Parent says: The Administration had valid national security concerns that were the reason for this war, but the geopolitics of the whole thing is so complex that most people don't understand them.
The Great Statesman Inigo Montoya says: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
You do know that Enron's busienss model involved proposing a questionable business structure and then insulting the inteligence of anyone who dared question it, don't you?
Yeah, I remember the archie servers being *very* busy. When you could get on, they were quite useful though. Thanks for the reminder:)
I can't say I got X11 to run until 95-96, which my hardware was supported.
Running X on unsupported hardware was half the fun! I had a Diamond SpeedStar 24x. The graphics chip was supported, but the programmable clock chip was officially "undocumented." There was a fairly easy hack that involved running some custom code in order to get it to work. End result was much better performance than the Trident 8900 and Tseng ET4000 cards that *were* supported.
I'm sure I was running X by 1994, not sure if I had it running by 1993.
Back in 1992 or 1993, a unix admin suggested that I check out a PC unix called "minix." Back then, "googling" consisted of connecting a ftp clinet to ftp.wustl.edu and manually traversing the directory structure looking for something interesting. I don't remember if it was at ftp.wustl.edu or sunsite.unc.edu, or even on usenet, but I eventually stumbled across this PC unix called "linux." It sounded right, so I went with it.
Months later, I spoke to the admin again, and found that I was mistaken. Rather than type in thousands of lines of code for an 8086 unix kernel, I had a fully functional linux workstation with X11, ethernet and all the rest of the good stuff that we take for granted today but were PC fantasies in the Windows 3.0 days.
You are missing my point. I'm well aware of the economics of ISPs. What internet people seem to forget is that the voice networks are built with nearly the exact same resource that data networks are built with. Each spam I receive eats up a few K of bandwidth as it makes its way to my desktop. Each second of voice communication with a telemarketer takes up a minimum of 8k of bandwidth, 64k if no compression is used.
It takes several seconds for me to recognise that a voice caller is actually a telemarketer. If it takes 8 seconds, then the telemarketer has wasted between 80Kb and 640Kb of bandwidth. The largest spam sitting in my inbox is 30k, most are 10k or less. Clearly a single message from a telemarketer consumes up to an order of magnitude more bandwidth than a spam.
Now, consider my time. Mail.app finds and deletes almost all of my spam, so I rarely have to worry about it. When one does slip through, it may take a maximum of 10 seconds for me to identify it as spam and delete it. When a telemarketer calls, It takes a minimum of 10 seconds to identify the call as a marketing call, and possibly many more seconds to dismiss the caller depending on how polite I am.
If you are going to complain about spam, kill two birds with one stone and take out the telemarketers while you are at it.
With the minor exception that direct marketting postal mail generally doesn't come "postage due," and telemarketers usually don't call collect.
Sure they do.
For residential users, who do not pay a per-GB bandwidth transfer fee, spam costs nothing more than time just like telemarketers.
For large organizations that have hundreds of phone lines, telemarketers consume valuable telecom resources just like spammers consume valuable bandwidth. If a corporation has 100 phone lines for use by its employees, and direcct marketers call 5 of those lines, then only 95 lines are available for business. The company now needs to buy 5 extra lines in order to keep its workers productive.
Similarly, if a company needs an full OC3 of bandwidth (155 MB/sec) and spam takes up 5 of those MB, then the company needs to add 4 T1s of bandwidth in order to make up for the losses due to spam.
If you have an attorney who bills $400/hour coming in to meet with the Chief Counsel, and he's got one hour before he has to drive to the airport, who is going to hold him up and scan his notebook?
If you are an IT consultant billing $100 / hour, you can afford to connect to the internet via the GPRS on your cell phone.
Dude, renegotiate your contract ASAP! Unless you are using "IT Guy" as an euphemism for "PC Assembly," you can find that kind of pay back in the states without running the risk of orphaning your kids.
In some other ways, seems like China has gone from exceedingly liberal (Communist) to more moderate, while the US is still that funny mix of liberal and right wing type of ideas.
I think you are confusing "liberal" with some kind of local "Liberal" party. The PRC certainly was radical from the 40s on through to the end of the cultural revolution. Today the PRC is more liberal than they were previously - in the sense that they aren't as rigid with the rules as they once were.
