Actually I got significantly
betterperformance running
Linux -> w4l 4.0 -> Win 95 -> MS Project
on the same hardware that I previously ran just
Win 95 and MS project on.
Seems like having actual memory management
code and a file system was sufficient to speed
up a P133 from 'unacceptably slow" to
"pretty quick".
And the right of reply is something that makes it
safe to make critical comments in email or
news. Because the person/organization can
reply, they can't go to a court and say
"they slandered me and won't let me
defend myself, so make them give me money".
Of course, that's mostly useful in non-litigatious countries (;-))
New International Top-Level Domains
IAHC-Draft
David Collier-Brown Category: Informational
Private Person Expires June 2, 1997
December 1996
New International Top-Level Domains
Status of this Memo
This document is an IAHC-Draft. IAHC-Drafts are working
documents invited by the Internet International Ad-Hoc
Committee.
IAHC-Drafts are draft documents and may be updated, replaced, or
made obsolete by other documents at any time. It is
inappropriate to use IAHC Drafts as reference material or to cite
them other than as ``work in progress.''
Introduction
This is a formal proposal and recommendation to the IAHC on
the creation of new commercial TLD names and the selection of
registries to carry out registration in them.
Policies
In this section, I set out the ends
and restrictions on them in the form of policies which will
inform the specific selections which follow.
The Internet Society should not
engage in trade. Instead it and its component committees should set
policy and standardize technical and practical
issues in areas subject to such policy.
The management of registries should
operate under common law. There is no need to make law, but
only to arrange the operation of registries so that they
may obey the laws of their jurisdictions, and have access
to the lawful conflict resolution mechanisms of those
jurisdictions.
The selection of TLD names
be compatible with trademark law. Where
(sub)domain names are indistinguishable from trademarks, the
same law should apply.
Maximize the choices available to
registries and their customers, the registrants.
Leave as much as possible up to the
organizations desiring domains as possible, specifically
including what kind of domain to register in and therefor
what risks and benefits they wish to accept and achieve.
The selection of names and
registries be compatible with previous proposals.
Requests and offers
made to the IANA in light of early proposals should be
considered in the selection of TLD names and registries.
The mechanisms should be patterned after traditional ones.
This specifically includes successful policies from the
trademark and copyright areas, such as providing public
announcements and periods for objections to be made.
Minimize rulemaking, now and in the future.
Cease to be involved as soon as can reasonably be
achieved.
Specifically, do not create new bodies, but instead return day-to-day
management of the namespace to IANA.
Define end dates Similarly, rules employed
to ease the creation of a system of registration in new
TLDs should cease to apply once a system is in place.
Customer's Selection of Domains
Before setting out policies, it is advantageous to expand the
principle of maximizing the choice of customers: that of to
letting customers decide what TLDs they wish to be in, while
setting ground rules so that have the opportunity to do so
without harming others.
This lets us see what results for the most affected community
are, and broadly hints at what must be done to achieve useful
results.
So let us then consider the customers' desires in selecting a
commercial TLD, given a broad choice of at least existing
(``.com''), categorical (eg, ``.oil') and synonymous (eg,
``.biz'') TLDs.
A customer wishing to use a domain name that would
cause trademark disputes (say, ``standard''), would
register itself in a category where they either
had or could obtain a trademark registration,
(say, ``.oil'').
The customer would need to realize that there is
a tradeoff: for some period web browsers wouldn't find
them without user intervention.
A customer desiring visibility or broad categorization
would use the existing ``.com'' (eg, american.com),
knowing that they would have to accept the
limited namespace there, and other problems.
"Right to reply" was and is one of the
distinguishing characteristics of
mailing-lists and news. Because one could
reply to a post/email which criticised you,
you had an alternative to suing.
This makes it harder to sue: the
judge says "Did you write a letter to the editor, and was it published?" If you haven't used your
right of reply, you may not get standing to sue.
In non-litigatious countries, this means
fewer frivolous lawsuits clogging up the
courts.
