I need something that works and won't be a time sink. I do technical stuff and the technical staff tend to get very distracted fixing the windows problem of the week. I want to be able to pick something the works today and will work in a decade without buying a bunch of new workstations every few years.
Do you want someone wasting their time remembering what is being stored in what register No, but I want them to have a good idea of what is likely to be stored in registers and I also want them to have a good idea of what is going on behind the higher level statements. All it takes is a quick search of c++ constructors to show that most modern programmers don't seem to understand what the cpu has to go through to get their code done.
I'm glad this book as come out. Maybe now people can start learning to program in assembly as their 1st language again and we can cut down on much of the stupidity that makes the IT field look like its run by a bunch of morons.
SPF only will help stop From: forgeries from existing domains. It will force spamers to register more domain names. Heck, it might even help bring back the domain name squaters business. I think the current propsal has some scaleability issues and doesn't make use of exising tools that are part of the existing DNS system. It also fails to stop the fact that bob@example.com can forge email from joe@example.com.
Spamers can buy certs too. If verisign will sell a spamer 100 domains, why won't they sell them 100 mail certs too? Why do people keep wanting to repeat the mistakes of X.400 email?
My ISP doesn't like SCO either...
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A few seconds ago my upstream (NTT/Verio/DavNet) sent me this:
In order to prevent any disruption to your service caused by the illegal traffic generated by this worm, we have filtered access to the site www.sco.com. You will therefore not be able to access this website. The DNS entries have also been removed by the owner of the site.
I wonder if they will remember to turn it back on after the 12th or if they will simply BOFH it and forget about it.
Is Microsoft tring to head off the Google IPO at the pass? It appears to me that MS might be worried that some heavy institutional investors my decided to drop some of the MSFT in favor of Google stock and if that happens on one day, it could cut billions off the market cap of MS which could then cause a number of smaller investors to drop their shares too.
Almost... The 1st cell phones (analog bag phones) were sold in both the US and Europe at about the same time. Motorola had about 100% market share at that time. The 800/900 Mhz spectrum was split between Civil and Military and North America got one way and Nato Europe got the other. The idea was if the US military had to move into europe again, it would only stomp on the Europe Civil frequencies, not the local troops.
As far as the GSM vs CDMA issues... GSM has a hard limit of 25km (50k with some hacked gear in Oz), and that means if your 25.001km away from the tower it will not work even if you get a good signal. This is because one of the key parts of getting a phone system approved in Europe is the ability to put a tower up next to another countries border but still not provide service in that other country.
GSM suits higher density areas better than CDMA but CMDA works much better at medium density (like anyware outside of a city) and the old analog system works best is low density areas (like US Midwest, 95% of Australia, Alaska, most of Africia). GSM has a number of issues in very high density areas but NipponTT's docomo works best in the ultra high density areas. No one solution will work best everwhere.
What the GSM people did mess up is they assumed their system was universally the best choice and wouldn't license the sim technology for AMPS and CDMA phones. Had that happened, you could use your sim (which holds your phone number) in any phone which would come in handy if you have to drive from a city to a rural area where you need two different phone technologies.
If you think the blocky pixels are fun, you see what the Aussie TV stations do for international sports when they send the fotage back via phone lines. It appears that their image compressors are most likly built for the US market so there are both PAL->NTSC->PAL color issues and 50Hz->60Hz->50Hz frame issues as well. The result is an a athlete lurching and jerking across a field and not that smooth motion typical of world class athletes.
Somehow the local analog cable TV is also doing some sort of pixelizing as well. In a recent B5 tv show the shadow ships moved as gracefully as student driver the 1st time they had to deal with a manual transmission.
Thats why when they want to extend the copyright, I ask my congresscritters to extended it much more than Disney is asking. If more is good, then lots more must be very good right?
Opps, that $50 per month for a megabit per second. It doesn't include the link level (i.e. T3 circut)
The 95% percentile tends to be used for non full links and tends to be at higher rates. The $50/mbit price is more along the line of a full T3 will be 45 megabits so $2250per month.
Its 70megabits to everyone on the same access point, not just to one subscriber. Its sort of like how a cable modem headend can cope with a hundred megabytes but the subscriber can only get 1.5meg.
70mb with 20:1 oversubscription will be good for about 500 customers in about 5 years in the US or other well connected areas.
Have you looked into how the constant IR light used by the cameras so they can see in the dark may affect your kid? The damn things hurt my eyes and there is no way I would point them at someone 24x7.
