so they buy a hub, because it's cheaper, and then all your lan data gets thrown to the cable modem, which dutifully passes it on to the upstream gateway, which then deals with (and disgards) it.
I don't think that is the case with AT&T, at least with my service. The cable modem acts as a bridge, it should only pass traffic that is destined for the MAC address of my default gateway (and broadcasts). I don't have my network set up in that way, but if I did I don't think it would cause much more data to be pushed up my cable. Maybe the NetBIOS(except AT&T explicitly blocks NetBIOS) broadcasts from the Windows machines and ARP requests, but the bandwidth consumed would be negligible.
I think it is very good. I am in one of the cities in which this service was rolled out, and I just tested my speed. Just as the article says, it is 1.5 Mb downstream and 256 kb upstream. However, the last time I checked it, it was only 128 kb upstream. As a result of this change, I got my upstream speed doubled for no cost:-). Of course, when I originally got the service both upstream and downstream were uncapped and I could get around 2Mb/6Mb, respectively. I am still mad about that, but this change mitigates it somewhat. At least they realize there are users who use their bandwidth, and are offereing a service for them. The one thing I am concerned about is the limits they might place on their "standard" service. Are they going to have a global byte cap like they recently put on the news servers? And if you complain about it, they can always say "We do have a plan available for high-bandwidth users" and force you to use the higher bandwidth plan. I have not yet received any communications from AT&T on this matter, hopefully they will send me something that gives me some more information on the limits and benefits of the different service levels.
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That one I would have to see to believe. I can get better throughput than that with the IP over Avian Carriers Protocol. Even my very first modem which was only 1200 baud had better throughput than that.
My point was that I used to get 5-6Mb/s downstream and 1-2Mb/s upstream and now get much less for a larger price. As the service became more popular rather than adding capacity they capped the speed. Bandwidth for a large telecommunications provider like AT&T is cheap and they should not degrade my service simply because they have more customers. I realize that not everyone has access to high-speed connections, but I do and I pay for it. I would still rather deal with the abusive nature and predatory tactics of AT&T than go back to dial-up. And therein lies the problem. They know that many of their customers will not return to dial-up, and for many people (like myself) cable is the only option available. So they can pretty much do anything they want and get away with it.
I wish I could double my pr0n collection, but I simply don't have the bandwidth. If this figure they quoted was for installed bandwidth, rather than used bandwidth, there should be a glut of bandwidth on the market. Meanwhile, I'm stuck with an unreliable 1.5Mb down/128Kb up connection, supposedly because at the higher speeds I used to enjoy I will consume too much bandwidth. I know AT&T has metric shitloads of fiber to everywhere. Sure much of the fiber is dark, but it could be lit quickly. Rather than simply adding capacity when they add customers they cap the amount of bandwidth available. More revenue for the same outlay. AT&T is already making 20% margins (Q1 2002) but they still sqeeze me for more money while decreasing the level of service. It's like a restaurant only giving you 2 pancakes instead of 4 like you are used to receiving because they had more customers than usual. Then charging you an extra dollar to boot. So I guess my question is: where is my part of this massive bandwidth?
Thank you sooooooooooo much for using that correctly. I don't believe I have ever seen that phrase used correctly on/. before your post. If I see one more inane post with the words "here, here" I think I will vomit.
Well, I work for an advertising agency. AdCritic is a very useful tool and worth paying for. There's a lot of commercials that don't get nationwide airplay, and there's a lot of stuff you'd want to watch when you're concepting
You didn't even need to mention you were in advertising. Once you used a noun as a verb ('concepting') it was blatantly obvious.
Yes, it did occur to me, but generally if an author is re-publishing his work he will give credit to the original publication. I would also suspect that the article in question is owned by Business Week, being a work for hire. Also, I reasoned that if you did write the article you are pretty sharp and would be able to write an original post that supported your thesis, rather than copying old work verbatim. These reasons plus your recently registered/. account led me to conclude that you did not write the article. Now my question: Did you write the article for Business Week? In your reply you didn't say you wrote it, you just asked me if the thought occured to me. I still maintain you are not the original author, and are therefore a plagarist. If I'm mistaken I apologize but I don't believe I'm mistaken.
You moderators are idiots. This is a news story printed in Business Week Magazine last december. Didn't it read more like a press piece than a/. comment? User 956 is not an insightful poster, he is a blatant plagarist. 4 moderators were either stupid or naive enough to believe that he was insightful when he posted this comment. Please, think before you moderate. I know I will get modded down for this* but I just had to say something.
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I think the big winner (functionally) will be the distribution that ends the need (or perceived need) to constantly have to install new distributions every 6 months -- just to get the upgraded applications.
