Tuesday 18 October 2005

Judith Miller TomPaine +NOLA Art Link

David Corn

My favorite quote from the day-after coverage of Miller-mania came from CNN's Jeff Greenfield. After a colloquy with Wolf Blitzer--in which the two puzzled over the Times articles--Greenfield said, "The more I read about this, the less I understand it, Wolf." I like Greenfield, and he is a sharp fellow. But was he suggesting that perhaps his viewers would be better served if he read less? Maybe that's what TV is for.

my interest in Shearer's art? His Katrina piece appears in a public art exhibition now up in Washington, DC, called Found Sound that was curated by Welmoed Laanstra, who happens to be my spouse. Shearer is one of nine artists who contributed sound-related art to the project. (Other participants include artists Richard Chartier, Joseph Grigely, Alberto Gaitan, Brandon Morse, and Robin Rose.) And most of the art is being featured in sound booths--reconfigured Port-a-Potties--that have been placed on sidewalks across town. The point is to encourage folks who don't usually hit the art galleries and museums to spend a few moments contemplating this relatively new art form.

Here's a clip from the press release for the project:

By placing the sound booths on the sidewalk, the project will make this innovative art accessible to a large number of people," says Welmoed Laanstra, the exhibit's curator. "The aim is to create a public experience focused on the developing field of sound art."...In an essay for the project, Nora Halpern, a vice president of Americans for the Arts observes, "Most traditional exhibitions inhabit contiguous spaces, but FOUND SOUND entices the listener to crisscross a city to experience fully this collection of work. As one leaves a destination for another--whether by foot, car, bus, or Metro--the heightened audio awareness encouraged by each piece should continue, like a musical riff, through all the spaces in between." Writer/humorist Calvin Trillin contributed a poem to the project.

The project runs until November 5; the sound booths tend to be open during gallery hours. For all the locations and a complete list of artists--only Shearer plays with media sound--check out the exhibit's website at www.foundsounddc.com. And The Washington Post published a fine write-up of the project. (Click here.) We now interrupt this infomercial to return to our regularly scheduled blog.

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Also, as NPR's David Folkenflik reported yesterday (in a segment that featured yours truly), when Miller agreed to identify Scooter Libby as an unnamed "former Hill staffer" and not as a senior administration official in return for obtaining critical information on Wilson from Libby, she was violating the Times policy on anonymous sourcing. The paper requires reporters to characterize an unnamed source accurately so readers can evaluate if this source has an agenda. So why was Miller not fired or disciplined for this breach? Though she ended up not writing a piece on Wilson, she admits in her first-person account she colluded with Libby to conceal a White House attack on Wilson. At the least, Keller should issue an editor's note.

But this underscores my what-were-they-thinking criticism. Didn't Keller (and other top editors) and publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. read Miller's article and say to themselves something like "whoa!" (or "oh shit!")? How could they read the weird ending of her piece (see below) and not immediately say, "the Times does not end explanatory articles with non sequitur-ish anecdotes that read like riddles"? How could they not review the "news" article on the Miller case and say, "We need more of a push-back on Miller's failure to recall who told her about 'Valerie Flame' and 'Victoria Wilson'? How could they not demand that both Miller and the three-reporter team provide more details about the sudden discovery of the missing notebook that contained notes from Miller's first interview with Libby about Joseph Wilson? How could they not read Miller's description of a security clearance she obtained (in order to be an embedded reporter with WMD-hunting teams) and not see that the paper's readers deserved a full explanation of this curious matter? (Former CBS News national security correspondent Bill Lynch wrote a long and critical letter about this part of Miller's story; that note is posted Jim Romenesko's media news site at www.poynter.org. Click here.)

link = http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001306732
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%4 Using the Ruby Dev-Tools plug-in for Eclipse

Using the Ruby Dev-Tools plug-in for Eclipse


RDT is good, but...
(Score:5, Interesting)
by MarkWatson (189759) Alter Relationship on Monday October 17, @06:30PM (#13813050)
(http://www.markwatson.com/)
... because Ruby is a dynamic language it is more difficult for IDEs to autocomplete, etc.

I do most of my development in Java, so I mostly use IntelliJ (best Java IDE, IMHO). However, I also really like Eclipse because in one IDE you can code in Java, C++, Ruby, Python, etc.
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Checkout RadRails [radrails.org]


RadRails is an integrated development environment for the Ruby on Rails framework. The goal of this project is to provide Rails developers with everything they need to develop, manage, test and deploy their applications. Features include source control, debugging, WEBrick servers, generator wizards, syntax highlighting, data tools and much much more.

The RadRails IDE is built on the Eclipse RCP, and includes plugins from RDT and Subclipse. The RadRails tools are also available as Eclipse plugins.

