One site is always a master, the rest are slaves for a specific branch. For another branch roles may be swapped of course.
There are also some specifics dealing with the conflict resolutions and obvious races in them. Usually the lusers never see that. It is for the cm to sweat over and sort them out.
Mandrake has just renamed the classic software business model of support contracts into a marketing entity called club.
This model is the oldest model out there. It created IBM, DEC and the other old greats and it is keeping some of them alive till now.
Yes, it is different from the MSFT style "pay now what we give is what you get, and no support" model. But this does not mean that it is by any means less economically sound. It is actually more sound on the long run.
So I do not think that Mandrake will have any problems with the Club. It is likely that the other linux vendors will take it as well.
I think your knowledge of the subject is a bit off...
It was not developed for russian use at all. It was developed in Moravia which spanned most of current Chech Republic and bits of Slovakia. In other words it was developed for what has become Chech nowdays. The people who developed it were fairly high in the hierarchy of the Moravian church but got nailed for herecy by their superiors in Rome.
After that they fled to Bulgaria and from there on the alphabet spread to Russia. Considering that at that time the Bulgarian Empire span most of the Balkan peninsula and both bulgarians and serbians claim it to be in their ancestry I will skip on where did Serbians get the alphabet to avoid a Balkan flame war. Let's say once upon a time it was one country.
After that the alphabet went through at least several simplifications and changes of the writing. One around 9-10th century, one during the church reform in the middle ages in russia and one more in most slavic countries just before the first world war.
In any case:
It took several senturies between the invention of the alphabet and it landing in Russia. Russians have actually started selebrating the origins of their alphabet in 1991. Before that it was a topic that was usually skipped in their history books.
All nations using it have different versions. That includes Serbs, Bulgarians, Russians, Bellorussians, Ukrainians,etc and the eastern ortodox church (the latter uses an ancient dialekt corresponding to 9-10th century south slavic). So saying Russian cyrillic is not redundant. It is a different alphabet from Bulgarian, Ukrainian, etc. Most of them contains letters specific only to the particular language. The computer encodings are different as well.
In windows (the EU edition) - anyone. Just add the language. Your only problem is that the idiots in Redmond have yet to add a keyboard editor (something that has been present in all third party internationalisation packages since Windows 3.10). As a result you will be stuck with some extremely obscene keymap inherited from a cyrillic typewriter. Alternatively you can pick up dlls from third party cyrillisation packages made for older windows versions and violate the sanctity of the MSFT sertificate by slapping it on top of the current ones. It usually works. And you get a proper keymap.
Under unix it is usually a bit more p*** in the a*** because most internationalisations rely on Xmodmap and it no longer works nowdays. Once again by default you will get stuck with something you cannot use unless you have a keyboard that is engraved with the alternate characters. Once again you will need to spend half an hour with vi swearing at whoever made Xmodmap not to work any more in order to get a less obscene keymap.
Digital thermometers. And just one example of where they are used - car ignition. All ignition systems have a feedback from engine (and some from air) temperature. Can you imagine your car ignition computer verifying itself not to be involved in copyright contravention activities every time it has to adjust the ignition timings.
Under other circumstances it would have been funny.
I am sick of people bitching about BSA and audits.
You can get into a problem with BSA only if your network is shite and you are not keeping proper network inventory.
Namely, all you need is to keep a proper audit trail. There is plenty of audit software out there. Most of it more or less works. So the only thing left is to force the users running it on casual basis.
If your network for MicroS***t clients is properly set up and they are logging vs a domain you can force the audit to be done on every login. As a result the sysadmin and the accountant know every piece of software and hardware on the network including the selfinstalled ones.
If you are running a business with an infoanarchy style WORKGROUP and no audit. Oh well... You have asked for it. And it is much more likely that someone will get to you through a hole in software that was not supposed to be on your network anyway long before the BSA. And that someone may cause you much more trouble.
Newer machines come with newer OS/Software only which is OEM bundled and not replaceable by your old "compatible" OS. Your older OS will either not work on them, or you will not have a legal license or both.
As a result, if you need to replace just one machine you immediately open a can of worms that will be very hard to close after that. You may repair machines ad naseum but no new ones. Which obviously is not always possible.