The Red Hat Network and up2date do just that. It allows you to keep all your applications current. It solves the dependancies and downloads the appropriate packages. You can schedule updates for all your machines from a central place. So far I have just used the free personal service, but I am getting my employer to buy subscriptions for all the Red Hat machines that we have. It helps to support Red Hat and it reduces the time I spend applying security updates. In addition, you get priority access to ISOs if you care to download the whole distro. To quote the marketing guys, "it's a win-win".
Any catastrophe that could knock out power to your outlet is going to be big enough to ruin the UPS in the process.
Unless you live in Myanmar with its unpredictable power producing capabilities, this kind of expensive toy is useless.
Since when is a "catastrophe" the only time the power goes out? Wind, rain, snow, tree branches and many other things can cause power outages. If you live in California, you may also get hit with rolling blackouts.
Most outages last only a few seconds. Instead of all my computers rebooting, they just continue running. Rarely does an outage last long enough for the computers to actually shut down, but when it does they shut down gracefully. No lost data, no waiting for filesystem checks, just pure computing enjoyment. I can't understand why anyone would not have backup power for their delicate equipment.
Can you see Tony Soprano talking about their new 'cd pirating scheme?'
Actually, I could. He got into the calling card scam, and that was only 5-10 dollars per unit. I fail to see how that is different than selling a pirated DVD for $5-10.
However, TS is a fictional character and this discussion was about actual terroroists. I seriously doubt that piracy is a major source of income for any terrorist groups. There is simply too much competition in the pirated media market. Since copyright infringment is a minor crime, there are many people who are otherwise law-abiding that will participate. Why would a terrorist group go to all the trouble of pressing DVDs or CDs to provide something that is available in alt.1337.warez? They wouldn't. Sure, there are large-scale copying operations, but I think that terrorists would be more likely to be involved in LARGE money operations, like opium or stolen automobiles. The US mantra has changed from 'Do it for the children' to 'If you don't do it, the terrorists have already won'.
Doh! We will just have to change those job descriptions to "network engineer" and "systems engineer". Now if I could only find a way to move sales up in the alphabet.
Being 6'4'' the thing I look for in a cinema is enough room for me to sit comfortably and stretch my legs.
Hey, I know you! You're the person that sits right in front of me at every movie I attend. I'm sure it sucks being tall and trying to pry yourself into one of those tiny theater seats, but being short and not being able to see the screen over all the heads really blows as well. That is why I have only attended theaters with stadium seating in the past few years.
But you have to remember that when we did The Empire Strikes Back, some people hated C-3PO. When we did Jedi, they just loathed the Ewoks. There was no Internet to jazz it up, but there was the same conversation. Fans are very opinionated, and that's good. But I can't make a movie for fans."
Why can't he make a movie for the fan? They are the ones who made Lucas what he is today. Contrary to the article in the original story, I don't think he has learned his lesson. Although AotC may be more adult-oriented I think Lucas still doesn't "get it".
acording to my measurements a cd is aprox 16 inch diameter.
No, a CD is 4.7 inches in diameter(almost 15" in circumference). A 16" CD would be hard to carry around.
16 inch * 100 per sec (100x)
"100x" does NOT mean 100 RPM, it means it can read data at 100x176kb/s(standard data rate for an audio CD). I don't remember the exact figures, but a 100x CDROM would need about 50,000 RPM.
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On my machine,/dev/st0 is the first tape device on the SCSI bus (SCSI Tape 0). True it will go (much faster than) 100kbps but what does that have to do with Ricochet?;)
If you aren't capable of understanding the code then you shouldn't have a job maintaining mission-critical production systems.
Is the converse of this true as well? If you aren't capable of understanding mission-critical systems you shouldn't have a job maintaining the code? Most of the Systems Engineers that I know understand the code, but very few Programmers understand the systems. Why is the burden to know everything placed upon Systems personnel but not upon development?
The rehabilitated system or network should be able to submit there address to a server to be crawled for open relays (much like submitting a URL to a search engine).
I say boycott the olympics. the're lame anyways, and everyone I know are blaze about them anymore... when it was every 4 years it was kinda cool but now the're almost constant and I dont give a rats ass anymore... espically when I tried to get 2 tickets to see something stupid like the 50yard dash for me and my daughter... No problem, that will be $2790.99 please and we will not guarentee that you will get the tickets, but we will charge your credit card right now.
FWIW, I guess the tickets for events at the Winter Games are less expensive than the summer games, the event I am attending tomorrow (luge) has very reasonably priced tickets, at $45, and IIRC the Hockey tickets are ~$100. Granted the tickets for the Opening Ceremonies were rather steep (the tickets my family had were $875, I couldn't justify spending that much), but it was a cool show. I watched the fireworks display from my front lawn and it was quite spectacular.
