Therefore in a lot of people's heads BIND = DNS. Heck, for that very reason if I had to set up a DNS server (I'm not a networking expert) I'd select BIND
With BIND's reputation in the (in)security department, I'm looking for a non-BIND DNS. Right now I only want DNS for my LAN where it would be perfectly safe to run BIND, but why should I learn something I wouldn't want to deploy later when it matters?
If companies are contributing to the listener-supported stations that I listen to, I've not heard about it. There are annual pledge drives, and I'll hear first names given. That's it.
In regards to "You just can't run a non-for-profit music formated radio station unless you've got some rather deep pockets." have you ever heard of listener-supported radio? People will pay to have music without ads shoved in their ears.
Other than that, the technical points you mention all have merits. However, I don't think that government regulation is the only way to solve the problems of spectrum competition. I'm not sure what other solutions might be, since I only started thinking about the issue when I saw this story. If there really wasn't any harm to what the guy was doing...why shut him down? Did another station complain of actual documentable problems? Or did some overly officious busybody stick his nose in?
So if it wasn't for the ASCAP fees to cover the copyright issue, you'd be perfectly OK with this guy running his FM station? He owns his "printing press" (transmitter) and can say what he wants, right?
But the FCC didn't shut him down because of royalties he wasn't paying, it shut him down because he didn't have the gov't stamp of approval for his speech (transmission) even though there was no conflict of broadcast coverage on that frequency in the area.
AOL's browser strategy has taken contradictory turns in recent years. AOL last year agreed to license the IE browser as part of an
antirust settlement between its Netscape unit and Microsoft.
Sorry, but IE is "rusting" even worse than Netscape is. At least Mozilla is being actively developed, even if Netscape seldom gets an update.
Even if AOL simply keeps Netscape Navigator updated with its Mozilla base, new releases of it help to raise the profile of alternatives to IE, said Jon von Tetzchner, CEO of Norwegian browser maker Opera Software ASA.
Amen to that. I regularly use Opera, Firefox, Netscape 7, iCab, Links, and Safari. Camino and Mozilla sometimes too. It boggles me that many people aren't even aware that browsers other than IE exist. Choice is good.
Watching an ep of The Practice with my wife once got us talking about this situation. Would you lie to make things easier on yourself? We decided if it ever happened to us we'd stick with the truth. The system has perverse incentives. I'd rather take my chances with the jury. One clueful juror* can save your bacon.
(In the story, the incarcerated innocent just had to apologize for "his crime" to the family of the victim, and the parole board would let him out. He stood on principle and refused to admit to a crime he didn't commit.)
*There are four boxes to use in defense of freedom: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order.
You're wrong. This is more like his house being broken into, incriminating evidence planted, having his sorry butt hauled away to jail for it - and you wanting to blame the poor sap for not having good enough locks on the doors.
Especially if they delay the marketing a bit. "Guess what, these machines you've been using, and using so well and easily, with fewer viruses and less downtime over the past three months, do not run Windows. And we cut costs at the same time. The solution is called Linux and Open-Source Software."
Sorry to spoil what you learned (incorrectly) in third grade, but the earth primarily orbits the sun. Who in their right mind would call the moon the center of earth's planetary system? The sun's gravity is orders of magnitude larger than the moon's, and even being ~500 times farther away doesn't mitigate that sufficiently.
The thing that makes Luna more of a factor in Terra's tides than Sol is that (in lay terms) the difference in gravitational pull from one side of earth to the other is greater in the Terra-Luna system than the Terra-Sol system. This is why the moon "wins" the neap tides - earth's diameter isn't much in the solar system, but it is pretty significant in the "lunar system". (Egads, I remember reading that in "Asimov on Astronomy" about 20 years ago.)
It's also a pretty well known fact that the earth and moon don't really orbit each other. They both have convex orbits around their common primary, the sun. Asimov ran the numbers on this in his book too. Others have posted it on this story already.
You can run X11 on OS X, and QuartzWM is a WM that Apple designed to look like the Aqua/Quartz/whatever-it-is-today GUI. But X11 is not the native GUI of the Mac. The feel is completely different.
