Icons in the Dock always bounce to the same height; they don't bounce "higher and higher."
So you can imagine my surprise when I saw an icon do exactly that.
Are the computers NetBooted off a server? If so, network congestion could be the problem.
Nope.
Kerberos also shouldn't take nearly that long; perhaps your Kerberos server is obscenely slow.
Any other applications using Kerberos work instantly. I'm not ruling out the possibility of misconfiguration, but to my mind, misconfiguration should be all-or-nothing. That is, when something is set up properly, it should work. When it's not, it shouldn't. None of this "it sorta works" crap.
Our college just replaced the original iMacs in our general purpose computer labs with new flat panel iMacs, running OS X. Each machine has 384MB of RAM. The machines are beautiful, but slow! Kerberos logins take from 40 seconds to two minutes, applications will bounce around in the dock for an eternity before launching, sometimes they keep bouncing higher and higher and never launch. Stopping in to check your email can be a 10 minute commitment. The UI also feels laggy, and does anyone else feel like its novelty is wearing off?
I haven't dismissed OS X yet. When it's matured as much as Windows 2K has, then I think it will really shine.
If you ever meet someone good enough for you, I'm sure you'll understand when they want to charge you $50/hour for sex. After all, it's cutting into their personal time and it's not like they'd get anything out of it anyway, seeing as what a massive dork you are.
Of course, you'd probably never end up needing to pay for the full hour. . .
I'm sure someone out there can whip up a FreeBSD port without too much trouble...or at least some precompiled Linux binaries that I could run on my FreeBSD boxes...
To prevent attackers from tearing down connections, for instance with spoofed RSTs, the packet filter checks the sequence numbers in each TCP packet. Only the two peers involved in the connection (and the hops in between them) know the right sequence numbers, as initial sequence numbers are generated randomly (or should be, rather, but pf can also randomize sequence numbers for hosts that have predictable ISN generators).
The goal in sequence number comparison is to allow only a minimal window of values through. This is not as easy as it may appear from studying perfect examples of TCP connections. In reality, packets can get lost and are retransmitted, packets take different routes and may arrive in different order than they were sent, etc.
Guido's work shows how to keep lower and upper bounds on the sequence numbers given only the (incomplete) information the packet filter has, with a precision and beauty similar to the one you can find in a mathematic proof.
Why do you need ISO images? I bought the CD for 2.5, but never used it. The boot floppy is all you need--I've installed OpenBSD in just a few minutes off the net over broadband.
How is what you've described different from what IBM used to do? Even back when they were selling the Hollerith card machines, this is exactly what they did--the Nazis didn't need their own staff of engineers, they rented the machines from IBM, who operated and maintained them.
What Sam is proposing now may be more complex, but amounts to the same thing.
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As one of the parent posts mentioned, some CPUs (the G4) do have this ability. Anyway, dedicated DES-cracking hardware has been built, and in fact solved the RC4 (correct me if I'm wrong) challenge quite quickly. There just aren't very many uses for such hardware outside of brute-forcing.
Oh, nothing's wrong with it. I'm a great Douglas/Clarke/Heinlein fan. I just like to see due credit given to an idea's originator. It's kind of like referring to the Beatles' song "Getting Better" as "The Philips TV commcercial song". . .
You raise some excellent points. However, if we assume that our hypothetical trailer park skank represents one end of the social spectrum, there is still a long way to go before we reach a specimen whose reproduction I would actually condone.
-Evolution theory as formulated by Darwin does NOT assert that all sentient life arose from total chaos and disorder with no outside influence. Its premise is that evolution does occur, and that the mechanism is natural selection.
-"Survival of the fittest" does NOT mean that organisms more suited to their environment will survive. Let me repeat and rephrase that. SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST DOES NOT HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH PHYSICAL/INTELLETUAL FITNESS. Darwinian "fitness" is a measure of reproductive success. The more offspring an organism leaves, the greater its fitness, in a Darwinian sense. Thus, mutations (which we observe all the time in the laboratory, for you naysayers. Ever wonder how bacterial colonies develop resistance to toxins?) that increase progeny are more likely to accumulate in the population, and eventually become traits of the entire species. That organisms appear more suited to their environment because of natural selection is a side-effect, possible corollary, but NOT central to Darwin's theory. If my children mutate so they are stronger, faster, and more intelligent than ever before, it all means jack shit if they're also infertile. By the same token, that trailer park skank with an IQ of 80 and ten kids is more fit than you 25-year-old genius virgins. Ponder the relationship of this fact to the state of the world today. Rinse, repeat.
