...comes from a marx brothers movie. it's the password to get into the speakeasy. how it became a completely unrelated travolta title, I'll never know...
let's see.... private investors dump big money into DSL and "last mile" internet boom companies.
billions of dollars go into laying networks all over the country.
said private companies go bankrupt because they invested everything in hardware, and before they could get to having a customer base and providing quality services, the well of infinite VC money dries up.
now, there are networks running everywhere, going unused or underused because the companies that built them are no longer solvent.
then, here comes HR1291, and the market gets picked up and closed up.
so, in the end, the giant telcos that were once declared a monopoly and broken up, will now be seeing a lot more flexibility in joining forces. they won't have to open up their local markets anymore. they will inherit the networks laid out by defunct companies that built on the money of investors who lost their shirts. and then, they'll control internet telephony.
oracle already runs on linux. i've run 8.1.5, 8.1.6 and 8.1.7 on redhat 6.2 without any problems. i have a development 8.1.6 server that has been up and getting hammered for almost a year now without a reboot or a restart or oracle.
Or like the signpost in the front yard with the little tag that says "sold", it serves no purpose but to advertise the agent's name and number for another potential buyer.
Well, it also serves the purpose of stopping other realtors and prospective buyers from wandering through your yard if you've just bought a house... It should usually stay up for a week or two after you've bought the place for this very reason.
The net is indispensible, and largely removes the realtor from your searches.
We used realtor.com for the most part. Basically, if you just call an agent, they're not going to listen to what you're looking for, and they're going to take you to things that they have listed and want to get rid of. They're salespeople, after all. They will also want you to sign an "exclusive" agreement stating that you will not use any other agents for a period of time.
What we would do is search realtor.com and harmonhomes.com (a local to CT site, which unfortunately was recently redesigned to the point of uselessness) and find the things that specifically fit what we were looking for. We would print out maps to them (a feature on realtor.com), and drive by to see if it was something we'd like before ever calling the agent.
If we liked it, we'd call the agent and they'd take us out to look at it. Only once was the "exclusive agreement" brought up, and we insisted that it be a 24-hour agreement. Don't get roped into anything else, although I understand that these things are indefensible legally.
This saved us a lot of time, kept us away from realtors as much as possible, and found us our dream home, which we just closed on last week.
One more bit of advice -- get your mortgage through a broker, not through a bank. Mortgage brokers *only* deal with mortgages, so they're not distracted by everyday banking things, they can give you a boatload of options rather than the bank's 1 or 2 options, and they can often get you approved more easily, since they deal with a lot more mortgages than just one, so your mortgage becomes part of a "package" where millions are borrowed rather than a couple of hundred thousand.
Jesus Christ, man, has someone stolen your lithium?
.NET will not even approach the internet development being done in Java today. This year's JavaOne conference in San Francisco had too many attendees for the space. They're pursuing battle on grounds that are unproven, uknown, and largely already taken up by Sun Microsystems.
Look, here's Windows 2000... no, wait, look, here's Windows Me, no, wait, OVER HERE! It's WINDOWS XP!
Open your eyes, they're running scared and pursuing a business model that, in all likelihood, will drive them out of the industry if they stay with it. Noone wants to pay a monthly fee for software. It's hard enough being a specialized ASP in today's business world, nevermind trying to be an ASP for virtually *every* application on a single computer.
Personally, I believe that they're shooting themselves in their collective feet.
it's always good to start your responses with the word "wrong." it makes for good discourse.
and yes, you are misinterpreting:] my point was that spoof is an older word, and rather friendly to boot, which is why it sticks in people's heads. kind of like "sniff," my other example, which is also very friendly and commonly used.
8th grade graduation was indeed very nice, and one of my fondest memories -- getting out for summer vacation, heading home, getting into a little 12' brockway skiff and cruising through the saltwater creeks... it was almost as nice as when i got my bachelor's, although it certainly didn't do me as well in the job market:]
it isn't the password that is defeating "easy to use," it's the fact that if I PGP encrypt an email in outlook express and send it to a non-savvy OE user, they're never going to read it.
There needs to be some way for the mail clients to automatically grab the public key.
I keep hearing "spoofing" more and more from the non-technical, although they have no idea what it means. Unfortunately we had a CTO who, whenever anyone mentioned security, would say "We're not going to be spoofed," so now our CEO has to ask about it all the time....
Packet sniffing seems to be making its way around as well, and is equally misunderstood. Maybe it's the familiarity with words like "spoof" or "sniff" that's helping them make the rounds, but either way it's getting annoying.
You're looking at it as if people would be buying the ps2 *just* for the linux stuff.
See, it's a game console, and there are a lot of really cool games out for it. It also plays DVDs.
So it becomes the "living room appliance" that everyone has been trying to achieve for the last 5 years. I don't understand why people are so against it....
