I got a chance to take a look at the X1, and I concluded the thing was a big flaming piece of crap. I'm sorry, but for a server, an IDE disk just isn't going to cut it. Not to mention, that yes it may take PC133 DIMMs, but if they are not blessed by Sun, your server suddenly goes into the unsupported category, which could suck if something seriously breaks with it. I think you should just stop being cheap and get the Netra T1, which is a lot nicer.
I've read a number of comments here, talking about how that we should be focusing on basic necessities in Africa, like clean water, etc. I agree that we should do that, but also access to the amount of information available on the internet is a very powerful way to educate people on the world they live in. They could, perhaps read some research on new farming techniques that helps crops survive droughts.
Also consider the amount of jobs that could be created maintaining this type of infrastructure, jobs that could progress the continent from subsistance farming, to a technological peer with the United States and Europe.
Yeah..like ircd-omstud is some amazing piece of software or something...With its negative idles times and shit, not to mention its pretty much unmaintained.
Hybrid 7 has support for IPv6, but alas, its not quite finished yet, and with all this stupid shit going on it, it still might be a while longer, especially with one of our best coders around. But the IPv6 support seems mature enough(I should know if anybody, I wrote most of it).
But, honestly, IPv6 might be able to help against certain types of attacks, like smurf attacks, but it doesn't help as much against DDoS. But at least QoS(Quality of Service) it would help some, unless your router is swamped....
Never mind the fact that Dianora has been pretty much responsible for leading the development of Hybrid ircd. Of course most of you don't want to here that.
If your smart, you'll get the machines equipped to take 40VDC. If your colo can drop you a DC power connection, this is very useful. This means that you have X number of power supplies eliminated that could potentially fail in the future. Also DC power tends to be a little more reliable, especially if the place has a large bank of batteries to supply the machines, these end up acting as rather large capacitors..
Explain then why it is illegal to listen in on analog cellphone conversations with a scanner. You can't really even buy scanners capable of tuning that range.
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Yes it does. The CVS snapshots have for quite a while, it just wasn't too terribly stable. I'm uncertain that it is stable now, but I haven't seen any problems with it yet.
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The problem I've noticed with LEXX is the fact that way to many of your sci-fi type people, seem to lack a key function in the human brain, and its called a sense of humor. I mean come on, there is something strangely humorous about a dead guy, a janitor, a severed robot head, and a chick who was turned into a love slave as punishment, all stuck on a bug looking ship.
But then again, if you had a sense of humor, you wouldn't take all of it so seriously and perhaps even get a date once in a while..oh well..
hmm..perhaps its time for some absestos underwear, I feel things getting a little toasty
But am I the only one who has noticed they are able to find more of the music that they want to listen to on napster these days? Since I'm not terribly much into the major label offerings, I've been able to find a lot of the stuff from smaller indepentent labels, which I think is a good thing.
But, thats right, most of the people here, they didn't want to hear that, they wanted to listen to the sound of artists selling themselves out to the all mighty dollar. And you the listener, didn't want to pay them for selling out, so you went and tried to rip them off. Sure, the major labels want to charge you out the nose and it is very well possible that those artists agreed to let the record label out the nose contractually.
So, if you want to do something about this, just support your smaller labels who encourage the free exchange of their music and boycott the major labels, this includes downloading pirated copies of their music.
Dynamic IP addresses don't provide you with any less anonymity than static ones. If you that they do, then you are a fool. Its pretty damn easy for the appropriate authorities to find out who you are in either case. Regardless, there is nothing that says that you have to have a static IP address with IPv6. Consider that a dialup user will be doing IPv6 over PPP, the isp is still going to assign them a dynamic address. As far as cable modem or ADSL users go, I suspect they will still end up with dynamic addresses as well, as this gives the ISP more freedom to renumber their networks and sufficently annoy their userbase into not using their connection to run a mp3 leech server..
Not if you shelled out the money for Suns C compiler and compiled mod_ssl and apache and all of its friends with cc -x05 -xtarget=ultra -xarch=v9 which will give you 64bit binaries, which does serious asskicking on intel hardware:P
That is because Bruce shutdown technocrat.net some months ago, as it wasn't fulling his orginal idea of what it should have been, as site to get geeks involved in politics..
That will happen when cows fly. Seriously..How many of you visit this site via slashdot.org, most all of you I assume. Also consider that some nations don't have a concept of non-profit organizations, or the concept is different than that of which we know in the US. I don't know how you can automatically assume 'non-profit' out of organization. Wouldn't something like say, a local bowling league qualify for a.org, consider that they are neither out to make money '.com', not a networking group '.net', but just a organziation of guys who like to bowl. Of course its not worth the effort to become a non-profit organization, because quite frankly, for 15 people is just dumb.
ziplinks to save quite a bit on bandwidth usage, but most implementations of them are dirty hacks. Which is why they got ripped out in hybrid7. One of these days somebody, (me?!?) will readd the code to do ziplinks. Of course this is not as necessary with lazylinks. Lazylinks basically kills the need for bursting on server rejoin. The leafs end up keeping state about local users, but remote users it goes to the hub. I don't remember the exact details as I'm not the one who implemented them.
