I have someone connect a terminal directly to the router. Simple, no?
You'd think so, except when the router is somewhere in Wyoming and there are no engineers on payroll near it, and the one nearest is a 4 hour plane ride away. Oh, and the insecure way the POP is laid out internally, you don't want anyone not on payroll, like a local contractor, getting entry.
Every Tier 1 provider uses route filtering, and probably all are auto-built from config servers and common route object databases. If some dinky Florida ISP decides that they're going to announce a/2 (example from actual history), and my table says their ASN should only be broadcasting a/21, we reject it all (historically, most people didn't, and a huge chunk of the net fell down that day). None of this "we adjust it to match" either - it matches what it should be, or it gets blocked. Not only that, but the configs on the routers explicitly allow only predetermined ASNs, so if the dinky Florida ISP suddenly gets an IBM satellite office connected to it, they have to fix their routing object to say that their ASN will be announcing IBM's ASN, etc.
Any network engineer who works for an ISP should tell you that the biggest likely problem with BGP isn't bad routes, it's BGP on a flapping connection, because until the auto-dampening kicks in, every time the circuit goes up, BGP restarts its handshake and route announcement, and when the line is just dirty enough to get lots of flaps but still some signal time, you get major load on the routers involved. The load from a flapping OC-12 can conceivably take down underpowered aggregate routers from some vendors, which can knock out entire regions of customers.
Now... think about how you connect in to fix one of those, if it doesn't stay up long enough for you to remote in.:)
There was a Red Green episode about this that aired a couple of weeks back, involving Red's scheme to turn Possum Lodge into a tourist attraction based on finding an old oar with the name "Loren" written on it.
That's how I remembered the "e," actually. Amazing what you can learn on public television.
The Freedom of Information Act is the tool of choice for finding out exactly what about you is in those databases. In fact, I would not be surprised if a lot of people started flooding them with requests - and forcing them to answer, with lawsuits if they do not comply with the Act.
As an aside, an Expedia ad popped up when I went to that article. I love it when collusion with advertisers is that obvious.
I'd watch a show based on Willow. She's far and away my favorite character (since way before she was a beautiful lesbian uber witch) In fact, if the show really is over she's the only reason I'll watch a new spin off.
Someone ought to come up with a way to find out what patches/upgrades you need and make an html doc with the software linked to where everything lives on their ftp site.
That's the page that I was referred to on my Mozilla browser when I went to the link for IE. If you'd gone there with anything using Mozilla, you'd have seen it, also, probably.
They probably just made an A record change to the DNS. This buys them time to go seize the server physically, or copy all the user records off if it's a virtual colo.
If leaving the IP alone for a while prompts some clueless users to continue to log in or attempt to order more stuff, it's a smart move.
actually dude, the correct word is "grammatical", not "grammatic". Remember, you can make up words in your own head, but nobody else will necessarily know what you mean.
Besides the obvious distraction of grammatic errors is a bit of uncertainty of how to treat this computer, for the purposes of review.
It looks a bit like a little boombox, and has special clock features when it's folded up. Obviously, the designers expect that it will be stay folded up a lot, to design this so intentionally. Overall, it seems geared towards someone who needs a small-footprint PC with moderate functionality, like someone in a crowded dorm room or apartment. With this in mind, the interface to simple tasks for which most of the intended market segment would use this key, not the technical capabilities, and I suspect that Apple still comes out on top. Because of this, I would have welcomed a more in-depth discussion of the VAIO's interface, and the relative merits of the included software bundle versus those of the competitors' comparable units, but I got the impression that the reviewer hadn't really spent much time with the other systems.
It's not a power system to those of us with the latest hardware, and it also appears not to be terribly rugged, but it is cute, and definitely more manageable by people who are not nerds and just need to do email or homework, or maybe watch a movie in bed. There's no question that this is not a real workhorse of a machine, and doesn't have all the necessary ports, so I'm not sure why HTPC was discussed. But as a primary system with only moderate usage, or a satellite system for a house network, it probably does quite well.
But then I realized that I was thinking of the Rotten Tomatoes website.:)
Imagine, if RT had a game review site, or, really, meta-review site, you'd get a collection of reviews from a wide range of famous and obscure reviewers, along with links to official websites and freebie "trailers" and desktop pix, etc.
