SunSITE/iBiblio has been connected to the National Lambda Rail since moving to the MCNC data centre;
In addition to giving warp speed access to research sites, the National Rail also allows traffic for the regular Internet to be routed via providers in Atlanta at much local cost than could be obtained directly from North Carolina, making it possible for iBiblio to increase the amount of bandwidth to commercial sites to 1/2Gbps.
When NLR and Abeline combine there networks far more campuses will be able to get to iBiblio without having to bother the real world.
[Not speaking for SunSITE, Metalab, ibiblio, or UNC].
1) Before the great Cambrian explosion of 90-92, only a few, simple internet applications existed - primarily telnet, smtp, ftp, and DNS. In a manner that would shock most members of the Dover school board, these applications envolved through a process of trial, error, and descent with modification.
When ITU attempted to replicate these applications through intelligent-design-by-committe, the species that formed in 84 proved immediately non-viable. The second creation in 88 improved many of the existing problems; it did, however, equip these second spawn with sets of long, sharp, pointy teeth, in the form of government mandates requiring all government purchases have protected habitats for the X-creatures to frolic in.
2) When the explosion happened around 90-92, when the phyla that shape almost every modern Internet application first appeared in their basic forms, (gopher and http for browsing, WAIS for search, archie for indexing, etc) the struggle against OSSification was at its very peak.
If they're cute and furry enough, teams of mammals can take down the pointest of teeth ("This is a UNIX system - I know this").
3) People have been concerned about protecting copyrighted materials since the very beginning. For WAIS was put together by Brewster Kahle's team as way of letting Dow Jones customers do full text searches using servers running on Thinking Machines supercomputers. Marking documents as not for copying was an issue. I remember bar conversations about this after the Cybrarians BOF at the Jan 92 Usenix.
4) One of the biggest reasons that the web took off is that Tim Berners-Lee is one of the nicest people ever. The web wasn't designed to make you serve your data in the way it wanted; it was designed to hook in and work with the data as it already was, and oh, by the way, if you create add a welcome.html file, you can hyperlink from all these words.
By keeping things open, keeping things free, and playing nice with everyone, the foundation for the second generation of web clients was laid.
5) Probably the most important reason for the cambrian explosion was the loosening of the Acceptable Use Policies on the backbone. Hmm *de*-regulation making things better. Whould have thunk it.
It's a fire place that can be installed in a condo or a co-op; places where any other kind of fireplace would be impractical. It's not supposed to be efficient; it's supposed to be pretty.
It's not for new houses; it's for existing units. It's designed for rich people (and their interior decorators) who *do* have taste.
The previous generation of the EOS 1Ds also has a full frame sensor, with 11 megapixel resolution.
It's not as popular with sports photographers as the EOS 1D (also now at mark II). The current 1D is "only" 8 megapixels, but it has a burst rate of over 8 fps, compared with just under 4fps for the 1Ds.
The full-frame sensor may or may not be a win for sports photographers, since the smaller sensor makes lenses 1.6x longer without making them 1.6x heavier. Given the price of canon's sexier lenses (~$4,000 for the 300mm 2.8L, and ~$2,000 for the 70-200mm 2.8L) the cost of the body isn't so important.
As for 12" powerbooks; there's no need to skimp; crumpler photo/laptop backpacks can hold 17" pbs -( eg http://www.crumplerusa.com/products/camerabag/bria ns_hot_tub.html )
I've had people mistake my
Motorola HS810
headset for jewlery before
Leaving aside a few bugs in Motorola's bluetooth implementation, it seems to me that there's not much difference between a true wearable and a phone that you never have to take out of your pocket.
Simon
of course, I wear a lot of cargo pants, and I only got the V600 because my nokia 9290 died and I couldn't get hold of a 9500, so I'm probably not a good test case
So what is Apple's Audio strategy now? They buy Emagic, then bundle a non-Logic audio program with their video editing software that doesn't support surround sound, and doesn't share files with Logic. Now there's Garage Band, which looks to be iSoundTrack.
I originally thought that the reason for buying Emagic was to go for Avid's jugular, but this doesn't seem to be what's going on at all; so what are they up to? Working on an FCP like interface?
Rendezvous uses Multicast DNS (mDNS) to find and announce services. Multicast DNS uses a link-local multicast address, which means that routers should never forward mDNS packets from one link to another.
How about this scenario: Steve Case buys ReplayTV at auction, and simultaneously makes an offer for TiVo. The two development teams are merged.
The combined team very quickly demos a merged procuct, primarily based on tivo s2, but with a few key replayTV features in place- in particular commercial advance, and at least some of the local network features. The unit also adds a few AOL broadband features (e.g. basic AIM client).
Steve uses his influence to get this device adopted by AOL (the unit), with his personal shareholding as a partial shield from attacks from Time Warner; however the product remains separate, and the DirectTV relationship is preserved and deepened.
