When dealing with something that isn't time sensitive (i.e. SETI or distributed.net), I would imagine things wouldn't be hampered when a user's machine is connected to the distributed network or disconnected. Dealing with weather data is a completely different matter. In the development process for a model, one of the biggest factors is how long it takes for processing of the data then the post processing. If a set number of users were on at one time, then missing the next, those numbers would be fubar. Add to that how fast the atmosphere changes, on the order of hours, would make this a problem. It may not sound like a big deal, but in the field, things are extremely time dependent. Just ask a meteorologist how the fire at NCEP that took down a CRAY last year impacted their forecasting capability. Being pretty green about all of this, maybe I am off, but from what I have observed in the last five years, making sure the cpu cycles are there is very important.
First off, from what I have gathered, it was not clear if you background was weather or not, so, I am hoping it is. Here are a couple of questions:
1) Having just graduated with a BS in Atmospheric Sciences, I have had a chance to take numerical weather prediction courses over the last five years. With this new influx of processing power, where do you see numerical models going in the future?
2) Somewhat related to 1), with mesoscale models becoming more popular (MM5 quickly springs to mind), where do you see the balance of processor time going to these models. The ability to get a model out faster, or to compute more variables to provide a more accurate forecast at the smaller scale?
3) Not knowing too much about the origins of these models, I was interested to find that a person could get the source to the MM5 and modify it as they see fit. Will models developed in the future follow this same trend? With powerful computers becoming affordable, it would not be that difficult for a university to build one and run a particular model for their area (I believe that Ohio State is doing it, again, with the MM5)?
I'd think that with recent bad press on outlook you'd change that Bio of your before defending MS, this is a perfect example of why we want to see MS destroyed.
In that case, someone should alert the media every time there is some form of an exploit in a Linux distro to get root access. With the recent updates that RedHat and Mandrake have been putting out, I guess they should be 'destroyed' as well. Giving a hacker the ability to erase the root file system would be, IMHO, far worse then renaming some jpeg files and forwarding itself to others.
I am truly shocked at how short sighted people are being. Why not let people decide which OS they have on their system? There is a format command available to Microsoft users. Linux distros are easily bootable and install programs are easier then ever. In its place, we have the US government trying to decide what and where a software company can put its software. Bah, I don't buy it. If the home user does not have the proper info to make this decision, then educate them. Don't have the government get involved in this manner. Need I remind those old enough to remember the terrible confusion and high prices after the government divided up Ma Bell into the baby bells? Go back and do the research. Nothing good can come from what the justice department has recommended. Since Microsoft has the monopoly on home x86 systems, I guess the US Justice Department should go after Apple next, as they have the monopoly on home PowerPC systems. I say split them up between the OS group and the hardware group. Also, since we can't have the two working together to make another monopoly, AppleOS can't have their OS run on AppleHardware's systems. If it is good for the goose....
Agree with you about the CD pressing problem. Have never heard of the defective unit problem from China. Don't suppose you have a URL or something I could read up on that, do you?
Actually, the problems related to the Dreamcast were due to faulty CDs, not the hardware being defective. And then, it was only in two or three titles, many Midway games.
Ah, that was good stuff. More, more comedy. Please keep posting, you are a funny man!
Bryan R.
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Actually, if I may. I believe that he put those comments at the beginning to illustrate how quickly this story got out and far reaching this story is. Just a different perspective.....
Actually, the poster was poking fun at the posters for the movie. They say "Hello, my name is Andy and this is my poster." Same thing for the ad in the paper. "Hello, my name is Andy and this is my ad." A laugh riot. I don't get the childish book report thing, sadly....
Actually, I must disagree. In recent years, Carrey has shown the makings of a legitimate actor. As far as just an every day man, he seems off the wall, and I don't know if I would go have a beer with him, but as an actor, he is getting better. His older movies show an actor who didn't have control, IMHO (except for Dumb and Dumber, a personal fav. If you went into that movie expecting more then the title indicated, you are the title. It was meant to be that mindless.). If you look at the Carrey timeline, as he has moved up with Liar, Liar, then The Truman Show, and now this, he has grown a great deal. Must we be reminded that another actor has gone through the same metamorphisis. Robin Williams was just as wild and, again IMHO, just as bad in such movies as Popeye, Moscow on the Hudson, and The Survivors. Since then, he has gotten quite better with recent titles like Patch Adams, Good Will Hunting, and Jumanji.
