When every toaster has an IP address, every home with a toaster will have a masquerading firewall machine to protect the toaster. The script kiddies will do some damage, sure; their main targets will be folks like the CEO of MegaNetToasterInc which will tend to ensure solutions.
Which isn't to say that your concerns aren't valid, I think the MicroSloth Fridge v3.1 will make the one from Ghostbusters look tame after it's been cracked by everybody from BOFHen to kiddies for the fun of it.
My concern is privacy. What happens to your health insurance when your HMO knows you live on buttered poptarts and Coors?
Interesting. I've got 2 Quantum Bigfoot drives that have been running 24/7 for over 2 years now, while my SCSI Quantum Fireball just upped and died after 18 months. Haven't peeled it to make sure but it sure sounded like it went farming. IIRC the bigfeet were supposed to be reliable rather than fast.
Seagates that I've owned have never impressed me, IDE and MFM, no SCSI yet. I've avoided 'em since my 545Mb IDE started squealing 5 days after I got it.
Maxtor drives have always worked well for me, I prefer them when I can get 'em. I've got a pair of 120Mb IDE's that have been running 8 hours a day on average since I got 'em, never had the first problem with 'em.
At the moment and in the context under discussion, it is, no matter how hard I or any of the other faithful zealots promise world domination. The context is the current installed base of Intel based PC's.
I just about laughed myself to death, though, when the Microsloth talking head on tonight's "Nightline" said "Linux is the highest selling operating system right now". (I know that's not exactly his wording, it's close tho). The irony of that statement when stacked against the "Linux Myths" page is delicious. Almost as enjoyable as watching all the AC and brand new account posters jumping up to call us hypocrites for supporting someone who calls our favorite OS "fringe". I gotta wonder if these folks are getting paid by the comment or by replies... and is there a bonus for being moderated up?
I want to know how many comments on this story were posted from microsoft.com owned addresses. I'll bet that'd be worth a story all by itself.
With the coming advent of Internet appliances and smart homes, don't you just know that Linux will soon be... (wait for it)... a FRIDGE operating system?
I do beleive we have a new "all time top story", here. 150 comments 10 minutes after the story got posted? And we've not yet seen much of the almost certainly inevitable "spin control" comments posted AC by MicroSloth employees. Anybody wanna start a pool on total comments? 1000? 1500? more?
Fine. Yer a professional. I'm a (capital "G") Geek.
It's my experiance that "professionals" are those willing to charge $5k for an IBM System 36 "PC", if the customer doesn't know enough not to get taken.
I've seen "professionals" sell folks a 486-66DX2 to upgrade their 486-DX50 (33Mhz motherboard speed vs. 50Mhz motherboard speed for those who don't know, guess which one wins everywhere but numeric benchmarks?)
I've seen "professionals" blithely assuring customers that there wouldn't be a problem with using a "loaned" copy of Netware for their couple hundred server upgrade. Nobody'd say anything about the splash screen that had some other big outfit's name on it.
I've seen "professionals" charge $20,000 (no kidding!) to set up a 3 page web site on a Win95 box. That included the hardware and everything, a machine from their retail shop configured identically was selling for $1,995 at the time. They were charging $100/mo for a static IP via 33.6 modem, too.
And on, and on, ad nauseum. I'm sure others have seen the same and worse. That's why I'm a Geek. In our industry, the "professionals" have given professionalism a bad name. The majority of self styled computer professionals I've met, well, I imagine they'd be reckoned far to dishonest to sell used cars for the Mafia.
I don't mean to imply that the Duke of URL (cool handle BTW) or anybody else who calls themselves a professional isn't an honest, moral business-person. I just felt moved by his comment to express my feelings about the pollution of the word I've seen.
I generally don't post twice on the same story, and I generally don't pay any attention to "party line" regurgitations like this, but I gotta respond. Hopefully those 3 remaining folks who browse at 0 still will read both our comments and judge them almost completely unrelated to the story.
Global climate change is real, it's been happening since there was a globe, and humans' fossil fuel use has had little or no real impact on it. Any changes attributable to humans are dwarfed by those caused by other causes. See this page for a more lucid explaination (with citations) than I can make here after being up so long today.