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Ruby.....
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by james_in_denver (757233) Alter Relationship on Monday October 17, @07:04PM (#13813225)
It rocks...... I'm using Ruby at work to parse millions of lines of source code across 4 different systems and link that back to literally hundreds of requirements documents. The end result is stored in a database and made available via "Ruby on Rails" [rubyonrails.org]. It's saved the client literally hundreds of hours of debugging and integration time, and the "documentation"? It never gets out of date... Just run the programs against the source code and document repositories nightly and everything is current.....

And Eclipse? simply the best development IDE available IMHO...... And all of that in only a few thousand lines of code.....
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Liberty Lost | Government Out Of Control

Liberty Lost | Government Out Of Control


Whistle-blower case goes to high court - US presses against retaliation claims
Submitted by fnord on 10/14/2005 - 18:01
By Gina Holland
Boston.com

WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration pressed the Supreme Court yesterday for a ruling that would make it harder for government whistle-blowers to win lawsuits claiming retaliation.

Justices seemed conflicted on where to draw the line in protecting the
First Amendment speech rights of more than 20 million public employees.

In an hourlong session, justices talked about the importance of preserving the privacy of some government work, such as the high court's deliberations.

But there were also concerns about concealing governmental misconduct.
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ABC Affiliates Grapple With TV-Show Downloads [episode sales, actually]

ABC Affiliates Grapple With TV-Show Downloads


Choice
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by BWJones (18351) * Alter Relationship on Monday October 17, @06:59PM (#13813200)
(http://prometheus.med.utah.edu/~bwjones/ | Last Journal: Monday October 17, @05:11PM)
Thank you Apple! Once again this company (along with ABC this time) has the stones to step up and offer a service that is a market primed to explode. The iTMS has proven to be a good long tail [thelongtail.com] business model for the distribution of music, offering popular and otherwise out of print or hard to find (Indie) tracks that are simply unavailable in the large retail outlets. I have not watched much TV in the past while, but having the iTMS model of distribution for TV shows that are out of syndication or are otherwise hard to obtain would be a tremendous boon. And if Ted Turner would get on the ball, all sorts of older movies could also be made available via this model, that would increase revenues over what they are making by the current limited access to the media. Documentaries, "foreign" (to the US) films, and indie films could make it truly big by talking to Apple. Sundance Channel and TCM, you are the big guys in this market......So, are you paying attention? And for you TIVOheads out there, in essence, if this propagates to the rest of the industry, this will be a centralized TIVO allowing you to pick and choose without having to take the time to program, and like the article said, this could make the ala carte system moot. Who knows, this could even open up the option of letting us pay for content that is without commercials or get it for "free" if we agree to watch the commercials. It's could simply be our choice.

P.S., Ted, thanks for the buffalo ranching, but there is more money to be made still in media. Don't give up.
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Completely Analogous
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by Ohreally_factor (593551) Alter Relationship on Monday October 17, @08:05PM (#13813538)
(Last Journal: Friday January 02, @07:40AM)
Yeah, the way Apple has exploited their dominance of the OS market to take over the downloadable music market and the MP3 market is pretty heinous and I'm sure the DOJ is keeping a close eye on them. And the creation of a new market of downloading video clips! That's just the sort of unfair business practice to which the DOJ pays close attention. Reminds me exactly of how MS has bullied PC makers to maintain its monopoly.

Er, wait.
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Re:Choice
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by Zocalo (252965) Alter Relationship on Monday October 17, @07:34PM (#13813378)
(http://www.zocalo.uk.com/)
I couldn't agree more, and kudos to ABC for being one of the first TV media companies to break ranks and try and embrace the inevitable future as well. Now if Apple can get other studios onboard and also flatten the staggered global release schedule for new series (which is completely pointless on a digital distribution network) then media nirvana can take a step closer. What on *earth* have the execs at the affiliates being doing the past few years that they've missed the fact that the music business in is absolute turmoil over digital distribution? They can hardly claim that they were so busy producing Reality and Car-Crash TV shows that they didn't realise the inevitability that they were next and Hollywood is going to follow.

Feh, who am I kidding. That's exactly what they are going to do, all the while frantically trying to buy legislation to protect their business model, no matter how shortsighted and dumb it makes them look.
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Re:Translation from Weasel follows:
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by Jah-Wren Ryel (80510) Alter Relationship on Monday October 17, @07:55PM (#13813495)
ABC has chosen to act as an independent agent in a free market, rather than subjecting its decisions to cartel politics.

Don't for a moment think that affiliate demands on the network are all one-sided. Maintaining affiliate status means a station has to comply with all kinds of rules set by the network too.

ABC is not simply acting as an independent agent, they are, in some sense, unilaterally re-writing their contracts with their affiliates. I would be damn pissed too if one of my clients decided that they could get away with rewriting our contract, in their favor, with no negotiation.

