But that may have been minor compared to the past.
Let's say hypothetically that a Norwegian set up an anonymous email redirrecting service, which was used by not only by computer science students wanting some fun, but serious groups like the Samaritans.
Now say some one in the US were to hypothetically publish the teachings of some hypothetical cult, let us call them the scientologists. The only ID for the publisher is his anonymnous anme and any hypothetical details of him were stored in a country we'll call Norway.
Now lets say the cult were a bit unhappy about this and used their contacts in their own government to apply international pressure on the country hostign the server (known in this tale as Norway) to fidn out who the poster was.
In theory the country in which the cult lives (we shall call this country USA) has no jurisdiction over the country in which the service and it's owner sits.
Now let's take the hypothetical path that the country of the cult may have a bit of a reputation for being a big bully, and may be the sort of country which would apply international rpessure on the otehr country to force the owner of the server to reveal the poster's real details.
Hypothetically the server owner would be left with two options.
1. Give in, depsite no breaking any laws
2. Close down his service and blank all media before it can be taken off him.
If this were to ever happen we would probably have to say RIP anon.funet.fi
Re:Why Jon isn't a geek and this movie was good
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Enemy At The Gates
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There has been a reasonable amount of interest in this movie in the UK as it was directed by a european director.
Much has been made over here of Hollywood's insistence in rewriting history in order to satisfy the US masses (the US capturing the 1st enigma machine in U571, the British being largerly ignored in Saving Private Ryan,...) so much was hoped for.
Basically the historians have torn the movie apart. The movie is based on the book by Zaitsev. It is recognised as being very much 1950s Stalinistic propaganda. The German major was invented by the Russians at that time, as was the love story aspect. Also Zaitsev's contribution was not a critical fact in the result at Satlingrad.
As others have said, much could be made of this movie, however the director chose to ignore one of the biggest bloodbaths in history for a weak love story which glosses over the horrors of the event.
Good I'm not the only AIX fan on Slashdot.
As I wrote in a reply above, AIX 5L (the next version of AIX) will have linux libraries in it as well as the AIX ones allowing for easier (make that Far easier) porting of freeware and shareware.
I do not believe that IBM plan to port PSSP to linux, which means the nodes in an SP frame (plus the control workstation and any attatched S series RS/6000s) will have to use AIX, and as the SP frame and S80/S85 are the IBM flagship products I can sse AIX being around for a fair bit longer.
Yes.
I've used the same install media for a couple of winterhawk nodes (POWER2), a couple of 44P270s (POWER3) and an elderly C20 (Control workstation PPC), with no problems at all.
It's called AIX 5l, and is the next (and now late) release of AIX.
The core feel is still AIX (I'm sorry I know this will cause argumetns, but AIX has about the best LVM I've used, plus it's ls.. commands I miss on other unices) but with linux libraries in addition to the AIX ones, allowing for the easier porting of freeware and shareware.
In the UK Solaris is the major UNIX, with HP-UX some where out there.
However AIX does have quite a large presence here, especially in the banking, retail and telecoms sectors. I think Germany also has a high penetration for AIX (some one else will need to confirm that, but I know of at least 1 major German bank that are RS/6000 reliant)
In the US it may be, but in the UK it can be included in contracts.
When I changed jobs I negotiated the amount I was due to pay back as I was leaving too soon after having done a series of training courses (it was under 2 years after the last one). I was expected to pay £4000 (about $6K) back - so this was not insignificant. Due to it being at the end of the period and me agreeing to stay on a bit longer to help train a replacement I managed to get the figure down. This has, however, stopped two of my ex-colleagues going as they can not afford to be burdened by a big pay abck to the company.
This is not that unusual in teh UK and perfectly legal if a person signs for it (and training can be withheld if you do not sign).
Cyberpunk wuold have been an ever better choice as
1. It was the first game in this (the Gibson story style world) game.
2. It is still superior to Shadowrun, despite the 3rd edition still being due out after 3 years.
It's out already.
In Europe it was launched at Euro Gen Con in Manchester, England last Saturday. I assume it was launched in the States 2 weeks earlier at the main Gen Con.
At the Euro event we even had Gary Gygax down autographing copies (some of which, including mine were given to winners of the various RPGA events).
Re:Mage : the ascension == a must-read
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Mage The Ascension
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You might think it's one of the best games ever, but I for one totally disagree.
This is a game, which tilke then others in the story teller series is aimed squarly at Goths and power gamers. I truly hate the genre and the system used by this game in particular.
Oh and before you ask I'm not a D&D fan, or a dungeon hacker. I've been playing RPGs for almost 19 years now, and have tried most games. Most the people in my group like this sort of game so I have been stuck playing Mage, Vampire and Werewolf for quite a while now.
For a decent game you need one which at least has a certain level of realism, though this can lead to characters dying too easilly.
For me the best game at present muct be Call of Cthulhu, and in the past, Aftermath and Runequest.