Give the guy a break. He seems to be getting better with age:-).
Man, does this just seem odd to anyone else? All requests for legitmacy asside, I was able to go to Comdex, VSDA, and CES when I was 15. For all purposes, this sounds like an attempt to garner attention for the 'ol business. Plus, unless things have changed since I last went (oh, about 5 years ago), there is some whiz bang stuff, but most of what you will want to see is done in about less then a day. There are obvious exceptions to the rule, but most go to have a good time and relax from their boring IT job. Same thing with VSDA and CES.
Plus, can you blame the Comdex folks for taking the position that they did? Here you have a kid, a MINOR going to a convention that is situated right in the middle of Sin City (don't take this as a slam, I love Vegas). Not counting the problems dealing with minors, contracts, and business, there just isn't much for a kid to do outside the convention space. I would imagine someone so virtuous as to get clearance to go to Comdex legit would not dare try to do things the adults can do.... I still remember my first time there, running into all the folks in between the convention buildings handing out the "escort" brochures.
I mainly went because we were going to drive to California and Disneyland after the convention:).
... and Nintendo won. For those of you who keep saying "I am waiting for the ultimate system." Please. You don't even know what games are coming out for it or who is officially developing for the system. Don't even quote me specs. There was a time when a system was available that was so much more superior. That was the Sega Master System. Boy, could I quote you specs that would blow the Nintendo Entertainment System away. What happend?! The SMS went belly up faster then you can say "Titanic". So don't be quoting to me that a system is going to blow another away when we know so very little. Sega is here. Sega is now. Sega has a huge backing of 3rd party developers. Seen the shots of Castlevania yet? How about the Capcom stuff? Wow, where are the PS2 shots from these companies? I thought so. To parallel the development of the PS2, one could look at the Merced. Here we have a company that had never really done 64bit support. When they try, the set a release date. What happend to that date? Pushed back and back. Heck, there is even mention now that the Merced will not be THE chip for 64bit but the next gen. from Intel. Why not lighten up on poor Sega and give them a look. At least they aren't vapor....
You know, you sound like a friend of mine about computer stuff. We try to get him to upgrade, but he will never do it. Why? Because there is something always better right around the corner. When the P2 and Dolphin come out, I will go ahead and say not to buy those either. Why? Because, Some startup company will have something better on the horizon that everyone will say is the cats meow. Just look at the Nvidia GeForce. All the sudden, 3DFX comes out of the woodworks spreading rumors (don't believe me? just take a look at that CNBC interview with the 3DFX CEO). Cripes. My money will be with Sega today.......
"The other major constraint is total memory of 32 MBytes with no hard disk for swap space..."
Why would this be an issue? The advantage to having a set top unit like a video game system is that the programmer can program for one set of hardware specs and that is it and not worry if certain boot time programs are using space or not. If 32 Meg is it, I would guess this would be an advantage since one would not have to worry about every little configuration on each desktop.
First off, I would like to say that, even though I am a Sega-head (VF3tb cannot be beat!!!), I have hopes that Sony will be able to pull off this grand feet. Since they are targeting the unit for so many purposes, and being a casual console gamer besides a die hard computer user, I would like to make some predictions and observations about the 'ol PS2:
1) From what I have been reading, it is going to miss that first expected release date. I just don't see how they can have the hardware done to the level that they can mass produce it and get it to the consumer. I know all about the demos that were displayed a while ago, but I bet these things are scripted and they had some level of prep. I only need to site the first demo of the Atari Lynx. They had the little demo unit out, but in actuallity, it was controlled by some regular computers in the back room someplace. I am not saying that is what went down in this case, but I still wonder....
2) It will initially face the same problem that plagued the CDi and the 3DO set top machines, that of identity. I have read that they are expecting to create different units for each consumer level and function, but there will be an initial confusion about what the target function of the machine will be. I just hope they will be able to handle it better then 3DO and CDi did....
