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Another option, if one does not need recursive caching is posadis. There is also pdnsd, which only provides recursive DNS service.

Security history of various DNS servers:

• Bind 4 and 8: multiple remote root shells
• Bind 9: Denial of service vulnerbilities found
• MaraDNS: Denial of service vulnerabilities found
• Posadis: remote shell
• pdnsd: remote shell

Emulators like Power 64 (OS 9) and VICE (Win32, etc.) work very well if you feel nostalgic and would like to play with a virtual Commodore 64 again.

There is also a plethora of Commodore links over at dmoz that includes dozens of software archives containing everything ever released for the computer.

And if you just feel like talking about stuff like this the best place to hang out with the current Commodore community is over at the newsgroup comp.sys.cbm.

Well actually I think VICE is much better, you get more than an accurate c=64 emulation; you get a C128, Vic20, C=16, Pet, and a few more. Plus it can emulate the c=64 keyboard nicely.

Maybe I just haven't bothered to look hard enough,

Like maybe an actual search?

but I didn't know there were any other Open Source name servers out there.

You mean, like these?

• CustomDNS
• DENTS
• djbdns
• dnsmasq
• DNSJava
• dProxy
• MaraDNS
• MyDNS
• pDNSd
• Posadis

djbdns doesn't count and we both already know that

Ah, I see. It's not "Open Source" software because it isn't published under an "Open Source" license, right? (sigh) Dan Bernstein is a total security freak. He doesn't trust ANYBODY. He especially doesn't trust anybody to distribute modified, binary versions of his software, ruining his reputation when one of their "enhancements" results in a security hole. This already happened once when a Qmail add-on was discovered to have a security problem, and thereby tarnished Qmail's otherwise perfect security record.

So he ONLY authorizies distribution of his ORIGINAL source code. No modifications allowed, except as diffs to the originals. And if you apply those diffs and something breaks, don't blame him; blame the author of the diff.

You might disagree with Dan; he's a hard-nosed, inflexible so-and-so. But he's got style, and his programs are a beautiful model of efficiency.

The Open Source community could use a few more people like Dan.

and we both already know that so don't bother with beating that dead horse.

Such Style! Such Wit! Such Argument! Such Rhetoric! Such Unquestionable Authority!

Such a sterling example of my sigfile:

you can limit the spin rate of any cd-rom drive with programmes like cd-bremse. makes a notable difference...

I think you're basing your assessments on the old United Aircraft Turbotrains and the even older GE Big Blow locomotives that Union Pacific Railroad ran during the 1950's and 1960's.

Turbine power was initially considered for the French TGV; it is the petroleum crisis in 1974 that decided them to go electric. The TGV001 prototype was turbine-powered. And the RTG turbo trains weren't exactly failures either (they are still running in France).

1. The train is designed to meet the very strict FRA requirements for crash survivability, requirements that are actually stricter than those in much of Europe.

2. The JetTrain locomotive uses far more modern gas turbine engines than the old Turbotrain. Remember, Turbotrain was built during the 1960's; with 30 years of research and development since then derived from developing quieter, more fuel efficient and less-polluting jet engines for the commercial aircraft industry since 1970, Pratt & Whitney today can deliver a gas turbine engine for the JetTrain that will use much less fuel, spew out way less exhaust emissions and generate far less noise than the old Turbotrains.

3. Because JetTrain is a clean sheet design, it won't have to owe anything to current diesel-electric locomotive technology, technology that emphasizes more on initial pulling power for heavy trains. Remember, the entire JetTrain trainset uses the latest in materials technology to keep the weight down while still meeting FRA safety standards.

If Bombardier can demonstrate it can properly cool the hot exhaust from the gas turbine engine so it doesn't become a fire/high- temperature hazard to nearby objects, JetTrain with its potential 155 mph (250 km/h) top speed could be just the train for a number of Amtrak routes here in the USA.

