The global conveyance of thought no longer requires your factories to accomplish.
Nice sentiment, but as we've learned recently, it does require their wires. As long as that's true, we're fucked.
When we go wireless via public satellites, we'll be free. Until they shoot them down. There are powerful people who don't want us talking to each other, and the hard-core among them won't be swayed by passionate speeches. This declaration is an eloquent opening-ceremonies read, but don't think anybody on the other side is going to hear it and say "aww, drat, they're right."
Is it the price of bandwidth?
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Is the price of bandwidth the biggest factor in the demise of so many dot-whatevers? I know my colo provider charges a bunch for bandwidth, so I'm afraid to host successful sites. The cost of the server isn't the big deal, nor the cost of maintenance. It's that you pay for every visit - even the spiders indexing you and spammers trolling for addresses.
If the cost of bandwidth is the main problem, is anybody anywhere trying to do anything about it? Who's at the top of the food chain here? What are their interests? Are there other ways they can be fed?
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It's not that big a deal, really. All it will do is enable me to:
Use public transportation again because it solves the mid-range travel problem of getting to/from the bus terminal/train station
Save about $4000 a year on parking fees in Boston, since I'll be able to put the car out in the burbs somewhere where parking is cheap
Get around town generating absolutely no pollution
...little things like that. So I don't see what the hype is all about either. I mean come on, it doesn't even fly!
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Note the spacing with the word "remove". I wonder if these guys read your post.
Package management is a way to standardize the way software is installed, upgraded, and removed.
It sounds very appealing. The problem is that a lot of the software I need right now (openLDAP, openSSL, etc) has packages that are a full development generation old. There isn't a 2.x package yet for openLDAP on RH 6.2, for example, and I don't think anybody in particular is in charge of building it.
Building from source is the only way to be current, although it is often an immense pain in the ass.
The other gripe I have is about packages failing to recognize libraries that are installed just because they weren't installed by a package manager. Yes, you can force a --nodeps sometimes and cross your fingers, but you shouldn't have to lie to the software to get it to work. Package managers should be a little smarter and be able to look around a little to satisfy dependencies.
If the package system really worked cleanly, it would be great, but I'm still using Pine 4.20 on my box because of conflicting dependencies in the 4.3x packages. I'm about to nuke the whole thing and build Pine from source - which I'll do as soon as I can get those library dependencies solved.
I called Wal-mart, KayBee Toys, Media Play, and K-Mart, and they're all sticking to the November 18 date. Some retailers don't even know about the "early release" part.
Shall we slashdot the stores that have them, in meatspace? Post one here and start a rush!:P
I was a programmer for a site, hired to do a website. They used NT. I hate Windows. I had heard of "Linux". I installed it. It was cool. I got hacked. I cursed. I reinstalled and learned a little more. I got better. I got hacked again. I cursed and reinstalled and learned more. I de-Windows'ed other machines. I learned more. I bought my own server and learned a shitload about security before plugging it in. It's been up for a year and weathered hack attempts every day. I still fear people who know more than me and I try to keep up. Life is good.
I've managed to bite, scratch, and claw my way up to 25 points, and it's a bit disappointing to find out (finally) that I have to make 40 or better to get that precious posting bonus.
After a couple of years of periodic karma whoring and ass-kissing, I have scored 50 points, but I can't find where to put in my initials. Anybody know? I'm still waiting for CmdrTaco to send me my prize, should be any day now! I hope it's a GameCube.
(Thankfully, this post should get me back down to 47 or so, so I have something to shoot for again! Life is good.)
I'd argue to never, ever do this. Why change your good browser to report that it's a bad browser?
This what's important here: The authors of the site blocking you have decided that you're not important. Fine; nod your head in agreement and take your traffic, ad-viewing eyes, and attention elsewhere. Don't even tell them or complain; let them die of natural selection.
Confirmed on Moz 0.94! Says I have to upgrade to IE for Windows or Mac, or MSN Explorer for Windows.
I think this is great news. It means Microsoft is leaving the web and going their own way. Whatever it is they've got over there, by definition it isn't the web if it can't be viewed with a generic web browser.
Good luck to them on their new venture, whatever it is, and happy to have them out of the way on standards issues now that they've left the web to the rest of us.
Those of us that were born on second base or third base shouldn't be too quick to judge those that weren't as fortunate.
