If only the car was manual (I believe you refer to it as a 'stick shift' on the other side of the pond) you wouldn't have had this problem.
Why won't the government ban automatic transmissions? Won't somebody think of the children?!
Email is a tool. The job of IT is to support that tool and help people use that tool effectively. If you think employees are using IT non-optimally because of lack of training, arrange training. If employees of the company think these one line emails are the best use of the technology even after you've trained them effectively, let them get on with it.
If your problem is that your mail server can't handle all these mails, it's time to upgrade the mail server and/or switch to different software.
Try passing IPv6 traffic on an older layer2 switch over a dedicated vlan, and many older switches can't deal with production traffic levels.
Layer 2 switches are Ethernet. IPv6 does not affect Ethernet. Layer 2 switches, as a result, can handle exactly as much IPv6 traffic as they could IPv4 traffic. The layer 2 switches neither know nor care that they are passing IPV6, because all they look at are Ethernet frames. Tagged VLANs are set in Ethernet frames, so these also have absolutely no interest in whether the traffic you're passing is IPV4 or IPv6.
Other than that, you've raised an important point than many have missed - there is a whole head of code out there that expects IPV4 addresses. Most people think upgrading to IPV6 is just about replacing network hardware, but I'm sure once we start seeing more mainstream (ie non-academic) use of IPv6 we'll see a lot more stories about this.
As someone who runs a small Linux consultancy firm I can tell you it's very true that many customers like to check there's someone to sue, and not just big corporates. I'm often asked by customers if we have professional indemnity insurance, and for how much. No-one's ever tried to sue us yet, but then we've never got anything major wrong either. I initially took out the policy on the basis of prudence, but I've since found that it seems to be a good sales tool.
Actually Palestine had democratic elections - unfortunately they were won by Hamas, a terrorist organisation. This rather puts the west in a tricky position - what do you do when people democratically elect extremely objectionable leaders?
What I want is what you can get at most dedicated server providers: a 10 Mbps full duplex port in and out with a 1500 GB monthly bandwidth cap, no blocked ports, and a/29 subnet allocation. If they can offer that for $85-$150 a month including a server rental then surely a telco or cable provider can provide that level of bandwidth too. Give the Internet back to the people with affordable bandwidth and symmetric connectivity.
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I for one would be extremely surprised if Mark sold Ubuntu to Oracle. The guys got a ton of money (he's been into space for fscks sake!), Ubuntu seems to be a project that interests him - why sell it to a big corporation who would ruin it?
Of course, on the other hand, everything in Ubuntu is open source anyway, so what's to stop him selling Canonical to Oracle, then taking the same codebase and continuing as a new distro?
Here in Europe it's relatively common for people using the second option you suggest (DSL) to have ISDN fall-back in the event of failure of the DSL line. This is relatively easy to acomplish with a Cisco 1801.
Wow, all I can say is you must live in some alternate universe to the one I live in.
Here getting Dell to come out a fix one of their servers (even with 'silver' 4 hour cover) is like getting blood from a stone. With the IBM auto-support I had one occasion where a disk failed and we had the replacement before anyone noticed the problem (incorrectly configured RAID monitoring was the culprit re the lack of notification).
* Off-topic, but can someone explain to me why (at least with ISC dhcpd) I can't assign IPs on two different subnets on the same physical LAN? Can this be done with a different DHCP server? Is there any kind of limitation to the protocol that makes this impossible, or is it just an implementation problem?
You can, with ISC DHCP3 at least. You need to make sure both subnets go into a bigger shared network MYNETWORK {} block
As a consultant, can I take this oportunity to thank the Apache foundation for this confusing syntax, etc? Without it, I fear my earnings would be far less.
Seriously though, for a lot of tasks these days I use the more lightweight thttpd daemon. Uber-simple config files, very low overhead, supports per-URL throttling out of the box. It's superb for image servers, or pretty much any application where you don't need dynamic pages - and believe me, there are still plenty of places you don't need dynamic code.
Here in the UK the breath tests are used only to decide who to arrest. Once aressted you are given a blood test, and it is the result of this blood test that is given in evidence, not the breathaliser.
I'm surprised the police in Florida haven't started doing this too..
Personally, I don't consider/etc to be a problem./etc is a directory to be edited by the system administrator, and as a system administrator, one should damn well know what one is doing editing config files. End users shouldn't have to touch these files.
I fail to see how a 'common format' is going to help anyone - it's not the format that causes head-scratching, it's working out how to achieve what one wants using the options available.
Because of the simple text file nature of/etc one can easily place the directory into some sort of revision control system (RCS, CVS and the like), making tracking of changes extremely simple.
Will people please stop using the acronym 'IP' for that most annoying of phrases, 'Intellectual Property'?
