This isn't meant as flame bait, and I'm not sending this anonymous, but...
If I were your employee I'd consider leaving if this was proposed solely on the grounds that my boss would be an idiot. Perhaps I'm in the unique position of having all the knowledge of those that are "certified" in various fields, but not actually having the certification. The only conceivable reason that my employer would pay for training would be to get me certified in order to meet some requirement for a reseller agreement or somesuch. In fact, it would probably not be as much training as taking the Drake/Sylvan tests that would be required. It would be ludicrous to suggest that I sign some contract just because I'm willing to go through the hastle of getting some certification. After all, I'd be doing my company the favor, not the other way around. I already have the knowledge, or could easily gain it in a short amount of time as it becomes necessary. Certification means little to me personally, as I've met certified "professionals" in various fields that frankly didn't know what they were talking about. Novell certified people that didn't know how to check to see if you had the latest versions of drivers on your workstations, Cisco and Nortel certified people that didn't know a router from a switch from a bridge, or what an IDF and MDF were. The list goes on. So, I would take particular offense if your "standard approach" were used on me. You'd soon find that I'd be more willing to get another job without the training (at a greater salary, BTW) than sign some idiotic contract. It's not that I wouldn't want to stay at my current position that long anyway, as I currently plan on staying with my employer for the forseeable future. It's more that I'd have to seriously question my manager's experience and abilities if they didn't realize my view on the topic and taken that into consideration.
So, what's the message of this post? Be careful on enforcing your "standard approach" carte blanche on your whole staff. This approach may be appropriate for some of the staff, and quite probably the majority of the staff. However, there are, or hopefully are, those in your staff that do have the knowledge and just are not certified. I'd be careful with these employees and sensitive to their view of the situation.
This isn't a troll, honestly, but why the heck don't people check the numbers on the damn punch cards once they are done poking around and finish their vote? Every punch card type ballot I've every seen has the numbers right on them, and corresponding numbers in the ballot book. I always check my punch card before I turn it in, and I can't believe that no one thought of it themselves. I mean, how difficult is that to figure out!?!
I just don't get it. If you're having problems being confident in your punching, check them after you are done.
I'd like to see how they attempt to close the ASP loophole without invalidating the entire GPLv3 license... I mean, the GPL's
legality is already still untested in court...
I think any attempt to close the ASP loophole (while it may be unfortunate) is just going to put the GPL on shakier legs.
What a pessemistic stance! The first part just doesn't make sense, and the second part seems to say that since it's not tested in court yet that no changes can be made. I'd think all the IT lawyers out there may have something to say about that, as your proposal would basically put them out of work. "Oh, Mr. Microsoft lawyer, we can't make any changes to the EULA because it's untested in court. If we made changes it is just going to put the EULA on shakier legs. Why are we paying you again? You can't do any work, so I guess we will have to let you go."
Its one of those slippery slope problems, really...At what point do you determine that the ASP has to comply with the GPL and
release modifications? When the web server they are using is GPLed? That one seems clear...When the backend database they
are using is GPLed? Less clear. When the filesystem that the database stores its data files on is GPLed? pretty muddled. When
the OS its all running on is GPLed? who knows?
Oh brother, more FUD. I don't know how much simpler you can get than to say that they would have to release changes to GPL'd software if they make that software publically available, even though they are not selling or distributing the binary changes themselves. If they had a proprietary, non GPL'd software package on top of a GPL'd OS and they made changes to their proprietary software they would not have to release the changes, as they were not modifying GPL'd software. If they made enhancements to the underlying OS software so that their proprietary software works better they would have to release the changes, as they are modifying GPL software (even though they are not distributing the binary end results to others and are technically keeping it inside their own organization). Why is this so difficult to understand? Are people braid dead? Or do they have alterior motives...
No, it's not a government service it's a bribe by the government to the company to build in their city so as to generate jobs for the people who would work in the factory/office building/whatever. In fact, if you take a look at it honestly this is a benefit more to the less well to do than the wealthy, as the majority of people in said new facility will be in the former category instead of the latter. If you take a cockeyed view of it you could consider this situation as the city government making a direct contribution to the lower income workers in the new factility by way of the tax break to the company. Instead of the company paying the regular tax they would be paying that same money to the workers in that city in the form of a taxable salary as opposed to the workers in some other city.
