Usually the actual ordering is done over SSL. AT&T cannot know for certain if a transaction actually took place. They would have to map a site to find out which URL's meant what. How many on-line merchants are there?
Besides, if I was a merchant using a provider other than AT&T, I would laugh on the phone if AT&T tried to charge me. If AT&T ever tried locking out those sites that refused to pay them, they would very quickly get a name for themselves they would really not like. AT&T: Land of the Broken Links.
It sounds sooo stupid! "I want a 27 tebibyte drive and a 100 mebibit NIC, please." ARGHHH!!!
Some designers of local area networks have used megabit per second to mean 1 048 576 bit/s, but all telecommunications engineers use it to mean 106 bit/s.
Is this comment actually true? Most people I know--o.k., I admit they are all software or ex-hardware developers:)--refer to 1KB as 1024 bytes.
Don't start doing what the hard drive manufacturers started doing. When we are talking about small values, it does not really matter. At these levels it can mean a big difference.
2 terabytes = 2199023255552 bytes
To find out how much you are off:
2199023255552 - 2000000000000 = 199023255552 bytes
This is 185.35 GB which is a lot of data just in itself.
I live in Round Rock just Northeast of Austin. I have been having a hard time finding a broadband service which offered static IP's.
Time-Warner will eventually be offering static IP's with their business-class cable modem service.
Find someone willing to offer xDSL service (not IDSL) service up to where I live. SWB does not reach up here, yet I have been hearing how they will for over a year.
I have heard Nobell is going out of business, so I am unable to use that. Even if I could, their prices are way too high.
COX Cable will be offering Road Runner service close to that area (Pflugerville) soon, but it appears it will be the same as Time-Warner's service: no static IP.
The one thing that really annoys me about Road Runner is that they do not offer static IP's. This does not stop people from running all kinds of servers on their systems except for e-mail servers, which I want to do. I hold onto the same IP for months at a time. Why not just sell me a static IP? They will only earn more money. It just doesn't make sense. *Sniff*
Authorities, who believed the message was a threat that carried criminal intent, asked Fein for the sender's identity. Fein's policy in such situations: ``We're not going to turn over anything unless we're ordered by a court.'' So the U.S. attorney's office in Houston filed suit. (The attorney handling the case did not return phone calls seeking comment.)
A magistrate in Texas issued the gag order, and Fein fought it -- taking his fight first to U.S. District Court and then seeking emergency intervention from U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who oversees appeals from Texas. Fein lost at every turn.
Does this mean the police never got the court order for the person's name? The whole fight through court was about the gag order? Or was he fighting the court order for the person's name?
The two paragraphs above almost seem to be missing a paragraph in between them that explains how they went from pursuit of the person's name to the gag order.
Now, when you start to patent things such as "1-click shopping" you have to think this, "Was there ever a similar idea WITH OR WITHOUT A COMPUTER?"
It is in our genes as small children. Ever see a child just point at something in a store they desire with their finger? Without anymore effort on his/her part, a parent will pick it up, buy it, and ship it home. I think of it as "1-point shopping".
If anything, their license is closer to BSD than GPL. If they BSD'd it, there would not be any problem with the GPL (or almost any other license). They like their license, so I assume they will keep it as is.
I agree; I prefer the BSD license. I was just letting him know the reason why they were not using the GPL. I have no idea why they didn't just use a BSD license.
Except, I couldn't get ESD working. Hanged Gnome-startup for ever. Since I'm only using my computer as a desktop-computer, that rendered FreeBSD useless for me. And I couldn't find any help to fix this.
Do you actually need ESD to use Gnome? You probably could disable it from starting up.
But perhaps I just should drop Gnome all together and go KDE2...
Damn, I'm starting to dislike GPL and it's fanatic followers more and more each day.
It made me switch from Linux to FreeBSD. Technologies over licenses is much more relaxing.
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I'd be very interested in finding out if the Qt/KDE developers really intend to say that I have no right to make in-house-only modifications or use of Qt.
They can try, but once the code is distributed under the GPL they won't be able to place this restriction on it.