IP already has a meaning to 'nerds' - Internet Protocol
'Intellectual property' is confusing term - arguably deliberately so. You can read an excellent article on the subject by everyones favourite GPL creator.
No, but it's trivial to decrypt all of the connections this way and look for a signature as the original article proposed. Lots of traffic goes into the bit bucket and the interesting traffic gets recorded (or at least enough of it to form the basis of a criminal complaint).
As someone who makes a living working for ISPs, I'd take issue with your assertion that doing this would be 'trivial'. Yes, setting up a system that performs automated man-in-the-middle attacks would be trivial, however doing it on systems with data volumes as large as ISPs have to handle would require serious investment in new hardware - we're talking a serious amount of CPU time here. Systems that currently check the headers of packets and send them on to their destiation suddenly now have to look at the data, decrypt it, re-encrypt and send it on. And don't give me the 'CPUs increase in power all the time' argument - so does bandwidth usage.
I believe what the MPAA is trying to do here is to make high-speed Internet access so expensive as to make downloading of films unfeasible - that's certainly the effect the legislation would have if it were to be passed.
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If only the car was manual (I believe you refer to it as a 'stick shift' on the other side of the pond) you wouldn't have had this problem. Why won't the government ban automatic transmissions? Won't somebody think of the children?!
If your problem is that your mail server can't handle all these mails, it's time to upgrade the mail server and/or switch to different software.
As someone who runs a small Linux consultancy firm I can tell you it's very true that many customers like to check there's someone to sue, and not just big corporates. I'm often asked by customers if we have professional indemnity insurance, and for how much. No-one's ever tried to sue us yet, but then we've never got anything major wrong either. I initially took out the policy on the basis of prudence, but I've since found that it seems to be a good sales tool.
Actually, HP do some decent iSCSI storage devices - I've been using the MSA 1500i and have no complaints.
Ford already sold off Aston Martin, and Land Rover is on the market.
Actually Palestine had democratic elections - unfortunately they were won by Hamas, a terrorist organisation. This rather puts the west in a tricky position - what do you do when people democratically elect extremely objectionable leaders?
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Of course, on the other hand, everything in Ubuntu is open source anyway, so what's to stop him selling Canonical to Oracle, then taking the same codebase and continuing as a new distro?
Here in Europe it's relatively common for people using the second option you suggest (DSL) to have ISDN fall-back in the event of failure of the DSL line. This is relatively easy to acomplish with a Cisco 1801.
Here getting Dell to come out a fix one of their servers (even with 'silver' 4 hour cover) is like getting blood from a stone. With the IBM auto-support I had one occasion where a disk failed and we had the replacement before anyone noticed the problem (incorrectly configured RAID monitoring was the culprit re the lack of notification).
You can, with ISC DHCP3 at least. You need to make sure both subnets go into a bigger shared network MYNETWORK {} block
Woah there children, I wouldn't be starting a dance fight unless you want to get f'd in the a!
If that doesn't work, you could point out that it won't cost them anything to GPL the code, but they stand to gain a lot.
There's a perl implementation that will work on Windows machines.
Seriously though, for a lot of tasks these days I use the more lightweight thttpd daemon. Uber-simple config files, very low overhead, supports per-URL throttling out of the box. It's superb for image servers, or pretty much any application where you don't need dynamic pages - and believe me, there are still plenty of places you don't need dynamic code.
NTL/Telewest both have fibre just to the green cabs, it's coax from there.
I'm surprised the police in Florida haven't started doing this too..
His blog is often very amusing (at least for those that understand our British humour).
When I was a mail administrator I wrote this program to solve exactly that problem.
Damn, no Debian package for it. Oh well.
I fail to see how a 'common format' is going to help anyone - it's not the format that causes head-scratching, it's working out how to achieve what one wants using the options available.
Because of the simple text file nature of /etc one can easily place the directory into some sort of revision control system (RCS, CVS and the like), making tracking of changes extremely simple.
Luigi's Mansion was pretty fun too, although rather on the short side.
As someone who makes a living working for ISPs, I'd take issue with your assertion that doing this would be 'trivial'. Yes, setting up a system that performs automated man-in-the-middle attacks would be trivial, however doing it on systems with data volumes as large as ISPs have to handle would require serious investment in new hardware - we're talking a serious amount of CPU time here. Systems that currently check the headers of packets and send them on to their destiation suddenly now have to look at the data, decrypt it, re-encrypt and send it on. And don't give me the 'CPUs increase in power all the time' argument - so does bandwidth usage.
I believe what the MPAA is trying to do here is to make high-speed Internet access so expensive as to make downloading of films unfeasible - that's certainly the effect the legislation would have if it were to be passed.