I'm not sure if this would work, or not, but if you've got the budget for multiple broadband channels, maybe you have the budget for this, too. This would be especially effective if you do hosting for multiple domains, but any company could implement it.
Set up two DNS nameservers, running perhaps a *BSD or Linux, one on the gateway of each modem. Then set them up as the primary and secondary DNS servers for the client machines on the network.
You'd have to tune them to network requests at this point, but hopefully it would allow you to resolve DNS through whichever modem was fastest/least busy at the time, and this could help distribute the traffic more evenly.
You could also set up proxy services in this manner, and allocate bandwidth and services as you see fit. (e.g. assign FTP to run through a proxy on one of the lines, HTTP to run on the other, etc.) If your videoconferencing software supports it, you might even be able to run it through the proxy, and keep a line (mostly) dedicated to that.
I suppose you could script something to allow changeovers to another line, should one be bogged down with a session, but I don't know how I'd implement something like that... it's too early and I just got coffee.
Good luck, maybe post your results of this, (even if you go a different route I'd like to hear about it!) on one o' them new-fangled "web sites" you kids are talking about these days, or somethin'.
Is the BP-6 that good at dual processors, that you'd use it instead of a dual slot A board? I thought dual P-III mobos were only $20 more than the BP-6.
If anyone has links about the BP-6, please post. I'm considering buying one.
How are they going to get this sort of thing to work with Roger Wilco? I can see it now, the commands you yell will get interpreted by your opponent's computer...
The mind boggles at the magnitude of the lawsuits that are going to stem from this... =P
It was truly only a matter of time before somebody tried to do this. There have been a couple console emulator packs released for other consoles, but I was under the impression that this would be difficult, at best.
Does anybody know if Bleem! has started to reverse engineer the Playstation2, hopefully for Bleem2!? Because I'm holding out... is this even feasible given today's PC hardware? Hmm...
And let that be a lesson to everyone; you're just not being malicious enough!
You punk kid virus writers are becoming lazy no-goodniks who just want to live off the government dole! Back when I was a kid, we had to walk 7 miles through unsorted punchcards if we wanted to write a virus; and we didn't have no fancy-schmancy new-fangled "scripting languages", neither, nosirree, we had to imprint the binary on cardboard boxes, which in turn we'd mamble famble until they'd turn into finely crafted executables, yes sirree.
Heh, when you said "naugty pixel", my mind flashed to Robert Heinlein's story that had a cat named Pixel involved somehow...damn it's been a long time since I read that.
I don't think that it's necessarily wrong for Red Hat to be trying to make a profit by doing this. It's mandated that companies in this country try and make a decent return (or return at all, for that matter) on their shareholder's money, so Red Hat's just looking for other ways to generate income. The Open Source business model is hard enough as it is without making them feel guilty for trying to run a company.
I think that if things go well for some of the startups, it will be mutually beneficial for all involved. Symbiotic relationships exists, even when the big fish get involved (e.g. the Microsoft/Symantec relationship.) No one can argue that the anitivirus companies, for instance, have suffered because of the proliferation of Windows. =P
The made a mistake, and corrected it. nVidia could have dragged their heels on this, but they didn't. When BeOS had the problem with the source code in BeOS 5.0, and Bruce Perens caught it, they had already shipped hundreds of thousands of CD's, and even Bruce admitted it would be wasteful and wrong to make them recall them all. He didn't even ask for any damages or retribution. Some people in the OSS community could learn a real lesson from his example.
Despite their mistakes in the past, nVidia is trying to comply. Everybody makes an innocent mistake from time to time.
(and yes, if they hadn't fixed it, I'd say "Off with their heads".)
Actually, some of the newer distros have pretty good Palm support, (Caldera in particular) even have a graphical interface under KDE which is almost as gooey as Windows. (hully gee.)
Not all Linux distros are stuck in the command line... which is not to say they are "modern", exactly. =P
An NT machine with good quality stock hardware might not BSOD, but it sure as hell will get irrecoverable memory leaks, even with straight-up all-Microsoft apps. This can lead to situations just as bad, if not worse, than a BSOD, because it appears to the untrained observer that everything is just fine.
