Lets not forget Comcast's smoldering Fiber optic cable in College Park, MD leaving 30,000 w/o the tube and being forced instead to stare at Slashdot all day...
What does it take to get more developers on in on this sort of project. I'm sure there are many people who'd be interested in working on a good project internationally. How does one track them down and get them involved?
While we don't look for UNIX interns, we do hire college non-grads. If you want to work full time, school part time, and have yer manager call the internship coordinator at your school from time to time, I'm sure many UNIX shops can accomidate you.
Hmm, since Microsoft hasn't crushed SAMBA with it's Fist of Doom(tm), I wouldn't worry.
I think that that would be the tell-tale sign since if server emulators were illegal by any strech of the immagination, the high financed Microsoft Legal crew would have smashed SAMBA into little bits by now.
Instead they try to break it any chance they get.
Reviews in media today are inherently biased. Most reviewers already have the end answer in mind when they start their reviews. Look at the Microsoft proponents and the huge props Windows 2000 got from them. If you ask other outlets, Solaris 8 is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Then, of course, you have the groups that look at the Open Source community and Linux, either already fond of or seeing potential in the software, writing excelent reviews. There's really no way around it.
The reason why this tends to happen is that reviews for things like this are done by computer literate individuals of varying level of ability. They already know what OS they like, so they will look for strong suits in that OS. It's just a continuation of the old holy wars... (Mac vs PC, Win vs Unix, Win vs BeOS, KDE vs WindowMaker now...whatever.) Also, you can't have an outsider who knows nothing of these OSs review them, because they wouldn't have the ability, necessarly, to even perform a fair review even if they wanted to.
Where does that leave us? Take every review with a grain of salt, read as many conflicting points of view as possible, and in the end, determine for yourself what you like the most.
While this speed boost from Qwest is a wonderful breakthrough, one I'm sure the other providers will follow up on as well, this doesn't help Internet conjestion much. Consider for a second that the vast majority of Internet Consumers use providers other than Qwest (whether it be UUnet, IBI/Digex, whomever) and still need to cross through peering points to go from network to network. These peering points, in general, are limited to OC-3 bandwidth... (Sometimes you can get FastEther, but that rarer). What good is an OC-768 when the weakest links in your connection are OC-3s. It's like having a T-1 bridge two OC-48 networks... So while you're stuck at MAE East, the Qwest customer hitting www.qwest.com will see it come down in blazing speed. Oh, I'm sorry, the customer only has a T-1 anyway. When they, and other providers, update those peering points to allow more bandwidth between providers, we can cut down on serious Internet bottlenecks. Until then, this OC-768 mess is worthless.
This is a wonderful ocassion! Never before has any group of people in history been as humiliated and taunted as PETA has been.
My Celebration plans:
Eat a big ass steak. Buy my kid a Baseball glove. Get a new leather wallet. Go hunting. Go fishing. Give a dog a beer. Light up a cigar for a cat. Club a baby seal.
Here's an article from Yesterday's Washington Post mentioning a deal the RIAA is pushing for. They are talking about $15-20 million in settlements to each of the 5 companies involved in this mess. Even if this wasn't completely nuts (which it is), where would mp3.com come up with $100 million. They aren't Ted Turner.
The day is near. The day my grief will end. The day where all of my favorite games will be playable from an OS other than Windows. Soon my pain and suffering will ease. The poison brought from Redman will be extracted from my equipment. I will be one with the Penguin. Soon.
So soon K-Mart will know where I am, and many other corporate and/or government interests who I'd much rather have just leave me alone. The world of targeted advertising is reaching the disgusting point of being able to carefully profile and document your actions and infer your like and dislikes.
Heh, now since the accuracy of the GPS is no longer and issue, K-Mart will also know whether I'm in the bathroom or livingroom, of standing outside a smoking...
