D.W. Davies left a strong trace inside the core of our internet world, his name can even be found in RFCs.
First, his contribution to the creation of the Internet :
RFC243 and RFC290 (bibliography) :
D. W. Davies, "Communication Networks to Serve Rapid-response Computers," Proc IFIP Congress 68, p. 650-656, August 1968.
D. W. Davies, "The Principles of a Data Communication Network for Computers and Remote Peripherals," Proc IFIP Congress 68, p. 709-714, August 1968.
RFC2235 (Internet Timeline) :
1967 ACM Symposium on Operating Principles - Plan presented for a packet-switching network - First design paper on ARPANET published by Lawrence G. Roberts
National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in Middlesex, England develops NPL Data Network under D. W. Davies
Second, contributions concerning security :
RFC1750 (randomness generation) :
[...] It has been shown by Donald W. Davies that this sort of shifted partial output feedback significantly weakens an algorithm compared will feeding all of the output bits back as input. In particular, for DES, repeated encrypting a full 64 bit quantity will give an expected repeat in about 2^63 iterations. Feeding back anything less than 64 (and more than 0) bits will give an expected repeat in between 2**31 and 2**32 iterations! [...]
RFC2025 (public key mechanism, bibliography) :
[Davi89]: D. W. Davies and W. L. Price, "Security for Computer Networks", Second Edition, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1989.
I don't drink cola : I just don't like the taste. Too sweet. I prefer orange juice, and the recipe is already more than open : take one or two oranges, press, pour, drink, enjoy.
That's strange. The testers explicitely say that they tested the screen with non-3d-capable game (quake 3)... No wonder that absolutely no 3d effect is to be expected.
As for the screen itself, the dimness of the image shows that either the technology is not mature, or the test pattern was unappropriate... Or else, the technology simply doesn't work : "psychosomatic 3d"...
Free (speech) soft pops up even more, and eventually if a free-beer soft were to end its happy hour, many free-speech alternatives would replace it at once.
Example : StarOffice, and things like Abiword... Abiword is only a component of the soon-to-come free (speech) equivalent of StarOffice.
In its time, Netscape Navigator too, being the successor of Mosaic, was a commercial application...
But since the HTTP protocol is an open standard, free browsers came, and after a while Navigotr itself became free (as in beer).
Now for Napster : the problem with it, as well as its inherent weakness, is the use of a centralized server.
Gnutella doesn't make use of a central server. It's only a protocol, an open protocol. So methinks the next step will be (is becoming) the shift towards GNutella.
No one can be banned for Gnutella. No lawyer can sue Gnutella, because Gnutella is nobody.
I'm not very sure about how to play quake with a webpad, without keyboard...
But, sure, with a good mobile internet link and a 10 hours battery, it makes a remarkable all-day-long internet death match while sitting in the depths of a dark forest !
If there is linux on it, sur it will be my next machine !
Yes, the only way Windoze2000 can be ported to IA-64 architecture on time, is that Itanium processor itself ships verrry late ! This way, M$ will be able to say it shipped before Linux for Itanium's final release !
Alas, after all, maybe Intel engineers are still a bit friendly with Micro$oft...
Yeah, right, let's put all that stuff in swedish chef mother tongue !
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VESHINGTON -- Zee gufernment Vednesdey rejected Meecrusufft's ooffffer tu chunge-a its booseeness precteeces, seyeeng it vuoold feeel tu stup zee furm's feeuleshuns ooff unteetroost lev, und deffended its oovn prupusel tu breek up zee cumpuny. Bork bork bork!
"Vhet remedy dues Meecrusufft prupuse-a tu undu zee demege-a tu cumpeteeshun coosed by its pest illegel cundooct?" zee gufernment seeed in a 70-pege-a breeeff feeled in U.S. Deestrict Cuoort. Um de hur de hur de hur. In zee next sentence-a it unsvered its oovn qooesshun: "Nutheeng."