Life support systems? I sure as hell hope they hook me up to some *BSD boxen when me ol' ticker starts to go... =P
If anyone wants to get a chuckle, they should read the Talkbacks underneath the article. The first five entries are priceless. *g*
Never before has such incoherent babbling been heard outside of an Alzheimer's home. (and yes, my grandmother had it and it is very sad. I'm just trying to make a point.)
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The previous threads indicated this would help with font anti-aliasing. How would an alpha channel help with text? Isn't this just for graphics?
Set up two DNS nameservers, running perhaps a *BSD or Linux, one on the gateway of each modem. Then set them up as the primary and secondary DNS servers for the client machines on the network.
You'd have to tune them to network requests at this point, but hopefully it would allow you to resolve DNS through whichever modem was fastest/least busy at the time, and this could help distribute the traffic more evenly.
You could also set up proxy services in this manner, and allocate bandwidth and services as you see fit. (e.g. assign FTP to run through a proxy on one of the lines, HTTP to run on the other, etc.) If your videoconferencing software supports it, you might even be able to run it through the proxy, and keep a line (mostly) dedicated to that.
I suppose you could script something to allow changeovers to another line, should one be bogged down with a session, but I don't know how I'd implement something like that... it's too early and I just got coffee.
Good luck, maybe post your results of this, (even if you go a different route I'd like to hear about it!) on one o' them new-fangled "web sites" you kids are talking about these days, or somethin'.
Is the BP-6 that good at dual processors, that you'd use it instead of a dual slot A board? I thought dual P-III mobos were only $20 more than the BP-6.
If anyone has links about the BP-6, please post. I'm considering buying one.
All right, that's enough outta me... off to bed before somebody pokes an eye out.
Doh!
=P
It was truly only a matter of time before somebody tried to do this. There have been a couple console emulator packs released for other consoles, but I was under the impression that this would be difficult, at best.
Does anybody know if Bleem! has started to reverse engineer the Playstation2, hopefully for Bleem2!? Because I'm holding out... is this even feasible given today's PC hardware? Hmm...
You punk kid virus writers are becoming lazy no-goodniks who just want to live off the government dole! Back when I was a kid, we had to walk 7 miles through unsorted punchcards if we wanted to write a virus; and we didn't have no fancy-schmancy new-fangled "scripting languages", neither, nosirree, we had to imprint the binary on cardboard boxes, which in turn we'd mamble famble until they'd turn into finely crafted executables, yes sirree.
I wonder if the Volkswagon people are available?
=P
Weird, sorry for the off-topic post.
Perhaps they could ship the laptops with duct tape over parts of the case, to give it that kewl X-Files kind of look...
=P
I don't think that it's necessarily wrong for Red Hat to be trying to make a profit by doing this. It's mandated that companies in this country try and make a decent return (or return at all, for that matter) on their shareholder's money, so Red Hat's just looking for other ways to generate income. The Open Source business model is hard enough as it is without making them feel guilty for trying to run a company.
I think that if things go well for some of the startups, it will be mutually beneficial for all involved. Symbiotic relationships exists, even when the big fish get involved (e.g. the Microsoft/Symantec relationship.) No one can argue that the anitivirus companies, for instance, have suffered because of the proliferation of Windows. =P
Also, I actually think that works better as your sig. Thanks for the suggestion, though.
Despite their mistakes in the past, nVidia is trying to comply. Everybody makes an innocent mistake from time to time.
(and yes, if they hadn't fixed it, I'd say "Off with their heads".)
=P
Not all Linux distros are stuck in the command line... which is not to say they are "modern", exactly. =P
Life support systems? I sure as hell hope they hook me up to some *BSD boxen when me ol' ticker starts to go... =P
Never before has such incoherent babbling been heard outside of an Alzheimer's home. (and yes, my grandmother had it and it is very sad. I'm just trying to make a point.)