A few suggestions that I don't always follow myself but know I should:
Never suggest that "this site is best viewed with..." unless Microsoft or Netscape is paying you to do so
Never refuse to load a page because the browser doesn't support the latest specifacation
Always check you work with lynx
Keep your byte count low on your initial page
Don't animate gifs unless you have a very good reason to (cute is NOT a reason.)
<blink> kills
If clicking one of your links will cause the viewer to download more than about 150KB, warn them
Funky colors often look stupid
Include contact information up front, that's often the reason someone came to the site in the first place
Remember, it's a web page, not a brochure
Remember, it's a web page, not a movie trailer
There is no sound spec in HTML, don't send me audio unless I ask for it
Don't make me wade through your mission statement to find out about your products
Don't make me fill out a form for info, give me a toll-free number or an email address with a name
Don't fill out the subject for me in a mailto link
Don't send me to sales@ or info@, send me to a person
If you have a big site, provide a map of it
I could go on. The basic gist is, "if it bothers you it will bother others." Don't design something into your pages without a reason. Don't make it look like everyone elses just so it looks like everyone elses. My page (url above) is a very BAD example, it was done in 1995 when I (and not many) had a clue. One that I did do back then that has done well is kiwa.com, a site that is very simple but gives Kiwa's buyers exactly what they want. I'm not a web designer so I can't really claim to "design". I do know what I like and what pisses me off though.
I do consider the source. When I first me Randy he basicly told me to go fuck myself. It was later in a NANOG BOF where I brought up the problem of small, multihomed e-businesses having problems getting their own address space from ARIN and the problems of getting providers to accept announcements smaller than a/20 that I was able to see that, brash as he is, the guy has a clue and a well working brain. Most of the ideas expresses are thought out and well peer reviewed. It seems that a lot of the Internet "gods" are kind of twisted people. Take Paul Vixie, please. But it is this kind of genuis and free thought working in the core of the internet that has kept it a viable structure. Listen to Randy, and Paul.. most of the time they are right. If you don't like what they say, don't post it on/., subscribe to the nanog mail list and vent there.
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BGP isn't really that smart. That's why I make good bucks making it look smart (traffic/load balancing). Asymetric routes aren't a problem really, I don't know why you'd worry about them. The internet and BGP was designed to do that. And I'll take one of UU's "so called" router engineers any day over a government hack.. I'm sure _you_ didn't talk to a real NOC person. And about your string vs mesh fetish: I guess you don't really understand how real world economics plays a part in network design. A non-congested router doesn't add more that 2ms to the path. You're like the guy that wants a non-stop freeway from your house to every desination in the world. Sorry , it ain't goint to happen. If you think that you have a better way to run the net, come to a NANOG meeting and give your ideas a try.
I've changed my.sig line on mail proggy to my hamelin.edmonds.wa.us domain to show my support for our (US) nation durring these times. I'd suggest that those of you with nameservers and a bit of cash (about the same as netsol) to get your own.us domain. It's great to put on your snail box and makes the postal carrier really wonder.
Not an ad, but it's hard to find where to reg.us stuff.. try starting at beltane.com.
Are we to trust government employees with all financial transactions merely because we elect them?
It's really, "Those that we elect that hired them that hired them that hired them that hired them.." that we need to trust.
The question is; "Do you trust the person next to you.. do you trust yourself?"
I wish that we lived in a world where we could trust each other to keep out of each others business.. but we don't. That's exactly why we have strong crypto.
I don't even know why Congress is talking about backdoor crypto (I know that my company would think about moving off-shore to avoid it.) There is no way it can work. I really wish that clueful people could be elected. But try to find someone that is clueful on all the subjects that you (and your neighbor) need them to be: schools, transit, police, fire, medical, security, tech, mental illness, zoning law, power, drugs, homeless, tort law, national security, military, farmers, workers, etc... We take the best of the talking heads and hope for the best (and bitch our hearts out in our free press until the next election.)
So far, it's the best government system that we've been able to come up with. It mostly works out in the end (with lots of people getting trampled upon in the process (token drug law, race, poverty. hacker kudos.)(Note: And I'm a person that did 3+ years US Federal Prison for phracking Sprint way back in 1986. Suprise, most "inmates" are VERY much US patriots.)
For the most part, the US govenmental system IS one of the few that is indeed OpenSource (mostly, in the end. We put time limits on classified material). Maybe more in a FreeBSD than a GNU way (think contribs), but a heck of a lot better that billg's way.
The Tragedy happened just like a bad telnet hack. Fix it, or don't use it, find something better and move on.
