Windows NT was built very much like VMS, the operating system for the VAX built by DEC
According to the book "Showstopper", Cutler was working on a DEC project called Prism. Prism was a new DEC computer which would run a new operating system called Mica. Mica was an "object-oriented" follow-on operating system to VMS and would have backward compatibility support for Vax applications.
DEC canned the Prism/Mica project, Cutler was pissed and joined Microsoft. Windows NT is much more influenced by Mica than VMS.
Why do you think Microsoft changed the name from Windows NT to Windows 2000? Microsoft's lawyers were getting nervous about keeping Northern Telecom happy.
I interview software engineers at work. I would never not hire someone who has been working their way up. I just don't think it's relevant. His long list of personal computer projects is relevant and interesting.
However, his resume is probably too long. I would shorten it down to one page plus cover letter when actually submitting it to an employer. Time is money and recruiters are too lazy to read. On the web, though, I can appreciate that a long resume would contain more keywords that might help a recruiter find your resume via Google..
64 bytes is 512 bits, which is plenty big. Remember that the card does not and should not store the person's data. The card only needs to have an ID that can be used to index the super-duper top secret gub'mint database.
I would recommend that the card include a 8-12 byte "salt" number (to prevent dictionary attacks) and then the remaining bits for the encrypted (database id + salt). The card reader at the bar/airport/whatever sends the card's 64 bytes to the gub'mint's centralized authentication server, which then decrypt the bytes and checks the database.
From what I read, Fiorina agreed to bang all of Compaq and HP's shareholders if they vote for the merger. She'll get $50M out of the deal, but after that train, she'll be pretty sore for a while..
Does anyone have any real information about the actual differences between how Microsoft and Apache are computing the message digest? The article does not say much. I know the Microsoft and Netscape used to have some interop problems because one implemenation (Netscape's, I think) would include a string's NUL terminator when computing a message digest. This would obviusly lead to a different result.:)
oh, cool. thanks for the link! I had read about a "smart dust" project at Xerox PARC that was using Aspect Oriented Programming, but it was mostly vapour at the time..
but which strategy will sell more Playstations, thus making more money for Sony? Remember that Sony has probably already paid for the show space, equipment rental, and hotel rooms.
Sony stays and demos their new games.
Sony leaves and demoes NO games, while people watch Microsoft demo cool new XBox games.
Can this Universal Machine be used as the ULTIMATE microkernel for an operating system? Imagine an implementation of Linux running on a 34 byte picokernel!
Re:Am I the only one who has a problem with this?
on
Sites Wary of Adopting P3P
·
· Score: 1, Insightful
I DEFY any 1337 haxor to get that by ownxoring my machine - I have to scan it.
Well, the scanner causes software to send a network message. This message could possibly be sniffed, replayed, decrypted, or forged. Or the web site could SAVE your scanned proof of credit card to implelement a feature such as Amazon's One-Click. Oops, their database was hacked.
Of course, you could send the scanner message over an encrypted channel, but that is no different than just using SSL to type in your credit card number..
After a second read, that article has some interesting implications. Sounds like Wind River is following a strategy similar to Apple's Mac OS X: microkernel downstairs + BSD layer upstairs.
That kind of sucks for FreeBSD's users. Because of the business-friendly BSD license, there is nothing the FreeBSD developers can do to prevent Wind River from using their code like this. Plus, because FreeBSD's source code is kept in a public CVS server, Wind River can freely check-in their code changes, like it or not! >:-\
yes, Perforce rocks. I've also used Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, which is worse than NO version control! It has weak support for branching, no atomic checkins of multiple files in one changelist (like Perforce), 4 GB database limit, and your database gets corrupted weekly..
If the BSD license no longer has the dreaded advertising clause, then how does it differ from the MIT license? Why doesn't FreeBSD simply switch to the MIT license? Maybe there is some university rivalry.. or maybe they don't want to rename their project to "FreeMIT".;-)
I disagree. I had @home (before it became AT&T Broadband) cable service. Sure the throughput was pretty fast, but my favorite part of the service was the Excite.com home page. When choosing between DSL and a cable modem, the My Excite! and Blue Mountain web sites are why I finally chose @home.
Slashdot Mirror
Windows NT was built very much like VMS, the operating system for the VAX built by DEC
According to the book "Showstopper", Cutler was working on a DEC project called Prism. Prism was a new DEC computer which would run a new operating system called Mica. Mica was an "object-oriented" follow-on operating system to VMS and would have backward compatibility support for Vax applications.
