according to the introduction, the text of the book was also donated to project gutenberg. this is extremely cool. i hope it opens the doors for more authors to do the same thing.
there is a conflict, though. the free version i downloaded has quite a few restrictions, and is basically only for personal use; it even forbids using it as teaching material. and the author retains the copyright.
this is a change from the standard texts PG distributes. and their boilerplate says: "...this means that no one owns a United States copyright on or for this work..". interesting.
i still hope that the frequency of this type of donation increases.
"What does "open-source competition" have to do with it? Keep in mind msql is *not* OSS."
ok, granted. sorry, i haven't looked at msql in a long while.
but, don't you think this lends even more weight to my question? who's going to use msql, when there are better, more established open-source (or free software, take your pick) sql backends already?
and my first post wasn't a troll, to whatever moron moderated it as one. --
we've already got mysql, which works great for projects that need a small & fast sql backend. and for projects that need more enterprise-level features, there's postgresql. or oracle, for that matter.
so, why do we need an updated msql? i know, i know, open-source competition and all that. but really. who's going to use this? --
great idea. let's make the teachers do even more work. it's not enough that they have to handle 30 to 40 inattentive, disobedient, ritalin-addled children for six hours a day for less money than they could make working at mcdonalds. let's force them all to buy computers with their tiny income, and do more work when they get home.
because most nerds like to explore the possibilities of what might happen, or what might have happened. it would have been quite interesting, had the nuke been found and detonated by, say, a terrorist organization. not necessarily good, but interesting.
it really has nothing to do with violence. if a/.er (trolls excluded) went and retrieved the nuke, it's not like they would detonate it. it would most likely be disassembled, and pictures of it would go on the web.
most geeks are quite mind-centric, vs. body-centric; just look at cowboyneal. --
"What's to keep somebody from setting up an autodialer with 32 or so modems and tying up every one of their lines?"
other than the need for 32 phone lines, modems, and serial ports to connect them to? nothing, i guess.:)
"Anybody have any experience with how busy their modem bank is?"
i believe they have a fairly large modem pool; i've used their tacoma dialup 4 or 5 times, and it was only busy once. so i just used the other tacoma number, and got on immidiately.
i guess they block port 25 when you connect as "guest" now, because of spammers abusing the service. but i haven't heard about any other abuses of their service. --
"the only REAL way to understand and comprehend services on a production box, you really need to compile the source yourself."
i agree; that's how i learned *nix system administration. but it gets old pretty quick, when you have to download, configure, compile, install and tweak a dozen or so programs just to have a system that does what you need it to.
once you have reached the level where you understand what is going on, you will start looking for a way to remove that drudgery. for me, debian was the way. most packages install and work out of the box, so most system admin tasks involve customizing your setup, e.g. to make apache do a bunch of virtual hosts.
as for your problem with X, what do you expect when you run the unstable distribution? if you want a rock-solid system, use potato.
oh, and X takes several hours to compile. so you wouldn't have saved that much time anyways.
"...if Matthew Pavlovich is ordered dropped from the case solely on the basis that he doesn't reside in California, all the other non-Californians will be dropped as a matter of course."
in a world where logic prevailed, that would be the case. however, in a world where courts in california slap people overseas with injunctions, it seems that is not the case.
just pointing out that it may be likely, but it's not guaranteed. --
"The random valid keyboard and mouse event tests are essentially testing an application as though a monkey were at the keyboard and mouse. Any user could generate this input..." --
if you had bothered to read the comment, you would realize how incredibly fucking wrong you really are.
the whole point of RSIP is that you don't have to (re)configure anything. an app on a system behind the nat firewall does a bind()/accept() and that system notifies the NAT box that connections to those ports should be forwarded to the client that did the bind().
i can set up my cisco 675 to forward inbound connetions. linux has also had this for ages. so has nt for that matter. so don't go trumpeting how "foo os" solves everybody's problems until you at least develop the patience to understand the problem. --
the intel 80186? that thing flopped pretty hard, but i guess they are selling it for embedded systems.
or, what about making the i8088 a 16-bit cpu, with an 8-bit bus? that set computing back years, until the i80286 became (sort of) popular in the later 80s. --
if you want to get stuff from c64 disks (1541 & 1571), take a look her e
you'll also need a copy of star commander or trans64 (can't find a link for trans64, sorry).
it does require that you have a 1541 or 1571 drive, and i don't know about it working on the mac... but it works just great on a pc.
i seem to recall a linux driver for this style of 1541 interface a few years back, but i can't find anything about it now. it would probably work under dosemu or vmware though.
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mee too. here's a mirror of the bzip2'd text version.
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according to the introduction, the text of the book was also donated to project gutenberg. this is extremely cool. i hope it opens the doors for more authors to do the same thing.
there is a conflict, though. the free version i downloaded has quite a few restrictions, and is basically only for personal use; it even forbids using it as teaching material. and the author retains the copyright.
this is a change from the standard texts PG distributes. and their boilerplate says: "...this means that no one owns a United States copyright on or for this work..". interesting.
i still hope that the frequency of this type of donation increases.
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"What does "open-source competition" have to do with it? Keep in mind msql is *not* OSS."
ok, granted. sorry, i haven't looked at msql in a long while.
but, don't you think this lends even more weight to my question? who's going to use msql, when there are better, more established open-source (or free software, take your pick) sql backends already?
and my first post wasn't a troll, to whatever moron moderated it as one.
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phexro!pyramid:~$ SELECT * from pr0n WHERE sex='f' AND species='goat';
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we've already got mysql, which works great for projects that need a small & fast sql backend. and for projects that need more enterprise-level features, there's postgresql. or oracle, for that matter.
so, why do we need an updated msql? i know, i know, open-source competition and all that. but really. who's going to use this?
