To: Darwin Development
Subject: In case you haven't heard
You may have noticed that my email now tends to come from MIT instead of Apple.
I no longer work at Apple. I now work for a company called KnowNow.
My last day at Apple was Friday 2/2.
You may also have noticed that I've since then helped Chuck import cscope, fixed a nasty in mod_perl, fixed up libtool some because I'm porting (Apache) APRlib to Darwin and tweak flex to install libfl.a as a link to libl.a. You might therefore come to the conclusion that my involvement with Darwin is not exactly over, and you would be correct.
For what it's worth, I've left those things I can no longer reach in good and capable hands; I couldn't have left them otherwise. As the one guy on "Dark Angel" says: "It's all good, all the time."
You say: don't like spam any more than the next person. But I also don't like censorship, and I take a content-neutral view of these things. If someone delivers a product to be used by Alice to block Bob from seeing website because she doesn't like its content, that product is censorware.
I think this is quite a non-issue here, since MAPS states quite clearly under what conditions hosts are tested, added, and removed from the list. I happen to completely agree with this philosophy, so we subscribe. This is not like most other censorware, where it appears that people randomly pick things they don't seem to like and then sneak them into a subscription servive.
It's just two different things, and I'm glad MAPS came together and that they provide a well-defined service as a single tool that belongs in any decent spam-blocking arsenal.
At the ISP I'm a sysadmin for, we run MAPS RBL on our external mail gateways. It blocks a good 4-6% of incoming mail (total of about 60k messages a day), which is a *ton* more than the 2% of supposed "test spam" mails they claim.
I don't buy their test, only because of the real-life results that I see every morning in my mailbox saying how well MAPS works.
To top it off, we get very few people asking "Why is my mail blocked?", and they seem quite understanding when it's explained to them what we're doing and why.
I agree completely. It was a fun, lighthearted movie. The special effects were great, and not overdone. Some of the props looked like plastic, and the custumes were kinda cheesy, and a couple people's acting coulda been better, but it was full of action, an easy to follow story, and wasn't the "I'm going to hit you with my +1 staff of ass-kicking with a +4 bonus to touching my toes"-fest I thought it would be.
It was worth it, in my opinion. Just don't expect a timeless tale.
While it's a good idea, it's a bit reminisent of the portmapper, don't you think? A deamon listens on a port, and directs incoming requests to ports that are dynamically allocated and reserved. The portmapper keeps track of who is listening where, and what to do with connections. Old idea, new implementation (sits on a firewall instead of a machine, and it forwards to machines and ports instead of just ports on the same machine). Let's hear it for one of the programmers best allies: laziness. Don't get all crazy when there's alredy a good idea to solve something.
Hey, so we should avoid PVCs, VPNs, and VLANs? I know of a few companys that would be not very happy upon hearing your advice, including some phone companys.
For those of us who don't follow this sort of thing, wine already does a fair chunk of DirectX, including Direct3d. If you want to play Windows games, go help wine.
While we're on the subject of Bleem!, I hope they're not trying to port their Windows version to Dreamcast. I observed the wine team trying to get it to work, only to conclude that it used too many dirty Windows hacks to get "the access it needs" to run Bleem! What access that is, I'll never know. It's this same reason that Bleem! doesn't run on Windows 2000 yet.. I'll stop being offtopic now..
I find it amusing that I fired up napster not 30 seconds ago, did a search for metallica, and tons of music still scrolls on by. I'm interested to see how Metallica and their lawyer friends keep up with this. Might I suggest we all rename random songs to unforgiven.mp3? Brings up an interesting point. Did they actually download and listen to all the songs that they claim were Metallica songs?
Am I to beleive that grits soak up water faster in your kitchen than the whole grit-eating world? Am I to understand the laws of physics do not apply in your kitchen? Or maybe they were magic grits... Mmmm.. magic grits..
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So um, how about a mailing list for slash users? Then people can get help without bothering the big Taco or anyone else, and it can be a place to talk about new/desired features and stuff. Anyone?
The code is already open sourced.. we just haven't seen a release in quite a while;)
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The core of this is the growing gap between the have's and have-not's in terms of technical understanding. Are we approaching the medical and legal professions for perceived disassociation from "average" citizens?
I think we already have gotten to the point of dissassociation from 'average' citizens. Whenever I tell people what I do (I have a student job supporting computers), they always end up saying "Oh, you just do stuff with computers," or "Wow, you must be a genius or something."
Even people in our own department are clueless. It's not even very hard, what I do. "What, you can't connect to the network? Try rebooting."... "Wow! That was great, you guys are miracal workers!"
People don't know what we do, and they don't really care.
Yeah sure, and he makes you use this peice of junk called HLA, which is really assembly mixed in with some control structures and the worst parts of C++. It's not even fully developed, he's using the students to beta test it. This, combined with the fact that the graders know nothing about it, results in them resorting to taking points off projects for spelling mistakes and comments not being lined up perfectly.
I had to help someone through this class, and I can say they learned jack about real assembly, and will probably not do very well when transfering elsewhere to take a *real* assembly class.
Yes, the man is smart, but his teaching needs some help.
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Everyone these days uses either Windows, Linux or x86 Mac. ... to play dungeon crawl.
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Why does the article say 1Ghz, but the picture say 1.25ghz? Geniuses..
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You sure could have a system like this.. It's called MacOS X.. But I guess nobody here has taken a look at that filesystem layout..
To: Darwin Development
Subject: In case you haven't heard
You may have noticed that my email now tends to come from MIT instead of Apple.
