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Archive for August, 2003

06 Aug

Looking at the past

A coworker sent me a link to RFC 1375, Suggestion for New Classes of IP Addresses, where a few new series of address space are broken out to handle /30′s and such. Compare this to CIDR, where we finally treat IP addresses as a 32 bit integer and move completely classless. What would the Internet [...]

05 Aug

Hey, SCO!

$699 for a uniprocessor licence? No way. Sean

05 Aug

SCO — What does the market think?

Even though I live in the socialist haven of Canada, I’m a strong believer in the free market. If it is true that SCO has a right to charge licencing fees on Linux, then the SCOX market capitalization should include both the value of SCO and the “value” of Linux. Today, the market cap is [...]

04 Aug

Rollin’ Rolling’ Rollin’

Still a work in progress, but I’ve joined the BlogRoll. Took a bit of work to get the BlogRoll plugin going, though. As it turns out the line $$html .= “<li><a href=’”.$site->{htmlUrl}.”‘>”.$site->{title}.”</a></li>\n”; should really have been $$html .= “<li><a href=’”.$site->{url}.”‘>”.$site->{title}.”</a></li>\n”; (Note that the url tag changed). Special thanks to the Data::Dumper module for helping me [...]

01 Aug

What’s the solution to Spam?

“Solution” is a strong word, but what can we do to reduce spam? Craig from Securely Speaking asked if using a public list of open relays as input to a firewall ACL was a good idea? I think not, but what is? One of the problems with reducing spam is determining the identity of the [...]

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