The problem is that the more you increase the length of the nick, you increase the amount of bandwidth you consume on storing excessively long nicks. Not to mention increased memory consumption.
As far as UIDs go. Even if we don't let the user know they even have a UID, that is much better on bandwidth consumption.
I personally think UIDs are a good idea though. Basically unflatten the namespace. Of course UIDs aren't really much good unless you have some way of doing persistant UIDs. Of course their are other issues that would need to be worked out when dealing with non-unique nicks.
I remember reading a while back(on linux-kernel I believe) of somebody getting Linux to run on a 24 cpu Sun E10000. I'm not sure how great the performance would be, but it is possible.
TiVo should try to develop their technology (maybe use Linux in their boxes instead of Micro$oft?) before they promote this thing to hell and can't follow through on their demands.
Sorry to inform you,but the TiVo does run Linux on it. Perhaps you missed all of the stuff on Slashdot about hacking the TiVo etc?
You can even look on TiVo's site about it. They have the source posted of their modifications to the Linux kernel, per the GPLs requirements...
I bet you'll have lots of fun recharging your electric car in California when there power is out because people there have a not in my backyard attitude about electricity generation. This from the same people who get in their gas guzzling SUV and drive to the gym 3 blocks away and go run on a treadmill. This makes lots and lots of sense.
Please, when providing solutions to problems, consider all of the far reaching impacts, like in this case the major problems our nations power grid is going to be facing in the next 20 years, especially if we become more dependant on electric cars that need recharging at wall outlets.
Don't forget that Taco Bell's parent company did the same thing with the Russian's launch of their ISS module. Remember the Pizza Hut logo painted on the side of the rocket? It sounds like they are trying to be moderately decent coporate citizens and providing funding to help advance our civilization by helping out in such a way that it is mutally benefitical to both parties. They get a lot of press for it and the Russians got a nice chunk of change for their space program.
I pity the fool that installed Solaris 8 without editing a configuration file in vi. I hope at least you edited/etc/inetd.conf, or did you want to have chargen, discard, finger, etc, etc, all running on that box?
I'm not saying you wouldn't have to do this with a Linux distro, but that wasn't my point. My point was that you still need to tweak it with a text editor.
Now if you had said it was an OpenBSD box, then I'd probably believe you.
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I got a chance to take a look at the X1, and I concluded the thing was a big flaming piece of crap. I'm sorry, but for a server, an IDE disk just isn't going to cut it. Not to mention, that yes it may take PC133 DIMMs, but if they are not blessed by Sun, your server suddenly goes into the unsupported category, which could suck if something seriously breaks with it. I think you should just stop being cheap and get the Netra T1, which is a lot nicer.
Last I checked Phish isn't really all that successful. Mainly they've got a dedicated following of stoners and the like...
Well there is the Blade 1000, which uses the US3, but that box is far, far from cheap with a price tag of around $9000 USD.
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But then again, your boss really likes you and you know you can con him into buying you hardware necessary do get your work done
I've read a number of comments here, talking about how that we should be focusing on basic necessities in Africa, like clean water, etc. I agree that we should do that, but also access to the amount of information available on the internet is a very powerful way to educate people on the world they live in. They could, perhaps read some research on new farming techniques that helps crops survive droughts.
Also consider the amount of jobs that could be created maintaining this type of infrastructure, jobs that could progress the continent from subsistance farming, to a technological peer with the United States and Europe.
Doesn't cdparanoia allow for error correction when ripping cds, if the cd were perhaps scratched and not likely to be in the range of normal data?
I don't know that much about the software, but if somebody knows of a cd that has this protection, see if cdparanoia can work around this..
Yeah..like ircd-omstud is some amazing piece of software or something...With its negative idles times and shit, not to mention its pretty much unmaintained.
Hybrid 7 has support for IPv6, but alas, its not quite finished yet, and with all this stupid shit going on it, it still might be a while longer, especially with one of our best coders around. But the IPv6 support seems mature enough(I should know if anybody, I wrote most of it).
But, honestly, IPv6 might be able to help against certain types of attacks, like smurf attacks, but it doesn't help as much against DDoS. But at least QoS(Quality of Service) it would help some, unless your router is swamped....
Never mind the fact that Dianora has been pretty much responsible for leading the development of Hybrid ircd. Of course most of you don't want to here that.
Regardless, its a pretty stupid.
(Speaking for myself, not the Hybrid team)
If your smart, you'll get the machines equipped to take 40VDC. If your colo can drop you a DC power connection, this is very useful. This means that you have X number of power supplies eliminated that could potentially fail in the future. Also DC power tends to be a little more reliable, especially if the place has a large bank of batteries to supply the machines, these end up acting as rather large capacitors..
Explain then why it is illegal to listen in on analog cellphone conversations with a scanner. You can't really even buy scanners capable of tuning that range.
Yes it does. The CVS snapshots have for quite a while, it just wasn't too terribly stable. I'm uncertain that it is stable now, but I haven't seen any problems with it yet.