I have seen rats running around the rails, I have seen people pissing in the carriage so though this may be an urban legend it is not far from throuth. Otherwise it would have not been that popular.
A toilet seat is clean compared to some stuff some of us have to go through every day of their lives..
Un-Hygienic Data on the London Underground
During Autumn of 2000, a team of scientists at the Department of Forensics at University College London removed a row of passenger seats from a Central Line tube carriage for analysis into cleanliness. Despite London Underground's claim that the interior of their trains are cleaned on a regular basis, the scientists made some alarming discoveries:
This is what was found on the surface of the seats:
* 4 types of hair sample (human, mouse, rat, dog) * 7 types of insect (mostly fleas, mostly alive) * vomit originating from at least 9 separate people * human urine originating from at least 4 separate people * human excrement * rodent excrement * human semen
When the seats were taken apart, they found:
* the remains of 6 mice * the remains of 2 large rats * 1 previously unheard of fungus
It is estimated that by holding one of the armrests, you are transferring to your body the natural oils and sweat from as many as 400 different people. It is estimated that it is generally healthier to smoke five cigarettes a day than to travel for one hour a day on the London Underground. It is far more hygienic to wipe your hand on the inside of a recently flushed toilet bowl before eating, than to wipe your hand on a London Underground seat before eating. It is estimated that within London, more work sick-days are taken because of bugs picked up whilst traveling on the London Underground than for any other reason (including alcohol).
For some reason I have that scene from gattaca in front of my eyes. Where the main character is vacuum cleaning his keyboard at the end of the training day. The interesting bit is that noone is really bothered or amused by this... It seems a bit overboard, but still within reasonable limits...
One and half years ago at least nortel, most likely the others had a last mile box in the making. To be more exact a real last mile box. For the last mile between the patch board in the street and the customer house. At least the Nortel project was a DSL/Voice/ISDN concentrator that was supposed to be deployed in the street as a replacement for those grey ugly distribution boxes most telcos use since the days of Bell. Concentrate close to the customer premises and carry over fiber or vDSL to the exchange.
Most of these projects got cancelled during cost cutting exersies. You know the drill: it is something new, so you should not do it and stick to the areas of "core expertise".
If they were not cancelled the question of "out of range" would have quickly stopped to exist. Same for line noise and line-to-line interference (the usual problem with DSL).
Just comes to show that some cost cutting exercices during the dot-com burst have been outright stupid...
Anyway, back to the 802.11 topic. Once sanity is back and some startup (or the classic switch vendors) starts putting these out the 802.11 broadband will be as dead in the water as wireless local loop. It is not something that can be used to beat the telcos at their own game. It is a great office network, hotspot filler, neighbourhood network but broadband it aint.
I am fairly sure it was more then 100. Possibly it was not dry weight though.
747 in its cargo incarnation is not adapted to carry large single loads. It can carry a lot, it is very well suited to carry containers, but not a single large load. So I doubt you will be able to do this with it.
If you are right about the weight An124 is indeed possible but quite a bit of dissassembly will be required.
er.... How to put it politely... er... get a clue...
Buran is too heavy for any US cargo jet.
Just to remind you US cargo jets suck rocks in the heavy bulk cargo business. For example the "problematic chinese incident" plane (you know which one) had to be carried to the US by a british company subcontracting to Antonov's construction bureau using an AN 124 Anthei. This was for a reason. The fuselage of the plane did not fit in any of the Galaxy series.
The only thing that can lift a Buran intact is a AN 224 Mria which has recently been brought back from being mothballed. Subcontractable through the same UK company (forgot the name, based in Scotland). It will be more expensive then several thousands because it is a special purpose flight.
A Jumbo cannot lift a Buran off. It is heavier then the US shuttles. Dunno exactly how much. But enough to exceed both take off weight and undercariage structural limits on Boeing 747.
Individuals tampering with telco equipment property of the telco are stupid.
Reasons:
First it is illegal. Almost anywhere in the world you are violating both laws dealing with property as well as telco regulations. Under both you are legible for both fines and jail terms. You may get some leaway due to the lack of precedent for cable equipment or internet equipment being treated under the telco regulations but this is for a time. This unfortunately is not a game where the user wins. I am not saying that I like it or not I am simply stating the facts.
