I saw
this flash ad advertising the new product line on CNET today:
"Given how hot and slow our competitors servers are, It's not suprise their name RHYMES WITH HELL"
While I was still a Perl novice I was writing a Perl-based script which would gather information about payroll timesheet corrections and email each employee a description of the aforementioned changes. I had recently begun to use functions in Perl, but hadn't yet stumbled upon how perform data hiding. My email function employed a for loop which used $i as a counter variable. Unfortuantely so did the function it called on each iteration through the loop. During my test run the outer loop counted higher than the inner loop, and subsequently got caught spinning. It sent an email to 2 addresses during each pass (one address being my own). After running for 10 seconds or so I guessed something must be wrong and ended it abruptly. Unfortunately the damage had been done. The beefy university web server had queued 150,000+ emails to each of the accounts during its run.
The SSID emanating from my car while driving down the road with a Sprint PCS card and an AD-HOC wireless network so others in the car can share the connection. I still have yet to have any other cars travelling in my direction connect.
Anyone else notice the SpyNet Anti-Spyware Community? "SpyNet uses industry standard security methods to link thousands of personal computers, like yours, to the world's first anti-spyware network"...
The InternetII is definetly not some commie.edu plaything. It is used for research which in turn results in education -- the reason universities exist as an institution anyhow... Where was the Internet mainly developed anyway? Universities of course. The InternetII is a developmental high speed network, and in time it will transcend from the educational world into public use. The Abilene backbone (and others like it) will probably be one of the next generation Internet backbones, helping to route the ever increasing stream of packets.
As for Universities not deserving the reduced price bandwidth, give me a break... Tuition is high enough already. Did you know that many Universities lease out excess bandwidth to corporations and smaller schools? Savings aren't just squandered and resources don't go unwasted. Smaller schools struggle to make use of the limited bandwidth they even have. How else do you think the MP3 craze could bring campus networks to their knees? Legitimate research and information sharing is severly hampered in today's world when the bandwidth isn't available on campus.
Don't attack educational institutions... That is where some of the best developments in technology come from in the first place!
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I saw this flash ad advertising the new product line on CNET today:
"Given how hot and slow our competitors servers are, It's not suprise their name RHYMES WITH HELL"
Pretty brutal, but funny.
While I was still a Perl novice I was writing a Perl-based script which would gather information about payroll timesheet corrections and email each employee a description of the aforementioned changes. I had recently begun to use functions in Perl, but hadn't yet stumbled upon how perform data hiding. My email function employed a for loop which used $i as a counter variable. Unfortuantely so did the function it called on each iteration through the loop. During my test run the outer loop counted higher than the inner loop, and subsequently got caught spinning. It sent an email to 2 addresses during each pass (one address being my own). After running for 10 seconds or so I guessed something must be wrong and ended it abruptly. Unfortunately the damage had been done. The beefy university web server had queued 150,000+ emails to each of the accounts during its run.
The SSID emanating from my car while driving down the road with a Sprint PCS card and an AD-HOC wireless network so others in the car can share the connection. I still have yet to have any other cars travelling in my direction connect.
Anyone else notice the SpyNet Anti-Spyware Community? "SpyNet uses industry standard security methods to link thousands of personal computers, like yours, to the world's first anti-spyware network"...
Sounds spooky to me...
As for Universities not deserving the reduced price bandwidth, give me a break... Tuition is high enough already. Did you know that many Universities lease out excess bandwidth to corporations and smaller schools? Savings aren't just squandered and resources don't go unwasted. Smaller schools struggle to make use of the limited bandwidth they even have. How else do you think the MP3 craze could bring campus networks to their knees? Legitimate research and information sharing is severly hampered in today's world when the bandwidth isn't available on campus.
Don't attack educational institutions... That is where some of the best developments in technology come from in the first place!