You can try to twist it any way you want, but basically I see this as a form of "trickle down" economics in it's best form. The government gives a tax break to the "rich" company and the money trickles down to the workers in the facility. No two ways about it, if that facility was not built in that city then those workers would not be getting any benefit from the tax break. If the government gave the tax break to the existing workers instead of going after new previously unavailable income as an inventive to build the economy then they would be reducing their income (they are generating less tax income from the existing tax base, and the company supposedly wouldn't build in that city so there would be no new tax income to replace the loss), and the workers would benefit minimally. By giving the larger break to the "rich" company the government builds the economy by creating new jobs and in effect increases it's tax income. Remember that the government can't count the tax break to the company as previous income, because the company facility doesn't exist there yet. The only income they have is from their existing citizen employee base and other companies. So the government decides not to increase it's income by not taxing a new facility and gets it's payback by increased employee taxes (because there are more employees and/or the employees make more). How are they increased? Well, the employee base for this new facility probably come from several areas. One would be existing employed taxpayers that choose to leave their existing jobs and take a new job at the new company. The only conceivable outcome of this would be an increase in the employee's salary, and hence increase in the tax income generated. Another source would be workers from another location that is not in the current tax base for the government. These would be completely new sources of tax income for the government, not just a slight increase for workers who "move up" and get higher paying jobs but are already tax payers. Lastly, some of the workers, although probably few, would be current tax payers who are unemployed, and therefore pay no or little taxes. These new employees would be another large source of income, on a per capita basis.
Voting history or party affiliation history? They are quite different, don't you think? I'd be rather surprised if the actual voting history was given out.
To Bush it is about being able to buy stuff. This is sad that this man might win.
And you like Gore's stance better? That there should be backdoors and the people should only have encryption if the government doesn't think it interferes with national security or law enforcement? Crips! Yes, Bush may not "get it" as far as you're concerned, but what's the difference? Nothing, you get the same result whether his motives are to protect "consumerism" or the higher ideal of privacy itself (even from government). With Gore he's likely to install Carnivores at each business or require a government backdoor to encryption used to secure transactions so that they can tell who bought what, from whom, where it was delivered, and when. They already think they know why.
3) Why give a tax cut?
Everyone will give 100% of their pay to the US government. We'll then keep 50% to run things and the other 50% will be evenly
distributed to everyone. That's the only way to keep it fair for everyone.
Now that sounds like some form of modified communism. Everything is the states and the state will make sure that everyone gets their due share, except you allow them to spend it as they see fit. Seems to me that kind of system would take all benefits out of putting more effort into work than your neighbor. Unless, that is, you have some system of measuring the productivity of workers in vastly different fields of endeavor and compensating on their overall productivity statistics. How would you measure the productivity of a migrant worker as compared to a techie or surgeon? Seems that our capitalistic society does quite a nice job at it so let's leave it alone.
If you feel that way, then leave. Just because more people that have different views start to go to the site and look at the pages does not mean that Rob, or anyone for that matter, has to modify their likes and dislikes or beliefs and dis-beliefs (hmm, what's the opposite of beliefs, whatever).
That was the whole premis of the "sale" of Slashdot.org to Andover.net, and now VA*Linux. Rob would never have sold it if he didn't keep complete editorial and content control over the site, or so he says. Now you are expecting him to change the types of stories that are posted just because more people that don't happen to understand the whole "thing" behind Linux are coming to the site? Unbelievable. If he came out when the deal was done and said "Well, everything is pretty much going to stay the same now, but when our userbase starts including more non-Linux finatics we are going to start changing the types of stories we post and such. I hope you understand and will continue to come to Slashdot.org in the future, but that's the financial reality of the situation." He would have been slaughtered!
Again, unbelievable. I was going to post this anonymously, because I know it's way off-topic, but this is truely how I feel. If I get mod'd down to nothingness then so be it, but this is just rediculous. I just wish that those people who don't like these stories either learn to live with the wide range of content management choices available in your preferences or find some other place to go and stop making offensive comments and/or demands that we should change just because there are more of you. And, as it might be construed from the complainer's post, if you were one of us and you have this attitude then I'd have to think hard to determine whether you really were one of us or were just following the trendy thing while it was new and never really supported the position. If so, go away!
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The problem is that Windows has no easy way to do the equivalent of su. Sure, there are some utilities in the resource kit to create a "dos box" that has Administrator rights, but it's kuldgy and a hack. Horrible to work with and nothing similar to the elegance of logging into a Unix box as a normal user and using su to temporarily change to root to instal software or do necessary system administration. That's why a lot of Windows admins run as Administrator. Not because they want to, but because the base tools provided kind of force you to (remember, the resource kit was not a "free" download last time I checked). Now, it may just be ignorance, but an OS that obsfucates and makes it difficult to find out how to administer a box securely doesn't seem to have security high on the list of priorities, does it?
As far as I knew they didn't HAVE service packs for 95/98/me. Those are only available for NT/2000. Same thing with hotfixes, those are for NT/2000 and are rolled into a service pack when one gets released, usually.
Besides, the cheap digs are why I keep coming back to/. If it's just going to be another news site then it looses it's character and I may as well go somewhere else.
Reuters reports (via Yahoo!) that his son works for a Boston law firm and is actually working on a private antitrust case for Microsoft! Now, if that isn't a conflict of interest then I don't know what is...
As of right now the major DII/COE compliant systems are Solaris, NT4, HP-UX and IRIX (which just recently was approved by DISA). The reason that Linux is not and will never (as long as the DII/COE rules stay they way they are) be DII/COE compliant is because it is open-source. One of the big things with DII/COE is that you can not get into the source code and "tweak" it thereby comprimising the integrety of it. The open-source nature of Linux sets off a red flag, to most government officals, that says "UNSECURE."
