From these previous articles, the way that major broadband providers down under managing - Telstra,
Optus,
General
are capping Internet usage to 3GB per month! This equates roughly to six ISOs. This means that you could max out your traffic allowance in say 6 x 13s = 78 seconds!!!
You could kiss broadband content eg. Streaming webcasts-music, demos, Telecommuting (ie Voip-video) goodbye!
Shogi is a very odd game if you're used to chess. Most of the pieces have biases toward forward motion, and when you capture an enemy piece, you can bring it back into play for your side.
Chess equivalent Strategy:
When your opponent is distracted and not focusing on the chess board, one must use a 'quick arm flick to the side area, move your captured pieces and put back them back into play'. Alternate strategy, but as effective, is to remove opponent pieces "out" of play.
Subtlety is the key to success. Important reminder: during gameplay, you are 'physically' at all times one arms length away from opponent's fist.
improvement in per-pound launch costs (from $10,000 per pound to $1,000) and massive improvements in crew survivability."
Given the current time and effort put into safety aspects of today's space shuttle programs, the plan of "massively" improving this demonstrates NASA's "it can always be improved" attitude and forward thinking ability.
The choices: (I've seen it happen...recently) Plan A: The company wishes to survive: 1. (in Asia) Take a 20% paycut OR retain pay and work 1/2 or full Saturday. (Where as before the company's IT employees normally work Mon to Fri).
2. Head count cut (aka. 'culling').
3. Head count freeze (When more work comes and overloads, you work your butt off but as managment calmly puts it: "You don't necessary have to work hard...just smarter."
4. Not related to HR, but less spending, ie perks No more free coke machine/massage/daily fruit baskets/company paid lunches/restrict car and travel allowance expendure. Management thinking: "Instead of going onsite...can it be done remotely?"
5. Your company - the Little / vunerable fish gets eaten up by bigger fish after management sees steps 1-4 are complete.
Plan B: The company closes. 1. Get your termination letter and hope the company has enough cash (or whatever's left after liquidation) to pay your entitlements.
2. Get another job at (subjective remark: lower)market rate, but hey you might get lucky and catch yourself a nice fish.
3. Gather your work team mates, go to the company's firesale auction, buy up old hardware-software etc start up a similar new company.
If the code is in native binary form and not bytecode, I guess it would make it harder to reverse engineer. I don't have to run those obfuscation-wares everytime I build. Saves time (both in building and running)
In the article they said they can make a program shorter by certain frames...on the other hand, I remember in the good old days where advertising would be done by inserting single frames on periodic occassions throughout the screening of the program. Check this link.
Speaking of China:
There's Redflag linux. (English version of the site).
Check out this story. It even states:
There is additional support in that Jiang Mianheng, the son of Chinese president Jiang Zemin, plays a prominent role in the management of Red Flag.
The story was written a while ago, but the point is that China did support the concept of "open source" a while back (However I do not know about "officially support"). If you think about it make sense:
The source is available (in China, this is the most important aspect - they [government] likes to know whats going on...)
Getting the source is relatively inexpensive
In RedFlag Linux case it has much going for it:
-Developed by China (China Academy of Science), -Managed by China (Shanghai NewMargin Venture Capital)
-To be used by China....
U.S. Patent No. 5,790,790 for the "Electronic Document Delivery System in which Notification of Said Electronic Document is Sent to a Recipient Thereof."
If you have a look at the this link:
Bluemountain.com already had this in place back 12/1998! How did they ever get the patient application approved?
Well I've had to work over the holidays before. Cause it is Christmas public holidays and people take anually leave during these periods, support staff tends to get a bit low...I'm a developer and sometimes I am asked fill the gap. Reason why? You get payed extra $$$. This helps with the morgage and the credit card used to purchase Christmas presents.
Good thing is the company I work at knows its staff and we get company paid lunches. Nothing is usually open during Christmas and Boxing Day, so they make special arrangments with caterers.
I usually take my holidays afterwards (during February - Australia season), no traffic jams up the coast, if I get caught speeding (not that I do speed:P) it's only the standard lost of demerit points off your license - not double during the holiday season, the weather is nice and warm (actually it's hot) and a good excuse to "quick" trip to an uncrowded beach.
