Windows Media Player is available for the Mac (version 9 I think still?) However, it doesn't support any of the fancy DRM, so if you do use Windows Media, make sure it isn't adding a layer of DRM to it as well.
I've used Darwin Streaming Server, and it worked great. I highly recommend it.
I like that idea. It would be nice if they increased the number of representatives. I've written letters to my congressman and senator, and I've only received form letters in return (Sen. Hatch is especially bad at this). It would be great to get a bit more actual attention from the people that we elect so that they can represent us properly.
Something does need to change. It seems that it has become too easy for politicians to give away our rights in the name of fighting terrorism. However, I don't think those suggestions will help the situation.
The Senate is there to provide each state with equal representation. Each state gets 2 senators. If it were reapportioned as you suggest, California would have 50 senators, New York would have 40 and the remaining 10 would be split among the other more wealthy states.
In addition, the White House (the Executive Branch) needs to be a part of the budget process because they need to inform Congress about the amount of money that they need to do their jobs. After all, they "execute" or actually enforce the laws and actually "do" stuff. Without them, gov't would be pointless. Congress still passes the budget, so the money generally isn't given to the executive branch if there is a disagreement (ie, when the gov't is shut down for a week or more because the budget hasn't be decided yet).
The.com namespace is saturated anyway. Notice my website is a.us site as well, because I couldn't get it under.com,.net or.org.
<rant> If it's one thing I hate, it's a domain squatter! Most names don't even have a site or service under them. Drives me crazy. </rant>
Look, the US was there first, and paid the initial investment, and set up their root domains. I don't think they ever expected the Internet to ever expand the way it did, until it became such a huge entity. Now they are reluctant to turn management over to someone else since they rely so much on it.
Hardly -- anybody has a one of the 13 root DNS servers as their primary or even secondary DNS server
*No user* should have the root servers as their "primary name servers". They don't recursively lookup names. Here is the process that your local ISPs DNS server goes through, I'm going to use dig (a handy dns utility that comes with bind9).
Just typing dig at the prompt will return the list of root servers. (responses truncated for purposes of space)
$ dig I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 431417 IN A 192.36.148.17
$ dig @192.36.148.17 slashdot.org org. 172800 IN NS TLD4.ULTRADNS.org
So you see, it only returns the first part of the address, or.org. It lists all of the DNS servers for the ORG top level domain.
Next, your ISPs DNS server queries the ORG DNS server:
$dig @TLD4.ULTRADNS.org slashdot.org slashdot.org. 86400 IN NS ns3.vasoftware.com.
Now it has given us another DNS server, vasoftware's name server. It has authority to actually give us the A record for slashdot.
dig @ns3.vasoftware.com slashdot.org slashdot.org. 7200 IN A 66.35.250.150
Now your ISPs DNS server replies to you with this answer.
DNS is extremely distributed. It's true that the root is the week point, but that is why there are 13 spread across the world. Losing them shouldn't be any great loss (though the latency may be longer to the next closest server).
You'll notice the number after each name, that is the amount of time that your ISPs name server caches the data. 7200 seconds is 2 hours for the slashdot domain.
There most likely where other factors that caused your internet to slow when one particular server went down. The DNS is *not* a technical problem, it works great.
Now, if your ISP is having issues, then that's another matter. But hopefully you're with a competent ISP.
Called a routing table. Might take a few hours for the update to propagate.
I submit to you that it would never update. The routing tables would be constantly updating, sending these updates out to all the routers, would exhaust the bandwidth of the connection.
If I was allowed to insert addresses anywhere on the Internet, then the border routers would have to have a routing table of every single IP address.
A routing table consists of the following:
Destination Network, the Interface to Send the Packet, and the Weight of the Path
This means that instead of just knowing the network to find, I would have to know the network that the IP actually resided in instead of just using a netmask to find that out. That is something that isn't transmitted with IP, nor do I think it's supplied with IPv6, so you would have to upgrade the underlying protocols to even get this to work.
Considering how long it has taken IPv6 to be adopted, I feel this is a lost cause.
Good grief, you have a severe case of conspiracy theoritis. What does anything that you just said have to do with the Internet transferring management to the UN? Do you think they would actually do a better job? The UN is not the governing body to do this sort of thing. It is not what it was chartered to do.
