There's no need to reinvent the wheel, and you can use open protocols too. May I suggest you apply zfone, from the inventor of PGP, to encrypt your SIP phone calls?
FWIW, I've also been with them since '05, and while they've had their hiccups, I think the package is great; and they've become stronger in terms of infrastructure as a result. Speaking as a developer. I use their private servers now too, and am sooo pleased to have the root user capability added recently, alongside their groovy control panel which is fantastic.
Disclaimer: I get my basic ~$7 a month package hosted for free, pretty much forever, because I manage a site for a US, IRS documented charity, so Dreamhost gives me credit on my account for this month, every month for.
My answer is just the sheer quantity and quality of personal information Google has access to, for various datamining pursuits, if it were in-fact eViL, OR if some hacker, google employee, govt. official (etc.) with access to the files abused Google's own TOS. I'd rather that volume and level of personal info not leave my unencrypted local disks. And if I *did* allow such information to leave my hands, I'd trust it with my doctor or a lawyer, but not a huge giant advertising company with its own self-interests.
I keep remembering the saying, 'absolute power corrupts, absolutely'. In the history of the world, this is consistent to-date. This stokes my fear, because I don't think anything like GOOG will remain rosy and untainted forever. I am waiting for the scandal to happen. If it doesn't happen, that's still no loss to me.
I forgot to mention gmail among the list of tools accessible to Google inc.'s servers earlier as well.
Nevermind how things are supposed to work, assuming something something goes wrong somewhere, that's a *lot* of personal info out of my control. So I'd rather keep it from getting out there, and free isn't necessarily without its costs, or risks. Or the risk to my kids, family, etc. (and isn't it cached at various places around the globe, sorta like Akahami does?)
Take Sarah Palin, for example. I'll bet she stopped using free Yahoo mail services, and she's happy to pay for something promising greater security now. I'll bet Sarah or her technical advisor has much greater control over the email now to prevent further mishaps. (Not that that won't happen, the risk remains).
But it is clear not everyone thinks the same way I do. Someone modded my 2nd comment in this thread flamebait, so I realize this. I am thankful for the person who added the Google tracking Opt-out link to this thread! I never knew about that page or option before.
Ah! I see where you are coming from. An advertising company's systems are being pre-installed by a company that has resorted to using hidden rootkits.
Free indeed.
Just follow the money. Who exactly are Google's clients again? Wait, who exactly is that browser designed for again?
Let me just pontificate on the eViL of Google Analytics (GA) here, while I've still got the ink. Let's say website owner Jill sets up GA, signs Google's EULA, and is basically a happy camper. Jill is happy, and agreed to be happy. So is GA. But Jill is now reporting all the IP, browser, OS, time-of-day tracking info to GA of supposedly 'anonymous' visitor-Jackie. GA also has agreements with most of the websites visitor-Jackie visits today. SO, GA can effectively track visitor-Jackie's internet-usage without Jackie's knowledge or agreement, or other strong-regulation whatsoever. (Yeah, under protest Google said they'd reduce the amount of time they agree to 'track' visitor-Jackie from something like 3 years to 1.5; so what!).
But wait, that's not all:
Google will also provide you with free software that you can catalog all your images & videos, including facial recognition; (and provide free hosting.)
And manage all your phone calls, and SMS, providing free transcription and search based off the transcription, (and free hosting of this info)
Google *paid* Sony to pre-install Chrome, just like Symantec pays for Norton bloatware to be pre-installed on HP (etc.) notebooks. There seems to be a sort of OEM market here; for years already. Nothing to see here; move along.
What? Skype supports SIP. Okay they slap a beta tag on it, and document the setup is more technical than your average Skype install. Oh, and you need to be running your own SIP server. But there's no walled garden that I can see.
FWIW, I have an N95 connected to Asterisk all day/night long, and I get far better battery life than when I run a 3rd party application like Fring. )Note to iPhone folks, SIP via apps like Fring aren't even possible in your need-to-be-approved world.)
But since it is open Linux, I image someone will come up with something, better than Fring. Not that Fring is all that bad. But SIP in the OS on my N95 makes this a Telephone for me. What I really want is a nice clients to my servers. I remain optimistic on this device.
Me too. I hope it isn't some kind of browser-hack that noscript cannot protect me from. It seems like at-best, a benign goatse or something. How did it manage a 5 insightful then, did we miss a whoosh or something?
#4, Why not use a USB stick as a complete Ubuntu workstation? Here are instructions to make a stick that will either run in a QEMU window on a host Windows OS, _or_ you can simply boot-up directly into Ubuntu?
