Store the private keys on a CD, make multiple copies put one in a safety deposit box. Write a PHP/TK or Perl/TK or Python/TK script that can run on a windows machine. Make the web based billing interface download the script which IE on the desktop will run using the local perl/php/python interpreter. That app can access the database and the CD for the keys. Remove the CD when not performing billing.
Aaah, but this is where you are wrong. It MAY be illegal to use Blizzard products with bnetd but it IS NOT illegel to write/maintain/deliver bnetd. The bnetd people may have broken the contract by using a Blizzard product in order to snoop the packets used to reverse engineer but the bnetd program itself isn't illegal
Yeah bandwidth at an ISP is fixed but it is fixed to the usage of what can provide good service. Sure we can run 1000 DSL customers through a T1 technically and make a killing, will the DSL customers stay happy? NO. broadband customer expect to be able to DL at the advertised rate so the ISP needs to buy BIG pipes, but when 60 DSL customers can eat up a T3 you have to charge more for the people that abuse the system.
Lets do the math, a 45mbps DS-3 for $20,000 delivered (which is a good price) can support 58 768k customers at full speed, so that means each power user can cost up to $380 in bandwidth per month and that doesn't include all the other expenses like power,support,billing and the DSL network. If the provider does 100:1 overcommitment the cost per user is $3.80 but you run the risk of 58 of your 5800 customers wiping out your network at will. The ISP is better off either stopping service to the 58 power users and collecting a fair price from the 4742 remaining user, or charging the 58 power users more money.
Cable and DSL is VERY in-expensive, even at $200/month a 768k line would be a great deal.
UUNET Pricing for DS-3 (fixed) is about $500 per megabit ($22,000/month) and that is only the port charge you still have to get it delivered. A Verizon DS-3 local loop can range from $3000-9000 depending on mileage. I consider UUNET/Worldcomm GOOD bandwidth. You can shop around and get a DS-3 for $100 per megabut but then you are buying from someone who is sharing the bandwidth and hoping you dont actually need the full pipe all the time.
Bandwidth costs are based on volume, the more you commit to the cheaper each bit is. We buy bandwidth in T3 chunks (45Mbps) and pay anywhere from $300-$1000 per megabit so that means a 768k DSL line can cost from $230-$768/month. We rely on the fact that customers won't be using the bandwidth all the time. If they do we need to charge them much more. Bandwidth pricing is subjective, I could have bought for $100 Mbps from Vitts just before they vaporized, you get what you pay for
They don't have to explore your network or firewall they just need to match up the MAC address you are using for DHCP with the list of vendors who make NAT devices, If you have a LinkSys MAC address I'm sure you'll be on top of the list. Time to go into the software and change the MAC address to your real NIC card.
I ordered up a Cisco 7010 (back in the day when it was nice and shiny). It was delivered via UPS groupd (too heavy to air ship) and was dropped off at our office dripping wet. The bottom 4 inches of the box were soaked, the delivery man with a straight face said 'Sign here please'. Cisco must have studied the wicking capabilities of the cardboard box. They uses 5 inches of packing material and luckily everything was ok. When I opened up the box water poured out. Didn't even phase the UPS guy
There is a company that does per-click billing. It can be either per page or per article. They have been refining the technology for several years. It works, is anonymous, you give them your credit card and the content provider bills through them. You don't need to give the content provider any credit information. In fact you don't need to give them any personal information just your clickshare ID.
Jet-A doesn't burn all that well in liquid form, it is kinda hard to get started. It is kerosine after all. Once you do get it started it burns nice and hot with lots of black smoke, it won't explode unless you atomize it. Gasoline is much more explosive than Jet Fuel in liquid form.
It means it cost a lot of money to build the BIG ATM backbone to carry all the DSL traffic from the DLSAMs to the POP.
Most DSL providers have one POP in a region and the backhaul all the DSL traffic from the DSLAMS colo'ed in the telco central office to that POP over the telco's ATM network. The Telco loves to build SONET rings over already existing fiber because it doesn't cost them anything 'cept the cards in the OC-192 mux.
Most DSL providers start with DS-3 (45mbps) ATM SONET rings in a LATA. You need a lot of DSL subscribers to pay for that ring every month and only a 1/10th of that to fill it. Moving up in speed to OC-3,OC-12,OC-48,OC-192 gets very expensive.
You can already download all the stuff you need to make a CD tower/cache/jukebox thing. So what if you don't have the flash filesystem. If you're going to build it yourself you could just boot of the harddrive that is storing the CD cache.
