we got an email this afternoon from our provider, who let us know that cogent will be reachable by their second link, which is WilTel. However, the link is slower than the Level3 link. There will also be more traffic being routed through less points, meaning congestion. (and obvious lack of redundancy, if the WilTel connection has problems, no Level3) We have had users complaining about sites being unreachable at random times this afternoon. One of our providers very big customers is the OSU Open Source Lab, home of Drupal, mozilla download servers, master.Kernel.org servers, and many, many others. If your having problems reaching these sites, that is probably why.
This works well in the south, but not so good in the northern states. The WVO tank solidifies, so you have to run biodiesel for the first few miles, to "melt" the oil. This works well in the south. The problem, in areas with cold winters, is that biodiesel has a higher gel point than regular diesel. There are many 'anti gel' solutions that people add to their trucks in the winter with dino diesel, but they are not formulated for biodiesel. Also, adding a second tank and stuff will probably void your warranty if you buy a new car. In my town, biodiesel can be purchased for about $2.85 cents (at a pump, including all taxes). Dino diesel is about $3.05. I think the market will soon convert people.. Especially when they think about how their fuel money is going to the midwest, not the middle east..
Censorship is not over. Keep in mind that the government owns all the pipes in and out of the country, for any kind of telecommunication. Add in the increases in processing power of computers to analyze this traffic, and throw in the expertise of American corporations like CISCO who want to make a buck, and it is not hard to control the flow of ideas. Note that they don't have to silence all dissent, they just have to start cracking down on a few model people. After enough people have been imprisoned or executed, the citizens will be Afraid to step around the lines.
There is bound to be several threads here about how hard work is important, and those that complain are lazy, and want instant gratification. Let me just point out, that back in the day, you worked hard, put in insane hours, and got promoted. It was not unheard of to go from entry level to corporate VP. However, in the last decade, things have changed.. excuse me while I badly paraphrase Office Space "they're going to lay you off and hire interns, so that lumburg's stock will go up a quarter of a point" If you read the article, it also talks about employee dedication being offset by managements short term goals..
I work government, and while I do like my job, there is no real point in my putting in insane hours. Because in government, everyone has to be treated equally. I work about 45 hours a week, busy all day (and reading slashdot!). If we do raises, everyone gets a 2% raise, or x amount a year. Everyone. Even the people that sit around all day surfing the web. There is no reward for me implementing a system wide VOIP system in 1 month from brainstorm to going live. There is no incentive for me to put in tons of work, except for my own satisfaction, and resume building.
The really sad thing is your second two arguments are just about word for word the policy of my high school when I was a kid. Pagers were for drug dealers, Baggy pants conceal guns! Some gang members wore shirts with only the top button fastened, with a white shirt underneath.. All of these were banned, among many others, because they cannot figure out that logic is not necessarily a two way state. A->B does not mean that B->A..
As Much as I hate to admit it, Access should be on that list as well. Knowledgeable managers use Excell to connect to databases, and pull the data they want out for reports. Many, many other managers use Access, connect to the "real" backend database, and use QBE (Query By Example) to generate their reports. Also, many small businesses seem to think it is a real database.
The question is, how come you don't show traffic numbers for the sites you host? Those of us in the know use Nero's Site But it doesn't brake it down by project. You guys have an absolutely giggly amount of traffic!
Great program, reboot your PC, and all changes are reset. It is so much fun to load Kazaa onto a computer, reboot it, and it is all gone.. Of course, you have to get them trained to save absolutely everything to a Pen drive..
Actually, i think there is a configuration to allow it to make changes to a certain folder, ie, c:\data that will not be wiped on reboot. Lots of fun for viruses too.. Had a lab machine infected with something, (never did look), rebooted the pc, and the virus went away...
Visio actually used to have a network mapping tool that would go out and scan your network for SNMP devices. It would then draw you a pretty diagram. I think it was after visio 2000 that they pulled this feature out, and made it an additional "add on" to purchase.
