IIS isn't really an HTTP server, it's more of a poorly thought out public file sharing server. Frankly, it's a mess!
However, I can't think of another server that after a complete failure, you'd could just tell your boss "I just rebooted the server" and they would find this acceptable.
I've thought about that myself, and would love to have that kind of information on my pics of the Lake Superior shoreline (was this Split Rock or the Temperance?). But how far should it be taken? Should NESW direction be added in degrees as well? How about elevation above sea level, or even angle of the camera?
It seems like it's all possible, so now we consumers need to start demanding it.
The only problem I see is in the limits of commercial GPS.
What other books? There are a TON! The problem is, they are generally out-of-date by the time they're published (this goes for almost ANY computer-related book).
For me, I've found that while books can be helpful, there is no substitue for experience. The more you use linux OSs, the better you understand them.
My favorite site for linux is http://www.linuxgazette.com/ - plenty of information there for everyone from novice desktop user to application server administrator.
Very interesting story, it had me grinning from time-to-time, and other times I thought I was seeing the appocalypse.
I always get excited when I hear authors talk about linux taking over the desktop market. It sounds promising until I remember - Linux doesn't have a desktop! Or an X server, or a web server (oh, wait, I forgot about khttpd) . ..
Don't get me wrong, I love the linux kernel. But when are people going to finally understand that linux is JUST a kernel.
GNU, XFree86, KDE & Gnome: they all deserve their due. Likewise some credit (or maybe discredit) has to go to Red Hat, Mandrake, Debian, etc.
This may sound like a trivial point to argue, but I believe that 'linux' will never be big on the desktop, because the average consumer will never understand what 'linux' is - there's too many full-fledged desktop OSs claiming to be linux to ever take over the market (uniformity is key - ask Microsoft & McDonalds).
Maybe the smartest solution has come from Lindows. (sounds like linux, but not quite). Simple, easy to run, and you don't need to be a slashdot junkie or a linux geek (of which I'm both) to run it. Now THAT'S what the end user needs.
It looks like this software could be used, not only to bring a group of kids together, but also to spy on them. Does this concern anyone?
Ever since Microsoft introduced Passport.net, where they will store all your personal information for you (gee, thanks), and their new parental filters for MSN that require you registring your kids at passport.net, it's occurred to me that parents must not care very much for their children's privacy.
Microsoft is a marketing company - not a technology company. All their technology is a hack of technology that they've stolen or 'bought out' (stolen) from real technology companies. They want to know all about your children, because that's who they hope to market to next.
Please be careful with your children's future! Don't sell them out to Microsoft! For the sake of technology, and even your community, you should be doing as much to distance yourself from this shameless corporate hitler as possible.
I wanted to see this movie. Being an odd-numbered ST, I was sure it'd be worth sitting though (unlike the last ST travesty). But I never saw it. Didn't see Two Towers, for that matter - another one I was excited to see.
For me, it was just a bad time of the year. Too much going on with Thanksgiving and Christmas, too many other things to buy, I didn't have the $8 for a seat in the theater in the evening. Kept meaning to see a mantinee, but it just never happened.
Star Trek fans have grown up, and have responsibilities. Movies just don't have the priority for me they once did (but you bet your ass I'll be there opening day for the next Star Wars). When at just about any hour of the day I can find some Star Trek show or movie on cable somewhere, it looses its thrill.
At #1 is RIAA - an acronym that's become all-too familiar. When I was young, and my buddies would all buy different Albums & trade cassette tapes of them, where was RIAA then? When we'd record the radio, and then cut out the commercials, where was RIAA? Was our group so unique? Was the recording industry of the time so much wiser then that they realized our money was limited, and we could only buy so many albums?
Here's my suggestion - let's boycott the music for one month. How about "Musicless March"? ("Fxck'em February" has a nice ring, too, but may not get the right attention). RIAA assumes a direct correlation between downloaded music and their lack of sales. Let's show them the correlation between pissing off their customers and losing their profits.