Second: it is trivial to catch. The bandwidth limit is a parameter which can be polled using SNMP by the telco on regular intervals. I can scribble a perl script to do it in 5 mins. I would not expect someone in NTL to do this (noone with brains left) but there used to be people in Telewest capable of doing it in about the same time (or a bit more). In btw: to the extent of my knowledge that is what ATT does. So all cappers get caught. No exemptions.
This is a typical Darwin Award scenario. Everyone of us does something else illegal from time to time. Speeding is a good example. I break the speed limit from time to time. Everyone does. But I do not do it right in front of a speed camera which I know to be always loaded,perfectly operational and checked by the police for catch at regular intevals.
First: It is slightly different because Telewest modems are suplpied by Telewest are property of Telewest and you are only leasing them.
So you have actually tampered with telecommunications equipment belonging to the telco which in the UK as elsewhere may lead to a very fat fine.
I am amused by the fact that they only kindly reminded you not to be stupid.
Second: Your suggestion for gradual QoS and limits polices is nothing new. It has been done in the past (it was casual pricing strategy/practice in 1994-1998). I have recently discussed it with some of my collegues (disclaimer none of us works for a CableCo or DSL provider at the moment) but the overall opinion was that there is no economical drive for such a policy manager. The only way such drive will appear will be to introduce differential prime time/prime bandwidth pricing. In other words abolish flat rates. Otherwise there is no economical reason for developing such software.
Overall: if you want to manage your downloads smartly do not ask for dumb pricing.
First: No. Same goes for the Euromodem Cable standard which is also ATM based.
Second: It should not work on properly designed DOCSIS Cable Modems either. A cable modem should not accept tftp uploads and config from anywhere but its cable interface which is not available to the casual hacker.
Third: It will not work on properly configured newer DOCSIS 1.1 and later networks either.
Here is why:
First: In DSL the speed is largely controlled by the DSLAM. Some modems do some minimal QoS and capping but it is hardly ever used. No need to.
Second: design fault. Typical of telco manufacturing. No comment needed. Can be fixed by a single software upload which the provider can trigger on any software upgradeable modem. As a result it will no longer be possible to uncap it.
Third: You can hog bandwidth in an unlimited fashion only on a DOCSIS 1.0 and incorrectly configured newer networks. DOCSIS 1.1 introduced the concept of a transmit map. The cable modem termination system tells you when you can transmit and when you cannot (it can also slice bandwidth exactly on per consumer/application basis). As a result a properly configured 1.1 or newer network should have no need for CPE capping. Of course, US has a boatload of non-docsis proprietary networks so dunno about these.
Completely agree. I have encountered the "sausage fingers" problem on a PCG-C1F since day 1 (C1F is the oldest pre-Crusoe Picturebook). This is almost twice smaller. It will be almost unuseable by anyone but 5 year old kids.
On this one I would need to hire a 5 year old kid and dictate to him and get sued for using child labour...
The methods used by Philip the IVth in france on the d'Honet brothers. Should be applied to all spammers. Unfortunately the judicial system seems to disagree.
If you do not know french history here is the list:
1. Break all limbs on the weel. 2. Casrate and show the removed offending material to the public 3. Skin alive 4. Dip into boiling oil 5. Hang what is left on a hook upside down 6. Leave for the crows to finish off.
That is of course in public.
It should be enough to do it once for anyone not to think of spamming as a business idea.
Nope. That is HVD. LVD is less. 12m if you do not have SE devices on the bus. Even one SE device drops it further down to 1.5m. Check the FAQs on http://www.cablemakers.com.
In btw: they are the only ones I found to supply HVD parts.
Apple has stopped using SCSI for their systems since the G3 IIRC
Earlier. Large batches of early PPC Performas for the education sector went out outfitted with IDE. I have to deal with one such antycomputer from time to time (my significant half's machine) and it is a c*** of s***t. It also has SCSI but the disk and the CD are connected to the IDE bus.
The G3 was the first Mac to have only IDE and no SCSI. Otherwise Apple was quitely putting in IDE for a while before that.
Considering that most Apple cult followers do not check the hardware they had no problem doing this. And the machines still had the SCSI connector on the back for Apple branded external devices.
