I pay the same as you and get 60% of the amount of bandwidth you get. I could pay Verizon for a 384k DSL over the 300k cable modem, from metrocast online here in NH (i thought NH was supposed to be a tech haven? Only if you're below route 101 really) but in that extra 84k bits, I lose web and mail ports. I dont think I'd give those up until I got over a megabit for the same price, and I would still think about it long and hard.
zsh is finely tuned for my daily tasks with all kinds of aliases.
I LOVE the idea of aliases. I could save so much time. But I refuse to let myself use them for fear that someday (it wouldnt take long) I would run an alias in a pipeline that doesnt exist and destroy a filesystem, or something as horrible. Course, my boss uses them, and he's got the wise unix admin thing going on, so someday I'm sure I'll see the light, but for now, I hang back and go the long way around.
"Don't they have something better to do during the summer than hack our site?" asked the RIAA representative, who asked not to be identified. "Perhaps it at least took 10 minutes away from stealing music."
Yeah. We get it. They're internet hackers on summer break, so they must be stealing music! Sorry I just find the slant on that RIAA quote as half troll/closer to flamebait. Course as someone else said, thats the point of the RIAA- get the people angry at them and not their members.
Thinking back to the 109kb exe I ran the other night on Kazaa, and how happy it seemed that I had a LAN at home here, running without apparently doing anything other than flashing my screen for a moment, makes me realize, aside from me being a moron, is that I am dually livid that tonight is the night that both computers decided to "decay". And I just realized how much faster the servers are at work, given that I just spend the past 22 minutes asking a black and white monitor why it couldnt copy 2.2 gig any faster than that. Oh, its going to be a long, long night.
Re:Call it a flame, but.....
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What's the point? The story earlier this week suggested that the "holiday" was created by a SysAdmin. If that's the case, I should just create "Quality Analyst Day."
So you're saying your job has paged you on a December 24th at 23:40 to work on a QoS report through the night, staying twice as long as you needed to cause none of your support services were available? *grin* Being On-Call means someone owns your body, and you dont get anything extra for it. But you do it anyways cause someone's gotta do it, and it doesnt look like anyone else is gotta, so it's all you, man.....Yeah OK I dont know if I would want anyone at my company hugging me, but if someone said "hey thanks for you know, always being within 40 minutes of our data center no matter what" then I would go "hey, you know, you're welcome."
That's kinda mean. It's funny too, I know its just a playful ribbing, but I'm thankful that this thing exists for free. I spend maybe an hour-ish every other day or so here, and for what I am paying, I think its a good deal. So I counterbalance in that I appreciate this project.
Meanwhile, I'm stuck with an unreliable 1.5Mb down/128Kb up connection
Oh WAAAAAAAAA
I'd trade your 1544kbit connection for my 0.96kbit over this modem. Don't believe me? Go ahead, ping my IP. I'll email you with an ETA for the pong.:-D
maybe there are stupid appreciation days for people whose jobs are being done perfectly when no one notices them, and failure otherwise. sales guys get to yell "i got the soandso account". sysadmins dont get to yell "hey another 16 hour day of cleaning up digicrap and no one noticed the massive changes i made". tech support people should have a day too, if they dont have one. actually i like the idea where there's no apprecation days. everyones got it right with the paycheck thing. but i'm just saying, maybe its for the people that only get spoken to when something broke, not when something went right. its grating on the soul when the only people that talk to you are angry.
If you were disappointed by the dubbing of Akira, do not dispair: Bebop really is better.
Hearing the voice Tetsuo was surreal after realizing he was the main character of a very child-oriented, VERY popular anime for almost 4 gigabytes... er... 100 episodes (i assure you I have no idea how large all of the mpegs would be... er, assuming there even are mpegs) Hearing Josh swearing in the same voice was more amusing after considering the interesting sound bytes that could be meshed together. Which would be a good project for a rabid taiora, but linking to that would demand of me posting anonymously.
I'd pay 100 bucks per level for some new mariokart battle fields, and a little more for a complete circuit:-P *sigh* will the cube version never be released. Can anyone hack a game that was originally just for a gaming console? I see people doing dumb stuff like turning character sprites into vegetables and renaming the games junk like "super mario potato head".
How many of you would put up with targetted commercials if you never saw the same one twice? I know I sure would. But I'm sick. If spam mail didnt get mangled in PINE and looked like it does on GUI clients, I'd prolly like that too. They have institutions for people like me. Anyways. Really, how many of you would put up with ads on TV if it wasnt the same Goldbond commercial every 12 minutes? (Not that I'm suggested Goldbond is what my targetted ad of example would be)
Re:Why two ethernet controllers?
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joe average user will never be harmed by having it there.