I agree that the net has changed things and it is high-fucking-time the television industry started to catch up, but don't go thinking ABC or even Apple is the white hat in this episode of the drama - its a lot more complex than that.
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iTorrent?
(Score:5, Interesting)
by 3770 (560838) Alter Relationship on Monday October 17, @07:41PM (#13813415)
(http://vsxgen.sourceforge.net/)
This is slightly more technical, but I've been wondering about if they are going to offer up a torrent style iTunes client. This could be a tremendeous boon for for instance podcasts, and video podcasts in general. Maybe only for free content but still.

Sure, many wouldn't be able to figure out how to open up their firewall, but enough people would, that it would make a tremendous difference for some poor podcaster. It will likely let them cut their provider bill in half. Or they could reach 10 times as many people for the same cost. They could even make sure that all their friends have seeds before they release the podcast, that way they don't even really need a server provider (not of the type where you need to know how many GB per month you are allowed).

This would also be a tremendous benefit for Apple since being on iTunes definitely would be the shiznat for all the podcasters because now it also has a very direct benefit for them.

Also, if they did the torrent thing then they would get some serious Google type respect from geeks. Apple would be credited for making decentralized file sharing mainstream.

I can't even think of a down side. Can someone slap me out of this?
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d downloads by the numbers
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by prockcore (543967) Alter Relationship on Monday October 17, @08:51PM (#13813726)
Desperate Housewives commands $350,000 for a 30 second spot. There are 17 minutes of commercials in 1 episode, which means there are 34 commercials in each episode.

That comes to $11.9 million per episode. That means 6 million people need to purchase each episode in order to match what ABC currently gets from advertisers.

Somehow I think the people talking about the death of broadcast TV are a bit pre-mature \\\\\\\\\\\\\js:
Pricing deals are made accross the board...;
and note to dummies: the content is tiny-format, LOW DEF. THIS is a NO-brainer, and just free 'gravy' for ABC, because ALL the FANS will STILL PURCHASE (or usenet) the DVD versions, with the extra teasers... because the whole show is puffery achieved via beef and babes, naught more> ////////////
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#4 PTO Eliminates "Technological Arts" Requirement in PATENTS PENDING

PTO Eliminates "Technological Arts" Requirement


Re:This is total bullshet
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by hagbard5235 (152810) Alter Relationship on Monday October 17, @03:01PM (#13811586)
In a sane world, you would be correct. But welcome to the wonderful world of Wickard v Filburn, brought to use by FDR's packed Supreme Court, where enumerated powers are no longer enumerated, and you might as well ignore the 9th and 10th ammendment to the constitution. Essentially, Wickard says the government can do pretty much anything under the commerce clause and the general welfare clause. In a sane world, one might argue that the only authority for granting pattents at all comes from Article I, Section 8, clause 8, but in FDRs bizaro world were we all live today, you can just as easily derive the authority to grant patents without restriction from the commerce clause under Wickard.

Thank you FDR, nobody really needed liberty anyway!

#4 BitTorrent!! Fortune Takes a Look at Bram Cohen

Fortune Takes a Look at Bram Cohen


Re:Ummm
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by Karma_fucker_sucker (898393) Alter Relationship on Monday October 17, @04:59PM (#13812518)
but given that he has Asperger's Syndrome, should it not be in his best interest to give the job of CEO to somebody who is more charismatic

The job of a CEO is to provide direction and strategy for an organization. I would say that maybe he needs a PR person. He seems to be doing quite well as the CEO.

The other thing that has me thinking - who diagnosed his illness?
I've met quite a few people who said that they had various illnesses. When I asked them about the diagnosis and what the physician (or some other qualified expert) said, they don't say anything about an expert diagnosis: just something vague. I don't know about him, but I think a lot of folks use popular illnesses as an excuse for their own shortcomings or as an excuse for not doing something that they're not interested in doing.

Forgive my spelling, but I have spellexia.

#4 IMDB 15th Year!



HERE is the first USENET IMDB post!!

Is there a program ?
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Grant Mason Oct 5 1990, 8:28 pm show options
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Followup-To: Actress List
From: g...@cstr.ed.ac.uk (Grant Mason) - Find messages by this author
Date: 5 Oct 90 14:24:36 GMT
Local: Fri, Oct 5 1990 9:24 am
Subject: Is there a program ?

Does anyone out there have a Unix or C program which can 'interrogate' the
actor/actress files?
What I want to be able to do is to type in an actor/actress' name and get out
a list of all the
films which they appeared in. Similarly, typing in a film name would give a
list of all the
actors/actresses who were in that film.

Can anybody help ? I'm not a programmer, so doing this myself is
impossible.....
If you can, please e-mail me directly (see below).

