I would say not. Computers of the day (and there predecessors, punch card machines as far back as the late 19th century) were heavly optimized for doing relativly easy - trivial - tasks on insanely large amounts of information.
As for interoperability - hahahahaha. Everything was very very customized and its wouldnt have been uncommon that if one of the old guys left a team then compleatly undocumented as well.
Im speculating at this point, but the idea behind human readable (ie string as oposed to integer) data would be partialy historical (people taking a census onto punch cards in rural Russia in 1895 couldnt be expected to convert strings to ints in there head) and partialy because it would actualy be quicker: the computer wouldnt have to do the conversion on input, or on print out routines, and most of the time spinning through insane amounts of data it wouldnt be checking the date anyway so no conversion would be necessary.
As for loading on top of DOS, the reasons now are somewhat historical, but there were very good reasons at the time. I suppose from way, way, way back its because Netware started on non-Intell machines and the little DOS wedge gave Netware a chance to work quickly with PC BIOSes.
From at least as far back as NW 3.x you should think of DOS as a cross beteween, ie, Sun BootProms, and LILO.
Not that thats necessaraly a bad thing. If there paying you for, say, "two weeks" as opposed to a lump sum to get rid of you, your severence will likely be greater then your UI benifits, and possibly count towards hours too if your happen not to have enough. Or if you do but some are at a lower rate of pay it will help with the average.
Since there will always be a delay for UI (because they wont pay you if your only unemployed for a short period, and they pay you at the end of the first 2 week period) and you wernt realy expecting to get canned you might have to live off the severence for a month or soo.
The existance of quantum cryptography, while being infinitly strong, dosent make things before it automaticly week. PGP/GPG is "good enough" and will be for a long, long, time.
The ironly of this is that back in the appletalk over phonenet (prehaps ether too..) this could have happened. And if it was a smart printer it would send you drivers too.
Given a choice beteween coughing up your passphrase and then going to trial or sitting in jail for contempt indefinitly I think Id rather cough up the passphrase. But thats just me.
While true, you dont have to use the GPL as your license if you dont want to; and you can use it with chages as well.. ISTR that the linux kernel, for example, makes specific exceptions to the standard GPL for binary drivers.
The Open Source Initiative's definition of "Open Source" (tm) means that a licence with an ad clause will never be OSI approved, but the point of the top parent is that you chose your license; no one forced you to use that license, so dont bitch if your code is used under the terms of it.
The Trarnasaurs Rex-ish character related to the netscape browser is "mozilla". Its the name of the browser, and its the name of the character as well.
"Mozilla" was proposed as the name of the (browser) by JWZ sometime before Sunday, 5 August 1994 according to his diary at jwz.org..
I find it refreshing that products from RH - at least those in beta - are named what the developers probabaly use internally. It means that the hackers are running the place and it hasent been taken over by suits quite yet.
Redhat has consistantly produced releases about every 6 months for as long as I have been folowing them. If it takes a month for LIMBO to clear through beta then it will be just about on schedule.
Being from the great white north, Im quite aware at the overall superiority of CANDU reactors. And they burn wepons grade plutonium, not produce it.. Canada is either planning on, or actualy is, accepting plutonioum from US wepons stockpiles.
I once played in a band with a physicist who worked at a CANDU.. There are millions of parts that are conspiring to cause the plant to shut down gracefully. And millions of parts and check lists to be convinced that its ok to restart things.
All things consitered, Id rather live within range of the CANDU at Pt. Lepro then in range of the paper mill..
The general problem with nuclear power is that while the site remains clean indefinitly there is: a) continious production of radioactive waste b) the risk of meltdown and thus horrific damage to the sutounding area.
Radioactive waste, while chronicly dangerous, isnt volitle (Im sure there are more 'correct' terms used by people who deal with risk management..). ie, its always putting off radiation but its not going to explode or anything. Unlike, say decommisioned biological wepons. And its relativly simple to deal with; burry it.