If it is only a couple hundred dollars I would buy it to save the trouble of building a machine and installing the software. Time == $$ and if you can save a person time you have a product to sell.
We offer DSL in western MA and don't filter port 80 access, we do filter port 25 but our mail server will allow you to send mail from your domains at no charge. All this for the same price as what Verizon charges for their residential DSL.
Typically with the older fiber installations the phone company would run fiber to a mux closer to the customer. The mux would convert optical to electrical and deliver the dialtone. Here in the old Nynex lands we use Litespans to term the fiber. You are facing two problems.
1) The fiber is configured for OC-x services as TDM (Time Division Multiplexing) which basically means each copper phone circuits (DS-0) has a specific timeslot in the muxed OC-x circuit back to the phone switch. This works fine for alarm circuits, T1, phone lines, ISDN... Anything that fits into the DS-0 building block of the phone company. The Internet is packet based and typically ATM (cell switched) is used for feeding information to DSLAMs (DSL Access Multiplexors). The fiber feeding your circuit would have to be reconfigured to handle the packetized data.
2). The copper from your home is terminated on the litespan. The DSL needs to originate from the litespan. The maker of the litespan (Alcatel, Inc.) needs to make a linecard which supports DSL.
I think all this technology exists, or is in late stages of development. I have been told by my Verizon reps (I resell Verizon DSL) that they are looking to support DSL over fiber sometime later this year. They will start with IDSL which is 128k/128k and fits nicely in the DS-0/OC-3 TDM network that is already in place.
Basically, it is coming, you'll just have to wait. Right now Verizon can't keep up with orders on areas they can easily serve (high density copper served locations direct from CO). Once that market saturates, They will be looking at the fiber fed markets.
"Now, I hope and pray that I will, but, today I am still just a bill"
The problem with this thinking is the noobs. If they see a nice shrink wrapped product at their local computer store they will buy it.
Drop-In security, all I need to protect my computer from the evils on the Internet....
They 'set it and forget it (tm)', don't upgrade the server, don't pay attention to security because it is already done. The machine gets 0wn3d by h8x07z with the next security hole.
"Now, I hope and pray that I will, but, today I am still just a bill"
If I understand the division of integrity on the system. All processes that handle remote connectivity are in the low integrity group. If that is true, you won't be able to ssh into your box and 'su' to root to change config files in/etc. Or even restarting apache,bind,qmail...
With a machine in the next room that isn't soo bad. When the machine is 20 minutes away it can be a pain.
"Now, I hope and pray that I will, but, today I am still just a bill"
In Jan. & Feb. of this year Covad closed down 200+ CO's and laid of 900+ employees trying to stop the bleeding.
I don't know if it worked or not.
Covad & Rythms have been on the top of *many* burn-lists with burn-out scheduled for later this year.
"Now, I hope and pray that I will, but, today I am still just a bill"
I dunno, Hearing a million+ owl chirps and a couple hundred thousand birds each day would get pretty annoying. I would like to replace this with lights in the NOC. Green light for mail, Blue for web, Red for port scan.
"Now, I hope and pray that I will, but, today I am still just a bill"
The standard rule of thumb for freefall is 7 seconds/1k feet. It takes 10 seconds to reach terminal (120mph when flying belly down). 7 seconds for each additional thousand feet.
Head down is much faster. My normal belly down (Relative work) speed is around 112 MPH (I have a protrack which records my speed). My head down speed is 168MPH so far, I'm still working on head down stability.
A belly down jump from 13.5k feet, dumping at 3k is a little over a minute of free fall.
At the super high altitude with less air resistance you fall MUCH faster and the speed of sound is slower. She will probably fall with a drogue chute attached to slow her down a bit. Getting a pre-mature deployment at higher than normal speeds will kill her.
Yes, I am a licensed skydiver (USPA #153704, A-34316). I have 100 jumps, working on my C license now:)
-Shishak
"Now, I hope and pray that I will, but, today I am still just a bill"
100 MBps unshared to what? to their router which is connect via 155Mb to the backbone? What about the servers on the other end giving you the data. No matter how you slice it, Internet access is EXPENSIVE. The cheapest I have seen GOOD Internet backbone bandwidth is $300/mb. So, assuming a really nasty over commit ratio (somthing like telco DSL 200:1), That would drop it down to $1.50/mb which is profitable. But then it isn't unshared is it?
