I'm an Atlanta ex-Pheonix ex-Megapath ex-Telocity person myself. Telocity just sent me a postage paid shipping form to send them their "Velocity Port" device back, else they'll want to charge me for it. I can understand... it can't have been too cheap to make, and they only ever got like $90 out of me before dying. That label from Telocity, though, came in a rather non-special looking envelope marked "DirecTV". So don't toss it...
And now I have (aside from the Telocity thing) TWO 3com SDSL modems and a spare Alcatel 1000 ADSL modem (still got Bellsouth ADSL).
Not only would you have to have a very sensitive (ie expensive--- they DO exist, tho) accelerometer, but you'd have to deal with the fact that accelerometers only measure... errr... acceleration. If an object is moving at a speed of 10 inches/sec and it is activated (along with its accelerometer) then the accelerometer is going to have no clue about that 10in/sec speed. It'll only register something if that speed CHANGES. Hence the name...
We should be letting robots with infrared, electromagnetic, and audio sensors do all this, anyway.
DeCSS functionality has now been ported to pretty much every programming/scripting language in common use, so it seem reasonable to me that it's time to integrate it with gnapster!
Imagine the following scenario... gnapster clients hacked in such a way as to run filenames through DeCSS before showing them to the user... all files are shared with their names scrambled using the DeCSS code... Users still see the correct filenames in their gnapster browsers but the real files are encrypted. NOW... if the RIAA then decrypts the filenames in order to try to ban them from the napster servers then they've broken the DeCSS "copyright" and the RIAA can sue the MPAA into submission for violating the DMCA. It would make a lot of lawyers really rich but would be worth it just to seem all squirm.
Obviously you've never worked with SAP products. Over the past two or so years of dealing with it constantly I've come to the firm conclusion that SAP is the lousiest, most poorly written, ridiculously bad software I've ever seen. Microsoft likes SAP for the same reason Alabama like Mississippi: keeps them from being the worst at EVERYTHING.
Absolutely! A lot of people went out of their way to register the names of their operations (companies, art groups, whatever) and then the Internet "happened" and many (for better or worse) missed out on furthering their presence by registering their trademarked names. This gives them a chance above and beyond. I support that policy wholeheartedly... although I don't support ripping already-acquired domains from individuals. Cyber-squatting is akin to spamming in my book, but I have to support the rights of some of the would-be squatters. Having a domain registry with this policy in place from the beginning should help us avoid getting into such sticky situations in the future.
I just realized my employer may own a significant portion of my personal website....
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You bring to mind an interesting concept... not at all what you had in mind, but the thought of showing some religiously relevant artifact to them might be an interesting excercise. After all, it's not too far-fetched of an idea to say that many religions were formed when primitive man saw an alien visitor and started worshipping her/him/it as a god. Perhaps (assuming they could decipher our text) they would consider us a grand experiment that was a success? "Hey-- remember that little blue planet we visited a few thousand years ago? They STILL think we're gods and have formed a whole religion around us! Let's go back!"
I for one would not ever join a union. Sure they had their place in the developing years of labor... now they're just money-makers for their leaders. Why should I waste MY salary paying THEM? No thanks, you backwards morons, I'll not be joining you even if I have to give up my job and revert to being a welder somewhere (I did that once, ya know).
Will a Sony Wireless Keyboard work with real computers? If so just give the webtv to your least favorite neighbor and enjoy your new recliner with true internet access!
I hate Amazon and will not shop there. That bias notwithstanding,I AS A CONSUMER DEMAND the right to get rid of any CRAP I bought to someone else who may benefit from it. Even if it's NOT CRAP, I demand the right to relieve myself of it. Personally I keep the books I buy. BUT I would be almost willing to take up arms on this (and many other) matter. No, people. If you're going to make me purchase it, then by god I have the right to get rid of it when I'm done. It's not like I've xerox'ed the whole damn thing (which though possible would cost much more than buying it). I say let them try to ban this. Soon nothing in this world will be "returnable". What they are saying is that once you've purchased an item it is YOURS (though not really....look at their licenses) and you can't do squat about it. WRONG. I support authors. Sometimes I go out on a limb and buy a book just because I want to take a chance. They just got paid. Now if I don't like it I'm going to sell it. Guess what? TOUGH SHIT. Your bood didn't please me. Get over it. Nothing is guaranteed in this world and I will NOT STAND STILL and put up with being stuck with your book. Would you prefer that I hunt you down and burn the shit in your front yard? I will, ya know.... I'm just that crazy. Get real, get a life, and get a clue. The free market will buy/sell what it can. It's a fact of life.
