The extremely high-resolution threading of the operating system made even the simplest programming tasks near impossible, as mutex locks and thread conditionals needed to be spread throughout the code to ensure proper execution.
Right on! I ran BeOs under VmWare to try developing for it, and the pthreads compatibility was... well let's just be polite and say "extremely non-optimal". The spin locks in the kernel were so tightly placed that any possible race condition you could think of would occur if you didn't mutex lock the hell out of it, and the littany of devices you had to lock to access memory was just unbelievable. I pretty much had to read through the video driver code to get anything done as the documentation got as far as "Hello World" before wishing you luck.
Anyway, DeMuDi looks to be a step in the right direction - maybe if a Linux distro starts shipping with 2 kernels, a standard kernel and a multi-media enhanced kernel, we'll finally have a workable solution.
This product never ceased to amaze me. PGP 7.1 included, among other things:
- an encrypted IPSEC/IKE compliant VPN
- encrypted hard drive software (public key or shared secret encryption)
- Encrypted Email with multiple mail client integration
- Myriad windows hooks, like "encrypt clipboard"
- A secure file and hard drive wiper
- A full-blown INTRUSION DETECTION SYSTEM with email alert that would attach itself below the NDIS level.
...all for $30. I'm not a big fan of buying software, but I bought this religously because it was a steal, just for the IDS. I always wondered how they could afford to put so much top-notch development into such a cheap product (I never found a serious bug, and I've worked it over hard. That's a rare thing to be able to say about a windows networking application).
The answer appears to be that they were dumping serious development funds into this product and got were expecting massive sales. If you asked me to point a finger at the cause of death, I'd say they were overambitious. Too many developers building too much functionality made it far too expensive. All anyone ever really wanted was encrypted email. And perhaps if that's all they developed, supply would have matched demand.
Oracle wants a national ID card powered by Oracle. Sun wants a national ID card powered by Java.
..and since the government does everything by committee, we'll get a national ID card powered by Java running Oracle. Of course, getting that much software to run on something the size of an I.D. card should keep these two companies busy for at least ten years, meanwhile we'll have bought some time to do something useful, like wipe out terrorism or elect new leaders.
Java & Oracle on a chip, indeed. That's like Microsoft saying that they're going to get into television or something!
If it's an evil plot, rest assured it isn't a corporate one. The FCC's requirements for E911 service are putting a whole lot of pressure on the cell providers, who face stiff fines and executive action if they can't use their phones to track you by 2005. If you think that the FCC is overstepping it's bounds with this one (I personally thing a regulated spectrum is an overstepped boundary, but that's just me) you know what to do.
Hmm, and same Timothy posted this article [slashdot.org] on June 25th about a lot of fiberoptic cables that have been put into the ground but haven't been put to work.
You gotta love the consistency of Slashdot posts:)
Dark fiber is fiber with no optical equipment connected to it. Fiber is not the expensive part of optical networking. Air-conditioned environment-controlled closet space filled with millions of dollars of self-healing optical equipment is the expensive part. A lot of metro optical carriers use the benchmark of $100,000 per month per 7 foot rack in operating costs. The denser the equipment, the cheaper the equipment, the more of that dark fiber the carriers can light to form the backbone of the Internet.
So, in short, Slashdot was right and you were totally wrong. Or Insightful. Your choice.
All too often a clueless construction worker rips up a section of fiber and causes some havok.
The industry euphimism for this phenomenon is a "backhoe failure". Metro fiberoptics are all deployed in a "ring" configuration - if a ring is cut, the traffic is sent the other direction on the ring withing 50 milliseconds. The operative protocol here is called SONET. SONET rings have been around for a long time, and they pretty much solve the issue of backhoe failures. Some vendors are pushing proprietary mesh-based architectures which offer even more redundancy.
The issue you bring up, however, does exist on one-way long-haul fiberoptic lines. Major carriers spend millions on 24 hour overflights by patrol helicopters to monitor these fibers for cuts - and some of the largest players in the telco field are oil suppliers because they already patrol their oil pipelines for just this kind of event; burying fiber next to the pipeline is cheap by comparison.
The massive transmission capabilities introduced by advances in fiberoptics DO give us more ability to heal networks, because they give us additional load-bearing capability during failure. The missing piece is actually building equipment which will heal the network effectively, in time. If you're truly interested in ongoing research in this area, open up google and ask it about "GMPLS".
This is going to help the industry alot. Right now there is pleanty of unused fiber, but the problem is the devices that use the fiber take too much room. if we build them smaller and faster we can increase capacity easily.
