Re:Can somebody enlighten me?
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I run eMule on Windows and aMule on Linux (Fedora Core 3). I've downloaded over 100GB from that network so far of various things..
Always make sure to share some of your files with people. Don't move them out of a shared folder the instant you finish getting them. Don't squelch all uploading to others. That's considered "leeching".
Always make sure to check the file availibility. If the numbers are close to 1-5 you're not going to be getting it quick. If they are 0 showing online, you may wait forever.
Always check for the same file being listed under another name with larger availibility. Many files will be out there in different incarnations and the correct version will usually be the one with the most people sharing it.
Always make sure not to set everything to High priority, only those things which truly are and always make sure to swap all A4AF to an important file every so often. The clients tend to forget to recheck every so often for hosts popping online since the original download was entered.
Always make sure on broadband connections to carefully control upstream usage as unfettered upstream usage is a good way to get choked by your provider. I keep mine to 25% of my upstream maximum.
eMule/aMule work fine for me. Way better than bittorrent ever has.
Well until they invent a dog simulation which has them behaving neurotically, rolling on their backs and pissing on themselves, eating their own feces, destroying garbage cans that professional garbage men can't, and figuring out how to turn door knobs to open pantry doors then I can't really say they are lifelike.
1. Forget this idea, get past the sheepish feeling, and go on with your life.
2. Drink heavily and refer to #1
3. If you cannot go through with #1, at least start with #2.
4. Watch Willow and when Billy Barty says that you should forget all you know or think you know, LISTEN TO HIM!
5. Go look up and read The Unix-Hater's Handbook. Its wise content came about for a reason and comes from early Unix pioneers and more to the point, victims.
6. Spend some cash on a primo stash of good pr0n, preferably rare stuff that can't be found online, and a case of scotch whiskey, possibly Jagermeister as well. You'll need something to bribe a Linux geek with. Also bring handcuffs and not duct tape for the capture. They have some innate skill with duct tape for some reason.
7. Keep the captured Linux geek in a basement, their normal environment. Every so often scream down the stairs in a falsetto voice as if you were their mother. It keeps them motivated to buck the system starting with parental authority so they will hack away happily as long as they think they're doing something nefarious.
8. Learn from the Linux geek but do not become tainted by their hatred of Micrsoft and general know-it-all arrogance. The world works completely differently than the way Linux geeks think it should because the world's way works and the other way... doesn't. Besides, you like having money to pay for a house where you live on the main floors and not in your parents' basement.
9. Take up C and when you think you've gotten the hang of it, take up C++ and tell yourself that the C training was only a joke. The paradigm shifting without a clutch effect will prepare you for the emotional shock you're slowly getting.
10. Practice on DOS and possibly Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing if you can find a copy. You will need much better keyboard skills than you ever did with Windows. Read twenty pages of the dictionary and transcribe them every night because you'll be eventually typing ten times that much on a daily basis.
11. Learn to skip the shock, anger, and denial phases and go straight to serene and possibly drunken acceptance of anything and everything. Make friends with any demons and devils you encounter as there's no Virgil to guide you through Dependency Hell which Dante unfortunately left out.
12. Kiss all your free time goodbye whenever you upgrade kernels as you will be reloading various drivers most notably those of the video card. if you think you can keep prior installations indefinitely, forget that idea as you will sooner or later have a conflict that can only be resolved by uninstalling the prior driver installations. This is felt by the Linux community to be superior to Windows install and forget it method because it teaches you to appreciate pain as a daily fact of life.
13. No matter what, do not fall for the siren song of Vi, Emacs, and their supporters who purport that these are the only editors. There are others, you can be helped. You need not totally surrender to the mindset that the incorrect way is best.
Good luck and my prayers are with you.
(A Linux user silently wishing GnuCash was one millionth as useful as Microsoft Money)
We don't know exactly how old it is. And we think up new things to test every day against observation.
For instance, many years ago when the first 3d plots of the spacing of galaxies in the observed universe were being trotted around and people we wondering how the universe could look this way assuming an homogenous start, I looked and thought, "that's the effect of multidimensional spherical harmonics. Big bang, big vibration, multi-dimensional expanding spherical universe, that gives you the differences that caused the clumping until gravity took over and it looks this way because we don't have a privileged external view to see the surface of the spehere."