Cheers,

Grant

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Colin Needham Oct 8 1990, 5:31 am show options
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
From: c...@otter.hpl.hp.com (Colin Needham) - Find messages by this author
Date: 7 Oct 90 22:05:30 GMT
Local: Sun, Oct 7 1990 5:05 pm
Subject: Re: Is there a program ?

g...@cstr.ed.ac.uk (Grant Mason) writes:
> Does anyone out there have a Unix or C program which can 'interrogate' the
> actor/actress files? What I want to be able to do is to type in an
> actor/actress' name and get out a list of all the films which they appeared
> in. Similarly, typing in a film name would give a list of all the
> actors/actresses who were in that film.
> Can anybody help ? I'm not a programmer, so doing this myself is impossible.

Well I can't provide you with exactly what you want, but I have a Unix
script which might be of some use. It is included at the end of
this posting as a shell archive. I use it as part of the process of
incorporating changes in the actors list.

Note: I am posting this message rather than mailing to give others the
opportunity of experimenting with the script. I am willing to act as a
coordinator if anyone has any suggestions or working programs.

The script (called 'explist') takes a list file as an argument and produces
what I term a list database on the standard output. The format of a list
database is simply:

| <br /> <br />To get the kind of functionality you require, run the script over the various <br />lists and concatenate the databases into one file. The combined database <br />can then be searched using 'grep', 'awk' or some other text processor. It <br />shouldn't take too much effort to add a simple user interface to request <br />a name or title and format the output. <br /> <br />There is one problem with the script: the actress list has to be edited <br />before it is processed. The name fields for "Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio" <br />and "Cassandra Peterson (aka Elivira)" occupy two lines and need to be <br />shortened (I suggest to "Mary Mastrantonio" and "Cassandra Peterson"). <br />Also each of the following titles are split over two lines and should be <br />joined on to one: <br /> <br />"Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eigth Dimension, The" <br />"Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman (TV)" <br />"End of the World in Our Usual Bed in a Night Full of Rain, The" <br />"Dealing: or The Berkley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues" <br /> <br />The other lists do not split long titles and hence can be processed as <br />published. <br /> <br />Hope this helps, <br /> <br />Col <br /> <br />------------------------------------------------------------ <br />"Look at it this way, in a hundred years who's gonna care ?" <br /> -- The Terminator <br />------------------------------------------------------------ <br />Col Needham | Phone: +44 272 799910 x 24131 <br />HP Labs | c...@hplb.hpl.hp.com <br />Bristol | c...@hplabs.hpl.hp.com <br />U.K. | c...@otter.hpl.hp.com <br />------------------------------------------------------------ <br /> <br />#---------------------------------- cut here ---------------------------------- <br /># This is a shell archive. Remove anything before this line, <br /># then unpack it by saving it in a file and typing "sh file". <br /># <br /># Wrapped by Colin Needham <cn@otter> on Sun Oct 7 22:40:55 1990 <br /># <br /># This archive contains: <br /># explist <br /># <br /># Error checking via wc(1) will be performed. <br /> <br />LANG=""; export LANG <br />PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:$PATH; export PATH <br /> <br />echo x - explist <br />cat >explist <<'@EOF' <br />#!/bin/sh <br /> <br /># Author: Col Needham <br /># <br /># Usage: explist <list> <br /># <br /># Purpose: read in a list & produce a list database on the standard output <br /> <br />expand $1 | awk '/^[A-Z]/ {s1=substr($0,1,24)} /^[A-Z\t ]/ {print s1 "|" substr($0,25,80)}' | sed -e 's/ *|/|/' | grep -v '|$' <br />@EOF <br />set `wc -lwc <explist` <br />if test $1$2$3 != 947264 <br />then <br /> echo ERROR: wc results of explist are $* should be 9 47 264 <br />fi <br /> <br />chmod 777 explist <br /> <br />exit 0 <br /> <br />End <br /> <br />====================== <br /> <br /> <br />IMDB Bottom 100 List <br />(Score:5, Funny) <br />by PhatboySlim (862704) Alter Relationship on Monday October 17, @03:26PM (#13811789) <br />How did Britney's Spears' Crossroads movie end up on IMDB's Bottom 100 [imdb.com] list? It's like the best movie of all time! Thank God that movies like Gigli, Son of the Mask, and From Justin to Kelly aren't on this list! Oh wait, there they are.... <br /> <br />Guess I should be on the lookout for "Legend Of Zorro" to be appearing here soon as well... <br />-- <br />Be sure to remember the Programmers Prayer [jokesaround.com] <br /> <br />================ <br /> <br /> <br />Good and bad on IMDB <br />(Score:5, Informative) <br />by Belseth (835595) Alter Relationship on Monday October 17, @06:17PM (#13812976) <br />I use IMDB but I'm not a big fan. I have over 300 films under my belt and yet I have maybe a dozen listings. They demand verification of credits so I gave up on them years ago. They had two glaring errors in my listing so I contacted them both times and both times they refused to correct the mistakes until I threatened legal action. I nearly lost a job because a Producer believed the credits on IMDB were accurate and questioned my resume. I was