I wish. I'm a manager for the ISP's help desk. The admins tell us nothing, and they're clueless as hell to boot. I just had to explain to one of them what a corrupt mail (bad headers) spool looks like.
So it goes. Anyone else at an ISP or large site having trouble?
I am employed by a largish(regional) ISP. We started having weird problems along this line on Wednesday night or Thursday morning, e.g., multiple accounts over disk quota, all at the same time, no misconfiguration by customer.
I'd be quite interested to know if anyone knows when Verizon thinks the problem/attack started. I'd also like to know if any other medium-to-largish ISPs had similar problems in the same time frame...
Also, if it was an attack, how was it launched? Anyone know? I can't see someone sending gigabytes of mail from their home dial-up connection, so I'm thinking zombies again...
And, further, I can report that Ameritech engages in the same practice.
It seems to me that the Bells' customer service arms somehow end up reading the same scripts. In late 1998 or so, all the Bells were telling angry customers who were unable to achieve V.90 connections, "Well, we're only required to guarantee a voice-quality connection; however, if you're interested in ISDN..."
The problems with V.90 were largely not the fault of the Bells; the technology was over-hyped by modem manufacturers. However, I still think it's interesting that the Bells always end up reporting the same party line.
Its a genuine effort the part of AOL to leverage three really stunning buzz words to sell their product: Linux, Internet Appliance, and Transmeta.
Maybe those things work for this purpose. I did think there was a reason that people like Linux and Transmeta. I don't think it's all hype, and I think there just might be some/.ers who agree with me.
3DFx is probably too smart to go into a deal with Apple..
Even given their comments at E3? It certainly seems to me that 3dfx wants to pursue the Macintosh market.
There was a petition circulating at Accelerate Your Mac pleading with Apple to do what 3dfx was asking: make the Voodoo4 and 5 build-to-order options in the G4 towers. This is possibly more likely now that Apple is angry at ATI.
Theoretically, I suppose that this could be done with the Cube as well, but I wonder about heat concerns.
Well, of course, you'd probably get these kinds of responses out of a majority of high-school age men as well. Anyone who's talking like this isn't going to be staring at a monitor for hours at *any* point in their lives.
You know, I didn't see a single thing in that article that backed up what they were saying. All they had established was that *these girls* were uninterested in computers as a trade -- for reasons that might just as easily be something a typical pubescent male, concerned with popularity and the opposite sex and such, might say.
I mean, come on! They interviewed 70 girls. That doesn't strike me as a sample with which I'd like to predict the behavior of all high-school age girls.
As for existing software, much of the attention has been given to adding more features and integrating them with other software. Was MS Office around in 1990? Nowadays you can take a spreadsheet in Excel and link it with a Word document that's going to be sent to multiple persons in an MS Access database via mail-merge. I'll give kudos to MS for adding this functionality (did someone have it before them?)
Apple with OpenDoc. Don't know if they invented it -- I wonder if it was an outgrowth of their Pink experiments with IBM -- but it had the same functionality earlier. Most famously implemented in the CyberDog web browsing suite.
although some of the more recent additions (that fscking PAPERCLIP!) have added far more bloat than is necessary IMHO.
Okay, you got me on this one. I sat down at my stepmother's computer, opened up Word 2000 -- I was visiting them for the weekend and had some work to do -- and the paperclip had been replaced by a sleeping cat. Apparently, the Office Assistant can now be represented by a variety of other little figures. My dad has Albert Einstein, for instance.
I'm reluctant to give M$ credit for innovation here but the cat really was just unspeakably cute. Made me want Office 2000 just to get the cat.
I can't believe they gave macos the internet support category. It took me months to find ssh for the mac. ssh is definetly an internet necessity. Also outlook sucks and crashed many times on my mac eudora doesn't come with an imac or macos. You can download the free version but then you get an advertisement filling your screen.
Ludicrous. Eudora isn't even available for Linux. Also, if you don't want the ads, Eudora Light versions are still available(no 4.x versions though). Also, there are other options for MacOS (Green comes to mind).
With linux I can do what I want on the net. proxies, servers, clients. Not so with macos, does apache run on a mac.
They appear to be judging desktop OS's as opposed to server OS's. There may be a case to be made for Linux as a desktop OS, but your post isn't it.
When did Metallica CDs cost more or less than others??? This is the whole idea - there is no free market for music. The prices for new CDs are essentially fixed. Where is your free makret???
