I'm interested in finding out more about XP (once I've finished the Conway book, the Firewalls book and the UML book)... but I find the titles very confusing. It's not at all clear what order they should be read in, or even whether they are all suitable for a jobbing programmer (aren't some aimed more at project management types?)
ARP poisoning attacks...
Hmmm, well, yes, you're right. But it does make it much harder - rules out the snort-kiddies, anyway. --
If the good lord had meant me to live in Los Angeles
True (AFAIK). However, that was the point at which deCSS mirrors mushroomed all over the world. I got an RIAA nastygram theatening email in January, 2000 - so far I haven't heard back from them. The day when Californian state law has jurisdiction in London, UK, IU'll pull the mirror. Until them I'll happy to make a small contribution towards trying to preserve a bit of freedom. --
If the good lord had meant me to live in Los Angeles
Nope; the machines that crashed were the main ISS CCS systems - not a 'server' in the usual meaning of the word. See the Register - http://www.theregister.co.uk/ - for informed comment from a NASA software engineer.
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RIAA & similar scumbags, please don't bother trying to sue me under American law like you did when I mirrored deCSS. I don't give in to legal threats.
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IIRC this is because (1) they do *real* regression testing, and (2) I believe more modern processors are more vulnerable to cosmic ray glitches, due to the components being closer together. --
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It sounds really rather scary to me. Apart from the fact that three redundant computers going down at once just should NOT happen - if Endeavour hadn't happenedto be docked, they'd have no voice/date uplink/at all/.
As far as I can see, wouldn't that put the crew into a really hairy position? Without support from the ground, how they'd have no way to know how to try diagnosing / fixing the problem. And if they couldn't get it going... well, perhaps they'd all just goof off for a while, like when the boss takes a day off sick;)... but wouldn't they have serious problems, say, preparing for the next shuttle or Soyuz docking?
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But it's common wisdom that the greatest threat is from the inside
I'd guess you have that philosophy, the answer is clear: DON'T RUN SMB
Or, you could do what any half-way competent network manager did five years ago - throw out your hubs and move to a switched network fabric. Unless evil_hax0r gets physical access to the switch's mirror port, there's no problem with SMB (telnet, ftp, pop...) --
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The root servers *are* distributed - widely distributed. You can also bet your bottom dollar that they're in *very* secure facilities, with multiple redundancy built-in to all components.
I have no l337 sekret knowledge, I just lurk on nanog, where people who have *gasp* seen root servers have described the setup in more detail. --
If the good lord had meant me to live in Los Angeles
Greg Woods mentioned something about being able to multi-home a home network (i.e., set it up with access to two separate ISPs, so that if one goes down, traffic automatically routes to the other.) i searched most dilgently but came up empty. Perhaps he was pulling the leg of clueless lusers... anyone?
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...on your Unix machine - as *any* user?
Warning in case it's not obvious enough... this will kill your machine, unless you're a genuinely clueful admin.
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OK, one specific about how Phantom Menace sucks in comparison with A New Hope.
I saw the latter aged 8 in 1977. One of the cool things about it was that it was genuinely frightening. Luke on Tatooine is in a genuinely harsh and dangerous environment - between the Sand People and stormtroopers. People and characters are getting killed left right and centre. Hell there are a dozen rebel troops shot dead in the first five minutes, followed by Darth Vader breaking someone's neck!
Compare with the Phantom Menace where (as far as I can remember) only one person actually gets killed, and that's Darth Maul. All the rest are cutesy / stupid robots who aren't remotely frightening. After all the Jedi only have to wave a hand and they go flying.
Just one of many reasons why TPM sucks ass. --
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Actually, airships are making a comeback; even the name 'Zeppelin' is being resurrected by a new German company, although previous *cough* bad associations with the brand are being worked around by calling it... get this...
Zeppelin NT. Honestly! --
If the good lord had meant me to live in Los Angeles
>Also I'd like to mention that, on Napster, the
> ability to browse other people's entire
>collection also helps promote music. For
>example, when I searched for "Cuban" "Latin"
>music and accidentally ran into some flamenco
>music. i liked it much so I searched for the
>word "flamenco." What returned was some guy
>who had quite a few flamenco music. So I took
>a look at his entire collection, all of which
>are classical guitar and flamenco music. So
>that is how I found Christopher Parkening's
>guitar work.
