How is asking about your home network asking about wife and children. Heck they aren't even related (and if they are, it is probably inversely related)
I am interested that you know how your network is connected, what applications/protocols you use, and why you set it up the way that you did... Now if you name your machines wifesmachine1, kid1smachine etc. you would probably disclose that, but you can just say well I have this box that is connected this way, and this other box connected another way, etc.
Actually for various compliance regulations (See OSHA, EEOC, IRS), it is up to you to prove compliance or loose something (like the ability to sell to govenments).
These regulations probably come from the "Prove that you are hiring in line with the local population/applicant pool". Aren't regulations fun
One of my favorite questions for a job interview (being that I design and implement networking software) is "Describe your home network"
Solves two problems. Are they interested enough to have even bothered hooking two computers up at home, and also depending on how they talk I can get a good understanding of their experience based on what they do from home
I don't expect people just out of college to answer with quite the number of computers as people who have been out in the industry for 10 years
Lets see, go look at the distcc project samba.org a fast, free distributed C and C++ compiler. It is even more fun when you patch in ccache as well ( I'll let you find that one on the samba site )
Nothing like having a huge build complete much faster. Turns out that the limit on speed is how fast the machine doing the preprocessing is though.
Ah you miss the beauty of SCO's legal strategy. It would take a nice middle sized company several 10's of thousands to defend themselves, file the countersuit, and risk loosing. If SCO is smart, they hit each company that uses Linux up for about a thousand dollars, then waits to settle (it is cheaper to settle than fight, so why fight). SCO should be able to have their legal team tell them how much it will cost to send each letter (not much, produce the first letter for 1K, then have an intern spend 10 dollars for each copy of the letter, changing names and what ever), then find out how much an average company would spend defending a lawsuit from SCO, and say that they will settle for 1/2 to 1/4 of the amount.
Company gets the letter, asks their council, "What will it cost to defend ourselves", council says "Three thousand dollars in legal time", but it will only cost us 500 to settle ??? Wow, what a deal...
Send threatening letter
Wait for checks to roll in
Profit
I mean it isn't like SCO has any customers now to piss off anyway
Of course they won't go after the vendors. How much cash do you think RedHat, SuSe, etc. have put together. Not much use in winning a lawsuit when there is nothing to attach.
Now if you can attach your winnings to every corperation that uses Linux... I'd love to get at the revenue stream of Intel, Sun, Microsoft, Cisco, GM, and every other company out there that has at least a lone Linux box on their Intranet.
This is a legal problem. I assume that you have all of the agreements in place (signed NDAs, Non-Competes, etc.). So from there just monitor what is going on. Frankly if you are loosing your CTO, only developer, etc.you are screwed as a company anyway, so maybe it is time to update your resume and get a head start on the new job search that is most likely coming your way
Hell, they just sent me an Income tax adjustment that I underpaid my 2001 taxes by 300 dollars. The fun part is I didn't move to this wasteland until 2002.
I am assuming you are looking for a "Free as in Beer" solution. If one of the standard VCS solutions will not work for you, you are stuck writting your own ontop of MySQL or something like that to handle the small records you are looking for.
I guess I don't understand why CVS won't work for you, I assume you create a record for each drug/whatever and then track them... So you end up with a flat directory structure that holds all of 1,000,000,000 records. If CVS won't work for you maybe you should look into ClearCase or one of the other supported tools that will, you won't own the source to your VCS system, but that isn't what you want, you want to own the database itself
Not all chemicals that are used in the reaction end up in the atmosphere, some are handled by scrubbers, polution reduction devices (ever hear of a catalytic converter), and other technologies. Also simple things make a huge difference in polution output... So where you can say carbon goes in carbon goes out, that wouldn't satisfy the requirements, because the carabon going out may end up as a solid, may end up as a gas, may end up as a second reaction
Handing you back your whetstone, you appear to need it more than I do
Hmmmm... lets see my senior project controlled a radio telescope using the parellel port 10 years ago... wasn't even considered new then, there were internet sites telling you exactly how to do it (well I/O through the parellel port, we had to handle the D-A conversion ourself)
I guess it just suprises people when they use an I/O port to do I/O
When IPv6 ships in a working dual stack environment in a mass market OS, I will consider it. Frankly right now a few fringe OSes have it, but until it is ready for the masses, why bother outside of a lab environment.