Or maybe I'm just paranoid... 36hrs of coding does that.:)
While it's great that they are running more hi-capacity cable through communitys and such, it seems kind of lame for a few reasons. 1. DSL technology requires nothing but a pair of copper. Since you already have a pair of copper in your house, it's a moot point (if you are close enough to the CO) 2. A residental T1, which I have though Intermedia (digex.net), only requires 2 pairs of copper. Of course this can't be the same as your primary telephone line (unless you are willing to be splitting up B channels and all). However, most houses built in the past 20 years have between 3 and 8 pairs of copper, meeting the needs of residental bandwidth. 3. With cable systems, you are on a shared trunk using existing Coax cable. Unless the companies are trying to shrink the size of the trunk (which is a good idea) addional field equipment isn't necessary. 4. Odds are, you aren't going to get an OC3 or greater to your house (even though I wouldn't mind having one:).
So, this being said, what do you need at home? This depends on the service you want. 1. For DSL or Cable service, you need a cable or DSL "modem" (modem is such a poor word...), a box to provide IP Masq since most Residental customers get one IP addy (dynamic at that), a hub and some good ole Cat 5. 2. For Telco Lease Line customers like T1 type service, you need a DSU/CSU and a router with a HSSI port. From there, is the Hub and cable thing again. The benefit here is usually you get a routed network.
Installing Cat5 in one's house is also reletively easy, especially if you cheat and use your existing phone wires to thread it (well, and new phone wire). Stick your server(s) in the basement to stay cool and plug it all on in.
So, all you'd really ever want out of an "Internet Ready" house is a patch panel in the basement and a ether jack or two in every room of the house. Sounds simple enough for builders to do, especially since they can already deal with coax, electrical, and phone. How much harder can it be to run Cat-5 at the same time...
Our company uses these nifty machines for load balancing and fail-over. They are basicly x86 based machines running FreeBSD and some proprietary software. They also have the important things in life like 2 NICs and a nice rack mounted chasis. It is a bit pricy, but you get a very useful manual, support, someone to blame when one is on fire, etc. Most importantly, it works...
One thing... Make sure you're pluging it into 120VAC. The power supply get's very unhappy if you don't... You learn these things when someone labels a 240VAC strip as 120...... Go figure.
Great, now we are one step closer to a complete totalitatianism where your entire future is determined by a drop of blood... I wonder which gene is flagged as the "Refuse Transport Tech" gene. I'm sure it would please our trash men of the future that "No, you can't do any better, your brain is too small. Besides, you'll die of alcoholism in 4 years anyway.
You can't stop progress, but you can keep it from going astray. It just requires some effort and perhaps a bomb dropped on Redman, WA. (oops, different evil.)
The line involved was a joke.:) I really hope any sensible person would ever create such a line. The point was the fun humor involved in random generation of reviews. I also really hope no one would word a review of They Might Be Giants, the song off of Flood in such a manor with the band name. It would confuse the hell out of me. As for Metal, it was a random throw word. I have given up trying to classify John and John...:)
I guess what they need to do is also review the songs themselves... If they wrote a simple 3 line review of each song (or better yet, randomly generated the reviews based on artist, song title, and genre) that would better fit the fair use arguement... "They Might Be Giants, with their song They Might Be Giants is a great example of what Metal should be." Something lame like that...
Of all the companies to bring this to the forefront... It *had* to be Mattel, the one company I was sure would never sell more than 12 copies of any software... Oh, well. Why couldn't they just stick with Barbie Dolls and leave this internet thingy to the professionals?
"Some days, you get the bear, Some days, the bear gets you."
Red Hat this, Red Hat that... I'm sick of it. Maybe if their Linux distro didn't suck so hard I wouldn't mind.
Why couldn't Slack or Debian IPO, make millions and be forming alliances with other companies. It just pisses me off that the worst of the pack gets it all.
Plan: 1. Create new distro. 2. (I'll figure it out, someday) 3. Make Millions.
Wonderful. Now, instead of being tortured by British police until you give them the key, they simply send you to prison. I'm glad to see the progress in the Fascist, Draconian government that now makes up the British Empire. It's like taking Clinton, and mixing in Hitler's tactics. Quite ammusing, if you don't have to live there...
