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No, this is not a troll. And no, I am not. I am just crying out loud what I and many, many colleagues do on a regular basis. Let us look at this coolly. You browse some source on, say, github. By and by, you find a cool way to compute, say, Fibonacci( 1000000000 ), in Takahashi's paper. So you duly quote the paper in your source code, right ? You maybe even name your class TakahashiFibo, or something like that. But now, in order to make it work, you need a fast implementation of ( java ) BigInteger, especially for the "#.add( int )" and "#.multiply( BigInteger )" routines. You find these, somewhere. Dude, who is going to copy the license file for these two subroutines into his project files ? C'mon. You have done it, too. Copy, paste, compile, test, deliver, done. See the WTFPL license if you don't get what I mean.

Regarding 'superbugs'.
I know that it's already possible to cure that type of infections with bacteriophages with success rate above 80% (about 95% for Staphylococcus aureus). Since last 27 years Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy of Polish Academy of Sciences (located in Wroclaw) have been involved in curing about 1500 people with suppurative bacterial infections, in which a routine antibiotic therapy failed.

This is not a secret thing, so most likely all important people involved in that kind of science (MRSA infections) are aware of this kind of therapy.
Why in other countries (except Poland) is that treatment still not known and not available? Lot of people is dying due to 'superbugs'! MRSA infections alone are responsible for more deaths in the U.S. each year than AIDS!
Why not to let people to try this still EXPERIMENTAL therapy?

Maybe the health care industry got to big inertia or doesn't care or just prefer to cure people with super-expensive brand new antibiotics instead of something relatively cheap.
Is they business case more important then people health or life? They just want to make money instead of curing people?

The final conclusion is that we shouldn't expect anything spectacular regarding 'gator immune system'. Other treatments are already available but simply ignored.
They will not make it available if not sure that it will earn a mountain of bucks for them.
SHOW ME THE MONEY!

Well, you can do the opposite as well - run IE on Linux using Wine and have the rendering done via Gecko. Here's Jacek's screenshots of that:
http://www.lo3.wroc.pl/~jcaban/wine-ie/

-calyxa

Sir, what you write mostly is not true and I honestly doubt if you really do remember the People's Republic of Poland. Let me focus on some particular points:

They stopped condemning rock music, instead they pursued engaging it on their side (see the Manaam band)

And what exactly should we see about it? (BTW: it's Maanam, not Manaam). Maybe the fact that in 1980's its music was banned from public radio (and there was no private radio) for the band's refusal to participate in some stupid Polish-Soviet Friendship gathering? Their song "Tango" was occupying high position on the popular Top Twenty radio list, but they couldn't play it - they played only a brief staccato of percussion instead. Some freedom, eh?

Nobody even thought about banning homosexuality.

Simply not true. Even in the late 1980's, secret political police launched a so called Operation Hyacinth, aiming for massive arrests of active homosexuals. For the whole period of communism in Poland, homosexuals were invigilated and generally treated as criminals by the police ("indecent behavior" was banned as such). Details in the link attached (sorry - in Polish)

Pornography allowed 18+, sex - 16+.

Neither is true. Pornography was explicitly banned by the Censorship Act (officially known as "Ustawa o kontroli publikacji i widowisk" - "Control Of Publications And Spectacles"), namely by paragraph 10 of the 2nd article. As for sex, it was legal from 15+, but then again, what is and what is not "indecent" was up to arbitrary decision of any policeman.

Hard drugs illegal and mostly unknown. Besides, the youth had far more interesting stuff to do than to drug themselves, start gang wars, rob people.

Not true. In late 1970's, a domestic method for production of a "poor man's heroine", known as "kompot", was developed and succesfully applied wasting thousands of young lifes. Poles are generally ingenous in inventing strange homebrew methods of manufacturing virtually anything, especially means to get knocked down. There were many "poor man's hard drugs" manufactured from incredible stuff, like bathroom cleaners or paint dillutants. As for the young gangs, they were as active as today, especially in the "mean neighborhoods" of major cities.

You didn't HAVE TO work.

Absolutely not true. In 1980's work was mandatory. It was against the law not to have any job. Everyone had to have a stamp of his employer in his ID and show it to any policeman on demand. Lack of a stamp could lead to arrest, high fine and having a compulsory job ordered by the authority (usually digging trenches etc.).

Vacations in your firm's contracted or owned hotel (Black Sea? Yugoslavia? Romania?)

In most cases, a derelict, sub-standard bunkhouse somewhere in the Polish countryside - that would not even be counted as "one star" in any contemporary tourism rating. No bathroom - wash in cold water, defecate in a shared outhouse.

It was the shiny shop shelves bending under weight of wares, it was fast cars, big luxury houses most of people who fought, thought they would have.

No, it was more than that. It was the fact that you don't need to fear the policeman if you didn't break any law. It was the fact that you actually have some rights and can even succesfully defend them in court against the state institutions. It was the fact that you can legally buy foreign currency (illegal under communism). It was the fact that you can actually have a passport and travel wherever and whenever you want (under communism, you could get a passport after explaining where do you want to go and what do you want to do; the authorities could simply refuse without any explanation; you were obliged to return the passport within seven days upon return).

