the slight black eye was because exodus should have (hopefully) at least one Cisco person on hand at any one time. seems like if you are a cisco person, you should be able to at least read the config and configure the router to provide service, even if it is not 100% correct and operating 100% fully functional. i agree that the person that setup the router probably didn't document anything, but i still find it hard to believe that SOMEONE at exodus couldn't understand it enough to even take a look at it. it's the difference between providing "average" service, and providing cisco service. just as the article said, Cisco never said "it's not a standard config, therefore we cannot help" which is common to say in the support arena. this is kind of what i got that exodus did from the article.
of course, i was not there. i can't even believe they left the problem and went to sleep. in that situation, if i was responsible for the network, i would not have been able to sleep. i'm sure most of the people that have had NOC positions have done the "all-nighter" thing.
moral of the story:
don't fire the network people, and make sure all network people are on the same page. there's no reason to even have 4 on-call people if none of them are going to be available. also, documentation, documentation, documentation!!!
they have those already, they are just technically illegal. of course, killing is illegal also, unless it's wartime and you are a soldier. i think it would be to the soldier's advantage to load themselves up with some cocaine or PCP (cocaine for the speed effect, PCP to "feel no pain").
couple that with some armour, and maybe a biological MechWarrior[TM] suit, and you'd be set.
of course, a single well placed explosive can neutralize almost any situation. why not just genetically engineer a beetle to be able to carry a small payload, and then remote explode it? that's some biological warfare.
most places do not have phone lines. try getting a lan line on top of a mountain, or on a cruise ship. you can't. the coverage of the phone system is quite small when you realize that there are people that are on boats, mountains, and other continents where power and phone lines are a luxury.
a friend of mine went mountain climbing, and he had access to a wireless solution that was $11/minute. he used it, but i bet he was sweating bullets the whole time.
at a company where i used to work we had a 486-66 with 16 megs of ram running linux 2.2.29 and qmail. it was doing multiple domain e-mail for about 80 domains. i think it had about 4000-5000 accounts on it that were used pretty heavily. it never had a hiccup, but it did have a loadaverage of about 8 all the time, with peaks up into the 50's.
i don't know what happened, but something on it broke. i think it was the scsi card. it was replaced with a pIII something-or-other with 512megs of ram, and none of the customers even noticed.
i doubt sendmail or any other mta would be that nice on resources.
as for the question at hand, i'd seriously check out qmail. it's pretty easy to get up and running, and is excellent when the mail load picks up.
man, i couldn't even read past the 2nd page. i gotta go down to the local processed food outlet and purchase some refried, homogenized, pasteurized, enriched food before i starve.
Microsoft can use any legal vices to increase their market share, upto a point. this is the american way. there will always be a microsoft. in the early 80's, before the real microsoft, EVERY personal computer was IBM. they made their money, and then started losing market share because they lost contact with the public.
the only way alternative operating systems will gain widespread acceptance is to get installed by default on pre-packaged computers that you can buy at the store. only by being easier to use can linux/bsd/BeOS begin to gain market vaule. your grandma does not want to have to recompile anything to get her scsi card to work. when dell, compaq, and other OTC (over the counter) hardware providors finally drop the extra $100 added to every PC they sell, they will realize that they can make DellOS, CompaqOS, and stuff like that made out of open source software. all they have to do is make it easy to run, foolproof, and compatable with existing software (like.doc files). this undermines the "hacker mentality" that some of us have developed (i'm cool because i run linux). this is necessary if you believe open source would be better for society than closed source software.
if you give it to them, they will take it. if they don't know what to do with it, they will give it back and buy something else that is easy.
open source benefits society overall, while closed source benefits someone that wishes to sell the binary version.
you never see someone buy a new car, and then call up the ford company asking how to drive. driving is taught through classes and you have to pass the classes to get your license. any idiot can go out and buy a computer, and not know anything about it.
my personal example:
when i worked support, we had a guy call up that had just went out and bought the newest $2000 computer from dell. i was doing support for an isp and he called up asking how to make it get on the internet. some of his buddies were talking about the internet, and i guess he felt left out. once i setup his account and walked him through setting up his computer, i instructed him how to dial into the internet. he hung up and tried it. 10 minutes later he calls up and says "well, it dialed in, now what?" he didn't even know why he went out and spent $2000 on his computer. so then it was up to me to train him how to double click, use his mail client, use his browser, and i ended up setting up his printer just for kicks.