Til Joe Average pays 185 bucks for a tech support just to hear himself say over the phone, "other ethernet port? Oh!"
From my point of view.. "so?" Theres tons of Linux vendors. If we dont fall in love with one and get all biased, then we can just assume that the better ones will float to the top over time. (That regarding that people would actually stop buying an OS cause its insecure). People get all religious over this stuff, and to some end it is kind of fun, trying to advocate this little OS towards your friends and such... but in the end, isn't it really a matter of us having the advantage of all the time in the world? What magic event is going to occur that will stop linux dead in its tracks? I guess "chill out" is a bad retortion to an article I didnt read, but, oh well:)
[...] I sure as hell wouldn't be "happy" if a bunch of cheap yahoos who are too 37337 to just follow the damn TOS messed it up for the rest of us.
I completely agree with you on that. But in the back of my mind, I always hate to rely on things staying the way they are. I always want to just get to the point where things can't erode any further. I myself run services on my cable modem at home. I dislike knowing that at a whim they can be shut off. I would rather pay extra and know that they wont turn my ports off. Likewise, if I used a lot of bandwidth, I would rather pay the full value of the full bandwidth, if I were in a position to afford such a thing. (If I got my full bandwidth off of my cable modem 100% of the time, I would probably have to pay my cable ISP about 8 or 900 dollars a month, and they could conceivably still be taking a hit). I use less bandwidth than many people who dont run services; I just like to access my machines at home, as my work machines are not fast enough to help me do my job (another thread).
There always seems to be two main points when ISPs dont want you letting other people share your connection. A, ISPs hate it when people share their bandwidth cause it breaks their business model (well current business models, ISPs will adapt someday, like I say above)- they plan on being able to oversell by some magic factor. If people can start adding people without paying their "share", then this model breaks and the ISP is like "what are we supposed to do? Now we dont make enough money!" Cause they have to pay that overage that wasnt being used before, statistically. B. It avoids a hassle when someone hacks the network you're providing and their packets land on the Internet via their egression point. Cause then they have to deal with more noise. Legal stuff. It's annoying. If you get 100 spams from what looks like an ISP, you're not going to care if it was from "them" or "behind them from some network they didnt want someone to be running but did anyways". Extra money would probably cover the cost of managing administrative issues that come from this model.
Anyways, my point is that I hate that lingering feeling when I know things are going to change, but base the way I have things set up, and am used to, the ways things currently are.
I feel restricted when soemone else decides what I cannot do, and does not let me pay a little extra to get that ability back. If they do, then thats cool and thats business. If they don't, I feel trapped and I don't feel like its the way things should be. I lost something, and resent it.
Like the Telco... voice grade telco. Better than the power company.
Our web server does about 4 9's, which is a downtime of about 8 hours a year, I think. I really suck at math though. I mean it.. I'm so bad at math I have no idea if thats right. I said "well theres 8544 hours in a year, so 8 divided by that is 0.0009, so thats about 4 9s. I think. 8 hours of downtime isnt that bad. I think the next step up from 8 hours of downtime is essentially those megacorps that have redundant systems, and sirens go off and people die when their server goes down for under a second. In fact, I think if their server actually went down for more than a second, some sort of structual damage to the building hosting it is the only likely scenario. Course, that's closer to 7 9s. I cant figure out how long any of the other 9s are cause I only knew what our average downtime is, and could do the math that way only. Wow, its really hot in here.
Could someone with an 8th grade math education please post the amounts of downtime 1 through 9 9s are, please?!
I believe episode 6 is the condensed version of what would be 7, 8, and 9. I heard there was another story arc where Luke ended up being evil, and his sister came to save him and his father. Then they figured it was too much so they changed a few relationships and dropped the Luke-evil arc.
Or whoever knows about wind patterns... I read this book in high school, don't remember the name off hand but basically there's a nuclear war in the northern hemisphere. Everyone up here dies. Everyone in Australia is flipping out, because slowly the radiation seems down and kills all of them too. (Is it called _On the Beach_?) Anyways, the point being, winds DONT occur for like a 40 mile band on the equator right? IF this is true, then a balloonist would not be able to cross the equator, no?
furthurmore, if you park up there off the side of the highway, and dont place a sign in your car that reads along the lines of "this car is parked", they have to start looking for the driver no matter what. just a little bit of trivia from a local:)
server (ser`-vr) n. When a customer can locate their machine without sitting in front of it.
That's in jest. As a netadmin for an ISP, though, I feel that if a customer wants to run a server on their connection, fine. They probably are never going to call in for support because they're either clueful enough not to need to, or scared enough that they didn't want to get caught (never realizing that our AUP doesn't forbid it, ironically). Seems that about 3 out of 128 people were running web servers. I wonder how many knew it.
