I had internet troubles one day and called the cableco (TW) and they had me cycle my modem after it lost sync to the signal it was locked on, and were rather shocked when they noticed it had > 240 days uptime before I cycled it. They wanted me to do the router too, but no dice, and it's still working with zero issues:).
Yeah, I actually read on their blog link after posting that link that they will be re-adding it for people who weren't using it already in the coming weeks. Only those of us who had already setup profiles in the past still get to use it right now.
I love the feature, and like others, wrote to say I'd be canceling without it. Letting my wife and I keep separate queues and not constantly re-shuffle our lists is great as we have wildly different tastes in movies.
With the privilege (? lol) of being on an Army base as an Air Force member, I've got AKO access. I will say it's a much nicer system overall than the AF version, "Air Force Portal". Right now our AF portal is even going some overhauls that seem to have broken all the CSS sheets and a good bit of functionality, too:(.
The DoD does use.com domains for commercial recruiting. www.army.com is the recruiting website -- www.army.mil is the business end. Same for all services (I'm AF).
As to Firefox, well, only IE is authorized. The AF is already pushing Vista and IE7 out across most networks while the Army is still sitting on XP and IE6, as 7 has not been approved for use yet.
Am I the only Vista user who hasn't experienced any issues at all yet? I haven't even had issues with file copy speed.
I'll load SP1 on both my machines and post some hopefully uneventful results of how both my PCs still work without issue when I get home from this business trip in three days.
Concur. I actually hated PDF for the longest due to how slow and crash prone (I thought) it was. Just a bad experience with Adobe reader and browser plugins, though. After learning of, and switching to, Foxit -- PDF is a beautiful thing all over again.
I tried to tout the merits something like this could have for non-critical regular user backups, but as previous posters mention, it was shot down.
I was suggesting to run DrFTPD as a backend with NetDrive as an access medium. It looks good on paper, but I've never had the chance to apply it so widescale:)
With DrFTPD it's easy to setup whatever kind of redundancy you would want, ie: "at least 3 nodes will mirror all files in/doc" or whatever. NetDrive (and I'm sure there are others) help take away the learning curve and hassle of "here, use this internal ftp for backups, not a network drive" as it will map the actual FTP to a network drive and appear like normal.
As both living in Texas AND being stuck with TW, this has me a bit worried. I haven't had any issues with their service yet, but if I'm stuck with only 5gb/mo for the same price I'm paying now -- or something not incredibly lower -- I'll have to go with ClearWire or Embarq. Neither offer near the speed and service, but I'm not going to pay for a cap as part of a "test market". If enough people back away from it hopefully TW will take the hint and not roll it out on a wider basis.
I agree with you. People only believe they are "forced" into MS use because they buy OEM systems that come with it pre-installed. There is plenty of choice when you do the work yourself; or ask a technically inclined friend.
Microsoft has countered with the argument that Google is actually the big bully in this instance, with most of the search market already tied up. So is this Google's fault for providing the best product, or their competitor's faults for providing lesser products? Nobody is forcing people to use Google's services, just most of us probably use them because they don't suck. Or are the lesser of whatever evils the available alternatives offer.
If they are located in a country with lax laws or that is reluctant to support international efforts to shut them down, it could be difficult. There was an article posted just yesterday I believe about the Russian Business Network; they solely exist to promote and host illegal activities, yet the Russian government, due to its laws, has no power to shut them down.
I could see this spun many ways, in the US it is illegal to "make available" as with all the RIAA cases, but that is seemingly not the issue in Russia as the RBN "makes available" so-called "bulletproof hosting" for criminal organizations. So perhaps the owner(s) of Storm are saying "Hey, we're making available some raw processing power, who wants to buy?"
