the site I worked on? Destroyed by dumbass PHB's. Never went online. grrrrrrrrr...
Dive Gear
Having grown up watching the space program grow and fall (yes, I'm _that_ old), I'm constantly amazed at the stupuidity that NASA now displays. I truly think the Fed should disband NASA and disperse the people that belong to it to various smaller projects. These smaller projects (research, military, whatever) would then be required to use private launch vehicles. This would then allow for grant based or some other means of funding to go to private, competing companies. Why the hell wouldn't NASA sell a shuttle to that one private company? They know that a private concern would be able to get the thing off the ground more efficiently and cheaper to boot. One of this country's foundations is capitolism and NASA just can't play nice in that arena.
Dive Gear
I use @Link Networks for my 384k SDSL connection. I get great bandwidth, averaging ~700k (of course, I'm right across the street from the CO), good response to help calls, they are even doing reverse-arpa and secondary dns for me. I got hooked up within 30 days of signing the contract. The phone line is provisioned from Ameritech (for once, they got something right). All that for $159 per month. No, I don't work for these guys, just a satisfied customer. I guess I must lucky...
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How the hell do you crack a Dish Network Dish500? If someone figures that out, you almost have no need for a DVD player.
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The screen shots are pretty obviously taken from a low-res textured environment. I'm guessing 640x480 or so (not sure what res a Mac uses). You can easily see the stretching of the textures inherent in this type of render. Look at the rocks by the lighthouse. The original didn't look like this. It's also pretty easy to tell these screen shots came from a Mac, mainly because of the general dimness or low gamma. Of course, the original was rendered frame by frame on a Mac...
Dive Gear
Our mainframe sysadmin's brother is running Linux on a vm on an S/390. She went to take a look and came back convinced. We'll soon have one for ourselves! This is *WAY* cool. Simple things like ftp'ing files to elsewhere are now a simple shell script away.
Or, how about a humongo *webserver*? Lessee, PHP, Sybase (yes, we're one of those shops)
Bwahahahahahaha...
Dive Gear
I happened to be working on a oil drilling rig in Wyoming. Yep, no computers, pagers, cell phones, NT servers, UNIX, or anything else remotely geeky. I was, however, covered in oil much of the time, which does wonders for your skin (think MONDO zits...). It was truly an enlightening experience.
Dive Gear
Had to post, mainly for posterity. Everything works, I think we can all pat ourselves on the back for the hard work, long hours, brain sweat we put into this thing.
Also, we can now look forward to NOT hearing about the damn Y2K bug every time we turn around.
Dive Gear
I resolve to stop pouring hot grits down my pants.
Uh... Errrmmm... I forgot, I've never poured hot grits down my pants. Never mind...
Dive Gear
Well sorta... In my former life, I was a carpenter, cabinet maker, then an architect before I followed the force and got into networking. I simply designed and built my own desk. Split level, corner based, with a 4' wide keyboard/mouse surface. 6' and 8' side wings, split level, following the main workspace, so I could put more workstations there. I designed it for me, so it definitely wouldn't be optimal for anyone else. The chair, is a $300 Office Max fully adjustable, although I'm really interested in the Areon (my chair is like 3 years old and pretty worn out). I recently moved my office upstairs, leaving the desk stuff downstairs. I've now got a semi-circle desk I got from a local furniture store. Looks kinda like a starship control pod. Still fits my 20" monitor though.
Dive Gear
Plug and play would be nice, along with a truly simple user interface. I'm currently debating with my self which OS to install on my Mom's new PC. This is no trivial decision, since she lives 3 hours away and I get to support her PC use. I'm leaning towards Mandrake, instead of a MS OS, mainly because I can lock it in to a browser and wordperfect. But the rest of my family that lives in her town all run Win9X. Maybe I'll flip a quarter.
Dive Gear
I wouldn't mind having one, preferably with some way to hook up to my network. Let's see, 3 sheets of paper, a Linux distro CD...
Dive Gear
I'm actually motivated to read a biography on the life of George Marshall, simply from reading this excellent article.
Thank You, David Brin!
ps. Love yer novels
Dive Gear
They've probably got their webserver sitting in a DMZ on their firewall. It's actually trivial to drop/reject ping requests from there. You can also do filtering on the router to not accept ICMP packets, yet HTTP will get through.
Dive Gear
I like this idea, anyone out there have a clue as to how to start something like this? Please feel free to email me if you do. I'm setting up my own server here at home (dedicated cable) in the next couple of weeks, and could donate some disk space, web design, and bandwidth.
Dive Gear
I posted three songs on mp3.com (check it out), about 2 months ago. We've gotten aprox 120 "page views". I think mostly from the email I sent to everyone in my address book. Pretty crappy. On the other hand, I can't figure out any other good way to promote us, without spending the equivalent of a 3rd world countries GNP. Oh well, I guess it's a good thing I love to play, cuz it sure don't pay!
Dive Gear
Simply put, wow. ~If~ this works, it'll blow a _lot_ of ISP's out of the water. Anyone know how to write a business plan? Let's see, start with a nice dual 750 Athlon with FreeBSD...
Dive Gear
Anything these clowns do is for profit, period. I frankly disregard all press from that camp.
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I for one would be willing to do just what Paul suggests. Anyone else?
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I don't care what you call me, just don't call me late for dinner!
Dive Gear
I find it kinda sad that Cray has gone down this far. I remember way back when wheels were square, Crays were the fastest computers on the planet. On the other hand, it's pretty cool for the Open Source movement that Beowulf clusters are taking off and actually being ~very~ competitive in the super computer market. This might even help me sell Linux to my boss. I for one would love to setup a cluster to run our intranet on...
Dive Gear
Dune was the first Adult SF novel I read, way back when wheels were square. It was and still is my favorite book. Frankly, the movie had some good bits, but I just about puked when I saw them training soldiers how to use the, ah, um, (God, am I getting senile...) sonic thing. I don't remember any such device in the novel. What i ~do~ remember is wanting to get my hands on some "spice", mainly to see if it was as good as LSD...
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Come on people, Microsoft has been doing this for years. They seem to have no ~real~ clue as to how a normal (read "non-Microsoft") operationg system works. I've run into various things, like TCP stacks that don't correctly work, for years. Blame this on ineptitude.
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