Sir, what you write mostly is not true and I honestly doubt if you really do remember the People's Republic of Poland. Let me focus on some particular points:

They stopped condemning rock music, instead they pursued engaging it on their side (see the Manaam band)

And what exactly should we see about it? (BTW: it's Maanam, not Manaam). Maybe the fact that in 1980's its music was banned from public radio (and there was no private radio) for the band's refusal to participate in some stupid Polish-Soviet Friendship gathering? Their song "Tango" was occupying high position on the popular Top Twenty radio list, but they couldn't play it - they played only a brief staccato of percussion instead. Some freedom, eh?

Nobody even thought about banning homosexuality.

Simply not true. Even in the late 1980's, secret political police launched a so called Operation Hyacinth, aiming for massive arrests of active homosexuals. For the whole period of communism in Poland, homosexuals were invigilated and generally treated as criminals by the police ("indecent behavior" was banned as such). Details in the link attached (sorry - in Polish)

Pornography allowed 18+, sex - 16+.

Neither is true. Pornography was explicitly banned by the Censorship Act (officially known as "Ustawa o kontroli publikacji i widowisk" - "Control Of Publications And Spectacles"), namely by paragraph 10 of the 2nd article. As for sex, it was legal from 15+, but then again, what is and what is not "indecent" was up to arbitrary decision of any policeman.

Hard drugs illegal and mostly unknown. Besides, the youth had far more interesting stuff to do than to drug themselves, start gang wars, rob people.

Not true. In late 1970's, a domestic method for production of a "poor man's heroine", known as "kompot", was developed and succesfully applied wasting thousands of young lifes. Poles are generally ingenous in inventing strange homebrew methods of manufacturing virtually anything, especially means to get knocked down. There were many "poor man's hard drugs" manufactured from incredible stuff, like bathroom cleaners or paint dillutants. As for the young gangs, they were as active as today, especially in the "mean neighborhoods" of major cities.

You didn't HAVE TO work.

Absolutely not true. In 1980's work was mandatory. It was against the law not to have any job. Everyone had to have a stamp of his employer in his ID and show it to any policeman on demand. Lack of a stamp could lead to arrest, high fine and having a compulsory job ordered by the authority (usually digging trenches etc.).

Vacations in your firm's contracted or owned hotel (Black Sea? Yugoslavia? Romania?)

In most cases, a derelict, sub-standard bunkhouse somewhere in the Polish countryside - that would not even be counted as "one star" in any contemporary tourism rating. No bathroom - wash in cold water, defecate in a shared outhouse.

It was the shiny shop shelves bending under weight of wares, it was fast cars, big luxury houses most of people who fought, thought they would have.

No, it was more than that. It was the fact that you don't need to fear the policeman if you didn't break any law. It was the fact that you actually have some rights and can even succesfully defend them in court against the state institutions. It was the fact that you can legally buy foreign currency (illegal under communism). It was the fact that you can actually have a passport and travel wherever and whenever you want (under communism, you could get a passport after explaining where do you want to go and what do you want to do; the authorities could simply refuse without any explanation; you were obliged to return the passport within seven days upon return).

About 6 years ago there was something similar for the Amiga.

Here's a few links:

http://www.pwr.wroc.pl/AMIGA/AR/ar410_Sections/rev iew5.html
http://www.amiga-hardware.com/vbs.html
http://www.aurora1.demon.co.uk/gadgets/vbs.html">h ttp://www.aurora1.demon.co.uk/gadgets/vbs.html (Nasty backdrop!)

For my money, I'd get a laptop, mainly so that most of the components would be be soldered in and you wouldn't get problems with things like PCI card connectors corroding. We had a server room flood once, and had flakey connection related problems for about a year after (re-seat card, problem goes away). It would also probably be easier to power, how about one of the many "MilSpec" ruggedised laptops?

Xix.

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well, one thing with IPv6 (kind of like IPX in this respect) is that the last 48 bits of your address are your MAC address. while this is ethernet (and compatible) addressing specific, that's most everything these days. so it's not even a matter of static or dynamic anymore, as everything just *IS* what it is, and that's about it. I don't know if you remember the IPX days, or even experienced them, but there wasn't much of an issue with addressing with it (at least in the same respect as we have with IP now.) I look forward to IP addressing being less of an issue.

That being said, routing protocols will need to be furthered, and some of the new routing protocols as well as the IPv6 versions of old standbys (like BGP, OSPF, etc) are pretty slick. think about the amount of route summarization you'd need to do for BGP so you don't kill yourself! we're talking massive exponentional expansions in potential routes. ouch. I think that's why most of the IPv6 space is going to be kept close together to save us all the hassle of watching our older equipment die under the load. thinking of all those little ISP's loading up IPv6 BGP on a cisco 3640 or something equivalent just makes me want to cry :)

Here's a good link on the routing issues moving to IPv6: http://www.t17.ds.pwr.wroc.pl/~misiek/ipv6/!Docume ntation/ip6routing.html