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  1. Re:And we're supposed to believe this because... ? on Ex-Microsoft Employee On Unix Within The Empire · · Score: 2
    Your reading of the BNF in the RFC is incorrect. I do see two CRLFs, because TWO are required. The definition of Status-Line REQUIRES a CRLF, and the definition of Full-Response REQUIRES both a Status-Line and another CRLF.

    If you're still with me, 1 CRLF + 1 CRLF = 2 CRLFs. Have a nice day.

    Aside from that, the response claims HTTP/1.1, so it is governed by RFC 2616, not RFC 1945.

  2. Re:And we're supposed to believe this because... ? on Ex-Microsoft Employee On Unix Within The Empire · · Score: 2
    I direct your attention to the words of Dean Gaudet, long-time Apache developer and HTTP expert:

    www.hotmail.com IIS/5.0 suckage

  3. Re:And we're supposed to believe this because... ? on Ex-Microsoft Employee On Unix Within The Empire · · Score: 2

    Next time think before opening your mouth and showing the entirety of slashdot what a moron you are.

  4. Employee NDAs on Apple Sues Employee Over Cube Leaks · · Score: 3
    I've been pondering the NDA issue for a while actually. Usually I am a firm believer in the absolute freedom of man and his inviolable ability to make contracts.

    However, I've begun to notice that it simply is not possible for a programmer to gain full time or contract employment without signing an NDA. In essence, there is an intellectual property cartel, whose near-complete grasp on the job market allows it to slowly ratchet up the restrictiveness of employee NDAs.

    The prospective employee could, of course, choose to enter another professions, or start his own company. Or his services might be so valuable that he could have the NDA requirement waived. Nevertheless, it seems like the little guy who is coming right out of college and into an entry level position with a software firm in the United States is getting the shaft. Those other options are not attractive, or even possible.

    Does anyone think that one could make a legal argument that the NDA was signed under protest, or duress, due to the complete industry lockout of anyone who won't sign an NDA?

  5. Re:Sometimes the Web *is* geographic. on U.S. To Re-Administer .US Domain Space · · Score: 2

    In this case, there is not a distinction between the city and county of San Francisco. The entire area of San Francisco county is incorporated in the City of San Francisco, and they are governed by one body.

  6. Re:And we're supposed to believe this because... ? on Ex-Microsoft Employee On Unix Within The Empire · · Score: 2
    Yeah great. It is very instructive to note that the IIS 5.0 server running www.hotmail.com has three serious bugs in its HTTP implementation.
    • 1: It send the response after the first \n in the request
    • 2: It sends only one newline at the end of the response.
    • 3: It does not send 'Connection: close' when it closes the connection.

    Witness the magnificence of this wonderful web server:

    Trying 209.185.243.135...
    Connected to www.hotmail.com.
    Escape character is '^]'.
    HEAD / HTTP/1.0
    HTTP/1.1 302 Redirected
    Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
    Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 15:45:07 GMT
    Location: http://lc2.law5.hotmail.passport.com/cgi-bin/login
    Connection closed by foreign host.

    For almost a month, these bugs prevented Mozilla users from going to http://www.hotmail.com/. Nice product, Bill!

  7. Re:Sometimes the Web *is* geographic. on U.S. To Re-Administer .US Domain Space · · Score: 2

    Makes sense for other companies too. Instead of having bayarea.citysearch.com (which is hard to guess), you could have citysearch.com.sf.ca.us

    Unfortunately, last I heard, it was not possible to acquire a domain in .sf.ca.us. It's a shame that there is no www.sf.ca.us. Also shameful is the state of www.us. sad.