The other thing that would help the industry would be to stop going bankrupt. Most to all of the CLECs (PS/Inet anyone?) are bankrupt and insolvent, and the major carriers - WorldCom, Verizon, Global Crossing - have horrible credit ratings and a total freeze on capital equipment purchasing. Right now no one is buying next generation optical equipment. Look at Nortel stock... if you bought $1000 of Nortel stock last year, you'd have $43 today. I won't even mention Lucent. Those are the big boys - the small ones (cough Iron Bridge cough) are all dead or dying.
Optical equipment vendors have no customers. Optical equipment manufacturers are slashing R&D and personnel, and relying on existing revenue streams for survival.
Optical network carriers are nearly bankrupt.
...and NO ONE is paying for premium bandwidth.
So pretty much, this isn't gonna help anybody. The next advance in optical networking isn't going to be the next next-generation fiberoptic breakthrough. It's going to be a solvent carrier, or a paying customer for broadband.
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So how long until one of the slashdot trolls starts posting a GPS drawing of that goatse guy? .
Shouldn't be hard. Just drive a truck around one of those holes in Afghanistan...
The attempt to rank vendors according to their security success rate is a risky business. The aim of most virus writers is usually for their worm to achieve its biggest impact, and so will target platforms that are widely used. "Microsoft is targetted as it is so popular, rather than the system being the least secure," said Cluley.
You have to love how they pull the "everyone is jealous so they pick on us" stuff everytime they screw up. Suprise, shitstreak, Microsoft does not make the world's most popular Web server. That's Apache. "Hackers", as you call these jerks, do not target Microsoft because they're the most popular. They target Microsoft because Microsoft has made itself an easy target by making it really easy to hack their products. If popularity made you a target, we'd see scores of Apache worms.
'We're consolidating all of our offering behind Intel, which was the biggest part of our mix already.'
So, because consumer spending is down, Gateway is discontinuing its' discount line of computers. Because consumers want to buy more expensive computers when the economy is in trouble.
I must be missing something.
While the price war has left scars on each company, AMD's wounds have been more severe than its larger, deep-pocketed rival.
Now is the time for Intel to use all of its' financial muscle to crush AMD once and for all. This is capitalism. If Intel can continue bleeding longer by slashing prices below manufacturer cost, AMD will eventually run out of money. Once the economy picks back up, Intel will look out on the sunny pasture of monopoly, where it can play in peace with Microsoft now that the U.S. government has said "OK" to monopolies.
"those conducting computationally intense tasks such as scheduling airplanes"
Huh? I understand that the nation's air traffic controllers may need updated equipment in light of the existing crisis, but how hard can scheduling be? I could see a use for a massively parallel monster like this in, say, flow-through or structural analysis or something, but scheduling?
Any aviation experts out there... what am I missing?
Well, by law they owe you whatever they promised you in the Employee Agreement/Handbook whatever that they signed and you signed. If it doesn't guarauntee paid vacation or severance, they don't owe it to you. Like this guy. My advice to you if you have vacation and your employer hasn't signed a contract entitling you to paid vacation if you quit: take it now.
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If we do create a PAC, here's what we're up against. That's the yearly contributions by the movie industry to both sides of the political fence. In 2000, about $24 million to Democrats and $13 million to Republicans.
If we do intend to go forward with a PAC aimed at fighting the DMCA, one thing is clear: the enemy of our enemy is our friend. Republicans clearly receieve less entertainment funding, and therefore we can begin this war on a simple pretext: the Democratic Party is the enemy.
The consumer electronics maker has been selling into a niche in the notebook market by focusing on durable laptops that can withstand the shock of a fall and can resist moisture, dust and scratches.
It's about time!. The lesson of Palm OS was that the functionality of an Apple ][ was enough for most people. A simple spreadsheet, messaging system, contacts and a notepad are a lot of what makes a computer useful. Bundle that in a low overhead package and make it durable and you've got a winner - what mobile professionals don't need is 300Mhz of super high color whiz-bang screen saver action that can dance along to their portable MP3 collection.
The value of a robust and simple computing platform over a feature-clogged overpriced china shop of a notebook has been obvious to me for a while. Thank goodness industry is getting the picture.
Nimda Worm Shows You Can't Always Patch Fast Enough
I don't believe that was the point of the Nimda Worm. Many business have been forced to patch even though they are not affected. And these patches are destructive. If you have dynamic content running on an IIS server and you apply the Nimda patches, it's going to break. If you're dependent on a consulting group to fix your dynamic content, you are now at their mercy.
