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I suppose then blanket statements like those you posted above are common in South Africa. South Africans seem not to take the time to realize that not everyone has a clue not even if you are from South Africa.
I was also confused by the techie reference. In fact I was close to insulted. The statement makes it sound like techs are the group that wanted all graphic navigation on web pages. Even with a fast internet connection graphic navagation tends to drive me nuts.
You know, the article makes alot of predictions that don't exactly co-exist with one another. One prediction is nano robots small enough to couple with a human cell. I could see this happening. You could develope a robot that could latch onto a cell without knowing anything about the cell. Another prediction was the ablity to inhibit the activity of the cell, aka neuron. Again this seems even now within our sphere of knowlegde, inhibiting reactions within cells not nanotech. Recording activity would be a short leap from inhibiting. Playing back the recording, while problematic might work if played back to the same subject. Playing back to another brain seems very difficult as the structure would be different. None of this speaks to emulation of brain functions which sounds like a quantum leap from inhibiting, recording and playback. Emulation would require real knowledge of the structure of the brain and how the various parts in all humans interact with each other.
My understanding of patent law is that it allows the owner of the patent an artificial monopoly over the process or thing descibed in the patent for a limited amount of time.
I believe that time in this case is 7 years. If the patents they are using to require a license on this technology dates to 1994, that would only give them one year to get as many licenses fees as possible. After the patent expires the process described in the patent becomes public domain and can be used by anyone. Correct????
Based on this assumption, I'm not surprised we are hearing from them now, nor at that apparent willingness of the WAP Forum to cooperate.
I was watching a CBS station broadcasting live from the center of the demonstration/riot. The interesting part is that I was watching this via a real video stream provided by "INTERVU". The news coverage ended about 30 minutes ago (11pm EST) so I am now watching an episode of JAG on real video.
I wonder if CNN knows they just bought an episode of JAG from CBS.
As an internet software developer I think I can answer your question.
When we begin a development project we put together the requirements for the software we need to write. Over time our customers have started to demand features that are generally only accessable to you via a fat application. Those features are available to you in web browsers but only if you target a particular browser. Example: DHTML -- This is a great step forward in what is possible on a browser but unfortunatly Netscape and Microsoft implement the language differently. This mean we have to make a choice for our first release and many times our first release becomes the only release. In the case of DHTML Microsoft is closer to the W3C standard than Netscape so we choose MS. Better to go with the standard and hope that Netscape moves that way than implement the non-standard version and hope that Netscape doesn't standarize.
The funniest thing he said, and he is a strangly funny man, "Thanks to free Microsoft technology, I have been able to automate my entire home. Unfortunatly, I now need an expensive Microsoft firewall to keep the hackers (reads crackers) from turning my lights on and off."
Its not just Linux development that is draining the mind share that MS has had in the last decade. It is the internet and the huge demand for internet applications that is the largest sucking sound heard in the development community. Yes NT has ASP and COM for internet applications but, as most of us know, NT isn't stable enough to host a mission critial intra/internet application which has had the interesting effect of driving developers back to UNIX.
I wonder if its possible to use redir with TCPWrappers. Generally you still want to control who is allowed to connect to your system.
I use a 2.0.36 Linux box that acts as a firewall and IPMasq (NAT) router. In order to play any cool game that requires a connection be made from the game server back to the client (StarCraft etc) I have to create a port forward using `ipautofw`.
Example of my IPMasq and forwarding setup.
# Permit IP masquerading for the 192.168.1.* network /sbin/ipfwadm -F -p deny /sbin/ipfwadm -F -a m -S 192.168.1.0/24 -D 0.0.0.0/0 # set up auto forward for StarCraft ipautofw -A -r tcp 6112 6112 -h 192.168.1.12 ipautofw -A -r udp 6112 6112 -h 192.168.1.12 ipautofw
-A (add)
-r tcp 6112 6112 (using PROTOCOL forward ports LOW to HIGH) -h 192.168.1.12 (Host to receive forwarded packets)
I have also used redir. Which is extremely easy to set up on any linux machine. I don't think it requires any special kernel mods.
Also consider checking out the Linux Router Project. You can download a 1440Kb disk image that contains a complete Linux system already setup with everything you need sans redir. If you compile redir and copy it to the disk, you can mount the disk and back up the root.lrp with redir included. LRP will save you alot of time in building out your own NAT router. Its a really cool tool!
Can't ipfwadmin (on linux) be used to set up rules to disallow connections from machine to specified ports? I've done it before with RCP wrappers but it always allows the initial connection and appears to be a live port. I had a friend set up his machine in this way with ipfwadm and it did what he expected, ignored the connection attempts.
