day wrote:
] Decius wrote:
] ] I heard "What planet what station" in a bar tonight. I like
] ] it. I want more stuff like this. Its a shame its only on 12"
]
] Hey - this is Day. I'm glad you like the record.

Wow, yeah man I really dig your stuff.

] I can get you a copy of the 12" + on CD.
] Just email me. It's in my profile.

Sweet. Will do!

] What city are you in and how did you find out what was
] playing?

I'm in Atlanta. I was hanging out at 97 Estoria and I was just digging the stuff the DJ was laying down, so I asked him what he was playing and he said "DJ Day." So I did some Google searches and found your site. Looking more carefully the track they played was actually "It Still Ain't Hard to Tell."

Of course, that information doesn't really help you target your promotion but there is always value in making sure your record winds up in people's milk crate. People hear it enough; they'll find you.

RE: Innernational crew underground hip-hop

] In September, academy officials issued a memo explaining
] the government's e-mail policy after some staffers put
] biblical verses at the bottom of their e-mails.

So, what part of protecting me from establishment involves controlling people's personal email signatures? When you're overzealous it works in favor of your opponent.

CNN.com - Why secularists loose

] The idea of Secret Santa is very simple - you pull a name
] out of a hat and buy that person a present. Your name is
] in the hat as well, so someone buys you a present too!
] Everyone gets a present! Everyone's happy!
]
] To use Secret Santa, all you need is a wishlist* at
] Amazon. First you tell Santa about yourself. Then on
] December 10th you will be told who you're buying a gift
] for. And by Christmas Day, everyone has a sparkly present
] to open!

Kind of a fun idea. I mean, if you're going to be mailed a gift from your wish list by someone you don't know you might as well just buy it yourself, but at least this way someone has to wrap it for you. :)

Internet Wide Secret Santa

] ShotGlass Chess plays by the same rules as regular chess
] but the fun really begins when you capture an
] opponent's piece! Depending on the Shot Glass Chess
] rules you adopt, you or your opponent will be tipping
] back the contents of the shot glass with every capture!

Shotglass Chess - Shotglass Chess Sets, Pieces and Shotglasses

] The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) has
] announced its proposed policy to provide all dot-ca
] domain name holders with increased privacy safeguards,
] bringing it in line with recently-enacted Canadian
] privacy laws.

I applaud this. This is the right way to do this. Its interesting to note that it is required by federal legislation in Canada. In any event, could the person with the clue here please take a trip to L.A. and give it to ICANN? Please!?

CIRA Proposes New Standard for Domain Name Whois Privacy

As if go wasn't complex enough. I've played it a few times. I suck. I'd like to get good at it but I require an opponent who is actually interested in learning with me over time and regular playing. Add a third dimension, and you can forget it. Go on a mobius strip. You people are nuts.

3-Dimensional Go!

I'm posting this mostly as a commentary for Bucy on Sun...

] Tell me what you'd like Slashdot readers to know.
]
] "Tell them that we're returning to our roots," Schwartz
] said, referring to the company's renewed focus on the
] Solaris operating environment.
]
] "And we want developers back on our side. If there's more
] for us to do, we'll go do it," McNealy added.

This article makes every effort to debunk Sun, and falls on its face. The author makes numerous bad arguements.

He claims you can deploy production services on Gentoo, which is Geek for "I've never actually run a production service, and I have no fucking idea I'm talking about."

He claims that there is no value in getting patches for free from a vendor if all you're getting is "security patches." Once again, this guy has clearly never run production infrastructure. You don't want ANYTHING other then security patches and critical bug fixes. The point is that you build something that works and is reliable and you want to basically leave it alone unless you have to muck with it.

He is totally confused about indemnity and the Kodak suit. The point is that Debian doesn't indemnify it's users and can't.

What this article did do was confirm a suspicion I had when I read about Solaris 10. When Redhat pulled the Iron Curtain down on it's patch program they created a market vacuum. You could install Redhat, and run it, in production, and play around with it just as you would with any linux system, and then if you got to a point where you needed to scale it and support it there is no need to reinstall, reformat, or re-architech. You just call them. That was awesome.

Today there really isn't a solution that offers that. The fact that support is available for a particular distro doesn't mean that support is really what you're looking for. What you want is a strong relationship with a hardware company and good source\bug managment from your software. THATS what SUN is offering. I can build stuff on Solaris, for free, with whatever hardware I've got lying around, and if I need support for it, and big ass hardware, I can get it.

Is this far and away better then the IBM/SUSE/REDHAT combination? No. In fact, its much easier to move my existing linux stuff into the IBM environment with less culture shock. However, it IS competitive. They are offering three things that IBM isn't:

1. The scaling without speed bumps that I talk about here.
2. One stop shopping.
3. In some cases better technology.

This author seems to be really excited about SUSE. I've never found SUSE to be particularly exciting. Seemed like it was a linux distro that was focused on handling European customers right. Novell now owns it. Novell is a company that had a great product that got obsolete while they weren't looking. They were left with a lot of money and a lot of people and nothing to do. They've been floundering around ever since looking for meaning in life.

Why SUSE vs. Redhat? I mean it. Anyone actually running SUSE? Novell does a good job of explaining what they offer:
http://www.novell.com/products/linuxenterpriseserver/why_novell.html

It seems like they have a cultural hill to climb. Most geeks are still pretty happy with what Redhat was doing in last few years.

NewsForge | Commentary: Linux is not Red Hat, and other Sun-isms debunked

] Pirates are the heroes of age-old adventure stories, but
] most of us forget that whole regions still depend on
] modern pirates. The coast around Malacca in Malaysia is
] such a spot, together with the Bay of Thailand and the
] Southern Chinese Sea. In South America the coast of
] Northern Brazil is another centre of pirate activity. On
] average every other day sees an attack, and whenever
] pirates strike they leave good manners at home. Typically
] all people on board of a ship are killed, unless they
] manage to escape with a rescue boat. Most pirates know in
] advance if the ship and its cargo is worth an attack,
] because they use state of the art equipment to monitor
] Inmarsat communications and even fax transmissions
] listing every single cargo item.

An interesting article on snooping Inmarsat

Inmarsat zapping

] With support from both Republicans and Democrats, the
] Federal Communications Commission is poised to get even
] more aggressive about enforcing moral values throughout
] broadcasting, even putting cable television in its cross
] hairs and taking aim at Howard Stern's right to talk
] dirty on satellite radio.

Oh Great. CDA 2.0, the Cable wars.

Wired News: FCC Crackdown Could Spread

] Let me try to convey to you the depth of the weirdness
] that arose when all the public-interest groups' papers
] were stolen and trashed at WIPO.

Wow...

EFF: Public interest trashed at WIPO