User: DrSkwid

Re:BAD IDEA

On: Pike 7.6 Released

you make some valid points for WANs

but the constant gains outweigh the infrequent losses

my LAN *is* always available

single step debugging a broken process on a MIPS machine in NY from an x86 in Paris made possible by such things are such a gain that saying 'yeah but what about resume uploading eh, bet you hadn't though of that?' is a bit specious.

Re:Pricing

On: DSI Delivers up to 3GB/s with Solid State Disk

Which is cheaper

5 x 9 Gb Scsi

or 1 x 36gb scsi with the same access/throughput speed ?

Re:The RAM itself is one thing...

On: DSI Delivers up to 3GB/s with Solid State Disk

SSD to boot from ? It's called Compact Flash

it comes from 1Mb to 512Mb and beyond.

I boot FreeBSD and Plan9 without an HD

and plan9 is ideally suited to diskless operation as it used a genuine dedicated file server that you can put anywhere on the network.

So stick a nice noisy multi disk RAID system down somewhere you can't hear it and boot diskless from your 1Ghz EPIA workstation for a silent life.

Re:We? are you sure?

On: NYT Discovers Internet's Wild Side: IRC

hehe I escaped the first < but forgot the next one

|<405 73><7

oh well, back to the ANSI

We? are you sure?

On: NYT Discovers Internet's Wild Side: IRC

If you are calling it leetspeak you are already demonstrating your non-involvment in the genesis of |<405 73>

Re:sensationalist ?

On: NYT Discovers Internet's Wild Side: IRC

you've not tried to install many windows lately

trying to run windows update on a non patched machine is n invite to a blaster storm!

Re:Simplicity is more important

On: New & Revolutionary Debugging Techniques?

conde never did get the hang of HTML

Re:kinda OT

On: Pike 7.6 Released

There are multiple interfaces to the graphics side.

• The Screen memory is presented as a regular file for R/W
  
• /dev/draw accepts drawing primitives via it's ctl file
  
• using the calls directly from
  

sound : cat soundmusic.pcm > /dev/audio

what to know what the mouse is up to :
cat /dev/mouse

Anyway my point was that if one wrote a bit-torrent file system in plan9 then *every* programming language would suddenly have bit-torrent capabilities.

It's all about 9p.

I have python libs that can do 9p so it's not just confined to plan9

kinda OT

On: Pike 7.6 Released

having stuff supported at the programming level is stupid

Whatever happened to 'everything is a file'

Plan9's user level file systems are far more suitable.

One programs services to appear as file system in the process' namespace. The canonincal example of this is ftpfs which presents a remote ftp server as part of one's local file system.

By using this method, *no* programs need be compiled with knowledge of the ftp protocol and sockets nd the like. In fact it wouldn't even know it was talking with an ftp server.

All services and devices are presented like this in plan9. Most things can be achieved with cats and echos.

Some Interesting NRF Members

On: NRF Calls SCO's Claims 'Meritless'

Verisign, Inc.
Kmart Corporation
GO Software
Hewlett-Packard Company
LexisNexis - PeopleWise
South Dakota State University
Washington State University
Southern New Hampshire University

for more see here

Testimony of Douglas Lowenstein

On: Doug Lowenstein on Game Censorship

he's made good comments

Cool Vb Compiler

On: Mono Project Releases Beta 1

Someones doing a VB Compiler in Mono

that would be an interesting thing should it ever produce binary compatibles.

Re:The real question is

On: Sasser Worm Takes Down UK's Coastguard

don't forget the ever useful VPN

send em payload, wait until VPN connects, payola!

Here's some

On: Does a DVI KVM Solution Exist?

DVI KVM Switches

Re:ReactOS

On: ReactOS Now Runs Abiword

Presumably you forget that NT is a POSIX Environment.

Re:Rest In Peace

On: What Happens To Your Data When You Die?

I use Secstore

it's easy to use

to add a file to the encrypted file store

auth/secstore -p $filename

to retrieve it for editing/viewing/piping

ipso $filename

it also stores all my network passwords for ssh & pop3 & ftp access

it's a really neat bit of kit

check those url's

On: Comcast Warns Infringing Customers Of Abuse

ntl: user policy

I can't use Wi-Fi as an excuse

On: Comcast Warns Infringing Customers Of Abuse

My terms say :

In connecting to the Broadband Service, you must only use a PC you own or lease, and you must not attempt to connect your PC to the Broadband Services from outside your home . This includes the use of wireless or non-wireless networking technology to connect your PC or any other PC to your Broadband Services from outside your home (other than your own garden) or the connection of your PC to anyone else's Broadband Services.

Full Terms Here

Turn Guerilla

On: What Happens when Legit Services are Seen as Spam?

buy a laptop & wardrive you way to an open access point et voilá, one clean spamming spot.

rinse, repeat until everyone is blacklisted, move town

Already Solved

On: A Standardized Open Source Network Authentication

Lucent's Factotum and Secstore and provide the solution to quite a few network password and secure document storage tasks.

Re:What about VRML

On: Universal 3D File Format In The Works

early implementations pretty much killed vrml, not because the format was particularly lacking but constraints in bandwidth, lack of hardware acceleration etc.

Now it is tainted with those memories, proabably never to be seen again.

Re:Lossy

On: Universal 3D File Format In The Works

but not ubiquitous

not evreyone thinks 'aha, a bmp is what I store images in'

or 'aha, a wav file suits my audio storage needs'

Re:Attachments are retarded

On: World's First 1GB Web Mail May Not Be From Google

ooh, shout at me from behind a rock, how insightful

Attachments are retarded

On: World's First 1GB Web Mail May Not Be From Google

please let them die

Disk Error - Abort, Retry, Fail ?

On: Miner Willy's Mega-Tree Auctioned For Charity

I hope my disks sat readable for that long.

I've had floppies corrupt in the time it takes to walk across the room !

I still have some BBC games on cassette and disk.