The normal ratio of commerical over commit is 10:1 not 200:1
"Now, I hope and pray that I will, but, today I am still just a bill"
I run the network for a small/medium ISP and we have ACL on all external interfaces which filter out our traffic inbound and non-local traffic outbound. We have 18 Network blocks, really pretty simple. I think it should be mandatory for ISP's to build access lists when they are invited to join the party.
"Now, I hope and pray that I will, but, today I am still just a bill"
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Store the private keys on a CD, make multiple copies put one in a safety deposit box. Write a PHP/TK or Perl/TK or Python/TK script that can run on a windows machine. Make the web based billing interface download the script which IE on the desktop will run using the local perl/php/python interpreter. That app can access the database and the CD for the keys. Remove the CD when not performing billing.
Aaah, but this is where you are wrong. It MAY be illegal to use Blizzard products with bnetd but it IS NOT illegel to write/maintain/deliver bnetd. The bnetd people may have broken the contract by using a Blizzard product in order to snoop the packets used to reverse engineer but the bnetd program itself isn't illegal
Yeah bandwidth at an ISP is fixed but it is fixed to the usage of what can provide good service. Sure we can run 1000 DSL customers through a T1 technically and make a killing, will the DSL customers stay happy? NO. broadband customer expect to be able to DL at the advertised rate so the ISP needs to buy BIG pipes, but when 60 DSL customers can eat up a T3 you have to charge more for the people that abuse the system.
Lets do the math, a 45mbps DS-3 for $20,000 delivered (which is a good price) can support 58 768k customers at full speed, so that means each power user can cost up to $380 in bandwidth per month and that doesn't include all the other expenses like power,support,billing and the DSL network. If the provider does 100:1 overcommitment the cost per user is $3.80 but you run the risk of 58 of your 5800 customers wiping out your network at will. The ISP is better off either stopping service to the 58 power users and collecting a fair price from the 4742 remaining user, or charging the 58 power users more money.
Cable and DSL is VERY in-expensive, even at $200/month a 768k line would be a great deal.
This is a reality check here.
UUNET Pricing for DS-3 (fixed) is about $500 per megabit ($22,000/month) and that is only the port charge you still have to get it delivered. A Verizon DS-3 local loop can range from $3000-9000 depending on mileage. I consider UUNET/Worldcomm GOOD bandwidth. You can shop around and get a DS-3 for $100 per megabut but then you are buying from someone who is sharing the bandwidth and hoping you dont actually need the full pipe all the time.
Bandwidth costs are based on volume, the more you commit to the cheaper each bit is. We buy bandwidth in T3 chunks (45Mbps) and pay anywhere from $300-$1000 per megabit so that means a 768k DSL line can cost from $230-$768/month. We rely on the fact that customers won't be using the bandwidth all the time. If they do we need to charge them much more. Bandwidth pricing is subjective, I could have bought for $100 Mbps from Vitts just before they vaporized, you get what you pay for
They don't have to explore your network or firewall they just need to match up the MAC address you are using for DHCP with the list of vendors who make NAT devices, If you have a LinkSys MAC address I'm sure you'll be on top of the list. Time to go into the software and change the MAC address to your real NIC card.
I ordered up a Cisco 7010 (back in the day when it was nice and shiny). It was delivered via UPS groupd (too heavy to air ship) and was dropped off at our office dripping wet. The bottom 4 inches of the box were soaked, the delivery man with a straight face said 'Sign here please'. Cisco must have studied the wicking capabilities of the cardboard box. They uses 5 inches of packing material and luckily everything was ok. When I opened up the box water poured out. Didn't even phase the UPS guy
There is a company that does per-click billing. It can be either per page or per article. They have been refining the technology for several years. It works, is anonymous, you give them your credit card and the content provider bills through them. You don't need to give the content provider any credit information. In fact you don't need to give them any personal information just your clickshare ID.
Check it out www.clickshare.com
Use water and throw some lithium in there then ignite the hydrogen, You'll have plenty of it to go 20 meters on 2 liters.
Jet-A doesn't burn all that well in liquid form, it is kinda hard to get started. It is kerosine after all. Once you do get it started it burns nice and hot with lots of black smoke, it won't explode unless you atomize it. Gasoline is much more explosive than Jet Fuel in liquid form.
It means it cost a lot of money to build the BIG ATM backbone to carry all the DSL traffic from the DLSAMs to the POP.