An interesting example to consider is city residency permits. Previously, a child could only get a residency permit if the parents followed the 1-child-per-family policy. Without a residency permit, the child had no access to school or other social services. Ten years ago, that made the child socially nonexistent. Today you can "buy" your way into school, so the residency permits only impact the poor.
Parent post has brought up some interesting things, certainly worthy of discussion.
In version MacOS 10.3, the finder displays a small eject icon next to any mounted filesystems that can be unmounted. Click on the icon and the device ejects. It is no longer necessary to throw the filesystem into the trash.
When I lived in New Jersey, you paid the PIF $75 and then they told you what was wrong with the car right before giving you the certificate. Some PIF sites just handed out certificates and didn't seem to do any testing at all.
Note that you can aggregate 64 OC-768 (40Gb/sec) circuits onto a single fiber strand with Lucen'ts LambdaXtreme Transport.
What this means is that the next generation of fiber routing and switching gear is available and ready for deployment. Existing fiber networks will continue to increase in value while redundant dark fiber will retain its zero-dollar value status.
It would take thousands of queries and a supercomputer to find out exactly how the unique transaction number is changing so that your transaction would fit.
So, in order to grab codes, all I need is my powerbook and a martini?
You need an HP-48. Runs on 3 AAA batteries. IMO, the 48SX was the best one. The G series had a faster CPU but a fatter menu system. The net effect was that the S series was faster for common operations than the G series.
The papal bulls probabyl caused more conflict than they prevented, so I'm not sure that putting the UN in the grand-global-authority role which the pope wanted is the best approach. If we can confine the coming property battles to the space which they concern, we might end up with some sweet Macross-style giant fighting robots:)
Anyone know what government regulations were in place when F. Magellan, F. Drake, L. Ericson, and guys like them sailed?
There was a great deal of legal wrangling, piracy, and war as a consequence of the European nations independantly exploring the world. More information here. And more generally, here. Don't forget this.
The last time I used dilaup was in 1994, just before leaving for college. Since then, I've had megabit-level internet access continuously since. I've just moved out of Seattle to look for work in LA. I'm staying at my grandmother's (rather nice) place just south of LA where she connects via dialup.
First attempt was cable modem. The cable company wanted to wait three weeks before they could drop the modem off. In order to pick up the modem, the account holder needs to be present. Problem is, the account holder is my deceased grandfather (grandma doesn't want utility accounts in her name, as she is worried the spammers will know she is a widow and untold horrors will follow).
So, I called up a quality DSL provider and ordered the best service they could guarantee for the line -- 1.5m down / 256k up. The DSL gear arrived in a few days, and service followed a few days later. The modem synced at 384k down / 128k up. The ISP's bandwidth tester measured 200k down and 22k up. Even better, the connection is highly intermittant, much of the time a ping to the ISP-side router results in 65 % packet loss! Actual service is ocasionally 2-3x dialup speed, but mostly intermittant. Grandma can't understand why her emails take hours to send (because the mail server can't be contacted...).
I've arranged for the DSL people to contact the incumbant teleco and work on the line. This may happen in the next few days.
At the same time, I'm in touch with the cable modem ppl who claim they can get a modem and install dude out in two or three days. Would be nice if they can accomplish this, but I'm not hopeful.
As an experienced IT guy who has made fiber and DS3 cross connects, planned redundant router installations for small colos, and developed large portions of major software packages, I find this process very frustrating. For grandma, the difficulty is a thousand miles over her head.
Grandma is eager to get back to dialup (which I've done, until the teleco or the cable ppl can give us a decent connection). I'm back to alternating between Starbucks WiFi, and bluetooth+GPRS.
Even better -- Grandma's house is right on the beach in a rather high-rent neighborhood. The houses are huge, so the density of customers per square mile is low, and the distance to the CO is high.
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Interestingly, video people often use "QVGA" to mean Quarter-VGA - 320x200.
Parent says: The Administration had valid national security concerns that were the reason for this war, but the geopolitics of the whole thing is so complex that most people don't understand them.
The Great Statesman Inigo Montoya says: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
You do know that Enron's busienss model involved proposing a questionable business structure and then insulting the inteligence of anyone who dared question it, don't you?
was using archie back in 92-93
:)
Yeah, I remember the archie servers being *very* busy. When you could get on, they were quite useful though. Thanks for the reminder
I can't say I got X11 to run until 95-96, which my hardware was supported.
