This is because apple *donated* the hardware and the software.
Yeah, I remember the court case against Apple from these days. And it was good that they were ordered by court to do this. Otherwise our civilisation would be set back into the dark ages by their marketing powers!
Edwin, happy to change the past to enhance the present!
BT explained this curious move with "We can't sue Netscape or the Mozilla-group because they use the mouse to navigate with. Actually, most people don't even know why there is a huge plate with funny symbols in front of their monitor. But these two webbrowsers use the keyboard to interact with the user and that's exactly why they are a fine target for our lawyers"
I really really really hope that they also include a chapter about network security in the treaty. So many things can be prevented if ISPs setup their network securely...
First to say, it's sad that they don't want to keep me waiting for the follow-up of previous weeks episodes which I can't afford to miss because each episode brings the series further in a web of entanglement and suspicion.
Short episodes which stand on itself, I can afford to miss them just like I can afford to miss half of the simpsons episodes: it doesn't matter if I don't know that something has happened, it will never be refered to again.
Secondly, the books regarding Star Trek (can't talk for the B5 books, haven't read any of them yet) are getting much and much better. It started with (please correct me if I'm wrong) the Invasion series (four pockets which had a similair topic but was spread over the old series, TNG, DS9 and Voyager series). After that you got more and more of these books which spanned over the series (Day of Honour, the Captains Table, the Domonion War etc)
Right now, I don't care about the single-book episodes, multi-book multi-series books are much better.
We can even improve it, we can store the IP addresses of mail-gateways for domains in it, references to other DNS search-engines... and more stuff, like pages which give information about a domain and and and and...
Hmmm... doesn't that sound like what we have with DNS right now?
The IP address I'm looking for is, in theory, sitting in a thousand caches all over the net, but it's not fetched?
There is a difference between the places where you can get it (which are authoritive for the domain) and the caches of random DNS servers on the net (which are not authoritive for the domain).
Wired magazine had a (imho good) article about PayPal, how and why it worked while other initiatives of big banks failed on internet money transactions:
And it was written in Borland Pascal which had a limit if 64 kB for the compiled program!
Borland Pascal never had such a limit, the last one was TurboPascal 3.0 which could only produce.com files. TurboPascal 4.0 and up could produce.exe files which could handle the whole amount of free memory.
You are probably talking about the biggest single variable, that was indeed 64Kb. But you could have two of them. Or three, four, five, six, seven until you ran out of memory:-)
Earlier this year there was a census in Australia also and I've received a lot of (spam) regarding that I should write down Jedi there too. Does anybody know if the outcome of the census in Australia is known already?
Checkout my CodeRed and Nimda spammer which I use every night to inform the owners of the domain (according to whois and DNS SOA record) and the administrative addresses related to that domain.
They should have organized it in a committee!
Naaah... it's easier to sneak a hobbit in, let him make the standards. Later, when the big armies have stopped fighting, they'll see that the whole idea was already implemented while they were bickering over details.
Rough consensus and working code, that's what life is about!
I know, it's waaaay too late and nobody will read it anyway.
Last week my car had to be inspected, since it h passed the 100.000km threshold. Nothing serious to report, just refilled the front-window-sprayer with water and the tires with air.
Why isn't there a requirement that you have your computer (read: the software running on it) checked for problems every three months so that the latest patches are installed and that you get a report of "what's wrong with it"?
It's time again for the Internet Surfing License!
Auto-expiring after three months and only renewable if it passes the test.
This article should be read as a Vision for Future Coorperate Operating Systems, where people are under a 'central' control already.
I've once (as part of a team) developed such a semi-automatic system, for our intranet-servers, not for the desktops. There was one central machine with a software-repository and one configuration file.
If we added a new webproxy, just add the details to the config-file, compile it and boot the new machine. It would automaticly install the OS and the required software. During nighttime other webproxies in that region found out there was a new configuration for them (because there was a new sibling for them) and fetched it. Same with mail-servers, DNS-servers, NNTP-servers et al.
Desktop software is a waaaaay different story. I can imagine it works (I've seen it working on department level, never on full-company level).