"...agreements commiting to a policy of reduced fossil fuel use....all just talk to appease a few iconoclastic environmentalists." They're not appeased, to judge by the demonstrations still being staged at the ongoing negotiations. It's been and will be more talk, but the goal isn't "saving the planet". I quote one of the very few non-sympathetic persons allowed to observe the proceedings: "The Kyoto Protocol is a prime piece of the embodiment of a massive, grand, global scheme for redistribution of the world's wealth from "abilities" to "needs" -- a scheme which has flamed in the hearts of egalitarians of all stripes and "-isms" for ten thousand years of known human history."
For some reason, I suspect your not-quite on-topic post was motivated by the fact that there's a UN climate change negotiation session happening this week. My response certainly is: I'm involved with an effort to report on those meetings (Daily updates here). Our reports are nearly unique in that we're concerned about not over-reacting to the "urgent problem of global warming". Not a popular attitude... Rather iconclastic by today's standards.
Jet was Sublogic; I remember it well. I also remember hearing that M$ FlightSim was largely stolen from them, I'm just too lazy to go research it. Anybody else ever hear that? (That jet was stolen, not that I'm lazy... )
I haven't seen it raised yet, so I'll do it. How about the ability for us ubercool elitist logged in folks to filter out comments based on userid? There's only one or two folks whose comments I don't want to see regardless, but they exist.
And just to cap it off, collect and rank these commonly filtered ID's in a slashbox... "Top 10 boneheads" by what amounts to reader poll... Might not be such a good idea, if people compete for Karma they'd prolly compete for bonehead status too.
If I recall, it used to say it was public domain software, because it'd been developed with government funds. I haven't played with it since the days of DOS, though; I could very well be mistaken. I remember it being somewhat hard to use, but quite featureful.
I haven't yet looked for these bills; but I've some experiance with the Thomas system. They make bills that are controversial unavailable *on purpose*. I kept my own mirror of the FTP site until they shut that down just so I'd have a copy of bills that got some attention. I can't recall how many times I heard about a bill somewhere only to find it unavailable on the FTP or web sites, but with a copy in my mirror.
Well, OK, maybe they're not as bad as some, but from what I've seen they're not good. Anybody remeber what BoardWatch was like back in the day? The magazine was full of informed people saying what they thought, the site was a little graphics heavy but balanced by informed and informative content, and they were just a hell of a resource.
Then they got bought by internet.com.
I won't forget the first print issue I picked up after the buyout (and the last I've bought, BTW). The editorial tone had changed from "I'm a guy like you, who has interest in this stuff" to "I've forgotten more about this than you'll ever know"; their politics did a complete 180, and though the magazine was thicker, the content was less.
The really painful thing was what happened to the site. Go look at their back issues there. Articles used to be one file per, with no more graphics than were necessary, and certainly no Javascript. After the buyout, the site became a poor parody of what it was. Javascript, a minimum of 3 ads per page (most animated), and the thing that really cheesed me off: Articles seem to get paginated at around 300 words. Which means that what used to be a simple matter of just finding and reading an article became Yet Another mousehunt for the links that'll take you to the next page, which has it's own 3 to 5 ads, etc.
They still seem to make all their print content available via the web as they did in the old days, for which I'd thank 'em if I still read their stuff. I understand the reasons internet.com pissed all over what BoardWatch was, I just don't think it was needed. I really, really hope they can restrain their tendancies with their new acquistions.
I think you might mean 90 CFM... I've been through several of those. Mine have had an average lifespan of about a year, running full-time, then they start to slow down. If they're running against any sort of back pressure (blowing *into* an enclosed space) they have a much reduced lifespan.
I don't find them in the current catalog, but I've had great results with 105CFM fans I bought from Mouser... They have a 5 year warranty.
-HUP would be a wedgie... -WINCH might be changing his glasses.. -PIPE would have to either be a lead pipe, or, possibly, a bong ("Pass that over") -PWR would need to be an electrocution level high voltage encounter, I want to see that animated... -URG might be a bathroom break? -TRAP of course, would be a bear trap.
I'm sure others more inventive than I can and will come up with better...
I've been collecting documentation on the linux 2.2 networking fetures for a while now. What I've got is focused less on Masq/portfw than the neat new routing tricks, but I've got just about everything that's out there, I think.
If there's docs out there I don't have, please tell me about 'em and I'll put 'em up. (email addy on the site).
See Kernel Traffic #36 for a start; a bit later in the thread referenced there Alan Cox said that he'll be looking to solve the problems with more recent version of GCC in 2.2.14 or 2.2.15, for now he advises compiling production kernels with GCC 2.7.2.3.
