I used to do contract work for a small ISP. There was almost no logging at all in that shop. mail/ftp/dns/radius logs were rolled every week and only the totals were kept for the mrtg graphs. The only "web log" was the access log from apache, that is to say the only web usage log the ISP had was a log of hits to its own website. There was no web proxy or other way to log web usage. Sometimes the router was configured to keep a short term log of connections, but this was only for debugging and performance tuning, the logs were rolled every five minutes or so due to sheer volume. Raw disk usage and bandwidth usage were really the only figures that concerned anyone at that ISP. A few times we had to track down users who were clogging the mail server, but that was about it.
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Sun expanded by leaps and bounds during the DotCom boom, and has been contracting ever since the DomCom bust. This shouldn't surprise anyone. Sun will be around for a long time to come, just not as large as during their "glory days" of the 1998 Foosball/Aeron/Nerf DotCom era that we all miss.
I can't speak for everyone, but the wireless chipset in my MacBookPro is based on the Broadcom BCM4310. In other words, it's 802.11a/b/g and works great on Mac and on Windows. I don't know exactly what driver it's using in Windows, I just used the driver CD that BootCamp made for me.
There are currently no Windows drivers for the built-in webcam, the backlit keyboard, the automaticly adjusting backlight, or the sudden motion gyro sensor.
The Forbes article from a few weeks ago states that thier bandwidth usage is approximately 200TB per day, the cost of which "may be approaching $1 million a month".
There's nothing wrong with 1999! Technology was more exciting, BMWs were still good looking, Money was still prevalent.
Note to self...
Step 1: Set up office across the street from YouTube headquarters. Step 2: Offer a variety of Nerf toys, Foosball tables, Aeron Chairs, and assorted snacks. Step 3: Profit! (Just don't accept any YouTube stock!)
How do you search video? Upload a similar clip and see if the server can find similar clips? Upload a video of yourself describing the video you desire?
YouTube doesn't currently the one video I would love to see -- a tour of their server farm, network, dev offices, etc. I would love to have a behind the scenes look.
A close friend of mine works for a large local ISP and web hosting provider. He fears that mandantory detailed logs will drive his company out of business. The telco in our area is actually a customer-owned cooperative that somehow managed to absorb a bunch of exchanges once owned and operated by GTE and USWest. Despite its size, the telco is barely staying in business. Telco equipment is expensive, maintaining and trenching cable is expensive. Energy prices rise. Customers are switching to cell phones and are demanding low prices. The ISP portion of the telco is done in conjunction with a once-small mom-and-pop business in the area. They have grown to do DSL for all of the telco's exchanges, cable modems for several cities, business grade T1/T3/OC3, and web hosting. This side of the business is also constantly skating on the brink of bankruptcy. To create a detailed logging policy, upgrade routers to do more sniffing and blocking, install sniffer PCs, create storage space for all of the logs, and most importantly, buy or write software to sift through hundreds of gigs of logs, will cost the company far too much. It's basiclly impossible given their current razor thin margins.
If the governement wants ISPs to do detailed logging, they had better start issuing grants so smaller ISPs and smaller web hosting providers can actually afford these strict requirements.
The BluRay folks should adopt a second name: "DVD+HD" and use the advertising slogan "plus means better, plus means more, don't settle for DVD minus HD when you can have DVD *plus* HD".
Then encourage the BluRay player builders to add a $5 DVD pickup laser and a $2 MPEG2 decoder chip so the BluRay players can also play back old fashioned DVD too.
SunRay terminals consume less real-world bandwidth on average than Citrix-based devices. The servers currently need to be either Sun Solaris or PC Linux, but there's talk of Windows support later this year.
What's with all of the iTunes dissing? I'm happy with iTunes. It's a slick app, has more features than I'll ever need, and I *love* the smart playlists feature. The only thing better would be a full regex feature, but even then I'd probably just keep using the existing smart playlists gui. I really have no complaints anymore. I thought the Windows version sucked up a little too much ram, but now that all of my machines have 512meg or 1gb, I really don't notice the memory footprint anymore.
I've used MusicMatch, MediaPlayer, SonicStage, RealOne, and Anapod. I prefer iTunes by far.
Parallels is a brand new VM from some russian company. It even makes use of intel virtualization features of the CoreDuo/CoreSolo. All of the reviews have been positive and I'm looking forward to getting a MacBook so I can try it for myself.