Already, Amtrak is in the process of upgrading the Chicago to Detroit corridor to handle trains in excess of 100 mph; JetTrain would be a natural for this route.

And since Amtrak's Southwest Chief long-distance train between Chicago and Los Angeles runs mostly on AT&SF railroad trackage (which was rated for 100+ mph operation back in 1937!), imagine a JetTrain variant of the Southwest Chief going between Los Angeles and Chicago in under 36 hours! (That is faster than the record for this route set by the Santa Fe Super C freight train in the late 1960's.)

While having high-speed electric trains with overhead wiring is nice, you're forgetting that setting up all that catenary wiring is exorbitantly expensive, especially when you also have to tie in that wiring into the local electrical grid. And don't forget the NIMBY crowd that might not be too thrilled by the installation of all that wiring for various reasons.

However, one thing that will need to be done is to tackle the airline lobby head-on; best way would be to associate them. In Canada, Air-Canada has it's fingers in an eventual TGV pie, because they know very well how expensive it is to run airplanes, and they saw what happenned (oblivion) to domestic air transport in France when the TGV came online 20 years ago.

I think if Bombardier can work out the bugs on JetTrain, it may become the primary form of locomotion for high-speed rail in the USA, mostly because you can skip out on the expensive overhead catenary wiring installation.

"Now, a screaming baby jammer, that I can agree with."

Maybe it would be something like this?

"And probably a member of the hitler youth."

I have no such affiliation. In fact, I'm not a fan of either Microsoft or Hitler.

Annoying the occasional moron makes it all worthwhile. Go play with your X box.

VICE, anyone?

VICE is a Versatile Commodore Emulator, i.e. a program that runs on a Unix, MS-DOS, Win95/NT, OS/2, Acorn RISC OS or BeOS machine and executes programs intended for the old 8-bit Commodore computers. The current version emulates the C64, the C128, the VIC20, all the PET models (except the SuperPET 9000, which is out of line anyway) and the CBM-II (aka C610).

You're thinking of the Atari Lynx handheld. The Jaguar is a console, the Lynx was a handheld.

I'm not disputing that conspiracy in science is vastly harder to do and hold down for periods of time compared to virtually any other activity, but I think it's a mistake to think that this is a fluke.

Take Walter Stewart as an example; first investigating the David Baltimore case and then measuring scientific misconduct as a whole, he found that "two thirds of a group of forty seven scientists had done something [...] either careless or irresponsible during a three year period." (Hindsights, ISBN 0446671150). His activities have caused him censure, reassignment, threats and worse.

It would be interesting to see how much science gets by on the assumption that the scientific process has been followed. I suspect that a bunch of science papers are written like journalists write articles; written to the deadline, with only as much work as is barely necessary.

I'm not disputing that conspiracy in science is vastly harder to do and hold down for periods of time compared to virtually any other activity, but I think it's a mistake to think that this is a fluke.

Take Walter Stewart as an example; first investigating the David Baltimore case and then measuring scientific misconduct as a whole, he found that "two thirds of a group of forty seven scientists had done something [...] either careless or irresponsible during a three year period." (Hindsights, ISBN 0446671150). His activities have caused him censure, reassignment, threats and worse.

It would be interesting to see how much science gets by on the assumption that the scientific process has been followed. I suspect that a bunch of science papers are written like journalists write articles; written to the deadline, with only as much work as is barely necessary.

I'm not disputing that conspiracy in science is vastly harder to do and hold down for periods of time compared to virtually any other activity, but I think it's a mistake to think that this is a fluke.

Take Walter Stewart as an example; first investigating the David Baltimore case and then measuring scientific misconduct as a whole, he found that "two thirds of a group of forty seven scientists had done something [...] either careless or irresponsible during a three year period." (Hindsights, ISBN 0446671150). His activities have caused him censure, reassignment, threats and worse.