DEC canned the Prism/Mica project, Cutler was pissed and joined Microsoft. Windows NT is much more influenced by Mica than VMS.
Why do you think Microsoft changed the name from Windows NT to Windows 2000? Microsoft's lawyers were getting nervous about keeping Northern Telecom happy.
I interview software engineers at work. I would never not hire someone who has been working their way up. I just don't think it's relevant. His long list of personal computer projects is relevant and interesting.
However, his resume is probably too long. I would shorten it down to one page plus cover letter when actually submitting it to an employer. Time is money and recruiters are too lazy to read. On the web, though, I can appreciate that a long resume would contain more keywords that might help a recruiter find your resume via Google..
yes, I would recommend excluding those from one's resume.
The correct plural of "over-educated genus" is "over-educated genera."
Actually:
box --> boxen
over-educated genius --> over-educated geniusen
...and is beaten only by 0*i*pi*e = 1+-1
which is trumped by: 1 = 0
64 bytes is 512 bits, which is plenty big. Remember that the card does not and should not store the person's data. The card only needs to have an ID that can be used to index the super-duper top secret gub'mint database.
I would recommend that the card include a 8-12 byte "salt" number (to prevent dictionary attacks) and then the remaining bits for the encrypted (database id + salt). The card reader at the bar/airport/whatever sends the card's 64 bytes to the gub'mint's centralized authentication server, which then decrypt the bytes and checks the database.
Why not name it KDE Chi Ro?
:)
Yes! This was recently discussed here on CNN: Whew! Moon nearly blindsides Earth .
From what I read, Fiorina agreed to bang all of Compaq and HP's shareholders if they vote for the merger. She'll get $50M out of the deal, but after that train, she'll be pretty sore for a while..
Does anyone have any real information about the actual differences between how Microsoft and Apache are computing the message digest? The article does not say much. I know the Microsoft and Netscape used to have some interop problems because one implemenation (Netscape's, I think) would include a string's NUL terminator when computing a message digest. This would obviusly lead to a different result.
For those who are interested, the actual link to the Smart Dust software project is Tiny OS: An operating system for Networked Sensors.
oh, cool. thanks for the link! I had read about a "smart dust" project at Xerox PARC that was using Aspect Oriented Programming, but it was mostly vapour at the time..
Sony stays and demos their new games.
Sony leaves and demoes NO games, while people watch Microsoft demo cool new XBox games.
--- Begin program
1
--- End program
but can you prove that your program terminates?
Can this Universal Machine be used as the ULTIMATE microkernel for an operating system? Imagine an implementation of Linux running on a 34 byte picokernel!
I DEFY any 1337 haxor to get that by ownxoring my machine - I have to scan it.
Well, the scanner causes software to send a network message. This message could possibly be sniffed, replayed, decrypted, or forged. Or the web site could SAVE your scanned proof of credit card to implelement a feature such as Amazon's One-Click. Oops, their database was hacked.
Of course, you could send the scanner message over an encrypted channel, but that is no different than just using SSL to type in your credit card number..
After a second read, that article has some interesting implications. Sounds like Wind River is following a strategy similar to Apple's Mac OS X: microkernel downstairs + BSD layer upstairs.
That kind of sucks for FreeBSD's users. Because of the business-friendly BSD license, there is nothing the FreeBSD developers can do to prevent Wind River from using their code like this. Plus, because FreeBSD's source code is kept in a public CVS server, Wind River can freely check-in their code changes, like it or not! >:-\
I read that Wind River will be contributing more features back to the FreeBSD community. According to an article I read (Wind River announces product rollout plans for future BSD/OS releases), FreeBSD 6.0 will be based on be based on Wind River's VxWorks microkernel.
Is that you, Cmdr Taco?
yes, Perforce rocks. I've also used Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, which is worse than NO version control! It has weak support for branching, no atomic checkins of multiple files in one changelist (like Perforce), 4 GB database limit, and your database gets corrupted weekly..
If you take this to its logical extreme, your project will start to look somthing like this:
If the BSD license no longer has the dreaded advertising clause, then how does it differ from the MIT license? Why doesn't FreeBSD simply switch to the MIT license? Maybe there is some university rivalry.. or maybe they don't want to rename their project to "FreeMIT". ;-)
AT&T Broadband already offers phone-over-cable. They send me junk mail about it every month.
I disagree. I had @home (before it became AT&T Broadband) cable service. Sure the throughput was pretty fast, but my favorite part of the service was the Excite.com home page. When choosing between DSL and a cable modem, the My Excite! and Blue Mountain web sites are why I finally chose @home.