No reviewer would be ranked higher than any other, so the first-glance-trending would probably not be as skewed. It would give everyone more information in one location, and plenty of obscure reviewers would get their chances at many more eyeballs.
Speaking of movie sites, while RT has reviews, IMDB is the place for more encyclopedic information. IMDB also has videogames on it, but that section is woefully underdone right now. If everyone would pick a game or two and double check the information, as well as link to FAQ sites as fan sites, it would become a lot more useful for game research needs. Submit some reviews, as well, and if you don't get what you want out of it, suggest ways to improve the site.
I don't subscribe to or work for either of these sites, but I do feel that if both of these were to jump with both feet into game reviews and information, we wouldn't have to hunt through as many different sources to start searching for infomation we need.
The Harvesters have been kept under complete wraps throughout the development process, and no one outside Quicksilver and Infogrames knows anything about what they are
The easiest security breaches are to be had via social engineering, such as human manipulation and simple password guesses such as the default password for a certain system.
FreeGeek, in Portland, Oregon, does a good job of recycling. I've visited their facility a couple of times - they have rooms full of computers, drives, monitors. They have bins in the back of the building for scrap metals, etc., whatever they can't make into a computer for someone else, they try to recycle, responsibly. In fact, I think that's why they have to charge money to accept monitors from people, because of the losses they incur in getting them recycled properly (shipping them to remanufacturers, etc.)
Everyone please list similar efforts in other cities, if possible.
While it might be a good way to keep our children from being abducted
How does it keep children from being abducted? You've fallen for the same misdirection that law enforcement uses when it says it wants fingerprints of your kids "for their safety."
Fingerprints are good for identifying bodies, that's about it. This type of device will only work to identify someone who has been abducted if he or she passes within a few feet of a reader, so pretty much the same thing holds true.
However, assuming your Johnny or Julie grows up instead of meeting his or her fate at the hands of an evil stranger (or, more statistically appropriate, your ex), there's now a database that has that information about him or her, and he or she can be tracked without having committed any crime. That's a violation of his or her right to privacy.
P.S. lest you think that you could remove the tag through simple surgery, there are two possible barriers: one is that if it's a simple surgery, the evil strangers you are afraid of will be able to remove it also, and the other is that, very quickly, these may become seen as permanent identifiers, just like Social Security Numbers are today, despite their use for that purpose being nominally illegal.
One of the advantages of the DishPVRs is that there is no subscription fee on top of the monthly fee for satellite TV. They also record the signal directly to the hard drive without re-encoding, resulting in no loss of picture quality. This should make it cheaper than a comparable TiVo since it doesn't need the hardware to encode HDTV signals.
Current DirecTivos (or, sorry, "DirecTV with Tivo") have no monthly fee if you subscribe to one of their biggest packages. They also record the streams directly. I suspect that the HD-DirecTV models will, as well. I'm sure DirecTV will try to price competitively with their main satellite competitor, don't you? Also, there's a very large hacker community established for Tivos in general. Can you copy the data from your DishPVR directly to your PC?
Some of us, like myself, still buy CDs from BMG and Columbia House
No offense, but that line just took away a lot of your credibility with most of us. Besides the fact that these vendors make money off people forgetting to return stupid cards every 4 weeks and the stupid shipping fees, why don't you buy from online sources, like this one, which has cheap prices and free standard shipping on any size order? ("And no more you have to buy, ever!")
Wanna know something? I have probably over a thousand legitimately-purchased CDs of music (not bragging, it's a small collection compared to many people I know, and I think it's way too many to be practical at all). For me, a 6-disc changer won't cut it. A 400-disc changer won't cut it, either. No, I want to be able to rip stuff to a good quality format and fill up a couple huge hard drives, just so I can page through a screen from my couch instead of having to dig through my crates of CDs or a binder full of listings of what's in a changer.
I'm a hardcore geek and have expert certification on everything from Windows 2000 to A+ certs to Novell Network certs to CISCO certs to _____ . You name it, I've done it.
Telling us your certs doesn't tell us a thing about what you've done. Certs are just tests of minimum proficiency; they're not basis for judging your real-world experience. You want to impress us, tell us about the software projects you code for, or the networks you've designed, or the RFCs you authored, or... even that you don't do any of these, but your company depends on you to support their internal LAN and install software for secretaries, and we'll give you respect.
