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Perhaps. But back in the stone ages you diddnt have script kiddies outnumbering quality admins. And even today, with effective firewall rules RPC can be resonably secure.
I bought an ORA RPC book for 25cents (library discard, ~1995). I guess you could say it uses NFS as a case study. At its foundation NFS is basicly UFS, with an arbitrary split at some level, 'just' wrapping functions into RPC calls. NFS v1 that is...
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Or with RPC before Java...
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Need more? Buy a load-balancer and a few more servers. Not a big deal.
You just bought a bunch of hardware; you just proved his point.
But thats not necessaraly a bad thing. Its a trade off. Hardware is cheap. Throwing hardware at the problem is very often the cheapest solution.
Effective spam pervention tools is a marketing tool. Make sure that you tell all your users that you have dedicated hardware to the task. Tell them you update the filters weekly, the virus defs hourly. Publish numbers showing how many virus', and spam your catching.
Sure, some people switch ISP/webhosts like underwear. Fuck 'em, there not worth it. Develop a loyal customer base - physcially local to you. If you can offer someone an office to come to so they can pay their bill that means something. Give them a tour of the machine room.
I remember using Gopher back in 1994 via Lynx on a text based dialup. Even viewing both via text, the web was infinitly better. While it may not be a requirement of the technology, all the gopher sites I went to were hierarchically based, with no cross linking. Some data hadent been webified, so gopher was still usefull, but it sucked.
Are there any benifits of Gopher over http/html at all?
Is that an $8000 server for personal use? I doubt it; pass it on to the customer.
Spam is an arms race.
Once, domains were very expensive and relativly rare so domain based blacklists worked. Now domains are cheep and almost infinite in quanity
Open SMTP relays became heavily used, RBLs were setup to blacklist relays. Admins started getting smart and locking down their boxen.
Open proxies became an issue. RBLs started including proxies. Admins started locking down their proxies
Text analysis tools appeared on the sceen. Spammers started using almost unreadable 3l33t speek.
Spammers are now activly breaking the law to send spam. Viruses, worms, trojans.
The cost of sending out spam is increasing over the short term with real money (you need to use more bandwidth to hit more accounts to get some mail beyond the filters). It requires greater time and effort to generate a message that will get past a filter. Many spammers are now generating uniqie messages per user for tracking purposes, which cost time and money. Now they are risking jail time for creating spam sending viruses. All while there is less benifit; the word is getting out not to buy from spammers.
The cost of sending out spam will eventually reach a point where that time and money is better invested elsewhere.
That may very well be technicaly true. But you are not technicaly legaly required to pay for CC things when you submitted the number over the phone, the internet, or anything besides being physcially present (your card too...).
Call first. Demand a chargeback. Explain why. If they say OK, great. If they say they need a letter, write a letter, but the CC companies do just about everything over the phone, and almost definitly will accept verbal orders for the chargeback.
It forces you to save your configuration. And being forced to save your configuration might get you to think about it in an orderd and structured way before you do so. If you reboot every other day then you will catch (or resolve) these problems when they are still fresh in your mind.
If you regularly have long uptimes you will fall into the trap of just doing things from the command line, but never 'saving' that anywhere. If you dont force yourself to use init scripts, then more often then never you will simply run an obscure - but very important command - and it wont be carried out on the next reboot. If you typed it in a week ago you might remember it, and remember the man page (and possibly even have it in your shells history file). If you typed it in 6mo ago you might have compleatly forgeten it. You might waste 5 minutes relearning it, but you might waste 5 hours too.
Gambling is the wagering (or betting) of money on games of chance. The odds are rigged in the houses favor, and you have a (long term) expectation of loosing. There are relativlty good bets to make, and relativly poor bets to make, and a knowladgeable player can/will last longer then a newbie. But it is ultimatly luck, and you ultimatly loose.
