Hmm, so, a magazine of disks and disk players and a robotic arm to move things around, a computer, memory, and a fancy computer program. This sounds like the backup and archive server at my school.
Subscriber station is a communications interface (NIC), a terminal (computer), a demultiplexer (What is that exactly? A part of the NIC? A part of the OS?), a data rate expansion circuit (AKA a decompressor, like for a gzip archive), a digital-to-analog converter (graphics card), a transducer (monitor)
So, they appear to be patenting this process as well:
robotic tape library fileserver network workstation gunzip less monitor
I'm relatively sure that's been around for at least fifteen years or so, if not more.
One other point of note is how secure an operating system is _out_of_the_box_. For example, when I get a brand new Mac OS X machine, plug it into the net, and turn it on, it has 0 probability of getting rooted, because no services are running. This is true of a completely unpatched OS. On the other hand, if I install a brand new Windows box and connect it to the internet, it will usually be rooted within a day, because it starts 6-7 services automatically, ones that may have serious security holes or other problems. A Linux box is not particularly better than Windows in that respect, although the services generally have fewer holes, because it has a bunch of stuff in/etc/inetd.conf and several RPC services running.
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Hmm, so, a magazine of disks and disk players and a robotic arm to move things around, a computer, memory, and a fancy computer program. This sounds like the backup and archive server at my school.
Subscriber station is a communications interface (NIC), a terminal (computer), a demultiplexer (What is that exactly? A part of the NIC? A part of the OS?), a data rate expansion circuit (AKA a decompressor, like for a gzip archive), a digital-to-analog converter (graphics card), a transducer (monitor)
So, they appear to be patenting this process as well:
robotic tape library fileserver network workstation gunzip less monitor
I'm relatively sure that's been around for at least fifteen years or so, if not more.
One other point of note is how secure an operating system is _out_of_the_box_. For example, when I get a brand new Mac OS X machine, plug it into the net, and turn it on, it has 0 probability of getting rooted, because no services are running. This is true of a completely unpatched OS. On the other hand, if I install a brand new Windows box and connect it to the internet, it will usually be rooted within a day, because it starts 6-7 services automatically, ones that may have serious security holes or other problems. A Linux box is not particularly better than Windows in that respect, although the services generally have fewer holes, because it has a bunch of stuff in /etc/inetd.conf and several RPC services running.