my point is that anyone can buy a piece of technological wonder, but they need to ask themselves first, "what does this new gadget do, and do i really need it?" the marketting cronies are more interested in quantity instead of quality, so they will beat it into your head that you need the internet and the internet is the answer to all of your problems. when the "internet" doesn't deliver, the consumer ends up burned.
i think the phone companies should partner up with hotmail.com or other widely-used communications service. i know if i was walking through the city and saw a pay phone internet access station that had a screen for me to send e-mail or something, i would probably pay something like $.75/minute or something. it would be great to use to get to maps.yahoo.com, some e-mail, or other stuff like that in a pinch.
and to satisfy the topic of the original post, i would greatly increase the popularity of pay phone use.
1. 10.0.0.0 uses subnet mask of 255.0.0.0
2. deny outbound or inbound 10.x.x.x connections at your firewall machine. this will filter out inside and outside traffic and separate the 10.x.x.x addresses. consult your firewall for deny rules.
let's shield our kids from everything, and maybe they won't grow up like us. we are the ones that are playing the shoot 'em up games. why do we protect our kids from everything, and then wonder why they end up more violent.
i believe every restriction we put on ourselves, causes something else to be replaced. look at the alcohol laws in the US against the laws in france. anyone at any age can just about buy any type alcohol in france. is it a coincidence that france has much lower levels of detrimental alcoholics? in the US, we treat alcohol like a taboo, until a certain age. the US has one of the highest detrimental alcoholic levels.
the whole idea of the internet is an open forum environment. the internet should not be controlled or filtered by anyone.
the people that try to censor because they are "protecting" children should learn to teach their children morals, instead of just letting other people take the blame.
the guy who went shooting a few weeks ago in a san diego high school was said to be "depressed and angered about other peers picking on him in school". *tear* where were the parents? where did he get the gun? the parents never took responsibility for their offspring. it always has to be someone else's problem.
the biggest problem with sending anything over long distances is packet latency. you can have unlimited bandwidth, but if you have high latency, your overall service level goes down.
anything that is satellite based will add quite a bit of latency (what i've heard is about 400ms each way).
802.11 is pretty much out of the question. it's slower than microwave, and has the distance problem. large signal amplifiers could probably make it work, but i doubt it would be very robust at that distance. 802.11 also decreases in overall bandwidth the more distance between nodes.
microwave technology can go about 30 miles, and has pretty low latency. you'll need some land on the mainland (rent tower space) to put a microwave dish, and another tower on your island (or whatever it is). i've setup and used one-way microwave connections, and they're suprisingly fast (i was about 15 miles from the tower). microwave is also good for cooking passing birds, but that's a different story.
if you'd like to read a little up on this technology, www.thebeam.com sells commercial and residental microwave packages. most of them include tv also. i don't work for them, i just admire their technology.
i have a laptop that had a bad fan. it was being thrown out because it would overheat and then lock up. i knew it needed a fan so i bought one from an electronics store. it's wired up using the 5v from the ps2 plug on the laptop itself. since the old fan was broken, i took it out and made the hole a little larger. this is where the new fan blows in air from the outside. this keeps the whole laptop around 130 degrees max, whereas before it was around 175 before it would crash.
it's a good idea. most older laptops are almost not upgradable. this makes them dated to the time period in which they were manufactured. as long as they have at least one pcmcia slot, you should be fine (ip masq with aliased interfaces).
sure, the $130 router would be nice, but do you really need it. if you like using your laptop like this, more power to you. you could even take out some of the hardware like the hard drive and just run a floppy linux router distribution. this would conserve power (longer battery) while giving you a new drive to mess with (2.5 to 3.5 ide converter).
like anything, if it works, it can't be the wrong solution.
i help out with a project called merchbox.com. it allows musicians to directly sell their cd's online with all functions of the sale handled by merchbox. it is a custom online form that accepts credit card authorization. this sounds like what you need. visit www.merchbox.com for more info.
