Steven Low gave a nice talk to our organization about Fast TCP. What I like about it is that it is basically just a faster better quicker stronger TCP implementation. Normal TCP makes pretty conservative old school assumptions about your network. These assumptions haven't really changed much over time.
Their TCP stack could be used on *any* old TCP network (though you wouldn't notice a boost on a plain old LAN). Hopefully some push will be made to make FAST TCP a new standard.
The Hudsucker Proxy Buffalo '66 The Fisher King Box of Moonlight The End of Violence Series 7: The Contenders Salome's Last Dance Goya in Bordeaux Ringmaster Trekkies The Party Zero Effect Happy Texas Return to Oz
All I know is if I had a story about embedded Linux in my toliet it would get top slot. But something that personally affects a few million people in California alone doesn't.
There was a big (7.6) quake in Western Mexico a few hours ago. No major damage in Mexico City, but several people killed in Colima state, etc. Check on friends and realtives if you can.
I post this here with Linux in the title so maybe someone will see it if they check this news first thing in the morning. Apparently this is not worthy of mentioning this on/. homepage since we have another critical Linux article to read and we are a bunch of fat white guys anyway.
Hmm. Four OS crashes in 18 months. Not great, but not too bad. They spent more time down due to power and network failures.
And, as always, the experience of one person is merely anecdotal (definition:Based on casual observations or indications rather than rigorous or scientific analysis).
2000-08-23 ~04:00 GMT: OpenBSD crash. Cause undetermined.
2001-01-05 19:45 GMT through 21:10 GMT: OpenBSD crash. Cause undetermined.
2001-08-26 ~04:00 GMT through ~19:00 GMT: OpenBSD crash. Cause undetermined.
2002.02.26 ~17:30 GMT through ~19:30 GMT: OpenBSD network stack crash. The load was not heavy (about 20 web downloads per second from slashdot, plus a few mail deliveries per second) and presumably would have been handled without trouble by the FreeBSD network stack.
The funny thing is that the Disney.com website "powered by HP" is running Microsoft IIS on Win2k. See netcraft here
rant -
The ex-Starwave group has yet to die or see the light, hence the continued reliance on unscalable crap. Their internally developed software is much worse that you can imagine. Too bad they threw away all the cool technology Infoseek had.
Are you asking about something actually for sale (like the Everquest account) or the presumed value of something not really "for sale" (like the Human Genome information or my CC number) ?
It sure looks identical to the book I bought in Mar2001. I'll call the person I lent mine to and compare ISBN numbers.
The biggest problem is that ssh has changed rapidly enough that this book is fairly outdated. It is good if you are an sysadmin with no ssh experience, but don't expect it to cover the latest and greatest.
Posting a review now seems untimely as this book should be in a revision cycle.
I recently downloaded the newest version of Cygwin (albeit on Win2k) and I was quite impressed with how far along it has come. Many many programs ported to it (virtually anything you could want). The only issues are really Windows issues that are more or less intractable.
I have also had good luck in the past with the MKS toolkit. See here.
"Planning for somebody wiser to innovate around your mess is not responsible."
You mean like most major software vendors ?
Be real, product grow and mature over time (or die). Products need different models to be affordable and scalable over time.
Early products are are designed to be functional first and scalable second. Do you not build that first release because it is not scalable to the Nth degree.
If so - start lining up Windows(any version), Apache, Squid, various TCP/IP stacks, Linux, Oracle, etc., etc. in your sights.
How come I'm not using *your* kick-ass P2P system right now ?
Great analogy. *Exactly* the lines I was thinking along. No accounting for innovation.
I was amazed (11 months ago like the rest of you), that a Napster founder would go to the trouble to write a somewhat rigorous mathematical paper slamming an up-and-coming competitor.
It seems like petty and childish behavior, probably from the stress of desperation Napster was in at the time (and still is in).
... I'm sure Oracle Consulting would be happy to deisgn and implement a solution for you.:P
But it sure sounds like you are using the wrong tool for the job. I mean, you can drive nails with a crescent wrench, but it's not efficient and not good for the wrench.
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Steven Low gave a nice talk to our organization about Fast TCP. What I like about it is that it is basically just a faster better quicker stronger TCP implementation. Normal TCP makes pretty conservative old school assumptions about your network. These assumptions haven't really changed much over time.
Their TCP stack could be used on *any* old TCP network (though you wouldn't notice a boost on a plain old LAN). Hopefully some push will be made to make FAST TCP a new standard.
I had great luck with Technical Connections (the Los Angeles office).
http://www.technicalconnections.com/
They acutally take the time to understand what you know and what you want. They *don't* send you on DB2 jobs because you have mysql on your resume.
