RFC1459 specifies a cross platform instant messaging protocol. Included is the ability to send/receive files, create chat groups, and "instant message" another user directly. It's really cool. Maybe these newbies should try it sometime and quit reinventing the wheel. What's next on your drawing board? A platform independent way of sending text and graphics over a packet switched network where users click on "links" to go to other "pages"?;-)
First off, how was my post offtopic? Do you moderators even bother to read the articles? This guy is claiming ownership of the moon because he bought a scrap of junk the Russians left there from an unmanned landing. If *anyone* can claim rights to the moon it'd be the USA. We're the only nation to ever set foot on another celestial body. That's a huge accomplishment that has never been repeated by any nation. As for the British... if they landed men on the moon hundreds of years ago I think that'd be news to everyone here. PS: Moderators, you really need to get a sense of humor. Sheesh.:-)
Blast those cheap Chinese flagpoles! To hell with them all I say! Next time we go to the moon we should use quality American made flagpoles that won't blow over when your lunar module takes off!
The United States of America owns Earth's moon silly people! We planted our flags up there and claimed it for the USA. If you don't like it, go up there and knock our flags down and put your own up.:-)
Well, also figure the lawyers on this class action case are probably getting at least 50% of the settlement. They don't work for free. Bastards. I love class action suits. If you look around enough you'll find tons of get-rich-quick lawyers looking to make some money attached to them.
The source code could have just as easily been modified. A couple of lines in some obscure part of it is all that would be required to do the same thing any RPM install script could do. Quit being so damned paranoid already or just get your RPMs from a trusted source like the author or a major distribution's site where they check them.
Crazy because who the hell would spend the money it would cost to pull this off just to eradicate one city? A well placed biological warhead would have the same effect of wiping out the population while leaving the structures intact for the invading force. With prevailing winds and such and enough of the agent you could wipe out a continent in a matter of days. So much for "mastermind" terrorists. I mean, have a little finesse guys. Filling a god damned truck with fertilizer and blowing up a building is chickenshit. If you really want to become a Bond villain you need to wipe out at least 200 million people at once.;-)
Welcome to 2001. Actually, I'm suprised it has taken this long for the small local ISPs to slip under. I was imagining back in '97 that the nationals would kill the local ISPs completely within a few years with dial-up service. I could never imagine DSL and cable catching on like it did when it was barely being offered out of a few pops in the affluent tech-heavy areas like San Jose. Oh well. Goodbye Mr. and Mrs. Small ISP. We knew you well. No more calling up and talking to the owner.:-)
Until Earthlink swallows Corecomm and discontinues all the perks.;-) Then when it all comes down to it several years down the road you'll see two fat behemoths meet on the field of battle. AT&T-Earthlink-@Home vs. AOL-Worldcom. These two fat sumo wrestling conglomerates will rush at each other and merge into.. guess: AT&T!!! Woohoo!! 1983 all over again baby. Man, Congress really had a GREAT idea when they passed that telecommunications act in 1996. I mean hell, having one big monopoly serving all our cable and telecommunications needs makes much more sense than having to worry about choosing from all those different rate plans and offers we had in the late 90's. This way you just call up 1-800-ATT-1984 and order all your services you could ever need. Thanks a bunch.
Really? This must be something limited to the RaQ3's then. On my Cobalt RaQ4r, by default, the CGI's are run under CGIWrap and run get setuid to the person that owns the scripts.. i.e. the site owner usually.
Uhhh, go to their website and get their contact info. If you've got $70,000 burning a hole in your pocket I'm sure they'd be more than willing to set you up. Also would help if you had an I2 connection.;-)
$70k isn't that much for such a neat technology. I could easily blow more than that on a single Sun server. It sounds like it sure beats the shit out of Netmeeting. I should if we can get one of these.:-)
Well, in all honesty that would have also meaned removing any EPA restrictions on constructing new power plants as well. People want cheap reliable power but they don't want anyone to build any power plants. Duh. We need to let capitalism flourish again for true deregulation to prove beneficial to the customers. That means we need to learn to look the other way when a company dumps mercury into a stream or smokestacks billow black smoke. It's the cost of doing business. We need to stop whining about it and deal with it. So our kids will have three arms. Think of what our basketball players would be like! Three armed 10 foot giants with 2 pairs of eyes on each side of their skull. They would be unbeatable.
I guess as long as you're using Windows it doesn't matter. Microsoft isn't going out of business anytime soon. Even the entire brunt of the US government's anti-trust actions haven't brought it down. Even giants like AT&T or IBM couldn't claim that kind of untouchability. When Real is gone Windows Media Player will be the defacto and only standard for web broadcasts leaving us free opensource geeks in the dust. All I can say is it was fun while it lasted I suppose.. but hey, that's what dual booting is for right?
Ah well. God giveth, the MLB associations taketh away. Nothing stops a radio station from getting a license from the MLB to rebroadcast the games on the Internet like they do over the air. I would think the MLB would actually PREFER this. At least then they could license it per listener since the radio station knows exactly how many Real streams they're serving up to people.