Poker (at least the kind that you mean) is game of skill. Your win/loss expectation is based on your relative skill vs the other players. If you are a skilled player you can overcome the ~2-3% the house takes from the pot.
The house makes money regardless of who wins - they arn't playing. This could be through an ante, a rake (a % of the pot) and the requirement for 'blind bets' that force the pot to be non-zero, possibly through players 'renting' a seat. Or potentially through bar sales (but most/all places where poker is played, the bar is cheep to bring the players in)
If someone on AOL sends a message to a list, then it is the list who is sending it out. While the message might be
From: someone@aol.com
it would be
From somethingelse@listplace.com
which is something compleatly different.
In the XBox. Which is kinda-sorta a PC, but not quite, because it dosent have a compatable BIOS.
If MS was to start producing BIOSes, which Im sure they could do, they would have to maintain compatability with the existing BIOSes of the world.
There are pleanty of things that are not MS OSs that use the BIOS. Ghost. PXE. DOS before Netware (do they still do this?). Recovery CDs. And of course the OSS OSs.
I have no idea how much the license for something like Phoenix BIOS costs. Less then a dollar per mobo, Im sure. Lets say that MS starts giving away their BIOS: How many PC hardware manufacturers are going to switch, to save pennies, at the risk of no longer making PC hardware? The hardware world has settled on using industry standards a long time ago. Not even MS can change that.
I have no idea how good the education from places like Devry or ITT is. Or, more importantly, how well they are redarded.
Beware! "Network engineering" at a university might means how to build a newtork with resistors and a soldering iron. Well, actualy how to desigin a network that someone from Devry will build with a soldering iron... You may lean the ins and outs of network theory; CSMA/CD; token passing... But learn ethernet and IP? Likely not.
A CS degree is nice if you want to go work for Cisco hacking IOS, or for Oracle beating on their low level DB stuff..
As far as actually deploying a network, building a DB based app, a CS degree no more helps you then an EE degree make you qualified to work on a breaker pannel. Would you trust a mechanical engineer to work on your car? Would you want an airframe tech piloting a jumbo with 300 people aboard?
Training is good. Knowladge is good. But can your employer get any more work (or better work) out of someone once they get a peice of paper? No.
Applying for a new job, OTOH... The certs imply that you have the book knowladge. But unless it is a consulting firm (where they have to "resell" you), then the certs themselves again, mean nothing. Choosing beteween someone who has worked with X product for years, and someone who has read a book and managed to pass a test, who would you choose?
This is not to say that certs in general are bad. But to some people/companies they dont mean anything. And I suppose that given otherwise identical canadates, someone who dosent care about certs would likely choose the guy with them.
One of the historical problems with certs is that they have been used as a marketing/mind share tool. Back in the day, becoming a Netware 3.x CNA was trivial. MCSE and CCNA today is the rage. Novell has "fixed" their education program, and even the one exam CNA's from 4.x on has been fairly good. But the damage was done. Today, everyone makes fun of MCSEs. And personaly, even being unemployed, I wouldnt wipe my ass with an A+ cert.
I think in your case, someone is fucking with you. Maby its just some lowly worker bees having some fun, and maby your company is just evil. But I would be looking for a way out.
Hypothesizing, back in the day, kids who owned an Apple, or a C=64, were either the children of geeks, or geeks themselves (already, before they got the computer). Thus they would have either had geek books cramed down their throats, or actually wanted them.
Well, it least in significantly higer porputions then kids today.
GCC's primary feature is, has always been, and likey will be for a long time: portability. GCC runs on everything.
If you want FAST code you should use the compiler from your hardware vendor. The downside is that they might cost money, and almost definitly implement things in a slightly weird way. Weird when compared to the official standard, weird when compared to the defacto standard that is GCC.
I though this was common knowladge, at least amongst people who would be trying to benchmark compilers...
Court reporters are not typing on a QWERTY keyboard, its something Wikipedia calls a "syllabic chord keyboard".