I'm not a fan of wireless broadband. Maybe I'm old fashioned (though I don't see how at only 22...) but aside from casual web surfing, I'd never trust anything to a wireless signal. Too much of my life depends on conducting online transactions: banking (all of it, I've never been to a branch office with this bank), investments, paying bills (all of them), etc etc. While certainly no encryption is unbreakable, I still believe I fare better odds placing my data on hard wires, where individuals would have to be specifically targetting it, rather than letting it flow free and open into the air for all to capture and (attempt to) abuse.
Just my $0.02.
Being "ordered to" stands no ground in the military (I'm currently enlisted) if it is an illegal directive. I'm sure the civilian world holds quite true. My contract and enlistment oath says I swore to "obey all LAWFUL orders", and they're quite quick to fry anybody woh does something illegal with the cop-out "but I was ordered to...."
I've only been out of HS 4 years, but here's how my district did things, since I managed to get myself somewhat involved:
There was a central tech department. For us, they never seemed to do much. So I can't offer information there. There were 5 schools in my town, each with about 1500-1800 students. They all had 2-4+ "classroom labs" (with smartboards) for computer courses, accounting, etc. We then had two full stationary PC labs for general use, class projects, research, etc.
There was one sysadm slot that was filled by a woman who also taught 1 accounting or business class a semester. So she was more admin than teacher, but still filled both roles. She was also a more "senior admin", and would roam to other schools in the district to help out with their problems if their on-site person couldn't handle it.
To ease the workload, I helped create a student tech program at our school with her. We had about 4-8 students who for 1 block of the day (90m or so on how my school had classes setup) would sit around in one of the labs and respond to any helpdesk type issues she got. Running out to classrooms to fix PCs for teachers, helping classes get setup in the labs -- whatever sprung up. We also handled all her major grunt work of creating new images, deploying them, tech refreshes, nearly everything was done by the students in this program except for user account creation / maintenance and the server backups. Occassionally we (as students) would also travel to the other district schools instead of our school's admin, or help teach technology classes to teachers (at least I did).
So afer re-reading what I just wrote, it sounds like a bit of a downer for you trying to land the position you want solely as "the admin", so I'm sorry about that:(. As many others have pointed out though, most public schools are entirely strapped for cash and going to be hard up to justify an admin who does NOTHING ELSE; especially if they can get away with student labor. (Hey, we all got technical/business credits for doing what we did, towards graduation)
US media companies are what keep upstream caps low. It's one more "anti-piracy" technique if it takes you 2 weeks to upload that DVD you just ripped to a single friend.
I can't give a better answer on why a slower link is so much more ungodly expensive, though, aside from the fact that is is -dedicated-. Cable/DSL providers all only give "best effort", so yes, you may get a nice 6mbit download...Or you may get 1mbit or less once they oversell their network based on "average usage of most consumers".
I have friends who personally had to move from RR cable to ClearWire because RR oversold their area so badly that they went from getting constant 8-10mbit downstream to never breaking above 50kb/s.
Is it just my perceptions, or is this mostly a U.S. problem? I'm prepping to move from living just outside of Tokyo to Texas in a month -- and I'm not looking forward to it.
U.S.: Paying $60+ for 5mb/768kb cable/dsl -- with possibilities to have my service terminated for over-using an "unlimited use" service Japan: Paying $60 for 100mb/100mb fiber -- no hidden catches
I don't know how things are across the EU, but I know that the U.S. has a sorry, outdated infrastructure in place and it's like pulling teeth to have companies upgrade their already oversold lines.
It should come as no surprise, then, that actual encyclopedias such as Britannica and Columbia have nowhere near the web readership as their Wiki counterpart these days. Oh, well, that couldn't possibly be at all related to Wikipedia being free and the others charging. No, not at all.
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Mine sits next to me. A Linksys WRT54GL, the good model, with good (3rd party) firmware.
:).
