Akamai's DNS servers recognize your source IP and resolve akamaitech.net to an IP close to your ISP (or preferably an Akamai cache server colocated at your ISP).
Having worked at Microsoft, I can assure that Microsoft developers swear in their comments. My roommmate's group was releasing some example driver code. He was handed the task of removing any comments that said BUGBUG, XXX, TODO, or stuff like "HP sucks!"
That's why Microsoft does call their Java interupter a "JVM", but rather the "Microsoft Virtual Machine for Java". This implies there might be a Microsoft Virtual Machine for C# or VB or COM+/IL or...
This theory also fits with the idea to target your software for future hardware. Since you might spend a year developing your product, you better optimize it for the hardware that will be available next year!
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Internap claims they have "magic" routing software to minimize packet latency, but I've talked to some IT people that scoff at Internap latency claims.
My girlfriend works for AtomFilms.com in Seattle. They use Level3 and the colo building is just 1 mile from my office. When I traceroute to AtomFilms.com, Level3 routes my packets from Seattle to San Jose back to Seattle. Huh?? Why?
Don't be turned off just because it's a Microsoft Press book. This book taught me more about "real programming" than my college classes did. It's very readable and well researched. This book is my #1 recommendation for all programmers!
what this all means is that there's *still* one neat thing that you can assume: on all reasonable systems, sizeof(int) = 4 = 32bit.
OTOH, if it's true that win64 has 32bit long, now *that* is really ridiculous.
Of course, #1 is way #2 is true. Microsoft knows that backwards compatibility ("app-compat") is king. Win64 aims to be source (and binary?) compatible with Win32 code. Tons of lousy Win32 programmers made the assumption that sizeof(long) == sizeof(int).
I recently download the new Yahoo! Player Beta. It's free (beer), looks nice, uses CDDB and skins, and hasn't crashed for me yet. Does anyone know if the Yahoo Player is a "real app" or is it just a skin for the WMP or RealPlayer??
Once upon a time (mid 1980s?), a UC Berkeley prof developed a database called Ingres (which was later bought by Sybase?). Then we wanted to work on something relational database, so his next project was Postgres ("POST inGRES"). Then in 1995, some grad students had SQL support to Postgres, so they renamed it PostgreSQL. Yes, a terrible name. No one can agree on how to spell it, let alone pronounce it!:-\
Once upon a time (mid 1980s?), a UC Berkeley prof developed a database called Ingres (which was later bought by Sybase?). Then we wanted to work on something relational database, so his next project was Postgres ("POST inGRES"). Then in 1995, some grad students had SQL support to Postgres, so they renamed it PostgreSQL. Yes, a terrible name. No one can agree on how to spell it, let alone pronounce it!:-\
The point is to make it un-profitable for the two product lines to bolster each other's success in the market place. The point is to make all apps compete for all platforms, with no one specific combination of the two (MS-OS and MS-Apps, for example) profitting a single company.
I thought the point of the break was Microsoft's "bundling" of IE with Windows. What does IE have to do with Microsoft Office? I don't understand how the DOJ's proposal for "Windows Inc" and "Office Inc" is related to the case. Wasn't this case originally about Netscape/AOL versus Microsoft??
I used to work for Microsoft. True, there is no unified Windows 2000 source tree, but the source trees for the major components are available on public shares. Anyone in the NT development group (NTDEV domain) can access these shares. They even have a web interface to grep the entire(??) source tree!
Of course, there is "too much" code to leak. You couldn't fit the code on a CD! It's not easy to secretly share, leak, or store that much code without being noticed. Consider that (according to a Scientific American I read last night), there are 4000 programmers working on Windows 2000. I am surprised that more people don't leak some code..
I would certianly like to see a good textbook that teaches OS design, using the source to a modern OS as examples.
Check out "Unix Internals: The New Frontiers". It covers all the typical OS textbook topics: VM, filesystems, IPC,... but it is very implementation oriented. It also compares the implementations of modern Unixes like Solaris and BSD. A great read!
I meant, "if politicians HAVE term limits, then they have NO accountability to their constituents."
It's when a politician had only one term with no possibility of re-election where he/she shouldn't care what the voters think, right? This is always the argument I've heard against single-term laws, that gives them every incentive to say whatever they think will help them get elected, but then there is zero incentive to actually do anything remotely resembling what they claimed they would do once in office.
Your statement is precisely what I was trying to say!:-) If the constituents like what their elected representative is doing, then great! Let them keep their job. I think term limits are just a loser's tactic. If the constituents really wanted change, they would elect someone else. They don't need a term limit law to make a choice. Democracy, eh?
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Akamai's DNS servers recognize your source IP and resolve akamaitech.net to an IP close to your ISP (or preferably an Akamai cache server colocated at your ISP).
Having worked at Microsoft, I can assure that Microsoft developers swear in their comments. My roommmate's group was releasing some example driver code. He was handed the task of removing any comments that said BUGBUG, XXX, TODO, or stuff like "HP sucks!"
