Whoever complains about his bank online services not working with his browser is free to switch. And I really can't understand how they can successfully break compatibility with mozilla/konqueror which are working on uglysh and complicated sites. Banking is about numbers formatted in tables, CSS and some compliant JS will do it, as for my bank using IBM made software.
Btw, what would be the killer new stuff in the current devel kernel granting it a major version number upgrade to 3.0 instead of the regular minor to 2.6? They must have a good reason to do so, me thinks.
The comparison with Europe is pointless, as it's not going there anytime soon. The article says that only zones using reverse billing (very few) will be affected, you will pay LD calling those cells. The rest, paying for airtime when receiving a call, remains. A more important point is that cell. numbers will become portable among carriers. This is much more newsworthy to me!
Shouldn't Debian focus on trying to stay up to date on core components instead? We all know that some critical packages are way out of date: -XFree, 4.2 just appeared in unstable -KDE 3 -Mozilla 1.1 And it's even worse for people using woody without 'proposed-updates' package repository!
The 'testing' distribution is a step in the right direction, but there's a lot more to do that just to focus on Desktop, IMHO.
RIAA has an incredible marketing power; they are not that affraid of the Internet, but every little extra dollar is a win, so why not trying to keep it under control as well? So far I find CD sales to perform quite well given the economic situation, so people still buy CDs, begin to learn the shortcomings of mp3 and free downloads (quality, broken, etc). Make no mistake, eventually CD will disappear, but certainly not before a few years at best. And for the whiners against RIAA: try to convince consumers to vote with their cash, instead of blaming a service you can choose not to buy from.
Despite the scale of the attack, which lasted about an hour, Internet users worldwide were largely unaffected, experts said. Indeed, no traffic slowdown, no more than usual support calls. The system works as expected, even under attack.
Worth a read: Caida DNS analysis, and more specifically those graphs. It would be interesting to know which DNS sustained the attack, in regard to the graphs.
Exactly correct--the spam you receive seems to originate overseas. Actually, much of it is coming from hucksters in North America. They're just bouncing their pitches off open relays overseas.
Well, not according to SpamCop. Most come from Europe/Asia, except for the Hotmail spam (now that's weird, isn't it?).
Just being curious there, where are the CPU cycles currently burned? In other words, what are the top lines of 'top'. I suspect your DB engine to be there. And your setup seems to be a nice testbed for ZendAccelerator:-)
Who is still using KDE-2.x? KDE-3.0 was released months ago. Many of the old settings have no equivalent anymore, e.g. the filter format in kmail changed.
Debian woody/stable users? The unofficial kde3 packages are not even up to date.
Side note, Kazaa is responsible for quite an amount of internet traffic, which turns into profitability for a few US companies. So, even if they abuse a system the same way Napster tried (system designed to be abused, given the cash-cow role of the consumer), they are not _that_ bad overall. As long as the internet keeps growing!
Now this! Funny how things supposed to protect us are requiring a so much more complex technology that bugs bite back and achieve exactly the opposite of what's it's supposed to add in the first place, security. Actually, I always wondered what was the fuss about network sniffing, when you're connected to an ISP: who has so much time to waste to look for several mbit/s? And gbit/s on backbones? Eventually if your ISP got hacked by a SSL/PPTP hole, that's another story;)
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.. and by the way, CIRA (.ca) did it to elect its board members: results
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Hand every voter a personal certificate validated by a trusted authority, and there you go. It would require the governments' participation, but one can dream..
My point: internet is a business haven, to reach a vast amount of customers at a silly price. How to be seen? With a catchy-short-easy-to-remember name. Whoever deals with attributing those names is trying to split a huge money pie among too many people. Hence politics crap and ultimately, ICANN. IP attribution is technically far more complex, still it's operated smoothly because there's no big cash involved. Another example, SSL certificates. A wildcard one is sold at least 5 times the price of a single name, and it's the very same thing at the end (1 certificate). Just because you can do more things with it, technically speaking. TLDs should be dealt with like usenet groups. Users want them, users have them.
Apparently, whoever needs volume to achieve something goes the Microsoft way; in this case, Outlook users. The quickest way to achieve the critical mass required for their system to work would be to have an agreement with Hotmail, which is already probably using this technology and is self-sufficient for the task, given the volume they deal with. Now, why do I still get spam in my hotmail box, and why does it always come from the same sources? Do they keep their eyes closed for some specific UCE suppliers?
