Back when (as it were), having an open relay was considered a "community courtesy". And secondary-MXing reliable mailservers was something that was done at an emergency basis without asking and on a permanent basis by asking first.
This was common practise at least as late as 1993, but, then, commercial interest in the Internet increased and suddenly it was not a "community courtesy" but an invitation to be "relay raped".
Whether this is good, bad, inevitable or avoidable, I won't try to judge, but I know how it were and I sometimes long for days long lost.
Look here for a very barebones web server. It understands as little as it can get away with (HEAD and GET, sort-of both HTTP 0.9 and 1.0), but it can do redirection, on-the-fly gunzip files and read from named pipes. It doesn't now squat about sockets, so if you want to run it, run it from inetd.
Why do I mention it? All in all, it's a whopping 4035 bytes.
What they've done is selling th ecopyright to Mattel, the copyright has not been publicly licensed, only the license to redistribute and/or modify the code.
The already licenesed copies can't be touched (unless it's demonstrated that teh original authors couldn't hand out GPLed copies), but the original point of distribution must be terminated.
Quote: The same thing hold for Starship Troopers (Why didn't Verhoeven choosed to adapt The Forever War instead?)
Because the *book* "Starship Troopers" is a bit of an eye opener for thinking about the basics of democracy. I mean, why is it that someone of a given age is a better voter than someone younger than that age? Wouldn't basing voting rights on some other abritary (changeable!) characteristic be equally good? You're not allowed to vote if you have a ring finger on your right hand. Here's the knife, be a concerned citizen? You're not allowed to vote if you haven't been working in a hospital. Here's the floor mop, be a concerned citizen. You're not allowed to vote unless you've served in the military. Here's a uniform, be a concerned citizen.
As for being books about military service, I see both ST and FW as being fairly good descriptions...
I'm just sorry there's too much light fixture crap, windows and screens around. I wouldn't mind having my clubs at work, so I could practise them more often...
Though, i must admit, I'm considering taking my juggling-penguins to work, just for the geek value of it!
Compilation-time differs significantly, depending on how tight different modules interact. IIRC, in general, going from X to X*2 MB of code means a larger time-factor for C++ than for C.
If we stipulate roughly one test compile every three hours (not that improbable, I think).
However, in a project of any size where aggregated compile time matters, the regression tests probably would consume even more time, so...
Me, I load the source code into my development environment, develop and test-run and use compile-and-reload just prior to profiling.
I'll try to fill in as much of the rest as I can. I don't guarantee any sort of accurate translation, since I don't really speak and/or read Norwegian. Also, my native tounge is Swedish, not English. Both factors have degraded the quality of the translation. Note that the [comments] are mine:
Wilhelmsen says that he has had great luck, but that it is possible to patent an invention that later becomes very important to many people.Wilhelmsen, who was one of the people who started the internet service www.bilguiden.no, wants to compare his patent with the phone or the cheese slicer
He thinks that many people asks themselves why Bellboy wishes to have a royalty now, many years after the Internet became a success.
"We can probably been seen upon as a wolf, but we had a good idea and applied for a patent in 1993. I know how important patents can be, since I applied for my first 25 years ago", says the man from Kristiansand.
He doesn't want to allude to the size of the royalty he'll ask for. But an agreement with Amadeus, only, could generate astronomous income, when Bellboy gets a few øre [1/100th of a Norwegian Krona] in usage fee from each European flight passenger up until 2013.
[untranslatable passage, my norwegian is too bad]
Now we are looking for more money and alliances with real investors, says Wilhelmsen, but we don't want to give any concrete names. Based on what digi.no has heard, one of those Bellboy have contacted with is the finance celeb Jan Haudemann Andersen.
The company also need money to the fight against those who challenge the patent in the USA, Canada and Japan. Bellboy is also re-establishing the basis for their patent, a phone order system for hotel rooms the company made together with Telenor Link (at that time Telenor Marktech). the new service is supposed to sell reservation services to [untranslatable] actors.
He also did a lot of automata theory, among other things proving the existence of a general automata to compute general recursive functions. Other great work in the same area was made by ??? Tarski and Alonzo Church.
>They made this neat thing called DHCP. And they >have the equivilent for the routers.
The closest I've seen for "automatic configuration" for routers (cisco gear, haven't checked any other) is a BOOTP server, a BOOTP client (usually shut off), a TFTP server and the ability to download a new IOS (the "router kernel") and a new config from a local router.
This isn't, by far, "a neat thing" and it's simpler to do the configuration by hand, from a console, especially when (not "if", "when") something goes haywire.
Luckily enough, I get paid overtime when we need to do something similar and we don't have to change ISP, we are one.
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This was common practise at least as late as 1993, but, then, commercial interest in the Internet increased and suddenly it was not a "community courtesy" but an invitation to be "relay raped".
Whether this is good, bad, inevitable or avoidable, I won't try to judge, but I know how it were and I sometimes long for days long lost.
Why do I mention it? All in all, it's a whopping 4035 bytes.
It was even used as prior art a few years ago, a US company wanted to patent async FPUs and, guess what, the patent wasn't granted!
What they've done is selling th ecopyright to Mattel, the copyright has not been publicly licensed, only the license to redistribute and/or modify the code.
The already licenesed copies can't be touched (unless it's demonstrated that teh original authors couldn't hand out GPLed copies), but the original point of distribution must be terminated.
Strange need for a donkey, man!
Let's see if I can get a good link into the IMDb. Jon Carpenter's first film, IIRC.