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They just do that cause it scares the hell out of them that a customer might be able to think.
The singularity of said network installation may have propelled you into some interesting replies. I wish you luck, comrade!
I pay the same as you and get 60% of the amount of bandwidth you get. I could pay Verizon for a 384k DSL over the 300k cable modem, from metrocast online here in NH (i thought NH was supposed to be a tech haven? Only if you're below route 101 really) but in that extra 84k bits, I lose web and mail ports. I dont think I'd give those up until I got over a megabit for the same price, and I would still think about it long and hard.
I LOVE the idea of aliases. I could save so much time. But I refuse to let myself use them for fear that someday (it wouldnt take long) I would run an alias in a pipeline that doesnt exist and destroy a filesystem, or something as horrible. Course, my boss uses them, and he's got the wise unix admin thing going on, so someday I'm sure I'll see the light, but for now, I hang back and go the long way around.
"Don't they have something better to do during the summer than hack our site?" asked the RIAA representative, who asked not to be identified. "Perhaps it at least took 10 minutes away from stealing music."
Yeah. We get it. They're internet hackers on summer break, so they must be stealing music! Sorry I just find the slant on that RIAA quote as half troll/closer to flamebait. Course as someone else said, thats the point of the RIAA- get the people angry at them and not their members.
Dont know what you're all doing wrong, cause the OS on my Win95 CD has been fine for 7 years. Jeez.
Thinking back to the 109kb exe I ran the other night on Kazaa, and how happy it seemed that I had a LAN at home here, running without apparently doing anything other than flashing my screen for a moment, makes me realize, aside from me being a moron, is that I am dually livid that tonight is the night that both computers decided to "decay". And I just realized how much faster the servers are at work, given that I just spend the past 22 minutes asking a black and white monitor why it couldnt copy 2.2 gig any faster than that. Oh, its going to be a long, long night.
So you're saying your job has paged you on a December 24th at 23:40 to work on a QoS report through the night, staying twice as long as you needed to cause none of your support services were available? *grin* Being On-Call means someone owns your body, and you dont get anything extra for it. But you do it anyways cause someone's gotta do it, and it doesnt look like anyone else is gotta, so it's all you, man... ..Yeah OK I dont know if I would want anyone at my company hugging me, but if someone said "hey thanks for you know, always being within 40 minutes of our data center no matter what" then I would go "hey, you know, you're welcome."
That's kinda mean. It's funny too, I know its just a playful ribbing, but I'm thankful that this thing exists for free. I spend maybe an hour-ish every other day or so here, and for what I am paying, I think its a good deal. So I counterbalance in that I appreciate this project.
Meanwhile, I'm stuck with an unreliable 1.5Mb down/128Kb up connection
Oh WAAAAAAAAA
I'd trade your 1544kbit connection for my 0.96kbit over this modem. Don't believe me? Go ahead, ping my IP. I'll email you with an ETA for the pong. :-D
maybe there are stupid appreciation days for people whose jobs are being done perfectly when no one notices them, and failure otherwise. sales guys get to yell "i got the soandso account". sysadmins dont get to yell "hey another 16 hour day of cleaning up digicrap and no one noticed the massive changes i made". tech support people should have a day too, if they dont have one. actually i like the idea where there's no apprecation days. everyones got it right with the paycheck thing. but i'm just saying, maybe its for the people that only get spoken to when something broke, not when something went right. its grating on the soul when the only people that talk to you are angry.
I used to just forward all my email into /dev/null. Then one day I decided to do a mail backup, so I gzipped it, and my computer disappeared!
Hearing the voice Tetsuo was surreal after realizing he was the main character of a very child-oriented, VERY popular anime for almost 4 gigabytes... er... 100 episodes (i assure you I have no idea how large all of the mpegs would be... er, assuming there even are mpegs) Hearing Josh swearing in the same voice was more amusing after considering the interesting sound bytes that could be meshed together. Which would be a good project for a rabid taiora, but linking to that would demand of me posting anonymously.
I'd pay 100 bucks per level for some new mariokart battle fields, and a little more for a complete circuit :-P *sigh* will the cube version never be released. Can anyone hack a game that was originally just for a gaming console? I see people doing dumb stuff like turning character sprites into vegetables and renaming the games junk like "super mario potato head".
How many of you would put up with targetted commercials if you never saw the same one twice? I know I sure would. But I'm sick. If spam mail didnt get mangled in PINE and looked like it does on GUI clients, I'd prolly like that too. They have institutions for people like me. Anyways. Really, how many of you would put up with ads on TV if it wasnt the same Goldbond commercial every 12 minutes? (Not that I'm suggested Goldbond is what my targetted ad of example would be)
Til Joe Average pays 185 bucks for a tech support just to hear himself say over the phone, "other ethernet port? Oh!"