ps. i am affiliated with them so this sounds almost like a sales pitch.
that's right, every domain name that is.com,.net, or.org generates a yearly fee for usage. if you fail to pay, it gets repossessed. it's all a business. the only problem is there is no competetion. do you think ICANN cares that you can get.cx,.tv, or anything else? hell no. they only care that someone with lots of money (verisign) gets all the domains they want. since they have bought networksolutions, this puts them in a monopoly-type situation.
who here would rather pay $70 for a forced 2 year domain rental (networksolutions.com), instead of a $24 (joker.com) 2 year rental? the same service is being provided, however, joker.com is 1/3rd the price. back in the olden days, there was only networksolutions. if something like this goes through, it will take either a class action lawsuit, or a government intervention to correct.
the only loser out of all of this is the average John Q. Public.
side note: any word on networksolutions and expired domains? there was an artice a few months ago about it. i have been waiting for a particular domain since the middle of november. it's been expired since then, but just not available.
if C02 is removed from the atmosphere, an abundance of 02 will remain. this will kill the plants. but we won't care, because 02 gets you high. so we'll all be happy as can be until someone sparks up a cigarette and catches the atmosphere on fire.
if i were looking to buy a managed firewall that was administrated by someone else, here is what i would do:
1. check out their demo products.
2. have them set up an exact demo of what you are looking for
3. nmap the whole range of ip addresses they use for your demo
4. if you get back ANY responses, they probably didn't do too good of a job.
5. last and not least, get some kind of service level agreement that includes something like a 6 month or a year guarantee against the firewall being penetrated and a recoup (even partial) of costs if they fail.
i wouldn't buy from anyone that was trying to implement a PC based solution. if they don't have professional hardware, they aren't professional. look for something that can do multiple things (firewall, dhcp, natting, vpn).
i would also check their response time in the event of a failure. each minute you're down, is a minute worth of lost sales.
i'm probably not the only one that'll say this, but you know, you can do a:
grep "stuff here" *
and search through all the files in the directory.
i personally think it's a better idea to put new, and old mail in different places. maildir does this, but mbox does not. mbox also suffers when the filesize gets real large. the whole file has to be read in. with maildir, only small files need to be read. this cuts down on disk i/o. on large capacity mail servers, this is a pretty large bonus.
maildir also makes it easier to delete a specific message. since everything is just a file, just delete the file, and the message is gone. no more searching through a 15 meg mbox file looking for a specific e-mail.
this article says it's server issues. i was trying last night to download some random files off of their download site and was getting the "This server was unable to complete your request." then something about hitting too many web threads or something. that would be a DOS attack. i think they took down the dns to isolate the problem, repair it, and then get on with life.
1. when i meant turn off the domain, i mean disable it in our dns and not allow them to do a registrar isp change. if spamming is illegal, all of that will be evidence. i think if every dns administrator was that BOFH-ish, i probably wouldn't have 300 spam's a day in my inbox.
2. i currently run a name server that does dns for about 650 domains. we do dnsing for free if we host your web site. more often than you would expect, people try to abuse this and send in a request to stop web hosting, and then a dns change. this equates to free dns hosting. any profitable company is not into giving away services for free with zero return.
3. if the customer does not pay their bill, they can just switch to a different providor. this does not mean you will ever see your money. they are more inclined to pay if you hold the domain hostage while they figure out that your company has been slighted.
that would be a great lawsuit. if you take your car in to get it fixed, and you don't pay the repair people, what happens? they keep your car until you pay. you cannot expect to just walk up there and take it from them. it becomes collateral at that point.
dns/web/mail hosting is a big business. there is almost no recourse for the people that abuse it. what good is a court if you are slighted a mere $50? of course, if 100 people slight you, that's $5k you didn't make that year because of your own policies. what a waste.
