Remember, how could we defind a P2P app: anything that can transmit data from one person (source) to one or multiple people over a digital source. So if you outlaw P2P apps, wouldn't, say AIM, FTP's and even email be illegal? Wow, there just went the internet, o well, at least the RIAA is happy!!
SMB is P2P. Personally, I think anything that moves us away from that P2P crap and back to Netware client/server is good for the world.
because it protects against device failure, not *user* error. if you delete a file from a raid array, it's gone. that's part of what offline is all about.
So put it on a Netware box ($60 SBS shop.novell.com). Salvage has been around since the early 90's. IMHO there's no reason for an OS to not incorporate it's own restore feature these days.
Whoops.
The kid ended up installing a new OS and wiping out all my instructor's data.
Yes. And letting the kids know they should always turn the computers off when they're done with them is a bad idea too. Especially when you're moving data with partition magic on an 80GB drive...
So how the hell am I supposed to STOP the spam you people are whining about if I can't read an email that's in queue - or in a suspected spammers INBOX?
Why is 50mpg OK for you, but everyone else must get 100mpg to be OK ? Nice double-standard there.
My point was that why was he saying that 30MPG is 'good', when higher efficiency transportation is available. I was hinting that his choice of a 4 wheel vehicle is not much different than a choice of an SUV. There are better alternatives when you're doing nothing but looking at MPG (assuming the traveler needs his own transportation).
Also, don't get so defensive. It looks bad. I doubt he was talking about people 4 kids. Most likely, he was talking about people who drive SUVs just to drive SUVs.
I have a general problem with the 'high and mighty-ness' of those who don't drive SUVs as if they're the only ones capable of saving the world. Add to that, that most SUVs REALLY AREN'T that much worse in MPG than most other vehicles (my bike gets 100% more MPG than my SUV, but his car only gets 50% more. The Honda scooter would be 500% more than my SUV, while a Viper would probably be 50% less than my SUV.) and the biggest complainers really just have nothing more than penis envy. -shrug-
What is really getting to me about these people who drive around (alone) in these HUGE vehicles is that they have no sense of public shame. Everybody knows that American solders are getting killed in the Gulf daily to protect the oil supplies, so these assholes blatently drive around in a car that gets 10 miles per gallon (roughly 4 km per liter) and then they put some flag decal on their back window to show how much they support 'our boys'. If they really cared about whether or not the solders were getting killed then they would be driving a car that gets 30 MPG and there wouldn't be any need to send 130000 solders to the Gulf to ensure the oil supplies.
WTF are you smoking? I get 22MPG in my 99 Durango. I got 25 in my 94 LeBaron, and 28 in an Isuzu Rodeo. My wife gets (according to her nifty electronic gauges) 16MPG in her 99 TownandCountry Minivan.
I have 4 kids. You fit 2 adults and 4 kids (with car seats) into a Prius.
Oh, and I have a motorcycle that gets 50MPG.
Why are you driving that gas guzzleing 30MPG car all by yourself, when you can get 100MPG on a Honda scooter from the 50's?
That's the beauty and the danger of America: People who don't have a clue are allowed to shoot their mouths off.
So until you go buy that Honda scooter, I'll consider you a Troll.
IP's are actually very much like phone numbers. While there's a certain amount of movability (my parents will bring theirs with them soon, and my desktop will keep its IP when I change offices), there are severe limits to how far it can go. The leading numbers are used for routing, and can't just be moved around willy-nilly.
I disagree. IPs are more like the port #'s on the phone switch itself. Most people don't know what port their phone is connected to on the other you. You just happen to know that piece of information.
Obviously if you move your phone to a new location, you generally can't have the same port #, as you'll probably be in a new CO. But that doesn't matter, because your # (or, your Domain name) can be pointed to the new location;)
That sounds pretty good. I'm guessing all ads are about viruses and email.
Mostly. A good chunk are for competitors. At first it kinda bothered me, then I figured if they left via an ad, they probably weren't going to pay anyways, and at least I'd get a few cent out of them;)
Why pay for a nice account when I could be greeted by a "No money/I'm fed up, f'ck off" anytime.
I never understood that. You can have that problem with a publicly held company. Why does the 'personal touch' invite doubts as to whether the service will survive?
But all I pay is bandwidth, and that's covered no problem. If anything, I'll just refuse Outlook access:P (Just Kidding!)
More bandwidth. More storage. More Spam options. Err anti-Spam options;)
What is it that drives a free user to upgrade? That's what needs to be studied to improve your conversion rate.
I think free users will always be free users. It's the users looking for a specific service are the ones that upgrade. The free accounts are just what I have to put up with to get those paying users.
It depends on how much effort was involved, not just to export the data and import it somewhere (performing whatever conversion is required) but to communicate the new URL to everyone.
A modest fee would most likely have been paid, especially if new functionality came with pay accounts. Look at Livejournal - you can sign up for free, but paying users get more features. In fact Slashdot could learn a lot from Livejournal.
