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i checked (at versign.com's page, not www.tv)
iwantmym.tv
it was already taken of course, but one of the recommened choices was (get this)
iwantedmym.tv
Tuvalu needs the money
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as a few other people have pointed out, Tuvalu is a country of a few small islands and a population of around 11,000. the country has hardly any natural resources, and covers only 26 square kilometers. According to countrywatch, they have no real resources of revenue and have established a trust fund to try to make sure that their country has money to survive into the future. the article at this page says that the country's largest source of revenue is from the.tv domain. their only other real source of revenue (aside from fishing lisc) is a phosphate mine that is going to be depleted this year.
i guess what i am trying to get at is that they arent doing it because some corporation has forced them into doing it, but they did it because they needed the money. domains may not be popular forever and at least they are trying to be self sufficient instead of simply sitting back and relying on others to foot their bills. the US$37M in their trust fund wont last forever. US$45M goes a long way. and they are doing some pretty neat things with it (education for life programs, etc...). ok so it may not be the best way to finance a government, but when its the only one you've got....
agreed. P2P accounts for almost all of the bandwidth on our wanlink, and a good portion of our internal traffic. so we had to adopt a simular policy. It ends up burning a few people who actuall do use the interent for something constructive, but reserves precious bandwidth for academic use. Internally it isnt a problem because of the excess bandwidth there, but externally, well, thats another story.
so we had a thought that we could control this and make everyone happy. We have been testing and are about to implement a system that uses linux's QoS abilities to prioritize traffic based on type. HTTP, SSH, Citrix/ICA, SMTP, etc...get high priorities while all other data types get flagged low. so the stuff that is actually important always gets in/out, while all the pr0n gets delayed. The few people doing academic work get their stuff when they need it and the rest of the folks get pr0n at high speeds most of the time. there are a couple of companies who sell simular products starting at around $10,000 for a t-1 and upwards quick from there, and of course you have to pay $2000 per year for maint. and updates. we have spend almost $800 on ours, which we call Dante. Check http://www.compsci.lyon.edu/mcritch/dante for a little more info on Dante. Dante's scripts use TC and IPTABLES to mark and control how the bandwitdh is used. We do it a little differently than most of the other examples you'll see (check http://ds9a.nl/lartc for more info than you can digest in one setting and other examples on how to control and shape bandwidth).
I wont get into the pros/cons of using these addresses (as that is covered enough on the nanog.org list). but, you can statically nat the addresses so they are translated into a routeable address.
this is how you do it on a cisco on your WAN router. (assuming that you know to configure it):
ip nat inside source static 10.x.x.x 12.34.56.78
now you have a static where internally 10.x.x.x is the ip of the router, but the outside world can see it as 12.34.56.78
agreed. If you are wanting to get away from the coding part, get the MBA. I have one, and i would not be doing the job (or making the money) that i am now without it. There is more to IT than programming and system administration. there are those who have to prepare budgets, handle employees, etc...and who better understands what a IT dept. needs than someone in it? I do not have any formal education in computer science, and my employer could care less about that as long as there are skills to go with it. The MBA is a different story altogether. You wont obtain enough experience before you are 40 to make up for what you can get in a few years with that paper.
that's right folks. email turns 30 today. now how could have it existed that long when
algore invented the internet in the mid 90's....
anyway, if you forward this message to 30 people Bill Gates will personally send you one dollar and donate 10 cents to a cancer charity in Nigeria which will in turn deposit the money in a bank account you opened for them in the united states and use the money to advertise the newest greatest weight loss pills ever invented which also happen to make you look 10 years younger but only if you order 6 dozen cookies and the recipie from neiman marcus using the credit card with the $100,000 limit that you recently got pre-approved for with no credit check and no deposit so you can purchase your own.BIZ or.INFO domain just like nike and pepsi and be a webshop with 24hour free unlimited porn downloads of britney spears, which by the way you can talk to live by dialing 1-900-i-love-spam, which is a registered trademark of the Hormel corporation, and tastes good on crackers.
