Why was this article modded up so much? Jordy doesn't seem to have read the original article, or understood the issues behind it.
If the root servers are having trouble handling... they should be upgraded
The article explicitly says this is not the case.
To improve on this, BIND could up the maximum negative RR cache default time to live.
If you'd read the analysis you'd know this is completely beside the point. It doesn't explain the single host that was asking for the same non-existent TLD 20 times per second. Also you'll note that the busiest hosts appear to be running Windows: 7.5% of all traffic is attributable to a bug in w2k (for which a patch has been released but evidently not applied).
The few hundred abusers aren't going to be affected by changes in BIND.
Or, of course just use sh -c "sleep 10; killall -9.bugtraq"&
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Sorry, wrong. The character '' is a fully-paid up member of ISO 8859-1, the default charset on the Web.
You can spell it ² as well.
The worst offenders are the "smart quotes" and various dashes.
`...perl's bastardised version of OOP; which, BTW, sucks balls.'
Well, I'm in that category. I came first to Perl 5 (having used Perl 2..4) then tried to make sense of C++. Not pretty.
Larry's done a remarkably good job of adding OO semantics to Perl. And has had one hell of a good idea: splitting bless from creation of the object. I put this on a par with Unix's split of fork and exec, which allows flexibility unknown to other OSes.
I have used Perl a lot; and of my programs about 10% have used the OO semantics. They are handy, but not worldbeaters. There is a problem set that can use OO, but it's not everything by any stretch. If there really is a set of "objects", maybe. Otherwise not.
Hmm.. I just tried topclick. Bright orange background. Blue-on-blue menus. Tiny sans-serif fonts. Oh, and then monospaced fonts on the result pages. Why?
Sorry - it's AI-Andy. The site still doesn't mention F1, though. There's an uncaptioned picture of motor racing which I'm not expert enough to identify.
The "F1" appears only in/. article - the site itself calls it "AI-Indy" - which suggests that it's "Indycar" racing. This is much easier than F1 for AI, with a wide oval track being used. Not that it's easy in an absolute sense.
When I see a blantantly false statement "high-frequency data is lost"... 'missing harmonics -- known as "fundamental"' then the rest of the article has zero plausibility.
Sorry, guys, the "Fundamental" is the Lowest frequency, not the highest. And MP3 doesn't delete high frequencies; it's much more subtle. Try out Lame in variable bit-rate mode, and you'll find the quality is pretty good.
Of course CD is better - it loses no info and has a high Nyquist frequency. But a sensibly high MP3 is pretty good.
European users can note that there's also an NFS server at sunsite.org.uk - you can go to, say, 193.63.255.4:/public/packages/linux/slackware/slac kware-7.0/slakware
Well, claim 1 of the patent 5,914,941 does say 'portable'.
But I agree, there's lots of prior art for claim 1. Here's another solid one: the Psion 3a palmtop was released in 1993, and has everything claimed in claim 1. Including "a keypad for effecting control of said apparatus" (what will these people think of next!).
Hmm.. Actually, claim 1 says compressed. Prior art for this, pre 1995?
I know that US patent law differs from every other country's (it's AFAIK the only country to use date-of-invention rather than date-of-filing, which causes a lot of trouble), but I'd be disappointed if most of the claims 2-17 didn't fail on the grounds of obviousness, even if prior art didn't exist. (And, for instance, claim 16 is predated by the NICAM system in Europe - I don't know if digital interleaved audio is used on TV in the USA)
I don't know what ATI board you're thinking of, but your figures just don't tally. Here's my modeline:
Modeline "1600x1200" 202.50 1600 1664 1856 2160 1200 1201 1204 1250 +hsync +vsync This comes out at 75Hz. I don't know or care how well it performs under Windoze, and since the original poster mentioned the Gimp, I suppose he doesn't either.
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The article explicitly says this is not the case.If you'd read the analysis you'd know this is completely beside the point. It doesn't explain the single host that was asking for the same non-existent TLD 20 times per second. Also you'll note that the busiest hosts appear to be running Windows: 7.5% of all traffic is attributable to a bug in w2k (for which a patch has been released but evidently not applied).
The few hundred abusers aren't going to be affected by changes in BIND.
Or, of course just use .bugtraq"&
sh -c "sleep 10; killall -9
Sorry, wrong. The character '' is a fully-paid up member of ISO 8859-1, the default charset on the Web. You can spell it ² as well. The worst offenders are the "smart quotes" and various dashes.
Well, I'm in that category. I came first to Perl 5 (having used Perl 2..4) then tried to make sense of C++. Not pretty.
Larry's done a remarkably good job of adding OO semantics to Perl. And has had one hell of a good idea: splitting bless from creation of the object. I put this on a par with Unix's split of fork and exec, which allows flexibility unknown to other OSes.
I have used Perl a lot; and of my programs about 10% have used the OO semantics. They are handy, but not worldbeaters. There is a problem set that can use OO, but it's not everything by any stretch. If there really is a set of "objects", maybe. Otherwise not.
Just my £0.02 (worth a bit more than $0.02).
Hmm.. I just tried topclick. Bright orange background. Blue-on-blue menus. Tiny sans-serif fonts. Oh, and then monospaced fonts on the result pages. Why?
I won't be troubling them again.
Sorry - it's AI-Andy. The site still doesn't mention F1, though. There's an uncaptioned picture of motor racing which I'm not expert enough to identify.
The "F1" appears only in /. article - the site itself calls it "AI-Indy" - which suggests that it's "Indycar" racing. This is much easier than F1 for AI, with a wide oval track being used. Not that it's easy in an absolute sense.
Sorry, guys, the "Fundamental" is the Lowest frequency, not the highest. And MP3 doesn't delete high frequencies; it's much more subtle. Try out Lame in variable bit-rate mode, and you'll find the quality is pretty good.
Of course CD is better - it loses no info and has a high Nyquist frequency. But a sensibly high MP3 is pretty good.
European users can note that there's also an NFS server at sunsite.org.uk - you can go to, say, 193.63.255.4:/public/packages/linux/slackware/slac kware-7.0/slakware
But I agree, there's lots of prior art for claim 1. Here's another solid one: the Psion 3a palmtop was released in 1993, and has everything claimed in claim 1. Including "a keypad for effecting control of said apparatus" (what will these people think of next!).
Hmm.. Actually, claim 1 says compressed. Prior art for this, pre 1995?
I know that US patent law differs from every other country's (it's AFAIK the only country to use date-of-invention rather than date-of-filing, which causes a lot of trouble), but I'd be disappointed if most of the claims 2-17 didn't fail on the grounds of obviousness, even if prior art didn't exist. (And, for instance, claim 16 is predated by the NICAM system in Europe - I don't know if digital interleaved audio is used on TV in the USA)
I don't know what ATI board you're thinking of, but your figures just don't tally. Here's my modeline:
Modeline "1600x1200" 202.50 1600 1664 1856 2160 1200 1201 1204 1250 +hsync +vsync
This comes out at 75Hz.
I don't know or care how well it performs under Windoze, and since the original poster mentioned the Gimp, I suppose he doesn't either.
"I have all 7 seasons of Red Dwarf on tape already"
Make that 8, BTW: series VIII has just finished on the "real" BBC.