enable "local peer discovery" in your torrent client... Seriously though, it would be nice to have some open source firmware for wireless devices that had mesh support that could be configured as always on or to turn on discovery when the wan connection dropped.
If you can't figure out how to use the two man rule you shouldn't be in charge of backup solutions or administration of anything that is considered system critical. Read about it.
Yeah, but there is one thing really missing by not having the status bar, and it isn't icons, it is the status. You know, like what is loading on the page... It is helpful to know at least generally what is going on (waiting, loading etc) without having to use a third party tool or monitor my network connection.
Not as of the last beta I tried (6 I think). It slowly grinds even macs to a halt if you have very many tabs open. I finally gave up and switched to chrome which has it's own set of glitches and annoyances but is so much faster it is generally more tolerable.
Mozilla, here is what you can do to get me back:
1. handle extension support better between versions - assume it works instead of assuming it breaks. Let me report it without having to install a special extensions to test "incompatible" plugins
2. Bring back the option for a status bar. You can leave it off by default but it is annoying as hell for a web developer to not have a status bar.
3. Independent memory on a per tab basis. I often go to one particularly script heavy site that locks firefox for a good 15 seconds. The tab locks in chrome but I can keep on working in another tab while waiting.
4. And most importantly, fix the memory leaks!
pretty good if you have a geeksphone. The beauty of OSS is there is no vendor lock in. If I don't like samsung's practices use a different handset manufacturer.
Being a Florida resident I think you are mixing up the words "trailer" and "manufactured home". They are completely different.Trailers have wheels, and (at least at one point) could be moved from one location to another on them. Modular/manufactured homes can be as bad as a trailer or as nice as a mansion. They are often trucked in in prefab sections that are assembled together on-site. If you have any doubts which is which just drive past after a hurricane. If there is an empty lot with some aluminum debris it was most likely a trailer.
So I guess they aren't pushing the new windows mobile phones real hard with a 500MB cap? Some quick math estimates they could consume 2Gb a month by just being turned on, so that means you should realistically be able to use it about 1 week out of every month before it gets cut off...
Also, a 500MB cap and telling customers "no streaming video" while they are running commercials for real time video chat without wifi? what gives?
Having written a thesis on digital data archival, I can say with certainty that there are a number of different types of pdf including PDF/A which is intended specifically for archiving and does not have all this fancy nonsense in it like embedded videos transparent layers and switching of languages etc. It is well documented and has its own separate ISO number. While adobe does some crappy stuff to things that have a ".pdf" extension at times don't make dramatic conclusions about how something is unfit to be used by someone else unless you know what you are talking about.
Actually that isn't true. It is also available to small businesses on up to 10 computers. Unfortunately there doesn't appear to be anything between the free 10 SMB licenses and forefront licensing which is insanely expensive for small business.
yeah, I mean who really needs a firewall anyway.... I run my computers unpatched with all the ports open. They are much faster and more reliable that way. None of that antivirus nonsense to deal with and I stay virus free since the botnets duke it out for who gets control. It saves time when shopping online too, as I don't even have to tell the nice people my credit card info - they all already know it! It is especially useful when they send me great offers by email for replica rolex watches and discount prescriptions as I don't even have to search for the best prices!
Not really. If you don't allow your population (customers) to grow uncontrollably or if you make them carpool (multicast, internal p2p, popular content caching) or install mass transit (packet prioritization) then you can still control the roads without adding to congestion. The problem is that most cities with this problem also allow developers (sales and advertising departments) to "fill the void" - every time roads expand they build more housing to occupy the new lanes (get more customers to use all available bandwidth).
Proper infrastructure planning can work both in cities and in IT. Anyone that thinks otherwise is either weak and unwilling to stand behind proper engineering and planning or incompetent at engineering and planning in the first place. Sometimes it's both.
