OK, assuming we cast away all those arguments (which are quite good really), the answer is because it is a major extension of the law.
It's because it depends largely on their definition of 'illegal'. There are two types of 'illegal' in Australia -
Illegal to possess which I think covers only child porn plus maybe terrorist training videos.
There is also Illegal to distribute, which covers anything rated higher than R in most states. This would block a lot of stuff, which despite being technically illegal, is available in almost any video store.
To my mind the second, and most important argument is this: I choose what content to view on the internet. The only person affected by me viewing the content is me. It is the very definition of a victimless crime. The government should stop repressing us and stop real crimes.
Let's say we have 3 packets to deliver - one HTTP, one VOIP and one BT packet.
Under your prioritization scheme you send the VOIP first, HTTP second and BT third. This is perfectly reasonable - VOIP and HTTP are 'interactive' protocols, where people are (likely) waiting for a response, so you should make the response as fast as possible. For BT, they are simply waiting for it to download (and likely not even there) so a constant skew of a couple of ms is not a problem.
Under BT Traffic Shaping, all 3 packets are sent (in some order, depending on their prioritization scheme, or on order of arrival if none) but before the BT packet is sent, the ISP checks to see how many BT packets that customer has recieved that ms and if it is too many, waits until the next ms to send it - in effect, artificially reducing the speed of transmission. This is known as the Token Bucket algorithm.
They are very different things. Yours is perfectly reasonable, and I don't think anyone would object to it. Traffic Shaping is a somewhat different matter.
In the intrests of fairness, I should point out that the Queensland government is Labor (closely associated with unions) and the federal government (who are trying to introduce workchoices) are Liberal (liberal conservatives).
That said, I am definately with Labor on this one - workchoices requires individual negotiations between the company and the employee, which is never fair. (Employers are harder to find than employees, hence the imbalance)
That said, workchoices has enough problems of it's own - Howard (prime minister, head of liberals) has tried to slide this through on some special exception to the rule that workplace relations are the states' to control. As far as I know, there are 2 High court challanges (from state governments) still running against it.
Actually, one of the things I think was most interesting was the interview the ABC had with the head of the photo club (I think) who demonstrated he could take perfectly good shots of the same building with a telephoto lense from his own property. I think it really shows how silly this whole thing is.
In Australia, it really depends who you are with. Telstra (ex government monopoly, watched closely by ACCC (Competition & Consumer Commission) at the moment) is horrible. From Telstra, you can get 256/64 200 MB (Up + Down) / month, 15c per MB excess, for $30. I believe they block ports as well. From my provider, aaNet, we get 24 G (Max(Up,Down)) / month, No blocked ports, 512/128, with $3 per GB excess (~0.3c / MB) for $50.
Of course, all that ignores telstra's frequent downtimes....
WTF? How is centimeters a 'non-standard measurement'? centimeters is part of the International System of Units. Just because you don't happen to use SI / metric doesn't mean you should winge about it.
I'm not entirely sure what your question is asking. I'm going to assume you want to mount (from the client) a smb-shared directory on the server.
One quick note : this required the smbfs package. I don't know whether slackware has that installed by default, so if not you will need it.
Firstly, you need to make the directory to mount to. I will use/mnt/net, you use whatever you like.
mkdir/mnt/net
Next, you need to figgure out what server you want. smbtree can help here : $smbtree Password: LAN \\SILVERFANG
\\SILVERFANG\C$
\\SILVERFANG\ADMIN$
\\SILVERFANG\LAN
\\SILVERFANG\IPC$
\\SILVERFANG\Write
(Note : output edited slightly for readability, and because the default doesn't pass slashdot's 'lameass'(lameness) test) (the password is the password it will use, in combination with your logged in user name, to log in to any machines that require logins)
This output shows 2 smb servers (one named silverfang, and one named genesis) which have shares on a network called LAN (how original:) )
For example purposes, I will pick \\Genesis\Shared to mount to/mnt/net.
Next, you need to add the following line to your/etc/fstab file (you will need to be root to do this)//GENESIS/Shared/mnt/net smbfs [options] 0 0
where [options] is whatever you want from the options listed in man smbmount. If the directory is username/password protected you will probably need a credentials file (check the creds option), other than that the options are all optional.
