Finnish ISPs are required by law to block access to sites on the list, according to The Register.
This is not true, rather quite the opposite. There is no requirement for the ISP's to add the block list, but for some strange reason most of them still do.
Yup, in Finland ADSL prices came down, and quality went up when the local body governing telecommunications ordered to open up the last mile. The companies owning the infrastructure has to rent it for a fair price based on real expenses and a reasonable profit margin. And it really has helped. Within the first year adsl connection speeds where raised three times (so your 1Mb connection became 2Mb and then 8Mb) while the price remained the same. This happened in any location where there was enough inhabitants for it to be worth it to install a dslam (so some of the most remote areas still don't have enough competition).
This was the first thing that came to my mind too. With a lot of companies moving from Exchange to Zimbra Microsoft could easily strangle that first thing after the acquisition.
A co-worker in a helpdesk years ago ran into a funny situation. A customer called and complained about his internet connection not working. After trying lots of things this helpdesk dude decides to re-install the modem. So he directs the customer to control panel, phone and modem options, they see the list of (one) installed modem and the helpdesk dude says "remove the modem". There is a fairly loud crunch and then silence.
"What did you do?"
"I removed the modem"
"Ok, so now you see no modems in the list?"
"I don't see anything anymore, the screen went black?"
"How did you really remove the modem?"
"I pulled it out of the computer"
The computer was broken, and the customer demanded compensation from teh ISP, I think they gave him a month or two free internet usage.
Iran has vowed to annihilate Israel, which is an (undeclared) nuclear power.
That's actually not true (vowing to annihilate Israel). This misconception started from a speech by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that was translated incorrectly by the BBC. It has been translated correctly afterwards, but the BBC (and 99% of western media which gladly jumped on their story) never apologized and straightened the mistake.
Although I'm sure there are some Slashdotters who run Firefox on a 350 Mhz PII with 256Mb of memory, that is really not issue for me. Most people with a recent PC probably have over a Gig of memory and more like 2 onboard.
I don't know what you do with your work machine, but unfortunately mine does not accept more then 2GB of ram and it's far too little to let a browser eat up as much memory as the operating system does. Firefox can easily use 500MB of ram after its been running for a week or two, that's more then my operating system uses when it starts up. I would need to run other apps too, email, Office, a music player, ssh sessions, an IDE a Windows or Linux virtual... Suddenly it matters how much memory your apps use. It's not that long ago when 2GB of memory seemed like quite a lot, then what happened? Developers got a "Most people probably have a gig or more memory" idea?
Last year I ditched the file server at home for the DNS-323. With the current firmware, it's been rock solid for me.
I just bought the DNS-313 which is a new 1 disk version of the 323. It required initiation with a Windows host using an application that comes along on cd before you can use it (no dhcp before that). After its been initiated it worked with Windows hosts, but Linux and Mac OSX (10.4, 10.5) hosts could not connect. I called D-Link and told them about the problem, then decided to return it after all.
The funny part is, that after this I found the device on D-Link's "Compatible with Macs" document. What kind of retards state it's compatible with Macs when you need a windows host to activate the device (no dhcp or direct connection prior to this), and even after that it still does not work? I guess their testing department is not very large.
Netapps filers are expensive, but it's still quite a push to consider replacing one with a box of sata-discs. We have a FAS-3020 cluster at work and I have to say it's really cool and performs very well. Now you could still manage the performance stuff with your big box of discs, but snapshots and cloning in near realtime without using up any space would not be that easy... Some might even consider Netapp to be cheap comparing to EMC.
Wow, that sounds dead cheap looking at the components. I would have use for a very silent computer at home, and those specs would be fine. Too bad I'm living in Finland, here the processor + motherboard combo cost over 200 at the cheapest place I can find!
, and which if you don't do you'll likely lose money (see QWEST), and if you do do you will face Congressional hearings
So let me see if I understood this correctly. The choice is upholding the law and losing contracts, and breaking the law and facing consequences? I don't think this differs very much from choices corporations make every week.
Of course the fact that both parties here are representatives of the same government. By both parties I mean the one causing loss of money with one choice, and legal consequences with the other one. This should not change the outcome of the decision though.
Okay, I call this an idiot story. Millions of sites come into being and go out of being all the time. What does this statement have to do with anything? It seems like submitter has a lack of understanding how basic Google and the web work, but the story has made it to Slashdot. I think the Slashdot IQ level is dropping because this is a Digg story.
Maybe Slashdot's index was hacked and this is how the story got through.
Are you sure about that? Here in Finland inflation calculations take into account the price of energy (oil, fuel, electricity ect), living (rents an house prices), food, electronics ect. Everything is given a certain weight in the calculation, and the details should be available to anyone who is interested.