A pair of colleagues once had a management structure
that wasn't prepared to listen to concerns like
burnout, overwork and at least one bout of fisticuffs.
So everyone in the department wore good clothes one day, and said they
had appointmenets later in the day, without saying
what kind.
Eventually the VP accounting (who had been the
receiver for one of my old employers) noticed
that something was suspicious and went looking
for someone to ask about their part of
the management tree.
Actually the high-end machines are heavily
used to get database performance, while clustering
is used predominantly for HPC (ie, FORTRAN) cores.
Somewhat different markets.
There are laws of war that the U.S. generally
obeys: the best-known ones are the Geneva
Conventions on the treatment of prisoners
of war.
However, the exact same rules apply to
countries as people: your right to swing
your arm stops at the end of my nose,
unless I just hit me in the snozz.
It is genuinely unusual for the U.S.
to break this one: it was carefull
to justify its entry into Afganistan,
in hot persuit of the people who attaced
it. The justification for Iran is less clear.
The U.N. and its security council was created by
a widely signed treaty, heavily supported by the
U.S. It debates and defines issues of international lay, subject to the treaty and the consent of its members.
The security council serves as a
suitable body to debate justification,
and in cases of imminant peril, speaks
with the authority of its forming nations
in demanding obedience to international law
and in asking its members for military
force to prevent breaches of that law.
drgroove wrote: Samba's existence is vastly important to the adoption by corporate management of perceived 'alternate' computing systems
Tridge is doing a good thing, but I really
would like to see additional work on single-signon
without converting my Unix datacenter to use
NT servers as DCs (;-))
The part that makes me happy is the
idea of running other threads when one blocks
on a memory fetch: my own experiments (with
Samba and smbclient) in a benchmark show 80% of the time I'm waiting for
a cache update from main memory, 20% of
the time I'm making progress.
Being able to
run a different thread until it blocks,
then another and so on is a good idea,
especially for a small server (4 threads per core, 8 cores per die, 32 threads per chip).
This is being targeted for low-cost chipsets/boards
like the blade servers, so it hits my area of interest right smack on the head.
In most jurisdictions, a library must keep
a record of the number of books borrowed
per month. To do so, they may keep a record of the user
who borrowed a particular book for a maximum
30 days after the book was returned or paid for.
What do yopu mean when we go digital? We're already digital
in Toronto, and the choices are actually worse.
The new digital channeles have been gobbled up
by the companies already owning newspapers
and television stations. The scarcity may not
be there any longer, but the media companies have adapted to the
additional supply by a traditional polyopolist's
trick: buying up all the suppliers!
[The challenge was to reply to the "luddite" charge,
so...]
Just like the military, I want to protect myself with secrecy.
I want my bank accounts kept secret,
for example, so thieves can't get at them.
The
only time I want the bank releasing information
about them is when a judge signs a search warrent.
surprise_audit wrote If the MPAA can keep on pursuing Jon, regardless of his acquittal [...] then surely there's a lot of other folks that should be seriously worried right now.
The U.S is fortunate in having a
good "double jeopardy" principle. In
other countries, including ones
following the same British judicial
tradition, the prosecution can appeal
acquittals.
If I read the article correctly, this
is an appeal on a point of law, not
a whole new trial on the facts, so
Denmark is slightly better than Canada
at protecting its citizens from being
tried and retried until convicted.
This concern was raised at the time
and appears to have caused the insertion
of a clause allowing doing so for
interoperability. Alas, in law one
cannot escape prosecution for breach,
one simply has a defense if you take
the risk of proceeding.
In my considered opinion, the
exception was not intended to
function, from which it follows
that the intention is to prevent
the reverse-engineering of future
IBM PCs.
Er, the president of the (A)PEO said in his
annual-meeting keynote speech least year that
the PEO should either support software engineering
or get out if the practitioners's way.
I work for an organisation who has offices in different places. I am required as a
matter of international corporate
policy to use a kind of VPN over the public internet when using the public internet to communicate with work.
