It's an Internet Draft, not an RFC. From RFC 2026 (slightly reformatted to placate the "lameness filter"):
An Internet-Draft is NOT a means of "publishing" a specification; specifications are published through the RFC mechanism described in the previous section. Internet-Drafts have no formal status, and are subject to change or removal at any time.
** *Under no circumstances should an Internet-Draft *be referenced by any paper, report, or Request- *for-Proposal, nor should a vendor claim compliance *with an Internet-Draft. **
Note: It is acceptable to reference a standards-track specification that may reasonably be expected to be published as an RFC using the phrase "Work in Progress" without referencing an Internet-Draft. This may also be done in a standards track document itself as long as the specification in which the reference is made would stand as a complete and understandable document with or without the reference to the "Work in Progress".
If I were writing spam filter rules, I think I would fix that problem with extra rules:
[...]
include diff -u output and have 'foo@bar wrote' attribution: +6.6 points
include diff -u output and have quote text: +3.3 points
include diff -u output and have 'In-reply-to': +3.3 points
Except that all of those would apply to the same legitimate mailing-list message if someone replies to another message and attaches a patch. If I cared I could probably find just such a message in the wild without too much effort....
Um, perhaps you're thinking of Netrek, a completely unrelated game (save for having a name starting with "net"), which does use signed clients to exclude players using robots or cyborgs?
For networked nethack, the "client" is (as others have noted) a remote login program like telnet or ssh, so that kind of cheating isn't so much of an issue. Although, in simpler times, there was ROG-O-MATIC...
Should your service provider wish, he can capture Ethernet traffic specific to DNS inquiries and compile some interesting information without even needing you to install and use his client software.
This can even be done with nothing more than stock BIND; just ndc (or rndc) querylog, to enable [what I assume was meant as] a debugging feature wherein every DNS query is logged. For best results, set up syslog and/or BIND's logging system ahead of time to send it all to a separate file for easier grepping...
I've always found that an annoying aspect of (La)TeX documents on the web...a lot of them look really crappy when converted to PDF...
They don't have to. With teTeX, if you generate the PDFs with pdftex or pdflatex (as appropriate), the vector fonts will be used. The problem arises when people use dvips with ps2pdf (or similar); by default, dvips uses bitmap fonts even when vector ones are available. However, this can be fixed by editing the script/usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/updmap (adjust path as needed) and changing the value of the parameter type1_default, then running that script as a sufficiently privileged user. (I'd love to know if there's a nicer way of doing that.) Also, older versions of ghostscript (ps2pdf is a wrapper for gs) would rasterize embedded fonts when generating PDF, but recent ones don't have that problem. Oh, and specifying a font like cmr13 rather than cmr10 scaled 1300 can cause bitmappedness.
Sorry, but the start tag <os derived="unix" derived="mach"> clearly violates the XML well-formedness constraint of unique attribute specifiers; or, in the words of the XML spec, No attribute name may appear more than once in the same start-tag or empty-element tag. I guess a proper description of this OS will have to wait for another day and another DTD...
Try the command "vm_stat 1"; that'll print out VM statistics once a second, with the counts of various events (pages in/out, zerofills, etc.) given incrementally (and the grand totals every 25 lines or so).
The graphics for EverQuest are very primitive, yet still capture a person's imagination enough for them to forget about reality and do nothing but play the game.
From the point of view of a machine connected to the Internet by cable modem, in terms of rejected TCP SYN packets, grouped by destination port, over a period of a little over 2 weeks:
port 80 (HTTP, of course), with 205 packets. (Since the connections aren't accepted, I have no data on which specific exploits they might be intended for.)
If my memory serves me right: That was the Red Adept back in the first trilogy who was (mistakenly) believed to be a stereotyped depiction of a lesbian; she'd masqueraded as a man for misdirection, etc. The Brown Adept in Phaze Doubt (the last one) was very much meant to be lesbian;
--- SPOILER WARNING ---
she'd had a fling with a female werewolf at some point in the past, she gets fixed up with another female character eventually, etc. But it's been a while since I read the book or the author's note, so my recollection could be a little off.
He also suggests that you use the Apple-supplied "nobody" account for the purposes of privilege separation, as well as doing so in his instructions.
If you run every non-privileged service (http, anon ftp, ntp, nntp, etc.) and partial service (ssh, mail, etc.) as the same non-privileged user, it defeats a lot of the purpose of the non-privilegedness. Even with chrooting, a process running as a non-root user can affect other processes that belong to the same user (e.g. send them signals). This is why vendors and sysadmins who know what they're doing create a different user for each service.
Perhaps if ISPs were only allowed to track IP addresses....