Heck, if I could get two physical consoles (video, kbd, mouse) for my Mac, it would be more than enough computer for my wife and I to use simultaneously. Most of the time, the machine is idling cycles. We don't need a second computer, we need a second console for the first computer.
Yup, know all about the partition concerns. I educated myself on every issue I could find regarding X on a beige. Still had OF issues. Maybe if I knew OF better I could do something, maybe... And I wish osxhints.com was organized better. I have a hard time finding hints related to what I want to know.
While technically deficient in many ways (cooperative multitasking) I think the ease-of-use built into the classic MacOS GUI is still unmatched by OS X or anything Windows has ever offered.
I can't get Jaguar (10.2) to install on it. That's the problem. I would have been happy with Jaguar, though I hear Panther is even faster on the same rig.
Does OS X support video capture with the AV card on the beige G3?
Be careful with that advice. I never could get Panther to install on my beige, even with over half gig of RAM. Open Firmware issues never allowed it to finish installation or boot. I asked every mailing list I could think of. Calls to Apple support didn't help. I tried X Post Facto. Nothing worked.
I'll admit though, that if you pay 2/3 of your salary to taxes, that you're getting a better deal than us Americans. We pay roughly 50% of our salary in taxes (i.e. we are now 50% socialist), and we don't get subsidized healthcare, university education, and so on. All we get is an oversized military that protects the U.S., Europe, and the rest of our allies, whee... (your taxes would be higher if you had to spend more on your military to protect your country from Russia, etc. You reap the rewards of the U.S.'s implicit protection of the entire Euro-area, including Denmark)
Don't forget that the price-controlled pharmaceuticals there have stifled research in European drug companies, so Americans are also subsidizing the majority of the world's drug research. Looks like the AARP lobby is going to have their way, so American outlets will have to compete with foreign ones on price. Say good-bye to any new drug research. I hope the seniors are happy that they're saving a few bucks at the expense of shortening their grandchildren's lifespans. Talk about killing the goose that lays the golden egg.
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With BIND's reputation in the (in)security department, I'm looking for a non-BIND DNS. Right now I only want DNS for my LAN where it would be perfectly safe to run BIND, but why should I learn something I wouldn't want to deploy later when it matters?
Open source "Java" can be had right now.
If companies are contributing to the listener-supported stations that I listen to, I've not heard about it. There are annual pledge drives, and I'll hear first names given. That's it.
In regards to "You just can't run a non-for-profit music formated radio station unless you've got some rather deep pockets." have you ever heard of listener-supported radio? People will pay to have music without ads shoved in their ears.
Other than that, the technical points you mention all have merits. However, I don't think that government regulation is the only way to solve the problems of spectrum competition. I'm not sure what other solutions might be, since I only started thinking about the issue when I saw this story. If there really wasn't any harm to what the guy was doing...why shut him down? Did another station complain of actual documentable problems? Or did some overly officious busybody stick his nose in?
Great link, AC. Thanks! No more mod points, or I'd bump you up.
So if it wasn't for the ASCAP fees to cover the copyright issue, you'd be perfectly OK with this guy running his FM station? He owns his "printing press" (transmitter) and can say what he wants, right?
But the FCC didn't shut him down because of royalties he wasn't paying, it shut him down because he didn't have the gov't stamp of approval for his speech (transmission) even though there was no conflict of broadcast coverage on that frequency in the area.
Note that Kaffe needs volunteers to help track down and fix platform-specific compiler errors. If you want Java on your platform, pitch in and help.
Sorry, but IE is "rusting" even worse than Netscape is. At least Mozilla is being actively developed, even if Netscape seldom gets an update.
Amen to that. I regularly use Opera, Firefox, Netscape 7, iCab, Links, and Safari. Camino and Mozilla sometimes too. It boggles me that many people aren't even aware that browsers other than IE exist. Choice is good.
"It's one-sixteenth of a square meter with 1-by-root-2 proportions, you insensitive clod!"