It wasn't until this year that I saw someone else actually print that idea in Scientific American.
Who knows? Between the current possibility of the universe speeding up expansion like an evaporating foam, the original inflation put forward by Guth, harmonics, and energy freeze-out (like the separation of electromagnetism into totally separate forces which almost certainly will happen in a universe with open-ended expansion) and particle decay... There's a lot of goofy stuff about the universe to test out.
I'm just glad these bursters seem not to be going off in our neck of the woods. We'd all be dead otherwise. That's not a theory.
...which 99.999% of/.ers don't seem to be, I can say confidently that in any area with appropriate cell coverage you can get wonderful service.
Their people are excellent at dealing with scatterbrained distracted drivers, piecing together what they say, and finding out where you're headed and how to get there. They ask permission from you before they look at exactly where you are and when they do look, they are astonishingly accurate as are their directions to your destination.
I don't have any worries about the government being able to call OnStar and find out where I am. They can generally find me simply by checking my tax records and calling my employer during my work day or at home afterwards. Not like I am playing hide and seek or anything. If I want to get lost and stay lost that's pretty damn easy. The point of OnStar is that I don't want to get lost. I want to be found. I want to get where I am going and they help me get there.
You sir are clueless about "that big ol' comet we blasted". you can learn just about everything you need to using spectroscopy, and we are examing the inner layers of the comet which required such an impact. Its one thing to bring back a small sample from the top and examine it, its another to evalute a comet as a larger piece and its interior.
This is very true. What would definitely be very cool is to loft a series of telescopes with all the requisite tech on board that would be sent to settle into Martian orbit and monitor it from all sides indefinitely. When an impact occurs, and they sometimes do, we might catch it and be able to see better what was kicked up by the hit. This in addition to monitoring the atmosphere content, weather, and so on. Whenever Mars is in our section of the orbital plane, we get stored data sent back at us to go over and keep the science people occupied while the tech people continue planning the manned mission to do something concrete with all we learn.
Why is it that this wireless stuff gets fawning slavish attention from the/. crowd which is otherwise very given to tinfoil hat paranoia? I mean, did Johnny Mnemonic not come to mind yet with the concept of electronic everything affecting the human nervous system? Did all the scares over power and cell towers and cancer clusters and cell phone brain cancer stories not sink in?
I'm not saying it is necessarily all bad, but to give adoring praise constantly to every wireless trend that comes down the pike without any questioning of the health and environmental ramifications while not giving the same pass to almost anything else is merely pointing out the intellectual dishonesty of/. overall.
We're willing to turn a blind eye to what agrees with our predispostions. Apple does DRM'd music we okay it. Anyone uses WMA DRM and they're pawns of the evil Microsoft. We give a free pass to wireless but not nuclear tech. We have no problem with anyone EXCEPT Microsoft giving software away for free and if MS does it, they're being unfairly anti-competitive.
I'm not entirely satisfied that we should be turning our present electromagnetic soup into a chunky stew in the rush to watch full motion pr0n on our cell phones while we drive to work with the other hand on our (censored) using it to steer, one leg out the windows and the other foot changing the radio station.
...that Microsoft bankrolls the research and development of a time machine to go back and stop Oracle from becoming so big but the machine has a GPF and instead falls out of the timestream onto the headquarters Remedy thus eliminating the threat of ARS forever instead.
...it gives the truly twisted an opportunity to counterstrike the telemarketer with a reverse crank call. I've done this for years and extracted some interesting responses on sexual orientation, inclinations, and practices before they know it. Sometimes you're fighting to keep composed and not break down in suffocating laughter.
As far as looking out for the privacy of Canadian citizens however, it does suck.
Wrong further. Pornography is BANNED under American legal precedent BECAUSE it is considered obscenity and obscenity is considered outside the First Ammendment. Adult entertainment must be pegged by a court AS pornogrpahy AND obscenity or it is merely indeceny but NOT pornography. The government does NOT regulate the sale of porn which would be regulating the sale therefore of obscenity and thus by default admitting that it has its place, rather it regulates the sale of objectionable materials and their assumed affects on individuals based on age, statistical experience, and a lot of assumptions.
