This has already been around for years, as Quality of Service bits in IP headers. Routers and particularly switches have supported various actions based on the values of these bits for a long time.
What might be changing is that QoS doesn't exist (well, it's ignored) at the ISP level and on the internet at large. Perhaps your ISP is just turning it on.
the.torrent contains the address of the tracker and CRCs and other metadata about the download. Seeds are nodes in the torrent that have downloaded the entire thing and are only uploading. The tracker handles hooking nodes up with each other.
When automobiles run into things at high speed, their component parts tend to come flying off of them. When I'm driving past an accident, I'm wary of such hazards, as well as emergency personel who might be working by the roadside.
No matter how much rubber knecking might bother you, it's perfectly justified for everyone passing the scene. At least, the act of slowing down is - the act of staring at the accident probably isn't.
BS. People slow down at accident scenes because something out of the ordinary is occuring. This is not a bad thing, even if it inconveniences (sp?) all of us - you want to ensure that the cause of the accident isn't going to put you in danger. That's important, despite the congestion it causes.
And don't give me crap about slowing for things on the other side of the road. If bad stuff is happening over there, it's entirely possible for it to effect you.
Dude, are you nuts? Hicks didn't just support the Taliban by editing articles about them on the internet, he fought with them against US forces. There's something of a difference there.
Hicks' incarceration is not a free speech issue - at all - it's contentious because he's not an Afghani (sp?) citizen. Either way, he's an enemy combatant, not an editor.
(N.B. All of what I've said is based off the Wikipedia article, if it is faulty than my analysis of the situation is likely to be as well.)
Heh, if they break into a reasonably important router, they can do a hell of a lot more than that. Especially if it's a BGP peer of other important routers.
If you control the host of the IP you're spoofing from, then you know the sequence numbers and can generate valid ones from your spoofing host.
The real problem here is that responsible network admins need to egress filter their networks to stop spoofing. This would solve a lot of problems internet wide. Sadly, it takes valuable router horsepower.
Gabe also put a Skull plush doll in the crib with his son (Little Gabe? Real Gabe? Gabe The Short?) while he was in the hospital. From reading both comics, I think they enjoy the rivalry and are friendly.
Although it's been a few years since I've lived on campus, I do know some of the people who take care of the network, and I don't think calling it a mess is at all accurate. They firewall off students because students are dumb, and do dumb things, like getting infected with spam bots. And, if you have some semblance of a brain, getting around the firewall isn't very hard. As for off-campus mail support, I agree that sucks, but you can always VPN in and it works fine.
Also, alum mail is broken because it's not being run by RPIs IT folk. Alumni relations contracted it out to some freaking spam host that's killing them on the cost.
As for requiring laptops to run windows, you'll have to talk to my roomate, who hasn't run windows for anything in 3 years (I think he's a moron for this, but he's still done it), on both his RPI-sponsored laptops.
I don't know why you quote "is a" (another astounding feat of RPI english, I guess), but I've certainly never had problems with wireless access on campus, in fact it's available pretty much everywhere I need it.
RPI has a lot of problems, but IT sure as hell isn't one of them. How many other schools have a full-time CCIE?
Having access to all your mail from many locations. That's the point. I prefer to work at my home workstation, and that's great. But I often find myself away from it for a month at a time or so, and I have to have access to back email at that time. IMAP is the solution.
And the secret to it being fast is it being on a quick server.
There are two versions of the show - a 1hr one and a 2hr. The 2hr brings you from conception to their first space flight, the 1 hour episode brings you to their succesful X Prize flights. The 2 hour version is better, in my mind:). But they are totally different - it's definitely worth catching both.
It seems like most of your problems stem from trying to do complex access controls without using Apache2. Run an apache2 instance on a loopback interface and forward to it with mod_proxy. Then you have all the nice, fancy ACLs and authentication of apache2 and mod_dav_svn without having to trust your entire site to Apache2. svnserve is not intended to be robust and fancy, it's best suited for when you absolutely cannot use Apache2 to provide repository access. mod_dav_svn works a lot better.
Also, complaining about having to compile your open source software? What the crap do you expect. Either use a distro with better package management (*cough*Debian*cough*) or pay someone with a clue to do the work for you. I'm available at $80/hour if you'd like.
In my case, the phone is on loand an free to me. I believe the MSRPs I quoted are accurate. And yeah, you can get a 7960 on ebay for around $150, if you're lucky.
Define "supported". I'm no expert, but in regards to the Cisco 79xx, the display is managed wholly seperately from the PBX. It is used to define roles for the softkeys above and below the screen, and display information about calls in progress / being placed. It can also support webapps in a limited way using some sort of... creepy cisco XML.
In any case, with a DHCP server, a TFTP server, a web server, and Asterisk, you can get everything working on a 7960 or 7940.
In my apartment, I've got a Cisco 7960 and Budgetone 100 both connected to * via SIP. They're at opposite ends of the cost spectrum, the 7960 being about $400 MSRP and the BT about $100. Both work fine.
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This has already been around for years, as Quality of Service bits in IP headers. Routers and particularly switches have supported various actions based on the values of these bits for a long time.
What might be changing is that QoS doesn't exist (well, it's ignored) at the ISP level and on the internet at large. Perhaps your ISP is just turning it on.
the .torrent contains the address of the tracker and CRCs and other metadata about the download. Seeds are nodes in the torrent that have downloaded the entire thing and are only uploading. The tracker handles hooking nodes up with each other.
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pfffffffft.
:).
