It shouldn't be this easy to do this. Every registrar service now, during a default availability search, lets you check boxes while registering to snag wahtever.com,.net and.org -- this totally defeats the purpose of having different TLDs...
Regulation? Anyone? Anyone alive at ICANN?
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I think it's because the Beatles were already the second coming, NKOTB was the third, and the Maurice Star boy groups (the Bel Biv D'Jours) kind muck up the numbers from there.
Maybe we need, like, a Sony Music Corp Voice of a Generation, and a Warner Brothers Voice of a Generation, a Geffen Voice of a Generation and so on. That way it'd be easier to keep things straight.
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my favorite is the html generating scripts
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Every search you do through gnutella now comes back with an html page named [whatever-you-searched-for].html -- it's a page with javascript to load a porn site.
It's just ironic when you're searching for something like Zappa and you end up a a britney spears porn site.
Perfect metaphor for today's music industry. Last night during every commercial break Fox was touting britney as "The Voice of a Generation."
People still don't interact much differently than they did during the DOS days, at least not the flatworm IQ people we're talking about here.
We're not talking slashdotters here, we're talking about that one woman in the office who will call you to tell you that her computer is broken because she didn't realize after 5 years of using it that there is a power switch on the monitor.
Just like in the days of DOS, most people just follow the same rigid patterns that they did then. Most people still don't right-click, or even know that they can.
They just log in, perform the 6 clicks/data entry things that they have to, then log out. I don't think they actually had to learn to use computers, I think they had to learn by rote the 6 steps to get the awful computer-related job done.
I mean, MS wouldn't have "invented" that little paper clip if there wasn't some sort of need for it.
By this same argument, however, if you can have MS Office 2000/Exchange compatibility (which I think we will see within a year from helixcode with Evolution.
All we really need is an open-source version of CDO (MS's Collaboration Data Objects) library to accomplish absolutely everything Exchange/Outlook can do. Between CDO and MAPI you can do just about anything with Exchange.
It's all well and good that there's PR out there about this.
As someone who is building a large portal with Redhat, it'd be nice to have some kind of technical reference as to how they've built it. What are they using to handle the clustering? Are they using the Piranha stuff that comes with Redhat 6.2, or are they using hardware, or maybe something they've written themselves? Are they using sessions, and if so how are they handling them?
Are any parts of the cluster sharing processing power, or they all just individual boxes clustered to appear as one?
I think it's great that they're getting press, I'm just hoping that one of these days there will be something published on how it all went down.
And any attempts to go after Gnutella (a true file-sharing utility just like anonymous FTP) will be fruitless.
Well, your IP address is always available when you're using gnutella.
I mention this only because people are genuinely starting to believe that there's anonymity involved in using gnutella. There isn't. It can all be traced.
Lars was awfully nice about the record companies. If you go back through the history of Metallica, you'll probably find, oh, say, one or two quotes from him that weren't quite so kind.
One thing to remember is that bands/artist != the RIAA. For all of the bitching that everyone seems to do nowadays about the RIAA, noone has been as screwed by them as the musicians have.
Check out the new legislation wherein the rights to music no longer fall back to the artist after 35(?) years. The RIAA lobbyists recently managed to screw musicians out of the rights to their own material yet again, on a federal level.
So what are we gonna do? How are we going to take this medium and empower artists while trying not to feed the sharks?
Piracy has little to do with DeCSS. Even the MPAA cannot cite an example of it being used for this. This is a case about communicating ideas learned by examining copyrighted material. This does not present a "danger" - in fact, just the opposite, suppressing it is the far more dangerous path.
This is what kills me. With the whole VCD and DivX thing going on right now, and the fact that you can download a full length movie in MS's.ASF format from a website, FTP site, News Server or (theoretically) via DCC on IRC, this DeCSS thing would seem quaint if it weren't for its possible ramifications on our future.
Kinda like suing Napster... Really, what's the point? What about Scour or Gnutella, or Freenet, or the countless other FILE SHARING utilities that are popping up...
It's ludicrous to go after the people making the tools and utilities necessary to commit illegal acts of piracy. Noone sues gun companies for making guns that are used to kill, or for posting schematics that could be used to build them.
Code is free speech. Utilities can be shared. Just don't get caught using them.
This is the 'Napster generates sales' defence. I've often seen it used, but never seen it verified. Anecdotal evidence aside, is there any hard evidence that 'piracy' leads to increased sales and/or readers?
This argument implies that there is hard evidence to prove that 'piracy' leads to decreased sales. The argument works both ways. It's not as obvious as you would think.
there are a bunch of things to look out for though
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Most servlet hosting companies are using a shared VM for all of their hosted accounts. This is really, really bad. If any one account's code crashes, everyone's account goes with it.
It's also extremely insecure to have people sharing the memory space.
This is easily worked around if the hosting company uses JServ, knows about servlet zones and has a boatload of RAM to devote to each account, which is where the expense comes in. To have a secure environment to run your servlets in you need your own chunk of 16+ megs of RAM, which gets pretty expensive for the hosting company.