"leg godt" = "play well"
Contract and you get 'lego'
Quote:
The same thing hold for Starship Troopers (Why didn't Verhoeven choosed to adapt The Forever War instead?)
Because the *book* "Starship Troopers" is a bit of an eye opener for thinking about the basics of democracy. I mean, why is it that someone of a given age is a better voter than someone younger than that age? Wouldn't basing voting rights on some other abritary (changeable!) characteristic be equally good? You're not allowed to vote if you have a ring finger on your right hand. Here's the knife, be a concerned citizen? You're not allowed to vote if you haven't been working in a hospital. Here's the floor mop, be a concerned citizen. You're not allowed to vote unless you've served in the military. Here's a uniform, be a concerned citizen.
As for being books about military service, I see both ST and FW as being fairly good descriptions...
I'm just sorry there's too much light fixture crap, windows and screens around. I wouldn't mind having my clubs at work, so I could practise them more often...
Though, i must admit, I'm considering taking my juggling-penguins to work, just for the geek value of it!
- Joy-Up/Down Aim Down/Up
- Joy-Left/Right Aim left/right
- Joy-Twist-Left/Right Strafe left/right
- throttle-control Movement
- POV-up/down Move forward/backward
- POV-left/right Strafe left/right
- Front-trigger (Button1) Fire primary weapon
- Fire-buttons on top (3 of them) Prev Weapon - Secondary Weapon - Next Weapon
There are more buttons on that piece of hardware than you can shake a Cyborg3D at...Compilation-time differs significantly, depending on how tight different modules interact. IIRC, in general, going from X to X*2 MB of code means a larger time-factor for C++ than for C.
If we stipulate roughly one test compile every three hours (not that improbable, I think).
However, in a project of any size where aggregated compile time matters, the regression tests probably would consume even more time, so...
Me, I load the source code into my development environment, develop and test-run and use compile-and-reload just prior to profiling.
Wilhelmsen says that he has had great luck, but that it is possible to patent an invention that later becomes very important to many people.Wilhelmsen, who was one of the people who started the internet service www.bilguiden.no, wants to compare his patent with the phone or the cheese slicer
He thinks that many people asks themselves why Bellboy wishes to have a royalty now, many years after the Internet became a success.
"We can probably been seen upon as a wolf, but we had a good idea and applied for a patent in 1993. I know how important patents can be, since I applied for my first 25 years ago", says the man from Kristiansand.
He doesn't want to allude to the size of the royalty he'll ask for. But an agreement with Amadeus, only, could generate astronomous income, when Bellboy gets a few øre [1/100th of a Norwegian Krona] in usage fee from each European flight passenger up until 2013.
[untranslatable passage, my norwegian is too bad]
Now we are looking for more money and alliances with real investors, says Wilhelmsen, but we don't want to give any concrete names. Based on what digi.no has heard, one of those Bellboy have contacted with is the finance celeb Jan Haudemann Andersen.
The company also need money to the fight against those who challenge the patent in the USA, Canada and Japan. Bellboy is also re-establishing the basis for their patent, a phone order system for hotel rooms the company made together with Telenor Link (at that time Telenor Marktech). the new service is supposed to sell reservation services to [untranslatable] actors.
;; Version 1. Indentation fscked up
(defun translate-alien (start end)
"translates Nitrozac's binary message and display in *message* buffer. this is probably *way* longer than needed. Optional boosts:
* Convert one character at a time (either local function or not)
* Gobble up as list, map, then use concat"
(interactive "r")
(let ((message "")
(acc 0))
(save-excursion
(while ( (point) end)
(cond ((or (looking-at "$") (looking-at " "))
(setq message (concat message (list acc)))
(setq acc 0))
((looking-at "1")
(setq acc (+ 1 (* 2 acc))))
((looking-at "0")
(setq acc (+ acc acc)))
)
(forward-char 1)))
(message message)))
;; Version 2, slightly more direct, slightly less memory efficient. Indentation still fux0red up.
(defun translate-alien-2 (start end)
"translates Nitrozac's binary messages to plain text"
(interactive "r")
(let ((nitro-message (read (format "(%s)" (buffer-substring-no-properties start end)))))
(message (concat (mapcar #'(lambda (x)
(let ((acc 0)
(pos 0)
(y (prin1-to-string x)))
(while ( pos (length y))
(setq acc (+ acc acc))
(if (char-equal (aref y pos) ?1)
(setq acc (1+ acc)))
(setq pos (1+ pos)))
acc))
nitro-message)))))
"Prisoner", English TV series in 16 episodes, made in the mid-to-late 60's. Darned good, too.
I've heard the video card in an *old* SGI chirp
when pushing polygons to the screen.
The video board (framebuffer, rendering engine;
whatever) was about A2-size and absolutely
*covered* with ICs.
We thought it as the heat generated. But it was rather cool, in a way, being able to hear how many things were spinning on the screen.
He also did a lot of automata theory, among other things proving the existence of a general automata to compute general recursive functions.
Other great work in the same area was made by ??? Tarski and Alonzo Church.
>They made this neat thing called DHCP. And they >have the equivilent for the routers.
The closest I've seen for "automatic configuration" for routers (cisco gear, haven't checked any other) is a BOOTP server, a BOOTP client (usually shut off), a TFTP server and the ability to download a new IOS (the "router kernel") and a new config from a local router.
This isn't, by far, "a neat thing" and it's simpler to do the configuration by hand, from a console, especially when (not "if", "when") something goes haywire.
Luckily enough, I get paid overtime when we need to do something similar and we don't have to change ISP, we are one.