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One site is always a master, the rest are slaves for a specific branch. For another branch roles may be swapped of course.
There are also some specifics dealing with the conflict resolutions and obvious races in them. Usually the lusers never see that. It is for the cm to sweat over and sort them out.
Anyway, Larry is right, you are wrong.
RTFM again please.
Mandrake has just renamed the classic software business model of support contracts into a marketing entity called club.
This model is the oldest model out there. It created IBM, DEC and the other old greats and it is keeping some of them alive till now.
Yes, it is different from the MSFT style "pay now what we give is what you get, and no support" model. But this does not mean that it is by any means less economically sound. It is actually more sound on the long run.
So I do not think that Mandrake will have any problems with the Club. It is likely that the other linux vendors will take it as well.
I think your knowledge of the subject is a bit off...
It was not developed for russian use at all. It was developed in Moravia which spanned most of current Chech Republic and bits of Slovakia. In other words it was developed for what has become Chech nowdays. The people who developed it were fairly high in the hierarchy of the Moravian church but got nailed for herecy by their superiors in Rome.
After that they fled to Bulgaria and from there on the alphabet spread to Russia. Considering that at that time the Bulgarian Empire span most of the Balkan peninsula and both bulgarians and serbians claim it to be in their ancestry I will skip on where did Serbians get the alphabet to avoid a Balkan flame war. Let's say once upon a time it was one country.
After that the alphabet went through at least several simplifications and changes of the writing. One around 9-10th century, one during the church reform in the middle ages in russia and one more in most slavic countries just before the first world war.
In any case:
In windows (the EU edition) - anyone. Just add the language. Your only problem is that the idiots in Redmond have yet to add a keyboard editor (something that has been present in all third party internationalisation packages since Windows 3.10). As a result you will be stuck with some extremely obscene keymap inherited from a cyrillic typewriter. Alternatively you can pick up dlls from third party cyrillisation packages made for older windows versions and violate the sanctity of the MSFT sertificate by slapping it on top of the current ones. It usually works. And you get a proper keymap.
Under unix it is usually a bit more p*** in the a*** because most internationalisations rely on Xmodmap and it no longer works nowdays. Once again by default you will get stuck with something you cannot use unless you have a keyboard that is engraved with the alternate characters. Once again you will need to spend half an hour with vi swearing at whoever made Xmodmap not to work any more in order to get a less obscene keymap.
That is in russian. In bulgarian and serbian you do not need it. The stress is at the other syllable so it sound correct.
The spoofable letters are a and o.
I will give just one example:
Digital thermometers. And just one example of where they are used - car ignition. All ignition systems have a feedback from engine (and some from air) temperature. Can you imagine your car ignition computer verifying itself not to be involved in copyright contravention activities every time it has to adjust the ignition timings.
Under other circumstances it would have been funny.
I am sick of people bitching about BSA and audits. You can get into a problem with BSA only if your network is shite and you are not keeping proper network inventory. Namely, all you need is to keep a proper audit trail. There is plenty of audit software out there. Most of it more or less works. So the only thing left is to force the users running it on casual basis. If your network for MicroS***t clients is properly set up and they are logging vs a domain you can force the audit to be done on every login. As a result the sysadmin and the accountant know every piece of software and hardware on the network including the selfinstalled ones. If you are running a business with an infoanarchy style WORKGROUP and no audit. Oh well... You have asked for it. And it is much more likely that someone will get to you through a hole in software that was not supposed to be on your network anyway long before the BSA. And that someone may cause you much more trouble.
Not so simple.
Newer machines come with newer OS/Software only which is OEM bundled and not replaceable by your old "compatible" OS. Your older OS will either not work on them, or you will not have a legal license or both.
As a result, if you need to replace just one machine you immediately open a can of worms that will be very hard to close after that. You may repair machines ad naseum but no new ones. Which obviously is not always possible.
No, this means that someone already has claimed it and Boeing the next in the line if the first claimant drops out of the deal.
I have seen rats running around the rails, I have seen people pissing in the carriage so though this may be an urban legend it is not far from throuth. Otherwise it would have not been that popular.
A toilet seat is clean compared to some stuff some of us have to go through every day of their lives..