Watching an ep of The Practice with my wife once got us talking about this situation. Would you lie to make things easier on yourself? We decided if it ever happened to us we'd stick with the truth. The system has perverse incentives. I'd rather take my chances with the jury. One clueful juror* can save your bacon.
(In the story, the incarcerated innocent just had to apologize for "his crime" to the family of the victim, and the parole board would let him out. He stood on principle and refused to admit to a crime he didn't commit.)
*There are four boxes to use in defense of freedom: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order.
You're wrong. This is more like his house being broken into, incriminating evidence planted, having his sorry butt hauled away to jail for it - and you wanting to blame the poor sap for not having good enough locks on the doors.
Especially if they delay the marketing a bit. "Guess what, these machines you've been using, and using so well and easily, with fewer viruses and less downtime over the past three months, do not run Windows. And we cut costs at the same time. The solution is called Linux and Open-Source Software."
I read Dilbert online about once a week (catch up a week at a time) and have never had a problem like that. Using Opera 7.23.
Sorry to spoil what you learned (incorrectly) in third grade, but the earth primarily orbits the sun. Who in their right mind would call the moon the center of earth's planetary system? The sun's gravity is orders of magnitude larger than the moon's, and even being ~500 times farther away doesn't mitigate that sufficiently.
The thing that makes Luna more of a factor in Terra's tides than Sol is that (in lay terms) the difference in gravitational pull from one side of earth to the other is greater in the Terra-Luna system than the Terra-Sol system. This is why the moon "wins" the neap tides - earth's diameter isn't much in the solar system, but it is pretty significant in the "lunar system". (Egads, I remember reading that in "Asimov on Astronomy" about 20 years ago.)
It's also a pretty well known fact that the earth and moon don't really orbit each other. They both have convex orbits around their common primary, the sun. Asimov ran the numbers on this in his book too. Others have posted it on this story already.
Implement Condorcet voting, and there won't be a need to "switch votes" because your preference was already registered.
You can run X11 on OS X, and QuartzWM is a WM that Apple designed to look like the Aqua/Quartz/whatever-it-is-today GUI. But X11 is not the native GUI of the Mac. The feel is completely different.
Heck, if I could get two physical consoles (video, kbd, mouse) for my Mac, it would be more than enough computer for my wife and I to use simultaneously. Most of the time, the machine is idling cycles. We don't need a second computer, we need a second console for the first computer.
Yup, know all about the partition concerns. I educated myself on every issue I could find regarding X on a beige. Still had OF issues. Maybe if I knew OF better I could do something, maybe... And I wish osxhints.com was organized better. I have a hard time finding hints related to what I want to know.
While technically deficient in many ways (cooperative multitasking) I think the ease-of-use built into the classic MacOS GUI is still unmatched by OS X or anything Windows has ever offered.
Sorry for the typo! I do realize, of course, that Panther is not officially supported on the beige G3.
Darn codenames. I guess I should use 10.2, 10.3, etc.
I can't get Jaguar (10.2) to install on it. That's the problem. I would have been happy with Jaguar, though I hear Panther is even faster on the same rig.
Does OS X support video capture with the AV card on the beige G3?
Be careful with that advice. I never could get Panther to install on my beige, even with over half gig of RAM. Open Firmware issues never allowed it to finish installation or boot. I asked every mailing list I could think of. Calls to Apple support didn't help. I tried X Post Facto. Nothing worked.
Don't forget that the price-controlled pharmaceuticals there have stifled research in European drug companies, so Americans are also subsidizing the majority of the world's drug research. Looks like the AARP lobby is going to have their way, so American outlets will have to compete with foreign ones on price. Say good-bye to any new drug research. I hope the seniors are happy that they're saving a few bucks at the expense of shortening their grandchildren's lifespans. Talk about killing the goose that lays the golden egg.
And us old-timers will still call it the "Apple" or even "open Apple" key. (At least I don't call my Option key "closed Apple".)
Seems that would make me dependent on two projects rather than just one.