So, it's a quarter more to use a standard than to use some MS-proprietary crap. I know people looking at the bottom line see this as a big deal, but c'mon!
Ultimately, companies building software for playing or editing this stuff are going to want BOTH, because that's what the consumer will want. Ultimately, M$ will just make half as much as the MPG4 licensee will, which is probably ok since the M$ codecs will probably be scrapped in a year or two.
Odd, after seeing the later posting about 'Science from SciFi', this subject has me thinking about Frank Herbert's "Dune" series. After they transformed the complete desert planet into a green paradise, they had to blow it up and start from scratch - converting a green world into a desert! Lesson (IMHO): Altering the weather is a bad idea.
I also have to think of that concept of a butterfly's wings in China effecting the weather in the US. There's just too many things we don't understand. Science all too often tends to examine things in lab conditions - in a closed environment. But closed environments do not happen in nature. By increasing rainfall in Kansas, do we cause a drought in Austrailia? I don't care how many people & computers you have analyzing weather patterns, you cannot truely predict cause and effect on a global scale (hey, isn't that in Dune, too?).
I think Dvorak's article was interesting, but more and add for Connectix than anything else. It does make a good point of those who package OSs using linux.
The thing that is often forgotten is that linux is a kernel, and the Window Manager is something else. So what WM is Dvorak using? Red Hat? SUSE? Mandrake?
I personally like Blackbox because it doesn't have all kinds of features - only what I need.
The question I've always wondered, why doesn't Microsoft make a window manager for X environments? Would they choke on the GPL?
Ultimately, I think the solution is Mac OS X - too bad I can only get my hands on this x86 crap.
But I thought the internet was all .com!
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The City of Saint Paul, Minnesota used to use the domain stpaul.gov. We now use the official ci.stpaul.mn.us domain (shut up NeuStar - we own it!). In both cases, one continual uphill battle is getting people to realize there's no '.com' on the end. "How will it know to use the internet if I don't put.com on the end?" - I've heard this too many times!
In fact, I don't think most people (slashdotters aren't most people) know how to type an address into their browser. If it's not linked from their AOL or MSN homepage, it must not exist. (I had a hard time believing this at first, but over time, found it to be true.)
Soooo, I'm not too worried about what people are going to have to type in (most simply won't). I would be extremely amused at all the dom-squatters who would break their bank trying to buy every new domain that they think someone would pay for.
Anyone suggest the '.blog' TLD? How about '.exe', just to see how many firewalls it would trip up?
but cable is usually poorly networked
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I first went from a dial up to cable - which needless to say was a welcomed improvement. However, I soon found the downside of my cable service from Charter Communications, or actually a third-party company called High Speed Access (AVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE!!!). The problems not only came from total lack of customer support, but stupidly designed networks. My whole town was on a single network node! So you could tell when the kiddies came home from school - you'd loose all connectivity as all the packets started colliding.
Making matters worse, I'd frequently wait on hold for 40 minutes to argue with HSA's 'support' desk. I'd tell them there was a problem, they'd tell me they didn't have any record of the problem, etc, etc. Funny, when I pay $50 / month for a service I can't use, I fail to see why I should continue paying. They were down every other weekend!
Charter was very good about the issue, but unfortunatly, HSA was impossible to work with. In the end, I dropped the Cable modem - and HSA kept charging me. I finally had to forward my many deliquency notices to Charter, who dealt with HSA's substandard billing department. I believe I am finally off the hook for this service that did not provide the high speed access (or even 'access') they claimed.
After dumping cable, I got DSL from my phone company (Frontier) and have had the best of luck. Maybe once every 3-4 months, the service is out. But when I call, there is usually a message explaing the outage, and giving an estimate of when it will be back. No more waiting 40 minutes on hold for an argument! What's more, I have never seen any of these downtimes last more than an hour, where with HSA's cable service, it would last entire weekends!