That really isn't fair to your customers. Sure, you can't realistically sell them an unmetered 6Mbps connection for $80 per month, but you can do the following, and it would be fair: 1. Guarantee a minimum speed 2. Offer to accelerate some traffic via QoS policy (this is only fair if you are upfront with customers on what is prioritized) 3. Tell them what their maximum speed will be if there is no network congestion.
I would be much happier if my ISP told me I will get between 1Mb and 6Mb and streaming protocols of types a, b and c will be prioritized. Sure, I might not like what they prioritize, but at least I know what to expect.
As it stands currently I am told I get an "up to" 10Mb connection, meaning in real world tests my speed on Cox network has been as low as 2Kbps (yes slower than dialup). I call to complain and they send me to a site hosted on a college campus connected as part of their intranet infrastructure and say "see you get 26Mbps burst and 10Mb the rest of the time" and I say "yeah, what about the entire rest of the internet" and they say "not our problem we don't control the connection of other people's servers". Yet changing my MAC address and resetting the modem gives me a different IP and yields better speeds to the same servers - clearly there is some sort of artificial limit going on, but instead of telling me they throttle after a certain number of Gb a month they play stupid (or perhaps the call center people are actually stupid or poorly informed).
Don't be a PITA provider, be honest with your customers and they will be much happier.
PS - first alternative to Cox/AT&T to come through I'm jumping ship. Cox oversells this area so badly even on a good day I am lucky to get 2Mbps.
That isn't an issue if you don't oversell. If you sell x customers y available bandwidth you need to have x*y bandwidth available through peers. Comcast comes no where close to that or it would not need to offer "powerboost" to hide the bottleneck of being spiked at 100% for most of the day. There is a need for some overhead to run a network properly and if you are stuck at 100% then you are either selling speeds that are too high, selling to too many customers, or not buying enough bandwidth.
I had a certain large chinese search engine go haywire on one of my websites quite a while back. a disallow in robots.txt didn't seem to do the trick, so instead of flat blocking them I redirected hits from their IP range/UA string to their own search results and the problems with their bot ceased almost immediately.
1. Use the "drill baby drill" process (hire the oil companies, they are good at getting these rights.)
2. Induction... psshhhhh. that's no problem, we're going to keep a vacuum cleaner nearby to pull them out all pneumatic tube 1800s style.
3. see 2
4. as many as you can fit end to end. If you need to squeeze in more you can try compression, but tar might make the food taste funny
5. This is simple to solve by using "quantum" type security. Don't try to prevent theft, just make sure you know when it happens by placing a few poisoned cans through the tubes. If someone takes the wrong ones it should be easy to figure out who the culprit was.
6. This is a two part solution: a. meat grinder, b. irobot scooba
7. make sure the containers float, flood them out.
What I don't get is as of this posting their whois data is still showing:
Name Server:NS1.EVERYDNS.NET
Name Server:NS2.EVERYDNS.NET
Name Server:NS3.EVERYDNS.NET
Name Server:NS4.EVERYDNS.NET
Why don't they just update their friggin dns records and call it a day. You can run your own dns server or choose from the billion providers that are out there - heck for that matter pick a half dozen or so on different services around the world and have fun seeing who is last to dump you.
The only thing I can come up with here that makes any sense is this is sort of their middle finger to everydns as they are still getting requests to their servers even though they aren't serving the record anymore, but that doesn't really seem to be worth the downtime to me unless they are going for the Streisand effect.
There are some very important uses for DNS that a url shortner doesn't exactly handle, like round robin load balancing for example. All URL shortening does it leave your site's availability up to a service that you don't even pay that could pull the plug on you even easier (I'll guarantee they don't want to handle the ddos either).
Slashdot Mirror
enable "local peer discovery" in your torrent client... Seriously though, it would be nice to have some open source firmware for wireless devices that had mesh support that could be configured as always on or to turn on discovery when the wan connection dropped.
we are currently working on a voice to text translation for all speak to tweets. You can view and contribute at http://egypt.alive.in
If you can't figure out how to use the two man rule you shouldn't be in charge of backup solutions or administration of anything that is considered system critical. Read about it.