I sent in a question to ask slashdot to see if there were any such projects going, or to see if anyone would want to start one. For every one of these startup tech companies grabbing headlines with their "genius ideas," there is a sci-fi writer who came up with the idea 20-50 years ago.
It's about time the men and women who came up with the ideas got credit for them.
Good to know. But does this mean that after deleting the file you can no longer do FrontPage authoring? That's kind of the point of having them there in the first place...
Why do people feel the need to write shit like "WRONG!" in huge capital letters? Are you that pleased with yourself? Do you think it lends more credibility to your argument?
Tha isn't even just an inconvenience, or sloppy code, it's a freaking nightmare.
If you're trying to do any real session tracking, for things like testing, where students are only allowed to see a question once, the resizing issue is HUGE.
It isn't necessary, and creates some major issues for web developers. It's high time that SOMEONE over there figured this out and figured out how to resize a freaking window properly.
It won't do you any good to have the file. The servers that it connects to are down, and it won't connect to any of the regular napster servers anyway. I tried using a whole bunch of servers listed in napigator with no luck.
This is a very strong point on matters that will drive the market for the next several years.
I work for a software company that is moving away from the "shrinkwrap" package we've been selling to an ASP/Portal model, and you've stated exactly why.
Instead of supporting a million installations of the software all over the world, on 8 different operating systems on seemingly infinite different system configurations, we will only have one installation, and we will have physical access to it. If something goes wrong, we can get up and go fix it.
Most of today's browsers aren't exactly "thin," but the thin-client metaphor fits -- they may be bloated, but they're ubiquitous. Various unices of various weights can fill just about every niche out there.
While QNX is not exactly Unix, it's growing on a branch pretty close to the tree, and it's the underlying system on all of those i-openers everyone seems to be stocking up on these days. It's also embedded in thousands of things today, and has a toehold that Linux has not yet achieved... but it is still an example of "a" unix running the appliances. It was almost even the base of the next Amiga OS.
Web-based systems are only going to grow in strength and number for the next several years, and the myriad of Unices and their offspring will be morphed to fit into just about every niche.
Slashdot Mirror
Try download.com - try downloads.com - try uploads.com - try freeware.com - try shareware.com
.net and .org -- this totally defeats the purpose of having different TLDs...
It shouldn't be this easy to do this. Every registrar service now, during a default availability search, lets you check boxes while registering to snag wahtever.com,
Regulation? Anyone? Anyone alive at ICANN?
I think it's because the Beatles were already the second coming, NKOTB was the third, and the Maurice Star boy groups (the Bel Biv D'Jours) kind muck up the numbers from there.
Maybe we need, like, a Sony Music Corp Voice of a Generation, and a Warner Brothers Voice of a Generation, a Geffen Voice of a Generation and so on. That way it'd be easier to keep things straight.
sure. it's right here.
Every search you do through gnutella now comes back with an html page named [whatever-you-searched-for].html -- it's a page with javascript to load a porn site.
It's just ironic when you're searching for something like Zappa and you end up a a britney spears porn site.
Perfect metaphor for today's music industry. Last night during every commercial break Fox was touting britney as "The Voice of a Generation."
heh. heheheheheh. hehehehehahahahahahahBAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA
People still don't interact much differently than they did during the DOS days, at least not the flatworm IQ people we're talking about here.
We're not talking slashdotters here, we're talking about that one woman in the office who will call you to tell you that her computer is broken because she didn't realize after 5 years of using it that there is a power switch on the monitor.
Just like in the days of DOS, most people just follow the same rigid patterns that they did then. Most people still don't right-click, or even know that they can.
They just log in, perform the 6 clicks/data entry things that they have to, then log out. I don't think they actually had to learn to use computers, I think they had to learn by rote the 6 steps to get the awful computer-related job done.
I mean, MS wouldn't have "invented" that little paper clip if there wasn't some sort of need for it.
By this same argument, however, if you can have MS Office 2000/Exchange compatibility (which I think we will see within a year from helixcode with Evolution.
All we really need is an open-source version of CDO (MS's Collaboration Data Objects) library to accomplish absolutely everything Exchange/Outlook can do. Between CDO and MAPI you can do just about anything with Exchange.
It's all well and good that there's PR out there about this.
As someone who is building a large portal with Redhat, it'd be nice to have some kind of technical reference as to how they've built it. What are they using to handle the clustering? Are they using the Piranha stuff that comes with Redhat 6.2, or are they using hardware, or maybe something they've written themselves? Are they using sessions, and if so how are they handling them?
Are any parts of the cluster sharing processing power, or they all just individual boxes clustered to appear as one?
I think it's great that they're getting press, I'm just hoping that one of these days there will be something published on how it all went down.
Sun Ra is an exception to just about any rule.
If you spend about 12 hours a day communicating non-verbally, eventually your thought processes tend to lean that way.
Much like those of us who keep throwing tech garble into sentences, or trying to figure out how to express a smiley in real life...
You just smile.
And any attempts to go after Gnutella (a true file-sharing utility just like anonymous FTP) will be fruitless.
Well, your IP address is always available when you're using gnutella.