Zee cuoort feeling ceme-a in respunse-a tu un ooffffer by Meecrusufft lest veek tu restreect its booseeness cundooct rezeer thun be-a brukee up by zee cuoort, vheech it seeed vuoold be-a un ixtreme-a meesoore-a.
Deestrict Joodge-a Thumes Penffeeeld Jecksun rooled Epreel 3 thet zee sufftvere-a geeunt hed brukee U.S. unteetroost lev by ebooseeng its munupuly in oopereteeng systems fur persunel cumpooters. Um gesh dee bork, bork!
Zee U.S. Joosteece-a Depertment und 17 stetes celled oon Epreel 28 fur Meecrusufft tu be-a spleet intu a persunel cumpooter oopereteeng systems booseeness und a seperete-a eppleeceshuns sufftvere-a furm thet vuoold reteeen sooch essets es zee Meecrusufft Ooffffeece-a sufftvere-a sooeete-a und zee Internet Ixplurer brooser. Hurty flurty schnipp schnipp!
Nu metter vhet remedy zee joodge-a deceedes oon, Meecrusufft seys it elveys ected veethin zee lev und pluns tu eppeel Jecksun's feendings. Um gesh dee bork, bork!
"Meecrusufft ettempts tu ileede-a zee need fur strooctoorel releeeff by pretendeeng, cuntrery tu zee ifeedence-a et treeel und thees cuoort's feendings, thet its cundooct hed nu iffffect oon cumpeteeshun," zee strungly vurded breeeff seeed. Bork bork bork!
"Meecrusufft's prupused remedy is neeezeer sereeuoos nur senseeble-a," zee gufernment seeed. Bork bork bork!
Zee feeling Vednesdey ves zee schedooled tu be-a zee lest beffure-a Joodge-a Jecksun cundoocts a heereeng oon Mey 24 tu cunseeder vhet remedeees he-a shuoold impuse-a oon Meecrusufft. Um de hur de hur de hur.
Lest veek Meecrusufft esked zee joodge-a tu issooe-a a "soommery joodgment" thet vuoold deespuse-a ooff zee gufernment's prupusel tu spleet zee furm.
Meecrusufft seeed zee prublems fuoond by Joodge-a Jecksun cuoold be-a eddressed by ellooeeng cumpooter mekers mure-a freedum tu elter zee eppeerunce-a ooff Veendoos, less restreectife-a merketeeng egreements und nut reqooureeng sufftvere-a furms tu leemit deestribooshun ooff sufftvere-a fur use-a oon nun-Meecrusufft pletffurms. Um gesh dee bork, bork!
Boot zee gufernment seeed: "Meecrusufft's prupused remedy vuoold leefe-a it free-a tu cunteenooe-a zee fery precteeces vheech zee ifeedence-a et treeel shooed, und thees cuoort fuoond, tu be-a unlevffool und vuoold du nutheeng tu resture-a cumpeteeshun."
Zee gufernment deesmissed Meecrusufft's cell fur munths ooff prepereshun teeme-a, celleeng it "unverrunted und unreesuneble-a."
Zee gufernment seeed thet Meecrusufft's sooggesshun fur teeming "is a trunsperent iffffurt tu deley zee determeeneshun und implementeshun ooff a remedy fur its illegel ects es lung es pusseeble-a."
Zee gufernment feeled zee lundmerk cese-a in Mey 1998, chergeeng Meecrusufft veet illegelly useeng its munupuly pooer tu destruy Netscepe-a, a Veb brooser veet oopereteeng system espureshuns. Um gesh dee bork, bork!
Zee treeel begun fuoor munths leter, in Ooctuber, und mey steell hefe-a munths tu roon beffure-a zee eppeels prucess begeens. Um gesh dee bork, bork!
Poobleec oopeeniun pulls shoo zee poobleec ooppuses zee breek-up ooff zee cumpuny, boot Joosteece-a Depertment unteetroost deefisiun cheeeff Juel Kleeen seeed hees stretegy ves besed oon "fects und zee lev."
