I got you beat. Shortly after Windows 95 came out, I saw a usenet rant by an irate user about what that awful M$ did to him.
He deleted an important file, then emptied his recycle bin, waited two weeks, and that stupid win95 wouldn't let him recover the file! Can you believe that? Curse that Bill Gates and his Microsoft!!!
When I got out of college, employers were more interested in the typing class I took in high school, than my college degree (Liberal Arts). In fact, it was that Intro to Typing class I took in 10th grade that helped keep a roof over my head for the first 10 years I was out of college.
I've been a happy CI Host customer for almost two years. My domain gets very little traffic, but the few times I've had to call for support, they've been quick and very helpful.
Just run Apache with Linux and you wont have to worry about slashdotting, its so powerful. According to the release notes in Apache, a Pentium 133 can saturate a 10 megabit pipe serving static webpages.
I care about quality, and my old roomie used to download stuff from bearshare, and the mp3s were full of ticks, static clicks, jitter, etc. Sometimes you wouldn't get the whole song. That's why I never got into napster or gnutella. I do subsribe to emusic.com and get high grade legal stuff from there. Not a perfect selection, but it expands my horizons.
I think enough people don't care about quality, or only listen to the music from the computer speaker system, that DRM will always be circumvented. All it takes is one patient person to make the digital copy (mp3 or ogg) then it will replicate everywhere.
I've always thought it would have been awesome if Morpheus could have been played by Bruce Lee, and Neo be played by Brandon Lee. Can you imagine the sparring room scene with father and son matched against each other?
I was working at NCES when Columbine happened, and CNN linked to our webpage, and our report on violence in schools. First thing I noticed was our T-1 was being maxed out. Our servers didn't shut down or anything, even though they were IIS 4. Our site was very sluggish for the next 24 hours until things started to get back to normal. I forget what our hits and page views stats where, but they increased by a factor of 5. The rest of that week our traffic was much higher than average.
We got similar results every time there was a school shooting, but Columbine was the big one.
Who in their right mind would want a non-standard/niche flavour of linux when they can get the real thing from RedHat.
Well, RedHat stopped supporting Sun hardware with version 6.2. And also, they stopped supporting sparc on 6.2 some time ago, and will be doing away with 6.2 on x86 very soon now.
To upgrade Sendmail on my redhat sparc 6.2 I had to download the source RPMs for x86 and make the new rpm myself. It wasn't that hard, but soon not even that will be an option.
Does anyone know of any good solutions to Linux on Sparc?
This is why high school students have to take the SAT exam for college. Because grades and what they really mean can vary so much across different high schools and regions, colleges wanted a standard that they could apply to all applicants.
I for one haven't bought anything even remotely disney-related in years. The last film I saw by them was Toy Story (a while ago). Vote with your wallets:-)
What about Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Metropolis, and other anime that they've worked out deals to distribute in the US? I'm not sure how those fit into the big picture, but they're the only cases where my money has gone to Disney for movies.
Oh yeah, I did buy Fantasia 2000 and Snow White on DVD, I guess they got me there. Dammit!
I got AOL and an ISP account at the same time, in December 1995, and I've kept both. Why? Because I can hook up and get laid from AOL chat rooms, while on IRC I'd only meet freaks. That's a generalization, but its true. I've met mostly freaks on IRC while on AOL I'm much more likely to meet a regular person. Also, they have a "bring your own access" plan, where you pay a much lower fee each month, and access them through TCP/IP and an ISP. Its much faster than dialing up anyways.
Ever since I've been on, AOL has monitored the language of chat rooms, which is pretty damn annoying, but it explains why you go into a room and no one says anything, we're all IM-ing each other.
Does anyone remember when you get get real porn from AOL picture galleries? It was sometime in the early 90's. When they decided to go "family friendly" they first blacked out all the genital areas, then got rid of the nudie galleries all together.
TV has a big advantage over the internet, because it doesn't matter how many people tune in to a TV station, its not going to prevent more people from watching.
The more people try to connect to a website, the more it will slow it down for everyone else. Bandwidth is a problem for the internet, not for broadcast (or cable) TV.