Debian doesn't even have the newest XFree86 revision in it, so where am I going to get the patch for this
Debian backports security patches to whatever version they provide; look at their apache 1.3.9, it obviously doesn't have all the security bugs fixed up to the latest build..
If you look at their bandwidth stats, who's gonna pay the bill? According to http://www.rric.net/faq/speeds.htm, the subscribers pay for usage; slashdot users should be billed to suck up that much bandwidth, eh!
An OC-12 for 60K customers is over 3GB/1 way per customer _average_. Which is at least twice real world figures. But your initial cost is probably too low (120K for an OC12 sounds like a very good price) so maybe that weights up back to your initial figure.. Network development/maintenance is the bigger part of the overall cost for sure. Still, here in Canada the national DSL provider is giving customers 1mbit for 30USD/mth modem rental included. As long as your costs scales slower than your growth, you can make it:)
By today's standards, centralized hub-trading is sort of obsolete..
Oh really? So you know a true P2P system that can find results on hundreds of millions of files in the next second or so, like Napster did at its peak? Everything currently is slow, unreliable (compared to Napster that is), and.. no userbase worth mentionning. I just hope that the non-copyrighted stuff will still be allowed, which made the strengh of Napster in the first place (find obscure/old songs).
Their netblock is no longer announced; have they been blackholed by their upstream provider? If they are not back quickly, we'll have the proof that they're gone for good.. Everything has to end at some point! Now my original Napster shirts are collectors;)
The phone number mentioned is in Canada. Apparently Matrox does not have a U.S. number.
What's the big deal here? The only difference is the billing, it's not more complicated to dial this number than any other LD call inside the U.S.. And by the way, how many U.S companies doesn't have a Canadian number? Or a 1-800? I don't think it's an issue worth mentionning (and I don't say this because 514 is my local area:) )
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Whoever complains about his bank online services not working with his browser is free to switch. And I really can't understand how they can successfully break compatibility with mozilla/konqueror which are working on uglysh and complicated sites. Banking is about numbers formatted in tables, CSS and some compliant JS will do it, as for my bank using IBM made software.
But not the other *.macfreaks.org sites, weird! no *pr0n* link should be allowed on /. frontpage .
Btw, what would be the killer new stuff in the current devel kernel granting it a major version number upgrade to 3.0 instead of the regular minor to 2.6? They must have a good reason to do so, me thinks.
For most users, Linux is around 8.0 anyway :-) Don't ask'em the difference between linux and the packaging around it a.k.a distribution..
The comparison with Europe is pointless, as it's not going there anytime soon. The article says that only zones using reverse billing (very few) will be affected, you will pay LD calling those cells. The rest, paying for airtime when receiving a call, remains. A more important point is that cell. numbers will become portable among carriers. This is much more newsworthy to me!
Shouldn't Debian focus on trying to stay up to date on core components instead? We all know that some critical packages are way out of date:
-XFree, 4.2 just appeared in unstable
-KDE 3
-Mozilla 1.1
And it's even worse for people using woody without 'proposed-updates' package repository!
The 'testing' distribution is a step in the right direction, but there's a lot more to do that just to focus on Desktop, IMHO.
I'm not that much into maths, but what will this proof achieve?
RIAA has an incredible marketing power; they are not that affraid of the Internet, but every little extra dollar is a win, so why not trying to keep it under control as well?
So far I find CD sales to perform quite well given the economic situation, so people still buy CDs, begin to learn the shortcomings of mp3 and free downloads (quality, broken, etc). Make no mistake, eventually CD will disappear, but certainly not before a few years at best.
And for the whiners against RIAA: try to convince consumers to vote with their cash, instead of blaming a service you can choose not to buy from.
Err, replying to myself.. Anyway, look at this: ICMP filtered during the attack for some, and it doesn't look as bad as it sounds.
Despite the scale of the attack, which lasted about an hour, Internet users worldwide were largely unaffected, experts said.
Indeed, no traffic slowdown, no more than usual support calls. The system works as expected, even under attack.
Worth a read: Caida DNS analysis, and more specifically those graphs. It would be interesting to know which DNS sustained the attack, in regard to the graphs.
