Word: unix
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...purpose of the session, said Bill Ouchark, HASCS manager of networking and UNIX systems, would be to make sure people understand the enormous impact that outbound traffic is having on the network and to inform them of how they can be a responsible network user...
...announcement posted on the HASCS newsgroup message board on Friday by Bill Ouchark, HASCS manager of networking and UNIX systems, had aroused fears among many students that HASCS might restrict all outside access by erecting a firewall to reduce the extremely heavy traffic that the network has been facing in recent weeks...
...frightening: Viruses come in all sorts of shapes and sizes and affect files in any number of different ways. There are viruses that are called when the computer boots up each time and viruses that specifically attack certain programs like Microsoft Word. There are viruses for Macintoshes, Windows and Unix machines, as well as viruses for Palm Pilots and other hand-held computers. In a way oddly analogous to nuclear weapons, a virus' potential for damage is measured by its payload--exactly what it does--and its distribution. The ILOVEYOU virus, for example, was very dangerous because it was easily...
...company in seaside Hull, and set to work on Napster. It was the first major program Fanning had ever written. "One thing that sets Shawn or any really great programmer apart from mediocre ones is their focus," says Ali Aydar, a friend from Massachusetts who now works as a Unix programmer in Napster's Redwood City, Calif., offices. "Shawn is able to concentrate, and collaborate and appropriate if necessary. He's also able to handle criticism. Most alpha-geeks can't take criticism. They'll get into arguments. Shawn actually listens and takes the best part of what...
...brew and listening to his roommate whine about dead MP3 links. Fanning, whose high school nickname was the Napster (a reference to his perpetually nappy hair), just shrugged. But he began thinking there might be a way to access files without going through a website. He had taught himself Unix programming between his junior and senior years at Harwich High in Cape Cod. And he knew enough to think such a program would have to be possible. "I had this idea that there was a lot of material out there sitting on people's hard drives," he says. "I mean...