Is it possible that cell phone networks could start using this? I mean 50 km is a long distance, and 74mbps is plenty for sharing voice and data. It'd be cool having my phone tied into a regular network. Regards, Steve
Fellow/. moderators please mod the parent as a troll. This along with many others have been posted on anti-slash. They are all either crapfloods or attempts to get people to visit their site. The forum where this was created is here . Moderators please read all postings in that forum so you know what to look for and then moderate correctly!/. thanks you. Regards, Steve
I love how an AC has all the balls in the world. If your comment about me was because I ended my post with "not that i looked..." turn on your sarcasm meter, who the hell would look at naked dolls? Regards, Steve
For those who read slashdot in work or at school, the RealDolls link in the above posting leads to a porn site. Its clean porn, not goatse stuff if your wondering (not that I looked...) Regards, Steve
That apt-rpm thing you've been hearing about is god's gift to rpm based distros. And if that doesn't do it for ya, use yum. I run Fedora, Mandrake, and Debian SID.I haven't upgraded Mandrake since 8.2 because I had found Debian:) I fell in love with apt, but then came along Fedora, I checked it out, installed apt-rpm and it is just amazing. Everything just works and the apt-rpm makes installing things easier then ever. Debian has its advantages, but the only one I've seen that is worth keeping it on one of my machines is that it has 13,000 apps in its repository. The rpm repositories are getting up there with anywhere from 3000 to about 4000 or 4500 depending upon if you jsut keep the default sources or if you add third party ones. Regardless, I've gone with Fedora as my distro of choice now and I'm not turning back. It is better then any distro I've used including SUSE. all that bad stuff you hear about it is just FUD and I'd ignore it. Regards, Steve
No I'm not. Even on 9/11 I wasn't scared. It bothered me emotionally, but I wasn't scared. I even still took the subway home and I live in the closest major city to New York and I work in center city.You damn europeans can believe what you want, but I'd sooner be in a government building in Washington on 9/11 then step foot in Iraq. I feel safe in the U.S. and I'd only leave it to go to England, Spain, Germany or the other major powers in the world and even then I'd feel less safe. -Steve
Why is everybody looking at this so negatively? I've got tons of people finally talking to me about what this Linux thing is that they've heard me mention and that they saw in the news paper today. In the past 3 days I've gotten probably about 40 people interested in Linux who had never known about it before. Most are corporate types too. These are people that barely know what a harddrive is for, and here I am explaining not only what Linux is, but the whole Open Source movement and how great it is. This is great publicity! Didn't anyone ever hear "Any publicity is good publicity." ? The media finally has their story straight about what scum SCO is and I'm seeing Linux on the front page of my local newspaper ! This is great for the community. Linux is in the press and the media is making a mockery of SCO, and people are finally interested in Linux that never would have been before. And when you are talking to them about Novarg/MyDoom, don't forget to mention that it doesn't affect Linux. Regards, Steve
The OS is not installed, but simply included. The terms of the agreement state that every PC must include an OS, to cut down on piracy and for better tracking. Therefore your computer won't even boot out of the box, which I prefer because that way I don't have to remove anything. FreeDOS is just packaged because Dell won't have to support any OS not included and I guess they are assuming that noone will use FreeDOS. Regards, Steve
Open Office's BASIC is far superior then VBA. OOo has a lot of great features. For instance, Microsft Office used some mutilated form of what I guess you could refer to as regular expressions in its Find utility. OOo uses a real reg exp parser and is great for altering documents. That in turn with its BASIC is just unbeatable. Then to just sink the ship on Microsoft's product, OOo has native support to save as Adobe PDF which is indespesable in my company. I never use Microsoft Office anymore, its just not powerful enough. Read up on OOo Basic and other features (there are thousands) and you'll see what I mean. Regards, Steve
Three weeks ago he was a web developer with a few sample sites and a small little posting about his troubles with Microsoft. Now at his site its plastered with advertisements, and he's no longer developing web sites. Its a place for gamers and geeks, but not slashdot style. Weird what success will do to you. Luckily though he seems like a nice guy and is giving his donations for the lawyer to a charity. Its still amazing to see how something like this can change your life. Right now he has something like 5000 people playing games, on his forums, and just browsing his sight. That's impressive. Regards, Steve
So that explains all the dupes... He must not be seeing the articles until 6 hours after they are posted.