"Zee poobleec duesn't vunt lev inffurcement tu be-a dune-a oon zee besees ooff pulls," Kleeen tuld a furoom spunsured by zee Vuudroo Veelsun Interneshunel Center fur Schulers Tooesdey. Bork bork bork!
"I dun't theenk thees is ebuoot demuneezeshun, I du theenk it's ebuoot lev inffurcement," he-a seeed, eddeeng "Thees is nut creeminel behefeeur. Hurty flurty schnipp schnipp! I'fe-a seeed poobleecly Meecrusufft hes mede-a muny impurtunt cuntreebooshuns. Um gesh dee bork, bork!"
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D.W. Davies left a strong trace inside the core of our internet world, his name can even be found in RFCs.
First, his contribution to the creation of the Internet :
RFC243 and RFC290 (bibliography) :
D. W. Davies, "Communication Networks to Serve Rapid-response
Computers," Proc IFIP Congress 68, p. 650-656, August 1968.
D. W. Davies, "The Principles of a Data Communication Network for
Computers and Remote Peripherals," Proc IFIP Congress 68, p. 709-714,
August 1968.
RFC2235 (Internet Timeline) :
1967
ACM Symposium on Operating Principles
- Plan presented for a packet-switching network
- First design paper on ARPANET published by Lawrence G. Roberts
National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in Middlesex, England develops
NPL Data Network under D. W. Davies
Second, contributions concerning security :
RFC1750 (randomness generation) :
[...] It has been shown by Donald W. Davies that this sort of shifted partial output feedback significantly weakens an algorithm compared will feeding all of the output bits back as input. In particular, for DES, repeated encrypting a full 64 bit quantity will give an expected repeat in about 2^63 iterations. Feeding back anything less than 64 (and more than 0) bits will give an expected repeat in between 2**31 and 2**32 iterations!
[...]
RFC2025 (public key mechanism, bibliography) :
[Davi89]: D. W. Davies and W. L. Price, "Security for Computer
Networks", Second Edition, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1989.
I don't drink cola : I just don't like the taste. Too sweet. I prefer orange juice, and the recipe is already more than open : take one or two oranges, press, pour, drink, enjoy.
That's strange. The testers explicitely say that they tested the screen with non-3d-capable game (quake 3)... No wonder that absolutely no 3d effect is to be expected.
As for the screen itself, the dimness of the image shows that either the technology is not mature, or the test pattern was unappropriate... Or else, the technology simply doesn't work : "psychosomatic 3d"...
Sorry, but to incite developers to use WAP it takes more than a free dev. kit, I think.
t entProblem/one/index.html
http://www.freeprotocols.org/wapTrap/WapShortPa
WAP is simply not an open standard. We already have a technology for such applications, whjich is proven, open and runs pretty well : HTTP.
... but not yet already (almost, though) : the power consumption is too high at present.
I guess the next step is to replace the 486 with a crusoe.
After that, IBM can release an improved version of their microdrive.
Still to be seen : a photograph of a user with the whole thing : matchbox computer + batteries + keyboard + head-mounted display...
I'm curious of what would be left of the M$'s vapour-game console...
Why didn't they release actual movies (made in RT) of the games ? Is it because the actual frame rate is too slow to be shown ?
PGP used to be developped in a closed-source way.
Consequence : unseen bug.
Since viewable by open source community, the bug was discovered.
Far from being a demonstration of the insecurity of open sourced code, it's a perfect example of the contrary.
Microsft's patents also should be cancelled, and all file formats should be opened.
Very interesting. GNU tools and another environment around.
I wonder if we can call it GNU/Theos in order to aknowledge that, once more, the GNU project is helping it ?
Example : StarOffice, and things like Abiword... Abiword is only a component of the soon-to-come free (speech) equivalent of StarOffice.
My two cents.
By what miracle people react to its whining ?
There are powerful processors which don't need heat sinks at all (see the ARM series, for example).
My two cents.
Even if users had "illegally copied copyrighted" stuff on my disk, I doubt american lawyers could go overseas to sue them.
