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  1. Re:Implications for the rest of us on 100 Mbps Community Fiber Network: Howto · · Score: 1

    >and of course, satellite dishes By FCC law they cant restrict against that. I have a neighbor who gave the homeowner's association proof and they had to let him put up a dish. Patrick Cable II

  2. Re:Gaim on The America Online Protocol Revealed · · Score: 1

    They have only partially reverse engineered OSCAR, AIM's windows protocol. the TOC protocol, which can be used by other AIM clients was open, for a while.

  3. Re:There is a reason they don't read email on Usenix Takes Stand Against ATA and SSSCA · · Score: 1

    What they do now (check out www.house.gov) is they make you enter your zip+4 and then you can write your congressman. As for senate, i'm not sure Patrick

  4. Re:FreeBSD security advisory on FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE Is Ready · · Score: 1

    >Then run out and purchase OpenBSD 2.8 a real OS

    Freebsd isnt a real OS? Lets check the definition of Operating System again...

    Operating System (noun, computer science):
    Software designed to control the hardware of a specific data-processing system in order to allow users and application programs to employ it easily.

    Guess im wrong Patrick Cable II BlackNetworks Sysadmin

  5. Re:They need to address some serious issues on FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE Is Ready · · Score: 1

    >1) The implementation of threads still uses fine grain kernel level locking which does not adhere to POSIXX IEEE 811.2b level requirements, meaning this software is not, nor could it ever be certified for level 4 security.
    > ... petitioning the core dev team to remove my code from the project ...

    No OS is fully POSIX compliant. As a developer you should know that.

    >3) There is still no credible evidence that the new implementation of the TCP/IP stack is an improvement over the broken one they are trying to replace from the 4.3.xx series. The benchmarks I saw before leaving were just short of horrible and the potential for data loss was rated as QQQ on the topenhiemer algorithm.

    I havn't had a problem.

    >Use this product at your own risk.

    I will continue to run my shell provider on FreeBSD.

    Pat Cable
    System Administrator, BlackNetworks Internet