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great idea. let's make the teachers do even more work. it's not enough that they have to handle 30 to 40 inattentive, disobedient, ritalin-addled children for six hours a day for less money than they could make working at mcdonalds. let's force them all to buy computers with their tiny income, and do more work when they get home.
are you in human resources?
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it's not like this is going to prevent piracy. the cracking groups love a challenge, and will have copies distributed around the world.
funny part is, i'll bet their cracked version is out before msft can get the real thing on the shelves.
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because most nerds like to explore the possibilities of what might happen, or what might have happened. it would have been quite interesting, had the nuke been found and detonated by, say, a terrorist organization. not necessarily good, but interesting.
/.er (trolls excluded) went and retrieved the nuke, it's not like they would detonate it. it would most likely be disassembled, and pictures of it would go on the web.
it really has nothing to do with violence. if a
most geeks are quite mind-centric, vs. body-centric; just look at cowboyneal.
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"What's to keep somebody from setting up an autodialer with 32 or so modems and tying up every one of their lines?"
:)
other than the need for 32 phone lines, modems, and serial ports to connect them to? nothing, i guess.
"Anybody have any experience with how busy their modem bank is?"
i believe they have a fairly large modem pool; i've used their tacoma dialup 4 or 5 times, and it was only busy once. so i just used the other tacoma number, and got on immidiately.
i guess they block port 25 when you connect as "guest" now, because of spammers abusing the service. but i haven't heard about any other abuses of their service.
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if you have to use a dial-up, use NoCharge. you can register for an account for free, or just login as "guest" with a password of "password".
they have dialups for washington, oregon, new york, and puerto rico, and are planning on nationwide access Real Soon Now(tm). here's the list.
they charge for tech support, which is how they hope to make a profit. dunno how long they'll last, but it's decent while it's around.
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"the only REAL way to understand and comprehend services on a production box, you really need to compile the source yourself."
i agree; that's how i learned *nix system administration. but it gets old pretty quick, when you have to download, configure, compile, install and tweak a dozen or so programs just to have a system that does what you need it to.
once you have reached the level where you understand what is going on, you will start looking for a way to remove that drudgery. for me, debian was the way. most packages install and work out of the box, so most system admin tasks involve customizing your setup, e.g. to make apache do a bunch of virtual hosts.
as for your problem with X, what do you expect when you run the unstable distribution? if you want a rock-solid system, use potato.
oh, and X takes several hours to compile. so you wouldn't have saved that much time anyways.
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i guess "rpm" now means "redundant package manager".
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i was in a radioshack the other day. they had computers set up with some sort of broadband net access. and cyber patrol to filter out all the smut.
i try to load the peacefire webpage. it's blocked. no surprise there. so i try to load www.goatse.cx. it's not blocked.
i left it open, so the customers have something to think about, then left.
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"It will be VERY interesting to see if NVidia continues 3dfx's commitment to the OSS arena."
and in other news, NVidia announced today to continue support of the Voodoo line of video cards under linux, with a binary-only kernel module.
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"...if Matthew Pavlovich is ordered dropped from the case solely on the basis that he doesn't reside in California, all the other non-Californians will be dropped as a matter of course."
in a world where logic prevailed, that would be the case. however, in a world where courts in california slap people overseas with injunctions, it seems that is not the case.
just pointing out that it may be likely, but it's not guaranteed.
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did anyone actually read the link?
"The order applies only to [Matthew] Pavlovich..."
Pavlovich's laywer hopes that this will force the lower court to drop the other non-californians, but that has not happened yet.
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i don't think so. maybe it was this one.
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well, shit.
/var/log/kern.log*
root!spindle:~# uname -r
2.2.16
root!spindle:~# uptime
9:16am up 186 days, 7 min, 1 user, load average: 0.09, 0.10, 0.09
root!spindle:~# grep free_page
/var/log/kern.log.0:Dec 5 10:28:40 spindle kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kupdate...
such a pity to waste an uptime like that.
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um, quite a lot of the really good resources on the net are at people's personal homepages.
for example, this site, which provides all sorts of info to USQwest DSL users.
is it really a good idea to silence the voice of the masses like this?
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doesn't a www->gopher interface kinda defeat the purpose of gopher?
oh, like... a stable client, lightweight protocol, etc, etc...
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from the fuzz paper:
"The random valid keyboard and mouse event tests are essentially testing an application as though a monkey were at the keyboard and mouse. Any user could generate this input..."
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if you had bothered to read the comment, you would realize how incredibly fucking wrong you really are.
the whole point of RSIP is that you don't have to (re)configure anything. an app on a system behind the nat firewall does a bind()/accept() and that system notifies the NAT box that connections to those ports should be forwarded to the client that did the bind().
i can set up my cisco 675 to forward inbound connetions. linux has also had this for ages. so has nt for that matter. so don't go trumpeting how "foo os" solves everybody's problems until you at least develop the patience to understand the problem.
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...distribution of BSD
are you saying that it should be "distribution of BS"?
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the intel 80186? that thing flopped pretty hard, but i guess they are selling it for embedded systems.
or, what about making the i8088 a 16-bit cpu, with an 8-bit bus? that set computing back years, until the i80286 became (sort of) popular in the later 80s.
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if you want to get stuff from c64 disks (1541 & 1571), take a look her e
you'll also need a copy of star commander or trans64 (can't find a link for trans64, sorry).
it does require that you have a 1541 or 1571 drive, and i don't know about it working on the mac... but it works just great on a pc.
i seem to recall a linux driver for this style of 1541 interface a few years back, but i can't find anything about it now. it would probably work under dosemu or vmware though.
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