I msessed with ISODE back in the '92 time frame and it was some of the worst code I've ever seen. It started out as an X.400 mail/directory system and has grown.
I figure X.?00 was wrong in '92, why should it be right today?
So what happens when an "email marketing consultant" moves in next door and gets the/24 blocked for all eternity? Even the bloody baseball bats won't fix that problem.
This project got dumped because its small vs SUV and till the war starts, SUV's will keep wining the market share. Of course once the shooting starts, no one will be able to afford to drive a motorcycle let alone a SUV but thats not a problem for today.
How long was it between inital spoting of NY40 and the time it could be seen by a low cost telscope? If it was going to hit, there would have been nothing we could do and some of us wouldn't have a net connection right now. I've personaly been point out to bible thumpers that NY40 might have been a warning from god to prepair and like noah, we can preapir.
Life on earth can cope with two.25km wide asteroids much better than one.5km wide one. As the parts get smaller, it becomes a trivial problem. The earth gets hit every single day.
We don't know what Cisco's take on this will be. Offically they will object on some level but they may not see it as a threat as most of the people that would do this could also set up a linux or bsd router. Its one of those things like why MS didn't mind people using Office at home when word perfect ruled and how they changed their tune when they became the market leader.
If they don't like this, the flash cards will be very hard to find. If they think it will help bring people into the cisco fold, then the flash cards might get cheap.
I generally didn't have homework till about 6th grade. Sometimes there were things like science projects that had to be done at home but I had weeks to do them. After school I had other things at least twice a week from going to the local YMCA or boy scouts. I was in 5th grade in '76... It sounds like things have changed. Why is it that kids today still can't find most states on a map?
Just where is the bloat? Everyone I know with drivers bigger than 80 gig run kde. I was talking to a window user today that wants to know how to upgrade her 15 gig drive to a 30 gig drive.
If you can double the number of switches on a chip, you get to the point where you no longer need to communicate off the chip for some things and that can make massive increases in speed. Cache is a current example. Early microprocessors didn't have mulitplyers but as soon as they were added, there was an entire new set of problems that could be done because a slightly larger chip could do a mulitply 100 times faster than older chips.
Palm is getting sued for making their own color metric. Maybe the hard drive comapines' leagal departments will take note and readjust what they call a gigabyte.
The flash in my rio 300 wasn't good for a million writes. It was more like about 1000. Its 1st sector is broken so I have to take it apart and swap the chips around.
Hitting one of these things would cause an EMP that you could spot from a long way away since it is just like a spark gap transmitter. I wonder if discharge is directional enough to pick up a vector at distance. If you can detect the vector of the EMP, your air support might be able to target on that.
What it means is if some small company (say the size of SGI) decides to go after something in the Kernel, there is a the very good chance that something in IBM's vast library will allow for a defense.
The problem is what happens if a large company (say the size of AT&T or IBM) does the same thing. Then the developers will need to find prior art and some poor guy will end up in court for the better part of a year. If its a software patent, there will be prior art or enough to show that the invention won't meet the requrements of being patentable. If large compaines hit linux too hard and lose too much, then that negates the value of their patent pool. Its only useful if you can win most of your cases. If they lose three software patent cases in a row, some patent judge might just get a clue and decide software patents are a bad idea.
One way to attack the patent office would be for a huge patent to be filed. I'm not talking hundreds of claims but over a million. Get anything and everything thrown in and see what happens. If one could submit googles entire database as "reference material", then I think the patent office would have a real problem that it would be unable to cope with.
The current political situation appears to be fatting it up for the slaugherhouse. Right now it must serve three masters (the private stockholders that vote and have lost money so far, the investment banker type stock holders who know how to squeeze the profits and the goverment)
The goverments main interest (at least in public) is coverage for the rural areas. Telstra uses this as a wonderful ploy to keep prices high and to justify over priced service.
KDE and all of its Linux friends are getting quite obese.
What Linux needs is a good shared profiler. The idea is when a program runs, it opens the profiler file (that it may have created on the last run) and then allow for some way to send those profiles off to someplace like sourceforge where the developers can look at the call graph so they can figure out that 90% of the code never ever gets called.
It looks like if the cable it tapped, the other end will know about it. That is moreimportant t than encrypting the dataflow.
Years ago I looked at doing a type of computer generated hologram. It involved something like ray tracing backwards. So instead of 1024x768 pixels and figuring out where the light went, you had a 1024x768x10k and you had to backtrack the other way and add up all the wave interference. Looks to me like you could throw in one more axis for polarization to this system and you'd have it cracked in no time --assuming you do the all the calculation in no time:-) I would take a guess that it would only take about 6e25 vector calcs per bit change so about the same as 80 bit encryption per bit.
