Try using Google Earth. I think some of the Russian sites are visible, but not as many (and they are spread out over a few different places IIRC). I'm pretty sure there's somewhere you can download the set of little push-pins that have the size (atleast for American ones) and location of nuclear tests. Its sort of fascinating, yet frightening.
The problem I would have with that is(again, this is all if he his hypothetically convicted): If somebody can't be trusted with something as important and easy as not killing the person they have sworn to protect and love, why should they be trusted to do something that is much less important like creating filesystems?
since MS require either a full pallet of money or the first born from a virgin birth to run an update server
Umm, wtf are you smoking? I hate MS, but atleast try to actually use the software before you bitch about it. Installing a WSUS server is pretty fucking painless. And its free, just like its predecessor. True, you do have to have Win 2k or 2k3 server, and SQL Server, but SQL Server express is free, and if you don't have or can't get a copy of Windows server then you probably don't use Windows enough to need a local update server. Its just a matter of installing the server, sync'ing the updates, and setting the group policy so that the clients will connect to your server, not MS's. If you can't handle that, then I don't know why you're on/.
Do you actually think that ISP's will stop charging as much for static IP's? Just because it (in theory) would be cheaper for them doesn't mean they're going to pass the savings on to you. And it is going to cost the ISP's quite a bit more initially, because they'll have to upgrade a lot of equipment.
IPv6 solves problems for the end user? Like hell it does. For almost everything NAT works fine. It means the end user will have to upgrade their Its the fault of the people who designed SIP that SIP is broken when used with NAT. That is something that they should have thought about. Other than SIP, what is a major protocol used by end-users that will not work with NAT? And having to forward a port does not count as not working. And before you say that users shouldn't have to forward a port, they would have to do the equivalent to unblock a port in a firewall with IPv6.
its your job to give what the client want, if you dont do that, you fail in your job The fact that basically nobody has called him about IPv6 support shows that nobody wants it.
There aren't anywhere near enough advantages to IPv6 to justify the massive costs that ISP's and consumers will have to pay to upgrade equipment, work out bugs, etc. IPv6 is just a massive PITA, and isn't really necessary (or used) by/for anyone at this point.
I couldn't agree more. I love OpenVPN, especially the fact that its so versatile. It can go through NAT without any problems, and it can be tunneled over SSH, or sent through an HTTP proxy. It can do username/password authentication, or use certificates, or both. It can have per-client configurations for assigning IP addresses. Its freaking awesome. It makes me wonder why the hell anyone would mess with PPTP or IPSec stuff, especially since NAT is almost everywhere these days.
Have you checked out the 2.0 betas of NeoOffice? They are a pretty big improvement over previous versions. Still slow, but OOo is always slow. It's pretty pathetic when running a starting Microsoft Word via Crossover office takes less time that starting OpenOffice Writer.
mini:~ idontwanttoputmyrealusernamehere$ telnet slashdot.org 80
Trying 66.35.250.150...
Connected to slashdot.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: slashdot.org
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 03:53:05 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) mod_gzip/1.3.26.1a mod_perl/1.29
SLASH_LOG_DATA: shtml
X-Powered-By: Slash 2.005000126
X-Bender: That's not my gold-plated 25-pin connector.
Cache-Control: private
I don't know what your scenario is like exactly, but wouldn't running a little bit of fiber be a *much* better solution than using flaky 802.11 or paying monthly for leased lines? It'll be more secure, much faster, and won't cost you money every month.
And you think this lawsuit is going to *improve* the quality of newspapers? It will have the exact opposite effect. Newspapers will be even less likely to report on anything that might piss anyone off. Why work hard and risk getting sued by reporting on corporate wrong-doing when you can reprint their press releases and spend ten pages talking about entertainment bullshit?
Subsonic and supersonic may be ways of measuring the speed of something, but the speed of sound would essentially be zero in a vacuum, right? Is it refering to how fast the speed of sound would be at sea level here on Earth? Why wouldn't they just say that the solar wind is now moving less than x km/s?
Yeah, but could those run other operating systems? Or run on relatively generic hardware for that matter? Virtualization may not be a new thing, but VMWare has really brought virtualization down from mainframes and big iron proprietary Unix to cheap x86/x86_64 boxes and Linux/Windows. (Though User Mode Linux might have been there before VMware, I don't know). And VMWare ESX could really change how datacenters are run with some of its stuff like VMotion. So, if you need to take a box down for maintenance - no problem, just move the VM's over to another box while they're still running. VMWare's enterprise products can do some really cool stuff, I'll be very interested to see what VMware does with it.
