would be a good place to start for the threading and networking parts. from what i've seen, it looks like a well engeneered package (and you'll have a hard time finding a better tested library:-).
http://apr.apache.org/
I'd like to see some numbers/graphs on execution time, not just execution time relative to gcc -O. This might make the graphs harder to read, but the data presented in this article tells me nothing except that a set of five programs have different execution times depending on whether they are run using x/y JVM or compiled on m/n/o compiler. The difference could be 0.03% or 2130%, and I have no way of finding out. So, for me at least, until I see some real number, this is nothing but misleading statistics.
Printed manuals should be an option. Buying 100 licenses of a software product, and getting 100 printed manuals is just stupid. I like printed manuals, but I also like the searchable electronic version. I use the two for very different things. Online electronic manuals are great for finding the answer to one specific question, while printed manuals is a fantastic way to get to know the product in question.
Anyway, people (and the environment) shouldn't have to pay for all the cases when printed manuals is not really needed. At the same time, eye strain (from CRTs) shouldn't stop us techies from learning about the products we use.
Every once in a while I get this sneaking suspicion that blame is being misplaced. This yahoo thing gives me the same vibes as I got back in '94 when alt.2600 was going to hell. For the longest time the newsgroup was flooded with posts of random English words. Of course everyone immediately starts blaming the "script-kiddies". At first it sounds like a plausible explanation, but after a while I started thinking. I can think of two reasons we should at lease consider looking elsewhere for the guilty party.
1. (The most obvious.) Who could possibly have anything to gain from doing this. Right on the top of the list you will find (in the '94 example) the people wanting to shut down alt.2600. They made the newsgroup, for all practical purposes, unreadable. Who might want to shut down alt.2600 is left as en exercise to the reader. More recently, who could have something to gain by shutting down yahoo, making it appear it was done by "hackers"? Not a week goes by that I'm not reading about someone trying to pass new laws to "regulate" the Internet. Some (if not most) of these laws are backed by some of the most powerful organizations in the world. There isn't a politician in the world that could have made a more convincing case that the CIA, FBI, NSA and KGBs (listed as examples, think including but not limited to) of the world needs to be able to better "police" the Internet.
2. An attack like this, like it or not, requires a certain degree of skill. To halt access to slashdot for a few minutes is a script-kiddie, to halt access to yahoo for several hours you need to know a little bit more the the location of perl on your system. And there is this funny thing about knowledge. Once you get to the stage where you figure out how something works, you are suddenly much less likely to go out and destroy it. This, I think, is the reason why lots of things work as well as they do. And I for one am 100 percent convinced that this is why the Internet don't fall over on a daily basis. Think about is. Who many people do you think has the knowledge to halt mayor parts of net? 100? 1000? I think more! So, then, why don't they? Respect and admiration. If I thought I could take down the net the first day I got on, I would probably think; Cool, I have to try this. I think the same goes for a lot of newbies. But newbies don't stay newbies forever. You start reading, learning, and with the knowledge comes respect and admiration. At least it did in my case. Could I take down the net today? Probably not, but if I put my mind to it, I could probably make a noticeable dent. But, you see, that's not the point. The point is that I would never do that, I have far to much respect and admiration, hell you might even say love, for it. It's the same feelings that stops normal people from robbing banks, blowing up bridges and what not.
So, back to my conclusion. I know this makes me sound like I may have skipped a few dozes of medication. But just think about it. We have organizations out there that will go as far at to start a war to further some political cause. Is it really that far fetched that they could do a thing like this? I think not. Well, I'll stop my ramblings now and let them take me back to my room with the soft walls:-).
As long as I've been in the bussiness, I've allways prefered people with solid technical experience over people with a technical education, even to the exstent of prefering people who have thought themselfs over people with an education when all other qualifications are the same.
This view is not often (hardly ever) shared by management, that is until your story shows up on the front page of VG (a norwegian tabloid). Less than a week ago, I was asked for qualifications for a job description, and as usual I tried to pitch my "skills over education" angle. Big surprise, thay went for it. "Yes sure, we wouldn't mind hiering someone like that 16 year old from Vestfold!". It seems you may have done much more than you set out to do:-)
On with the question: Not unrelated to the above, I know you have gotten several job offers over the last few weeks, and I can guaranty there will be more. Are you considderieng any of them? I mean, if you get the right offer, for the right company, would you leave school and start working? (based on the above, it shouldn't be hard to figure out what my advice would be:-).
Somewhere in your answer (to this question or or elsewhere) you should also include a few words about the support of your father. I saw a small peace on TV2 (norweginan TV) where thay interviewed him and you, and I think is amazing for your father to stand by your and support your actions in the way that he did.
Well, thats pretty much it. If you'r ever out in Tbg. look me up. I'll buy you a beer any day!
I guess we can all agree that the crypto policies of the united states is going to hell on a bus. What, in your opinion, is the single most importent thing to do in the still (semi)free part of the world, to stop our governments from passing equally braindead crypto laws? In this context, the still (semi)free world would include countries like Switzerland.
It seems the computer industry has reached an age where pioreers and educators are beginning to pass away. Postel, Stevens and now Huffman. These are truly sad times. My condolanses to his family.
It does make you wounder, who will be the "heros" of tomorrow?
