Re:I am afraid it is you who are mistaken
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Insanely Audiophile
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"Musicians standing in your living room when you close your eyes"... musicians who were recorded in mono and then effected and manually panned to create an artificial stereo image. If you have any familiarity with modern studio techniques then you would understand the idiocy of an audiophile-grade system when playing back all but the most obscure of album releases.
Keep in mind that Ruthless was founded because Easy E wanted to get out of the drug dealing business. NWA, although not a studio creation, was created for the sole purpose of generating revenue.
With Vivendi's purchase of mp3.com and Bertelsmanns purchase of Napster... when exactly does this "big shakeup" that you mention occur? I think it's been made quite clear to us what happens to any audio sharing mechanism that becomes too widely used. It gets bought by the major labels, just like airplay on commercial radio. It's not like they are cash strapped. Anyone who has been paying the slightest bit of attention to the online music scene can clearly see that "the revolution will not be digitized", as the recent Salon article put it.
I said "there is no listing for any residential cleanup". I don't think "Venture Rim Products", with an incident description of "ABANDONED WAREHOUSE IN LIGHT INDUSTRIAL RESIDENTIAL AREA. NEAREST RESIDENCE IS APPROXIMATELY 1500 AWAY. ABOUT 280 DRUM S OF POLYURETHANE COMPONENTS LEFT ON SITE.ABANDONED WAREHOUSE IN LIGHT INDUSTRIAL RESIDENTIAL AREA. NEAREST RESIDENCE IS APPROXIMATELY 1500 AWAY. ABOUT 280 DRUMS OF POLYURETHANE COMPONENTS LEFT ON SITE." is the report that would correspond with the supposed "Golf Manor" incident.
It's odd, because the well-known "duct tape" cloth tape is not actually used for ductwork. Aluminum or vinyl tape is instead used for that.
maru
No reference in EPA's superfund database
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The harper's article claims the cleanup was "Golf Manor Superfund" yet the EPA has no listing of any cleanup by that name, they don't even have have a listing for any residential cleanup in Commerce, MI.
maru
Re:So big... I want a little one!!
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Flywheel UPS
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Caterpillar and several other companies make smaller ones (file cabinet sized). Check out Cat here .
I noticed that www.macromedia.com was unavailable last week as well, only none of the routing between me and macromedia is through level3. It makes me wonder if the RBL listing was the actual cause of the outage the original poster experienced. I suspect that the RBL and above.net may have had nothing to do with the incident at all.
maru
Re:2600 sued for publication of DeGMC source
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2600 v. Ford Motors
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This would've been funnier if it was along the lines of "GMC sues Chilton for publishing information that allows users to break the mechanical encryption on General Motors cars and trucks".
"Chilton's reference material contains detailed information concerning the disassembly and reassembly of General Motors' Vehicle Engine 1.8 and above."
Haha, you made the same mistake I did. Assuming (know what happens when you assume blah blah blah) that the redirect was coming from 2600 when in fact it is coming from ford.
In any case, if ford used host headers and had no content on the default site then 2600 would not have been able to do this as easily, as just pointing a domain to the IP would not work under that configuration. So they do have a way to stop the "linking" in an easily-implemented, non-legal manner.
I really doubt if any hotel has a DMS-x, to call a switch of that class overkill for a hotel would be an understatement. Mitel dominates the hospitality industry anyways, with over 80% of installed hotel PBXs being Mitel. Hotels typically do not do any configuration or maintenance on their PBX in-house. With this in mind, perhaps a look at the companies doing the service on some of the hotel's PBXs would be in order.
No one in the hospitality industry cares about the OS. All they want from a PMS or POS solution is two things, and two things only: the guest to get checked in/out faster and the wait staff to enter the check quicker. Any technology to forward either of those two goals is aggressively pursued by those industries, any technology otherwise is ignored.
There is no "Days Inn" system. Cendant properties choose between "Project Powerup" systems from three PMS vendors: HSS, Multi-Systems, or REZSolutions. These are three completely different PMS apps with Cendant interface modules. Two of these run on UNIX-type OSs, the latter runs on NT. Unfortunately, the hospitality industry is about two decades behind in software development, the *nix offerings all have abysmal user interfaces. With the average moronic front desk staffer in mind the GM is drooling over a Win GUI interface in hopes that his staff, who types one word per hour, might someday take less than a decade to check in a guest. The choice between the three systems (at least for Cendant brands) is indeed made at the property level and not higher.
As for your statement that most franchises write their own front-office, this is just wrong. There is only one chain that writes their own, I think it is Hilton. Most franchises don't care what package (if any) the individual properties use, that was the big whoop-de-do with Cendant's Project Powerup: unified software. Although I don't know exactly how unified equates to three different packages in their case.