Hmmmm... odd... I would suspect your motherboard rather than the AMD chip. Is it an off-brand or an Abit or something? Stick with ASUS, dude, or MSI or FIC.
I have several AMD chips (including 700Mhz Duron @950 and 750MHz t-bird @950) and have never had a bit of trouble. Matter of fact, all the old K6's I used to use never had trouble either. Course, there's this matter of both (bought first one, had to replace with second one) my intel-powered bp6's being utter shit, and the 2.4.0 test-somethingoranother kernel not being able to handle a scsi controller on my p3 machine...
Dude... you've been watching too many of the TBS Sunday Morning Movies...
After all, the fungus is INSIDE the craft and was therefore terrestrial in origin, if the Russians are telling the truth when they say only us humans have been there.
There are some things that will create their own market. Of COURSE there's not much you can do with a 3d WM right now, 'cause there hasn't been one on which to do it! I'm sure there are plenty of applications in the dream-stage right now that will benefit greatly from such a setup.
Of course, you have to remember, this could also just be the first step to a real 3d WM. What I mean is, no matter what kind of 3d accelerator you have, no matter what 3d FPS games you play, no matter which 3dWM you use, you're still staring at a flat (or reasonably so anyway) screen in front of your face. Once the technology exists for TRUE holographic (or whatever) 3d display systems, you'll see the REAL benefit of all this. Of course, who's going to construct cool holographic displays before there's a good 3d WM to run on it.....? Get my point? I say more power to ya. Wish I could code like that so I could help ya.
I hope this doesn't come across as a troll or anything, but...
Wouldn't it be more in keeping with the open-source spirit to put that kind of support in the Here And Now kernel instead?!?!?!? Never put off until tomorrow what you can make a kernel module for today...
....and you don't need a monitor to do an install with Linux, either. I don't know about SuSE (although that's easily my distro of choice), but I put redhat 6.2 on a sparc10 in the basement without a monitor or keyboard. Wasn't even that hard! But warning: these boxes make great DNS servers or Kerberos servers, but that's about it.
Ok, I've got DSL (ADSL and SDSL....hehe). I've got many friends with cable modems, and one friend with a (pilot project) two-way satellite uplink.
I'll start with cable... all the old rumors are true. If you're on a cable segment with a bunch of non-netophiles, your experience is likely to be quite good, although odds are your provider is "censoring" your connection by blocking certain ports entirely, namely netbios. Doesn't affect me as a Linux devotee, but wreaks havoc with folks trying to do winderz shares. If you're not going to give me all the ports, don't call yourself an ISP.... And then there's that good old slowdown when the Jones's and the Smith's up the street start leeching every night about 7:00. I've heard of these massive daily slowdowns, but alas, with DSL never experienced it.
The satellite thing was cool. Upstream AND down. The dish is oval, much larger than my DirectTV dish, and had to be professionally mounted on their loft. Downstream was around 400k (typical for satellite-based downfeeds) but the upstream was on the order of 56k. And then there's the latency... pinging my house from theirs over that was a 360ms per ping affair. Don't plan to play Counter-Strike over one of those connections.
Nope, nothing's going to beat DSL in the in-town market anytime soon. I've got a 1.5Meg/256k ADSL line that gives every ounce of that "rated" speed 24/7 for $49.99 a month. And I've got an SDSL 768k/768k line that gives me more like 835k/835k for $39.99 a month. Can't beat that, no siree. Microsoft and AOL are just going for market share, not quality of service with this satellite venture. They'll advertise it as "high speed" and "good as DSL" but it won't be... yet they'll get millions of subscribers. And tell me... just how much data CAN be piped up to the current generation of satellites?
Avoid any satellite system (unless you don't have an alternative and MUST HAVE bandwidth) until the advent of the LEO (Low Earth Orbit) systems in the next two years or so. Until then, latency is unacceptible.
I am TOTALLY not a lawyer (though I have more sense than most), but I think I see a strategy here. What mp3board is doing to AOL is essentially the same thing they feel is happening to them.
If they can manage to sue AOL before their case is finished, and intentionally expose they total insanity of such a case, they hope to set a precedent such that their own case may get thrown out--- or at least ruled on fairly.
Basically, they have no intention or expectation of winning. Once they lose, there's one other case to use as a reference in their own defense: "see, this case was thrown out because it was stupid!"
The hope would be that the judge in their own case might be a bit sensible and rule correctly in their favor rather than the RIAA's.