The correct time to kill a message is when you know who is sending it. That means at the SMTP level. I've got a nice patch for sendmail that even kills messaeg before they are fully sent over the wire buts its not exactly RFC friendly.
They also know that the only people reading the bounces are clueless so they hope to help keep their name in front of as many pointy haired clueless bosses. That gets them more site licenses.
It works. There is no way its going to stop now.
Anti-virus compaines need new viruses to come out that aren't caught because its good for repeat business. If their filters caught this current mess right away, the PHB wouldn't know the software was doing its job.
I've been blocking MS.exe files in mail for a long time. It works great and catches most of the new stuff. Now I'm blocking.exe files inside ziped files and that will stay until someone can convince me that its a bad idea. right now I can't understand why someone would be sending a ziped.exe to any of the users of my mail server when there are better ways to transfer that sort of thing.
Upstream serivce is about $50 per megabyte in the US right now if you buy at least 10mbit/sec. As long as less than one out of 20 users are doing that, then it should be profitable and if your doing 20:1 to 40:1 oversubscription like most ADSL providers, theres going to be plenty of money in it.
Webster was one of the 1st to decide to tell people that there is a proper way to spell words. He was pushing his work in the late 1770's and a hundred years later Mark Twain was complainging about the current trend by news papers to spell things correctly. That was also the time when the Oxford english dictionary was started.
Both have many odd spellings that weren't common at the time but were considered more correct by the authors. I'm still not sure how OED came up with cololUr when their inital goal was to record words from middle english on. The most common spelling of color in older documents is without the U. Its even one of the few words that Shakesphere never spelled any other ways.
I suspect the oldest surviving tech manual will be from Egypt. They were quite good at writing down lots of stuff however tech stuff didn't seem to rate very high but with hundreds of thousands of documents that still survie, I'm sure at least one is a tech manual of sorts.
Maybe its time to hit home. Anyone write a letter to the Calf Bar Association?
Dear Sirs, I'm concerneed that one of your members is breaking the law and I feel that you should investigate it. It would seem that one Frank Weyer has both lied on a patent application and then now cliams in court that he invented something that was in common use when he claimed to have invented it. As a patent atty, he has an obligation to do a proper search. Anyone that was even remotely assocatated with the Internet at the time of the alleged invention could have found prior art in about 5 minutes. I feel that Mr Weyer is either an idiot pushing the bounds of studpidity or is using the courts to extort money from other people. Either way he shouldn't be a member of your orginzation.
Pattent attys have mangaged are part of the problem of the current patent office mess. If they are optional in the system as opposed to required, then the patent office would have to change its ways and maybe hitting the largest bar association in the world might be a good start. That is unless people like the current system.
The real killer app for this stuff will be aftermarket car accessories. Just think of the cheesy things you could do with a 5" (200mm) wide roll of this stuff and a decked out old car with the a super spoiler and the 6" exhaust.
A computer with a bullet hole is a paper weight, but a map with a bullet hole is still a map. No a computer with a bullet in it that has been left behind is a potential assest for the other sides intelligence so its worse than a paperweight.
All it will do is stop spamers from using someone elses domain. The way spamers will get around this is to buy more domains. It will also break a large number of power users who are on dodgey ISPs.
While this proposal may help slow down joe-jobs, its not doing to do much for the amount of spam hitting servers.
I don't see it as an anti-spam system, I see it as an anti-forgeing system.
Billy knows that charities are big business. His parents were both high up in United Way and other charities before they got their own gigs with the Gates loot. If you think the sr mgmt of most fortune 500 businesses are over paid, check out what upper managment in the red cross or united way take home every year. It might make you rethink your donations.
Gates got many of his inital contacts into large compaines through his parents while they were smoozing with the big wigs for united way.
This is the reason your fortune 500 company needs 100% participation with the employees donating. If they get 100%, the top brass will get invited to several parties where they can meet other top brass. Those meetings tend to turn out bad for employees and stock holders but turn out very good for the people who get to go to the parties.
Billy knows how to use the closed circles to make even more money. His charity to date is just a cost of doing business that keeps his parents happy.
Also look at how much of those billions Billy is giving away stay in his checkbook until he is dead. Can anyone name one charity that got money directly from a Gates family fund that has publicly said they don't do windows?
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About the only thing that bothers Aussie money is beer which has a bad habit of weakening it so it tears.