BTW - if any of you were at Euro gen con last week, if I met you Hi, if I didn't shame, and if you were in the paranoia game with me - I was the popular choice for execution afterwards;-)
Why is everyone soo obsessed with RAID5. It is not the holy grail of disk storage as one or two others have tried to point out but been flamed for. Raid5 offers great resilience, BUT is not good if performance is also required. Just because your data is striped across multiple volumes to aid recovery, it still only reads from the one volume, and the need to perform the stripping on writing makes the system slower. If performance is an issue, and money is not, then RAID1 (mirroring) is the solution (unless your system will allow both RAID0+1 (IBM RS6000's, my domain, do not)
Why is everyone soo obsessed with RAID5. It is not the holy grail of disk storage as one or two others have tried to point out but been flamed for. Raid5 offers grat resilience, BUT is not good if performance is also required. Just because your data is striped across multiple volumes to aid recovery, it still only reads from the one volume, and the need to perform the stripping on writing makes the system slower. If performance is an issue, and money is not, then RAID1 (mirroring) is the solution (unless your system will allow both RAID0+1 (IBM RS6000's, my domain, do not)
That's partly due to Xerox's market place philosophy.
I believe, to this day you can still not buy a Xerox copier, only rent them. Xerox tried to do the same thing with Star, however the costs were far too high.
Do not forget that the Mac was Apple's second attempt. The first (I can't remember the name at the mo.) failed because it was far too expensive.
Oh and to an earlier point on this feed. When Jobs and Wozniak visited PARC, Star was already comercially available.
There has been much critisism of the country coding on DVDs and Sony Playstations, especially here in the UK where prices seem to be some what higher than the States or mainland Europe.
The modem in the Dreamcast makes me wonder about how much freedom is given for choosing which server is dialled when a network game is joined, and as to whether this information is programmed into the games console or the games.
I have this mental picture of UK Dreamcast players being horrified upon seeing their phone bills, when they've used imported games rather than the far more expensive UK release ones.
I wonder if I am being too cynical about this, but with the prices in this country, grey imports of games, and the chipping of hardware is all too common a practice on playstations (mine is unchipped at the moment BTW) and DVD players making me think this is a way of forcing people to buy the official releases for a particular country.
What crosses my mind about this possible piece of legislation is... It will only be legal in the USA. How would this sort of policy being enforced in other countries ?
I can just picture cases emerginh against certain software companies from within the UK and Europe as users suddenly find software missing on there machines, even licenced software.
If a software company can not produce a reliable piece of commercial code, do you really think their registration subroutines are definately going to work ?
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But that may have been minor compared to the past.
Let's say hypothetically that a Norwegian set up an anonymous email redirrecting service, which was used by not only by computer science students wanting some fun, but serious groups like the Samaritans.
Now say some one in the US were to hypothetically publish the teachings of some hypothetical cult, let us call them the scientologists. The only ID for the publisher is his anonymnous anme and any hypothetical details of him were stored in a country we'll call Norway.
Now lets say the cult were a bit unhappy about this and used their contacts in their own government to apply international pressure on the country hostign the server (known in this tale as Norway) to fidn out who the poster was.
In theory the country in which the cult lives (we shall call this country USA) has no jurisdiction over the country in which the service and it's owner sits.
Now let's take the hypothetical path that the country of the cult may have a bit of a reputation for being a big bully, and may be the sort of country which would apply international rpessure on the otehr country to force the owner of the server to reveal the poster's real details.
Hypothetically the server owner would be left with two options.
1. Give in, depsite no breaking any laws
2. Close down his service and blank all media before it can be taken off him.
If this were to ever happen we would probably have to say RIP anon.funet.fi
There has been a reasonable amount of interest in this movie in the UK as it was directed by a european director. Much has been made over here of Hollywood's insistence in rewriting history in order to satisfy the US masses (the US capturing the 1st enigma machine in U571, the British being largerly ignored in Saving Private Ryan,...) so much was hoped for. Basically the historians have torn the movie apart. The movie is based on the book by Zaitsev. It is recognised as being very much 1950s Stalinistic propaganda. The German major was invented by the Russians at that time, as was the love story aspect. Also Zaitsev's contribution was not a critical fact in the result at Satlingrad. As others have said, much could be made of this movie, however the director chose to ignore one of the biggest bloodbaths in history for a weak love story which glosses over the horrors of the event.
Good I'm not the only AIX fan on Slashdot. As I wrote in a reply above, AIX 5L (the next version of AIX) will have linux libraries in it as well as the AIX ones allowing for easier (make that Far easier) porting of freeware and shareware. I do not believe that IBM plan to port PSSP to linux, which means the nodes in an SP frame (plus the control workstation and any attatched S series RS/6000s) will have to use AIX, and as the SP frame and S80/S85 are the IBM flagship products I can sse AIX being around for a fair bit longer.
