Yeah I agree. The best part was when Cingular ran a campaign that offered all these extra weekend and evening minutes. It was funny because they offered more minutes than you could possibly use during the weekend and evenings. As if nobody ever slept or something. Most cellular companies use tactics like that to try and convince the regular people that they are getting a better value when in fact they are not. My only gripe with Verizon so far is that their "Off peak" minutes are from like 9pm to 7am.
I thought I was a nerd. Nope, right now I feel like the coolest person on the planet. I'm f*cking Fonzie! I'm gonna go to the bar tonight and pick up chicks!
Actually with the impending Verizon Strike, (God I hope that doesn't happen) if you were to use wire cutters and cut enough of the service line from the phone company, you could render them useless for a while. Think about it. A call goes into starbucks tech support. A ticket is generated. A couple hours later a tech calls the phone company and gives circuit IDs and problem. Because of the strike it takes a week for a phone tech to get to the site. He sees that they need to run a new service line. (4, 12, or 25 pair. whatever they need) He then leaves because he is the phone company and heaven forbid they actually do anything right away. He appends on the ticket that they need a new cable run. A couple weeks later a tech goes out and runs the new line and restores the service. Total down time = 3 weeks maybe more.
"But a recent research paper from the French Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique tells how one slow user accessing a hot point can hurt the whole group"
Why do the French Researchers gotta pick on users that are slower then the average person? Sheesh!
Actually, I have to correct you on the "expensive" thing. In the second quarter Verizon Wireless's average service revenue per subscriber was $48.66 This is a lot lower then the other major cell companies out there. The reason for this is Verizon does not pull tactics like placing you in plans that are not fit for you. I.E. Some other providers like to put you in lower plans and then when you use up your minutes your bill gets outragous. Verizon actually has a computer based tool that calculates your best rate plan based on the actual minutes you use. Plus with Verizon, you can change your plan at any time.
So, this is kinda off topic but if I have 30 gigs of mp3 and I legitimately own all the albums that theses songs come from, and I share them out, can I get into trouble with the RIAA?
I pay for premium support from RedHat for my servers and at this time there is no RPM for Openssh3.3 My question is should I keep my sshd disabled until they come out with one, or should I suck it up and install it manually? If I suck it up, I don't think I will be renewing our contract next year. What's the point?
Lets assume the Moby is correct in stating that the majority of his fans are tech-savy. I think it would be safe to assume that the majority of the tech-savy people in the world are for paying the artist what the artist is due. Remember www.paylars.com? So, with that being said, Moby should offer his music from his site and bypass the recording industry. After all, most of the tech-savy people in the world are against the RIAA. This is of course assuming Moby is right in the first place.
They have the highest quality of hardware that I've found and they do motherboard bundles. (Boards + memmory.) They sell custom made machines as well. And like our friends at Penguin Computing, they test all the hardware before they send it to you. So, you are pretty much guarenteed working hardware when you receive it.
First a quick rundown of how cable modem networks work. Think of the bandwidth of a cable modem network like a tree. each branch comes together and is supported by a larger branch and then eventually the trunk of the tree. all these branches have to share the bandwidth. If one of the branches is utilizing a lot of bandwidth, the rest suffer for it.
How can the cable companies prevent this from happening? There are two ways. They can either boost the bandwidth so that everyone can get maximum speed or they can throddle down everyone's connections so that nobody can get more than anyone else. Well, to boost everyone's bandwidth, that would cost the company millions upon millions. They would have to order tons of circuits to every neighborhood not to mention router upgrades and such. However, cable modems now a days have bandwidth limiters. That's right. You can throddle connections down right from the cable modem. Well, that makes more sense now doesn't it?
