On 2/1/22 17:47, hiro wrote:
I believe that David is right that it was a combination of running on
really low-end hardware (in the early days, Torvalds accepted patches for
just about anything), and a similarly low barrier to entry (others
elsewhere have quipped about having to appease, "the
On 1/29/22 08:03, ibrahim via 9fans wrote:
On Friday, 28 January 2022, at 10:59 PM, hiro wrote:
why should it be closed source? you're gonna seriously put the effort
to remove all the traces of source files?
I am consequently avoiding infecting licenses in my projects and my
distributions
On 1/27/22 16:02, hiro wrote:
the majority of "hackers" have already failed to be political, when
they sold their souls to the big corps like google and amazon.
You mean like https://silibandia.com?
*Wes Kussmaul*
*Reliable Identities, Inc.*
an Authenticity Enterprise
738 M
Renaming this thread.
On 1/25/22 14:44, Clout Tolstoy wrote:
It's actually Mr. Tolstoy. Mr. Clout Tolstoy, and to be frank if
you're not useful or
have interest in helping, why waste your time? I have interest in
helping if I can.
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justice warrior.
There will always be unhappy people who have a need to spread their
unhappiness.
Sorry Rux Cox, last reply.
excellent. thanks for leaving after all.
+1
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an Authenticity Enterprise
738 Main Street
Waltham, MA 02451 USA
t: +1 781
On 6/24/21 7:29 PM, silas poulson wrote:
What’s Dorren continent referencing?
There are three continents in the digital world
* Montaigne
* Dorren
* Glenda
On the Montaigne continent, everything is done outdoors on the old
information highway using these strange billboards called
All versions of Plan9, Inferno, derivatives, forks, et al are welcome on
the Glenda continent.
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Permalink:
https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T523d6e906a17a7cc-Ma32a526a9ee3953b55afcc24
Delivery options:
the only "knowledge" is a screenshot of some headline of some article
on wired.com
and not even a link to or summary of the article. the rest below is
spam spam and more spam.
On 3/26/21, Wes Kussmaul wrote:
On 3/26/21 12:12 PM, hiro wrote:
While I don't know the details of your arra
than
technology, and how to deploy it so that it delivers what it's supposed to.
We've been working for years on ways to shorten that story.
I have to agree, it would be wonderful to be able to get to the point
more quickly.
--
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*Reliable Identities, Inc.*
an Authenticity
On 3/26/21 12:18 PM, Kurt H Maier wrote:
On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 09:20:44AM -0400, Wes Kussmaul wrote:
The replacement of legacy BIOS with UEFI had two consequences:
1. Dual booting is not possible
This is false. Dual-booting works just fine with UEFI; tools like
efibootmgr make
to know about the hazards that were
inadvertently introduced with UEFI.
Some systems use Ron Minnich's Coreboot, an excellent alternative.
--
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*Reliable Identities, Inc.*
an Authenticity Enterprise
738 Main Street
Waltham, MA 02451 USA
t: +1 781 790 1674
m: +1 781 330 1881
e: w
Please let me know if this resolves your question.
Imagine being that support rep and having to sign off all messages with
that last line.
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*Reliable Identities, Inc.*
an Authenticity Enterprise
738 Main
On 2/10/21 12:17 PM, Kurt H Maier wrote:
On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 11:40:18PM -0800, Anthony Sorace wrote:
More information can be found on our web site, http://p9f.org/.
"That effort stalled, mainly due to the treatment of software-focused
non-profit organizations under U.S. regulations at
On 10/26/20 8:39 PM, Thaddeus Woskowiak wrote:
I believe the issue here is that some people have interpreted your
osmio.ch suggestion as a solution to Lucio's DNS issues.
Apologies for my part in the confusion.
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On 10/25/20 3:28 PM, hiro wrote:
On 10/25/20, Wes Kussmaul wrote:
That's strange. What happens when you click?
Try optimocracy.org
is it coincidence that the IP this points to also hosts kussmaul.net
and assfag.com ?
Ugh. Not a coincidence, a mistake.
