I have to read the Wall Street Journal for one of my classes & I read an article a while ago about the feds tracing the person that did the Yahoo! attack (Supposedly the rest were copycat crimes). They're claiming that it was all planned on IRC, and they even have some nicks that they believe are the people that did it. So, with all the lawsuits going on, they might be shutting their doors so they can say that they are doing what they can to help prevent this type of thing. Since there are IRC cops, and such things, it is somewhat possible that somebody knew what was going to happen (or could have, had they parsed logs looking for it). I dunno, I'm just rambling out loud, but at least they won't get sued.
Hmmmm.... I was always the guy that everyone knew in High School. Make that weird guy. I sold drugs to friends (Aspirin, tylenol, cough suppresents, etc, all that good illegal lookalike stuff). I carried a pocket knife every day (I'm a Boy Scout), and I had another one hanging off my book bag for all to see (my Mom was always worried that i'd get suspended for that one) I played poker for $$ with my Math teacher. I usually lost, and we kept a tab. When he retired I owed him about $150, but he never collected. So I guess it wasn't real gambling, right? I was a band nerd (first chair trumpet, woohoo!!!), and band kids basically got the run of the school with the security people. Whever we got stopped, we just said the band director had us running errands for him. Oh, and I used to sign my own hall passes (and sell them to friends). My band director's signature was his initials. Pretty easy. I would write myself a pass, get out of class, and then pose as a student helper & 'deliver' my passes to friends that were in class. Mmmmm.... 4th period McDonald's runs. Yummy.
I also got caught being in the wrong class once. I got out of school early (band perks again, no last period), and had to wait around for a friend. So I went to class with him. I told the teacher that I was in the honors section, and was kicked out & told to go to the regular one. I found out the next day that she had asked at the office about me (fake name), and since I didn't exist, a security guy was going to be at the class that day to 'grab' me. Man! You get in trouble for the strangest things in High School.
So, I think I painted a decent picture of myself as a weirdo, a knife wielding maniac, and definitely abnormal, whatever that is. So should I turn myself in? Did I mention that I'm one of the nicest guys you'll ever have the pleasure not to meet?:) Damn profiling. It never works.
I would say, figure out a fair price based on how much you think it is worth now, and how much you could 'easily' make it worth in the next 2-3 years. I don't think labor should come into the equation at all; that is part of what it is worth now. It isn't worth more just cuz you worked harder on it. But beyond all else, make sure you're not going to look back in a few years and be upset that you sold it.
Monopolies have a nice way of dragging things out forever. Like new lawsuits, and preliminary injunctions. Right bastards, they are!
So, if Australia's internet traffic index is at 54/100 now, what are they going to be at in three months, providing that Telstra doesn't delay the inevitable?
I heard something yesterday about 3COM announcing that they would not be attempting to compete with CISCO. I also know that Lucent has been trying to buy 3COM _and_ CISCO for the past couple years. 3COM is just refocusing their strategy, instead of widening it, which is a good thing.
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Personally, I despise any programs requiring incoming students to buy a computer, but for different reasons than most of the people who've already expressed theirs. I'm familiar with a couple schools that require desktops, and/or laptops. Every single one of these schools has a standard computer that they're trying to push their students to buy, and one of them sounds like they're going to do their damndest to make everyone have that specific computer. What if I want to get a better one? I have to buy both?
Personally, I hate laptops. The screens are small (not too much anymore, but they were), smaller resolution, sound sucks, gaming sucks, that little joke of a pencil eraser they call a pointer, they overheat, wear out faster than desktops, blah blah blah. I would seriously consider going to a different school if I was required to purchase and use a laptop cuz I dislike 'em that much. I think the concept is really kewl, but the implementation leaves a lot to be desired. I don't like to use a stripped down computer (palmtops are not part of my argument). If it can't do everything that my computer can do now, I don't want it. Besides that, laptops cost a lot more, and are not easily upgradable. So what are the schools going to do when all their students new computers are outdated & slow when they become Juniors & Seniors? Suggest that they trade-up & get a new one? BS.