3) The initial price of $400 for the basic unit will really hurt the 'gamer' out there, but maybe that is not the target for the new machine. As with all bleeding edge technology, the techhead will be the first, and then a dry spell. I had hoped that they had learned their lesson (Sega appears to) from the launch of the PS at $300 and the relatively cold response it got. I know that they have to cover their butts, but that is what the software sales are for, right?
4) This is one that I hope catches on, and I predict that it will. The use of standardized ports (ie USB, Firewire, PCMCIA) as the connection point for the joystick, light guns, and other such fun stuff will find its way into other set top boxes, be it games, WebTV hardware upgrades, or the like. This is important and one that will succeed (yikes, I hope). This is one area that I feel that the Dreamcast will lack in is the peripheral expansion. Running a Windows based OS would mean that using USB or PCMCIA would have been a no brainer. Sadly, that is not the case and those of use with cablemodems will be stuck looking at the 56k modem and waiting for the Ethernet addition which has been promised.
5) Two years max before the PC will be able to surpass the capability having already been demonstrated. That is two years from now, not when the unit ships. 'Nuff said.
Like mentioned before, I am not anti-PS. I feel that, if done properly, this could be bigger then the Dreamcast launch has been. I just hope that they don't screw it up.
I, too, was there before the days of Mike and the Brain Guy, before there was even a TV's Frank (easily the best character on the show). Ah, the low budget'ed'ness of it all. It will be a show that I will miss. Not for the viewings it got as I sat alone, but for the viewings in a group, as this was a show that was meant to be watched with others. With that in mind, a collective bowing of heads will be issued.
To change the subject, I was wondering if anyone had any info on the long lost Thanksgiving episode which was shown once on Comedy Central never to be seen again. What was it about? What movie? That sort of thing. Please, I need that fill. Even the Unauthorized Guide has nothing on this episode except that it did exist but was never seen again. Thanks.
...a very simple one. I am a cablemodem user who is trying to setup something for people behind our firewall as a kind of community effort. I have a small Pentium 150 box with a couple hundred meg of RAM and a 2 Gig HD for about 100 people. I am running the Cyrus/Sendmail/Procmail configuration for the server end. For the clients, since it is IMAP/POP combination which is fully compatible with Netscape's mail client, or any IMAP compliant client for that matter. I then use OpenLDAP for the the directory server. There is a great article at Netscape on how to customize the address book to use a specific server (involves editing the.js files, and I don't have the link in front of me) so that the Linux box is a used as the default LDAP server. Finally, and this is the cool part, I use the IMP/HORDE combination for a web access to the email. If you wanted the cool (yes, I am making a pro comment about Exchange) web interface to IMAP, I would recommend IMP/HORDE which can be found here for the web interface to the mailboxes. It is still in beta, but I am using it and it is very speedy. Only thing is that you will need Apache/PHP with the IMAP module, but it is GNU software. Only problem I have encountered is that the HD is really cranking when I have a lot of users running on it (but I also run the web server, ftp server, and samba for those behind the firewall). Well, that is MY experience anyway. I would imagine if you were to beef up your hardware and get some more distro opinions (one guy I talked to said I should try *BSD since it would handle the load a little better), you would find a happy medium. Just some $.02 from a joe shmo off the streets....
Sorry, but I believe we are talking about two separate things. I am addressing the privacy issue that has cropped up with IIS 5.0 as seen on Wired.com. I am aware of the security bug that has appeared in IIS 4, and was aware that a fix was forthcoming.
As far as virii versus bugs, if they are included with a shipping product, they are both issues with a particular package that need to be addressed. A problem included with a piece of software that is being shipped is something that needs to be taken seriously by a software manufacturer. I believe that Microsoft's plan of attack where this is concerned leaves much to be desired. In the case of the recent IIS 4 security hole, even a period of two days can cause a world of damage. If something like this appears, it is Microsoft's responsibility to notify sites immediately that this issue exists, not wait for a hotfix, which has become so popular.