I have had to "hijack" Domains before because of my customers and their lack of internet prowess. Usually, what happens is that they canceled their old ISP account, where their Internic handle pointed, without updating their handle. I usually end up doing the same when editing their handle to reflect the correct information. So, I suppose, the real question is: How do we secure your domain name, but still allow for the stupidity of your average domain holder?
Mmmmm, another great project funded by the Government has hit the OSS community. However, there are a few issues...
1. That friend next door that loves yelling 'rm -rf/' really loud. 2. Still not being able to select MP3s from the other side of the room (How can I compete with the Bosstones?). 3. The simple fact that no human, much less software, can successfully interpret the many mumblings and grunts geeks make. We aren't Doctors! 4. Be careful what you say in the chat room... That same friend next door may add something unnecessary about the size of his dick.
Oh, well. Such is life. Also, I bet you that these programs will NEVER work in West Virginia.
If we assume that the point of all of this technology is to make it easier to communicate with others, when are we going to adjust our focus from constantly improving the technology to actually using the technology? Ease of communication is only part of the point. The real reason we continue to develope and extend our technology is because we can. Man is motivated by accomplishment and the continued thirst for knowledge. Innovation is personally satisfying. When you code that program, or route that network, or whatever you did today, didn't it feel good when you were done, like you accomplished something? If you have a idea, realize it. The further we go, the more we will learn, and the more questions we will have.
From what I have seen in media outlets, Corel Linux seems to be the greatest thing since sliced bread. Linuxplanet notes, "... there's no reason why hundreds of thousands of Windows-based PCs can't be replaced by running Corel Linux..." This is high praise. Is it a goal of Corel's to use Linux to compete directly with Microsoft and Windows for the desktop market. Also, what makes this so different from previous attempts to get at Microsoft? (ie: Novell DOS, OS/2, etc.)
Slashdot Mirror
Lets not forget Comcast's smoldering Fiber optic cable in College Park, MD leaving 30,000 w/o the tube and being forced instead to stare at Slashdot all day...
What does it take to get more developers on in on this sort of project. I'm sure there are many people who'd be interested in working on a good project internationally. How does one track them down and get them involved?
UUwho?
digex.net => icix.net
http://www.intermedia.com/
While we don't look for UNIX interns, we do hire college non-grads. If you want to work full time, school part time, and have yer manager call the internship coordinator at your school from time to time, I'm sure many UNIX shops can accomidate you.
Hmm, since Microsoft hasn't crushed SAMBA with it's Fist of Doom(tm), I wouldn't worry.
I think that that would be the tell-tale sign since if server emulators were illegal by any strech of the immagination, the high financed Microsoft Legal crew would have smashed SAMBA into little bits by now.
Instead they try to break it any chance they get.
And the RIAA was so close too.
HAHA!
Disclaimer: Sarcasm was used in the creation of this comment.
Reviews in media today are inherently biased. Most reviewers already have the end answer in mind when they start their reviews. Look at the Microsoft proponents and the huge props Windows 2000 got from them. If you ask other outlets, Solaris 8 is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Then, of course, you have the groups that look at the Open Source community and Linux, either already fond of or seeing potential in the software, writing excelent reviews. There's really no way around it.
The reason why this tends to happen is that reviews for things like this are done by computer literate individuals of varying level of ability. They already know what OS they like, so they will look for strong suits in that OS. It's just a continuation of the old holy wars... (Mac vs PC, Win vs Unix, Win vs BeOS, KDE vs WindowMaker now...whatever.) Also, you can't have an outsider who knows nothing of these OSs review them, because they wouldn't have the ability, necessarly, to even perform a fair review even if they wanted to.
Where does that leave us? Take every review with a grain of salt, read as many conflicting points of view as possible, and in the end, determine for yourself what you like the most.
Mike
While this speed boost from Qwest is a wonderful breakthrough, one I'm sure the other providers will follow up on as well, this doesn't help Internet conjestion much.
