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ISP Dispute Causing Connectivity Issues for Customers
Posted: March 19th, 2008, 11:31pm CET by Zonk
Tags: internet
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "A peering dispute between Telia and Cogent is causing routing and connectivity problems for many internet users. Cogent shut down their connections to Telia over what they described as a 'contract dispute' over the size and location of their peering points. Telia attempted to route around the problem, but Cogent blocked that, too. This has caused a lot of trouble for sites which are not multi-homed. Groklaw, for example, is on a Cogent network (MCNC.demarc.cogentco.com), so any Europeans connecting via Telia can't get through." -
GCC 4.3.0 Exposes a Kernel Bug
Posted: March 19th, 2008, 5:25am CET by kdawson
Tags: bug
ohxten sends news from earlier this month that GCC 4.3.0's new behavior of not clearing the direction flag before a string operation on x86 systems poses problems with kernels — such as Linux and BSD — that do not clear the direction flag before a signal handler is called, despite the ABI specification.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Visualizing the .NET Framework
Posted: March 19th, 2008, 1:55am CET by kdawson
Tags: programming
eldavojohn writes "If you're a Web developer, you should check out a quick post about the number of types, methods, & fields in the .NET framework. This was done using NDepend. The numbers are quite large — e.g. 39,509 types. The blogger went on to generate tree maps and a dependency matrix."Read more of this story at Slashdot.