Quick question if it takes $2000 to take a domain name away. You could register or a two names. They would then taken them away. Then register a few more name and they would have to take those away. It could get pretty expensive for the corporation (I guess it would get kinf of expensicve for the "angry" man too.
Speaking of old teletype machines and GOD. The reason that the older machine only had UPPER CASE and not lower case letter is because, although it was easier to read all lower case letters then ALL UPPER CASE LETTER, was because some felt it disrepectful to spell god lowercased. Sorry for the off topic post.
These older game present a strange sutuation. I collect older games. I have the original cart but some of them are not in a playable condition. I have the cart (I would that includes the right to play the game) but cannot play. Some if I emulate am I breaking the law (I would say NO!). Nintendo, Atari, and Coleco do not sell the games any more so they can not say they are losing money, but then again they might want to release a classic series of games for other consoles witht eh same game. Tough call.
Some of us have been in the classic game scene for a while now. I have my original PONG next to my other consoles. I even play it once it a while. Long live Frogger.
All sorts of companies have tried to make it in other fields. Zenith made computers for a while. Tippman (manufactur of sewing machines) also makes paintball guns. Kind of strange that my mother goes to the same home page I do to get to the sewing machines as I do poaint ball guns). Sorry for the off topic post. Just though you might want to know.
This is Slashdot.org News for Nerds: Stuff that matters. Not Slashdot.org News for IT professional. There are plenty of news forums for that. Go hang out at ZDNET or what ever they want to call themselves these day.
This is nothing to do with child labor laws beyond the fact that they deal with the work force. You are an adult. If you do not like your work conditions go some where else. If you are truely worth more then $44 dollars an hour you shoulds be able to find a job easy enough. You make more in a year then most people make in two or three years. grow up and get a life.
Actually it is 40*44 = $1760 Regular Pay + (40 * (44 * 1.5))= $2640 (Over Time rate of 1.5) for a grand total of $4400 week or $17600 a month. Now Let say you a smuch working tech support (I used to be/am a smuck) getting $8.50 to $10.00 that comes out to be 17680 to 20800. I feel sorry for the guy who would be making as much as my first IT position made in a year. Boo freakin woo. Get a life.
Even in the cases where Linus has outright rejected BigIron patches, nothing stops a hardware vendor from patching the source after the fact - almost every major Linux distribution does this now for x86/ppc/sparc etc.
It is not a matter of patches, it is a matter of designing the kernel. Have you seen what happens to the linux kernel above four processors? Nothing it flat lines, no improvement. What about other Unices? SCO and Solaris are both scalable. Even that dread OS from Redmond Windows NT can scale well up to 8 processors. Here comes my point. The current linux kernel run fine for my machines at home, and some servers here at work. But the BIG IRON, no way. What was the big iron two years ago. Pentium II/450 What is that average workstation at my workplaces Pentium 450. My point is the Big Iron of today is the workstation of tommorow. We need to get the kernal working now for these machines.
Here is a list of the current major distros bases on Amazon.
Rad Hat 6.2 Standard (104)
Rad Hat 6.2 Professional(152)
Rad Hat 6.2 Deluxe (161)
Caldera Linux Technology Preview (196)
Mandrake 7.1 Deluxe (813)
Mandrake 7.1 (848)
Caldera eDesktop (1273)
Corel Linux (2011)
Caldera Open Linux 2.3 (2543)
Caldera eServer (2583)
Mandrake 7.0 Deluxe (3377)
Turbo Linux WorkStation (3377)
When you look at these stat they do not reflect the stat from the original article. We can maniplute stats ina thousand ways. Can make anything look better then anything else. It is called marketing.
The methodology used is great if you're trying to figure out who's making how much money from selling Linux distributions, but isn't so great if you're trying to figure out which distributions are good ones, or popular ones.