Everyone seems to be chimming in with "don't buy it, read it online". Am I the only person who can't stand reading books online or following online directions? I like to have a book open on the desk next to me while I'm trying something on the computer in front of me. I can't stand searching through a webpage when I can put a few post-its and highlights in a book and have the info just as fast, if not faster.
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You'd think they'd name it something like "Perfectly harmless investigating program that would never ever violate your privacy"
Calling it Carnivore was asking for an uproar.
This is certainly news to me, and welcome news I might add.
PS> Oxford isn't in the US.
PS> Oxford is in Great Britain, which is in "the west" which is what he was referring to.
I got you beat. Shortly after Windows 95 came out, I saw a usenet rant by an irate user about what that awful M$ did to him.
He deleted an important file, then emptied his recycle bin, waited two weeks, and that stupid win95 wouldn't let him recover the file! Can you believe that? Curse that Bill Gates and his Microsoft!!!
When I got out of college, employers were more interested in the typing class I took in high school, than my college degree (Liberal Arts). In fact, it was that Intro to Typing class I took in 10th grade that helped keep a roof over my head for the first 10 years I was out of college.
The default install of RedHat 9 is not without its issues either.
Google can't help you if you don't know what to ask it.
I've been a happy CI Host customer for almost two years. My domain gets very little traffic, but the few times I've had to call for support, they've been quick and very helpful.
Just run Apache with Linux and you wont have to worry about slashdotting, its so powerful. According to the release notes in Apache, a Pentium 133 can saturate a 10 megabit pipe serving static webpages.
I've downloaded shows from LivePhish.com using Mozilla and Linux without any problem, and I'm more of a Windows person anyway.
How long before AT&T makes a statement of being the "real" owner of Unix?
I think enough people don't care about quality, or only listen to the music from the computer speaker system, that DRM will always be circumvented. All it takes is one patient person to make the digital copy (mp3 or ogg) then it will replicate everywhere.
I've always thought it would have been awesome if Morpheus could have been played by Bruce Lee, and Neo be played by Brandon Lee. Can you imagine the sparring room scene with father and son matched against each other?
We got similar results every time there was a school shooting, but Columbine was the big one.
Well, RedHat stopped supporting Sun hardware with version 6.2. And also, they stopped supporting sparc on 6.2 some time ago, and will be doing away with 6.2 on x86 very soon now.
To upgrade Sendmail on my redhat sparc 6.2 I had to download the source RPMs for x86 and make the new rpm myself. It wasn't that hard, but soon not even that will be an option.
Does anyone know of any good solutions to Linux on Sparc?
Well they've already stopped support of the Sparc platform on 6.2. That's the main bone I have to pick with them.
Hasn't Red Hat stopped support of 6.2? Hmmmmm...
This is why high school students have to take the SAT exam for college. Because grades and what they really mean can vary so much across different high schools and regions, colleges wanted a standard that they could apply to all applicants.
What about Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Metropolis, and other anime that they've worked out deals to distribute in the US? I'm not sure how those fit into the big picture, but they're the only cases where my money has gone to Disney for movies.
Oh yeah, I did buy Fantasia 2000 and Snow White on DVD, I guess they got me there. Dammit!
Ever since I've been on, AOL has monitored the language of chat rooms, which is pretty damn annoying, but it explains why you go into a room and no one says anything, we're all IM-ing each other.
Does anyone remember when you get get real porn from AOL picture galleries? It was sometime in the early 90's. When they decided to go "family friendly" they first blacked out all the genital areas, then got rid of the nudie galleries all together.
According to the article, if you have remote management turned off, then people out on the internet can't use the exploit against you.
TV has a big advantage over the internet, because it doesn't matter how many people tune in to a TV station, its not going to prevent more people from watching.
The more people try to connect to a website, the more it will slow it down for everyone else. Bandwidth is a problem for the internet, not for broadcast (or cable) TV.
Hmmm, maybe he discovered the "SMB-die" attack.
Because! he! is! really! William! Shatner!
Everyone seems to be chimming in with "don't buy it, read it online". Am I the only person who can't stand reading books online or following online directions? I like to have a book open on the desk next to me while I'm trying something on the computer in front of me. I can't stand searching through a webpage when I can put a few post-its and highlights in a book and have the info just as fast, if not faster.