Lastly as root : mount/mnt/net and it should all work.
"Have Microsoft dropped it's entire design team, the tabs look simply awful. That little grey bit to the right of the tabs allows you to create a new tab by clicking on it. That's fairly cool, but holy shit it just looks wrong."
I think firefox's method is better, although probably less discoverable - double left click space (in the tab bar) that doesn't currently have a tab in it, and it will open a new one.
"What advice do you have in selling this to tech coordinators and administrators who are not enlightened by Open Source?"
I don't know how to sell it to tech coordinators or admins, but I _DO_ know how to sell it to your math department.
Type '{-a +- sqrt{b^2 - 4 a c}} over {2 a}' (no quotes) into Openoffice, select it, go Insert>Object>Formula and watch it turn into a pretty formula right in front of your eyes. The only thing MS Office has that's remotely close to this (MS Equation Editor) is very slow, because it requires you to constantly alternate between the mouse and keyboard
WRT Royalties: "50/50 gross revenue split on music: our main revenue sources are selling your music to consumers (at a price between $5 to $18 per album) and sublicensing your music for things such as games, ads and the web. We split the amount we collect 50/50 with you."
and
"50/50 net profits split on merchandise: for physical goods (Posters, T-Shirts, etc), we split the profits (i.e.: sale price minus expenses) 50/50 with you. Physical goods are a split on profits because we have to invest money in creating them."
Much better than what most record labels give their artists
"It also allows for even greater cross-compatability."
Read TFA. Java doesn't support some of the platforms offically supported by OO.o ports, such as Linux/PPC and FreeBSD. These people are now stuck untill the gcj people have a working implimentation.
You just gave me the best idea.
Patent Nuclear, Chemical and Biological weapons and then sue the pants of everyone until complete dis-armourment is achieved. I'm sure the RIAA & MPAA would be happy to lend enough lawyers to tie all the rogue nations up in lawsuits for a few hundred years.
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To my mind the second, and most important argument is this: I choose what content to view on the internet. The only person affected by me viewing the content is me. It is the very definition of a victimless crime. The government should stop repressing us and stop real crimes.
Wow, if you can graduate without doing all the things on that list at least a couple of times you must have gone to a pretty terrible school.
I am a final year IT student and I can name at least 2 *compulsory* courses for every bullet point above.
Traffic Shaping != Traffic Prioritization.
Let's say we have 3 packets to deliver - one HTTP, one VOIP and one BT packet.
Under your prioritization scheme you send the VOIP first, HTTP second and BT third. This is perfectly reasonable - VOIP and HTTP are 'interactive' protocols, where people are (likely) waiting for a response, so you should make the response as fast as possible. For BT, they are simply waiting for it to download (and likely not even there) so a constant skew of a couple of ms is not a problem.
Under BT Traffic Shaping, all 3 packets are sent (in some order, depending on their prioritization scheme, or on order of arrival if none) but before the BT packet is sent, the ISP checks to see how many BT packets that customer has recieved that ms and if it is too many, waits until the next ms to send it - in effect, artificially reducing the speed of transmission. This is known as the Token Bucket algorithm.
They are very different things. Yours is perfectly reasonable, and I don't think anyone would object to it. Traffic Shaping is a somewhat different matter.
Any Australian could tell the speech was fake straight away.... a real politician would never apolagize for anything.
In the intrests of fairness, I should point out that the Queensland government is Labor (closely associated with unions) and the federal government (who are trying to introduce workchoices) are Liberal (liberal conservatives).
That said, I am definately with Labor on this one - workchoices requires individual negotiations between the company and the employee, which is never fair. (Employers are harder to find than employees, hence the imbalance)
That said, workchoices has enough problems of it's own - Howard (prime minister, head of liberals) has tried to slide this through on some special exception to the rule that workplace relations are the states' to control. As far as I know, there are 2 High court challanges (from state governments) still running against it.
Actually, one of the things I think was most interesting was the interview the ABC had with the head of the photo club (I think) who demonstrated he could take perfectly good shots of the same building with a telephoto lense from his own property. I think it really shows how silly this whole thing is.