It only got about 1.3 million people which puts it a bit bigger than St Louis. Like all small Aussie towns its got no population and is spread over a huge area. Your saying 1.3 isn't small? Its got to be since Melbourne and Sydney are small towns and they only have 4 million people or so. Oh wait... only NYC and LA have more than 4 m people... That puts syd and melb as #4 and #5 as far as the worlds largest english speaking cities... I wonder if these are such small towns afterall.
Looks to me like someone threated to nail M$ for copyright (or whatever IP fonts happen to live under) and that caused MS to mail big time.
This wouldn't be the 1st time for this. The early versions of MS C verion 5.0 had exactly the same optimizer problems of GCC of the day. I think that MS went a bit far stealing a font and they got nailed by one of their favorite laws....
INN makes a much better database for message boards than MySQL ever will. Considering there are places where it deals with a few million posts a day, it leaves the slash code in the dust. Its also open source and has lower overhead that mysql.
But most people don't need the scalability. I've got one small transcation system that uses flat files for its database. It only does about 100,000 transactions per day. So far we can account for 100% of the transactions over the last 3 years and while there are things that we had to check several logs, all the data is there where we can get to. I used to work for a large banking company that used Oracle and the reliability of the flat files is higher than Oracles.
After the "duck and cover" sessions, the teachers would discuss why they were needed and how evil the Russians were. Another reason that was given was that the listen in on phone calls even though any exchange built at that time had the ability. Other reasons were given as well but at that age (4th grade) it was hard to tell if it was just the teachers ideas or some other program but most of the lectures were about the same topics. This was in Ft Lauderdale which was very close to the largest city closest to Cuba. The "duck and cover" sessions were much different than the Tornado drills which represented a very real danger in the midwest but there weren't any evil ruskies to blame for that.
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I msessed with ISODE back in the '92 time frame and it was some of the worst code I've ever seen. It started out as an X.400 mail/directory system and has grown.
I figure X.?00 was wrong in '92, why should it be right today?
So what happens when an "email marketing consultant" moves in next door and gets the /24 blocked for all eternity? Even the bloody baseball bats won't fix that problem.
This project got dumped because its small vs SUV and till the war starts, SUV's will keep wining the market share. Of course once the shooting starts, no one will be able to afford to drive a motorcycle let alone a SUV but thats not a problem for today.
How long was it between inital spoting of NY40 and the time it could be seen by a low cost telscope? If it was going to hit, there would have been nothing we could do and some of us wouldn't have a net connection right now. I've personaly been point out to bible thumpers that NY40 might have been a warning from god to prepair and like noah, we can preapir.
Life on earth can cope with two .25km wide asteroids much better than one .5km wide one. As the parts get smaller, it becomes a trivial problem. The earth gets hit every single day.
1) F=ma
2) ????
3) Profit!
whats the airbag going to push aginst?
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Its sad but I spent some time there till i figured out I could leave....
Just about anyone in Europe and most of US/Canada today can trace their family to someone that survided the plague.
We don't know what Cisco's take on this will be. Offically they will object on some level but they may not see it as a threat as most of the people that would do this could also set up a linux or bsd router. Its one of those things like why MS didn't mind people using Office at home when word perfect ruled and how they changed their tune when they became the market leader.
If they don't like this, the flash cards will be very hard to find. If they think it will help bring people into the cisco fold, then the flash cards might get cheap.
I generally didn't have homework till about 6th grade. Sometimes there were things like science projects that had to be done at home but I had weeks to do them. After school I had other things at least twice a week from going to the local YMCA or boy scouts. I was in 5th grade in '76... It sounds like things have changed. Why is it that kids today still can't find most states on a map?
Just where is the bloat? Everyone I know with drivers bigger than 80 gig run kde. I was talking to a window user today that wants to know how to upgrade her 15 gig drive to a 30 gig drive.
If you can double the number of switches on a chip, you get to the point where you no longer need to communicate off the chip for some things and that can make massive increases in speed. Cache is a current example. Early microprocessors didn't have mulitplyers but as soon as they were added, there was an entire new set of problems that could be done because a slightly larger chip could do a mulitply 100 times faster than older chips.
Palm is getting sued for making their own color metric. Maybe the hard drive comapines' leagal departments will take note and readjust what they call a gigabyte.