What do you mean the US system of business is not perfect, its damn perfect!
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go work for 12 more hours today, to pay for the trip to the dentist, since my current employer cut back health insurance. I had good insurance at my last company, but the company laid us off, and bought some new lear jets, gave a bonus to the CEO that only makes $25Million a year, and bumped their stock price 25 cents! LONG LIVE CAPITALISM!
Remember the good old days of building special dos boot floppies for your games to make them run better/faster? Wouldn't it be damn sweet to have a game come on a DVD with knoppix on it? Install it into windows or linux and run it, or boot from the DVD to really make it fly!?
We are a school, and pay about $17/year per machine for Corporate Edition 10. A non-profit church should be similar. Pluses are, it now scans for malware, (thank god!), and is pretty automated. Minuses, I spent 35 minutes on hold on their "Enterprise support line" to get a guy to give me a username/password to download the newest build, as the one we are using crashes randomly. (why on earth do they not have an automated update functionality for the program itself?) Also requires a server, and can slow down systems quite a bit.. (uses 25MB of Ram, and 27MB of swap just sitting Idle right now on my box)
Work on making the existing system more reliable first. They are going to be hesitant if you move them to new PC's, OS's, and programs at the same time. First and foremost, to gain the confidence of your "customers" you need to increase the availability and reliability. Add a linux box as a firewall if you need to, or even better, add a snort sniffer, and show them how much nasty-ness goes on without a firewall. Explain little rules like FERPA, and why you need to protect the systems that have student information. Public IP's are not an issue in and of themselves, but subnet stuff at a minumum. Get your servers on one subnet, and your workstation on another. Then ACL the router between the two.
Exchange is very popular with users. What are you wanting to replace it with? Postfix? Good luck. You will quickly find out that only 5% of the users use the shared calendars, and that those 5% make up 95% of the complaining when you take them away...
the key thing is that as you upgrade equipment, add neat new features and reliabilty, they will start to respect you, and feel that you understand what you are doing. I know it sounds silly, but teachers hate to have to learn outside of their area. I have never figured this out, but a teacher gets very, very stuck in their ways. They have something that "works" and will almost never, ever change. So you need to move slowly at first, and make damn sure that they have only positive experiences. Make sure to point out the benefits, and most importantly, the time savings.
Oh, and congratulations.. this is one of those jobs that takes a lot of patience, but becomes very, very rewarding after time.
The sad thing is how true this is.. My house has raised in value 40% in one year in Oregon.. (I live about 20 minutes from the California Border). This is because people are selling their $600,000 2 bed, 1 bath, no garage house in CA, and moving up to Oregon. They think our houses are a steal at their current prices.. (no, this is not flamebait, I have 3 coworkers that have sold 2-3 bedroom houses in suburbia down there, and have bought ranches here)
This isn't just in the "ring of fire" this is between Newberry Crater, and Crater lake, the 2 biggest eruptions in the last 15 thousand years. Both of these are giant volcanoes with their tops hollowed out by eruptions. If you are ever in Oregon, take a trip to Bend, OR, the center of the state. It has some phenomenal volcanic stuff. (I was there a month ago with my GF's geology class..) Newberry crater has an obsidian flow that is measured in square miles.. (thats a hell of a lot of black glass!)
What are you talking about? My boss has a Dodge Ram 2500 Pickup. He replaced his injectors, he now gets 23MPG in a 7000lbs truck! I have a little Dodge Dakota Pickup.. I get 18 on the highway, 14 around town. My truck weighs half as much.
Look at how many semi's are on the road. Those Diesels are incredibly more efficient than the one in your car, your car weighs a few thousand pounds. Semi's capacity is measured in tons.. Semi's Drive, all day, every day. That is what they do. That means that truckers are much, much more suseptible to gas prices than you and I. I can walk to work, my neighbor cannot deliver 60,000lbs of milk by hand. Also, how many honda's do you know of with 400,000 miles? That is commonplace for a cummins diesel.