Hydro power, once the resivour is flodded is compleatly clean. And the resivour definitly drasticly changes that areas enviroment. But its replaced by another, niceish, enviroment; a big lake.
I have no idea what Im rambling on about. Its a definte tradeoff..
For the record, precentege wise BillG give significantly less to charity then most everyone else. I cant quickly find a reference, but this is/... I have immages of an eldery BillG handing out silver dollars to small children in 20 years in an effort to improve his personal legacy.
I diddnt catch that, but it is horrable edditing. The setence should read something like:
Thousands of companies and government orginizations in over 100 countries rely on WorldCom for Internet access, including the Defense Department and the State Department.
But I feel your pain. I nearly called up my local paper this weekend when I read "15 knots an hour". Morons everywhere.
Ah, no. The products is organized information. If the organization if corrupt (ie a "common man on the street" has the beleif that search engine FOO provides results based on relevence, but in fact its based on bids) then commerce is corrupt.
Indeed. But "standards are fun, theres so many to choose from".
I pondered the spelling of OSHA. Im almost positive that in NS its the Occupational Health and Safety Act. I also could have sworn that my WHMIS traners told me that it was Americian as well.. The important part: MSDS' (material safety data sheets) are international anyway.
One crazy summer I was a tech for a geotechnical company. Talk about standards. CSA concrete methods. Municapality conc standards. Provincial conc standards. ASTM methods for some lab tests. Some from LA. Some from the US Corps of Engineres. And all the time European road builders laughing at us and the crap we put up with.
Uh, the government has standards and certifications for lots of things:
building codes
vechile safety standards
labour codes (OHSA/WHMIS, etc)
enviromental standards; air/water polution
Developing standards should be a open colabarative process but when lives or property are at risk, that is when you want to enforce standards then you need government to do it. The orig poster dosent mention if he is in the gov, or a subcontractor. If thats the case then of course it should be the gov enforcing a standard. But it could be read a different way where he is in a org unrelated to the gov, but the gov standard is mearly a measuring stick. And thats resonable. His orgs management decided that they should have network security, so rather then develop there own standard they copy someone elses. No one is stomping on your precious rights here.
There is nothing wrong with a monopoly, and in situations where there exists what econominists call a natural monopoly, a monopoly is better. Provided that its regulated of course.
All things consitered, if it takes the US congress another 5 years before it pulls the plug on ICANN, or implements an effective regulatory body, then the US congress is acting relativly fast.
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As for interoperability - hahahahaha. Everything was very very customized and its wouldnt have been uncommon that if one of the old guys left a team then compleatly undocumented as well.
Im speculating at this point, but the idea behind human readable (ie string as oposed to integer) data would be partialy historical (people taking a census onto punch cards in rural Russia in 1895 couldnt be expected to convert strings to ints in there head) and partialy because it would actualy be quicker: the computer wouldnt have to do the conversion on input, or on print out routines, and most of the time spinning through insane amounts of data it wouldnt be checking the date anyway so no conversion would be necessary.
Prehaps true, but back in the days of punchcards anc COBOL you wernt storing a integer for a date, you were storing a string.
Its a better idea to fire up your radar to test it when your safely tied up at a peir then when your moving, would you say?
From at least as far back as NW 3.x you should think of DOS as a cross beteween, ie, Sun BootProms, and LILO.
Since there will always be a delay for UI (because they wont pay you if your only unemployed for a short period, and they pay you at the end of the first 2 week period) and you wernt realy expecting to get canned you might have to live off the severence for a month or soo.
The existance of quantum cryptography, while being infinitly strong, dosent make things before it automaticly week. PGP/GPG is "good enough" and will be for a long, long, time.
You would get a "fast busy" which means "network busy" a opposed to "node busy"...
The ironly of this is that back in the appletalk over phonenet (prehaps ether too..) this could have happened. And if it was a smart printer it would send you drivers too.
Given a choice beteween coughing up your passphrase and then going to trial or sitting in jail for contempt indefinitly I think Id rather cough up the passphrase. But thats just me.