A few of my high level ACS classes have a much better solution. With Web-CT and Mallard, teachers can make online tests that you take from your most easily accessible lab or dorm room. They can be timed or open ended within a certain timeframe, we have any resource we can think of open to us (just like the real world), and best of all, no worries about getting a laptop to a test & having it not boot. I've had a couple classes where the teacher allowed us to use any resource we can bring in (open notes, book, laptop...), and I don't like them as much as online tests. If you're gonna allow people to use the internet to answer questions (IRC anyone?) you might as well let them get out of the classroom & out of that stressfull environment to do it.
Nope. I never post anonymously. That's just lame if you have an account. Understandable if you don't, but if you read more than once a week, then you should have an account. I don't care if my posts are moderated down for offtopic or whatever. I'm not a karma whore.
More competition is always good, regardless of who it is from. Mebbe since they'll be fighting a losing battle, they'll sue for an open gaming standard so we can play games on any console we want. Now THAT would be something I would play. As it is, I greatly prefer computer games for their better graphics and multiplayer capabilities. But an open standard would blow that out of the water.
My personal long-running-time favorite was Mrs. (Ms?) PacMan on atari. I played that game for 4-5 hours at a time. Big-ass blisters on my thumbs. But did I sue Atari? Hell no, I was having fun! <br><br> All playstation games make my hands hurt & cramp up; their control just sux. <br><br> I used to run a Quake and then Quake2 server, and my eyes would start to hurt after about 2 hours of playing cuz I didn't blink enough. I've had problems with playing any computer game for longer than 45 minutes at a time since my Quake days. Mebbe I should sue Id for ruining my eyes. Carmack's got plenty of $$ for me to get some. Mebbe I'll settle out of court for one of his cars.....
I'm sure that in the end M$ will port msoffice to Linux. Office is their big cash cow, making more than everything else, and they are bound to realize that as long as they can sell copies, the bottom line doesn't care if they wrote the OS or not. Right now it's a mostly political thing, but as they start to open up their possibilities, they'll move into software areas that they aren't in right now (hard as that may be to believe) and start looking at the bottom line again.
Sure it does. There's always something that can be done to minimize network usage. The most obvious (to me) & most drastic would be to implement some server side compression. Mp3's are compressed already, but they can still be compressed farther to facilitate transfers. The protocol can also be rewritten to be less 'chatty' with the servers. Instead of refreshing itself every so often, make it every not so often, or only on connect/disconnect. I'm sure there's more they can do, I'm not a programming genius, I despise programming. But there are definitely options to decrease bandwidth utilization.
I go to ISU (Illinois, not one of the inferior 'I' states)
They just banned Napster about 6 days ago for taking 60% of the bandwidth. I didn't get the full facts, but I hope this number refers to 60% of the total used bandwidth, not the total available. We have a T3, and another partial. Up from 1 T1 plus a backup when I started school 3.5 years ago.
We can run any servers we want to, but the port may or may not be blocked (pcAnywhere doesn't work)
Outgoing connections to FTP servers on non 21 ports are blocked. Big nuisance, but possible to get around if you try hard enough.
ICQ and AIM work fine and probly will always work, except we have hiccups on our network fairly frequently that kick us offline. AIM much more so than ICQ.
Some of the most popular gaming ports are disabled for either incoming or outgoing connections, I can't remember which. One of them's disabled, but I don't remember if students can play on internet servers, or if they can host them. I think hosting is banned. Examples of this are Quake (all versions).
IP telephony works, I have yet to find one of those free sites that has non-laggy service, so I doubt that many people here will start using it.
A lot of stuff just doesn't work right to do what seems to be continual faulty router settings, but they aren't specifically disabled.
We get the alt.binaries newsgroups, but each one has about a 1.5MB limit, so they're useless.
They're running out of IP's right now, so all the students have internal addresses and are temporarily assigned 'legitimate' addresses when they go and contact the internet. The instant messaging clients probly screw this system royally, cuz they're always connected.
Hotline works. I'm not sure if the powers that be know it even exists. Not really a mainstream app yet.
Our local mirror of Redhat Linux disappeared a while ago, yet it's still listed on Redhat's mirrors.