I run a free/paid email service - vfemail.net. You're welcome to monitor the main page and watch the number of free subscribers vs paid subscribers, but the paid users are pretty steady at 28 - while the number of free signups has just crossed the 10,000 mark:/.
People are cheap. If it wasn't for Google ads, I'd be dead in the water.
Bind provides easy data replication, that's how you make secondary dns servers:-)
Yeah, but I'm already replicating MySQL - so what's another table?:P
I can understand why some people would what to have dns information in a SQL database, but personally I feel that it's just adding a not piece of software that could potentially fail. Trust me, you don't what your dns to fail.
Ahhh. Actually, I run an email service. So I already have MySQL servers that need to be up 100% of the time. In fact, I'd wager that most websites would also run some type of SQL, and need to be up 100% of the time. So it's a natual fit.
Plus, DNS is cached. So depending on your traffic, odds are pretty good that you'll have your server up before your hostname's cache expires - and if necessary you can concentrate on what's probably a bigger problem than DNS;)
BeOS's only real chance came before their egotistical CEO turned down apple's offer of more than they were worth. Apple went with NeXT, and Be went... nowhere.
I wrote a book once that no one wanted to publish; fair enough. Was I not "given a chance" because so many people read John Grisham and Tom Clancy?
Sure - IF John Grisham or Tom Clancy forced every publisher to not publish anyone else.
Apparently you missed the dual-boot fiasco as well. Relating to your situation, it would be that Tom Clancy's publisher ACTUALLY WANTED to publish your work, buy Mr. Clancy refused to let them publish you or they would not get his work (and basically have nothing substantial to sell).
You should try PowerDNS. It's entire records are located in MySQL database tables, enables very easy update/modify/add/delete scripts. Performance is great:-)
Yep played with that too.. but I'm kinda scripted out - I was hoping someone else already did all the work for once:P
I've played with it.. it's defintely a nice DNS server.
But what I really want is something like EasyDNS provides: Aliases. I want to be able to 'clone' whole domains, because they're all going to the same place anyways based on the hostname.
Maybe EasyDNS just wipes out all the duplicate hostnames, and writes new records for them between the web interface and the backend when a host is changed or added..
I'd be looking around for an old-style sit-down cabinet, and then get a copy of the old "Hard Drivin" or "Race Drivin" game...
I have two Race Drivin's;) But they're FREAKING HEAVY! - And I have the standup ones..
With the right ROM Set, you can link them and race each other like the newer Crusin USA's. You can also get a ROM Set that allows for the "Panorama" view: 5 Monitors.
There's no reason to get Race Drivin and NOT use an original cabinet. The game has a force feedback steering, accurate shifting, and even requires you to turn the key to start the car.
Microsoft released a patch, people did not install the patch. Who's fault is that? None of the 1000+ systems in my office were infected because I'm intelligent enough to have policies in place to prevent stuff like this from happening.
So they do act. Everybody, remember to forward a copy of all your spam to uce@ftc.gov as well as the usual post to nanas and LART to abuse@wherever. It seems that if the FTC build enough info on a spammer then they really will do something about it!
Yep.. I was one of the domain owners who was joe-jobbed by these guys, and contacted by the FTC to provide them with copies of the complaints that I recevied.
Apparently anti-spam/anti-virus services were the main targets of their joe-jobbing.
That was a few months ago, February to be exact. It wasn't public because they didn't want to scare these guys off before they were ready.
Slashdot Mirror
SMB is P2P. Personally, I think anything that moves us away from that P2P crap and back to Netware client/server is good for the world.
So put it on a Netware box ($60 SBS shop.novell.com). Salvage has been around since the early 90's. IMHO there's no reason for an OS to not incorporate it's own restore feature these days.
The kid ended up installing a new OS and wiping out all my instructor's data.
Yes. And letting the kids know they should always turn the computers off when they're done with them is a bad idea too. Especially when you're moving data with partition magic on an 80GB drive...
Because you people are totally short sighted.
So how the hell am I supposed to STOP the spam you people are whining about if I can't read an email that's in queue - or in a suspected spammers INBOX?
My point was that why was he saying that 30MPG is 'good', when higher efficiency transportation is available. I was hinting that his choice of a 4 wheel vehicle is not much different than a choice of an SUV. There are better alternatives when you're doing nothing but looking at MPG (assuming the traveler needs his own transportation).
Also, don't get so defensive. It looks bad. I doubt he was talking about people 4 kids. Most likely, he was talking about people who drive SUVs just to drive SUVs.
I have a general problem with the 'high and mighty-ness' of those who don't drive SUVs as if they're the only ones capable of saving the world. Add to that, that most SUVs REALLY AREN'T that much worse in MPG than most other vehicles (my bike gets 100% more MPG than my SUV, but his car only gets 50% more. The Honda scooter would be 500% more than my SUV, while a Viper would probably be 50% less than my SUV.) and the biggest complainers really just have nothing more than penis envy. -shrug-
WTF are you smoking? I get 22MPG in my 99 Durango. I got 25 in my 94 LeBaron, and 28 in an Isuzu Rodeo. My wife gets (according to her nifty electronic gauges) 16MPG in her 99 TownandCountry Minivan.