forced to verify some of my biggest credits before he'd accept the bulk of my resume. Most put too much faith in IMDB which makes it dangerous to the working people in the industry. A friend has an academy award and to this day they refuse to acknowledge it in his bio. It's a handy but over used service given how wildly inaccurate the information can be in the listings and they aren't inclined to correct errors. <br />============== <br /> <br /> <br />bittorrent as a business??? <br />(Score:5, Insightful) <br />by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 17, @04:49PM (#13812432) <br />I may be a good way to share files, but I'm afraid the investors are throwing their money away. It's like trying to make money off of FTP. <br />========== <br /> <br /> How can this company be worth 8.75 million <br /> <br />When Fortune magazine runs a story on the CEO. <br /> <br />The name BitTorrent is alone worth that. This is a name millions and millions of people know - it would take more than $8.75 million dollars to achieve that through advertising <br />========== <br />sorry- just skimmed this- contentious! maybe dorky dank drunk <br /> <br />enough with the aspergers <br />(Score:5, Insightful) <br />by circletimessquare (444983) Alter Relationship <circletimessquare&gmail,com> on Monday October 17, @05:06PM (#13812560) <br />there's always been smart people who can do complex topological analysis in their head but can't balance their checkbook <br /> <br />likewise, there have always been people whose minds always flit from one subject to the next every second- in other words, attention deficit disorder <br /> <br />but now we have these buzzwords, asperpgers and ADD and others, and people think its some miraculous discovery, and its all they talk about and they act like it explains all sorts of behavior <br /> <br />but it's just a fad, and meanwhile, the conditions have always been there, always will be there, and those who have these conditions are no more special or less special than the rest of us <br /> <br />cohen is a smart guy, and he can concentrate on a complex math problem, and he likes to do it, that's all, that's it <br /> <br />i'm just so sick of everyone jumping on the buzzword bandwagon, it doesn't mean anything <br /> <br />there once was a time in the 1800s when everyone thought phrenology was the end-all explanation of character and intelligence <br /> <br />it's long forgotten, like the racist pseudoscience it was <br /> <br />meanwhile, in a hundred years, when our language and our attention isn't controlled by the marketing department of large pharmaceutical companies, our hypochondriacal way of looking at our mental differences will have moved onto the next stupid fad <br />-- <br /> <br />He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence. - William Blake <br />============ <br /> <br />I wish him luck <br />(Score:5, Insightful) <br />by SimplyBen (898147) Alter Relationship on Monday October 17, @05:39PM (#13812793) <br />As a founder of a funded startup myself I hope he suceeds, but statistically he won't. Maybe i'm alone here, but i'm having a hardtime envisioning the business model of such a company (and doubt his ability to lead it to profitability). Sure bittorrent is a neat technology: but its just that a technology, and an open one too. It appears to be a long shot, and thats why funding came from venture capitalists. From most slashdotters POV i'm sure that sounds awesome until you realize what accepting venture capital is typically about: 90%+ stock takeovers with rider clauses allowing the investment firm first dibs on any money withdrawn from the company. I hope he hires someone to run the company that can translate whatever products he comes up with into something that can actually be sold. <br /> <br /><<hmm 'poor guy' ! twerp! >> <br /> <br /><div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div> </p> </div> <p class="post-footer"> <em>posted by USSSlavebation @ <a href="http://wtchoax.blogspot.com/2005/10/4-imdb-15th-year.html" title="permanent link">10/18/2005 10:13:00 am</a></em>  <a class="comment-link" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17794089&postID=112964482567921401"location.href=https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17794089&postID=112964482567921401;>1 comments</a> <span class="item-action"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/email-post.g?blogID=17794089&postID=112964482567921401" title="Email Post"><img class="icon-action" alt="" src="https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" height="13" width="18"/></a></span><span class="item-control blog-admin pid-1372510983"><a style="border:none;" href="https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=17794089&postID=112964482567921401&from=pencil" title="Edit Post"><img class="icon-action" alt="" src="https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif" height="18" width="18"></a></span> </p> </div> <!-- End .post --> <!-- Begin #comments --> <!-- End #comments --> <!-- Begin .post --> <div class="post"><a name="112964274669677140"></a> <h3 class="post-title"> <a href="http://interviews.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=05/10/17/1546210" title="external link"> Interview with Tony 'Say No to Windows' Bove </a> </h3> <div class="post-body"> <p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><a href="http://interviews.