Now that a few days has passed, I learned of a glass fiber coalition building out Amsterdam. Already, people on the outskirts of Amsterdam can buy 20bm down AND up for less than 40 euros using Alice.nl. To reiterate, since my current contractual 20 down, 1 up is actually 10 down,.6 up, 20 down & up sounds really, really good! Also, not being stuck with UPC sounds even better! Aaaahhh, it is so very nice to find options in the marketplace. I still have to wait an indeterminate amount of time until my neighborhood is served, but there's hope.
I don't see why not. I purchased a 3g contract that included a USB dongle that accepted a SIM card. I swear upon simply plugging it into a live Ubuntu 8.10 machine, that thing had a connection in less than 5 seconds, no password needed, (the SIM *is* the 'password' and key to the account. 1 SIM per account, period.)
FWIW, I chose to take the SIM out of the dongle, and it lives in my Nokia N95. This way I have 3g internet (and SIP calls) for the N95 as well as any wifi device nearby, using Joikuspot and hot-swappable AA rechargeable batteries, when needed. Nokia and 3rd parties sell little plastic AA battery holders; joikuspot needs it) If power is available, the N95 functioning as 3g router can draw power from USB via a retractable cable a buddy told me to buy off eBay for a single pound sterling, via Hong Kong. It actually cost me 2.30 euro, but still, what a unit!
While I pay for 20 mps down, I'm lucky to get 10 mbs down. Usually around 7.5 mps download is average, and about.6 mps up. This is with Tele2 ADSL, but I think all Dutch ADSL is the same now.
Any other consumers out there willing to compare? At least ADSL can be bought cheap here.
Compared to the US, I guess we're doing better, but these are my options as I currently see them in Amsterdam.
Everytime I change ISPs, it is to get more bandwidth for less cost. I'm just finishing a ADSL 2 year contract with Tele2 and was seriously considering UPC. Still am, but this news sucks. UPC also has extraordinarily bad customer service. Bad in a legendary way.
There are loads of ADSL ISPs offering 20mb down/ 1up, with phone & TV for 30 euros a month. UPC uses the city coax network and DOCSIS 3.0 I think, (claiming fiber, which is true i guess considering their backbone, but still). I was thinking of buying 60mb down/ 6up with TV and phone for 50 euros a month until this news. There is no other ISP using the higher bandwidth coax. Local ADSL seems to have peaked at 20 mbs down.
These lengthy contracts and the commitment DOES suck. At least once the 1-2 year period is over, it is possible to quit with a month or so notice.
FWIW, XS4all tries to compete based on privacy and is fairly libertarian regarding internet issues, but the price is also much higher. Since I'm mostly talking to our own servers, I'd rather buy internet in bulk.
I really want more bandwidth upstream than 1mbs, but I really dislike UPC. I would really like to know if SSH is being throttled, the article isn't entirely clear about this.
They'll also provide you with free software that you can catalog all your images & videos, including facial recognition; and provide hosting.
And manage all your phone calls, and SMS, providing free transcription and search based off the transcription.
If you're a website operator, you can sign up for Google Analytics, then you can collect all the IP addresses, browser-type-info, etc. of your visitors and send that info to Google. When lots of Google Analytics website owning client/aggregators send in the IP addresses of their visitors too, Google has a pretty good idea where even people not using any google 'assets' are going; as your visitors' surf the web, without your visitors' knowledge or consent of this practice.
You're thinking of the widely publicized photon technique, but this is really cool because they've now miniaturized the process.
Previously the process was cumbersome because you need at least three people wearing photon packs on their back, to cross the photon beam OVER the containment trap. Timing is The Key. But this could be error-prone at times, and bad things happened.
As the RTF states, data can be re recovered, given a financial budget & time.
But I wonder. I posed the same question to a buddy awhile back, and he suggested baking the disks in an oven at 250 degrees C for an hour. The idea being that well, yeah, sure the magnetic platters can theoretically be recovered given time, budget, and determination. But still, the printed circuit board, etc. would be melted and thus ruined. Seems just as sensible, and more cost effective given readily available tools, (and sufficient ventilation!!!)
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There's no need to reinvent the wheel, and you can use open protocols too. May I suggest you apply zfone, from the inventor of PGP, to encrypt your SIP phone calls?
http://zfoneproject.com/getstarted.html
Dreamhost documented the practice of hosts overselling on their blog a few years ago.
http://blog.dreamhost.com/2006/05/18/the-truth-about-overselling/
FWIW, I've also been with them since '05, and while they've had their hiccups, I think the package is great; and they've become stronger in terms of infrastructure as a result. Speaking as a developer. I use their private servers now too, and am sooo pleased to have the root user capability added recently, alongside their groovy control panel which is fantastic.
Disclaimer: I get my basic ~$7 a month package hosted for free, pretty much forever, because I manage a site for a US, IRS documented charity, so Dreamhost gives me credit on my account for this month, every month for.
Real Devs don't vacation, OR go on honeymoons.