Which is why many consulting houses only apply security patches at customer request. They make more money if a client gets infected.
Many businesses are suffering extended downtime not at the hands of Nimda but at the hands of the Nimda patch.
Interesting that Microsoft lumps all the wackos together:
disparages Microsoft, MSN, MSNBC, Expedia, or their products or services,... or promote racism, hatred or pornography.
So basically all those lunatic fringe groups, like the Nazis, the neo Nazis, the genocidal maniacs, the people who are tired of Microsoft's monopoly, the abortion doctor assassination groups, the terrorists, and the child pornographers... all those wacko groups should stay away from Frontpage.
Way to lump us in with the dregs of society, Microsoft. That's showin some class.
I wonder if the Department of Justice is now banned from using Frontpage?
that is neither funny nor insightful. your friend is close to retarded. you are an idiot. i hope a towelhead puts a scimitar in your stomach and grins while you die.
A shout out to the/. who posted this one 1st.
How the celebrating 'arabs' was shot in 1991! [indymedia.org.il]
Post it as many times as you want, there is no proof whatsoever in that article. It is less credible than a poorly written slashdot post: no evidence, no links, no documentation.
Meanwhile the mainstream INTERNATIONAL press has closely documented that the Palestinian celebrations are real:
Your foolish radical left wing fairy tales are melting in the sunlight of unbiased international journalism. When your statements are revealed as lies, what does that say about your motivations?
If we do not effectively retaliate against the terrorists, they will continue to attack us up to and including using nuclear weapons. Picture the face of the pilot of plane two, expertly banking his plane so that the maximum amount of fuel would be deposited in the building. Imagine what he would do with a Ryder truck and a nuclear weapon.
He would drive to Los Angeles with a smile on his face. This WILL happen if people like you are allowed to poison the public with lies.
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The extremely high-resolution threading of the operating system made even the simplest programming tasks near impossible, as mutex locks and thread conditionals needed to be spread throughout the code to ensure proper execution.
Right on! I ran BeOs under VmWare to try developing for it, and the pthreads compatibility was... well let's just be polite and say "extremely non-optimal". The spin locks in the kernel were so tightly placed that any possible race condition you could think of would occur if you didn't mutex lock the hell out of it, and the littany of devices you had to lock to access memory was just unbelievable. I pretty much had to read through the video driver code to get anything done as the documentation got as far as "Hello World" before wishing you luck.
Anyway, DeMuDi looks to be a step in the right direction - maybe if a Linux distro starts shipping with 2 kernels, a standard kernel and a multi-media enhanced kernel, we'll finally have a workable solution.
RMS should be pretty happy about this. Note that they listed him above Linus. That's Stallman/Torvalds.
This product never ceased to amaze me. PGP 7.1 included, among other things:
- an encrypted IPSEC/IKE compliant VPN
- encrypted hard drive software (public key or shared secret encryption)
- Encrypted Email with multiple mail client integration
- Myriad windows hooks, like "encrypt clipboard"
- A secure file and hard drive wiper
- A full-blown INTRUSION DETECTION SYSTEM with email alert that would attach itself below the NDIS level.
...all for $30. I'm not a big fan of buying software, but I bought this religously because it was a steal, just for the IDS. I always wondered how they could afford to put so much top-notch development into such a cheap product (I never found a serious bug, and I've worked it over hard. That's a rare thing to be able to say about a windows networking application).
The answer appears to be that they were dumping serious development funds into this product and got were expecting massive sales. If you asked me to point a finger at the cause of death, I'd say they were overambitious. Too many developers building too much functionality made it far too expensive. All anyone ever really wanted was encrypted email. And perhaps if that's all they developed, supply would have matched demand.
Then again, hindsight is 20/20.
Oracle wants a national ID card powered by Oracle. Sun wants a national ID card powered by Java.
..and since the government does everything by committee, we'll get a national ID card powered by Java running Oracle. Of course, getting that much software to run on something the size of an I.D. card should keep these two companies busy for at least ten years, meanwhile we'll have bought some time to do something useful, like wipe out terrorism or elect new leaders.
Java & Oracle on a chip, indeed. That's like Microsoft saying that they're going to get into television or something!
Can you think of uses where DRM will actually give the user more rights?
No.
If it's an evil plot, rest assured it isn't a corporate one. The FCC's requirements for E911 service are putting a whole lot of pressure on the cell providers, who face stiff fines and executive action if they can't use their phones to track you by 2005. If you think that the FCC is overstepping it's bounds with this one (I personally thing a regulated spectrum is an overstepped boundary, but that's just me) you know what to do.