With this comment in particular, I think that they are still ignorant about how the GPL works.
why would Company F dish out the money for some HP-RISC with HP-UX licenses when they could get some cheaper x86 with Linux on it?
One big reason is downtime. I realize that a good portion of downtime is related to hardware, but some of the commercial UNIX OS's might have a better record against downtime than Linux and *BSD's. Downtime == loss of lots of money. When a day's worth of downtime is equivalent to several million dollars, paying $100,000 for an OS sounds cheap.
OT: when did HP-UX decide to rename rsh and replace it? I spent my first day on HP-UX (a year ago) trying to 'rsh' over to a different machine. GRRRR!
and you still haven't, that guy isn't a linux zealot, he's a mac zealot. and a zealot of any kind (and you seem to be a 'i'm so objective i use windoze' zealot) is stupid.
Grow up. Someone posted his reasons for choosing a platform, and you just flamed him without cause.
He uses the common tool for the work he does. For now, it happens to be Windows. Your zealotry was unnecessary in this post and another one I just read up above.
I have found very little software that will not run on FreeBSD. The only problems I have run into are when a developer develops specifically for Linux.
The only thing I see FreeBSD missing when compared to Linux is hardware drivers although I see FreeBSD doing quite well. I just need to switch from 3.5-STABLE to 4.1-STABLE.
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he'll make sure that at&t will be able to pass this through!
This is not a bill; there is nothing to pass. You probably believe everything CNN tells you too. Sigh.
Usually the actual ordering is done over SSL. AT&T cannot know for certain if a transaction actually took place. They would have to map a site to find out which URL's meant what. How many on-line merchants are there?
Besides, if I was a merchant using a provider other than AT&T, I would laugh on the phone if AT&T tried to charge me. If AT&T ever tried locking out those sites that refused to pay them, they would very quickly get a name for themselves they would really not like. AT&T: Land of the Broken Links.
I can't see them pulling this off.
It sounds sooo stupid! "I want a 27 tebibyte drive and a 100 mebibit NIC, please." ARGHHH!!!
:)--refer to 1KB as 1024 bytes.
Some designers of local area networks have used megabit per second to mean 1 048 576 bit/s, but all telecommunications engineers use it to mean 106 bit/s.
Is this comment actually true? Most people I know--o.k., I admit they are all software or ex-hardware developers
Don't start doing what the hard drive manufacturers started doing. When we are talking about small values, it does not really matter. At these levels it can mean a big difference.
2 terabytes = 2199023255552 bytes
To find out how much you are off:
2199023255552 - 2000000000000 = 199023255552 bytes
This is 185.35 GB which is a lot of data just in itself.
ay that's what they're doing. Aiming Solaris at shops that can't afford top-quality Sun equipment.
They are already there with Solaris/x86, which sounds like will be the version of Solaris they use in future Cobalt systems.
- Time-Warner will eventually be offering static IP's with their business-class cable modem service.
- Find someone willing to offer xDSL service (not IDSL) service up to where I live. SWB does not reach up here, yet I have been hearing how they will for over a year.
- I have heard Nobell is going out of business, so I am unable to use that. Even if I could, their prices are way too high.
- COX Cable will be offering Road Runner service close to that area (Pflugerville) soon, but it appears it will be the same as Time-Warner's service: no static IP.
The one thing that really annoys me about Road Runner is that they do not offer static IP's. This does not stop people from running all kinds of servers on their systems except for e-mail servers, which I want to do. I hold onto the same IP for months at a time. Why not just sell me a static IP? They will only earn more money. It just doesn't make sense. *Sniff*Doesn't the government have to release it public domain?
> > djbdns turns of TCP queries by default.
> No it doesn't.
What about this FAQ: How do I answer TCP queries? Why does tinydns answer only UDP queries?
It sure looks like it is off by default according to the author.
Authorities, who believed the message was a threat that carried criminal intent, asked Fein for the sender's identity. Fein's policy in such situations: ``We're not going to turn over anything unless we're ordered by a court.'' So the U.S. attorney's office in Houston filed suit. (The attorney handling the case did not return phone calls seeking comment.)