It's worth it if you don't have any family or other strict commitments.
SiMac,
Okay, I'll give you the facts:
yes we can download ISO's (redhat mandrake game files etc etc) with out charge IF we go to Wireplay to get the files. I think that helps...BUT
What's the deal? The deal is that sometimes it's very hard to get on when there's 128/128 slots being used. (Due to new demo's or ISO it uses)...hey but it helps!
Wireplay also hosts popular game services like CounterStrike, Quake and Unreal Tournament. Traffic to these servers are suppose be also excluded from the usage meter but there are reports of Tel$tra still counting this and the files d/led as part of usage. Check this forum to see what customers are saying.
SiMac, does your broadband provider provide a facility then to cut your connection if you go over 3G? I'm very suprised to see an US/international capping! Firstly, most traffic is US so it's doesn't cost much in terms of Internet Termination Access costs for the ISP (I admit unlike Australia, yes). On the other hand, it is the only broadband provider in your area so they have the license to limit whatever they want to minimise costs. Wrong or right, ethical or unethical I don't know, but my question to you is what are your pricing plans? I'm sure they won't be like Telstra's!
SiMac, I challenge you to use a netstats type tool to see what your "NORMAL" usage per day/month is:
Here are some suggestions:
NetMedic, Starfish
InternetMeter and the traffic meters in some proxy software (e.g.
Wingate).
You'd be suprised of the result.
For this month, I have had to try hard to stay under the 3GB cap, and sometimes I have to think twice before I click on the "download" button..."This isn't the broadband experience I wanted, it's Tel$tra'$".
Try Telstra (the biggest telco and competitor to Optus in Australia).
Here's the situation:
Telstra costs per month costs are higher than yours for what we pay for..
The monthly fee schedule may look similar, but here's the killer:
While Optus has an Acceptable Usage policy of 10 times the average use...you guys are probably are allowed to go up to 20GB per month!
At Tel$tra, customers are CAPPED at 3GB a month!
What happens if we go over 3GB? Telstra charges you A$0.18 (US$0.09) per meg if you go over!! Imagine that...if you clock an extra 3GB over your limit, ontop of your monthly service fee you would be looking about over $500 (US$250) per month!!
I'm sure our international counterparts are probably wetting their paints, laughing and saying what a joke this is... here's the link for your confirmation: (Prices are in $A. You can roughly divide by 2 to get the US dollar equivalent.
By the way costs is one thing, what about service? I tell you for your monthly fee OPTUS does not throttle limit your downloads (with exception of this post, ie port specific). At Tel$tra, for the same monthly fee, you would only get 256kbps down and 64kpbs upload!
That's not all, lets just say you require extra speed (hey, isn't this what broadband is all about?), you have to pay extra on top of your service fee!!! Get this, your cap remains at 3GB! So you are in fact paying more for a faster connnection that makes it easier for you to exceed your 3GB cap and from there its $$$ -> Tel$tra!
But wait there's more....you are probably thinking why there is not higher cap plan available? Well the situation is if you went to the link I provided above there is a 5GB cap plan (no speed limit)...look at the price... A$209 ($US100) per month!!!!
What really amazes me is that it would be cheaper (but not possible in this case) to set up 2 x 3GB cap cable accounts and it would be still cheaper than the 5GB plan. I just don't get how Tel$tra has come up with their pricing models!
Let's just say you wanted 10GB Cap, $US 200 per month!!!
What do ordinary Optus customers pay for this competing service? Approx $70 ($US35) per month. Only 17% of the Telstra cost!!!
According to Telstra, the customers have to "MANAGE" their usage to ensure they don't go over their cap...so what tools have Telstra given to its customer's? A an online usage meter that does not work! Check this link to see why customers a very angry.
I wish I could switch over to Optus, but where I live, Telstra is the only broadband provider. Talk about monopoly.
Optus customers have it good and I wish I could join you guys. I think the broadband broadband offered overseas kick butt.
Maybe I should relocate (I can not see myself going back to dialup). Btw, Telstra have recently introduced these new restrictions so I did not know about them until after I signed the contract months before.
Here's a link that mentions the first customer hit with the 3G cap.
