whereiswaldo wrote: No kidding. It's pretty bad when the first I hear of stuff like this is on Slashdot.
It was on the CBC yesterday, with the lack of warrents
being a major point of contention. Don't expect
to hear about it in the U.S., though: it's a "cooperation
with our neighbours" initiative (;-))
Joking aside, even with this light load Xsun is driven by Nerdscape, and lord knows Netscape could stand the ability to
run a number of threads to keep up with pages I launch,
instead of it's current sloth-like behavior.
When I'm doing useful work on the machine
(running Teamquest Model, for one thing) it used to be
unresponsive. I've since improved it a lot
by enabling SRM and the fair-share scheduler, so I
could run background jobs in a different
project with a restricted share of the CPU.
. That's a good technique to ration out
cycles, but I'd really prefer to have more to use.
Then I could have responsiveness and performance.
My workstation is running 72 threads, and top (prstat)
says that seven of them are active
while I'm browsing, sending email
and watching a script on a remote
machine run...
Sounds like I could use 8 threads
minumum, way more if I'm unit-testing
a three-tier app.
Send a perl programs that changes all the fields
that might be sensitive, so that the person
can test and convince themselves thye're not
going to leak information to you.
That will make them realize that you understand some of the constraints they
are under, and that you'e a nice person (:-))
As to the changing data, take a pair of
techniques from the database world.
If
- you can always add a column
- you have a "nil" value to stand
in place of any missing data, and
- all your calculations know that
nil + 1 = nil, then
Your existing program can still
do all the computations that are
defined on whatever data they give you.
Then report the data change
as a bug and write code for it, too.
[Apologies for answering my own question,
but I found it on groklaw minutes later]
Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Thursday, November 10 2005 @ 03:45 PM EST
Judge James Spencer presiding over NTP's legal battle with Blackberry maker Research in Motion (RIM) this week said it was "highly unlikely" he would wait for a US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) verdict on the validity of NTP's intellectual property before making his own judgement on the matter.
This makes no sense. There is only one patent remaining of the eight that the USPTO has yet to rule invalid.
Articles at http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2005/11/10/rim_vs _ntp/
and http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06/24/uspto_null s_ntp_patents/
It seems silly to use a weak force when we know
how to apply considerable force directly to an
unstable medium... Think ship- or barge-like
hull of considerable size, with a rocket
mounted amidships, pointed up.
Why pages? Because it's awfuly hard to stick a finger in
between electrons.
Right now on my desk I have
two manuals open, and a pen stuck in at the page
in one where the diagram is.
To do this with e-books I would need three,
two for one manual and one for the other, plus
some DRM workaround to allow me to have the
two displaying different pages of the one
manual.
And I still wouldn't care to take
any of the curerent e-books into the tub.
--dave (yes, I do read technical manuals in the tub) c-b
One of the first experiments in providing
books in html and pdf was done by Tim O'Reilly
and Andy Oram, with "Using Samba".
Useful, printable sections and chapters were
available free and shipped with every copy of
samba.
The result? The printed book leaped off the shelves.
You see, it's a total pain to read a laptop in the bathtub,
and if you print a book ar magazine yourself on normal (thick!)
paper, it is too big and clumsy to carry.
I don't expect one-page newsletters to survive
web publishing. I do expect newspapers,
magazines and books to continue to exist until
I can get a 300 page ebook 1 inch thick. Which
means each page needs to be less than 0.003" thick.
The rules applyto U.S. companies, not
resellers. The U.S. government can't
pass a law that says, for example, that
an Irish reseller must not deal with Scotland.
What they can do is make rules that the
U.S. Company must contract with the
Irish reseller to not deal with
illegal celtic states (;-))
Alas, this only punishes the U.S.
company, and only after
the reseller breaks the contract.
Google, Sun plan partnership
By Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com
Sun Microsystems and Google plan to announce a collaborative effort that some analysts speculate could elevate the profile of the OpenOffice.org and Java software packages.
O'Reilly and friends index their books
and provide a search service which shows you excerpts.
If you search for "full text indexing" at
Safari you'll get a list of books
discussing indexing, and the first item in the menus is an excerpt from a page on full-text indexing in Que's Special Edition Using Microsoft® Exchange 2000 Server.
You can buy the book or just pay to read it online, your choice.
Actually use both: distribute binaries
as binaries, configuration and xml files
as subversion files, both via rsync.
On the customer site, run a script that
applies a visual file merge to any
config files that have changed both places.
The customer will have a good chance of recognizing
changes they've made, and if there are clashes
will tend to call you on the phone and
ask
what to do next.
There are A1 systems by the orange book criteria,
all of which which have small, provably secure security kernels.
This amounts to an existance proof that the first
point is in error.