the head of our IT dept. came back from a conference where it was announced that embedded NT/XP would be the new OS on these switches over the UNIX-based OS that has been running them for the last 10-15 years. What were they thinking? why touch anything that is that important? Imagine a company with 1000 employees in a call center and NT decides to barf a lung during the hour when the phone traffic coming in is the busiest....think they will buy another switch from Lucent? an ATM or a Kiosk is hardly mission critical. but a phone switch? where is MS and their "Mythical 5 9's" ad now.
you might try an older version of Slackware as it used to be available on floppies, or ZipSlack (part of slackware) on the boxen with a little more gusto. ZipSlack installs in 100 meg space on FAT partitions. sounds like a good fit for your situation. its been around for awhile now, and the current version has the newest 2.4 kernels, etc...
I would agree to the above. I have an MBA from a well respected univ. along with undergraduate degrees in econ and management from another, but i also have a couple of Sun Certifications and a bit of programming experience. Most techs as a general rule arent able to analyze profitability, costs, inventory, logistics, human resources, etc.... A pure tech might not realize that some areas of a business really do have justifications for those seemingly big expenditures. Also, most do not know how to write a proper business plan, which is vital to getting any funding at all if you are into the startup thing. Keeping the business on the straight and narrow may be a challenge for a pure tech. But on the other hand I would agree that as a general rule, non technical managers (MBA's) have no clue to the complexities and timeframes needed to implement new systems or write "clean" programs. They think that "well, since i need this in 2 weeks, 1 should be enough for them to get me a new app." At least some of the ones I know think this way. And as such, they will fail to honor certian budget requests or realize that "yes, there really is justification for that expense."
So if you are wanting to get into the management side of things, yes, an MBA will surely help. It has for me, and a couple of others I know. Being the only geek in the entire Business College isnt a totally bad thing. But if you just want to be a coder and get an understanding on how the world of business really works, then its probably not worth it. You'll end up doing things you will hate (like accounting).
in case anyone was wondering, here's the dictionary.com definition of fnord
fnord n. [from the "Illuminatus Trilogy"] 1. A word used in email and news postings to tag utterances as surrealist mind-play or humor, esp. in connection with Discordianism and elaborate conspiracy theories. "I heard that David Koresh is sharing an apartment in Argentina with Hitler. (Fnord.)" "Where can I fnord get the Principia Discordia from?" 2. A metasyntactic variable, commonly used by hackers with ties to Discordianism or the Church of the SubGenius.
tilting them may not be a good idea if they are 10k scsi drives of any age. a tech at WD told me that as the drives spin over time they cut a minor groove in the spindle & bearings and seat themselves in this groove. if the drives are put in another position it could put stresses on them in a different direction resulting in damage to the drives. dont know if this is still applicable but it might be worth checking into. scsi drives arent cheap.....
really?
Tru64 is on top of Mach. the following is from tru64unix.compaq.com...
The Tru64 UNIX operating system is a 64-bit advanced kernel architecture based on Carnegie-Mellon University's Mach V2.5 kernel design, with components from Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) 4.3 and 4.4,
UNIX System V, and other sources.
I run a non-profit community access network, and when we were looking for a domain name, we wanted one that would sound like the region of the state we were in. We found the domain we wanted, but the.com and.net of it were owned by a large company. I contacted them via e-mail and told them what we wanted to do before we bought the domain to avoid this very situation. One of their lawyers wrote me back a very nice letter telling me that we were free to use the domain, and then mailed me a waiver clearing us to use it as long as we met certian non-commercial terms. They were very nice about it, and in one e-mail the lady I was dealing with basically told me that if we had just took the domain we probably would have gotten one of those "cease and desist" letters. So if you have ANY doubt whatsoever, ask. it saved me a lot of hassle and a potential lawsuit.
any company who is publicly traded must file very detailed and very audited reports to the SEC, the Securities and Exchange commission, and these documents can be searched through Edgar. These reports tell the entire financial situation of the company. As a part of these reports a detailed income statement (where the profit and loss are calculated) and a balance sheet (assets vs. liabilities) must be included and must meet certian guidelines. These companies are audited at least yearly, and must follow striclty enforced accounting principles.
