What legitimate need does a single person have when downloading 40 gigs of data over a short period of time?
As others have said, there are plenty of legitimate rich media sources on the net and reasonable ways to use the net that result in a lot of traffic. My favorites are downloading (free) music from places like archive.org and doing distributed backups via rsync.
Here in NZ, while you can get unlimited dialup access (its hard to do 10Gb in a month of dialup), virtually every national service that goes faster than dialup is capped at 5/10/15Gb with 10 being the most common. If you want to go faster than 256k, then the cap is more likely to be 500-1500Mb:-(
Oh and the local monopoly telco just fucked the gamers over with a hardware upgrade..
"As with Version 2.1, the new release will come in workstation, departmental server and data center server versions.."
The beta dir linked to in this story only has downloads for WS and AS - no ES. Why is there no beta of the one version that will probably be the most popular (due to price/features tradeoff)?
What happened to ES? Has this been dropped for 3.x?
WS is Work Station - for desktop machines. AS is Advanced Server - comes with failover and other HA features. ES was the in-between one - the one that's almost affordable.
The only thing that lets it down is the high cost of Bluetooth components in devices
I thought the whole idea of Bluetooth was to make the hardware very inexpensive specifically so that a bluetooth "chip" could be ubiquitous - imbedded in virtually every electronic device. I think I heard a cost like US50c in mass quantities. If the cost of integration really is high then thats a shame.
I wish it were ubiquitous, but it doesn't seem to heading that way. Look at Nokia - dozens of high end phones, but only the expensive 'corporate' phones and the most expensive camera phones have bluetooth. And where are the cheap bluetooth keyboards & mice?
"Initial connection to the mesh requires manual key exchange. PITA, but moderatley secure."
IIRC, key exchange is where most encryption schemes fall down. If this ever takes off I'd guess 99% of users will trade keys over plain ol unencrypted SMTP.
Nice summary though - this really does look interesting.
I'd like to see a feature that restricts uploads and/or downloads to hosts within a geographic region.
In New Zealand, our national bandwidth is generally free but international is extremely expensive once a given cap is reached. Bittorrent is very difficult to use in this situation because it is so easy to run up a huge bill.
Nonsense. Windows has far more games available, so its good if you like to buy (or more likely warez) LOTS of games. Is that what makes a "real gamer"? If the games I like to play (Quake3 + mods, UT2003, etc) are available for my platform what's the problem?
At least in New Zealand, the 128k ADSL is effectively crippled by traffic caps in the region of 5-10Gb/month. @ 10Gb, thats a monthly average of 32kbit/s. Take the cap off and maybe I'll be more receptive to claims of "high speed" internet.
Because the providers see it as a loophole. If I put three people behind a NAT'd firewall, the provider sees it as one paying customer and two thieves.
Bust up a business, then take a share in it during the rebuilding.
I'm distrubed by the comments that the US is somehow entitled to make these kind of deals. It is a conflict of interest. When the United States seeks to profit from the conflict, it invites doubt in the motivation that has presented to date - that being disarmament and regime change.
If you belive these are truely the primary goals of the United States, then you cannot condone this kind of deal being made by the government.
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As others have said, there are plenty of legitimate rich media sources on the net and reasonable ways to use the net that result in a lot of traffic. My favorites are downloading (free) music from places like archive.org and doing distributed backups via rsync.
Here in NZ, while you can get unlimited dialup access (its hard to do 10Gb in a month of dialup), virtually every national service that goes faster than dialup is capped at 5/10/15Gb with 10 being the most common. If you want to go faster than 256k, then the cap is more likely to be 500-1500Mb :-(
Oh and the local monopoly telco just fucked the gamers over with a hardware upgrade..
[/rant]Yes, Tribes is the best ever multiplayer game IMHO.
:-(
But not in Linux. Pity really
Didn't I read that the CPU for the next Playstation wont go into production until late 2005?
That's a loong time in the console industry.
Time to test the theory that early posts, however redundant/offtopic/trollish, are likely to be modded up.