What ever happened to the Oregon Trail? that was the best Apple IIe game I ever played. It was a blast. I would love to get my hands on an updated version with better graphics, but same gameplay! (and of course, the good old "where in the world is carmen sandiego")
I think that the problem is not the profit motive, but when the game is utilizing the same technology as the original. Look at Madden20 05, was it $50 better than Madden 2004? Will Madden 2006 be $50 better than 2004? No, just new players added to teams. Maybe a tiny, incremental improvement. Now, take the example of GTA. First game, corny graphics, but so fun!. GTA 2, getting better.. Better graphics, better story, etc.. The key is that the sequals are better graphicaly, technically, and story wise. Tweaking a game engine to add some silly feature, and making the same game, part 2, is a stupid sequal. (now with more body parts flying!)
Ask your telco for "SNMP read" access to their routers that they use. Setup an MRTG page that shows traffic and latency. Is this pure fiber from building to building? or are there a bunch of Cat5 (or other cabling) to fiber converters along the path? Most Telco's offer SLA (Service Level Agreements) that garuntee a certain amount of bandwith, latency, and availabiltiy. Also, I know on our metro fiber ring we are moving to, it is all ethernet over fiber, and each company gets their own VLAN. Is your connection pure ethernet all the way through? (if you live in a big city, some of the big players give you your own wavelength, instead of VLAN.. Much nicer)
there is also the option of turning down the audio quality between buildings. (ie, 128Kb stream inside the building, 64kb stream between them.) While slightly more noisy, it still works, and uses less bandwith. I know with our old Cisco VOIP at my old job, department to department calls were low bandwith, and customer calls were setup for highest bandwith. (clearest)
No, hermiston has almost no pigs, just cattle, horses, lots and lots of watermelons (the best) and this really, really freaking huge chemical weapons depot sitting about 200 yards off the interstate. This place has mounds and mounds going on for miles. Each mound is a bunker holding nasty stuff going back to world war 1. They just built an Incenerator at the depot, to try to get rid of the weapons. (there are so many it will take something like 20-30 years to burn them all up!) They also had to do a few other little things, like rebuild all the schools in the town to be pressurized, so that if there is a leak, the schools are safe.. And every house in Hermiston has a little box that sits in your house. If that box squak's you lock yourself into a windownless room, where you are supposed to have some provisions stored, and listen to the radio to find out where the "death cloud" is going. A big reason for the wireless in Hermiston was that the Fed's had to put up little towers all over town to run those emergency alarms, so they already had towers all over town, with power. (but that really wouldn't be much different than using power poles.)
Quick Correction, Portland doesn't have the smallest city partk, Salem (the capital city, about 50miles south) does.) Waldo park near the state capital includes a Tree, and a sign. Technically, not even the dirt between the two is part of the park..
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we got an email this afternoon from our provider, who let us know that cogent will be reachable by their second link, which is WilTel. However, the link is slower than the Level3 link. There will also be more traffic being routed through less points, meaning congestion. (and obvious lack of redundancy, if the WilTel connection has problems, no Level3) We have had users complaining about sites being unreachable at random times this afternoon. One of our providers very big customers is the OSU Open Source Lab, home of Drupal, mozilla download servers, master.Kernel.org servers, and many, many others. If your having problems reaching these sites, that is probably why.
This works well in the south, but not so good in the northern states. The WVO tank solidifies, so you have to run biodiesel for the first few miles, to "melt" the oil. This works well in the south. The problem, in areas with cold winters, is that biodiesel has a higher gel point than regular diesel. There are many 'anti gel' solutions that people add to their trucks in the winter with dino diesel, but they are not formulated for biodiesel. Also, adding a second tank and stuff will probably void your warranty if you buy a new car. In my town, biodiesel can be purchased for about $2.85 cents (at a pump, including all taxes). Dino diesel is about $3.05. I think the market will soon convert people.. Especially when they think about how their fuel money is going to the midwest, not the middle east..
