Yeah, that's part of the contract. Millions of $$$, right? Redundancy is only one step, though. If something kills one node its gonna come after N+1 nodes eventually unless you get it fixed fast.
Yeah, he's forgetting (or ignoring) the non-japanese market when he spins this yarn. He's forgetting that the Ami word processor was much better regarded on windows 3.x, and kicked ass (and didn't have bugs that were "features" like once in a while the entire document becomes 14pt courier).
The japanese word processor he was talking about probably had the same issue Ami did - namely, as I recall, M$ holding out on fully revealing the new API's until after launch to give their new word processor an advantage.
What's the key management? If one of the reader units are removed from the sture, how hard is it to use it to get a valid key that can read all other prada rfid tags?
How hard is it to break into the readers that the store's using? Can you have to floor people direct people to randong items?
If the tags themselves are hard to game, can someone game the rest of the system?
You're just trolling. You certianly would get this kind of headline for finding bugs in postfix, qmail, or courier. However they seem to have been done better then sendmail. Sendmail was coded when programming was crap, when C standards were only a gleam in ANSI's eye, and its just hobbled along since then.
The main difference is that modern MTA's don't play the bad programming monolithic one-process-does-everything but tries to drop prives in the right place game. They separate their functions to limit their exposure.
So don't apologizing for bad programming. Sendmail is a bad program. Those who use it have had to upgrade at least once a year forever to prevent their systems from getting 0wned.
Does it matter that the code in question was 'removed from the code because it was ugly'?
It does matter. SCO has claimed that the code and the methods that they believe infringe are so centraly and so relevant to linux that it can't run without it. However so far the code they've shown has proven to be replaceable and relatively unimportant.
-Peter
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Unfortunately it doesn't look like it would do much to stop spamming, which is the major problem with the current internet mail infrastructure. For that, we need some way to make sending bulk email costly to spammers.
It does a lot. Now spammers rely on ephemeral servers to blast mail to your mailbox and then they dissapear.
With the sending mail server having to store its outbound messages spammers have to keep a system alive and running for their spam to ever get to you. That's a big difference! Suddenly they're accountable and they can't get to you without your being able to track them down.
So, pretty soon we're going to be able to pay more for equipment that's moderately faster, doesn't go as far, and costs more. Oh, and doesn't have jack in terms of linux/*bsd support.
And without that, we can expect nothing but tennis shoes from these people now or in the future.
I'm probably at the other end of the political spectrum from you, but I agree with the points you make.
I do want to state my opinion on one thing though.
I hate to sound overly dramatic or inflammitory, but if we don't demand adequate living and working conditions in the places we get our goods we in the first world could probably expect revolution, terrorism, and other such unpleasantness in and from our third world sweatshop countries (colonies?).
However, something that I haven't seen mentioned so far in this discussion is that Nike's competitors are reputed to maintain contracts that require better working conditions then what is present in Nike's own contracted factories.
Also, I have to note that from what I've read, even doubling factory workers wages wouldn't impact Nike's profits since they tend to pay any one of their prime celebrity figureheads (Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, etc.) more then all of their third-world factory workers combined.
Jar-Jar may go beyond mere foe, through the intersection of enemy, past menace corner, and onto the 8-lane superhighway called nemisis. In fact the only way I'd play the game is if it presented a mission to hunt down and torture that misbegotten flop-eared two-legged rat.
pine and mutt can both work over an IMAP or IMAPS connection, which means that you don't have to give them local shell access if you know how to set up a virtual host setup.
Good stuff for security. No ssh, no telnet, less web (most have mildly horrible interfaces).
The format is pretty flexible. From the above page, the important part is:
For versions 1.04 and above:
You may include a client location on each line.
The line is ignored for clients outside that location.
Client locations are specified by
% lines:
%
lo:ipprefix
means that IP addresses starting with ipprefix
are in location lo.
lo
is a sequence of one or two ASCII letters.
A client is in only one location;
longer prefixes override shorter prefixes.
For example,
specifies that
jupiter.heaven.af.mil
has address 192.168.1.2 for clients in the 192.168.* network
and address 1.2.3.4 for everyone else.
This shows, using the shorthand "in" for internal and "ex" for external, the syntax for creating the equivelant of bind's views. Its pretty flexible. And not hard at all.
I do wish that djb could have made his format a bit more consistant, but when I think about it its probably impossible considering that DNS requires some oddbal fields. Having written a parser, its pretty darn easy to read and parse, especially compared to trying to compare it to the bind format after an axfr, where it keeps redifining "@".
It was pointed out on the nylug-talk list that the advisory doesn't seem to include any info about whether nominum, paul vixie, or the ISC was notified about the bug.
Does anyone know if ISS did the right thing, or are they being big doo-doo-heads?