That seems like a great idea, but why give them three chances? Three's enough that they can fuck up a few times and not really care. Two might scare 'em a little more. But then, it doesn't matter because there's no way in hell that Congress would pass any of this. They would fight it nail and tooth.
And if not LAMP, then atleast something based on MSSQL. Access is not meant to handle things with that many tables and presumably quite a bit of (important) data. Not to mention security and reliability.
Considering that the Republicans are in power right now, why is that a surprise or anything? Of course if anything bad happens they will be held accountable by voters. And considering that a lot of those things are caused directly or indirectly by the Republicans, and I don't think that's terribly unfair.
Ozone Layer crumbles - well, the Democrats would probably have been more enviornmentally friendly then a Republican controlled government.
Soldiers killed - Whose brilliant idea was it to go into Iraq because of their weapons of mass destruction? A lot of Democrats went along with it and made the mistake of trusting the president, but Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld were pretty clearly the three people pushing it.
Terrorists Strike the US - Pissing off a large portion of the world is going to have consequences, like it or not. It doesn't mean those consequences are fair or justified, but the best way to limit the threat of terrorism isn't to give people in the middle east more reasons to hate us.
Gass Prices go up - This one may not be quite as cut and dry, but we could probably be doing more to end our dependency on oil. And I doubt a former oil man that was the governor of one of the largest oil producing states is going to be the best person to accomplish that(though he atleast brought the idea up briefly in a State of the Union address IIRC).
I'm not a biologist, but why is this de-evolution? Evolution is just organism's adapting to their environment over many generations through natural selection. There have been plenty of times when simpler organism's triumphed when more complex ones failed. Take the dinosaurs for instance. Simple things like cockroaches and small rodents survived while the much larger and more complicated dinosaurs died out. Types of bacteria have been around basically forever (as far as life on the Earth is concerned).
Really, (again, I'm not a biologist) it seems like simpler organisms are generally the things that make it through massive changes in the enviornment, because the more complicated animals are too-adapted to the current condiditions and can't evolve fast enough (too long of lifespans maybe?). The exception to this might be animals (humans) that are smart enough to either adapt their enviornment to them (for better or worse), or use tools to protect themselves from that change.
I second that. I have a Dell 1700 (non-'n' but I share it via IPP from my server) and I really love it. Its *very* fast (25 ppm, and it really prints that fast), and was only $200. At my school, they have some of the 1700n's and the 1710n's. They seem to work pretty well there too. If you can just share it from a computer you could save a hundred, and not buy the 'n' version. Dell provides drivers for Linux, but you don't need them - just using the generic PCL6 drivers work fine. Same story for OS X, though Dell may not provide official drivesr. Really makes you wonder why MS doesn't ship Windows with generic PS and PCL drivers.
As far as toner usage goes, I've had mine for about a year and a half and only finished off the toner that it shipped with four or five months ago. I think it was a 3,000 page toner. I think the 8,000-ish page toner that I bought as a replacement only cost $90 or so. I've not had any problems with it really, atleast any that weren't due to the server I access it through. The only complaint I might have is that my 1700 could use a little more memory. Somtimes it takes a minute or two for it to start printing if the document is rather large. I don't think the memory for them is that expensive though, so if that becomes a problem for you, you can add some more memory for not too much money.
OpenSuSE isn't really the free version of SLES (though you can download SLES for free, but you'll only get updates for a month or two). OpenSUSE is the open/free version of SuSE Linux (formerly SUSE Pro). OpenSUSE/regular SUSE is kind of like Novell's RHL/Fedora, while SLES (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server) and SLED (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop) are more similar to RHEL as far as who they are targeting. And it sort of seems like they might be going in different directions (regular SUSE more of a KDE approach and SLED/S more of a Gnome approach).
Power over Ethernet. Its used to provide power to devices over the network cable. So, for example, some Cisco access points can pull power directly from its network connection, so you don't have to worry about power outlets in the ceiling. And you can also reset the AP's easily (unlplug them from the switch).
Slashdot Mirror
Try using Google Earth. I think some of the Russian sites are visible, but not as many (and they are spread out over a few different places IIRC). I'm pretty sure there's somewhere you can download the set of little push-pins that have the size (atleast for American ones) and location of nuclear tests. Its sort of fascinating, yet frightening.