Most DSL providers have one POP in a region and the backhaul all the DSL traffic from the DSLAMS colo'ed in the telco central office to that POP over the telco's ATM network. The Telco loves to build SONET rings over already existing fiber because it doesn't cost them anything 'cept the cards in the OC-192 mux.
Most DSL providers start with DS-3 (45mbps) ATM SONET rings in a LATA. You need a lot of DSL subscribers to pay for that ring every month and only a 1/10th of that to fill it. Moving up in speed to OC-3,OC-12,OC-48,OC-192 gets very expensive.
You can already download all the stuff you need to make a CD tower/cache/jukebox thing. So what if you don't have the flash filesystem. If you're going to build it yourself you could just boot of the harddrive that is storing the CD cache.
If it is only a couple hundred dollars I would buy it to save the trouble of building a machine and installing the software. Time == $$ and if you can save a person time you have a product to sell.
We offer DSL in western MA and don't filter port 80 access, we do filter port 25 but our mail server will allow you to send mail from your domains at no charge. All this for the same price as what Verizon charges for their residential DSL.
1) The fiber is configured for OC-x services as TDM (Time Division Multiplexing) which basically means each copper phone circuits (DS-0) has a specific timeslot in the muxed OC-x circuit back to the phone switch. This works fine for alarm circuits, T1, phone lines, ISDN ... Anything that fits into the DS-0 building block of the phone company. The Internet is packet based and typically ATM (cell switched) is used for feeding information to DSLAMs (DSL Access Multiplexors). The fiber feeding your circuit would have to be reconfigured to handle the packetized data.
2). The copper from your home is terminated on the litespan. The DSL needs to originate from the litespan. The maker of the litespan (Alcatel, Inc.) needs to make a linecard which supports DSL.
I think all this technology exists, or is in late stages of development. I have been told by my Verizon reps (I resell Verizon DSL) that they are looking to support DSL over fiber sometime later this year. They will start with IDSL which is 128k/128k and fits nicely in the DS-0/OC-3 TDM network that is already in place.
Basically, it is coming, you'll just have to wait. Right now Verizon can't keep up with orders on areas they can easily serve (high density copper served locations direct from CO). Once that market saturates, They will be looking at the fiber fed markets.
"Now, I hope and pray that I will, but, today I am still just a bill"
Drop-In security, all I need to protect my computer from the evils on the Internet....
They 'set it and forget it (tm)', don't upgrade the server, don't pay attention to security because it is already done. The machine gets 0wn3d by h8x07z with the next security hole.
"Now, I hope and pray that I will, but, today I am still just a bill"
With a machine in the next room that isn't soo bad. When the machine is 20 minutes away it can be a pain.
"Now, I hope and pray that I will, but, today I am still just a bill"
I could use my normal rig at that height. Hell, I've hopped off planes lower than that.
"Now, I hope and pray that I will, but, today I am still just a bill"
I don't know if it worked or not.
Covad & Rythms have been on the top of *many* burn-lists with burn-out scheduled for later this year.
"Now, I hope and pray that I will, but, today I am still just a bill"
The *ONLY* correct answer to this question is
"No, honey, not as fat as you looked yesterday"
"Now, I hope and pray that I will, but, today I am still just a bill"
Redhat 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, 6.0,6.1,6.2
SuSe 7.0, 7.1
Borland Kylix 1.0
Oracle Enterprise 8.0, 8i
InterBase (before it was free)
ODBCBridge
CodeWarrior
[...]
Linux users DO pay for software, including the OS itself
"Now, I hope and pray that I will, but, today I am still just a bill"
"Now, I hope and pray that I will, but, today I am still just a bill"
Head down is much faster. My normal belly down (Relative work) speed is around 112 MPH (I have a protrack which records my speed). My head down speed is 168MPH so far, I'm still working on head down stability.
A belly down jump from 13.5k feet, dumping at 3k is a little over a minute of free fall.
At the super high altitude with less air resistance you fall MUCH faster and the speed of sound is slower. She will probably fall with a drogue chute attached to slow her down a bit. Getting a pre-mature deployment at higher than normal speeds will kill her.
Yes, I am a licensed skydiver (USPA #153704, A-34316). I have 100 jumps, working on my C license now :)
-Shishak
"Now, I hope and pray that I will, but, today I am still just a bill"
"Now, I hope and pray that I will, but, today I am still just a bill"
The normal ratio of commerical over commit is 10:1 not 200:1
"Now, I hope and pray that I will, but, today I am still just a bill"
"Now, I hope and pray that I will, but, today I am still just a bill"