And so, I guess Solaris will come off that list Real Soon Now(TM) since now anyone can get the source code to it. Come on now, this is rediculous. They ain't that stupid in the military, are they? I certainly hope not, as I'm quite proud of my father and siblings who served. Not strickly meant as flamebait, but it's probably large government contractor's like yourself that perpetuate this nonsense.
I've tried both and it looks to me that the Yahoo! offering is much more complete than the AOL offering. Plus, at least on my system the Yahoo! client automatically uses your web browser to jump to pages for client setup (Add friends to your group, etc). I haven't actually used either client yet, but first impressions are worth a lot.
Almost every computer purchased came with a Windows license so the point is basically moot. I don't know anyone personally who uses Linux that did not at one point in their past use Windows. I'm sure that there are TONS of people like that, but I don't believe it's a large percentage of the population.
So, everyone should already have a Windows license.
Err... no, ARIN only allocates IPs for Canada, North America, and South America, hence "American Registry for Internet Numbers"
Err... last time I checked Canada was part of North America. That's like saying ARIN only allocates IPs for the United States of America, North America, Brazil, and South America. You can't mix continents and countries, they are two separate things...
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Probably because they thought it was a stupid idea? You wouldn't want to have a centralized database at netscape.com or microsoft.com because then that would be a single point of failure for the WHOLE WORLD! You would definately want it distributed, and I suppose you could just have second level "keyword name servers" (KNS) located around the world that simply had a copy of the main database. But you'd still have humongous problems. Who would be linked to the keyword "microsoft"? Would that be Microsoft Corporation, or a web page of "Microsoft Monopoly Practices"? Would a list be popped up that let the user choose which site they wanted? If so, how would URL's work? Would the user get a hundred popups for each jpg or URL link in a web page to confirm that they wanted the first location instead of the second? If a list wasn't popped up we would still have the problems we have now with people fighting over "ownership" of domain names. No, that wouldn't work as a replacement for DNS.
However, there is a company that uses keywords, or something like it but I forget what they call it. It hasn't caught on much, and it's only for the first "lookup" when you type something in the location field and hit enter. It's not a replacement for DNS, rather just a shortcut mechanism so that you could type in microsoft instead of www.microsoft.com. Then again, there's nothing to stop a web browser from looking up www.xxx.yyy where xxx is what you type in the location field and yyy is a list of most common TLD's. This would result in basically the same functioning of the "keyword" system this company sells without the cost...
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It's already there. Havn't you noticed some sites end in.uk for Great Britian, or.au for Australia? Or how about good 'ol.us for the United States of America? I know at least the.us domain is broken down further, with a sub-domain for each state. So I could get an address in.ga.us since I'm in Georgia. Haven't looked further, but I'd assume it wouldn't be too difficult for your local town to be able to get a sub-domain in their state domain, so you might have altanta.ga.us, and then you could get a domain in that, like nutcase.atlanta.ga.us.
No, that's pretty much the end of it. Thanks for filling us in on your other web services, but what was one to surmize from the information given? It's not like we have a whole lot of time to look into seemingly inacurate or misleading posts on Slashdot.
I still reserve the right to believe that something still isn't right. You're talking about DSL service to your home, and then you talk about your business and "IS department" from the other side of your mouth. While I see nothing wrong with running a small business from your house, I sincerely doubt that such a business would have an "IS department" or multiple DSL connections into the home. If you do, then yahoo for you! In that case, I don't think you are the typical home DSL subscriber and you're points are therefore mostly moot. Why anyone would need multiple IP addresses in a home environment is beyond me, as the experienced person would suggest a single IP address with firewall and NAT capabilities on the box to support the possible multiple devices in the typical upper-class home.
Further, in my experience most companies do not have multiple ISP's. While it's fine and dandy to recommend multiple ISP's most companies will forgo the extra cost. A much more reasonable recommendation would be for that business, even if run out of a home, subscribe to the business service instead of the home service as it includes additional service priority than residental service. Besides, with multiple ISP's you run into addressing issues, as each ISP would have their own address space. Who's address space do you use? I suppose that you could have duplicate entries in the DNS with one A record pointing to ISP A's address you assign to your web server and the other A record pointing to ISP B's address. But, that would leave you with issues if one of the ISPs went down anyhow. Half the attempts to get to your domain would fail. I suppose half is better than none, but I'd recommend alternatives.
So, I won't be discussing further. I'll leave with the comment that I still think you made and continue to make misleading comments.
And they host the primary and secondary DNS servers for your domain, for not extra cost?
And you get a "real" usenet feed, and not just a NNTP server that you connect to (IOW, usenet gets pumped to your box instead of you deciding to look at comp.os.linux.help and getting the headers), all for no extra cost?
And they give you secondary MX service, meaning that they will collect your mail if your primary MX host is down and forward it to your box when it comes back up, for no extra cost?