The problem I would have with that is(again, this is all if he his hypothetically convicted): If somebody can't be trusted with something as important and easy as not killing the person they have sworn to protect and love, why should they be trusted to do something that is much less important like creating filesystems?
since MS require either a full pallet of money or the first born from a virgin birth to run an update server
/.
Umm, wtf are you smoking? I hate MS, but atleast try to actually use the software before you bitch about it. Installing a WSUS server is pretty fucking painless. And its free, just like its predecessor. True, you do have to have Win 2k or 2k3 server, and SQL Server, but SQL Server express is free, and if you don't have or can't get a copy of Windows server then you probably don't use Windows enough to need a local update server. Its just a matter of installing the server, sync'ing the updates, and setting the group policy so that the clients will connect to your server, not MS's. If you can't handle that, then I don't know why you're on
Do you actually think that ISP's will stop charging as much for static IP's? Just because it (in theory) would be cheaper for them doesn't mean they're going to pass the savings on to you. And it is going to cost the ISP's quite a bit more initially, because they'll have to upgrade a lot of equipment.
IPv6 solves problems for the end user? Like hell it does. For almost everything NAT works fine. It means the end user will have to upgrade their Its the fault of the people who designed SIP that SIP is broken when used with NAT. That is something that they should have thought about. Other than SIP, what is a major protocol used by end-users that will not work with NAT? And having to forward a port does not count as not working. And before you say that users shouldn't have to forward a port, they would have to do the equivalent to unblock a port in a firewall with IPv6.
its your job to give what the client want, if you dont do that, you fail in your job
The fact that basically nobody has called him about IPv6 support shows that nobody wants it.
There aren't anywhere near enough advantages to IPv6 to justify the massive costs that ISP's and consumers will have to pay to upgrade equipment, work out bugs, etc. IPv6 is just a massive PITA, and isn't really necessary (or used) by/for anyone at this point.
While its not a distro that you can just download for free, I *believe* that ESX runs on a Linux kernel.
It could go through the company's servers. They could just not be logging anything about it.
I couldn't agree more. I love OpenVPN, especially the fact that its so versatile. It can go through NAT without any problems, and it can be tunneled over SSH, or sent through an HTTP proxy. It can do username/password authentication, or use certificates, or both. It can have per-client configurations for assigning IP addresses. Its freaking awesome. It makes me wonder why the hell anyone would mess with PPTP or IPSec stuff, especially since NAT is almost everywhere these days.
Have you checked out the 2.0 betas of NeoOffice? They are a pretty big improvement over previous versions. Still slow, but OOo is always slow. It's pretty pathetic when running a starting Microsoft Word via Crossover office takes less time that starting OpenOffice Writer.
Telnet works just fine for me.
mini:~ idontwanttoputmyrealusernamehere$ telnet slashdot.org 80
Trying 66.35.250.150...
Connected to slashdot.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: slashdot.org
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 03:53:05 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) mod_gzip/1.3.26.1a mod_perl/1.29
SLASH_LOG_DATA: shtml
X-Powered-By: Slash 2.005000126
X-Bender: That's not my gold-plated 25-pin connector.
Cache-Control: private
I don't know what your scenario is like exactly, but wouldn't running a little bit of fiber be a *much* better solution than using flaky 802.11 or paying monthly for leased lines? It'll be more secure, much faster, and won't cost you money every month.
Atleast they guarantee *something*.
And you think this lawsuit is going to *improve* the quality of newspapers? It will have the exact opposite effect. Newspapers will be even less likely to report on anything that might piss anyone off. Why work hard and risk getting sued by reporting on corporate wrong-doing when you can reprint their press releases and spend ten pages talking about entertainment bullshit?
No they won't collide.
Even if YouTube were to go bankrupt tomorrow, someone would still pay *big* bucks for their domain name. Probably someone like Google, Yahoo, or MS.
Why should anyone ever have to prove their innocence?
Subsonic and supersonic may be ways of measuring the speed of something, but the speed of sound would essentially be zero in a vacuum, right? Is it refering to how fast the speed of sound would be at sea level here on Earth? Why wouldn't they just say that the solar wind is now moving less than x km/s?