To be honest IPv6 is being driven outside the US, specifically in Japan and China, with a slightly later transition in Europe. This is because this is where IP address are not allocated proportionate to the needs of the population (tell me why a US company has 2 class A addresses allocated to it, and frankly a small university in Mass. as well)
The next thing to happen is IPv6 support will have to start being placed in ASICs in switch/router environments, today it isn't worth the transistor counts for the packet levels over the interfaces. When the IPv6 transition starts finally happening, you will see ASIC vendors putting support into their hardware, rather than software
Fine, I will accept that a meterologist can guess fairly well how much CO2 is in the atmosphere today. I fail to see how they could detect where the CO2 came from, was it Canada, the US, China, or Europe that put it there ?
Now we get into local monitoring. Many things that emit greenhouse gasses aren't monitored at all, "cow emmissions" was often laughed at, and I laughed too, remembering driving by pastures with a few cows in them in my youth. I recently drove by a cattle "farm" west of LA that had probably 8-10 square miles of cattle, you could only see their backs they were packed in so tightly. I could smell the methane for miles...
Then there are individual consumer behaviours... Driving cars, mowing lawns, heating homes non-traditionally (ok maybe a fireplace should be considered traditional ). I don't see how these gasses can be computed at all, at best guessed at
Interesting... Lawnmowers (which most in the US at least use a very dirty 2 stroke engine) pollute as much in 30 minutes whacking down the grass as the average commuter puts in their car over the week driving too and from work (driving for 20 minutes each day)... So I am not being petty with the lawnmower comment.
I don't know how things are over in Europe, but most homes/apts here in the US have a fireplace of somekinds, most being gas, but the higher end houses having wood burning fireplaces, this would be very hard to track, and frankly I wouldn't be willing to give up my fireplace (loose gas/electricity in the winter, I want to stay warm SOMEHOW, plus it is fun sitting by the fire on a cold winter day)
The government might know how many cars are on the road, but how many are Hummer2's and how many are Toyota Priuses. Big difference in emmisions.
I still claim the US government wouldn't be able to track a large chunk of emmissions, so would have to "guess" at how much CO2 is being put into the atmosphere (hell they are trying to get credits for planting trees... now you KNOW it is going too far) so might as well say, Yes we are 8% below where we were 20 years ago... but who the hell knows (do we even have an order of magnitude number for the REAL 1990 levels ?)
My understanding was with the economic contraction in Europe between 1990 and 2000 they had all ready met their Kyoto protocol targets (and then some)... So the fact that their emissions going up isn't a big deal.
The other question is who is responsible for measuring the gas output of various things like everybodies lawnmower, fireplace, car, etc.
Kinda glad the US didn't get into this mess, who knows how to enforce it, or even measure compliance
You are obviously after an authentication token, I assume you realize that none of these solutions help with the access control list (figuring out who is allowed to go where/when)
Does your university offer student IDs. I know mine did almost 20 years ago. There is a magnetic strip on it that can be read to determine who's ID it is, then it is just a matter of hooking that up. These are all things that usually exist at a university, other groups have all ready done this, so should be easy to implement (just steal their solution)
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I didn't say the webserver would be running IPsec. However, I would like to see your 1.2 Ghz PIII handle a webserver even at 1 Mbit. The problem isn't the bulk crypto, that is easy, now do 100 Asymetric Crypto operations a second... Oh wait, you can't (well unless you count 512 bit, but then we want real crypto, so lets do 2048)
Also the current IPsec NIC from Intel costs 60 bucks. Can't plug it into FreeSWAN, but Oh well
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Hmmmm... 1.5 Mbit crypto just isn't interesting. Of course that is what most people are dealing with on the client end (if not slower with DSL). However crypto on a server are much more interesting. Do you think a web server will deal with only a simple MB of traffic. For interesting designs I want to look at designs that can pass close to gigabit of encrypted traffic AND the Asymetric crypto to go along with it.
