And I didn't get a chance to watch their commercial and music video reel before the call (because my DVD player wouldn't play UK Region 2, but I digress)
Maybe I'm just old school, but reading 4.10 as different from 4.1, and also as *greater* than 4.7 just fucks with my logical mind.
Why bother with this nonsense when it flys in the face of the earliest of floating-point mathematics?
The dot in the version number has nothing to do with the mathematical dot, just like the dot at the end of this line doesn't.
Also, following your reasoning you will have great difficulties with the concept for minor revision numbers like 2.2.7 and 5.2.1...
For what it is worth, if you're doing version comparisons and are treating the numbers as mathematical values, your algorithm is broken by design. The right way is to split the version number by the dots (so you get a 4 and a 10) and compare them with the other splitted versions.
Found this article yesterday on The Register about Andrew Tanenbaum (the guy from Minix) and the Institution president Kenneth Brown on the history of *nix in general:
Spammers can still use zombied PC's or throwaway ISP accounts to send out their spam, and they'll look good enough to pass the "caller-id" test.
What the problem is about is more that SMTP doesn't allow some kind of verification of the source. With these proposals the source verification is added.
In your first case, that's a matter of host security, not SMTP security. In your second case, that's just plain evil of them but nothing SMTP can do about it.
The relative success of "Grand Theft Auto III" in Japan may be a sign of changing tastes, but violent games are still far less popular in Japan than in the United States.
Maybe it's just that they don't fall for it the third time. Makes me think about the US people:-)
My nephew got all three LotR games for his gameboy. I have finished the first one, but the second and third are the same (walk and shoot, absolutely[sp] no story in it) and I couldn't be bothered playing them.
Make that Turbo Pascal 3...
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Make that Turbo Pascal 3 which has the wordstar-like editor. Version 4 and later had a full blown GUI, which got later replaced by Borlands TurboVision IDE. Which made it, at least for me, the best CUI there was.
* Dr. Nechyba is in an important meeting with a future client and has a sudden urge for a Diet Coke.
* He logs on to the network and tells Koolio that he would like a Diet Coke.
If he can interrupt the meeting for "quickly ordering a drink fir himself", I doubt that the-not-so-the-future-client would be happy to not get one!!
And then, to surf along on the wave of outsourcing fear, this machine will gets made in.cn or.sg, while the secretary in.us gets cut on her payroll because an important piece of her job isn't hers anymore.
RedHat always have sold their software (but you could download it for free).
With BIND from the ISC you can download their software (but you can also buy a support contract for it).
If you take into account that one of the goals of BIND is to make a reference platform for all features, you can't really do that with a closed-only solution.
Imagine driving up to Quebec and trying to find your way around. Most everyone speaks french.
Just show them your non-US passport and it's impressive how good their english suddenly becomes...
Well, this trick worked for years in eastern european countries where the only language in common with the people there was German, but they didn't really want to talk to you unless they were sure you weren't from Germany. Seems that they lost that curse now:-)
Poor americans with their spam
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"You can send millions of spam e-mails a day for about a dollar," Cohen said. "That means if one in a million people buy something from you, you break even. Lists of validated bulk postal mail can cost a couple of cents to a dollar per person, and you can grab physical addresses of decision makers with buying power in Fortune 500 companies. But in spam, you don't have to be that selective. You could just say everyone in the United States."
I'm glad that I'm living outside the US and don't have to worry about spam for cheap medicines, for viagra and to vote Ralph Nader. Euhm....
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Can't just launch your modem into NORAD and play a game.
We've all seen the movie and we all know you're wrong.
And I didn't get a chance to watch their commercial and music video reel before the call (because my DVD player wouldn't play UK Region 2, but I digress)
The snake bites itself in the tail...
They get exiled to jails operated by US contractors.
Maybe I'm just old school, but reading 4.10 as different from 4.1, and also as *greater* than 4.7 just fucks with my logical mind.
Why bother with this nonsense when it flys in the face of the earliest of floating-point mathematics?
The dot in the version number has nothing to do with the mathematical dot, just like the dot at the end of this line doesn't.
Also, following your reasoning you will have great difficulties with the concept for minor revision numbers like 2.2.7 and 5.2.1...
For what it is worth, if you're doing version comparisons and are treating the numbers as mathematical values, your algorithm is broken by design. The right way is to split the version number by the dots (so you get a 4 and a 10) and compare them with the other splitted versions.
Edwin
Found this article yesterday on The Register about Andrew Tanenbaum (the guy from Minix) and the Institution president Kenneth Brown on the history of *nix in general:
'Not the sharpest of knives' - praise heaped on Linux study author
nice text to read!