Don't allow cameras in high security zones.
Yeah, but there is one thing really missing by not having the status bar, and it isn't icons, it is the status. You know, like what is loading on the page... It is helpful to know at least generally what is going on (waiting, loading etc) without having to use a third party tool or monitor my network connection.
Go back to start and try again when they have a good firebug alternative and an adblocking plugin (not special themes and javascript hacks)
Not as of the last beta I tried (6 I think). It slowly grinds even macs to a halt if you have very many tabs open. I finally gave up and switched to chrome which has it's own set of glitches and annoyances but is so much faster it is generally more tolerable.
Mozilla, here is what you can do to get me back:
1. handle extension support better between versions - assume it works instead of assuming it breaks. Let me report it without having to install a special extensions to test "incompatible" plugins
2. Bring back the option for a status bar. You can leave it off by default but it is annoying as hell for a web developer to not have a status bar. 3. Independent memory on a per tab basis. I often go to one particularly script heavy site that locks firefox for a good 15 seconds. The tab locks in chrome but I can keep on working in another tab while waiting.
4. And most importantly, fix the memory leaks!
pretty good if you have a geeksphone. The beauty of OSS is there is no vendor lock in. If I don't like samsung's practices use a different handset manufacturer.
Being a Florida resident I think you are mixing up the words "trailer" and "manufactured home". They are completely different.Trailers have wheels, and (at least at one point) could be moved from one location to another on them. Modular/manufactured homes can be as bad as a trailer or as nice as a mansion. They are often trucked in in prefab sections that are assembled together on-site. If you have any doubts which is which just drive past after a hurricane. If there is an empty lot with some aluminum debris it was most likely a trailer.
So I guess they aren't pushing the new windows mobile phones real hard with a 500MB cap? Some quick math estimates they could consume 2Gb a month by just being turned on, so that means you should realistically be able to use it about 1 week out of every month before it gets cut off...
Also, a 500MB cap and telling customers "no streaming video" while they are running commercials for real time video chat without wifi? what gives?
Having written a thesis on digital data archival, I can say with certainty that there are a number of different types of pdf including PDF/A which is intended specifically for archiving and does not have all this fancy nonsense in it like embedded videos transparent layers and switching of languages etc. It is well documented and has its own separate ISO number. While adobe does some crappy stuff to things that have a ".pdf" extension at times don't make dramatic conclusions about how something is unfit to be used by someone else unless you know what you are talking about.
Actually that isn't true. It is also available to small businesses on up to 10 computers. Unfortunately there doesn't appear to be anything between the free 10 SMB licenses and forefront licensing which is insanely expensive for small business.
yeah, I mean who really needs a firewall anyway.... I run my computers unpatched with all the ports open. They are much faster and more reliable that way. None of that antivirus nonsense to deal with and I stay virus free since the botnets duke it out for who gets control. It saves time when shopping online too, as I don't even have to tell the nice people my credit card info - they all already know it! It is especially useful when they send me great offers by email for replica rolex watches and discount prescriptions as I don't even have to search for the best prices!
So what you are saying is to follow the aol business model? That's been working well (except for 3 and 4)
Not really. If you don't allow your population (customers) to grow uncontrollably or if you make them carpool (multicast, internal p2p, popular content caching) or install mass transit (packet prioritization) then you can still control the roads without adding to congestion. The problem is that most cities with this problem also allow developers (sales and advertising departments) to "fill the void" - every time roads expand they build more housing to occupy the new lanes (get more customers to use all available bandwidth).
Proper infrastructure planning can work both in cities and in IT. Anyone that thinks otherwise is either weak and unwilling to stand behind proper engineering and planning or incompetent at engineering and planning in the first place. Sometimes it's both.