I don't think you could get that out of a 4 way Xeon system
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Should I use FTP or HTTP to allow custommers to download files from my systems. I know that FTP was designed for file transfer, but HTTP is so much easier and user friendly. Which one should I allow my users to use.
Shouldn't the answer be YES, just use whatever works best.
On a real note the IPsec implementation (free/SWAN) is not the best implementation of IPsec in the world, specifically if you are interested look at the OpenBSD IPsec implementation that takes advantage of crypto offload nics that are commonly available today
You said it exactly. Why should I have to learn my editor ???
The Windows editors do not take a learning curve, they just open documents, and let me type away, giving context sensitive help, coding tips, variable expansion, Debug, edit, continue support, and much much more.
I don't want to spend time learning an editor (yes, that is what I am doing now unfortunately) to be productive, I want my editor to make me productive
I've always loved the quote "emacs is a great operating system if only it had a decent editor"
Code editors in Unix are WAY behind what you can get on a windows box. I loved Coderite in its day, now the visual development environments are much better at what emacs does, without the overhead of having to learn a new operating environment.
I'll agree up until the point that you start hiring other people for your business. Are they ALL going to work from their homes as well, or will they drive to your house during the day, parking their cars on the street, etc.
I came really close to starting a business where we were simply going to rent a 1BR apt. for "office space" bring in a DSL line, networking etc. and we are set to go. But as soon as we got larger than 4-5 people this plan wouldn't work.
Basically many US cities have zoning requirements...
You can only build houses in these locations
You can only build heavy industry in these locations
You can only build shopping centers in these locations
The idea is so that you don't have your next door neighbor starting to open a high traffic business in your neighborhood, making the streets, infrastructure support etc. change.
I can't believe you don't have SOME kind of zoning where you are
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I am interested that you know how your network is connected, what applications/protocols you use, and why you set it up the way that you did... Now if you name your machines wifesmachine1, kid1smachine etc. you would probably disclose that, but you can just say well I have this box that is connected this way, and this other box connected another way, etc.
These regulations probably come from the "Prove that you are hiring in line with the local population/applicant pool". Aren't regulations fun
Solves two problems. Are they interested enough to have even bothered hooking two computers up at home, and also depending on how they talk I can get a good understanding of their experience based on what they do from home
I don't expect people just out of college to answer with quite the number of computers as people who have been out in the industry for 10 years
Nothing like having a huge build complete much faster. Turns out that the limit on speed is how fast the machine doing the preprocessing is though.
Company gets the letter, asks their council, "What will it cost to defend ourselves", council says "Three thousand dollars in legal time", but it will only cost us 500 to settle ??? Wow, what a deal...
Send threatening letter
Wait for checks to roll in
Profit I mean it isn't like SCO has any customers now to piss off anyway
Now if you can attach your winnings to every corperation that uses Linux... I'd love to get at the revenue stream of Intel, Sun, Microsoft, Cisco, GM, and every other company out there that has at least a lone Linux box on their Intranet.
This is a legal problem. I assume that you have all of the agreements in place (signed NDAs, Non-Competes, etc.). So from there just monitor what is going on. Frankly if you are loosing your CTO, only developer, etc.you are screwed as a company anyway, so maybe it is time to update your resume and get a head start on the new job search that is most likely coming your way
Now I have to hire a damned lawyer to fight this
I guess I don't understand why CVS won't work for you, I assume you create a record for each drug/whatever and then track them... So you end up with a flat directory structure that holds all of 1,000,000,000 records. If CVS won't work for you maybe you should look into ClearCase or one of the other supported tools that will, you won't own the source to your VCS system, but that isn't what you want, you want to own the database itself
Not all chemicals that are used in the reaction end up in the atmosphere, some are handled by scrubbers, polution reduction devices (ever hear of a catalytic converter), and other technologies. Also simple things make a huge difference in polution output... So where you can say carbon goes in carbon goes out, that wouldn't satisfy the requirements, because the carabon going out may end up as a solid, may end up as a gas, may end up as a second reaction
Handing you back your whetstone, you appear to need it more than I do
I guess it just suprises people when they use an I/O port to do I/O
To be honest IPv6 is being driven outside the US, specifically in Japan and China, with a slightly later transition in Europe. This is because this is where IP address are not allocated proportionate to the needs of the population (tell me why a US company has 2 class A addresses allocated to it, and frankly a small university in Mass. as well)
The next thing to happen is IPv6 support will have to start being placed in ASICs in switch/router environments, today it isn't worth the transistor counts for the packet levels over the interfaces. When the IPv6 transition starts finally happening, you will see ASIC vendors putting support into their hardware, rather than software
Now we get into local monitoring. Many things that emit greenhouse gasses aren't monitored at all, "cow emmissions" was often laughed at, and I laughed too, remembering driving by pastures with a few cows in them in my youth. I recently drove by a cattle "farm" west of LA that had probably 8-10 square miles of cattle, you could only see their backs they were packed in so tightly. I could smell the methane for miles...
