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Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1408
David Wagner In C standardese, a byte is the addressable unit of storage from which all C data types are built; it's the unit for sizeof. The...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1409
Randy Howard Those aren't 8-bit ports. Those are ports whose width matches the character size of the machine. So char, or unsigned char if you prefer...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1410
Fair enough. I wasn't promoting it, I was trying to think of examples where it wouldn't be inherently...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1411
That portability could be enhanced at zero cost by making the fifth parameter ("l") a "sizet...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1412
In response to Trevor's challenge, I provided a code example for a time-critical cryptographic computation: basically, evaluating an input polynomial modulo 2^130-5. The...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1413
D. J. Bernstein OK I'll read it. OIC. You keep them around to obfuscate the code. No. Just how many FPUs do you...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1414
Thomas lovein" wrote ... The year is 2005, and we are still having debates for which the basic question is "which defines...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1415
D. J. Bernstein I've been programming for twice as long, and some of my code (or code derived from...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1416
says... I'm not sure I explained myself well enough, because I have used it to support a large number of radically different hardware and OS platforms from a single code base. Theport-* files are...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1417
Randy Howard This is the key point. The long term flexibility is extremely valuable. That same effect occurs when you implement an algorithm...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1418
The thing is Gwyn has been making a lot of claims that he's been unable to back up, in a thread about security. Seeing those posts consbreastutes...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1419
Has qmail been proven secure? Has it been put through the ringer by some famous targeted attack? Or has it just been put into wide use and not been busted publicly...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1420
Douglas A. Gwyn I do appreciate that you speak up, and I hope you will continue to do so. It is a valuable service, and I know that I personally learn a lot...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1421
Hogwash. If there is capacity, and a redundant route, and they did their networks according to Best Current Practice, we...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1422
rpl Ok. Security Engineering is one of my favorites for learning the mindset. It isn't going to teach prescriptions for how to build secure...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1423
Hank Oredson But look at the supposedly-malicious input suggestions from alt.folklore.computers participants: inputs that are arbitrary files, or all ones, all zeros, or composed of arbitrary line numbers. Those are...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1424
JMFBAH Not necessarily. It depends on the system. Keeping a system up is about availability. Ensuring that your data is not corrupted or tampered with (perhaps...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1425
Agree. For some period of years I was a "working manager", i.e. I ran a smallish product development group (including budget, hire-fire, etc...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1426
I've been "stuck" in management-like positions a couple of times, but have avoided (so...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1427
The real world is worse; not only are you allowed to deliver poor-quality work late, they pay you extra to fix...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1428
This is another universe from where I live and grew up. The number of days you can be absent...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1429
It will seem to get worse than better because there's generation lag. Yup. And people are working on correcting this. Unfortunately, the unions are fighting the changes tooth...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1431
I see we are in a different place. Many of these are non-starters here. Grandstanding by administrations is generally frowned on. You...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1432
Caution. This is a public place. You could get into deep trouble for spewing forth heretical ideas such as personal responisibility and...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1433
Heh. Speeches to 6-year-olds are a whole separate form of art, sure. Well, the bigger schools around here typically have one person (or possibly more) for that too on the staff...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1434
A bit of background so my comments will make more sense, when I talk about things my wife has done. She has a serious lung disease, which should have done her in about ten years...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1435
So what? So the user count is higher. You are equating technical complication with noses. A nose count does NOT make delivering the computing service complicated...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1436
the large mainframe of old tended to have large user propulations. After standard testing ... deployed systems tended...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1437
snip sparks (not et flames) of an incipient breakdown in communication This conversation indicates the existence of a substantial cultural divide. The existence of that gap indicates that there is considerable room...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1438
Yup. And you're doing a wonderful job yakking across the divide. I'm seeing a lot...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1439
If someone wants my financial data, they will find it simplest to drive over here, grab a log from the wood pile, toss it through the glbutt door over there, and...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1440
Sure. In this case, you want the computer to self-destruct. Security can take completely opposite forms. It all depends on what you're trying to keep secure. In the case of flying planes, continuity and...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1441
when we were working on the original payment gateway and this thing called SSL with this little small...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1442
Consider the psychology of a person who is trying to break security. They will approach it using the same sets of tests that a quality control engineer would...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1443
JMFBAH Let me get this straight. Are you accusing me of "teaching incorrect techniques" in the clbuttroom? This is a very serious accusation. I consider the correctness of what I teach as...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1444
David Wagner I'm not going to address the issues in this topic, but will comment on the process: It does not matter. Either the contribution one makes here is useful or it is...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1445
Sorry to delurk again (twice in one year!), but "business" needs a better definition here... Some examples from my current employer: If business...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1446
Hank Oredson I'm not into that kind of name-calling. But hey, let me know if you ever have any actual point to the contrary. And like I...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1447
It was an observation. Note the "if". Note that many years of experience does in fact make it much simpler...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1448
I thought about saying something like that, but came to the conclusion that in my opinion that "not caring" is part of...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1449
Hank Oredson You picked a very important example. In continuance of that topic let us observe that a very important possibility...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1450
ET Parker ("Ernie") did the Greco-Latin squares thing. He worked in the math group buttociated with the...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1451
And training requires mentorship. This is something that is not formalized in the computing biz. Instead, people tacked the word "science" on the...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1452
Hank hit the nail on the head: This entire subthread comes about because of sloppy nomenclature. It seems to me that "Science" has been applied in lieu...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1453
Hank Oredson I spent half my working life in industry and half in academia, in Computer Science, so I'm well qualified to be negative about both. I'll start...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1454
In DEC's case, "their work" was usually the people who did the work ;-). But that...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1455
I did exclude "those in research labs and some able specialists", which was intended to remove your former...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1456
I wouldn't agree with you. Those people happened to buy our gear and they indirectly influenced what we implemented. There is no...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1457
I foresee the political interference. It is a natural occurence when a discipline doesn't correct itself. On the contrary...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1458
One of my favorite westerns, too. I even had a Palladin toy gun and holster, 1960 vintage. There's...
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snip You may recall the constant "spam on dead trees" form Frost&Sullivan about their pretty exprivatesve courses. They were popular in the kinds on shops that read Datamation and where suits...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1460
Here in alt.folklore.computers, I tend to hope that any person who writes or designs software would continue to be an attentive student of such things throughout their career (and beyond that, if they should...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1461
Yes, I would. It's important from several standpoints, including data communications, file format conversions, and even machine architecture discussions. All that...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1462
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 16:39:31 GMT in alt.folklore.computers, "Hank Perhaps being able to interpret the pbuttage with the White Knight would be a suitable test of multi-level comprehension, or...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1463
At one place I worked they really really wanted me to have the breastle "Senior Computer Scientist". Didn't argue with them, the culture needed...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1464
Same here. My role has always been to be the glue between the techs and management; but very seldom as an outright manager...
Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1465
I was summarizing a uniform we came up with in a particular shop. We did a lot of work with subcontractors. When a technical visit was...