That's amazing? But wait a second, lets do some checking:
I guess fury.com is your domain? Sure looks like it.
But the nameservers for that zone are ns1.best.com (and ns2/ns3)?!? Shouldn't they be something under ns1.pbi.net or cendant.com if they are hosting your DNS?
All your MX records point to best.com too!
A traceroute shows www.fury.com appears to be hosted by verio.net (which bought out best.com) but gets redirected to an address owned by pbi.net.
Your IP address certainly seems to be owned by pbi.net and assigned to "NETBLK-PBI-CUSTNET-5107" KavinFox, so at least you seem to be telling the truth when it comes to your service provider.
But, it's a little misleading to say that you get all of these services from PBI when it certainly looks like you get your MX, DNS, and web hosting from Verio. It just doesn't add up to believe that you are getting all of these services free from PBI yet choose to pay another company to host your DNS, host you web (redirected), and host your MX records (mail relay). Now, why would someone do that!?!
Well, I did say "From the diff" and all the lines had a "+" sign at the beginning. FYI this indicates that these are lines added to an existing file in the diff, which contains modifications to a heck of a lot of files. You know it wasn't a point and click thing to find this in the diff file, but I was interested in what was changed myself so I thought I'd share with the community. It's amazing what you can learn on a good day reading Slashdot posts!
Well, I'm on Woody, so I wouldn't even know what version the "official" Debian release is on. Debian releases are unusually strict in their stability requirements, and there have been quite a few blunders in the 2.2 series of code as far as stability. Then again, I don't know anyone who is using the official stable Debian release. I have the distinct impression that a larger than normal percentage of Debian users are extreamly comfortable with Linux and generally are using the unstable or at least frozen versions...
+2.1 X server + + o New DRI drivers for Intel i810, Matrox G400 and G200 (AGP only) and the + ATI Rage 128, and updates to the 3Dfx DRI driver, including Voodoo5 sup- + port. + + o The X server now runs on Linux/Sparc including drivers for many video + cards used on SUN hardware. + + o DRI support for the Linux/Sparc implementation that allows 3D direct + rendering with Creator3D cards. + + o Fixed recently publicized security issues. + + o Update Mesa to the latest version. + + o Xinerama updates and fixes. + + o Xv updates and fixes. + + o Mouse support in DGA 1.0 compatibility mode should now work correctly + for most games that make use of it. + + o Some bugs with 8+24 overlay support have been fixed. + + o Some XKEYBOARD extension problems have been fixed, including improve- + ments to the MouseKeys support. + + o Add generic DGA support to the sis, neomagic and i810 drivers. + + o xf86cfg, a new graphical configuration tool. + +2.2 X libraries and clients. + + o Thread safety issues have been resolved in a few places in the + libraries. Upgrading to the latest libraries is essential for multi- + threaded X applications. + + o Some fatal bugs in the big font support have been fixed. Upgrading to + the latest libraries will fix this too. + + o Fixed recently publicized security issues in some of the X libraries. + + o Updates and bug fixes for some clients, including xedit, xman, xcalc, + fstobdf, xdm. + + o Fix some xfs problems. + + o XTerm updates. These include: + + o Improve logfile security. + + o Workaround for fixed fonts which are generated from Unicode fonts: + they omit glyphs for some xterm's less-used line-drawing charac- + ters, which caused xterm to set a flag telling it to use only its + internal line-drawing characters. + + o Limit numeric parameters of control sequences to 65535 to simplify + checks for numeric overflow. + + o Change index into UDK list to unsigned to guard against numeric + overflow making the index negative. + + o Add limit checks to ClearInLine(), ScrnInsertChar(), Scrn- + DeleteChar() to correct potential out-of-bounds indexing. + + o Add a resource (limitResize) limiting resizing via the CSI 4 t and + CSI 8 t sequences. + + o Ignore out-of-bounds resize requests, i.e., where sign-extension or + truncation of the parameters would occur. + + o Change Sun function-keys resource name to sunFunctionKeys to work + around redefinition of the token sun by xrdb on Solaris. Simi- + larly, renamed resource sun keyboard to sunKeyboard. Change simi- + lar resource names for HP and SCO to avoid potential conflict with + xrdb symbols on other systems, as well as for consistency. + + o Change line speed from 9600bd to 38400bd to accommodate users who + mistakenly use $TERM set to vt100, to reduce the effect of padding + associated with this terminal type. + + o Fix a problem that caused the right scrollbar to be positioned + incorrectly when re-enabling it. + + o Fix a problem with color support that showed up on some platforms. + + o Modify logic for deleteIsDEL resource so it has internally 3 + states: unspecified, true and false. If unspecified, the keyboard + type determines whether the Delete key transmits <esc>[3~ or \177, + and the popup menu entry reflects the internal state. Otherwise, + the popup menu entry overrides the keyboard type. + + o Portability fixes for os390, AIX 4.2, Digital Unix 4.0 and IRIX + 6.5. + +2.3 Fonts and Internationalisation + + o Many of the "misc" bdf fonts have been updated and extended, and a wider + range of ISO-8859 subsets have been added. Oblique/italic versions of + some of them have also been added. + + o The converters in Xlib have been improved and reworked. UTF-8 support + has been added. + + o Support for ISO-8859-13 has been added to Xlib and to the UTF-8 convert-+ ers. + + o XKB keyboard definitions have been added and updated for some countries. + + o Locale support for Celtic languages has been updated, and a Compose file + for ISO-8859-14 added. + +2.4 Miscellaneous + + o Preliminary support for Linux/mips (no X servers yet). + + o Update support for BSD/OS. + + o Update Linux/IA64 support. + + o Support for LynxOS 3.1.0. +
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This isn't meant as flame bait, and I'm not sending this anonymous, but...
