AFS uses kerberos. Kerberos is the three-headed dog that guards the gates of hell (in Greek mythology). When the kerberos server dies, all hell breaks loose. Same problem, much uglier beast.
As far as dead NIS goes, you might be able to set up a slave NIS server. I have not tried this on our NIS/NFS compute cluster yet, and I'm not sure how well Linux NIS servers handle it (we only trust Solaris to serve NIS/NFS).
Have you looked at the budgets for state schools in the past few years? Notice how much red ink there is? Academia barely has money to keep academic programs running, let alone pay for a garbage lawsuit like that.
P.S. "Penn" refers to the University of Pennsylvania, not Penn State.
That sounds a lot like double buffering. Write to one frame to a buffer while the display is looking at another buffer. Then tell the display to switch to the new one and start writing over the old buffer. It's a fairly common technique.
There are a number of lawsuits against fast food chains claiming that they got fat or were unhealthy because of the food, or even that it is addictive. In January, at least one of these cases was laughed out of court (by a judge named wit the last name Sweet, no less). He wrote:
"If a person knows or should know that eating copious orders of supersized McDonald's products is unhealthy and may result in weight gain, it is not the place of the law to proptect them frmo their own excesses.... Nobody is forced to eat at McDonald's. (Except, perhaps, parents of small children who desire McDonald's food, toy promotions or playgrounds, and demand their parents' accompaniment.)"
(Quoted from "Big Macs Can Make you Fat? No Kidding, a Judge Rules," NYTimes, Jan 23, 2003)
Part of the problem is that it takes forever to create and approve a standard. Technology such as memory is a lot more complex and changes a lot more frequently than motor oil. Any standard that you might get would be years behind the current technology, and thus, useless.
You are right about the default settings for NT4. It also has boot options that reserve only 1GB for the OS, so applications can get 3GB per virtual address space. I believe similar options exist for Win2K and XP.
Yep, I remember my Silver Reed daisy wheel printer. Despite only having one font (courier), it always had extremely sharp letters which looked far better than the dot matrix that replaced it.
These days, it's hard to find dot matrix printers. Unfortunately, they and daisy wheels are the only things that can actually print multipart forms.
> how can you teach something without an intimate knowledge of subject?
Some of my favorite teachers teach classes so they can learn the material. Clearly you can't effectively teach a while knowing absolutely nothing, but intimate knowledge is not definitely not a requirement for a good class.
Teachers doing this typically have a good idea of what questions the students will ask, because they just spent hours trying to understand the same material.
> But even though XML documents are not binary, it's not evident to me that it will be easy to render/interpret one of them in ten years from now; doing something useful with it comprises more than just being able to validate the syntax.
When I heard that MS office was using XML for their file format, I used to joke that they'd just embedded a base64-encoded version of the old binary format in an XML wrapper. For all of its questionable "virtues", XML certainly doesn't prevent people from encoding things in their own buzzword-compliant way.
You actually can do this with 4MB of RAM. I even played solitare on it, too. It was just annoying to watch the mouse driver swap back in when you moved the mouse.:-)
One thing I'd really like to see is a version of YOU that really meant "YOU". That is, I'd like to have a tool that lets me build nightly updates/custom packages for a growing compute cluster that I manage. If nothing else, I'd like to see some documentation on what YOU expects, so I could set up my own server.
SuSE seems to have great tools, with some annoying quirks. I'm particularly impressed with the AutoYaST (auto-installer), which handles every difference between my machines gracefully, except whether they are using IDE or SCSI disks.
Not to mention, give you hell at the airport. The security guys in Pittsburgh told me to put my keys in the little bucket, then when they looked closer, told me to put them through the X-ray machine.
They were looking at the old 256k SIMM PCB (all chips removed) and asking "is that a computer chip"? Funny how they pointed at that and missed my Intel keyring fob with a real processor die on it.
There is, but not by looking at the IP packet headers. Check what URLs are actually requested by your web browser. There's more than just an IP at higher protocol levels. Virtual hosting only works because the browser adds a 'Host:' field to its HTTP request, so the web server can distinguish which website is being requested.
The same methods can be used on an HTTP proxy (which is likely to be in use at that school and requires no cooperation from the clients) to block/redirect requests with restricted IP destinations AND 'Host:' fields.
I use squirrelmail with uw-imap and sendmail. Unfortunately, it does not support SSL connections to the IMAP server. It's also a bit sluggish because it opens a new connection to the IMAP server every time you load a page.
Cable companies do pay the content producers for their channels. You watch ads on top of this, because the few cents per that you pay through your cable bill every month isn't enough to keep the producers alive.
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AFS uses kerberos. Kerberos is the three-headed dog that guards the gates of hell (in Greek mythology). When the kerberos server dies, all hell breaks loose. Same problem, much uglier beast.
As far as dead NIS goes, you might be able to set up a slave NIS server. I have not tried this on our NIS/NFS compute cluster yet, and I'm not sure how well Linux NIS servers handle it (we only trust Solaris to serve NIS/NFS).