If the first stages of the plan go ok, and especially if the merged company is listed, the obvious next move is to put in a bid for Scientific Atlanta to get hold of the digital cable and HDTV technologies. The resulting company could own the set top box market.
Simon
[Disclaimer: I own a Replay series 4500 and a DirecTivo - however, at the moment I don't own a roof, so only the replay is in use. Both have complementary stengths and weaknesses. The Tivo is much better on the recording side, but playback's a bitch; the replay is much less pleasant to program, but is a lot nicer when it comes to watching what you managed to record ]
The comic book had a very Steampunk feel (James P. Blaylock / Tim Powers etc.), with a lot of Mooreish blurring of the lines between good and evil. The trailer looked more like a preview for a new Batman sequel.
By 1994 servers were capable of handing quite a bit more than 30/sec. Back in the old SunSITE days, my experimental Multithreaded Daemon For Multimedia Access (MDMA) could handle over 50/sec (exponentially distributed) even on an IPX running 2.3, and Netscape's server with pre-forking could easily cope with high sustained loads on appropriate hardware.
The real problem with Literate programming is that to you're probably not Donald Knuth. Trying to program in WEB brings this home in a way that's much too depressing to keep up for long.
Knuth not only writes good code, he also writes intersting code, and usually that's too time consuming for regular mortals.
I seem to remember Knuth submitting some literate programs for a pair of Jon Bentley's "Programming Pearls" columns [collected in "Literate Programming", online
here
and here
The latter contains Knuth's solution to an assignment by Bentley: "Given a text file and an integer k, print the k most common words in the file (and the number of occurences) in decreasing frequency."
Knuth's sumbission is a beautiful work of exposition, introducing and explaining an unusual data structure (the hash trie), and in general would not look out of place framed and hanging on the wall above one's dining table.
However, in his critique of the program, Doug McIlroy provides a solution to the problem using a simple unix pipeline that takes up less than a paragraph. McIlroy finish his critique with the following remarks:
Knuth has shown us here how to program intelligbly , but not wisely. I buy the discipline. I do not buy the result. He has fashioned a sort of industrial-strength Faverge egg - intricate, wonderfully worked, refined beyond all ordinary desires, a museum piece from the start.
WAIS Inc. wasn't started till around 93-94, as a way to move it out of thinking machines. After a couple of years of independence, they sold out to America Online, who ran it as succesfully as all their other Internet aquisitions....
Slashdot Mirror
SunSITE/iBiblio has been connected to the National Lambda Rail since moving to the MCNC data centre;
In addition to giving warp speed access to research sites, the National Rail also allows traffic for the regular Internet to be routed via providers in Atlanta at much local cost than could be obtained directly from North Carolina, making it possible for iBiblio to increase the amount of bandwidth to commercial sites to 1/2Gbps.
When NLR and Abeline combine there networks far more campuses will be able to get to iBiblio without having to bother the real world.
Simon
Everyone I know who's been assigned to work on SkyNet has been a science fiction fan; changing its name now would be like renaming snakes-on-a-plane.
I had that Arthur C. Clarke in the back of me cab once.
I had this happen to me on my week 1 Macbook Pro. I got a replacement under warranty at the local Apple Store without much fuss.
Towards the end the machine wouldn't sit flat - like typing on a weeble.
[Not speaking for SunSITE, Metalab, ibiblio, or UNC].
1) Before the great Cambrian explosion of 90-92, only a few, simple internet applications existed - primarily telnet, smtp, ftp, and DNS. In a manner that would shock most members of the Dover school board, these applications envolved through a process of trial, error, and descent with modification.
When ITU attempted to replicate these applications through intelligent-design-by-committe, the species that formed in 84 proved immediately non-viable. The second creation in 88 improved many of the existing problems; it did, however, equip these second spawn with sets of long, sharp, pointy teeth, in the form of government mandates requiring all government purchases have protected habitats for the X-creatures to frolic in.
2) When the explosion happened around 90-92, when the phyla that shape almost every modern Internet application first appeared in their basic forms, (gopher and http for browsing, WAIS for search, archie for indexing, etc) the struggle against OSSification was at its very peak.
If they're cute and furry enough, teams of mammals can take down the pointest of teeth ("This is a UNIX system - I know this").
3) People have been concerned about protecting copyrighted materials since the very beginning. For WAIS was put together by Brewster Kahle's team as way of letting Dow Jones customers do full text searches using servers running on Thinking Machines supercomputers. Marking documents as not for copying was an issue. I remember bar conversations about this after the Cybrarians BOF at the Jan 92 Usenix.
4) One of the biggest reasons that the web took off is that Tim Berners-Lee is one of the nicest people ever. The web wasn't designed to make you serve your data in the way it wanted; it was designed to hook in and work with the data as it already was, and oh, by the way, if you create add a welcome.html file, you can hyperlink from all these words.
By keeping things open, keeping things free, and playing nice with everyone, the foundation for the second generation of web clients was laid.