In all seriousness though satellite isn't the greatest but it's good and a ton better then dial up. I've had to use it before and if that is all they have in your area then I'd go for it. The latency is not too bad and you get used to it quick. Regards, Steve
umm...its DNS based. Crack it and you're dealing with a whole new set of litigation. Supplying false credentials in an email is one thing and you can be fined or whatever the punishment is now, but cracking a server can be and most times is considered a terroristic act or is on the same scale of punishment now. I know this from an experience that my firm had with a "hacker", and no the U.S. won't care what country your from. In case you didn't know or RTA it is simply a txt file on the server that pretty much says who can send email from that domain. It's damn good, I've reviewed the specifications several times. There are a few ways of possibly getting around it that I have thought of and will hopefully get around to emailing them soon about. But overall its pretty solid. Regards, Steve
P.S. Also, most,if not all, DNS servers keep good logs and have great security. If they are hacked, there is a much better track to follow.
He uses RedHat and Suse. One at home and one at the office. His net worth in Red Hat stock is something like $20 million and Suse isn't quite as much but its up there. The founder of Suse is a god parent (perhaps some other relation but I think thats it) of one of his children, but that happened before Suse was Suse.He has good connections with all the distros but these are his two main ones, which makes sense considering one of these will most likely be the defacto standard in the business world one day. Regards, Steve
FastTrack, the protocol Kazaa uses, is copywritten/patented and can only be used for the purposes set forth by Kazaa. Purposefully loading bad content on its networks to degrade quality is against the EULA. Also tracking down, watching, or poking at other peoples connectiones using the FastTrack protocol is illegal. Then finally, using a modified client is illegal and thats why KazaaLite was shutdown.What the users are doing isn't necessarily right, but the RIAA enforcing their copyrights by breaking someone elses isn't right either. Regards, Steve
Windows OEMs tend to be preconfigured for your system (i.e.Gateway knows your exact hardware configuration) Your linux kernel has support built in for a ton of things it doesn't need or will never use. Try recompiling your Kernel specifically for your system. Also, play with your init scripts, they usually aren't optimized because each system is special. But the best thing is to disable any services you don't need. Check out all the things that boot up at init and unless you are running a server, you probably don't need them, or you could throw it in with the KDE startup script rather then during boot(thats more of the Window's way, that way you feel like your gaining something by seeing the GUI sooner). Anyway..if you rid yourself of most of the server functionality then you're boot time will increase greatly, then compiling a custom kernel will make your computer burn threw the boot up. Finally, tweaking your init scripts and strategically timing when certain services load, the order that they load, etc.. you can have boot times in single digit seconds or low double digits. If you've ever used a windows server, you'd be amazed at how slow they boot. With a linux server versus a windows server booting up, the linux server screams past it even before any of the optimizations that I mentioned before. Your booting mostly slower because you can do *alot* more with a typical default redhat install then you can with a typical windows desktop install. But when comparing servers, linux has always booted significantly faster then windows, at least in my experience ( and yes I do administrate both types of servers). Regards, Steve
P.S. One other thing you may want to try is compiling things with Intel's Compiler. I've never tried it, I use GCC for many reasons, but Intel has optimizations that the GCC crew refuse because of cross-platformailty.I don't believe the kernel compiles cleanly, but most apps should. Best of luck.