I think this is a cool idea, but there are things we would need to consider:
p2p Protocol - you do not want the situation where you broadcast to 5 other handsets around you and those broadcast out to "x" others...the target phone will get spammed. (ie, ACK - Thank you, I've received this message x 50 times)
On the other hand, you do not want the situation where you relay on THE ONE closest mobile phone to act as your ONLY single relay point and so on....as if you do, probability statistic calculations show if (lets just say) 1/10 chance of failure per hop, this might not be acceptable in emergency situations.
Anyway, you might say "hey, but we could utilize timeouts, routing protocols (similar to RIP) etc etc etc",......no matter what in the end, you will need to have
more battery power
because you are constantly transmitting/receiving and processing on your mobile whether your mobile is in client mode or relay mode.
You could also argue, you only use these features in emergencies situations. My idea would be for a telco to setup portable (and powerful) base station(s) (whether it be towers, or flexible cable antennas) around and in the emergency site.
Is the FINAL release of star office 6.0 really free (like 5.2)?
I am asking because in this link
Quote "StarOffice software costs about 86% less than Microsoft's office suite, without costly upgrades, and offers twice as many applications . You can find StarOffice software on Amazon's or FatBrain's Web sites; you can buy it at retail computer stores; you can even download it from our download page...."
I do not mind paying, just want a confirmation. Any comments on this?
Name of Plan: Freedom Plan - What???? how come there are different types of freedom (ie Standard and Deluxe - freedom in Capping up/down stream transfer rates and enforcing 3 gigs limit, come'on Telstra!
Advantage of Telstra's ADSL (quoted from web page):
"Convenient -....As soon as you turn on your PC, you can be online...." - Urm *BRRRR*... network outages I have experienced within the past month is shocking! Did someone forget to power-cycle the systems today?!?
Telstra's Corporate Slogan: "Making Life Easier" - NOT
Hope things change in the future.
"The only problem if there is not a centralize operation we will just end up with a islands of domains that can not see each other"
urm, not trying to be flamebit, but is not the Internet a 'islands of networks'. Hosts in different networks can see each other...the solution to your worries is 'protocol'. TCP/IP, http, ftp etc. You can not go wrong then.
May be one of the reasons why we do not see power panagement is because for most of the critical servers, even though they are not used most of the time, they are monitored all of the time.
I have some critical servers that I am responsible for and run network monitoring agents on these machines that poll for disk utilization, capacity, CPU load, network ping status...etc etc. Big Brother is one such network monitoring system I use. Others I have tried What's up, BMC Patrol, HP Openview. I know these do not take up much system resources, but the server needs to be 'awake' in order to collect and report network management data. Servers that are polled often do not get a chance to sleep unfortunately. Wake On Lan enabled servers will might never go to sleep if a network monitoring program is ping the server to see if it is alive every 5 minutes.
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That is a very good point about having the opportunity in getting in contact with the person responsible for the OS code. It is also true that "Hey OS code is not officially supported where as commercial products are...etc etc"
In my experience any bugs or even comments I post, I usually get at least get an 'intelligeble' reply back from the author of the code/module. When people write to me about the code I contribute to, I 'definately' respond/broadcast. It works both ways. People helping people. It's not all about the $$$s!
I have been reading the previous posts and some have good, some have bad experiences.
I wonder if this is true? (I have heard it many times)
The students that do well at university go become professionals at companys/orgs.
The students that can not get out of it become academics (lectures, tutors, lab assistants etc etc).
This is most probably a sterotype...anyways.
Bought a Apple IIe $600 (2 x 5 1/4 inch fdd!!!) back then - did the job had fun (games machine... still I complained "I need something better".
Later:
Paid $1300 for AMD 368DX/40 (4mb ram, 80mb hdd) Optiplex chipset (yes they were big back then) had good times, it was not the best, but it was considered powerhouse back then.
Recently
Paid $1500 for Pentium II 300, 128MB RAM 17 inch monitor, bought this just so I could run the OS (Windows) at an acceptable speed.
Hope you all had just as much fun as I did, (and will continue to do so). Merry Christmas.
I'm just thinking, should not the branches for mozilla releases be just points marked on the main trunk? Netscape's releases are a true branch as they are going their own 'tangent' from the main trunck.
