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Lit. Buffer overruns 1695
Yes, the results are logrithmic, not linear... (I think I just messed up using English...
Lit. Buffer overruns 1696
I respectfully disagree. I think that is an over-generalization. It has nothing to do with whether the...
Lit. Buffer overruns 1697
spit Perhaps. Don't knock unless you've tried it. :-) Internal politics makes development work a real headache. What tradeoffs you choose makes a huge difference. I wrote more about some in another post. Think...
Lit. Buffer overruns 1698
lots of organization have oscillated between the two spectrums .... in-house operations required to provide significant compebreastive advantage...
Lit. Buffer overruns 1699
I think there is more than a culture clash. Although that would definitely occur. Sheesh, yes! Try to say no to a person under another VP and the problem...
Lit. Buffer overruns 1700
the upfront learning curve tended to be higher and the full PLI (at least IBM) tended to be much larger. however there were various PLI subsets that were used at universities...
Lit. Buffer overruns 1701
reference to an internal conference i held at research in march of '82 on the theme...
Lit. Buffer overruns 1702
slightly related: I'm trying to remember ... this may have been the VMITE that happened shortly after the first Chucky Cheese opened .... out behind the Blossom Hill shopping center (in...
Lit. Buffer overruns 1703
As I said in another reply I just posted, I think we must mean different things by "buffer overrun" (or overflow). I mean the situation in which a program (typically an application user non-OS...
Lit. Buffer overruns 1704
snip If I gave the impression that I thought that was a reasonable general approach to fixing buffer...
Lit. Buffer overruns 1705
Ah, I think we must not mean the same thing by "buffer". I'm using it to mean space allocated and controlled by a program, usually an application program. A carelessly written program can easily try...
Lit. Buffer overruns 1706
Sure. And how do you think limits are imposed? It's handshaking between the application, the user, and the operating system with the constraint imposed by hardware. If your app code can't request core from the...
Lit. Buffer overruns 1707
snip I'm having flashbacks to the days when I, a junior person doing mainframe systems-level programming, struggled to communicate with the people in the machine room ("operators") -- both of us...
Lit. Buffer overruns 1708
Ok. I'll try to watch for different meanings. So far, I hadn't detected any. Note that there are many ways to "allocate" many flavors of space. I understood your...
Lit. Buffer overruns 1709
Hm! Because I often have that "two people divided by a common vocabulary" feeling in reading your posts. True enough...
Lit. Buffer overruns 1710
The probability of that happening is 100%. Morten has whacked me over the head trying to figure...
Lit. Buffer overruns 1711
some number of years ago, netscape store was the largest ftp site ... they were having to do round-robin dns and router load...
Lit. Buffer overruns 1712
snip Probably true. I have to do a quick mental shuffle every time you mention "monitor" (I know what you mean, more or less, but since this is...
Lit. Buffer overruns 1713
Can we snip out the cross-post? I don't think the crypts care about this flavor of stuff In our development world, it was...
Lit. Buffer overruns 1714
They don't but I'm only there, I don't have time for afc, sorry.) RT-11 didn't, and couldn't because it ran (mostly?) on models without memory Debt Management (hence protection) or U-(E)-K modes. I...
Lit. Buffer overruns 1715
Morten Reistad have lots of banks have gone to single queue for multiple servers (bank tellers) ... frequently there are more tellers than concurrent long running requests ... so the quicky requests frequently get to be...
little endian 1716
Among the wreckage we found a fragment on which Peter Flbutt had scratched: DEC PDP-11 and VAX...
Lit. Buffer overruns 1717
paul c) writes: Thirty-one digits is enough for just about anything anyway. But one day I discovered a quirk in the Univac 9300 (their...
Lit. Buffer overruns 1718
I'm afraid that's false. The Windows piping and redirection mechanisms do not treat byte value 26 (ASCII SUB) in any special fashion. The...
Lit. Buffer overruns 1719
CP-M. You're correct. Though I believe Kildall actually got it from the system he used to develop CP-M, the name of which I can't recall right now. Yes, though on...
Lit. Buffer overruns 1720
Nice turn on topic there. My complements. The ISIS we (at least 'I', I think 'we') were talkinga bout was a large (but at the time considered small) development...
Lit. Buffer overruns 1721
The x86 clbutt processors do include a bounds check (bound). It generates a software interrupt 5. It was never widely used under DOS since it interferred with the...
Lit. Buffer overruns 1722
remember current mac-os (and NeXT) is a derivative of mach from cmu ... a unix microkernel implementation. in the 70s, we got to shot an email...