I need something that works and won't be a time sink. I do technical stuff and the technical staff tend to get very distracted fixing the windows problem of the week. I want to be able to pick something the works today and will work in a decade without buying a bunch of new workstations every few years.
Do you want someone wasting their time remembering what is being stored in what register
No, but I want them to have a good idea of what is likely to be stored in registers and I also want them to have a good idea of what is going on behind the higher level statements. All it takes is a quick search of c++ constructors to show that most modern programmers don't seem to understand what the cpu has to go through to get their code done.
I'm glad this book as come out. Maybe now people can start learning to program in assembly as their 1st language again and we can cut down on much of the stupidity that makes the IT field look like its run by a bunch of morons.
Theres a nice bit about why the two fonts should be rendered slightly differently in Knuth's book called Metafont.
SPF only will help stop From: forgeries from existing domains. It will force spamers to register more domain names. Heck, it might even help bring back the domain name squaters business. I think the current propsal has some scaleability issues and doesn't make use of exising tools that are part of the existing DNS system. It also fails to stop the fact that bob@example.com can forge email from joe@example.com.
The sadest part of your list is that it doesn't have:
( ) I think you might have something here.
Spamers can buy certs too. If verisign will sell a spamer 100 domains, why won't they sell them 100 mail certs too? Why do people keep wanting to repeat the mistakes of X.400 email?
A few seconds ago my upstream (NTT/Verio/DavNet) sent me this:
In order to prevent any disruption to your service caused by the illegal traffic generated by this worm, we have filtered access to the site www.sco.com. You will therefore not be able to access this website. The DNS entries have also been removed by the owner of the site.
I wonder if they will remember to turn it back on after the 12th or if they will simply BOFH it and forget about it.
Is Microsoft tring to head off the Google IPO at the pass? It appears to me that MS might be worried that some heavy institutional investors my decided to drop some of the MSFT in favor of Google stock and if that happens on one day, it could cut billions off the market cap of MS which could then cause a number of smaller investors to drop their shares too.
Almost...
The 1st cell phones (analog bag phones) were sold in both the US and Europe at about the same time. Motorola had about 100% market share at that time. The 800/900 Mhz spectrum was split between Civil and Military and North America got one way and Nato Europe got the other. The idea was if the US military had to move into europe again, it would only stomp on the Europe Civil frequencies, not the local troops.
As far as the GSM vs CDMA issues...
GSM has a hard limit of 25km (50k with some hacked gear in Oz), and that means if your 25.001km away from the tower it will not work even if you get a good signal. This is because one of the key parts of getting a phone system approved in Europe is the ability to put a tower up next to another countries border but still not provide service in that other country.
GSM suits higher density areas better than CDMA but CMDA works much better at medium density (like anyware outside of a city) and the old analog system works best is low density areas (like US Midwest, 95% of Australia, Alaska, most of Africia). GSM has a number of issues in very high density areas but NipponTT's docomo works best in the ultra high density areas. No one solution will work best everwhere.
What the GSM people did mess up is they assumed their system was universally the best choice and wouldn't license the sim technology for AMPS and CDMA phones. Had that happened, you could use your sim (which holds your phone number) in any phone which would come in handy if you have to drive from a city to a rural area where you need two different phone technologies.
If you think the blocky pixels are fun, you see what the Aussie TV stations do for international sports when they send the fotage back via phone lines. It appears that their image compressors are most likly built for the US market so there are both PAL->NTSC->PAL color issues and 50Hz->60Hz->50Hz frame issues as well. The result is an a athlete lurching and jerking across a field and not that smooth motion typical of world class athletes.
Somehow the local analog cable TV is also doing some sort of pixelizing as well. In a recent B5 tv show the shadow ships moved as gracefully as student driver the 1st time they had to deal with a manual transmission.
Thats why when they want to extend the copyright, I ask my congresscritters to extended it much more than Disney is asking. If more is good, then lots more must be very good right?
Opps, that $50 per month for a megabit per second. It doesn't include the link level (i.e. T3 circut)
The 95% percentile tends to be used for non full links and tends to be at higher rates. The $50/mbit price is more along the line of a full T3 will be 45 megabits so $2250per month.
Its 70megabits to everyone on the same access point, not just to one subscriber. Its sort of like how a cable modem headend can cope with a hundred megabytes but the subscriber can only get 1.5meg.
70mb with 20:1 oversubscription will be good for about 500 customers in about 5 years in the US or other well connected areas.
