Someone mentioned that I might really enjoy reading Jared Diamond’s “Guns, Germs, and Steel”. The book chronicles the most recent 100 000 years of modern human history with a focus on the last 30 000 years. Diamond discusses early migration of people as hunter-gatherers throughout the world, tool manufacturing, the subsequent rise of agriculture (independently …
Monthly Archive: October 2005
Oct
17
ID: Problems with Max-Forwards Processing (and Potential Solutions)
draft-lawrence-maxforward-problems-00 TXT HTML Problems with Max-Forwards Processing (and Potential Solutions) This document describes an attack against SIP networks where a small number of legitimate, even authorized, SIP requests can stimulate massive amounts of proxy-to-proxy traffic. The document analysis ways to limit the impact of this kind of attack, and proposes changes to the SIP protocol …
Oct
09
October Newsletter
Our October newsletter is now online. Enjoy! (link)
Oct
05
Update : Apple Wake from Sleep Coma
Just a refreshed pointer to my original Apple wake from sleep coma. I found out that WordPress changes the archive link if I change the timestamp, so I restored the timestamp on the orginal, located here.
Oct
05
Rude Awakenings in Undergraduate School
TourDeForce: “Engineering school is a rude awakening for most college freshmen.” An old friend pointed me at this article over lunch today. It’s funny, but also very, very accurate. There is something wrong with a large chunk of our education system , or at least how people typically leverage it. This tends to produce very …