But best of all DSL provides a ROUTER - I'm on my own node. The only packets going out of that router are the ones intended to go out of the router. Cable modems toss packets indesciminately (unless you have a firewall infront of it).
A Friend of mine has Time-Warner cable, and does not have the problems I had with HSA. I believe this is because they came in later in the game, and learned from the mistakes of the other cable providers. But from my experience, most cable networks are poorly implemented, and extremely insecure. Not worth the money, from my experience.
It looks like HotBot is powered by ASP & IIS. Don't get too hopeful for great performance.
What is HotBox powered by, by the way?
And all we had were 6-story towers when I was a ki
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I wonder if David Letterman will be purchasing one of these. This would be way cooler than the surgical gloves filled with butterscotch pudding that he dropped from a 6-foot tower when I was a kid.
Maybe an even better question - can it separate the gold, arsenic and silicon from computer chips?
I had this thought, and I'm sharing it with you before I even talk to a lawyer (bring on the ridicule). I own a domain name - serversolved.com - and most of the spam I get comes to that domain (about 60 messages a day - all spam).
Here's my thought - could I copyright or patent that 'serversolved.com' domain, so that anyone else that would use it could potentially be sued?
So my friends would have implied consent to use that domain to email me. But spammers, I could potentially sue for infringement.
I'm not a lawyer, so I don't know if this would work. Anyone ever tried something like this?
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This test wasn't performed on a spinning body, say, like Earth, was it?
Maybe the balls were standing still, and the room was spinning . . .
IIS isn't really an HTTP server, it's more of a poorly thought out public file sharing server. Frankly, it's a mess!
However, I can't think of another server that after a complete failure, you'd could just tell your boss "I just rebooted the server" and they would find this acceptable.
I've never heard of a company 'built for the web'. Do they only exist in the ether?
Or maybe I'm reading it wrong. Did the W3C specifically ask them to start their company?
You know, I am the only web developer in a group of client-server developers. Maybe I was 'built for the web'.
I've thought about that myself, and would love to have that kind of information on my pics of the Lake Superior shoreline (was this Split Rock or the Temperance?). But how far should it be taken? Should NESW direction be added in degrees as well? How about elevation above sea level, or even angle of the camera?
It seems like it's all possible, so now we consumers need to start demanding it.
The only problem I see is in the limits of commercial GPS.
"When" things get too ugly? How far does this corporate rule have to go?
You know, if only CEOs were allowed to vote, I'd feel better about our system. At least there would be no more delusions about being in a 'democracy'.
What other books? There are a TON! The problem is, they are generally out-of-date by the time they're published (this goes for almost ANY computer-related book).
For me, I've found that while books can be helpful, there is no substitue for experience. The more you use linux OSs, the better you understand them.
My favorite site for linux is http://www.linuxgazette.com/ - plenty of information there for everyone from novice desktop user to application server administrator.
So, when the release this, what are they planning on calling it? X.I? Sounds like that would require a logo change.
I know "Panther" is their working title - how come no one ever calls their new system "Guppy" or "Sloth"? How 'bout "Slug" or "Dung Beetle"?
Okay, so we'll rephrase it "Global Network User Repetitive Mistake Syndrome"
I really like the "Repetitive Mistake Syndrome" - I have seen so many cases of that!!!
I wonder if the GNU folks would mind if we just abbriviated that 'RMS'?
Very interesting story, it had me grinning from time-to-time, and other times I thought I was seeing the appocalypse.
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I always get excited when I hear authors talk about linux taking over the desktop market. It sounds promising until I remember - Linux doesn't have a desktop! Or an X server, or a web server (oh, wait, I forgot about khttpd) . .
Don't get me wrong, I love the linux kernel. But when are people going to finally understand that linux is JUST a kernel.
GNU, XFree86, KDE & Gnome: they all deserve their due. Likewise some credit (or maybe discredit) has to go to Red Hat, Mandrake, Debian, etc.