We that read/. are some of the best mentaly prepared to deal with it. We have our holes found, and then (some times painfully) fix them while still keeping the source open. The Tragedy is really no different.. we'll do the same. Maybe it will take longer to travel.. just like it having to set up ssh keys and not using rsh. We'll deal with it but keep our basic freedoms in the end. We have the mindset to help find the solutions. Think, plan, debate, plan, (do until(workable)), do peer review (do until (agreeable)), and then implement. That's our way and, if you think about it, it's the US way.
Just because I make my living from the net, run nameservers from home and make my wife work at a
colocenter
just so I have bandwidth doesn't mean I'm a "nethead".
We are NOT running out of IP addresses. We are adding too many routes to the global routing tables that must be held by all routers running bgp connected to multiple tier 1 backbone providers. This is one reason why IPv6 is still vapor. It doesn't address the size of the global routing tables. --
Joe Hamelin
Despite the occasional whining, I think Canada generally still likes the US. Granted, it would have been nice if you could have spared us the month of crap about your election, but that's water under the bridge...
Er, sorry about that... blame Florida.
If you really want us to like you, invade Quebec. Please.
Ah, asking for some good ol' U.S. of A. disaster relief? Well if you promise not to let any more
Bin Ladden bombers through Victoria, we'll think about it.
And take Celine Dion.
No thanks.
Oh, and could you bring some Cherry Coke with you? It's impossible to get up here, and that Wild Cherry Pepsi is shit.
Ok, we'll trade for some Squirl Peanut Butter.
Also, would you mind getting California to pay us for all the electricity we gave them?
Not until they pay us for the power they took!
Now that I think about it, I could use some good Mexican food... Maybe California can pay us back in tamales...
Aw, we'll let you come down to Yakima for the Mexican food. Just be sure to stop at the outlet malls along the way. And stop driving slow in the left lane too! How would you like it if I actually drove 45KPH on the Granville Bridge? --
Joe Hamelin
Trollys didn't die, they are now called Light Rail. If you want to know why they are a bad thing, look at this page on the Monorail site. They deserved to die. Trollys/light rail has killed, and keeps killing people every year. The only safe transit is off-grade transit. --
Joe Hamelin
One of the oldest marketing tricks is to promote your worse feature as the best thing since sliced bread.
Don't ask me why it works, but it does and you'll see it all the time.
When I first got hired on at my company I was laughed at for running
"Lamex"... All the others were running FreeBSD then. (I've since then
seen the light and run FreeBSD now.) That was back when we only had
10 people in the firm. Now we have 150 and an IS department. We now
run about 350 web application servers on the production network. We
also have marketing departments running windows, NT servers with
Exchange and Outlook for meetings. The art department runs Macs and
the proggers run linux or bsd (all flavors) and all behind OpenBSD
firewalls.
Our company did something that I've never seen before; we merged the
IS and NetOps into one department. Now you would think that this would
cause a great war but it's turned out to be wonderful. When they needed
to setup a file server that would talk to all the OS's we showed them how
to build a samba box. When Exchange was having problems with open
relays and mail floods, we showed them how to have a sendmail box in
front of it as a kind of mail spool/firewall. And when I needed to run visio
or outlook, they set me up with a switchbox and a windows box. All the
sysadmins and programmers are available to ISNOC and input on all
projects. That way the best solution (NT/BSD/Mac/Linux/Sun/Cisco/etc)
gets implemented. We also act as our own ISP since we push about
1Gb/s out to the net. We have a wide body of knowledge that can deal
with anything the users need. Each user is allowed to use the OS that
they feel will let them get thier job done.
If you are a large firm that has lots of programmers, admins and IS gurus,
get them together and let them rock.
A blank page with a generic grid of switches (you don't have to enable or label them all), basic display and a small tab (or holes) from the middle sheet with contacts to interface with a desktop computer (think Palm cradle). Use PROM for the memory so that a desktop program could design and burn in the software for the application, then send the sheet through a spitjet printer for the graphics. If it catches on, you could get printer manufactures to include the PROM burner in the printer. Need to do a survey? Just pop down to Office Despot and buy a ream of PpC, design your form, then click print and burn. Use of the PROM would allow each PpC to be customized as easy as doing a mail-merge. This would also give geeks a VERY cheap Pic type toy to play with.
Other ideas involving the RF interface include security access badges that also require a password (think HUD door scanners).
I do wonder about the phone connections though; the FCC requires some rather bulky (in this vein) surge protection. I'm not sure how carbon strips on paper will handle the 600 ohms needed to grab a dialtone. I'd like to hear Jim's ideas on this.
If the home/office printer idea takes off, we could then create 'letters' that have built-in public key protection.
I better stop now, I'm starting to think of PpC - Lego Mindstorm interfaces.
Slashdot Mirror
And in the future we'll be know as Bit Pushing Old Farts.