We use three hosting services
tps://icmconference.org/?session=measuring-the-reliability-of-an-identity-claim-g13c>
has been rescheduled to September 16.
*Wes Kussmaul*
*Reliable Identities, Inc.*
an Authenticity Enterprise
738 Main Street
Waltham, MA 02451 USA
t: +1 781 790 1674
m: +1 781 330 1881
e: w...@reliableid.com <
https://www.osmio.ch/about-optimocracy.html
On 10/25/20 2:32 PM, hiro wrote:
i do not find. i looked into it, i guess my dictionaries have not been
updated with your insight.
On 10/25/20, Wes Kussmaul wrote:
Look into it. You'll find that optimocracy has built-in methods that
make
Look into it. You'll find that optimocracy has built-in methods that
make it difficult to influence things that way.
See "Governance" at osmio.ch.
On 10/25/20 9:33 AM, hiro wrote:
participatory as in big cases of cash money
--
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*Reliable Identities, Inc.*
an Au
series)
On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 11:23 PM <mailto:cigar562hfsp952f...@icebubble.org>> wrote:
Wes Kussmaul writes:
> On 10/7/20 12:08 AM, Lucio De Re wrote:
>> my situation is getting
>> more difficult as norms on the Internet are being bent by service
On 10/7/20 8:59 PM, o...@eigenstate.org wrote:
I'm curious as to why you would say that.
Well, the section of the site that describes
how to best operate a plan 9 dns server seems
to have gone offline.
I think you have it confused with some other site.
On 10/7/20 12:14 PM, Kurt H Maier wrote:
On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 09:15:01AM -0400, Wes Kussmaul wrote:
I suggest taking a look at https://www.osmio.ch/
I suggest not looking at https://www.osmio.ch/ instead.
khm
I'm curious as to why you would say that.
Wes
On 10/7/20 12:08 AM, Lucio De Re wrote:
my situation is getting
more difficult as norms on the Internet are being bent by service
provider that care for their profitability much more than for
interoperation
I suggest taking a look at https://www.osmio.ch/
--
*Wes Kussmaul*
*Reliable
.
(Or read my books... :))
Please note that my presentation at the International Cryptographic
Module Conference ICMC 2020
<https://icmconference.org/?session=measuring-the-reliability-of-an-identity-claim-g13c>
has been rescheduled to September 16.
*Wes Kussmaul*
*Reliable Identitie
ity-of-an-identity-claim-g13c>
has been rescheduled to September 16.
*Wes Kussmaul*
*Reliable Identities, Inc.*
an Authenticity Enterprise
738 Main Street
Waltham, MA 02451 USA
t: +1 781 790 1674
m: +1 781 330 1881
e: w...@reliableid.com <mailto:w...@reliableid.com>
Learn About Authen
On 11/21/2016 03:46 AM, Sigrid Haflinadóttir wrote:
Very kind! Where can I download your Plan 9 git client?
I'm afraid mine is something of a "stone soup" offering. Perhaps someone
can add value to the soup by providing a client.
--
Wes Kussmaul
The Authenticity Ins
while I was thinking about it I just did. It's at
https://gitlab.com/nine-continent
--
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office +1 781 790 1674
mobile +1 781 330 1881
THIS COMMUNICATION IS INTENDED ONLY FOR THE USE OF THE PERSON TO WHOM IT
IS ADDRESSED
bought the last one.
--
Wes Kussmaul
The Authenticity Institute
738 Main Street
Waltham, MA 02451
office +1 781 790 1674
mobile +1 781 330 1881
THIS COMMUNICATION IS INTENDED ONLY FOR THE USE OF THE PERSON TO WHOM IT IS
ADDRESSED. If it was addressed incorrectly there's not much I can do but ask
pronouncements about doing no evil.”
Wes Kussmaul, author of Escape The Plantation, noted that the data mines
have much in common with plantations during the era of slavery. “In the
information age, ownership of information about you, your relationships
and habits and affiliations and finances
ken
much, much
longer without help from Anthony Martin.
Lucio.