Basicly, rather then typing in characters to form words, they are typing in syllables to form words. Sometime later they transcribe the shorthand into full text. So while recording speech in real time, they are not transcribing it into full text.
And somewhere back in my brain ISTR that prety much all US court procedings have been recorded on audio tape for decades. I know for a fact that the local court houses (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada) have over the last decade or so invested huge amounts in real time, computer based, audio recording gear. So, in addition to having the shorthand version, when transcribing into full text, the reporter would have the ability to listen to it again.
The other character set of historical interest, EBCDIC, has a simmilar "feature" of upper and lower cases having 1 bit of difference.
So on 'old' computers, case smashing is trivial to do. For the record, both ASCII and EBCDIC's begain before computers.
I have no idea if any of the modern charcter sets, Unicode for instance, can be case smashed as easily. On the other hand, computers of today are only about a billion times faster then the card punches and teletypes of the stone ages.
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I bought an ORA RPC book for 25cents (library discard, ~1995). I guess you could say it uses NFS as a case study. At its foundation NFS is basicly UFS, with an arbitrary split at some level, 'just' wrapping functions into RPC calls. NFS v1 that is...
Or with RPC before Java...
You just bought a bunch of hardware; you just proved his point.
But thats not necessaraly a bad thing. Its a trade off. Hardware is cheap. Throwing hardware at the problem is very often the cheapest solution.
Sure, some people switch ISP/webhosts like underwear. Fuck 'em, there not worth it. Develop a loyal customer base - physcially local to you. If you can offer someone an office to come to so they can pay their bill that means something. Give them a tour of the machine room.
Are there any benifits of Gopher over http/html at all?
Spam is an arms race.
Once, domains were very expensive and relativly rare so domain based blacklists worked. Now domains are cheep and almost infinite in quanity
Open SMTP relays became heavily used, RBLs were setup to blacklist relays. Admins started getting smart and locking down their boxen.
Open proxies became an issue. RBLs started including proxies. Admins started locking down their proxies
Text analysis tools appeared on the sceen. Spammers started using almost unreadable 3l33t speek.
Spammers are now activly breaking the law to send spam. Viruses, worms, trojans.
The cost of sending out spam is increasing over the short term with real money (you need to use more bandwidth to hit more accounts to get some mail beyond the filters). It requires greater time and effort to generate a message that will get past a filter. Many spammers are now generating uniqie messages per user for tracking purposes, which cost time and money. Now they are risking jail time for creating spam sending viruses. All while there is less benifit; the word is getting out not to buy from spammers.
The cost of sending out spam will eventually reach a point where that time and money is better invested elsewhere.
Call first. Demand a chargeback. Explain why. If they say OK, great. If they say they need a letter, write a letter, but the CC companies do just about everything over the phone, and almost definitly will accept verbal orders for the chargeback.
If you regularly have long uptimes you will fall into the trap of just doing things from the command line, but never 'saving' that anywhere. If you dont force yourself to use init scripts, then more often then never you will simply run an obscure - but very important command - and it wont be carried out on the next reboot. If you typed it in a week ago you might remember it, and remember the man page (and possibly even have it in your shells history file). If you typed it in 6mo ago you might have compleatly forgeten it. You might waste 5 minutes relearning it, but you might waste 5 hours too.
A varriation on "laziness is a virtue".
Actually there are slightly more then 72 points per inch, unless you beleive Adobe...
Because of you, Google bumped up the rating of sco.com .
Poker (at least the kind that you mean) is game of skill. Your win/loss expectation is based on your relative skill vs the other players. If you are a skilled player you can overcome the ~2-3% the house takes from the pot.
The house makes money regardless of who wins - they arn't playing. This could be through an ante, a rake (a % of the pot) and the requirement for 'blind bets' that force the pot to be non-zero, possibly through players 'renting' a seat. Or potentially through bar sales (but most/all places where poker is played, the bar is cheep to bring the players in)
You buy a used Portmaster 2-er for $31 on EBay and connect 30 modems to it.