Hmm, and same Timothy posted this article [slashdot.org] on June 25th about a lot of fiberoptic cables that have been put into the ground but haven't been put to work. :)
You gotta love the consistency of Slashdot posts
Dark fiber is fiber with no optical equipment connected to it. Fiber is not the expensive part of optical networking. Air-conditioned environment-controlled closet space filled with millions of dollars of self-healing optical equipment is the expensive part. A lot of metro optical carriers use the benchmark of $100,000 per month per 7 foot rack in operating costs. The denser the equipment, the cheaper the equipment, the more of that dark fiber the carriers can light to form the backbone of the Internet.
So, in short, Slashdot was right and you were totally wrong. Or Insightful. Your choice.
All too often a clueless construction worker rips up a section of fiber and causes some havok.
The industry euphimism for this phenomenon is a "backhoe failure". Metro fiberoptics are all deployed in a "ring" configuration - if a ring is cut, the traffic is sent the other direction on the ring withing 50 milliseconds. The operative protocol here is called SONET. SONET rings have been around for a long time, and they pretty much solve the issue of backhoe failures. Some vendors are pushing proprietary mesh-based architectures which offer even more redundancy.
The issue you bring up, however, does exist on one-way long-haul fiberoptic lines. Major carriers spend millions on 24 hour overflights by patrol helicopters to monitor these fibers for cuts - and some of the largest players in the telco field are oil suppliers because they already patrol their oil pipelines for just this kind of event; burying fiber next to the pipeline is cheap by comparison.
The massive transmission capabilities introduced by advances in fiberoptics DO give us more ability to heal networks, because they give us additional load-bearing capability during failure. The missing piece is actually building equipment which will heal the network effectively, in time. If you're truly interested in ongoing research in this area, open up google and ask it about "GMPLS".
Enjoy.
This is going to help the industry alot. Right now there is pleanty of unused fiber, but the problem is the devices that use the fiber take too much room. if we build them smaller and faster we can increase capacity easily.
The other thing that would help the industry would be to stop going bankrupt. Most to all of the CLECs (PS/Inet anyone?) are bankrupt and insolvent, and the major carriers - WorldCom, Verizon, Global Crossing - have horrible credit ratings and a total freeze on capital equipment purchasing. Right now no one is buying next generation optical equipment. Look at Nortel stock... if you bought $1000 of Nortel stock last year, you'd have $43 today. I won't even mention Lucent. Those are the big boys - the small ones (cough Iron Bridge cough) are all dead or dying.
Optical equipment vendors have no customers. Optical equipment manufacturers are slashing R&D and personnel, and relying on existing revenue streams for survival.
Optical network carriers are nearly bankrupt.
...and NO ONE is paying for premium bandwidth.
So pretty much, this isn't gonna help anybody. The next advance in optical networking isn't going to be the next next-generation fiberoptic breakthrough. It's going to be a solvent carrier, or a paying customer for broadband.
So how long until one of the slashdot trolls starts posting a GPS drawing of that goatse guy? .
Shouldn't be hard. Just drive a truck around one of those holes in Afghanistan...
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Why is the ACLU busy defending pornographers while Sklyarov rots in jail for a speech crime? Is it because most of their funding comes from Hollywood?
And if so, what does that say about Hollywood and its relationship with pornography?
Just a thought.
Sorry, couldn't resist. But seriously:
The attempt to rank vendors according to their security success rate is a risky business. The aim of most virus writers is usually for their worm to achieve its biggest impact, and so will target platforms that are widely used. "Microsoft is targetted as it is so popular, rather than the system being the least secure," said Cluley.
You have to love how they pull the "everyone is jealous so they pick on us" stuff everytime they screw up. Suprise, shitstreak, Microsoft does not make the world's most popular Web server. That's Apache. "Hackers", as you call these jerks, do not target Microsoft because they're the most popular. They target Microsoft because Microsoft has made itself an easy target by making it really easy to hack their products. If popularity made you a target, we'd see scores of Apache worms.
'We're consolidating all of our offering behind Intel, which was the biggest part of our mix already.'
So, because consumer spending is down, Gateway is discontinuing its' discount line of computers. Because consumers want to buy more expensive computers when the economy is in trouble.
I must be missing something.
While the price war has left scars on each company, AMD's wounds have been more severe than its larger, deep-pocketed rival.