More things that I can think of that DO work: Samba, webservers, ftpservers, internal gaming on any port, telnet, port scanning internal and external (which means that we get hacking attempts frequently)
Until last year, there was a maximum of 235 or so student connections to the LAN. This was in the ACS house (5 floors of one of the dorms). Last year they started wiring more dorms, with a plan of wiring every single dorm room eventually. The ACS house is still on 10Mb, while all the new ones are 100Mb. Understandable when you see the state that the dorm it's in is in. It was meant as temporary housing, and has existed for over 20 years. The buildings are all interconnected with OC48's (pretty schweet, if they had hardware that could run fast enough)
I can't think of anything else that's weird, but gimme five minutes......
Slashdot has been my start page for over 2 years, and I keep coming back (around a dozen times a day:) for more. You've turned us all into net news junkies Rob. Congrats!
I just tried to download the 128 bit version from within Netscape, and every time I get a Not Found page when it tries to redirect to the download page. IE forwarded through perfectly tho:) Weirdness...
somewhere important, that would be seen by both sides (ie CNN, not/.), and they just send the results to the copyright office. I know there's more than 71 people who care (I do, and that at least makes 72, if not 72.3), but most of us are not willing to write a long well thought out position paper on the thing.
Okay, I actually read that 'story'. Happy Valentine's Day I guess:P Anybody have a nice list of email addresses we can harvest & send out nice & quick? I did a quick once-over on that site, and didn't find the addresses. I don't live in Virginia, but I don't have to tell them that, now, do I?:P
I understand that the third prong is ground on electrical outlets. However, this 'rack' is not meant to be a server rack. It is meant to be used as a shelving unit, and as such, does not have a plug attached to it that you can slap into the wall. Making one would not be safe, as it would mean bare wires. The only thing I could think of is to just run a wire from the steel & bury it, but that's not feasible.
The problem is the static electricity building up. It's quite possible that one of the power supplies isn't working correctly, because there's quite a few old machines on the shelf. It's not electrical current running through the rack, that would actually hurt. This is just a shock like the ones you get rubbing your feet along the carpet, except slightly stronger, and very often.
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I have to read the Wall Street Journal for one of my classes & I read an article a while ago about the feds tracing the person that did the Yahoo! attack (Supposedly the rest were copycat crimes). They're claiming that it was all planned on IRC, and they even have some nicks that they believe are the people that did it. So, with all the lawsuits going on, they might be shutting their doors so they can say that they are doing what they can to help prevent this type of thing. Since there are IRC cops, and such things, it is somewhat possible that somebody knew what was going to happen (or could have, had they parsed logs looking for it). I dunno, I'm just rambling out loud, but at least they won't get sued.
Hmmmm.... I was always the guy that everyone knew in High School. Make that weird guy. I sold drugs to friends (Aspirin, tylenol, cough suppresents, etc, all that good illegal lookalike stuff). I carried a pocket knife every day (I'm a Boy Scout), and I had another one hanging off my book bag for all to see (my Mom was always worried that i'd get suspended for that one) I played poker for $$ with my Math teacher. I usually lost, and we kept a tab. When he retired I owed him about $150, but he never collected. So I guess it wasn't real gambling, right? I was a band nerd (first chair trumpet, woohoo!!!), and band kids basically got the run of the school with the security people. Whever we got stopped, we just said the band director had us running errands for him. Oh, and I used to sign my own hall passes (and sell them to friends). My band director's signature was his initials. Pretty easy. I would write myself a pass, get out of class, and then pose as a student helper & 'deliver' my passes to friends that were in class. Mmmmm.... 4th period McDonald's runs. Yummy.
:) Damn profiling. It never works.
I also got caught being in the wrong class once. I got out of school early (band perks again, no last period), and had to wait around for a friend. So I went to class with him. I told the teacher that I was in the honors section, and was kicked out & told to go to the regular one. I found out the next day that she had asked at the office about me (fake name), and since I didn't exist, a security guy was going to be at the class that day to 'grab' me. Man! You get in trouble for the strangest things in High School.
So, I think I painted a decent picture of myself as a weirdo, a knife wielding maniac, and definitely abnormal, whatever that is. So should I turn myself in? Did I mention that I'm one of the nicest guys you'll ever have the pleasure not to meet?
I would say, figure out a fair price based on how much you think it is worth now, and how much you could 'easily' make it worth in the next 2-3 years. I don't think labor should come into the equation at all; that is part of what it is worth now. It isn't worth more just cuz you worked harder on it. But beyond all else, make sure you're not going to look back in a few years and be upset that you sold it.