--
Wes Kussmaul
The Authenticity Institute
738 Main Street
Waltham, MA 02451
office +1 781 790 1674
mobile +1 781 330 1881
THIS COMMUNICATION IS INTENDED ONLY FOR THE USE OF THE PERSON TO WHOM IT IS
imperfect, I am new
to this game.
-Steve
--
Wes Kussmaul
The Authenticity Institute
738 Main Street
Waltham, MA 02451
office +1 781 790 1674
mobile +1 781 330 1881
THIS COMMUNICATION IS INTENDED ONLY FOR THE USE OF THE PERSON TO WHOM IT IS
ADDRESSED. If it was addressed incorrectly there'
. It should be a source of pride for the Plan 9
community, Go Authors and other open source projects (Skeleton,
Font-Awesome, Google Fonts). Thank you all for your creations.
-Skip
Introduction to 9P Cloud
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCBsyrFFGH0
--
Wes Kussmaul
The Authenticity Institute
738 Main
great. I am so happy having a good platform for running it and
experimenting with it.
Thank you so much.
--
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The Authenticity Institute
738 Main Street
Waltham, MA 02451
office +1 781 790 1674
mobile +1 781 330 1881
THIS COMMUNICATION IS INTENDED ONLY FOR THE USE OF THE PERSON
will get fixed.
--
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The Authenticity Institute
738 Main Street
Waltham, MA 02451
office +1 781 790 1674
mobile +1 781 330 1881
“Try this fruit, and by the way if a bunch of people collectively calling
themselves Arthur Andersen signs something it’s the same as if a person named
Arthur
Email Security System.
-
I'll ask Snowden next time I see him.
--
Wes Kussmaul
The Authenticity Institute
738 Main Street
Waltham, MA 02451
office +1 781 790 1674
mobile +1 781 330 1881
“Try this fruit
in keeping
with it.
--
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The Authenticity Institute
“Try this fruit, and by the way if a bunch of people collectively calling
themselves Arthur Andersen signs something it’s the same as if a person named
Arthur Andersen signed it.”
- The Serpent
interface
that has been
asleep for the past decade.
patches welcome
--
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The Authenticity Institute
738 Main Street
Waltham, MA 02451
office +1 781 790 1674
mobile +1 781 330 1881
“Try this fruit, and by the way if a bunch of people collectively
Oh, I knew that...
:( :( :(
On 10/14/2014 04:03 PM, Skip Tavakkolian wrote:
Wes, i was being sarcastic in my reply to the suggestion that iCloud
(or any iSplat) products should be emulated on Plan 9.
-Skip
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Wes Kussmaul w...@reliableid.com
mailto:w
On Tue, 2013-01-08 at 07:48 -0600, s...@9front.org wrote:
There are plenty of things in Plan 9 still in need of improvement
or even rewriting. That's why it makes me sad to see our small
community being made even smaller when some of the most skilled
programmers direct their efforts into
On Wed, 2012-11-21 at 13:34 -0600, Jeff Sickel wrote:
On this continent anything beyond the date of expiration is
considered old. The typical date of expiration of a house is
30yrs (conveniently in line with the typical mortgage on a
new construction).
Our neighbor's house in New Castle,
On Mon, 2012-11-19 at 21:08 -0500, Matthew Veety wrote:
How do you studiously not do something? Doesn't the imply working
hard at something?
Irony (from the Ancient Greek εἰρωνεία eirōneía, meaning dissimulation
or feigned ignorance)[1] is a rhetorical device, literary technique, or
situation
On Tue, 2012-11-20 at 21:07 +0100, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote:
Do you mean that C++ is irony because of the discrepancy between what
you wrote and what you get?
Yeah, that and the fact that the comment was made by someone (me) who
has not a clue about C++
On Mon, 2012-07-16 at 08:44 +, opryy...@gmail.com wrote:
Another neat comparison of 44 tiny devices:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4035896/a320_downloads/SBC_comparison44.pdf
No mention of the $16 Teensy? http://www.pjrc.com/
...or the Arduino?
http://xkcd.com/731/
When you send an xkcd link to a large list, you make a dent in the
world's productivity. You can't look at just one.