Maybe they were banned, too (^_^).
In its time, Netscape Navigator too, being the successor of Mosaic, was a commercial application...
But since the HTTP protocol is an open standard, free browsers came, and after a while Navigotr itself became free (as in beer).
Now for Napster : the problem with it, as well as its inherent weakness, is the use of a centralized server.
Gnutella doesn't make use of a central server. It's only a protocol, an open protocol. So methinks the next step will be (is becoming) the shift towards GNutella.
No one can be banned for Gnutella. No lawyer can sue Gnutella, because Gnutella is nobody.
> Now, the real question is, can Metallica be held responsible for mislabelling these users as "pirates"?
As long as whoever representing Metallica has used the term "pirates" with their consent, yes.
I'm not very sure about how to play quake with a webpad, without keyboard...
But, sure, with a good mobile internet link and a 10 hours battery, it makes a remarkable all-day-long internet death match while sitting in the depths of a dark forest !
If there is linux on it, sur it will be my next machine !
Ahem,
> And at Microsofts head was a man named Bill, who wrote BASIC all from scratch.
Actually this is questionable.
> Windows 2k was not Ok. The DOJ got pissed. And they sued MSFT
The DOJ suit doesn't have anything to do with Windoze2000. Just about some mafia-like behavior by Micro$oft to slash any competitor.
Smile.
Yes, the only way Windoze2000 can be ported to IA-64 architecture on time, is that Itanium processor itself ships verrry late ! This way, M$ will be able to say it shipped before Linux for Itanium's final release !
Alas, after all, maybe Intel engineers are still a bit friendly with Micro$oft...
Smile !
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VESHINGTON -- Zee gufernment Vednesdey rejected Meecrusufft's ooffffer tu chunge-a its booseeness precteeces, seyeeng it vuoold feeel tu stup zee furm's feeuleshuns ooff unteetroost lev, und deffended its oovn prupusel tu breek up zee cumpuny. Bork bork bork!
"Vhet remedy dues Meecrusufft prupuse-a tu undu zee demege-a tu cumpeteeshun coosed by its pest illegel cundooct?" zee gufernment seeed in a 70-pege-a breeeff feeled in U.S. Deestrict Cuoort. Um de hur de hur de hur. In zee next sentence-a it unsvered its oovn qooesshun: "Nutheeng."
Zee cuoort feeling ceme-a in respunse-a tu un ooffffer by Meecrusufft lest veek tu restreect its booseeness cundooct rezeer thun be-a brukee up by zee cuoort, vheech it seeed vuoold be-a un ixtreme-a meesoore-a.
Deestrict Joodge-a Thumes Penffeeeld Jecksun rooled Epreel 3 thet zee sufftvere-a geeunt hed brukee U.S. unteetroost lev by ebooseeng its munupuly in oopereteeng systems fur persunel cumpooters. Um gesh dee bork, bork!
Zee U.S. Joosteece-a Depertment und 17 stetes celled oon Epreel 28 fur Meecrusufft tu be-a spleet intu a persunel cumpooter oopereteeng systems booseeness und a seperete-a eppleeceshuns sufftvere-a furm thet vuoold reteeen sooch essets es zee Meecrusufft Ooffffeece-a sufftvere-a sooeete-a und zee Internet Ixplurer brooser. Hurty flurty schnipp schnipp!
Nu metter vhet remedy zee joodge-a deceedes oon, Meecrusufft seys it elveys ected veethin zee lev und pluns tu eppeel Jecksun's feendings. Um gesh dee bork, bork!
"Meecrusufft ettempts tu ileede-a zee need fur strooctoorel releeeff by pretendeeng, cuntrery tu zee ifeedence-a et treeel und thees cuoort's feendings, thet its cundooct hed nu iffffect oon cumpeteeshun," zee strungly vurded breeeff seeed. Bork bork bork!
"Meecrusufft's prupused remedy is neeezeer sereeuoos nur senseeble-a," zee gufernment seeed. Bork bork bork!