And no, I don't think stealing mp3s is right, but it's always going to happen and I for one see it as nothing different from recording music off the radio; I still want to buy the album if it's good....
RIAA are idiots, and greedy pirates. They may win a few rounds, but they've already lost the war.
Don't forget you can always create a user within webmin who only has authority to tamper with HTTP configuration... thus eliminating all of the unrelated, "confusing" options presented by the other webmin modules. When the HTTP admin user logs in, they will only see Apache configuration. A bit of training there would go a long way. Not to seem like a hard-ass, but there's no substitute for intelligent admins.... I for one am not a super-skilled apache admin, but you'd be surprised how far the documentation at their site. For that matter, it's probably on your local server, too.
Must it be web-based? If not, check into Comanche.
Don't forget... no matter which route you go, you need to cram as much RAM into that machine as you can, and try to tweak your system to do as much pre-buffering as possible. Just because your choice of drives might be able to sustain, say, 35 meg/sec, it doesn't mean that they will ALWAYS sustain that. Remember the old "t-cal" calibration delays and stuff? At some point your drive(s) are going to get distracted for some reason or another, and having a huge RAM buffer is the only good way to get around that.
I know cost is an issue, so I say all this assuming you don't want to buy an expensive caching RAID adapter.
The whole idea with all the computer systems on the shuttle, mir, hubble, etc is for them to be as simple and proven and reliable as possible. Intel still makes "radiation hardened" 386's for them, so I'd assume whatever's up there can run on a 386. I know in the past they always took (of all things) an HP 47cv calculator up with them, and that's what did a lot of the work(!).
If you think about what their actual needs are, it's mostly in the area of controls and communications equipment. Stuff that's most reliably done by narrowly designed programming for proprietary hardware, not necessarily full-blown os's. But you can bet that when they get around to using full os's to run the show, Linux will be on top of the heap of candidates, based partially on the fact that they have no budget anymore and partially on the fact that so many of the brightest Linux contributors today actually work for NASA....
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You are correct sir. Don't throw away that shipping label they're sending you! (see my post right above yours)
HEY! after removing my Telocity thing, I find that I can get sync using one of my 3com SDSL modems. anybody got a clue what I can do with this?
I'm an Atlanta ex-Pheonix ex-Megapath ex-Telocity person myself. Telocity just sent me a postage paid shipping form to send them their "Velocity Port" device back, else they'll want to charge me for it. I can understand... it can't have been too cheap to make, and they only ever got like $90 out of me before dying. That label from Telocity, though, came in a rather non-special looking envelope marked "DirecTV". So don't toss it...
And now I have (aside from the Telocity thing) TWO 3com SDSL modems and a spare Alcatel 1000 ADSL modem (still got Bellsouth ADSL).
Not only would you have to have a very sensitive (ie expensive--- they DO exist, tho) accelerometer, but you'd have to deal with the fact that accelerometers only measure... errr... acceleration. If an object is moving at a speed of 10 inches/sec and it is activated (along with its accelerometer) then the accelerometer is going to have no clue about that 10in/sec speed. It'll only register something if that speed CHANGES. Hence the name...
We should be letting robots with infrared, electromagnetic, and audio sensors do all this, anyway.
DeCSS functionality has now been ported to pretty much every programming/scripting language in common use, so it seem reasonable to me that it's time to integrate it with gnapster!
Imagine the following scenario... gnapster clients hacked in such a way as to run filenames through DeCSS before showing them to the user... all files are shared with their names scrambled using the DeCSS code... Users still see the correct filenames in their gnapster browsers but the real files are encrypted. NOW... if the RIAA then decrypts the filenames in order to try to ban them from the napster servers then they've broken the DeCSS "copyright" and the RIAA can sue the MPAA into submission for violating the DMCA. It would make a lot of lawyers really rich but would be worth it just to seem all squirm.
HA!
Obviously you've never worked with SAP products. Over the past two or so years of dealing with it constantly I've come to the firm conclusion that SAP is the lousiest, most poorly written, ridiculously bad software I've ever seen. Microsoft likes SAP for the same reason Alabama like Mississippi: keeps them from being the worst at EVERYTHING.
Absolutely! A lot of people went out of their way to register the names of their operations (companies, art groups, whatever) and then the Internet "happened" and many (for better or worse) missed out on furthering their presence by registering their trademarked names. This gives them a chance above and beyond. I support that policy wholeheartedly... although I don't support ripping already-acquired domains from individuals. Cyber-squatting is akin to spamming in my book, but I have to support the rights of some of the would-be squatters. Having a domain registry with this policy in place from the beginning should help us avoid getting into such sticky situations in the future.