Consider for a second that the vast majority of Internet Consumers use providers other than Qwest (whether it be UUnet, IBI/Digex, whomever) and still need to cross through peering points to go from network to network. These peering points, in general, are limited to OC-3 bandwidth... (Sometimes you can get FastEther, but that rarer). What good is an OC-768 when the weakest links in your connection are OC-3s. It's like having a T-1 bridge two OC-48 networks... So while you're stuck at MAE East, the Qwest customer hitting www.qwest.com will see it come down in blazing speed. Oh, I'm sorry, the customer only has a T-1 anyway.
When they, and other providers, update those peering points to allow more bandwidth between providers, we can cut down on serious Internet bottlenecks. Until then, this OC-768 mess is worthless.
This is a wonderful ocassion! Never before has any group of people in history been as humiliated and taunted as PETA has been.
My Celebration plans:
Eat a big ass steak.
Buy my kid a Baseball glove.
Get a new leather wallet.
Go hunting.
Go fishing.
Give a dog a beer.
Light up a cigar for a cat.
Club a baby seal.
Party on.
Here's an article from Yesterday's Washington Post mentioning a deal the RIAA is pushing for. They are talking about $15-20 million in settlements to each of the 5 companies involved in this mess. Even if this wasn't completely nuts (which it is), where would mp3.com come up with $100 million. They aren't Ted Turner.
The day is near.
The day my grief will end.
The day where all of my favorite games will be playable from an OS other than Windows.
Soon my pain and suffering will ease.
The poison brought from Redman will be extracted from my equipment.
I will be one with the Penguin.
Soon.
So soon K-Mart will know where I am, and many other corporate and/or government interests who I'd much rather have just leave me alone. The world of targeted advertising is reaching the disgusting point of being able to carefully profile and document your actions and infer your like and dislikes.
:)
Heh, now since the accuracy of the GPS is no longer and issue, K-Mart will also know whether I'm in the bathroom or livingroom, of standing outside a smoking...
Or maybe I'm just paranoid... 36hrs of coding does that.
While it's great that they are running more hi-capacity cable through communitys and such, it seems kind of lame for a few reasons. :).
:)
1. DSL technology requires nothing but a pair of copper. Since you already have a pair of copper in your house, it's a moot point (if you are close enough to the CO)
2. A residental T1, which I have though Intermedia (digex.net), only requires 2 pairs of copper. Of course this can't be the same as your primary telephone line (unless you are willing to be splitting up B channels and all). However, most houses built in the past 20 years have between 3 and 8 pairs of copper, meeting the needs of residental bandwidth.
3. With cable systems, you are on a shared trunk using existing Coax cable. Unless the companies are trying to shrink the size of the trunk (which is a good idea) addional field equipment isn't necessary.
4. Odds are, you aren't going to get an OC3 or greater to your house (even though I wouldn't mind having one
So, this being said, what do you need at home? This depends on the service you want.
1. For DSL or Cable service, you need a cable or DSL "modem" (modem is such a poor word...), a box to provide IP Masq since most Residental customers get one IP addy (dynamic at that), a hub and some good ole Cat 5.
2. For Telco Lease Line customers like T1 type service, you need a DSU/CSU and a router with a HSSI port. From there, is the Hub and cable thing again. The benefit here is usually you get a routed network.
Installing Cat5 in one's house is also reletively easy, especially if you cheat and use your existing phone wires to thread it (well, and new phone wire). Stick your server(s) in the basement to stay cool and plug it all on in.
So, all you'd really ever want out of an "Internet Ready" house is a patch panel in the basement and a ether jack or two in every room of the house. Sounds simple enough for builders to do, especially since they can already deal with coax, electrical, and phone. How much harder can it be to run Cat-5 at the same time...
If only they learned sooner.
Our company uses these nifty machines for load balancing and fail-over. They are basicly x86 based machines running FreeBSD and some proprietary software. They also have the important things in life like 2 NICs and a nice rack mounted chasis. It is a bit pricy, but you get a very useful manual, support, someone to blame when one is on fire, etc. Most importantly, it works...
One thing... Make sure you're pluging it into 120VAC. The power supply get's very unhappy if you don't... You learn these things when someone labels a 240VAC strip as 120...... Go figure.
