If ISP's care about how their bandwidth is being used up, they should/would definitely disconnect users for even unintentional abusive behavior for this.
Used to work at a WISP, and malware infected customers were a huge source of network problems. Anyone suspected of being infected was contacted immediately, and potentially disconnected from the network if they were unreachable and/or immediate attempts to resolve their spyware problems weren't successful.
Perhaps wired ISP's aren't so concerned about this...
Definitely. Best place to follow a lot of the debate is LWN. See this article for starters on some of the numbers that prompt the criticism. Canonical also has developed a reputation for maintaining large patches or groups of patches for applications rather than pushing the stuff upstream. Or they fork and create a new upstream.
These are just some of the arguments I can recall popping up on LWN the last few months -- I'm sure you can find more.
Of course, the usual suspects are at work here too... jealousy for sure as the technical heavy lifting of Canonical is done by Debian, Red Hat and others who employ the kernel hackers and such. Without these folks, Ubuntu wouldn't even exist...
Anyways, not to say Ubuntu doesn't give back in their own way, but these are the meat of the technical criticisms.
I can see what you're saying as well. ZFS does a _lot_ of the things WAFL has done for years. I don't really think those approaches should necessarily be able to be patented though, but as it is now, you can see how something like ZFS -- very similar to WAFL in a lot of ways would raise some red flags and at least warrant some investigation (whether or not we agree with the principles there).
NetApp should focus on their business model though instead. WAFL is still significantly more mature than ZFS and has a superior deduplication implementation IMO. Their stuff "just works". They've got plenty of ammo to continue competing... I suppose they realize this and are just doing their corporate "due diligence" in aggressively trying to protect their IP.
Oracle should offer to provide indemnification to vendors. They've got a large patent portfolio of their own and obviously large assets to make them a much more formidable foe to NetApp.
Agree that ZFS is "way ahead" of btrfs (and most any other filesystem out there other than WAFL really) due to the fact that it's available "now". btrfs will most likely address the issues you bring up by the time they are stable, but still will need a year or two of burn-in time. ZFS needed the same...
I have no doubt that btrfs or something else will eventually fill the void in the Linux world. I think Sun/Oracle does themselves a disservice by licensing things such that ZFS cannot be included in the Linux kernel... all they're doing is ensuring that the Linux community will come up with something compareable down the road when instead they could just let everyone use ZFS and become the de facto standard.
Yeah, I think it was an internal thing, and no packages were ever distributed. The steps they took were all precautionary (with as internal as it was they probably could have said nothing and no one would have been the wiser).
This has everything to do with Arlen's political survival (aka pulling a Lieberman) as he was about to be voted out of office in the Republican primary there.
And I'm not sure that it's a clear cut win for Democrats... Arlen will be an uncertain ally at best, and negates the Democrats ability to run someone really far to the left against Toomey in PA which I'm sure they would have loved to do. So, a mixed bag. Arlen's effectively been a democrat (or at least not a republican) for many years now anyways, so while this is a PR blow to be sure it won't change much as far as senate politics are concerned.
As far as Arlen trying to say the GOP has moved right since Reagan's days? Hogwash, they've moved left and become indistinguishable from Democrats which is why they're being punished by the voters. Arlen's own appeal to Reaganism is offset by a quote from the man himself:
"A political party cannot be all things to all people. It cannot compromise its fundamental beliefs for political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers. It is not a social club or fraternity engaged in intramural contests to accumulate trophies on the mantel over the fireplace...No one can quarrel with the idea that a political party hopes it can attract a wide following, but does it do this by forsaking its basic beliefs? By blurring its own image so as to be indistinguishable from the opposition party?"
Personally, I'm glad Arlen made his selling out official. Republicans may be down and out right now, but the path back does not involve selling out our principles.