Firmware: DD-WRT v23 SP2 (09/15/06) std Time: 18:27:20 up 353 days, 14:30, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00
I had internet troubles one day and called the cableco (TW) and they had me cycle my modem after it lost sync to the signal it was locked on, and were rather shocked when they noticed it had > 240 days uptime before I cycled it. They wanted me to do the router too, but no dice, and it's still working with zero issues
2xVista Desktops, 1xXP Laptop, 1xDebian Server, 1xSmartphone
Yeah, I actually read on their blog link after posting that link that they will be re-adding it for people who weren't using it already in the coming weeks. Only those of us who had already setup profiles in the past still get to use it right now.
:)
Give it time; it's worth the wait
Under your account there should be a profiles link, or here's the direct one: http://www.netflix.com/ViewProfiles?lnkctr=yas_profiles
I love the feature, and like others, wrote to say I'd be canceling without it. Letting my wife and I keep separate queues and not constantly re-shuffle our lists is great as we have wildly different tastes in movies.
I use my Dash (re-branded Excalibur) for this already. Works flawlessly with ZaTelnet Pro. Keyboard-interactive and keys with passphrase both.
With the privilege (? lol) of being on an Army base as an Air Force member, I've got AKO access. I will say it's a much nicer system overall than the AF version, "Air Force Portal". Right now our AF portal is even going some overhauls that seem to have broken all the CSS sheets and a good bit of functionality, too :(.
The DoD does use .com domains for commercial recruiting. www.army.com is the recruiting website -- www.army.mil is the business end. Same for all services (I'm AF).
As to Firefox, well, only IE is authorized. The AF is already pushing Vista and IE7 out across most networks while the Army is still sitting on XP and IE6, as 7 has not been approved for use yet.
Hey, so SP1 loaded -- both PCs still "just work". What a wonderful world, no?
Vista x64 SP1
Athlon X2 4400+
4gb G.Skill PC6400 RAM
160gb WD SATA
EVGA GeForce 8800GT 512MB
Am I the only Vista user who hasn't experienced any issues at all yet? I haven't even had issues with file copy speed.
I'll load SP1 on both my machines and post some hopefully uneventful results of how both my PCs still work without issue when I get home from this business trip in three days.
Really? Shit sure doesn't seem to be working on my wife.
Concur. I actually hated PDF for the longest due to how slow and crash prone (I thought) it was. Just a bad experience with Adobe reader and browser plugins, though. After learning of, and switching to, Foxit -- PDF is a beautiful thing all over again.
NASA has the scoop on everything, including pretty pictures and charts of when you can see what based on timezone :)
I tried to tout the merits something like this could have for non-critical regular user backups, but as previous posters mention, it was shot down.
:)
/doc" or whatever. NetDrive (and I'm sure there are others) help take away the learning curve and hassle of "here, use this internal ftp for backups, not a network drive" as it will map the actual FTP to a network drive and appear like normal.
I was suggesting to run DrFTPD as a backend with NetDrive as an access medium. It looks good on paper, but I've never had the chance to apply it so widescale
With DrFTPD it's easy to setup whatever kind of redundancy you would want, ie: "at least 3 nodes will mirror all files in
Just my 2c.
As both living in Texas AND being stuck with TW, this has me a bit worried. I haven't had any issues with their service yet, but if I'm stuck with only 5gb/mo for the same price I'm paying now -- or something not incredibly lower -- I'll have to go with ClearWire or Embarq. Neither offer near the speed and service, but I'm not going to pay for a cap as part of a "test market". If enough people back away from it hopefully TW will take the hint and not roll it out on a wider basis.
Is this for me? If so, I won't bite :)
I agree with you. People only believe they are "forced" into MS use because they buy OEM systems that come with it pre-installed. There is plenty of choice when you do the work yourself; or ask a technically inclined friend.
If they are located in a country with lax laws or that is reluctant to support international efforts to shut them down, it could be difficult. There was an article posted just yesterday I believe about the Russian Business Network; they solely exist to promote and host illegal activities, yet the Russian government, due to its laws, has no power to shut them down.
