No it's a cynical throwaway comment, well spotted.
For "insightful" I ought to have expanded. The real point that I origanally wanted to make, and completely failed to (got stuck in an apocalytic rut) is this:
As the distributed nature of freenet is effectively security through amongst other things obscurity. However, while the system grows the load isn't increased. However, as the system fades in popularity and generally wanes, the "data density", and hence load is increased. Load isn't free. The marginally philanthropic start to notice the increased load, and decide that they aren't so philanthropic any more. Instant positive feedback, just add Zeeman, and woosh. (shit, now I'm stuck in another apocalyptic rut...)
References: Most dotcom's share prices...
The system has got to grow slowly and carefully in order to have a future, in my eyes.
FatPhil
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Dr Bernstein is doing a Knuth - if you find a verified security bug in the package, you get $500 (Knuth offered an exponentially increasing reward for bugs in TeX).
He's a very solid programmer (I know his mathematical code extremely well). I don't think he'll ever pay out.
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Yes it does have the try/catch.
However, it's (the more recent g++, that is, not the old one on my alpha) clever enough to know that the code cannot throw an exception, so it optimises them out, which it is at liberty to do.
I can't explain why g++ wanted to keep the stack frame code in though.
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Almost noone uses it.
People start using it for illegal things.
It becomes popular.
Simultaniously -
It becomes massively overloaded.
It is harshly litigated against.
It fizzles.
Almost noone uses it.
Cycnics`R`Us,
FatPhil
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So it will possibly beat Perl, but not much else.
It has two (as far as I can see) library calls inside it. C/C++ and Pascal and Fortran and Lisp/Scheme would run rings around this.
Your post, for me, damns VB - was it intended to?
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This is semantically the same as arguing about angels on the head of a pin.
"Anyone at all skilled in the art"
and
"Someone of ordinary skill in the art"
only differ by where you draw the line for the application of the adjective 'skilled'.
If you say the former I will simply tighten the requirements for the use of the word skilled. How does "one is not 'skilled' until awarded a professorship in that field at either Oxford or Cambridge University" sound? I'd let temporary visiting professors count, so that guys like Feynman could be called skilled at Physics.
So, how many angels do you think would fit?
FatPhil
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A popup with a close icon in the corner.
A dialog box with a 'don't open' button.
They sound too similar to me.
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Doesn't the US consitution disallow states from "impairing the obligation of contracts".
i.e. a state can't stop someone from having to fulfill a contract?
Not American, and not a lawyer, so the details may be lost on me.
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Fewer subsystems isn't always the best way to go.
I _don't_ want onboard video and sound hardware on my motherboard. It's a server in a wardrobe. No need for Matrox this, gfx that, live! the other, 16 bit, 32Meg, MPEG nonsense. Similarly I don't want AGP, PCI _and_ ISA on my Mobo.
So personally, I wish the whole industry _wasn't_ working towards that goal.
I agree with your points about doing the software bit right before throwing hardware at a problem, though.
FatPhil
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This (being effectively part of the disk subsystem) is a comparatively low bandwidth device, there's no need for 5ns SRAM. Drop the cost by going for slower SRAMs.
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Isn't NTFS essentially HPFS?
If I remember Microsoft OS/2 correctly, that is.
I can't be sure there was theft/borrowing/evolution or whatever, but I do remember seeing a feature comparison of a whole bunch of FSs, and HPFS and NTFS had suspiciously similar features.
FatPhil
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I'm saying moderate it down as by being total bull adds nothing to the discussion.
I don't care if 90% of posts here have an information content of zero or a SNR of 0dB. Yours was one I read, so jumped on it. Your bad luck I did, your good luck no moderators agreed with me. Or disagreed with me by the look of it.
You've already admitted you were making bits of it up, that doesn't reflect too well on your post, does it?
FP.
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Your "examining the packets" is cruddy old PDH (Plesiochronous Digital Heirarchy - meaning "nearly the same clock"), or SONET, as you Americans would call it.
It's old dead technology.
What came after it was SDH (Synchronous...), which permitted Add-Drop Multiplexing of any tributary (45/34/6/2/1.5 Mb/s) without having to unpack the higher levels of the multiplex. i.e I could pull out a 2M channel which was inside a 6M channel which was inside a 45M channel inside a 140M channel without having to examine any other 2/6 or 45M channel's headers, I can go straight to my own 2M channel and extract it from inside its own bit-stuffed region.
