Monthly Archives: April 2007

Still trying after all these years

Posted on April 26, 2007 by yodaiken

Red Hat has apparently also understood the necessity of real-time in financial trading – FSMLabs main current focus. Unfortunately for them, they are using inappropriate technology as shown by the over 1.2 million lines of code that they boast has … Continue reading →

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Net neutrality and real-time

Posted on April 18, 2007 by yodaiken

British Telecom breaks with the party line. This is the intersection of a business/political dispute about what business telecos should be in and a technical issue of QOS. Traffic shaping is a blunt instrument for QOS and part of the … Continue reading →

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Security cannot be improved by waving flags

Posted on April 17, 2007 by yodaiken

Via Schneier comes a story about the US Navy and a disgruntled contractor who just plead guilty: He confessed to programming malicious software codes into computers that track Navy submarines in May 2006 while in Naples. He told Navy investigators … Continue reading →

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