My mail flies through a 4-way P233 Compaq in the basement
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60mb, you've got it easy. I usually have to kill off firefox after it hits 200mb. This is 1.0 with the Coralize and Yahoo toolbar extensions.
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Try to do effective Content-Encoding: gzip and SSL in Apache 1.3.x
And no, PHPs horrible implementation of this with output buffering does not count (improper negotiation, etc.)
That alone has pushed me to Apache 2.
When automobiles run into things at high speed, their component parts tend to come flying off of them. When I'm driving past an accident, I'm wary of such hazards, as well as emergency personel who might be working by the roadside.
No matter how much rubber knecking might bother you, it's perfectly justified for everyone passing the scene. At least, the act of slowing down is - the act of staring at the accident probably isn't.
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BS. People slow down at accident scenes because something out of the ordinary is occuring. This is not a bad thing, even if it inconveniences (sp?) all of us - you want to ensure that the cause of the accident isn't going to put you in danger. That's important, despite the congestion it causes.
And don't give me crap about slowing for things on the other side of the road. If bad stuff is happening over there, it's entirely possible for it to effect you.
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UP!
Dude, are you nuts? Hicks didn't just support the Taliban by editing articles about them on the internet, he fought with them against US forces. There's something of a difference there.
Hicks' incarceration is not a free speech issue - at all - it's contentious because he's not an Afghani (sp?) citizen. Either way, he's an enemy combatant, not an editor.
(N.B. All of what I've said is based off the Wikipedia article, if it is faulty than my analysis of the situation is likely to be as well.)
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Heh, if they break into a reasonably important router, they can do a hell of a lot more than that. Especially if it's a BGP peer of other important routers.
If you control the host of the IP you're spoofing from, then you know the sequence numbers and can generate valid ones from your spoofing host.
The real problem here is that responsible network admins need to egress filter their networks to stop spoofing. This would solve a lot of problems internet wide. Sadly, it takes valuable router horsepower.
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Gabe also put a Skull plush doll in the crib with his son (Little Gabe? Real Gabe? Gabe The Short?) while he was in the hospital. From reading both comics, I think they enjoy the rivalry and are friendly.
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Name your source for "most schools don't do it." I would contend that most do, but that's based soley on personal experience.
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Well, if it's some course grades posted by a Prof. 6 years ago, it could still be SS#s. But if it is, someone should bitchslap the prof :).
Although it's been a few years since I've lived on campus, I do know some of the people who take care of the network, and I don't think calling it a mess is at all accurate. They firewall off students because students are dumb, and do dumb things, like getting infected with spam bots. And, if you have some semblance of a brain, getting around the firewall isn't very hard. As for off-campus mail support, I agree that sucks, but you can always VPN in and it works fine.
Also, alum mail is broken because it's not being run by RPIs IT folk. Alumni relations contracted it out to some freaking spam host that's killing them on the cost.
As for requiring laptops to run windows, you'll have to talk to my roomate, who hasn't run windows for anything in 3 years (I think he's a moron for this, but he's still done it), on both his RPI-sponsored laptops.
I don't know why you quote "is a" (another astounding feat of RPI english, I guess), but I've certainly never had problems with wireless access on campus, in fact it's available pretty much everywhere I need it.
RPI has a lot of problems, but IT sure as hell isn't one of them. How many other schools have a full-time CCIE?
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RPIs student IDs used to be your SS#. Thankfully, a New York state law outlawed this 4 years ago, so we now have non-significant student IDs.
:).
So yeah, it's a bit better now
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Having access to all your mail from many locations. That's the point. I prefer to work at my home workstation, and that's great. But I often find myself away from it for a month at a time or so, and I have to have access to back email at that time. IMAP is the solution.
And the secret to it being fast is it being on a quick server.
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Goddamnit! Correlation does not yield causation!
Sorry, pet peeve.
The product is shitty. Really shitty. You should consider getting rid of it, since it's so shitty. That's what I did.
There are two versions of the show - a 1hr one and a 2hr. The 2hr brings you from conception to their first space flight, the 1 hour episode brings you to their succesful X Prize flights. The 2 hour version is better, in my mind :). But they are totally different - it's definitely worth catching both.
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I was trying to be nice :).
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It seems like most of your problems stem from trying to do complex access controls without using Apache2. Run an apache2 instance on a loopback interface and forward to it with mod_proxy. Then you have all the nice, fancy ACLs and authentication of apache2 and mod_dav_svn without having to trust your entire site to Apache2. svnserve is not intended to be robust and fancy, it's best suited for when you absolutely cannot use Apache2 to provide repository access. mod_dav_svn works a lot better.
Also, complaining about having to compile your open source software? What the crap do you expect. Either use a distro with better package management (*cough*Debian*cough*) or pay someone with a clue to do the work for you. I'm available at $80/hour if you'd like.
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MSRP == Manufacturer Suggested Retail Price.
In my case, the phone is on loand an free to me. I believe the MSRPs I quoted are accurate. And yeah, you can get a 7960 on ebay for around $150, if you're lucky.
Define "supported". I'm no expert, but in regards to the Cisco 79xx, the display is managed wholly seperately from the PBX. It is used to define roles for the softkeys above and below the screen, and display information about calls in progress / being placed. It can also support webapps in a limited way using some sort of... creepy cisco XML.
In any case, with a DHCP server, a TFTP server, a web server, and Asterisk, you can get everything working on a 7960 or 7940.
In my apartment, I've got a Cisco 7960 and Budgetone 100 both connected to * via SIP. They're at opposite ends of the cost spectrum, the 7960 being about $400 MSRP and the BT about $100. Both work fine.
See http://www.voip-info.org/ for more.
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