After some period of time the also provide good benefits.
And www.manpages.com is NOT an online resource to get *nix man pages.
http://www.bash.org/?137303
It should be possible to use this type of config and present serveral different boot options to the students.
Let them boot into Solaris x86, various linux and bsd variants, etc.
Then just worry about maintaining one central set of boot images.
Saw this movie tonight on DVD. Change around the movie pseudoscience mumbo jumbo and it is the same thing.
what does this have to do with "Consumer Reports" ?
The Hudsucker Proxy
Buffalo '66
The Fisher King
Box of Moonlight
The End of Violence
Series 7: The Contenders
Salome's Last Dance
Goya in Bordeaux
Ringmaster
Trekkies
The Party
Zero Effect
Happy Texas
Return to Oz
a) it is more easily secured
b) it is easier for people to use (ftp url's tend to confuse some people)
c) it seems like it is easier to overwhelm an ftp server with traffic than it is a webserver
It is a well known fact that Americans love people who speak English with a "funny" accent.
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In contrast, any non-white non-English speaking peoples will need to stand on their heads & shoot nickels out of their asses to be mentioned on
All I know is if I had a story about embedded Linux in my toliet it would get top slot. But something that personally affects a few million people in California alone doesn't.
There was a big (7.6) quake in Western Mexico a few hours ago. No major damage in Mexico City, but several people killed in Colima state, etc. Check on friends and realtives if you can.
/. homepage since we have another critical Linux article to read and we are a bunch of fat white guys anyway.
I post this here with Linux in the title so maybe someone will see it if they check this news first thing in the morning. Apparently this is not worthy of mentioning this on
And, as always, the experience of one person is merely anecdotal (definition:Based on casual observations or indications rather than rigorous or scientific analysis).
The posted MD5's for libpcap and tcpdump indicates that at least the sunfreeware version is OK.
http://www.sunfreeware.com/md5.html
Thanks for link.
Of course, I read this a *week* ago in the Washington Post.
What is RIAA worried about ? The Listen4Ever.com site is so bad you can barely figure out how to listen to anything. Gimma WinMX any day.
I recall internal estimates of the "true cost" of Dinosaur being close to $1 BILLION.
Recall that they basically had to create a digital studio from scratch over many years to make that movie
The funny thing is that the Disney.com website "powered by HP" is running Microsoft IIS on Win2k. See netcraft here
rant -
The ex-Starwave group has yet to die or see the light, hence the continued reliance on unscalable crap. Their internally developed software is much worse that you can imagine. Too bad they threw away all the cool technology Infoseek had.
And whatever happened to the Compaq deal ?
Oh yeah. Don't get me wrong, I hate WebLogic. But engineers seem to like it. Oh well.
Forget shareware.
What about the license key for a big WebLogic install ? Now that the some serious 6 figure money for a few lousy digits !
Are you asking about something actually for sale (like the Everquest account) or the presumed value of something not really "for sale" (like the Human Genome information or my CC number) ?
It sure looks identical to the book I bought in Mar2001. I'll call the person I lent mine to and compare ISBN numbers.
The biggest problem is that ssh has changed rapidly enough that this book is fairly outdated. It is good if you are an sysadmin with no ssh experience, but don't expect it to cover the latest and greatest.
Posting a review now seems untimely as this book should be in a revision cycle.
I recently downloaded the newest version of Cygwin (albeit on Win2k) and I was quite impressed with how far along it has come. Many many programs ported to it (virtually anything you could want). The only issues are really Windows issues that are more or less intractable.
I have also had good luck in the past with the MKS toolkit. See here.
"Planning for somebody wiser to innovate around your mess is not responsible."
You mean like most major software vendors ?
Be real, product grow and mature over time (or die). Products need different models to be affordable and scalable over time.
Early products are are designed to be functional first and scalable second. Do you not build that first release because it is not scalable to the Nth degree.
If so - start lining up Windows(any version), Apache, Squid, various TCP/IP stacks, Linux, Oracle, etc., etc. in your sights.
How come I'm not using *your* kick-ass P2P system right now ?
Great analogy. *Exactly* the lines I was thinking along. No accounting for innovation.
....
I was amazed (11 months ago like the rest of you), that a Napster founder would go to the trouble to write a somewhat rigorous mathematical paper slamming an up-and-coming competitor.
It seems like petty and childish behavior, probably from the stress of desperation Napster was in at the time (and still is in).
One last thing
.... f##k! RIAA. Sorry. It just slipped out.
... I'm sure Oracle Consulting would be happy to deisgn and implement a solution for you. :P
But it sure sounds like you are using the wrong tool for the job. I mean, you can drive nails with a crescent wrench, but it's not efficient and not good for the wrench.