This is a pretty stupid story really. Did they say it will brick the iPhone or it might do so? What's the suprise that they will block the hacks when they release upgrades? Of course they will, at least this is what I told my friends who where contemplating purchasing one. Why would they lock it in the first place and not fix the "bug" that allowed it to be unlocked?
Sure I think it sux if they brick it on purpose, but on minimum I would almost expect the mods to be incompatible with future firmwares. Personally I'll wait for an unlocked EU version sometime in the future.
I've really been annoyed by this, but I'm addicted to both adblock and mouse gestures. Would downgrading to firefox 1.x be a solution? I don't even remember if things where better then?
I have a drive with USB2, FW400 and FW800 ports. In theory the USB2 should be a bit faster, but in reality it will transfer at about 25MB/s vs. 37MB/s for FW400. Strangely USB2 also consumes more CPU then Firewire. I guess now the time is ripe for USB3. With multicore CPU's we can dedicate one core just for use by USB.
I don't find it a pain to maintain, and have been responsible for hundreds of RHEL / Centos machines during the last two years.
If you are forced to run a supported distro on several servers to get application support it can be nice to have a similar distro (for free) on your other servers.
It's really a pain to maintain shitloads of different distributions. RPM's are much easier to live with.
It's true this would cost the ISP's dearly as somebody already mentioned. It would not cost them because the systems needed to control users are expensive. With the amount of money telecommunication companies through into IT systems that is not significant. It would cost them because once file sharing does not exist, people won't really need 24 megabit connections.
I would imagine consumer internet connections costs in Sweden go pretty similarly as they do here in Finland (apart from the huge government subsidiaries in Sweden). The most common internet connection here is ADSL, in Sweden probably too (though they have a lot more government layed fiber). Whatever speed the customer picks costs the same amount to get running, but the margins for a high speed (=expensive) connection where a lot lower.
I used to work for an ISP, and at the time it took over a year for a customer with a slow ADSL subscription to break even and start providing some profit. If he had the fastest connection it was only a matter of months!
If the government wants to cut of people with a lot of traffic nobody will take the fast connections. If they want to block bit torrent people will use something else. So I think it's pretty safe to say the ISP's will make sure file sharing continues one way or another.
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Finnish ISPs are required by law to block access to sites on the list, according to The Register.
This is not true, rather quite the opposite. There is no requirement for the ISP's to add the block list, but for some strange reason most of them still do.
Yup, in Finland ADSL prices came down, and quality went up when the local body governing telecommunications ordered to open up the last mile. The companies owning the infrastructure has to rent it for a fair price based on real expenses and a reasonable profit margin. And it really has helped. Within the first year adsl connection speeds where raised three times (so your 1Mb connection became 2Mb and then 8Mb) while the price remained the same. This happened in any location where there was enough inhabitants for it to be worth it to install a dslam (so some of the most remote areas still don't have enough competition).
This was the first thing that came to my mind too. With a lot of companies moving from Exchange to Zimbra Microsoft could easily strangle that first thing after the acquisition.
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I don't get the point of this article. So it's not time for a new release of kubuntu, and this is news?
A co-worker in a helpdesk years ago ran into a funny situation. A customer called and complained about his internet connection not working. After trying lots of things this helpdesk dude decides to re-install the modem. So he directs the customer to control panel, phone and modem options, they see the list of (one) installed modem and the helpdesk dude says "remove the modem". There is a fairly loud crunch and then silence.
"What did you do?"
"I removed the modem"
"Ok, so now you see no modems in the list?"
"I don't see anything anymore, the screen went black?"
"How did you really remove the modem?"
"I pulled it out of the computer"
The computer was broken, and the customer demanded compensation from teh ISP, I think they gave him a month or two free internet usage.
Iran has vowed to annihilate Israel, which is an (undeclared) nuclear power.
That's actually not true (vowing to annihilate Israel). This misconception started from a speech by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that was translated incorrectly by the BBC. It has been translated correctly afterwards, but the BBC (and 99% of western media which gladly jumped on their story) never apologized and straightened the mistake.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad#Anti-Israel_statements
I'm not saying he's a nice guy though.
Although I'm sure there are some Slashdotters who run Firefox on a 350 Mhz PII with 256Mb of memory, that is really not issue for me. Most people with a recent PC probably have over a Gig of memory and more like 2 onboard.
I don't know what you do with your work machine, but unfortunately mine does not accept more then 2GB of ram and it's far too little to let a browser eat up as much memory as the operating system does. Firefox can easily use 500MB of ram after its been running for a week or two, that's more then my operating system uses when it starts up. I would need to run other apps too, email, Office, a music player, ssh sessions, an IDE a Windows or Linux virtual... Suddenly it matters how much memory your apps use. It's not that long ago when 2GB of memory seemed like quite a lot, then what happened? Developers got a "Most people probably have a gig or more memory" idea?