First of all he's not a company, but rather an individual. Second, he's not profitting in any way from this other then cool points. Third, my case is made, you suck, I win. Regards, Steve
Then they can't track it to one specific person. They'd have to say something like "One of you 3,000 screeners leaked our film and we want answers!" rather then "Yo dumbass, our invisible mark says that this film on the internet was yours. Give us your freedom now!" Regards, Steve
While I don't agree with the ethics of Walmart, from a business point of view this is really smart. With RFID tags they will eventually be able to replace pretty much everyone at their warehouses. No one will need to scan the boxes, and eventually machines will be able to detect the RFID signal and move boxes appropriately, getting the other info from a database of sorts. The only thing that will still be needed for humans to do is to drive the trucks back and forth, machines can handle the rest. Eventually when RFID tags are placed on individual products, there will be no need for cashiers and stocking the shelves could even could even be automated within 10 years. So then Walmart will need something like 1 supervisor per warehouse, and a few people per sotre for customer relations and supervision and maybe a security guard. Without having to pay so many salaries, its prices will drop further. Its not very ethical to remove humans from the equation, but its a smart business move and its the same place that all the other industries are headed. Afterall, do we really need people to make fastfood? That will probably be the first thing replaced by machines (although the cashiers will probably remain until humans accept machine interaction better). But things even as basic as farming are starting to become automated. This will either lead to a horribly decrepit economy or a free economy where in 50-75 years noone works and machines do everthing that is essential. Anything that would get done would be done by volunteers who it interests. Regards, Steve
It appears that there is actually very few areas on Mars that aren't at least some what rich in H20. Frozen or not, we can melt it, Nuclear reactors are good at too:) The map shows that only a few spots here and there are red(have no H20). Most of the Planet is at least green (there are medium levels of H20) and the rest of it is blue or purple which means that its saturated with the stuff. Not that the finding by ESA was pointless.It is indeed great news and its always good to confirm our data.I just figured I'd point this out because I don't know about the rest of the slashdot crew, but it sure excites me that people (maybe me too) might be living on Mars in my lifetime. Regards, Steve
Can't wait to see what the Martian Defense System does now! I can see them sitting there going, "Shit! They know too much! Let's go wait for that other lander thats coming."
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Is it possible that cell phone networks could start using this? I mean 50 km is a long distance, and 74mbps is plenty for sharing voice and data. It'd be cool having my phone tied into a regular network.
Regards,
Steve
Fellow /. moderators please mod the parent as a troll. This along with many others have been posted on anti-slash. They are all either crapfloods or attempts to get people to visit their site. The forum where this was created is here . Moderators please read all postings in that forum so you know what to look for and then moderate correctly! /. thanks you.
Regards,
Steve
I love how an AC has all the balls in the world. If your comment about me was because I ended my post with "not that i looked..." turn on your sarcasm meter, who the hell would look at naked dolls?
Regards,
Steve
but for those of you who are really interested...its not real porn.
-Steve
For those who read slashdot in work or at school, the RealDolls link in the above posting leads to a porn site. Its clean porn, not goatse stuff if your wondering (not that I looked ...)
Regards,
Steve
That apt-rpm thing you've been hearing about is god's gift to rpm based distros. And if that doesn't do it for ya, use yum. I run Fedora, Mandrake, and Debian SID.I haven't upgraded Mandrake since 8.2 because I had found Debian :) I fell in love with apt, but then came along Fedora, I checked it out, installed apt-rpm and it is just amazing. Everything just works and the apt-rpm makes installing things easier then ever. Debian has its advantages, but the only one I've seen that is worth keeping it on one of my machines is that it has 13,000 apps in its repository. The rpm repositories are getting up there with anywhere from 3000 to about 4000 or 4500 depending upon if you jsut keep the default sources or if you add third party ones. Regardless, I've gone with Fedora as my distro of choice now and I'm not turning back. It is better then any distro I've used including SUSE. all that bad stuff you hear about it is just FUD and I'd ignore it.
Regards,
Steve
No I'm not. Even on 9/11 I wasn't scared. It bothered me emotionally, but I wasn't scared. I even still took the subway home and I live in the closest major city to New York and I work in center city.You damn europeans can believe what you want, but I'd sooner be in a government building in Washington on 9/11 then step foot in Iraq. I feel safe in the U.S. and I'd only leave it to go to England, Spain, Germany or the other major powers in the world and even then I'd feel less safe.
