Having seen quite a few trading systems (not your average internet-daytrading stuff) you'd be unpleasantly surprised how many of those systems basically suck. Poor user-interfaces, poor logic (or undefined) and poor programming.
Xetra & Eurex have the best stuff (overall) but let's face it, their competition sucks.
Is Havencon still around ? Ryan L. had some bitter words about it a few years ago.
It was an interesting project from a geek perspective but... I'm not sure how possible such a project would actually be, given the many options for international pressure available these days.
IBM would sort of make sense here. IBM entered a joint venture with veritas (El Reg) to bundle Veritas Cluster & Storage Foundation with their kit, in some form anyway.
Veritas also has products that possibly could provide some of the missing pieces from IBMs linux solutions (VxFS, VxVM, Cluster...)
But Veritas & Symantec ? Doesn't make any sense to me at all.
Slashdot used to be a lot better. Five or six years ago you had your annoying trolls but also some bright sparks of insight.
These days slashdot is worse than a pack of mediocre newbies.
Hell, back then even newbies were smarter than the current newbies. It's like slashdot has become an eternal amateur hour with ignorant fools getting moderated to +5 insightful by honest-to-God-reaaaallly-stupid-moderators.
I think dictionary attacks are a myth or targeted against big organizations. I run a relatively small mail system (50 users) and I've never seen a dictionary attack in action.
I get plenty of spam though, around 50/day and osirusoft + ordb block around 150-200/day.
Any experiences with dictionary attacks from people running bigger systems ?
I just got rid of my x86 Solaris 8 workstation setup. I actually used it more than a year, almost continuous uptime.
Solid as a rock but disk speeds were unimpressive, at least on my IDE setup. Went to NetBSD for the desktop and I'll stick with Solaris on servers (sparc).
That was fun, all Abit. The caps develop a bulge on top and after a while they leak the stuff out. Spontaneous reboots, blue screens and all sorts of fun.
I don't want to wade through 1500 pages of crap if the text can be condensed into 50 pages. I always got pissed of at those certain linux-books that had 100 pages of introductory material written by the author and 1400 pages of reprinted HOW-TOs and man-pages. That just plain sucks.
K&R book was OK. Anything beyond 500 pages is way too much, unless you're aiming at "The World Explained for Really Dumb People: From Physics to Philosophy"
I like Mr. Supniks emulators a lot. Even though they lack visually to a real PDP-11 or a VAX I like to use the simulators instead of the real hardware. Call me a heretic but I'd rather save on my electricity bill and I do take my older systems out on a test drive once in a while.
OTOH, I'd love to get a real HP 2100 instead of an emulator:)
Oh yeah, you can boot NetBSD on the VAX simulator, dmesg here..
Bill Hoskins, who is currently in charge of protecting the intellectual property produced at U.C. Berkeley, thinks it must have been a mistake. "Whoever released the code for the Internet probably didn't understand what they were doing," he says.
Which is pretty interesting considering that there wouldn't be the internet without UCB and their fine TCP/IP stack (+sockets). At least not as we know it.
I've seen some pretty idiotic statements before but this is.sig-material! The whole statement just boggles the mind..
Yep, fvwm is probably the fastest and smallest (empirical test only) but I'm masochistically fond of mwm. Last time I used fvwm was in 1996.
Besides, I don't really like these new eyecandy WMs. Too much crap on the screen and I normally want to run programs instead of window managers and screen savers.
Oh and my home machine is still only a dual-headed mono workstation..
I've been using twm on and off for years just because it's a lightweight wm. Say what you want about Blackbox and icewm but when you need to run X on a 486 with 8MB memory you'll want one of these: twm, olwm or mwm.
My current flavor of the month is mwm + bits from xfce as I'm trying to get something as lightweight as VUE:)
Normally porting any code to a different platform helps getting rid of platform specific bugs. This time it's "just" a different OS but it still helps Plex86 and NetBSD.
And I want to test running NetBSD-1.5 inside Plex86 running on NetBSD-1.5:)
Anyway, I recently tested an old crappy pentium with Voodoo 1 w/ NetBSD 1.4.2 coupled with GLIDE via Linux emulation. Worked fine with Quake 1 (fullscreen 3D). I hear that with Quake3 you can do GLX-stuff, but I'd be crazy to try with my setup.
I guess it would be possible to hack the GLIDE sources to compile natively but I really can't justify the effort.
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Having seen quite a few trading systems (not your average internet-daytrading stuff) you'd be unpleasantly surprised how many of those systems basically suck. Poor user-interfaces, poor logic (or undefined) and poor programming.
Xetra & Eurex have the best stuff (overall) but let's face it, their competition sucks.
Is Havencon still around ? Ryan L. had some bitter words about it a few years ago.
It was an interesting project from a geek perspective but... I'm not sure how possible such a project would actually be, given the many options for international pressure available these days.
IBM would sort of make sense here. IBM entered a joint venture with veritas (El Reg) to bundle Veritas Cluster & Storage Foundation with their kit, in some form anyway.
...)
Veritas also has products that possibly could provide some of the missing pieces from IBMs linux solutions (VxFS, VxVM, Cluster
But Veritas & Symantec ? Doesn't make any sense to me at all.
You should try the Tek4014 emulation in xterm.
It's so cool. I think gnuplot still supports old Tektronix terminals.
Slashdot used to be a lot better. Five or six years ago you had your annoying trolls but also some bright sparks of insight.
These days slashdot is worse than a pack of mediocre newbies.
Hell, back then even newbies were smarter than the current newbies. It's like slashdot has become an eternal amateur hour with ignorant fools getting moderated to +5 insightful by honest-to-God-reaaaallly-stupid-moderators.
