Hmm.. why can't you do that with a conventional VCR? Sorry.. I'm not about to shell out that kind of money for a system that locks you into a proprietary format. Tell me when the encoding format is cracked and I can start backing up programs that I record on it to permanent media like I do with my VHS tapes and I will think about getting one. That and getting rid of that requirement to subscribe to their monthly service. Ugh. Just what I need.. yet another company invading my privacy by tracking what I watch.
Welcome to democracy. Nothing is stopping people from voting for a woman to be on the core team. Perhaps they were more concerned with voting for people based on their programming skills and familiarity with the code base rather than whether they have a vagina or not. If you were an active FreeBSD committer and the FreeBSD committers didn't vote for you, that's an issue you'd have to take up with them. Maybe the problem is a disproportionate number of women are actually contributing CODE to FreeBSD. If you aren't doing that you wouldn't have gotten a vote to cast in the core team election. Simple as that. So, go drum up some chicks and start writing code for FreeBSD, maybe you can overthrow those pesky males.;-)
I disagree.. I know you're trolling though. The trouble lately has been large CLOSED SOURCE commercial projects that have decided to be hip and open their source code. Unfortunately, once it is opened it reveals the huge stinking turd pile you talked about. The *commercial* developers are what made this into a piece of shit. Don't blame open source developers for having trouble dealing with what they've worked on. Projects that start from the ground up as open with CVS and online discussion and review of changes work well.
Amen. For a simple example of what the militia is, just go watch "The Patriot" starring Mel Gibson. THAT is what a militia is. Ordinary citizens. They're not professionals, they may not even be trained, but in time of need they can take up their arms and defend this nation from oppression, whether it be from exterior forces or our own corrupt government.
Now, like you, I don't own a gun either.. I'd really like to in order to do my part to be ready in time of need, but even a decent handgun is still a little too expensive for me. I can't really afford $500 for a gun right now. What we need are less laws and more competition to bring better and cheaper guns into the hands of American citizens. I want every man and woman in the United States to have be able to carry a firearm at all times to defend themselves as well. See how far a rapist gets with a couple gunshot wounds in his chest.
Well for crying out loud! If you're going to throw complex mathematical programs at the compiler then of course you'll notice some bugs here and there. What do you expect, that it'd be perfect? Counting to 10 is very complex process. Ask any 3 year old.;-)
Seriously though.. I'm glad I'm not running RH 7.. sheesh. I have enough problems debugging my lame C programs to not have to deal with a broken compiler working against me!
Well, breaking up one of the most valuable and profitable companies in the United States shouldn't be something that's done on a whim. If it were decided on Slashdot it would be a poll resembling:
"After reviewing all the evidence, do you think Microsoft should be broken up?"
a) Yes
b) No
c) CowboyNeal.
d) GRITS!!!! GRITSSSS!!!!! PETRIFIED AND STUFFED DOWN MY PANTS BY NATALIE PORTMAN!
And we should get election day off of work.. no excuses! Course, I'd be too lazy to get out of bed then to go and vote if I didn't have to get up for work. Scratch that.;-)
Mickey Mouse got 320 million votes in the last Florida Internet election for Governor. Unfortunately someone accused them of ballot stuffing so it went to the second runner-up.. Jeb Bush. The case was being appealed last time I checked.
Well this is a sticky issue. It's probably best to buy a full new copy of Windows everytime you make any changes to the hardware of your original OEM'd system or else you may be in violation of copyright law as determined by Microsoft. I would say you're probably ok if you just add a mouse or keyboard but when you start replacing major components like the modem or sound card, you're in very murky water.;-)
If it really becomes an issue, all you need to do is filter their IP address ranges and you're done. If enough merchants (and even backbones) did this I think ATT would quickly reverse their direction after they get millions of angry calls from their customers that they can't access anything. Granted, this is all a big *if* they do this. I doubt they will. It'd be suicide.
Should they tuck you into bed at night and tell you everythings going to be ok too?
