If your car were an old beat-up rusted-out Pinto that didn't start, chances are pretty good that nobody would steal it. That's the case here. The RSAREF library is generally considered far inferior to the international libraries, and nobody in their right mind outside the US would consider using it, all legal issues aside.
The point was that China wouldn't be able to sneak things into the main kernel tree. They might have their own internal kernels, but if they wanted to distribute something, the source would have to be there.
Personally, I have two problems with Linux Mandrake:
Their packaging is confusing. I run a local Linux users' group, and I find a lot of newbies thinking that they've just bought "Red Hat Linux", when in fact they have Linux Mandrake.
Excessive optimisation. They brand themselves as a newbie-friendly distribution, but they tend to turn on a lot of optimisations that cause weird problems on anything but the very latest systems. It does not give the impression of stability.
What about people -- such as myself -- who have their own domain name? If I'm reading this correctly, it means that they would essentially be profiling me individually.
In Canada, we can import American encryption. However, just like when an American obtains it, we have to agree not to re-distribute it to somebody we're not supposed to. So routing it out of the States through Canada doesn't work:-).
On the other hand, encryption software written in Canada can be happily exported all over the world. (I believe OpenBSD is based out of Canada, for example.)
I'm also getting a DNS look up error on http://www.ipc.on.ca/, which was what the Wired article linked to. Anyone know if that's the right link?
[whois.cdnnet.ca] Subdomain: IPC.ON.CA Organization: Information and Privacy Commission Type: Independent Provincial Government Agency Description: An Ontario Government Commission on Information and Privacy, operating at arm's length from the Government. ...
Looks like the right place. Unfortunately, both their DNS's appear to be dead right now.
Almost perfect, just a Linux reference and it would have been there.
What do you call this:
"While your computer's crashin', mine's multitaskin'"
:-)
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Software Modems == Bad Thing. Period. I got out of the ISP tech support world just as these things were coming in, but hearing the name PC-Tel still causes me to wake up at night in a cold sweat:-).
Trust me: software modems are in absolutely no way worth the cost "savings".
Besides, these things will probably come with binary-only drivers or something similarly useless.:-/
One thing I do like about it is the ability to use multiple names per IP address. But this sort of kills the elegance of design of domains going from TLD, First level domain, and so on.
That's up to the administrator:-). You could also use this to host www.foo.domain.org, www.bar.domain.org, and www.baz.domain.org from the same physical machine.
I wonder what the speed difference is with the fact of concatenating packets into streams rather than placing 1 packet per 1 stream. I'd guess that for small servers it would be trivial but for large ones the change would be enormous.
By "packet", I think they're referring to individual files. If that's the case, then it may provide a noticeable improvements for people with higher-speed connections. It tends to be a lot faster to do one big transfer that can build up some speed than a bunch of little transfers, even for the same number of bytes.
When a browser makes an HTTP/1.1 request, it sends along a Host: header which specifies the domain name it wants. The server sees this and responds accordingly.
In the case you're describing, the header would say Host: 123.123.123.123. If the server adminsitrator had anticipated this and set up a virtual host for the hostname 123.123.123.123, that's what the user would see. Otherwise, I guess it's undefined. Apache just directs it to whichever virtual host is defined first in the configuration file.
But now among the headers that the browser sends in the request, you'll find one like:
Host: www.foo.com
That's what the web server uses to determine which virtual host to use. Apache has supported this for a long time; have a look at the NameVirtualHost directive.
If they could get a current DirectX running on this (without the GUI), wouldn't this make a nice fast low-overhead environment in which to run my games? (The only reason for Windows, after all.)
Believe it or not, that $50 is down from $100/mo a little while ago. I had ADSL back when you got a static IP for free; I dropped it shortly after they started doing NAT. And yes, Cable Regina will give you four IP's. They'll also give you 16 for an extra $100/mo or so.
I have heard rumours that SaskTel might be lowering their monthly charge to $49.95 soon though.
You obviously haven't had your cablemodem for long; a couple months ago, the performance in the evenings was horrid; it's only now starting to get better again. They're also starting to replace NT servers with Linux boxes, which is helping too:-).
We've had ADSL (and now also RADSL) up here in Regina, Sask., Canada for a few years now (we were one of the first in North America... or was it the first?). Reliability is great and downstream speed is good (1.5Mbit/s). It's all done by the phone company... almost.
The only catch is that you have to sign up through a separate dealer, who is responsible for coming out and doing the software setup, and whom you're supposed to call for support. Of course, they can't actually do anything about your problem; they just phone SaskTel for you.
Fortunately, this is changing. SaskTel's Internet help desk is now able to take calls on ADSL problems, and it may soon be possible to order it without going through them.
