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Smart and dumb clients and the “so-called” Best Master Clock Algorithm in PTP IEEE 1588
The Best Master Clock (BMC) algorithm is a key part and key weakness of the PTP standard. The proposed enterprise profile for PTP calls it “the so-called ‘best master clock’” algorithm because it doesn’t actually pick the best master clock in an enterprise or telco environment. The BMC requires that each clock advertise a level…
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German banking
Germany has a complex banking system that provides a lot of support for SME manufacturing. The main strength of German economy is the so-called ‘Mittelstand’, a dense fabric of SMEs that manage to export high-quality manufactured products. In France, policymakers from all parties are obsessed with building a ‘French Mittelstand’. Economists are repeatedly asked to…
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Right to private jet ski use while collecting disability
New York authorities said the warrants led to the indictments of firefighters, police officers, and civil servants on disability fraud charges. The Facebook data, which included user photos and videos, showed employees who claimed they were disabled performing a variety of activities, including fishing, martial arts, and even jet ski riding. – Ars Technica
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Ikea and RedHat
This is state of the art for systems software now – which is not all that impressive. Glantz explained that Ikea has more than 3,500 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) servers deployed in Sweden and around the world. With Shellshock, every single one of those servers needed to be patched and updated to limit the risk…
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Gilbert and Sullivan’s innovative business model
From the Financial Times: (and you should buy a subscription) Piracy is a problem as old as the music industry itself. In Victorian times, it was illicitly copied sheet music that was the avowed enemy of the artist, and the operetta team Gilbert and Sullivan paid toughs to go round London pubs smashing up pianos…
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Space-X patents
Anderson: So what have all your creative people come up with, then? What’s different in your basic technology versus 50 years ago? Musk: I can’t tell you much. We have essentially no patents in SpaceX. Our primary long-term competition is in China—if we published patents, it would be farcical, because the Chinese would just use…
