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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Networks alternative to Internet Post 302403705 by Action on Sunday 14th of March 2010 01:16:18 AM
Old 03-14-2010
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Originally Posted by Neo
It is easier for most people to cling to what they are familiar with than to embrace change.
For that reason there traditionally were administrators - system, network, database etc admins. They control everything and give the users what they want, what they are familiar with. Other side - it is not only about people, it is also about data. An organization needs to keep its data for (very) long time. Not only to keep all the data, but also be able to work with it at any moment. That means that they also need to keep their software, which means they need to keep hardware the software was designed for. All the changes like WWW instead of Gopher/WAIS/etc and Windows 7 instead of Windows 95 go against that. Generally, if my old Windows 95 (or even DOS!) works perfectly with what i have, why do i have to change from it to Windows 7? Why do i have to change just anything? It's not in my interest. However, software producers seem not to care about their customers' interests really lot, not only because of all the unneeded changes but especially when reading that some programs do things they should never do, like collecting users' data and transferring it outside (Word, Outlook, _Internet Explorer_, etc). Web and Windows etc might be progressive in some areas, but they have to respect what i think and what i need and what i want as user, operator, customer; in the fact, the model of economy itself tells that the customer decides about everything, as far as i know. The customer is the King, the customer is always right, "Pa-ba-a-am! The Customer is here!". However, like Ric - or what was his name? - in "Falling Down" said, "It is not our policy" - or something like this, seems to be so.
 

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networks(4)						     Kernel Interfaces Manual						       networks(4)

NAME
networks - Contains network name information SYNOPSIS
/etc/networks DESCRIPTION
The networks file contains information about the known networks that comprise the DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) Inter- net. Each network is represented by a single line in the networks file. The format for the entries in the networks file is as follows: Name Number Aliases The fields contain the following: The official network name. The network number. The unofficial names used for the network. Items on a line are separated by one or more spaces or tab characters. Comments begin with a # (number sign). Routines that search the networks file do not interpret characters from the beginning of a comment to the end of that line. Network numbers are specified in dot- ted-decimal notation. A network name can contain any printable character except a field delimiter, newline character, or comment character (#). The networks file is normally created from the official network database maintained at the Network Information Center (NIC). The file may need to be modified locally to include unofficial aliases or unknown networks. RELATED INFORMATION
Commands: route(8) Functions: getnetbyaddr(3), getnetbyname(3), getnetent(3) delim off networks(4)
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