Agreed. Did you hear any judging in my post, or were you reading judgement into a relatively simple and straightforward recitation of facts? I taught people going into job placement programs for many years. I'm well aware of their circumstances.
Those of us with agendas shouldn't be too quick to carelessly project them onto others -- especially when posting anonymously.
Then-governor of Wisconsin Tommy Thompson (now Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Bush administration) tried something similar with the W2 program in 1996: giving welding training to welfare recipients so they could have decent-paying jobs and get off welfare.
Sounds great, but many of these people, as I understand it, had never worked before, and were fired shortly after being placed because they had no workplace skills that emphasized things like showing up on time or calling in if they were sick. They had welding skills, but there's a lot more that goes into getting someone ready to join the workforce. Specific-skill training seems a temptingly easy solution to transition-to-workforce problems, but it has to be part of a bigger plan if it's going to work.
...I'd be all over it. If not, it's cute, but, well, cute.
Attention all PDA and phone manufacturers: we are sick and tired of carrying around a PDA and a phone. Got it? Put them together, preferably in a form smaller and lighter than a small boulder, and priced not too much higher than the two things separately. You'll be rich.
If Apple could stick a phone into a sexy Apple OSX-based PDA that I could plug into my mac, they'd have another pile of my money double-quick, that's for sure. The more M$ scares me with their Big Brother plans, the more I'm dying to lock into something else. C'mon Apple, give me some hope.
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So instead of dozens of spam message each day, I'll be getting dozens of requests for my permission to receive spam each day? Doesn't sound like much of an improvement to me. Most spammers that hit me are one-shot wonders anyway.
If they hadn't invented the airplane, none of this would have happened, right?
In fact, it's clearly Bernoulli's fault - if he hadn't told everybody all that business about particles in motion exerting less pressure to the sides, none of this would have happened.
No, Phil, if you hadn't invented it, someone else would have. You're on the right side. Tools are not evil and privacy is important, even when abused. Don't give it another thought. Be strong.
Or Mac OSX, yes. Hence the prefix "in most cases."
Really, do you have a point, or do you just want to pick nits? Security works because it makes things difficult. Are you arguing against this very simple point?
Even this is incorrect. SSH is just as convenient as rsh, but it is vastly more secure.
It is vastly more secure, but it is less convenient because a) in most cases, you have to obtain the client, b) your server must support it, and c) you have to learn about keys to use it well.
It's also a lot less convenient for people trying to snoop on you, and that's the main point. Security means making things hard.
This is one thing that irritates me about slashdot... everybody is posting "oh my god I found this horrible thing on line 126144 of the TOS"...
Whatever, I pay $10/month and get NNTP access to some 90,000 groups and have never had a single problem... period.
So yeah, somebody in their legal department put some shitty things into their terms of service... but if it never actually means anything to me as a user then I can let it slide...
Exactly the attitude their legal department hopes you'll have. "Sign here, and here, and - HEY! DON'T READ THAT! - sign here, and here..." (Berke Breathed)
As long as you never have a problem, then you'll never have a problem. If you do, the first thing you'll have to do is find out what you agreed to, with your fingers crossed. Then don't act surprised at the results.
By the act of entering this site, I agree to the terms set forth in the terms & conditions
Well, I'm glad you do. And when you can provide an airtight definition of what "the act of entering this site" means, and some explanation of how users can agree to something they haven't seen, then maybe I'll think about agreeing too... or not.
By the way, your reading this post constitutes your agreement to immediately pay $100 into the TomatoMan Gets A New G4 fund. Thank you for your contribution.
If I'm going to pay for Red Carpet...
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...I'd be more interested in them keeping their packages current than giving me a fatter download pipe. Mozilla is still at 0.9.1 in Red Carpet; I chatted with some team members and they advised against maually installing 0.9.3 over the Red Carpet install because it would break things, and 0.9.3 isn't on the current radar for packaging according to the folks I taked to..
For minor updates, that's not such a big deal, but Moz users know that 0.9.3 is a quantum leap ahead of anything before it in terms of usability and stability, and it's a pretty huge piece of software in the desktop Linux world. I'm stuck at 0.9.1 until they put a package together. I know the guys are busy and doing it for nothing (so far), but take my money and pay someone to keep the packages as current as possible, please, if you want to take it.
