Efficient Networks has told me that they will have linux drivers for all of their existing products by the end of the month. The Efficient 3060 ATM(DMT)ADSL Internal PCI Modem retails for around $199.
After speaking with their VP at my office one day, they have informed me of their strong commitment to supporting an OS like linux, and someone mentioned, "If you don't support Linux, you're crazy!" This is a far cry from my old bosses comment, "Even if I knew linux, I wouldn't put it on my resume."
My commment are consistantly moderated down for being over-rated....how is a somewhat intelligent, or slightly funny comment sitting at 2 overrated... The point of moderation is to moderate the good stuff up....don't waste moderation points telling everyone that you don't have a sense of humor, waste em on good posts...I want to see quality at the top....lets see some 5's (and 6's)
Perhaps this is a good way for open source vendors to make some real money. RedHat (or whoever) could now sue abit, and get a hefty settlement...now when microsoft steals code, then the real money comes in.
Something like this should be covered by the 1st amendment. If it isn't, then what is. IMHO, people are allowed to have opinions , but IANAL, so what do I know. As for the post, how can the operator be held liable for the post of a user. That is like me filing suit against an ISP because one of the ISPs users was talking trash...but that is just my $0.02
I have dealt with this problem before, customers were connecting hubs to their connections, and would have 2-8 computers running off one paid connection. Our policy was just to shut off the port, until the problem was corrected...if it happened again...well...modems suck!
Does anyone know offhand how strong the encryption is on a DVD... do you need a Export license to send a DVD/DVD player to Iraq...Just thinking about ways to turn the tables on this one. I'm not a lawyer...any ideas?
We all need to do something about this. The DMCA is a VERY bad thing. We have 13 days to voice our opinions. If we don't all do our part, we will all regret it. If you haven't read the DMCA yet, you can read about it here
The DMCA can be interpreted to put ISPs out of business if they don't respond quickly to requests. Several weeks ago, I recieved an email from the RIAA telling me that a customer of ours had an illegal site up, and that we could be help responsible for ANY OTHER copyright violations, now that they have informed us. This was not a site hosted by us, but a customer with a broadband connection. This brings up the following questions...
1.) How does the RIAA go about finding these sites, do they scan networks for port 21. Do they hop on IRC to find these sites?
2.) How am I, as a network admin, supposed to prevent any single user from setting up a server that violates any provision of the DMCA?
3.) If I, as a network admin, am unable to determine whether or not the material on a server is indeed violating any law, am I required to shut it down until I am able to determine this?
4.) Am I, a normal user, allowed to make back-up copies of music that I own. What formats am I allowed to make these back up copys in. Can I make a duplicate of a CD, for my car. According to the DMCA, I can't
If we don't do something about these issues now, we lose our opportunity to do so for 2 years, then 3 years after that.
Wouldn't the heat caused by rapid reads and writes actually change the data. also, depending on how colse the tape was to other tape, It could easily expand and contract. I noticed in the article, that the tape they were using was on a slide, preventing it from moving. Although the idea is good, I don't see this ever being used in a real world situation.
The School I went to used Linux for many things (this was in the early 90's) and the network admin actually turned me on to linux. I believe now, they have a Windows Lab with around 30 PCs, a MAC lab, with around 15 Macs, and a Unix/Linux Lab with around 20 Machines. Anyone else have similar goings on at their schools???