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From these previous articles, the way that major broadband providers down under managing - Telstra, Optus, General are capping Internet usage to 3GB per month! This equates roughly to six ISOs. This means that you could max out your traffic allowance in say 6 x 13s = 78 seconds!!!
You could kiss broadband content eg. Streaming webcasts-music, demos, Telecommuting (ie Voip-video) goodbye!
Chess equivalent Strategy: When your opponent is distracted and not focusing on the chess board, one must use a 'quick arm flick to the side area, move your captured pieces and put back them back into play'. Alternate strategy, but as effective, is to remove opponent pieces "out" of play.
Subtlety is the key to success.
Important reminder: during gameplay, you are 'physically' at all times one arms length away from opponent's fist.
improvement in per-pound launch costs (from $10,000 per pound to $1,000) and massive improvements in crew survivability."
Given the current time and effort put into safety aspects of today's space shuttle programs, the plan of "massively" improving this demonstrates NASA's "it can always be improved" attitude and forward thinking ability.
Well done!
The choices:
(I've seen it happen...recently)
Plan A: The company wishes to survive:
1. (in Asia) Take a 20% paycut OR retain pay and work 1/2 or full Saturday. (Where as before the company's IT employees normally work Mon to Fri).
2. Head count cut (aka. 'culling').
3. Head count freeze (When more work comes and overloads, you work your butt off but as managment calmly puts it: "You don't necessary have to work hard...just smarter."
4. Not related to HR, but less spending, ie perks No more free coke machine/massage/daily fruit baskets/company paid lunches/restrict car and travel allowance expendure. Management thinking: "Instead of going onsite...can it be done remotely?"
5. Your company - the Little / vunerable fish gets eaten up by bigger fish after management sees steps 1-4 are complete.
Plan B: The company closes.
1. Get your termination letter and hope the company has enough cash (or whatever's left after liquidation) to pay your entitlements.
2. Get another job at (subjective remark: lower)market rate, but hey you might get lucky and catch yourself a nice fish.
3. Gather your work team mates, go to the company's firesale auction, buy up old hardware-software etc start up a similar new company.
For my own personal code I have nothing to hide...
In accordance with my company's policy, I have to do what I am told.
If the code is in native binary form and not bytecode, I guess it would make it harder to reverse engineer. I don't have to run those obfuscation-wares everytime I build. Saves time (both in building and running)
In the article they said they can make a program shorter by certain frames...on the other hand, I remember in the good old days where advertising would be done by inserting single frames on periodic occassions throughout the screening of the program.
Check this link.
The story was written a while ago, but the point is that China did support the concept of "open source" a while back (However I do not know about "officially support"). If you think about it make sense:
The source is available (in China, this is the most important aspect - they [government] likes to know whats going on...)
Getting the source is relatively inexpensive
In RedFlag Linux case it has much going for it:
-Developed by China (China Academy of Science),
-Managed by China (Shanghai NewMargin Venture Capital)
-To be used by China....
U.S. Patent No. 5,790,790 for the "Electronic Document Delivery System in which Notification of Said Electronic Document is Sent to a Recipient Thereof."
If you have a look at the this link:
Bluemountain.com already had this in place back 12/1998! How did they ever get the patient application approved?
Well I've had to work over the holidays before. Cause it is Christmas public holidays and people take anually leave during these periods, support staff tends to get a bit low...I'm a developer and sometimes I am asked fill the gap. Reason why? You get payed extra $$$. This helps with the morgage and the credit card used to purchase Christmas presents.
:P) it's only the standard lost of demerit points off your license - not double during the holiday season, the weather is nice and warm (actually it's hot) and a good excuse to "quick" trip to an uncrowded beach.
Good thing is the company I work at knows its staff and we get company paid lunches. Nothing is usually open during Christmas and Boxing Day, so they make special arrangments with caterers.
I usually take my holidays afterwards (during February - Australia season), no traffic jams up the coast, if I get caught speeding (not that I do speed
It's worth it if you don't have any family or other strict commitments.
What's the deal? The deal is that sometimes it's very hard to get on when there's 128/128 slots being used. (Due to new demo's or ISO it uses)...hey but it helps!