That would be a good incentive to go work for one of those tech startups. If someone came out to my house and tucked me in at night after giving me milk and cookies I'd work harder and be more productive for their company. There are probably plenty of non-skilled people available that could be used to fill this care-giving role for the tech startups. Hell.. I'd be more inclined to work for a company that offered the milk'n'cookies+bedtime story+tucking you in benefit than I would for someone giving me a bunch of worthless stock options I will never be able to profit from. Look at the VA Linux employees. They're probably all sitting there with worthless stock options at a price 3 times the current market value.;-)
Hell, if it's not your employer, it's the FBI with Carnivore. Unencrypted traffic is like writing it on a postcard. If you don't care if everyone reads it then there is no problem.. but you should have no expectations of privacy.. period.
And also the number of them that will no longer work. You'd be suprised how many companies block SSL. Whether it be out of incompetance by using a product like Microsoft Proxy Server or out of design.
I don't think any employer would really have a problem with using their equipment and resources from time to time. The problem arises from employee abuse. Spending 5 hours a day reading and posting to/. when you're behind schedule on shipping a new product is one example of abusing your company's resources. Finish the job and if you have time during your lunch period or a break then browse the web if your company's policies permit it. If not, then browse from home. It's no different than it was 15 years ago really.. it's just a new communications tool. 15 years ago the abusers spent their day chatting on the phone.. now they're just chatting on ICQ.
Sure, if you believe his explanation, he did it as an experiment. He posted comments that he knew were specifically targeted at the "group" mindset around here and that would be moderated up. He did a masterful job of it too. If he hadn't been doing it as an experiment on why the moderation system is broken then no one would have complained now would they? He would have been touted as the ideal slashdot reader and held in very high esteem for his intellect and knowledge of the topic at hand.
Isn't this what people do in high school? Whether you believe in what the people there do or say or not, you generally have to spout the popular line or you get blacklisted by the social elite of the community. When you say what the group wants you to hear you become popular and well-liked. When you dare to be different and post messages that the group don't like, you are derided and moderated down. Slashdot is exactly like high school, only instead of the jocks and cheerleaders being the popular sheep, you have blind linux advocates, anti-Microsoft people, and generally young liberal minded people.
Essentially Slashdot is what comp.os.linux.advocacy was becoming when it began to go downhill 4-5 years ago. Once the newbies and the flamers started coming in and doing nothing but bash Microsoft, you either had to tow the party line or get flamed yourself for daring to be different in your opinions.
So, go ahead.. moderate me down for "flamebait" or "troll". I couldn't care less. I like Slashdot and I like the articles, but the constant bantering and bitching and the poor moderation have soured my view of it.
The poor already do have legal representation. It's called the public defender's office. Now, if you mean the poor should get the absolute best and brightest lawyers who win cases by the truckload, then that's never going to happen. The rich will always control the lawyers and the lobbyists, the lawyers control the courts and the lobbyists control the Congress. So, yes, the rich do control this country. It's been like that for 224+ years now and it is the cornerstone of our nation unfortunately.
They let you do that?? I don't make long distance calls at ALL and Ameritech insisted that if I didn't choose a long distance provider that they would still need to charge me the $5/month (or whatever it was) access charge. I relented and ended up just keeping AT&T who were also charging me $5/month. Pisses me off because it is an ISDN line that I only use to call a local number! I have an analog line that I can use to make long distance calls... or better yet, use my cell phone since the long distance is free. Looks like I need to give them a call again.
That won't work. You want to tell them to put you on their "do not call" list. They next time they get a list you'll be on it otherwise and since you didn't asked to be removed from that new list yet.. they can call you. *sigh*
Well, in their defense, Microsoft is the largest and most successful software company in the world. If they can't get excellent support and the best web server money can buy from the largest software company in the world, who can they get it from? Sure, we all know IIS is crap but try convincing some PHB that their billion dollar trading network should use an open source webserver like Apache instead of Microsoft. You can't do it. They refuse to believe you. They say "Microsoft didn't get where it is today by selling bad products!" They're like mentally handicapped children who are unable to learn that touching that hot stove is going to burn their hand again and again and again.
Perhaps because the US isn't the only one funding the ISS? Reagan wanted to launch Freedom on our own, but with shrinking budgets, it wasn't practical. The ISS is the much smaller politically correct space station.
Unfortunately, as with many things designed and built by committee, it's over-cost, behind schedule, and the parts in orbit are already failing.
You can find a list of the ISS participants
here.