Of course SDH is on the way out, as WDM takes over. However, WDM has been designed to interwork directly with today's SDH networks. Using non-linmear optics a SDH signal can be "frequency shifted" into one of the wavelengths used in the WDM mux. (It's not really frequency shifted, it simply "pumps" a signal of the desired frequency, not that that explains things any better, ooops)
FatPhil
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No it's a cynical throwaway comment, well spotted.
For "insightful" I ought to have expanded. The real point that I origanally wanted to make, and completely failed to (got stuck in an apocalytic rut) is this:
As the distributed nature of freenet is effectively security through amongst other things obscurity. However, while the system grows the load isn't increased. However, as the system fades in popularity and generally wanes, the "data density", and hence load is increased. Load isn't free. The marginally philanthropic start to notice the increased load, and decide that they aren't so philanthropic any more. Instant positive feedback, just add Zeeman, and woosh. (shit, now I'm stuck in another apocalyptic rut...)
References: Most dotcom's share prices...
The system has got to grow slowly and carefully in order to have a future, in my eyes.
FatPhil
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Dr Bernstein is doing a Knuth - if you find a verified security bug in the package, you get $500 (Knuth offered an exponentially increasing reward for bugs in TeX).
He's a very solid programmer (I know his mathematical code extremely well). I don't think he'll ever pay out.
FatPhil
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Yes it does have the try/catch.
However, it's (the more recent g++, that is, not the old one on my alpha) clever enough to know that the code cannot throw an exception, so it optimises them out, which it is at liberty to do.
I can't explain why g++ wanted to keep the stack frame code in though.
FatPhil
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Almost noone uses it.
People start using it for illegal things.
It becomes popular.
Simultaniously -
It becomes massively overloaded.
It is harshly litigated against.
It fizzles.
Almost noone uses it.
Cycnics`R`Us,
FatPhil
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This damns VC++ to heck and back too. Christ.
.text:
g++/egcs 2.91.66 on my Alpha with it's huge register files creates a 540 byte function which is even worse than VC++
g++ 2.95.2 on my x86 creates the following:
phil@octospaz:/tmp$ g++ -O6 -c x.c
phil@octospaz:/tmp$ objdump -d x.o | more
x.o: file format elf32-i386
Disassembly of section
00000000 :
0: 55 push %ebp
1: 89 e5 mov %esp,%ebp
3: b8 23 00 00 00 mov $0x23,%eax
8: c9 leave
9: c3 ret
I was unable to get the frame pointers removed.
FatPhil
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the last but one is the penultimate.
pen- implies 'near'
The penultimate line is nearly the ultimate (last) line
A peninsula is nearly insular (an island)
A penumbra is nearly umbral (a shadow).
That's all I can think of.
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So it will possibly beat Perl, but not much else.
It has two (as far as I can see) library calls inside it. C/C++ and Pascal and Fortran and Lisp/Scheme would run rings around this.
Your post, for me, damns VB - was it intended to?
FatPhil
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You've highlighted the way that ISPs will disable the disabling of popups...
... they'll put the porn in popups too.
Sometimes the two or more popups you'll get will be porn then ad, sometimes ad then porn, sometimes ad then 2nd ad then porn.
On average you'll be forced to get one ad before you get the porn.
If it were simply ad then porn people would get around it by always dropping the first popup. Gotta make it random.
Last time I looked 127.1 was the only porn site anyone needs.
FP.
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Don't complain about 'suee', it;s a great word, as is 'suer', cos it sounds like where both of these companies come from.
:-)
FP.
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This is semantically the same as arguing about angels on the head of a pin.
"Anyone at all skilled in the art"
and
"Someone of ordinary skill in the art"
only differ by where you draw the line for the application of the adjective 'skilled'.
If you say the former I will simply tighten the requirements for the use of the word skilled. How does "one is not 'skilled' until awarded a professorship in that field at either Oxford or Cambridge University" sound? I'd let temporary visiting professors count, so that guys like Feynman could be called skilled at Physics.
So, how many angels do you think would fit?