There are even events that are (almost) free. You can go to Snowbasin and with a lift ticket purchase you are allowed to ski up to watch the events being held there. I hope to get up there and watch some Super G and downhill skiing (check HERE for more information).
Argue if you will that the Olympics are too commercialized, but bitching about the ticket prices isn't going to work for these Olympics.
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I don't think that is the case with AT&T, at least with my service. The cable modem acts as a bridge, it should only pass traffic that is destined for the MAC address of my default gateway (and broadcasts). I don't have my network set up in that way, but if I did I don't think it would cause much more data to be pushed up my cable. Maybe the NetBIOS(except AT&T explicitly blocks NetBIOS) broadcasts from the Windows machines and ARP requests, but the bandwidth consumed would be negligible.
I think it is very good. I am in one of the cities in which this service was rolled out, and I just tested my speed. Just as the article says, it is 1.5 Mb downstream and 256 kb upstream. However, the last time I checked it, it was only 128 kb upstream. As a result of this change, I got my upstream speed doubled for no cost :-). Of course, when I originally got the service both upstream and downstream were uncapped and I could get around 2Mb/6Mb, respectively. I am still mad about that, but this change mitigates it somewhat. At least they realize there are users who use their bandwidth, and are offereing a service for them. The one thing I am concerned about is the limits they might place on their "standard" service. Are they going to have a global byte cap like they recently put on the news servers? And if you complain about it, they can always say "We do have a plan available for high-bandwidth users" and force you to use the higher bandwidth plan. I have not yet received any communications from AT&T on this matter, hopefully they will send me something that gives me some more information on the limits and benefits of the different service levels.
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The amount of traffic we see on the backbones of the networks has been doubling approximately every 90 to 120 days.
I thought that myth had been debunked. It now has passed into the realm of the 'factoid'.
That one I would have to see to believe. I can get better throughput than that with the IP over Avian Carriers Protocol. Even my very first modem which was only 1200 baud had better throughput than that.
My point was that I used to get 5-6Mb/s downstream and 1-2Mb/s upstream and now get much less for a larger price. As the service became more popular rather than adding capacity they capped the speed. Bandwidth for a large telecommunications provider like AT&T is cheap and they should not degrade my service simply because they have more customers. I realize that not everyone has access to high-speed connections, but I do and I pay for it. I would still rather deal with the abusive nature and predatory tactics of AT&T than go back to dial-up. And therein lies the problem. They know that many of their customers will not return to dial-up, and for many people (like myself) cable is the only option available. So they can pretty much do anything they want and get away with it.
I wish I could double my pr0n collection, but I simply don't have the bandwidth. If this figure they quoted was for installed bandwidth, rather than used bandwidth, there should be a glut of bandwidth on the market. Meanwhile, I'm stuck with an unreliable 1.5Mb down/128Kb up connection, supposedly because at the higher speeds I used to enjoy I will consume too much bandwidth. I know AT&T has metric shitloads of fiber to everywhere. Sure much of the fiber is dark, but it could be lit quickly. Rather than simply adding capacity when they add customers they cap the amount of bandwidth available. More revenue for the same outlay. AT&T is already making 20% margins (Q1 2002) but they still sqeeze me for more money while decreasing the level of service. It's like a restaurant only giving you 2 pancakes instead of 4 like you are used to receiving because they had more customers than usual. Then charging you an extra dollar to boot. So I guess my question is: where is my part of this massive bandwidth?
Thank you sooooooooooo much for using that correctly. I don't believe I have ever seen that phrase used correctly on /. before your post. If I see one more inane post with the words "here, here" I think I will vomit.
You didn't even need to mention you were in advertising. Once you used a noun as a verb ('concepting') it was blatantly obvious.
Don't you mean GNUflect?
Plexus built 20 machines, each with 2 gigabytes of processing speed
Can somebody explain to me what 2 GB of processing speed is?
Yes, it did occur to me, but generally if an author is re-publishing his work he will give credit to the original publication. I would also suspect that the article in question is owned by Business Week, being a work for hire. Also, I reasoned that if you did write the article you are pretty sharp and would be able to write an original post that supported your thesis, rather than copying old work verbatim. These reasons plus your recently registered /. account led me to conclude that you did not write the article. Now my question: Did you write the article for Business Week? In your reply you didn't say you wrote it, you just asked me if the thought occured to me. I still maintain you are not the original author, and are therefore a plagarist. If I'm mistaken I apologize but I don't believe I'm mistaken.
