Why on Earth build a vehicle with enormously long legs that invariably do nothing but topple the whole thing if they get snagged.
A very good question. This problem was originally discovered by Imperial cadet Davin Felth whilst in initial training. Colonel (later General) Veers had the simulation logs classified and Felth ushered away to a low-profile trooper unit that ended up on permanent station in Tatooine - those AT-ATs were his entire career.
Reference: Beason, Doug (1995) "When the Desert Wind Turns: The Stormtrooper's Tale" in Star Wars: Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina (Anderson ed.) published by Bantam Spectra. [Yes, it's official canon]
Although the export controls caused a real problem, they have been lifted.
Maybe over there.. over here (.au) anything stronger than 56-bits (symmetric) is classed as a munition. I find it quite amusing that I can't legally stick the assignment I just did, up on the web for general viewing:)
Most answers are a bit *too* short and to the point
Keep in mind the number of conspiracy theorists that are going to be reading this... he was probably being pedantic regarding extra verbal fluff, because the more he said the more chance he'd have of saying something that things could be read into, that he didn't actually intend to imply.
Any network interface card on a networked computer "taps" all of the traffic traversing a particular network segment.
You could say that.. but you could also say that the Wire itself taps all the traffic, and so does the T-connector...
The entire *point* of having that layer model is that a clear hierachy is specified as to what has access where, and the NIC is an integral part of the network layer itself. By default a network card doesn't generate an interrupt for packets that aren't addressed to itself, and I'm fairly sure that if I placed a card onto someone else's network and set it to promiscuous mode against their wishes I'd be violating a law or two.
I concede there are a few ambiguities... one of the reason that strong encryption by default is a good idea, so only the source and recipient can read that data? (Every web session over SSL, every shell over SSH etc...) Ooops, the government doesn't like widespread crypto either.
I don't think it's offtopic at all, I think it's funny.
I mean, fer chrissakes, he has a 3 digit userid - do you honestly think he's a Beowulf troll? I'd say he's just taking the piss at the Beowolf trolls that he would have seen evolve over the years..
I happened to be looking at the Trumpet page this morning... FireSock looks like the ideal solution for NAT on Windows, and Trumpet also operates an ISP. I doubt they're going backrupt anytime soon - in fact, they look interesting enough that I took a gander at the Employment page and am kinda hoping they've got something going when I graduate in a couple of years...
The site seems to be slashdotted, so apologies if I'm just duplicating the article, but OpenBSD is forked from NetBSD wheras TrustedBSD is forked from FreeBSD. The BSD types tend to be zealous enough that getting a TrustedBSD developer to work with NetBSD, or an OpenBSD developer to work from FreeBSD... you'd probably have better luck recruiting Linus Torvalds himself to work on one of the BSD variants:)
The C language, and the C library, really are two very different things. Oh, and the changes in the library aside, the only difference that normal code will see is:
Browsing through the UltraSPARC III comments yesterday, the most common observation re: Sun was that it had a reputation built on reliability. Solaris is an integral part of that reputation. Keeping all their products Solaris-based makes for an integrated product line and one that looks consistent to consumers.
If they went and opened up a Linux product line, people would be asking questions.. either "If Linux is better enough than Solaris to run it on the cubes, why not run it on the SPARCStations?", or "If Solaris is better enough than Linux to run it on the SPARC lines, why are you using Linux on the cubes?"
Also, don't forget that Solaris is their little baby. To all the coders out there: everything else considered equal, given the choice between your source and someone else's, whose would you trust more? Whose would you be more willing to stake your reputation on?
If, on the other hand, you're building Quake levels.... id's internal workhorse machine when they were putting together Q1 was a quad Alpha machine running Digital Unix.
Roy and H.G., who do the two hour wrapup on Channel 7 (the official Olympic channel right now) here in.au, don't seem to have run into any problems with Fatso. They have one of the little buggers sitting in front of them for the entire show.
