The problem is, as things are going, your main router/firewall/server ip is going to be dynamic unless you pay big $$$. You will be forbiden to run "servers" on it. And your bandwidth will be asimetric, so you use the internet to fetch information from a central server but no information flows from you to the network.
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So basically he argues that we will have a lot more IP addresses? Ok, I agree.
But how does this qualify it as a completely new kind of network? I don't know.
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Nowadays, the US seems to think that the only important thing is military power.
The internet is nothing more than a mesh of communication networks. The physical means of communication between the nodes on this network can be implemented and are implemented, in many different ways (modems, adsl, fiber optics, floppy disks, drums, etc...). But at it basic meaning, the internet means the ability to pick up someone (a person or a machine) and talk to it.That is the reason why you don't want to restrict it. You want free flow of information. Restrictions only benefit the people in power because off course they will not be restricted.
The way to allow for this network to be resilient is not to restrict it, but to make it less homogeneous. You will want to have redundant backbones, using different protocols and physical layouts so they have different vulnerabilities, because you never can get rid of the vulnerabilities. That is the way tcp/ip was designed, and that is the reason of its scalability and resilience.If you regulate it, this qualities will be lost.
Actually, the "Gnome/GTK UI" has been chosen as the default in the new solaris versions, so it affects solaris desktop users even more than Linux users (that's maybe the reason you cannot find that many solaris desktop users;)
Some of the members of Mandrake Club can't get the ISOs because they are behind "transparent" proxies set up by their ISPs. The reason is that MandrakeSoft is using the user's IP to allow the bittorrent download, but for people behind this proxies MandrakeSoft sees the proxie's address instead of the user's address and doesn't authorize the use of the bittorrent tracker.
This is happening to anyone using Spain's Telefonica ADSL. This covers almost everyone in Spain.
"Sure you do, if you have a REAL router (or a DSL router even) you should be able to null-route that IP. Or actually, you might even be able to convince your ISP to do it with a short, friendly letter to the admin."
Indeed. And, if the Mozilla and Konqueror people had balls, they could set up a default option on their browsers so this page is blocked. You could uncheck it, but it should be on by default.
Even better, buy a Mandrake Club subscription. You get nice services and all the money goes to Mandrake. If you buy a disk, not all the money goes to Mandrake.
As a Mandrake user and Mandrake club member I can tell you that I don't value the ISOs as much as having a say at what the distribution is. It feels a bit like using debian (the users drive the development) except the stuff is up to date.
"Now, Microsoft may look at this from two different perspectives: historically, it has been Microsoft that commoditized other people's standards and reaped the benefit - they might not take to having the roles reversed very well. On the other hand, this could help.NET get more early adopters - in which case it does seem to benefit Microsoft.
They are using the second effect (more early adopters for c#) and when it is popular, they will try to kill it.
This days i trust the printed (legal) cd's better than the copies. They are usually better material quality and they play everywhere. But with all this crap they are pushing into the printed cd's, it is going to be a good policy to just avoid them and trust the copies. If you come across a copy of a music cd, you know that the person who copied it made the effort to remove the restrictions placed on it. Therefore in the future, there will be less trouble with copies than with original discs!
Also, an album downloaded from the internet will have more value that a original one because it will play everywhere once you burn it!
Slashdot Mirror
The only problem being that many slashdotters use ad blocking tools... :-)
How does Muse compare to Rosegarden?
The problem is, as things are going, your main router/firewall/server ip is going to be dynamic unless you pay big $$$. You will be forbiden to run "servers" on it. And your bandwidth will be asimetric, so you use the internet to fetch information from a central server but no information flows from you to the network.
So basically he argues that we will have a lot more IP addresses? Ok, I agree.
But how does this qualify it as a completely new kind of network? I don't know.
Nowadays, the US seems to think that the only important thing is military power.
The internet is nothing more than a mesh of communication networks. The physical means of communication between the nodes on this network can be implemented and are implemented, in many different ways (modems, adsl, fiber optics, floppy disks, drums, etc...).