Sorry to rant, but:
Sorry to rant, but: there is a CCNA for Dummies book, an MCSE book, and an A+ book, as well. (I haven't located a "Novell for Dummies," but it's probably implicitly assumed by anyone writing for that audience, anyway.) There is no corresponding book that matches being out in the field with production servers, having to teach (over the phone) your customer's consultant enough BGP so that you can explain to him why his multi-hop config is entirely bogus, while at the same time paging through a zonefile in vi and trying to make sense of cryptic emails from someone who doesn't really share any languages in common with you, whom you can't call even if she did share a common language because of an 11-hour time difference, asking you to "please to have maked the mail fast to the new server 192.168.0.3 verry improtance!" and wanting it done before her office opens in the morning so she can get her mail (oh, did I mention that you can't send her return mail, because she's already moved her mail server to that black-hole IP?) Meanwhile a customer has just walked through your office, past the empty secretary's desk (secretary having been laid off because of budget cuts), and wandered to your cubicle, asking you to escort him to his colo a few blocks away so he can collect his gear "for testing," even though you know he's on the list of deadbeats who haven't paid in months and his account manager is permanently out to lunch and you personally shut his interface down last night... and it's not even 9:25 yet? And you're "the new guy," so you have the lightest load on your team?
Yes, some people might want to lie down on the couch and use something like this device, instead of messing with a changer or thinking about what CDs might be in the cartridge, or anything else beyond some brief pattern-recognition. Please maked it also to be bringing the soda and too the ibuprofen, verry improtance? Yes?
Of course... you can get the same documents under a public domain license at the courthouse, or from what will be sure to be several websites that'll spring up to host PDFs that were obtained from scanning courthouse copies. So, if you're stupid enough to agree to a license on public domain work, so be it.
LawMeme's page on this has an addendum addressing this point; it basically shows how SearchKing is wrongfully attempting to assert control over these documents, and points out that it, of course, is hosting them for free.
SearchKing's flailing around just like the company that sued Microsoft because it stopped supporting "internet keywords." Only it has even less right to recourse, because definitely no promises were ever made to SearchKing about any sort of support.
By the way, I'll bet that after Google wins the lawsuit, it'll still link to SearchKing, not that anyone will want to business with the owner, since everyone now knows that he seems to be misleading either his customers or the court, or perhaps both, by saying different things about PageRank's importance. Both claims can't be true, that's for sure.
With ReplayPC [sourceforge.net], DVArchive [sourceforge.net], or rolling your own tools with the LanVideoSharing [molehill.org] documentation out there.
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Shush, you're ruining my nice example by being practical.
You'd think so, except when the router is somewhere in Wyoming and there are no engineers on payroll near it, and the one nearest is a 4 hour plane ride away. Oh, and the insecure way the POP is laid out internally, you don't want anyone not on payroll, like a local contractor, getting entry.
Every Tier 1 provider uses route filtering, and probably all are auto-built from config servers and common route object databases. If some dinky Florida ISP decides that they're going to announce a /2 (example from actual history), and my table says their ASN should only be broadcasting a /21, we reject it all (historically, most people didn't, and a huge chunk of the net fell down that day). None of this "we adjust it to match" either - it matches what it should be, or it gets blocked. Not only that, but the configs on the routers explicitly allow only predetermined ASNs, so if the dinky Florida ISP suddenly gets an IBM satellite office connected to it, they have to fix their routing object to say that their ASN will be announcing IBM's ASN, etc.
:)
Any network engineer who works for an ISP should tell you that the biggest likely problem with BGP isn't bad routes, it's BGP on a flapping connection, because until the auto-dampening kicks in, every time the circuit goes up, BGP restarts its handshake and route announcement, and when the line is just dirty enough to get lots of flaps but still some signal time, you get major load on the routers involved. The load from a flapping OC-12 can conceivably take down underpowered aggregate routers from some vendors, which can knock out entire regions of customers.
Now... think about how you connect in to fix one of those, if it doesn't stay up long enough for you to remote in.
You mean Lorne Greene, right?
There was a Red Green episode about this that aired a couple of weeks back, involving Red's scheme to turn Possum Lodge into a tourist attraction based on finding an old oar with the name "Loren" written on it.