Monopolies have a nice way of dragging things out forever. Like new lawsuits, and preliminary injunctions. Right bastards, they are!
So, if Australia's internet traffic index is at 54/100 now, what are they going to be at in three months, providing that Telstra doesn't delay the inevitable?
I heard something yesterday about 3COM announcing that they would not be attempting to compete with CISCO. I also know that Lucent has been trying to buy 3COM _and_ CISCO for the past couple years. 3COM is just refocusing their strategy, instead of widening it, which is a good thing.
Personally, I despise any programs requiring incoming students to buy a computer, but for different reasons than most of the people who've already expressed theirs. I'm familiar with a couple schools that require desktops, and/or laptops. Every single one of these schools has a standard computer that they're trying to push their students to buy, and one of them sounds like they're going to do their damndest to make everyone have that specific computer. What if I want to get a better one? I have to buy both?
Personally, I hate laptops. The screens are small (not too much anymore, but they were), smaller resolution, sound sucks, gaming sucks, that little joke of a pencil eraser they call a pointer, they overheat, wear out faster than desktops, blah blah blah. I would seriously consider going to a different school if I was required to purchase and use a laptop cuz I dislike 'em that much. I think the concept is really kewl, but the implementation leaves a lot to be desired. I don't like to use a stripped down computer (palmtops are not part of my argument). If it can't do everything that my computer can do now, I don't want it. Besides that, laptops cost a lot more, and are not easily upgradable. So what are the schools going to do when all their students new computers are outdated & slow when they become Juniors & Seniors? Suggest that they trade-up & get a new one? BS.
A few of my high level ACS classes have a much better solution. With Web-CT and Mallard, teachers can make online tests that you take from your most easily accessible lab or dorm room. They can be timed or open ended within a certain timeframe, we have any resource we can think of open to us (just like the real world), and best of all, no worries about getting a laptop to a test & having it not boot. I've had a couple classes where the teacher allowed us to use any resource we can bring in (open notes, book, laptop...), and I don't like them as much as online tests. If you're gonna allow people to use the internet to answer questions (IRC anyone?) you might as well let them get out of the classroom & out of that stressfull environment to do it.
Nope. I never post anonymously. That's just lame if you have an account. Understandable if you don't, but if you read more than once a week, then you should have an account. I don't care if my posts are moderated down for offtopic or whatever. I'm not a karma whore.
I think I might forgive you. Got any karma? :P
ummm, nice jackass. Thanx for trolling.
More competition is always good, regardless of who it is from. Mebbe since they'll be fighting a losing battle, they'll sue for an open gaming standard so we can play games on any console we want. Now THAT would be something I would play. As it is, I greatly prefer computer games for their better graphics and multiplayer capabilities. But an open standard would blow that out of the water.
True. He could also have gone by the same concept of The Great Gadsby, and not used the letter 'e' at all, regardless of how he encrypted it.
Okay, replace the most repeated letter with 'e' & see whatcha got. Work from there. I want a cut :)
My personal long-running-time favorite was Mrs. (Ms?) PacMan on atari. I played that game for 4-5 hours at a time. Big-ass blisters on my thumbs. But did I sue Atari? Hell no, I was having fun!
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All playstation games make my hands hurt & cramp up; their control just sux.
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I used to run a Quake and then Quake2 server, and my eyes would start to hurt after about 2 hours of playing cuz I didn't blink enough. I've had problems with playing any computer game for longer than 45 minutes at a time since my Quake days. Mebbe I should sue Id for ruining my eyes. Carmack's got plenty of $$ for me to get some. Mebbe I'll settle out of court for one of his cars.....
Actually, I thought that picture was kinda funny. Some people just have wayyyyyyyy too much time on their hands.
I'm sure that in the end M$ will port msoffice to Linux. Office is their big cash cow, making more than everything else, and they are bound to realize that as long as they can sell copies, the bottom line doesn't care if they wrote the OS or not. Right now it's a mostly political thing, but as they start to open up their possibilities, they'll move into software areas that they aren't in right now (hard as that may be to believe) and start looking at the bottom line again.