This splitting of hairs has largely come about because the majority of Americans publicly would ban adult entertainment and not just limit it but privately want to be free to enjoy it if they change their mind. They want to have their cake and eat it too. There's also a fair amount of emotional and spiritual exhaustion on this in the land after close to thirty years of the subject being intertwined with everything from civil rights to Viet Nam to television.
Minor nitpick, but it is important to the remember that at present in the US, any speech or press deemed without redeeming value and in contravention of the supermajority of community standards is thus considered obscene and thus not protected whatsoever. However, not a lot manages to satisfy that for every judge up the chain to the SCotUS which has taken for itself the status of ultimate arbiter when in fact the US Constitution gives no such power to them or the executive or legislative branches to decide what the line to draw is or even that there can be such a line.
is the permit by default tendency. This is like having a fence that springs out of the ground only when certain people are sensed approaching it. It needs to be up and topped with barbed wire and the only gate needs to be locked until someone is given a key to it. NAT routers are like that. They can only forward traffic when you bother telling it to and until then sit there stupid making you wonder why your new SSH installation won't talk to the outside world.
OTOH, it is a collosal pain in the arse to deny all traffic and only allow what you want because so much code is network aware these days and designed to talk to some place across the net. Then again, it does tell you which apps are communicating in the first place.
On my Windows boxes I use Sygate Personal Firewall to create a specific list of allowed executables and block everything else with a block all entry at the bottom of the fall-through list. No match, no talk. Inbound and out. Combined with NAT it makes for very little traffic reaching my internal network. When I leave my desk for the night and Windows is running, remove a few check marks and save and it only allows the file sharing app to talk and I keep that updated and locked down at all times.
It also can be set to approve or deny execution of code that may have changed since last allow/deny challenge.
That which is not forbidden is not only not compulsory, but probably suspicious.
For that matter, where are the flying cars? And whatever happened to Avery Brooks? I need answers people, and it damn well seems you can print them out in reasonable time now. Get cracking, I want that memo on my desk in 0.045 seconds.
you should see how they do things in the field business. I've done repair jobs on more dish installations than I could count which were monkeywrenched by a competing service when they did a prior add-on or upgrade and did everything they could to badmouth and undercut the prior guy and then farked up the work they did and blamed it on that poor sap.
The satellite biz is loaded with huckesters, scammers, and just plain bad people from suppliers to installers to servicers. This doesn't surprise me at all. When you have people selling RG-11 jumpers as "Monster Satellite Coax Cable", when you have $2.36 diplexors being sold as "Super High Tech Satellite Splitters" for $32.95+ and $3 roof tar sealant being sold as "Hi-Tech Satellite Waterproofing" for $20 a tube, you know the woods are thick with people whose ethics are not just questionable, but gone entirely.
The things I've seen in satellite work... They make cable companies look like emissaries of Heaven and the phone company like Knights of the Round Table.
Did you read any of the blurb never mind TFA? They were using Apache on Windows. The Apache people have never given better than lukewarm support to the Windows port. Oracle has always been a b*tch to use with Windows. Go with an all Microsoft solution and MOST of the problems go away.
The problem isn't Microsoft Windows, it is the vendors of the software they are running ON Windows not putting out proper product and then everyone blaming Microsoft. There are shareware app writers who code better for Windows than the Apache people.
Cue umpteen posts noting that there's no oxygen for the methane to combust with. Follow with posts noting the redundancy and anal nature of the preceeding posts. Follows those with posts arguing the relatively humorous nature of the posts preceeding the preceeding posts. Mix thoroughly, bake at brainstorm temperature, serves as many/.ers as bother reading.
Paying a small amount to a site like 3gupload.com has worked for me. I don't know why so many people limit themselves to what they can get from their carrier. Also, Radio Shack does carry cable/software packages for a wide variety of cell phones which will allow transfer of your own ringtones and bitmaps. Lack of knowledge maybe.
Oh, we forgot... Most of the communications infrastructure comprising the critical backhauls that carry all the traffic of the wireless endpoints have been disrupted. Entire phone company central offices are under water in some places or were. Co-location facilities have been disrupted or destroyed outright. Aerial fiber and copper have been severed all over the place.
Oh, we also forgot that people are in need of drinking water and food to eat and medical supplies to deal with everyday things that they can't deal with everyday and so those issues are mounting. Women need sanitary female supplies. Babies need diapers. Pets need food. There's a lack of electricity all over the place and fetid stinking contaminated water and mud.