You don't want to know how many passwords I have guessed by just sitting next to somebody and looking with one eye to his keyboard:-)
I have one (1) computer with all my secret keys (one for private stuff, one for work, one for sourceforge). After login and before the starting of X I have to type three different and long keyphrases to add them to my ssh-agent. None of my remote accounts have passwords. Learning to lock your screen is a must:-)
I've solved it for myself at work and in private:
Use usenet for mass non-direct communication.
Use email for non-direct communication.
Use irc for mass direct communication.
At work everybody know that if they wanted to contact me directly about a problem and they were too lame to walk in that they should try it via irc. Worked like a charm. All techies from all departments knew that this was the way to contact me.
I have one hour in the morning and one hour in the afternoon in which I do email, webbrowsing (weird sites as/. and the Register:-) and usenet stuff. The rest of the time I refuse to look in my mailbox.
Just a way to keep myself concentrated on important tasks and to keep myself from becoming insane about the information overflow.
Live your own life, don't let it be lived by others.
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As being asked by somebody who is registrered on slashdot as... Atrax
If all validation is done via email addresses (as userid), wouldn't that database make a great spam-list? I'm waiting for the moment that passportauthentication@mydomain.tld gets spam...
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Just in case they're looking for a tour-guide there.
Sydney 2001: clouds clouds clouds. I'll check again in 2034!
This is because apple *donated* the hardware and the software.
Yeah, I remember the court case against Apple from these days. And it was good that they were ordered by court to do this. Otherwise our civilisation would be set back into the dark ages by their marketing powers!
Edwin, happy to change the past to enhance the present!
It also lays out a plan for non-crt use via alphanumeric display and keypad. No mention of a mouse.
NEWSFLASH: In addition to the BT courtcase against Prodigy, they also have sued Mikulas Patocka and Distributed Computing Group of the University of Kansas.
BT explained this curious move with "We can't sue Netscape or the Mozilla-group because they use the mouse to navigate with. Actually, most people don't even know why there is a huge plate with funny symbols in front of their monitor. But these two webbrowsers use the keyboard to interact with the user and that's exactly why they are a fine target for our lawyers"
I really really really hope that they also include a chapter about network security in the treaty. So many things can be prevented if ISPs setup their network securely...
First to say, it's sad that they don't want to keep me waiting for the follow-up of previous weeks episodes which I can't afford to miss because each episode brings the series further in a web of entanglement and suspicion.
Short episodes which stand on itself, I can afford to miss them just like I can afford to miss half of the simpsons episodes: it doesn't matter if I don't know that something has happened, it will never be refered to again.
Secondly, the books regarding Star Trek (can't talk for the B5 books, haven't read any of them yet) are getting much and much better. It started with (please correct me if I'm wrong) the Invasion series (four pockets which had a similair topic but was spread over the old series, TNG, DS9 and Voyager series). After that you got more and more of these books which spanned over the series (Day of Honour, the Captains Table, the Domonion War etc)
Right now, I don't care about the single-book episodes, multi-book multi-series books are much better.
We can even improve it, we can store the IP addresses of mail-gateways for domains in it, references to other DNS search-engines... and more stuff, like pages which give information about a domain and and and and...
Hmmm... doesn't that sound like what we have with DNS right now?
The IP address I'm looking for is, in theory, sitting in a thousand caches all over the net, but it's not fetched?
There is a difference between the places where you can get it (which are authoritive for the domain) and the caches of random DNS servers on the net (which are not authoritive for the domain).
Edwin
Wired magazine had a (imho good) article about PayPal, how and why it worked while other initiatives of big banks failed on internet money transactions:
The Money Shot
[~] edwin@k7>telnet blaatblaatblaat.biz smtp
Trying 209.173.53.173...
telnet: connect to address 209.173.53.173: Connection refused
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host
Oooooh damned damned damned! That would be big spam-fun!
Edwin
And it was written in Borland Pascal which had a limit if 64 kB for the compiled program!
.com files. TurboPascal 4.0 and up could produce .exe files which could handle the whole amount of free memory.