a list of Red Hat's SEC filings since day one can be found here
their most recent quarterly statement can be found here
for a bit of a legend on how to browse the archives, 10-q are quarterly statements, 10-k are annual reports, and the others are usually stuff like amendments, purchasing other companies, and etc..
hope this helps clear some of this up. mba's are good for something i guess
qmail has native tools (users/assign) for having virtual usernames with one system account. I have a machine with over 10,000 users on it and only one system account. makes for much better security.
we run a community access network and when we were setting it up the domain we wanted to use had the.com and.net taken by an ISP in the area. I called the owner of the ISP and talked to him about it. He told me that he had once owned all three but had let the.org expire for some reason or another, and that he didnt have a problem with our use of it so long as we were non-commerical. In trade, we posted a link to his service on our site and he posted one to ours on his (which we did not ask him to do and was a very nice gesture). it really worked out well and we avoided stepping on any toes. i guess the moral is ask first and you may get what you want while avoiding legal battles.
...and here's the proof. I am admin on an ftpserver with around 70 gigs of UNIX/Linux files and distro's available for download. this is one of the entries recently appeared in my xferlog (there are others - exact addr. changed to avoid problems)
xferlog:Mon Oct 2 11:15:34 2000 0 ####.microsoft.com 6032/ftp/.mirrors/Open
BSD/2.6/README b _ o a proxyuser@northamerica.corp.microsoft.com ftp 0 *
xferlog:Mon Oct 2 11:33:40 2000 1224 ####.microsoft.com 56803392/ftp/.mirrors/OpenBSD/2.6/src.tar.gz b _ o a proxyuser@northamerica.corp.microsoft.com ftp
0 *
Whilst i was getting my MBA/MIS at a large research university, i worked in the University's Technology Transfer/IP office. We applied and recieved monies from the Federal Government, State Government, and from the tuition fees of regular students. The results of any research that was sponsored or funded by the university in any shape, form, or fashion, or was derived or worked upon by any member of the University's faculty or staff became explicit property of the University. Grad students with research assistantships for tuition, salary, or both count as staff. (those paying their own way were considered staff too if they worked under the direct supervision of a professor. otherwise they were on their own) The reason for this was that since the University (a public institution) received these monies from the public sector, the use of these monies had to stay in the public sector. Now you may not consider the use of these funds by a University a benefit to the public sector, but since the University operates under a State Charter/Land Grant, it is. Many times it was the case that these technologies were re-licensed back to the person who invented them so that they could profit from them (usually first person we asked to lisc. the technology). So it wasnt always as bad as you hear. But we did have min. requirements for any licensed technology to keep in order to retain their license (had to protect ourselves in some fashion).
hope that this sheds some insight on the subject...
use nslookup to reverse DNS them. you can find out who delegated them authority for the IP's and go from there. in this case, it looks like ATT so theres a place to start.
I work for a major health/nutrition company which has been producing these supplements for a very long time (65+yrs). And many of the posts are in the right direction, esp. the med. student. You have to be careful when you buy herbal supplements from your favorite local retailer, as many of them contain inactive ingredients or are not pharmaceutical grade, as this industry does not have strict controls as prescription drugs do. Glucosamine's primary benefit is that it helps cartilage retain water, thereby staying elastic and acting as a "cushion" between bones. If you want to take it buy it from a company with a "name" and not mr. generico at {INSERT LARGE RETAILER HERE}. so yeah, its not gonna hurt ya and you will probably notice some benefit. but it aint gonna cure anything. anyone who tells you otherwise is trying to sell you something.
i have 5 of these dating back to the 80's. clickie, mechanical tactile feel at its best. the noise drives co-workers nuts (which for the people on NT means a short trip). you can never wear those things out....when they get dirty just pull a few of the key covers off and give it a good shake.