Last year I ditched the file server at home for the DNS-323. With the current firmware, it's been rock solid for me.
I just bought the DNS-313 which is a new 1 disk version of the 323. It required initiation with a Windows host using an application that comes along on cd before you can use it (no dhcp before that). After its been initiated it worked with Windows hosts, but Linux and Mac OSX (10.4, 10.5) hosts could not connect. I called D-Link and told them about the problem, then decided to return it after all.
The funny part is, that after this I found the device on D-Link's "Compatible with Macs" document. What kind of retards state it's compatible with Macs when you need a windows host to activate the device (no dhcp or direct connection prior to this), and even after that it still does not work? I guess their testing department is not very large.
So how has this affected spam and cyber crime? It would be interesting to see if these networks vanishing has any affect.
Netapps filers are expensive, but it's still quite a push to consider replacing one with a box of sata-discs. We have a FAS-3020 cluster at work and I have to say it's really cool and performs very well. Now you could still manage the performance stuff with your big box of discs, but snapshots and cloning in near realtime without using up any space would not be that easy... Some might even consider Netapp to be cheap comparing to EMC.
You are right, it would be better. But in the meantime you can take a snapshot of the virtual, then only the changed data will be backed up.
Wow, that sounds dead cheap looking at the components. I would have use for a very silent computer at home, and those specs would be fine. Too bad I'm living in Finland, here the processor + motherboard combo cost over 200 at the cheapest place I can find!
The only thing thats more annoying then a talking car is one that has a french accent.
, and which if you don't do you'll likely lose money (see QWEST), and if you do do you will face Congressional hearings
So let me see if I understood this correctly. The choice is upholding the law and losing contracts, and breaking the law and facing consequences? I don't think this differs very much from choices corporations make every week.
Of course the fact that both parties here are representatives of the same government. By both parties I mean the one causing loss of money with one choice, and legal consequences with the other one. This should not change the outcome of the decision though.
Okay, I call this an idiot story. Millions of sites come into being and go out of being all the time. What does this statement have to do with anything? It seems like submitter has a lack of understanding how basic Google and the web work, but the story has made it to Slashdot. I think the Slashdot IQ level is dropping because this is a Digg story.
Maybe Slashdot's index was hacked and this is how the story got through.
The network SHOULD not be connected to the internet, but of course this is not always the case.
Are you sure about that? Here in Finland inflation calculations take into account the price of energy (oil, fuel, electricity ect), living (rents an house prices), food, electronics ect. Everything is given a certain weight in the calculation, and the details should be available to anyone who is interested.
Yes, I'm always happy for a couple of months after my last raise.
It might not be inflation, rather your lifestyle adapts to how much you earn.
This is a pretty stupid story really. Did they say it will brick the iPhone or it might do so? What's the suprise that they will block the hacks when they release upgrades? Of course they will, at least this is what I told my friends who where contemplating purchasing one. Why would they lock it in the first place and not fix the "bug" that allowed it to be unlocked?
Sure I think it sux if they brick it on purpose, but on minimum I would almost expect the mods to be incompatible with future firmwares. Personally I'll wait for an unlocked EU version sometime in the future.
I've really been annoyed by this, but I'm addicted to both adblock and mouse gestures. Would downgrading to firefox 1.x be a solution? I don't even remember if things where better then?
I have a drive with USB2, FW400 and FW800 ports. In theory the USB2 should be a bit faster, but in reality it will transfer at about 25MB/s vs. 37MB/s for FW400. Strangely USB2 also consumes more CPU then Firewire. I guess now the time is ripe for USB3. With multicore CPU's we can dedicate one core just for use by USB.
I don't find it a pain to maintain, and have been responsible for hundreds of RHEL / Centos machines during the last two years.
If you are forced to run a supported distro on several servers to get application support it can be nice to have a similar distro (for free) on your other servers.
It's really a pain to maintain shitloads of different distributions. RPM's are much easier to live with.
I would imagine consumer internet connections costs in Sweden go pretty similarly as they do here in Finland (apart from the huge government subsidiaries in Sweden). The most common internet connection here is ADSL, in Sweden probably too (though they have a lot more government layed fiber). Whatever speed the customer picks costs the same amount to get running, but the margins for a high speed (=expensive) connection where a lot lower.
I used to work for an ISP, and at the time it took over a year for a customer with a slow ADSL subscription to break even and start providing some profit. If he had the fastest connection it was only a matter of months! If the government wants to cut of people with a lot of traffic nobody will take the fast connections. If they want to block bit torrent people will use something else. So I think it's pretty safe to say the ISP's will make sure file sharing continues one way or another.