5) Probably the most important reason for the cambrian explosion was the loosening of the Acceptable Use Policies on the backbone. Hmm *de*-regulation making things better. Whould have thunk it.
Simon
It's a fire place that can be installed in a condo or a co-op; places where any other kind of fireplace would be impractical. It's not supposed to be efficient; it's supposed to be pretty.
It's not for new houses; it's for existing units. It's designed for rich people (and their interior decorators) who *do* have taste.
Take a look at the kqueue(2) man page.
There are more details available at http://people.freebsd.org/~jlemon/papers/kqueue.pd f
http://www.ibiblio.org/ses/washandgo.html
The previous generation of the EOS 1Ds also has a full frame sensor, with 11 megapixel resolution.
a ns_hot_tub.html )
It's not as popular with sports photographers as the EOS 1D (also now at mark II). The current 1D is "only" 8 megapixels, but it has a burst rate of over 8 fps, compared with just under 4fps for the 1Ds.
The full-frame sensor may or may not be a win for sports photographers, since the smaller sensor makes lenses 1.6x longer without making them 1.6x heavier. Given the price of canon's sexier lenses (~$4,000 for the 300mm 2.8L, and ~$2,000 for the 70-200mm 2.8L) the cost of the body isn't so important.
As for 12" powerbooks; there's no need to skimp; crumpler photo/laptop backpacks can hold 17" pbs -( eg http://www.crumplerusa.com/products/camerabag/bri
iPods are just as survivable...
http://www.ibiblio.org/ses/washandgo.html
Leaving aside a few bugs in Motorola's bluetooth implementation, it seems to me that there's not much difference between a true wearable and a phone that you never have to take out of your pocket.
Simon
of course, I wear a lot of cargo pants, and I only got the V600 because my nokia 9290 died and I couldn't get hold of a 9500, so I'm probably not a good test case
So what is Apple's Audio strategy now? They buy Emagic, then bundle a non-Logic audio program with their video editing software that doesn't support surround sound, and doesn't share files with Logic. Now there's Garage Band, which looks to be iSoundTrack.
I originally thought that the reason for buying Emagic was to go for Avid's jugular, but this doesn't seem to be what's going on at all; so what are they up to? Working on an FCP like interface?
Rendezvous uses Multicast DNS (mDNS) to find and announce services. Multicast DNS uses a link-local multicast address, which means that routers should never forward mDNS packets from one link to another.
Simon
someone would have bought it by now.
How about this scenario: Steve Case buys ReplayTV at auction, and simultaneously makes an offer for TiVo. The two development teams are merged.
The combined team very quickly demos a merged procuct, primarily based on tivo s2, but with a few key replayTV features in place- in particular commercial advance, and at least some of the local network features. The unit also adds a few AOL broadband features (e.g. basic AIM client).
Steve uses his influence to get this device adopted by AOL (the unit), with his personal shareholding as a partial shield from attacks from Time Warner; however the product remains separate, and the DirectTV relationship is preserved and deepened.
If the first stages of the plan go ok, and especially if the merged company is listed, the obvious next move is to put in a bid for Scientific Atlanta to get hold of the digital cable and HDTV technologies. The resulting company could own the set top box market.
Simon
[Disclaimer: I own a Replay series 4500 and a DirecTivo - however, at the moment I don't own a roof, so only the replay is in use. Both have complementary stengths and weaknesses. The Tivo is much better on the recording side, but playback's a bitch; the replay is much less pleasant to program, but is a lot nicer when it comes to watching what you managed to record ]
The comic book had a very Steampunk feel (James P. Blaylock / Tim Powers etc.), with a lot of Mooreish blurring of the lines between good and evil. The trailer looked more like a preview for a new Batman sequel.
Simon
p.s.
anyone remember "Space: 1889"?
By 1994 servers were capable of handing quite a bit more than 30/sec. Back in the old SunSITE days, my experimental Multithreaded Daemon For Multimedia Access (MDMA) could handle over 50/sec (exponentially distributed) even on an IPX running 2.3, and Netscape's server with pre-forking could easily cope with high sustained loads on appropriate hardware.
Simon
Knuth not only writes good code, he also writes intersting code, and usually that's too time consuming for regular mortals.
I seem to remember Knuth submitting some literate programs for a pair of Jon Bentley's "Programming Pearls" columns [collected in "Literate Programming", online here and here
The latter contains Knuth's solution to an assignment by Bentley: "Given a text file and an integer k, print the k most common words in the file (and the number of occurences) in decreasing frequency."
Knuth's sumbission is a beautiful work of exposition, introducing and explaining an unusual data structure (the hash trie), and in general would not look out of place framed and hanging on the wall above one's dining table.
However, in his critique of the program, Doug McIlroy provides a solution to the problem using a simple unix pipeline that takes up less than a paragraph. McIlroy finish his critique with the following remarks:
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