That really isn't fair to your customers. Sure, you can't realistically sell them an unmetered 6Mbps connection for $80 per month, but you can do the following, and it would be fair:
1. Guarantee a minimum speed
2. Offer to accelerate some traffic via QoS policy (this is only fair if you are upfront with customers on what is prioritized)
3. Tell them what their maximum speed will be if there is no network congestion.
I would be much happier if my ISP told me I will get between 1Mb and 6Mb and streaming protocols of types a, b and c will be prioritized. Sure, I might not like what they prioritize, but at least I know what to expect.
As it stands currently I am told I get an "up to" 10Mb connection, meaning in real world tests my speed on Cox network has been as low as 2Kbps (yes slower than dialup). I call to complain and they send me to a site hosted on a college campus connected as part of their intranet infrastructure and say "see you get 26Mbps burst and 10Mb the rest of the time" and I say "yeah, what about the entire rest of the internet" and they say "not our problem we don't control the connection of other people's servers". Yet changing my MAC address and resetting the modem gives me a different IP and yields better speeds to the same servers - clearly there is some sort of artificial limit going on, but instead of telling me they throttle after a certain number of Gb a month they play stupid (or perhaps the call center people are actually stupid or poorly informed).
Don't be a PITA provider, be honest with your customers and they will be much happier.
PS - first alternative to Cox/AT&T to come through I'm jumping ship. Cox oversells this area so badly even on a good day I am lucky to get 2Mbps.
That isn't an issue if you don't oversell. If you sell x customers y available bandwidth you need to have x*y bandwidth available through peers. Comcast comes no where close to that or it would not need to offer "powerboost" to hide the bottleneck of being spiked at 100% for most of the day. There is a need for some overhead to run a network properly and if you are stuck at 100% then you are either selling speeds that are too high, selling to too many customers, or not buying enough bandwidth.
Heat.
It is why we air condition data centers.
I had a certain large chinese search engine go haywire on one of my websites quite a while back. a disallow in robots.txt didn't seem to do the trick, so instead of flat blocking them I redirected hits from their IP range/UA string to their own search results and the problems with their bot ceased almost immediately.
1. Use the "drill baby drill" process (hire the oil companies, they are good at getting these rights.)
2. Induction... psshhhhh. that's no problem, we're going to keep a vacuum cleaner nearby to pull them out all pneumatic tube 1800s style.
3. see 2
4. as many as you can fit end to end. If you need to squeeze in more you can try compression, but tar might make the food taste funny
5. This is simple to solve by using "quantum" type security. Don't try to prevent theft, just make sure you know when it happens by placing a few poisoned cans through the tubes. If someone takes the wrong ones it should be easy to figure out who the culprit was.
6. This is a two part solution: a. meat grinder, b. irobot scooba
7. make sure the containers float, flood them out.
I think the peacock will be great - just use javascript to market to foursquare users. Privacy be damned.
What I don't get is as of this posting their whois data is still showing:
Name Server:NS1.EVERYDNS.NET
Name Server:NS2.EVERYDNS.NET
Name Server:NS3.EVERYDNS.NET
Name Server:NS4.EVERYDNS.NET
Why don't they just update their friggin dns records and call it a day. You can run your own dns server or choose from the billion providers that are out there - heck for that matter pick a half dozen or so on different services around the world and have fun seeing who is last to dump you.
The only thing I can come up with here that makes any sense is this is sort of their middle finger to everydns as they are still getting requests to their servers even though they aren't serving the record anymore, but that doesn't really seem to be worth the downtime to me unless they are going for the Streisand effect.
There are some very important uses for DNS that a url shortner doesn't exactly handle, like round robin load balancing for example. All URL shortening does it leave your site's availability up to a service that you don't even pay that could pull the plug on you even easier (I'll guarantee they don't want to handle the ddos either).
If you recall your history it wasn't the politicians that guaranteed free speech rights, it was the judges.
No, it actually happened. Perhaps you were looking for "hypocritical"?