No. I am clueless:) But even I didn't say we don't need dynamic routes.
I asked why we need _heavily_ dynamic routes that build deep routing tables. Sounds to me like someone is abusing the tables. Or using multi-homes as pass-thrus.
Please tell me once again why we need heavily dynamic IP routes?
Is it because somebody wants 69.69.69.69 to be on one end of the Continent and 69.69.69.99 to be on the other? Why? I'd be sorely tempted to screw'em. Drop 69.69.69.99's packets on the floor if it's away from the rest of it's C class.
IP addr's aren't sacred. They should be chosen for the convenience of the routers -- that's the idea behind Class A, B & C arrd blocks. If AOL wants to use a US IP addr for *.de traffic, fine, just drop the packet in the US and let'em route it themselves.
When a system is taxed, somebody will suffer. It shouldn't be those who follow the rules. Otherwise, nobody will follow the rules and it will get much worse.
A telling point. In fairness, some are reading from a corporate environment where MSIE may be mandated. They're threatening us with locked down (unwritable NTFS/dev/hda1) MS-Win2k desktops.
Worse, I must confess that I use Netscape from Win95 even at home. Pure sloth, I'm afraid. I can't be bothered to get my Lucent Winmodem to work under Linux (there is a driver), and I won't take the trouble to get my other apps to work under WINE. With enough maintainence, MS-Win95 runs almost as well as MS-DOS 2.1
ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) is all about IT planning and contingencies (flood, fire, quake, earthquake:) Among all the other contingencies, perhaps a non-MS scenio should be prepared by responsible ERPers.
Microsoft software is arguably a single point-of-failure. Desktops preferentially all run one version of MS-Windows, mailservers all run another, and fileservers are similarly uniform. Technically, this is very dangerous because an entire category of service could be lost to a bug/virus.
Now MS playing hardball is adding a legal failure mechanism. One or all MS software may become unrunnable due to legal issues. In negotiations with MS, a CEO needs alternatives if he is to have any power at all. ERP should give him some so he doesn't have to "bend over..."
Hassling your customers is NOT a good way to stay in business. They are more likely to look at their alternatives, including the free software beloved of most the/. readership.
_Very_ good point. Bandwidth costs real money. I don't know why people think they others will give away something incurs real marginal costs for them.
Bandwidth pricing is anything but simple. But AFAIK bandwidth costs at least US$3/GB for a big site. So that ISO someone donwloads costs the sender [if not the receiver] ~$2.
Agreed e-searching is a big worry. But when
e-mail records are FOIA requested, do they have to be delivered in machine-readable form? I would think they'd be printed on stacks of 8.5x11 paper floppies! No-one could then claim the info wasn't provided.
I can understand Junior wanting to avoid scrutiny under the FOIA. But if Presidential email is public record {FOIAble], why isn't paper mail? Is there some sort of special exemption for private correspondence?
This would make no sense. A letter is legally stronger than email. Not that the law needs to make sense. But Junior cutting himself off makes even less sense. There's more here than we've been told.
I believe there is a US Federal Law prohibiting unauthorized access to computer systems. Using an open SMTP port might well qualify, even if the server didn't fall over. The key question is whether the accused knew their usage was unauthorized.
One concept explains the school admins overreaction -- "Cover Your @ss". These people are career bureaucrats (even in private business). They don't suffer from crying "wolf!" but they can be ruined if they didn't. Perverse incentives.
I read it. That `fortune` certainly was a gun joke. They didn't include the entire short story, did they? And just how did the school admin come to find out about it? I bet it had something to do with school. QED.
Telling bomb jokes in airports gets you arrested. So why should gun jokes in schools be any different? If a democracy wants to ban something, it can and will.
As for the other website, I get the distinct feeling that we're not being told half the story. How did the clueless school admins know about it? It probably was connected or about the school in some way. Which makes it fair game for discipline. Freedom of speech is hardly absolute.
As for the cops, they have a hard job, but worst I think is the corrosive daily contact with crime. Without special precautions, they are sure to eventually see the world as made up of victims, perpetrators and cops [potential or actual]. These dudes sure look like perps.
You are innocent until proven guilty only in a British-origin Court of Law. Not in most Napoleonic-origin courts [Europe]. Not in the press or court of public option [OJ]. And not by the police.
Police have a hard job, but worst I think is the corrosive daily contact with criminals and their horrible acts. Without special precautions, they are sure to eventually see the world as made up of victims, perpetrators and cops [potential or actual].
A user of encryption doesn't much look like a cop, although in one way he is -- enforcing privacy and wiretap laws. A user of encryption doesn't look much like a victim, although they are potential victims of wiretap or other eavesdropping. So encryptors must be criminals.
Texas has a Jeffersonian Legislature -- it only meets every second year to consider legislation. It's not in essentially permanent session like the US Congress.
In any case, I'm writing my TX Rep and TX Senator with sound, reasonable reasons to oppose UNITA.
My wife has a trip planned to the Legislature
and I can easily tag along to visit my reps. Always better to have something to talk about. We'll see who they listen to.
I would be disappointed and surprised if the LoC
didn't have a full collection of Playboy, Penthouse, etc.
