Posted: aprile 24th, 2003 | Author: Antonio | Filed under: Tecnicaglie | 1 Comment »
Allora, io capisco che sia famoso negli ambienti hacker, che abbia fondato il Movimento per il Software Libero e Gnu, che gli abbiano dedicato un libro, che sia “un personaggio”, ma guardate che risposta automatica via email ho ricevuto la prima volta da Richard Stallman:
[This message was generated by an automated system.]
I am not on vacation, but I am at the end of a long time delay. I am
located somewhere on Earth, but as far as responding to email is concerned,
I appear to be well outside the solar system.
After your message arrives at gnu.org, I will collect it in my next batch of
incoming mail, some time within the following 24 hours. I will spend much
of the following day reading that batch of mail and will come across your
message at some point. If I can write a response for it immediately, the
response will go out in the next outgoing batch–typically around 24 hours
after I collected your message, but occasionally sooner or later than that.
As a result, you should expect a minimum delay of between 24 and 48 hours in
seeing any response to your mail to me.
If you are having a conversation with me, please keep in mind that each
message you receive from me is probably a response to the mail you sent 24
to 48 hours earlier, and any subsequent mail you sent has not yet been seen
by me.
Posted: aprile 18th, 2003 | Author: Antonio | Filed under: Tecnicaglie | No Comments »
Porca miseria, è da anni che comincio i miei corsi Internet così:
The Internet was invented by the United States military in order to create a communications network that could survive a nuclear war.
Sorry, but this just ain’t true. I believed this one myself until I read journalist Katie Hafner’s excellent book, *When Wizards Say Up Late,* chronicling the real history of the Internet. As many suspected, the US military was not capable of conceiving much less inventing an open, interdependent network. Rather, a division of the Pentagon dedicated to research offered grants to a loose consortium of University-based computer scientists who were already developing protocols for processor sharing and information exchange.
This myth came into popularity after a report by the Rand Corporation, a U.S. think tank that often works on military scenarios, was released onto the Internet. The report — written well after the Internet came into existence — did make the observation that a decentralized communications infrastructure could potentially resist conventional attacks. It had nothing to do with the development of the Internet itself.
http://www.rushkoff.com/cgi-bin/columns/display.cgi/breeaking_tech_myths
Ma se non è vero che non è vero?
Posted: aprile 18th, 2003 | Author: Antonio | Filed under: Girovagando | No Comments »
Dopo aver sfidato il traffico pasquale partendo il Venerdì Santo da Milano, questo è quello che mi aspettava davanti a casa:
Posted: aprile 18th, 2003 | Author: Antonio | Filed under: Humor inglese | No Comments »
Ricevo e pubblico…
Ciao,ho “guardato” abbastanza bene il tuo sito e ti chiedo una cosa: come cazzo si fa’ a costruire un sito come quello?, Comunque ti faccio i miei complimenti in quanto ho notato una buona e dettagliata spiegazione sul fenomeno che sta’ prendendo sempre piu’ “piede” BLOG, appunto.
Un vero festival di frasi lucide