I could see this spun many ways, in the US it is illegal to "make available" as with all the RIAA cases, but that is seemingly not the issue in Russia as the RBN "makes available" so-called "bulletproof hosting" for criminal organizations. So perhaps the owner(s) of Storm are saying "Hey, we're making available some raw processing power, who wants to buy?"
I'm not a fan of wireless broadband. Maybe I'm old fashioned (though I don't see how at only 22...) but aside from casual web surfing, I'd never trust anything to a wireless signal. Too much of my life depends on conducting online transactions: banking (all of it, I've never been to a branch office with this bank), investments, paying bills (all of them), etc etc. While certainly no encryption is unbreakable, I still believe I fare better odds placing my data on hard wires, where individuals would have to be specifically targetting it, rather than letting it flow free and open into the air for all to capture and (attempt to) abuse. Just my $0.02.
It's not rape, it's surprise sex!
Being "ordered to" stands no ground in the military (I'm currently enlisted) if it is an illegal directive. I'm sure the civilian world holds quite true. My contract and enlistment oath says I swore to "obey all LAWFUL orders", and they're quite quick to fry anybody woh does something illegal with the cop-out "but I was ordered to...."
Only YOU can prevent Internet fires!
I've only been out of HS 4 years, but here's how my district did things, since I managed to get myself somewhat involved:
:(. As many others have pointed out though, most public schools are entirely strapped for cash and going to be hard up to justify an admin who does NOTHING ELSE; especially if they can get away with student labor. (Hey, we all got technical/business credits for doing what we did, towards graduation)
There was a central tech department. For us, they never seemed to do much. So I can't offer information there.
There were 5 schools in my town, each with about 1500-1800 students. They all had 2-4+ "classroom labs" (with smartboards) for computer courses, accounting, etc. We then had two full stationary PC labs for general use, class projects, research, etc.
There was one sysadm slot that was filled by a woman who also taught 1 accounting or business class a semester. So she was more admin than teacher, but still filled both roles. She was also a more "senior admin", and would roam to other schools in the district to help out with their problems if their on-site person couldn't handle it.
To ease the workload, I helped create a student tech program at our school with her. We had about 4-8 students who for 1 block of the day (90m or so on how my school had classes setup) would sit around in one of the labs and respond to any helpdesk type issues she got. Running out to classrooms to fix PCs for teachers, helping classes get setup in the labs -- whatever sprung up. We also handled all her major grunt work of creating new images, deploying them, tech refreshes, nearly everything was done by the students in this program except for user account creation / maintenance and the server backups. Occassionally we (as students) would also travel to the other district schools instead of our school's admin, or help teach technology classes to teachers (at least I did).
So afer re-reading what I just wrote, it sounds like a bit of a downer for you trying to land the position you want solely as "the admin", so I'm sorry about that
US media companies are what keep upstream caps low. It's one more "anti-piracy" technique if it takes you 2 weeks to upload that DVD you just ripped to a single friend.
I can't give a better answer on why a slower link is so much more ungodly expensive, though, aside from the fact that is is -dedicated-. Cable/DSL providers all only give "best effort", so yes, you may get a nice 6mbit download...Or you may get 1mbit or less once they oversell their network based on "average usage of most consumers".
I have friends who personally had to move from RR cable to ClearWire because RR oversold their area so badly that they went from getting constant 8-10mbit downstream to never breaking above 50kb/s.
Is it just my perceptions, or is this mostly a U.S. problem? I'm prepping to move from living just outside of Tokyo to Texas in a month -- and I'm not looking forward to it.
U.S.: Paying $60+ for 5mb/768kb cable/dsl -- with possibilities to have my service terminated for over-using an "unlimited use" service
Japan: Paying $60 for 100mb/100mb fiber -- no hidden catches
I don't know how things are across the EU, but I know that the U.S. has a sorry, outdated infrastructure in place and it's like pulling teeth to have companies upgrade their already oversold lines.
Sliders, anybody?