I have to remember that when I post something like this to a forum like Slashdot, vagueness is not the best trait to have:-).
As far as this being FUD, I did not know that personal opinion could be considered so damaging. It seems that any personal opinion is taken as slander against something else. Makes a person afraid to raise a voice......
As I said, though, this is probably all a misunderstanding.
"Umm... I don't think it was caught too soon. This worm has literally been on the CD image since Memorial Day Weekend (when the master was made with the worm)." That is still a better track record then some corp like Microsoft, or other commercial offerings out there. I believe it is far more interesting that the R5 spread the word as quickly as they did where as Microsoft wasn't even going to mention anything about their IIS 5.0 'problem' until they had a fix. Who knows when that will be. I guess in Microsoft time, the period of eight months to a year for a bugfix is just a few days after release for the big M. My favorite bug right now is the Win98 SE Suspend issue (take a gander at Microsoft's Windows bugfix has own bug at News.com). How do you miss something like that?! Or, even better, the problems with Microsoft's Fortran Powerstation before it was sold to Digital. We have a program where I work that the compiled Fortran code was slowly sucking away memory. A call to some dark dank Microsoft dungeon (after getting transfered multiple times to find out the info was deep in one of their newsgroups) was the only way that we could get a bug fix that stopped a terrible memory leak in Fortran. It still is posted where it is not readily available. I guess I could go on and on, but won't.... I think, in the terms of shipping out products with some sort of problem, this is pretty tame.
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When dealing with something that isn't time sensitive (i.e. SETI or distributed.net), I would imagine things wouldn't be hampered when a user's machine is connected to the distributed network or disconnected. Dealing with weather data is a completely different matter. In the development process for a model, one of the biggest factors is how long it takes for processing of the data then the post processing. If a set number of users were on at one time, then missing the next, those numbers would be fubar. Add to that how fast the atmosphere changes, on the order of hours, would make this a problem. It may not sound like a big deal, but in the field, things are extremely time dependent. Just ask a meteorologist how the fire at NCEP that took down a CRAY last year impacted their forecasting capability. Being pretty green about all of this, maybe I am off, but from what I have observed in the last five years, making sure the cpu cycles are there is very important.
Bryan R.
First off, from what I have gathered, it was not clear if you background was weather or not, so, I am hoping it is. Here are a couple of questions:
1) Having just graduated with a BS in Atmospheric Sciences, I have had a chance to take numerical weather prediction courses over the last five years. With this new influx of processing power, where do you see numerical models going in the future?
2) Somewhat related to 1), with mesoscale models becoming more popular (MM5 quickly springs to mind), where do you see the balance of processor time going to these models. The ability to get a model out faster, or to compute more variables to provide a more accurate forecast at the smaller scale?
3) Not knowing too much about the origins of these models, I was interested to find that a person could get the source to the MM5 and modify it as they see fit. Will models developed in the future follow this same trend? With powerful computers becoming affordable, it would not be that difficult for a university to build one and run a particular model for their area (I believe that Ohio State is doing it, again, with the MM5)?
Thanks!
Bryan R.
I'd think that with recent bad press on outlook you'd change that Bio of your before defending MS, this is a perfect example of why we want to see MS destroyed.
In that case, someone should alert the media every time there is some form of an exploit in a Linux distro to get root access. With the recent updates that RedHat and Mandrake have been putting out, I guess they should be 'destroyed' as well. Giving a hacker the ability to erase the root file system would be, IMHO, far worse then renaming some jpeg files and forwarding itself to others.
Bryan R.
I am truly shocked at how short sighted people are being. Why not let people decide which OS they have on their system? There is a format command available to Microsoft users. Linux distros are easily bootable and install programs are easier then ever. In its place, we have the US government trying to decide what and where a software company can put its software. Bah, I don't buy it. If the home user does not have the proper info to make this decision, then educate them. Don't have the government get involved in this manner. Need I remind those old enough to remember the terrible confusion and high prices after the government divided up Ma Bell into the baby bells? Go back and do the research. Nothing good can come from what the justice department has recommended. Since Microsoft has the monopoly on home x86 systems, I guess the US Justice Department should go after Apple next, as they have the monopoly on home PowerPC systems. I say split them up between the OS group and the hardware group. Also, since we can't have the two working together to make another monopoly, AppleOS can't have their OS run on AppleHardware's systems. If it is good for the goose....