Of course, RH6 has already switched to later versions, and doesn't include or make available GCC 2.7 anymore. I haven't yet done it but it seems to me that it shouldn't be too hard to install an older version just for kernels. That step prolly won't be needed for all that long, anyway. Anybody with experiance want to post some tips on the process?
As I understand it the main trouble with newer GCC versions is that certain parts of the kernel rely on bugs or at least strangeness in the older versions. My current system is a well patched 2.2.9 compiled with egcs 2.91 and I haven't seen any problems, but for my important servers I don't want the possibility of random lockups if I can avoid it.
normal fuel consumption: 1 gallon of iced tea per 12 hours. Heavy consumptuion, as in hacking run or whatever, has been up to 4 gal in a 24 hour period.
This iced tea isn't like what resturaunts sell; it has caused coffee addicts to break out in shakes after a 16oz dose. I've always been of the opinion that the sediment is good for ya... extra protein and all.
There exist SCSI tape drives that use VHS t120 tapes and can put 15GB on 'em. This place has one such beast in the "Exotic hardware" section.
If you figure out a way to get dual use from your camcorder, I'll just bet the next generation has a "feature" that prevents it from working. Can't have the camcorder sales cannibalizing the tape drive sales, ya know...
Ever hear of patent roses? I can see it now: Skunk 42 x Durban = my patented wonder weed... Does it have to be a legal product to get a patent? I don't think so...
The sheer stupidy of Amazon getting a patent on USING customer data has turned my brain into a snake pit...
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I think it's only available as the "server edition" they just released; some overly large fee per simultaneous user IIRC.
I miss WP 5.1; the last TRUE WP there was. None of this "Translate EPS to WPG back to PS to print" nonsense...
When every toaster has an IP address, every home with a toaster will have a masquerading firewall machine to protect the toaster. The script kiddies will do some damage, sure; their main targets will be folks like the CEO of MegaNetToasterInc which will tend to ensure solutions.
Which isn't to say that your concerns aren't valid, I think the MicroSloth Fridge v3.1 will make the one from Ghostbusters look tame after it's been cracked by everybody from BOFHen to kiddies for the fun of it.
My concern is privacy. What happens to your health insurance when your HMO knows you live on buttered poptarts and Coors?
Pictures; we want pictures!
...and are ya'll hiring?
Interesting. I've got 2 Quantum Bigfoot drives that have been running 24/7 for over 2 years now, while my SCSI Quantum Fireball just upped and died after 18 months. Haven't peeled it to make sure but it sure sounded like it went farming. IIRC the bigfeet were supposed to be reliable rather than fast.
Seagates that I've owned have never impressed me, IDE and MFM, no SCSI yet. I've avoided 'em since my 545Mb IDE started squealing 5 days after I got it.
Maxtor drives have always worked well for me, I prefer them when I can get 'em. I've got a pair of 120Mb IDE's that have been running 8 hours a day on average since I got 'em, never had the first problem with 'em.
At the moment and in the context under discussion, it is, no matter how hard I or any of the other faithful zealots promise world domination. The context is the current installed base of Intel based PC's.
I just about laughed myself to death, though, when the Microsloth talking head on tonight's "Nightline" said "Linux is the highest selling operating system right now". (I know that's not exactly his wording, it's close tho). The irony of that statement when stacked against the "Linux Myths" page is delicious. Almost as enjoyable as watching all the AC and brand new account posters jumping up to call us hypocrites for supporting someone who calls our favorite OS "fringe". I gotta wonder if these folks are getting paid by the comment or by replies... and is there a bonus for being moderated up?
I want to know how many comments on this story were posted from microsoft.com owned addresses. I'll bet that'd be worth a story all by itself.
With the coming advent of Internet appliances and smart homes, don't you just know that Linux will soon be... (wait for it)... a FRIDGE operating system?
I do beleive we have a new "all time top story", here. 150 comments 10 minutes after the story got posted? And we've not yet seen much of the almost certainly inevitable "spin control" comments posted AC by MicroSloth employees. Anybody wanna start a pool on total comments? 1000? 1500? more?
Fine. Yer a professional. I'm a (capital "G") Geek.
It's my experiance that "professionals" are those willing to charge $5k for an IBM System 36 "PC", if the customer doesn't know enough not to get taken.