Un-Hygienic Data on the London Underground
During Autumn of 2000, a team of scientists at the Department of Forensics at University College London removed a row of passenger seats from a Central Line tube carriage for analysis into cleanliness. Despite London Underground's claim that the interior of their trains are cleaned on a regular basis, the scientists made some alarming discoveries:
This is what was found on the surface of the seats:
* 4 types of hair sample (human, mouse, rat, dog)
* 7 types of insect (mostly fleas, mostly alive)
* vomit originating from at least 9 separate people
* human urine originating from at least 4 separate people
* human excrement
* rodent excrement
* human semen
When the seats were taken apart, they found:
* the remains of 6 mice
* the remains of 2 large rats
* 1 previously unheard of fungus
It is estimated that by holding one of the armrests, you are transferring to your body the natural oils and sweat from as many as 400 different people. It is estimated that it is generally healthier to smoke five cigarettes a day than to travel for one hour a day on the London Underground. It is far more hygienic to wipe your hand on the inside of a recently flushed toilet bowl before eating, than to wipe your hand on a London Underground seat before eating. It is estimated that within London, more work sick-days are taken because of bugs picked up whilst traveling on the London Underground than for any other reason (including alcohol).
For some reason I have that scene from gattaca in front of my eyes. Where the main character is vacuum cleaning his keyboard at the end of the training day. The interesting bit is that noone is really bothered or amused by this... It seems a bit overboard, but still within reasonable limits...
One and half years ago at least nortel, most likely the others had a last mile box in the making. To be more exact a real last mile box. For the last mile between the patch board in the street and the customer house. At least the Nortel project was a DSL/Voice/ISDN concentrator that was supposed to be deployed in the street as a replacement for those grey ugly distribution boxes most telcos use since the days of Bell. Concentrate close to the customer premises and carry over fiber or vDSL to the exchange.
Most of these projects got cancelled during cost cutting exersies. You know the drill: it is something new, so you should not do it and stick to the areas of "core expertise".
If they were not cancelled the question of "out of range" would have quickly stopped to exist. Same for line noise and line-to-line interference (the usual problem with DSL).
Just comes to show that some cost cutting exercices during the dot-com burst have been outright stupid...
Anyway, back to the 802.11 topic. Once sanity is back and some startup (or the classic switch vendors) starts putting these out the 802.11 broadband will be as dead in the water as wireless local loop. It is not something that can be used to beat the telcos at their own game. It is a great office network, hotspot filler, neighbourhood network but broadband it aint.
Possibly I got my numbers wrong.
Though I doubt it.
I am fairly sure it was more then 100. Possibly it was not dry weight though.
747 in its cargo incarnation is not adapted to carry large single loads. It can carry a lot, it is very well suited to carry containers, but not a single large load. So I doubt you will be able to do this with it.
If you are right about the weight An124 is indeed possible but quite a bit of dissassembly will be required.
er.... How to put it politely... er... get a clue...
Buran is too heavy for any US cargo jet.
Just to remind you US cargo jets suck rocks in the heavy bulk cargo business. For example the "problematic chinese incident" plane (you know which one) had to be carried to the US by a british company subcontracting to Antonov's construction bureau using an AN 124 Anthei. This was for a reason. The fuselage of the plane did not fit in any of the Galaxy series.
The only thing that can lift a Buran intact is a AN 224 Mria which has recently been brought back from being mothballed. Subcontractable through the same UK company (forgot the name, based in Scotland). It will be more expensive then several thousands because it is a special purpose flight.
A Jumbo cannot lift a Buran off. It is heavier then the US shuttles. Dunno exactly how much. But enough to exceed both take off weight and undercariage structural limits on Boeing 747.
Reasons:
First it is illegal. Almost anywhere in the world you are violating both laws dealing with property as well as telco regulations. Under both you are legible for both fines and jail terms. You may get some leaway due to the lack of precedent for cable equipment or internet equipment being treated under the telco regulations but this is for a time. This unfortunately is not a game where the user wins. I am not saying that I like it or not I am simply stating the facts.