Hmm.. I give that a 2 out of 10 on the flamebait scale. See, you came right out with the "Windows2000 is better than your OS" flame that has no basis in reality. That's a big minus right there. Also, the gratuitous use of assumed facts ("not better than any of the commercial alternatives by any metric") is also poorly scored. Next time try using some made up figures and facts that give your flamebait more credence. For example, say "Windows2000 achieved the DISA ic9.ca security rating during a recent audit making it the most secure commercial operating system on the market today. OpenBSD and likewise Linux or *BSD has yet to receive the coveted DISA ic9.ca security rating and is therefore not up to par with commercial best practices and alternatives. Thanks for playing but try again next time.
Well, the trouble is there isn't any real "standard" Gnutella client. There's the reference model one that sucks bigtime and then there are a new clients based on that popping up daily. Gnotella for instance is one that seems a lot better than the original Gnutella but it still suffers from the performance bottlenecks of the network itself. I was playing with Napster awhile ago before it really got popular, then when to Gnutella when all this bad press started because I liked the concept of an open peer-to-peer network without a centralized point of failure. Unfortunately as you found out, so did I.. the point of failure is the entire network itself. It's not scalable and it never will be. It needs to be scrapped for a new generation version that uses a completely different protocol. Half the traffic on the network is just the Gnutella pings! Talk about inefficient. I even went back to Napster. Picked up a copy of Napigator and let me tell you.. Napster servers have a LOT better hit ratio for searches than Gnutella does. Gnutella is going to collapse in on itself and there's not a damn thing anyone can do about it unless they change the protocol.
I bought the Perl series on CD from O'Reilly specifically BECAUSE they printed it in electronic format. Instead of lugging 3 books around I can stick them on my private password-protected webserver and reference them whenever and whereever I wish since they are in html. It's come in handy more than a few times.
Let's hope Sun has fixed the recent memory cache (or should I say crash) probl ems affecting their recent Ultrasparc-II processors in this new generation. Thankfully they replaced the faulty CPU modules if confronted with it.
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Has compaq got their own journaling fs and a NIX system that works on alphaPC platforms?
I don't know about that specific platform you have but Tru64 UNIX (formerly Digital UNIX I believe) is available and has a journaling filesystem. I'm not sure it'd be affordable for home use though.
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Hmm.. why can't you do that with a conventional VCR? Sorry.. I'm not about to shell out that kind of money for a system that locks you into a proprietary format. Tell me when the encoding format is cracked and I can start backing up programs that I record on it to permanent media like I do with my VHS tapes and I will think about getting one. That and getting rid of that requirement to subscribe to their monthly service. Ugh. Just what I need.. yet another company invading my privacy by tracking what I watch.
Welcome to democracy. Nothing is stopping people from voting for a woman to be on the core team. Perhaps they were more concerned with voting for people based on their programming skills and familiarity with the code base rather than whether they have a vagina or not. If you were an active FreeBSD committer and the FreeBSD committers didn't vote for you, that's an issue you'd have to take up with them. Maybe the problem is a disproportionate number of women are actually contributing CODE to FreeBSD. If you aren't doing that you wouldn't have gotten a vote to cast in the core team election. Simple as that. So, go drum up some chicks and start writing code for FreeBSD, maybe you can overthrow those pesky males. ;-)
I disagree.. I know you're trolling though. The trouble lately has been large CLOSED SOURCE commercial projects that have decided to be hip and open their source code. Unfortunately, once it is opened it reveals the huge stinking turd pile you talked about. The *commercial* developers are what made this into a piece of shit. Don't blame open source developers for having trouble dealing with what they've worked on. Projects that start from the ground up as open with CVS and online discussion and review of changes work well.
Amen. For a simple example of what the militia is, just go watch "The Patriot" starring Mel Gibson. THAT is what a militia is. Ordinary citizens. They're not professionals, they may not even be trained, but in time of need they can take up their arms and defend this nation from oppression, whether it be from exterior forces or our own corrupt government.
Now, like you, I don't own a gun either.. I'd really like to in order to do my part to be ready in time of need, but even a decent handgun is still a little too expensive for me. I can't really afford $500 for a gun right now. What we need are less laws and more competition to bring better and cheaper guns into the hands of American citizens. I want every man and woman in the United States to have be able to carry a firearm at all times to defend themselves as well. See how far a rapist gets with a couple gunshot wounds in his chest.