Well now you're just being silly. You should be listening to Seattle Mariners games. The problem is you're not listening to your appropriate MLB market-approved team. If you live in Florida for instance, you should
Yes they have. They'll replace your ECache if you're having problems with it. Now, their "fix" is to just refresh the cache every so often I believe but we haven't had any problems since they came out. Thanks for your concern though. My e450s are still more reliable than any of the PCs I have.
Uh huh. Because as we all know, all good things come from government! We can't trust that no good public sector
to actually produce things that people want.
In fact, Michael is right. Clearly things are moving too slow, so the government needs to turn the Internet into a
utility! Water pipes are utilities, why not data pipes?
They are. Well, at least in Ohio our telecommunications companies are governed by our Public Utilities Commission. They are (or were) government subsidized monopolies that have the very lucrative position of having a foothold in your door. They should definitely be regulated and prices should be controlled lest we get into these situations of merger-mania that we've seen since the 1996 telecommunications act where everyone and their brother has been merging. Do you really want to get your phone, cable, Internet, cell phone, etc. service from AT&T-AOL-TimeWarner-Viacom-Worldcom-Sprint? How about we just shorten the company name to AT&T for short and we'll be back to 1984 all over again. How really f***ing ironic that would be now.
Whatever happened to sunsite.unc.edu? I know it became metalab and then ibiblio, but didn't that used to be THE source for distributing your Linux software? Long before freshmeat was around you could search through their directory listings and find neat stuff. To distribute it you had to pay a grand total of $0. Everyone seems to want fancy web sites with whiz-bang bullshit style sheets and mysql backends but when it comes down to it, an ftp site on a fast link is the only way to fly.
Well, I guess it depends on what you think is better. 5 or 6 people downloading 120 MB at one time over a backbone link or 500 or 5000. Now, if I was one of the 5 downloading I'd say it's a great idea!
15k/sec? Holy shit. You ever just consider getting a 56k/s modem for uploads? How the heck do you get 1.5Mb/s down with only 15kb/sec up? The TCP acknowledgements alone would flood your uplink channel.
Yep, especially business jumping on that deal. Someone has to pay for that upstream bandwidth to the peers. I blame all the Napster users leeching crap for really killing DSL. I'd be happy with a 24/7 DSL that was only 64kb/s in all honesty. My big problem is I want something on all the time for my little mail server and shell account. Oh well.
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RFC1459 specifies a cross platform instant messaging protocol. Included is the ability to send/receive files, create chat groups, and "instant message" another user directly. It's really cool. Maybe these newbies should try it sometime and quit reinventing the wheel. What's next on your drawing board? A platform independent way of sending text and graphics over a packet switched network where users click on "links" to go to other "pages"? ;-)
First off, how was my post offtopic? Do you moderators even bother to read the articles? This guy is claiming ownership of the moon because he bought a scrap of junk the Russians left there from an unmanned landing. If *anyone* can claim rights to the moon it'd be the USA. We're the only nation to ever set foot on another celestial body. That's a huge accomplishment that has never been repeated by any nation. As for the British... if they landed men on the moon hundreds of years ago I think that'd be news to everyone here. PS: Moderators, you really need to get a sense of humor. Sheesh. :-)
Blast those cheap Chinese flagpoles! To hell with them all I say! Next time we go to the moon we should use quality American made flagpoles that won't blow over when your lunar module takes off!
The United States of America owns Earth's moon silly people! We planted our flags up there and claimed it for the USA. If you don't like it, go up there and knock our flags down and put your own up. :-)
Well, also figure the lawyers on this class action case are probably getting at least 50% of the settlement. They don't work for free. Bastards. I love class action suits. If you look around enough you'll find tons of get-rich-quick lawyers looking to make some money attached to them.
The source code could have just as easily been modified. A couple of lines in some obscure part of it is all that would be required to do the same thing any RPM install script could do. Quit being so damned paranoid already or just get your RPMs from a trusted source like the author or a major distribution's site where they check them.
Crazy because who the hell would spend the money it would cost to pull this off just to eradicate one city? A well placed biological warhead would have the same effect of wiping out the population while leaving the structures intact for the invading force. With prevailing winds and such and enough of the agent you could wipe out a continent in a matter of days. So much for "mastermind" terrorists. I mean, have a little finesse guys. Filling a god damned truck with fertilizer and blowing up a building is chickenshit. If you really want to become a Bond villain you need to wipe out at least 200 million people at once. ;-)
Welcome to 2001. Actually, I'm suprised it has taken this long for the small local ISPs to slip under. I was imagining back in '97 that the nationals would kill the local ISPs completely within a few years with dial-up service. I could never imagine DSL and cable catching on like it did when it was barely being offered out of a few pops in the affluent tech-heavy areas like San Jose. Oh well. Goodbye Mr. and Mrs. Small ISP. We knew you well. No more calling up and talking to the owner. :-)
Until Earthlink swallows Corecomm and discontinues all the perks. ;-) Then when it all comes down to it several years down the road you'll see two fat behemoths meet on the field of battle. AT&T-Earthlink-@Home vs. AOL-Worldcom. These two fat sumo wrestling conglomerates will rush at each other and merge into.. guess: AT&T!!! Woohoo!! 1983 all over again baby. Man, Congress really had a GREAT idea when they passed that telecommunications act in 1996. I mean hell, having one big monopoly serving all our cable and telecommunications needs makes much more sense than having to worry about choosing from all those different rate plans and offers we had in the late 90's. This way you just call up 1-800-ATT-1984 and order all your services you could ever need. Thanks a bunch.