Right now the US controls the root name servers, and they let anybody register a domain name. What? The EU is complaining about the lack of a.xxx domain? Then guess what, they can do a.xxx.de or a.xxx.uk, or a.xxx.fr.
Nothing is stopping them from creating these special domain names. They control their own top-level domains.
The Internet works relatively well right now, with a minimum amount of meddling from the US Gov't.
Handing control of the Internet over to another government body that has a hard time of making up it's mind half the time because it makes decisions based on the conflicting desires of it's members is not the right way to do it.
Sell IP addresses much like domain names are sold now. Does this require a major shift in how we operate? Well...sortof. It is more a state of mind than of hardware; most routers allow you to define your IP address manually, but most ISPs aren't set up to handle anything that isn't a subset of their own IP address range.
Right. Care to share your wonderful routing algorithm that will allow you to insert a random IP into the middle of a network?
There is a reason why IPs are in blocks and each ISP is assigned a subnet. There would still have to be a centralized source of routing information unless you want the entirety of the Internet's bandwidth to be devoted to passing routing tables back and forth so that you know how to get to the computer that you wish to communicate with.
Even one of the US DNS servers going down slows the 'net. Two down slows it to a crawl, and you will get a few time-outs. Three down and there is a good chance you won't be seeing shit on the web that day.
DNS is a distributed system, which is what makes it robust. If you are experiencing a slowdown, don't use that name server. You *should* be using your ISPs DNS server, which caches requests and reduces the latency for everyone on your network. DNS is designed to stop using slow root servers, switching to another root server should the need arise. There are 13 root servers, each time a request is sent to one, the response time is recorded. If the response time gets too high, the name server will go to another.
DNS breaks the internet.
Without the DNS, the internet would cease to work. It is a good solution, it provides a wayto find a computer without remembering a 32-bit number. It helps the e-mail system work reliably (MX records) and prevents the massive mess that you described with random IPs everywhere.
Yes, he knows. He's running a SLI board, which is the nForce chip.
In response to the GP, I've been experiencing quality problems with my MSI board as well, so I switched to a Biostar. I have similar problems with that as well. It could just be the drivers though.
The ideal solution would be less government intervention from everyone involved, the US included, not more from a bunch of authoritarian regimes.
Agreed. This is not something that should be turned over to highly political groups. The decisions technological aspects of the Internet should be made by a group of qualified individuals, not a bunch of politicians.
I really don't see the issue with this anyway. To me, it just looks like the EU wants to take away the.com,.net, and.org TLDs and number assignment from US control. However, I thought that this stuff was already seperate (ARIN for north american ip assignment, RIPE for european, etc). And they each have their own domains as well.
If I'm reading it right, the graph is measuring the number of cycles it takes to perform the encryption operation. The Intel P4 takes an insane number of cycles, and the new Nocona processors are substantially better. But then the AMD64 blows them all away.
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Unrelated to the above posts, I've been impressed with my new AMD64 Cool and Quiet technology. In Linux (I'm not sure if Windows does this, I hope it does) it scales the processor's frequency based on it's load.
Whem I'm browsing the web, the processor is clocked at 1.0Ghz, and when I go to compile something it shoots up to 2.2Ghz. It's great! less power consumption, less heat, quieter fans. As far as I can tell, my Pentium D at work doesn't do this, and boy do I wish it did, it gets hot in my office by mid-afternoon.
If you look at the length of the shows like Lost, it is only 45 minutes or so. I'm betting the commercials aren't there. I haven't purchased an episode yet, but I plan on it to see what it's like. I already have a computer hooked up to a projector, so I don't need to buy a pricey video iPod.
This was my experience as well. I asked for a meager amount of money (equivilent to $15 per hour for the estimated work) on several bids and never got them. After a few tries, I figured it wasn't worth the trouble. As it is, finding work isn't that hard now so I went with a steady job instead of the contract work.
We only hate stupid software patents like the infamous OneClick shopping cart, or the patent that is so vague and broad that it covers 90% of technology today.
Specific, insightful patents that are actually used to create something (instead to use as a litigation revenue stream) are okay.