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HAHAH.
i read your post, and then i read this
seems that BankOne, the owner of wingspanbank.com, decided to close it because it wasn't making enough money.
maybe you should change banks again.
the slight black eye was because exodus should have (hopefully) at least one Cisco person on hand at any one time. seems like if you are a cisco person, you should be able to at least read the config and configure the router to provide service, even if it is not 100% correct and operating 100% fully functional. i agree that the person that setup the router probably didn't document anything, but i still find it hard to believe that SOMEONE at exodus couldn't understand it enough to even take a look at it. it's the difference between providing "average" service, and providing cisco service. just as the article said, Cisco never said "it's not a standard config, therefore we cannot help" which is common to say in the support arena. this is kind of what i got that exodus did from the article.
of course, i was not there. i can't even believe they left the problem and went to sleep. in that situation, if i was responsible for the network, i would not have been able to sleep. i'm sure most of the people that have had NOC positions have done the "all-nighter" thing.
i've always gotten nothing but 100% help from the cisco tech line. i guess there IS a reason for paying $20k for a router.
i can't believe exodus doesn't have a cisco person that could fix that problem.
cisco - kudos
exodus - slight black eye
OSDN sites - inevitable downtime
moral of the story:
don't fire the network people, and make sure all network people are on the same page. there's no reason to even have 4 on-call people if none of them are going to be available. also, documentation, documentation, documentation!!!
that's funny, because microsoft owns a large portion of radio shack.
link
microsoft already has your info
they have those already, they are just technically illegal. of course, killing is illegal also, unless it's wartime and you are a soldier. i think it would be to the soldier's advantage to load themselves up with some cocaine or PCP (cocaine for the speed effect, PCP to "feel no pain").
couple that with some armour, and maybe a biological MechWarrior[TM] suit, and you'd be set.
of course, a single well placed explosive can neutralize almost any situation. why not just genetically engineer a beetle to be able to carry a small payload, and then remote explode it? that's some biological warfare.
i think it was a joke
/dev/brain
chillpill="coolness"
while ( reading slashdot );
do
echo $chillpill >>
done
most places do not have phone lines. try getting a lan line on top of a mountain, or on a cruise ship. you can't. the coverage of the phone system is quite small when you realize that there are people that are on boats, mountains, and other continents where power and phone lines are a luxury.
a friend of mine went mountain climbing, and he had access to a wireless solution that was $11/minute. he used it, but i bet he was sweating bullets the whole time.
at a company where i used to work we had a 486-66 with 16 megs of ram running linux 2.2.29 and qmail. it was doing multiple domain e-mail for about 80 domains. i think it had about 4000-5000 accounts on it that were used pretty heavily. it never had a hiccup, but it did have a loadaverage of about 8 all the time, with peaks up into the 50's.
i don't know what happened, but something on it broke. i think it was the scsi card. it was replaced with a pIII something-or-other with 512megs of ram, and none of the customers even noticed.
i doubt sendmail or any other mta would be that nice on resources.
as for the question at hand, i'd seriously check out qmail. it's pretty easy to get up and running, and is excellent when the mail load picks up.
man, i couldn't even read past the 2nd page. i gotta go down to the local processed food outlet and purchase some refried, homogenized, pasteurized, enriched food before i starve.
Microsoft can use any legal vices to increase their market share, upto a point. this is the american way. there will always be a microsoft. in the early 80's, before the real microsoft, EVERY personal computer was IBM. they made their money, and then started losing market share because they lost contact with the public.
.doc files). this undermines the "hacker mentality" that some of us have developed (i'm cool because i run linux). this is necessary if you believe open source would be better for society than closed source software.
the only way alternative operating systems will gain widespread acceptance is to get installed by default on pre-packaged computers that you can buy at the store. only by being easier to use can linux/bsd/BeOS begin to gain market vaule. your grandma does not want to have to recompile anything to get her scsi card to work. when dell, compaq, and other OTC (over the counter) hardware providors finally drop the extra $100 added to every PC they sell, they will realize that they can make DellOS, CompaqOS, and stuff like that made out of open source software. all they have to do is make it easy to run, foolproof, and compatable with existing software (like
if you give it to them, they will take it. if they don't know what to do with it, they will give it back and buy something else that is easy.
open source benefits society overall, while closed source benefits someone that wishes to sell the binary version.
you never see someone buy a new car, and then call up the ford company asking how to drive. driving is taught through classes and you have to pass the classes to get your license. any idiot can go out and buy a computer, and not know anything about it.