A librarian's job is to catalog everything for retrieval. You never know what may become important to retrieve. Missing this important element of American culture out of prudery would be simple incompetence. OTOH, some congresscritter [incompetence incarnate] might have acted as censor.
I do know the Metro Toronto Public Library (Central) had quite an archive of Playboys.
One statement I didn't see in this article is that the new `iptable` tool is very similar to the previous `ipchains` tool.
They were even originally written by the same author. Yes, ipchains has advanced functionality. But the change in more evolutionary rather than revolutionary. AFAIK, the tool name was only changed because some options are different.
I program mostly in ASM and I'm not sure how a non-stack buffer overflow could lead to compromised security. At worst in.data or.bss, some data gets trashed. A variable-length buffer on the stack is an unspeakable evil.
Variable-length buffers ought to be malloc()d, but I guess foo(){char buff[80] is too easy to do. That makes char[] local and on the stack! Storing arrays on the stack takes up too much space.
Perhaps `c` should be re-spec'd to do a local malloc() on procedure entry and a free() on exit for arrays. Hidden compiler calls.
Running background processes is not nice without the sysadmin's permission!
It may have been only one process, but it would sure hog the CPU since it doesn't execute many blocking syscalls. It would stand out on `top` like a sore thumb.
Depending on scheduler sophistication, it might cause user-noticible delays for a shell-server.
APM is basically useless for servers. You certainly don't want to be spinning down their disks (wear and high start-up power) and they don't have monitors attached.
The server OSes (*BSD, Linux, OS/2, and even MS-WindowsNT) all have HLT in their idle thread. When the machine has no tasks to run, it runs the idle thread. For x86 CPUs after the 486sl this automatically drops the CPU into powersavings. Typically a CPU that will draw ~20-30W will drop to less than 1 Watt at HLT. That's all you want.
APM is more targeted at desktops where it's especially important to turn off that power-hungry monitor (100+W) and to compensate for the failings of MS-Windows9*|Me which idles in a busyloop.
For non-x86 CPUs I cannot speak. I would hope that Sun & Alpha have something equivalent to x86 HLT powersavings by now. But my older Alpha 21066 does not. Perhaps the thinking is the machine will be busy all the time.
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Maybe you haven't watched US TV much [I can't blame you] but the US Armed Forces Recruiting commercials are thick.
My guess is the US Armed Services are falling short of their recruiting targets and need to lure more unsuspecting youth to their unusual lifestyle.
Knowing the surfing habits of your prime targets would help in placing ads.
Or maybe it's all some nefarious back-room big-govt/police conspiracy:)
I see alot of shell development going to improving scripting features. Perhaps designing languages is "sexy".
But what about improving interactive features to make the CLI less user-hostile? Tab filename completion, searchable histories, that sort of thing. And I'm sure there are undiscovered innovations. AFAIK none of the *IX shells has the interactive features of 4DOS [one-step searchable visually modifiable history].
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No. I am clueless :) But even I didn't say we don't need dynamic routes.
I asked why we need _heavily_ dynamic routes that build deep routing tables. Sounds to me like someone is abusing the tables. Or using multi-homes as pass-thrus.
Is it because somebody wants 69.69.69.69 to be on one end of the Continent and 69.69.69.99 to be on the other? Why? I'd be sorely tempted to screw'em. Drop 69.69.69.99's packets on the floor if it's away from the rest of it's C class.
IP addr's aren't sacred. They should be chosen for the convenience of the routers -- that's the idea behind Class A, B & C arrd blocks. If AOL wants to use a US IP addr for *.de traffic, fine, just drop the packet in the US and let'em route it themselves.
When a system is taxed, somebody will suffer. It shouldn't be those who follow the rules. Otherwise, nobody will follow the rules and it will get much worse.
Bet zero bits carries lots of information. Sort of like an $NAME_OF_EVIL_ENTITY press release.
At least now we know what timezone you're in!
Worse, I must confess that I use Netscape from Win95 even at home. Pure sloth, I'm afraid. I can't be bothered to get my Lucent Winmodem to work under Linux (there is a driver), and I won't take the trouble to get my other apps to work under WINE. With enough maintainence, MS-Win95 runs almost as well as MS-DOS 2.1
Microsoft software is arguably a single point-of-failure. Desktops preferentially all run one version of MS-Windows, mailservers all run another, and fileservers are similarly uniform. Technically, this is very dangerous because an entire category of service could be lost to a bug/virus.
Now MS playing hardball is adding a legal failure mechanism. One or all MS software may become unrunnable due to legal issues. In negotiations with MS, a CEO needs alternatives if he is to have any power at all. ERP should give him some so he doesn't have to "bend over ..."
Bandwidth pricing is anything but simple. But AFAIK bandwidth costs at least US$3/GB for a big site. So that ISO someone donwloads costs the sender [if not the receiver] ~$2.
Agreed e-searching is a big worry. But when
e-mail records are FOIA requested, do they have to be delivered in machine-readable form? I would think they'd be printed on stacks of 8.5x11 paper floppies! No-one could then claim the info wasn't provided.