Well for crying out loud! If you're going to throw complex mathematical programs at the compiler then of course you'll notice some bugs here and there. What do you expect, that it'd be perfect? Counting to 10 is very complex process. Ask any 3 year old. ;-)
Seriously though.. I'm glad I'm not running RH 7.. sheesh. I have enough problems debugging my lame C programs to not have to deal with a broken compiler working against me!
Well, breaking up one of the most valuable and profitable companies in the United States shouldn't be something that's done on a whim. If it were decided on Slashdot it would be a poll resembling:
"After reviewing all the evidence, do you think Microsoft should be broken up?"
a) Yes
b) No
c) CowboyNeal.
d) GRITS!!!! GRITSSSS!!!!! PETRIFIED AND STUFFED DOWN MY PANTS BY NATALIE PORTMAN!
And we should get election day off of work.. no excuses! Course, I'd be too lazy to get out of bed then to go and vote if I didn't have to get up for work. Scratch that. ;-)
Mickey Mouse got 320 million votes in the last Florida Internet election for Governor. Unfortunately someone accused them of ballot stuffing so it went to the second runner-up.. Jeb Bush. The case was being appealed last time I checked.
Well this is a sticky issue. It's probably best to buy a full new copy of Windows everytime you make any changes to the hardware of your original OEM'd system or else you may be in violation of copyright law as determined by Microsoft. I would say you're probably ok if you just add a mouse or keyboard but when you start replacing major components like the modem or sound card, you're in very murky water. ;-)
If it really becomes an issue, all you need to do is filter their IP address ranges and you're done. If enough merchants (and even backbones) did this I think ATT would quickly reverse their direction after they get millions of angry calls from their customers that they can't access anything. Granted, this is all a big *if* they do this. I doubt they will. It'd be suicide.
Should they tuck you into bed at night and tell you everythings going to be ok too?
;-)
That would be a good incentive to go work for one of those tech startups. If someone came out to my house and tucked me in at night after giving me milk and cookies I'd work harder and be more productive for their company. There are probably plenty of non-skilled people available that could be used to fill this care-giving role for the tech startups. Hell.. I'd be more inclined to work for a company that offered the milk'n'cookies+bedtime story+tucking you in benefit than I would for someone giving me a bunch of worthless stock options I will never be able to profit from. Look at the VA Linux employees. They're probably all sitting there with worthless stock options at a price 3 times the current market value.
Hell, if it's not your employer, it's the FBI with Carnivore. Unencrypted traffic is like writing it on a postcard. If you don't care if everyone reads it then there is no problem.. but you should have no expectations of privacy.. period.
And also the number of them that will no longer work. You'd be suprised how many companies block SSL. Whether it be out of incompetance by using a product like Microsoft Proxy Server or out of design.
I don't think any employer would really have a problem with using their equipment and resources from time to time. The problem arises from employee abuse. Spending 5 hours a day reading and posting to /. when you're behind schedule on shipping a new product is one example of abusing your company's resources. Finish the job and if you have time during your lunch period or a break then browse the web if your company's policies permit it. If not, then browse from home. It's no different than it was 15 years ago really.. it's just a new communications tool. 15 years ago the abusers spent their day chatting on the phone.. now they're just chatting on ICQ.
Isn't this what people do in high school? Whether you believe in what the people there do or say or not, you generally have to spout the popular line or you get blacklisted by the social elite of the community. When you say what the group wants you to hear you become popular and well-liked. When you dare to be different and post messages that the group don't like, you are derided and moderated down. Slashdot is exactly like high school, only instead of the jocks and cheerleaders being the popular sheep, you have blind linux advocates, anti-Microsoft people, and generally young liberal minded people.
Essentially Slashdot is what comp.os.linux.advocacy was becoming when it began to go downhill 4-5 years ago. Once the newbies and the flamers started coming in and doing nothing but bash Microsoft, you either had to tow the party line or get flamed yourself for daring to be different in your opinions.