Wireplay also hosts popular game services like CounterStrike, Quake and Unreal Tournament. Traffic to these servers are suppose be also excluded from the usage meter but there are reports of Tel$tra still counting this and the files d/led as part of usage. Check this forum to see what customers are saying.
SiMac, does your broadband provider provide a facility then to cut your connection if you go over 3G? I'm very suprised to see an US/international capping! Firstly, most traffic is US so it's doesn't cost much in terms of Internet Termination Access costs for the ISP (I admit unlike Australia, yes). On the other hand, it is the only broadband provider in your area so they have the license to limit whatever they want to minimise costs. Wrong or right, ethical or unethical I don't know, but my question to you is what are your pricing plans? I'm sure they won't be like Telstra's!
SiMac, I challenge you to use a netstats type tool to see what your "NORMAL" usage per day/month is: Here are some suggestions: NetMedic, Starfish InternetMeter and the traffic meters in some proxy software (e.g. Wingate).
You'd be suprised of the result.
For this month, I have had to try hard to stay under the 3GB cap, and sometimes I have to think twice before I click on the "download" button..."This isn't the broadband experience I wanted, it's Tel$tra'$".
Here's the situation:
Telstra costs per month costs are higher than yours for what we pay for.. The monthly fee schedule may look similar, but here's the killer: While Optus has an Acceptable Usage policy of 10 times the average use...you guys are probably are allowed to go up to 20GB per month! At Tel$tra, customers are CAPPED at 3GB a month! What happens if we go over 3GB? Telstra charges you A$0.18 (US$0.09) per meg if you go over!! Imagine that...if you clock an extra 3GB over your limit, ontop of your monthly service fee you would be looking about over $500 (US$250) per month!! I'm sure our international counterparts are probably wetting their paints, laughing and saying what a joke this is... here's the link for your confirmation: (Prices are in $A. You can roughly divide by 2 to get the US dollar equivalent.
By the way costs is one thing, what about service? I tell you for your monthly fee OPTUS does not throttle limit your downloads (with exception of this post, ie port specific). At Tel$tra, for the same monthly fee, you would only get 256kbps down and 64kpbs upload!
That's not all, lets just say you require extra speed (hey, isn't this what broadband is all about?), you have to pay extra on top of your service fee!!! Get this, your cap remains at 3GB! So you are in fact paying more for a faster connnection that makes it easier for you to exceed your 3GB cap and from there its $$$ -> Tel$tra!
But wait there's more....you are probably thinking why there is not higher cap plan available? Well the situation is if you went to the link I provided above there is a 5GB cap plan (no speed limit)...look at the price... A$209 ($US100) per month!!!!
What really amazes me is that it would be cheaper (but not possible in this case) to set up 2 x 3GB cap cable accounts and it would be still cheaper than the 5GB plan. I just don't get how Tel$tra has come up with their pricing models! Let's just say you wanted 10GB Cap, $US 200 per month!!! What do ordinary Optus customers pay for this competing service? Approx $70 ($US35) per month. Only 17% of the Telstra cost!!!
According to Telstra, the customers have to "MANAGE" their usage to ensure they don't go over their cap...so what tools have Telstra given to its customer's? A an online usage meter that does not work! Check this link to see why customers a very angry. I wish I could switch over to Optus, but where I live, Telstra is the only broadband provider. Talk about monopoly.
Optus customers have it good and I wish I could join you guys. I think the broadband broadband offered overseas kick butt.
Maybe I should relocate (I can not see myself going back to dialup). Btw, Telstra have recently introduced these new restrictions so I did not know about them until after I signed the contract months before.
Here's a link that mentions the first customer hit with the 3G cap.
What you would find that Germany did the same when they lost the war, what was the result?
INFLATION!
(People carrying/carting loads of money to buy a few loafs of bread from the local bread store).
p2p Protocol - you do not want the situation where you broadcast to 5 other handsets around you and those broadcast out to "x" others...the target phone will get spammed. (ie, ACK - Thank you, I've received this message x 50 times) On the other hand, you do not want the situation where you relay on THE ONE closest mobile phone to act as your ONLY single relay point and so on....as if you do, probability statistic calculations show if (lets just say) 1/10 chance of failure per hop, this might not be acceptable in emergency situations.
