>SCO's Internet service provider, ViaWest, told SCO that about 100 high-speed T1 data-transmission lines of network capacity--about 90 percent of its total bandwidth--was being consumed in the attack.
so their ISP has a little over 2 T3's worth of capacity total? sounds like a real group of pros.
"...the company behind the Xbox is offering an undisclosed amount of money to id in exchange for the right to make their latest game an Xbox-only title as far as consoles are concerned. (It'd still come out on the PC, of course.)"
it would be nice if job titles were more descriptive of their duties. as a network engineer (read ip guy) it annoys the piss out of me to see gobloads of jobs listed for network engineers only to find out they need someone to admin an exchange box.
anyone know if the soyo dragon k7v is affected by this? myself and someone i know have both had dragon boards lose stability (spontaneous reboots, lockups, incomplete posts) after around 1 year of use.
>It's called a master key. You have to be a locksmith, or be really good at social engineering to get one. And it only works for a subset of models of a specific brand of lock. But, yes, if some guy goes to your house, and recognizes that you have a Yale lock, model $foo, then he could likely get a master key for it.
i used to do lock rekeys for a hardware store, i worked on residential grade schlage, master, and quickset locks. there is no manufacturers master key for those locks. they only come with a single set of bottom pins installed, only 1 key will open them.
i see numerous other people submitted this as well, i can't believe it's taken this long to get this story posted here. this is the 'stick it to the man' the readers here have been waiting for. all the negative riaa articles, and the one that allows people to take hard action nearly gets lost.
GRE/IPSEC is great, i've used that to set up site to site VPN's with cisco gear before. GRE adds the ability to carry multicast packets accross the tunnel, a capability that straight IPSEC does not have. end result is this allows you to run OSPF or EIGRP accross your VPN tunnels. i've used GRE/IPSEC over DSL as a VPN backup to frame relay in an HSRP pair, it rules.
implement virtual circuits for each subscriber, offer various tiers of commited information rate/burst rate. that's how frame relay works, lots of businesses are happy with that service structure. why are the basics of capacity planning so beyond the grasp of these cable companies?
those things did actually exist, as the story goes amd had versions of the old 5x86-133 they were going to release clocked at 150 and 160, then they realized they would be competing with their own k5 line of chips, so they just remarked them all as 133's. there was however a way to tell the heat rating (corresponding to speed rating) from the serial number on the chip. apparently amd had gone as far as releasing clock info to the mb makers before the pulled the plug, i actually had a board that supported one of these at 160, that was quite possibly the coolest pc i ever built. i was one of the few loonies on earth to run a 486 at 160mghz.
>They just can't face the idea that they will have to update their skills and learn to be professionals, instead of just repeating their magic incantation "Re-install Windows" everytime they don't understand what is going on.
maybe i've just worked in shitty companies, but one thing i've noticed is that it doesn't really matter if the it staff is competant, and it doesn't really matter if anything ever actually works. because every network i've been around has been treated as a stage prop for endless politics & posturing by the management. if everything just worked properly, where would they get their endless stream of dramatic crisis from which they can prove their worth? how would they justify their bloated salary & staff without racks full of boxes that require constant diaper changing?
just to illustrate the importance of AS701, take a look at this
graph
of AS paths & peering relationships on the internet. take a close look at the very center. i can only hope that uunet is spun back off as an independent isp, because if microsoft buys it we're all doomed.
also, someone mod the parent up.
i can remember 3'ish years ago at my first job, downloading mozilla, which at the time was the incredible crashing browser demo. that seems like ages ago, now it's finally reached THE major milestone. mozilla rules! everyone get milkfaced and hum like bunnies!
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>You can't cripple banks by attacking their internet addresses because all the critical systems are isolated from the net.
i used to work for a fortune 25 financial institution and i assure you they have things connected to the internet that shouldn't be.
>SCO's Internet service provider, ViaWest, told SCO that about 100 high-speed T1 data-transmission lines of network capacity--about 90 percent of its total bandwidth--was being consumed in the attack.
so their ISP has a little over 2 T3's worth of capacity total? sounds like a real group of pros.
what sort of customer premises equipment is this fiber going to terminate into?
"...the company behind the Xbox is offering an undisclosed amount of money to id in exchange for the right to make their latest game an Xbox-only title as far as consoles are concerned. (It'd still come out on the PC, of course.)"
it would be nice if job titles were more descriptive of their duties. as a network engineer (read ip guy) it annoys the piss out of me to see gobloads of jobs listed for network engineers only to find out they need someone to admin an exchange box.