On Thu, 2012-05-31 at 07:39 -0700, David Leimbach wrote:
I vote we call it Kevin as a result.
Sell the naming rights!
On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 22:19 -0800, ron minnich wrote:
This is kind of a fun one: stuff that DID NOT work. I like the basic
idea ...
“failures” may actually provide clues to even more significant
results than the original experimenter had intended. The research is
useful, even though the
grounds.
Sorry about that.
While we're here, I meant to mention that the Wall Street Journal
article about his life prominently mentioned Plan 9.
Wes Kussmaul
grounds.
Sorry about that.
While we're here, I meant to mention that the Wall Street Journal
article about his life prominently mentioned Plan 9.
Wes Kussmaul
, as if that might interest
anyone :( And that group has to pass the hat to visitors because they
don't share in Bletchley's funding!
Wes Kussmaul
On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 15:30 -0400, erik quanstrom wrote:
On Thu Oct 13 13:23:01 EDT 2011, virik...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 07:19:59PM +0200, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote:
And it's a chance that there is no Nobel for mathematics or computer
science: no need to be deshonored
know you can
do it 5x better and faster than the people you delegate to.
And look at it this way: delegation helps the economy by employing
people and selling processors and memory :-)
Wes Kussmaul
On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 15:51 +0200, simon softnet wrote:
It's not necessary that you're feeding
On Sat, 2011-09-17 at 09:29 -0700, ron minnich wrote:
If I can figure out where to plug in an SD card -- it claims to
have one! -- I might just give that a go.
The MicroSD slot in my Droid X is hidden under the battery fwiw.
On Fri, 2011-08-12 at 12:18 -0400, Russ Cox wrote:
i call this 'ventino'.
Shouldn't it be 'ventina'?
Venti seems feminine.
On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 08:43 -0500, Jack Norton wrote:
dexen deVries wrote:
...
in other words, all the widgets (menus included) of an app turned into
margins when mouse's /not/ over those widgets.
eeek!
Am I the only one who doesn't like this idea? I cannot stand programs
that
On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 10:13 -0700, paul.a.lalo...@gmail.com wrote:
you'll almost certainly be pessimizing your code.
Proving again that any word can be verbed.
I'm really sorry I started this.
On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 01:40 -0700, Akshat Kumar wrote:
http://www.schubart.net/archives/2004/01/31/worlds-most-expensive-apple-juice
Go a tad less and you can get
the unfermented kind - though
not grape.
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 5:27 AM, andrey
I tried to clarify that but my reply never appeared.
On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 07:47 -0600, Daniel Lyons wrote:
On May 10, 2011, at 2:34 AM, hiro wrote:
20$ for a juice? I thought the dollar was already pretty high these
days? Seldom do I say this phrase but what the fuck!
He's talking
by a dude who knows how to
utter the word tannins with just the right nasality and who knows how
to deflect questions about blind tasting without seeming evasive. There
is much skill in that; such skill is not cheap.
On 5/9/11, Wes Kussmaul w...@authentrus.com wrote:
On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 18:54
On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 18:54 +0200, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote:
Just look for the origin: the verb is sophistiquer... The usage and
the dictionnaries are inconsistant, since sophistiqué (now used non
pejoratively) is the past participle of sophistiquer that is
definitively pejorative. (Look
On Fri, 2011-03-25 at 20:16 +, Steve Simon wrote:
Fake Tweets by 'Socialbot' Fool Hundreds of Followers,
New Scientist, (03/24/11), Jim Giles
http://captology.stanford.edu/
On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 19:34 +0200, Lucio De Re wrote:
Put Nokia in
bed with Microsoft in bed with Intel and you're leaving little room
for somebody with a great idea to get any attention. A brave new
world, indeed.