Go back and read any of the 10 million previous debates on this subject. Every time they post something about a port to a console, this debate gets run through again. Here, in a nutshell, are some of the main reasons:
1. M.A.M.E. -- run a bazillion and one arcade games with a nice controller from your couch
2. XMMS -- burn off a CD of a bootable kernel, audio drivers and XMMS with a CD full of MP3s and you've got an MP3 player hooked up to your home theater
3. Because it is there. Why the hell not port it? If you don't want to use it, it's quite simple -- don't. I know a lot of people who enjoy getting things ported just for the fun of it -- why not see the linux boot screen scrolling by on your television? Seems pretty cool to me.
This may however have been an early design feature that has now been edited out; we checked it with Netscape 6 on Windows, and got in without trouble. But we've also heard from people who couldn't get in with 6, and earlier versions of Netscape, Opera (even 5.11 pretending to be IE) don't work. We've got one Mac user saying he got in with IE 5 - we don't know how either.
It's not a big, public launch, and like any launch of a web-based product, you're going to see browser incompatibilities. If my company could get back every dime spent on dealing with the differences between IE and Netscape, we'd be in a hell of a lot better market position.
If MS somehow tries to maintain that it will always require Windows/IE, then you've got a problem. But this, this is nothing yet.
the main reason for the show's popularity is its.... well, japanese-ness.
take that away, and you've got a lot of money wasted on a failed television project. not the first, not the last, but it realy seems like there are just so many better projects otu here to spend money on.
I don't have explicit permission to access their web sites, either. I fire up a very similar client to view their website, and noone has invited me or forced me to sign agreements, or even presented me with notice that *this* access is ok but *that* access isn't.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a hacker, I'm not interested in data stored in anyone's databases, I'm just playing devil's advocate here and pointing out that there are some serious holes in the law, as well as generic DB security.
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...comes from a marx brothers movie. it's the password to get into the speakeasy. how it became a completely unrelated travolta title, I'll never know...
i haven't been able to find any projects for dishnetwork ,but they've got to be out there somewhere...
asking people to pay for things is "anti-consumer"?
let's see.... private investors dump big money into DSL and "last mile" internet boom companies.
billions of dollars go into laying networks all over the country.
said private companies go bankrupt because they invested everything in hardware, and before they could get to having a customer base and providing quality services, the well of infinite VC money dries up.
now, there are networks running everywhere, going unused or underused because the companies that built them are no longer solvent.
then, here comes HR1291, and the market gets picked up and closed up.
so, in the end, the giant telcos that were once declared a monopoly and broken up, will now be seeing a lot more flexibility in joining forces. they won't have to open up their local markets anymore. they will inherit the networks laid out by defunct companies that built on the money of investors who lost their shirts. and then, they'll control internet telephony.
what a beautiful scam.
esses? dis? romeovoid? unet #quake?
things like this make me miss hardfloor.
how is this any different from the limits on distributing the VB runtimes, or necessary proprietary DLLs?
oracle already runs on linux. i've run 8.1.5, 8.1.6 and 8.1.7 on redhat 6.2 without any problems. i have a development 8.1.6 server that has been up and getting hammered for almost a year now without a reboot or a restart or oracle.
Given the never-ending security flaws found in other webservers, has a major turning point in web server design come about?
Let's see... I can make Apache or IIS run as a specific user whose access I can (largely) control, or I can run my web server in kernel space....
This is going to end "security flaws"?
right, and i'm sure that congresspeople and their families never email unencrypted from home...
collected dirt of any kind is a scary thing.
Or like the signpost in the front yard with the little tag that says "sold", it serves no purpose but to advertise the agent's name and number for another potential buyer.
Well, it also serves the purpose of stopping other realtors and prospective buyers from wandering through your yard if you've just bought a house... It should usually stay up for a week or two after you've bought the place for this very reason.
The net is indispensible, and largely removes the realtor from your searches.
We used realtor.com for the most part. Basically, if you just call an agent, they're not going to listen to what you're looking for, and they're going to take you to things that they have listed and want to get rid of. They're salespeople, after all. They will also want you to sign an "exclusive" agreement stating that you will not use any other agents for a period of time.
What we would do is search realtor.com and harmonhomes.com (a local to CT site, which unfortunately was recently redesigned to the point of uselessness) and find the things that specifically fit what we were looking for. We would print out maps to them (a feature on realtor.com), and drive by to see if it was something we'd like before ever calling the agent.
If we liked it, we'd call the agent and they'd take us out to look at it. Only once was the "exclusive agreement" brought up, and we insisted that it be a 24-hour agreement. Don't get roped into anything else, although I understand that these things are indefensible legally.
This saved us a lot of time, kept us away from realtors as much as possible, and found us our dream home, which we just closed on last week.