Unfortunately, many companies think that owning stupid software patents is the only way you can make money on software. They have been influenced by the *bad* type of patent. ugh.
That I don't know. However, I just set my default table type to InnoDB and then I don't have those problems. MySQL is usually 2-5 times faster than our Informix 9 database on the same hardware with the InnoDB tables (a Sun box with 2 Sparc IIIi processors and 4GB of ram).
I wonder if Informix 10 has any improvements in the area of speed, but I'll never find out because it's just too hard to upgrade (it takes sooooo long to configure the server so that it performs with any speed).
I can confirm that MySQL 5.0 doesn't allow you to drop a table if it is referenced by a foreign key.
Also, the way to go when you set up MySQL is to set the default table type to InnoDB, which supports transactions, then you don't need to worry about point 3.
I haven't experienced the other two problems. But then, I don't have millions of rows, only hundreds of thousands.
Well, what you described was the normal job of RNA. According to the article, RNA also has the ability to block proteins, and also turn off specific genes.
They state that it has opened up many possibilities in finding out which gene does what. They mention that they have successfully used this technique to stop the spread of some diseases, like Hepatitis B and it could possibly lead them to discover more about cancer.
Read the HTML article, it is very interesting and informative for anybody who is interested in genetics.
Cookies don't track which sites you go to. A cookie has a domain that it actually is assigned to. When you visit that domain, the web browser sends that cookie to the server. If I go to amazon.com and they put a cookie on my system, then the only people who can look at it is amazon.com. They can't tell that I also went to overstock.com and looked at books. And overstock can't tell that I've been to amazon.
The only time they can get this information is if a third party has an Ad, or some other content on both sites (which is what makes cookies from ad sites more dangerous).
So really, when you go to the gas station, the attendant doesn't have to put a tracking device on your car. Just record your license plate (after all, isn't that all a GUID is?) Your car always has it's license plate, and so they can see who it is. Then they can track your usage at the gas station.
Cookies can provide useful information to the site developer. You like visiting well designed websites right? Getting information that will help you streamline the site is a good reason to track those statistics.
You are being too paranoid. Get adblock, only allow cookies to be set by the originating website and use a hosts file that blocks most ad sites and then you won't have to worry about it.
If you want people to stop blocking all of your incredibly annoying ads, make them inobtrusive and useful.
Google has the right idea, ads based on the content of the page, taking up just a little space, no animation to draw your attention from the real content on the page. With that method, if I want to find someone who is selling what I just read about, I know where to look!
What commodity parts? I can't even find the processors to purchase. I'd love to buy a G5 and install linux on it. But I have only been able to find slow G4's that cost $600 for just the processor and motherboard.
History shows that they don't need a superior windows-based "solution". They've killed off any number of upstarts (e.g. netscape) by offering something roughly comparable.
I agree somewhat, but I really think Netscape shot itself in the foot. Netscape 4 was a great browser, and really was better than IE 4. But then IE 5 came out, and what was Netscape's response? Version 6 of their browser sucked so bad that I dropped it immediately and switched, even though I dislike Microsoft. The main problem was that it was slow and a huge resource hog. It never got better, and then Netscape died and was gobbled up by AOL.
MS then made the mistake by dissolving their IE development team after they had killed Netscape. The underlying technology hasn't changed since October 2001! It's amazing since IE used to release a new version nearly every year. If anything, it just goes to show that MS *needs* someone to challenge them if they are going to create good products. They should stop trying to kill all of their competition and realize that it is actually helping them to make better products.
I don't think you can damage a network by plugging one cable into two ports. If it has 1000 nodes, then they are likely using switches that detect and prevent loops.
I guess if you had 1000 nodes on one gigantic hub it might do something weird, but still, sounds like your school has a messed up network topology if a simple thing like that is causing problems.
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Windows Media Player is available for the Mac (version 9 I think still?) However, it doesn't support any of the fancy DRM, so if you do use Windows Media, make sure it isn't adding a layer of DRM to it as well.
I've used Darwin Streaming Server, and it worked great. I highly recommend it.
I like that idea. It would be nice if they increased the number of representatives. I've written letters to my congressman and senator, and I've only received form letters in return (Sen. Hatch is especially bad at this). It would be great to get a bit more actual attention from the people that we elect so that they can represent us properly.