I wonder if I can work in Michigan and communicate with my employer?... On
the face if it, no (;-))
A more recently passed law says "X is permitted". This overrides the earlier one which said "X is prohibited". This is distinctly stronger than
discussions about possibly overriding the
prohibition.
FyRE666 writes: I assume from the article they're thinking of creating a new desktop machine.
They aren't trying to: like Scott, I wouldn't care to play
in the no-economies-of-scale marketplace
unless I made hardware (eg, intel) which
wouldn't scale (:-))
I read the article the same way the chap
with SunRays at home does: put a small server
behind something that can use a standardized smartcard and you have a seriously inexpensive
and somewhat more secure home network.
If you put a laptop behind the same
card you have a more secure laptop, which
is something I personally want (on my RH8
Fujitsu).
Put the same smartcard-capable tubes
in at work and you get a scalable
business system: if you need
more space, jam another shelf of RAID drive
into the rack. If you need Star Office to run faster, put it on a single larger server, so the
code pages are shared between all the copies,
instead of competing for space in memory or
instead of buying memory cards for every machine
in the office. And if you need more CPU,
plug in another CPU board or another inexpensive
Linux server.
--dave (who is seriously biased, you understand) c-b
This happened three different times in the trials
of Dr. Henry Morgenthaler: he attempted to argue
necessity, the judge ordered the Jury out of
the room, ordered the defence to not use
the arguement or even mention
the term
and let the jury back in. Three times the jury
acquitted, on the basis of necessity.
This is sometimes called "jury nullification",
as juries in the British tradition explicitly
can override the letter of the law.
(The cases are one of Canada's rare brushes
with the question of abortion, something which seemed to be a constant subject of discussion
and legislation when I lived in Minneapolis)
Actually it's more open than the U.S.
This is a preliminary hearing, which we use in place of grand juries.
Unlike a grand jury, the accused is allowed to have a lawyer present throughout the hearing, and the press and public are allowed to
be present.
This is to ensure that the hearing does what it's supposed to do: lay out the Crown's case
so that the court can decide if a trieal should be
ordered, and allow the accused to know what the evidence is against him.
The Samba book (on which I was the second author)
is also under a free content licence, described at http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/licen seinfo.html
And it jumped off the shelves, despite
substantial competition.
University of Toronto used to include Kraft's
"Programmers and Managers, the Routinization of Computer Porgramming in the United States" New York (Springer-Verlag), 1977 in the first-year
curriculum.
This monograph pointed out that programmers and certain classes of engineer are "in high, out early" careers. The author suggested 3-6 years
was about as long as one could expect to work
before switching to management, or being
replaced by new, low-priced juniors.
It hasn't changed much since then: only a small
number of companies (mine, notably!) actually
like having experienced engineers.
--dave
Sidebar: the secure OS on Sparc already exists
on
Sun vs. OpenBSD?
·
· Score: 1
dazdaz wrote... an Ultra secure operating
system based on Sparc hardware is a
very interesting one. A whole new niche
market could be opening up here.
Actually that's a moderately secure (C1 or C2)
operating system on the Sparc hardware: the ultra-secure
OS on the hardware is Trusted Solaris (B2).
Open BSD is a seriously good C system,
but it's way below even a B3 system. Heck,
even Microsoft got C2 once upon a time for NT,
mostly by pulling the networking out.
I'm running Trusted Solaris right now,
on a junk Ultra 1 in my
basement... Mostly because I get homesick for Multics.
Slashdot Mirror
Seems like having actual memory management code and a file system was sufficient to speed up a P133 from 'unacceptably slow" to "pretty quick".
--dave
Of course, that's mostly useful in non-litigatious countries (;-))
--dave
Status of this Memo
This document is an IAHC-Draft. IAHC-Drafts are working documents invited by the Internet International Ad-Hoc Committee.
IAHC-Drafts are draft documents and may be updated, replaced, or made obsolete by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use IAHC Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as ``work in progress.''
Introduction
This is a formal proposal and recommendation to the IAHC on the creation of new commercial TLD names and the selection of registries to carry out registration in them.
Policies
In this section, I set out the ends and restrictions on them in the form of policies which will inform the specific selections which follow.