In Australia, it really depends who you are with. Telstra (ex government monopoly, watched closely by ACCC (Competition & Consumer Commission) at the moment) is horrible. From Telstra, you can get 256/64 200 MB (Up + Down) / month, 15c per MB excess, for $30. I believe they block ports as well. From my provider, aaNet, we get 24 G (Max(Up,Down)) / month, No blocked ports, 512/128, with $3 per GB excess (~0.3c / MB) for $50.
Of course, all that ignores telstra's frequent downtimes....
WTF? How is centimeters a 'non-standard measurement'? centimeters is part of the International System of Units. Just because you don't happen to use SI / metric doesn't mean you should winge about it.
Massachusetts of any use?
I'm not entirely sure what your question is asking.
/mnt/net, you use whatever you like.
/mnt/net
:) )
/mnt/net.
/etc/fstab file (you will need to be root to do this) //GENESIS/Shared /mnt/net smbfs [options] 0 0
/mnt/net
I'm going to assume you want to mount (from the client) a smb-shared directory on the server.
One quick note : this required the smbfs package. I don't know whether slackware has that installed by default, so if not you will need it.
Firstly, you need to make the directory to mount to. I will use
mkdir
Next, you need to figgure out what server you want. smbtree can help here :
$smbtree
Password:
LAN
\\SILVERFANG
\\SILVERFANG\C$
\\SILVERFANG\ADMIN$
\\SILVERFANG\LAN
\\SILVERFANG\IPC$
\\SILVERFANG\Write
\\GENESIS - Genesis
\\GENESIS\HP
\\GENESIS\ADMIN$
\\GENESIS\IPC$
\\GENESIS\School
\\GENESIS\Shared
(Note : output edited slightly for readability, and because the default doesn't pass slashdot's 'lameass'(lameness) test)
(the password is the password it will use, in combination with your logged in user name, to log in to any machines that require logins)
This output shows 2 smb servers (one named silverfang, and one named genesis) which have shares on a network called LAN (how original
For example purposes, I will pick \\Genesis\Shared to mount to
Next, you need to add the following line to your
where [options] is whatever you want from the options listed in man smbmount. If the directory is username/password protected you will probably need a credentials file (check the creds option), other than that the options are all optional.
Lastly as root :
mount
and it should all work.
"Have Microsoft dropped it's entire design team, the tabs look simply awful. That little grey bit to the right of the tabs allows you to create a new tab by clicking on it. That's fairly cool, but holy shit it just looks wrong."
I think firefox's method is better, although probably less discoverable - double left click space (in the tab bar) that doesn't currently have a tab in it, and it will open a new one.
"What advice do you have in selling this to tech coordinators and administrators who are not enlightened by Open Source?"
I don't know how to sell it to tech coordinators or admins, but I _DO_ know how to sell it to your math department.
Type '{-a +- sqrt{b^2 - 4 a c}} over {2 a}' (no quotes) into Openoffice, select it, go Insert>Object>Formula and watch it turn into a pretty formula right in front of your eyes. The only thing MS Office has that's remotely close to this (MS Equation Editor) is very slow, because it requires you to constantly alternate between the mouse and keyboard
http://magnatune.com/info/terms
:
WRT Royalties
"50/50 gross revenue split on music: our main revenue sources are selling your music to consumers (at a price between $5 to $18 per album) and sublicensing your music for things such as games, ads and the web. We split the amount we collect 50/50 with you."
and
"50/50 net profits split on merchandise: for physical goods (Posters, T-Shirts, etc), we split the profits (i.e.: sale price minus expenses) 50/50 with you. Physical goods are a split on profits because we have to invest money in creating them."
Much better than what most record labels give their artists
"It also allows for even greater cross-compatability."
Read TFA. Java doesn't support some of the platforms offically supported by OO.o ports, such as Linux/PPC and FreeBSD. These people are now stuck untill the gcj people have a working implimentation.
You just gave me the best idea. Patent Nuclear, Chemical and Biological weapons and then sue the pants of everyone until complete dis-armourment is achieved. I'm sure the RIAA & MPAA would be happy to lend enough lawyers to tie all the rogue nations up in lawsuits for a few hundred years.