Something does need to change. It seems that it has become too easy for politicians to give away our rights in the name of fighting terrorism. However, I don't think those suggestions will help the situation.
The Senate is there to provide each state with equal representation. Each state gets 2 senators. If it were reapportioned as you suggest, California would have 50 senators, New York would have 40 and the remaining 10 would be split among the other more wealthy states.
In addition, the White House (the Executive Branch) needs to be a part of the budget process because they need to inform Congress about the amount of money that they need to do their jobs. After all, they "execute" or actually enforce the laws and actually "do" stuff. Without them, gov't would be pointless. Congress still passes the budget, so the money generally isn't given to the executive branch if there is a disagreement (ie, when the gov't is shut down for a week or more because the budget hasn't be decided yet).
The .com namespace is saturated anyway. Notice my website is a .us site as well, because I couldn't get it under .com, .net or .org.
<rant>
If it's one thing I hate, it's a domain squatter! Most names don't even have a site or service under them. Drives me crazy.
</rant>
Look, the US was there first, and paid the initial investment, and set up their root domains. I don't think they ever expected the Internet to ever expand the way it did, until it became such a huge entity. Now they are reluctant to turn management over to someone else since they rely so much on it.
Good grief, you have a severe case of conspiracy theoritis. What does anything that you just said have to do with the Internet transferring management to the UN? Do you think they would actually do a better job? The UN is not the governing body to do this sort of thing. It is not what it was chartered to do.
.xxx domain? Then guess what, they can do a .xxx.de or a .xxx.uk, or a .xxx.fr.
Right now the US controls the root name servers, and they let anybody register a domain name. What? The EU is complaining about the lack of a
Nothing is stopping them from creating these special domain names. They control their own top-level domains.
The Internet works relatively well right now, with a minimum amount of meddling from the US Gov't.
Handing control of the Internet over to another government body that has a hard time of making up it's mind half the time because it makes decisions based on the conflicting desires of it's members is not the right way to do it.
DNS works and should stay the same.
Yes, he knows. He's running a SLI board, which is the nForce chip.
In response to the GP, I've been experiencing quality problems with my MSI board as well, so I switched to a Biostar. I have similar problems with that as well. It could just be the drivers though.
I really don't see the issue with this anyway. To me, it just looks like the EU wants to take away the
I don't think his post is pro-intel :).
If I'm reading it right, the graph is measuring the number of cycles it takes to perform the encryption operation. The Intel P4 takes an insane number of cycles, and the new Nocona processors are substantially better. But then the AMD64 blows them all away.
--
Unrelated to the above posts, I've been impressed with my new AMD64 Cool and Quiet technology. In Linux (I'm not sure if Windows does this, I hope it does) it scales the processor's frequency based on it's load.
Whem I'm browsing the web, the processor is clocked at 1.0Ghz, and when I go to compile something it shoots up to 2.2Ghz. It's great! less power consumption, less heat, quieter fans. As far as I can tell, my Pentium D at work doesn't do this, and boy do I wish it did, it gets hot in my office by mid-afternoon.
Well, I find it interesting that gamers that play Half Life 2 are split nearly evenly. Intel is still in the lead, but AMD has a substantial share.
According to Valve's survey, which results are located at: http://steampowered.com/status/survey.html
AMD has 47.77% and Intel has 52.22%.
You can also see some interesting stats on Video cards.
If you look at the length of the shows like Lost, it is only 45 minutes or so. I'm betting the commercials aren't there. I haven't purchased an episode yet, but I plan on it to see what it's like. I already have a computer hooked up to a projector, so I don't need to buy a pricey video iPod.
This was my experience as well. I asked for a meager amount of money (equivilent to $15 per hour for the estimated work) on several bids and never got them. After a few tries, I figured it wasn't worth the trouble. As it is, finding work isn't that hard now so I went with a steady job instead of the contract work.
We only hate stupid software patents like the infamous OneClick shopping cart, or the patent that is so vague and broad that it covers 90% of technology today.
Specific, insightful patents that are actually used to create something (instead to use as a litigation revenue stream) are okay.