Yes. I've used the same install media for a couple of winterhawk nodes (POWER2), a couple of 44P270s (POWER3) and an elderly C20 (Control workstation PPC), with no problems at all.
It's called AIX 5l, and is the next (and now late) release of AIX. The core feel is still AIX (I'm sorry I know this will cause argumetns, but AIX has about the best LVM I've used, plus it's ls.. commands I miss on other unices) but with linux libraries in addition to the AIX ones, allowing for the easier porting of freeware and shareware.
In the UK Solaris is the major UNIX, with HP-UX some where out there. However AIX does have quite a large presence here, especially in the banking, retail and telecoms sectors. I think Germany also has a high penetration for AIX (some one else will need to confirm that, but I know of at least 1 major German bank that are RS/6000 reliant)
In the US it may be, but in the UK it can be included in contracts. When I changed jobs I negotiated the amount I was due to pay back as I was leaving too soon after having done a series of training courses (it was under 2 years after the last one). I was expected to pay £4000 (about $6K) back - so this was not insignificant. Due to it being at the end of the period and me agreeing to stay on a bit longer to help train a replacement I managed to get the figure down. This has, however, stopped two of my ex-colleagues going as they can not afford to be burdened by a big pay abck to the company. This is not that unusual in teh UK and perfectly legal if a person signs for it (and training can be withheld if you do not sign).
Cyberpunk wuold have been an ever better choice as 1. It was the first game in this (the Gibson story style world) game. 2. It is still superior to Shadowrun, despite the 3rd edition still being due out after 3 years.
It's out already. In Europe it was launched at Euro Gen Con in Manchester, England last Saturday. I assume it was launched in the States 2 weeks earlier at the main Gen Con. At the Euro event we even had Gary Gygax down autographing copies (some of which, including mine were given to winners of the various RPGA events).
You might think it's one of the best games ever, but I for one totally disagree. This is a game, which tilke then others in the story teller series is aimed squarly at Goths and power gamers. I truly hate the genre and the system used by this game in particular. Oh and before you ask I'm not a D&D fan, or a dungeon hacker. I've been playing RPGs for almost 19 years now, and have tried most games. Most the people in my group like this sort of game so I have been stuck playing Mage, Vampire and Werewolf for quite a while now. For a decent game you need one which at least has a certain level of realism, though this can lead to characters dying too easilly. For me the best game at present muct be Call of Cthulhu, and in the past, Aftermath and Runequest. BTW - if any of you were at Euro gen con last week, if I met you Hi, if I didn't shame, and if you were in the paranoia game with me - I was the popular choice for execution afterwards ;-)
Why is everyone soo obsessed with RAID5. It is not the holy grail of disk storage as one or two others have tried to point out but been flamed for. Raid5 offers great resilience, BUT is not good if performance is also required. Just because your data is striped across multiple volumes to aid recovery, it still only reads from the one volume, and the need to perform the stripping on writing makes the system slower. If performance is an issue, and money is not, then RAID1 (mirroring) is the solution (unless your system will allow both RAID0+1 (IBM RS6000's, my domain, do not)
Why is everyone soo obsessed with RAID5. It is not the holy grail of disk storage as one or two others have tried to point out but been flamed for. Raid5 offers grat resilience, BUT is not good if performance is also required. Just because your data is striped across multiple volumes to aid recovery, it still only reads from the one volume, and the need to perform the stripping on writing makes the system slower. If performance is an issue, and money is not, then RAID1 (mirroring) is the solution (unless your system will allow both RAID0+1 (IBM RS6000's, my domain, do not)
That's partly due to Xerox's market place philosophy.
I believe, to this day you can still not buy a Xerox copier, only rent them. Xerox tried to do the same thing with Star, however the costs were far too high.
Do not forget that the Mac was Apple's second attempt. The first (I can't remember the name at the mo.) failed because it was far too expensive.
Oh and to an earlier point on this feed. When Jobs and Wozniak visited PARC, Star was already comercially available.
There has been much critisism of the country coding on DVDs and Sony Playstations, especially here in the UK where prices seem to be some what higher than the States or mainland Europe.
The modem in the Dreamcast makes me wonder about how much freedom is given for choosing which server is dialled when a network game is joined, and as to whether this information is programmed into the games console or the games.
I have this mental picture of UK Dreamcast players being horrified upon seeing their phone bills, when they've used imported games rather than the far more expensive UK release ones.
I wonder if I am being too cynical about this, but with the prices in this country, grey imports of games, and the chipping of hardware is all too common a practice on playstations (mine is unchipped at the moment BTW) and DVD players making me think this is a way of forcing people to buy the official releases for a particular country.
What crosses my mind about this possible piece of legislation is ... It will only be legal in the USA. How would this sort of policy being enforced in other countries ?
I can just picture cases emerginh against certain software companies from within the UK and Europe as users suddenly find software missing on there machines, even licenced software.
If a software company can not produce a reliable piece of commercial code, do you really think their registration subroutines are definately going to work ?