What AT&T and many other cable modem companies are doing is throddling down your connection. It's slower,but at the same time within the boundaries of your agreement. By doing this, they don't have to upgrade their infrastructure as fast and you don't have to worry about someone else hogging all your bandwidth. AT&T is allowing people to still use their own modems (Which they cannot throddle) but at a cost of an additional 7$ a month. So, for an extra 7$ a month, you can make everyone off your router miserable by hogging their bandwidth:) Other cable companies won't even allow you to use your own cable modem. (Time Warner in Rochester NY for example)
Basically, from their perspective this makes sense. They can help to control the hogging situation and at the same time slow down their need to expand their network. I've seen companies go down the tubes because the need for bandwidth got out of control and they could not afford to expand. I just wish that they would come out with some sort of burst rate for these cable modem networks similar to how Frame relay works. That way, when the bandwidth is not in use, I could get the extra speed I want. Perhaps somewhere down the road.
Just so you know. Not everyone plays FPS because they have some sick obsession with blood and death. I play them and I don't have any such obsession. When I look at the pictures for Doom III I'm not looking at the blood smears and the gore. I'm looking at the attention to detail, quality of lighting, the curvature of the objects, and the overall textures. I think most of the people who are excited about this game are excited because the D3 engine brings something more to the gaming industry. It's new technology that will provide a more realistic experience.
On top of that, you are completely disregarding the themes behind these games. A good FPS will have a good theme. Most of them place an ordianary human in impossible circumstances or places them in a position to be heroic. It's the overcoming of the odds that kids like. In our modern day society, people are rarely in a position to overcome impossible odds. I've never been placed in a situation where I could be the hero. People have a fasination with the idea that they can do something great. So, if a game places a guy on an alien planet, and they are set to destroy the world and he is humanity's only hope, well you get the picture. I hope that this reply helps you understand some of the other perspectives that are out there.
Lets look at the situation. I don't think we will have to worry. I'm pretty sure that the people who own and operate rollercoasters have enough cash to influence the government to not make such rediculous laws. Keep in mind, the government only makes laws to generate revenue now a days.
I work for Verizon Wireless in Rochester NY. We've been playing around with it, testing it etc... Well, here's the scoop. Right now the speed is about 128K (ISDN speed) and about as expensive. My phone is free because I'm on call 24 x 7 and they want me to support this product. However, they want to charge us, the employees, 30 bucks a month to have it. My boss won't let me expense it and I'm not about to pay for the service. However, the best use I've had with it is when I connect with my laptop and VPN into work. It's actually not too bad. I'm normally a very impatient person but I have to say that even with the encryption overhead, I was able to obtain my mail, logon to the network and even my CISCO softphone worked! (Boss, I'll be working from my pool today.) I did some benchmarks on the speed of the connection and with our special software, we average about 11K to both local broadband access providers. (Basically I ftped a 5 meg picture from my digital camera to both the Time Warner Roadrunner ftp server and Frontier's Lightning link ftp server.)
Since I work For Verizon Wireless, I guess I should inform you that my company is spending an aweful lot of money on improving coverage this year. The plan is for 2000 additional cell sites which will cost Verizon Wireless about 4 billion dollars. In my region (Upstate NY) the engineering budget is roughly $160,000,000. The IT budget is about $700,000. I'd have to say they are working very hard on fixing your complaints.
Once again I've read an article that inspires me to leave this country and never look back. However, I have no idea where to go. I searched the net but only half of what I read can even be considered truth and I'm not sure which half is. Does anyone, outside the US, know of a country where freedom still prevails? Perhaps a better question is, which country maintains the highest levels of personal freedom?
Well, I just tried to go to their site with Netscape 6.2 and it tells me I need a 4.0 browser like Netscape or Internet Explorer. I guess they really have their act together.
I'm working with Penguin Computing on a quote to get our cellular data moved off of an IBM AS400 over to a Linux solution in first quarter of next year. I know that we have the budget money for it and my boss (The guy who actually approves such projects) is behind it 100%. Who says that Linux can't be useful to large corporations?
Hrmmm. Dumb girl brings beer. Smart girl installs beer tap in my lazyboy. Nuff said
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So the bottom line of the movie is alien visits from outer space. Alien behaves in a funny way so we all laugh. Something spectacular happens at the end when the alien leaves. The movie has Jeff Bridges in it. Oh my god! K-PAX is a rerelease of Starman!!!!