my personal example:
when i worked support, we had a guy call up that had just went out and bought the newest $2000 computer from dell. i was doing support for an isp and he called up asking how to make it get on the internet. some of his buddies were talking about the internet, and i guess he felt left out. once i setup his account and walked him through setting up his computer, i instructed him how to dial into the internet. he hung up and tried it. 10 minutes later he calls up and says "well, it dialed in, now what?" he didn't even know why he went out and spent $2000 on his computer. so then it was up to me to train him how to double click, use his mail client, use his browser, and i ended up setting up his printer just for kicks.
my point is that anyone can buy a piece of technological wonder, but they need to ask themselves first, "what does this new gadget do, and do i really need it?" the marketting cronies are more interested in quantity instead of quality, so they will beat it into your head that you need the internet and the internet is the answer to all of your problems. when the "internet" doesn't deliver, the consumer ends up burned.
i think the phone companies should partner up with hotmail.com or other widely-used communications service. i know if i was walking through the city and saw a pay phone internet access station that had a screen for me to send e-mail or something, i would probably pay something like $.75/minute or something. it would be great to use to get to maps.yahoo.com, some e-mail, or other stuff like that in a pinch.
and to satisfy the topic of the original post, i would greatly increase the popularity of pay phone use.
1. 10.0.0.0 uses subnet mask of 255.0.0.0
2. deny outbound or inbound 10.x.x.x connections at your firewall machine. this will filter out inside and outside traffic and separate the 10.x.x.x addresses. consult your firewall for deny rules.
let's shield our kids from everything, and maybe they won't grow up like us. we are the ones that are playing the shoot 'em up games. why do we protect our kids from everything, and then wonder why they end up more violent.
i believe every restriction we put on ourselves, causes something else to be replaced. look at the alcohol laws in the US against the laws in france. anyone at any age can just about buy any type alcohol in france. is it a coincidence that france has much lower levels of detrimental alcoholics? in the US, we treat alcohol like a taboo, until a certain age. the US has one of the highest detrimental alcoholic levels.
the whole idea of the internet is an open forum environment. the internet should not be controlled or filtered by anyone.
the people that try to censor because they are "protecting" children should learn to teach their children morals, instead of just letting other people take the blame.
the guy who went shooting a few weeks ago in a san diego high school was said to be "depressed and angered about other peers picking on him in school". *tear* where were the parents? where did he get the gun? the parents never took responsibility for their offspring. it always has to be someone else's problem.
the biggest problem with sending anything over long distances is packet latency. you can have unlimited bandwidth, but if you have high latency, your overall service level goes down.
anything that is satellite based will add quite a bit of latency (what i've heard is about 400ms each way).
802.11 is pretty much out of the question. it's slower than microwave, and has the distance problem. large signal amplifiers could probably make it work, but i doubt it would be very robust at that distance. 802.11 also decreases in overall bandwidth the more distance between nodes.
microwave technology can go about 30 miles, and has pretty low latency. you'll need some land on the mainland (rent tower space) to put a microwave dish, and another tower on your island (or whatever it is). i've setup and used one-way microwave connections, and they're suprisingly fast (i was about 15 miles from the tower). microwave is also good for cooking passing birds, but that's a different story.
if you'd like to read a little up on this technology, www.thebeam.com sells commercial and residental microwave packages. most of them include tv also. i don't work for them, i just admire their technology.
i have a laptop that had a bad fan. it was being thrown out because it would overheat and then lock up. i knew it needed a fan so i bought one from an electronics store. it's wired up using the 5v from the ps2 plug on the laptop itself. since the old fan was broken, i took it out and made the hole a little larger. this is where the new fan blows in air from the outside. this keeps the whole laptop around 130 degrees max, whereas before it was around 175 before it would crash.
it's a good idea. most older laptops are almost not upgradable. this makes them dated to the time period in which they were manufactured. as long as they have at least one pcmcia slot, you should be fine (ip masq with aliased interfaces).
sure, the $130 router would be nice, but do you really need it. if you like using your laptop like this, more power to you. you could even take out some of the hardware like the hard drive and just run a floppy linux router distribution. this would conserve power (longer battery) while giving you a new drive to mess with (2.5 to 3.5 ide converter).
like anything, if it works, it can't be the wrong solution.
i help out with a project called merchbox.com. it allows musicians to directly sell their cd's online with all functions of the sale handled by merchbox. it is a custom online form that accepts credit card authorization. this sounds like what you need. visit www.merchbox.com for more info.
ps. i am affiliated with them so this sounds almost like a sales pitch.
all domain names are RENTED!!!..