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The global conveyance of thought no longer requires your factories to accomplish.
Nice sentiment, but as we've learned recently, it does require their wires. As long as that's true, we're fucked.
When we go wireless via public satellites, we'll be free. Until they shoot them down. There are powerful people who don't want us talking to each other, and the hard-core among them won't be swayed by passionate speeches. This declaration is an eloquent opening-ceremonies read, but don't think anybody on the other side is going to hear it and say "aww, drat, they're right."
Is the price of bandwidth the biggest factor in the demise of so many dot-whatevers? I know my colo provider charges a bunch for bandwidth, so I'm afraid to host successful sites. The cost of the server isn't the big deal, nor the cost of maintenance. It's that you pay for every visit - even the spiders indexing you and spammers trolling for addresses.
If the cost of bandwidth is the main problem, is anybody anywhere trying to do anything about it? Who's at the top of the food chain here? What are their interests? Are there other ways they can be fed?
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Note the spacing with the word "remove". I wonder if these guys read your post.
Package management is a way to standardize the way software is installed, upgraded, and removed.
It sounds very appealing. The problem is that a lot of the software I need right now (openLDAP, openSSL, etc) has packages that are a full development generation old. There isn't a 2.x package yet for openLDAP on RH 6.2, for example, and I don't think anybody in particular is in charge of building it.
Building from source is the only way to be current, although it is often an immense pain in the ass.
The other gripe I have is about packages failing to recognize libraries that are installed just because they weren't installed by a package manager. Yes, you can force a --nodeps sometimes and cross your fingers, but you shouldn't have to lie to the software to get it to work. Package managers should be a little smarter and be able to look around a little to satisfy dependencies.
If the package system really worked cleanly, it would be great, but I'm still using Pine 4.20 on my box because of conflicting dependencies in the 4.3x packages. I'm about to nuke the whole thing and build Pine from source - which I'll do as soon as I can get those library dependencies solved.
Grr.
(I'm saving the 4th book for next time I fly ;)
Hope you're flying around the world.
I called Wal-mart, KayBee Toys, Media Play, and K-Mart, and they're all sticking to the November 18 date. Some retailers don't even know about the "early release" part.
:P
Shall we slashdot the stores that have them, in meatspace? Post one here and start a rush!
I was a programmer for a site, hired to do a website. They used NT. I hate Windows. I had heard of "Linux". I installed it. It was cool. I got hacked. I cursed. I reinstalled and learned a little more. I got better. I got hacked again. I cursed and reinstalled and learned more. I de-Windows'ed other machines. I learned more. I bought my own server and learned a shitload about security before plugging it in. It's been up for a year and weathered hack attempts every day. I still fear people who know more than me and I try to keep up. Life is good.
Certification? School of Real Life, baby.
I've managed to bite, scratch, and claw my way up to 25 points, and it's a bit disappointing to find out (finally) that I have to make 40 or better to get that precious posting bonus.
After a couple of years of periodic karma whoring and ass-kissing, I have scored 50 points, but I can't find where to put in my initials. Anybody know? I'm still waiting for CmdrTaco to send me my prize, should be any day now! I hope it's a GameCube.
(Thankfully, this post should get me back down to 47 or so, so I have something to shoot for again! Life is good.)
Gotta use my iDisk for something! Should be nice and zippy.
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I'd argue to never, ever do this. Why change your good browser to report that it's a bad browser?
This what's important here: The authors of the site blocking you have decided that you're not important. Fine; nod your head in agreement and take your traffic, ad-viewing eyes, and attention elsewhere. Don't even tell them or complain; let them die of natural selection.
Confirmed on Moz 0.94! Says I have to upgrade to IE for Windows or Mac, or MSN Explorer for Windows.
I think this is great news. It means Microsoft is leaving the web and going their own way. Whatever it is they've got over there, by definition it isn't the web if it can't be viewed with a generic web browser.
Good luck to them on their new venture, whatever it is, and happy to have them out of the way on standards issues now that they've left the web to the rest of us.
Those of us that were born on second base or third base shouldn't be too quick to judge those that weren't as fortunate.
Agreed. Did you hear any judging in my post, or were you reading judgement into a relatively simple and straightforward recitation of facts? I taught people going into job placement programs for many years. I'm well aware of their circumstances.