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A very good question. This problem was originally discovered by Imperial cadet Davin Felth whilst in initial training. Colonel (later General) Veers had the simulation logs classified and Felth ushered away to a low-profile trooper unit that ended up on permanent station in Tatooine - those AT-ATs were his entire career.
Reference: Beason, Doug (1995) "When the Desert Wind Turns: The Stormtrooper's Tale" in Star Wars: Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina (Anderson ed.) published by Bantam Spectra. [Yes, it's official canon]
You're going to let them near Doom???? Don't come crying to me when they take a gun to school and unload...
Maybe over there.. over here (.au) anything stronger than 56-bits (symmetric) is classed as a munition. I find it quite amusing that I can't legally stick the assignment I just did, up on the web for general viewing :)
At least you have a girl. Mine exists only in dreams.
Keep in mind the number of conspiracy theorists that are going to be reading this... he was probably being pedantic regarding extra verbal fluff, because the more he said the more chance he'd have of saying something that things could be read into, that he didn't actually intend to imply.
You could say that.. but you could also say that the Wire itself taps all the traffic, and so does the T-connector...
The entire *point* of having that layer model is that a clear hierachy is specified as to what has access where, and the NIC is an integral part of the network layer itself. By default a network card doesn't generate an interrupt for packets that aren't addressed to itself, and I'm fairly sure that if I placed a card onto someone else's network and set it to promiscuous mode against their wishes I'd be violating a law or two.
I concede there are a few ambiguities... one of the reason that strong encryption by default is a good idea, so only the source and recipient can read that data? (Every web session over SSL, every shell over SSH etc...) Ooops, the government doesn't like widespread crypto either.
I mean, fer chrissakes, he has a 3 digit userid - do you honestly think he's a Beowulf troll? I'd say he's just taking the piss at the Beowolf trolls that he would have seen evolve over the years..
Think before you mod.
cue A Bug's Life... "it's so pretty, i can't help it..."
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I happened to be looking at the Trumpet page this morning... FireSock looks like the ideal solution for NAT on Windows, and Trumpet also operates an ISP. I doubt they're going backrupt anytime soon - in fact, they look interesting enough that I took a gander at the Employment page and am kinda hoping they've got something going when I graduate in a couple of years...
When are we gonna see PetrOS? :P
Still, I can't quite see myself drinking Crownies out of a blue can..
I want to be like you.
http://memb ers .iinet.net.au/~locust/iw-mirror/bw/sep/Unix_Flavor .htm
The site seems to be slashdotted, so apologies if I'm just duplicating the article, but OpenBSD is forked from NetBSD wheras TrustedBSD is forked from FreeBSD. The BSD types tend to be zealous enough that getting a TrustedBSD developer to work with NetBSD, or an OpenBSD developer to work from FreeBSD... you'd probably have better luck recruiting Linus Torvalds himself to work on one of the BSD variants :)
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If they went and opened up a Linux product line, people would be asking questions.. either "If Linux is better enough than Solaris to run it on the cubes, why not run it on the SPARCStations?", or "If Solaris is better enough than Linux to run it on the SPARC lines, why are you using Linux on the cubes?"
Also, don't forget that Solaris is their little baby. To all the coders out there: everything else considered equal, given the choice between your source and someone else's, whose would you trust more? Whose would you be more willing to stake your reputation on?
You'll still benefit from sneaky writes (I confess I don't know, does Linux do them?) to swap, so should have TotalPeakMemoryNeeded swap.
If, on the other hand, you're building Quake levels.... id's internal workhorse machine when they were putting together Q1 was a quad Alpha machine running Digital Unix.
You mean in the same way that Microsoft was appointed by IBM to supply the only operating system for the only x86 machines? :P
And since it probably could be "adapted" or "primarily used" for such... another nail in Napster's coffin?
Roy and H.G., who do the two hour wrapup on Channel 7 (the official Olympic channel right now) here in .au, don't seem to have run into any problems with Fatso. They have one of the little buggers sitting in front of them for the entire show.
Right on, mate.