But the Wintel duopoly has cracked, the inevitable fate of all such
erik quanstrom wrote:
also, an atm card is a 2-factor authentication scheme. and
you get 3 guesses. assuming you can steal the card
Assuming you are a member of the main source of Net fraud, that is, a
customer of one of the botnet builders doing 30 thousand victims at a
time from your
If you gathered up a bunch of old, proven data representation methods,
packaged it as XML 2.0, formed an XML 2.0 consortium and put it out
there energetically with bullet points and with a straight face, people
would buy it.
No, listen, it's true, they would. The straight face part is
Stanley Lieber wrote:
Anywhere legitimate identification is used, legitimate identification
can be purchased.
There are imperfect but very good ways to protect against that
vulnerability. They vary with the needs (and budgets) of relying parties.
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Devon H. O'Dell wrote:
2010/6/29 Wes Kussmaul w...@authentrus.com:
Stanley Lieber wrote:
Anywhere legitimate identification is used, legitimate identification can
be purchased.
There are imperfect but very good ways to protect against that
vulnerability. They vary
Devon H. O'Dell wrote:
2010/6/29 erik quanstrom quans...@labs.coraid.com:
I don't understand why modern security systems have an upper limit on
passphrase length.
Because people can't remember passwords, and companies don't like
employing full-time password changers.
i
of the sender of a stream
of bits.
This is the pointless electronic countermeasures race all over again.
The solution was well developed, then obscured by the telephone century.
http://quietenjoyment.net/slides2j.swf
Wes Kussmaul
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ron minnich wrote:
I figure Marin Headlands ought to be cheap (dormitory housing!) but
very attractive (right at the Golden Gate!).
Cheap indeed! (apologies for the html)
Our overnight package includes:
* 3 meals per person
* 1 meeting room for every 1 night stay
* 1-time room
Tim Newsham wrote:
dns is a non-issue if the rest of ssl is working.
dns is irrelevant if it isn't.
Except when SSL has chinks in its armor. Like incidents of
certificate authorities being convinced to give out certs for
domains that don't belong to the requestor.
ron minnich wrote:
How is it that companies that want you to buy their IT expertise
outsource their own? It makes no sense.
Equally true story. We used to run our own servers. A (name withheld)
sysadmin always felt he knew better than management how servers should
be configured and managed
ron minnich wrote:
The poster of this one has kind of missed the point. How would he feel
if Rackspace outsourced their IT?
Hit the first point, missed the second, batting .500
Poster Boy
erik quanstrom wrote:
Equally true story. We used to run our own servers. A (name withheld)
sysadmin always felt he knew better than management how servers should
be configured and managed even when in fact he did not. So we went to
Rackspace, where we are treated as customers and where
erik quanstrom wrote:
There is a lot of residual management doesn't understand networks and
databases and operating systems so we will make decisions for them
attitude out there, even where the reality of management's background
has changed. While it's true that cloud computing is a nonsense
And in closing let me cite an esteemed colleague's recent announcement:
Version 6.0 is a very important release. It streamlines the branding of
product line...
--David Day, CTO at Zeus Technology
ron minnich wrote:
Insignificant
bits of code that were not even visible suddenly dominate the time.
Reminds me of some project development teams.
Maybe Marvin Minsky was on to something.
ron minnich wrote:
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg - VE6BBM/VE7TFX
lyn...@orthanc.ca wrote:
I don't think DEC deserves this branding. In my experience they were
one of the most open hardware companies around.
It was sad to watch the Alpha blow its early lead due to
erik quanstrom wrote:
i think the lesson here is don't by cheep drives;
Our top-of-the-line Sub Zero and Thermidor kitchen appliances are pure
junk. In fact, I can point to Consumer Reports data that shows an
inverse relationship between appliance cost and reliability.
One who works for
erik quanstrom wrote:
storage vendors have a credibility problem. i think the big
storage vendors, as referenced in the op, sell you on many
things you don't need for much more than one has to spend.
Those of us who know something about Coraid understand that your company
doesn't engage in
no password protection will suffice when ethics fails.
iru
English Lit grads please avert your eyes...
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall…
He says again, “Good fences make good neighbors.”