I mention this only because people are genuinely starting to believe that there's anonymity involved in using gnutella. There isn't. It can all be traced.
Lars was awfully nice about the record companies. If you go back through the history of Metallica, you'll probably find, oh, say, one or two quotes from him that weren't quite so kind.
One thing to remember is that bands/artist != the RIAA. For all of the bitching that everyone seems to do nowadays about the RIAA, noone has been as screwed by them as the musicians have.
Check out the new legislation wherein the rights to music no longer fall back to the artist after 35(?) years. The RIAA lobbyists recently managed to screw musicians out of the rights to their own material yet again, on a federal level.
So what are we gonna do? How are we going to take this medium and empower artists while trying not to feed the sharks?
Piracy has little to do with DeCSS. Even the MPAA cannot cite an example of it being used for this. This is a case about communicating ideas learned by examining copyrighted material. This does not present a "danger" - in fact, just the opposite, suppressing it is the far more dangerous path.
.ASF format from a website, FTP site, News Server or (theoretically) via DCC on IRC, this DeCSS thing would seem quaint if it weren't for its possible ramifications on our future.
This is what kills me. With the whole VCD and DivX thing going on right now, and the fact that you can download a full length movie in MS's
Kinda like suing Napster... Really, what's the point? What about Scour or Gnutella, or Freenet, or the countless other FILE SHARING utilities that are popping up...
It's ludicrous to go after the people making the tools and utilities necessary to commit illegal acts of piracy. Noone sues gun companies for making guns that are used to kill, or for posting schematics that could be used to build them.
Code is free speech. Utilities can be shared. Just don't get caught using them.
This is the 'Napster generates sales' defence. I've often seen it used, but never seen it verified. Anecdotal evidence aside, is there any hard evidence that 'piracy' leads to increased sales and/or readers?
This argument implies that there is hard evidence to prove that 'piracy' leads to decreased sales. The argument works both ways. It's not as obvious as you would think.
MS Kerberos
*shudder*
Most servlet hosting companies are using a shared VM for all of their hosted accounts. This is really, really bad. If any one account's code crashes, everyone's account goes with it.
It's also extremely insecure to have people sharing the memory space.
This is easily worked around if the hosting company uses JServ, knows about servlet zones and has a boatload of RAM to devote to each account, which is where the expense comes in. To have a secure environment to run your servlets in you need your own chunk of 16+ megs of RAM, which gets pretty expensive for the hosting company.
I sent in a question to ask slashdot to see if there were any such projects going, or to see if anyone would want to start one. For every one of these startup tech companies grabbing headlines with their "genius ideas," there is a sci-fi writer who came up with the idea 20-50 years ago.
It's about time the men and women who came up with the ideas got credit for them.
...don't tie your company's future to one company's success, even/especially if it is Intel.
the broader your market, the broader your sales.
Good to know. But does this mean that after deleting the file you can no longer do FrontPage authoring? That's kind of the point of having them there in the first place...
It's good of Russ to have get a public statement out there, but I've yet to see anything about this actually *on* NT Bugtraq.
Personally, I'd rather see statements sent out to his subscribers than to other press outlets. Go ahead, call me crazy.
He was saying that vorbis doesn't have the patenting and licensing issues that MP3 does have.
The source to the JDK is not free, but the development kit itself is. Anyone can download it, build with it and redistribute it.
Does it actually make you feel superior?
Tha isn't even just an inconvenience, or sloppy code, it's a freaking nightmare.
If you're trying to do any real session tracking, for things like testing, where students are only allowed to see a question once, the resizing issue is HUGE.
It isn't necessary, and creates some major issues for web developers. It's high time that SOMEONE over there figured this out and figured out how to resize a freaking window properly.
scratch that, they're back up and running again.
It won't do you any good to have the file. The servers that it connects to are down, and it won't connect to any of the regular napster servers anyway. I tried using a whole bunch of servers listed in napigator with no luck.
I've got a copy of it, and I've been using it regularly. It's much smaller and neater than the real napster.
If anyone has a place to post it, I've got a copy.
This is a very strong point on matters that will drive the market for the next several years.
I work for a software company that is moving away from the "shrinkwrap" package we've been selling to an ASP/Portal model, and you've stated exactly why.
Instead of supporting a million installations of the software all over the world, on 8 different operating systems on seemingly infinite different system configurations, we will only have one installation, and we will have physical access to it. If something goes wrong, we can get up and go fix it.
Most of today's browsers aren't exactly "thin," but the thin-client metaphor fits -- they may be bloated, but they're ubiquitous. Various unices of various weights can fill just about every niche out there.
While QNX is not exactly Unix, it's growing on a branch pretty close to the tree, and it's the underlying system on all of those i-openers everyone seems to be stocking up on these days. It's also embedded in thousands of things today, and has a toehold that Linux has not yet achieved... but it is still an example of "a" unix running the appliances. It was almost even the base of the next Amiga OS.
Web-based systems are only going to grow in strength and number for the next several years, and the myriad of Unices and their offspring will be morphed to fit into just about every niche.