I work in the wireless industry as a Network administrator. Our Training budget is fairly large for our 20 person department. On average, we can each take anywhere from 3 to 5 classes per year at about $2,500 a piece.
This does not include our company's tuition reimbursement program which allows us to take ANY class required to obtain a degree in our field (That includes the libral arts stuff) and pay for the tuition and the books. The only requirement is we have to stay at the company for one year afterwards and obtain at least a C.
On top of that, every department has online training available. For our department that includs all the CISCO courses to obtain both a CCNA and a CCNP, a Solaris certification, as well as several general Unix and programming courses.
Also, our company believes that books and magazines are an excellent way to learn. So, our company allows me to have subscriptions to several magazines including: SysAdmin, Linux Journal, Unix Journal, and even the Hacker Quarterly.
I guess because I work with a rapidly changing environment, we are constantly required to keep up to date. But at my last employer things were almost comparable. I guess that's why I've been with this company for as long as I have.
So basically, what you are saying is there is no need for our right to privacy.
Perhaps I am in correspondance with another in regards to some invention we are developing. I might want to encrypt that information so that it can't be snatched away from me.
Maybe I'm a musician and I want to send some sound bytes to my record label without others obtaining it.
How about a writer who submits chapters of his book to his editor via email.
What I'm trying to get at is, sexual deviants aren't the only ones who want to keep things private. I would suggest "you" get a grip. Just because you have no use for encrypting email does not mean others do not.
I know that everyone always posts that we should write our government. Many say that it doesn't do any good. However, I've found that it takes about 2 minutes to send a prewritten letter (That is almost always posted to/.) to my congressman. Here is a link to an email directory of all the congressmen in the U.S.
I've created a group with all of them:) and a cron job that sends the email out every Mon, Wed, Fri I figure they can't ignore me forever (Hell it worked in Shawshank)
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Yeah I agree. The best part was when Cingular ran a campaign that offered all these extra weekend and evening minutes. It was funny because they offered more minutes than you could possibly use during the weekend and evenings. As if nobody ever slept or something. Most cellular companies use tactics like that to try and convince the regular people that they are getting a better value when in fact they are not. My only gripe with Verizon so far is that their "Off peak" minutes are from like 9pm to 7am.
I thought I was a nerd. Nope, right now I feel like the coolest person on the planet. I'm f*cking Fonzie! I'm gonna go to the bar tonight and pick up chicks!
Actually with the impending Verizon Strike, (God I hope that doesn't happen) if you were to use wire cutters and cut enough of the service line from the phone company, you could render them useless for a while. Think about it. A call goes into starbucks tech support. A ticket is generated. A couple hours later a tech calls the phone company and gives circuit IDs and problem. Because of the strike it takes a week for a phone tech to get to the site. He sees that they need to run a new service line. (4, 12, or 25 pair. whatever they need) He then leaves because he is the phone company and heaven forbid they actually do anything right away. He appends on the ticket that they need a new cable run. A couple weeks later a tech goes out and runs the new line and restores the service. Total down time = 3 weeks maybe more.
"But a recent research paper from the French Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique tells how one slow user accessing a hot point can hurt the whole group"
Why do the French Researchers gotta pick on users that are slower then the average person? Sheesh!
Actually, I have to correct you on the "expensive" thing. In the second quarter Verizon Wireless's average service revenue per subscriber was $48.66 This is a lot lower then the other major cell companies out there. The reason for this is Verizon does not pull tactics like placing you in plans that are not fit for you. I.E. Some other providers like to put you in lower plans and then when you use up your minutes your bill gets outragous. Verizon actually has a computer based tool that calculates your best rate plan based on the actual minutes you use. Plus with Verizon, you can change your plan at any time.
So, this is kinda off topic but if I have 30 gigs of mp3 and I legitimately own all the albums that theses songs come from, and I share them out, can I get into trouble with the RIAA?
It Whipping boy? That's on my business card :)
Talk about being caught with your pants down.