This may sound like a trivial point to argue, but I believe that 'linux' will never be big on the desktop, because the average consumer will never understand what 'linux' is - there's too many full-fledged desktop OSs claiming to be linux to ever take over the market (uniformity is key - ask Microsoft & McDonalds).
Maybe the smartest solution has come from Lindows. (sounds like linux, but not quite). Simple, easy to run, and you don't need to be a slashdot junkie or a linux geek (of which I'm both) to run it. Now THAT'S what the end user needs.
It looks like this software could be used, not only to bring a group of kids together, but also to spy on them. Does this concern anyone?
Ever since Microsoft introduced Passport.net, where they will store all your personal information for you (gee, thanks), and their new parental filters for MSN that require you registring your kids at passport.net, it's occurred to me that parents must not care very much for their children's privacy.
Microsoft is a marketing company - not a technology company. All their technology is a hack of technology that they've stolen or 'bought out' (stolen) from real technology companies. They want to know all about your children, because that's who they hope to market to next.
Please be careful with your children's future! Don't sell them out to Microsoft! For the sake of technology, and even your community, you should be doing as much to distance yourself from this shameless corporate hitler as possible.
I wanted to see this movie. Being an odd-numbered ST, I was sure it'd be worth sitting though (unlike the last ST travesty). But I never saw it. Didn't see Two Towers, for that matter - another one I was excited to see.
For me, it was just a bad time of the year. Too much going on with Thanksgiving and Christmas, too many other things to buy, I didn't have the $8 for a seat in the theater in the evening. Kept meaning to see a mantinee, but it just never happened.
Star Trek fans have grown up, and have responsibilities. Movies just don't have the priority for me they once did (but you bet your ass I'll be there opening day for the next Star Wars). When at just about any hour of the day I can find some Star Trek show or movie on cable somewhere, it looses its thrill.
This is kind of like an author hiring people to go to every library and vandalize their books.
Why does the recording industry hate its consumers so bad?
At #1 is RIAA - an acronym that's become all-too familiar. When I was young, and my buddies would all buy different Albums & trade cassette tapes of them, where was RIAA then? When we'd record the radio, and then cut out the commercials, where was RIAA? Was our group so unique? Was the recording industry of the time so much wiser then that they realized our money was limited, and we could only buy so many albums?
Here's my suggestion - let's boycott the music for one month. How about "Musicless March"? ("Fxck'em February" has a nice ring, too, but may not get the right attention). RIAA assumes a direct correlation between downloaded music and their lack of sales. Let's show them the correlation between pissing off their customers and losing their profits.
So, it's a quarter more to use a standard than to use some MS-proprietary crap. I know people looking at the bottom line see this as a big deal, but c'mon!
Ultimately, companies building software for playing or editing this stuff are going to want BOTH, because that's what the consumer will want. Ultimately, M$ will just make half as much as the MPG4 licensee will, which is probably ok since the M$ codecs will probably be scrapped in a year or two.
Odd, after seeing the later posting about 'Science from SciFi', this subject has me thinking about Frank Herbert's "Dune" series. After they transformed the complete desert planet into a green paradise, they had to blow it up and start from scratch - converting a green world into a desert! Lesson (IMHO): Altering the weather is a bad idea.
I also have to think of that concept of a butterfly's wings in China effecting the weather in the US. There's just too many things we don't understand. Science all too often tends to examine things in lab conditions - in a closed environment. But closed environments do not happen in nature. By increasing rainfall in Kansas, do we cause a drought in Austrailia? I don't care how many people & computers you have analyzing weather patterns, you cannot truely predict cause and effect on a global scale (hey, isn't that in Dune, too?).
But think what science could do for the towel of the future!
(As long as is doesn't turn out like Towely from South Park)
I think Dvorak's article was interesting, but more and add for Connectix than anything else. It does make a good point of those who package OSs using linux.
The thing that is often forgotten is that linux is a kernel, and the Window Manager is something else. So what WM is Dvorak using? Red Hat? SUSE? Mandrake?