The salary I earn doesn't match the work I do making a game; we all (in the games industry) hope for a success in order to make some royalties which will adequately compensate us for the work we did. The salary I earn taking tech support calls doesn't match the work I do taking them. Face it; everybody thinks they're worth more than they're actually earning.
Is that the new standard for intellectual property laws? The amount of money the person responsible for creating the IP wishes to have?
It was the sequel to Wolfenstein 3D, which was extremely popular. You're showing your age -- or rather, your youth.
Wolfenstein, OTOH, was chiefly publicized through word of mouth. I don't remember ever seeing an ad for it before I played it. It benefited, however, from being based on an extremely popular 2D shooter called Castle Wolfenstein that ran on the Apple II, AT/XT, and possibly other platforms. I played it on a IIc.
There are games which are publicized mostly through word of mouth and get decent distribution -- GLTron and Dope Wars come to mind. Of course, Dope Wars is, again, based on an older MS-DOS game...
I think that while everyone goes out there and does their fashionable Microsoft bashing, they conveniently forget that it was Microsoft with Windows 95 that made it easy for computer users to log onto the Internet. The Dial-Up Networking feature of Windows 95 not only gave you IPX/SPX (through NWLink) and NetBEUI through modem lines, but the all-important TCP/IP connection using the Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP). That made it real easy to run email, FTP, Telnet and web browser programs, and it didn't take long for Netscape to ship a version of Navigator that worked under Windows 95.
You know something you've forgotten? The default Win95 install didn't include the TCP/IP stack. You had to add it later if you didn't know you needed it at install time(or if your system vendor hadn't, which, in fairness, most of them did). Why not? It wasn't necessary for MSN. It made using MSN easy and any other ISP a "jarring experience."
1. The horrid AT&T breakup experience. That breakup caused years and years of confusion by customers who needed integrated voice and data communications services (because they had to go to multiple vendors), and didn't really settle down until only a few years ago.
It also helped things out a lot for ordinary customers. Are you old enough to remember having to go to the Phone Store to *rent* -- not buy -- a phone at hideous rates? Do you remember how difficult it used to be to get a second line? Do you remember the days before flat-rate local calls? Close your eyes and picture Ma Bell as the only backbone provider. Ouch, huh?
3. One Albert Gore, Jr. may NOT want to provide easy ammunition for one George W. Bush, especially during the Presidential debates.
The flap over the Ralph Reed hiring might make it impossible for Dubya to make this an issue. If he criticizes the case -- publicly -- he makes himself look like a whore. That's not to say he wouldn't act privately on behalf of M$ if elected. Dubya, from what I can tell, is as crooked as a dog's hind leg.
If you think socialized health care is so great, move to Canada... I hear if you need heart surgery they actually get you in within the year now a days.
FUD. I've never met a Canadian who wasn't happy with his or her health care system. Do you mean as opposed to never getting heart surgery, if you lack health insurance?
From the article, the professor in question says: Or by the same angry students sending in multiple reviews, so your grade point average is a lie to begin with, and yet the webmaster is saying, 'Use this to choose your classes.' I don't know what to say. How can anyone defend this?
Well, in fact, the webmaster states that he has been removing multiple reviews from the same person, where he can spot them. So you're probably actually getting a fair representation of how much people dislike this guy.
Flamage can have value, IMHO. If his students are this worked up, I'll bet he really is a crappy teacher.
If I were him, I'd think twice about suing. As Oscar Wilde said,"Never sue. They might prove it." Sure, he went on to ignore his own advice, but the point still stands. Can you imagine the professor sitting in class while the webmaster's lawyer calls student after student who says the class is a waste of time?
My father is a technology guru for a small public school district. Microsoft burdens him with free stuff all the time. Their evangelists are good.
Now, my dad's not the biggest Microsoft fan in the world, but he's looking around at the alternatives. What he's doing right now is choosing a delivery platform for videoconferencing.
Sun? McNealy gives him the creeps. My dad's a mainframe vet; you say the words "thin client" to him and he starts foaming at the mouth.
Linux? He likes the idea of it, but every time he tries to install it, it's a disastrous failure. His experience(not mine) is that it's not ready for prime time, and he doesn't want to have to worry about some schoolteacher trying to figure out a "kernel panic" message.
Apple? He likes the idea of OS X Server, but he's been burned by Apple in the past. Remember, even Mac zealots(I'm one) will admit that Apple is the worst company in the world, that happens to make the best computers in the world.
Now he's getting free copies of Win2k, the evangelists are giving him free classes on migrating to it...and it's stable as hell, at least on his Dell PIII's with 256mb of RAM.