I recall that at the time macworld was giving people a lot of bogus advice about cd drives. I seem to recall that they thought that it wasn't useful to buy a 4x cdrom drive because quicktime movies were authored to be played at 2x. Never mind the faster drive access and transfer speeds, the editors didn't make the writers talk about that at all.
Anyway, it just goes to show what kind of advice macworld gives. They tend to say some odd things, and I'd never base my purchasing decisions on their reviews. If they decry dvd's, check their facts carefully.
You missed that little announcement from Cray, didn't you? AMD's hammer got tapped to be at the core of a honkin' big Cray server - its probably less work to build big NUMA boxes with hammers. Sounds like that's exactly where intel wants to be, but isn't at the moment.
I'm not sure I follow your math, but if an organization bout 1,000 copies, they'd get a discount. If they bought 10,000 copies, they'd get a huge discount - if I were the CTO or purchasing manager I'd demand at least a 50% discount. So your point stands, but I think that you missed a zero in the 385,995 pounds UK estimate.
Being a vegeterian, I've chased down many a tomato and claimed the rights of the victor with my bare teeth, its flesh and juices staining my incisors and my throat.
M$ s claiming the right to waste this company's time and money by basicly sending in their clipboard-clutching marauders to take their employees off of their computers during work hours to confirm that all of their software is licensed.
The kicker is that even if the software was purchased legally, if documented proof isn't present (like I bought it last year at the store, and brought it in, and threw the receipt out) then the company can be fined.
So contrary to what you state, the wise CIO will do his or her best to get rid of a company stupid enough to try to cannibalize their hard-won, money-paying customers to squeeze them for services they don't need.
What about private schools? Essentially a "business" who earns it's money by charging tuition. Surely THEY shouldn't be exempt from full-on licensing expenses.
Where did you get that crazy notion? Most private schools are not-for-profit. Trying to operate a for-profit school is like trying to race a tractor in a formula 1 meet. Maybe you can imagine it on paper, but if you go for it you're not going to get very far, and no-one's going to have much faith in you.
Seriously - check out how many of your area private schools are actually for-profit institutions. I think only recent things that count on vouchers try to be profitable, and they're not doing so hot.
2.4 is in no way stable yet. There are so many combinations of hardware that cause it to flake its not funny. I'm not saying that the hardware that I've had problems with is perfect, but I've got a laptop that didn't crash until I put 2.4 on it, and I've got a SMP desktop that didn't crash until I put 2.4 on it. And mostly what I got for each was a longer compile cycle:(
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Yeah, that's part of the contract. Millions of $$$, right? Redundancy is only one step, though. If something kills one node its gonna come after N+1 nodes eventually unless you get it fixed fast.
-Peter
Yeah, he's forgetting (or ignoring) the non-japanese market when he spins this yarn. He's forgetting that the Ami word processor was much better regarded on windows 3.x, and kicked ass (and didn't have bugs that were "features" like once in a while the entire document becomes 14pt courier).
The japanese word processor he was talking about probably had the same issue Ami did - namely, as I recall, M$ holding out on fully revealing the new API's until after launch to give their new word processor an advantage.
-Peter
the liquid crystals will decompose through electrolysis
So he should work on hair removal while he's on this project?
-Peter
So other questions are:
What's the key management? If one of the reader units are removed from the sture, how hard is it to use it to get a valid key that can read all other prada rfid tags?
How hard is it to break into the readers that the store's using? Can you have to floor people direct people to randong items?
If the tags themselves are hard to game, can someone game the rest of the system?
-Peter
Searching around the corrected link you posted seems to show that they only support windows and netware.
-Peter
You're just trolling. You certianly would get this kind of headline for finding bugs in postfix, qmail, or courier. However they seem to have been done better then sendmail. Sendmail was coded when programming was crap, when C standards were only a gleam in ANSI's eye, and its just hobbled along since then.
The main difference is that modern MTA's don't play the bad programming monolithic one-process-does-everything but tries to drop prives in the right place game. They separate their functions to limit their exposure.
So don't apologizing for bad programming. Sendmail is a bad program. Those who use it have had to upgrade at least once a year forever to prevent their systems from getting 0wned.
-Peter
It does matter. SCO has claimed that the code and the methods that they believe infringe are so centraly and so relevant to linux that it can't run without it. However so far the code they've shown has proven to be replaceable and relatively unimportant.
-Peter
Unfortunately it doesn't look like it would do much to stop spamming, which is the major problem with the current internet mail infrastructure. For that, we need some way to make sending bulk email costly to spammers.
It does a lot. Now spammers rely on ephemeral servers to blast mail to your mailbox and then they dissapear.
With the sending mail server having to store its outbound messages spammers have to keep a system alive and running for their spam to ever get to you. That's a big difference! Suddenly they're accountable and they can't get to you without your being able to track them down.
-Peter
Agreed. This isn't a review. Its just a spoiler. Next time telling us about the writing, the characters, etc. would be most helpful.