The ire over Project Powerup had nothing to do with technical issues. Nobody wanted to install the system because it interfaced directly with Cendant. Hotels pay franchise fees based upon room revenues, with a direct connection to Cendant it would no longer be possible to fiddle with the figures in order to pay less franchise fees. There was also the fact that Cendant would be using your guest database for marketing. Big Brother at its finest! Oh yeah, and Cendant only footed the bill for a minimal installation. For my previous employer, they offered to replace our 15 terminals and custom software with 2 terminals. This, of course, would have made our Howard Johnsons front desk disparate from our other two hotels on the same property that were not Cendant brands, as well as leaving it unable to communicate with our accounting, inventory control, and 75 point of sale terminals at the 14 bars and restaurants located on the property (all running custom in-house software). The switch would've costed our company at least $100K annually in additional staff required to manually do accounting processes that were automated under the existing system. To this day, no Project Powerup system was ever brought to that property.
The hospitality industry's sister, the service industry, is dominated by unix. Micros is the major player there, and their unix offering is rock solid and can support 250+ terminals (cash registers) on one server. Their NT offering can't do above 25. Unix doesn't show its ass there like it does in the hospitality industry because the cash registers are all custom hardware with their own IO that only communicate with the server to send transaction information (over serial cables!). So the wait staff don't have to type./burger.pl, they just press the picture.
This seems to be a problem that plagues small open-source projects in general. Look at how many web-based BBS/forum software there is on sourceforge and how many new ones are being created monthly. It's counterproductive, none of the software ever progresses past a certain maturity level.
If you think the windows media server is unconditionally free, you'd better look at that licensing agreement a little closer. As soon as you start charging for streams, you'd better open those purse strings because MS is going to be all up in there.
I think the statement that "mysql does a great job" is like saying "a chainsaw does a great job". A great job at what? Does a chainsaw do a great job of cutting holes in metal? Does a chainsaw do a great job at cutting tomatoes in the kitchen? Does mysql do a great job storing transaction-sensitive data (such as accounting data)? Does mysql do a great job on committing data across multiple database servers (multiphase commit)?
The REAL statement is "choose the right tool for the job". In some cases it's mysql, in some postgres or interbase, in some it's sybase or oracle or the like. Same with OS and web server software. Sometimes its apache on linux, sometimes its Zeus on AIX, sometimes it may even be IIS on NT (I dont know when that would be, but I guess the situation could theoretically exist). Whatever is the right tool for the job is what should be used.
I guess, but I don't see what useful purpose it serves, aside from satisfying that big brother-ish need that some sysadmins have. If the system paged when a user exceeded some sort of resource limit, then I would mark it as useful. But what good is knowing when a user logs on? Are you looking for excessive logins? What sort of problematic activity can be detected by solely tracking when users log on?
What interesting timing, me and a couple of other developers are just finishing a control panel/ISP management system from hell for the company we work for to use, it is going live next Wednesday. I dont want to say how long we have been working on it, its almost embarassing.
The system consists of many components. Its core is a cooperatively multitasking daemon that manages all activity. Any requests for service modification (customer addition, plan addition, service configuration) come in via XML. These requests typically originate from either the end-user control panel or the reseller control panel. The daemon checks to ensure that nothing odd is going on (like a zillion requests for service modification in the last x minutes), breaks the XML down into subpackets destined for the appropriate servers. For example, one incoming hosting add request will require a packet destined for the DNS server and another packet destined for the hosting server. When translating the packets, the daemon also transactionally updates the postgres database. If all packets translate OK, the data commits. The daemon then establishes a connection to a second, forking daemon which examines the subpacket and connects to the indicated server and issues the XML to a script on that server. The nonforker also runs internal events that monitor the status of the provided services. The whole thing is a little more complex than that, but you get the idea. The system also handles all billing and accounting.
The system offers several advantages over a traditional control panel. The most obvious advantage is that the customer manages all of their domains from the same login on the same control panel, regardless of what hosting servers those domains may be spread across. The second advantage is with the central server being aware of every request, it can monitor request processing statistics, which results in enhanced security and reliability. The maintained database is substantial enough where if one of our hosting or DNS servers went down, the customer configuration could be regenerated from the information in the management system database (this was not the intent, but a byproduct).
Anyways, to answer the original question, the type of control panel solution really depends on the scale of the internet service operation.
IBM drives are the best. Their drives retrieve data faster, operate quieter, generate less heat, and last longer than any other manufacturer's drives. Almost every other drive manufacturer uses PRML head technology that is licensed from IBM.