What do you think he's going to adopt?
I would love to hear about alternatives you think I should point him at. Comments?
I, for one, was impressed when 'Dubya released a detailed list of all his individual contributors to his compain (complete with dollar amounts). This kind of honest and full disclosure is refreshing, and more candidates should follow his lead.
Sure. But the actual quantity and amount of money makes you nauseous.
State level politicians get away with ten times as much as national politicians, since they operate out of the eye of the national media.
If Bill Clinton had never been president, neither you nor the people of Arkansas would have ever heard the word Whitewater. Unless of course you went rafting.
Let me begin by saying that I find this action horrible and appalling.
That said, this is neither unconstitutional nor an invasion of privacy. This is subpoenaed information. A court can subpoena anything a plantiff or defendant requests, if the plantiff or defendant convinces the court that it is germane to the case.
Attentive followers of national politics may recall that Monica Lewinsky's hard drive was subpoenaed, and delivered to a data recovery specialist. Or, alternatively, note that the contents of the really.bad.attitude mailing list at Netscape were subpoenaed by Microsoft. Now, this was all private on an "employee's home computer, but it was evidence in a civil case, and so it was open to subpoena.
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I wish. I'm a manager for the ISP's help desk. The admins tell us nothing, and they're clueless as hell to boot. I just had to explain to one of them what a corrupt mail (bad headers) spool looks like.
So it goes. Anyone else at an ISP or large site having trouble?
I'd be quite interested to know if anyone knows when Verizon thinks the problem/attack started. I'd also like to know if any other medium-to-largish ISPs had similar problems in the same time frame...
Also, if it was an attack, how was it launched? Anyone know? I can't see someone sending gigabytes of mail from their home dial-up connection, so I'm thinking zombies again...
It seems to me that the Bells' customer service arms somehow end up reading the same scripts. In late 1998 or so, all the Bells were telling angry customers who were unable to achieve V.90 connections, "Well, we're only required to guarantee a voice-quality connection; however, if you're interested in ISDN..."
The problems with V.90 were largely not the fault of the Bells; the technology was over-hyped by modem manufacturers. However, I still think it's interesting that the Bells always end up reporting the same party line.
Maybe those things work for this purpose. I did think there was a reason that people like Linux and Transmeta. I don't think it's all hype, and I think there just might be some /.ers who agree with me.
No, you are flouting it.
Even given their comments at E3? It certainly seems to me that 3dfx wants to pursue the Macintosh market.
There was a petition circulating at Accelerate Your Mac pleading with Apple to do what 3dfx was asking: make the Voodoo4 and 5 build-to-order options in the G4 towers. This is possibly more likely now that Apple is angry at ATI.
Theoretically, I suppose that this could be done with the Cube as well, but I wonder about heat concerns.
You know, I didn't see a single thing in that article that backed up what they were saying. All they had established was that *these girls* were uninterested in computers as a trade -- for reasons that might just as easily be something a typical pubescent male, concerned with popularity and the opposite sex and such, might say.
I mean, come on! They interviewed 70 girls. That doesn't strike me as a sample with which I'd like to predict the behavior of all high-school age girls.
Apple with OpenDoc. Don't know if they invented it -- I wonder if it was an outgrowth of their Pink experiments with IBM -- but it had the same functionality earlier. Most famously implemented in the CyberDog web browsing suite.
although some of the more recent additions (that fscking PAPERCLIP!) have added far more bloat than is necessary IMHO.
Okay, you got me on this one. I sat down at my stepmother's computer, opened up Word 2000 -- I was visiting them for the weekend and had some work to do -- and the paperclip had been replaced by a sleeping cat. Apparently, the Office Assistant can now be represented by a variety of other little figures. My dad has Albert Einstein, for instance.
I'm reluctant to give M$ credit for innovation here but the cat really was just unspeakably cute. Made me want Office 2000 just to get the cat.
Ludicrous. Eudora isn't even available for Linux. Also, if you don't want the ads, Eudora Light versions are still available(no 4.x versions though). Also, there are other options for MacOS (Green comes to mind).
With linux I can do what I want on the net. proxies, servers, clients. Not so with macos, does apache run on a mac.
They appear to be judging desktop OS's as opposed to server OS's. There may be a case to be made for Linux as a desktop OS, but your post isn't it.
I'll still play it under Windows and MacOS...
I think I buy the MP rumor, but so what? I want to know if they're going to speed-bump iBook before I buy one.
Two words: Dischord Records.