  8. Re:Torpedoes; Help the Family on Slashback: Delays, Torpedos, Revitalization · · Score: 2
    My mistake, folks. I assumed from the displacement that the Kursk was a ballistic missile submarine. I just checked my copy of Soviet Military Power: An Assesment of the Threat, 1988, and it has this to say about the OSCAR-I class submarine (at the time, the OSCAR-II was apparently unknown):
    The OSCAR I-Class nuclear-powered cruise missile attack submarine (SSGN) has slightly over three times the displacement of its functional predecessor, the CHARLIE II-Class SSGN, and can carry 24 ASCMs. In wartime, its 24 submerged-launch SS-N-19 ASCMs will be targeted primarily against NATO carrier battle groups.

    The book also notes that the SS-N-19 has a 550-kilometer range, and that the OSCAR-I displaces 16,000 metric tons. There is a rather good picture of one on page 69.

    Thanks for pointing out my mistake.

  9. Re:Torpedoes; Help the Family on Slashback: Delays, Torpedos, Revitalization · · Score: 2

    Kursk was a ballistic missile sub, not a fast attack.

  10. HTML 4.0 on Australia Orders Olympic Web Site Accessible to Blind · · Score: 2

    If the customer had been smarter, they would have specified HTML 4.01 compliance as a condition of acceptance of the deliverable. The use of the alt attribute for the img element is required by the HTML 4.01 Recommendation

  11. Re:and yet we still go on Hollywood Says If You Support Open Source, You're ... · · Score: 2
    Just to chime in, I haven't seen an MPAA-member studio movie since Fight Club. That includes independent films that are distributed in the US by MPAA members. I also do not own nor do I intend to ever own a DVD player. I also do not own a televsion. I will not buy any piece of electronics marketed by Toshiba (due to Toshiba Machine's transfer of submarine technology to the USSR at the height of the Cold War). I also do not buy anything from Amazon.com, because of their patent situation.

    It's tough with so many boycotts, but you have to stick to your guns to keep your credibility.

  12. Re:The real question is on Google, History, Profitability · · Score: 2

    I'd pay way more than that. Probably $0.02-$0.03 per search. The time savings of using Google is worth it.

  13. Re:Tough Test on Qualcomm Demonstrates 153 kbit/s cellular · · Score: 1
  14. Re:Still no alpha support :-P but no suprise. on X Consortium Announces X11R6.5.1 · · Score: 5

    A lot of the things Linux users have been beefing about are starting to come together. Check out the new veriosn of FreeType, which includes 8-bit anti-aliasing and many nifty rendering features for many different types of fonts. See also the new experimental rendering engine for XFree86 here. Check out those translucent TWM windows. MMMM.

  15. Re:hahaha on More On Kaplan's Ruling Making Links Illegal · · Score: 3

    Nevermind that Valenti's analogy makes no sense, it also isn't really analogous to the 2600 situation at all. Linking to DeCSS is more akin to giving someone the address to the place where they can pick up the keys to their own house!

  16. Slackware on Helix Code Profiled in Boston Globe · · Score: 2
    They aren't going to make a dime off of this user, until they start to support slackware. Harumph.

    It isn't that hard to work with slackware. Honestly, all the installer needs to do is suck down tarballs (or even RPMs, since that comes with slackware, too), and untar them! It's easy! Viva la Slackware!

  17. Re:That's it! on Kmeleon - Windows Gecko Browser · · Score: 2

    $ cd mozilla-src
    $ echo "ac_add_options --disable-mailnews" >> ~/.mozconfig
    $ make -f client.mk

    Your point is taken, but mozilla can be built without its mail and news.

  18. Re:Fastest IDE hard drive, not that fast on A Look At the Fastest IDE Drive Yet · · Score: 2

    Your facts are a little crooked there. A RAID of five 9 GB drives could have a capacity ranging from 9 GB (bizarre 5-way redundancy), to 45 GB (no redunancy, but very fast). My point still stands: you can used SCSI equipment with the same or higher capacity and vastly superior performance, for the same price as a new ATA drive.