Running X on unsupported hardware was half the fun! I had a Diamond SpeedStar 24x. The graphics chip was supported, but the programmable clock chip was officially "undocumented." There was a fairly easy hack that involved running some custom code in order to get it to work. End result was much better performance than the Trident 8900 and Tseng ET4000 cards that *were* supported.
I'm sure I was running X by 1994, not sure if I had it running by 1993.
Back in 1992 or 1993, a unix admin suggested that I check out a PC unix called "minix." Back then, "googling" consisted of connecting a ftp clinet to ftp.wustl.edu and manually traversing the directory structure looking for something interesting. I don't remember if it was at ftp.wustl.edu or sunsite.unc.edu, or even on usenet, but I eventually stumbled across this PC unix called "linux." It sounded right, so I went with it.
Months later, I spoke to the admin again, and found that I was mistaken. Rather than type in thousands of lines of code for an 8086 unix kernel, I had a fully functional linux workstation with X11, ethernet and all the rest of the good stuff that we take for granted today but were PC fantasies in the Windows 3.0 days.
... it's still cash money out of your pocket
You are missing my point. I'm well aware of the economics of ISPs. What internet people seem to forget is that the voice networks are built with nearly the exact same resource that data networks are built with. Each spam I receive eats up a few K of bandwidth as it makes its way to my desktop. Each second of voice communication with a telemarketer takes up a minimum of 8k of bandwidth, 64k if no compression is used.
It takes several seconds for me to recognise that a voice caller is actually a telemarketer. If it takes 8 seconds, then the telemarketer has wasted between 80Kb and 640Kb of bandwidth. The largest spam sitting in my inbox is 30k, most are 10k or less. Clearly a single message from a telemarketer consumes up to an order of magnitude more bandwidth than a spam.
Now, consider my time. Mail.app finds and deletes almost all of my spam, so I rarely have to worry about it. When one does slip through, it may take a maximum of 10 seconds for me to identify it as spam and delete it. When a telemarketer calls, It takes a minimum of 10 seconds to identify the call as a marketing call, and possibly many more seconds to dismiss the caller depending on how polite I am.
If you are going to complain about spam, kill two birds with one stone and take out the telemarketers while you are at it.
With the minor exception that direct marketting postal mail generally doesn't come "postage due," and telemarketers usually don't call collect.
Sure they do.
For residential users, who do not pay a per-GB bandwidth transfer fee, spam costs nothing more than time just like telemarketers.
For large organizations that have hundreds of phone lines, telemarketers consume valuable telecom resources just like spammers consume valuable bandwidth. If a corporation has 100 phone lines for use by its employees, and direcct marketers call 5 of those lines, then only 95 lines are available for business. The company now needs to buy 5 extra lines in order to keep its workers productive.
Similarly, if a company needs an full OC3 of bandwidth (155 MB/sec) and spam takes up 5 of those MB, then the company needs to add 4 T1s of bandwidth in order to make up for the losses due to spam.
Spam == direct marketing.
If you have an attorney who bills $400/hour coming in to meet with the Chief Counsel, and he's got one hour before he has to drive to the airport, who is going to hold him up and scan his notebook?
If you are an IT consultant billing $100 / hour, you can afford to connect to the internet via the GPRS on your cell phone.
Nor on my Macintosh...
$120K/yr is too enticing for me to pass this up.
Dude, renegotiate your contract ASAP! Unless you are using "IT Guy" as an euphemism for "PC Assembly," you can find that kind of pay back in the states without running the risk of orphaning your kids.
In some other ways, seems like China has gone from exceedingly liberal (Communist) to more moderate, while the US is still that funny mix of liberal and right wing type of ideas.
I think you are confusing "liberal" with some kind of local "Liberal" party. The PRC certainly was radical from the 40s on through to the end of the cultural revolution. Today the PRC is more liberal than they were previously - in the sense that they aren't as rigid with the rules as they once were.
An interesting example to consider is city residency permits. Previously, a child could only get a residency permit if the parents followed the 1-child-per-family policy. Without a residency permit, the child had no access to school or other social services. Ten years ago, that made the child socially nonexistent. Today you can "buy" your way into school, so the residency permits only impact the poor.
Parent post has brought up some interesting things, certainly worthy of discussion.