This article just goes to show that Red Hat is not Linux. There are many distro out there, each with their own pro's and con's. I am a big Caldera fan(1). The main thing I see from this article is which distro do businesses want to use, verses which distro do the geeks/nerds(2) want use. Obviously Japanesse business want Turbo Linux, IBM wants Caldera, Dell wants RedHat. The geeks well I would recommend the Linux from Scratch Distro.
(1)This is my personal opinion. Anybody can disagree if they wish(3).
(2)Geeks/nerds is used as a term of enderment in this case.
(3)They are coure will be wrong if they disagree;)
Slashdot. NEWS FOR NERDS. Stuff that Matters...to nerds. I am a nerd(geek) and this matter to me. It is through the "exploits" of existing technology that new technology is born. Go get the first RFC on e-mail. Then try to send an attachment folowing that RFC. That was basically a file tunnel through email. Any ways that is my two cents.
Is this really primary Slashdot story material? Like much of what is hacked out there, it strikes me as a minor (albiet clever), nearly useless end product with an extremely limited audience that might use it.
I am currently in the process of developing an open-sourced HTML based game. Many of people have told I am crazy. Cheating will be rampant and nobody will want to play. My therory goes a little something like this. CHEAT, STEAL, PLUNDER If the game lets you do it. If you get caught you will be punished severely. You see this is how life is. I hope to habour a enviroment in which the player can interact knowing that anyone CAN cheat but not neccasarly is cheating. This will have a great effect on the game. 1) People wont get upset when they see some cheat (they will want to find out how to do it themselves) 2) I will offer reward for the best "HACKS" and "CHEATS", so they can help me in testing. The way this will working is on a nortorous scale. Everyone will be be assigned X Honour points. If you are caught(or suspected of) cheating, these points will be taken away. You can earn points back by reporting the exploit. There will be certain areas (Holy Sanctum of Rest, Inner court of the Castle)in the game you cannot go unless you have a high enough Honour. Like wise I will have an underground (you have to cheat to get there). Any ideas are welcome. Jeff Smith Sheik Geek Enterprises
I have recently been playing an online game. When I found it becoming increasingly boring, I decided to find loop holes in the game. A little background first. This is an online version of TradeWars. I figured I would find ways to manipulate the system. These acts, even though they were cheating, were as exciting, if not more exciting then playing the game itself. Most RPG are about exploring a world, does not the code that make that world, become part of that world. So in this TradeWars game I found that I could land on others planets with out their permission. (I called that my secret agent bug). I could steal other combat drones (double agent bug). You get my point. There wil be cheating. There will be cheating in real life (oops did I get that promotion and you didn't, speeding, stealing, etc). Deal with it. There should be an incentive for these "HACKERS" to report the bugs, so they can be properly addressed.
>Trusted systems are built according to a formal >specification and are tested and confirmed >against a formal testing and standards process. Most hacks are out exploited by two ways. 1) Poorly implemented standards, 2) creative uses of resources. When the standards are not open and completely available hackers will reverse engineer. The linux Creative Labs DXR-2 driver. Other Hack would involve creative, non-standard, or even informal uses of resources. Using programs or item for things they were not intended to do.
My experience with Dell and RedHat Linux was rather distrubing. We purchased a Dell PowerEdge 2400 (with the PERC2/si Raid Card) when recieved the machine it was not preloaded. In fact the raid driver was not finished. They finaly got us the driver after three weeks when to out suprise the driver was compiled for a specific version of the kernel (Dell's Special Tweaked version) which had a PPP problem (which we needed). I guess my point is RedHat and Dell get all sort of publicity for being open sourced, but yet we could not get the source code to compile the driver ourselves. Yet company like Caldera, IBM, and Mandrake get some publicity but it is almost an after thought. This is just my opinion. Peace Out.
I cannot remember any instances where the brand of computer was mentioned in a bust. "Now for the breaking news...A Dell Dimension was used to bring down the New York Stock Exchange, while in other news Backard Smell sales decreased do to small hacker sales."
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Quick question if it takes $2000 to take a domain name away. You could register or a two names. They would then taken them away. Then register a few more name and they would have to take those away. It could get pretty expensive for the corporation (I guess it would get kinf of expensicve for the "angry" man too.