Bryan R.
Wow, and people laughed when Kitt the talking car was driving Michael Knight around while he slept! We have arrived people!
Michael, I have some bad news.
What is it Klaus? Are we running behind?
No, but I did hit two pedestrians and drove through a corn field.
But we aren't running behind.
No.
Good then.
Bryan R.
Agree with you about the CD pressing problem. Have never heard of the defective unit problem from China. Don't suppose you have a URL or something I could read up on that, do you?
Bryan R.
Actually, the problems related to the Dreamcast were due to faulty CDs, not the hardware being defective. And then, it was only in two or three titles, many Midway games.
Bryan R.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH.
Ah, that was good stuff. More, more comedy. Please keep posting, you are a funny man!
Bryan R.
Actually, if I may. I believe that he put those comments at the beginning to illustrate how quickly this story got out and far reaching this story is. Just a different perspective.....
Bryan R.
Actually, the poster was poking fun at the posters for the movie. They say "Hello, my name is Andy and this is my poster." Same thing for the ad in the paper. "Hello, my name is Andy and this is my ad." A laugh riot. I don't get the childish book report thing, sadly....
Bryan R.
Actually, I enjoyed both Mrs. Doubtfire and Hook. My point was that when he started acting, he was just playing his standup guy. That's all.
As for Dead Poets Society, I enjoyed it so much, that I now own it. Fantastic movie!
Bryan R.
Actually, I must disagree. In recent years, Carrey has shown the makings of a legitimate actor. As far as just an every day man, he seems off the wall, and I don't know if I would go have a beer with him, but as an actor, he is getting better. His older movies show an actor who didn't have control, IMHO (except for Dumb and Dumber, a personal fav. If you went into that movie expecting more then the title indicated, you are the title. It was meant to be that mindless.). If you look at the Carrey timeline, as he has moved up with Liar, Liar, then The Truman Show, and now this, he has grown a great deal. Must we be reminded that another actor has gone through the same metamorphisis. Robin Williams was just as wild and, again IMHO, just as bad in such movies as Popeye, Moscow on the Hudson, and The Survivors. Since then, he has gotten quite better with recent titles like Patch Adams, Good Will Hunting, and Jumanji.
:-).
Give the guy a break. He seems to be getting better with age
Bryan R.
Man, does this just seem odd to anyone else? All requests for legitmacy asside, I was able to go to Comdex, VSDA, and CES when I was 15. For all purposes, this sounds like an attempt to garner attention for the 'ol business. Plus, unless things have changed since I last went (oh, about 5 years ago), there is some whiz bang stuff, but most of what you will want to see is done in about less then a day. There are obvious exceptions to the rule, but most go to have a good time and relax from their boring IT job. Same thing with VSDA and CES.
:).
Plus, can you blame the Comdex folks for taking the position that they did? Here you have a kid, a MINOR going to a convention that is situated right in the middle of Sin City (don't take this as a slam, I love Vegas). Not counting the problems dealing with minors, contracts, and business, there just isn't much for a kid to do outside the convention space. I would imagine someone so virtuous as to get clearance to go to Comdex legit would not dare try to do things the adults can do.... I still remember my first time there, running into all the folks in between the convention buildings handing out the "escort" brochures.
I mainly went because we were going to drive to California and Disneyland after the convention
Bryan R.
... and Nintendo won. For those of you who keep saying "I am waiting for the ultimate system." Please. You don't even know what games are coming out for it or who is officially developing for the system. Don't even quote me specs. There was a time when a system was available that was so much more superior. That was the Sega Master System. Boy, could I quote you specs that would blow the Nintendo Entertainment System away. What happend?! The SMS went belly up faster then you can say "Titanic". So don't be quoting to me that a system is going to blow another away when we know so very little. Sega is here. Sega is now. Sega has a huge backing of 3rd party developers. Seen the shots of Castlevania yet? How about the Capcom stuff? Wow, where are the PS2 shots from these companies? I thought so. To parallel the development of the PS2, one could look at the Merced. Here we have a company that had never really done 64bit support. When they try, the set a release date. What happend to that date? Pushed back and back. Heck, there is even mention now that the Merced will not be THE chip for 64bit but the next gen. from Intel. Why not lighten up on poor Sega and give them a look. At least they aren't vapor....