.com, .net, or .org generates a yearly fee for usage. if you fail to pay, it gets repossessed. it's all a business. the only problem is there is no competetion. do you think ICANN cares that you can get .cx, .tv, or anything else? hell no. they only care that someone with lots of money (verisign) gets all the domains they want. since they have bought networksolutions, this puts them in a monopoly-type situation.
that's right, every domain name that is
who here would rather pay $70 for a forced 2 year domain rental (networksolutions.com), instead of a $24 (joker.com) 2 year rental? the same service is being provided, however, joker.com is 1/3rd the price. back in the olden days, there was only networksolutions. if something like this goes through, it will take either a class action lawsuit, or a government intervention to correct.
the only loser out of all of this is the average John Q. Public.
side note: any word on networksolutions and expired domains? there was an artice a few months ago about it. i have been waiting for a particular domain since the middle of november. it's been expired since then, but just not available.
if C02 is removed from the atmosphere, an abundance of 02 will remain. this will kill the plants. but we won't care, because 02 gets you high. so we'll all be happy as can be until someone sparks up a cigarette and catches the atmosphere on fire.
ok ok ok, never mind
if i were looking to buy a managed firewall that was administrated by someone else, here is what i would do:
1. check out their demo products.
2. have them set up an exact demo of what you are looking for
3. nmap the whole range of ip addresses they use for your demo
4. if you get back ANY responses, they probably didn't do too good of a job.
5. last and not least, get some kind of service level agreement that includes something like a 6 month or a year guarantee against the firewall being penetrated and a recoup (even partial) of costs if they fail.
i wouldn't buy from anyone that was trying to implement a PC based solution. if they don't have professional hardware, they aren't professional. look for something that can do multiple things (firewall, dhcp, natting, vpn).
i would also check their response time in the event of a failure. each minute you're down, is a minute worth of lost sales.
i'm probably not the only one that'll say this, but you know, you can do a:
grep "stuff here" *
and search through all the files in the directory.
i personally think it's a better idea to put new, and old mail in different places. maildir does this, but mbox does not. mbox also suffers when the filesize gets real large. the whole file has to be read in. with maildir, only small files need to be read. this cuts down on disk i/o. on large capacity mail servers, this is a pretty large bonus.
maildir also makes it easier to delete a specific message. since everything is just a file, just delete the file, and the message is gone. no more searching through a 15 meg mbox file looking for a specific e-mail.
oh well..
this article says it's server issues. i was trying last night to download some random files off of their download site and was getting the "This server was unable to complete your request." then something about hitting too many web threads or something. that would be a DOS attack. i think they took down the dns to isolate the problem, repair it, and then get on with life.
i could be wrong. *shrug*
1. when i meant turn off the domain, i mean disable it in our dns and not allow them to do a registrar isp change. if spamming is illegal, all of that will be evidence. i think if every dns administrator was that BOFH-ish, i probably wouldn't have 300 spam's a day in my inbox.
2. i currently run a name server that does dns for about 650 domains. we do dnsing for free if we host your web site. more often than you would expect, people try to abuse this and send in a request to stop web hosting, and then a dns change. this equates to free dns hosting. any profitable company is not into giving away services for free with zero return.
3. if the customer does not pay their bill, they can just switch to a different providor. this does not mean you will ever see your money. they are more inclined to pay if you hold the domain hostage while they figure out that your company has been slighted.
that would be a great lawsuit. if you take your car in to get it fixed, and you don't pay the repair people, what happens? they keep your car until you pay. you cannot expect to just walk up there and take it from them. it becomes collateral at that point.
dns/web/mail hosting is a big business. there is almost no recourse for the people that abuse it. what good is a court if you are slighted a mere $50? of course, if 100 people slight you, that's $5k you didn't make that year because of your own policies. what a waste.
or you can:
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all
echo 1 >
and i'll do the same, 'cept no recompiling, and no rebooting.