It's not a matter of worrying about either/or. ISP's typically oversell bandwidth (it'd be near impossible to make a profit otherwise). It's not to their advantage to have a customer maxing out his or her connection 24x7. If a customer is maxing out their connection for extended periods of time it tell us the sysadmin that that customer either has a spyware/infected PC and is operating as part of a botnet or they're a P2P user. The ISP doesn't like either and will likely take action against both if they notice it's negatively impacting other users.
Don't worry, the Republicans are certain to make sure we hold the next president responsible.
As we all should, not just Republicans. What we're going through is a "correction", tied heavily to the housing issues in this country and being tempered by the Bush tax cuts, a weak dollar that is helping exports and inflation that is far from out of control (higher oil prices help to act as a tax to keep inflation in check). Unemployment numbers have inched up, but are still only around 5.1% (something much of the world would love to have).
We're far from a catastrophe, and it's doubtful once things start to improve in the final quarter of this year that we'll have experienced the prerequisite three quarters of negative economic growth necessary for a "recession" to occur. We've had a long period of growth, and in any free market society there's going to be contractions and corrections.
Even in the credit area, supposedly most hard hit by the housing debacle there is no shortage of credit. So far, the Fed has done "OK" by providing liquidity and keeping interest rates low. Hopefully they don't interfere too much more than they need to.
Meanwhile, while the press screams about a recession, economists just aren'tseeing one, and wouldn't bet on one either.
What _will_ exacerbate the problem is the next administration tinkering and meddling too much to attempt to correct a "non-problem". Jacking up taxes on the people that give us jobs, and pushing more protectionist policies could easily push us back in the wrong direction and change what looks to be an extremely mild correction into the recession everyone is whining about but so far hasn't quite materialized.
And honestly, I would much prefer to see different parties in both the WH and in control of Congress. The economy loves political deadlock, and it may be the only thing to control insane spending by the government, even if only slightly. I was disappointed to see the Republicans spending so much, and I can only imagine what the Democrats will do...
How is wireshark better than tcpdump?
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One of the most useful features of wireshark is its breakdown of (known) protocols. It makes it a lot easier to follow a DHCP address acquisition or a DNS request and to dig into the individual flags of said DNS request (was it an update? did it have any prerequisites?)
However, probably the best use I've found for Wireshark was troubleshooting VoIP with SIP and RTP. Wireshark has great plugins for visually laying out each step of the SIP conversation, including showing you where the RTP stream initidated at. If you've ever tried to troubleshoot SIP via a NAT setup with various proxies like SER throughout, it's an invaluable tool. It'll even graph jitter for you. Just tcpdump to an output file and load it up in Wireshark.
So? This is hardly some great tragedy. If there's demand for it, people will be willing to pay for it. If not, there won't. Who cares if some country out there has a govt subsidized technology that I don't really need right now? If it's good enough it'll find its way here because there'll be demand for it.
Don't force feed me things I don't want, especially in the form of "taxation" to pay for technology.
Yeah, and you'd think a country like Iran would have other ways to get this kind of information. Like, I dunno, stealing it from Pakistan.
The nuclear cat is out of the bag, and as long as the US has a single nuke, they have no place to lecture others about non-proliferation. This is dangerous reasoning. There is no reason that everyone should have nuclear weapons just because we do. Or that we should not just because everyone else does not. Nuclear weapons arguably kept us safe from WW3 ever breaking out, and there certainly are nations who would be extremely dangerous with such weapons in their hands. So it is in our and the world's absolute best interests that nations like Iran do not ever obtain nukes. Sure, it may or may not be an inevitability, but that doesn't mean that we should hurry the process along by not fighting it, or act stupidly by getting rid of our own deterrent.
It sounds good to be in favor of the destruction of all such weapons, but in reality it would be an incredibly reckless decision. Would only take one madman with one at that point to hold the entire world hostage.
I agree that health care shouldn't be coupled to the employer. My work gives excellent health care benefits. Far more than I'll ever need. I would much rather have that money in my pocket and go out and buy a health care package more suitable for my life.
This would have the net effect of driving down health care costs making it more affordable for those who cannot currently obtain it, and put more money in the average person's pocket who is severely overpaying for services they never ever make use of.