The problem I've noticed with LEXX is the fact that way to many of your sci-fi type people, seem to lack a key function in the human brain, and its called a sense of humor. I mean come on, there is something strangely humorous about a dead guy, a janitor, a severed robot head, and a chick who was turned into a love slave as punishment, all stuck on a bug looking ship.
But then again, if you had a sense of humor, you wouldn't take all of it so seriously and perhaps even get a date once in a while..oh well..
hmm..perhaps its time for some absestos underwear, I feel things getting a little toasty
But am I the only one who has noticed they are able to find more of the music that they want to listen to on napster these days? Since I'm not terribly much into the major label offerings, I've been able to find a lot of the stuff from smaller indepentent labels, which I think is a good thing.
But, thats right, most of the people here, they didn't want to hear that, they wanted to listen to the sound of artists selling themselves out to the all mighty dollar. And you the listener, didn't want to pay them for selling out, so you went and tried to rip them off. Sure, the major labels want to charge you out the nose and it is very well possible that those artists agreed to let the record label out the nose contractually.
So, if you want to do something about this, just support your smaller labels who encourage the free exchange of their music and boycott the major labels, this includes downloading pirated copies of their music.
Dynamic IP addresses don't provide you with any less anonymity than static ones. If you that they do, then you are a fool. Its pretty damn easy for the appropriate authorities to find out who you are in either case. Regardless, there is nothing that says that you have to have a static IP address with IPv6. Consider that a dialup user will be doing IPv6 over PPP, the isp is still going to assign them a dynamic address. As far as cable modem or ADSL users go, I suspect they will still end up with dynamic addresses as well, as this gives the ISP more freedom to renumber their networks and sufficently annoy their userbase into not using their connection to run a mp3 leech server..
Not if you shelled out the money for Suns C compiler and compiled mod_ssl and apache and all of its friends with cc -x05 -xtarget=ultra -xarch=v9 which will give you 64bit binaries, which does serious asskicking on intel hardware :P
That is because Bruce shutdown technocrat.net some months ago, as it wasn't fulling his orginal idea of what it should have been, as site to get geeks involved in politics..
That will happen when cows fly. Seriously..How many of you visit this site via slashdot.org, most all of you I assume. Also consider that some nations don't have a concept of non-profit organizations, or the concept is different than that of which we know in the US. I don't know how you can automatically assume 'non-profit' out of organization. Wouldn't something like say, a local bowling league qualify for a .org, consider that they are neither out to make money '.com', not a networking group '.net', but just a organziation of guys who like to bowl. Of course its not worth the effort to become a non-profit organization, because quite frankly, for 15 people is just dumb.
ziplinks to save quite a bit on bandwidth usage, but most implementations of them are dirty hacks. Which is why they got ripped out in hybrid7. One of these days somebody, (me?!?) will readd the code to do ziplinks. Of course this is not as necessary with lazylinks. Lazylinks basically kills the need for bursting on server rejoin. The leafs end up keeping state about local users, but remote users it goes to the hub. I don't remember the exact details as I'm not the one who implemented them.
The problem is that the more you increase the length of the nick, you increase the amount of bandwidth you consume on storing excessively long nicks. Not to mention increased memory consumption.
As far as UIDs go. Even if we don't let the user know they even have a UID, that is much better on bandwidth consumption.
I personally think UIDs are a good idea though. Basically unflatten the namespace. Of course UIDs aren't really much good unless you have some way of doing persistant UIDs. Of course their are other issues that would need to be worked out when dealing with non-unique nicks.
I remember reading a while back(on linux-kernel I believe) of somebody getting Linux to run on a 24 cpu Sun E10000. I'm not sure how great the performance would be, but it is possible.
Sorry to inform you,but the TiVo does run Linux on it. Perhaps you missed all of the stuff on Slashdot about hacking the TiVo etc?
You can even look on TiVo's site about it. They have the source posted of their modifications to the Linux kernel, per the GPLs requirements...
I bet you'll have lots of fun recharging your electric car in California when there power is out because people there have a not in my backyard attitude about electricity generation. This from the same people who get in their gas guzzling SUV and drive to the gym 3 blocks away and go run on a treadmill. This makes lots and lots of sense.
Please, when providing solutions to problems, consider all of the far reaching impacts, like in this case the major problems our nations power grid is going to be facing in the next 20 years, especially if we become more dependant on electric cars that need recharging at wall outlets.
Wiring a phone line isn't difficult to do. So how much do they rape the Australian consumer for installing a second phone jack?
Don't forget that Taco Bell's parent company did the same thing with the Russian's launch of their ISS module. Remember the Pizza Hut logo painted on the side of the rocket? It sounds like they are trying to be moderately decent coporate citizens and providing funding to help advance our civilization by helping out in such a way that it is mutally benefitical to both parties. They get a lot of press for it and the Russians got a nice chunk of change for their space program.
I pity the fool that installed Solaris 8 without editing a configuration file in vi. I hope at least you edited /etc/inetd.conf, or did you want to have chargen, discard, finger, etc, etc, all running on that box?
I'm not saying you wouldn't have to do this with a Linux distro, but that wasn't my point. My point was that you still need to tweak it with a text editor.
Now if you had said it was an OpenBSD box, then I'd probably believe you.