Gee, kinda like if you've got MSN and your friend has AOL, then how can you send email to each other? I'm so glad that the government created and enforced such universal standards as SMTP, so we can all get along! If it weren't for government regulation, we'd never be able to communicate with each other, would we?
</sarcasm>
Corporations are artificial "persons" created by the government in order that businesses might enjoy rights formerly exercised only by natural persons. These rights are guaranteed to them by the fourteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Which, contrary to popular belief, did not free the slaves.
Ask Browne, and I bet he'll tell you the libertarian position on ending government protection for corporations, too.
Doesn't need to go on every Mom-n-Pop. Just needs to go on the major backbones, preferably at the peering points. Two boxes (one at Mae East and one at Mae West) would capture well over 50% of the U.S. internet traffic. As long as their packet sniffer can handle the load, I'd guess they only need to deploy ten or twenty boxes to capture the vast majority of traffic with origin or destination IP's in the U.S.
'Course, since it's running on NT Workstation, I wonder how well it can handle the load? Hmm... wonder if there's a way to remotely crash their box?
(Knock, knock!) No, I wasn't planning to threaten National Security. It was completely hypothetical. Hey, where are you taking me? I want my lawyer! (Mmmmphh! mmmfff!...)
Any bill set before congress must, as a prerequisite to becoming a law, be read orally, in its entirety, before the legislative body. Any congresscritter not present throughout the entirety of the reading shall be disqualified from voting upon the bill. If the number of fully qualified congresscritters shall fall below 2/3 of the entirety, no vote shall be taken, and the bill shall not become law.
Personally, I'd shop for a model with a higher rf output. Presumably, it'll send a stronger signal. The biggest gripe I have with my cellphone is that it cuts out when I go into large department stores, so I can't wander around while I'm asking the s.o. what to buy.
Oh, and yes, I use the hands-free kit, so in the unlikely event that rfi turns out to be harmful to brain cells, the only ones I have to worry about are the ones in my hips.;->
It operates on a different frequency, that's why. Plays havoc with our office phone system, too. Makes a persistent, loud, clicking noise in any nearby handset while it's transmitting.
LUPINELLA.TROLL.NO 213.203.59.59 MOTORKATT.TROLL.NO 213.203.58.58 bobv@server:~$ nslookup opera.com 213.203.59.59 *** Can't find server name for address 213.203.59.59: No response from server *** Default servers are not available bobv@server:~$ nslookup opera.com 213.203.58.58 *** Can't find server name for address 213.203.58.58: No response from server *** Default servers are not available
I run kde2 -- it's (still) a bloated memory hog. I had to upgrade one machine from 160megs to 192megs just to handle it, and it's still using (some) swap if I do something intensive like browse Slashdot.
Konqueror is cool, but it still has problems with Java and with (some) javascript. And it segfaults about as often (for me) as Netscape 4.75. And the latest Debian Unstable packages depend on the non-ssl libraries (sigh -- don't look forward to rebuilding the whole thing; it's a week-long job), so I can't load secure-server pages, like my checking account page.
Interesting that Opera claims to use qt2.2 but it won't work with the same qt2.2 that kde2 (latest debian unstable) uses. So I loaded the static version.
So far I love it when it doesn't segfault, but that's been are. It took about fifteen tries to get my fonts set properly. I can turn off the "window" and "bookmarks" bar, but the change doesn't stick between loads, even when I do [F]ile, [Q]uit instead of waiting for it to segfault again.
If it ever goes stable, I'll buy it. I already bought two (!) copies for Windows. I love Open Source, but don't mind supporting commercial software if it's truly superior.
Posting this with Opera. Looks like it does https, too; I just logged into my bank and viewed my checking account. That alone makes it more useful than Mozilla, though so far Mozilla (Milestone 17, Debian patchlevel 3) is more stable.
Just checked memory usage. I've got this page loaded, plus my bank's page, and it's using just under 14megs resident, with 5 megs shared. Netscape 4.75 uses double that, and Mozilla uses three times as much. Konqueror has it beat only if you don't count the multitude of shared libraries it depends on. Still, I'd like to think that it's possible to reduce the memory footprint a little more. I remember running Opera 3.x on Windows and it used less than 5 megs resident.
In 1991 when I had to apply for my own clearance (to work in the red-badge section of Norfolk Naval Shipyard), I was surprised to learn that a recent Supreme Court decision made it illegal for the reviewer to ask about my political opinions or party membership. In fact, the decision made it expressly illegal to forbid a security clearance on the basis of membership in the Communist party.
So much for orthodoxy.
OTOH, would the case have gone the same way if the party in question was the Libertarian party?
