Allowing VeriSign to ride roughshod all over the DNS with their wildcard entry "Site Finder"
Lack of openness and insufficient public participation
Some of these problems were the result of ICANN's actions; some were caused by ICANN doing
nothing when it should have acted. The GF's point is valid; the DNS is only good for squatters and
registrars and registries; what good will more gTLDs do?
Sorry, but I don't see any evidence of Microsoft's attitude changing.
I hear lots of talk and activities such as the Codeplex Foundation, but scratch a little
under the surface and it all looks like more of the same old microsoft: crush competitors,
destroy alternatives to Microsoft dominance on the desktop, make tactical partnerships
and strategically ruin the partner.
Basically when Microsoft holds out the hand of friendship, first check if there's a knife in
the other hand.
With a 1980s-era 3-character file extension, to be sure.
A documented binary format is better than an undocumented one, but
it would be better to enable import/export of XML files or some other standard encapsulation.
In the video (yes, I watched everything) they said you should install it 2 days before your
party starts.
That cracked me up. I guess it takes 2 days to install:-)
The party will not go smoothly if guests are arriving and the host is
still trying to get Windows 7 installed.
He's one of my favourites - he's an accomplished artist with songs and online sales and he also runs a music licensing business with, IMHO, fair terms for the artists.
He didn't pay me anything to promote him just then. Internet advertising isn't always expensive.
I'm not even going to bother to offer a link to his site, but I'll bet dollars to donuts he makes money off this post.
No, what it means is that understanding Unix is a prerequisite for good OS design. It doesn't mean that nothing's ever been done better, but if you don't understand the Unix principles, good luck designing something better.
Three Mobile Prepaid Broadband in Australia does this.
Upon connecting, a prepaid user gets an RFC1918 address. All TCP traffic is NAT'ed.
All DNS requests are not NAT'ed, they are proxied through three's caching nameserver.
The problem with that is it causes hell for any caching nameserver at the client end.
The client's nameserver expects to talk to the authoritative nameservers for whatever
domain it looks up. It sends requests with the RD (Recursion Desired) bit cleared,
because an authoritative nameserver does not need to use recursion to look up a name.
Three's proxy nameserver sees the cleared RD bit and, if the requested data is not already
in the cache, returns an NXDOMAIN error to the client. It makes the client unable to resolve
most domain names.
I hope the trial covers all of Scientology's scam - the impossible claims, the hard sell tactics, the cult attention, the brainwashing, addiction, their ruthless behaviour toward their enemies, the blackmail and infiltration... this is an evil organisation.
Fortunately I am completely invisible to them because all they see on their screens is "elron****".
It sounds like they're not keen to spend time recovering it - although a lot of the site could presumably be recovered from google and archive.org and users' computers (particularly downloadable files).
I can't say I'm surprised, really. They couldn't be arsed to spend a little time to make multiple backups and now they can't be arsed to spend a lot of time to recover the deleted data.
No, the data was safe against only disk failure on the primary machine. Any number of different problems could have wiped out both copies including but not limited to data corruption or operator error.
I don't know if the two servers were physically close to each other but if they were then there are additional risks including electrical problems, theft and physical destruction.
Actually you use rdiff-backup for that kind of thing. It uses the rsync algorithm, but stores additional metadata to allow recovery of the filesystem state from previous backups as well as the latest backup.
If you just want the latest back you can restore with plain old rsync but if you want a previous backup you can use the appropriate rdiff-backup option.
People will be able to distinguish between "my computer has crashed" and "Windows has crashed" because, when Windows dies, they will be
able to hot-key to the still-running BIOS OS.
That's a very nice innovation. I look forward to buying a mobo which can do this.
That worked out well for Jerry Yang in May 2008, didn't it?
He rejected Microsoft's $33-a-share offer for Yahoo, then both Microsoft and Google walked away from a deal and now the shares are selling for a touch over $15 each.
If you want to run linux processes with isolation from your physical machine, install an OpenVZ enabled kernel plus the openvz packages. It nicely isolates processes running inside each container; there is minimal virtualisation overhead (so you don't need a bigger machine).
Also the container root filesystem is an ordinary directory on your host. This means you can put multiple containers into a large filesystem and they share the available space, you can backup or copy containers trivially, and you can extend or reduce the amount of space available in the root filesystem while the container is running.
The amount of storage used per instance depends on your distro size; I start each instance with a minimal set of debian packages from a template occupying about 200 megs, and install more from there.
These Sennheiser earbuds are crappier than average. My best earbuds
are 15+ year-old Panasonics, and I've also got a Denon set which is alright. The difference between the Panasonic and Sennheiser earbuds is like night and day. Only the Sennheisers come in a clamshell case which can't be unwound and rewound easily. They're a marvel of Stupid Design.
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Some of these problems were the result of ICANN's actions; some were caused by ICANN doing nothing when it should have acted. The GF's point is valid; the DNS is only good for squatters and registrars and registries; what good will more gTLDs do?
Deny them all and problem solved!
Who will rid me of this troublesome gTLD madness?