It would be interesting to see how much science gets by on the assumption that the scientific process has been followed. I suspect that a bunch of science papers are written like journalists write articles; written to the deadline, with only as much work as is barely necessary.

Here's a good idiom resource: Wayne Magnuson: English Idioms. Unfortunately, the bridge selling idiom is not there.

Basically, it means that if you believe that story, you'll believe anything, as in "come to me because I have a bridge (sometimes the Brooklyn Bridge) I want to sell you."

Like in Daniel F. Galouye's Simulacron-3( aka Counterfeit World)? Basis for both 13th Floor and Welt am Draht / World on a Wire. That book is from 1964.

I just yesterday finished with the same problem.
Here is a post I made about this

I have bought a new DVD-Player which
has all the features I need. The Grundig GDV130 (a TYT / Scan2000 Clone).
Read about it here:
German
English
My personal experience with flashing that player: (only in german) here

There is a forum on Yahoo-Groups for the Scan2000/TYT Clones here. You need the latest Firmware and a tool called GSK2 from the files Section.
With that tool you can make the Firmware Macrovision free AND Turn of User Prohibition.
So now you can switch off subtitles which you sometimes aren't allowed, you can go directly to the Title-Menu. It's really neat.

My new Grundig GDV130 DVD Player now has these cool features:

- Regionfree (Remote-Control Code)
- Macrovision Free (thru the new Firmware)
- No User Prohibitions (I can now switch of those subtitles, or go directly
to the title-menu without watching those nasty copyright notices)
- Good SVCD/VCD Playback
- CVD (China VCD Subtitles) with SVCD

Cheers

I just yesterday finished with the same problem.
Here is a post I made about this

I have bought a new DVD-Player which
has all the features I need. The Grundig GDV130 (a TYT / Scan2000 Clone).
Read about it here:
German
English
My personal experience with flashing that player: (only in german) here

There is a forum on Yahoo-Groups for the Scan2000/TYT Clones here. You need the latest Firmware and a tool called GSK2 from the files Section.
With that tool you can make the Firmware Macrovision free AND Turn of User Prohibition.
So now you can switch off subtitles which you sometimes aren't allowed, you can go directly to the Title-Menu. It's really neat.

My new Grundig GDV130 DVD Player now has these cool features:

- Regionfree (Remote-Control Code)
- Macrovision Free (thru the new Firmware)
- No User Prohibitions (I can now switch of those subtitles, or go directly
to the title-menu without watching those nasty copyright notices)
- Good SVCD/VCD Playback
- CVD (China VCD Subtitles) with SVCD

Cheers

Get an emulator here and almost everything that was ever written for a C-64 from arnold.c64.org (ftp site). You can fit damn near everything on a single CD-R, in fact. Amazing how much wonderful stuff was available on the 64.

"I adore my 64, my Commodore 64!"

Kraftwerk. Their discography here and their official homepage here. A good cd to get you started would be "the mix", which has track representing many of their cds. Kind of like a greatest hits. I personally like electric cafe and Trans Europe Express.

Crypto File systems
Serious Operating System protect File System Objects through the use of access control mechanism . In it's simplest form it comes as a Access Matrix. In this case File System Objects just have a Owner and some Attributes that specify who (User, Group, Other) can access / manipulate the Object. With this type of access matrix the kernel can decide who can enter Directories, Read or Modify (create,write , delete) Files. Most moderns Operating Systems have also ACL's. This allows a more fine grained control beyound the simple user/group approach. There are two main problems with any access control System. Someone can get around access control by using some local/remote exploit or much more simple by getting rid of the Framework - the Operating System - under which the Subsystem executes that controls the access. Simply booting another instance of the same OS can do the trick or just using tools from a 'standalone' (floppy) System. If someone has local access (complete physical controll) to the system , access control can't stop any experienced attacker. And is finally the point were Crypto Filessytems put another barrier infront of a potential attacker.

