OK, so Lucas has an excuse -- but what about Straczynski? His CBS deal with Chris Carter is off, so maybe he can persuade WB to cut a deal for those anamorphic Dolby 5.1 DVD versions of the episodes of Babylon 5 we're still waiting for.... thanks for listening! -- Paul Gillingwater
I wonder if this is the same system that Jaguar cars developed last year? http://www.eet.com/news/98/1013news/night-vision.h tml http://www.babousa.org/viv.html -- Paul Gillingwater
Nothing wrong with my connection. I can post on Slashdot (the definitive statement for being well-connected in this modern world) and can traceroute quite happily to the Mars Lander site. I suspect there's something unusual happening with the funky load balancing/Caching/DNS magic described in the technical document. I'm sure I won't be the only person experiencing problems reaching the site -- and yes, I did try several times.:-) -- Paul Gillingwater
Just in case someone wants to debug this, here's a traceroute from where I am.
1 ibmcisco.iaea.org (195.212.98.65) 13 ms 6 ms 5 ms 2 vien1br1.vi.at.ibm.net (152.158.32.1) 51 ms 47 ms 80 ms 3 ehni1br1.eh.de.ibm.net (152.158.2.1) 88 ms 63 ms 103 ms 4 ehni1br2-10-0-0.eh.de.ibm.net (152.158.0.18) 55 ms 36 ms 36 ms 5 beth1ar2-8-0-23.md.us.prserv.net (165.87.97.214) 128 ms 138 ms 149 ms 6 beth1br1-ge-1-0-0-0.md.us.prserv.net (165.87.29.122) 137 ms 139 ms 131 ms 7 atla1br1-12-0-5.ga.us.prserv.net (165.87.230.1) 149 ms 148 ms 147 ms 8 atla1sr2-2-0-0.ga.us.prserv.net (165.87.234.4) 147 ms 158 ms 146 ms 9 165.87.101.253 (165.87.101.253) 152 ms 155 ms 159 ms 10 corerouter2.Atlanta.cw.net (204.70.9.143) 146 ms 156 ms 149 ms 11 corerouter1.WillowSprings.cw.net (204.70.9.135) 168 ms 195 ms 170 ms 12 acr1-loopback.Chicagochd.cw.net (208.172.2.61) 179 ms 183 ms 172 ms 13 208.172.3.2 (208.172.3.2) 189 ms 176 ms 180 ms 14 * www.marspolarlander.com (204.71.169.2) 176 ms 171 ms
Looks like the Webmaster needs to rethink his configuration. I notice even Slashdot.org's advertising banners sometimes don't appear -- would you believe that the advertisers get Slashdotted too?:-) ERROR The requested URL could not be retrieved
There has been some work (apparently) done in the area of an intermediate representation language for machine translation of human languages, by a team of people associated with the United Nations University in Tokyo. They claim to have had a conference on the topic on November 18th, but there's no indication of progress or announcements since then on their Web page. -- Paul Gillingwater
For those with an interest in the scientific mainstream of Nuclear Fusion work internationally, check out the IAEA Nuclear Fusion journal at http://epub.iaea.or.at/fusion/ -- Paul Gillingwater
In fact it's quite simple to run Linux under Windoze (at least, Windows NT 4.0), and vice versa -- simply install VMWare. It's easy to install, seems stable and provides most of the functionality needed for both platforms. I even persuaded my boss to install Corel Linux on his NT machine once he saw how easy it was! -- Paul Gillingwater
Indeed, the revolution is nearly here, but many people still fail to understand the implications of a powerful convergence technology like Bluetooth, which will allow automatic synchronization of one's PDA and Mobile phone (we call 'em "Handys" in Central Europe) with the desktop PC.
Future Mobiles will have GSM (in Europe and enlightened places like Manhattan) as well as Bluetooth for pico-net connections. And Bluetooth also means eliminating cables -- who needs a USB cable when you can run USB protocols over Bluetooth, and connect your keyboard, printer, mouse, PDA, Phone and wearable HUD using wireless?
With suitable repeaters, this can enable roaming within an organization, and with IEEE 802.11 bridging, can allow for wider roaming for a truly wireless experience.
The future is coming fast, and it will be a lot of fun! -- Paul Gillingwater
For those who are interested, last year's General Assembly had a Resolution (PDF file) on developing an internationally coordinated approach to combatting the threat of cyber-terrorism, such as the recent hostilities between Indian and Pakistan, and the Serbia versus NATO incidents. The UN General Assembly is meeting again this week, and this issue is on the Agenda, with support from Russia.
What do./ers think? Would you like to see international policy development undertaken by the United Nations towards developing international principles that would enhance the security of global information and telecommunications systems and help to combat information terrorism and criminality? Or is this something that the Internet Society should be doing? I note that Vint Cerf is promoting the idea of a Law of Cyberspace, similar to the existing United Nations Law of the Sea.
My feeling is that like it or not, future skirmishes will be fought on a digital battleground, and governments will need to cooperate to fight cyber-terrorism.
It's very informative to see all these comments on different applications development environments. I've been working with Perl for database access for around 5 years, and would like to try some of these new tools.
My question however relates to IIS, with which I am less familiar. Which of the various tools that run on IIS allow for user authentication against an LDAP server, so that one can control static pages as well as dynamically-generated data? I know how to use ADSI to retrieve LDAP credentials, but am wondering which methods most developers are using for authentication.