So, go ahead.. moderate me down for "flamebait" or "troll". I couldn't care less. I like Slashdot and I like the articles, but the constant bantering and bitching and the poor moderation have soured my view of it.
The poor already do have legal representation. It's called the public defender's office. Now, if you mean the poor should get the absolute best and brightest lawyers who win cases by the truckload, then that's never going to happen. The rich will always control the lawyers and the lobbyists, the lawyers control the courts and the lobbyists control the Congress. So, yes, the rich do control this country. It's been like that for 224+ years now and it is the cornerstone of our nation unfortunately.
They let you do that?? I don't make long distance calls at ALL and Ameritech insisted that if I didn't choose a long distance provider that they would still need to charge me the $5/month (or whatever it was) access charge. I relented and ended up just keeping AT&T who were also charging me $5/month. Pisses me off because it is an ISDN line that I only use to call a local number! I have an analog line that I can use to make long distance calls... or better yet, use my cell phone since the long distance is free. Looks like I need to give them a call again.
That won't work. You want to tell them to put you on their "do not call" list. They next time they get a list you'll be on it otherwise and since you didn't asked to be removed from that new list yet.. they can call you. *sigh*
Well, in their defense, Microsoft is the largest and most successful software company in the world. If they can't get excellent support and the best web server money can buy from the largest software company in the world, who can they get it from? Sure, we all know IIS is crap but try convincing some PHB that their billion dollar trading network should use an open source webserver like Apache instead of Microsoft. You can't do it. They refuse to believe you. They say "Microsoft didn't get where it is today by selling bad products!" They're like mentally handicapped children who are unable to learn that touching that hot stove is going to burn their hand again and again and again.
Perhaps because the US isn't the only one funding the ISS? Reagan wanted to launch Freedom on our own, but with shrinking budgets, it wasn't practical. The ISS is the much smaller politically correct space station.
Unfortunately, as with many things designed and built by committee, it's over-cost, behind schedule, and the parts in orbit are already failing. You can find a list of the ISS participants here.
Hmm.. I give that a 2 out of 10 on the flamebait scale. See, you came right out with the "Windows2000 is better than your OS" flame that has no basis in reality. That's a big minus right there. Also, the gratuitous use of assumed facts ("not better than any of the commercial alternatives by any metric") is also poorly scored. Next time try using some made up figures and facts that give your flamebait more credence. For example, say "Windows2000 achieved the DISA ic9.ca security rating during a recent audit making it the most secure commercial operating system on the market today. OpenBSD and likewise Linux or *BSD has yet to receive the coveted DISA ic9.ca security rating and is therefore not up to par with commercial best practices and alternatives. Thanks for playing but try again next time.
Well, the trouble is there isn't any real "standard" Gnutella client. There's the reference model one that sucks bigtime and then there are a new clients based on that popping up daily. Gnotella for instance is one that seems a lot better than the original Gnutella but it still suffers from the performance bottlenecks of the network itself. I was playing with Napster awhile ago before it really got popular, then when to Gnutella when all this bad press started because I liked the concept of an open peer-to-peer network without a centralized point of failure. Unfortunately as you found out, so did I.. the point of failure is the entire network itself. It's not scalable and it never will be. It needs to be scrapped for a new generation version that uses a completely different protocol. Half the traffic on the network is just the Gnutella pings! Talk about inefficient. I even went back to Napster. Picked up a copy of Napigator and let me tell you.. Napster servers have a LOT better hit ratio for searches than Gnutella does. Gnutella is going to collapse in on itself and there's not a damn thing anyone can do about it unless they change the protocol.
I bought the Perl series on CD from O'Reilly specifically BECAUSE they printed it in electronic format. Instead of lugging 3 books around I can stick them on my private password-protected webserver and reference them whenever and whereever I wish since they are in html. It's come in handy more than a few times.
Let's hope Sun has fixed the recent memory cache (or should I say crash) probl ems affecting their recent Ultrasparc-II processors in this new generation. Thankfully they replaced the faulty CPU modules if confronted with it.
Has compaq got their own journaling fs and a NIX system that works on alphaPC platforms?
I don't know about that specific platform you have but Tru64 UNIX (formerly Digital UNIX I believe) is available and has a journaling filesystem. I'm not sure it'd be affordable for home use though.