A magistrate in Texas issued the gag order, and Fein fought it -- taking his fight first to U.S. District Court and then seeking emergency intervention from U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who oversees appeals from Texas. Fein lost at every turn.
Does this mean the police never got the court order for the person's name? The whole fight through court was about the gag order? Or was he fighting the court order for the person's name?
The two paragraphs above almost seem to be missing a paragraph in between them that explains how they went from pursuit of the person's name to the gag order.
Now, when you start to patent things such as "1-click shopping" you have to think this, "Was there ever a similar idea WITH OR WITHOUT A COMPUTER?"
It is in our genes as small children. Ever see a child just point at something in a store they desire with their finger? Without anymore effort on his/her part, a parent will pick it up, buy it, and ship it home. I think of it as "1-point shopping".
If anything, their license is closer to BSD than GPL. If they BSD'd it, there would not be any problem with the GPL (or almost any other license). They like their license, so I assume they will keep it as is.
For the GPL to be a valid copyright license it has to be protected everywhere it is being violated.
Since Python is not using GPL code, it is not violating anything with the GPL.
I read this from someone who bought a lot of Anime on DVD.
1) Buy from Express.com for pre-orders.
2) Buy from Buy.com for existing DVD's.
3) Check against 800.com, amazon.com, etc.
Usually the first two work for me. The others rarely beat those two.
It means we can all use OpenSSL without the rsaref library. The code is already out there.
I am specifically looking for the 6.5.8 version for FreeBSD. Any chance at finding it? No GPG comments, thank you.
I agree; I prefer the BSD license. I was just letting him know the reason why they were not using the GPL. I have no idea why they didn't just use a BSD license.
Why is it that we need to many different licenses? If the concern is to be GPL compatible then why not release under the GPL?
They wish to have less restrictions than the GPL, but they also wish to get along with the GPL.
Except, I couldn't get ESD working. Hanged Gnome-startup for ever. Since I'm only using my computer as a desktop-computer, that rendered FreeBSD useless for me. And I couldn't find any help to fix this.
:)
Do you actually need ESD to use Gnome? You probably could disable it from starting up.
But perhaps I just should drop Gnome all together and go KDE2...
Drop those two. Go Enlightenment.
Damn, I'm starting to dislike GPL and it's fanatic followers more and more each day.
It made me switch from Linux to FreeBSD. Technologies over licenses is much more relaxing.
I'd be very interested in finding out if the Qt/KDE developers really intend to say that I have no right to make in-house-only modifications or use of Qt.
They can try, but once the code is distributed under the GPL they won't be able to place this restriction on it.
With this comment in particular, I think that they are still ignorant about how the GPL works.
it would be nice if they tried to make it broader than just BSD ... like maybe all of UNIX.
One of the features mentions Solaris.
That is how the BSD's distribute files (source is the preferred). This is more concerning the package management.
why would Company F dish out the money for some HP-RISC with HP-UX licenses when they could get some cheaper x86 with Linux on it?
One big reason is downtime. I realize that a good portion of downtime is related to hardware, but some of the commercial UNIX OS's might have a better record against downtime than Linux and *BSD's. Downtime == loss of lots of money. When a day's worth of downtime is equivalent to several million dollars, paying $100,000 for an OS sounds cheap.
OT: when did HP-UX decide to rename rsh and replace it? I spent my first day on HP-UX (a year ago) trying to 'rsh' over to a different machine. GRRRR!
and you still haven't, that guy isn't a linux zealot, he's a mac zealot. and a zealot of any kind (and you seem to be a 'i'm so objective i use windoze' zealot) is stupid.
Grow up. Someone posted his reasons for choosing a platform, and you just flamed him without cause.
He uses the common tool for the work he does. For now, it happens to be Windows. Your zealotry was unnecessary in this post and another one I just read up above.
I have found very little software that will not run on FreeBSD. The only problems I have run into are when a developer develops specifically for Linux.
The only thing I see FreeBSD missing when compared to Linux is hardware drivers although I see FreeBSD doing quite well. I just need to switch from 3.5-STABLE to 4.1-STABLE.
I am speaking as an Linux-to-FreeBSD convert.