However, I'm using a cablemodem right now? Why? Because although SaskTel started out handing out static IP's, they now run everybody through NAT to give you a dynamic IP! Because your computer doesn't even know its own IP, it even makes it a nuisance trying to use one of the dyndns services. Fortunately, the local cable company seems to be improving service rapidly in the past month or so.
Funny, my copy of that Win2k beta has a licence that says that it isn't allowed to be used for benchmarking or performance testing. I wonder if these guys read their licence...
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If your car were an old beat-up rusted-out Pinto that didn't start, chances are pretty good that nobody would steal it. That's the case here. The RSAREF library is generally considered far inferior to the international libraries, and nobody in their right mind outside the US would consider using it, all legal issues aside.
If I'm not mistaken, the same law exists in Canada.
The point was that China wouldn't be able to sneak things into the main kernel tree. They might have their own internal kernels, but if they wanted to distribute something, the source would have to be there.
Can I use that to control my TV? :-)
Cookies attached to ads don't work if you block the ads at your firewall ;-).
Just out of curiosity, what exactly is the difference between putting tracking information in a cookie, and embedding it in the URL?
What about people -- such as myself -- who have their own domain name? If I'm reading this correctly, it means that they would essentially be profiling me individually.
No, in Canada we tell American jokes ;-).
The changelog is at ftp://ftp.apache.org/dist/CHANGES_1.3, for those of you too lazy to look for it.
That is what libwine does, basically. It implements the Windows API on UNIX.
In Canada, we can import American encryption. However, just like when an American obtains it, we have to agree not to re-distribute it to somebody we're not supposed to. So routing it out of the States through Canada doesn't work :-).
On the other hand, encryption software written in Canada can be happily exported all over the world. (I believe OpenBSD is based out of Canada, for example.)
Subdomain: IPC.ON.CA
Organization: Information and Privacy Commission
Type: Independent Provincial Government Agency
Description: An Ontario Government Commission on Information and Privacy,
operating at arm's length from the Government.
Looks like the right place. Unfortunately, both their DNS's appear to be dead right now.
"While your computer's crashin', mine's multitaskin'"
Trust me: software modems are in absolutely no way worth the cost "savings".
Besides, these things will probably come with binary-only drivers or something similarly useless. :-/
In the case you're describing, the header would say Host: 123.123.123.123. If the server adminsitrator had anticipated this and set up a virtual host for the hostname 123.123.123.123, that's what the user would see. Otherwise, I guess it's undefined. Apache just directs it to whichever virtual host is defined first in the configuration file.
GET /foo.html HTTP/1.1
But now among the headers that the browser sends in the request, you'll find one like:
Host: www.foo.com
That's what the web server uses to determine which virtual host to use. Apache has supported this for a long time; have a look at the NameVirtualHost directive.
If they could get a current DirectX running on this (without the GUI), wouldn't this make a nice fast low-overhead environment in which to run my games ? (The only reason for Windows, after all.)
Look at the bottom of the page. "©1999 Packard Bell NEC, Inc. All rights reserved." Packard Bell and NEC are one company now :-).
So NEC == PB.
I have heard rumours that SaskTel might be lowering their monthly charge to $49.95 soon though.
You obviously haven't had your cablemodem for long; a couple months ago, the performance in the evenings was horrid; it's only now starting to get better again. They're also starting to replace NT servers with Linux boxes, which is helping too :-).
We've had ADSL (and now also RADSL) up here in Regina, Sask., Canada for a few years now (we were one of the first in North America... or was it the first?). Reliability is great and downstream speed is good (1.5Mbit/s). It's all done by the phone company... almost.
The only catch is that you have to sign up through a separate dealer, who is responsible for coming out and doing the software setup, and whom you're supposed to call for support. Of course, they can't actually do anything about your problem; they just phone SaskTel for you.
Fortunately, this is changing. SaskTel's Internet help desk is now able to take calls on ADSL problems, and it may soon be possible to order it without going through them.
However, I'm using a cablemodem right now? Why? Because although SaskTel started out handing out static IP's, they now run everybody through NAT to give you a dynamic IP! Because your computer doesn't even know its own IP, it even makes it a nuisance trying to use one of the dyndns services. Fortunately, the local cable company seems to be improving service rapidly in the past month or so.
"Linux games" has dropped to 50%, and "Mac games" is already up to 44%!
I've seen ftp reporting 1.1e+3 kbytes/s on my 10Mbit Ethernet. Of course, there wasn't really any other traffic on the network at the time.
Funny, my copy of that Win2k beta has a licence that says that it isn't allowed to be used for benchmarking or performance testing. I wonder if these guys read their licence...