Zee feeling Vednesdey ves zee schedooled tu be-a zee lest beffure-a Joodge-a Jecksun cundoocts a heereeng oon Mey 24 tu cunseeder vhet remedeees he-a shuoold impuse-a oon Meecrusufft. Um de hur de hur de hur.
Lest veek Meecrusufft esked zee joodge-a tu issooe-a a "soommery joodgment" thet vuoold deespuse-a ooff zee gufernment's prupusel tu spleet zee furm.
Meecrusufft seeed zee prublems fuoond by Joodge-a Jecksun cuoold be-a eddressed by ellooeeng cumpooter mekers mure-a freedum tu elter zee eppeerunce-a ooff Veendoos, less restreectife-a merketeeng egreements und nut reqooureeng sufftvere-a furms tu leemit deestribooshun ooff sufftvere-a fur use-a oon nun-Meecrusufft pletffurms. Um gesh dee bork, bork!
Boot zee gufernment seeed: "Meecrusufft's prupused remedy vuoold leefe-a it free-a tu cunteenooe-a zee fery precteeces vheech zee ifeedence-a et treeel shooed, und thees cuoort fuoond, tu be-a unlevffool und vuoold du nutheeng tu resture-a cumpeteeshun."
Iff zee joodge-a inseested oon cunseedering zee breekoop plun, zeen Meecrusufft seeed foorzeer heereengs shuoold be-a deleyed unteel December. Hurty flurty schnipp schnipp!
Thet vuoold geefe-a zee tvu seedes sefee munths tu prepere-a fur zee remedeees ergooments, mure-a thun zeey hed tu prepere-a fur zee treeel itselff.
Zee gufernment deesmissed Meecrusufft's cell fur munths ooff prepereshun teeme-a, celleeng it "unverrunted und unreesuneble-a."
Zee gufernment seeed thet Meecrusufft's sooggesshun fur teeming "is a trunsperent iffffurt tu deley zee determeeneshun und implementeshun ooff a remedy fur its illegel ects es lung es pusseeble-a."
Zee gufernment feeled zee lundmerk cese-a in Mey 1998, chergeeng Meecrusufft veet illegelly useeng its munupuly pooer tu destruy Netscepe-a, a Veb brooser veet oopereteeng system espureshuns. Um gesh dee bork, bork!
Zee treeel begun fuoor munths leter, in Ooctuber, und mey steell hefe-a munths tu roon beffure-a zee eppeels prucess begeens. Um gesh dee bork, bork!
Poobleec oopeeniun pulls shoo zee poobleec ooppuses zee breek-up ooff zee cumpuny, boot Joosteece-a Depertment unteetroost deefisiun cheeeff Juel Kleeen seeed hees stretegy ves besed oon "fects und zee lev."
"Zee poobleec duesn't vunt lev inffurcement tu be-a dune-a oon zee besees ooff pulls," Kleeen tuld a furoom spunsured by zee Vuudroo Veelsun Interneshunel Center fur Schulers Tooesdey. Bork bork bork!
"I dun't theenk thees is ebuoot demuneezeshun, I du theenk it's ebuoot lev inffurcement," he-a seeed, eddeeng "Thees is nut creeminel behefeeur. Hurty flurty schnipp schnipp! I'fe-a seeed poobleecly Meecrusufft hes mede-a muny impurtunt cuntreebooshuns. Um gesh dee bork, bork!"
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If Micro$oft is broken up, the resulting "Baby Bills" will be forcefully separated at birth...
Imagine a fence separating the Redmond Campus in two parts, with miradors, fierce dogs, and all the like...
What's the name of that obscure law the judge is to use to circumvent appeal ?
BTW would an "appeal circumvention" be an infringement to DMCA ?
Just dropped again to less than 68...
Anyway, what will be the value of M$ stocks shortly, since there will be no more M$ to pay dividnds ?
Overseas branches of Micro$oft don't make real development. They are fully dependent on Redmond. Splitting Micro$oft will directly impact them.