If I were your employee I'd consider leaving if this was proposed solely on the grounds that my boss would be an idiot. Perhaps I'm in the unique position of having all the knowledge of those that are "certified" in various fields, but not actually having the certification. The only conceivable reason that my employer would pay for training would be to get me certified in order to meet some requirement for a reseller agreement or somesuch. In fact, it would probably not be as much training as taking the Drake/Sylvan tests that would be required. It would be ludicrous to suggest that I sign some contract just because I'm willing to go through the hastle of getting some certification. After all, I'd be doing my company the favor, not the other way around. I already have the knowledge, or could easily gain it in a short amount of time as it becomes necessary. Certification means little to me personally, as I've met certified "professionals" in various fields that frankly didn't know what they were talking about. Novell certified people that didn't know how to check to see if you had the latest versions of drivers on your workstations, Cisco and Nortel certified people that didn't know a router from a switch from a bridge, or what an IDF and MDF were. The list goes on. So, I would take particular offense if your "standard approach" were used on me. You'd soon find that I'd be more willing to get another job without the training (at a greater salary, BTW) than sign some idiotic contract. It's not that I wouldn't want to stay at my current position that long anyway, as I currently plan on staying with my employer for the forseeable future. It's more that I'd have to seriously question my manager's experience and abilities if they didn't realize my view on the topic and taken that into consideration.
So, what's the message of this post? Be careful on enforcing your "standard approach" carte blanche on your whole staff. This approach may be appropriate for some of the staff, and quite probably the majority of the staff. However, there are, or hopefully are, those in your staff that do have the knowledge and just are not certified. I'd be careful with these employees and sensitive to their view of the situation.
Yea, try this...
This isn't a troll, honestly, but why the heck don't people check the numbers on the damn punch cards once they are done poking around and finish their vote? Every punch card type ballot I've every seen has the numbers right on them, and corresponding numbers in the ballot book. I always check my punch card before I turn it in, and I can't believe that no one thought of it themselves. I mean, how difficult is that to figure out!?!
I just don't get it. If you're having problems being confident in your punching, check them after you are done.
I'd like to see how they attempt to close the ASP loophole without invalidating the entire GPLv3 license... I mean, the GPL's legality is already still untested in court... I think any attempt to close the ASP loophole (while it may be unfortunate) is just going to put the GPL on shakier legs.
What a pessemistic stance! The first part just doesn't make sense, and the second part seems to say that since it's not tested in court yet that no changes can be made. I'd think all the IT lawyers out there may have something to say about that, as your proposal would basically put them out of work. "Oh, Mr. Microsoft lawyer, we can't make any changes to the EULA because it's untested in court. If we made changes it is just going to put the EULA on shakier legs. Why are we paying you again? You can't do any work, so I guess we will have to let you go."
Its one of those slippery slope problems, really...At what point do you determine that the ASP has to comply with the GPL and release modifications? When the web server they are using is GPLed? That one seems clear...When the backend database they are using is GPLed? Less clear. When the filesystem that the database stores its data files on is GPLed? pretty muddled. When the OS its all running on is GPLed? who knows?
Oh brother, more FUD. I don't know how much simpler you can get than to say that they would have to release changes to GPL'd software if they make that software publically available, even though they are not selling or distributing the binary changes themselves. If they had a proprietary, non GPL'd software package on top of a GPL'd OS and they made changes to their proprietary software they would not have to release the changes, as they were not modifying GPL'd software. If they made enhancements to the underlying OS software so that their proprietary software works better they would have to release the changes, as they are modifying GPL software (even though they are not distributing the binary end results to others and are technically keeping it inside their own organization). Why is this so difficult to understand? Are people braid dead? Or do they have alterior motives...
No, it's not a government service it's a bribe by the government to the company to build in their city so as to generate jobs for the people who would work in the factory/office building/whatever. In fact, if you take a look at it honestly this is a benefit more to the less well to do than the wealthy, as the majority of people in said new facility will be in the former category instead of the latter. If you take a cockeyed view of it you could consider this situation as the city government making a direct contribution to the lower income workers in the new factility by way of the tax break to the company. Instead of the company paying the regular tax they would be paying that same money to the workers in that city in the form of a taxable salary as opposed to the workers in some other city.