One more bit of advice -- get your mortgage through a broker, not through a bank. Mortgage brokers *only* deal with mortgages, so they're not distracted by everyday banking things, they can give you a boatload of options rather than the bank's 1 or 2 options, and they can often get you approved more easily, since they deal with a lot more mortgages than just one, so your mortgage becomes part of a "package" where millions are borrowed rather than a couple of hundred thousand.
thanks for heads-up, slashdot. maybe later you can tell us about a weather report at cnn.com.
Jesus Christ, man, has someone stolen your lithium?
.NET will not even approach the internet development being done in Java today. This year's JavaOne conference in San Francisco had too many attendees for the space. They're pursuing battle on grounds that are unproven, uknown, and largely already taken up by Sun Microsystems.
Look, here's Windows 2000... no, wait, look, here's Windows Me, no, wait, OVER HERE! It's WINDOWS XP!
Open your eyes, they're running scared and pursuing a business model that, in all likelihood, will drive them out of the industry if they stay with it. Noone wants to pay a monthly fee for software. It's hard enough being a specialized ASP in today's business world, nevermind trying to be an ASP for virtually *every* application on a single computer.
Personally, I believe that they're shooting themselves in their collective feet.
it's always good to start your responses with the word "wrong." it makes for good discourse.
:] my point was that spoof is an older word, and rather friendly to boot, which is why it sticks in people's heads. kind of like "sniff," my other example, which is also very friendly and commonly used.
:]
and yes, you are misinterpreting
8th grade graduation was indeed very nice, and one of my fondest memories -- getting out for summer vacation, heading home, getting into a little 12' brockway skiff and cruising through the saltwater creeks... it was almost as nice as when i got my bachelor's, although it certainly didn't do me as well in the job market
it isn't the password that is defeating "easy to use," it's the fact that if I PGP encrypt an email in outlook express and send it to a non-savvy OE user, they're never going to read it.
There needs to be some way for the mail clients to automatically grab the public key.
I keep hearing "spoofing" more and more from the non-technical, although they have no idea what it means. Unfortunately we had a CTO who, whenever anyone mentioned security, would say "We're not going to be spoofed," so now our CEO has to ask about it all the time....
Packet sniffing seems to be making its way around as well, and is equally misunderstood. Maybe it's the familiarity with words like "spoof" or "sniff" that's helping them make the rounds, but either way it's getting annoying.
is there anyone out there with a good success story on receiving options?
anyone with a startup?
And isn't life all about getting a woody?
not if you're female, friend.
You're looking at it as if people would be buying the ps2 *just* for the linux stuff.
See, it's a game console, and there are a lot of really cool games out for it. It also plays DVDs.
So it becomes the "living room appliance" that everyone has been trying to achieve for the last 5 years. I don't understand why people are so against it....
Go back and read any of the 10 million previous debates on this subject. Every time they post something about a port to a console, this debate gets run through again. Here, in a nutshell, are some of the main reasons:
1. M.A.M.E. -- run a bazillion and one arcade games with a nice controller from your couch
2. XMMS -- burn off a CD of a bootable kernel, audio drivers and XMMS with a CD full of MP3s and you've got an MP3 player hooked up to your home theater
3. Because it is there. Why the hell not port it? If you don't want to use it, it's quite simple -- don't. I know a lot of people who enjoy getting things ported just for the fun of it -- why not see the linux boot screen scrolling by on your television? Seems pretty cool to me.
This may however have been an early design feature that has now been edited out; we checked it with Netscape 6 on Windows, and got in without trouble. But we've also heard from people who couldn't get in with 6, and earlier versions of Netscape, Opera (even 5.11 pretending to be IE) don't work. We've got one Mac user saying he got in with IE 5 - we don't know how either.
It's not a big, public launch, and like any launch of a web-based product, you're going to see browser incompatibilities. If my company could get back every dime spent on dealing with the differences between IE and Netscape, we'd be in a hell of a lot better market position.
If MS somehow tries to maintain that it will always require Windows/IE, then you've got a problem. But this, this is nothing yet.
From what I've read, the movie is actually being shown in Japan, but it has been altered because "it made the Japanese look like bad guys."
Is there a lot of revisionist history going on in this one? I'm not going to spend a single penny on it, but it would be interesting to know.
the main reason for the show's popularity is its.... well, japanese-ness.
take that away, and you've got a lot of money wasted on a failed television project. not the first, not the last, but it realy seems like there are just so many better projects otu here to spend money on.
Goddammit, Family Guy is funny and all, but somebody needs to pick up Home Movies. It was genius.
I don't have explicit permission to access their web sites, either. I fire up a very similar client to view their website, and noone has invited me or forced me to sign agreements, or even presented me with notice that *this* access is ok but *that* access isn't.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a hacker, I'm not interested in data stored in anyone's databases, I'm just playing devil's advocate here and pointing out that there are some serious holes in the law, as well as generic DB security.