It also leaves us with the benefit of a private health care system where I can still get my MRI tomorrow instead of having to wait 6+ months as in a system like the UK's NHS.
Red Hat pays many of their developers / admins to work full time or part time on the Fedora project. They have a vested interest after all -- much of Fedora eventually makes its way into RHEL.
The ISP I used to work at did. We used qmailtoaster. Made upgrading and redeploying much easier.
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So by your +5 Interesting logic, if instead you had a clothing store and your competition was selling counterfeit designer labels and hurting your business, the proper response response by the designer would be to sue the trucking company that delivered the counterfeit clothing?
In your analogy, there is likely a "supplier" of the counterfeit clothing that would be much easier and more efficient to go after to quell the distribution of the clothing. How is this paralleled in the world of music sharing? This isn't someone making cheap knockoffs of music, it's your average joe user ripping songs from their CD's and sharing them via your "trucking company". And there are millions of them!
Either you give in or go after the transport medium in this case.
I'm not saying which way is the right way to go, just that your analogy doesn't apply.:)
Please keep in mind that Red Hat is _part_ of the community. Not only do they contribute a tremendous amount to kernel development, but their employees are extremely active on mailing lists, blogs, IRC and elsewhere interacting and helping out the "community" in addition to their paid support.
Don't really care to read much about this non-issue, but if this "censorship" did in fact happen, personally I'm glad. Whether or not your average slashdotter agrees, issues like global warming _are_ political. If this person was trying to push a political agenda, I'm glad they were "censored" some.
The religion of global warming is a scary thing...
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If ISP's care about how their bandwidth is being used up, they should/would definitely disconnect users for even unintentional abusive behavior for this.
Used to work at a WISP, and malware infected customers were a huge source of network problems. Anyone suspected of being infected was contacted immediately, and potentially disconnected from the network if they were unreachable and/or immediate attempts to resolve their spyware problems weren't successful.
Perhaps wired ISP's aren't so concerned about this...
Definitely. Best place to follow a lot of the debate is LWN. See this article for starters on some of the numbers that prompt the criticism. Canonical also has developed a reputation for maintaining large patches or groups of patches for applications rather than pushing the stuff upstream. Or they fork and create a new upstream.
These are just some of the arguments I can recall popping up on LWN the last few months -- I'm sure you can find more.
Of course, the usual suspects are at work here too... jealousy for sure as the technical heavy lifting of Canonical is done by Debian, Red Hat and others who employ the kernel hackers and such. Without these folks, Ubuntu wouldn't even exist...
Anyways, not to say Ubuntu doesn't give back in their own way, but these are the meat of the technical criticisms.
Linux *always* had a niche to fill. I can't see how the same is true of OpenSolaris.
ZFS.
And don't say BSD... the BSD port of ZFS is way behind OpenSolaris' feature and performance-wise.
We should reject ALL energy subsidies. If solar truly is the more economical solution, it will win out in the market place.
I can see what you're saying as well. ZFS does a _lot_ of the things WAFL has done for years. I don't really think those approaches should necessarily be able to be patented though, but as it is now, you can see how something like ZFS -- very similar to WAFL in a lot of ways would raise some red flags and at least warrant some investigation (whether or not we agree with the principles there).
NetApp should focus on their business model though instead. WAFL is still significantly more mature than ZFS and has a superior deduplication implementation IMO. Their stuff "just works". They've got plenty of ammo to continue competing... I suppose they realize this and are just doing their corporate "due diligence" in aggressively trying to protect their IP.
Oracle should offer to provide indemnification to vendors. They've got a large patent portfolio of their own and obviously large assets to make them a much more formidable foe to NetApp.
Any plans to add in write cache support? I'm thinking along the lines of putting ZFS's ZIL on SSD's. Really makes NFS in sync mode much quicker.
Agree that ZFS is "way ahead" of btrfs (and most any other filesystem out there other than WAFL really) due to the fact that it's available "now". btrfs will most likely address the issues you bring up by the time they are stable, but still will need a year or two of burn-in time. ZFS needed the same...