Censorship is not over. Keep in mind that the government owns all the pipes in and out of the country, for any kind of telecommunication. Add in the increases in processing power of computers to analyze this traffic, and throw in the expertise of American corporations like CISCO who want to make a buck, and it is not hard to control the flow of ideas. Note that they don't have to silence all dissent, they just have to start cracking down on a few model people. After enough people have been imprisoned or executed, the citizens will be Afraid to step around the lines.
I work government, and while I do like my job, there is no real point in my putting in insane hours. Because in government, everyone has to be treated equally. I work about 45 hours a week, busy all day (and reading slashdot!). If we do raises, everyone gets a 2% raise, or x amount a year. Everyone. Even the people that sit around all day surfing the web. There is no reward for me implementing a system wide VOIP system in 1 month from brainstorm to going live. There is no incentive for me to put in tons of work, except for my own satisfaction, and resume building.
The really sad thing is your second two arguments are just about word for word the policy of my high school when I was a kid. Pagers were for drug dealers, Baggy pants conceal guns! Some gang members wore shirts with only the top button fastened, with a white shirt underneath.. All of these were banned, among many others, because they cannot figure out that logic is not necessarily a two way state. A->B does not mean that B->A..
As Much as I hate to admit it, Access should be on that list as well. Knowledgeable managers use Excell to connect to databases, and pull the data they want out for reports. Many, many other managers use Access, connect to the "real" backend database, and use QBE (Query By Example) to generate their reports. Also, many small businesses seem to think it is a real database.
The question is, how come you don't show traffic numbers for the sites you host? Those of us in the know use Nero's Site But it doesn't brake it down by project. You guys have an absolutely giggly amount of traffic!
Actually, i think there is a configuration to allow it to make changes to a certain folder, ie, c:\data that will not be wiped on reboot. Lots of fun for viruses too.. Had a lab machine infected with something, (never did look), rebooted the pc, and the virus went away...
Faronics sells this.
Visio actually used to have a network mapping tool that would go out and scan your network for SNMP devices. It would then draw you a pretty diagram. I think it was after visio 2000 that they pulled this feature out, and made it an additional "add on" to purchase.
Unlike Fedora Core, (Redhat Free)Redhat WS, Redhat AS server, Redhat ES Server??
and of course,
5a) Lable Shipping container as "Fragile!"
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go work for 12 more hours today, to pay for the trip to the dentist, since my current employer cut back health insurance. I had good insurance at my last company, but the company laid us off, and bought some new lear jets, gave a bonus to the CEO that only makes $25Million a year, and bumped their stock price 25 cents! LONG LIVE CAPITALISM!
Remember the good old days of building special dos boot floppies for your games to make them run better/faster? Wouldn't it be damn sweet to have a game come on a DVD with knoppix on it? Install it into windows or linux and run it, or boot from the DVD to really make it fly!?
We are a school, and pay about $17/year per machine for Corporate Edition 10. A non-profit church should be similar.
Pluses are, it now scans for malware, (thank god!), and is pretty automated.
Minuses, I spent 35 minutes on hold on their "Enterprise support line" to get a guy to give me a username/password to download the newest build, as the one we are using crashes randomly. (why on earth do they not have an automated update functionality for the program itself?) Also requires a server, and can slow down systems quite a bit.. (uses 25MB of Ram, and 27MB of swap just sitting Idle right now on my box)
Exchange is very popular with users. What are you wanting to replace it with? Postfix? Good luck. You will quickly find out that only 5% of the users use the shared calendars, and that those 5% make up 95% of the complaining when you take them away...
the key thing is that as you upgrade equipment, add neat new features and reliabilty, they will start to respect you, and feel that you understand what you are doing. I know it sounds silly, but teachers hate to have to learn outside of their area. I have never figured this out, but a teacher gets very, very stuck in their ways. They have something that "works" and will almost never, ever change. So you need to move slowly at first, and make damn sure that they have only positive experiences. Make sure to point out the benefits, and most importantly, the time savings.