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if you want to get into the kernel's routing abilities, check http://ds9a.nl/lartc/HOWTO//cvs/2.4routing/output/ 2.4routing.html. this site is _the_ place to go for info on the subject. But if you want to keep it simple, stay with the suggested netfilter sites.
i checked (at versign.com's page, not www.tv)
iwantmym.tv
it was already taken of course, but one of the recommened choices was (get this)
iwantedmym.tv
as a few other people have pointed out, Tuvalu is a country of a few small islands and a population of around 11,000. the country has hardly any natural resources, and covers only 26 square kilometers. According to countrywatch, they have no real resources of revenue and have established a trust fund to try to make sure that their country has money to survive into the future. the article at this page says that the country's largest source of revenue is from the .tv domain. their only other real source of revenue (aside from fishing lisc) is a phosphate mine that is going to be depleted this year.
i guess what i am trying to get at is that they arent doing it because some corporation has forced them into doing it, but they did it because they needed the money. domains may not be popular forever and at least they are trying to be self sufficient instead of simply sitting back and relying on others to foot their bills. the US$37M in their trust fund wont last forever. US$45M goes a long way. and they are doing some pretty neat things with it (education for life programs, etc...). ok so it may not be the best way to finance a government, but when its the only one you've got....
here is the google cache since the site seems to be slashdotted....
: www.rocketcalc.com/+rocketcalc&hl=en
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:q2egeLKmoVQC
so we had a thought that we could control this and make everyone happy. We have been testing and are about to implement a system that uses linux's QoS abilities to prioritize traffic based on type. HTTP, SSH, Citrix/ICA, SMTP, etc...get high priorities while all other data types get flagged low. so the stuff that is actually important always gets in/out, while all the pr0n gets delayed. The few people doing academic work get their stuff when they need it and the rest of the folks get pr0n at high speeds most of the time. there are a couple of companies who sell simular products starting at around $10,000 for a t-1 and upwards quick from there, and of course you have to pay $2000 per year for maint. and updates. we have spend almost $800 on ours, which we call Dante. Check http://www.compsci.lyon.edu/mcritch/dante for a little more info on Dante. Dante's scripts use TC and IPTABLES to mark and control how the bandwitdh is used. We do it a little differently than most of the other examples you'll see (check http://ds9a.nl/lartc for more info than you can digest in one setting and other examples on how to control and shape bandwidth).
this is how you do it on a cisco on your WAN router. (assuming that you know to configure it):
ip nat inside source static 10.x.x.x 12.34.56.78
now you have a static where internally 10.x.x.x is the ip of the router, but the outside world can see it as 12.34.56.78
a quick google search brought up this -- http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/556/9.html
agreed. If you are wanting to get away from the coding part, get the MBA. I have one, and i would not be doing the job (or making the money) that i am now without it. There is more to IT than programming and system administration. there are those who have to prepare budgets, handle employees, etc...and who better understands what a IT dept. needs than someone in it? I do not have any formal education in computer science, and my employer could care less about that as long as there are skills to go with it. The MBA is a different story altogether. You wont obtain enough experience before you are 40 to make up for what you can get in a few years with that paper.
that's right folks. email turns 30 today. now how could have it existed that long when
algore invented the internet in the mid 90's....
anyway, if you forward this message to 30 people Bill Gates will personally send you one dollar and donate 10 cents to a cancer charity in Nigeria which will in turn deposit the money in a bank account you opened for them in the united states and use the money to advertise the newest greatest weight loss pills ever invented which also happen to make you look 10 years younger but only if you order 6 dozen cookies and the recipie from neiman marcus using the credit card with the $100,000 limit that you recently got pre-approved for with no credit check and no deposit so you can purchase your own .BIZ or .INFO domain just like nike and pepsi and be a webshop with 24hour free unlimited porn downloads of britney spears, which by the way you can talk to live by dialing 1-900-i-love-spam, which is a registered trademark of the Hormel corporation, and tastes good on crackers.
the head of our IT dept. came back from a conference where it was announced that embedded NT/XP would be the new OS on these switches over the UNIX-based OS that has been running them for the last 10-15 years. What were they thinking? why touch anything that is that important? Imagine a company with 1000 employees in a call center and NT decides to barf a lung during the hour when the phone traffic coming in is the busiest....think they will buy another switch from Lucent? an ATM or a Kiosk is hardly mission critical. but a phone switch? where is MS and their "Mythical 5 9's" ad now.