FatPhil
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A popup with a close icon in the corner.
A dialog box with a 'don't open' button.
They sound too similar to me.
However you're right about the usefulness of a feature that lets one specify "don't open new windows for/from juno.com",
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They are not an 'obvious extension', it's worse than that, they were _designed in_. That's what the feature was for all along.
FP.
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Doesn't the US consitution disallow states from "impairing the obligation of contracts".
i.e. a state can't stop someone from having to fulfill a contract?
Not American, and not a lawyer, so the details may be lost on me.
FatPhil
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Very roughly.
In series:
Source failure: protection = 2
UPSfar failure: protection = 1
UPSnear failure: protection = 0
near/far measured from view of the server.
In parallel:
Source failure: protection = 2
UPS failure: protection = 1
See, there are no protection=0 scenarios except double UPS failure. (and serial is equally bad for that).
Use parallel UPSs for _hot swappable_ UPS setups!
It's the only truly redundant way for 24/7 systems.
FP.
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Cos it don't work. I said that 3 weeks ago, and they're still pestering me.
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Fewer subsystems isn't always the best way to go.
I _don't_ want onboard video and sound hardware on my motherboard. It's a server in a wardrobe. No need for Matrox this, gfx that, live! the other, 16 bit, 32Meg, MPEG nonsense. Similarly I don't want AGP, PCI _and_ ISA on my Mobo.
So personally, I wish the whole industry _wasn't_ working towards that goal.
I agree with your points about doing the software bit right before throwing hardware at a problem, though.
FatPhil
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This (being effectively part of the disk subsystem) is a comparatively low bandwidth device, there's no need for 5ns SRAM. Drop the cost by going for slower SRAMs.
FP.
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I agree.
I could summarise the article in...
(Use a nonvolatile disk cache)
... 5 words.
OK, it's not quite what he's saying, but for the compactness I think it's pretty close.
FatPhil
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Isn't NTFS essentially HPFS?
If I remember Microsoft OS/2 correctly, that is.
I can't be sure there was theft/borrowing/evolution or whatever, but I do remember seeing a feature comparison of a whole bunch of FSs, and HPFS and NTFS had suspiciously similar features.
FatPhil
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"
One last idea: plug the UPS into a UPS into the wall. Mua!
"
No! That makes the UPS nearer the computer a critical failure point.
_Parallelise_ the UPSs, rather than serialising them.
FatPhil
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Not quoting you:
"
This stuff could compete with Photoshop if it got more expensive.
"
That's _honestly_ what I read!
Funniest thing is it's also true. Nothing free can be any good can it? (No - stealing doesn't count)
FatPhil
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My Hi-fi _maxes out_ at -0, and is silent at -Inf.
Does that mean it plays my music backwards?
Calm down pet.
Merry Chrissy all.
FatPhil
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I'm saying moderate it down as by being total bull adds nothing to the discussion.
I don't care if 90% of posts here have an information content of zero or a SNR of 0dB. Yours was one I read, so jumped on it. Your bad luck I did, your good luck no moderators agreed with me. Or disagreed with me by the look of it.
You've already admitted you were making bits of it up, that doesn't reflect too well on your post, does it?
FP.
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I don't understand all these powers of ten, they confuse me. Why can't we just use feet and pounds?
FP.
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Your "examining the packets" is cruddy old PDH (Plesiochronous Digital Heirarchy - meaning "nearly the same clock"), or SONET, as you Americans would call it. ...), which permitted Add-Drop Multiplexing of any tributary (45/34/6/2/1.5 Mb/s) without having to unpack the higher levels of the multiplex. i.e I could pull out a 2M channel which was inside a 6M channel which was inside a 45M channel inside a 140M channel without having to examine any other 2/6 or 45M channel's headers, I can go straight to my own 2M channel and extract it from inside its own bit-stuffed region.
It's old dead technology.
What came after it was SDH (Synchronous
Of course SDH is on the way out, as WDM takes over. However, WDM has been designed to interwork directly with today's SDH networks. Using non-linmear optics a SDH signal can be "frequency shifted" into one of the wavelengths used in the WDM mux. (It's not really frequency shifted, it simply "pumps" a signal of the desired frequency, not that that explains things any better, ooops)
FatPhil
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