The Internet Society should not engage in trade. Instead it and its component committees should set policy and standardize technical and practical issues in areas subject to such policy.
The management of registries should operate under common law. There is no need to make law, but only to arrange the operation of registries so that they may obey the laws of their jurisdictions, and have access to the lawful conflict resolution mechanisms of those jurisdictions.
The selection of TLD names be compatible with trademark law. Where (sub)domain names are indistinguishable from trademarks, the same law should apply.
Maximize the choices available to registries and their customers, the registrants. Leave as much as possible up to the organizations desiring domains as possible, specifically including what kind of domain to register in and therefor what risks and benefits they wish to accept and achieve.
The selection of names and registries be compatible with previous proposals. Requests and offers made to the IANA in light of early proposals should be considered in the selection of TLD names and registries.
The mechanisms should be patterned after traditional ones. This specifically includes successful policies from the trademark and copyright areas, such as providing public announcements and periods for objections to be made.
Minimize rulemaking, now and in the future. Cease to be involved as soon as can reasonably be achieved. Specifically, do not create new bodies, but instead return day-to-day management of the namespace to IANA.
Define end dates Similarly, rules employed to ease the creation of a system of registration in new TLDs should cease to apply once a system is in place.
Customer's Selection of Domains
Before setting out policies, it is advantageous to expand the principle of maximizing the choice of customers: that of to letting customers decide what TLDs they wish to be in, while setting ground rules so that have the opportunity to do so without harming others.
This lets us see what results for the most affected community are, and broadly hints at what must be done to achieve useful results.
So let us then consider the customers' desires in selecting a commercial TLD, given a broad choice of at least existing (``.com''), categorical (eg, ``.oil') and synonymous (eg, ``.biz'') TLDs.
The customer would need to realize that there is a tradeoff: for some period web browsers wouldn't find them without user intervention.
Those include, in the short term, the
This makes it harder to sue: the judge says "Did you write a letter to the editor, and was it published?" If you haven't used your right of reply, you may not get standing to sue.
In non-litigatious countries, this means fewer frivolous lawsuits clogging up the courts.
--dave
So everyone in the department wore good clothes one day, and said they had appointmenets later in the day, without saying what kind.
Eventually the VP accounting (who had been the receiver for one of my old employers) noticed that something was suspicious and went looking for someone to ask about their part of the management tree.
--dave
--dave (who is biased, you understand) c-b
We kept using the term for years at Honeywell, notably for a valiant effort to build a good DPS-6.
--dave (formerly DRBrown.TSDC@HI-Multics.ARPA) c-b
However, the exact same rules apply to countries as people: your right to swing your arm stops at the end of my nose, unless I just hit me in the snozz.
It is genuinely unusual for the U.S. to break this one: it was carefull to justify its entry into Afganistan, in hot persuit of the people who attaced it. The justification for Iran is less clear.
The U.N. and its security council was created by a widely signed treaty, heavily supported by the U.S. It debates and defines issues of international lay, subject to the treaty and the consent of its members.
The security council serves as a suitable body to debate justification, and in cases of imminant peril, speaks with the authority of its forming nations in demanding obedience to international law and in asking its members for military force to prevent breaches of that law.
Samba's existence is vastly important to the adoption by corporate management of perceived 'alternate' computing systems
Tridge is doing a good thing, but I really would like to see additional work on single-signon without converting my Unix datacenter to use NT servers as DCs (;-))
--dave (unix bigot) c-bevolve or perish, because you're next..
The chips are evolving, as described in the Marc Tremblay interview at Ace's Hardware.
The part that makes me happy is the idea of running other threads when one blocks on a memory fetch: my own experiments (with Samba and smbclient) in a benchmark show 80% of the time I'm waiting for a cache update from main memory, 20% of the time I'm making progress.
Being able to run a different thread until it blocks, then another and so on is a good idea, especially for a small server (4 threads per core, 8 cores per die, 32 threads per chip). This is being targeted for low-cost chipsets/boards like the blade servers, so it hits my area of interest right smack on the head.