Yeah, but could those run other operating systems? Or run on relatively generic hardware for that matter? Virtualization may not be a new thing, but VMWare has really brought virtualization down from mainframes and big iron proprietary Unix to cheap x86/x86_64 boxes and Linux/Windows. (Though User Mode Linux might have been there before VMware, I don't know). And VMWare ESX could really change how datacenters are run with some of its stuff like VMotion. So, if you need to take a box down for maintenance - no problem, just move the VM's over to another box while they're still running. VMWare's enterprise products can do some really cool stuff, I'll be very interested to see what VMware does with it.
That seems like a great idea, but why give them three chances? Three's enough that they can fuck up a few times and not really care. Two might scare 'em a little more. But then, it doesn't matter because there's no way in hell that Congress would pass any of this. They would fight it nail and tooth.
And if not LAMP, then atleast something based on MSSQL. Access is not meant to handle things with that many tables and presumably quite a bit of (important) data. Not to mention security and reliability.
Considering that the Republicans are in power right now, why is that a surprise or anything? Of course if anything bad happens they will be held accountable by voters. And considering that a lot of those things are caused directly or indirectly by the Republicans, and I don't think that's terribly unfair.
Ozone Layer crumbles - well, the Democrats would probably have been more enviornmentally friendly then a Republican controlled government.
Soldiers killed - Whose brilliant idea was it to go into Iraq because of their weapons of mass destruction? A lot of Democrats went along with it and made the mistake of trusting the president, but Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld were pretty clearly the three people pushing it.
Terrorists Strike the US - Pissing off a large portion of the world is going to have consequences, like it or not. It doesn't mean those consequences are fair or justified, but the best way to limit the threat of terrorism isn't to give people in the middle east more reasons to hate us.
Gass Prices go up - This one may not be quite as cut and dry, but we could probably be doing more to end our dependency on oil. And I doubt a former oil man that was the governor of one of the largest oil producing states is going to be the best person to accomplish that(though he atleast brought the idea up briefly in a State of the Union address IIRC).
Would that really be open source then?
I'm not a biologist, but why is this de-evolution? Evolution is just organism's adapting to their environment over many generations through natural selection. There have been plenty of times when simpler organism's triumphed when more complex ones failed. Take the dinosaurs for instance. Simple things like cockroaches and small rodents survived while the much larger and more complicated dinosaurs died out. Types of bacteria have been around basically forever (as far as life on the Earth is concerned).
Really, (again, I'm not a biologist) it seems like simpler organisms are generally the things that make it through massive changes in the enviornment, because the more complicated animals are too-adapted to the current condiditions and can't evolve fast enough (too long of lifespans maybe?). The exception to this might be animals (humans) that are smart enough to either adapt their enviornment to them (for better or worse), or use tools to protect themselves from that change.
I second that. I have a Dell 1700 (non-'n' but I share it via IPP from my server) and I really love it. Its *very* fast (25 ppm, and it really prints that fast), and was only $200. At my school, they have some of the 1700n's and the 1710n's. They seem to work pretty well there too. If you can just share it from a computer you could save a hundred, and not buy the 'n' version. Dell provides drivers for Linux, but you don't need them - just using the generic PCL6 drivers work fine. Same story for OS X, though Dell may not provide official drivesr. Really makes you wonder why MS doesn't ship Windows with generic PS and PCL drivers.
As far as toner usage goes, I've had mine for about a year and a half and only finished off the toner that it shipped with four or five months ago. I think it was a 3,000 page toner. I think the 8,000-ish page toner that I bought as a replacement only cost $90 or so. I've not had any problems with it really, atleast any that weren't due to the server I access it through. The only complaint I might have is that my 1700 could use a little more memory. Somtimes it takes a minute or two for it to start printing if the document is rather large. I don't think the memory for them is that expensive though, so if that becomes a problem for you, you can add some more memory for not too much money.
OpenSuSE isn't really the free version of SLES (though you can download SLES for free, but you'll only get updates for a month or two). OpenSUSE is the open/free version of SuSE Linux (formerly SUSE Pro). OpenSUSE/regular SUSE is kind of like Novell's RHL/Fedora, while SLES (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server) and SLED (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop) are more similar to RHEL as far as who they are targeting. And it sort of seems like they might be going in different directions (regular SUSE more of a KDE approach and SLED/S more of a Gnome approach).
Power over Ethernet. Its used to provide power to devices over the network cable. So, for example, some Cisco access points can pull power directly from its network connection, so you don't have to worry about power outlets in the ceiling. And you can also reset the AP's easily (unlplug them from the switch).