The problem is that he gets a free ride at DIX based on his server using only a nominal amount of bandwidth. The UDP traffic he's receiving is more than DIX is willing to tolerate for gratis colocation, and there is no reasonable way to stop it on the receiving end.
Keep in mind that a proper SATA implementation will be 150MB/sec PER DRIVE, since each drive is on its own channel. SCSI is 320 MB/sec per channel, but you're in for a cabling nightmare if you want only one drive per channel. Note that there is a 300 MB/sec SATA standard, although few drives and controllers seem to support it.
This hardly matters, since the SATA controller is only going to speak to one drive at a time anyway. Don't you think SCSI vendors would have abandoned it by now if this were really an issue? As for top speed, SAS is the next generation of SCSI, and is available today, running at 375 MB/sec.
Many of the higher end server-grade SATA models are warrantied for 24/7 operation. SCSI has lost its advantage there.
All SCSI drives are designed with this in mind, not just the high end ones. You don't need to pay top dollar for 15K U320 drives to get this sort of reliability.
SATA has Native Command Queueing, formerly a SCSI-only performance feature. Note that it's optional for SATA drives though,...
Again, standard on SCSI. You don't need to pay extra for it.
Last, but most definately not least, SATA cabling is far simpler and robust than SCSI cabling.
For a desktop system with several drives, sure. For a modern server, not at all, because you won't be using internal 68-pin connectors. You'll be using a hot-swap SCA backplane, which has a single connection to the SCSI controller. Hot-swap SATA backplanes require a separate connection for each drive, resulting in a lot more wire in the box.
I've had hardware related data loss on hard drives twice in my life.
I've had dozens, and I can count the ones that were SCSI on one hand. One of my colocation customers has lost four 250 GB Maxtor SATA drives in the past 6 months. I have a SAN device that uses SATA drives, and while it's been reliable, the vendor insisted that we keep spares on hand. ATA drives, serial or otherwise, simply are not engineered to the same high standards that SCSI drives are. Their sticker price reflects this. You get what you pay for.
I know, bad form to reply to myself. As noted by DeadSea, sometimes the redirect is to/. Here's the sequence I observed.
First request gave me: Location:/?ABCDEFGH
Second request gave me: Location:/
Third request gave me the real page.
So, maybe it is an Opera and Safari problem after all. Perhaps they don't deal with the first redirect properly, or they don't deal with multiple levels of redirects. If I had to guess, I'd say this is indicative of some sort of load balancing at GoDaddy.
Here's what it looks like when asking for one of the sites mentioned on the Apple boards:
% telnet www.catalogueofships.com 80 Trying 64.202.167.129... Connected to catalogueofships.com. Escape character is '^]'. GET / HTTP/1.1 HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily Content-Length: 0 Location:/?ABCDEFGH Connection closed by foreign host.
Notice that I specified HTTP/1.1, but it never even gave me a chance to specify a host header. The 302 came almost immediately after I hit Enter on the GET line. I can't see how that could possibly be a Safari or Opera problem.
This works because Illinois and Wisconsin have reciprocal income tax laws. When I file my IL-1040 at tax time, there are questions about whether any of my earnings come from work in Wisconsin and a few other states.
For neighboring states, this usually isn't a problem (as you illustrated). It becomes a problem for the guy in Tennessee who telecommutes to New York, because those two states probably don't have reciprocal tax laws.
Wildlife Prairie State Park, just outside Peoria, Illinois, is similar, though it's smaller (about 2,000 acres) and primarily has animals indigenous to Illinois. Black bears, bison, wolves, cougars, and the like.
Another thing: here in the States, you aren't allowed to lock checked baggage anymore. Airport screeners require that luggage be left unlocked to facilitate spot-checking of baggage.
The last time I was at the airport in San Jose (last fall), I saw vendors selling "TSA-approved" luggage padlocks. I took this to mean "key escrow" in a very literal sense.
And let's not forget Windows for Workgroups 3.11... the only 'feature' added by that extra '1' on the end was it broke OS/2 for Windows.
No, that was the "upgrade" from Windows 3.1 to 3.11. It consisted of changes to about 8 files, and was a free download.
The upgrade from Windows for Workgroups 3.1 to 3.11 was a big jump, and probably deserved to be called 3.2 or something. This was not a free upgrade, and had to be purchased. The most noticeable change (to me) was that WfWG 3.11 supported native TCP/IP for the first time, though you had to download the stack from Microsoft.
There's probably 100* more dark fiber than lit fiber in the world - when they're putting it down it's dirt cheap to put a few more bundles in.
I suspect telcos don't always have a choice, because their choices for long-haul, burial-grade cable are probably somewhat limited. SBC put a new fiber POP in our building last year. They put in a channelized OC12 mux to start, which uses one fiber pair. However, the cable they ran was a 12-pair cable, so there are 11 unused fiber pairs running from our building to the CO.
And yet they've still got this boat-anchor around their necks in delivering high quality and low cost 100% uptime POTS lines to every person in an area.