-Steve
Why is everybody looking at this so negatively? I've got tons of people finally talking to me about what this Linux thing is that they've heard me mention and that they saw in the news paper today. In the past 3 days I've gotten probably about 40 people interested in Linux who had never known about it before. Most are corporate types too. These are people that barely know what a harddrive is for, and here I am explaining not only what Linux is, but the whole Open Source movement and how great it is. This is great publicity! Didn't anyone ever hear "Any publicity is good publicity." ? The media finally has their story straight about what scum SCO is and I'm seeing Linux on the front page of my local newspaper ! This is great for the community. Linux is in the press and the media is making a mockery of SCO, and people are finally interested in Linux that never would have been before. And when you are talking to them about Novarg/MyDoom, don't forget to mention that it doesn't affect Linux.
Regards,
Steve
The OS is not installed, but simply included. The terms of the agreement state that every PC must include an OS, to cut down on piracy and for better tracking. Therefore your computer won't even boot out of the box, which I prefer because that way I don't have to remove anything. FreeDOS is just packaged because Dell won't have to support any OS not included and I guess they are assuming that noone will use FreeDOS.
Regards,
Steve
Where are mod points when I need them?
Open Office's BASIC is far superior then VBA. OOo has a lot of great features. For instance, Microsft Office used some mutilated form of what I guess you could refer to as regular expressions in its Find utility. OOo uses a real reg exp parser and is great for altering documents. That in turn with its BASIC is just unbeatable. Then to just sink the ship on Microsoft's product, OOo has native support to save as Adobe PDF which is indespesable in my company. I never use Microsoft Office anymore, its just not powerful enough. Read up on OOo Basic and other features (there are thousands) and you'll see what I mean.
Regards,
Steve
Three weeks ago he was a web developer with a few sample sites and a small little posting about his troubles with Microsoft. Now at his site its plastered with advertisements, and he's no longer developing web sites. Its a place for gamers and geeks, but not slashdot style. Weird what success will do to you. Luckily though he seems like a nice guy and is giving his donations for the lawyer to a charity. Its still amazing to see how something like this can change your life. Right now he has something like 5000 people playing games, on his forums, and just browsing his sight. That's impressive.
Regards,
Steve
Why wasn't this an option in the "Failure as a Geek" poll last week :)
So that explains all the dupes... He must not be seeing the articles until 6 hours after they are posted.
In all seriousness though satellite isn't the greatest but it's good and a ton better then dial up. I've had to use it before and if that is all they have in your area then I'd go for it. The latency is not too bad and you get used to it quick.
Regards,
Steve
umm...its DNS based. Crack it and you're dealing with a whole new set of litigation. Supplying false credentials in an email is one thing and you can be fined or whatever the punishment is now, but cracking a server can be and most times is considered a terroristic act or is on the same scale of punishment now. I know this from an experience that my firm had with a "hacker", and no the U.S. won't care what country your from. In case you didn't know or RTA it is simply a txt file on the server that pretty much says who can send email from that domain. It's damn good, I've reviewed the specifications several times. There are a few ways of possibly getting around it that I have thought of and will hopefully get around to emailing them soon about. But overall its pretty solid.
,if not all, DNS servers keep good logs and have great security. If they are hacked, there is a much better track to follow.
Regards,
Steve
P.S. Also, most
He uses RedHat and Suse. One at home and one at the office. His net worth in Red Hat stock is something like $20 million and Suse isn't quite as much but its up there. The founder of Suse is a god parent (perhaps some other relation but I think thats it) of one of his children, but that happened before Suse was Suse.He has good connections with all the distros but these are his two main ones, which makes sense considering one of these will most likely be the defacto standard in the business world one day.
Regards,
Steve
FastTrack, the protocol Kazaa uses, is copywritten/patented and can only be used for the purposes set forth by Kazaa. Purposefully loading bad content on its networks to degrade quality is against the EULA. Also tracking down, watching, or poking at other peoples connectiones using the FastTrack protocol is illegal. Then finally, using a modified client is illegal and thats why KazaaLite was shutdown.What the users are doing isn't necessarily right, but the RIAA enforcing their copyrights by breaking someone elses isn't right either.