73
Amen and 73
- Never suggest that "this site is best viewed with..." unless Microsoft or Netscape is paying you to do so
- Never refuse to load a page because the browser doesn't support the latest specifacation
- Always check you work with lynx
- Keep your byte count low on your initial page
- Don't animate gifs unless you have a very good reason to (cute is NOT a reason.)
- <blink> kills
- If clicking one of your links will cause the viewer to download more than about 150KB, warn them
- Funky colors often look stupid
- Include contact information up front, that's often the reason someone came to the site in the first place
- Remember, it's a web page, not a brochure
- Remember, it's a web page, not a movie trailer
- There is no sound spec in HTML, don't send me audio unless I ask for it
- Don't make me wade through your mission statement to find out about your products
- Don't make me fill out a form for info, give me a toll-free number or an email address with a name
- Don't fill out the subject for me in a mailto link
- Don't send me to sales@ or info@, send me to a person
- If you have a big site, provide a map of it
I could go on. The basic gist is, "if it bothers you it will bother others." Don't design something into your pages without a reason. Don't make it look like everyone elses just so it looks like everyone elses. My page (url above) is a very BAD example, it was done in 1995 when I (and not many) had a clue. One that I did do back then that has done well is kiwa.com, a site that is very simple but gives Kiwa's buyers exactly what they want. I'm not a web designer so I can't really claim to "design". I do know what I like and what pisses me off though.I do consider the source. When I first me Randy he basicly told me to go fuck myself. It was later in a NANOG BOF where I brought up the problem of small, multihomed e-businesses having problems getting their own address space from ARIN and the problems of getting providers to accept announcements smaller than a /20 that I was able to see that, brash as he is, the guy has a clue and a well working brain. Most of the ideas expresses are thought out and well peer reviewed. It seems that a lot of the Internet "gods" are kind of twisted people. Take Paul Vixie, please. But it is this kind of genuis and free thought working in the core of the internet that has kept it a viable structure. Listen to Randy, and Paul.. most of the time they are right. If you don't like what they say, don't post it on /., subscribe to the nanog mail list and vent there.
BGP isn't really that smart. That's why I make good bucks making it look smart (traffic/load balancing). Asymetric routes aren't a problem really, I don't know why you'd worry about them. The internet and BGP was designed to do that. And I'll take one of UU's "so called" router engineers any day over a government hack.. I'm sure _you_ didn't talk to a real NOC person. And about your string vs mesh fetish: I guess you don't really understand how real world economics plays a part in network design. A non-congested router doesn't add more that 2ms to the path. You're like the guy that wants a non-stop freeway from your house to every desination in the world. Sorry , it ain't goint to happen. If you think that you have a better way to run the net, come to a NANOG meeting and give your ideas a try.
I've changed my .sig line on mail proggy to my hamelin.edmonds.wa.us domain to show my support for our (US) nation durring these times. I'd suggest that those of you with nameservers and a bit of cash (about the same as netsol) to get your own .us domain. It's great to put on your snail box and makes the postal carrier really wonder.
.us stuff.. try starting at beltane.com.
Not an ad, but it's hard to find where to reg
It's really, "Those that we elect that hired them that hired them that hired them that hired them.." that we need to trust.
The question is; "Do you trust the person next to you.. do you trust yourself?"
I wish that we lived in a world where we could trust each other to keep out of each others business.. but we don't. That's exactly why we have strong crypto.
I don't even know why Congress is talking about backdoor crypto (I know that my company would think about moving off-shore to avoid it.) There is no way it can work. I really wish that clueful people could be elected. But try to find someone that is clueful on all the subjects that you (and your neighbor) need them to be: schools, transit, police, fire, medical, security, tech, mental illness, zoning law, power, drugs, homeless, tort law, national security, military, farmers, workers, etc... We take the best of the talking heads and hope for the best (and bitch our hearts out in our free press until the next election.)
So far, it's the best government system that we've been able to come up with. It mostly works out in the end (with lots of people getting trampled upon in the process (token drug law, race, poverty. hacker kudos.)(Note: And I'm a person that did 3+ years US Federal Prison for phracking Sprint way back in 1986. Suprise, most "inmates" are VERY much US patriots.)
For the most part, the US govenmental system IS one of the few that is indeed OpenSource (mostly, in the end. We put time limits on classified material). Maybe more in a FreeBSD than a GNU way (think contribs), but a heck of a lot better that billg's way.
The Tragedy happened just like a bad telnet hack. Fix it, or don't use it, find something better and move on.
We that read /. are some of the best mentaly prepared to deal with it. We have our holes found, and then (some times painfully) fix them while still keeping the source open. The Tragedy is really no different.. we'll do the same. Maybe it will take longer to travel.. just like it having to set up ssh keys and not using rsh. We'll deal with it but keep our basic freedoms in the end. We have the mindset to help find the solutions. Think, plan, debate, plan, (do until(workable)), do peer review (do until (agreeable)), and then implement. That's our way and, if you think about it, it's the US way.