>Requirement: MCSE, CCIE, MA in MIS/CS, VB programming (at least 3 years).
i love those job descriptions, a nonsensical mix of job disciplines AND levels of expertise.
>Having your MCSE and Cisco certs doesn't mean anything other than you can study for a test where you know the questions going into the test.
unfamiliar with the CCIE i assume?
"Routers have many ways to decide. Sometimes they send out test packets and time them."
it isn't RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, or BGP. i don't know ISIS, but i strongly suspect these people are talking out of their asses.
anyone know if the soyo dragon k7v is affected by this? myself and someone i know have both had dragon boards lose stability (spontaneous reboots, lockups, incomplete posts) after around 1 year of use.
>I want this guy for President in 2004.
i'd love to see a mccain/feingold inependent run. tack nader on as their attorney general.
now ya got something.
>It's called a master key. You have to be a locksmith, or be really good at social engineering to get one. And it only works for a subset of models of a specific brand of lock. But, yes, if some guy goes to your house, and recognizes that you have a Yale lock, model $foo, then he could likely get a master key for it.
i used to do lock rekeys for a hardware store, i worked on residential grade schlage, master, and quickset locks. there is no manufacturers master key for those locks. they only come with a single set of bottom pins installed, only 1 key will open them.
2003-01-07 17:12:21 update on Minimum Advertised Price Antitrust settlement (articles,music) (rejected)
i see numerous other people submitted this as well, i can't believe it's taken this long to get this story posted here. this is the 'stick it to the man' the readers here have been waiting for. all the negative riaa articles, and the one that allows people to take hard action nearly gets lost.
GRE/IPSEC is great, i've used that to set up site to site VPN's with cisco gear before. GRE adds the ability to carry multicast packets accross the tunnel, a capability that straight IPSEC does not have. end result is this allows you to run OSPF or EIGRP accross your VPN tunnels. i've used GRE/IPSEC over DSL as a VPN backup to frame relay in an HSRP pair, it rules.
implement virtual circuits for each subscriber, offer various tiers of commited information rate/burst rate. that's how frame relay works, lots of businesses are happy with that service structure. why are the basics of capacity planning so beyond the grasp of these cable companies?
those things did actually exist, as the story goes amd had versions of the old 5x86-133 they were going to release clocked at 150 and 160, then they realized they would be competing with their own k5 line of chips, so they just remarked them all as 133's. there was however a way to tell the heat rating (corresponding to speed rating) from the serial number on the chip. apparently amd had gone as far as releasing clock info to the mb makers before the pulled the plug, i actually had a board that supported one of these at 160, that was quite possibly the coolest pc i ever built. i was one of the few loonies on earth to run a 486 at 160mghz.
duke nukem forever
>They just can't face the idea that they will have to update their skills and learn to be professionals, instead of just repeating their magic incantation "Re-install Windows" everytime they don't understand what is going on.
maybe i've just worked in shitty companies, but one thing i've noticed is that it doesn't really matter if the it staff is competant, and it doesn't really matter if anything ever actually works. because every network i've been around has been treated as a stage prop for endless politics & posturing by the management. if everything just worked properly, where would they get their endless stream of dramatic crisis from which they can prove their worth? how would they justify their bloated salary & staff without racks full of boxes that require constant diaper changing?
we route, therefore you are.
what they are proposing amounts to a dos attack, and if it impacts the operation of an isp, their going to get themselves null routed.
this is a map of AS paths & peering relationships on the internet. take a close look at the center.
just to illustrate the importance of AS701, take a look at this graph of AS paths & peering relationships on the internet. take a close look at the very center. i can only hope that uunet is spun back off as an independent isp, because if microsoft buys it we're all doomed. also, someone mod the parent up.
...and they would profit from this how?
keep in mind, their customers are their shareholders, their users are their "revenue stream". whose interests do they value more?
BGP statistics pertaining to KPNQwest AS286 also, keep your eye on NANOGfor any info related to the impact of the shutdown.
as long as we're on the topic of collecting props, fox is auctioning off a lot of their old x-files props.
http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/fox_auction/
finally!
i can remember 3'ish years ago at my first job, downloading mozilla, which at the time was the incredible crashing browser demo. that seems like ages ago, now it's finally reached THE major milestone. mozilla rules! everyone get milkfaced and hum like bunnies!