Sequential cloning would be like making a copy on a photocopying machine, and then putting the new copy into the machine and repeating the process. Eventually, the copies become illegible.
This is the question I was really interested in. On the same Intel platform which has better performance and support. I have seen some recent scary posts concerning Solaris Intel. It looks like Oracle is going to produce for Linux Intel before Solaris Intel... Just check the supported platform list for Oracle 8.0.5. Solaris Intel isn't even listed.
I guess you are referring to design vs. implementation in software development. Unfortunatly you generally need to know what the program needs to do before you start coding it.
So you generally do spend more time designing than actually implementing software.
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Unless you live in Texas. Go ahead, make my day...
You are a case in point.
I was also confused by the techie reference. In fact I was close to insulted. The statement makes it sound like techs are the group that wanted all graphic navigation on web pages. Even with a fast internet connection graphic navagation tends to drive me nuts.
Not trivial.
Opps. My mistake...
I believe that time in this case is 7 years. If the patents they are using to require a license on this technology dates to 1994, that would only give them one year to get as many licenses fees as possible. After the patent expires the process described in the patent becomes public domain and can be used by anyone. Correct????
Based on this assumption, I'm not surprised we are hearing from them now, nor at that apparent willingness of the WAP Forum to cooperate.
Isn't that just because you have an addiction to something you put in your mouth and have no time to eat between cigs?
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I wonder if CNN knows they just bought an episode of JAG from CBS.
As an internet software developer I think I can answer your question.
When we begin a development project we put together the requirements for the software we need to write. Over time our customers have started to demand features that are generally only accessable to you via a fat application. Those features are available to you in web browsers but only if you target a particular browser. Example: DHTML -- This is a great step forward in what is possible on a browser but unfortunatly Netscape and Microsoft implement the language differently. This mean we have to make a choice for our first release and many times our first release becomes the only release. In the case of DHTML Microsoft is closer to the W3C standard than Netscape so we choose MS. Better to go with the standard and hope that Netscape moves that way than implement the non-standard version and hope that Netscape doesn't standarize.
Its a complicated and often argued topic.
The funniest thing he said, and he is a strangly funny man, "Thanks to free Microsoft technology, I have been able to automate my entire home. Unfortunatly, I now need an expensive Microsoft firewall to keep the hackers (reads crackers) from turning my lights on and off."
What you are suggesting is the conditions that we have to operate our current fixed disks in. Break the seal on a hard disk and see how long it lasts.
Its not just Linux development that is draining the mind share that MS has had in the last decade. It is the internet and the huge demand for internet applications that is the largest sucking sound heard in the development community. Yes NT has ASP and COM for internet applications but, as most of us know, NT isn't stable enough to host a mission critial intra/internet application which has had the interesting effect of driving developers back to UNIX.
I use a 2.0.36 Linux box that acts as a firewall and IPMasq (NAT) router. In order to play any cool game that requires a connection be made from the game server back to the client (StarCraft etc) I have to create a port forward using `ipautofw`.
Example of my IPMasq and forwarding setup.
# Permit IP masquerading for the 192.168.1.* network
/sbin/ipfwadm -F -p deny
/sbin/ipfwadm -F -a m -S 192.168.1.0/24 -D 0.0.0.0/0
I have also used redir. Which is extremely easy to set up on any linux machine. I don't think it requires any special kernel mods.# set up auto forward for StarCraft
ipautofw -A -r tcp 6112 6112 -h 192.168.1.12
ipautofw -A -r udp 6112 6112 -h 192.168.1.12
ipautofw
Also consider checking out the Linux Router Project. You can download a 1440Kb disk image that contains a complete Linux system already setup with everything you need sans redir. If you compile redir and copy it to the disk, you can mount the disk and back up the root.lrp with redir included. LRP will save you alot of time in building out your own NAT router. Its a really cool tool!
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Can't ipfwadmin (on linux) be used to set up rules to disallow connections from machine to specified ports? I've done it before with RCP wrappers but it always allows the initial connection and appears to be a live port. I had a friend set up his machine in this way with ipfwadm and it did what he expected, ignored the connection attempts.
I'd hate to see an illegible sheep....
This is the question I was really interested in. On the same Intel platform which has better performance and support. I have seen some recent scary posts concerning Solaris Intel. It looks like Oracle is going to produce for Linux Intel before Solaris Intel... Just check the supported platform list for Oracle 8.0.5. Solaris Intel isn't even listed.
So there.
Nhaa!
I guess you are referring to design vs. implementation in software development. Unfortunatly you generally need to know what the program needs to do before you start coding it.
So you generally do spend more time designing than actually implementing software.
> (that is...if you even program).