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"Musicians standing in your living room when you close your eyes"... musicians who were recorded in mono and then effected and manually panned to create an artificial stereo image. If you have any familiarity with modern studio techniques then you would understand the idiocy of an audiophile-grade system when playing back all but the most obscure of album releases.
maru
Keep in mind that Ruthless was founded because Easy E wanted to get out of the drug dealing business. NWA, although not a studio creation, was created for the sole purpose of generating revenue.
maru
With Vivendi's purchase of mp3.com and Bertelsmanns purchase of Napster... when exactly does this "big shakeup" that you mention occur? I think it's been made quite clear to us what happens to any audio sharing mechanism that becomes too widely used. It gets bought by the major labels, just like airplay on commercial radio. It's not like they are cash strapped. Anyone who has been paying the slightest bit of attention to the online music scene can clearly see that "the revolution will not be digitized", as the recent Salon article put it.
maru
I said "there is no listing for any residential cleanup". I don't think "Venture Rim Products", with an incident description of "ABANDONED WAREHOUSE IN LIGHT INDUSTRIAL RESIDENTIAL AREA. NEAREST RESIDENCE IS APPROXIMATELY 1500 AWAY. ABOUT 280 DRUM S OF POLYURETHANE COMPONENTS LEFT ON SITE.ABANDONED WAREHOUSE IN LIGHT INDUSTRIAL RESIDENTIAL AREA. NEAREST RESIDENCE IS APPROXIMATELY 1500 AWAY. ABOUT 280 DRUMS OF POLYURETHANE COMPONENTS LEFT ON SITE." is the report that would correspond with the supposed "Golf Manor" incident.
maru
It's odd, because the well-known "duct tape" cloth tape is not actually used for ductwork. Aluminum or vinyl tape is instead used for that.
maru
The harper's article claims the cleanup was "Golf Manor Superfund" yet the EPA has no listing of any cleanup by that name, they don't even have have a listing for any residential cleanup in Commerce, MI.
maru
Caterpillar and several other companies make smaller ones (file cabinet sized). Check out Cat here .
maru
I noticed that www.macromedia.com was unavailable last week as well, only none of the routing between me and macromedia is through level3. It makes me wonder if the RBL listing was the actual cause of the outage the original poster experienced. I suspect that the RBL and above.net may have had nothing to do with the incident at all.
maru
This would've been funnier if it was along the lines of "GMC sues Chilton for publishing information that allows users to break the mechanical encryption on General Motors cars and trucks".
"Chilton's reference material contains detailed information concerning the disassembly and reassembly of General Motors' Vehicle Engine 1.8 and above."
maru
Haha, you made the same mistake I did. Assuming (know what happens when you assume blah blah blah) that the redirect was coming from 2600 when in fact it is coming from ford.
In any case, if ford used host headers and had no content on the default site then 2600 would not have been able to do this as easily, as just pointing a domain to the IP would not work under that configuration. So they do have a way to stop the "linking" in an easily-implemented, non-legal manner.
maru
It would appear I am currently on the planet "dumbass". Oops.
maru
Another great example of +5 modding on a post whose contents are completely wrong.
I really doubt if any hotel has a DMS-x, to call a switch of that class overkill for a hotel would be an understatement. Mitel dominates the hospitality industry anyways, with over 80% of installed hotel PBXs being Mitel. Hotels typically do not do any configuration or maintenance on their PBX in-house. With this in mind, perhaps a look at the companies doing the service on some of the hotel's PBXs would be in order.
maru
No one in the hospitality industry cares about the OS. All they want from a PMS or POS solution is two things, and two things only: the guest to get checked in/out faster and the wait staff to enter the check quicker. Any technology to forward either of those two goals is aggressively pursued by those industries, any technology otherwise is ignored.
maru
There is no "Days Inn" system. Cendant properties choose between "Project Powerup" systems from three PMS vendors: HSS, Multi-Systems, or REZSolutions. These are three completely different PMS apps with Cendant interface modules. Two of these run on UNIX-type OSs, the latter runs on NT. Unfortunately, the hospitality industry is about two decades behind in software development, the *nix offerings all have abysmal user interfaces. With the average moronic front desk staffer in mind the GM is drooling over a Win GUI interface in hopes that his staff, who types one word per hour, might someday take less than a decade to check in a guest. The choice between the three systems (at least for Cendant brands) is indeed made at the property level and not higher.
As for your statement that most franchises write their own front-office, this is just wrong. There is only one chain that writes their own, I think it is Hilton. Most franchises don't care what package (if any) the individual properties use, that was the big whoop-de-do with Cendant's Project Powerup: unified software. Although I don't know exactly how unified equates to three different packages in their case.
