> I think the Sinclair was branded a Timex in the UK.
No, Timex sold the Sinclair ZX81 in North America. Sinclair Research Ltd. sold the Sinclair ZX81 in the UK. The US variant was named the Timex Sinclair 1000.
The Timex 1000 was pratically identical to the ZX81, except for a few changes on the circuitboard and a whopping 2K of RAM instead of the 1K that the ZX81 had.
I wasn't the lecture I saw, but I just found a slide on the IPN website that shows their domain naming convention. From what I gather the planet/star combo is dropped for intraplanetary comms and only added when doing interplanetary comms.
With 4 years of development/support/enhancements, the program is getting quite large now so even though I have tried to keep my code standards compliant it could be a distinct possibility that some crap has crept in somewhere:) [note - I am using Windows, but the app is not using any MFC generated garbage/C++ extensions].
I did search for the reason behind the crashes for a while, but after a while it came down to the usual time/money/performance trade off since we did not get any such crashes using MSVC6/7. It was kind of hard catching the crashes since the debugger missed them(!) and the printfs slowed it down so much that it could not process the data in time. Ho hum!
In the end I'll probably be giving icc 8 a go and will run it in parallel with the live system for a while - given the choice I have (on Windows) of MSVCC & icc, I much prefer the stricter parsing and better optimisiation of the Intel compiler. (That, and the fact that I find it hard to believe that MSVC compiler does very many optimisations at the speed at which it whizzes through things... good things come to those that wait!)
> Actually, Intel seems decently smart about support.
You actually liked their Premier support site? I could never find anything useful on it (I was a paid customer)! That and the tastful shade of blue (#0000ff) kindof made my eyes hurt. I also couldn't get on with the password that changed every 30 days with some pretty strict selection rules enforced - all for something that jsut game me patches for a product that was FlexLM licensed anyway. Ho hum. Until v6 came out, that website was my only gripe with the then excellent product.
I used the Windows version of the Intel compiler at work for quite a while, and it does produce some exceptionally fast code (and sometimes takes an exceptionally long time doing it).
The problem? Since version 6 came out any software we compiled with it exhibited crashes that did not occur when we used another compiler on the same code.
In the end we had to stop using it. Its a shame really because it was an excellent product (the only gripe being their Premier/Quad support website which was crap).
Hmmm. Actually got hung up on a sore point after deleing loads of crap emails wanting $$$ rather than for products this morning.
I kind of missed out the point that a large portion of junk emails originate from servers in the Far East already so from your perspective (presumably US perspective, since you said 'offshore' without thinking) it already happens.
I agree that the fraudsters will only be a few months behind the technology, but what we have at the minute is far from perfect.
There was a BBC news item on a couple of months ago that stated that the 'several' forms of identification required to obtain a passport are unfortunately simple for criminals to obtain and have been for years due to a flaw in the system. In the report even the passport office acknowledged this, although they dismissed it since they reckon that only a small number of them are obtained in this manner.
Once you have you passport, no one really questions anything else.
The report was quite good. They obtained a passport issued by the passport office in David Blunketts name (all the particulars were correct too) along with a driving license (and he is blind - you would have though someone might have noticed this!). Just to note - they gave the obtained ID to David Blunketts office after the report so that it could be destroyed....
It is important that the ID cards be seen as no more important than other forms of ID and that the current process of using multiple forms of ID should still occur when we do get them. I dread the day on which the ID card is considered safe enough to be used by itself....
As for my own opinion on ID cards? I have to say that I am in favour of them. One of the initial uses will be to stop benefit fraud. If we stop people fraudulantly obtaining benefits even for a few months (until the fraudsters catch up with technology), it will be a good thing.
I am wondering what the purspose of this practice is for - is it simply to show that the holder of the title is not a recent graduate?
I have a similar 'false' Masters in the form of an undergraduate Masters in Engineering. I did the 3 year Bachelors + the 1 year of the Masters in one go and ended up with a single MEng as a first degree - the give away is the fact that the MEng is an hounours degree which most(?) Masters are not.
> They don't hand out testamurs from Oxford to any sub-literate with a fat wallet.
However Oxford is (or was) unique in the UK for one thing - If you did the hard work of obtaining a BA degree at Oxford, then held down a job and stayed out of debt for a year - your degree would instantly be upgraded to an MA!!!!!
I am not aware of any other UK university that does this. Bugger really. I had to work hard for my masters degrees.
When I was apply for degree courses 9 years ago, I did notice that Oxford only gave out arts degrees (BAs and MAs), even for engineering (normally BEng/MEng) and science courses (normally BSc/MSc).
> So it would be interesting if implemented with > legislation rather than without; that way there > is a serious disincentive for spammers who manage > to subvert the policy.
Thats right. Spammers in Asia will feel compelled to comply with US laws.
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I've found that (in the case of '3', the UKs first 3G supplier to the market) they are provinding the extra features INSTEAD of a data link to the web - after announcing a large price reduction I had a look around their web site for data tariffs and found none - after a call to their customer services center, I was told that you could not get internet access.