Speaking of old teletype machines and GOD. The reason that the older machine only had UPPER CASE and not lower case letter is because, although it was easier to read all lower case letters then ALL UPPER CASE LETTER, was because some felt it disrepectful to spell god lowercased. Sorry for the off topic post.
These older game present a strange sutuation. I collect older games. I have the original cart but some of them are not in a playable condition. I have the cart (I would that includes the right to play the game) but cannot play. Some if I emulate am I breaking the law (I would say NO!). Nintendo, Atari, and Coleco do not sell the games any more so they can not say they are losing money, but then again they might want to release a classic series of games for other consoles witht eh same game. Tough call.
Some of us have been in the classic game scene for a while now. I have my original PONG next to my other consoles. I even play it once it a while. Long live Frogger.
All sorts of companies have tried to make it in other fields. Zenith made computers for a while. Tippman (manufactur of sewing machines) also makes paintball guns. Kind of strange that my mother goes to the same home page I do to get to the sewing machines as I do poaint ball guns). Sorry for the off topic post. Just though you might want to know.
Slashdot.org News for Nerds. Not News for Linux Professionals. Nobody ask why the internatioanl space station isn't running Linux.
This is Slashdot.org News for Nerds: Stuff that matters. Not Slashdot.org News for IT professional. There are plenty of news forums for that. Go hang out at ZDNET or what ever they want to call themselves these day.
This is nothing to do with child labor laws beyond the fact that they deal with the work force. You are an adult. If you do not like your work conditions go some where else. If you are truely worth more then $44 dollars an hour you shoulds be able to find a job easy enough. You make more in a year then most people make in two or three years. grow up and get a life.
Actually it is 40*44 = $1760 Regular Pay + (40 * (44 * 1.5))= $2640 (Over Time rate of 1.5) for a grand total of $4400 week or $17600 a month. Now Let say you a smuch working tech support (I used to be/am a smuck) getting $8.50 to $10.00 that comes out to be 17680 to 20800. I feel sorry for the guy who would be making as much as my first IT position made in a year. Boo freakin woo. Get a life.
Even in the cases where Linus has outright rejected BigIron patches, nothing stops a hardware vendor from patching the source after the fact - almost every major Linux distribution does this now for x86/ppc/sparc etc. It is not a matter of patches, it is a matter of designing the kernel. Have you seen what happens to the linux kernel above four processors? Nothing it flat lines, no improvement. What about other Unices? SCO and Solaris are both scalable. Even that dread OS from Redmond Windows NT can scale well up to 8 processors. Here comes my point. The current linux kernel run fine for my machines at home, and some servers here at work. But the BIG IRON, no way. What was the big iron two years ago. Pentium II/450 What is that average workstation at my workplaces Pentium 450. My point is the Big Iron of today is the workstation of tommorow. We need to get the kernal working now for these machines.
I am a nerd and it matters to me!
Here is a list of the current major distros bases on Amazon.
Rad Hat 6.2 Standard (104)
Rad Hat 6.2 Professional(152)
Rad Hat 6.2 Deluxe (161)
Caldera Linux Technology Preview (196)
Mandrake 7.1 Deluxe (813)
Mandrake 7.1 (848)
Caldera eDesktop (1273)
Corel Linux (2011)
Caldera Open Linux 2.3 (2543)
Caldera eServer (2583)
Mandrake 7.0 Deluxe (3377)
Turbo Linux WorkStation (3377)
When you look at these stat they do not reflect the stat from the original article. We can maniplute stats ina thousand ways. Can make anything look better then anything else. It is called marketing.
The methodology used is great if you're trying to figure out who's making how much money from selling Linux distributions, but isn't so great if you're trying to figure out which distributions are good ones, or popular ones. This article just goes to show that Red Hat is not Linux. There are many distro out there, each with their own pro's and con's. I am a big Caldera fan(1). The main thing I see from this article is which distro do businesses want to use, verses which distro do the geeks/nerds(2) want use. Obviously Japanesse business want Turbo Linux, IBM wants Caldera, Dell wants RedHat. The geeks well I would recommend the Linux from Scratch Distro.