:-)
Borland Pascal never had such a limit, the last one was TurboPascal 3.0 which could only produce
You are probably talking about the biggest single variable, that was indeed 64Kb. But you could have two of them. Or three, four, five, six, seven until you ran out of memory
Earlier this year there was a census in Australia also and I've received a lot of (spam) regarding that I should write down Jedi there too. Does anybody know if the outcome of the census in Australia is known already?
...is Giga's Dutch Lyrics archive.
He had an archive of 18000 dutch lyrics. He ran this free archive for about five years and was forced to take it down by the Musicopy foundation.
Good intentions are not always appriciated...
http://www.giga.nl/walter/gnsa/ (dutch only)
Checkout my CodeRed and Nimda spammer which I use every night to inform the owners of the domain (according to whois and DNS SOA record) and the administrative addresses related to that domain.
They should have organized it in a committee!
Naaah... it's easier to sneak a hobbit in, let him make the standards. Later, when the big armies have stopped fighting, they'll see that the whole idea was already implemented while they were bickering over details.
Rough consensus and working code, that's what life is about!
I know, it's waaaay too late and nobody will read it anyway.
Last week my car had to be inspected, since it h passed the 100.000km threshold. Nothing serious to report, just refilled the front-window-sprayer with water and the tires with air.
Why isn't there a requirement that you have your computer (read: the software running on it) checked for problems every three months so that the latest patches are installed and that you get a report of "what's wrong with it"?
It's time again for the Internet Surfing License!
Auto-expiring after three months and only renewable if it passes the test.
This article should be read as a Vision for Future Coorperate Operating Systems, where people are under a 'central' control already.
:-)
I've once (as part of a team) developed such a semi-automatic system, for our intranet-servers, not for the desktops. There was one central machine with a software-repository and one configuration file.
If we added a new webproxy, just add the details to the config-file, compile it and boot the new machine. It would automaticly install the OS and the required software. During nighttime other webproxies in that region found out there was a new configuration for them (because there was a new sibling for them) and fetched it. Same with mail-servers, DNS-servers, NNTP-servers et al.
Desktop software is a waaaaay different story. I can imagine it works (I've seen it working on department level, never on full-company level).
Edwin, building scalable software rules
Been there, done that. Made a nice report of it at http://www.mavetju.org/ -> networking -> Getting contact info on the internet and Why Mail Fails.
:-/
Technically the internet works, administratively not
At least typing each could provide some barrier.
:-)
:-)
You don't want to know how many passwords I have guessed by just sitting next to somebody and looking with one eye to his keyboard
I have one (1) computer with all my secret keys (one for private stuff, one for work, one for sourceforge). After login and before the starting of X I have to type three different and long keyphrases to add them to my ssh-agent. None of my remote accounts have passwords. Learning to lock your screen is a must
telnet needs to be phased out.
Regarding the telnet-service, yes.
Regarding the telnet-protocol, no.
Regarding the telnet-program, no.
It's being used for more than port 23 only you know...
Edwin, can't live without small basic debugging tools.
I've solved it for myself at work and in private:
/. and the Register :-) and usenet stuff. The rest of the time I refuse to look in my mailbox.
Use usenet for mass non-direct communication.
Use email for non-direct communication.
Use irc for mass direct communication.
At work everybody know that if they wanted to contact me directly about a problem and they were too lame to walk in that they should try it via irc. Worked like a charm. All techies from all departments knew that this was the way to contact me.
I have one hour in the morning and one hour in the afternoon in which I do email, webbrowsing (weird sites as
Just a way to keep myself concentrated on important tasks and to keep myself from becoming insane about the information overflow.
Live your own life, don't let it be lived by others.
As being asked by somebody who is registrered on slashdot as... Atrax
If all validation is done via email addresses (as userid), wouldn't that database make a great spam-list? I'm waiting for the moment that passportauthentication@mydomain.tld gets spam...
Give us a frigging break!
If you want to read the article, play according to the rules of the website. Register!
What's next on eBay? 50 pounds of butter made from Belgium Palm-beer?