Have you looked into how the constant IR light used by the cameras so they can see in the dark may affect your kid? The damn things hurt my eyes and there is no way I would point them at someone 24x7.
The correct time to kill a message is when you know who is sending it. That means at the SMTP level. I've got a nice patch for sendmail that even kills messaeg before they are fully sent over the wire buts its not exactly RFC friendly.
They also know that the only people reading the bounces are clueless so they hope to help keep their name in front of as many pointy haired clueless bosses. That gets them more site licenses.
.exe files in mail for a long time. It works great and catches most of the new stuff. Now I'm blocking .exe files inside ziped files and that will stay until someone can convince me that its a bad idea. right now I can't understand why someone would be sending a ziped .exe to any of the users of my mail server when there are better ways to transfer that sort of thing.
It works. There is no way its going to stop now.
Anti-virus compaines need new viruses to come out that aren't caught because its good for repeat business. If their filters caught this current mess right away, the PHB wouldn't know the software was doing its job.
I've been blocking MS
Upstream serivce is about $50 per megabyte in the US right now if you buy at least 10mbit/sec. As long as less than one out of 20 users are doing that, then it should be profitable and if your doing 20:1 to 40:1 oversubscription like most ADSL providers, theres going to be plenty of money in it.
Webster was one of the 1st to decide to tell people that there is a proper way to spell words. He was pushing his work in the late 1770's and a hundred years later Mark Twain was complainging about the current trend by news papers to spell things correctly. That was also the time when the Oxford english dictionary was started.
Both have many odd spellings that weren't common at the time but were considered more correct by the authors. I'm still not sure how OED came up with cololUr when their inital goal was to record words from middle english on. The most common spelling of color in older documents is without the U. Its even one of the few words that Shakesphere never spelled any other ways.
I suspect the oldest surviving tech manual will be from Egypt. They were quite good at writing down lots of stuff however tech stuff didn't seem to rate very high but with hundreds of thousands of documents that still survie, I'm sure at least one is a tech manual of sorts.
Maybe its time to hit home.
Anyone write a letter to the Calf Bar Association?
Dear Sirs,
I'm concerneed that one of your members is breaking the law and I feel that you should investigate it. It would seem that one Frank Weyer has both lied on a patent application and then now cliams in court that he invented something that was in common use when he claimed to have invented it. As a patent atty, he has an obligation to do a proper search. Anyone that was even remotely assocatated with the Internet at the time of the alleged invention could have found prior art in about 5 minutes. I feel that Mr Weyer is either an idiot pushing the bounds of studpidity or is using the courts to extort money from other people. Either way he shouldn't be a member of your orginzation.
Pattent attys have mangaged are part of the problem of the current patent office mess. If they are optional in the system as opposed to required, then the patent office would have to change its ways and maybe hitting the largest bar association in the world might be a good start. That is unless people like the current system.
The real killer app for this stuff will be aftermarket car accessories. Just think of the cheesy things you could do with a 5" (200mm) wide roll of this stuff and a decked out old car with the a super spoiler and the 6" exhaust.
A computer with a bullet hole is a paper weight, but a map with a bullet hole is still a map.
No a computer with a bullet in it that has been left behind is a potential assest for the other sides intelligence so its worse than a paperweight.
All it will do is stop spamers from using someone elses domain. The way spamers will get around this is to buy more domains. It will also break a large number of power users who are on dodgey ISPs.
While this proposal may help slow down joe-jobs, its not doing to do much for the amount of spam hitting servers.
I don't see it as an anti-spam system, I see it as an anti-forgeing system.
Billy knows that charities are big business. His parents were both high up in United Way and other charities before they got their own gigs with the Gates loot. If you think the sr mgmt of most fortune 500 businesses are over paid, check out what upper managment in the red cross or united way take home every year. It might make you rethink your donations.
Gates got many of his inital contacts into large compaines through his parents while they were smoozing with the big wigs for united way.
This is the reason your fortune 500 company needs 100% participation with the employees donating. If they get 100%, the top brass will get invited to several parties where they can meet other top brass. Those meetings tend to turn out bad for employees and stock holders but turn out very good for the people who get to go to the parties.
Billy knows how to use the closed circles to make even more money. His charity to date is just a cost of doing business that keeps his parents happy.
Also look at how much of those billions Billy is giving away stay in his checkbook until he is dead. Can anyone name one charity that got money directly from a Gates family fund that has publicly said they don't do windows?