I read Hani’s BileBlog incidentally. I used to have him in my RSS reader, but the language makes it hard to concentrate on the arguments (valid as they often are). I still get him through search or topic aggregators occasionally.
So, when I saw Greg Luck’s deBilefication and further discussion of the Hani’s entries, I read [...]
Frank Carver is not impressed with anti-spam screensaver. I think there is an additional danger beyond just handling the control over to the corporation.
And that is a danger of somebody hacking the communication/update protocol and substituting the list of hosts. And since the screensaver was installed on purpose, user will ensure that all the firewalls [...]
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The internet could be a very small place. One of my clued-up customers is aparently also my subscriber (and vice-versa).
He was wondering why questions from ‘intelligent customers’ do not go straight to Backline (tier-3) support (WayBack Machine archive).
There are several reasons.
First one is that Backline (BL) and Frontline (FL) support (as BEA names tier-3 [...]
Subbu Allamaraju has written a very good description of the tricks HTTP 1.1 goes to utilise connections more efficiently.
Reading his article makes very clear that persistent connections are quite tricky and developing new code dealing with the topic requires careful thought.
And, of course, troubleshooting persistent connections is quite hard. Ethereal comes quite handy in here, [...]
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