It seemed like not too long ago that Linux was the best option for breathing new life into 486-class PCs. I remember folks running FVWM and XFCE 1.0 on their 486 and first generation Pentium systems because Win95/98/NT ran too slow on the same hardware.
Now there's actually some FUD that Windows runs better on old hardware? Why is there even a debate at all? Has Windows gotten that much faster? Has Linux gotten that much slower? Has X11/Qt/GTK gotten that much more bloated?
Segway paved the way for the iBot. Or is it the other way around, iBot might have paved the way for the Segway.
Anyway, my point its, Kamen and his engineers designed the iBot wheelchair at the same time as the Segway. The both use the same technology, except Segway is a rich man's toy and iBot is a wheelchair that can climb stairs and rase the user up the standing adult eye level.
Segway is just a basic, two-wheel version of his iBot wheelchair. You know, the wheelchair that can climb stairs and raise the user up high enough to talk to standing adults? The wheelchair that's based on all of the inventions that made the Segway possible.
Segway isn't a fiasco, it's an overhyped consumer toy. He probably makes a handsome profit from it.
If he just leaned that way, wouldn't his platform make the turn for him?
Forward/Stop/Reverse is controlled by leaning, but steering is controlled by turning the control on the left side of the handlebars. Maybe future Segways will feature lean-stearing.
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I used to do contract work for a small ISP. There was almost no logging at all in that shop. mail/ftp/dns/radius logs were rolled every week and only the totals were kept for the mrtg graphs. The only "web log" was the access log from apache, that is to say the only web usage log the ISP had was a log of hits to its own website. There was no web proxy or other way to log web usage. Sometimes the router was configured to keep a short term log of connections, but this was only for debugging and performance tuning, the logs were rolled every five minutes or so due to sheer volume. Raw disk usage and bandwidth usage were really the only figures that concerned anyone at that ISP. A few times we had to track down users who were clogging the mail server, but that was about it.
Sun has been laying off workers since early 2000. They even have entire abandoned buildings:s ystems.htm
http://www.abandonedbutnotforgotten.com/sun_micro
Sun expanded by leaps and bounds during the DotCom boom, and has been contracting ever since the DomCom bust. This shouldn't surprise anyone. Sun will be around for a long time to come, just not as large as during their "glory days" of the 1998 Foosball/Aeron/Nerf DotCom era that we all miss.
Sounds like a neat idea, but I'm waiting for the iPhone + Nike = Shoe Phone.
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"This shoephone holds over 5 billion songs!
Would you believe 10,000 songs and 5,000 ringtones?"
The most famous app to use this feature is probably iAlertU, which has a demo on YouTube.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkAtRfA1UXc
http://www.slappingturtle.com/home/
Bubblegym was one of the first games to make use of thos:
http://www.balooba.se/baloobasoftware/texts/bubbl
I can't speak for everyone, but the wireless chipset in my MacBookPro is based on the Broadcom BCM4310. In other words, it's 802.11a/b/g and works great on Mac and on Windows. I don't know exactly what driver it's using in Windows, I just used the driver CD that BootCamp made for me.
There are currently no Windows drivers for the built-in webcam, the backlit keyboard, the automaticly adjusting backlight, or the sudden motion gyro sensor.
The writer of that blog entry is obviously a native english speaker. There's no way he worked in tech support.
The Forbes article from a few weeks ago states that thier bandwidth usage is approximately 200TB per day, the cost of which "may be approaching $1 million a month".
200 TB / day
8.33 TB / hour
8529.92 GB / hour
142.165 GB / minute
2.369 GB / sec
18.952 Gbit / sec
19406.848 Mbit/Sec
Less than dual 10gigE
Since when does a 10gigE or OC-192 cost $500,000/month?
Some people have 12 mbit cable models for $40/month. This works out to about 1617 cable modems or about $64,689.49.
Bandwidth is probably cheaper in bulk.
There's nothing wrong with 1999! Technology was more exciting, BMWs were still good looking, Money was still prevalent.
Note to self...
Step 1: Set up office across the street from YouTube headquarters.
Step 2: Offer a variety of Nerf toys, Foosball tables, Aeron Chairs, and assorted snacks.
Step 3: Profit! (Just don't accept any YouTube stock!)
How do you search video? Upload a similar clip and see if the server can find similar clips? Upload a video of yourself describing the video you desire?
YouTube doesn't currently the one video I would love to see -- a tour of their server farm, network, dev offices, etc. I would love to have a behind the scenes look.