Bryan R.
You know, you sound like a friend of mine about computer stuff. We try to get him to upgrade, but he will never do it. Why? Because there is something always better right around the corner. When the P2 and Dolphin come out, I will go ahead and say not to buy those either. Why? Because, Some startup company will have something better on the horizon that everyone will say is the cats meow. Just look at the Nvidia GeForce. All the sudden, 3DFX comes out of the woodworks spreading rumors (don't believe me? just take a look at that CNBC interview with the 3DFX CEO). Cripes. My money will be with Sega today.......
Bryan R.
"The other major constraint is total memory of 32 MBytes with no hard disk for swap space..."
Why would this be an issue? The advantage to having a set top unit like a video game system is that the programmer can program for one set of hardware specs and that is it and not worry if certain boot time programs are using space or not. If 32 Meg is it, I would guess this would be an advantage since one would not have to worry about every little configuration on each desktop.
Bryan R.
First off, I would like to say that, even though I am a Sega-head (VF3tb cannot be beat!!!), I have hopes that Sony will be able to pull off this grand feet. Since they are targeting the unit for so many purposes, and being a casual console gamer besides a die hard computer user, I would like to make some predictions and observations about the 'ol PS2:
1) From what I have been reading, it is going to miss that first expected release date. I just don't see how they can have the hardware done to the level that they can mass produce it and get it to the consumer. I know all about the demos that were displayed a while ago, but I bet these things are scripted and they had some level of prep. I only need to site the first demo of the Atari Lynx. They had the little demo unit out, but in actuallity, it was controlled by some regular computers in the back room someplace. I am not saying that is what went down in this case, but I still wonder....
2) It will initially face the same problem that plagued the CDi and the 3DO set top machines, that of identity. I have read that they are expecting to create different units for each consumer level and function, but there will be an initial confusion about what the target function of the machine will be. I just hope they will be able to handle it better then 3DO and CDi did....
3) The initial price of $400 for the basic unit will really hurt the 'gamer' out there, but maybe that is not the target for the new machine. As with all bleeding edge technology, the techhead will be the first, and then a dry spell. I had hoped that they had learned their lesson (Sega appears to) from the launch of the PS at $300 and the relatively cold response it got. I know that they have to cover their butts, but that is what the software sales are for, right?
4) This is one that I hope catches on, and I predict that it will. The use of standardized ports (ie USB, Firewire, PCMCIA) as the connection point for the joystick, light guns, and other such fun stuff will find its way into other set top boxes, be it games, WebTV hardware upgrades, or the like. This is important and one that will succeed (yikes, I hope). This is one area that I feel that the Dreamcast will lack in is the peripheral expansion. Running a Windows based OS would mean that using USB or PCMCIA would have been a no brainer. Sadly, that is not the case and those of use with cablemodems will be stuck looking at the 56k modem and waiting for the Ethernet addition which has been promised.
5) Two years max before the PC will be able to surpass the capability having already been demonstrated. That is two years from now, not when the unit ships. 'Nuff said.
Like mentioned before, I am not anti-PS. I feel that, if done properly, this could be bigger then the Dreamcast launch has been. I just hope that they don't screw it up.
Bryan R.
I, too, was there before the days of Mike and the Brain Guy, before there was even a TV's Frank (easily the best character on the show). Ah, the low budget'ed'ness of it all. It will be a show that I will miss. Not for the viewings it got as I sat alone, but for the viewings in a group, as this was a show that was meant to be watched with others. With that in mind, a collective bowing of heads will be issued.
To change the subject, I was wondering if anyone had any info on the long lost Thanksgiving episode which was shown once on Comedy Central never to be seen again. What was it about? What movie? That sort of thing. Please, I need that fill. Even the Unauthorized Guide has nothing on this episode except that it did exist but was never seen again. Thanks.
