...they have to pay you. Whether you have something to do or not is not your problem. But then, the tech industry has successfully hosed labor law already (see "permatemp" and "the IRS loves to host stock option losers") so why not screw us over even more.
As doubtless everyone else will say a million times, computers taking that long to boot is a separate problem.
Hey you foreign weirdo, this is the land of the fee and the home of the rave, and don't you forget it. Surely you are not suggesting that the MAFIAA ruin a perfectly good legal extortion scheme by being forced to prove actual damages? Why, that's un-American. Or un-CorporateAmerican, anyway. CorporateAmericans are a protected minority, the poor things have had such a rough time of it. Nobody likes them.
Something that always gets overlooked is how this is also an attempt to kill off the second-hand market. As has been said before, their ultimate goals are to get paid for every viewing and listen, and to cut those pesky greedy artists out of the deal entirely.
Thanks, I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks they were about as much fun as your average drunken sports bar dorks. It wasn't worth wading through the noise to get to the occasional good stuff.
LOSE, not LOOSE. You LOSE your cellphone when it falls into the river. You LOSE your way in the dark woods at night. You LOSE your job because your boss is a dork. You LOOSE (release) the dogs of war. You LOOSEN your belt after eating too much. I may LOSE my hat because it is too LOOSE on my head.
"We geeks read about how we're supposed to act around women."
Well there's the core of the problem right there- you are seeking answers in the wrong places. Every perspective in the world is in print- how are you going to know which one to pay attention to? Did it ever occur to you to talk to the actual live women in your life? Mom, grandma, aunts, sisters, neighbors, friends? That's the core of the divide between men and women- the large segment of men who do not listen to women, and who do not treat us as individuals who are worth getting to know. Who think of us as Woman, Any One Will Do. We're hopping up and down and saying in plain terms how we like to be treated, and they're all fixated on some abstraction with little relationship to reality.
I don't mean this in a mean way- as long as you persist in seeing women as some sort of abstraction, rather than people, you're always going to be confused. Not all women like the bad boys, just the screwed-up ones, and you're never going to know which ones without getting to know them as actual individual people.
This whole article is a persuasive argument for mainframes. Continually servicing cheap hardware that fails is labor-expensive, and replacing all those failed components costs real money. They're only cheap the first time you buy them. I don't see where they're saving money, though the guy does sound like he's having a ball directing armies of lackeys all through these vast, twisty datacenters.
What's the big deal? The big deal is Ebay tightening the screws and removing even more options and incentives for sellers. PayPal is expensive, insecure and unreliable, and if Ebay succeeds in locking sellers in the fees are not going to go down, and fair treatment of sellers is not going to increase.
"Agreed, but on the other hand, they knew what they signed up for. I don't exactly think that soldiers dying is a crime. That's what soldiers do, they kill and die professionally."
I can't believe anyone would say that except in very poor jest- I hope you're making a bad joke. Or perhaps there are a lot of callous, uncaring jerks like you that keep horrible people like Dubya in office.
"Presumably this is why you think "Americans are weenies". What the fuck do you expect the citizens to do, march on DC and shoot the guy?"
No you dunce. I expect people to stand up to the abuses perpetrated by this Administration. At the very least to denounce them. I expect them to hold their Congresscritters accountable and force them to do their jobs, which they seem to think is to rubberstamp whatever the White House wants. I expect them to have enough conscience and balls to stand up for what is right, instead of shrugging their collective shoulders and standing in the "who gives a shit" corner with dorks like you.
and that Americans are weenies. The Bush adminstration has been wiping its collective behind with the Constitution and the Bill of Rights since the day Dubya took office. They stole two elections. The economy is in the toilet, our servicepeople are dying uselessly, and yet this little asshole keeps his job. Thanks. Thanks a lot.
True, there has been only one security hole I can recall, where a correctly-formed "packet of death" cleared the recursive cache. The result is like a DoS attack. There was a third-party patch released, but then there's the same old problem of having to manually apply the patches, and knowing which third-party patches to trust. But it's not just bugs or security problems that make it a no-go for me- it's out of date as well.
It doesn't support IPv6, or SRV, NAPTR, or RP records and other new record types, and the root servers list is hardcoded and out of date. It also has problems with correctly tracking domains that move. Yes, there is a workaround for supporting new record types with some config file tweaks, but really now- that's the sort of thing that a maintainer should be handling, and adding native support for. 7 years of no maintenance is like dog's years in software time.
