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We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties
So without a doubt, the best time for the power supply in your
server to die is when you're out of town. Oh, and the line to your
boxes at home should die too. And the only machine with a working
modem in your hotel room should be an NT box (without ssh installed) and then the connection you dial through should be 19 hops away from anything (routing from San Jose to NY, DC, Boston, and back to Frisco and conveniently losing almost all of the packets) Anyway, we're back
up and kinda hobbling now, (thanks to Jesse & Dan and UP Networks for being jonny's-on-the-spot) but I'm trying to fix some stuff
as fast as I can. In the meantime, things are gonna be a bit zany,
so don't flame me to loud. And don't worry, we've been working for
the last month to build a new system with redundancy and stuff so that
this won't happen again (knock on wood).
It pains me to see that Slashdot is back up and running thanks in part to NT.
The aversion to the use of the term "Frisco" is a yuppie/upper class thing (Remember Herb Caen's book?). "Frisco" is A-OK among the blue collar/"Regular Guy" crowd.
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Sapphire & Steel have been assigned!
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Chill. I'm guessing /. is still "in trasition" to Andover, so multi-redundant backup and high-availabilty is still in the works. Si?
sigfault (core dumped)
MCI WorldCom is experiencing some major network difficulties.
--The more you know, the less you know.
This lady walks into a bar and says to the bartender, "I'd like a Double Entendre."
So he gives it to her.
-Chris
Doh! Yep of course, you're right. Either not enough or too much caffeine is to blame. ;-)
Heh, beat me to it. :p
Microsoft in danger of being ripped apart by the Government on anti-trust.
A Linux distrubutor goes public and its stock increases like 600% the first week.
The last total solar eclipse of the centry (notice I didn't say 'millenium', is there one next year anytime?)
Forecast in hell next week: colder with possible flurries...
Well, if you measure the "millenium" to end on 12/31/2000, then how are you counting "centuries"? If you're going by the (erroneous) calendar with no year zero, then both century and millenium end on the same day. As for me, I prefer to go by the big high-order digits. 12/31/1999 is close enough for me... but then I'm something of a slacker. ;)
Geeky modern art T-shirts
First off, finding any site(s) without banner ads of some sort is nearly impossible these days. Internet connectivity isn't free. Web hosting isn't free either -- and don't even get me started on those "free" sites that do nothing but litter one's desktop with ads...
/. is (or was) a hobby site. As such, do you honestly expect people to fork out their (hard earned?) cash for redundant, "it will never go down", high availablity hardware? If you do, then you should seek professional help.
/., no one has a leg to stand on if/when it fails. Face it, machines break. I think the /.'ers put more than enough of their time and money into making this geek haven. If you cannot get your /. fix, then that should be taken as an omen to get (back) to work.
Let us do some math in reference to banner ads and "hobby sites"...
Let's make a few assumptions (alright, ALOT of assumptions.) Say your hobby site is fairly popular getting 100k hits per day with an average transfer of 8k per hit. <math> 100000 * 8 / (60 * 60 * 24) == 9.26K/s</math> That's assuming the traffic is perfectly evenly distributed -- which we all know isn't true.
To continuously transmit 9.26K/s would require a 128k connection. A standard analog modem tops out in the 3K/s range. A single ISDN B channel tops out at 7.5K/s. A dual channel ISDN (2B) or 128k frame connection tops out at 15.2K/s. Let's assume you go with ISDN (it's generally the lower cost.)
SO, you'd need an ISDN router (the first person to say "ISDN Modem" gets shot) at a cost of 700$US, an ISDN phone line at a cost of 100$US/month and 200$US installation, and an ISP at a cost of 150$US/month plus 200$US installation (what a rip-off.) That's 1100$US to start plus 250$US per month for your "hobby"... and you haven't even bought a machine to be your web server.
Seeing as no one is being charged for access to
As always, Your Milage MUST Vary!
Traveling occasionally and being forced to use other's machines (usually windoze boxes) I've found a good way to get in without SSH and still keep the crackers off my back. I've installed OPIE, a one time password login mechanism; in addition I installed PilotOTP on my Palm 3 which travels with me everywhere. TCP wrappers are set up to give local network users the standard login prompt while 'twist'ing the rest of the internet to an OTP login..
/usr/sbin/in.telnetd \ /bin/login.opie
hosts.allow has a rule for in.telnetd allowing local network standard access.
in hosts.deny:
in.telnetd: ALL : twist
-L
Hope this helps!
-- Greg
Slashdot, would a spell-checker for posting be too much to ask? It's not rocket science!