Um, there's this thing the DNS has called a PTR record... although if the questionable host name is just a web vhost (that is, it's a non-canonical name; the IP address doesn't map back to the same domain name), you might be okay, if the actual web server isn't also named something noteworthy (e.g. www3.smutserver.com).
I guess I'd better not mention that Anakin becomes Dar....oops!
Damn you! Thanks a lot for giving away that Anakin winds up having sex reassignment surgery to become singer-songwriter Dar Williams... I could easily have waited until the film actually came out to discover that.
[...]Which of these leaves more room for interpretation?
2+2=4
The ANSWER is equal to the SUM of the FIRST NUMBER and the SECOND NUMBER, where the FIRST NUMBER has the same value as the SECOND NUMBER. IF AND ONLY IF the SECOND NUMBER has the value of the SECOND POSITIVE INTEGER, the ANSWER will have the value of the FOURTH POSITIVE INTEGER.
Unfortunately, the use of "SECOND" and "FOURTH" here assumes that one is counting using the traditional ordering of integers. However, if one is instead using the Sarkovskii ordering of the positive integers (3 > 5 > 7 > 9 > 11 > 13 >... > 6 > 10 > 14 > 18 >... > 12 > 20 >...... > 32 > 16 > 8 > 4 > 2 > 1) then that statement really means "2+2=8", which is clearly false. Therefore you don't even need be a lawyer to make people's lives complicated; merely having taken a few 300-level math courses is sufficient. Q.E.D.
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It's an Internet Draft, not an RFC. From RFC 2026 (slightly reformatted to placate the "lameness filter"):
Moreover, from what I've read, caffeine is outlawed, so no CS program there... (None that would matter.)
Oh really?
If I were writing spam filter rules, I think I would fix that problem with extra rules:
[...]
include diff -u output and have 'foo@bar wrote' attribution: +6.6 points
include diff -u output and have quote text: +3.3 points
include diff -u output and have 'In-reply-to': +3.3 points
Except that all of those would apply to the same legitimate mailing-list message if someone replies to another message and attaches a patch. If I cared I could probably find just such a message in the wild without too much effort....
Don't you mean... in Soviet Russia?
No, I think the original poster meant to say "in the year 2525"....
I've used templates fairly extensively, and have *never* seen any use of allocators other than the default.
They can come in handy when you're trying to use STL (er, C++ Standard Library) containers with, say, garbage collection.
And here I thought they were referring to RFC 1464: Using the Domain Name System To Store Arbitrary String Attributes....
VM does NOT mean just paging/swapping. that is a small part of it. mac os and windows users constantly misuse the term.
In all fairness, if under the old MacOS you booted with "virtual memory" off then virtual memory (in the correct sense) really was disabled.
Define your function "Olog", please. Surely Mr. "Wagner LLC Consulting Co. - Getting it right the first time" couldn't have meant O(log n)... :)
I believe the OP was in fact referring to the Olog-hai, the race of trolls enhanced by Sauron. HTH.
If you are posting your email address to a public area (e.g., Usenet), then you might as well get a new email address.
Oh really?
BTW, anyone try consoling into a modern SPARC with USB ports, or are they only for peripherals?
I do just this on a quasi-regular basis; the console is a Rev. D iMac with a KeySpan serial thingy and cu(1) from Taylor UUCP, and the SPARC is a headless Sun Ultra 1 running NetBSD.
Um, perhaps you're thinking of Netrek, a completely unrelated game (save for having a name starting with "net"), which does use signed clients to exclude players using robots or cyborgs?
For networked nethack, the "client" is (as others have noted) a remote login program like telnet or ssh, so that kind of cheating isn't so much of an issue. Although, in simpler times, there was ROG-O-MATIC...
Should your service provider wish, he can capture Ethernet traffic specific to DNS inquiries and compile some interesting information without even needing you to install and use his client software.
This can even be done with nothing more than stock BIND; just ndc (or rndc) querylog, to enable [what I assume was meant as] a debugging feature wherein every DNS query is logged. For best results, set up syslog and/or BIND's logging system ahead of time to send it all to a separate file for easier grepping...
I've always found that an annoying aspect of (La)TeX documents on the web...a lot of them look really crappy when converted to PDF...
They don't have to. With teTeX, if you generate the PDFs with pdftex or pdflatex (as appropriate), the vector fonts will be used. The problem arises when people use dvips with ps2pdf (or similar); by default, dvips uses bitmap fonts even when vector ones are available. However, this can be fixed by editing the script /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/updmap (adjust path as needed) and changing the value of the parameter type1_default, then running that script as a sufficiently privileged user. (I'd love to know if there's a nicer way of doing that.) Also, older versions of ghostscript (ps2pdf is a wrapper for gs) would rasterize embedded fonts when generating PDF, but recent ones don't have that problem. Oh, and specifying a font like cmr13 rather than cmr10 scaled 1300 can cause bitmappedness.