All three of the available phones support JAVA and a web browser (from what I can gather looking at the online manuals [PDF] ), but instead they have decided to get rid of the one thing I would use and replaced it with a naff list of services.
I can't blame them really - charging for services is how they are going to get a large portion of their investment back. But I'm dissapointed.
Interesting thing is though - they support the reading of emails from 'your ISPs' POP3 account, so its not as though they don't have a problem transferring data across their network. If you could upload a port mapping JAVA app to the phone via the data-link cable you *might* be able to get to another (reverse) port mapper running on your xDSL line (ie 80 -> 25....25 -> 80).... till someone found out:)
The old 20s will still be accepted, but there will be gradually less and less of them (unless, as you say, someone starts stashing them)....or someone starts forging them.
It would be most important to obtain the complete list of email addresses they send to.
That way, the people who own the email addresses on the list can be asked if they had opted in (EMarkerters did state that they ran an opt-in scheme only...)
Actually, this is great. Now when I click on a link to my companies Intranet from within Outlook, I won't get told that I don't have permission to access it.
Previously I would have to open up IE and copy'n'paste the link from the source of the email (the people that send these corporate emails typically send them as HTML with a ton of useless clipart).
> However, if each machine uses a random number for every packet (like the ones I mentioned), you can't seperate one from the other since it all looks like noise
Surely you mean a random number for each connection? The sequence numbers, being sequence numbers, once set for a connection (randomly or otherwise) MUST increment for each (unfragmented) packet sent - this is how the destination host determines if any packets have been lost in transit from the source.
A good point, but there is one problem with this - ISPs have a tendancy to periodically change their agreements.
The original agreement will have some clause that allows them to do this providing they inform you, however they generally 'inform' you by putting a notice up on their website - how many times do *you* scour your ISPs website for an updated agreement? NTL recently updated theirs and placed a ban on VPNs.
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> I think the Sinclair was branded a Timex in the UK.
No, Timex sold the Sinclair ZX81 in North America. Sinclair Research Ltd. sold the Sinclair ZX81 in the UK. The US variant was named the Timex Sinclair 1000.
The Timex 1000 was pratically identical to the ZX81, except for a few changes on the circuitboard and a whopping 2K of RAM instead of the 1K that the ZX81 had.
Steve
I wasn't the lecture I saw, but I just found a slide on the IPN website that shows their domain naming convention. From what I gather the planet/star combo is dropped for intraplanetary comms and only added when doing interplanetary comms.
Page 25 of the following PDF:
http://www.ipnsig.org/reports/ISART9-2000.pdf
From what I remember of this in an IEE lecture, they were thinking a bit bigger than a .mars domain.
.mars.sol and .earth.sol. Gives a bit more room for expansion in the future I guess.....
They suggested having
Steve.
With 4 years of development/support/enhancements, the program is getting quite large now so even though I have tried to keep my code standards compliant it could be a distinct possibility that some crap has crept in somewhere :) [note - I am using Windows, but the app is not using any MFC generated garbage/C++ extensions].
I did search for the reason behind the crashes for a while, but after a while it came down to the usual time/money/performance trade off since we did not get any such crashes using MSVC6/7. It was kind of hard catching the crashes since the debugger missed them(!) and the printfs slowed it down so much that it could not process the data in time. Ho hum!
In the end I'll probably be giving icc 8 a go and will run it in parallel with the live system for a while - given the choice I have (on Windows) of MSVCC & icc, I much prefer the stricter parsing and better optimisiation of the Intel compiler. (That, and the fact that I find it hard to believe that MSVC compiler does very many optimisations at the speed at which it whizzes through things... good things come to those that wait!)
Steve.
> Actually, Intel seems decently smart about support.
You actually liked their Premier support site? I could never find anything useful on it (I was a paid customer)! That and the tastful shade of blue (#0000ff) kindof made my eyes hurt. I also couldn't get on with the password that changed every 30 days with some pretty strict selection rules enforced - all for something that jsut game me patches for a product that was FlexLM licensed anyway. Ho hum. Until v6 came out, that website was my only gripe with the then excellent product.
Steve.
I used the Windows version of the Intel compiler at work for quite a while, and it does produce some exceptionally fast code (and sometimes takes an exceptionally long time doing it).
The problem? Since version 6 came out any software we compiled with it exhibited crashes that did not occur when we used another compiler on the same code.
In the end we had to stop using it. Its a shame really because it was an excellent product (the only gripe being their Premier/Quad support website which was crap).
Steve.
Hmmm. Actually got hung up on a sore point after deleing loads of crap emails wanting $$$ rather than for products this morning.
I kind of missed out the point that a large portion of junk emails originate from servers in the Far East already so from your perspective (presumably US perspective, since you said 'offshore' without thinking) it already happens.
> only until it all goes offshore.
It already is. I live in the UK and the majority of junk emails I receive come from the US, or contain 'offers' from US based companies.
> Wouldn't a law making spam illegal and punishable offense be more effective?
In which country? All of them? Making spam illegal and punishable in just a few countries will barely dint the tide of spam arriving in our inboxes.