Unfortunately, many companies think that owning stupid software patents is the only way you can make money on software. They have been influenced by the *bad* type of patent. ugh.
That I don't know. However, I just set my default table type to InnoDB and then I don't have those problems. MySQL is usually 2-5 times faster than our Informix 9 database on the same hardware with the InnoDB tables (a Sun box with 2 Sparc IIIi processors and 4GB of ram).
I wonder if Informix 10 has any improvements in the area of speed, but I'll never find out because it's just too hard to upgrade (it takes sooooo long to configure the server so that it performs with any speed).
I can confirm that MySQL 5.0 doesn't allow you to drop a table if it is referenced by a foreign key.
Also, the way to go when you set up MySQL is to set the default table type to InnoDB, which supports transactions, then you don't need to worry about point 3.
I haven't experienced the other two problems. But then, I don't have millions of rows, only hundreds of thousands.
Well, what you described was the normal job of RNA. According to the article, RNA also has the ability to block proteins, and also turn off specific genes.
They state that it has opened up many possibilities in finding out which gene does what. They mention that they have successfully used this technique to stop the spread of some diseases, like Hepatitis B and it could possibly lead them to discover more about cancer.
Read the HTML article, it is very interesting and informative for anybody who is interested in genetics.
- only allow cookies to be set by the originating website
- hosts file that blocks most ad sites
- Get adblock
I believe that answers your concerns. Don't accept cookies from ad sites. You got a +4 insightful for not reading the post you were responding to???Cookies don't track which sites you go to. A cookie has a domain that it actually is assigned to. When you visit that domain, the web browser sends that cookie to the server. If I go to amazon.com and they put a cookie on my system, then the only people who can look at it is amazon.com. They can't tell that I also went to overstock.com and looked at books. And overstock can't tell that I've been to amazon.
The only time they can get this information is if a third party has an Ad, or some other content on both sites (which is what makes cookies from ad sites more dangerous).
So really, when you go to the gas station, the attendant doesn't have to put a tracking device on your car. Just record your license plate (after all, isn't that all a GUID is?) Your car always has it's license plate, and so they can see who it is. Then they can track your usage at the gas station.
Cookies can provide useful information to the site developer. You like visiting well designed websites right? Getting information that will help you streamline the site is a good reason to track those statistics.
You are being too paranoid. Get adblock, only allow cookies to be set by the originating website and use a hosts file that blocks most ad sites and then you won't have to worry about it.
If you want people to stop blocking all of your incredibly annoying ads, make them inobtrusive and useful.
Google has the right idea, ads based on the content of the page, taking up just a little space, no animation to draw your attention from the real content on the page. With that method, if I want to find someone who is selling what I just read about, I know where to look!
I know *I* died of the pain from that movie after that it came out. It sure is fun here in the afterlife though. I get to read /. all day long!
No. In fact, anyone can go and take a picture of anything in public.
;)
Now, if it was taking pictures of *inside* your house, you might have an issue.
What commodity parts? I can't even find the processors to purchase. I'd love to buy a G5 and install linux on it. But I have only been able to find slow G4's that cost $600 for just the processor and motherboard.
History shows that they don't need a superior windows-based "solution". They've killed off any number of upstarts (e.g. netscape) by offering something roughly comparable.
I agree somewhat, but I really think Netscape shot itself in the foot. Netscape 4 was a great browser, and really was better than IE 4. But then IE 5 came out, and what was Netscape's response? Version 6 of their browser sucked so bad that I dropped it immediately and switched, even though I dislike Microsoft. The main problem was that it was slow and a huge resource hog. It never got better, and then Netscape died and was gobbled up by AOL.
MS then made the mistake by dissolving their IE development team after they had killed Netscape. The underlying technology hasn't changed since October 2001! It's amazing since IE used to release a new version nearly every year. If anything, it just goes to show that MS *needs* someone to challenge them if they are going to create good products. They should stop trying to kill all of their competition and realize that it is actually helping them to make better products.
I don't think you can damage a network by plugging one cable into two ports. If it has 1000 nodes, then they are likely using switches that detect and prevent loops.
I guess if you had 1000 nodes on one gigantic hub it might do something weird, but still, sounds like your school has a messed up network topology if a simple thing like that is causing problems.