I just realized my employer may own a significant portion of my personal website....
You bring to mind an interesting concept... not at all what you had in mind, but the thought of showing some religiously relevant artifact to them might be an interesting excercise. After all, it's not too far-fetched of an idea to say that many religions were formed when primitive man saw an alien visitor and started worshipping her/him/it as a god. Perhaps (assuming they could decipher our text) they would consider us a grand experiment that was a success? "Hey-- remember that little blue planet we visited a few thousand years ago? They STILL think we're gods and have formed a whole religion around us! Let's go back!"
I for one would not ever join a union. Sure they had their place in the developing years of labor... now they're just money-makers for their leaders. Why should I waste MY salary paying THEM? No thanks, you backwards morons, I'll not be joining you even if I have to give up my job and revert to being a welder somewhere (I did that once, ya know).
Will a Sony Wireless Keyboard work with real computers? If so just give the webtv to your least favorite neighbor and enjoy your new recliner with true internet access!
155kb/sec for me. Get it there, folks. Really. ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/linux-2.4/linux-2 .4.0.tar.gz
This one's humpin' for me... kernel.org is waaaay slow:
x -2 .4.0.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/linux-2.4/linu
I hate Amazon and will not shop there. That bias notwithstanding,I AS A CONSUMER DEMAND the right to get rid of any CRAP I bought to someone else who may benefit from it. Even if it's NOT CRAP, I demand the right to relieve myself of it. Personally I keep the books I buy. BUT I would be almost willing to take up arms on this (and many other) matter. No, people. If you're going to make me purchase it, then by god I have the right to get rid of it when I'm done. It's not like I've xerox'ed the whole damn thing (which though possible would cost much more than buying it). I say let them try to ban this. Soon nothing in this world will be "returnable". What they are saying is that once you've purchased an item it is YOURS (though not really... .look at their licenses) and you can't do squat about it. WRONG. I support authors. Sometimes I go out on a limb and buy a book just because I want to take a chance. They just got paid. Now if I don't like it I'm going to sell it. Guess what? TOUGH SHIT. Your bood didn't please me. Get over it. Nothing is guaranteed in this world and I will NOT STAND STILL and put up with being stuck with your book. Would you prefer that I hunt you down and burn the shit in your front yard? I will, ya know.... I'm just that crazy. Get real, get a life, and get a clue. The free market will buy/sell what it can. It's a fact of life.
Hmmmm... odd... I would suspect your motherboard rather than the AMD chip. Is it an off-brand or an Abit or something? Stick with ASUS, dude, or MSI or FIC.
I have several AMD chips (including 700Mhz Duron @950 and 750MHz t-bird @950) and have never had a bit of trouble. Matter of fact, all the old K6's I used to use never had trouble either. Course, there's this matter of both (bought first one, had to replace with second one) my intel-powered bp6's being utter shit, and the 2.4.0 test-somethingoranother kernel not being able to handle a scsi controller on my p3 machine...
Dude... you've been watching too many of the TBS Sunday Morning Movies...
After all, the fungus is INSIDE the craft and was therefore terrestrial in origin, if the Russians are telling the truth when they say only us humans have been there.
There are some things that will create their own market. Of COURSE there's not much you can do with a 3d WM right now, 'cause there hasn't been one on which to do it! I'm sure there are plenty of applications in the dream-stage right now that will benefit greatly from such a setup.
Of course, you have to remember, this could also just be the first step to a real 3d WM. What I mean is, no matter what kind of 3d accelerator you have, no matter what 3d FPS games you play, no matter which 3dWM you use, you're still staring at a flat (or reasonably so anyway) screen in front of your face. Once the technology exists for TRUE holographic (or whatever) 3d display systems, you'll see the REAL benefit of all this. Of course, who's going to construct cool holographic displays before there's a good 3d WM to run on it.....? Get my point? I say more power to ya. Wish I could code like that so I could help ya.
After years of dealing with them I had come to the conclusion that Netware servers were as reliable as my refrigerator. Then the refrigerator broke.
I hope this doesn't come across as a troll or anything, but...
Wouldn't it be more in keeping with the open-source spirit to put that kind of support in the Here And Now kernel instead?!?!?!? Never put off until tomorrow what you can make a kernel module for today...
So how long until Linux isn't alternative enough to make the show?