You can try to twist it any way you want, but basically I see this as a form of "trickle down" economics in it's best form. The government gives a tax break to the "rich" company and the money trickles down to the workers in the facility. No two ways about it, if that facility was not built in that city then those workers would not be getting any benefit from the tax break. If the government gave the tax break to the existing workers instead of going after new previously unavailable income as an inventive to build the economy then they would be reducing their income (they are generating less tax income from the existing tax base, and the company supposedly wouldn't build in that city so there would be no new tax income to replace the loss), and the workers would benefit minimally. By giving the larger break to the "rich" company the government builds the economy by creating new jobs and in effect increases it's tax income. Remember that the government can't count the tax break to the company as previous income, because the company facility doesn't exist there yet. The only income they have is from their existing citizen employee base and other companies. So the government decides not to increase it's income by not taxing a new facility and gets it's payback by increased employee taxes (because there are more employees and/or the employees make more). How are they increased? Well, the employee base for this new facility probably come from several areas. One would be existing employed taxpayers that choose to leave their existing jobs and take a new job at the new company. The only conceivable outcome of this would be an increase in the employee's salary, and hence increase in the tax income generated. Another source would be workers from another location that is not in the current tax base for the government. These would be completely new sources of tax income for the government, not just a slight increase for workers who "move up" and get higher paying jobs but are already tax payers. Lastly, some of the workers, although probably few, would be current tax payers who are unemployed, and therefore pay no or little taxes. These new employees would be another large source of income, on a per capita basis.
Voting history or party affiliation history? They are quite different, don't you think? I'd be rather surprised if the actual voting history was given out.
If you feel that way, then leave. Just because more people that have different views start to go to the site and look at the pages does not mean that Rob, or anyone for that matter, has to modify their likes and dislikes or beliefs and dis-beliefs (hmm, what's the opposite of beliefs, whatever).
That was the whole premis of the "sale" of Slashdot.org to Andover.net, and now VA*Linux. Rob would never have sold it if he didn't keep complete editorial and content control over the site, or so he says. Now you are expecting him to change the types of stories that are posted just because more people that don't happen to understand the whole "thing" behind Linux are coming to the site? Unbelievable. If he came out when the deal was done and said "Well, everything is pretty much going to stay the same now, but when our userbase starts including more non-Linux finatics we are going to start changing the types of stories we post and such. I hope you understand and will continue to come to Slashdot.org in the future, but that's the financial reality of the situation." He would have been slaughtered!
Again, unbelievable. I was going to post this anonymously, because I know it's way off-topic, but this is truely how I feel. If I get mod'd down to nothingness then so be it, but this is just rediculous. I just wish that those people who don't like these stories either learn to live with the wide range of content management choices available in your preferences or find some other place to go and stop making offensive comments and/or demands that we should change just because there are more of you. And, as it might be construed from the complainer's post, if you were one of us and you have this attitude then I'd have to think hard to determine whether you really were one of us or were just following the trendy thing while it was new and never really supported the position. If so, go away!
The problem is that Windows has no easy way to do the equivalent of su. Sure, there are some utilities in the resource kit to create a "dos box" that has Administrator rights, but it's kuldgy and a hack. Horrible to work with and nothing similar to the elegance of logging into a Unix box as a normal user and using su to temporarily change to root to instal software or do necessary system administration. That's why a lot of Windows admins run as Administrator. Not because they want to, but because the base tools provided kind of force you to (remember, the resource kit was not a "free" download last time I checked). Now, it may just be ignorance, but an OS that obsfucates and makes it difficult to find out how to administer a box securely doesn't seem to have security high on the list of priorities, does it?
As far as I knew they didn't HAVE service packs for 95/98/me. Those are only available for NT/2000. Same thing with hotfixes, those are for NT/2000 and are rolled into a service pack when one gets released, usually.
/. If it's just going to be another news site then it looses it's character and I may as well go somewhere else.
Besides, the cheap digs are why I keep coming back to
Reuters reports (via Yahoo!) that his son works for a Boston law firm and is actually working on a private antitrust case for Microsoft! Now, if that isn't a conflict of interest then I don't know what is...
I've tried both and it looks to me that the Yahoo! offering is much more complete than the AOL offering. Plus, at least on my system the Yahoo! client automatically uses your web browser to jump to pages for client setup (Add friends to your group, etc). I haven't actually used either client yet, but first impressions are worth a lot.
Wow, that's a mini-FAQ? Heck, it's longer than some of the Linux HOWTO's!
Almost every computer purchased came with a Windows license so the point is basically moot. I don't know anyone personally who uses Linux that did not at one point in their past use Windows. I'm sure that there are TONS of people like that, but I don't believe it's a large percentage of the population.
So, everyone should already have a Windows license.