I give up.
All UNIX and Linux distros should have cleartext protocols disabled by default.
I still use telnet, ftp and even rsh as well and I don't feel insecure about it. Transport-mode IPSec between hosts really helps a lot here...
The "moronic passwords"-issue comes mainly from pop3 and different web-sessions these days. What the world really needs is opportunistic IPSec.
This way, they would still get royalties from commercial vendors (which they should) without hurting open source.
Sorry, but that's a Bad Idea.. For example who says commercial vendors wouldn't be selling open source software ?.
Nope, the US patent system is complex enough already and it will not become better by adding more clauses.
I think dictionary attacks are a myth or targeted against big organizations. I run a relatively small mail system (50 users) and I've never seen a dictionary attack in action.
I get plenty of spam though, around 50/day and osirusoft + ordb block around 150-200/day.
Any experiences with dictionary attacks from people running bigger systems ?
I just got rid of my x86 Solaris 8 workstation setup. I actually used it more than a year, almost continuous uptime.
Solid as a rock but disk speeds were unimpressive, at least on my IDE setup. Went to NetBSD for the desktop and I'll stick with Solaris on servers (sparc).
Granted, x86 Solaris is great for practice.
That was fun, all Abit. The caps develop a bulge
:-)
on top and after a while they leak the stuff out.
Spontaneous reboots, blue screens and all sorts of fun.
I'm just glad it wasn't me doing the replacing
If I'm going to start replacing the cable during a hot solo (screaming chicks, crowd going wild) and the stupid plastic clip on the RJ-45 breaks off.
OTOH, the only time I've ever seen screaming chicks is when they run away.
I don't want to wade through 1500 pages of crap if the text can be condensed into 50 pages. I always got pissed of at those certain linux-books that had 100 pages of introductory material written by the author and 1400 pages of reprinted HOW-TOs and man-pages. That just plain sucks.
K&R book was OK. Anything beyond 500 pages is way too much, unless you're aiming at "The World Explained for Really Dumb People: From Physics to Philosophy"
Yeah, who needs water when we've found ALCOHOL IN SPACE.
I like Mr. Supniks emulators a lot. Even though
:)
they lack visually to a real PDP-11 or a VAX
I like to use the simulators instead of the
real hardware. Call me a heretic but I'd rather
save on my electricity bill and I do take my
older systems out on a test drive once in a while.
OTOH, I'd love to get a real HP 2100 instead of an emulator
Oh yeah, you can boot NetBSD on the VAX simulator, dmesg
here..
Bill Hoskins, who is currently in charge of protecting the intellectual property produced at U.C. Berkeley, thinks it must have been a mistake. "Whoever released the code for the Internet probably didn't understand what they were doing," he says.
.sig-material! The whole statement just boggles the mind..
Which is pretty interesting considering that there wouldn't be the internet without UCB and their fine TCP/IP stack (+sockets). At least not as we know it.
I've seen some pretty idiotic statements before but this is
And englishmen shouldn't take this personally but only they can come up with sarcasm as "A chance to try out some of the local cuisine"
Or was that a warning ?
Yep, fvwm is probably the fastest and smallest (empirical test only) but I'm masochistically fond of mwm. Last time I used fvwm was in 1996.
Besides, I don't really like these new eyecandy WMs. Too much crap on the screen and I normally want to run programs instead of window managers and screen savers.
Oh and my home machine is still only a dual-headed mono workstation..
I've been using twm on and off for years just because it's a lightweight wm. Say what you want about Blackbox and icewm but when you need to run X on a 486 with 8MB memory you'll want one of these: twm, olwm or mwm.
My current flavor of the month is mwm + bits from xfce as I'm trying to get something as lightweight as VUE:)
If I'm right the Motorola 68040 used an oscillator or crystal that ran on twice the CPU speed ie. 33MHz proc had a 66MHz crystal.
I'm too lazy to check the facts from the Motorola website, but that's how it's done on (at least) HP 9000/380 machines.
Normally porting any code to a different platform helps getting rid of platform specific bugs. This time it's "just" a different OS but it still helps Plex86 and NetBSD.
And I want to test running NetBSD-1.5 inside Plex86 running on NetBSD-1.5:)
This is muchos cool!
You wouldn't happen to have any waste capital lying around would you ?
"Son, you must have an idea and VISION . Get those and we (anonymous coward financing inc.) will make you bathe in corporate capital"
Seriously folks, if you want an idea here's one for free:
SEX
Jesus H. Christ!!
I had to check the argusrevolution site out, and boy did I run away screaming. I'm really not sure who the target audience is (for the site anyway).
The site seemed to be designed for the im-so-cool-im-@-h@x04-fux0r-@11 people. So, the old boring me decides to try lynx. It definetely looked better.
Oh well, the weekend is coming so maybe I'll try it when I'm wasted properly.
I see no sign of WorldWideWeb.app by Tim Berners-Lee. The ultimate web-surfing experience, the whole story available here. It's really fun to use btw.
Anyway, the server was slashdotted so I can't comment on the ones the had..
Amoeba is freely available with an Xfree86-style license. It looks like a very nice system and you can read more from the source
I have absolutely no idea.
Anyway, I recently tested an old crappy pentium with Voodoo 1 w/ NetBSD 1.4.2 coupled with GLIDE via Linux emulation. Worked fine with Quake 1 (fullscreen 3D). I hear that with Quake3 you can do GLX-stuff, but I'd be crazy to try with my setup.
I guess it would be possible to hack the GLIDE sources to compile natively but I really can't justify the effort.