When you use GPRS downunder, the bill shows you which tower you connect to and how much data got transfered.
The flash in my rio 300 wasn't good for a million writes. It was more like about 1000. Its 1st sector is broken so I have to take it apart and swap the chips around.
Hitting one of these things would cause an EMP that you could spot from a long way away since it is just like a spark gap transmitter. I wonder if discharge is directional enough to pick up a vector at distance. If you can detect the vector of the EMP, your air support might be able to target on that.
What it means is if some small company (say the size of SGI) decides to go after something in the Kernel, there is a the very good chance that something in IBM's vast library will allow for a defense.
The problem is what happens if a large company (say the size of AT&T or IBM) does the same thing. Then the developers will need to find prior art and some poor guy will end up in court for the better part of a year. If its a software patent, there will be prior art or enough to show that the invention won't meet the requrements of being patentable. If large compaines hit linux too hard and lose too much, then that negates the value of their patent pool. Its only useful if you can win most of your cases. If they lose three software patent cases in a row, some patent judge might just get a clue and decide software patents are a bad idea.
One way to attack the patent office would be for a huge patent to be filed. I'm not talking hundreds of claims but over a million. Get anything and everything thrown in and see what happens. If one could submit googles entire database as "reference material", then I think the patent office would have a real problem that it would be unable to cope with.
Commenting on a posters' spelling when there is code in the slashcode that appears to enable a spellchecker=priceless?
Maybe there is a bug or its too big of a load on the box but there appears to be spell checking patches in there.
The current political situation appears to be fatting it up for the slaugherhouse. Right now it must serve three masters (the private stockholders that vote and have lost money so far, the investment banker type stock holders who know how to squeeze the profits and the goverment)
The goverments main interest (at least in public) is coverage for the rural areas. Telstra uses this as a wonderful ploy to keep prices high and to justify over priced service.
KDE and all of its Linux friends are getting quite obese.
What Linux needs is a good shared profiler. The idea is when a program runs, it opens the profiler file (that it may have created on the last run) and then allow for some way to send those profiles off to someplace like sourceforge where the developers can look at the call graph so they can figure out that 90% of the code never ever gets called.
It looks like if the cable it tapped, the other end will know about it. That is moreimportant t than encrypting the dataflow.
:-) I would take a guess that it would only take about 6e25 vector calcs per bit change so about the same as 80 bit encryption per bit.
Years ago I looked at doing a type of computer generated hologram. It involved something like ray tracing backwards. So instead of 1024x768 pixels and figuring out where the light went, you had a 1024x768x10k and you had to backtrack the other way and add up all the wave interference. Looks to me like you could throw in one more axis for polarization to this system and you'd have it cracked in no time --assuming you do the all the calculation in no time
It only got about 1.3 million people which puts it a bit bigger than St Louis. Like all small Aussie towns its got no population and is spread over a huge area. Your saying 1.3 isn't small? Its got to be since Melbourne and Sydney are small towns and they only have 4 million people or so. Oh wait... only NYC and LA have more than 4 m people... That puts syd and melb as #4 and #5 as far as the worlds largest english speaking cities... I wonder if these are such small towns afterall.
Looks to me like someone threated to nail M$ for copyright (or whatever IP fonts happen to live under) and that caused MS to mail big time.
This wouldn't be the 1st time for this. The early versions of MS C verion 5.0 had exactly the same optimizer problems of GCC of the day. I think that MS went a bit far stealing a font and they got nailed by one of their favorite laws....
INN makes a much better database for message boards than MySQL ever will. Considering there are places where it deals with a few million posts a day, it leaves the slash code in the dust. Its also open source and has lower overhead that mysql.
But most people don't need the scalability. I've got one small transcation system that uses flat files for its database. It only does about 100,000 transactions per day. So far we can account for 100% of the transactions over the last 3 years and while there are things that we had to check several logs, all the data is there where we can get to. I used to work for a large banking company that used Oracle and the reliability of the flat files is higher than Oracles.
After the "duck and cover" sessions, the teachers would discuss why they were needed and how evil the Russians were. Another reason that was given was that the listen in on phone calls even though any exchange built at that time had the ability. Other reasons were given as well but at that age (4th grade) it was hard to tell if it was just the teachers ideas or some other program but most of the lectures were about the same topics. This was in Ft Lauderdale which was very close to the largest city closest to Cuba. The "duck and cover" sessions were much different than the Tornado drills which represented a very real danger in the midwest but there weren't any evil ruskies to blame for that.