Alas, Ckwop is right in saying it's hard (:-))
You indeed need to limit the thing you propose to
have secure.
Depending on the degree of migration
work involved, you may want to engage someone
who's managed large moves away from
Microsoft solutions.
If this were my company's move, I'd
try to get John Terpstra of
the Samba team to consult with us. See
http://us1.samba.org/samba/team/ for
contact information.
Slashdot Mirror
It was on the CBC yesterday, with the lack of warrents being a major point of contention. Don't expect to hear about it in the U.S., though: it's a "cooperation with our neighbours" initiative (;-))
--dave
--dave
Joking aside, even with this light load Xsun is driven by Nerdscape, and lord knows Netscape could stand the ability to run a number of threads to keep up with pages I launch, instead of it's current sloth-like behavior.
When I'm doing useful work on the machine (running Teamquest Model, for one thing) it used to be unresponsive. I've since improved it a lot by enabling SRM and the fair-share scheduler, so I could run background jobs in a different project with a restricted share of the CPU.
. That's a good technique to ration out cycles, but I'd really prefer to have more to use. Then I could have responsiveness and performance.
--dave (still biased) c-b
Sounds like I could use 8 threads minumum, way more if I'm unit-testing a three-tier app.
--dave (seriously biased, you understand) c-b
--dave (who went to university in KW) c-b
--davecb
That will make them realize that you understand some of the constraints they are under, and that you'e a nice person (:-))
In particular, transform
http://www.sin.com/porno into
193'd-seen-HTTP-address
--dave
--dave
- you can always add a column
- you have a "nil" value to stand in place of any missing data, and
- all your calculations know that nil + 1 = nil, then
Your existing program can still do all the computations that are defined on whatever data they give you.
Then report the data change as a bug and write code for it, too.
--dave
Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Thursday, November 10 2005 @ 03:45 PM ESTs _ntp/
and http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06/24/uspto_null s_ntp_patents/
Judge James Spencer presiding over NTP's legal battle with Blackberry maker Research in Motion (RIM) this week said it was "highly unlikely" he would wait for a US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) verdict on the validity of NTP's intellectual property before making his own judgement on the matter.
This makes no sense. There is only one patent remaining of the eight that the USPTO has yet to rule invalid.
Articles at http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2005/11/10/rim_v
--dave
Companies can do the competing over money.
--dave (who works for a conpany and definitely likes money (:-)) c-b
--dave
Right now on my desk I have two manuals open, and a pen stuck in at the page in one where the diagram is.
To do this with e-books I would need three, two for one manual and one for the other, plus some DRM workaround to allow me to have the two displaying different pages of the one manual.
And I still wouldn't care to take any of the curerent e-books into the tub.
--dave (yes, I do read technical manuals in the tub) c-b
Useful, printable sections and chapters were available free and shipped with every copy of samba.
The result? The printed book leaped off the shelves.
You see, it's a total pain to read a laptop in the bathtub, and if you print a book ar magazine yourself on normal (thick!) paper, it is too big and clumsy to carry.
I don't expect one-page newsletters to survive web publishing. I do expect newspapers, magazines and books to continue to exist until I can get a 300 page ebook 1 inch thick. Which means each page needs to be less than 0.003" thick.
--dave
--dave
See Foley and Van Dam, Fundamentals of Interactive Computer Graphics Addison-Wesley, 1982
It's become increasingly popular, as it sounds like it should be Latin.
--dave
I expect it's hard even when you get to use human intelligence.
--dave
What they can do is make rules that the U.S. Company must contract with the Irish reseller to not deal with illegal celtic states (;-))
Alas, this only punishes the U.S. company, and only after the reseller breaks the contract.
--dave
Google, Sun plan partnership
By Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com
Sun Microsystems and Google plan to announce a collaborative effort that some analysts speculate could elevate the profile of the OpenOffice.org and Java software packages.
See http://news.com.com/2102-1012_3-5887923.html?tag=s t.util.print
O'Reilly and friends index their books and provide a search service which shows you excerpts.
If you search for "full text indexing" at Safari you'll get a list of books discussing indexing, and the first item in the menus is an excerpt from a page on full-text indexing in Que's Special Edition Using Microsoft® Exchange 2000 Server.
You can buy the book or just pay to read it online, your choice.
--dave
On the customer site, run a script that applies a visual file merge to any config files that have changed both places. The customer will have a good chance of recognizing changes they've made, and if there are clashes will tend to call you on the phone and ask what to do next.
--dave
Alas, Ckwop is right in saying it's hard (:-)) You indeed need to limit the thing you propose to have secure.
--dave
When Siemens Electric were using Linux 0.98 machines as print and occasional file servers.
If this were my company's move, I'd try to get John Terpstra of the Samba team to consult with us. See http://us1.samba.org/samba/team/ for contact information.
--dave