(gg news.com btw)
Its true. Promise and Adaptec offerings are extremely disappointing. Binary drivers. Limited distro support and poor performance.
The 3ware series OTOH are excellent. Good support - no download required. Web admin and monitoring available. ++
Ok. I would have liked a beta of ES though.
At work we're looking at deploying several new Redhat ES servers and it'd be nice to test ES 3.0 before purchasing.
"As with Version 2.1, the new release will come in workstation, departmental server and data center server versions.."
The beta dir linked to in this story only has downloads for WS and AS - no ES. Why is there no beta of the one version that will probably be the most popular (due to price/features tradeoff)?
What happened to ES? Has this been dropped for 3.x?
WS is Work Station - for desktop machines.
AS is Advanced Server - comes with failover and other HA features.
ES was the in-between one - the one that's almost affordable.
Anyone know?
I'm seeing a tonne of icmp ping request traffic also. Can anyone confirm this is related to the new worm?
g ust/006762.html
http://list.waikato.ac.nz/pipermail/nznog/2003-Au
Check out Ur-Quan Masters.
It's the original Star Control 2, ported to SDL & OpenGL and available FREE for *nix and Windows - including source.
"Great article", he said. "Offensive blocking patents!! We need to be a lot more active ourselves. Need to start thinking about this."
He wasn't being sarcastic. Until the patent system gets a real shake up, people will abuse it.
I thought the whole idea of Bluetooth was to make the hardware very inexpensive specifically so that a bluetooth "chip" could be ubiquitous - imbedded in virtually every electronic device. I think I heard a cost like US50c in mass quantities. If the cost of integration really is high then thats a shame.
I wish it were ubiquitous, but it doesn't seem to heading that way. Look at Nokia - dozens of high end phones, but only the expensive 'corporate' phones and the most expensive camera phones have bluetooth. And where are the cheap bluetooth keyboards & mice?
Disappointing.
"Initial connection to the mesh requires manual key exchange. PITA, but moderatley secure."
IIRC, key exchange is where most encryption schemes fall down. If this ever takes off I'd guess 99% of users will trade keys over plain ol unencrypted SMTP.
Nice summary though - this really does look interesting.
Database of IP-Country mappings
I'd like to see a feature that restricts uploads and/or downloads to hosts within a geographic region.
In New Zealand, our national bandwidth is generally free but international is extremely expensive once a given cap is reached. Bittorrent is very difficult to use in this situation because it is so easy to run up a huge bill.
Any clients support this?
http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20030425/rose_01 .shtml
(you may need a Gamasutra account, but its worth it).
The ultimate cooler review site: http://www.dansdata.com/coolercomp.htm
:-)
Just a good one to bookmark
From Donald A. Norman's foreword:
"If this book doesn't kill Unix, nothing will."
The poster did not recommend Gentoo. Read it again. Or do you simply resent the fact that he chose Gentoo at all?
Go back to your winex trolling.
Nonsense. Windows has far more games available, so its good if you like to buy (or more likely warez) LOTS of games. Is that what makes a "real gamer"?
If the games I like to play (Quake3 + mods, UT2003, etc) are available for my platform what's the problem?
PS: Tivo is only available in the United States.
Because PVRs are not available in my country (.nz).
At least in New Zealand, the 128k ADSL is effectively crippled by traffic caps in the region of 5-10Gb/month. @ 10Gb, thats a monthly average of 32kbit/s. Take the cap off and maybe I'll be more receptive to claims of "high speed" internet.
Because the providers see it as a loophole. If I put three people behind a NAT'd firewall, the provider sees it as one paying customer and two thieves.
No I have not read the f**king article.
Isn't this the Mafia MO?
Bust up a business, then take a share in it during the rebuilding.
I'm distrubed by the comments that the US is somehow entitled to make these kind of deals. It is a conflict of interest. When the United States seeks to profit from the conflict, it invites doubt in the motivation that has presented to date - that being disarmament and regime change.
If you belive these are truely the primary goals of the United States, then you cannot condone this kind of deal being made by the government.