I no longer work at Apple. I now work for a company called KnowNow.
My last day at Apple was Friday 2/2.
You may also have noticed that I've since then helped Chuck import cscope, fixed a nasty in mod_perl, fixed up libtool some because I'm porting (Apache) APRlib to Darwin and tweak flex to install libfl.a as a link to libl.a. You might therefore come to the conclusion that my involvement with Darwin is not exactly over, and you would be correct.
For what it's worth, I've left those things I can no longer reach in good and capable hands; I couldn't have left them otherwise. As the one guy on "Dark Angel" says: "It's all good, all the time."
Pleasant hacking,
-Fred
Wilfredo Sanchez - wsanchez@mit.edu
You say: don't like spam any more than the next person. But I also don't like censorship, and I take a content-neutral view of these things. If someone delivers a product to be used by Alice to block Bob from seeing website because she doesn't like its content, that product is censorware.
I think this is quite a non-issue here, since MAPS states quite clearly under what conditions hosts are tested, added, and removed from the list. I happen to completely agree with this philosophy, so we subscribe. This is not like most other censorware, where it appears that people randomly pick things they don't seem to like and then sneak them into a subscription servive.
It's just two different things, and I'm glad MAPS came together and that they provide a well-defined service as a single tool that belongs in any decent spam-blocking arsenal.
At the ISP I'm a sysadmin for, we run MAPS RBL on our external mail gateways. It blocks a good 4-6% of incoming mail (total of about 60k messages a day), which is a *ton* more than the 2% of supposed "test spam" mails they claim.
I don't buy their test, only because of the real-life results that I see every morning in my mailbox saying how well MAPS works.
To top it off, we get very few people asking "Why is my mail blocked?", and they seem quite understanding when it's explained to them what we're doing and why.
Just my thoughts..
I agree completely. It was a fun, lighthearted movie. The special effects were great, and not overdone. Some of the props looked like plastic, and the custumes were kinda cheesy, and a couple people's acting coulda been better, but it was full of action, an easy to follow story, and wasn't the "I'm going to hit you with my +1 staff of ass-kicking with a +4 bonus to touching my toes"-fest I thought it would be.
It was worth it, in my opinion. Just don't expect a timeless tale.
While it's a good idea, it's a bit reminisent of the portmapper, don't you think? A deamon listens on a port, and directs incoming requests to ports that are dynamically allocated and reserved. The portmapper keeps track of who is listening where, and what to do with connections. Old idea, new implementation (sits on a firewall instead of a machine, and it forwards to machines and ports instead of just ports on the same machine). Let's hear it for one of the programmers best allies: laziness. Don't get all crazy when there's alredy a good idea to solve something.
Hey, so we should avoid PVCs, VPNs, and VLANs? I know of a few companys that would be not very happy upon hearing your advice, including some phone companys.
For those of us who don't follow this sort of thing, wine already does a fair chunk of DirectX, including Direct3d. If you want to play Windows games, go help wine.
While we're on the subject of Bleem!, I hope they're not trying to port their Windows version to Dreamcast. I observed the wine team trying to get it to work, only to conclude that it used too many dirty Windows hacks to get "the access it needs" to run Bleem! What access that is, I'll never know. It's this same reason that Bleem! doesn't run on Windows 2000 yet.. I'll stop being offtopic now..
I find it amusing that I fired up napster not 30 seconds ago, did a search for metallica, and tons of music still scrolls on by. I'm interested to see how Metallica and their lawyer friends keep up with this. Might I suggest we all rename random songs to unforgiven.mp3? Brings up an interesting point. Did they actually download and listen to all the songs that they claim were Metallica songs?
Am I to beleive that grits soak up water faster in your kitchen than the whole grit-eating world? Am I to understand the laws of physics do not apply in your kitchen? Or maybe they were magic grits... Mmmm.. magic grits..
C:\DOS
C:\DOS\RUN
RUN DOS, RUN
..worth driving..
It's a joke, people =)
All the Netware people would care. You still need to boot DOS before you can get Netware running.
I rather like how they use DOS.. a big fat boot loader.
Sweet, thanks.
So um, how about a mailing list for slash users? Then people can get help without bothering the big Taco or anyone else, and it can be a place to talk about new/desired features and stuff. Anyone?
The most awesome program for DOS since just about anything.
The code is already open sourced.. we just haven't seen a release in quite a while ;)
The core of this is the growing gap between the have's and have-not's in terms of technical understanding. Are we approaching the medical and legal professions for perceived disassociation from "average" citizens?
I think we already have gotten to the point of dissassociation from 'average' citizens. Whenever I tell people what I do (I have a student job supporting computers), they always end up saying "Oh, you just do stuff with computers," or "Wow, you must be a genius or something."
Even people in our own department are clueless. It's not even very hard, what I do. "What, you can't connect to the network? Try rebooting."... "Wow! That was great, you guys are miracal workers!"
People don't know what we do, and they don't really care.
Yeah sure, and he makes you use this peice of junk called HLA, which is really assembly mixed in with some control structures and the worst parts of C++. It's not even fully developed, he's using the students to beta test it. This, combined with the fact that the graders know nothing about it, results in them resorting to taking points off projects for spelling mistakes and comments not being lined up perfectly.
I had to help someone through this class, and I can say they learned jack about real assembly, and will probably not do very well when transfering elsewhere to take a *real* assembly class.
Yes, the man is smart, but his teaching needs some help.