You moderators are idiots. This is a news story printed in Business Week Magazine last december. Didn't it read more like a press piece than a /. comment? User 956 is not an insightful poster, he is a blatant plagarist. 4 moderators were either stupid or naive enough to believe that he was insightful when he posted this comment. Please, think before you moderate. I know I will get modded down for this* but I just had to say something.
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The Red Hat Network and up2date do just that. It allows you to keep all your applications current. It solves the dependancies and downloads the appropriate packages. You can schedule updates for all your machines from a central place. So far I have just used the free personal service, but I am getting my employer to buy subscriptions for all the Red Hat machines that we have. It helps to support Red Hat and it reduces the time I spend applying security updates. In addition, you get priority access to ISOs if you care to download the whole distro. To quote the marketing guys, "it's a win-win".
Since when is a "catastrophe" the only time the power goes out? Wind, rain, snow, tree branches and many other things can cause power outages. If you live in California, you may also get hit with rolling blackouts.
Most outages last only a few seconds. Instead of all my computers rebooting, they just continue running. Rarely does an outage last long enough for the computers to actually shut down, but when it does they shut down gracefully. No lost data, no waiting for filesystem checks, just pure computing enjoyment. I can't understand why anyone would not have backup power for their delicate equipment.
Actually, I could. He got into the calling card scam, and that was only 5-10 dollars per unit. I fail to see how that is different than selling a pirated DVD for $5-10.
However, TS is a fictional character and this discussion was about actual terroroists. I seriously doubt that piracy is a major source of income for any terrorist groups. There is simply too much competition in the pirated media market. Since copyright infringment is a minor crime, there are many people who are otherwise law-abiding that will participate. Why would a terrorist group go to all the trouble of pressing DVDs or CDs to provide something that is available in alt.1337.warez? They wouldn't. Sure, there are large-scale copying operations, but I think that terrorists would be more likely to be involved in LARGE money operations, like opium or stolen automobiles. The US mantra has changed from 'Do it for the children' to 'If you don't do it, the terrorists have already won'.
Doh! We will just have to change those job descriptions to "network engineer" and "systems engineer". Now if I could only find a way to move sales up in the alphabet.
Lets see...Accounting, Advertising, Executives. Ok, we have enough to pay the rest now.
Hey, I know you! You're the person that sits right in front of me at every movie I attend. I'm sure it sucks being tall and trying to pry yourself into one of those tiny theater seats, but being short and not being able to see the screen over all the heads really blows as well. That is why I have only attended theaters with stadium seating in the past few years.
But you have to remember that when we did The Empire Strikes Back, some people hated C-3PO. When we did Jedi, they just loathed the Ewoks. There was no Internet to jazz it up, but there was the same conversation. Fans are very opinionated, and that's good. But I can't make a movie for fans."
Why can't he make a movie for the fan? They are the ones who made Lucas what he is today. Contrary to the article in the original story, I don't think he has learned his lesson. Although AotC may be more adult-oriented I think Lucas still doesn't "get it".
No, a CD is 4.7 inches in diameter(almost 15" in circumference). A 16" CD would be hard to carry around.
16 inch * 100 per sec (100x)
"100x" does NOT mean 100 RPM, it means it can read data at 100x176kb/s(standard data rate for an audio CD). I don't remember the exact figures, but a 100x CDROM would need about 50,000 RPM.
How many is too many, 5?
On my machine, /dev/st0 is the first tape device on the SCSI bus (SCSI Tape 0). True it will go (much faster than) 100kbps but what does that have to do with Ricochet? ;)
Is the converse of this true as well? If you aren't capable of understanding mission-critical systems you shouldn't have a job maintaining the code? Most of the Systems Engineers that I know understand the code, but very few Programmers understand the systems. Why is the burden to know everything placed upon Systems personnel but not upon development?
I don't know about the other RBL lists. but ORBZ allows you to do this. The URL to submit your server for re-testing is http://www.orbz.org/sysadmin-darkside.php.
FWIW, I guess the tickets for events at the Winter Games are less expensive than the summer games, the event I am attending tomorrow (luge) has very reasonably priced tickets, at $45, and IIRC the Hockey tickets are ~$100. Granted the tickets for the Opening Ceremonies were rather steep (the tickets my family had were $875, I couldn't justify spending that much), but it was a cool show. I watched the fireworks display from my front lawn and it was quite spectacular.
There are even events that are (almost) free. You can go to Snowbasin and with a lift ticket purchase you are allowed to ski up to watch the events being held there. I hope to get up there and watch some Super G and downhill skiing (check HERE for more information).
Argue if you will that the Olympics are too commercialized, but bitching about the ticket prices isn't going to work for these Olympics.