To change my DNS server, I have to press 3 buttons. One to get to TCP/IP properties,
Please, O Win2k guru, please explain to me how to get to TCP/IP properties in one button. It took me fifteen minutes the first time I tried.
And though I was pleasantly surprised to find I didn't have to reboot to change IP address, I still rebooted once for each of a large number of changes to the default options under "services", and had to reboot *three* times to remove the default install of "Active Directory Services". Which then screwed up any number of other things but reduced my bootup time from somtething over ten minutes to 1:30.
Really, I'm not trying to troll; it's just that I recently got stuck with a Win2k server to admin (if you want to call it that) and I honestly didn't know there was a way to get to TCP/IP properties in a single click. Maybe you could publish a "Win2k shortcuts for Clueless Newbies" reference card?
MBone wasn't designed for this (as so many people have pointed out), but Squidwas. Ideally, the primary source should be a front-ended by a squid cache that only peers with the secondary mirrors. The secondary mirrors wouldn't even have to synchronize; client requests would automatically force a sync with the primary. And becoming a (tertiary) mirror would be as simple as adding the secondaries to your peering list in/etc/squid.conf.
However, in regards to transparent proxying in the US, I can speak from experience. It doesn't pay off. I used to sysadmin for a smallish ISP (2,000 customers, 400 lines) and we experimented with transparent proxying. With 16 gigs of cache, the proxy was serving about 30% of the requests out of cache. However, after some VIP customers noticed that their real-time stock quotes weren't real-time anymore, I had to turn it off.
Read my post again. I already said that most of the value of the site lies in its content, not in its name. Still, he's somewhat at risk, based on my limited understanding of the WIPO rules.
I know. Unlike most Slashdot posters, I actually browsed the link before posting. Just substitute the same way you would for any other thinly veiled reference to "bad words".
If anybody has a company with "F*cked" somewhere in the name, and if the company predates the website, then the guy might be taking a chance putting his domain name up for auction.
Read the WIPO decisions -- all it would take is for said company to offer a "reasonable" price for the domain name, and be refused. Putting the domain name up for auction allows WIPO to assume that the domain owner doesn't have a vested interest in it, other than the money from the sale.
But then, there wouldn't be much incentive, because the content would remain his, and most of the site's value seems to be tied up in its content, not in its name.
Just checked, btw. the current high bidder appears to work for NBC. Interesting...
Slashdot Mirror
Gee, kinda like if you've got MSN and your friend has AOL, then how can you send email to each other? I'm so glad that the government created and enforced such universal standards as SMTP, so we can all get along! If it weren't for government regulation, we'd never be able to communicate with each other, would we?
</sarcasm>
Corporations are artificial "persons" created by the government in order that businesses might enjoy rights formerly exercised only by natural persons. These rights are guaranteed to them by the fourteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Which, contrary to popular belief, did not free the slaves.
Ask Browne, and I bet he'll tell you the libertarian position on ending government protection for corporations, too.
Doesn't need to go on every Mom-n-Pop. Just needs to go on the major backbones, preferably at the peering points. Two boxes (one at Mae East and one at Mae West) would capture well over 50% of the U.S. internet traffic. As long as their packet sniffer can handle the load, I'd guess they only need to deploy ten or twenty boxes to capture the vast majority of traffic with origin or destination IP's in the U.S.
'Course, since it's running on NT Workstation, I wonder how well it can handle the load? Hmm... wonder if there's a way to remotely crash their box?
Ack. Thpttt.
Sounds like my proposed constitutional amendment:
The beauty of theories is that in practice they don't need to be correct, or even useful. They just have to attract research grants.
(Yeah, this is flamebait. Moderate accordingly.)
Somebody moderate the parent post +1 (Funny)!!!!
Personally, I'd shop for a model with a higher rf output. Presumably, it'll send a stronger signal. The biggest gripe I have with my cellphone is that it cuts out when I go into large department stores, so I can't wander around while I'm asking the s.o. what to buy.
Oh, and yes, I use the hands-free kit, so in the unlikely event that rfi turns out to be harmful to brain cells, the only ones I have to worry about are the ones in my hips. ;->
It operates on a different frequency, that's why. Plays havoc with our office phone system, too. Makes a persistent, loud, clicking noise in any nearby handset while it's transmitting.
Just checked my submission time against my watch. Slashdot is either running Central time or they don't observer Daylight Savings.
Two minutes for the slashdot effect to take down a Sun corporate webserver. That's gotta be some kind of record.
If Slashdot is running on Central time, that's two minutes latency for the slashdot effect.
I wish Slashdot posted their logs somewhere. I'd like to see how many hits the main page took during the same time period.
From here, the hostname doesn't even resolve.