Second: it is trivial to catch. The bandwidth limit is a parameter which can be polled using SNMP by the telco on regular intervals. I can scribble a perl script to do it in 5 mins. I would not expect someone in NTL to do this (noone with brains left) but there used to be people in Telewest capable of doing it in about the same time (or a bit more). In btw: to the extent of my knowledge that is what ATT does. So all cappers get caught. No exemptions.
This is a typical Darwin Award scenario. Everyone of us does something else illegal from time to time. Speeding is a good example. I break the speed limit from time to time. Everyone does. But I do not do it right in front of a speed camera which I know to be always loaded,perfectly operational and checked by the police for catch at regular intevals.
First :
It is slightly different because Telewest modems are suplpied by Telewest are property of Telewest and you are only leasing them.
So you have actually tampered with telecommunications equipment belonging to the telco which in the UK as elsewhere may lead to a very fat fine.
I am amused by the fact that they only kindly reminded you not to be stupid.
Second:
Your suggestion for gradual QoS and limits polices is nothing new. It has been done in the past (it was casual pricing strategy/practice in 1994-1998). I have recently discussed it with some of my collegues (disclaimer none of us works for a CableCo or DSL provider at the moment) but the overall opinion was that there is no economical drive for such a policy manager. The only way such drive will appear will be to introduce differential prime time/prime bandwidth pricing. In other words abolish flat rates. Otherwise there is no economical reason for developing such software.
Overall: if you want to manage your downloads smartly do not ask for dumb pricing.
First: No. Same goes for the Euromodem Cable standard which is also ATM based.
Second: It should not work on properly designed DOCSIS Cable Modems either. A cable modem should not accept tftp uploads and config from anywhere but its cable interface which is not available to the casual hacker.
Third: It will not work on properly configured newer DOCSIS 1.1 and later networks either.
Here is why:
First: In DSL the speed is largely controlled by the DSLAM. Some modems do some minimal QoS and capping but it is hardly ever used. No need to.
Second: design fault. Typical of telco manufacturing. No comment needed. Can be fixed by a single software upload which the provider can trigger on any software upgradeable modem. As a result it will no longer be possible to uncap it.
Third: You can hog bandwidth in an unlimited fashion only on a DOCSIS 1.0 and incorrectly configured newer networks. DOCSIS 1.1 introduced the concept of a transmit map. The cable modem termination system tells you when you can transmit and when you cannot (it can also slice bandwidth exactly on per consumer/application basis). As a result a properly configured 1.1 or newer network should have no need for CPE capping. Of course, US has a boatload of non-docsis proprietary networks so dunno about these.
Completely agree. I have encountered the "sausage fingers" problem on a PCG-C1F since day 1 (C1F is the oldest pre-Crusoe Picturebook). This is almost twice smaller. It will be almost unuseable by anyone but 5 year old kids.
On this one I would need to hire a 5 year old kid and dictate to him and get sued for using child labour...
The methods used by Philip the IVth in france on the d'Honet brothers. Should be applied to all spammers. Unfortunately the judicial system seems to disagree.
If you do not know french history here is the list:
1. Break all limbs on the weel.
2. Casrate and show the removed offending material to the public
3. Skin alive
4. Dip into boiling oil
5. Hang what is left on a hook upside down
6. Leave for the crows to finish off.
That is of course in public.
It should be enough to do it once for anyone not to think of spamming as a business idea.
They are located in California which has both suitable antispam laws and antihacking laws.
The lawsuit wil need to be filed by a resident of the state.
If in California - yes. What better way to cause a new series of rolling fourth world country style electircity blackouts....
Why only California? What about other states. Or whole countries for the matter?
Nope. That is HVD. LVD is less. 12m if you do not have SE devices on the bus. Even one SE device drops it further down to 1.5m. Check the FAQs on http://www.cablemakers.com. In btw: they are the only ones I found to supply HVD parts.
Earlier. Large batches of early PPC Performas for the education sector went out outfitted with IDE. I have to deal with one such antycomputer from time to time (my significant half's machine) and it is a c*** of s***t. It also has SCSI but the disk and the CD are connected to the IDE bus.
The G3 was the first Mac to have only IDE and no SCSI. Otherwise Apple was quitely putting in IDE for a while before that.
Considering that most Apple cult followers do not check the hardware they had no problem doing this. And the machines still had the SCSI connector on the back for Apple branded external devices.