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=05/10/17/1546210">Interview with Tony 'Say No to Windows' Bove</a> <br /> <br /> <br />Re:the one thing you won't find in his review <br />(Score:5, Informative) <br />by brunes69 (86786) Alter Relationship <slashdot&keirstead,org> on Monday October 17, @01:05PM (#13810589) <br />(http://www.keirstead.org/) <br />What's your flavour? <br /> <br />There's Novell-backed OpenExchange [openexchange.com] <br /> <br />There's Germany-backed Kolab [kolab.org] <br /> <br />There's RedHat-backed eGroupWare [egroupware.org] <br /> <br />There's all-open OpenGroupware [opengroupware.org] <br /> <br />And that's just the tip of it. There are also commercial products. <br /> <br />Seriously - if you think there are not alternatives to Exchange out there, then either you have not done your homework or are seriously misinformed, or both. <br /> <br />--====== <br /> <br />Re:2 Problems <br />(Score:5, Insightful) <br />by stlhawkeye (868951) Alter Relationship on Monday October 17, @01:11PM (#13810645) <br />(http://www.themanpages.net/ | Last Journal: Tuesday September 06, @03:45PM) <br />2) It assumes that it's the MS programs holding people back, when many desktops are tied because of third party software. For example, in my every-day job, I support dozens of workstations with Macromedia and Adobe software installed - neither of these run natively under Linux, and they run horribly under emulation. Yes, you can find replacement photo editors, but not really replacement video editors that are on par with After Effects, or replacements for Flash that have 95%+ installation base. <br /> <br />Exactly. Ever try to hire a graphics artist and tell him, "by the way, you'll be using GIMP on our Fedora Core 3 installation"? It's harder than it sounds. Yes, you can all rain down here with THOUSANDS of examples of YOU and YOUR FRIENDS and people YOU KNOW who not only can use GIMP but PREFER it to expensive alternatives. If the sample of Slashdot and its immediate social clique were the norm, we'd live in a pseudosocialist utopia in which all of us are gainfully employed and paid a hundred thousand dollars to work 30 hour weeks developing beautiful open source software that we give away and nobody buys, and all music and entertainment is produced through the honest labor of talented people upon whom we benevolently bestow voluntary payments for their work, and whose labors of love are distributed for free through the software channels that we were paid lots of money to develop. Oh, and Bush isn't president. And global warming stopped. And we all ride bikes to our jobs. And there's no McDonald's or suburbs. And soda is free. So is beer. I could go on, but I moved into the TrollZone about 5 minutes ago. <br /> <br />-- <br />The Man Pages [themanpages.net]. My webcomic and blog. <br />========== <br />A vibrant economy requires resources to be used efficiently. In theory, patents are supposed to help this process by increasing the incentive to invest in capital. Indeed, such investment can benefit both the inventor and the end user. As such, patents encourage the production of new capital, and the new capital is often more efficient at using resources than the previous capital. Thus the economy grows. <br /> <br />However, it appears as though America is reaching a point where patents interfere with the process so much that productivity is diminished. When an inventor has to search for patents when designing every portion of a capital work, less time is spent on developing the capital itself. Thus the creation of new capital diminishes, and resources are not used as efficiently. That can eventually cause the economy to basically rot. <br /> <br />This is not what the American economy needs, considering its various other problems (massive debt, inflated stock markets, a housing bubble, and so forth). <br /> <br />-- <br />Cyric Zndovzny at your service. <br />============== <br /> <br />Patents on literary plots <br />(Score:5, Interesting) <br />by Christian Engstrom (633834) Alter Relationship <christian,engstrom&glindra,org> on Monday October 17, @03:53PM (#13812000) <br />(http://www.glindra.org/) <br />At least we know who will go for the patent for acquiring patents on movie plots. It'll be these enterprising young lawyers [plotpatents.com]. <br /> <br />This decision is quite funny. A couple of months ago, Slashdot was running a story [slashdot.org] about a piece by Richard Stallman [guardian.co.uk] where he made the analogy with the works of Victor Hugo being covered by patents on literary plots. Then there were some posters who thought Dr. Stallman was making an absurd comparison, and that patents on literature would never happen. <br /> <br />Well, well... <br /> <br />Meanwhile, in Europe, we have chosen another road. After the victory on July 6, when the European Parliament rejected the software directive, we now have a chance to get one of our activists to win the title "European of the Year" in an open Internet poll organized by a big business magazine. <br /> <br />Please feel free to go to NoSoftwarePatents.com [nosoftwarepatents.com] for instructions on how to vote, while you contemplate this latest madness by the US patent establishment. <br />-- <br />glindra.org [glindra.org]: VMS-inspired dir/copy/purge/grep for Windows <br /> <br />========= <br /> <br /><div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div> </p> </div> <p class="post-footer"> <em>posted by USSSlavebation @ <a href="http://wtchoax.blogspot.com/2005/10/interview-with-tony-say-no-to-windows.html" title="permanent link">10/18/2005 09:39:00 am</a></em>  <a class="comment-link" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17794089&postID=112964274669677140"location.href=https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17794089&postID=112964274669677140;>0 comments</a> <span class="item-action"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/email-post.g?blogID=17794089&postID=112964274669677140" title="Email Post"><img class="icon-action" alt="" src="https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" height="13" width="18"/></a></span><span class="item-control blog-admin pid-1372510983"><a style="border:none;" href="https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=17794089&postID=112964274669677140&from=pencil" title="Edit Post"><img class="icon-action" alt="" src="https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif" height="18" width="18"></a></span> </p> </div> <!