I have no doubt that btrfs or something else will eventually fill the void in the Linux world. I think Sun/Oracle does themselves a disservice by licensing things such that ZFS cannot be included in the Linux kernel... all they're doing is ensuring that the Linux community will come up with something compareable down the road when instead they could just let everyone use ZFS and become the de facto standard.
Ah well.
First Paul Krugman, now this. How irrelevant is the Nobel Prize these days?
Just a bunch of elitists scratching their own backs.
Years of diplomacy (UN inspections and such) were tried with Iraq after the first gulf war.
Yeah, I think it was an internal thing, and no packages were ever distributed. The steps they took were all precautionary (with as internal as it was they probably could have said nothing and no one would have been the wiser).
But hey, fun to stir up FUD...
Because Debian has a LOT more manpower than Slackware does?
This has everything to do with Arlen's political survival (aka pulling a Lieberman) as he was about to be voted out of office in the Republican primary there.
And I'm not sure that it's a clear cut win for Democrats... Arlen will be an uncertain ally at best, and negates the Democrats ability to run someone really far to the left against Toomey in PA which I'm sure they would have loved to do. So, a mixed bag. Arlen's effectively been a democrat (or at least not a republican) for many years now anyways, so while this is a PR blow to be sure it won't change much as far as senate politics are concerned.
As far as Arlen trying to say the GOP has moved right since Reagan's days? Hogwash, they've moved left and become indistinguishable from Democrats which is why they're being punished by the voters. Arlen's own appeal to Reaganism is offset by a quote from the man himself:
"A political party cannot be all things to all people. It cannot compromise
its fundamental beliefs for political expediency, or simply to swell its
numbers. It is not a social club or fraternity engaged in intramural contests
to accumulate trophies on the mantel over the fireplace...No one can quarrel
with the idea that a political party hopes it can attract a wide following,
but does it do this by forsaking its basic beliefs? By blurring its own image
so as to be indistinguishable from the opposition party?"
Personally, I'm glad Arlen made his selling out official. Republicans may be down and out right now, but the path back does not involve selling out our principles.
K go ahead and mod me down now. :-)
It's not a matter of worrying about either/or. ISP's typically oversell bandwidth (it'd be near impossible to make a profit otherwise). It's not to their advantage to have a customer maxing out his or her connection 24x7. If a customer is maxing out their connection for extended periods of time it tell us the sysadmin that that customer either has a spyware/infected PC and is operating as part of a botnet or they're a P2P user. The ISP doesn't like either and will likely take action against both if they notice it's negatively impacting other users.
Don't worry, the Republicans are certain to make sure we hold the next president responsible.
As we all should, not just Republicans. What we're going through is a "correction", tied heavily to the housing issues in this country and being tempered by the Bush tax cuts, a weak dollar that is helping exports and inflation that is far from out of control (higher oil prices help to act as a tax to keep inflation in check). Unemployment numbers have inched up, but are still only around 5.1% (something much of the world would love to have).We're far from a catastrophe, and it's doubtful once things start to improve in the final quarter of this year that we'll have experienced the prerequisite three quarters of negative economic growth necessary for a "recession" to occur. We've had a long period of growth, and in any free market society there's going to be contractions and corrections.
Even in the credit area, supposedly most hard hit by the housing debacle there is no shortage of credit. So far, the Fed has done "OK" by providing liquidity and keeping interest rates low. Hopefully they don't interfere too much more than they need to.
Meanwhile, while the press screams about a recession, economists just aren't seeing one, and wouldn't bet on one either.
What _will_ exacerbate the problem is the next administration tinkering and meddling too much to attempt to correct a "non-problem". Jacking up taxes on the people that give us jobs, and pushing more protectionist policies could easily push us back in the wrong direction and change what looks to be an extremely mild correction into the recession everyone is whining about but so far hasn't quite materialized.