That's how I remembered the "e," actually. Amazing what you can learn on public television.
The Freedom of Information Act is the tool of choice for finding out exactly what about you is in those databases. In fact, I would not be surprised if a lot of people started flooding them with requests - and forcing them to answer, with lawsuits if they do not comply with the Act.
As an aside, an Expedia ad popped up when I went to that article. I love it when collusion with advertisers is that obvious.
Only if it started in the summertime...
"This one time, at band camp?"
What, you mean like this?
That's the page that I was referred to on my Mozilla browser when I went to the link for IE. If you'd gone there with anything using Mozilla, you'd have seen it, also, probably.
The press release is right here.
They probably just made an A record change to the DNS.
This buys them time to go seize the server physically, or copy all the user records off if it's a virtual colo.
If leaving the IP alone for a while prompts some clueless users to continue to log in or attempt to order more stuff, it's a smart move.
What's wrong with my capitalization?
Try looking in the dictionary.
Besides the obvious distraction of grammatic errors is a bit of uncertainty of how to treat this computer, for the purposes of review.
It looks a bit like a little boombox, and has special clock features when it's folded up. Obviously, the designers expect that it will be stay folded up a lot, to design this so intentionally. Overall, it seems geared towards someone who needs a small-footprint PC with moderate functionality, like someone in a crowded dorm room or apartment. With this in mind, the interface to simple tasks for which most of the intended market segment would use this key, not the technical capabilities, and I suspect that Apple still comes out on top. Because of this, I would have welcomed a more in-depth discussion of the VAIO's interface, and the relative merits of the included software bundle versus those of the competitors' comparable units, but I got the impression that the reviewer hadn't really spent much time with the other systems.
It's not a power system to those of us with the latest hardware, and it also appears not to be terribly rugged, but it is cute, and definitely more manageable by people who are not nerds and just need to do email or homework, or maybe watch a movie in bed. There's no question that this is not a real workhorse of a machine, and doesn't have all the necessary ports, so I'm not sure why HTPC was discussed. But as a primary system with only moderate usage, or a satellite system for a house network, it probably does quite well.
Cool. Just added to my favorites list. Thanks!
But then I realized that I was thinking of the Rotten Tomatoes website. :)
Imagine, if RT had a game review site, or, really, meta-review site, you'd get a collection of reviews from a wide range of famous and obscure reviewers, along with links to official websites and freebie "trailers" and desktop pix, etc.
No reviewer would be ranked higher than any other, so the first-glance-trending would probably not be as skewed. It would give everyone more information in one location, and plenty of obscure reviewers would get their chances at many more eyeballs.
Speaking of movie sites, while RT has reviews, IMDB is the place for more encyclopedic information. IMDB also has videogames on it, but that section is woefully underdone right now. If everyone would pick a game or two and double check the information, as well as link to FAQ sites as fan sites, it would become a lot more useful for game research needs. Submit some reviews, as well, and if you don't get what you want out of it, suggest ways to improve the site.
I don't subscribe to or work for either of these sites, but I do feel that if both of these were to jump with both feet into game reviews and information, we wouldn't have to hunt through as many different sources to start searching for infomation we need.
Don't you know?
They're the Justified Ancients of MooMoo!
Furthermore known as the JAMMs!
("let me ask you a question... what time is love?")
Maybe the Japanese version will have a special minigame: Daleks vs. the Cylons (Psilons).
Some people are pretty opinionated about that, in fact.
FreeGeek, in Portland, Oregon, does a good job of recycling. I've visited their facility a couple of times - they have rooms full of computers, drives, monitors. They have bins in the back of the building for scrap metals, etc., whatever they can't make into a computer for someone else, they try to recycle, responsibly. In fact, I think that's why they have to charge money to accept monitors from people, because of the losses they incur in getting them recycled properly (shipping them to remanufacturers, etc.)
Everyone please list similar efforts in other cities, if possible.
Touch the puppy, son.
Would you want kids growing up to want to emulate you? (I don't mean in software)
What do you say to kids who think you're cool?
How does it keep children from being abducted?
You've fallen for the same misdirection that law enforcement uses when it says it wants fingerprints of your kids "for their safety."
Fingerprints are good for identifying bodies, that's about it. This type of device will only work to identify someone who has been abducted if he or she passes within a few feet of a reader, so pretty much the same thing holds true.