And your one of them. 50% of the population is below median intelligence.
If someone on AOL sends a message to a list, then it is the list who is sending it out. While the message might be
From: someone@aol.com
it would be
From somethingelse@listplace.com
which is something compleatly different.
If MS was to start producing BIOSes, which Im sure they could do, they would have to maintain compatability with the existing BIOSes of the world.
There are pleanty of things that are not MS OSs that use the BIOS. Ghost. PXE. DOS before Netware (do they still do this?). Recovery CDs. And of course the OSS OSs.
I have no idea how much the license for something like Phoenix BIOS costs. Less then a dollar per mobo, Im sure. Lets say that MS starts giving away their BIOS: How many PC hardware manufacturers are going to switch, to save pennies, at the risk of no longer making PC hardware? The hardware world has settled on using industry standards a long time ago. Not even MS can change that.
Beware! "Network engineering" at a university might means how to build a newtork with resistors and a soldering iron. Well, actualy how to desigin a network that someone from Devry will build with a soldering iron... You may lean the ins and outs of network theory; CSMA/CD; token passing... But learn ethernet and IP? Likely not.
As far as actually deploying a network, building a DB based app, a CS degree no more helps you then an EE degree make you qualified to work on a breaker pannel. Would you trust a mechanical engineer to work on your car? Would you want an airframe tech piloting a jumbo with 300 people aboard?
Applying for a new job, OTOH... The certs imply that you have the book knowladge. But unless it is a consulting firm (where they have to "resell" you), then the certs themselves again, mean nothing. Choosing beteween someone who has worked with X product for years, and someone who has read a book and managed to pass a test, who would you choose?
This is not to say that certs in general are bad. But to some people/companies they dont mean anything. And I suppose that given otherwise identical canadates, someone who dosent care about certs would likely choose the guy with them.
One of the historical problems with certs is that they have been used as a marketing/mind share tool. Back in the day, becoming a Netware 3.x CNA was trivial. MCSE and CCNA today is the rage. Novell has "fixed" their education program, and even the one exam CNA's from 4.x on has been fairly good. But the damage was done. Today, everyone makes fun of MCSEs. And personaly, even being unemployed, I wouldnt wipe my ass with an A+ cert.
I think in your case, someone is fucking with you. Maby its just some lowly worker bees having some fun, and maby your company is just evil. But I would be looking for a way out.
Hypothesizing, back in the day, kids who owned an Apple, or a C=64, were either the children of geeks, or geeks themselves (already, before they got the computer). Thus they would have either had geek books cramed down their throats, or actually wanted them.
Well, it least in significantly higer porputions then kids today.
If you want FAST code you should use the compiler from your hardware vendor. The downside is that they might cost money, and almost definitly implement things in a slightly weird way. Weird when compared to the official standard, weird when compared to the defacto standard that is GCC.
I though this was common knowladge, at least amongst people who would be trying to benchmark compilers...
Basicly, rather then typing in characters to form words, they are typing in syllables to form words. Sometime later they transcribe the shorthand into full text. So while recording speech in real time, they are not transcribing it into full text.
And somewhere back in my brain ISTR that prety much all US court procedings have been recorded on audio tape for decades. I know for a fact that the local court houses (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada) have over the last decade or so invested huge amounts in real time, computer based, audio recording gear. So, in addition to having the shorthand version, when transcribing into full text, the reporter would have the ability to listen to it again.
... Or do you mean to manage the cables?
So on 'old' computers, case smashing is trivial to do. For the record, both ASCII and EBCDIC's begain before computers.
I have no idea if any of the modern charcter sets, Unicode for instance, can be case smashed as easily. On the other hand, computers of today are only about a billion times faster then the card punches and teletypes of the stone ages.
More to the point, if you NEED lots of adresing space, then you will HAVE lots of space to store it, no?
Ah, Kids in the Hall...