Regards,
Steve
Windows OEMs tend to be preconfigured for your system (i.e.Gateway knows your exact hardware configuration) Your linux kernel has support built in for a ton of things it doesn't need or will never use. Try recompiling your Kernel specifically for your system. Also, play with your init scripts, they usually aren't optimized because each system is special. But the best thing is to disable any services you don't need. Check out all the things that boot up at init and unless you are running a server, you probably don't need them, or you could throw it in with the KDE startup script rather then during boot(thats more of the Window's way, that way you feel like your gaining something by seeing the GUI sooner). Anyway..if you rid yourself of most of the server functionality then you're boot time will increase greatly, then compiling a custom kernel will make your computer burn threw the boot up. Finally, tweaking your init scripts and strategically timing when certain services load, the order that they load, etc.. you can have boot times in single digit seconds or low double digits. If you've ever used a windows server, you'd be amazed at how slow they boot. With a linux server versus a windows server booting up, the linux server screams past it even before any of the optimizations that I mentioned before. Your booting mostly slower because you can do *alot* more with a typical default redhat install then you can with a typical windows desktop install. But when comparing servers, linux has always booted significantly faster then windows, at least in my experience ( and yes I do administrate both types of servers).
Regards,
Steve
P.S. One other thing you may want to try is compiling things with Intel's Compiler. I've never tried it, I use GCC for many reasons, but Intel has optimizations that the GCC crew refuse because of cross-platformailty.I don't believe the kernel compiles cleanly, but most apps should. Best of luck.
The only use I could see for this is for file trading? Do either services let you do this, and if not then what does it do?
Regards,
Steve
I'll wait till the commercial is on Kazaa, then I'll get it and watch it:)
Regards,
Steve
First of all he's not a company, but rather an individual. Second, he's not profitting in any way from this other then cool points. Third, my case is made, you suck, I win.
Regards,
Steve
Then they can't track it to one specific person. They'd have to say something like "One of you 3,000 screeners leaked our film and we want answers!" rather then "Yo dumbass, our invisible mark says that this film on the internet was yours. Give us your freedom now!"
Regards,
Steve
While I don't agree with the ethics of Walmart, from a business point of view this is really smart. With RFID tags they will eventually be able to replace pretty much everyone at their warehouses. No one will need to scan the boxes, and eventually machines will be able to detect the RFID signal and move boxes appropriately, getting the other info from a database of sorts. The only thing that will still be needed for humans to do is to drive the trucks back and forth, machines can handle the rest. Eventually when RFID tags are placed on individual products, there will be no need for cashiers and stocking the shelves could even could even be automated within 10 years. So then Walmart will need something like 1 supervisor per warehouse, and a few people per sotre for customer relations and supervision and maybe a security guard. Without having to pay so many salaries, its prices will drop further. Its not very ethical to remove humans from the equation, but its a smart business move and its the same place that all the other industries are headed. Afterall, do we really need people to make fastfood? That will probably be the first thing replaced by machines (although the cashiers will probably remain until humans accept machine interaction better). But things even as basic as farming are starting to become automated. This will either lead to a horribly decrepit economy or a free economy where in 50-75 years noone works and machines do everthing that is essential. Anything that would get done would be done by volunteers who it interests.
Regards,
Steve
It appears that there is actually very few areas on Mars that aren't at least some what rich in H20. Frozen or not, we can melt it, Nuclear reactors are good at too:) The map shows that only a few spots here and there are red(have no H20). Most of the Planet is at least green (there are medium levels of H20) and the rest of it is blue or purple which means that its saturated with the stuff. Not that the finding by ESA was pointless.It is indeed great news and its always good to confirm our data.I just figured I'd point this out because I don't know about the rest of the slashdot crew, but it sure excites me that people (maybe me too) might be living on Mars in my lifetime.
Regards,
Steve
Can't wait to see what the Martian Defense System does now! I can see them sitting there going, "Shit! They know too much! Let's go wait for that other lander thats coming."