Here's an interesting analysis of the Slammer Worm that slowed down the Internet last weekend. It was reported that the Worm attacked SQL server but the report mentions that:
"most hosts were infected by MSDE, not MSSQL. MSDE is "Microsoft Database Embedded", and is embedded within desktop products like Visio, network infrastructure systems from companies like Cisco, and in server applications such as McAffee's virus manager. These aren't unusual: MSDE is being included in thousands of desktop, infrastructure, and server software packages.".
Most news about this Worm from standard professional news organizations is painful outdated or in many cases just plain wrong.
I must try Thinlets (rapid UI development using XML) with BeanShell (A java based scripting language).
David Beutel wrote: I imagine Victor annotating clothes and walls too.
Annotating the world is going to be "the next big thing". In the not so
far future, you'll walk down the road with your retina-projector goggles
on and see virtual graffiti about the locations you are passing through.
I think the big issue right now is how to define the coordinates. ICBM
coordinates (Lat & Long) would work, but who can specify them with
enough accuracy quickly without it being clunky? It has to be as simple
as taking a digital photograph, deciding to publish it and for someone
entering that vicinity later to see that there has been a photograph
taken here and choosing to view it.
I want to post a virtual note outside a restaurant and for people to see
it as they walk past, not for it to be to floating +- 10 meters.
I want to see Victor's annotations of Aoyama Cemetery...
I just exchanged a message with Victor that led me to think about
marking books.
I noticed that Victor had annotated in the front cover of one of his
books a the page number of a passage about code reading which was really
cool as I was able to jump straight there. I _never_ write in books. I
think I had a bad experience as a child so I just can't bring myself to
write in one, whereas I know if it was, say, on the web, I would
annotate it straight away.
Then, I started thinking that the O'Rielly books all come with an errata
page on their site, so a good start would be to annotate all the errata
in the book in the margins. You might save yourself some head scratching
later and what's more, it could benefit a future reader.
Victor also said that a book would be more valuable if it was annotated
by his smart friends which made me ponder and appreciate the benefits of
marking up a book..
..anyway enough random thoughts for today
We were looking into some performance issues last week and found a folder in our system with 12,000 product image graphic files in it. Sajjad did a search to see what the perfomance issues were with the this many files on Linux with the ex2 filesystem and found the above linked mailing list message which was very appropriate.
I wonder what the problem is with my Sony D-CJ01 mp3 CD-R player. A disk of MP3s that was made by someone else works fine but the mp3s on the disk that I made are all split into chunks which means that after about 10 seconds there is a pause as it loads the next track. Listening to an album with with pauses like this is guaranteed to drive you nuts.
On Amazon reviews of the Sony Portable CD/MP3 Player (D-CJ500) An electronics fan from Fiji describes a similar problem: When burning CD's be careful to use the right burning format, also, make sure to do it in disk at once, otherwise it will split each song into 5, but if it's done right, it works flawlessly, I've never had a problem with it.
I think the problem might be because I created my CD with DirectCD, where you write to the CD player as drive but I'm mystified as to why it split the tracks into little chunks..
Later: that was the problem. If you make a CD in the standard way it works fine. I was just unlucky that I tried DirectCD first and that it worked in such a weird way. It wouldn't have been so confusing if it hadn't worked at all!!
Installed the Outling Editor Leo today. I'm really intrigued as to whether I can really use it to write Literate Java Programs.