Sadly, the LaserWriter line was discontinued years ago. Now I have nothing better to do than pimp my advice and information out on Slashdot.
In version MacOS 10.3, the finder displays a small eject icon next to any mounted filesystems that can be unmounted. Click on the icon and the device ejects. It is no longer necessary to throw the filesystem into the trash.
3GHz G5's wouldn't be a surprise. What would be a surprise would be if anyone was actually able to buy one before 2005.
Yeah, for that you'd probably need a job!
When I lived in New Jersey, you paid the PIF $75 and then they told you what was wrong with the car right before giving you the certificate. Some PIF sites just handed out certificates and didn't seem to do any testing at all.
Note that you can aggregate 64 OC-768 (40Gb/sec) circuits onto a single fiber strand with Lucen'ts LambdaXtreme Transport.
What this means is that the next generation of fiber routing and switching gear is available and ready for deployment. Existing fiber networks will continue to increase in value while redundant dark fiber will retain its zero-dollar value status.
I'd rent it out to the government, and then use the resulting rent to make payments on:
(1) a condo in NYC
(2) a Maserati
(3) a NetJets account
It would take thousands of queries and a supercomputer to find out exactly how the unique transaction number is changing so that your transaction would fit.
So, in order to grab codes, all I need is my powerbook and a martini?
You need an HP-48. Runs on 3 AAA batteries. IMO, the 48SX was the best one. The G series had a faster CPU but a fatter menu system. The net effect was that the S series was faster for common operations than the G series.
The papal bulls probabyl caused more conflict than they prevented, so I'm not sure that putting the UN in the grand-global-authority role which the pope wanted is the best approach. If we can confine the coming property battles to the space which they concern, we might end up with some sweet Macross-style giant fighting robots :)
Anyone know what government regulations were in place when F. Magellan, F. Drake, L. Ericson, and guys like them sailed?
There was a great deal of legal wrangling, piracy, and war as a consequence of the European nations independantly exploring the world. More information here. And more generally, here. Don't forget this.
The article claims that spot pricing shows a rise of almost $15.00 for 256MB modules of DDR DRAM in some markets
Is there a futures market for memory? If enron were around, I'm sure we could convince them to start one...
So, how long until I can get a data-tooth?
no six figure slary is worth self-hatred
And that goes doubly so for a five-figure salary.
The last time I used dilaup was in 1994, just before leaving for college. Since then, I've had megabit-level internet access continuously since. I've just moved out of Seattle to look for work in LA. I'm staying at my grandmother's (rather nice) place just south of LA where she connects via dialup.
First attempt was cable modem. The cable company wanted to wait three weeks before they could drop the modem off. In order to pick up the modem, the account holder needs to be present. Problem is, the account holder is my deceased grandfather (grandma doesn't want utility accounts in her name, as she is worried the spammers will know she is a widow and untold horrors will follow).
So, I called up a quality DSL provider and ordered the best service they could guarantee for the line -- 1.5m down / 256k up. The DSL gear arrived in a few days, and service followed a few days later. The modem synced at 384k down / 128k up. The ISP's bandwidth tester measured 200k down and 22k up. Even better, the connection is highly intermittant, much of the time a ping to the ISP-side router results in 65 % packet loss! Actual service is ocasionally 2-3x dialup speed, but mostly intermittant. Grandma can't understand why her emails take hours to send (because the mail server can't be contacted...).
I've arranged for the DSL people to contact the incumbant teleco and work on the line. This may happen in the next few days.
At the same time, I'm in touch with the cable modem ppl who claim they can get a modem and install dude out in two or three days. Would be nice if they can accomplish this, but I'm not hopeful.
As an experienced IT guy who has made fiber and DS3 cross connects, planned redundant router installations for small colos, and developed large portions of major software packages, I find this process very frustrating. For grandma, the difficulty is a thousand miles over her head.
Grandma is eager to get back to dialup (which I've done, until the teleco or the cable ppl can give us a decent connection). I'm back to alternating between Starbucks WiFi, and bluetooth+GPRS.
Even better -- Grandma's house is right on the beach in a rather high-rent neighborhood. The houses are huge, so the density of customers per square mile is low, and the distance to the CO is high.
You'd be surprised. Oil Pipe lines provide a great right of way to lay fiber alongside of.