If I had to guess, I'll bet one thing that'll happen here is that ping is going to become as rare as finger as a diagnostic tool. Everyone will simply block ping like microsoft.com does.
More sophisticated DoS attacks are going to be harder to stop...
The core technologies of the Net were never designed with security in mind. Will we see very different core technologies in five years?
Steve Jobs was referring to version 5.0 of IE which is not even available yet (looks to be late Feb/March). He also said this about IE 4.5, calling it "the best browser running on the best operating system." He was probably right; Netscape from version 3 on has had hideous memory leaks on MacOS, which, given MacOS's nightmarish memory management, is a real big problem. Some Mac power users elect to stick with Netscape 2 unless they have to have Javascript.
It was booting, working, running QuickTime and some other apps. They locked some programmers in a room with a Quadra at one end and a Dell 486 at the other. It worked. Apple's head of hardware started to get nervous about how he was going to sell computers if there was cheaper competition running the same OS. They either killed it and then MS hired the head programmer, or MS hired the head programmer and then they killed it(can't remember).
Source:Jim Carlton's Apple history book. Boy, that's a downer. He published it right before Apple's current change of fortunes...
That makes for an interesting, quick alternative universe picture. PowerPC was IBM/Motorola/Apple's cooperative attempt to make a few openings for themselves in the Wintel world. IBM got a consumer market for pretty high-concept hardware, Motorola got a place to go after 68k, and Apple got cool technology to put under the hood -- it took until the G3 to get all the bugs ironed out and make it a real advantage.
So, imagine that Apple had come to dominate the consumer OS market -- say by licensing MacOS to Compaq, or Commodore, or Atari. Compaq was apparently interested, and Commodore and Atari were working with 68k designs and probably would have welcomed the chance to move into the Mac market, given what their mid/late 80's designs did(you know, nothing -- remember the Atari Stacy?).
So M$ gets out of the OS business, building apps for MacOS instead. DOS dies. IBM and M$ get into bed to make 0S/2 run way fast on Intel, targeting the business market. IBM and Intel, getting desperate, go into the PowerPC business together. Stuck with 68k, and stagnating due to high market share, Apple misses the Internet as a killer app, and the biggest thing in computers in the late 90's is a G3 CHRP box running OS/2 and Internet Explorer, with Apple scrabbling to make a slower, creakier platform somehow seem inviting -- perhaps by selling colored boxes?
You little weasel. How were they "bust[ing] everything up" while they were chained together?
I watched that video. I've caught the occasional whiff of pepper spray -- never directed at me, but at people several blocks away -- and that's painful enough.
God help those cops if I'd been there while they tortured a 16-year-old girl, rubbing pepper spray on her eyes while she screamed in pain.
3Com doesn't really see their modem line as a revenue stream anymore. Compare their releases of new firmware(i.e., never, and you pay for upgrades that add functionality -- you can NOT get bugfix upgrades from them at all) with Lucent's. Lucent makes hated Winmodems but they release new code ~ every 3 weeks, usually greatly increasing fucntionality.(On my LT Winmodem, simply updating code increased throughput about 1.5 k.) Anyway, 3Com has gotten bad about supporting their analog modem line -- they want everybody to use xDSL and they want to sell the equipment for that.
As another poster noted, one of the most _famous_ causes of bad Quake performance was an ISP with a TCS rack. Check here. 3Com has never addressed this issue at all, and, indeed, Quake was unplayable through my former ISP, who used Total Control equipment. (I have cable now.)
Everybody is astutely assuming that the error-control code has either been revised, or turned off. Hmmmm...
Minute incompatibilities in error control protocols are one of the most common causes of failed/dropped connections. If they've mucked around with it too much...
On many marginal line phone lines, connection isn't even possible without error correction. You have to get at least enough data through to start PPP
Will these modems have "gaming" and "non-gaming" modes endusers can access with an AT command? I'm picturing people getting great game performance but taking 6 hours to download q3test with a non-error-corrected, non-compressed connection. And how many users will know to alter their initialization string depending on what they're planning to do online?
One of the biggest problems for modem manufacturers is that modems are viewed as an undifferentiated product by all but a few consumers. If you doubt me, check comp.dcom.modems and look at how many complaints of poor performance involve Rockwell HCF (crap) or PCTel modems(worse crap)-- both economy modems bundled by corner-cutting OEMs. After all, all modems are the same, right? There's no need to pay for quality. Given that mindset, how many people will buy this thing?
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More sophisticated DoS attacks are going to be harder to stop...
The core technologies of the Net were never designed with security in mind. Will we see very different core technologies in five years?
Steve Jobs was referring to version 5.0 of IE which is not even available yet (looks to be late Feb/March). He also said this about IE 4.5, calling it "the best browser running on the best operating system." He was probably right; Netscape from version 3 on has had hideous memory leaks on MacOS, which, given MacOS's nightmarish memory management, is a real big problem. Some Mac power users elect to stick with Netscape 2 unless they have to have Javascript.
Source:Jim Carlton's Apple history book. Boy, that's a downer. He published it right before Apple's current change of fortunes...
So, imagine that Apple had come to dominate the consumer OS market -- say by licensing MacOS to Compaq, or Commodore, or Atari. Compaq was apparently interested, and Commodore and Atari were working with 68k designs and probably would have welcomed the chance to move into the Mac market, given what their mid/late 80's designs did(you know, nothing -- remember the Atari Stacy?).
So M$ gets out of the OS business, building apps for MacOS instead. DOS dies. IBM and M$ get into bed to make 0S/2 run way fast on Intel, targeting the business market. IBM and Intel, getting desperate, go into the PowerPC business together. Stuck with 68k, and stagnating due to high market share, Apple misses the Internet as a killer app, and the biggest thing in computers in the late 90's is a G3 CHRP box running OS/2 and Internet Explorer, with Apple scrabbling to make a slower, creakier platform somehow seem inviting -- perhaps by selling colored boxes?
Bollocks.
You little weasel. How were they "bust[ing] everything up" while they were chained together?
I watched that video. I've caught the occasional whiff of pepper spray -- never directed at me, but at people several blocks away -- and that's painful enough.
God help those cops if I'd been there while they tortured a 16-year-old girl, rubbing pepper spray on her eyes while she screamed in pain.