In most jurisdictions, a library must keep a record of the number of books borrowed per month. To do so, they may keep a record of the user who borrowed a particular book for a maximum 30 days after the book was returned or paid for.
The new digital channeles have been gobbled up by the companies already owning newspapers and television stations. The scarcity may not be there any longer, but the media companies have adapted to the additional supply by a traditional polyopolist's trick: buying up all the suppliers!
Just like the military, I want to protect myself with secrecy.
I want my bank accounts kept secret, for example, so thieves can't get at them.
The only time I want the bank releasing information about them is when a judge signs a search warrent.
If the MPAA can keep on pursuing Jon, regardless of his acquittal [...] then surely there's a lot of other folks that should be seriously worried right now.
The U.S is fortunate in having a good "double jeopardy" principle. In other countries, including ones following the same British judicial tradition, the prosecution can appeal acquittals.
If I read the article correctly, this is an appeal on a point of law, not a whole new trial on the facts, so Denmark is slightly better than Canada at protecting its citizens from being tried and retried until convicted.
In my considered opinion, the exception was not intended to function, from which it follows that the intention is to prevent the reverse-engineering of future IBM PCs.
Er, the president of the (A)PEO said in his annual-meeting keynote speech least year that the PEO should either support software engineering or get out if the practitioners's way.
I work for an organisation who has offices in different places. I am required as a matter of international corporate policy to use a kind of VPN over the public internet when using the public internet to communicate with work.
I wonder if I can work in Michigan and communicate with my employer? ... On
the face if it, no (;-))
A more recently passed law says "X is permitted". This overrides the earlier one which said "X is prohibited". This is distinctly stronger than discussions about possibly overriding the prohibition.
They aren't trying to: like Scott, I wouldn't care to play in the no-economies-of-scale marketplace unless I made hardware (eg, intel) which wouldn't scale (:-))
I read the article the same way the chap with SunRays at home does: put a small server behind something that can use a standardized smartcard and you have a seriously inexpensive and somewhat more secure home network.
If you put a laptop behind the same card you have a more secure laptop, which is something I personally want (on my RH8 Fujitsu).
Put the same smartcard-capable tubes in at work and you get a scalable business system: if you need more space, jam another shelf of RAID drive into the rack. If you need Star Office to run faster, put it on a single larger server, so the code pages are shared between all the copies, instead of competing for space in memory or instead of buying memory cards for every machine in the office. And if you need more CPU, plug in another CPU board or another inexpensive Linux server.
--dave (who is seriously biased, you understand) c-b
If you put your PDC on a machine with reasonable redundancy, you don't need a BDC. If you can't afford any downtime, put it on a cluster.
--dave (unix bigot, you understand) c-b
This is sometimes called "jury nullification", as juries in the British tradition explicitly can override the letter of the law.
(The cases are one of Canada's rare brushes with the question of abortion, something which seemed to be a constant subject of discussion and legislation when I lived in Minneapolis)
Unlike a grand jury, the accused is allowed to have a lawyer present throughout the hearing, and the press and public are allowed to be present.
This is to ensure that the hearing does what it's supposed to do: lay out the Crown's case so that the court can decide if a trieal should be ordered, and allow the accused to know what the evidence is against him.
And it jumped off the shelves, despite substantial competition.
--dave
This monograph pointed out that programmers and certain classes of engineer are "in high, out early" careers. The author suggested 3-6 years was about as long as one could expect to work before switching to management, or being replaced by new, low-priced juniors.
It hasn't changed much since then: only a small number of companies (mine, notably!) actually like having experienced engineers.
--dave
Actually that's a moderately secure (C1 or C2) operating system on the Sparc hardware: the ultra-secure OS on the hardware is Trusted Solaris (B2).
Open BSD is a seriously good C system, but it's way below even a B3 system. Heck, even Microsoft got C2 once upon a time for NT, mostly by pulling the networking out.
I'm running Trusted Solaris right now, on a junk Ultra 1 in my basement... Mostly because I get homesick for Multics.
--dave