Great, now we are one step closer to a complete totalitatianism where your entire future is determined by a drop of blood...
I wonder which gene is flagged as the "Refuse Transport Tech" gene. I'm sure it would please our trash men of the future that "No, you can't do any better, your brain is too small. Besides, you'll die of alcoholism in 4 years anyway.
You can't stop progress, but you can keep it from going astray. It just requires some effort and perhaps a bomb dropped on Redman, WA. (oops, different evil.)
The line involved was a joke. :) I really hope any sensible person would ever create such a line. The point was the fun humor involved in random generation of reviews. I also really hope no one would word a review of They Might Be Giants, the song off of Flood in such a manor with the band name. It would confuse the hell out of me. As for Metal, it was a random throw word. I have given up trying to classify John and John... :)
I guess what they need to do is also review the songs themselves... If they wrote a simple 3 line review of each song (or better yet, randomly generated the reviews based on artist, song title, and genre) that would better fit the fair use arguement...
"They Might Be Giants, with their song They Might Be Giants is a great example of what Metal should be." Something lame like that...
Of all the companies to bring this to the forefront... It *had* to be Mattel, the one company I was sure would never sell more than 12 copies of any software... Oh, well. Why couldn't they just stick with Barbie Dolls and leave this internet thingy to the professionals?
"Some days, you get the bear,
Some days, the bear gets you."
Red Hat this, Red Hat that... I'm sick of it. Maybe if their Linux distro didn't suck so hard I wouldn't mind.
Why couldn't Slack or Debian IPO, make millions and be forming alliances with other companies. It just pisses me off that the worst of the pack gets it all.
Plan:
1. Create new distro.
2. (I'll figure it out, someday)
3. Make Millions.
--Mike
Wonderful. Now, instead of being tortured by British police until you give them the key, they simply send you to prison. I'm glad to see the progress in the Fascist, Draconian government that now makes up the British Empire. It's like taking Clinton, and mixing in Hitler's tactics. Quite ammusing, if you don't have to live there...
I have had to "hijack" Domains before because of my customers and their lack of internet prowess. Usually, what happens is that they canceled their old ISP account, where their Internic handle pointed, without updating their handle. I usually end up doing the same when editing their handle to reflect the correct information. So, I suppose, the real question is: How do we secure your domain name, but still allow for the stupidity of your average domain holder?
Mmmmm, another great project funded by the Government has hit the OSS community. However, there are a few issues...
/' really loud.
1. That friend next door that loves yelling 'rm -rf
2. Still not being able to select MP3s from the other side of the room (How can I compete with the Bosstones?).
3. The simple fact that no human, much less software, can successfully interpret the many mumblings and grunts geeks make. We aren't Doctors!
4. Be careful what you say in the chat room... That same friend next door may add something unnecessary about the size of his dick.
Oh, well. Such is life. Also, I bet you that these programs will NEVER work in West Virginia.
Mike
If we assume that the point of all of this technology is to make it easier to communicate with others, when are we going to adjust our focus from constantly improving the technology to actually using the technology?
Ease of communication is only part of the point. The real reason we continue to develope and extend our technology is because we can. Man is motivated by accomplishment and the continued thirst for knowledge. Innovation is personally satisfying. When you code that program, or route that network, or whatever you did today, didn't it feel good when you were done, like you accomplished something? If you have a idea, realize it. The further we go, the more we will learn, and the more questions we will have.
AOL? Isn't that the group that did Evil Woman?
Or what it the company that created viagra.
I can never remember.
The Blue Screen reminds us we are mortal while Tux teaches that Open Source is immortal.
From what I have seen in media outlets, Corel Linux seems to be the greatest thing since sliced bread. Linuxplanet notes, "... there's no reason why hundreds of thousands of Windows-based PCs can't be replaced by running Corel Linux..." This is high praise. Is it a goal of Corel's to use Linux to compete directly with Microsoft and Windows for the desktop market. Also, what makes this so different from previous attempts to get at Microsoft? (ie: Novell DOS, OS/2, etc.)