User: Richard W.M. Jones

Re:Superdebuggers

On: How Would You Improve Today's Debugging Tools?

Back in about '95 I wrote a patch to do exactly this. See:

http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~phjk/BoundsChecking.html and http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/Haj.Ten.Brugge/

Rich.

Re:If domains are not property, I want my money ba

On: California Supremes To Decide If Domains Are Property

There selling the service of linking the domain name to an ip address. (or a DNS server anyhow).

I run my own DNS server, so they aren't selling me that.

There not really selling a domain name, you can't take it away with you i.e. it's useless without a TLD entry.

I can take it to another provider.

A good analogy is that they are selling me an easy to remember phone number, or perhaps a listing in a very popular business directory.

If someone writes to the telephone company, forging a letter saying that I want to give up my 800-sex-com number, I have a good right to be annoyed if the telephone company believes the letter and doesn't even bother to make a follow-up call to me.

Rich.

Re:XP with Databases

On: Evolutionary Database Design

I find that testing "code with side-effects" (ie: database inserts) is the hardest type of code to test, and I haven't yet found a solution that satisfies me.

One way to test these things which I've found worked in the past was to put the whole test inside a transaction, and roll back the transaction at the end of the test.

Rich.

pools

On: Secure, Efficient and Easy C programming

For safe and efficient pools and Perl-like datatypes in C, use c2lib. </ad>

Rich.

Spammers attack archives with copyright threats

On: Spam Archive opening FTP service December 4

As reported in Ask Slashdot (but it didn't make it to the front page), the Great Spam Archive (est. about 3 years ago) has just received a threat of legal action from a spammer over, of all things, copyright infringement.

Rich.

Re:Hello?

On: Can Copyright Apply to SPAM?

Problem is that like many people, I can't afford to ask a lawyer, particularly for every pseudo-legal notice I might receive running the spam archive.

Rich.

Re:This comes down to..

On: An Overview of the Boa Web Server

But today, when 90% of the stuff served (besides images) by web servers are dynamic content, why does a web server like this get a headline?

<plug>

Very true. That's why you need a web server like rws which is tiny, and loads C-based CGIs into memory, and has a full database layer.

</plug>

Rich.

rws

On: An Overview of the Boa Web Server

Or rws which let's you use C to write CGI scripts that are loaded into the server at run time (for extreme speed), and has database access, and hence is much more useful for dynamic webpages.

Rich.

There are already many spam archives

On: SpamArchive.org Launched

You can find many of them listed from my spam archive :-)

Rich.

whitelists - can be effective

On: Email (As We Know It) Doomed?

I moved to a complete whitelist solution about 3 years ago. Previously I used to use the "Bcc" method of filtering, but stopped doing that after a friend invited me to a party, and it accidentally got chucked in my (public) spam archive.

$ wc -l .whitelist
804 .whitelist

It works, but it's a pain, and I still have to manually check the spam folder once in a while to catch people writing to me out of the blue about my software. And there are still a few false positives in the archive (tell me about them, and I'll try and weed them out).

Rich.

Gratuitous spam archive advert: http://www.annexia.org/spam/

Re:SVG

On: SVG 1.1 Becomes W3C Proposed Recomendation

There is.

Rich.

http://www.annexia.org/