Here is the official announcement from HP.
you might try an older version of Slackware as it used to be available on floppies, or ZipSlack (part of slackware) on the boxen with a little more gusto. ZipSlack installs in 100 meg space on FAT partitions. sounds like a good fit for your situation. its been around for awhile now, and the current version has the newest 2.4 kernels, etc...
maybe that would explain why the site is down. someone needs to crank the handle again. gotta keep those webservers wound up....
I would agree to the above. I have an MBA from a well respected univ. along with undergraduate degrees in econ and management from another, but i also have a couple of Sun Certifications and a bit of programming experience. Most techs as a general rule arent able to analyze profitability, costs, inventory, logistics, human resources, etc.... A pure tech might not realize that some areas of a business really do have justifications for those seemingly big expenditures. Also, most do not know how to write a proper business plan, which is vital to getting any funding at all if you are into the startup thing. Keeping the business on the straight and narrow may be a challenge for a pure tech. But on the other hand I would agree that as a general rule, non technical managers (MBA's) have no clue to the complexities and timeframes needed to implement new systems or write "clean" programs. They think that "well, since i need this in 2 weeks, 1 should be enough for them to get me a new app." At least some of the ones I know think this way. And as such, they will fail to honor certian budget requests or realize that "yes, there really is justification for that expense."
So if you are wanting to get into the management side of things, yes, an MBA will surely help. It has for me, and a couple of others I know. Being the only geek in the entire Business College isnt a totally bad thing. But if you just want to be a coder and get an understanding on how the world of business really works, then its probably not worth it. You'll end up doing things you will hate (like accounting).
in case anyone was wondering, here's the dictionary.com definition of fnord
tilting them may not be a good idea if they are 10k scsi drives of any age. a tech at WD told me that as the drives spin over time they cut a minor groove in the spindle & bearings and seat themselves in this groove. if the drives are put in another position it could put stresses on them in a different direction resulting in damage to the drives. dont know if this is still applicable but it might be worth checking into. scsi drives arent cheap.....
really?
Tru64 is on top of Mach. the following is from tru64unix.compaq.com...
here's the scoop from compaq/digital
I run a non-profit community access network, and when we were looking for a domain name, we wanted one that would sound like the region of the state we were in. We found the domain we wanted, but the .com and .net of it were owned by a large company. I contacted them via e-mail and told them what we wanted to do before we bought the domain to avoid this very situation. One of their lawyers wrote me back a very nice letter telling me that we were free to use the domain, and then mailed me a waiver clearing us to use it as long as we met certian non-commercial terms. They were very nice about it, and in one e-mail the lady I was dealing with basically told me that if we had just took the domain we probably would have gotten one of those "cease and desist" letters. So if you have ANY doubt whatsoever, ask. it saved me a lot of hassle and a potential lawsuit.
any company who is publicly traded must file very detailed and very audited reports to the SEC, the Securities and Exchange commission, and these documents can be searched through Edgar. These reports tell the entire financial situation of the company. As a part of these reports a detailed income statement (where the profit and loss are calculated) and a balance sheet (assets vs. liabilities) must be included and must meet certian guidelines. These companies are audited at least yearly, and must follow striclty enforced accounting principles.
a list of Red Hat's SEC filings since day one can be found here
their most recent quarterly statement can be found here
for a bit of a legend on how to browse the archives, 10-q are quarterly statements, 10-k are annual reports, and the others are usually stuff like amendments, purchasing other companies, and etc..
hope this helps clear some of this up. mba's are good for something i guess
qmail has native tools (users/assign) for having virtual usernames with one system account. I have a machine with over 10,000 users on it and only one system account. makes for much better security.
we run a community access network and when we were setting it up the domain we wanted to use had the .com and .net taken by an ISP in the area. I called the owner of the ISP and talked to him about it. He told me that he had once owned all three but had let the .org expire for some reason or another, and that he didnt have a problem with our use of it so long as we were non-commerical. In trade, we posted a link to his service on our site and he posted one to ours on his (which we did not ask him to do and was a very nice gesture). it really worked out well and we avoided stepping on any toes. i guess the moral is ask first and you may get what you want while avoiding legal battles.