Spammers can still use zombied PC's or throwaway ISP accounts to send out their spam, and they'll look good enough to pass the "caller-id" test.
What the problem is about is more that SMTP doesn't allow some kind of verification of the source. With these proposals the source verification is added.
In your first case, that's a matter of host security, not SMTP security. In your second case, that's just plain evil of them but nothing SMTP can do about it.
Edwin
Why should people have to shell out $150/yr just to run an email server?
Or have to buy two certificates, one for the incoming mail and one for the outgoing mail (yes, you can't use server certificates for outgoing mail).
To a cousin of me, each time she dialed in to the internet some dialogbox came up and her laptop rebooted herself after one minute then.
She got a new modem, a new motherboard, they reinstalled windows and ran the latest update on it and the problem was resolved.
That's what I call expensive service.
from sending out 'marketing messages.' (in lay terms, spam)
That's called High Volume Email Deployment, not spam.
And Julian Haight is not Anti High Volume Email Deployment, he's anti-spam.
Let Sony addresses all end in .sony. If Sony in Chile wants it's own address, it becomes sony.cl, or sony.us in the United states.
You don't get the idea behind DNS trees. Sony Chili would get cl.sony, Sony USA would get us.sony.
That way they only have to worry about one TLD instead of (like they have now) all the ccTLDs.
Traditional TLDs have passed into everyday english.
.nl, people in Australia either expect a TLD or .xx.au.
.us :-)
But it's very localized: People in the Netherlands expect either a TLD or
It's only the people in the USA which don't yet grab the concept of their local
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Did somebody grep for "Juniper coders are weenies?"
Make love, not war :-)
The relative success of "Grand Theft Auto III" in Japan may be a sign of changing tastes, but violent games are still far less popular in Japan than in the United States.
:-)
Maybe it's just that they don't fall for it the third time. Makes me think about the US people
My nephew got all three LotR games for his gameboy. I have finished the first one, but the second and third are the same (walk and shoot, absolutely[sp] no story in it) and I couldn't be bothered playing them.
Make that Turbo Pascal 3 which has the wordstar-like editor. Version 4 and later had a full blown GUI, which got later replaced by Borlands TurboVision IDE. Which made it, at least for me, the best CUI there was.
and udp because while unreliable
It's not more or less unreliable than the IP layer on which it is transported.
* Dr. Nechyba is in an important meeting with a future client and has a sudden urge for a Diet Coke.
.cn or .sg, while the secretary in .us gets cut on her payroll because an important piece of her job isn't hers anymore.
:-)
* He logs on to the network and tells Koolio that he would like a Diet Coke.
If he can interrupt the meeting for "quickly ordering a drink fir himself", I doubt that the-not-so-the-future-client would be happy to not get one!!
And then, to surf along on the wave of outsourcing fear, this machine will gets made in
But for the rest, it's a cool toy
RedHat always have sold their software (but you could download it for free).
With BIND from the ISC you can download their software (but you can also buy a support contract for it).
If you take into account that one of the goals of BIND is to make a reference platform for all features, you can't really do that with a closed-only solution.
I, for one, welcome our new Lyrid overlords.
(sorry, first thing which came into mind was "oh my how much of these bad jokes are going to be posted today)
Imagine driving up to Quebec and trying to find your way around. Most everyone speaks french.
...
:-)
Just show them your non-US passport and it's impressive how good their english suddenly becomes
Well, this trick worked for years in eastern european countries where the only language in common with the people there was German, but they didn't really want to talk to you unless they were sure you weren't from Germany. Seems that they lost that curse now
"You can send millions of spam e-mails a day for about a dollar," Cohen said. "That means if one in a million people buy something from you, you break even. Lists of validated bulk postal mail can cost a couple of cents to a dollar per person, and you can grab physical addresses of decision makers with buying power in Fortune 500 companies. But in spam, you don't have to be that selective. You could just say everyone in the United States."
I'm glad that I'm living outside the US and don't have to worry about spam for cheap medicines, for viagra and to vote Ralph Nader. Euhm....
Except for tcpdump, which is great on all of those levels.
I can't measure the quality of the signal on the cable with tcpdump.
Although it does do the best it can, analysing the data of the TCP/UDP packets is not always optimal.
But for dumping raw IP packets and see what's going on at IP or TCP/UDP level, it's excellent.
Edwin
As of late, we have been having quite a few network problems that can only really be resolved by sniffing packets.
What kind of problems are you talking about? On ethernet level? On IP level? On application level?
They all have different approaches, and all have different tools.