Their computers have been waterlogged, their laptops blown to the next state, their PDAs lost someplace in the muck, but we have high speed wireless Internet being deployed. Yay!
Yeah, they have obviously missed the fact that much of their content could be done start to finish in Flash starting with Aqua Teen Hunger Force. For much of their lineup, 30fps video is massive overkill. Heck, some of it could be sent out as a flip-book without losing anything and quite possibly improving on it.
This POV is betrayed by the fact that the Unix platform was being hacked, rootkits and viruses eating into them, long before Microsoft was anything more than some company placing quarter page ads in computer magazines for something called "DOS".
Just because the majority of today's miscreants are attacking Windows does not mean the truly experienced weasels aren't still out there. There's thousands of Mitnicks and the people who inspired him and from which his generation learned still out there. People with a true aptitude for finding minor overlooked weaknesses which will in concert open a system wide. Sooner or later, between them and the present day Linux kiddies looking to prove their 37337 status, someone will take a serious look at the Mach/BSD ancestry and the current OSX code and look hard to find something that Apple overlooked.
As the subject of the article said, it will happen and in the end in retrospect it will seem in its own way as easy as the Windows crackers' work.
President Bush was immediately blamed for the eruption as a result of not signing the Kyoto Accords and according the UN sources the possibility of sanctions was being investigated to raise money to repair the damage done to the sun by the imperialist USA. Slashdotters cheered like drunken revolting French mobs around a guillotine and began burning pictures of Bill Gates in a display of drunken ignorance of who was being blamed for what today.
I hope not. There's a lot of items on eBay I'd hate to hear spoken aloud in front of others but fortunately barkers don't usually speak too clearly anyhow and there's another problem. "But... I though I was bidding on a steel doe sculpture, not a dil- (click) Hello?! Hello?!"
I know he is going to jump right in here and start shoveling out new ideas for Google.
Something about Google and shoveling just goes together so right given the massive piles of steaming **** poured out on the net in glowing praise of them when they are headed towards being every bit the behemoth IBM was and Microsoft is.
Also, that shovelling might turn to bailing if Google stumbles and I don't doubt they will.
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eMule/aMule work fine for me. Way better than bittorrent ever has.
Well until they invent a dog simulation which has them behaving neurotically, rolling on their backs and pissing on themselves, eating their own feces, destroying garbage cans that professional garbage men can't, and figuring out how to turn door knobs to open pantry doors then I can't really say they are lifelike.
Given your stated background...
1. Forget this idea, get past the sheepish feeling, and go on with your life.
2. Drink heavily and refer to #1
3. If you cannot go through with #1, at least start with #2.
4. Watch Willow and when Billy Barty says that you should forget all you know or think you know, LISTEN TO HIM!
5. Go look up and read The Unix-Hater's Handbook. Its wise content came about for a reason and comes from early Unix pioneers and more to the point, victims.
6. Spend some cash on a primo stash of good pr0n, preferably rare stuff that can't be found online, and a case of scotch whiskey, possibly Jagermeister as well. You'll need something to bribe a Linux geek with. Also bring handcuffs and not duct tape for the capture. They have some innate skill with duct tape for some reason.
7. Keep the captured Linux geek in a basement, their normal environment. Every so often scream down the stairs in a falsetto voice as if you were their mother. It keeps them motivated to buck the system starting with parental authority so they will hack away happily as long as they think they're doing something nefarious.
8. Learn from the Linux geek but do not become tainted by their hatred of Micrsoft and general know-it-all arrogance. The world works completely differently than the way Linux geeks think it should because the world's way works and the other way... doesn't. Besides, you like having money to pay for a house where you live on the main floors and not in your parents' basement.
9. Take up C and when you think you've gotten the hang of it, take up C++ and tell yourself that the C training was only a joke. The paradigm shifting without a clutch effect will prepare you for the emotional shock you're slowly getting.
10. Practice on DOS and possibly Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing if you can find a copy. You will need much better keyboard skills than you ever did with Windows. Read twenty pages of the dictionary and transcribe them every night because you'll be eventually typing ten times that much on a daily basis.