Then there are individual consumer behaviours... Driving cars, mowing lawns, heating homes non-traditionally (ok maybe a fireplace should be considered traditional ). I don't see how these gasses can be computed at all, at best guessed at
I don't know how things are over in Europe, but most homes/apts here in the US have a fireplace of somekinds, most being gas, but the higher end houses having wood burning fireplaces, this would be very hard to track, and frankly I wouldn't be willing to give up my fireplace (loose gas/electricity in the winter, I want to stay warm SOMEHOW, plus it is fun sitting by the fire on a cold winter day)
The government might know how many cars are on the road, but how many are Hummer2's and how many are Toyota Priuses. Big difference in emmisions.
I still claim the US government wouldn't be able to track a large chunk of emmissions, so would have to "guess" at how much CO2 is being put into the atmosphere (hell they are trying to get credits for planting trees... now you KNOW it is going too far) so might as well say, Yes we are 8% below where we were 20 years ago... but who the hell knows (do we even have an order of magnitude number for the REAL 1990 levels ?)
The other question is who is responsible for measuring the gas output of various things like everybodies lawnmower, fireplace, car, etc.
Kinda glad the US didn't get into this mess, who knows how to enforce it, or even measure compliance
Who would you pay the fine too ?
I mean you break a city law, you pay a fine to the city government, you break a state law, you pay a fine to the state government...
What is the group that you would pay for breaking a "global law". Or do we just have a country go and invade you to shutdown your polluting industry
Does your university offer student IDs. I know mine did almost 20 years ago. There is a magnetic strip on it that can be read to determine who's ID it is, then it is just a matter of hooking that up. These are all things that usually exist at a university, other groups have all ready done this, so should be easy to implement (just steal their solution)
Also the current IPsec NIC from Intel costs 60 bucks. Can't plug it into FreeSWAN, but Oh well
I don't think you could get that out of a 4 way Xeon system
Shouldn't the answer be YES, just use whatever works best.
On a real note the IPsec implementation (free/SWAN) is not the best implementation of IPsec in the world, specifically if you are interested look at the OpenBSD IPsec implementation that takes advantage of crypto offload nics that are commonly available today
The Windows editors do not take a learning curve, they just open documents, and let me type away, giving context sensitive help, coding tips, variable expansion, Debug, edit, continue support, and much much more.
I don't want to spend time learning an editor (yes, that is what I am doing now unfortunately) to be productive, I want my editor to make me productive
Code editors in Unix are WAY behind what you can get on a windows box. I loved Coderite in its day, now the visual development environments are much better at what emacs does, without the overhead of having to learn a new operating environment.
Watching karma go down by the minute
I came really close to starting a business where we were simply going to rent a 1BR apt. for "office space" bring in a DSL line, networking etc. and we are set to go. But as soon as we got larger than 4-5 people this plan wouldn't work.
You can only build houses in these locations
You can only build heavy industry in these locations
You can only build shopping centers in these locations
The idea is so that you don't have your next door neighbor starting to open a high traffic business in your neighborhood, making the streets, infrastructure support etc. change.
I can't believe you don't have SOME kind of zoning where you are
Not on my system it isn't that easy... Oh well