They've turned that boat-anchor into a buoy. I don't know about the rest of the country, but in Illinois, the principal ILECs (SBC and Verizon) both require a working POTS line on which to install ADSL service. I work for an ISP that wholesales ADSL from SBC and Verizon, and roughly 25% of our customers had to install a dedicated POTS line just so they could get ADSL, because their regular lines were with a CLEC.
The public reason for this requirement is so they can pre-test all lines in a given service area. This significantly shortens the lead time for an installation (about a week in SBC-land these days). However, I'm sure the side effect of sales of new POTS lines that will never be used for voice doesn't bother the ILECs one bit.
Full disclosure... SBC used to sell ADSL without POTS line sharing (they call it an unbundled loop), but they stopped doing that a couple years ago. We still have a handful of customers who have them. On the flip side, Verizon announced they will start selling unbundled loops in the near future. Go figure.
How can posting a list of files possibly be illegal?
By precedent, if not by rule of law. 2600 was forced to stop linking to sites that mirrored DeCSS, even though they did not actually distribute the software.
I started out by getting a ficticious business name (sometimes called a d/b/a, for "doing business as") and a copy of QuickBooks. I surveyed the local competition and priced my services accordingly. I'm currently ust a sole proprietorship, so basically I am the company, so revenue is just lumped in with personal income, as far as the IRS is concerned. I write off business expenses at tax time, though there's a "small business fee" or some such you have to pay for the privlege of doing that.
I don't have any sort of written contract at this time. Most of the work I do is by word of mouth, so the people I'm working for usually know me or know of me, and trust me. My approach is to fix the problem, especially if I create it, and, so far, it's worked well for me.
Here's one from the UK's Home Office that covers 1999 to 2003. The US leads the pack, followed mostly by former Soviet states, and Caribbean nations that used to be (or still are) American or British territories. Sorry, it was only available in PDF.
There is only one species of domesticated dog, Canis lupus familiaris, of which the Mastif and Chihuahua are distinct breeds. The difference between a species and a breed is that species differentiation occurs due to genetic mutation, while breed differentiation occurs due to selective reproduction of animals with desirable traits, in the hope that those traits come out in the offspring.
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Does this fall under the "useless use of cat" category? I see it all the time in shell scripts. Instead of:
for i in img*.jpg; do convert $i $(basename $i.jpg).png; done
Try this:
for i in img*.jpg; do convert $i ${i%.jpg}.png; done
Saves one process per iteration, and works with any Bourne or Bourne-ish shell.
I can think about a few reasons
- Expensive
- Intergrated Cache = Expensive Updating
- Too Fucking Hot (I run a Dual PPro and I can't keep this fucker cool even with 5 80mm Case Fans)
I'm running a Dell Optiplex GXpro with dual PPro/200, and it's one of the coolest systems I've ever run (in terms of temperature). I suspect your board and case layout just aren't optimal for heat dissipation of two CPUs.
I only use my main email address with friends and family, and never post it online.
This no longer matters. Virus infections already do thorough searches of infected computers for email addresses to send themselves to. Some viruses (e.g. Sobig) appear tailor-made for spammers to abuse as SMTP relays. Given this cozy relationship between virus writers and spammers, it seems reasonable to me that those viruses are (or could be) harvesting the addresses they find for later sale to spammers. What better way to get a large number of deliverable addresses than from the victims' own computers?
In other words, you'd better hope none of your friends or family members, or anyone they forward mail to, ever gets infected with such a virus. If viruses aren't yet doing this, they will be soon.
You should RTFA. Even better, you should read the Labor Department's fact sheets. In particular, check out Fact Sheet 17E, which covers exemptions from overtime pay for computer-related workers. It specifically states, "Job titles do not determine exempt status."
... NAV has supported POP/IMAP scanning via proxy for years...
Symantec's Corporate Edition anti-virus client only supports email scanning with Outlook and Notes. It does not include the POP3/SMTP proxy that comes with their retail and consumer-oriented versions.
This is for the current release, SFU 3.0. The 3.5 beta (which is the freebie) removes support for NT 4.0. The download page mentions it towards the bottom.
There is a non-compete clause, and not the one you're referring to. It was
posted to Groklaw
on 20 November 2003. (Scroll down to the Technology License Agreement, subparagraph II.A(2). It's in bold.) The particular clause prohibits Novell from using the rights they retained to Unix System V in a way that competes with SCO Group's core business. In other words, when SCO bought SysV, the sale agreement was structured such that they control who can profit from it. Fair enough.
So now we have SCO threatening to sue Novell if they go through with their acquisition of SuSE. I suspect it's predicated on a favorable judgment against IBM that establishes Linux to infringe on SysV... thus, Linux is a derivative... thus, Novell is using a SysV derivative (and an unauthorized one at that) to compete against SCO's core business.
In the end, it's just more of the same. It's SCO trying to convince the world they have an airtight case, so you'd better get on board voluntarily now before a judge forces you to later (when it will cost more). Fortunately, most of the Linux-using world has been smarter than that up to this point.