Now is the time for Intel to use all of its' financial muscle to crush AMD once and for all. This is capitalism. If Intel can continue bleeding longer by slashing prices below manufacturer cost, AMD will eventually run out of money. Once the economy picks back up, Intel will look out on the sunny pasture of monopoly, where it can play in peace with Microsoft now that the U.S. government has said "OK" to monopolies.
My advice: buy Intel stock.
"those conducting computationally intense tasks such as scheduling airplanes"
Huh? I understand that the nation's air traffic controllers may need updated equipment in light of the existing crisis, but how hard can scheduling be? I could see a use for a massively parallel monster like this in, say, flow-through or structural analysis or something, but scheduling?
Any aviation experts out there... what am I missing?
Do they owe anything to the people they dump?
Well, by law they owe you whatever they promised you in the Employee Agreement/Handbook whatever that they signed and you signed. If it doesn't guarauntee paid vacation or severance, they don't owe it to you. Like this guy. My advice to you if you have vacation and your employer hasn't signed a contract entitling you to paid vacation if you quit: take it now.
If we do create a PAC, here's what we're up against. That's the yearly contributions by the movie industry to both sides of the political fence. In 2000, about $24 million to Democrats and $13 million to Republicans.
If we do intend to go forward with a PAC aimed at fighting the DMCA, one thing is clear: the enemy of our enemy is our friend. Republicans clearly receieve less entertainment funding, and therefore we can begin this war on a simple pretext: the Democratic Party is the enemy.
The consumer electronics maker has been selling into a niche in the notebook market by focusing on durable laptops that can withstand the shock of a fall and can resist moisture, dust and scratches.
It's about time!. The lesson of Palm OS was that the functionality of an Apple ][ was enough for most people. A simple spreadsheet, messaging system, contacts and a notepad are a lot of what makes a computer useful. Bundle that in a low overhead package and make it durable and you've got a winner - what mobile professionals don't need is 300Mhz of super high color whiz-bang screen saver action that can dance along to their portable MP3 collection.
The value of a robust and simple computing platform over a feature-clogged overpriced china shop of a notebook has been obvious to me for a while. Thank goodness industry is getting the picture.
Nimda Worm Shows You Can't Always Patch Fast Enough
I don't believe that was the point of the Nimda Worm. Many business have been forced to patch even though they are not affected. And these patches are destructive. If you have dynamic content running on an IIS server and you apply the Nimda patches, it's going to break. If you're dependent on a consulting group to fix your dynamic content, you are now at their mercy.
Which is why many consulting houses only apply security patches at customer request. They make more money if a client gets infected.
Many businesses are suffering extended downtime not at the hands of Nimda but at the hands of the Nimda patch.
I had hoped to post fast.
Interesting that Microsoft lumps all the wackos together:
... or promote racism, hatred or pornography.
disparages Microsoft, MSN, MSNBC, Expedia, or their products or services,
So basically all those lunatic fringe groups, like the Nazis, the neo Nazis, the genocidal maniacs, the people who are tired of Microsoft's monopoly, the abortion doctor assassination groups, the terrorists, and the child pornographers... all those wacko groups should stay away from Frontpage.
Way to lump us in with the dregs of society, Microsoft. That's showin some class.
I wonder if the Department of Justice is now banned from using Frontpage?
that is neither funny nor insightful. your friend is close to retarded. you are an idiot. i hope a towelhead puts a scimitar in your stomach and grins while you die.
not duped, replyhere. thanks for your concern though.
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A shout out to the /. who posted this one 1st.
How the celebrating 'arabs' was shot in 1991! [indymedia.org.il]
Post it as many times as you want, there is no proof whatsoever in that article. It is less credible than a poorly written slashdot post: no evidence, no links, no documentation.
Meanwhile the mainstream INTERNATIONAL press has closely documented that the Palestinian celebrations are real:
Fox
PBS
Middle East News Line
Your foolish radical left wing fairy tales are melting in the sunlight of unbiased international journalism. When your statements are revealed as lies, what does that say about your motivations?
If we do not effectively retaliate against the terrorists, they will continue to attack us up to and including using nuclear weapons. Picture the face of the pilot of plane two, expertly banking his plane so that the maximum amount of fuel would be deposited in the building. Imagine what he would do with a Ryder truck and a nuclear weapon.
He would drive to Los Angeles with a smile on his face. This WILL happen if people like you are allowed to poison the public with lies.
Here's to stopping you.
YOU ARE A STUPID FAG.
Thank you.
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