The judge hates both parties, holds the lawyers in contempt of court, and really, really wanted to adjourn. :P
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Sure it does. There's always something that can be done to minimize network usage. The most obvious (to me) & most drastic would be to implement some server side compression. Mp3's are compressed already, but they can still be compressed farther to facilitate transfers. The protocol can also be rewritten to be less 'chatty' with the servers. Instead of refreshing itself every so often, make it every not so often, or only on connect/disconnect. I'm sure there's more they can do, I'm not a programming genius, I despise programming. But there are definitely options to decrease bandwidth utilization.
I go to ISU (Illinois, not one of the inferior 'I' states)
They just banned Napster about 6 days ago for taking 60% of the bandwidth. I didn't get the full facts, but I hope this number refers to 60% of the total used bandwidth, not the total available. We have a T3, and another partial. Up from 1 T1 plus a backup when I started school 3.5 years ago.
We can run any servers we want to, but the port may or may not be blocked (pcAnywhere doesn't work)
Outgoing connections to FTP servers on non 21 ports are blocked. Big nuisance, but possible to get around if you try hard enough.
ICQ and AIM work fine and probly will always work, except we have hiccups on our network fairly frequently that kick us offline. AIM much more so than ICQ.
Some of the most popular gaming ports are disabled for either incoming or outgoing connections, I can't remember which. One of them's disabled, but I don't remember if students can play on internet servers, or if they can host them. I think hosting is banned. Examples of this are Quake (all versions).
IP telephony works, I have yet to find one of those free sites that has non-laggy service, so I doubt that many people here will start using it.
A lot of stuff just doesn't work right to do what seems to be continual faulty router settings, but they aren't specifically disabled.
We get the alt.binaries newsgroups, but each one has about a 1.5MB limit, so they're useless.
They're running out of IP's right now, so all the students have internal addresses and are temporarily assigned 'legitimate' addresses when they go and contact the internet. The instant messaging clients probly screw this system royally, cuz they're always connected.
Hotline works. I'm not sure if the powers that be know it even exists. Not really a mainstream app yet.
Our local mirror of Redhat Linux disappeared a while ago, yet it's still listed on Redhat's mirrors.
More things that I can think of that DO work: Samba, webservers, ftpservers, internal gaming on any port, telnet, port scanning internal and external (which means that we get hacking attempts frequently)
Until last year, there was a maximum of 235 or so student connections to the LAN. This was in the ACS house (5 floors of one of the dorms). Last year they started wiring more dorms, with a plan of wiring every single dorm room eventually. The ACS house is still on 10Mb, while all the new ones are 100Mb. Understandable when you see the state that the dorm it's in is in. It was meant as temporary housing, and has existed for over 20 years. The buildings are all interconnected with OC48's (pretty schweet, if they had hardware that could run fast enough)
I can't think of anything else that's weird, but gimme five minutes......
Slashdot has been my start page for over 2 years, and I keep coming back (around a dozen times a day :) for more. You've turned us all into net news junkies Rob. Congrats!
I just tried to download the 128 bit version from within Netscape, and every time I get a Not Found page when it tries to redirect to the download page. IE forwarded through perfectly tho :) Weirdness...
somewhere important, that would be seen by both sides (ie CNN, not /.), and they just send the results to the copyright office. I know there's more than 71 people who care (I do, and that at least makes 72, if not 72.3), but most of us are not willing to write a long well thought out position paper on the thing.
In other words, no. They don't have easily harvestable email addresses. Thanks anyway tho.
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Okay, I actually read that 'story'. Happy Valentine's Day I guess :P Anybody have a nice list of email addresses we can harvest & send out nice & quick? I did a quick once-over on that site, and didn't find the addresses. I don't live in Virginia, but I don't have to tell them that, now, do I? :P
I understand that the third prong is ground on electrical outlets. However, this 'rack' is not meant to be a server rack. It is meant to be used as a shelving unit, and as such, does not have a plug attached to it that you can slap into the wall. Making one would not be safe, as it would mean bare wires. The only thing I could think of is to just run a wire from the steel & bury it, but that's not feasible.
The problem is the static electricity building up. It's quite possible that one of the power supplies isn't working correctly, because there's quite a few old machines on the shelf. It's not electrical current running through the rack, that would actually hurt. This is just a shock like the ones you get rubbing your feet along the carpet, except slightly stronger, and very often.