Sorry to waste a bit of bandwidth, but I have a question, and a bit of humor.
question: is anybody running a firewall with a decent piece of monitoring software
(ie something
that will work in X that shows port numbers, etc (ie not tcpdump) and so forth to give
a quick view
into what is being attempted?
now for the humor:
This is from microsoft's web site:
REDMOND, Wash., Feb. 28, 2000 -- Three years ago, Bill Bolosky and two
Microsoft colleagues were brainstorming technology advances when an idea
occurred to them -- why not save operating system disk space by storing
duplicate
files as links that point to a single file housed in a central location?
Not only would this save storage space, they reasoned; it would also
result in
substantial performance improvements. Moreover, it would make it faster
for
information technology (IT) managers to install computers for new
employees since
they?d no longer be required to copy massive amounts of data each time
they set up
a new desktop.
The three sent a memo to Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates outlining the
idea. Both
Gates and the Windows 2000 product team liked the proposal, and the
Windows
team asked Bolosky if he could develop the feature himself. During the
next 1-1/2
years, Bolosky, a researcher in Microsoft Research?s Systems and
Networking
Group, and three of his researchers worked full time with the Windows
2000 team to
build the technology.
And all this time, I thought Unix had developed the concepts of symbolic and hard links
within the file system. Guess I ought to retire as I have been teaching this wrong for
over 20 years. :)
It was also nice to know that it only took them 1.5 years. Ken Thompson did it a bit
quicker. :)
Bob
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