Am I the only geek who didn't sleep through the Eighties? You are all going to wake up one day and know which side you've been sleeping on.
Is that the new standard for intellectual property laws? The amount of money the person responsible for creating the IP wishes to have?
Wolfenstein, OTOH, was chiefly publicized through word of mouth. I don't remember ever seeing an ad for it before I played it. It benefited, however, from being based on an extremely popular 2D shooter called Castle Wolfenstein that ran on the Apple II, AT/XT, and possibly other platforms. I played it on a IIc.
There are games which are publicized mostly through word of mouth and get decent distribution -- GLTron and Dope Wars come to mind. Of course, Dope Wars is, again, based on an older MS-DOS game...
You know something you've forgotten? The default Win95 install didn't include the TCP/IP stack. You had to add it later if you didn't know you needed it at install time(or if your system vendor hadn't, which, in fairness, most of them did). Why not? It wasn't necessary for MSN. It made using MSN easy and any other ISP a "jarring experience."
It also helped things out a lot for ordinary customers. Are you old enough to remember having to go to the Phone Store to *rent* -- not buy -- a phone at hideous rates? Do you remember how difficult it used to be to get a second line? Do you remember the days before flat-rate local calls? Close your eyes and picture Ma Bell as the only backbone provider. Ouch, huh?
3. One Albert Gore, Jr. may NOT want to provide easy ammunition for one George W. Bush, especially during the Presidential debates.
The flap over the Ralph Reed hiring might make it impossible for Dubya to make this an issue. If he criticizes the case -- publicly -- he makes himself look like a whore. That's not to say he wouldn't act privately on behalf of M$ if elected. Dubya, from what I can tell, is as crooked as a dog's hind leg.
FUD. I've never met a Canadian who wasn't happy with his or her health care system. Do you mean as opposed to never getting heart surgery, if you lack health insurance?
Duh. Reengage brain.
Or by the same angry students sending in multiple reviews, so your grade point average is a lie to begin with, and yet the webmaster is saying, 'Use this to choose your classes.' I don't know what to say. How can anyone defend this?
Well, in fact, the webmaster states that he has been removing multiple reviews from the same person, where he can spot them. So you're probably actually getting a fair representation of how much people dislike this guy.
Flamage can have value, IMHO. If his students are this worked up, I'll bet he really is a crappy teacher.
If I were him, I'd think twice about suing. As Oscar Wilde said,"Never sue. They might prove it." Sure, he went on to ignore his own advice, but the point still stands. Can you imagine the professor sitting in class while the webmaster's lawyer calls student after student who says the class is a waste of time?
The ZDNet article seems to view the differences in distros as a fork -- i.e., difference in package managers like .deb vs. .rpm.
Now, my dad's not the biggest Microsoft fan in the world, but he's looking around at the alternatives. What he's doing right now is choosing a delivery platform for videoconferencing.
Sun? McNealy gives him the creeps. My dad's a mainframe vet; you say the words "thin client" to him and he starts foaming at the mouth.
Linux? He likes the idea of it, but every time he tries to install it, it's a disastrous failure. His experience(not mine) is that it's not ready for prime time, and he doesn't want to have to worry about some schoolteacher trying to figure out a "kernel panic" message.
Apple? He likes the idea of OS X Server, but he's been burned by Apple in the past. Remember, even Mac zealots(I'm one) will admit that Apple is the worst company in the world, that happens to make the best computers in the world.
Now he's getting free copies of Win2k, the evangelists are giving him free classes on migrating to it...and it's stable as hell, at least on his Dell PIII's with 256mb of RAM.
What do you think he's going to adopt?
I would love to hear about alternatives you think I should point him at. Comments?
Sure. But the actual quantity and amount of money makes you nauseous.
State level politicians get away with ten times as much as national politicians, since they operate out of the eye of the national media.
If Bill Clinton had never been president, neither you nor the people of Arkansas would have ever heard the word Whitewater. Unless of course you went rafting.
That said, this is neither unconstitutional nor an invasion of privacy. This is subpoenaed information. A court can subpoena anything a plantiff or defendant requests, if the plantiff or defendant convinces the court that it is germane to the case.
Attentive followers of national politics may recall that Monica Lewinsky's hard drive was subpoenaed, and delivered to a data recovery specialist. Or, alternatively, note that the contents of the really.bad.attitude mailing list at Netscape were subpoenaed by Microsoft. Now, this was all private on an "employee's home computer, but it was evidence in a civil case, and so it was open to subpoena.