I pay for premium support from RedHat for my servers and at this time there is no RPM for Openssh3.3 My question is should I keep my sshd disabled until they come out with one, or should I suck it up and install it manually? If I suck it up, I don't think I will be renewing our contract next year. What's the point?
Lets assume the Moby is correct in stating that the majority of his fans are tech-savy. I think it would be safe to assume that the majority of the tech-savy people in the world are for paying the artist what the artist is due. Remember www.paylars.com? So, with that being said, Moby should offer his music from his site and bypass the recording industry. After all, most of the tech-savy people in the world are against the RIAA. This is of course assuming Moby is right in the first place.
http://www.jncs.com
They have the highest quality of hardware that I've found and they do motherboard bundles. (Boards + memmory.) They sell custom made machines as well. And like our friends at Penguin Computing, they test all the hardware before they send it to you. So, you are pretty much guarenteed working hardware when you receive it.
Next week on thinkgeek the featured item will be a roll of quarters for only $19.99! What a bargain!
First a quick rundown of how cable modem networks work. Think of the bandwidth of a cable modem network like a tree. each branch comes together and is supported by a larger branch and then eventually the trunk of the tree. all these branches have to share the bandwidth. If one of the branches is utilizing a lot of bandwidth, the rest suffer for it. ,but at the same time within the boundaries of your agreement. By doing this, they don't have to upgrade their infrastructure as fast and you don't have to worry about someone else hogging all your bandwidth. AT&T is allowing people to still use their own modems (Which they cannot throddle) but at a cost of an additional 7$ a month. So, for an extra 7$ a month, you can make everyone off your router miserable by hogging their bandwidth :) Other cable companies won't even allow you to use your own cable modem. (Time Warner in Rochester NY for example)
How can the cable companies prevent this from happening? There are two ways. They can either boost the bandwidth so that everyone can get maximum speed or they can throddle down everyone's connections so that nobody can get more than anyone else. Well, to boost everyone's bandwidth, that would cost the company millions upon millions. They would have to order tons of circuits to every neighborhood not to mention router upgrades and such. However, cable modems now a days have bandwidth limiters. That's right. You can throddle connections down right from the cable modem. Well, that makes more sense now doesn't it?
What AT&T and many other cable modem companies are doing is throddling down your connection. It's slower
Basically, from their perspective this makes sense. They can help to control the hogging situation and at the same time slow down their need to expand their network. I've seen companies go down the tubes because the need for bandwidth got out of control and they could not afford to expand. I just wish that they would come out with some sort of burst rate for these cable modem networks similar to how Frame relay works. That way, when the bandwidth is not in use, I could get the extra speed I want. Perhaps somewhere down the road.
Just so you know. Not everyone plays FPS because they have some sick obsession with blood and death. I play them and I don't have any such obsession. When I look at the pictures for Doom III I'm not looking at the blood smears and the gore. I'm looking at the attention to detail, quality of lighting, the curvature of the objects, and the overall textures. I think most of the people who are excited about this game are excited because the D3 engine brings something more to the gaming industry. It's new technology that will provide a more realistic experience.
On top of that, you are completely disregarding the themes behind these games. A good FPS will have a good theme. Most of them place an ordianary human in impossible circumstances or places them in a position to be heroic. It's the overcoming of the odds that kids like. In our modern day society, people are rarely in a position to overcome impossible odds. I've never been placed in a situation where I could be the hero. People have a fasination with the idea that they can do something great. So, if a game places a guy on an alien planet, and they are set to destroy the world and he is humanity's only hope, well you get the picture. I hope that this reply helps you understand some of the other perspectives that are out there.
Lets look at the situation. I don't think we will have to worry. I'm pretty sure that the people who own and operate rollercoasters have enough cash to influence the government to not make such rediculous laws. Keep in mind, the government only makes laws to generate revenue now a days.