...and here's the proof. I am admin on an ftpserver with around 70 gigs of UNIX/Linux files and distro's available for download. this is one of the entries recently appeared in my xferlog (there are others - exact addr. changed to avoid problems)
xferlog:Mon Oct 2 11:15:34 2000 0 ####.microsoft.com 6032 /ftp/.mirrors/Open
BSD/2.6/README b _ o a proxyuser@northamerica.corp.microsoft.com ftp 0 *
xferlog:Mon Oct 2 11:33:40 2000 1224 ####.microsoft.com 56803392 /ftp/.mirrors/OpenBSD/2.6/src.tar.gz b _ o a proxyuser@northamerica.corp.microsoft.com ftp
0 *
wonder what they want that for....???
matt
ftp.neark.org
Whilst i was getting my MBA/MIS at a large research university, i worked in the University's Technology Transfer/IP office. We applied and recieved monies from the Federal Government, State Government, and from the tuition fees of regular students. The results of any research that was sponsored or funded by the university in any shape, form, or fashion, or was derived or worked upon by any member of the University's faculty or staff became explicit property of the University. Grad students with research assistantships for tuition, salary, or both count as staff. (those paying their own way were considered staff too if they worked under the direct supervision of a professor. otherwise they were on their own) The reason for this was that since the University (a public institution) received these monies from the public sector, the use of these monies had to stay in the public sector. Now you may not consider the use of these funds by a University a benefit to the public sector, but since the University operates under a State Charter/Land Grant, it is. Many times it was the case that these technologies were re-licensed back to the person who invented them so that they could profit from them (usually first person we asked to lisc. the technology). So it wasnt always as bad as you hear. But we did have min. requirements for any licensed technology to keep in order to retain their license (had to protect ourselves in some fashion).
hope that this sheds some insight on the subject...
use nslookup to reverse DNS them. you can find out who delegated them authority for the IP's and go from there. in this case, it looks like ATT so theres a place to start.
type - nslookup
then type - set q=ns
then type the ipaddress backwards.in-addr.arpa
--example--
[mcritch@pliska mcritch]$ nslookup
Default Server: SERVERHIDDEN
Address: ###.###.###.###
> set q=ns
> 10.127.124.12.in-addr.arpa
Server: SERVERHIDDEN
Address: ###.###.###.###
*** SERVERHIDDEN can't find 10.127.124.12.in-addr.arpa: Non-existent host/domain
> 127.124.12.in-addr.arpa
Server: SERVERHIDDEN
Address: ###.###.###.###
*** SERVERHIDDEN can't find 127.124.12.in-addr.arpa: Non-existent host/domain
> 124.12.in-addr.arpa
Server: SERVERHIDDEN
Address: ###.###.###.###
124.12.in-addr.arpa nameserver = dbru.br.ns.els-gms.att.net
124.12.in-addr.arpa nameserver = cmtu.mt.ns.els-gms.att.net
124.12.in-addr.arpa nameserver = dmtu.mt.ns.els-gms.att.net
124.12.in-addr.arpa nameserver = cbru.br.ns.els-gms.att.net
dbru.br.ns.els-gms.att.net internet address = 199.191.128.106
cmtu.mt.ns.els-gms.att.net internet address = 12.127.16.69
dmtu.mt.ns.els-gms.att.net internet address = 12.127.16.70
cbru.br.ns.els-gms.att.net internet address = 199.191.128.105
>
I work for a major health/nutrition company which has been producing these supplements for a very long time (65+yrs). And many of the posts are in the right direction, esp. the med. student. You have to be careful when you buy herbal supplements from your favorite local retailer, as many of them contain inactive ingredients or are not pharmaceutical grade, as this industry does not have strict controls as prescription drugs do. Glucosamine's primary benefit is that it helps cartilage retain water, thereby staying elastic and acting as a "cushion" between bones. If you want to take it buy it from a company with a "name" and not mr. generico at {INSERT LARGE RETAILER HERE}. so yeah, its not gonna hurt ya and you will probably notice some benefit. but it aint gonna cure anything. anyone who tells you otherwise is trying to sell you something.
i have 5 of these dating back to the 80's. clickie, mechanical tactile feel at its best. the noise drives co-workers nuts (which for the people on NT means a short trip). you can never wear those things out....when they get dirty just pull a few of the key covers off and give it a good shake.