I agree that the fraudsters will only be a few months behind the technology, but what we have at the minute is far from perfect.
There was a BBC news item on a couple of months ago that stated that the 'several' forms of identification required to obtain a passport are unfortunately simple for criminals to obtain and have been for years due to a flaw in the system. In the report even the passport office acknowledged this, although they dismissed it since they reckon that only a small number of them are obtained in this manner.
Once you have you passport, no one really questions anything else.
The report was quite good. They obtained a passport issued by the passport office in David Blunketts name (all the particulars were correct too) along with a driving license (and he is blind - you would have though someone might have noticed this!). Just to note - they gave the obtained ID
to David Blunketts office after the report so that it could be destroyed....
It is important that the ID cards be seen as no more important than other forms of ID and that the current process of using multiple forms of ID should still occur when we do get them. I dread the day on which the ID card is considered safe enough to be used by itself....
As for my own opinion on ID cards? I have to say that I am in favour of them. One of the initial uses will be to stop benefit fraud. If we stop people fraudulantly obtaining benefits even for a few months (until the fraudsters catch up with technology), it will be a good thing.
Steve.
> That kinda implies the email addresses don't go anywhere, hmm?
Yeah, but the FROM address (unless its spam) is probably going to be correct.....
Steve.
I am wondering what the purspose of this practice is for - is it simply to show that the holder of the title is not a recent graduate?
I have a similar 'false' Masters in the form of an undergraduate Masters in Engineering. I did the 3 year Bachelors + the 1 year of the Masters in one go and ended up with a single MEng as a first degree - the give away is the fact that the MEng is an hounours degree which most(?) Masters are not.
Steve [Msc, MEng(Hons)]
> They don't hand out testamurs from Oxford to any sub-literate with a fat wallet.
However Oxford is (or was) unique in the UK for one thing - If you did the hard work of obtaining a BA degree at Oxford, then held down a job and stayed out of debt for a year - your degree would instantly be upgraded to an MA!!!!!
I am not aware of any other UK university that does this. Bugger really. I had to work hard for my masters degrees.
When I was apply for degree courses 9 years ago, I did notice that Oxford only gave out arts degrees (BAs and MAs), even for engineering (normally BEng/MEng) and science courses (normally BSc/MSc).
Steve.
All I see is stars. Where are the WMD that are supposed to be in Irac?! :)
> So it would be interesting if implemented with
> legislation rather than without; that way there
> is a serious disincentive for spammers who manage
> to subvert the policy.
Thats right. Spammers in Asia will feel compelled to comply with US laws.
I've found that (in the case of '3', the UKs first 3G supplier to the market) they are provinding the extra features INSTEAD of a data link to the web - after announcing a large price reduction I had a look around their web site for data tariffs and found none - after a call to their customer services center, I was told that you could not get internet access.
:)
All three of the available phones support JAVA and a web browser (from what I can gather looking at the online manuals [PDF] ), but instead they have decided to get rid of the one thing I would use and replaced it with a naff list of services.
I can't blame them really - charging for services is how they are going to get a large portion of their investment back. But I'm dissapointed.
Interesting thing is though - they support the reading of emails from 'your ISPs' POP3 account, so its not as though they don't have a problem transferring data across their network. If you could upload a port mapping JAVA app to the phone via the data-link cable you *might* be able to get to another (reverse) port mapper running on your xDSL line (ie 80 -> 25....25 -> 80).... till someone found out
Steve.
I was wondering what he was up to nowadays....
Actually I think it was a misspelling. He wrote two programs with patterns on them.
The first one has a nice plaid pattern, wheras the second one (and this is the clever bit) has a striking blue and green pattern on it.
Steve.
The old 20s will still be accepted, but there will be gradually less and less of them (unless, as you say, someone starts stashing them). ...or someone starts forging them.
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> Victim #5,443,195:
It would be most important to obtain the complete list of email addresses they send to.
That way, the people who own the email addresses on the list can be asked if they had opted in (EMarkerters did state that they ran an opt-in scheme only...)
Steve.
Actually, this is great. Now when I click on a link to my companies Intranet from within Outlook, I won't get told that I don't have permission to access it.
Previously I would have to open up IE and copy'n'paste the link from the source of the email (the people that send these corporate emails typically send them as HTML with a ton of useless clipart).
Steve.
Dur.
If you use genetic engineering to correct a gentic fault, then the genetic fault would not be passed on.
Steve.
> However, if each machine uses a random number for every packet (like the ones I mentioned), you can't seperate one from the other since it all looks like noise
Surely you mean a random number for each connection? The sequence numbers, being sequence numbers, once set for a connection (randomly or otherwise) MUST increment for each (unfragmented) packet sent - this is how the destination host determines if any packets have been lost in transit from the source.
Steve.
A good point, but there is one problem with this - ISPs have a tendancy to periodically change their agreements.
The original agreement will have some clause that allows them to do this providing they inform you, however they generally 'inform' you by putting a notice up on their website - how many times do *you* scour your ISPs website for an updated agreement?
NTL recently updated theirs and placed a ban on VPNs.
Steve.