Most CPE devices use something similar to hash codes, used in ascend CPE, to determine which services are available, such as firewall, nat, etc. Also, different security levels would permit lock out of certain features, such as a admin account with access to all services, and customer access, with the ability to modify setting such as port forwarding, and DCHP configurations. Unfortunately, the passwords users choose will probably be easily guessed or obtained via social engineering (Hi, the is Joe Administrator from you cable modem provider) I think that the implmentation of these devices needs to be carefully controlled, to avoid serious problems in system hijacking
This product isn't all that new of an idea. Similar products by Cisco and Lucent/Ascend are already available for xDSL. The cable connection does offer a new twist to the home users, however, it will depend on the rules of the cable company as to which functions the users will be allowed to set. Something else to remember is that the average home user will not be able to pull this device out of the box and provision it. Although a web based interface may help, it will be the jobs of the truck roll comany to configure it, and how knowlegable their tech are (not very) will determine the security of the connection. This may open up opportunities for technical savy folks like us/.ers to make a couple of extra bucks on the side by doing security checks on these connections, and making changes as needed. As for NAT and firewall services, I would venture to say that these will be locked out by the provider, so that you do have to pay for each computer connected to it. But that is just my $0.02. -MerkuryZ
I would guess the the RIAA is going to try and have a fieild day with them...especially after finding out that MP3s made them lose -900000 in sales. On a tangent, I wonder how feasable using DvDs in portable MP3 players would be. nearly the same amount of storage space, and the ability to add another drive for pennies a gig!!
Perhaps a email protocol which allows for self destruction and prevention of forwarding of emails needs to be created (not patented). I send an email to a co worker about how I think this and that about another employee, set to destruct in 1 day. Then, when a court case comes up, this email is long gone.
You're absolutely right that a large amount of bandwidth can be used downloading an ISO, but how often does that happen...once....maybe twice a month. And JPEGS are small files...hardly of any concern to a network admin. A group of 10 people surfing would have a hard time generating the amount of bandwidth used by a single napster server. Granted, napster is a great idea, and it does have its place, perhaps the university should have an internal napster server, and not allow access to the external ones, using the "free" 100Mbs bandwidth on the LAN. Bandwidth is an expensive thing, and single users screwing it up for the rest of the users because they want to set up their own private radio station is not condusive to a learning environment. If these users want to do this, then maybe they should invest in a DSL. Then they can pay for the amount of server that they want to run, without having to worry about the other people on the network being affected. -Z
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I believe you refer to the signal to noise ratio.
Efficient Networks has told me that they will have linux drivers for all of their existing products by the end of the month. The Efficient 3060 ATM(DMT)ADSL Internal PCI Modem retails for around $199.
After speaking with their VP at my office one day, they have informed me of their strong commitment to supporting an OS like linux, and someone mentioned, "If you don't support Linux, you're crazy!" This is a far cry from my old bosses comment, "Even if I knew linux, I wouldn't put it on my resume."
My commment are consistantly moderated down for being over-rated....how is a somewhat intelligent, or slightly funny comment sitting at 2 overrated... The point of moderation is to moderate the good stuff up....don't waste moderation points telling everyone that you don't have a sense of humor, waste em on good posts...I want to see quality at the top....lets see some 5's (and 6's)
Perhaps this is a good way for open source vendors to make some real money. RedHat (or whoever) could now sue abit, and get a hefty settlement...now when microsoft steals code, then the real money comes in.
Something like this should be covered by the 1st amendment. If it isn't, then what is. IMHO, people are allowed to have opinions , but IANAL, so what do I know. As for the post, how can the operator be held liable for the post of a user. That is like me filing suit against an ISP because one of the ISPs users was talking trash...but that is just my $0.02
I have dealt with this problem before, customers were connecting hubs to their connections, and would have 2-8 computers running off one paid connection. Our policy was just to shut off the port, until the problem was corrected...if it happened again...well...modems suck!
where might I be able to find DXR2 Drivers for linux. Creative doesn't have them for Win2k even.
Does anyone know offhand how strong the encryption is on a DVD ... do you need a Export license to send a DVD/DVD player to Iraq...Just thinking about ways to turn the tables on this one. I'm not a lawyer...any ideas?
The DMCA can be interpreted to put ISPs out of business if they don't respond quickly to requests. Several weeks ago, I recieved an email from the RIAA telling me that a customer of ours had an illegal site up, and that we could be help responsible for ANY OTHER copyright violations, now that they have informed us. This was not a site hosted by us, but a customer with a broadband connection. This brings up the following questions...