Probably because they thought it was a stupid idea? You wouldn't want to have a centralized database at netscape.com or microsoft.com because then that would be a single point of failure for the WHOLE WORLD! You would definately want it distributed, and I suppose you could just have second level "keyword name servers" (KNS) located around the world that simply had a copy of the main database. But you'd still have humongous problems. Who would be linked to the keyword "microsoft"? Would that be Microsoft Corporation, or a web page of "Microsoft Monopoly Practices"? Would a list be popped up that let the user choose which site they wanted? If so, how would URL's work? Would the user get a hundred popups for each jpg or URL link in a web page to confirm that they wanted the first location instead of the second? If a list wasn't popped up we would still have the problems we have now with people fighting over "ownership" of domain names. No, that wouldn't work as a replacement for DNS.
However, there is a company that uses keywords, or something like it but I forget what they call it. It hasn't caught on much, and it's only for the first "lookup" when you type something in the location field and hit enter. It's not a replacement for DNS, rather just a shortcut mechanism so that you could type in microsoft instead of www.microsoft.com. Then again, there's nothing to stop a web browser from looking up www.xxx.yyy where xxx is what you type in the location field and yyy is a list of most common TLD's. This would result in basically the same functioning of the "keyword" system this company sells without the cost...
It's already there. Havn't you noticed some sites end in .uk for Great Britian, or .au for Australia? Or how about good 'ol .us for the United States of America? I know at least the .us domain is broken down further, with a sub-domain for each state. So I could get an address in .ga.us since I'm in Georgia. Haven't looked further, but I'd assume it wouldn't be too difficult for your local town to be able to get a sub-domain in their state domain, so you might have altanta.ga.us, and then you could get a domain in that, like nutcase.atlanta.ga.us.
No, that's pretty much the end of it. Thanks for filling us in on your other web services, but what was one to surmize from the information given? It's not like we have a whole lot of time to look into seemingly inacurate or misleading posts on Slashdot.
I still reserve the right to believe that something still isn't right. You're talking about DSL service to your home, and then you talk about your business and "IS department" from the other side of your mouth. While I see nothing wrong with running a small business from your house, I sincerely doubt that such a business would have an "IS department" or multiple DSL connections into the home. If you do, then yahoo for you! In that case, I don't think you are the typical home DSL subscriber and you're points are therefore mostly moot. Why anyone would need multiple IP addresses in a home environment is beyond me, as the experienced person would suggest a single IP address with firewall and NAT capabilities on the box to support the possible multiple devices in the typical upper-class home.
Further, in my experience most companies do not have multiple ISP's. While it's fine and dandy to recommend multiple ISP's most companies will forgo the extra cost. A much more reasonable recommendation would be for that business, even if run out of a home, subscribe to the business service instead of the home service as it includes additional service priority than residental service. Besides, with multiple ISP's you run into addressing issues, as each ISP would have their own address space. Who's address space do you use? I suppose that you could have duplicate entries in the DNS with one A record pointing to ISP A's address you assign to your web server and the other A record pointing to ISP B's address. But, that would leave you with issues if one of the ISPs went down anyhow. Half the attempts to get to your domain would fail. I suppose half is better than none, but I'd recommend alternatives.
So, I won't be discussing further. I'll leave with the comment that I still think you made and continue to make misleading comments.
you got your own domain for no cost?
And they host the primary and secondary DNS servers for your domain, for not extra cost?
And you get a "real" usenet feed, and not just a NNTP server that you connect to (IOW, usenet gets pumped to your box instead of you deciding to look at comp.os.linux.help and getting the headers), all for no extra cost?
And they give you secondary MX service, meaning that they will collect your mail if your primary MX host is down and forward it to your box when it comes back up, for no extra cost?
That's amazing? But wait a second, lets do some checking:
I guess fury.com is your domain? Sure looks like it.
But the nameservers for that zone are ns1.best.com (and ns2/ns3)?!? Shouldn't they be something under ns1.pbi.net or cendant.com if they are hosting your DNS?
All your MX records point to best.com too!
A traceroute shows www.fury.com appears to be hosted by verio.net (which bought out best.com) but gets redirected to an address owned by pbi.net.
Your IP address certainly seems to be owned by pbi.net and assigned to "NETBLK-PBI-CUSTNET-5107" KavinFox, so at least you seem to be telling the truth when it comes to your service provider.
But, it's a little misleading to say that you get all of these services from PBI when it certainly looks like you get your MX, DNS, and web hosting from Verio. It just doesn't add up to believe that you are getting all of these services free from PBI yet choose to pay another company to host your DNS, host you web (redirected), and host your MX records (mail relay). Now, why would someone do that!?!
Well, I did say "From the diff" and all the lines had a "+" sign at the beginning. FYI this indicates that these are lines added to an existing file in the diff, which contains modifications to a heck of a lot of files. You know it wasn't a point and click thing to find this in the diff file, but I was interested in what was changed myself so I thought I'd share with the community. It's amazing what you can learn on a good day reading Slashdot posts!