Have you looked at the budgets for state schools in the past few years? Notice how much red ink there is? Academia barely has money to keep academic programs running, let alone pay for a garbage lawsuit like that.
P.S. "Penn" refers to the University of Pennsylvania, not Penn State.
Until you have to replicate the bugs from the old library. Have fun!
That sounds a lot like double buffering. Write to one frame to a buffer while the display is looking at another buffer. Then tell the display to switch to the new one and start writing over the old buffer. It's a fairly common technique.
> As many providers have found out, if you make it *really* effective, it starts getting false positives and that irritates some customers far more.
:-) At some point, it becomes a self denial of service.
And completely blocking an ISP doesn't get false positives?
Of course! You'll be long dead before you can convince a baby bell that the phone doesn't exist.
There are a number of lawsuits against fast food chains claiming that they got fat or were unhealthy because of the food, or even that it is addictive. In January, at least one of these cases was laughed out of court (by a judge named wit the last name Sweet, no less). He wrote:
... Nobody is forced to eat at McDonald's. (Except, perhaps, parents of small children who desire McDonald's food, toy promotions or playgrounds, and demand their parents' accompaniment.)"
"If a person knows or should know that eating copious orders of supersized McDonald's products is unhealthy and may result in weight gain, it is not the place of the law to proptect them frmo their own excesses.
(Quoted from "Big Macs Can Make you Fat? No Kidding, a Judge Rules," NYTimes, Jan 23, 2003)
Part of the problem is that it takes forever to create and approve a standard. Technology such as memory is a lot more complex and changes a lot more frequently than motor oil. Any standard that you might get would be years behind the current technology, and thus, useless.
Nope, the words went from 8-bit to 32-bit. Just a 4-fold increase.
It makes more sense than ricing up a civic.
You are right about the default settings for NT4. It also has boot options that reserve only 1GB for the OS, so applications can get 3GB per virtual address space. I believe similar options exist for Win2K and XP.
Yep, I remember my Silver Reed daisy wheel printer. Despite only having one font (courier), it always had extremely sharp letters which looked far better than the dot matrix that replaced it.
These days, it's hard to find dot matrix printers. Unfortunately, they and daisy wheels are the only things that can actually print multipart forms.
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> how can you teach something without an intimate knowledge of subject?
Some of my favorite teachers teach classes so they can learn the material. Clearly you can't effectively teach a while knowing absolutely nothing, but intimate knowledge is not definitely not a requirement for a good class.
Teachers doing this typically have a good idea of what questions the students will ask, because they just spent hours trying to understand the same material.
> But even though XML documents are not binary, it's not evident to me that it will be easy to render/interpret one of them in ten years from now; doing something useful with it comprises more than just being able to validate the syntax.
When I heard that MS office was using XML for their file format, I used to joke that they'd just embedded a base64-encoded version of the old binary format in an XML wrapper. For all of its questionable "virtues", XML certainly doesn't prevent people from encoding things in their own buzzword-compliant way.
You actually can do this with 4MB of RAM. I even played solitare on it, too. It was just annoying to watch the mouse driver swap back in when you moved the mouse. :-)
One thing I'd really like to see is a version of YOU that really meant "YOU". That is, I'd like to have a tool that lets me build nightly updates/custom packages for a growing compute cluster that I manage. If nothing else, I'd like to see some documentation on what YOU expects, so I could set up my own server.
SuSE seems to have great tools, with some annoying quirks. I'm particularly impressed with the AutoYaST (auto-installer), which handles every difference between my machines gracefully, except whether they are using IDE or SCSI disks.
Haven't used YaST2 recently, have you? It's an extremely easy package manager that handles all of the dependencies and works quite well.
Not to mention, give you hell at the airport. The security guys in Pittsburgh told me to put my keys in the little bucket, then when they looked closer, told me to put them through the X-ray machine.
They were looking at the old 256k SIMM PCB (all chips removed) and asking "is that a computer chip"? Funny how they pointed at that and missed my Intel keyring fob with a real processor die on it.
People don't bother describing it to the higher ups. Just do it.
There is, but not by looking at the IP packet headers. Check what URLs are actually requested by your web browser. There's more than just an IP at higher protocol levels. Virtual hosting only works because the browser adds a 'Host:' field to its HTTP request, so the web server can distinguish which website is being requested.
The same methods can be used on an HTTP proxy (which is likely to be in use at that school and requires no cooperation from the clients) to block/redirect requests with restricted IP destinations AND 'Host:' fields.
Or set their quota to 1kB. It does wonders in solving all your storage problems, too.
You might have your money back, but what about your data?
I use squirrelmail with uw-imap and sendmail. Unfortunately, it does not support SSL connections to the IMAP server. It's also a bit sluggish because it opens a new connection to the IMAP server every time you load a page.
Cable companies do pay the content producers for their channels. You watch ads on top of this, because the few cents per that you pay through your cable bill every month isn't enough to keep the producers alive.