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  1. Kazaa has SuperNodes on Running The Numbers: Why Gnutella Can't Scale · · Score: 1
    Kazaa clients that can automatically decide to become SuperNodes, and this forms some sort of a heirarchical structure apparently.

    What is clear is that kazaa really works - I don't understand why it doesn't get more attention.

    If nothing else the ability to download the same file from multiple other people at the same time - meaning you don't trash THEIR bandwidth but you get to use all of YOUR bandwidth - is amazingly useful.

    Of course this thing also doesn't appear to be truly P2P - there is a server in there somewhere. Can't tell if that is related to the searching or merely to their attempts to make some $$$.

    R.

  2. Possible on LDAP, Netscape Messaging Server And Outlook 2000? · · Score: 1
    Sure this is possible.

    Go to Tool / Services / Add / Microsoft LDAP Directory. Set the properties. The key one is Search Base - depends upon your schema. The default is "c=us". But you might needs to change it, talk to your LDAP administrator

    I think this is case sensitive??

    R.

  3. "Two possible explanations." on Alien Life Found On Earth? · · Score: 3
    The Professor is quoted as saying "only two possible explanations. [...] organisms have been lifted from the earth to great heights in the skies and have somehow multiplied there and changed over time." The second, he said, is "that this is an example of primitive alien life."

    I fail to see what the first explanation is not the more reasonable!

    This is an old argment - they a whole web site: http://www.panspermia.org/

    R.

  4. Re:ahh, yes, the days of gopher on Bring Back Gopher Campaign · · Score: 1
    If we had a gopher server that delivered a markedup document, such as with HTML, so that we could click on links and go to other gopher pages.... Looks like we get reinvented the web.

    :-)

    The problem with returning simpler documents is that there is a great demand, from both pushers and users of information, for non-simple documents.

    Remember the web started of with very simple documents - which had tags in them that were supposed to have meaning. Who uses (h1) (/h1) any more to mean something about the content - rather than just "I want this in a big font".

    R.

  5. But it doesn't hyperlink on Bring Back Gopher Campaign · · Score: 3
    The Gopher Manifesto seems quite anti internal hyperlinking, but that seems to miss the point. I want to be able to hyperlink inside documents.

    If you go and read the Gopher Manifesto (whic is a text document) it contains many URLs which are probably very interesting, but I have to cut-and-paste them if I want to go to them!

    Sorry, but I'll put up with the mega sized HTML documents if it gives me the useful ability to move quickly between document by clicking a link!

  6. Re:Eh... on More About Copy Control on Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    You don't have to buy two DVD players for Canada and Hong Kong - just go into Fortress in Hong Kong (a big name chain store for electrical goods) and buy one that is banner labled "all zones". No problems.

  7. I wrote non compliant code on Y2K Bugs: The Year In Review? · · Score: 1
    years ago, and some of it was still being used. I know because people emailed me and asked me if I was going to fix it (answer - "no"; the product is too old and nobody is paying me to fix it).

    This being the case I really have a hard time understanding what happened - you mean we really found all the problems and fixed them?

    I saw companies doing mad panics in Nov 99 to get "fixed" code into production - this is for a company that was supposed to have all fixes done in 98 and 99 was to be a full year of testing.

    Perhaps it really means that the world is (or were) not as reliant on computer systems as we (the nerds) tend to think. So what if some computers stop working, most businesses continue.