Really? This must be something limited to the RaQ3's then. On my Cobalt RaQ4r, by default, the CGI's are run under CGIWrap and run get setuid to the person that owns the scripts.. i.e. the site owner usually.
Ask, and you shall receive: CAVE Quake II. Of course, it helps if you have the CAVE to play in. I've gotta see if we can try this at work. ;-)
Uhhh, go to their website and get their contact info. If you've got $70,000 burning a hole in your pocket I'm sure they'd be more than willing to set you up. Also would help if you had an I2 connection. ;-)
$70k isn't that much for such a neat technology. I could easily blow more than that on a single Sun server. It sounds like it sure beats the shit out of Netmeeting. I should if we can get one of these. :-)
Well, in all honesty that would have also meaned removing any EPA restrictions on constructing new power plants as well. People want cheap reliable power but they don't want anyone to build any power plants. Duh. We need to let capitalism flourish again for true deregulation to prove beneficial to the customers. That means we need to learn to look the other way when a company dumps mercury into a stream or smokestacks billow black smoke. It's the cost of doing business. We need to stop whining about it and deal with it. So our kids will have three arms. Think of what our basketball players would be like! Three armed 10 foot giants with 2 pairs of eyes on each side of their skull. They would be unbeatable.
I guess as long as you're using Windows it doesn't matter. Microsoft isn't going out of business anytime soon. Even the entire brunt of the US government's anti-trust actions haven't brought it down. Even giants like AT&T or IBM couldn't claim that kind of untouchability. When Real is gone Windows Media Player will be the defacto and only standard for web broadcasts leaving us free opensource geeks in the dust. All I can say is it was fun while it lasted I suppose.. but hey, that's what dual booting is for right?
OK, you sit over in your corner in a huff and I'll listen to baseball this summer in my office. :-)
Ah well. God giveth, the MLB associations taketh away. Nothing stops a radio station from getting a license from the MLB to rebroadcast the games on the Internet like they do over the air. I would think the MLB would actually PREFER this. At least then they could license it per listener since the radio station knows exactly how many Real streams they're serving up to people.
Well now you're just being silly. You should be listening to Seattle Mariners games. The problem is you're not listening to your appropriate MLB market-approved team. If you live in Florida for instance, you should
Yes they have. They'll replace your ECache if you're having problems with it. Now, their "fix" is to just refresh the cache every so often I believe but we haven't had any problems since they came out. Thanks for your concern though. My e450s are still more reliable than any of the PCs I have.
What would y'all prefer down there where y'all live? As the crow flies?
They are. Well, at least in Ohio our telecommunications companies are governed by our Public Utilities Commission. They are (or were) government subsidized monopolies that have the very lucrative position of having a foothold in your door. They should definitely be regulated and prices should be controlled lest we get into these situations of merger-mania that we've seen since the 1996 telecommunications act where everyone and their brother has been merging. Do you really want to get your phone, cable, Internet, cell phone, etc. service from AT&T-AOL-TimeWarner-Viacom-Worldcom-Sprint? How about we just shorten the company name to AT&T for short and we'll be back to 1984 all over again. How really f***ing ironic that would be now.
Whatever happened to sunsite.unc.edu? I know it became metalab and then ibiblio, but didn't that used to be THE source for distributing your Linux software? Long before freshmeat was around you could search through their directory listings and find neat stuff. To distribute it you had to pay a grand total of $0. Everyone seems to want fancy web sites with whiz-bang bullshit style sheets and mysql backends but when it comes down to it, an ftp site on a fast link is the only way to fly.
Well, I guess it depends on what you think is better. 5 or 6 people downloading 120 MB at one time over a backbone link or 500 or 5000. Now, if I was one of the 5 downloading I'd say it's a great idea!
15k/sec? Holy shit. You ever just consider getting a 56k/s modem for uploads? How the heck do you get 1.5Mb/s down with only 15kb/sec up? The TCP acknowledgements alone would flood your uplink channel.
Yep, especially business jumping on that deal. Someone has to pay for that upstream bandwidth to the peers. I blame all the Napster users leeching crap for really killing DSL. I'd be happy with a 24/7 DSL that was only 64kb/s in all honesty. My big problem is I want something on all the time for my little mail server and shell account. Oh well.