From my point of view.. "so?" Theres tons of Linux vendors. If we dont fall in love with one and get all biased, then we can just assume that the better ones will float to the top over time. (That regarding that people would actually stop buying an OS cause its insecure). People get all religious over this stuff, and to some end it is kind of fun, trying to advocate this little OS towards your friends and such... but in the end, isn't it really a matter of us having the advantage of all the time in the world? What magic event is going to occur that will stop linux dead in its tracks? I guess "chill out" is a bad retortion to an article I didnt read, but, oh well :)
[...] I sure as hell wouldn't be "happy" if a bunch of cheap yahoos who are too 37337 to just follow the damn TOS messed it up for the rest of us.
I completely agree with you on that. But in the back of my mind, I always hate to rely on things staying the way they are. I always want to just get to the point where things can't erode any further. I myself run services on my cable modem at home. I dislike knowing that at a whim they can be shut off. I would rather pay extra and know that they wont turn my ports off. Likewise, if I used a lot of bandwidth, I would rather pay the full value of the full bandwidth, if I were in a position to afford such a thing. (If I got my full bandwidth off of my cable modem 100% of the time, I would probably have to pay my cable ISP about 8 or 900 dollars a month, and they could conceivably still be taking a hit). I use less bandwidth than many people who dont run services; I just like to access my machines at home, as my work machines are not fast enough to help me do my job (another thread).
There always seems to be two main points when ISPs dont want you letting other people share your connection. A, ISPs hate it when people share their bandwidth cause it breaks their business model (well current business models, ISPs will adapt someday, like I say above)- they plan on being able to oversell by some magic factor. If people can start adding people without paying their "share", then this model breaks and the ISP is like "what are we supposed to do? Now we dont make enough money!" Cause they have to pay that overage that wasnt being used before, statistically. B. It avoids a hassle when someone hacks the network you're providing and their packets land on the Internet via their egression point. Cause then they have to deal with more noise. Legal stuff. It's annoying. If you get 100 spams from what looks like an ISP, you're not going to care if it was from "them" or "behind them from some network they didnt want someone to be running but did anyways". Extra money would probably cover the cost of managing administrative issues that come from this model.
Anyways, my point is that I hate that lingering feeling when I know things are going to change, but base the way I have things set up, and am used to, the ways things currently are.
I feel restricted when soemone else decides what I cannot do, and does not let me pay a little extra to get that ability back. If they do, then thats cool and thats business. If they don't, I feel trapped and I don't feel like its the way things should be. I lost something, and resent it.
Like the Telco... voice grade telco. Better than the power company.
Our web server does about 4 9's, which is a downtime of about 8 hours a year, I think. I really suck at math though. I mean it.. I'm so bad at math I have no idea if thats right. I said "well theres 8544 hours in a year, so 8 divided by that is 0.0009, so thats about 4 9s. I think. 8 hours of downtime isnt that bad. I think the next step up from 8 hours of downtime is essentially those megacorps that have redundant systems, and sirens go off and people die when their server goes down for under a second. In fact, I think if their server actually went down for more than a second, some sort of structual damage to the building hosting it is the only likely scenario. Course, that's closer to 7 9s. I cant figure out how long any of the other 9s are cause I only knew what our average downtime is, and could do the math that way only. Wow, its really hot in here.
Could someone with an 8th grade math education please post the amounts of downtime 1 through 9 9s are, please?!
I believe episode 6 is the condensed version of what would be 7, 8, and 9. I heard there was another story arc where Luke ended up being evil, and his sister came to save him and his father. Then they figured it was too much so they changed a few relationships and dropped the Luke-evil arc.
Ugh, yeah, we knew that.
What does it mean?
Or whoever knows about wind patterns... I read this book in high school, don't remember the name off hand but basically there's a nuclear war in the northern hemisphere. Everyone up here dies. Everyone in Australia is flipping out, because slowly the radiation seems down and kills all of them too. (Is it called _On the Beach_?) Anyways, the point being, winds DONT occur for like a 40 mile band on the equator right? IF this is true, then a balloonist would not be able to cross the equator, no?
furthurmore, if you park up there off the side of the highway, and dont place a sign in your car that reads along the lines of "this car is parked", they have to start looking for the driver no matter what. just a little bit of trivia from a local :)
That's in jest. As a netadmin for an ISP, though, I feel that if a customer wants to run a server on their connection, fine. They probably are never going to call in for support because they're either clueful enough not to need to, or scared enough that they didn't want to get caught (never realizing that our AUP doesn't forbid it, ironically). Seems that about 3 out of 128 people were running web servers. I wonder how many knew it.