-Peter
So, pretty soon we're going to be able to pay more for equipment that's moderately faster, doesn't go as far, and costs more. Oh, and doesn't have jack in terms of linux/*bsd support.
F33r! Terra! The hype is coming!
-Peter
I'm probably at the other end of the political spectrum from you, but I agree with the points you make.
I do want to state my opinion on one thing though. I hate to sound overly dramatic or inflammitory, but if we don't demand adequate living and working conditions in the places we get our goods we in the first world could probably expect revolution, terrorism, and other such unpleasantness in and from our third world sweatshop countries (colonies?).
However, something that I haven't seen mentioned so far in this discussion is that Nike's competitors are reputed to maintain contracts that require better working conditions then what is present in Nike's own contracted factories.
Also, I have to note that from what I've read, even doubling factory workers wages wouldn't impact Nike's profits since they tend to pay any one of their prime celebrity figureheads (Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, etc.) more then all of their third-world factory workers combined.
Think about that last one.
-Peter
Jar-Jar may go beyond mere foe, through the intersection of enemy, past menace corner, and onto the 8-lane superhighway called nemisis. In fact the only way I'd play the game is if it presented a mission to hunt down and torture that misbegotten flop-eared two-legged rat.
-Peter
pine and mutt can both work over an IMAP or IMAPS connection, which means that you don't have to give them local shell access if you know how to set up a virtual host setup.
Good stuff for security. No ssh, no telnet, less web (most have mildly horrible interfaces).
-Peter
I've read and patched djb code. Its among the best code I've read, and has taught me a lot about how to program.
While you're free to criticize it because you can't understand it, that lack minly demonstrates that you don't have a competant grasp of C.
-Peter
This shows, using the shorthand "in" for internal and "ex" for external, the syntax for creating the equivelant of bind's views. Its pretty flexible. And not hard at all.
I do wish that djb could have made his format a bit more consistant, but when I think about it its probably impossible considering that DNS requires some oddbal fields. Having written a parser, its pretty darn easy to read and parse, especially compared to trying to compare it to the bind format after an axfr, where it keeps redifining "@".
-Peter
It was pointed out on the nylug-talk list that the advisory doesn't seem to include any info about whether nominum, paul vixie, or the ISC was notified about the bug.
Does anyone know if ISS did the right thing, or are they being big doo-doo-heads?
-Peter
I recall that at the time macworld was giving people a lot of bogus advice about cd drives. I seem to recall that they thought that it wasn't useful to buy a 4x cdrom drive because quicktime movies were authored to be played at 2x. Never mind the faster drive access and transfer speeds, the editors didn't make the writers talk about that at all.
Anyway, it just goes to show what kind of advice macworld gives. They tend to say some odd things, and I'd never base my purchasing decisions on their reviews. If they decry dvd's, check their facts carefully.
-Peter
You missed that little announcement from Cray, didn't you? AMD's hammer got tapped to be at the core of a honkin' big Cray server - its probably less work to build big NUMA boxes with hammers. Sounds like that's exactly where intel wants to be, but isn't at the moment.
-Peter
I'm not sure I follow your math, but if an organization bout 1,000 copies, they'd get a discount. If they bought 10,000 copies, they'd get a huge discount - if I were the CTO or purchasing manager I'd demand at least a 50% discount. So your point stands, but I think that you missed a zero in the 385,995 pounds UK estimate.
-Peter
That price should be list. See if it isn't less on the shelves.
-Peter
Being a vegeterian, I've chased down many a tomato and claimed the rights of the victor with my bare teeth, its flesh and juices staining my incisors and my throat.
:)
So there
Silly troll.
M$ s claiming the right to waste this company's time and money by basicly sending in their clipboard-clutching marauders to take their employees off of their computers during work hours to confirm that all of their software is licensed.
The kicker is that even if the software was purchased legally, if documented proof isn't present (like I bought it last year at the store, and brought it in, and threw the receipt out) then the company can be fined.
So contrary to what you state, the wise CIO will do his or her best to get rid of a company stupid enough to try to cannibalize their hard-won, money-paying customers to squeeze them for services they don't need.
-Peter
Where did you get that crazy notion? Most private schools are not-for-profit. Trying to operate a for-profit school is like trying to race a tractor in a formula 1 meet. Maybe you can imagine it on paper, but if you go for it you're not going to get very far, and no-one's going to have much faith in you.
Seriously - check out how many of your area private schools are actually for-profit institutions. I think only recent things that count on vouchers try to be profitable, and they're not doing so hot.
-Peter
2.4 is in no way stable yet. There are so many combinations of hardware that cause it to flake its not funny. I'm not saying that the hardware that I've had problems with is perfect, but I've got a laptop that didn't crash until I put 2.4 on it, and I've got a SMP desktop that didn't crash until I put 2.4 on it. And mostly what I got for each was a longer compile cycle :(
-Peter
Too bad. There are lots of us :)