Lit. Buffer overruns 1723
although there are machine instructions that require explicit length bounds before the instruction starts ... so there are some instruction semantics that require that both origin...
Lit. Buffer overruns 1724
job. No, it doesn't. If you read these posts carefully, you'll discover that a lot of the...
Lit. Buffer overruns 1725
charlie invented compare-and-swap at the science center working on fire-grain locking for cp67 (he observed that majority of the requirements was for updating storage...
Lit. Buffer overruns 1726
So this was a world-wide lapse of hardware thinking. It sure seemed like we had all of them. ;-) Ours wasn't either. I was just wondering if that had changed...
Lit. Buffer overruns 1727
cp67-cms to vm370-cms transition involved significant rewrites of most of the cp67 kernel (to "clean up the code") ... while CMS transition was primarily changing from the cambridge monitor...
Lit. Buffer overruns 1728
Some of the most dangerous coders are the ones who think so. Just look at the code posted in this thread, like that toupper program that was supposed to...
Lit. Buffer overruns 1729
There wasn't anything wrong with his patches. Even his(our) boss backed him up. I skipped all that bullpoo. We had customers' bits to take care...
The Mac is like a modern day Betamax 1730
Brian Inglis ... worked at a place in the 1970's where all dates were kept in two bytes (5 bits for day, 4 for...
The Mac is like a modern day Betamax 1731
p linnane yup. or they could've paid me 2% of the project cost to do...
The Mac is like a modern day Betamax 1732
Charlie Gibbs sorry, i meant to say 'calendar started in 1900'. i don't know about that, at least the 'working' part. as for mainframes, i remember surprising a few people in the 1980's...
The Mac is like a modern day Betamax 1733
Gactimus this thread reminds me of a meeting once that went on for hours and...
The Mac is like a modern day Betamax 1734
Really? I never run MS Office under an administrative account, and I haven't run into any problems that appear to be permissions issues. But maybe I'm attributing the wrong cause to general Office...
Ralph Griswold
Rich Alderson I sure that you intended *no* pun. Ralph Griswold worked with a group of students to develop a language called...
Mickey and friends 1736
Abject ignorance of the language! (And of farming, ranching, cattle, whatever...) "Cattle" references both male and female bovine animals, *as* *a* *group* and as *property*. Cows are adult females, bulls, are adult males. There...
Mickey and friends 1737
Oh, and how could I have forgotten this one? The Spotted Cow One morning in the month of May As from my cot I strayed, Just at the...
Very slow booting and running and braindead OS's 1738
part of the micro-kernel genre ... core stuff was smallest unit possible and everything else was in parbreastioned address spaces. the other was replicated kernels on replicated hardware ... basically do rolling restart...
Very slow booting and running and braindead OS's 1739
For high-availability servers it has to be. You cannot move the root without a reboot. The root does...
cold war was : Cray1 1740
Look again at the history of Feynman, Manley, and Metropolis. The war put a hiatus in their...
cold war was : Cray1 1741
It was the mid to latter 50s the town got opened up. There are books about...
cold war was : Cray1 1742
Of course not. But the vast majority were not targets. By the early 50's Los Alamos had a working population of over 4000. The politicos in Washington knew a few dozen at...
cold war
Wow! I met a modest number of those guys: Kistiakowsky, Manley, Bradbury, Fermi's wife, Feynman, Bethe...
Alien technology from Roswell in computers
No, no, you got this all wrong. See, the aliens didn't just crash with their intergalactic saucer due to some kind of breakdown. They were carefully watching...
The 8008 1745
On Mon, 1 Aug 2005 16:37:23 +0000 (UTC), David Scheidt I asked you to name one. I, my friends and members of my immediate family, owned more...
The 8008 1746
Colonel Forbin) writes: Actually, we do have a Ferrari dealership with a showroom here in Vancouver. But we also have lots of yuppies, and lots of snob stereo...
The 8008 1747
That's an incredibly fascinating topic. I stand corrected on the notion that you need a couple hundred volts or more to drive the plates on a vacuum tube amplifier. Indeed, this sort of saddens...
The 8008 1748
I remember my fondest subject; applied physics. It was a controlled play in the physics lab; where we could access...
The 8008 1749
I've seen 40's vintage TVs that used a 25L6 as a 300khz or so oscilltor to bounce the B+ up to 5kv...
The 8008 1750
That reminds me of an amusing story from my undergraduate days. I was working on trying to find some reliable means of cutting serial sections of Argasid (soft bodied) tick eggs...
The 8008 1751
So did I. Does 'grid leak detecter' ring a bell? And those kids are expected to keep things running...
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