Bryan R.
...a very simple one. I am a cablemodem user who is trying to setup something for people behind our firewall as a kind of community effort. I have a small Pentium 150 box with a couple hundred meg of RAM and a 2 Gig HD for about 100 people. I am running the Cyrus/Sendmail/Procmail configuration for the server end. For the clients, since it is IMAP/POP combination which is fully compatible with Netscape's mail client, or any IMAP compliant client for that matter. I then use OpenLDAP for the the directory server. There is a great article at Netscape on how to customize the address book to use a specific server (involves editing the .js files, and I don't have the link in front of me) so that the Linux box is a used as the default LDAP server. Finally, and this is the cool part, I use the IMP/HORDE combination for a web access to the email. If you wanted the cool (yes, I am making a pro comment about Exchange) web interface to IMAP, I would recommend IMP/HORDE which can be found here for the web interface to the mailboxes. It is still in beta, but I am using it and it is very speedy. Only thing is that you will need Apache/PHP with the IMAP module, but it is GNU software. Only problem I have encountered is that the HD is really cranking when I have a lot of users running on it (but I also run the web server, ftp server, and samba for those behind the firewall). Well, that is MY experience anyway. I would imagine if you were to beef up your hardware and get some more distro opinions (one guy I talked to said I should try *BSD since it would handle the load a little better), you would find a happy medium. Just some $.02 from a joe shmo off the streets....
Bryan R.
The draft for this is located at:o col-01.txt. Pretty interesting read as it looks like it has loads of potential. I can't wait to try out an implementation of this!
http://www. ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-nat-rsip-prot
Bryan R.
And, if you are constipated, they zoom up other 'pipes' too... er, never mind...
Bryan R.
Sorry, but I believe we are talking about two separate things. I am addressing the
:-).
privacy issue that has cropped up with IIS 5.0 as seen on Wired.com. I am aware
of the security bug that has appeared in IIS 4, and was aware that a fix was
forthcoming.
As far as virii versus bugs, if they are included with a shipping product, they are both
issues with a particular package that need to be addressed. A problem included
with a piece of software that is being shipped is something that needs to be taken
seriously by a software manufacturer. I believe that Microsoft's plan of attack where
this is concerned leaves much to be desired. In the case of the recent IIS 4 security
hole, even a period of two days can cause a world of damage. If something like this
appears, it is Microsoft's responsibility to notify sites immediately that this issue
exists, not wait for a hotfix, which has become so popular.
I have to remember that when I post something like this to a forum like Slashdot,
vagueness is not the best trait to have
As far as this being FUD, I did not know that personal opinion could be considered
so damaging. It seems that any personal opinion is taken as slander against
something else. Makes a person afraid to raise a voice......
As I said, though, this is probably all a misunderstanding.
Bryan R.
"Umm... I don't think it was caught too soon. This worm has literally been on the CD image since Memorial Day Weekend (when the master was made with the worm)." That is still a better track record then some corp like Microsoft, or other commercial offerings out there. I believe it is far more interesting that the R5 spread the word as quickly as they did where as Microsoft wasn't even going to mention anything about their IIS 5.0 'problem' until they had a fix. Who knows when that will be. I guess in Microsoft time, the period of eight months to a year for a bugfix is just a few days after release for the big M. My favorite bug right now is the Win98 SE Suspend issue (take a gander at Microsoft's Windows bugfix has own bug at News.com). How do you miss something like that?! Or, even better, the problems with Microsoft's Fortran Powerstation before it was sold to Digital. We have a program where I work that the compiled Fortran code was slowly sucking away memory. A call to some dark dank Microsoft dungeon (after getting transfered multiple times to find out the info was deep in one of their newsgroups) was the only way that we could get a bug fix that stopped a terrible memory leak in Fortran. It still is posted where it is not readily available. I guess I could go on and on, but won't.... I think, in the terms of shipping out products with some sort of problem, this is pretty tame.
Bryan R.
and grab it (downloading myself as we speak!).
Bryan R.