Sorry, but I don't see any evidence of Microsoft's attitude changing.
I hear lots of talk and activities such as the Codeplex Foundation, but scratch a little under the surface and it all looks like more of the same old microsoft: crush competitors, destroy alternatives to Microsoft dominance on the desktop, make tactical partnerships and strategically ruin the partner.
Basically when Microsoft holds out the hand of friendship, first check if there's a knife in the other hand.
With a 1980s-era 3-character file extension, to be sure.
A documented binary format is better than an undocumented one, but it would be better to enable import/export of XML files or some other standard encapsulation.
So that's what the guy meant when he said he did 3 activities in half an hour.
In the video (yes, I watched everything) they said you should install it 2 days before your party starts.
That cracked me up. I guess it takes 2 days to install :-)
The party will not go smoothly if guests are arriving and the host is
still trying to get Windows 7 installed.
Yeah, I remember Beckham played Achilles in that movie also starring Eric Bana ...
Bjorn Lynne.
He's one of my favourites - he's an accomplished artist with songs and online sales and he also runs a music licensing business with, IMHO, fair terms for the artists.
He didn't pay me anything to promote him just then. Internet advertising isn't always expensive.
I'm not even going to bother to offer a link to his site, but I'll bet dollars to donuts he makes money off this post.
No, what it means is that understanding Unix is a prerequisite for good OS design. It doesn't mean that nothing's ever been done better, but if you don't understand the Unix principles, good luck designing something better.
+1 Google.
Three Mobile Prepaid Broadband in Australia does this.
Upon connecting, a prepaid user gets an RFC1918 address. All TCP traffic is NAT'ed. All DNS requests are not NAT'ed, they are proxied through three's caching nameserver.
The problem with that is it causes hell for any caching nameserver at the client end. The client's nameserver expects to talk to the authoritative nameservers for whatever domain it looks up. It sends requests with the RD (Recursion Desired) bit cleared, because an authoritative nameserver does not need to use recursion to look up a name.
Three's proxy nameserver sees the cleared RD bit and, if the requested data is not already in the cache, returns an NXDOMAIN error to the client. It makes the client unable to resolve most domain names.
Now they tell us.
I hope the trial covers all of Scientology's scam - the impossible claims, the hard sell tactics, the cult attention, the brainwashing, addiction, their ruthless behaviour toward their enemies, the blackmail and infiltration ... this is an evil organisation.
Fortunately I am completely invisible to them because all they see on their screens is "elron****".
It sounds like they're not keen to spend time recovering it - although a lot of the site could presumably be recovered from google and archive.org and users' computers (particularly downloadable files).
I can't say I'm surprised, really. They couldn't be arsed to spend a little time to make multiple backups and now they can't be arsed to spend a lot of time to recover the deleted data.
No, the data was safe against only disk failure on the primary machine. Any number of different problems could have wiped out both copies including but not limited to data corruption or operator error.
I don't know if the two servers were physically close to each other but if they were then there are additional risks including electrical problems, theft and physical destruction.
Actually you use rdiff-backup for that kind of thing. It uses the rsync algorithm, but stores additional metadata to allow recovery of the filesystem state from previous backups as well as the latest backup.
If you just want the latest back you can restore with plain old rsync but if you want a previous backup you can use the appropriate rdiff-backup option.
There's another you in an alternate universe who did, in fact, RTFA.
Oh how I wish I was there.
People will be able to distinguish between "my computer has crashed" and "Windows has crashed" because, when Windows dies, they will be able to hot-key to the still-running BIOS OS.
That's a very nice innovation. I look forward to buying a mobo which can do this.
You forgot the punch line:
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth!
That worked out well for Jerry Yang in May 2008, didn't it?
He rejected Microsoft's $33-a-share offer for Yahoo, then both Microsoft and Google walked away from a deal and now the shares are selling for a touch over $15 each.
But that's my Unicomp; I have about 4 Model Ms because I know it's very important to have backups.
No, they stopped building work on their "Super Power" building in 2003 and haven't resumed since.
10 years have passed, and Scientology is still an evil, ruthless, desperate, ineffective, incompetent. laughing stock of a cult.
If you want to run linux processes with isolation from your physical machine, install an OpenVZ enabled kernel plus the openvz packages. It nicely isolates processes running inside each container; there is minimal virtualisation overhead (so you don't need a bigger machine).
Also the container root filesystem is an ordinary directory on your host. This means you can put multiple containers into a large filesystem and they share the available space, you can backup or copy containers trivially, and you can extend or reduce the amount of space available in the root filesystem while the container is running.
The amount of storage used per instance depends on your distro size; I start each instance with a minimal set of debian packages from a template occupying about 200 megs, and install more from there.
www.openvz.org.
These Sennheiser earbuds are crappier than average. My best earbuds are 15+ year-old Panasonics, and I've also got a Denon set which is alright. The difference between the Panasonic and Sennheiser earbuds is like night and day. Only the Sennheisers come in a clamshell case which can't be unwound and rewound easily. They're a marvel of Stupid Design.