The ire over Project Powerup had nothing to do with technical issues. Nobody wanted to install the system because it interfaced directly with Cendant. Hotels pay franchise fees based upon room revenues, with a direct connection to Cendant it would no longer be possible to fiddle with the figures in order to pay less franchise fees. There was also the fact that Cendant would be using your guest database for marketing. Big Brother at its finest! Oh yeah, and Cendant only footed the bill for a minimal installation. For my previous employer, they offered to replace our 15 terminals and custom software with 2 terminals. This, of course, would have made our Howard Johnsons front desk disparate from our other two hotels on the same property that were not Cendant brands, as well as leaving it unable to communicate with our accounting, inventory control, and 75 point of sale terminals at the 14 bars and restaurants located on the property (all running custom in-house software). The switch would've costed our company at least $100K annually in additional staff required to manually do accounting processes that were automated under the existing system. To this day, no Project Powerup system was ever brought to that property.
The hospitality industry's sister, the service industry, is dominated by unix. Micros is the major player there, and their unix offering is rock solid and can support 250+ terminals (cash registers) on one server. Their NT offering can't do above 25. Unix doesn't show its ass there like it does in the hospitality industry because the cash registers are all custom hardware with their own IO that only communicate with the server to send transaction information (over serial cables!). So the wait staff don't have to type
maru
www.mp3.com/pixal
There are frequent releases because the development team is using extreme programming, of course!
maru
www.mp3.com/pixal
maru
This seems to be a problem that plagues small open-source projects in general. Look at how many web-based BBS/forum software there is on sourceforge and how many new ones are being created monthly. It's counterproductive, none of the software ever progresses past a certain maturity level.
maru
If you think the windows media server is unconditionally free, you'd better look at that licensing agreement a little closer. As soon as you start charging for streams, you'd better open those purse strings because MS is going to be all up in there.
maru
I think the statement that "mysql does a great job" is like saying "a chainsaw does a great job". A great job at what? Does a chainsaw do a great job of cutting holes in metal? Does a chainsaw do a great job at cutting tomatoes in the kitchen? Does mysql do a great job storing transaction-sensitive data (such as accounting data)? Does mysql do a great job on committing data across multiple database servers (multiphase commit)?
The REAL statement is "choose the right tool for the job". In some cases it's mysql, in some postgres or interbase, in some it's sybase or oracle or the like. Same with OS and web server software. Sometimes its apache on linux, sometimes its Zeus on AIX, sometimes it may even be IIS on NT (I dont know when that would be, but I guess the situation could theoretically exist). Whatever is the right tool for the job is what should be used.
maru
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Quite managable.
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I guess, but I don't see what useful purpose it serves, aside from satisfying that big brother-ish need that some sysadmins have. If the system paged when a user exceeded some sort of resource limit, then I would mark it as useful. But what good is knowing when a user logs on? Are you looking for excessive logins? What sort of problematic activity can be detected by solely tracking when users log on?
Maru
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It also notifies us via ICQ pager whenever anyone signs into their shell account.
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Guess you don't have many customers?
maru
What interesting timing, me and a couple of other developers are just finishing a control panel/ISP management system from hell for the company we work for to use, it is going live next Wednesday. I dont want to say how long we have been working on it, its almost embarassing.
The system consists of many components. Its core is a cooperatively multitasking daemon that manages all activity. Any requests for service modification (customer addition, plan addition, service configuration) come in via XML. These requests typically originate from either the end-user control panel or the reseller control panel. The daemon checks to ensure that nothing odd is going on (like a zillion requests for service modification in the last x minutes), breaks the XML down into subpackets destined for the appropriate servers. For example, one incoming hosting add request will require a packet destined for the DNS server and another packet destined for the hosting server. When translating the packets, the daemon also transactionally updates the postgres database. If all packets translate OK, the data commits. The daemon then establishes a connection to a second, forking daemon which examines the subpacket and connects to the indicated server and issues the XML to a script on that server. The nonforker also runs internal events that monitor the status of the provided services. The whole thing is a little more complex than that, but you get the idea. The system also handles all billing and accounting.
The system offers several advantages over a traditional control panel. The most obvious advantage is that the customer manages all of their domains from the same login on the same control panel, regardless of what hosting servers those domains may be spread across. The second advantage is with the central server being aware of every request, it can monitor request processing statistics, which results in enhanced security and reliability. The maintained database is substantial enough where if one of our hosting or DNS servers went down, the customer configuration could be regenerated from the information in the management system database (this was not the intent, but a byproduct).
Anyways, to answer the original question, the type of control panel solution really depends on the scale of the internet service operation.
Maru
IBM drives are the best. Their drives retrieve data faster, operate quieter, generate less heat, and last longer than any other manufacturer's drives. Almost every other drive manufacturer uses PRML head technology that is licensed from IBM.
maru
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