However, assuming your Johnny or Julie grows up instead of meeting his or her fate at the hands of an evil stranger (or, more statistically appropriate, your ex), there's now a database that has that information about him or her, and he or she can be tracked without having committed any crime. That's a violation of his or her right to privacy.
P.S. lest you think that you could remove the tag through simple surgery, there are two possible barriers: one is that if it's a simple surgery, the evil strangers you are afraid of will be able to remove it also, and the other is that, very quickly, these may become seen as permanent identifiers, just like Social Security Numbers are today, despite their use for that purpose being nominally illegal.
Current DirecTivos (or, sorry, "DirecTV with Tivo") have no monthly fee if you subscribe to one of their biggest packages. They also record the streams directly. I suspect that the HD-DirecTV models will, as well. I'm sure DirecTV will try to price competitively with their main satellite competitor, don't you? Also, there's a very large hacker community established for Tivos in general. Can you copy the data from your DishPVR directly to your PC?
No offense, but that line just took away a lot of your credibility with most of us. Besides the fact that these vendors make money off people forgetting to return stupid cards every 4 weeks and the stupid shipping fees, why don't you buy from online sources, like this one, which has cheap prices and free standard shipping on any size order? ("And no more you have to buy, ever!")
Wanna know something? I have probably over a thousand legitimately-purchased CDs of music (not bragging, it's a small collection compared to many people I know, and I think it's way too many to be practical at all). For me, a 6-disc changer won't cut it. A 400-disc changer won't cut it, either. No, I want to be able to rip stuff to a good quality format and fill up a couple huge hard drives, just so I can page through a screen from my couch instead of having to dig through my crates of CDs or a binder full of listings of what's in a changer.
Telling us your certs doesn't tell us a thing about what you've done. Certs are just tests of minimum proficiency; they're not basis for judging your real-world experience. You want to impress us, tell us about the software projects you code for, or the networks you've designed, or the RFCs you authored, or... even that you don't do any of these, but your company depends on you to support their internal LAN and install software for secretaries, and we'll give you respect.
Sorry to rant, but: there is a CCNA for Dummies book, an MCSE book, and an A+ book, as well. (I haven't located a "Novell for Dummies," but it's probably implicitly assumed by anyone writing for that audience, anyway.) There is no corresponding book that matches being out in the field with production servers, having to teach (over the phone) your customer's consultant enough BGP so that you can explain to him why his multi-hop config is entirely bogus, while at the same time paging through a zonefile in vi and trying to make sense of cryptic emails from someone who doesn't really share any languages in common with you, whom you can't call even if she did share a common language because of an 11-hour time difference, asking you to "please to have maked the mail fast to the new server 192.168.0.3 verry improtance!" and wanting it done before her office opens in the morning so she can get her mail (oh, did I mention that you can't send her return mail, because she's already moved her mail server to that black-hole IP?) Meanwhile a customer has just walked through your office, past the empty secretary's desk (secretary having been laid off because of budget cuts), and wandered to your cubicle, asking you to escort him to his colo a few blocks away so he can collect his gear "for testing," even though you know he's on the list of deadbeats who haven't paid in months and his account manager is permanently out to lunch and you personally shut his interface down last night... and it's not even 9:25 yet? And you're "the new guy," so you have the lightest load on your team?
Yes, some people might want to lie down on the couch and use something like this device, instead of messing with a changer or thinking about what CDs might be in the cartridge, or anything else beyond some brief pattern-recognition. Please maked it also to be bringing the soda and too the ibuprofen, verry improtance? Yes?
LawMeme's page on this has an addendum addressing this point; it basically shows how SearchKing is wrongfully attempting to assert control over these documents, and points out that it, of course, is hosting them for free.
SearchKing's flailing around just like the company that sued Microsoft because it stopped supporting "internet keywords." Only it has even less right to recourse, because definitely no promises were ever made to SearchKing about any sort of support.
By the way, I'll bet that after Google wins the lawsuit, it'll still link to SearchKing, not that anyone will want to business with the owner, since everyone now knows that he seems to be misleading either his customers or the court, or perhaps both, by saying different things about PageRank's importance. Both claims can't be true, that's for sure.
Excellent! Thanks!