I've seen "professionals" sell folks a 486-66DX2 to upgrade their 486-DX50 (33Mhz motherboard speed vs. 50Mhz motherboard speed for those who don't know, guess which one wins everywhere but numeric benchmarks?)
I've seen "professionals" blithely assuring customers that there wouldn't be a problem with using a "loaned" copy of Netware for their couple hundred server upgrade. Nobody'd say anything about the splash screen that had some other big outfit's name on it.
I've seen "professionals" charge $20,000 (no kidding!) to set up a 3 page web site on a Win95 box. That included the hardware and everything, a machine from their retail shop configured identically was selling for $1,995 at the time. They were charging $100/mo for a static IP via 33.6 modem, too.
And on, and on, ad nauseum. I'm sure others have seen the same and worse. That's why I'm a Geek. In our industry, the "professionals" have given professionalism a bad name. The majority of self styled computer professionals I've met, well, I imagine they'd be reckoned far to dishonest to sell used cars for the Mafia.
I don't mean to imply that the Duke of URL (cool handle BTW) or anybody else who calls themselves a professional isn't an honest, moral business-person. I just felt moved by his comment to express my feelings about the pollution of the word I've seen.
it ain't healthy to bottle up yer feelings like that... c'mon, tell us how you really feel...
Oh, and I think it's midget immigrants in nun costumes...
I generally don't post twice on the same story, and I generally don't pay any attention to "party line" regurgitations like this, but I gotta respond. Hopefully those 3 remaining folks who browse at 0 still will read both our comments and judge them almost completely unrelated to the story.
Global climate change is real, it's been happening since there was a globe, and humans' fossil fuel use has had little or no real impact on it. Any changes attributable to humans are dwarfed by those caused by other causes. See this page for a more lucid explaination (with citations) than I can make here after being up so long today.
"...agreements commiting to a policy of reduced fossil fuel use. ...all just talk to appease a few iconoclastic environmentalists." They're not appeased, to judge by the demonstrations still being staged at the ongoing negotiations. It's been and will be more talk, but the goal isn't "saving the planet". I quote one of the very few non-sympathetic persons allowed to observe the proceedings: "The Kyoto Protocol is a prime piece of the embodiment of a massive, grand, global scheme for redistribution of the world's wealth from "abilities" to "needs" -- a scheme which has flamed in the hearts of egalitarians of all stripes and "-isms" for ten thousand years of known human history."
For some reason, I suspect your not-quite on-topic post was motivated by the fact that there's a UN climate change negotiation session happening this week. My response certainly is: I'm involved with an effort to report on those meetings (Daily updates here). Our reports are nearly unique in that we're concerned about not over-reacting to the "urgent problem of global warming". Not a popular attitude... Rather iconclastic by today's standards.
They wuz called the Rockettes...
Jet was Sublogic; I remember it well. I also remember hearing that M$ FlightSim was largely stolen from them, I'm just too lazy to go research it. Anybody else ever hear that? (That jet was stolen, not that I'm lazy... )
I haven't seen it raised yet, so I'll do it. How about the ability for us ubercool elitist logged in folks to filter out comments based on userid? There's only one or two folks whose comments I don't want to see regardless, but they exist.
And just to cap it off, collect and rank these commonly filtered ID's in a slashbox... "Top 10 boneheads" by what amounts to reader poll... Might not be such a good idea, if people compete for Karma they'd prolly compete for bonehead status too.
If I recall, it used to say it was public domain software, because it'd been developed with government funds. I haven't played with it since the days of DOS, though; I could very well be mistaken. I remember it being somewhat hard to use, but quite featureful.
I haven't yet looked for these bills; but I've some experiance with the Thomas system. They make bills that are controversial unavailable *on purpose*. I kept my own mirror of the FTP site until they shut that down just so I'd have a copy of bills that got some attention. I can't recall how many times I heard about a bill somewhere only to find it unavailable on the FTP or web sites, but with a copy in my mirror.
Well, OK, maybe they're not as bad as some, but from what I've seen they're not good. Anybody remeber what BoardWatch was like back in the day? The magazine was full of informed people saying what they thought, the site was a little graphics heavy but balanced by informed and informative content, and they were just a hell of a resource.
Then they got bought by internet.com.
I won't forget the first print issue I picked up after the buyout (and the last I've bought, BTW). The editorial tone had changed from "I'm a guy like you, who has interest in this stuff" to "I've forgotten more about this than you'll ever know"; their politics did a complete 180, and though the magazine was thicker, the content was less.