11. Learn to skip the shock, anger, and denial phases and go straight to serene and possibly drunken acceptance of anything and everything. Make friends with any demons and devils you encounter as there's no Virgil to guide you through Dependency Hell which Dante unfortunately left out.
12. Kiss all your free time goodbye whenever you upgrade kernels as you will be reloading various drivers most notably those of the video card. if you think you can keep prior installations indefinitely, forget that idea as you will sooner or later have a conflict that can only be resolved by uninstalling the prior driver installations. This is felt by the Linux community to be superior to Windows install and forget it method because it teaches you to appreciate pain as a daily fact of life.
13. No matter what, do not fall for the siren song of Vi, Emacs, and their supporters who purport that these are the only editors. There are others, you can be helped. You need not totally surrender to the mindset that the incorrect way is best.
Good luck and my prayers are with you. (A Linux user silently wishing GnuCash was one millionth as useful as Microsoft Money)
...so that I could point out that in Corporate America, TiVo owns you!
Obligatory Nitpick: that should be "...pwns joo!"
Just so you cover all the comedy reference bases...
We don't know exactly how old it is. And we think up new things to test every day against observation.
For instance, many years ago when the first 3d plots of the spacing of galaxies in the observed universe were being trotted around and people we wondering how the universe could look this way assuming an homogenous start, I looked and thought, "that's the effect of multidimensional spherical harmonics. Big bang, big vibration, multi-dimensional expanding spherical universe, that gives you the differences that caused the clumping until gravity took over and it looks this way because we don't have a privileged external view to see the surface of the spehere."
It wasn't until this year that I saw someone else actually print that idea in Scientific American.
Who knows? Between the current possibility of the universe speeding up expansion like an evaporating foam, the original inflation put forward by Guth, harmonics, and energy freeze-out (like the separation of electromagnetism into totally separate forces which almost certainly will happen in a universe with open-ended expansion) and particle decay... There's a lot of goofy stuff about the universe to test out.
I'm just glad these bursters seem not to be going off in our neck of the woods. We'd all be dead otherwise. That's not a theory.
...which 99.999% of /.ers don't seem to be, I can say confidently that in any area with appropriate cell coverage you can get wonderful service.
Their people are excellent at dealing with scatterbrained distracted drivers, piecing together what they say, and finding out where you're headed and how to get there. They ask permission from you before they look at exactly where you are and when they do look, they are astonishingly accurate as are their directions to your destination.
I don't have any worries about the government being able to call OnStar and find out where I am. They can generally find me simply by checking my tax records and calling my employer during my work day or at home afterwards. Not like I am playing hide and seek or anything. If I want to get lost and stay lost that's pretty damn easy. The point of OnStar is that I don't want to get lost. I want to be found. I want to get where I am going and they help me get there.
OnStar just works.
You sir are clueless about "that big ol' comet we blasted". you can learn just about everything you need to using spectroscopy, and we are examing the inner layers of the comet which required such an impact. Its one thing to bring back a small sample from the top and examine it, its another to evalute a comet as a larger piece and its interior.
This is very true. What would definitely be very cool is to loft a series of telescopes with all the requisite tech on board that would be sent to settle into Martian orbit and monitor it from all sides indefinitely. When an impact occurs, and they sometimes do, we might catch it and be able to see better what was kicked up by the hit. This in addition to monitoring the atmosphere content, weather, and so on. Whenever Mars is in our section of the orbital plane, we get stored data sent back at us to go over and keep the science people occupied while the tech people continue planning the manned mission to do something concrete with all we learn.
...but on further questioning said she faked it.
/. crowd which is otherwise very given to tinfoil hat paranoia? I mean, did Johnny Mnemonic not come to mind yet with the concept of electronic everything affecting the human nervous system? Did all the scares over power and cell towers and cancer clusters and cell phone brain cancer stories not sink in?
/. overall.
Why is it that this wireless stuff gets fawning slavish attention from the
I'm not saying it is necessarily all bad, but to give adoring praise constantly to every wireless trend that comes down the pike without any questioning of the health and environmental ramifications while not giving the same pass to almost anything else is merely pointing out the intellectual dishonesty of
We're willing to turn a blind eye to what agrees with our predispostions. Apple does DRM'd music we okay it. Anyone uses WMA DRM and they're pawns of the evil Microsoft. We give a free pass to wireless but not nuclear tech. We have no problem with anyone EXCEPT Microsoft giving software away for free and if MS does it, they're being unfairly anti-competitive.