I suspect the problem lies elsewhere, because I've set up Dnsmasq for a large number of my customers and have been using it for years. On the largest network it's supporting around 90 nodes without any problems. The smallest one is about 15 users. It just works.
I agree, Maradns is an excellent authoritative name server and caching resolver. Unlike the horrid lardy mess that is BIND, it handles very large loads, and it is easy to configure. BIND is a gawdawful bloated mess that should have been laughed into oblivion years ago. Maradns, NSD, and Powerdns are all far superior to BIND. They're sane to administer and much more robust. For LAN DHCP and DNS, try Dnsmasq. Friends don't let friends use BIND.
djbdns is abandonware. It hasn't had an update since 2001, and you can believe in perfect code that doesn't ever need updating if you want to, but I don't. DJB's crazy licensing meant that only patches could be distributed, not modified sources or binaries, which effectively killed any community support. Now that it's public domain it's possible for someone to pick it up and start maintaining it again, and I'll wait until that happens before using it again. I can live with DJB's complete disregard of filesystem conventions and stuffing a whole lot of new top-level directories for no good reason into the system, and creating a bunch of unnecessary new management daemons (daemontools). But not maintaining his own software makes it a no-go, especially something as crucial as name services.
And kids, and vehicles, and visitors...this is such utter crap. "Do no evil" indeed. You can't just say "do no evil", you have to actually do no evil to have any credibility.
It's unthinkable that a story posted on/. should ever receive anything but careful, reasoned analysis. This story implies that most/. commenters are knee-jerk hypercritical dorks who don't read anything or like anything. Some people.
Wow, that never happens. It's all those other well-defined groups who riot when someone says whatever random thing they don't like. Oh wait, no it isn't.
"...its websites", my dear Editor in Chief. Possessive. Not "it's", which is a contraction of "it is." Unless you think that "Microsoft still has not adopted Silverlight, and uses Flash all over it is websites" is correct.
Are you proud of taking a paycheck to be so sloppy? Of course your entire premise is raw, unpolished, content-free flamebait. But good flamebait should still use correct punctuation.
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...they have to pay you. Whether you have something to do or not is not your problem. But then, the tech industry has successfully hosed labor law already (see "permatemp" and "the IRS loves to host stock option losers") so why not screw us over even more.
As doubtless everyone else will say a million times, computers taking that long to boot is a separate problem.
Hey you foreign weirdo, this is the land of the fee and the home of the rave, and don't you forget it. Surely you are not suggesting that the MAFIAA ruin a perfectly good legal extortion scheme by being forced to prove actual damages? Why, that's un-American. Or un-CorporateAmerican, anyway. CorporateAmericans are a protected minority, the poor things have had such a rough time of it. Nobody likes them.
Something that always gets overlooked is how this is also an attempt to kill off the second-hand market. As has been said before, their ultimate goals are to get paid for every viewing and listen, and to cut those pesky greedy artists out of the deal entirely.
"Um, do what any network admin does with a rouge device."
What he would do with any red device- admire the pretty color. Duh.
Oh quit laughing, it could happen!
Thanks, I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks they were about as much fun as your average drunken sports bar dorks. It wasn't worth wading through the noise to get to the occasional good stuff.
bravo! Now let's attack the chronic problems of lose/loose and the pandemic of random apostrophes, and that will be a good thorough rant :D
Thank you.
"We geeks read about how we're supposed to act around women." Well there's the core of the problem right there- you are seeking answers in the wrong places. Every perspective in the world is in print- how are you going to know which one to pay attention to? Did it ever occur to you to talk to the actual live women in your life? Mom, grandma, aunts, sisters, neighbors, friends? That's the core of the divide between men and women- the large segment of men who do not listen to women, and who do not treat us as individuals who are worth getting to know. Who think of us as Woman, Any One Will Do. We're hopping up and down and saying in plain terms how we like to be treated, and they're all fixated on some abstraction with little relationship to reality. I don't mean this in a mean way- as long as you persist in seeing women as some sort of abstraction, rather than people, you're always going to be confused. Not all women like the bad boys, just the screwed-up ones, and you're never going to know which ones without getting to know them as actual individual people.
It says he's still lacking in clues.