Is there any chance YouTube will upgrade to some better codecs and/or higher bitrate streams?
A close friend of mine works for a large local ISP and web hosting provider. He fears that mandantory detailed logs will drive his company out of business. The telco in our area is actually a customer-owned cooperative that somehow managed to absorb a bunch of exchanges once owned and operated by GTE and USWest. Despite its size, the telco is barely staying in business. Telco equipment is expensive, maintaining and trenching cable is expensive. Energy prices rise. Customers are switching to cell phones and are demanding low prices. The ISP portion of the telco is done in conjunction with a once-small mom-and-pop business in the area. They have grown to do DSL for all of the telco's exchanges, cable modems for several cities, business grade T1/T3/OC3, and web hosting. This side of the business is also constantly skating on the brink of bankruptcy. To create a detailed logging policy, upgrade routers to do more sniffing and blocking, install sniffer PCs, create storage space for all of the logs, and most importantly, buy or write software to sift through hundreds of gigs of logs, will cost the company far too much. It's basiclly impossible given their current razor thin margins.
If the governement wants ISPs to do detailed logging, they had better start issuing grants so smaller ISPs and smaller web hosting providers can actually afford these strict requirements.
The BluRay folks should adopt a second name: "DVD+HD" and use the advertising slogan "plus means better, plus means more, don't settle for DVD minus HD when you can have DVD *plus* HD".
Then encourage the BluRay player builders to add a $5 DVD pickup laser and a $2 MPEG2 decoder chip so the BluRay players can also play back old fashioned DVD too.
Umm, it's a regular black plastic LCD monitor with a metalic silver base. Wh00p.
The real question: is this slashvertisment for Toms Hardware or for Asus? Or for both?
SunRay terminals consume less real-world bandwidth on average than Citrix-based devices. The servers currently need to be either Sun Solaris or PC Linux, but there's talk of Windows support later this year.
http://www.sun.com/sunray/sunray2/
Pretty slick stuff and Sun's been doing it for about 5 years or so.
What's with all of the iTunes dissing? I'm happy with iTunes. It's a slick app, has more features than I'll ever need, and I *love* the smart playlists feature. The only thing better would be a full regex feature, but even then I'd probably just keep using the existing smart playlists gui. I really have no complaints anymore. I thought the Windows version sucked up a little too much ram, but now that all of my machines have 512meg or 1gb, I really don't notice the memory footprint anymore.
I've used MusicMatch, MediaPlayer, SonicStage, RealOne, and Anapod. I prefer iTunes by far.
http://www.parallels.com/en/
Parallels is a brand new VM from some russian company. It even makes use of intel virtualization features of the CoreDuo/CoreSolo. All of the reviews have been positive and I'm looking forward to getting a MacBook so I can try it for myself.
Both a MPEG and ISO/IEC standard...
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Audio_Codin
It seemed like not too long ago that Linux was the best option for breathing new life into 486-class PCs. I remember folks running FVWM and XFCE 1.0 on their 486 and first generation Pentium systems because Win95/98/NT ran too slow on the same hardware.
Now there's actually some FUD that Windows runs better on old hardware? Why is there even a debate at all? Has Windows gotten that much faster? Has Linux gotten that much slower? Has X11/Qt/GTK gotten that much more bloated?
Oh really? Just where is the iPod made?
Steve Jobs' garage
Segway paved the way for the iBot. Or is it the other way around, iBot might have paved the way for the Segway.
Anyway, my point its, Kamen and his engineers designed the iBot wheelchair at the same time as the Segway. The both use the same technology, except Segway is a rich man's toy and iBot is a wheelchair that can climb stairs and rase the user up the standing adult eye level.
Well, if I were you, I would let the dung dry in the sun for over a week before picking it up to try to burn. It comes out of the cow quite wet! :P
That's the answer! Just extract the moisture from the fresh manure!
Segway is just a basic, two-wheel version of his iBot wheelchair. You know, the wheelchair that can climb stairs and raise the user up high enough to talk to standing adults? The wheelchair that's based on all of the inventions that made the Segway possible.
Segway isn't a fiasco, it's an overhyped consumer toy. He probably makes a handsome profit from it.
Only a geek would think that people actually want a third wheel! :)
Yes, this joke has two meanings.
If he just leaned that way, wouldn't his platform make the turn for him?
Forward/Stop/Reverse is controlled by leaning, but steering is controlled by turning the control on the left side of the handlebars. Maybe future Segways will feature lean-stearing.