Sometimes I just hate *$%Q!##& computers.
My version of VisiBroker (for which I have a valid license, btw)
thinks it's an eval, and has a timebomb that expired in Feb/98.
So whenever I'm running it, I have to set the clock on my
machine back to Jan. or so. And occasionally I forget to reset
it, and then
send mail to the outside world, timestamped 10 months ago. Which
is presumably the cause of the failure message I got below.
Sheesh. Computers suck. Or is it stupid users that suck? Or are there
no stupid users, only stupid systems that don't anticipate their
all-too-human users?
NeXT Mail Agent wrote:
>
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> While connected to mail.Virginia.EDU:
> >>> MAIL From:<rresnick@dialogosweb.com>
> <<< 451 Nameserver timeout during parsing
> 421 microsoft.com (ddn)... Deferred: Connection refused by mail3.microsoft.com
> 421 halla.sec.samsung.co.kr (ddn)... Deferred: No such file or directory
> 554 shcho@halla.sec.samsung.co.kr... 550 Host unknown (Authoritative answer from name server): No such file or directory
> 421 shortbus.com (ddn)... Deferred: Connection refused by commwerks.com
> 451 john.feiler@attws.com... timeout waiting for input
> 421 redmailwall.attws.com (ddn)... Deferred: Connection reset by peer during greeting wait with redmailwall.attws.com
>
> ----- Unsent message follows -----
> Return-Path: <rresnick@dialogosweb.com>
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> Sat, 10 Oct 1998 19:30:53 +0200
> Message-Id: <34B7BDC3.269A5300@dialogosweb.com>
> Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 13:28:19 -0500
> From: Ron Resnick <rresnick@dialogosweb.com>
> Reply-To: rresnick@dialogosweb.com
> Organization: DiaLogos Incorporated
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> To: Joe Barrera <joebar@MICROSOFT.com>
> Cc: "'FORK'" <FoRK@xent.ICS.uci.edu>
> Subject: Re: Windows NT Server is #1 Web Server, Study Reveals
> References: <4D0A23B3F74DD111ACCD00805F31D810201C30@RED-MSG-50>
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> Joe Barrera wrote:
> > Or, as Rick Rashid pointed out to me once, during my first year of grad
> > school, when I described something in a paper as a "truly distributed
> > operating system"... "what is a falsely distributed operating system?"
>
> Having not the slightest interest in getting into the "truth
> in advertising" discussion, I will note that there are degrees
> of distribution in OSes, as well as in other things. For example,
> an OS that offers file services across multiple nodes, but otherwise
> has no distributed memory or process execution facilities is
> "less" distributed than an OS that has such facilities.
>
> Hence, a designer claiming that his/her system was "truly" distributed
> could be, fairly, contrasting its highly decentralized architecture
> (lookup services, persistence, memory, process migration, etc.)
> against systems that had only some, but not all, of these features.
>
> I.e., the opposite of "truly distributed", in this context, doesn't
> necessarily have to be "falsely distributed".
>
> (This FoRKpost, of course, is merely a pretext for including the
> advert-sig below :-)
>
> Ron
>
> ---
>
> Ron Resnick
> Senior Consulting Engineer
> DiaLogos Incorporated
> http://www.dialogosweb.com
>
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