Anyway, you might say "hey, but we could utilize timeouts, routing protocols (similar to RIP) etc etc etc", ......no matter what in the end, you will need to have
- more battery power
because you are constantly transmitting/receiving and processing on your mobile whether your mobile is in client mode or relay mode.You could also argue, you only use these features in emergencies situations. My idea would be for a telco to setup portable (and powerful) base station(s) (whether it be towers, or flexible cable antennas) around and in the emergency site.
Quote "StarOffice software costs about 86% less than Microsoft's office suite, without costly upgrades, and offers twice as many applications . You can find StarOffice software on Amazon's or FatBrain's Web sites; you can buy it at retail computer stores; you can even download it from our download page...."
I do not mind paying, just want a confirmation. Any comments on this?
Name of Plan: Freedom Plan - What???? how come there are different types of freedom (ie Standard and Deluxe - freedom in Capping up/down stream transfer rates and enforcing 3 gigs limit, come'on Telstra! Advantage of Telstra's ADSL (quoted from web page): "Convenient - ....As soon as you turn on your PC, you can be online...." - Urm *BRRRR*... network outages I have experienced within the past month is shocking! Did someone forget to power-cycle the systems today?!?
Telstra's Corporate Slogan: "Making Life Easier" - NOT
Hope things change in the future.
"The only problem if there is not a centralize operation we will just end up with a islands of domains that can not see each other"
urm, not trying to be flamebit, but is not the Internet a 'islands of networks'. Hosts in different networks can see each other...the solution to your worries is 'protocol'. TCP/IP, http, ftp etc. You can not go wrong then.
Linux Vogue.
It has style, it has grace.
Tux the mascot, gave good face.
Programmers with an attitude,
Linus Torvalds we love you.
Vogue, vogue
Open Source with an attitude
Programmers in the mood
Don't just stand there, lets get to it.
Get a distro, theres nothing to it.
Vogue, vogue
BeOS, you've got to
Let your code move to the music
Oooh, you've got to just
Let your code go with the flow
BeOS, you've got to
Vogue
I have some critical servers that I am responsible for and run network monitoring agents on these machines that poll for disk utilization, capacity, CPU load, network ping status...etc etc. Big Brother is one such network monitoring system I use. Others I have tried What's up, BMC Patrol, HP Openview. I know these do not take up much system resources, but the server needs to be 'awake' in order to collect and report network management data. Servers that are polled often do not get a chance to sleep unfortunately. Wake On Lan enabled servers will might never go to sleep if a network monitoring program is ping the server to see if it is alive every 5 minutes.
That is a very good point about having the opportunity in getting in contact with the person responsible for the OS code. It is also true that "Hey OS code is not officially supported where as commercial products are...etc etc"
In my experience any bugs or even comments I post, I usually get at least get an 'intelligeble' reply back from the author of the code/module. When people write to me about the code I contribute to, I 'definately' respond/broadcast. It works both ways. People helping people. It's not all about the $$$s!
I wonder how TO mod will use this model? Better still... what would the story line and objectives of each team?!?!
I have been reading the previous posts and some have good, some have bad experiences.
I wonder if this is true? (I have heard it many times)
The students that do well at university go become professionals at companys/orgs.
The students that can not get out of it become academics (lectures, tutors, lab assistants etc etc).
This is most probably a sterotype...anyways.
Where is the poo poo?
This post reminded me of the past:
... still I complained "I need something better".
Bought a Apple IIe $600 (2 x 5 1/4 inch fdd!!!) back then - did the job had fun (games machine
Later:
Paid $1300 for AMD 368DX/40 (4mb ram, 80mb hdd) Optiplex chipset (yes they were big back then) had good times, it was not the best, but it was considered powerhouse back then.
Recently
Paid $1500 for Pentium II 300, 128MB RAM 17 inch monitor, bought this just so I could run the OS (Windows) at an acceptable speed.
Hope you all had just as much fun as I did, (and will continue to do so). Merry Christmas.
I'm just thinking, should not the branches for mozilla releases be just points marked on the main trunk? Netscape's releases are a true branch as they are going their own 'tangent' from the main trunck.