Whoo-hoo, couldn't let this go..:)
I first got into flamenco through someone else's
CDs. I took saved my holiday and took nearly a month
off work in December 1999, stayed in the country
with my folks. After packing I suddenly realised I
hadn't picked out any CDs - I was late for the train -
so I grabbed three flamenco CDs at random from my
then-housemate's room. (He was Spanish, from Cadiz.)
Stuck in the country with only these three to listen
to, I got through the considerable pain barrier &
found I quite liked it. Came back & borrowed a few
more; then started buying my own collection. I've now
got >40 CDs of flamenco. All because I could listen
to music I hadn't actually paid for...
Finally, some personal recommendations:
Anything by Camaron de la Isla, especially the
70s stuff with Paco de Lucia. (Get the 3-CD 'Antologia'
best of, which covers his entire career, to get a feel
for his changing styles.)
Carmen Linares
Enrique Morente
Miguel Poveda
Tomatito
El Lebriano (try 'Casablanca', with North African
musicians...)
...or 'Nuevo Flamenco', poppier stuff using keyboards, drums, electric guitars etc:
Ketama
Pata Negra
tons of others...
Or just pick up the 'Rough Guide to Flamenco', "20 for the
20th Century', 'Nuevo Flamenco'.... compilations.
Also, see the excellent
Flamenco World site, in Spanish and English.
Enjoy!
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Instead of taking digs at Windows Media Player
> when posting articles, why doesn't the Unix
>community come up with something that is even
>half as useful for streaming video? True, realplayer
>is on Unix, but it's just not the best solution.
Forgive me for feeding the troll, but actually... it's
worse (and funnier) than just being a Microsoft-only
format.
It's a 'Win2000/98/ME-only' format.
Microsoft
have *deliberately* refused to port the latest version.
of MediaPlayer to NT4 (which I'm lazy enough still to be
using at home, (alongside BSD, Solaris & Linux). The file
format for what might be a cool animation of the MIR
re-entry (simulated) is.wmv, which doesn't play on
the latest NT4-supported Media Player.
#INCLUDE obvious comments about Free software being more
useful / not driven by marketing or the need to grow
sales and thus the stock price of proprietary ISVs...
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Hmmm, I was just reading some SETI stuff in the current Sky & Telescope (Bah, they don't have the currrent issue online...
this is the closest thing I can find...)... where they discuss using telescopes to broadcast optical stuff to alien SETI hunters.
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Hmmmm. How old it TCP now - 17 years or so? And we're still turning up fundamental flaws in the protocol design. It seems to me (and no, I haven't read Stevens, so I probably don't know what I'm talking about [g]) that either:
The basic design of TCP and/or IP was really bad; and/or:
The problem domain is Hard (in a mathematical sense); and/or:
The "many eyes make all bugs shallow" shtick is fundamentally wrong.
A colleague who actually has a CS degree mumbled something about "I'm amazed that IP is still going, should have been replaced by something better ages ago..." - anyone knowledgable care to comment on that? (We went down a big tangent about VHS and Microsoft, and the syndrome of poor technical solutions getting locked into market dominance through marketing, happenstance, first mover advantage etc.)
Finally, I'm a bit surprised that (cliche alert) this is *news* for nerds. The ISN problems have been talked about on Security Focus, Bugtraq, nanog et al for a week or so now.
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OK, I grant you, this is an impressive achievement. The arrival of optical interferometry (as opposed to radio interferometry, which has been going for some time - see the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in New Mexico, for example, as featured in
the film 'Contact') is undoubtedly going to bring a load of new discoveries much as the original Kecks, Hubble, actiove optics and so on each brought new phenomena into view.
I've seen a chart somewhere (can't find a link - anyone?) charting aperture (light collecting capacity) of telescopes since Galileo. The Keck and other 10m class telescopes have moved the curve from a nice straight line to an exponetial curve - and that's not allowing for vastly increased computer power, active optics, and out-of-visible band stuff. Truly this is a fantastic time to be interested in astronomy, even (especially?)
as an amateur. For a couple of thousand dollars you can do stuff in your yard that was the province of professionals only a few decades ago.
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I pretty much agree with this. However, with my devil's advocate hat on, check out the provocatively titled
Sustainability of Human Progress. This is an unashamed rebuttal of many of the shibboleths of the green / sustainable growth types. Before knocking it down, note that this guy's at Stanford - this isn't just some yahoo on GeoCities or whatever.