This whole article is a persuasive argument for mainframes. Continually servicing cheap hardware that fails is labor-expensive, and replacing all those failed components costs real money. They're only cheap the first time you buy them. I don't see where they're saving money, though the guy does sound like he's having a ball directing armies of lackeys all through these vast, twisty datacenters.
What's the big deal? The big deal is Ebay tightening the screws and removing even more options and incentives for sellers. PayPal is expensive, insecure and unreliable, and if Ebay succeeds in locking sellers in the fees are not going to go down, and fair treatment of sellers is not going to increase.
"Agreed, but on the other hand, they knew what they signed up for. I don't exactly think that soldiers dying is a crime. That's what soldiers do, they kill and die professionally." I can't believe anyone would say that except in very poor jest- I hope you're making a bad joke. Or perhaps there are a lot of callous, uncaring jerks like you that keep horrible people like Dubya in office. "Presumably this is why you think "Americans are weenies". What the fuck do you expect the citizens to do, march on DC and shoot the guy?" No you dunce. I expect people to stand up to the abuses perpetrated by this Administration. At the very least to denounce them. I expect them to hold their Congresscritters accountable and force them to do their jobs, which they seem to think is to rubberstamp whatever the White House wants. I expect them to have enough conscience and balls to stand up for what is right, instead of shrugging their collective shoulders and standing in the "who gives a shit" corner with dorks like you.
and that Americans are weenies. The Bush adminstration has been wiping its collective behind with the Constitution and the Bill of Rights since the day Dubya took office. They stole two elections. The economy is in the toilet, our servicepeople are dying uselessly, and yet this little asshole keeps his job. Thanks. Thanks a lot.
True, there has been only one security hole I can recall, where a correctly-formed "packet of death" cleared the recursive cache. The result is like a DoS attack. There was a third-party patch released, but then there's the same old problem of having to manually apply the patches, and knowing which third-party patches to trust. But it's not just bugs or security problems that make it a no-go for me- it's out of date as well.
It doesn't support IPv6, or SRV, NAPTR, or RP records and other new record types, and the root servers list is hardcoded and out of date. It also has problems with correctly tracking domains that move. Yes, there is a workaround for supporting new record types with some config file tweaks, but really now- that's the sort of thing that a maintainer should be handling, and adding native support for. 7 years of no maintenance is like dog's years in software time.
I suspect the problem lies elsewhere, because I've set up Dnsmasq for a large number of my customers and have been using it for years. On the largest network it's supporting around 90 nodes without any problems. The smallest one is about 15 users. It just works.
I agree, Maradns is an excellent authoritative name server and caching resolver. Unlike the horrid lardy mess that is BIND, it handles very large loads, and it is easy to configure. BIND is a gawdawful bloated mess that should have been laughed into oblivion years ago. Maradns, NSD, and Powerdns are all far superior to BIND. They're sane to administer and much more robust. For LAN DHCP and DNS, try Dnsmasq. Friends don't let friends use BIND.
djbdns is abandonware. It hasn't had an update since 2001, and you can believe in perfect code that doesn't ever need updating if you want to, but I don't. DJB's crazy licensing meant that only patches could be distributed, not modified sources or binaries, which effectively killed any community support. Now that it's public domain it's possible for someone to pick it up and start maintaining it again, and I'll wait until that happens before using it again. I can live with DJB's complete disregard of filesystem conventions and stuffing a whole lot of new top-level directories for no good reason into the system, and creating a bunch of unnecessary new management daemons (daemontools). But not maintaining his own software makes it a no-go, especially something as crucial as name services.
If you don't want to get crabbed at, then don't use words like "intuitive" when what you're talking about is the polar opposite of intuitive.
And kids, and vehicles, and visitors...this is such utter crap. "Do no evil" indeed. You can't just say "do no evil", you have to actually do no evil to have any credibility.
It's unthinkable that a story posted on /. should ever receive anything but careful, reasoned analysis. This story implies that most /. commenters are knee-jerk hypercritical dorks who don't read anything or like anything. Some people.
Wow, that never happens. It's all those other well-defined groups who riot when someone says whatever random thing they don't like. Oh wait, no it isn't.
Bravo, a perfect summary! I got suckered too :D
Are you proud of taking a paycheck to be so sloppy? Of course your entire premise is raw, unpolished, content-free flamebait. But good flamebait should still use correct punctuation.
Exactly. A person could spend a lifetime opting-out of every damned thing shoved in our faces.