I'm not entirely satisfied that we should be turning our present electromagnetic soup into a chunky stew in the rush to watch full motion pr0n on our cell phones while we drive to work with the other hand on our (censored) using it to steer, one leg out the windows and the other foot changing the radio station.
Beaches in the northeast have them there all summer. Local radio stations mostly.
...that Microsoft bankrolls the research and development of a time machine to go back and stop Oracle from becoming so big but the machine has a GPF and instead falls out of the timestream onto the headquarters Remedy thus eliminating the threat of ARS forever instead.
...it gives the truly twisted an opportunity to counterstrike the telemarketer with a reverse crank call. I've done this for years and extracted some interesting responses on sexual orientation, inclinations, and practices before they know it. Sometimes you're fighting to keep composed and not break down in suffocating laughter.
As far as looking out for the privacy of Canadian citizens however, it does suck.
Wrong further. Pornography is BANNED under American legal precedent BECAUSE it is considered obscenity and obscenity is considered outside the First Ammendment. Adult entertainment must be pegged by a court AS pornogrpahy AND obscenity or it is merely indeceny but NOT pornography. The government does NOT regulate the sale of porn which would be regulating the sale therefore of obscenity and thus by default admitting that it has its place, rather it regulates the sale of objectionable materials and their assumed affects on individuals based on age, statistical experience, and a lot of assumptions.
This splitting of hairs has largely come about because the majority of Americans publicly would ban adult entertainment and not just limit it but privately want to be free to enjoy it if they change their mind. They want to have their cake and eat it too. There's also a fair amount of emotional and spiritual exhaustion on this in the land after close to thirty years of the subject being intertwined with everything from civil rights to Viet Nam to television.
Minor nitpick, but it is important to the remember that at present in the US, any speech or press deemed without redeeming value and in contravention of the supermajority of community standards is thus considered obscene and thus not protected whatsoever. However, not a lot manages to satisfy that for every judge up the chain to the SCotUS which has taken for itself the status of ultimate arbiter when in fact the US Constitution gives no such power to them or the executive or legislative branches to decide what the line to draw is or even that there can be such a line.
is the permit by default tendency. This is like having a fence that springs out of the ground only when certain people are sensed approaching it. It needs to be up and topped with barbed wire and the only gate needs to be locked until someone is given a key to it. NAT routers are like that. They can only forward traffic when you bother telling it to and until then sit there stupid making you wonder why your new SSH installation won't talk to the outside world.
OTOH, it is a collosal pain in the arse to deny all traffic and only allow what you want because so much code is network aware these days and designed to talk to some place across the net. Then again, it does tell you which apps are communicating in the first place.
On my Windows boxes I use Sygate Personal Firewall to create a specific list of allowed executables and block everything else with a block all entry at the bottom of the fall-through list. No match, no talk. Inbound and out. Combined with NAT it makes for very little traffic reaching my internal network. When I leave my desk for the night and Windows is running, remove a few check marks and save and it only allows the file sharing app to talk and I keep that updated and locked down at all times.
It also can be set to approve or deny execution of code that may have changed since last allow/deny challenge.
That which is not forbidden is not only not compulsory, but probably suspicious.
For that matter, where are the flying cars? And whatever happened to Avery Brooks? I need answers people, and it damn well seems you can print them out in reasonable time now. Get cracking, I want that memo on my desk in 0.045 seconds.
you should see how they do things in the field business. I've done repair jobs on more dish installations than I could count which were monkeywrenched by a competing service when they did a prior add-on or upgrade and did everything they could to badmouth and undercut the prior guy and then farked up the work they did and blamed it on that poor sap.
The satellite biz is loaded with huckesters, scammers, and just plain bad people from suppliers to installers to servicers. This doesn't surprise me at all. When you have people selling RG-11 jumpers as "Monster Satellite Coax Cable", when you have $2.36 diplexors being sold as "Super High Tech Satellite Splitters" for $32.95+ and $3 roof tar sealant being sold as "Hi-Tech Satellite Waterproofing" for $20 a tube, you know the woods are thick with people whose ethics are not just questionable, but gone entirely.