I work for Verizon Wireless in Rochester NY. We've been playing around with it, testing it etc... Well, here's the scoop. Right now the speed is about 128K (ISDN speed) and about as expensive. My phone is free because I'm on call 24 x 7 and they want me to support this product. However, they want to charge us, the employees, 30 bucks a month to have it. My boss won't let me expense it and I'm not about to pay for the service. However, the best use I've had with it is when I connect with my laptop and VPN into work. It's actually not too bad. I'm normally a very impatient person but I have to say that even with the encryption overhead, I was able to obtain my mail, logon to the network and even my CISCO softphone worked! (Boss, I'll be working from my pool today.) I did some benchmarks on the speed of the connection and with our special software, we average about 11K to both local broadband access providers. (Basically I ftped a 5 meg picture from my digital camera to both the Time Warner Roadrunner ftp server and Frontier's Lightning link ftp server.)
Since I work For Verizon Wireless, I guess I should inform you that my company is spending an aweful lot of money on improving coverage this year. The plan is for 2000 additional cell sites which will cost Verizon Wireless about 4 billion dollars. In my region (Upstate NY) the engineering budget is roughly $160,000,000. The IT budget is about $700,000. I'd have to say they are working very hard on fixing your complaints.
Once again I've read an article that inspires me to leave this country and never look back. However, I have no idea where to go. I searched the net but only half of what I read can even be considered truth and I'm not sure which half is. Does anyone, outside the US, know of a country where freedom still prevails? Perhaps a better question is, which country maintains the highest levels of personal freedom?
Well, I just tried to go to their site with Netscape 6.2 and it tells me I need a 4.0 browser like Netscape or Internet Explorer. I guess they really have their act together.
I'm working with Penguin Computing on a quote to get our cellular data moved off of an IBM AS400 over to a Linux solution in first quarter of next year. I know that we have the budget money for it and my boss (The guy who actually approves such projects) is behind it 100%. Who says that Linux can't be useful to large corporations?
Hrmmm. Dumb girl brings beer. Smart girl installs beer tap in my lazyboy. Nuff said
So the bottom line of the movie is alien visits from outer space. Alien behaves in a funny way so we all laugh. Something spectacular happens at the end when the alien leaves. The movie has Jeff Bridges in it. Oh my god! K-PAX is a rerelease of Starman!!!!
I work in the wireless industry as a Network administrator. Our Training budget is fairly large for our 20 person department. On average, we can each take anywhere from 3 to 5 classes per year at about $2,500 a piece.
This does not include our company's tuition reimbursement program which allows us to take ANY class required to obtain a degree in our field (That includes the libral arts stuff) and pay for the tuition and the books. The only requirement is we have to stay at the company for one year afterwards and obtain at least a C.
On top of that, every department has online training available. For our department that includs all the CISCO courses to obtain both a CCNA and a CCNP, a Solaris certification, as well as several general Unix and programming courses.
Also, our company believes that books and magazines are an excellent way to learn. So, our company allows me to have subscriptions to several magazines including: SysAdmin, Linux Journal, Unix Journal, and even the Hacker Quarterly.
I guess because I work with a rapidly changing environment, we are constantly required to keep up to date. But at my last employer things were almost comparable. I guess that's why I've been with this company for as long as I have.
So basically, what you are saying is there is no need for our right to privacy.
Perhaps I am in correspondance with another in regards to some invention we are developing. I might want to encrypt that information so that it can't be snatched away from me.
Maybe I'm a musician and I want to send some sound bytes to my record label without others obtaining it.
How about a writer who submits chapters of his book to his editor via email.
What I'm trying to get at is, sexual deviants aren't the only ones who want to keep things private. I would suggest "you" get a grip. Just because you have no use for encrypting email does not mean others do not.
I know that everyone always posts that we should write our government. Many say that it doesn't do any good. However, I've found that it takes about 2 minutes to send a prewritten letter (That is almost always posted to /.) to my congressman. Here is a link to an email directory of all the congressmen in the U.S.
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:) and a cron job that sends the email out every Mon, Wed, Fri I figure they can't ignore me forever (Hell it worked in Shawshank)
http://www.webslingerz.com/jhoffman/congress-em
I've created a group with all of them