I personally like Blackbox because it doesn't have all kinds of features - only what I need.
The question I've always wondered, why doesn't Microsoft make a window manager for X environments? Would they choke on the GPL?
Ultimately, I think the solution is Mac OS X - too bad I can only get my hands on this x86 crap.
The City of Saint Paul, Minnesota used to use the domain stpaul.gov. We now use the official ci.stpaul.mn.us domain (shut up NeuStar - we own it!). In both cases, one continual uphill battle is getting people to realize there's no '.com' on the end. "How will it know to use the internet if I don't put .com on the end?" - I've heard this too many times!
In fact, I don't think most people (slashdotters aren't most people) know how to type an address into their browser. If it's not linked from their AOL or MSN homepage, it must not exist. (I had a hard time believing this at first, but over time, found it to be true.)
Soooo, I'm not too worried about what people are going to have to type in (most simply won't). I would be extremely amused at all the dom-squatters who would break their bank trying to buy every new domain that they think someone would pay for.
Anyone suggest the '.blog' TLD? How about '.exe', just to see how many firewalls it would trip up?
I first went from a dial up to cable - which needless to say was a welcomed improvement. However, I soon found the downside of my cable service from Charter Communications, or actually a third-party company called High Speed Access (AVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE!!!). The problems not only came from total lack of customer support, but stupidly designed networks. My whole town was on a single network node! So you could tell when the kiddies came home from school - you'd loose all connectivity as all the packets started colliding.
Making matters worse, I'd frequently wait on hold for 40 minutes to argue with HSA's 'support' desk. I'd tell them there was a problem, they'd tell me they didn't have any record of the problem, etc, etc. Funny, when I pay $50 / month for a service I can't use, I fail to see why I should continue paying. They were down every other weekend!
Charter was very good about the issue, but unfortunatly, HSA was impossible to work with. In the end, I dropped the Cable modem - and HSA kept charging me. I finally had to forward my many deliquency notices to Charter, who dealt with HSA's substandard billing department. I believe I am finally off the hook for this service that did not provide the high speed access (or even 'access') they claimed.
After dumping cable, I got DSL from my phone company (Frontier) and have had the best of luck. Maybe once every 3-4 months, the service is out. But when I call, there is usually a message explaing the outage, and giving an estimate of when it will be back. No more waiting 40 minutes on hold for an argument! What's more, I have never seen any of these downtimes last more than an hour, where with HSA's cable service, it would last entire weekends!
But best of all DSL provides a ROUTER - I'm on my own node. The only packets going out of that router are the ones intended to go out of the router. Cable modems toss packets indesciminately (unless you have a firewall infront of it).
A Friend of mine has Time-Warner cable, and does not have the problems I had with HSA. I believe this is because they came in later in the game, and learned from the mistakes of the other cable providers. But from my experience, most cable networks are poorly implemented, and extremely insecure. Not worth the money, from my experience.
It looks like HotBot is powered by ASP & IIS. Don't get too hopeful for great performance.
What is HotBox powered by, by the way?
I wonder if David Letterman will be purchasing one of these. This would be way cooler than the surgical gloves filled with butterscotch pudding that he dropped from a 6-foot tower when I was a kid.
Maybe an even better question - can it separate the gold, arsenic and silicon from computer chips?
I had this thought, and I'm sharing it with you before I even talk to a lawyer (bring on the ridicule). I own a domain name - serversolved.com - and most of the spam I get comes to that domain (about 60 messages a day - all spam).
Here's my thought - could I copyright or patent that 'serversolved.com' domain, so that anyone else that would use it could potentially be sued?
So my friends would have implied consent to use that domain to email me. But spammers, I could potentially sue for infringement.
I'm not a lawyer, so I don't know if this would work. Anyone ever tried something like this?
At first glance at item, I was thinking Doctor Smith - now that would be much more interesting!
But it's Will Smith, the stale prince. Yawn. Back to my nap.
Maybe Fox should make Andy Richter the captain . . .