DUDE! Their nameservers are slashdotted!I run kde2 -- it's (still) a bloated memory hog. I had to upgrade one machine from 160megs to 192megs just to handle it, and it's still using (some) swap if I do something intensive like browse Slashdot.
Konqueror is cool, but it still has problems with Java and with (some) javascript. And it segfaults about as often (for me) as Netscape 4.75. And the latest Debian Unstable packages depend on the non-ssl libraries (sigh -- don't look forward to rebuilding the whole thing; it's a week-long job), so I can't load secure-server pages, like my checking account page.
Interesting that Opera claims to use qt2.2 but it won't work with the same qt2.2 that kde2 (latest debian unstable) uses. So I loaded the static version.
So far I love it when it doesn't segfault, but that's been are. It took about fifteen tries to get my fonts set properly. I can turn off the "window" and "bookmarks" bar, but the change doesn't stick between loads, even when I do [F]ile, [Q]uit instead of waiting for it to segfault again.
If it ever goes stable, I'll buy it. I already bought two (!) copies for Windows. I love Open Source, but don't mind supporting commercial software if it's truly superior.
Posting this with Opera. Looks like it does https, too; I just logged into my bank and viewed my checking account. That alone makes it more useful than Mozilla, though so far Mozilla (Milestone 17, Debian patchlevel 3) is more stable.
Just checked memory usage. I've got this page loaded, plus my bank's page, and it's using just under 14megs resident, with 5 megs shared. Netscape 4.75 uses double that, and Mozilla uses three times as much. Konqueror has it beat only if you don't count the multitude of shared libraries it depends on. Still, I'd like to think that it's possible to reduce the memory footprint a little more. I remember running Opera 3.x on Windows and it used less than 5 megs resident.
You are exactly correct. Was gonna post the correction but you beat me to it. Thanks.
Of course, Google had it right as usual.
The real download link is at http://www.operasoft.com/download/linux / .
Installing the Debian package now...
I don't see how things would be much different with e-signatures.
Hey, how do I get licensed as an e-Notary-Public?
So much for orthodoxy.
OTOH, would the case have gone the same way if the party in question was the Libertarian party?
Please, O Win2k guru, please explain to me how to get to TCP/IP properties in one button. It took me fifteen minutes the first time I tried.
And though I was pleasantly surprised to find I didn't have to reboot to change IP address, I still rebooted once for each of a large number of changes to the default options under "services", and had to reboot *three* times to remove the default install of "Active Directory Services". Which then screwed up any number of other things but reduced my bootup time from somtething over ten minutes to 1:30.
Really, I'm not trying to troll; it's just that I recently got stuck with a Win2k server to admin (if you want to call it that) and I honestly didn't know there was a way to get to TCP/IP properties in a single click. Maybe you could publish a "Win2k shortcuts for Clueless Newbies" reference card?
MBone wasn't designed for this (as so many people have pointed out), but Squid was. Ideally, the primary source should be a front-ended by a squid cache that only peers with the secondary mirrors. The secondary mirrors wouldn't even have to synchronize; client requests would automatically force a sync with the primary. And becoming a (tertiary) mirror would be as simple as adding the secondaries to your peering list in /etc/squid.conf.
However, in regards to transparent proxying in the US, I can speak from experience. It doesn't pay off. I used to sysadmin for a smallish ISP (2,000 customers, 400 lines) and we experimented with transparent proxying. With 16 gigs of cache, the proxy was serving about 30% of the requests out of cache. However, after some VIP customers noticed that their real-time stock quotes weren't real-time anymore, I had to turn it off.
So our choices for 2d/3d accel under linux are:
- nVidia GeForce
- Matrox g400/450
- 3dLabs Voodoo
Are there any others? Is the Voodoo even in the running?(asking because I'm thinking of upgrading and was hoping for more options to choose from...)
Read my post again. I already said that most of the value of the site lies in its content, not in its name. Still, he's somewhat at risk, based on my limited understanding of the WIPO rules.
I know. Unlike most Slashdot posters, I actually browsed the link before posting. Just substitute the same way you would for any other thinly veiled reference to "bad words".
Anybody know if this works when your local DNS server is running djbdns (a.k.a. dnscache)?
If so, wonder how long it is before DJB re-codes his server so that it won't. That guy is a paranoid fanatic when it comes to security.
Can you recommend a particular firewall-piercing FAQ? Like, say, a URL, for instance?
Read the WIPO decisions -- all it would take is for said company to offer a "reasonable" price for the domain name, and be refused. Putting the domain name up for auction allows WIPO to assume that the domain owner doesn't have a vested interest in it, other than the money from the sale.
But then, there wouldn't be much incentive, because the content would remain his, and most of the site's value seems to be tied up in its content, not in its name.
Just checked, btw. the current high bidder appears to work for NBC. Interesting...