....and you don't need a monitor to do an install with Linux, either. I don't know about SuSE (although that's easily my distro of choice), but I put redhat 6.2 on a sparc10 in the basement without a monitor or keyboard. Wasn't even that hard! But warning: these boxes make great DNS servers or Kerberos servers, but that's about it.
Ok, I've got DSL (ADSL and SDSL....hehe). I've got many friends with cable modems, and one friend with a (pilot project) two-way satellite uplink.
I'll start with cable... all the old rumors are true. If you're on a cable segment with a bunch of non-netophiles, your experience is likely to be quite good, although odds are your provider is "censoring" your connection by blocking certain ports entirely, namely netbios. Doesn't affect me as a Linux devotee, but wreaks havoc with folks trying to do winderz shares. If you're not going to give me all the ports, don't call yourself an ISP.... And then there's that good old slowdown when the Jones's and the Smith's up the street start leeching every night about 7:00. I've heard of these massive daily slowdowns, but alas, with DSL never experienced it.
The satellite thing was cool. Upstream AND down. The dish is oval, much larger than my DirectTV dish, and had to be professionally mounted on their loft. Downstream was around 400k (typical for satellite-based downfeeds) but the upstream was on the order of 56k. And then there's the latency... pinging my house from theirs over that was a 360ms per ping affair. Don't plan to play Counter-Strike over one of those connections.
Nope, nothing's going to beat DSL in the in-town market anytime soon. I've got a 1.5Meg/256k ADSL line that gives every ounce of that "rated" speed 24/7 for $49.99 a month. And I've got an SDSL 768k/768k line that gives me more like 835k/835k for $39.99 a month. Can't beat that, no siree. Microsoft and AOL are just going for market share, not quality of service with this satellite venture. They'll advertise it as "high speed" and "good as DSL" but it won't be... yet they'll get millions of subscribers. And tell me... just how much data CAN be piped up to the current generation of satellites?
Avoid any satellite system (unless you don't have an alternative and MUST HAVE bandwidth) until the advent of the LEO (Low Earth Orbit) systems in the next two years or so. Until then, latency is unacceptible.
I am TOTALLY not a lawyer (though I have more sense than most), but I think I see a strategy here. What mp3board is doing to AOL is essentially the same thing they feel is happening to them.
If they can manage to sue AOL before their case is finished, and intentionally expose they total insanity of such a case, they hope to set a precedent such that their own case may get thrown out--- or at least ruled on fairly.
Basically, they have no intention or expectation of winning. Once they lose, there's one other case to use as a reference in their own defense: "see, this case was thrown out because it was stupid!"
The hope would be that the judge in their own case might be a bit sensible and rule correctly in their favor rather than the RIAA's.
And no, I don't think stealing mp3s is right, but it's always going to happen and I for one see it as nothing different from recording music off the radio; I still want to buy the album if it's good....
RIAA are idiots, and greedy pirates. They may win a few rounds, but they've already lost the war.
Don't forget you can always create a user within webmin who only has authority to tamper with HTTP configuration... thus eliminating all of the unrelated, "confusing" options presented by the other webmin modules. When the HTTP admin user logs in, they will only see Apache configuration. A bit of training there would go a long way. Not to seem like a hard-ass, but there's no substitute for intelligent admins.... I for one am not a super-skilled apache admin, but you'd be surprised how far the documentation at their site. For that matter, it's probably on your local server, too. Must it be web-based? If not, check into Comanche.
Don't forget... no matter which route you go, you need to cram as much RAM into that machine as you can, and try to tweak your system to do as much pre-buffering as possible. Just because your choice of drives might be able to sustain, say, 35 meg/sec, it doesn't mean that they will ALWAYS sustain that. Remember the old "t-cal" calibration delays and stuff? At some point your drive(s) are going to get distracted for some reason or another, and having a huge RAM buffer is the only good way to get around that.
I know cost is an issue, so I say all this assuming you don't want to buy an expensive caching RAID adapter.
The whole idea with all the computer systems on the shuttle, mir, hubble, etc is for them to be as simple and proven and reliable as possible. Intel still makes "radiation hardened" 386's for them, so I'd assume whatever's up there can run on a 386. I know in the past they always took (of all things) an HP 47cv calculator up with them, and that's what did a lot of the work(!).
If you think about what their actual needs are, it's mostly in the area of controls and communications equipment. Stuff that's most reliably done by narrowly designed programming for proprietary hardware, not necessarily full-blown os's. But you can bet that when they get around to using full os's to run the show, Linux will be on top of the heap of candidates, based partially on the fact that they have no budget anymore and partially on the fact that so many of the brightest Linux contributors today actually work for NASA....