BSD doesn't need no stinking journaling.
So then there's no need for it to have, oh, a log-structured filesystem?
Sorry, but the start tag <os derived="unix" derived="mach"> clearly violates the XML well-formedness constraint of unique attribute specifiers; or, in the words of the XML spec, No attribute name may appear more than once in the same start-tag or empty-element tag. I guess a proper description of this OS will have to wait for another day and another DTD...
Try the command "vm_stat 1"; that'll print out VM statistics once a second, with the counts of various events (pages in/out, zerofills, etc.) given incrementally (and the grand totals every 25 lines or so).
The graphics for EverQuest are very primitive, yet still capture a person's imagination enough for them to forget about reality and do nothing but play the game.
I think there may be some priot art here...
Wasn't the default gravity setting 800? :)
It is in Quake 3, anyway; for example:
bind c "rcon g_gravity 80"
bind x "rcon g_gravity 800"
bind z "rcon g_gravity 8000"
From the point of view of a machine connected to the Internet by cable modem, in terms of rejected TCP SYN packets, grouped by destination port, over a period of a little over 2 weeks:
- port 1433 (MS SQL server), with 1325 packets
- port 27374 (SubSeven, a Windows backdoor program), with 393 packets
- port 12345 (NetBus, another Windows backdoor program), with 361 packets
- port 80 (HTTP, of course), with 205 packets. (Since the connections aren't accepted, I have no data on which specific exploits they might be intended for.)
- port 119 (Usenet NNTP), with a paltry 66 packets
- port 21 (FTP), with 59 packets.
There were a few others (notably the SOCKS proxy service, the SunRPC portmapper, Telnet, and lpd) in the list, but none had more than 8 packets.If my memory serves me right: That was the Red Adept back in the first trilogy who was (mistakenly) believed to be a stereotyped depiction of a lesbian; she'd masqueraded as a man for misdirection, etc. The Brown Adept in Phaze Doubt (the last one) was very much meant to be lesbian; --- SPOILER WARNING ---
she'd had a fling with a female werewolf at some point in the past, she gets fixed up with another female character eventually, etc. But it's been a while since I read the book or the author's note, so my recollection could be a little off.
He also suggests that you use the Apple-supplied "nobody" account for the purposes of privilege separation, as well as doing so in his instructions.
If you run every non-privileged service (http, anon ftp, ntp, nntp, etc.) and partial service (ssh, mail, etc.) as the same non-privileged user, it defeats a lot of the purpose of the non-privilegedness. Even with chrooting, a process running as a non-root user can affect other processes that belong to the same user (e.g. send them signals). This is why vendors and sysadmins who know what they're doing create a different user for each service.
The code is GPL'ed. Apple has a 100% ability to fix any bugs in the code that it wants to.
Er, no. Not quite, anyway. OpenSSH is released under the BSD license.
Perhaps if ISPs were only allowed to track IP addresses....
Um, there's this thing the DNS has called a PTR record... although if the questionable host name is just a web vhost (that is, it's a non-canonical name; the IP address doesn't map back to the same domain name), you might be okay, if the actual web server isn't also named something noteworthy (e.g. www3.smutserver.com).
I guess I'd better not mention that Anakin becomes Dar....oops!
Damn you! Thanks a lot for giving away that Anakin winds up having sex reassignment surgery to become singer-songwriter Dar Williams... I could easily have waited until the film actually came out to discover that.
[...]Which of these leaves more room for interpretation?
2+2=4
The ANSWER is equal to the SUM of the FIRST NUMBER and the SECOND NUMBER, where the FIRST NUMBER has the same value as the SECOND NUMBER. IF AND ONLY IF the SECOND NUMBER has the value of the SECOND POSITIVE INTEGER, the ANSWER will have the value of the FOURTH POSITIVE INTEGER.
Unfortunately, the use of "SECOND" and "FOURTH" here assumes that one is counting using the traditional ordering of integers. However, if one is instead using the Sarkovskii ordering of the positive integers (3 > 5 > 7 > 9 > 11 > 13 > ... > 6 > 10 > 14 > 18 > ... > 12 > 20 > ...... > 32 > 16 > 8 > 4 > 2 > 1) then that statement really means "2+2=8", which is clearly false. Therefore you don't even need be a lawyer to make people's lives complicated; merely having taken a few 300-level math courses is sufficient. Q.E.D.