I have 4 kids. You fit 2 adults and 4 kids (with car seats) into a Prius.
Oh, and I have a motorcycle that gets 50MPG.
Why are you driving that gas guzzleing 30MPG car all by yourself, when you can get 100MPG on a Honda scooter from the 50's?
That's the beauty and the danger of America: People who don't have a clue are allowed to shoot their mouths off.
So until you go buy that Honda scooter, I'll consider you a Troll.
Obviously if you move your phone to a new location, you generally can't have the same port #, as you'll probably be in a new CO. But that doesn't matter, because your # (or, your Domain name) can be pointed to the new location ;)
Mostly. A good chunk are for competitors. At first it kinda bothered me, then I figured if they left via an ad, they probably weren't going to pay anyways, and at least I'd get a few cent out of them ;)
I never understood that. You can have that problem with a publicly held company. Why does the 'personal touch' invite doubts as to whether the service will survive?
But all I pay is bandwidth, and that's covered no problem. If anything, I'll just refuse Outlook access :P (Just Kidding!)
More bandwidth. More storage. More Spam options. Err anti-Spam options ;)
What is it that drives a free user to upgrade? That's what needs to be studied to improve your conversion rate.
I think free users will always be free users. It's the users looking for a specific service are the ones that upgrade. The free accounts are just what I have to put up with to get those paying users.
About $90/month with aprox 4000 impressions per day and AT MOST 20 actual clicks. The big money comes from 1 click now and then.
A modest fee would most likely have been paid, especially if new functionality came with pay accounts. Look at Livejournal - you can sign up for free, but paying users get more features. In fact Slashdot could learn a lot from Livejournal.
I run a free/paid email service - vfemail.net. You're welcome to monitor the main page and watch the number of free subscribers vs paid subscribers, but the paid users are pretty steady at 28 - while the number of free signups has just crossed the 10,000 mark :/.
People are cheap. If it wasn't for Google ads, I'd be dead in the water.
Yeah, but I'm already replicating MySQL - so what's another table? :P
I can understand why some people would what to have dns information in a SQL database, but personally I feel that it's just adding a not piece of software that could potentially fail. Trust me, you don't what your dns to fail.
Ahhh. Actually, I run an email service. So I already have MySQL servers that need to be up 100% of the time. In fact, I'd wager that most websites would also run some type of SQL, and need to be up 100% of the time. So it's a natual fit.
Plus, DNS is cached. So depending on your traffic, odds are pretty good that you'll have your server up before your hostname's cache expires - and if necessary you can concentrate on what's probably a bigger problem than DNS ;)
So BeOS DIDN'T settle a lawsuit with MS concerning dual-booting?
Sure - IF John Grisham or Tom Clancy forced every publisher to not publish anyone else.
Apparently you missed the dual-boot fiasco as well. Relating to your situation, it would be that Tom Clancy's publisher ACTUALLY WANTED to publish your work, buy Mr. Clancy refused to let them publish you or they would not get his work (and basically have nothing substantial to sell).
Did you miss the whole "Microsoft not allowing OEM's to dual boot multiple OS's" fiasco?
Not that it would have absolutely overtaken Windows - but it was never given a chance.
ROFL, I like Dan's offerings, but I think you just quoted his axim on documentation as well ;)
Yes, exactly
If yes, you can definitely do this with bind: simply use an abbreviation-only file (no reference to the domain) and use this file for both domains
Hmm.. I kind of wanted to avoid BIND ;) In fact, I actually like the MySQL based DNS servers because they also provide easy replication of the data.
Or can maybe BIND store it's data in MySQL now too? I didn't think so..
Yep played with that too.. but I'm kinda scripted out - I was hoping someone else already did all the work for once :P
But what I really want is something like EasyDNS provides: Aliases. I want to be able to 'clone' whole domains, because they're all going to the same place anyways based on the hostname.
Maybe EasyDNS just wipes out all the duplicate hostnames, and writes new records for them between the web interface and the backend when a host is changed or added..
I have two Race Drivin's ;) But they're FREAKING HEAVY! - And I have the standup ones..
With the right ROM Set, you can link them and race each other like the newer Crusin USA's. You can also get a ROM Set that allows for the "Panorama" view: 5 Monitors.
There's no reason to get Race Drivin and NOT use an original cabinet. The game has a force feedback steering, accurate shifting, and even requires you to turn the key to start the car.
Just as long as their not stealing my underwear as part of an incomplete business model..
Ahh You must run Netware and Win98. Good lad. ;)
No kidding, it came with a convenient ASCII Table. ;)
Yep.. I was one of the domain owners who was joe-jobbed by these guys, and contacted by the FTC to provide them with copies of the complaints that I recevied.
Apparently anti-spam/anti-virus services were the main targets of their joe-jobbing.
That was a few months ago, February to be exact. It wasn't public because they didn't want to scare these guys off before they were ready.