1.) How does the RIAA go about finding these sites, do they scan networks for port 21. Do they hop on IRC to find these sites?
2.) How am I, as a network admin, supposed to prevent any single user from setting up a server that violates any provision of the DMCA?
3.) If I, as a network admin, am unable to determine whether or not the material on a server is indeed violating any law, am I required to shut it down until I am able to determine this?
4.) Am I, a normal user, allowed to make back-up copies of music that I own. What formats am I allowed to make these back up copys in. Can I make a duplicate of a CD, for my car. According to the DMCA, I can'tIf we don't do something about these issues now, we lose our opportunity to do so for 2 years, then 3 years after that.
Read the article before posting next time. It's a write once medium.
> Wouldn't the heat caused by rapid reads and writes actually change the dataThe heat caused by rapid reads AND the heat cause by writes.
Poor wording on my part. Sorry
Wouldn't the heat caused by rapid reads and writes actually change the data. also, depending on how colse the tape was to other tape, It could easily expand and contract. I noticed in the article, that the tape they were using was on a slide, preventing it from moving. Although the idea is good, I don't see this ever being used in a real world situation.
The guy that used to Run the UMBC computer lab used to be the netadmin at my school....
The School I went to used Linux for many things (this was in the early 90's) and the network admin actually turned me on to linux. I believe now, they have a Windows Lab with around 30 PCs, a MAC lab, with around 15 Macs, and a Unix/Linux Lab with around 20 Machines. Anyone else have similar goings on at their schools???
Most CPE devices use something similar to hash codes, used in ascend CPE, to determine which services are available, such as firewall, nat, etc. Also, different security levels would permit lock out of certain features, such as a admin account with access to all services, and customer access, with the ability to modify setting such as port forwarding, and DCHP configurations. Unfortunately, the passwords users choose will probably be easily guessed or obtained via social engineering (Hi, the is Joe Administrator from you cable modem provider) I think that the implmentation of these devices needs to be carefully controlled, to avoid serious problems in system hijacking
This product isn't all that new of an idea. Similar products by Cisco and Lucent/Ascend are already available for xDSL. The cable connection does offer a new twist to the home users, however, it will depend on the rules of the cable company as to which functions the users will be allowed to set. Something else to remember is that the average home user will not be able to pull this device out of the box and provision it. Although a web based interface may help, it will be the jobs of the truck roll comany to configure it, and how knowlegable their tech are (not very) will determine the security of the connection. This may open up opportunities for technical savy folks like us /.ers to make a couple of extra bucks on the side by doing security checks on these connections, and making changes as needed. As for NAT and firewall services, I would venture to say that these will be locked out by the provider, so that you do have to pay for each computer connected to it. But that is just my $0.02. -MerkuryZ
I would guess the the RIAA is going to try and have a fieild day with them...especially after finding out that MP3s made them lose -900000 in sales. On a tangent, I wonder how feasable using DvDs in portable MP3 players would be. nearly the same amount of storage space, and the ability to add another drive for pennies a gig!!
Perhaps a email protocol which allows for self destruction and prevention of forwarding of emails needs to be created (not patented). I send an email to a co worker about how I think this and that about another employee, set to destruct in 1 day. Then, when a court case comes up, this email is long gone.
I dunno...I think Baywatch qualifies as one of those shows
You're absolutely right that a large amount of bandwidth can be used downloading an ISO, but how often does that happen...once....maybe twice a month. And JPEGS are small files...hardly of any concern to a network admin. A group of 10 people surfing would have a hard time generating the amount of bandwidth used by a single napster server. Granted, napster is a great idea, and it does have its place, perhaps the university should have an internal napster server, and not allow access to the external ones, using the "free" 100Mbs bandwidth on the LAN. Bandwidth is an expensive thing, and single users screwing it up for the rest of the users because they want to set up their own private radio station is not condusive to a learning environment. If these users want to do this, then maybe they should invest in a DSL. Then they can pay for the amount of server that they want to run, without having to worry about the other people on the network being affected. -Z