  19. Re:Fastest IDE hard drive, not that fast on A Look At the Fastest IDE Drive Yet · · Score: 2
    I just checked Ebay, and you can buy five (5) Seagate Barracuda 9LP drives for a total of $77.50. Not only is each of these drives faster than an IBM Deskstar GXP, the five of them put together in a RAID will positively smoke the GXP.

    I realize that comparing used to new is unfair, but i'm not the one who brought up the price to performance ratio. The best bang for your buck is by far used SCSi drives.

  20. Re:Fastest IDE hard drive, not that fast on A Look At the Fastest IDE Drive Yet · · Score: 2
    Okay, you had a 3' SCSI cable that costs $70. How much does a 3' UltraATA cable cost? That's right, you can't buy one at any price.

    I found a 3' Ultra2 LVD cable for sale here for only $45 dollars. 6' VHDCI SCSI cables are going for $93 at the same place. Still inifitely less than a 3' or 6' UltraATA cable.

    For internal use, a 22-inch Ultra2 cable costs $17, which an 18-inch UltraATA costs $2. Neither price is likely to put off most computer buyers.

    Finally, comparing current SCSI prices with current ATA prices is bogus, because the current SCSI product is many time better than the current ATA product. It's apples to oranges. If you find SCSI drives that perform on par with the fastest ATA drives, which is not easy, you will find their prices are reasonable. In fact, even crusty old SCSI drives like the Seagate Barracuda 4LP, introduced almost 5 years ago, still take the fastest ATA drives to town. Surely you could find a farm full of used Barracuda 4LPs for only a few hundred dollars, string them together into a software RAID array, and have vastly superior disk throughput than you would if you bought a shiny new IBM Deskstar GXP.

  21. Re:SCSI sucks for home use. on A Look At the Fastest IDE Drive Yet · · Score: 2

    I didn't say windows, I said "the software", which includes the vendor's drivers.

  22. Re:SCSI sucks for home use. on A Look At the Fastest IDE Drive Yet · · Score: 2
    Trying to make a scsi cdrom, burner, hard drive(s), and other goodies from different manufactuters work and boot Windows was hell on earth

    Dare I suggest that the software was your problem? I've never understood how CD-Rs are supported in WinNT. It seems like you install one, and windows creates a bunch of drive letters for it. Then if you actually want to burn, your burning software has to grab the device some other way. Ugh.

    In Linux, I've never had the first problem with disks, scanners, cdrom, cd-rw, and the rest competing. I've had devices that just weren't supported properly, but that never had the effect of destabilizing the entre bus.

  23. Fastest IDE hard drive, not that fast on A Look At the Fastest IDE Drive Yet · · Score: 5
    Compare the fastest IDE hard drive (IBM 75 GXP), with the fastest SCSI hard drive (Seagate X15), using the IOMeter benchmark's workstation access pattern:
    • Total I/O per second: X15 117% faster
    • Total throughput: X15 116% faster
    • Average I/O response: X15 53% faster
    Thanks to Storage Review for the benchmark figures.

    And remember kids, maximum length on those UltraATA cables is 18 inches(!), versus a luxurious 12 meters for Ultra160 SCSI, which transfers data much more quickly anyway.

  24. Re:IPO Obsession on Transmeta Files For IPO · · Score: 3
    You answered your own question. A venture-funded tech company is expected to become publicly held in not-too-much time. When the venture partners are major staeholders in your company, there can be a lot of pressure to get the IPO out the door.

    Also the wild stock market gyrations are irrelevant. Once the stock has gone out the door, the company has made its money. The capital is already raised, regardless of whether the stock roller-coasters, or tanks, or stays level.

  25. Re:He who had more than one VAX had VAXen. on Last Chance To Order A Vax · · Score: 1

    The Texas A&M CIS replaced their remaining VAXen in 1995. The cluster, whose nodes were named after constellations IIRC, was replaced by two Alpha machines running VMS with the uninspiring names vms1 and vms2. The Alphas absolutely smoked them in performance. There may have been VAX machines lingering in some departmental backroom, but I never saw any!