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Joe Hamelin
Joe
joe@nethead.com
joe@nethead.org
--
Joe Hamelin
We are NOT running out of IP addresses. We are adding too many routes to the global routing tables that must be held by all routers running bgp connected to multiple tier 1 backbone providers. This is one reason why IPv6 is still vapor. It doesn't address the size of the global routing tables.
--
Joe Hamelin
I read it and thought; "about fsckin' time, I knew this all along."
--
Joe Hamelin
Er, sorry about that... blame Florida.
If you really want us to like you, invade Quebec. Please.
Ah, asking for some good ol' U.S. of A. disaster relief? Well if you promise not to let any more Bin Ladden bombers through Victoria, we'll think about it.
And take Celine Dion.
No thanks.
Oh, and could you bring some Cherry Coke with you? It's impossible to get up here, and that Wild Cherry Pepsi is shit.
Ok, we'll trade for some Squirl Peanut Butter.
Also, would you mind getting California to pay us for all the electricity we gave them?
Not until they pay us for the power they took!
Now that I think about it, I could use some good Mexican food... Maybe California can pay us back in tamales...
Aw, we'll let you come down to Yakima for the Mexican food. Just be sure to stop at the outlet malls along the way. And stop driving slow in the left lane too! How would you like it if I actually drove 45KPH on the Granville Bridge?
--
Joe Hamelin
That site got slashdotted fast!
--
Joe Hamelin
Trollys didn't die, they are now called Light Rail. If you want to know why they are a bad thing, look at this page on the Monorail site. They deserved to die. Trollys/light rail has killed, and keeps killing people every year. The only safe transit is off-grade transit.
--
Joe Hamelin
Now we can find out where all those lost socks are! Now THIS is fsckin' Science!
I work for one of the largest hosting house for adult content and we block pings at the routers to help protect aganst DoS, etc.
They should actualy check for a valid response from port 80 if they are checking port 80 content filters. Otherwise, they're testing a ping filter.
One of the oldest marketing tricks is to promote your worse feature as the best thing since sliced bread. Don't ask me why it works, but it does and you'll see it all the time.
Our company did something that I've never seen before; we merged the IS and NetOps into one department. Now you would think that this would cause a great war but it's turned out to be wonderful. When they needed to setup a file server that would talk to all the OS's we showed them how to build a samba box. When Exchange was having problems with open relays and mail floods, we showed them how to have a sendmail box in front of it as a kind of mail spool/firewall. And when I needed to run visio or outlook, they set me up with a switchbox and a windows box. All the sysadmins and programmers are available to ISNOC and input on all projects. That way the best solution (NT/BSD/Mac/Linux/Sun/Cisco/etc) gets implemented. We also act as our own ISP since we push about 1Gb/s out to the net. We have a wide body of knowledge that can deal with anything the users need. Each user is allowed to use the OS that they feel will let them get thier job done.
If you are a large firm that has lots of programmers, admins and IS gurus, get them together and let them rock.
If you have one of those fancy keyboards that will let you record macros all you then need is a cheap fast food chop stick to hold down the key.
A host is a host
from coast to coast.
But no one will contact a host that's close.
Unless the host
that isn't close
is busy, sunk or dead!
The industry site for this topic is ccwatch.net. Another good article on the "Gak" factor is in the Seattle Times.
They didn't do a LRH cameo ala Hitchcock.
All I get is a "Not Found"... Did we slashdot CERF?
look at w3.org, exodus.net, nethead.com. All stolen today by script kiddies.
A blank page with a generic grid of switches (you don't have to enable or label them all), basic display and a small tab (or holes) from the middle sheet with contacts to interface with a desktop computer (think Palm cradle). Use PROM for the memory so that a desktop program could design and burn in the software for the application, then send the sheet through a spitjet printer for the graphics. If it catches on, you could get printer manufactures to include the PROM burner in the printer. Need to do a survey? Just pop down to Office Despot and buy a ream of PpC, design your form, then click print and burn. Use of the PROM would allow each PpC to be customized as easy as doing a mail-merge. This would also give geeks a VERY cheap Pic type toy to play with.
Other ideas involving the RF interface include security access badges that also require a password (think HUD door scanners).
I do wonder about the phone connections though; the FCC requires some rather bulky (in this vein) surge protection. I'm not sure how carbon strips on paper will handle the 600 ohms needed to grab a dialtone. I'd like to hear Jim's ideas on this.
If the home/office printer idea takes off, we could then create 'letters' that have built-in public key protection.
I better stop now, I'm starting to think of PpC - Lego Mindstorm interfaces.