Rather, I'll defer to the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language:
1. To express opinions or judgments in a dogmatic way.
2. To administer the office of a pontiff.
http://dictionary.reference.com/cite.html?qh=pontificate&ia=ahd4
My answer is just the sheer quantity and quality of personal information Google has access to, for various datamining pursuits, if it were in-fact eViL, OR if some hacker, google employee, govt. official (etc.) with access to the files abused Google's own TOS. I'd rather that volume and level of personal info not leave my unencrypted local disks. And if I *did* allow such information to leave my hands, I'd trust it with my doctor or a lawyer, but not a huge giant advertising company with its own self-interests.
I keep remembering the saying, 'absolute power corrupts, absolutely'. In the history of the world, this is consistent to-date. This stokes my fear, because I don't think anything like GOOG will remain rosy and untainted forever. I am waiting for the scandal to happen. If it doesn't happen, that's still no loss to me.
I forgot to mention gmail among the list of tools accessible to Google inc.'s servers earlier as well.
Nevermind how things are supposed to work, assuming something something goes wrong somewhere, that's a *lot* of personal info out of my control. So I'd rather keep it from getting out there, and free isn't necessarily without its costs, or risks. Or the risk to my kids, family, etc. (and isn't it cached at various places around the globe, sorta like Akahami does?)
Take Sarah Palin, for example. I'll bet she stopped using free Yahoo mail services, and she's happy to pay for something promising greater security now. I'll bet Sarah or her technical advisor has much greater control over the email now to prevent further mishaps. (Not that that won't happen, the risk remains).
But it is clear not everyone thinks the same way I do. Someone modded my 2nd comment in this thread flamebait, so I realize this. I am thankful for the person who added the Google tracking Opt-out link to this thread! I never knew about that page or option before.
Ah! I see where you are coming from. An advertising company's systems are being pre-installed by a company that has resorted to using hidden rootkits.
Free indeed.
Just follow the money. Who exactly are Google's clients again? Wait, who exactly is that browser designed for again?
Let me just pontificate on the eViL of Google Analytics (GA) here, while I've still got the ink. Let's say website owner Jill sets up GA, signs Google's EULA, and is basically a happy camper. Jill is happy, and agreed to be happy. So is GA. But Jill is now reporting all the IP, browser, OS, time-of-day tracking info to GA of supposedly 'anonymous' visitor-Jackie. GA also has agreements with most of the websites visitor-Jackie visits today. SO, GA can effectively track visitor-Jackie's internet-usage without Jackie's knowledge or agreement, or other strong-regulation whatsoever. (Yeah, under protest Google said they'd reduce the amount of time they agree to 'track' visitor-Jackie from something like 3 years to 1.5; so what!).
But wait, that's not all:
Google will also provide you with free software that you can catalog all your images & videos, including facial recognition; (and provide free hosting.)
And manage all your phone calls, and SMS, providing free transcription and search based off the transcription, (and free hosting of this info)
For free? Just follow the money folks.
Google *paid* Sony to pre-install Chrome, just like Symantec pays for Norton bloatware to be pre-installed on HP (etc.) notebooks. There seems to be a sort of OEM market here; for years already. Nothing to see here; move along.
What? Skype supports SIP. Okay they slap a beta tag on it, and document the setup is more technical than your average Skype install. Oh, and you need to be running your own SIP server. But there's no walled garden that I can see.
http://www.skype.com/business/form/sip-beta/
I refuse to buy any phone unless SIP is supported in the OS, like the fine phones on this list: http://www.forum.nokia.com/main/resources/technologies/voice_over_IP/voip_support_in_nokia_devices.html
FWIW, I have an N95 connected to Asterisk all day/night long, and I get far better battery life than when I run a 3rd party application like Fring. )Note to iPhone folks, SIP via apps like Fring aren't even possible in your need-to-be-approved world.)
But since it is open Linux, I image someone will come up with something, better than Fring. Not that Fring is all that bad. But SIP in the OS on my N95 makes this a Telephone for me. What I really want is a nice clients to my servers. I remain optimistic on this device.
Me too. I hope it isn't some kind of browser-hack that noscript cannot protect me from. It seems like at-best, a benign goatse or something. How did it manage a 5 insightful then, did we miss a whoosh or something?
#4, Why not use a USB stick as a complete Ubuntu workstation? Here are instructions to make a stick that will either run in a QEMU window on a host Windows OS, _or_ you can simply boot-up directly into Ubuntu?
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/all-in-one-pendrivelinux-2008/
So you can have your cake and eat it too. During work hours, just insert your USB stick when you need access to your own PC.