I reckon the truth as always is in the grey area in between. We can continue with a global economy based on growth, but that growth need not - in fact, MUST not - be at the expense of the environment, people's general wellbeing etc.
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If you want to get really depressed, reflect upon that fact that if the entire human species died out tomorrow morning (terminal ennui caused by excess Katz, perhaps?) more species have gone extinct in the last thousand years or so than at any time since the last big dino killer, the Yucatan impact 65 million years ago at the KT boundary. Wow, we really do have dominion over the birds of the air and the beasts of the field, eh. What's left of em anyway. --
If the good lord had meant me to live in Los Angeles
Slashdot Mirror
Love the sig :D
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ARP poisoning attacks... Hmmm, well, yes, you're right. But it does make it much harder - rules out the snort-kiddies, anyway.
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If the good lord had meant me to live in Los Angeles
True (AFAIK). However, that was the point at which deCSS mirrors mushroomed all over the world. I got an RIAA nastygram theatening email in January, 2000 - so far I haven't heard back from them. The day when Californian state law has jurisdiction in London, UK, IU'll pull the mirror. Until them I'll happy to make a small contribution towards trying to preserve a bit of freedom.
--
If the good lord had meant me to live in Los Angeles
Nope; the machines that crashed were the main ISS CCS systems - not a 'server' in the usual meaning of the word. See the Register - http://www.theregister.co.uk/ - for informed comment from a NASA software engineer.
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here. Why didn't he just post to Slashdot, I wonder? ;)
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If the good lord had meant me to live in Los Angeles
...oh, and The Register also mirrored it, here. $theregister++; # :)
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If the good lord had meant me to live in Los Angeles
RIAA & similar scumbags, please don't bother trying to sue me under American law like you did when I mirrored deCSS. I don't give in to legal threats.
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If the good lord had meant me to live in Los Angeles
er, no, you can't...
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If the good lord had meant me to live in Los Angeles
IIRC this is because (1) they do *real* regression testing, and (2) I believe more modern processors are more vulnerable to cosmic ray glitches, due to the components being closer together.
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If the good lord had meant me to live in Los Angeles
As far as I can see, wouldn't that put the crew into a really hairy position? Without support from the ground, how they'd have no way to know how to try diagnosing / fixing the problem. And if they couldn't get it going... well, perhaps they'd all just goof off for a while, like when the boss takes a day off sick ;) ... but wouldn't they have serious problems, say, preparing for the next shuttle or Soyuz docking?
--
If the good lord had meant me to live in Los Angeles
I'd guess you have that philosophy, the answer is clear: DON'T RUN SMB
Or, you could do what any half-way competent network manager did five years ago - throw out your hubs and move to a switched network fabric. Unless evil_hax0r gets physical access to the switch's mirror port, there's no problem with SMB (telnet, ftp, pop...)
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If the good lord had meant me to live in Los Angeles
I have no l337 sekret knowledge, I just lurk on nanog, where people who have *gasp* seen root servers have described the setup in more detail.
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If the good lord had meant me to live in Los Angeles
Greg Woods mentioned something about being able to multi-home a home network (i.e., set it up with access to two separate ISPs, so that if one goes down, traffic automatically routes to the other.) i searched most dilgently but came up empty. Perhaps he was pulling the leg of clueless lusers... anyone?
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If the good lord had meant me to live in Los Angeles
$ perl -e 'open(U, "/dev/urandom");while() { fork(); }
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Compare with the Phantom Menace where (as far as I can remember) only one person actually gets killed, and that's Darth Maul. All the rest are cutesy / stupid robots who aren't remotely frightening. After all the Jedi only have to wave a hand and they go flying.
Just one of many reasons why TPM sucks ass.
--
If the good lord had meant me to live in Los Angeles
Actually, airships are making a comeback; even the name 'Zeppelin' is being resurrected by a new German company, although previous *cough* bad associations with the brand are being worked around by calling it... get this... Zeppelin NT. Honestly!