The things I've seen in satellite work... They make cable companies look like emissaries of Heaven and the phone company like Knights of the Round Table.
Did you read any of the blurb never mind TFA? They were using Apache on Windows. The Apache people have never given better than lukewarm support to the Windows port. Oracle has always been a b*tch to use with Windows. Go with an all Microsoft solution and MOST of the problems go away.
The problem isn't Microsoft Windows, it is the vendors of the software they are running ON Windows not putting out proper product and then everyone blaming Microsoft. There are shareware app writers who code better for Windows than the Apache people.
Cue umpteen posts noting that there's no oxygen for the methane to combust with. Follow with posts noting the redundancy and anal nature of the preceeding posts. Follows those with posts arguing the relatively humorous nature of the posts preceeding the preceeding posts. Mix thoroughly, bake at brainstorm temperature, serves as many /.ers as bother reading.
Paying a small amount to a site like 3gupload.com has worked for me. I don't know why so many people limit themselves to what they can get from their carrier. Also, Radio Shack does carry cable/software packages for a wide variety of cell phones which will allow transfer of your own ringtones and bitmaps. Lack of knowledge maybe.
Wireless Internet! Yay!
Oh, we forgot... Most of the communications infrastructure comprising the critical backhauls that carry all the traffic of the wireless endpoints have been disrupted. Entire phone company central offices are under water in some places or were. Co-location facilities have been disrupted or destroyed outright. Aerial fiber and copper have been severed all over the place.
Oh, we also forgot that people are in need of drinking water and food to eat and medical supplies to deal with everyday things that they can't deal with everyday and so those issues are mounting. Women need sanitary female supplies. Babies need diapers. Pets need food. There's a lack of electricity all over the place and fetid stinking contaminated water and mud.
Their computers have been waterlogged, their laptops blown to the next state, their PDAs lost someplace in the muck, but we have high speed wireless Internet being deployed. Yay!
(INSERT ROLLING EYES EMOTICON HERE)
Yeah, making Windows better is so much higher in priority than helping out in the aftermath.
(INSERT ROLLING EYES EMOTICON HERE)
Yeah, they have obviously missed the fact that much of their content could be done start to finish in Flash starting with Aqua Teen Hunger Force. For much of their lineup, 30fps video is massive overkill. Heck, some of it could be sent out as a flip-book without losing anything and quite possibly improving on it.
This POV is betrayed by the fact that the Unix platform was being hacked, rootkits and viruses eating into them, long before Microsoft was anything more than some company placing quarter page ads in computer magazines for something called "DOS".
Just because the majority of today's miscreants are attacking Windows does not mean the truly experienced weasels aren't still out there. There's thousands of Mitnicks and the people who inspired him and from which his generation learned still out there. People with a true aptitude for finding minor overlooked weaknesses which will in concert open a system wide. Sooner or later, between them and the present day Linux kiddies looking to prove their 37337 status, someone will take a serious look at the Mach/BSD ancestry and the current OSX code and look hard to find something that Apple overlooked.
As the subject of the article said, it will happen and in the end in retrospect it will seem in its own way as easy as the Windows crackers' work.
President Bush was immediately blamed for the eruption as a result of not signing the Kyoto Accords and according the UN sources the possibility of sanctions was being investigated to raise money to repair the damage done to the sun by the imperialist USA. Slashdotters cheered like drunken revolting French mobs around a guillotine and began burning pictures of Bill Gates in a display of drunken ignorance of who was being blamed for what today.
Unfortunately, the story included a very artistic rendering of an orange instead of a dramatic, albeit stock, solar flare image. It's just somehow not as dramatic and motivating that way...
I hope not. There's a lot of items on eBay I'd hate to hear spoken aloud in front of others but fortunately barkers don't usually speak too clearly anyhow and there's another problem. "But... I though I was bidding on a steel doe sculpture, not a dil- (click) Hello?! Hello?!"
I know he is going to jump right in here and start shoveling out new ideas for Google.
Something about Google and shoveling just goes together so right given the massive piles of steaming **** poured out on the net in glowing praise of them when they are headed towards being every bit the behemoth IBM was and Microsoft is.
Also, that shovelling might turn to bailing if Google stumbles and I don't doubt they will.