Now that a few days has passed, I learned of a glass fiber coalition building out Amsterdam. Already, people on the outskirts of Amsterdam can buy 20bm down AND up for less than 40 euros using Alice.nl. To reiterate, since my current contractual 20 down, 1 up is actually 10 down, .6 up, 20 down & up sounds really, really good! Also, not being stuck with UPC sounds even better! Aaaahhh, it is so very nice to find options in the marketplace. I still have to wait an indeterminate amount of time until my neighborhood is served, but there's hope.
http://www.glasvezelamsterdam.nl/
I don't see why not. I purchased a 3g contract that included a USB dongle that accepted a SIM card. I swear upon simply plugging it into a live Ubuntu 8.10 machine, that thing had a connection in less than 5 seconds, no password needed, (the SIM *is* the 'password' and key to the account. 1 SIM per account, period.)
FWIW, I chose to take the SIM out of the dongle, and it lives in my Nokia N95. This way I have 3g internet (and SIP calls) for the N95 as well as any wifi device nearby, using Joikuspot and hot-swappable AA rechargeable batteries, when needed. Nokia and 3rd parties sell little plastic AA battery holders; joikuspot needs it) If power is available, the N95 functioning as 3g router can draw power from USB via a retractable cable a buddy told me to buy off eBay for a single pound sterling, via Hong Kong. It actually cost me 2.30 euro, but still, what a unit!
Thanks for the clear explanation! (I hope this gets modded up)
There's a misunderstanding. One of UPC's package is 60mps down which I am considering is, 6 up. Just to be clear.
Forgot to mention, real-life speeds:
While I pay for 20 mps down, I'm lucky to get 10 mbs down. Usually around 7.5 mps download is average, and about .6 mps up. This is with Tele2 ADSL, but I think all Dutch ADSL is the same now.
Any other consumers out there willing to compare? At least ADSL can be bought cheap here.
Compared to the US, I guess we're doing better, but these are my options as I currently see them in Amsterdam.
Everytime I change ISPs, it is to get more bandwidth for less cost. I'm just finishing a ADSL 2 year contract with Tele2 and was seriously considering UPC. Still am, but this news sucks. UPC also has extraordinarily bad customer service. Bad in a legendary way.
There are loads of ADSL ISPs offering 20mb down/ 1up, with phone & TV for 30 euros a month. UPC uses the city coax network and DOCSIS 3.0 I think, (claiming fiber, which is true i guess considering their backbone, but still). I was thinking of buying 60mb down/ 6up with TV and phone for 50 euros a month until this news. There is no other ISP using the higher bandwidth coax. Local ADSL seems to have peaked at 20 mbs down.
These lengthy contracts and the commitment DOES suck. At least once the 1-2 year period is over, it is possible to quit with a month or so notice.
FWIW, XS4all tries to compete based on privacy and is fairly libertarian regarding internet issues, but the price is also much higher. Since I'm mostly talking to our own servers, I'd rather buy internet in bulk.
http://se.tele2.nl/
http://www.upc.nl/totaalpakketten/
http://www.xs4all.nl/allediensten/toegang/adslbellen/ (note they 'give free' mobile internet for a year, then you gotta pay for that 2nd service, ouch!)
I really want more bandwidth upstream than 1mbs, but I really dislike UPC. I would really like to know if SSH is being throttled, the article isn't entirely clear about this.
They'll also provide you with free software that you can catalog all your images & videos, including facial recognition; and provide hosting.
And manage all your phone calls, and SMS, providing free transcription and search based off the transcription.
If you're a website operator, you can sign up for Google Analytics, then you can collect all the IP addresses, browser-type-info, etc. of your visitors and send that info to Google. When lots of Google Analytics website owning client/aggregators send in the IP addresses of their visitors too, Google has a pretty good idea where even people not using any google 'assets' are going; as your visitors' surf the web, without your visitors' knowledge or consent of this practice.
This is an ad company after all.
Painful, yes. But 'stress' is just that.
Yeah but, with all those nodes you could form a beouwolf cluster. Just think for a moment about all those sockets!
It isn't the volts, but the amps that will kill you. Also, the risk isn't always what you expect to be obvious. Engineering is important.
"Was this review helpful? Yes or no"
You're thinking of the widely publicized photon technique, but this is really cool because they've now miniaturized the process.
Previously the process was cumbersome because you need at least three people wearing photon packs on their back, to cross the photon beam OVER the containment trap. Timing is The Key. But this could be error-prone at times, and bad things happened.
For more technical details:
http://www.gbfans.com/equipment/plans/stefan-otto/
As the RTF states, data can be re recovered, given a financial budget & time.
But I wonder. I posed the same question to a buddy awhile back, and he suggested baking the disks in an oven at 250 degrees C for an hour. The idea being that well, yeah, sure the magnetic platters can theoretically be recovered given time, budget, and determination. But still, the printed circuit board, etc. would be melted and thus ruined. Seems just as sensible, and more cost effective given readily available tools, (and sufficient ventilation!!!)
Drink a Red Bull, quick!