And honestly, I would much prefer to see different parties in both the WH and in control of Congress. The economy loves political deadlock, and it may be the only thing to control insane spending by the government, even if only slightly. I was disappointed to see the Republicans spending so much, and I can only imagine what the Democrats will do...
One of the most useful features of wireshark is its breakdown of (known) protocols. It makes it a lot easier to follow a DHCP address acquisition or a DNS request and to dig into the individual flags of said DNS request (was it an update? did it have any prerequisites?)
However, probably the best use I've found for Wireshark was troubleshooting VoIP with SIP and RTP. Wireshark has great plugins for visually laying out each step of the SIP conversation, including showing you where the RTP stream initidated at. If you've ever tried to troubleshoot SIP via a NAT setup with various proxies like SER throughout, it's an invaluable tool. It'll even graph jitter for you. Just tcpdump to an output file and load it up in Wireshark.
So? This is hardly some great tragedy. If there's demand for it, people will be willing to pay for it. If not, there won't. Who cares if some country out there has a govt subsidized technology that I don't really need right now? If it's good enough it'll find its way here because there'll be demand for it.
Don't force feed me things I don't want, especially in the form of "taxation" to pay for technology.
The nuclear cat is out of the bag, and as long as the US has a single nuke, they have no place to lecture others about non-proliferation. This is dangerous reasoning. There is no reason that everyone should have nuclear weapons just because we do. Or that we should not just because everyone else does not. Nuclear weapons arguably kept us safe from WW3 ever breaking out, and there certainly are nations who would be extremely dangerous with such weapons in their hands. So it is in our and the world's absolute best interests that nations like Iran do not ever obtain nukes. Sure, it may or may not be an inevitability, but that doesn't mean that we should hurry the process along by not fighting it, or act stupidly by getting rid of our own deterrent.
It sounds good to be in favor of the destruction of all such weapons, but in reality it would be an incredibly reckless decision. Would only take one madman with one at that point to hold the entire world hostage.
I agree that health care shouldn't be coupled to the employer. My work gives excellent health care benefits. Far more than I'll ever need. I would much rather have that money in my pocket and go out and buy a health care package more suitable for my life.
This would have the net effect of driving down health care costs making it more affordable for those who cannot currently obtain it, and put more money in the average person's pocket who is severely overpaying for services they never ever make use of.
It also leaves us with the benefit of a private health care system where I can still get my MRI tomorrow instead of having to wait 6+ months as in a system like the UK's NHS.
Not really. Core inflation in the US is still at a rather paltry 2.3% (or thereabouts).
:)
Now if they employee travels overseas to do their shopping, you may have a point.
Red Hat pays many of their developers / admins to work full time or part time on the Fedora project. They have a vested interest after all -- much of Fedora eventually makes its way into RHEL.
The ISP I used to work at did. We used qmailtoaster. Made upgrading and redeploying much easier.
So by your +5 Interesting logic, if instead you had a clothing store and your competition was selling counterfeit designer labels and hurting your business, the proper response response by the designer would be to sue the trucking company that delivered the counterfeit clothing?
In your analogy, there is likely a "supplier" of the counterfeit clothing that would be much easier and more efficient to go after to quell the distribution of the clothing. How is this paralleled in the world of music sharing? This isn't someone making cheap knockoffs of music, it's your average joe user ripping songs from their CD's and sharing them via your "trucking company". And there are millions of them!
Either you give in or go after the transport medium in this case.
I'm not saying which way is the right way to go, just that your analogy doesn't apply.
Please keep in mind that Red Hat is _part_ of the community. Not only do they contribute a tremendous amount to kernel development, but their employees are extremely active on mailing lists, blogs, IRC and elsewhere interacting and helping out the "community" in addition to their paid support.
Don't really care to read much about this non-issue, but if this "censorship" did in fact happen, personally I'm glad. Whether or not your average slashdotter agrees, issues like global warming _are_ political. If this person was trying to push a political agenda, I'm glad they were "censored" some.
The religion of global warming is a scary thing...