The Open Source Initiative's definition of "Open Source" (tm) means that a licence with an ad clause will never be OSI approved, but the point of the top parent is that you chose your license; no one forced you to use that license, so dont bitch if your code is used under the terms of it.
The Trarnasaurs Rex-ish character related to the netscape browser is "mozilla". Its the name of the browser, and its the name of the character as well.
"Mozilla" was proposed as the name of the (browser) by JWZ sometime before Sunday, 5 August 1994 according to his diary at jwz.org..
How can you tell the difference?
I find it refreshing that products from RH - at least those in beta - are named what the developers probabaly use internally. It means that the hackers are running the place and it hasent been taken over by suits quite yet.
Redhat has consistantly produced releases about every 6 months for as long as I have been folowing them. If it takes a month for LIMBO to clear through beta then it will be just about on schedule.
I once played in a band with a physicist who worked at a CANDU.. There are millions of parts that are conspiring to cause the plant to shut down gracefully. And millions of parts and check lists to be convinced that its ok to restart things.
All things consitered, Id rather live within range of the CANDU at Pt. Lepro then in range of the paper mill..
IBM may be HQd in USA but it would be at the top of a list of true multinationals. What do you think the I stands for?
a) continious production of radioactive waste
b) the risk of meltdown and thus horrific damage to the sutounding area.
Radioactive waste, while chronicly dangerous, isnt volitle (Im sure there are more 'correct' terms used by people who deal with risk management..). ie, its always putting off radiation but its not going to explode or anything. Unlike, say decommisioned biological wepons. And its relativly simple to deal with; burry it.
Hydro power, once the resivour is flodded is compleatly clean. And the resivour definitly drasticly changes that areas enviroment. But its replaced by another, niceish, enviroment; a big lake.
I have no idea what Im rambling on about. Its a definte tradeoff..
For the record, precentege wise BillG give significantly less to charity then most everyone else. I cant quickly find a reference, but this is /...
I have immages of an eldery BillG handing out silver dollars to small children in 20 years in an effort to improve his personal legacy.
Thousands of companies and government orginizations in over 100 countries rely on WorldCom for Internet access, including the Defense Department and the State Department.
But I feel your pain. I nearly called up my local paper this weekend when I read "15 knots an hour". Morons everywhere.
Well, duh, of course its going to break. Stop your whining..
Ah, no. The products is organized information. If the organization if corrupt (ie a "common man on the street" has the beleif that search engine FOO provides results based on relevence, but in fact its based on bids) then commerce is corrupt.
I pondered the spelling of OSHA. Im almost positive that in NS its the Occupational Health and Safety Act. I also could have sworn that my WHMIS traners told me that it was Americian as well.. The important part: MSDS' (material safety data sheets) are international anyway.
One crazy summer I was a tech for a geotechnical company. Talk about standards. CSA concrete methods. Municapality conc standards. Provincial conc standards. ASTM methods for some lab tests. Some from LA. Some from the US Corps of Engineres. And all the time European road builders laughing at us and the crap we put up with.
- building codes
- vechile safety standards
- labour codes (OHSA/WHMIS, etc)
- enviromental standards; air/water polution
Developing standards should be a open colabarative process but when lives or property are at risk, that is when you want to enforce standards then you need government to do it. The orig poster dosent mention if he is in the gov, or a subcontractor. If thats the case then of course it should be the gov enforcing a standard. But it could be read a different way where he is in a org unrelated to the gov, but the gov standard is mearly a measuring stick. And thats resonable. His orgs management decided that they should have network security, so rather then develop there own standard they copy someone elses. No one is stomping on your precious rights here.And somewhat hipocritical if you consiter the current state of affairs vis a vis Puerto Rico.
There is nothing wrong with a monopoly, and in situations where there exists what econominists call a natural monopoly, a monopoly is better. Provided that its regulated of course.
All things consitered, if it takes the US congress another 5 years before it pulls the plug on ICANN, or implements an effective regulatory body, then the US congress is acting relativly fast.