Conserning display prefs. I too enjoy a good 21" CRT for my work, but there are some places thats just not practical. I'll tell you, you can't really appriciate the beauty of a palm pilot until you've:
Faxed UPS a new delivery address driving 220 Km/h (~140 mph) through Italy
Had your girlfriend check, read, and reply to email for you every hour on a 48 hour drive
Debugged routing problems at 3 in the morning from your hotel room in Venice
Read slashdot while waiting for a connecting flight
Restarting buggy servers from the beach, with your feet in the water
I could go on forever...
The point is; you'r right, there is more comfortable ways to do your electronic communication, but it's hard to find anything more convinient.
Slashdot Mirror
would be a good place to start for the threading and networking parts. from what i've seen, it looks like a well engeneered package (and you'll have a hard time finding a better tested library :-).
http://apr.apache.org/
B. Johannessen
Anyway, people (and the environment) shouldn't have to pay for all the cases when printed manuals is not really needed. At the same time, eye strain (from CRTs) shouldn't stop us techies from learning about the products we use.
Just my 0.02 EUR
Every once in a while I get this sneaking suspicion that blame is being misplaced. This yahoo thing gives me the same vibes as I got back in '94 when alt.2600 was going to hell. For the longest time the newsgroup was flooded with posts of random English words. Of course everyone immediately starts blaming the "script-kiddies". At first it sounds like a plausible explanation, but after a while I started thinking. I can think of two reasons we should at lease consider looking elsewhere for the guilty party.
1. (The most obvious.) Who could possibly have anything to gain from doing this. Right on the top of the list you will find (in the '94 example) the people wanting to shut down alt.2600. They made the newsgroup, for all practical purposes, unreadable. Who might want to shut down alt.2600 is left as en exercise to the reader. More recently, who could have something to gain by shutting down yahoo, making it appear it was done by "hackers"? Not a week goes by that I'm not reading about someone trying to pass new laws to "regulate" the Internet. Some (if not most) of these laws are backed by some of the most powerful organizations in the world. There isn't a politician in the world that could have made a more convincing case that the CIA, FBI, NSA and KGBs (listed as examples, think including but not limited to) of the world needs to be able to better "police" the Internet.
2. An attack like this, like it or not, requires a certain degree of skill. To halt access to slashdot for a few minutes is a script-kiddie, to halt access to yahoo for several hours you need to know a little bit more the the location of perl on your system. And there is this funny thing about knowledge. Once you get to the stage where you figure out how something works, you are suddenly much less likely to go out and destroy it. This, I think, is the reason why lots of things work as well as they do. And I for one am 100 percent convinced that this is why the Internet don't fall over on a daily basis. Think about is. Who many people do you think has the knowledge to halt mayor parts of net? 100? 1000? I think more! So, then, why don't they? Respect and admiration. If I thought I could take down the net the first day I got on, I would probably think; Cool, I have to try this. I think the same goes for a lot of newbies. But newbies don't stay newbies forever. You start reading, learning, and with the knowledge comes respect and admiration. At least it did in my case. Could I take down the net today? Probably not, but if I put my mind to it, I could probably make a noticeable dent. But, you see, that's not the point. The point is that I would never do that, I have far to much respect and admiration, hell you might even say love, for it. It's the same feelings that stops normal people from robbing banks, blowing up bridges and what not.
So, back to my conclusion. I know this makes me sound like I may have skipped a few dozes of medication. But just think about it. We have organizations out there that will go as far at to start a war to further some political cause. Is it really that far fetched that they could do a thing like this? I think not. Well, I'll stop my ramblings now and let them take me back to my room with the soft walls :-).
Thanks for listening.
B. Johannessen
This view is not often (hardly ever) shared by management, that is until your story shows up on the front page of VG (a norwegian tabloid). Less than a week ago, I was asked for qualifications for a job description, and as usual I tried to pitch my "skills over education" angle. Big surprise, thay went for it. "Yes sure, we wouldn't mind hiering someone like that 16 year old from Vestfold!". It seems you may have done much more than you set out to do :-)
On with the question: Not unrelated to the above, I know you have gotten several job offers over the last few weeks, and I can guaranty there will be more. Are you considderieng any of them? I mean, if you get the right offer, for the right company, would you leave school and start working? (based on the above, it shouldn't be hard to figure out what my advice would be :-).
Somewhere in your answer (to this question or or elsewhere) you should also include a few words about the support of your father. I saw a small peace on TV2 (norweginan TV) where thay interviewed him and you, and I think is amazing for your father to stand by your and support your actions in the way that he did.
Well, thats pretty much it. If you'r ever out in Tbg. look me up. I'll buy you a beer any day!
Hang in there, and good luck!
B. Johannessen
Bob
B. Johannessen
Keep up the excelent work...
B. Johannessen
It does make you wounder, who will be the "heros" of tomorrow?
B. Johannessen
- Faxed UPS a new delivery address driving 220 Km/h (~140 mph) through Italy
- Had your girlfriend check, read, and reply to email for you every hour on a 48 hour drive
- Debugged routing problems at 3 in the morning from your hotel room in Venice
- Read slashdot while waiting for a connecting flight
- Restarting buggy servers from the beach, with your feet in the water
- I could go on forever...
The point is; you'r right, there is more comfortable ways to do your electronic communication, but it's hard to find anything more convinient.(How about adding a ispell to slash?)
Bob