Boies will probably argue the language of the settlement is somehow ambiguous, or its contents are somehow unlawful. They will attempt to cast doubt about the rights granted by the settlement in such a way that SCO Group looks victimized, and thus entitled to damages.
This means the University of California will probably also get dragged into the mess.
McBride speaks about things which he knows little about. He has no way of knowing that ESR hasn't informed the proper authorities. Rather, McBride is simply resorting to speculation because ESR didn't inform him.
I've worked at an ISP for seven years, and in that time have seen my fair share of abusive and illegal online activity. In cases where legal action is sought, the proper authorities often don't want you to say anything to anyone, including the victim(s). I've received subpoenas for evidence from various state and federal entities over the years, and most contained some provision for maintaining confidentiality of both the evidence and the subpoena itself. They do not want to tip off the alleged perpetrator and give them an opportunity to try to elude investigators or destroy evidence.
Hah. Being a 20-something American as well, I didn't know the history of the car, either. I actually thought it was a jab at Ford Motors by intentionally misspelling the word "perfect", implying they were far from it.
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The problem is that he gets a free ride at DIX based on his server using only a nominal amount of bandwidth. The UDP traffic he's receiving is more than DIX is willing to tolerate for gratis colocation, and there is no reasonable way to stop it on the receiving end.
So, maybe it is an Opera and Safari problem after all. Perhaps they don't deal with the first redirect properly, or they don't deal with multiple levels of redirects. If I had to guess, I'd say this is indicative of some sort of load balancing at GoDaddy.
Notice that I specified HTTP/1.1, but it never even gave me a chance to specify a host header. The 302 came almost immediately after I hit Enter on the GET line. I can't see how that could possibly be a Safari or Opera problem.
For neighboring states, this usually isn't a problem (as you illustrated). It becomes a problem for the guy in Tennessee who telecommutes to New York, because those two states probably don't have reciprocal tax laws.
Wildlife Prairie State Park, just outside Peoria, Illinois, is similar, though it's smaller (about 2,000 acres) and primarily has animals indigenous to Illinois. Black bears, bison, wolves, cougars, and the like.
The upgrade from Windows for Workgroups 3.1 to 3.11 was a big jump, and probably deserved to be called 3.2 or something. This was not a free upgrade, and had to be purchased. The most noticeable change (to me) was that WfWG 3.11 supported native TCP/IP for the first time, though you had to download the stack from Microsoft.
The public reason for this requirement is so they can pre-test all lines in a given service area. This significantly shortens the lead time for an installation (about a week in SBC-land these days). However, I'm sure the side effect of sales of new POTS lines that will never be used for voice doesn't bother the ILECs one bit.
Full disclosure... SBC used to sell ADSL without POTS line sharing (they call it an unbundled loop), but they stopped doing that a couple years ago. We still have a handful of customers who have them. On the flip side, Verizon announced they will start selling unbundled loops in the near future. Go figure.
I don't have any sort of written contract at this time. Most of the work I do is by word of mouth, so the people I'm working for usually know me or know of me, and trust me. My approach is to fix the problem, especially if I create it, and, so far, it's worked well for me.
You can also search Google for other sources.
There is only one species of domesticated dog, Canis lupus familiaris, of which the Mastif and Chihuahua are distinct breeds. The difference between a species and a breed is that species differentiation occurs due to genetic mutation, while breed differentiation occurs due to selective reproduction of animals with desirable traits, in the hope that those traits come out in the offspring.
In other words, you'd better hope none of your friends or family members, or anyone they forward mail to, ever gets infected with such a virus. If viruses aren't yet doing this, they will be soon.
You should RTFA. Even better, you should read the Labor Department's fact sheets. In particular, check out Fact Sheet 17E, which covers exemptions from overtime pay for computer-related workers. It specifically states, "Job titles do not determine exempt status."
This is for the current release, SFU 3.0. The 3.5 beta (which is the freebie) removes support for NT 4.0. The download page mentions it towards the bottom.
So now we have SCO threatening to sue Novell if they go through with their acquisition of SuSE. I suspect it's predicated on a favorable judgment against IBM that establishes Linux to infringe on SysV... thus, Linux is a derivative... thus, Novell is using a SysV derivative (and an unauthorized one at that) to compete against SCO's core business.
In the end, it's just more of the same. It's SCO trying to convince the world they have an airtight case, so you'd better get on board voluntarily now before a judge forces you to later (when it will cost more). Fortunately, most of the Linux-using world has been smarter than that up to this point.
This means the University of California will probably also get dragged into the mess.
I've worked at an ISP for seven years, and in that time have seen my fair share of abusive and illegal online activity. In cases where legal action is sought, the proper authorities often don't want you to say anything to anyone, including the victim(s). I've received subpoenas for evidence from various state and federal entities over the years, and most contained some provision for maintaining confidentiality of both the evidence and the subpoena itself. They do not want to tip off the alleged perpetrator and give them an opportunity to try to elude investigators or destroy evidence.
Hah. Being a 20-something American as well, I didn't know the history of the car, either. I actually thought it was a jab at Ford Motors by intentionally misspelling the word "perfect", implying they were far from it.