Do you use the username/password pair from a form, or use the browser's Basic authentication feature? And which of these tools will support the use of X.509 for authentication? Any pointers on this would be very welcome. Thanks! -- Paul Gillingwater
Slashdot Mirror
OK, so Lucas has an excuse -- but what about Straczynski? His CBS deal with Chris Carter is off, so maybe he can persuade WB to cut a deal for those anamorphic Dolby 5.1 DVD versions of the episodes of Babylon 5 we're still waiting for.... thanks for listening!
--
Paul Gillingwater
I wonder if this is the same system that Jaguar cars developed last year? http://www.eet.com/news/98/1013news/night-vision.h tml http://www.babousa.org/viv.html
--
Paul Gillingwater
Nothing wrong with my connection. I can post on Slashdot (the definitive statement for being well-connected in this modern world) and can traceroute quite happily to the Mars Lander site. I suspect there's something unusual happening with the funky load balancing/Caching/DNS magic described in the technical document. I'm sure I won't be the only person experiencing problems reaching the site -- and yes, I did try several times. :-)
--
Paul Gillingwater
1 ibmcisco.iaea.org (195.212.98.65) 13 ms 6 ms 5 ms
2 vien1br1.vi.at.ibm.net (152.158.32.1) 51 ms 47 ms 80 ms
3 ehni1br1.eh.de.ibm.net (152.158.2.1) 88 ms 63 ms 103 ms
4 ehni1br2-10-0-0.eh.de.ibm.net (152.158.0.18) 55 ms 36 ms 36 ms
5 beth1ar2-8-0-23.md.us.prserv.net (165.87.97.214) 128 ms 138 ms 149 ms
6 beth1br1-ge-1-0-0-0.md.us.prserv.net (165.87.29.122) 137 ms 139 ms 131 ms
7 atla1br1-12-0-5.ga.us.prserv.net (165.87.230.1) 149 ms 148 ms 147 ms
8 atla1sr2-2-0-0.ga.us.prserv.net (165.87.234.4) 147 ms 158 ms 146 ms
9 165.87.101.253 (165.87.101.253) 152 ms 155 ms 159 ms
10 corerouter2.Atlanta.cw.net (204.70.9.143) 146 ms 156 ms 149 ms
11 corerouter1.WillowSprings.cw.net (204.70.9.135) 168 ms 195 ms 170 ms
12 acr1-loopback.Chicagochd.cw.net (208.172.2.61) 179 ms 183 ms 172 ms
13 208.172.3.2 (208.172.3.2) 189 ms 176 ms 180 ms
14 * www.marspolarlander.com (204.71.169.2) 176 ms 171 ms
--
Paul Gillingwater
While trying to retrieve the URL: http://www.marspolarlander.com/
The following error was encountered:
The system returned: (79) Connection refused
This means that: The remote site or server may be down. Please try again soon.
Generated by squid/1.1.9@cache.iaea.org
--
Paul Gillingwater
There has been some work (apparently) done in the area of an intermediate representation language for machine translation of human languages, by a team of people associated with the United Nations University in Tokyo. They claim to have had a conference on the topic on November 18th, but there's no indication of progress or announcements since then on their Web page.
--
Paul Gillingwater
For those with an interest in the scientific mainstream of Nuclear Fusion work internationally, check out the IAEA Nuclear Fusion journal at http://epub.iaea.or.at/fusion/
--
Paul Gillingwater
In fact it's quite simple to run Linux under Windoze (at least, Windows NT 4.0), and vice versa -- simply install VMWare. It's easy to install, seems stable and provides most of the functionality needed for both platforms. I even persuaded my boss to install Corel Linux on his NT machine once he saw how easy it was!
-- Paul Gillingwater
HTTP/1.1 Server Too Busy
-- Paul Gillingwater
Future Mobiles will have GSM (in Europe and enlightened places like Manhattan) as well as Bluetooth for pico-net connections. And Bluetooth also means eliminating cables -- who needs a USB cable when you can run USB protocols over Bluetooth, and connect your keyboard, printer, mouse, PDA, Phone and wearable HUD using wireless?
With suitable repeaters, this can enable roaming within an organization, and with IEEE 802.11 bridging, can allow for wider roaming for a truly wireless experience.
The future is coming fast, and it will be a lot of fun!
-- Paul Gillingwater
What do ./ers think? Would you like to see international policy development undertaken by the United Nations towards developing international principles that would enhance the security of global information and telecommunications systems and help to combat information terrorism and criminality? Or is this something that the Internet Society should be doing? I note that Vint Cerf is promoting the idea of a Law of Cyberspace, similar to the existing United Nations Law of the Sea.
My feeling is that like it or not, future skirmishes will be fought on a digital battleground, and governments will need to cooperate to fight cyber-terrorism.
-- Paul Gillingwater
It's very informative to see all these comments on different applications development environments. I've been working with Perl for database access for around 5 years, and would like to try some of these new tools.
My question however relates to IIS, with which I am less familiar. Which of the various tools that run on IIS allow for user authentication against an LDAP server, so that one can control static pages as well as dynamically-generated data? I know how to use ADSI to retrieve LDAP credentials, but am wondering which methods most developers are using for authentication.
Do you use the username/password pair from a form, or use the browser's Basic authentication feature? And which of these tools will support the use of X.509 for authentication? Any pointers on this would be very welcome. Thanks!
-- Paul Gillingwater