Those of us with agendas shouldn't be too quick to carelessly project them onto others -- especially when posting anonymously.
Then-governor of Wisconsin Tommy Thompson (now Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Bush administration) tried something similar with the W2 program in 1996: giving welding training to welfare recipients so they could have decent-paying jobs and get off welfare.
Sounds great, but many of these people, as I understand it, had never worked before, and were fired shortly after being placed because they had no workplace skills that emphasized things like showing up on time or calling in if they were sick. They had welding skills, but there's a lot more that goes into getting someone ready to join the workforce. Specific-skill training seems a temptingly easy solution to transition-to-workforce problems, but it has to be part of a bigger plan if it's going to work.
...I'd be all over it. If not, it's cute, but, well, cute.
Attention all PDA and phone manufacturers: we are sick and tired of carrying around a PDA and a phone. Got it? Put them together, preferably in a form smaller and lighter than a small boulder, and priced not too much higher than the two things separately. You'll be rich.
If Apple could stick a phone into a sexy Apple OSX-based PDA that I could plug into my mac, they'd have another pile of my money double-quick, that's for sure. The more M$ scares me with their Big Brother plans, the more I'm dying to lock into something else. C'mon Apple, give me some hope.
You know when you have to dig this deep into the site to find the pricing information, it's going to hurt when you get there.
http://www.trolltech.com/purchase/qtpricing.html
US$1550 for one professional license, US$1950 for one enterprise license?
I believe all the people that say QT3 is the bees' knees, but yikes. Guess I won't be experiencing that coolness for myself.
(Wistfully remembering the days when Think C was $99, and the early CodeWarriors were around $199)
...as you attempt this feat.
>Put the cretin in the box
You can't put the you in the box.
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*sniff* those were the days. I liked my computers fun and dumb and controllable.
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Corporations must obtain a consumer's explicit consent before sending an advertisement via e-mail
So instead of dozens of spam message each day, I'll be getting dozens of requests for my permission to receive spam each day? Doesn't sound like much of an improvement to me. Most spammers that hit me are one-shot wonders anyway.
If they hadn't invented the airplane, none of this would have happened, right?
In fact, it's clearly Bernoulli's fault - if he hadn't told everybody all that business about particles in motion exerting less pressure to the sides, none of this would have happened.
No, Phil, if you hadn't invented it, someone else would have. You're on the right side. Tools are not evil and privacy is important, even when abused. Don't give it another thought. Be strong.
> a) in most cases, you have to obtain the client
not if you're running a recent version of *BSD
Or Mac OSX, yes. Hence the prefix "in most cases."
Really, do you have a point, or do you just want to pick nits? Security works because it makes things difficult. Are you arguing against this very simple point?
Even this is incorrect. SSH is just as convenient as rsh, but it is vastly more secure.
It is vastly more secure, but it is less convenient because a) in most cases, you have to obtain the client, b) your server must support it, and c) you have to learn about keys to use it well.
It's also a lot less convenient for people trying to snoop on you, and that's the main point. Security means making things hard.
Security and freedom are inversely related.
No, this could not be more wrong. Security and convenience are inversely related. Security and freedom are not. This is a very important distinction.
As long as you never have a problem, then you'll never have a problem. If you do, the first thing you'll have to do is find out what you agreed to, with your fingers crossed. Then don't act surprised at the results.
Well, I'm glad you do. And when you can provide an airtight definition of what "the act of entering this site" means, and some explanation of how users can agree to something they haven't seen, then maybe I'll think about agreeing too... or not.
By the way, your reading this post constitutes your agreement to immediately pay $100 into the TomatoMan Gets A New G4 fund. Thank you for your contribution.
...I'd be more interested in them keeping their packages current than giving me a fatter download pipe. Mozilla is still at 0.9.1 in Red Carpet; I chatted with some team members and they advised against maually installing 0.9.3 over the Red Carpet install because it would break things, and 0.9.3 isn't on the current radar for packaging according to the folks I taked to..
For minor updates, that's not such a big deal, but Moz users know that 0.9.3 is a quantum leap ahead of anything before it in terms of usability and stability, and it's a pretty huge piece of software in the desktop Linux world. I'm stuck at 0.9.1 until they put a package together. I know the guys are busy and doing it for nothing (so far), but take my money and pay someone to keep the packages as current as possible, please, if you want to take it.