JaLCDs or LCDSmartie for instance. There are WinAmp plugins and step-by-step instructions for the do-it-yourselfer (sorry, those are in German, there should be English ones out there, too).

Seriously, you can go to the local hardware store and buy the necessities to derail a train for under $20.00.

Our society is based on trust - the trust that most people are smart enough to know how to do things like this, but also smart enough to know that it would be a dumb thing to do it.

This is what makes legislated morality so stupid - you just can't legislate morality - you teach it by example.

"World's most recent press release..." is probably more like it.

http://home.t-online.de/home/Alexander.Farber/foto s/icewm-openbsd.gif

... but the old game is avalable in a lot of places, like this.
Combined with vice, you can relive your childhood... :)

This link offers a consise explanation.

How many window managers have I tried? Way too many. ;) Here are a few interesting/unusual keyboard config options.

A while ago I ran into Oroborus - it has an
optional component called 'Key Launch' that basically sits there and runs
commands based on key presses. This is completely separated from window
manager and desktop environment, and highly customizable.

The default GNOME window manager as you probably already know is sawfish, and there's a hack that lets you do smooth workspace scrolling with key commands, which is, um, smooth.

When all is said and done, though, I still usually wind up gravitating back to WindowMaker.

There are two that I know of for Windows: Hamster (page is German), which is GPL'ed, and MyNews, by the creator of yEnc, which is shareware and includes a built-in newsreader. There are probably more but those seem like the two dominant players in this very small field :)

However, both of those are really oriented towards P2P more than what the poster was looking for. And I don't even want to think about what kind of smackdown would be waiting for a home broadband user running an open news server.

I'm a slave of the German Telekom and its online-sevice T-Online. They offer T-DSL, 768kbit down - 128 kbit up, and I'm really happy with it. My Connection is always fast ans stable, it works great with Fli4l and it costs just 30 EUR.

pstoedit converts PostScript and PDF to several editable vector-graphic formats: http://home.t-online.de/home/helga.glunz/wglunz/ps toedit/

Ollydbg is a neat freeware asm debugger for Windows.

(Oh, as for the sig, please don't "persecute" us. Don't prosecute either.)

This is funny, I just ran across this today and bookmarked it to try someday.
http://home.t-online.de/home/Martin.Both/vborb.htm l
You can write CORBA servers and clients, call EJB's whatever, looks like. Open Source (guy doesn't even offer a binary download). Looks cool, but I haven't even looked at it.

There seems to be some kind of misunderstanding here.

The article mentioned talks about a proposal to require large german portals (like t-online or freenet) to only link to pr0n sites during the hours specified.
It is not about requiring those sites to only open during these hours.

German politicians (at least most of them) understand quite well that the internet is a international medium that can not be controlled by a single country.


Do not push the red button !

I just checked on German Telekom's subsidiary t-online web site. The non-banking applications are to shut down on December 31, 2001. However, home banking service applications are to continue to run on the existing hardware using the existing protocols indefinitely. Doesn't sound quite dead to me. Perhaps Buffy needs to lend a hand. :-)

There is an very well written article at Planetquake, which influenced my opinion towards this topic that much that I better just link it instead of quoting it thru my post.

The new mod_xray Episdode II Teaser - Download It now!

can be found at mod_xray (my homepage - german).
i've to read the new chapters now :)

That's why I used 'ugly' in the first place, if you cared to read.

On the other hand this is a somewhat artificial uglyness, because compilation is usually delegated to external programs (the compiler) and not integral part of the run time system, which makes it harder to use and to get perceived more artificial than the built in byte code compilation of those interpreted functional languages. This has nothing to do with the language, why not have C++ running on a VM and with an easy integrated compilation function? (Will something like this not be part of .NOT?)

(and no, #defines are not Turing complete, nor they can parse their arguments).

I didn't claim that. But templates (which are one of the means Stroustrup tried to get rid of the preprocessor) offer such computation power at run time: This link to template metaprogramming should give an example.