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If the good lord had meant me to live in Los Angeles
>Also I'd like to mention that, on Napster, the
> ability to browse other people's entire
>collection also helps promote music. For
>example, when I searched for "Cuban" "Latin"
>music and accidentally ran into some flamenco
>music. i liked it much so I searched for the
>word "flamenco." What returned was some guy
>who had quite a few flamenco music. So I took
>a look at his entire collection, all of which
>are classical guitar and flamenco music. So
>that is how I found Christopher Parkening's
>guitar work.
Whoo-hoo, couldn't let this go.. :)
I first got into flamenco through someone else's CDs. I took saved my holiday and took nearly a month off work in December 1999, stayed in the country with my folks. After packing I suddenly realised I hadn't picked out any CDs - I was late for the train - so I grabbed three flamenco CDs at random from my then-housemate's room. (He was Spanish, from Cadiz.)
Stuck in the country with only these three to listen to, I got through the considerable pain barrier & found I quite liked it. Came back & borrowed a few more; then started buying my own collection. I've now got >40 CDs of flamenco. All because I could listen to music I hadn't actually paid for...
Finally, some personal recommendations:
Or just pick up the 'Rough Guide to Flamenco', "20 for the 20th Century', 'Nuevo Flamenco'.... compilations. Also, see the excellent Flamenco World site, in Spanish and English.
Enjoy!
--
If the good lord had meant me to live in Los Angeles
> when posting articles, why doesn't the Unix
>community come up with something that is even
>half as useful for streaming video? True, realplayer
>is on Unix, but it's just not the best solution.
Forgive me for feeding the troll, but actually... it's worse (and funnier) than just being a Microsoft-only format. It's a 'Win2000/98/ME-only' format. Microsoft have *deliberately* refused to port the latest version. of MediaPlayer to NT4 (which I'm lazy enough still to be using at home, (alongside BSD, Solaris & Linux). The file format for what might be a cool animation of the MIR re-entry (simulated) is .wmv, which doesn't play on
the latest NT4-supported Media Player.
#INCLUDE obvious comments about Free software being more useful / not driven by marketing or the need to grow sales and thus the stock price of proprietary ISVs...
--
If the good lord had meant me to live in Los Angeles
Hmmm, I was just reading some SETI stuff in the current Sky & Telescope (Bah, they don't have the currrent issue online... this is the closest thing I can find...) ... where they discuss using telescopes to broadcast optical stuff to alien SETI hunters.
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- The basic design of TCP and/or IP was really bad; and/or:
- The problem domain is Hard (in a mathematical sense); and/or:
- The "many eyes make all bugs shallow" shtick is fundamentally wrong.
A colleague who actually has a CS degree mumbled something about "I'm amazed that IP is still going, should have been replaced by something better ages ago..." - anyone knowledgable care to comment on that? (We went down a big tangent about VHS and Microsoft, and the syndrome of poor technical solutions getting locked into market dominance through marketing, happenstance, first mover advantage etc.)Finally, I'm a bit surprised that (cliche alert) this is *news* for nerds. The ISN problems have been talked about on Security Focus, Bugtraq, nanog et al for a week or so now.
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But the next leap forward is going to be European... ESO (European Southern Observatory) are constructing two identical telescopes in Chile and Hawaii (project Gemini.) How's that for a long baseline? ;p
And for bluesky "gee whizz" quotient, check out the Overwhelmingly Large Telescope (OWL)...
I've seen a chart somewhere (can't find a link - anyone?) charting aperture (light collecting capacity) of telescopes since Galileo. The Keck and other 10m class telescopes have moved the curve from a nice straight line to an exponetial curve - and that's not allowing for vastly increased computer power, active optics, and out-of-visible band stuff. Truly this is a fantastic time to be interested in astronomy, even (especially?) as an amateur. For a couple of thousand dollars you can do stuff in your yard that was the province of professionals only a few decades ago.
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If the good lord had meant me to live in Los Angeles
I reckon the truth as always is in the grey area in between. We can continue with a global economy based on growth, but that growth need not - in fact, MUST not - be at the expense of the environment, people's general wellbeing etc.
--
If the good lord had meant me to live in Los Angeles
If you want to get really depressed, reflect upon that fact that if the entire human species died out tomorrow morning (terminal ennui caused by excess Katz, perhaps?) more species have gone extinct in the last thousand years or so than at any time since the last big dino killer, the Yucatan impact 65 million years ago at the KT boundary. Wow, we really do have dominion over the birds of the air and the beasts of the field, eh. What's left of em anyway.
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