But at it basic meaning, the internet means the ability to pick up someone (a person or a machine) and talk to it.That is the reason why you don't want to restrict it. You want free flow of information.
Restrictions only benefit the people in power because off course they will not be restricted.
The way to allow for this network to be resilient is not to restrict it, but to make it less homogeneous. You will want to have redundant backbones, using different protocols and physical layouts so they have different vulnerabilities, because you never can get rid of the vulnerabilities. That is the way tcp/ip was designed, and that is the reason of its scalability and resilience.If you regulate it, this qualities will be lost.
Actually, the "Gnome/GTK UI" has been chosen as the default in the new solaris versions, so it affects solaris desktop users even more than Linux users (that's maybe the reason you cannot find that many solaris desktop users ;)
Some of the members of Mandrake Club can't get the ISOs because they are behind "transparent" proxies set up by their ISPs. The reason is that MandrakeSoft is using the user's IP to allow the bittorrent download, but for people behind this proxies MandrakeSoft sees the proxie's address instead of the user's address and doesn't authorize the use of the bittorrent tracker.
This is happening to anyone using Spain's Telefonica ADSL. This covers almost everyone in Spain.
I have a better game in mind:
Starve the record company executive!!
It is much funnier...
It is more like:
Software patents are bad for everyone.
-Linux
"Sure you do, if you have a REAL router (or a DSL router even) you should be able to null-route that IP. Or actually, you might even be able to convince your ISP to do it with a short, friendly letter to the admin."
Indeed. And, if the Mozilla and Konqueror people had balls, they could set up a default option on their browsers so this page is blocked. You could uncheck it, but it should be on by default.
This would be a cool way to protest!
This content will make it into your network anyways. Except they will not be paid for it, but you will be paid for the bandwith by the end user.
So basically you are saying that companies should start acting in illegal ways?
I don't really think it is a good idea.
Even better, buy a Mandrake Club subscription. You get nice services and all the money goes to Mandrake.
If you buy a disk, not all the money goes to Mandrake.
For more on econometrics, you can use Wikipedia:
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Econometrics
"partly funded by John Carmack of Id and Armadillo Aerospace (Carmack's in-his-free-time X-prize contender)."
Cool, but where is Doom III?
The guys at KDE have written their own browser with no company backing them...
What about Mandrake Club?
As a Mandrake user and Mandrake club member I can tell you that I don't value the ISOs as much as having a say at what the distribution is. It feels a bit like using debian (the users drive the development) except the stuff is up to date.
WTF is LOC?
Completely agree,
For a remote display, X uses too much bandwith and has issues with firewalls and NAT, so people use vnc instead.
For a local display, X is too heavy.
"Now, Microsoft may look at this from two different perspectives: historically, it has been Microsoft that commoditized other people's standards and reaped the benefit - they might not take to having the roles reversed very well. On the other hand, this could help .NET get more early adopters - in which case it does seem to benefit Microsoft.
They are using the second effect (more early adopters for c#) and when it is popular, they will try to kill it.
Actually, instead of
"GNOME 2 to Replace CDE As Solaris Default DESKTOP"
the heading shoud be:
"finally GNOME 2 is not going into Solaris 9"
There is the difference between having to pay and choosing to pay
My latest statistics on this issue show that about 95% of people having to pay will pay, but a much smaller percentage of people choose to pay.
This days i trust the printed (legal) cd's better than the copies. They are usually better material quality and they play everywhere.
But with all this crap they are pushing into the printed cd's, it is going to be a good policy to just avoid them and trust the copies.
If you come across a copy of a music cd, you know that the person who copied it made the effort to remove the restrictions placed on it.
Therefore in the future, there will be less trouble with copies than with original discs!
Also, an album downloaded from the internet will have more value that a original one because it will play everywhere once you burn it!
I think this is gonna backfire on them.