-- End .post --> <!-- Begin #comments --> <!-- End #comments --> <!-- Begin .post --> <div class="post"><a name="112964158832997830"></a> <h3 class="post-title"> <a href="http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=05/10/17/1152211" title="external link"> The exhaustion of IPv4 address space </a> </h3> <div class="post-body"> <p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><a href="http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=05/10/17/1152211">The exhaustion of IPv4 address space</a> <br /> <br />[MPython here, if u cn rd] <br /> <br />Re:Is NAT Better? <br />(Score:5, Funny) <br />by MSZ (26307) Alter Relationship on Monday October 17, @12:24PM (#13810256) <br />The benefits of IPv6 are numerous, however. <br />Cisco marketing rep: <br />NOBODY expects the IPv6! <br />Our chief benefit is length... greater length of the packet header and and unrememberable addresses... <br />Our two benefits are greater length of packet header and unrememberable addresses... and rewrite of all network apps.... <br />Our three benefits are length of packet header and unrememberable addresses... and rewrite of all network apps.... and an almost fanatical devotion to some broken standard.... <br />Our four... no... <br />Amongst our benefits... Amongst our array of benefits... are such elements as greater length of packet header and unrememberable addresses... <br />I'll come in again. <br /> <br />But seriously, if IPv6 was so good, it would not require so much pushing. If the IPv4 exhaustion was real and imminent, it would not rquire so much pushing. <br />-- <br />The moon is not fully subjugated. I demand a second assault wave preceded by a massive nuclear bombardment. <br />=========== <br /> <br /> <br />well, it's not "better" as such, just a different solution. NAT is not a golden bullet though. Yes, it does, by and large prevent random machines on the internet directly contacting your unpatched windows desktop at home, but a firewall will do that too, and virtually every dsl router has a firewall these days too. I would like to see home dsl routers supporting native ipv6 but I don't know of any. <br /> <br />I think that ipv6 is a good thing to go for, but it's not finished (but then, is ipv4? :). there's lots of advertised features for ipv6 (mandatory encryption, mobile ip etc) that are good on paper, but aren't all that in the real world. <br /> <br />Mandatory support for ipsec is great.. except how many of us would use it? as there is currently no support for mndatory ipsec encryption to unknown strangers. you've got to be pre-configured for crypto. I'd like to see something like ssh. if you know the key then great, if you don't then you can accept and save one and then while you may not have verified the destination, you're at least protected on the wire. yes, they also need to sort out authentication and perhaps some form of certificate distribution, but lets make a start on something useable. <br /> <br />mobile IP. sounds great! I can be using my ipv6 pda via my mobile phone and as I walk into my house, it picks up my wireless net and my downloads speed up instantly, all the while not dropping the voip call I'm making. or I'm using a laptop on the train and as it flits from hotspot to hotspot I don't lose any of my connections. sounds great! how does it work? you tell me, details are not easy to find. ots of talk, few working implementations (if I'm wrong, please tell me, I'm genuinely very interested). <br /> <br />working with networks as part of my job, I know how useful and really annoying NAT can be, and I really think it should be an option, not a requirement. I'd love to see ipv6 rolled out and see what changes it brings, but I also think it needs a fair amount of work still. <br /> <br />dave <br />================= <br /> <br /> <br />Re:Is NAT Better? <br />(Score:5, Insightful) <br />by saikatguha266 (688325) Alter Relationship on Monday October 17, @12:27PM (#13810285) <br />Actually, NAT is better because it provides address space isolation. If your organisation has 500 computers that all have a public IP address, it is harder for you to switch providers (500 IPs is too small to get your own address space for). When you switch your provider, you have to renumber all hosts, fix config files, fix DNS servers etc -- a royal pain in the ass. A NAT allows your to keep your internal structure exactly the same while you switch providers. That address isolation is very important for small-mid sized companies. <br /> <br />Second, NAT helps multihomed corporations. For large companies, your 10k hosts are going to be distributed over many states/countries/ISPs ... and each site advertising its own address space is expensive