Well, I'm on Woody, so I wouldn't even know what version the "official" Debian release is on. Debian releases are unusually strict in their stability requirements, and there have been quite a few blunders in the 2.2 series of code as far as stability. Then again, I don't know anyone who is using the official stable Debian release. I have the distinct impression that a larger than normal percentage of Debian users are extreamly comfortable with Linux and generally are using the unstable or at least frozen versions...
Sorry, I use Debian and that's what I got from RedHat's web site. Must have been looking in the wrong place!
From the diff:
+2. Summary of new features in 4.0.1.
+2.1 X server
+
+ o New DRI drivers for Intel i810, Matrox G400 and G200 (AGP only) and the
+ ATI Rage 128, and updates to the 3Dfx DRI driver, including Voodoo5 sup-
+ port.
+
+ o The X server now runs on Linux/Sparc including drivers for many video
+ cards used on SUN hardware.
+
+ o DRI support for the Linux/Sparc implementation that allows 3D direct
+ rendering with Creator3D cards.
+
+ o Fixed recently publicized security issues.
+
+ o Update Mesa to the latest version.
+
+ o Xinerama updates and fixes.
+
+ o Xv updates and fixes.
+
+ o Mouse support in DGA 1.0 compatibility mode should now work correctly
+ for most games that make use of it.
+
+ o Some bugs with 8+24 overlay support have been fixed.
+
+ o Some XKEYBOARD extension problems have been fixed, including improve-
+ ments to the MouseKeys support.
+
+ o Add generic DGA support to the sis, neomagic and i810 drivers.
+
+ o xf86cfg, a new graphical configuration tool.
+
+2.2 X libraries and clients.
+
+ o Thread safety issues have been resolved in a few places in the
+ libraries. Upgrading to the latest libraries is essential for multi-
+ threaded X applications.
+
+ o Some fatal bugs in the big font support have been fixed. Upgrading to
+ the latest libraries will fix this too.
+
+ o Fixed recently publicized security issues in some of the X libraries.
+
+ o Updates and bug fixes for some clients, including xedit, xman, xcalc,
+ fstobdf, xdm.
+
+ o Fix some xfs problems.
+
+ o XTerm updates. These include:
+
+ o Improve logfile security.
+
+ o Workaround for fixed fonts which are generated from Unicode fonts:
+ they omit glyphs for some xterm's less-used line-drawing charac-
+ ters, which caused xterm to set a flag telling it to use only its
+ internal line-drawing characters.
+
+ o Limit numeric parameters of control sequences to 65535 to simplify
+ checks for numeric overflow.
+
+ o Change index into UDK list to unsigned to guard against numeric
+ overflow making the index negative.
+
+ o Add limit checks to ClearInLine(), ScrnInsertChar(), Scrn-
+ DeleteChar() to correct potential out-of-bounds indexing.
+
+ o Add a resource (limitResize) limiting resizing via the CSI 4 t and
+ CSI 8 t sequences.
+
+ o Ignore out-of-bounds resize requests, i.e., where sign-extension or
+ truncation of the parameters would occur.
+
+ o Change Sun function-keys resource name to sunFunctionKeys to work
+ around redefinition of the token sun by xrdb on Solaris. Simi-
+ larly, renamed resource sun keyboard to sunKeyboard. Change simi-
+ lar resource names for HP and SCO to avoid potential conflict with
+ xrdb symbols on other systems, as well as for consistency.
+
+ o Change line speed from 9600bd to 38400bd to accommodate users who
+ mistakenly use $TERM set to vt100, to reduce the effect of padding
+ associated with this terminal type.
+
+ o Fix a problem that caused the right scrollbar to be positioned
+ incorrectly when re-enabling it.
+
+ o Fix a problem with color support that showed up on some platforms.
+
+ o Modify logic for deleteIsDEL resource so it has internally 3
+ states: unspecified, true and false. If unspecified, the keyboard
+ type determines whether the Delete key transmits <esc>[3~ or \177,
+ and the popup menu entry reflects the internal state. Otherwise,
+ the popup menu entry overrides the keyboard type.
+
+ o Portability fixes for os390, AIX 4.2, Digital Unix 4.0 and IRIX
+ 6.5.
+
+2.3 Fonts and Internationalisation
+
+ o Many of the "misc" bdf fonts have been updated and extended, and a wider
+ range of ISO-8859 subsets have been added. Oblique/italic versions of
+ some of them have also been added.
+
+ o The converters in Xlib have been improved and reworked. UTF-8 support
+ has been added.
+
+ o Support for ISO-8859-13 has been added to Xlib and to the UTF-8 convert-+ ers.
+
+ o XKB keyboard definitions have been added and updated for some countries.
+
+ o Locale support for Celtic languages has been updated, and a Compose file
+ for ISO-8859-14 added.
+
+2.4 Miscellaneous
+
+ o Preliminary support for Linux/mips (no X servers yet).
+
+ o Update support for BSD/OS.
+
+ o Update Linux/IA64 support.
+
+ o Support for LynxOS 3.1.0.
+