Great Bridge is to PostgreSQL as Red Hat is to Linux. They will offer support contracts and also fund (some?) future development of PostgreSQL.
That's why Microsoft does call their Java interupter a "JVM", but rather the "Microsoft Virtual Machine for Java". This implies there might be a Microsoft Virtual Machine for C# or VB or COM+/IL or ...
This theory also fits with the idea to target your software for future hardware. Since you might spend a year developing your product, you better optimize it for the hardware that will be available next year!
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DS3 = 45 Mbps line
OC3 = 155.52 Mbps line
OC48 = 2.48832 Gbps line
What are the bandwidth differences between these pipes?
"Utilizing our proprietary network architecture and advanced routing technologies, we are able to route, or transfer, data to and from businesses that are connected to one or more of our P-NAPs, in a manner that minimizes the use of congested public exchanges and private peering points. This optimal routing of data traffic over the multiplicity of networks that comprise the Internet enables higher transmission speeds, lower instances of data packet loss and greater quality of service."
Internap claims they have "magic" routing software to minimize packet latency, but I've talked to some IT people that scoff at Internap latency claims.
My girlfriend works for AtomFilms.com in Seattle. They use Level3 and the colo building is just 1 mile from my office. When I traceroute to AtomFilms.com, Level3 routes my packets from Seattle to San Jose back to Seattle. Huh?? Why?
Don't be turned off just because it's a Microsoft Press book. This book taught me more about "real programming" than my college classes did. It's very readable and well researched. This book is my #1 recommendation for all programmers!
Check out the reviews at Amazon for Code Complete : A Practical Handbook of Software Construction.
It has all the typedefs you should need.
Of course, #1 is way #2 is true. Microsoft knows that backwards compatibility ("app-compat") is king. Win64 aims to be source (and binary?) compatible with Win32 code. Tons of lousy Win32 programmers made the assumption that sizeof(long) == sizeof(int).
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I recently download the new Yahoo! Player Beta. It's free (beer), looks nice, uses CDDB and skins, and hasn't crashed for me yet. Does anyone know if the Yahoo Player is a "real app" or is it just a skin for the WMP or RealPlayer??
"effect" is a noun. "affect" is a verb. UNIX is affected.
Once upon a time (mid 1980s?), a UC Berkeley prof developed a database called Ingres (which was later bought by Sybase?). Then we wanted to work on something relational database, so his next project was Postgres ("POST inGRES"). Then in 1995, some grad students had SQL support to Postgres, so they renamed it PostgreSQL. Yes, a terrible name. No one can agree on how to spell it, let alone pronounce it! :-\
Once upon a time (mid 1980s?), a UC Berkeley prof developed a database called Ingres (which was later bought by Sybase?). Then we wanted to work on something relational database, so his next project was Postgres ("POST inGRES"). Then in 1995, some grad students had SQL support to Postgres, so they renamed it PostgreSQL. Yes, a terrible name. No one can agree on how to spell it, let alone pronounce it! :-\
The point is to make it un-profitable for the two product lines to bolster each other's success in the market place. The point is to make all apps compete for all platforms, with no one specific combination of the two (MS-OS and MS-Apps, for example) profitting a single company.
I thought the point of the break was Microsoft's "bundling" of IE with Windows. What does IE have to do with Microsoft Office? I don't understand how the DOJ's proposal for "Windows Inc" and "Office Inc" is related to the case. Wasn't this case originally about Netscape/AOL versus Microsoft??
Here is one mirror already: http://static.userland.com/misc/elian/
Do you recommend any particular books or web sites for learning Lisp? What is the difference between Scheme and Lisp?
I "forgot" to learn Lisp during my CSE undergrad college years. Now I regret it!
I used to work for Microsoft. True, there is no unified Windows 2000 source tree, but the source trees for the major components are available on public shares. Anyone in the NT development group (NTDEV domain) can access these shares. They even have a web interface to grep the entire(??) source tree!
Of course, there is "too much" code to leak. You couldn't fit the code on a CD! It's not easy to secretly share, leak, or store that much code without being noticed. Consider that (according to a Scientific American I read last night), there are 4000 programmers working on Windows 2000. I am surprised that more people don't leak some code..
I would certianly like to see a good textbook that teaches OS design, using the source to a modern OS as examples.
... but it is very implementation oriented. It also compares the implementations of modern Unixes like Solaris and BSD. A great read!
Check out "Unix Internals: The New Frontiers". It covers all the typical OS textbook topics: VM, filesystems, IPC,
I meant, "if politicians HAVE term limits, then they have NO accountability to their constituents."
:-) If the constituents like what their elected representative is doing, then great! Let them keep their job. I think term limits are just a loser's tactic. If the constituents really wanted change, they would elect someone else. They don't need a term limit law to make a choice. Democracy, eh?
It's when a politician had only one term with no possibility of re-election where he/she shouldn't care what the voters think, right? This is always the argument I've heard against single-term laws, that gives them every incentive to say whatever they think will help them get elected, but then there is zero incentive to actually do anything remotely resembling what they claimed they would do once in office.
Your statement is precisely what I was trying to say!