-Robert Frost, from Mending Wall
_Something There is That Needs a Wall_
ron minnich wrote:
RLX and Orion
multisystems showed there is not much of a market for lots of wimpy
nodes -- yet or never, is the real question. Either way, they did not
have enough buyers to stay in business. And RLX had to drop its wimpy
transmetas for P4s, and they could not keep up with the
Alex Efros wrote:
GPL is a virus, designed to war against commercial software. That's not my war.
Let's now pretend it's late August, the flame war has subsided after
500+ messages, and we can get on with the other discussions.
hugo rivera wrote:
Hi Maulesel,
I just ran into this book and I am sending it to you for two reasons:
1.- It's in german.
2.- It's about Plan 9.
3. You sell hard drives to server operators for a living.
erik quanstrom wrote:
On Mon Feb 23 12:20:19 EST 2009, w...@authentrus.com wrote:
hugo rivera wrote:
Hi Maulesel,
I just ran into this book and I am sending it to you for two reasons:
1.- It's in german.
2.- It's about Plan 9.
3. You sell hard drives to server operators for a living.
relax.
manufacturers). Anyone is
welcome to help me organize the barrage of information I get from them.
A lot of it is no Android yet, but check out these Symbian/WinCE/etc
phones... That's starting to change however.
Wes Kussmaul
Devon H. O'Dell wrote:
Can someone look into the web interface? would have worked.
Agreed
+1 Agreed.
But let's not devolve into the
OpenBSD-every-word-must-be-right-or-you-get-flamed culture.
Eris Discordia wrote:
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn]...
Shame on Augusto Pinochet, unaugust scoundrel, forever.
And shame on Allende for not seeing that land reform via confiscation is
always a loser's game.
And of course shame on the U.S. government for its part in the
Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
Northeast US, say january or feb., skipping next year, would
be great for me.
Clearly you just want to go skiing ;)
If you want skiing then you want to hold it in Whistler (British
Columbia).
But I would *strongly* recommend against skipping a year if it's held
If you want skiing then you want to hold it in Whistler (British
Columbia).
But I would *strongly* recommend against skipping a year if it's held
there :-P
There are things about Whi$tler that would pose problems for some.
Whistler got its name from the common reaction to readers of
Eris Discordia wrote:
I know one thing
I doubt that.
Uriel wrote:
Although, the last update to sources is dated April 12, 2008.
What makes you think that?
You're all taking the bait again.
erik quanstrom wrote:
what is this web 2.0 of which you speak?
Web 2.0, n. A space created by artists who got all excited when they
heard the word sandbox, not realizing it meant the opposite of what
they thought.
wk
it was a television. With
the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure.
Douglas Adams
I believe Mr. Adams first made that observation in Delphi, which I
founded in 1981.
Now, what is the nature of the space that the PC leaves after it
disappears?
--
Wes Kussmaul
Robert Raschke wrote:
Apparently, there's now features made specifically for the xx-small
screen. Does anyone on this list actually watch stuff on those dinky
screens? My eyes (and maybe imagination) are not good enough to enjoy that.
If your personal token happens to have a screen, then
andrey mirtchovski wrote:
Mozilla didn't create the web. The web created Mozilla.
just change Mozilla to Mosaic and see how P→Q suddenly becomes Q→P
Why not redirect all this energy to answering the question, What comes
after the Web?
Wes Kussmaul
erik quanstrom wrote:
with
a 1 machine solution, i don't need any more disks to have a full
mirror and i have the option of raid5 which will reduce the number
of disks i need to 10TB + 1 disk. since your model is that the
storage is a significant expense, a single raid5 machine would make
Charles Forsyth wrote:
this is all reminiscent of the nonsense of RFC1413
I think that people are finally ready to accept the fact that packets on the outdoor highway do not disclose the
intentions of their senders and that they contain no meaningful information about the identity of their
erik quanstrom wrote:
Charles Forsyth wrote:
computing is needlessly regressing.
And it will continue to regress until one knowledgeable and independent
human being serves as final arbiter of standards.
good idea. why don't you ask ken?
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