;)
(1)This is my personal opinion. Anybody can disagree if they wish(3).
(2)Geeks/nerds is used as a term of enderment in this case.
(3)They are coure will be wrong if they disagree
Slashdot. NEWS FOR NERDS. Stuff that Matters...to nerds. I am a nerd(geek) and this matter to me. It is through the "exploits" of existing technology that new technology is born. Go get the first RFC on e-mail. Then try to send an attachment folowing that RFC. That was basically a file tunnel through email. Any ways that is my two cents. Is this really primary Slashdot story material? Like much of what is hacked out there, it strikes me as a minor (albiet clever), nearly useless end product with an extremely limited audience that might use it.
... and sent pictures over the radio ...
Wasn't that Filo T. Farnsworth. I always thought it was considering he is my great grand father.
I am currently in the process of developing an open-sourced HTML based game. Many of people have told I am crazy. Cheating will be rampant and nobody will want to play. My therory goes a little something like this. CHEAT, STEAL, PLUNDER If the game lets you do it. If you get caught you will be punished severely. You see this is how life is. I hope to habour a enviroment in which the player can interact knowing that anyone CAN cheat but not neccasarly is cheating. This will have a great effect on the game. 1) People wont get upset when they see some cheat (they will want to find out how to do it themselves) 2) I will offer reward for the best "HACKS" and "CHEATS", so they can help me in testing. The way this will working is on a nortorous scale. Everyone will be be assigned X Honour points. If you are caught(or suspected of) cheating, these points will be taken away. You can earn points back by reporting the exploit. There will be certain areas (Holy Sanctum of Rest, Inner court of the Castle)in the game you cannot go unless you have a high enough Honour. Like wise I will have an underground (you have to cheat to get there). Any ideas are welcome. Jeff Smith Sheik Geek Enterprises
I have recently been playing an online game. When I found it becoming increasingly boring, I decided to find loop holes in the game. A little background first. This is an online version of TradeWars. I figured I would find ways to manipulate the system. These acts, even though they were cheating, were as exciting, if not more exciting then playing the game itself. Most RPG are about exploring a world, does not the code that make that world, become part of that world. So in this TradeWars game I found that I could land on others planets with out their permission. (I called that my secret agent bug). I could steal other combat drones (double agent bug). You get my point. There wil be cheating. There will be cheating in real life (oops did I get that promotion and you didn't, speeding, stealing, etc). Deal with it. There should be an incentive for these "HACKERS" to report the bugs, so they can be properly addressed.
>Trusted systems are built according to a formal >specification and are tested and confirmed >against a formal testing and standards process. Most hacks are out exploited by two ways. 1) Poorly implemented standards, 2) creative uses of resources. When the standards are not open and completely available hackers will reverse engineer. The linux Creative Labs DXR-2 driver. Other Hack would involve creative, non-standard, or even informal uses of resources. Using programs or item for things they were not intended to do.
My experience with Dell and RedHat Linux was rather distrubing. We purchased a Dell PowerEdge 2400 (with the PERC2/si Raid Card) when recieved the machine it was not preloaded. In fact the raid driver was not finished. They finaly got us the driver after three weeks when to out suprise the driver was compiled for a specific version of the kernel (Dell's Special Tweaked version) which had a PPP problem (which we needed). I guess my point is RedHat and Dell get all sort of publicity for being open sourced, but yet we could not get the source code to compile the driver ourselves. Yet company like Caldera, IBM, and Mandrake get some publicity but it is almost an after thought. This is just my opinion. Peace Out.
I cannot remember any instances where the brand of computer was mentioned in a bust. "Now for the breaking news...A Dell Dimension was used to bring down the New York Stock Exchange, while in other news Backard Smell sales decreased do to small hacker sales."