The really painful thing was what happened to the site. Go look at their back issues there. Articles used to be one file per, with no more graphics than were necessary, and certainly no Javascript. After the buyout, the site became a poor parody of what it was. Javascript, a minimum of 3 ads per page (most animated), and the thing that really cheesed me off: Articles seem to get paginated at around 300 words. Which means that what used to be a simple matter of just finding and reading an article became Yet Another mousehunt for the links that'll take you to the next page, which has it's own 3 to 5 ads, etc.
They still seem to make all their print content available via the web as they did in the old days, for which I'd thank 'em if I still read their stuff. I understand the reasons internet.com pissed all over what BoardWatch was, I just don't think it was needed. I really, really hope they can restrain their tendancies with their new acquistions.
I think you might mean 90 CFM... I've been through several of those. Mine have had an average lifespan of about a year, running full-time, then they start to slow down. If they're running against any sort of back pressure (blowing *into* an enclosed space) they have a much reduced lifespan.
I don't find them in the current catalog, but I've had great results with 105CFM fans I bought from Mouser... They have a 5 year warranty.
-HUP would be a wedgie...
-WINCH might be changing his glasses..
-PIPE would have to either be a lead pipe, or, possibly, a bong ("Pass that over")
-PWR would need to be an electrocution level high voltage encounter, I want to see that animated...
-URG might be a bathroom break?
-TRAP of course, would be a bear trap.
I'm sure others more inventive than I can and will come up with better...
...and possibly offtopic besides.
I've been collecting documentation on the linux 2.2 networking fetures for a while now. What I've got is focused less on Masq/portfw than the neat new routing tricks, but I've got just about everything that's out there, I think.
If there's docs out there I don't have, please tell me about 'em and I'll put 'em up. (email addy on the site).
2L is just under a half gallon. That's like 21 inch monitors with 19.2" viewable. It just sucks.
"My car gets 1,300 furlongs per firkin of gas..."
See Kernel Traffic #36 for a start; a bit later in the thread referenced there Alan Cox said that he'll be looking to solve the problems with more recent version of GCC in 2.2.14 or 2.2.15, for now he advises compiling production kernels with GCC 2.7.2.3.
Of course, RH6 has already switched to later versions, and doesn't include or make available GCC 2.7 anymore. I haven't yet done it but it seems to me that it shouldn't be too hard to install an older version just for kernels. That step prolly won't be needed for all that long, anyway. Anybody with experiance want to post some tips on the process?
As I understand it the main trouble with newer GCC versions is that certain parts of the kernel rely on bugs or at least strangeness in the older versions. My current system is a well patched 2.2.9 compiled with egcs 2.91 and I haven't seen any problems, but for my important servers I don't want the possibility of random lockups if I can avoid it.
normal fuel consumption: 1 gallon of iced tea per 12 hours. Heavy consumptuion, as in hacking run or whatever, has been up to 4 gal in a 24 hour period.
This iced tea isn't like what resturaunts sell; it has caused coffee addicts to break out in shakes after a 16oz dose. I've always been of the opinion that the sediment is good for ya... extra protein and all.
Anybody know where I can buy a tea bush?
There exist SCSI tape drives that use VHS t120 tapes and can put 15GB on 'em. This place has one such beast in the "Exotic hardware" section.
If you figure out a way to get dual use from your camcorder, I'll just bet the next generation has a "feature" that prevents it from working. Can't have the camcorder sales cannibalizing the tape drive sales, ya know...
Ever hear of patent roses? I can see it now: Skunk 42 x Durban = my patented wonder weed... Does it have to be a legal product to get a patent? I don't think so...
The sheer stupidy of Amazon getting a patent on USING customer data has turned my brain into a snake pit...
At the bottom of my page I've got this:
All rights reserved. No use may be made of any original materials from this site without permission. Legal Restrictions may apply. Offer void where prohibited by secular or holy law. Sales Tax may be required in some states (Confusion, Intoxication, and Shock specifically exhibited). Contents may settle during shipment and/or prior to depositions. Flammable when wet. Proprietors and staff not responsible for loss of composure, illusions, virginity, or any other artifact or item tangible or otherwise. Prosecutors will be violated.
1) Good idea, I think.
2) Have ye never heard of diff and patch?