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So you can imagine my surprise when I saw an icon do exactly that.
Are the computers NetBooted off a server? If so, network congestion could be the problem.
Nope.
Kerberos also shouldn't take nearly that long; perhaps your Kerberos server is obscenely slow.
Any other applications using Kerberos work instantly. I'm not ruling out the possibility of misconfiguration, but to my mind, misconfiguration should be all-or-nothing. That is, when something is set up properly, it should work. When it's not, it shouldn't. None of this "it sorta works" crap.
What was the point of running d.net in a mosix cluster? You're not going to see any performance gain like that.
I haven't dismissed OS X yet. When it's matured as much as Windows 2K has, then I think it will really shine.
Of course, you'd probably never end up needing to pay for the full hour. . .
Obscurity != Ignorance
Oh yeah, speed holes!
I hear the book didn't do so well. . .
I'm sure someone out there can whip up a FreeBSD port without too much trouble...or at least some precompiled Linux binaries that I could run on my FreeBSD boxes...
Why do you need ISO images? I bought the CD for 2.5, but never used it. The boot floppy is all you need--I've installed OpenBSD in just a few minutes off the net over broadband.
What Sam is proposing now may be more complex, but amounts to the same thing.
Do you even know what a bong is?
Yes, your friend sounds very high indeed.
As one of the parent posts mentioned, some CPUs (the G4) do have this ability. Anyway, dedicated DES-cracking hardware has been built, and in fact solved the RC4 (correct me if I'm wrong) challenge quite quickly. There just aren't very many uses for such hardware outside of brute-forcing.
Um, who are you talking to? This is a link to an interview, not a request for questions.
Excuse me? I thought we all realized that Cringley is an idiot! I feel like I'm taking crazy pills here!
What about the PATH_INFO problem? Have they fixed that yet?
It's called "encryption", and I believe it would avoid this.
Well, duh, I was playing videogames!
Oh, nothing's wrong with it. I'm a great Douglas/Clarke/Heinlein fan. I just like to see due credit given to an idea's originator. It's kind of like referring to the Beatles' song "Getting Better" as "The Philips TV commcercial song". . .
I don't get it. . .
Douglas Adams? Arthur Clarke? How about Plato in The Republic? Sheesh, do we get all our political philosophy from sci-fi novels?
The parent post was a rant, but it did not have a condescending tone.
I enjoy a good TV show every now and then, but I find the TV-watching lifestyle of many Americans, well, disgusting.
You raise some excellent points. However, if we assume that our hypothetical trailer park skank represents one end of the social spectrum, there is still a long way to go before we reach a specimen whose reproduction I would actually condone.
-Evolution theory as formulated by Darwin does NOT assert that all sentient life arose from total chaos and disorder with no outside influence. Its premise is that evolution does occur, and that the mechanism is natural selection.
-"Survival of the fittest" does NOT mean that organisms more suited to their environment will survive. Let me repeat and rephrase that. SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST DOES NOT HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH PHYSICAL/INTELLETUAL FITNESS. Darwinian "fitness" is a measure of reproductive success. The more offspring an organism leaves, the greater its fitness, in a Darwinian sense. Thus, mutations (which we observe all the time in the laboratory, for you naysayers. Ever wonder how bacterial colonies develop resistance to toxins?) that increase progeny are more likely to accumulate in the population, and eventually become traits of the entire species. That organisms appear more suited to their environment because of natural selection is a side-effect, possible corollary, but NOT central to Darwin's theory. If my children mutate so they are stronger, faster, and more intelligent than ever before, it all means jack shit if they're also infertile. By the same token, that trailer park skank with an IQ of 80 and ten kids is more fit than you 25-year-old genius virgins. Ponder the relationship of this fact to the state of the world today. Rinse, repeat.