Exactly correct--the spam you receive seems to originate overseas. Actually, much of it is coming from hucksters in North America. They're just bouncing their pitches off open relays overseas.
Well, not according to SpamCop.
Most come from Europe/Asia, except for the Hotmail spam (now that's weird, isn't it?).
Just being curious there, where are the CPU cycles currently burned? In other words, what are the top lines of 'top'. I suspect your DB engine to be there. And your setup seems to be a nice testbed for ZendAccelerator :-)
Who is still using KDE-2.x? KDE-3.0 was released months ago. Many of the old settings have no equivalent anymore, e.g. the filter format in kmail changed.
Debian woody/stable users? The unofficial kde3 packages are not even up to date.
Side note, Kazaa is responsible for quite an amount of internet traffic, which turns into profitability for a few US companies. So, even if they abuse a system the same way Napster tried (system designed to be abused, given the cash-cow role of the consumer), they are not _that_ bad overall. As long as the internet keeps growing!
Now this! Funny how things supposed to protect us are requiring a so much more complex technology that bugs bite back and achieve exactly the opposite of what's it's supposed to add in the first place, security. Actually, I always wondered what was the fuss about network sniffing, when you're connected to an ISP: who has so much time to waste to look for several mbit/s? And gbit/s on backbones? Eventually if your ISP got hacked by a SSL/PPTP hole, that's another story ;)
.. and by the way, CIRA (.ca) did it to elect its board members:
results
Hand every voter a personal certificate validated by a trusted authority, and there you go. It would require the governments' participation, but one can dream..
My point: internet is a business haven, to reach a vast amount of customers at a silly price. How to be seen? With a catchy-short-easy-to-remember name. Whoever deals with attributing those names is trying to split a huge money pie among too many people. Hence politics crap and ultimately, ICANN.
IP attribution is technically far more complex, still it's operated smoothly because there's no big cash involved.
Another example, SSL certificates. A wildcard one is sold at least 5 times the price of a single name, and it's the very same thing at the end (1 certificate). Just because you can do more things with it, technically speaking.
TLDs should be dealt with like usenet groups. Users want them, users have them.
Apparently, whoever needs volume to achieve something goes the Microsoft way; in this case, Outlook users. The quickest way to achieve the critical mass required for their system to work would be to have an agreement with Hotmail, which is already probably using this technology and is self-sufficient for the task, given the volume they deal with.
Now, why do I still get spam in my hotmail box, and why does it always come from the same sources? Do they keep their eyes closed for some specific UCE suppliers?
Debian doesn't even have the newest XFree86 revision in it, so where am I going to get the patch for this
Debian backports security patches to whatever version they provide; look at their apache 1.3.9, it obviously doesn't have all the security bugs fixed up to the latest build..
If you look at their bandwidth stats,
who's gonna pay the bill?
According to http://www.rric.net/faq/speeds.htm, the subscribers pay for usage; slashdot users should be billed to suck up that much bandwidth, eh!
An OC-12 for 60K customers is over 3GB/1 way per customer _average_. Which is at least twice real world figures. But your initial cost is probably too low (120K for an OC12 sounds like a very good price) so maybe that weights up back to your initial figure.. :)
Network development/maintenance is the bigger part of the overall cost for sure. Still, here in Canada the national DSL provider is giving customers 1mbit for 30USD/mth modem rental included. As long as your costs scales slower than your growth, you can make it
By today's standards, centralized hub-trading is sort of obsolete..
Oh really? So you know a true P2P system that can find results on hundreds of millions of files in the next second or so, like Napster did at its peak? Everything currently is slow, unreliable (compared to Napster that is), and.. no userbase worth mentionning.
I just hope that the non-copyrighted stuff will still be allowed, which made the strengh of Napster in the first place (find obscure/old songs).
Their netblock is no longer announced; have they been blackholed by their upstream provider? If they are not back quickly, we'll have the proof that they're gone for good.. Everything has to end at some point! Now my original Napster shirts are collectors ;)
The phone number mentioned is in Canada. Apparently Matrox does not have a U.S. number.
:) )
What's the big deal here? The only difference is the billing, it's not more complicated to dial this number than any other LD call inside the U.S..
And by the way, how many U.S companies doesn't have a Canadian number? Or a 1-800?
I don't think it's an issue worth mentionning (and I don't say this because 514 is my local area