for the ISP's because they cannot perform route aggregation (since your address space may not line up with the address space of each ISP). NAT solves this by having each site be NAT'ed behind that ISP's IP address (convinient for the ISP, cheaper for the company). The internal company network runs in the private space and when traffic crosses to the public internet, it gets an IP from the ISP it came out of ... consequently replies come back in through the ISP. Read: If you send a packet out of India, the response won't come back inthrough America ... which would otherwise require you to then forward it to India through your company's routers. <br /> <br />It is this address isolation and multihoming support that drives NAT use in small and large companies. Address space depletion has nothing to do with it. IPv6 does not fix these problems; companies will continue using NATs because NATs do.===== <br /> <br />blah3 --same contest 2 months ago here in /. <br /> <br />=============== <br /> <br />My cold, dead hands <br />(Score:5, Interesting) <br />by BJZQ8 (644168) Alter Relationship on Monday October 17, @11:52AM (#13810004) <br />(Last Journal: Sunday October 02, @11:20PM) <br />Until I absolutely HAVE to switch to IPV6, I will keep my much easier-to-remember addresses. Try to remember something like these: <br /> <br />fe80::02d0:c1ff:fe5c:0010/10 <br /> <br />2002:c0a8:1122::5efe:0a01:0101/48 <br /> <br />2001:7f8:2:c01f::2 <br />I mean, DNS goes a long way towards turning that hex into something memorable, but as a sysadmin it does NOT make my life easier. Let's reclaim some of those /8 blocks allocated to people that barely use them, first. Does E.I duPont REALLY need 0.39% of the internet address space? Does Eli Lily? That is 16777216 addresses, for what? Does Eli Lily even have 16 million adressable devices? It seems to me that we have plenty of IPV4's, it's just the allocation stinks. <br />================ <br /> <br />Not any time soon. <br />(Score:5, Insightful) <br />by dills (102733) Alter Relationship on Monday October 17, @12:02PM (#13810085) <br />(http://www.xecu.net) <br />I have worked in the internet service business for over a decade now. I have seen a lot of things come and go, and a lot of predictions about when we would run out of IP space. <br /> <br />The bottom line is that the only people who realy WANT a rollout of IPv6 is Cisco. Why? Because the vast majority of their existing installed routers will not support IPv6 with anywhere near the same feature set and packet rate as those routers can handle with IPv4. Thus, IPv6 means people upgrading equipment that isn't really deficient. <br /> <br />Most people have no concept of: <br /> <br />a) How much IP space we have left. <br />b) How extremely inefficent we have been with a large percentage of the address space. <br />c) How much assigned, announced, and routed space is completely unused. <br />d) How much the rate of growth has flattened. <br />e) How wrong every prediction about when we run out of IP space has been thus far. <br /> <br />If you search the nanog archives, you'll see posts by myself going back many years stating essentially "Somebody tell me why we need IPv6 again?" <br /> <br />Do not hold your breath. We're 10-15 years away from IPv6, because it will take an even larger gross expenditure for the service providers to upgrade to support IPv6 than it did for the broadcast industry to upgrade to HDTV. <br /> <br />This is what industries that rely on revenue growth do when their customer growth flattens. They invent a new widget, come up with reasons why everybody needs it, market it, and hopefully everybody buys the product all over again. IPv6 is admittedly a good bit different; it was created by geeks in attempt to solve a perceived problem. However, it was siezed upon by the router vendors as a future "upgrade when growth flattens" path. <br /> <br />Don't buy into the hype. IPv4 is here to stay for a long time. Even when IPv6 starts to have some decent degree of market penetration, you will always find most of the devices on the net are IPv4 behind IPv6 to IPv4 NATs. <br />===================== <br /> <br /><div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div> </p> </div> <p class="post-footer"> <em>posted by USSSlavebation @ <a href="http://wtchoax.blogspot.com/2005/10/exhaustion-of-ipv4-address-space.html" title="permanent link">10/18/2005 09:19:00 am</a></em>  <a class="comment-link" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17794089&postID=112964158832997830"location.href=https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=17794089&postID=112964158832997830;>0 comments</a> <span class="item-action"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/email-post.g?blogID=17794089&postID=112964158832997830" title="Email Post"><img class="icon-action" alt="" src="https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" height="13" width="18"/></a></span><span class="item-control blog-admin pid-1372510983"><a style="border:none;" href="https://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=17794089&postID=112964158832997830&from=pencil" title="Edit Post"><img class="icon-action" alt="" src="https://resources.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif" height="18" width="18"></a></span> </p> </div> <!-- End .post --> <!-- Begin #comments --> <!-- End #comments --> </div></div> <!-- End #main --> <!-- Begin #footer --> <div id="footer"><hr /> <p> <--! >   </p> </div> <!-- End #footer --> </div> <!-- End #content --> </body> </html>