Regards, Marc

There is also Märklin (which was compatible with Meccano). Check this page out.

I had lot's of both and in my later child years it beat Lego by length's. I had axels, wheels, motors - the whole lot - and build aaaamazing machines with it.

I got the largest one when I was like 4 or 5, and bought all expansions when I turned 21 :-). I still have it and on occasion use it now, over 40 years later.

Unfortunately they apparently stopped making them. There are some photos at http://home.t-online.de/home/HGFinke/metall/engl.h tml.

It does work with folowing compilers:

• Compiler - File format
• NASM - Flat form binary, RDOFF, RDOFF 2 (NEW!)
• TASM - 32 bit "MZ", PE
• MASM - 32 bit "MZ", PE
• MSVC++ 4/5 (NEW! MSVC 6) - Win32PE
• Borland C++ 4.xx/5.xx - Win32PE
• Borland C++ Builder - Win32PE
• Borland Delphi 2, 3 and 4 - Win32PE
• Watcom C++ - Watcom style LE
• DJGPP v2 - COFF

You can find the history of it here. Wow, reading that you realize how cool things are thanks to the FSF.

Thank you very much for your kind words!

Yes, Unix piping is in a sense concatenative, although unix command lines definitely are not.

Until just recently, everyone seems to have thought as you do about type checking. Including myself. To our surprise, Dr. Becher, while trying to write a simple memory handler for an complex embedded system, wrote a complete, strong, polymorphic, static typing system (with plenty of room for dynamic types). Amazingly, this system required absolutely no syntax changes or compiler modifications; the resulting language is unmistakably Forth! (Although in practice, you want to redefine all words so that they can use the typing, and the result of THAT is not ANSI standard Forth.)

How he did it is amazingly simple, efficient, and natural; check it out at his homepage.

His system appears to have some limitations compared to a generic concatenative language (for example, a word can't have a variable stack effect); however, I've come up with a simple solution which makes his system have the full abilities of any other concatenative language. I haven't written it up because right now, my prototype requires a small runtime component, and I'm sure that I can make it entirely static (so that it'll be comparable to Becher's system).

Someone else has also designed an ML-style inferencer for a Joy-like language, but I'm not aware of it actually having been built. At any rate, I have some doubts about its usefulness; Becher's system is so simple and elegant that I don't think I want all the complexity and overhead of ML type inference for the tiny advantage of sometimes not having to declare types.

However, earlier you state that "this behavior doesn't come without a cost." Your specific example was incorrect, but in general you're correct. There's a time to use applicativity, and a time to use concatenativity. Every computer scientist should know Forth and understand concatenativity, but every computer scientist should also know the other, different languages.

I simply find concatenativity interesting because I've never studied it before.

-Billy

for the german speaking ./ers, good coverage on heute online

When you think you've seen it all:

People Celebrating the attack

Please, if you choose to mail them, there are many valid reasons why Adobe should have tried to resolve this matter in a more appropriate manner. But flames won't help anyone.

If you have a well-reasoned letter, send it to rsw@isarpatent.com or isar-patent@t-online.de

Walter

I use OpenBSD as firewall on one PC and as desktop on another since 1 year and like it! Already the man pages alone make it worth. Here's a screenshot from my wide-screen 21" Sony FW900

Lets not forget about fortran!.. Oh, you said for the web.. right.. *cough*.. Oh look, here comes my bus..


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My Mac's been dead for a few weeks, but when it comes back up I plan to port the first game I ever wrote (er, ported), Lunar Lander, to it. That was back in '69...

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There is such a care. Can't remember who it's made by, but it was designed in association with...Swatch

The Swatch car was a design study with only a few units built. It has a successor, though - the Smart, which is produced by a subsidiary of Daimler Chrysler. After a slow start it has become quite common - at least in Germany and the surrounding countries. And yes, it has replacable body panels... it almost looks like this.
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