Oh, and congratulations.. this is one of those jobs that takes a lot of patience, but becomes very, very rewarding after time.
The sad thing is how true this is.. My house has raised in value 40% in one year in Oregon.. (I live about 20 minutes from the California Border). This is because people are selling their $600,000 2 bed, 1 bath, no garage house in CA, and moving up to Oregon. They think our houses are a steal at their current prices.. (no, this is not flamebait, I have 3 coworkers that have sold 2-3 bedroom houses in suburbia down there, and have bought ranches here)
This isn't just in the "ring of fire" this is between Newberry Crater, and Crater lake, the 2 biggest eruptions in the last 15 thousand years. Both of these are giant volcanoes with their tops hollowed out by eruptions. If you are ever in Oregon, take a trip to Bend, OR, the center of the state. It has some phenomenal volcanic stuff. (I was there a month ago with my GF's geology class..) Newberry crater has an obsidian flow that is measured in square miles.. (thats a hell of a lot of black glass!)
Look at how many semi's are on the road. Those Diesels are incredibly more efficient than the one in your car, your car weighs a few thousand pounds. Semi's capacity is measured in tons.. Semi's Drive, all day, every day. That is what they do. That means that truckers are much, much more suseptible to gas prices than you and I. I can walk to work, my neighbor cannot deliver 60,000lbs of milk by hand. Also, how many honda's do you know of with 400,000 miles? That is commonplace for a cummins diesel.
Oracle Collaboration suite is pretty cool too, works with outlook, IM client, calendaring, document management, etc..
What ever happened to the Oregon Trail? that was the best Apple IIe game I ever played. It was a blast. I would love to get my hands on an updated version with better graphics, but same gameplay! (and of course, the good old "where in the world is carmen sandiego")
I think that the problem is not the profit motive, but when the game is utilizing the same technology as the original. Look at Madden20 05, was it $50 better than Madden 2004? Will Madden 2006 be $50 better than 2004? No, just new players added to teams. Maybe a tiny, incremental improvement. Now, take the example of GTA. First game, corny graphics, but so fun!. GTA 2, getting better.. Better graphics, better story, etc.. The key is that the sequals are better graphicaly, technically, and story wise. Tweaking a game engine to add some silly feature, and making the same game, part 2, is a stupid sequal. (now with more body parts flying!)
to reply to my post, This looks interesting NQMS
there is also the option of turning down the audio quality between buildings. (ie, 128Kb stream inside the building, 64kb stream between them.) While slightly more noisy, it still works, and uses less bandwith. I know with our old Cisco VOIP at my old job, department to department calls were low bandwith, and customer calls were setup for highest bandwith. (clearest)
No, hermiston has almost no pigs, just cattle, horses, lots and lots of watermelons (the best) and this really, really freaking huge chemical weapons depot sitting about 200 yards off the interstate. This place has mounds and mounds going on for miles. Each mound is a bunker holding nasty stuff going back to world war 1. They just built an Incenerator at the depot, to try to get rid of the weapons. (there are so many it will take something like 20-30 years to burn them all up!) They also had to do a few other little things, like rebuild all the schools in the town to be pressurized, so that if there is a leak, the schools are safe.. And every house in Hermiston has a little box that sits in your house. If that box squak's you lock yourself into a windownless room, where you are supposed to have some provisions stored, and listen to the radio to find out where the "death cloud" is going. A big reason for the wireless in Hermiston was that the Fed's had to put up little towers all over town to run those emergency alarms, so they already had towers all over town, with power. (but that really wouldn't be much different than using power poles.)
Quick Correction, Portland doesn't have the smallest city partk, Salem (the capital city, about 50miles south) does.) Waldo park near the state capital includes a Tree, and a sign. Technically, not even the dirt between the two is part of the park..