This would make no sense. A letter is legally stronger than email. Not that the law needs to make sense. But Junior cutting himself off makes even less sense. There's more here than we've been told.
This is a very slippery slope.
One concept explains the school admins overreaction -- "Cover Your @ss". These people are career bureaucrats (even in private business). They don't suffer from crying "wolf!" but they can be ruined if they didn't. Perverse incentives.
I read it. That `fortune` certainly was a gun joke. They didn't include the entire short story, did they? And just how did the school admin come to find out about it? I bet it had something to do with school. QED.
As for the other website, I get the distinct feeling that we're not being told half the story. How did the clueless school admins know about it? It probably was connected or about the school in some way. Which makes it fair game for discipline. Freedom of speech is hardly absolute.
As for the cops, they have a hard job, but worst I think is the corrosive daily contact with crime. Without special precautions, they are sure to eventually see the world as made up of victims, perpetrators and cops [potential or actual]. These dudes sure look like perps.
Police have a hard job, but worst I think is the corrosive daily contact with criminals and their horrible acts. Without special precautions, they are sure to eventually see the world as made up of victims, perpetrators and cops [potential or actual].
A user of encryption doesn't much look like a cop, although in one way he is -- enforcing privacy and wiretap laws. A user of encryption doesn't look much like a victim, although they are potential victims of wiretap or other eavesdropping. So encryptors must be criminals.
In any case, I'm writing my TX Rep and TX Senator with sound, reasonable reasons to oppose UNITA. My wife has a trip planned to the Legislature and I can easily tag along to visit my reps. Always better to have something to talk about. We'll see who they listen to.
I would be disappointed and surprised if the LoC
didn't have a full collection of Playboy, Penthouse, etc.
A librarian's job is to catalog everything for retrieval. You never know what may become important to retrieve. Missing this important element of American culture out of prudery would be simple incompetence. OTOH, some congresscritter [incompetence incarnate] might have acted as censor.
I do know the Metro Toronto Public Library (Central) had quite an archive of Playboys.
One statement I didn't see in this article is that the new `iptable` tool is very similar to the previous `ipchains` tool.
They were even originally written by the same author. Yes, ipchains has advanced functionality.
But the change in more evolutionary rather than revolutionary. AFAIK, the tool name was only changed because some options are different.
I hate to say it, MicroSoft has beaten you to the punch!
MS-DOS since v 1.0 has included Paul Allen's DEBUG.COM . IMHO, this is the unsurpassed high-water mark of MS's products.
DEBUG.COM (now DEBUG.EXE) is remarkably interactive. It has a built-in miniassembler and disassembler and is remarkably interactive in use.
I program mostly in ASM and I'm not sure how a non-stack buffer overflow could lead to compromised security. At worst in .data or .bss, some data gets trashed. A variable-length buffer on the stack is an unspeakable evil.
Variable-length buffers ought to be malloc()d, but I guess foo(){char buff[80] is too easy to do. That makes char[] local and on the stack! Storing arrays on the stack takes up too much space.
Perhaps `c` should be re-spec'd to do a local malloc() on procedure entry and a free() on exit for arrays. Hidden compiler calls.
Running background processes is not nice without the sysadmin's permission!
It may have been only one process, but it would sure hog the CPU since it doesn't execute many blocking syscalls. It would stand out on `top` like a sore thumb.
Depending on scheduler sophistication, it might cause user-noticible delays for a shell-server.
APM is basically useless for servers. You certainly don't want to be spinning down their disks (wear and high start-up power) and they don't have monitors attached.
The server OSes (*BSD, Linux, OS/2, and even MS-WindowsNT) all have HLT in their idle thread. When the machine has no tasks to run, it runs the idle thread. For x86 CPUs after the 486sl this automatically drops the CPU into powersavings. Typically a CPU that will draw ~20-30W will drop to less than 1 Watt at HLT. That's all you want.
APM is more targeted at desktops where it's especially important to turn off that power-hungry monitor (100+W) and to compensate for the failings of MS-Windows9*|Me which idles in a busyloop.
For non-x86 CPUs I cannot speak. I would hope that Sun & Alpha have something equivalent to x86 HLT powersavings by now. But my older Alpha 21066 does not. Perhaps the thinking is the machine will be busy all the time.
Maybe you haven't watched US TV much [I can't blame you] but the US Armed Forces Recruiting commercials are thick.
:)
My guess is the US Armed Services are falling short of their recruiting targets and need to lure more unsuspecting youth to their unusual lifestyle.
Knowing the surfing habits of your prime targets would help in placing ads.
Or maybe it's all some nefarious back-room big-govt/police conspiracy
I've had trouble with ^R. The closest I've come is: ... then edit.
!cmd:p
[uparrow]
I see alot of shell development going to improving scripting features. Perhaps designing languages is "sexy".
But what about improving interactive features to make the CLI less user-hostile? Tab filename completion, searchable histories, that sort of thing. And I'm sure there are undiscovered innovations. AFAIK none of the *IX shells has the interactive features of 4DOS [one-step searchable visually modifiable history].
Granted nameservice seems to be down. No surprise. But are people getting through by IP?