The story says that the cables installing in the power station is ment as a live test to see how the cables will react in a real-life enviroment.
In the beginning the cables will only take about 20% of the power in the line they have been connected to, but once they feel confident in the cables, they will turn it up.
The power used to cool the cable should be less that 50% of the power lost in a normal cable.
Hmm it just strikes me that I am getting power from those cables, cool, they seem to wo.#%Ffbfkhg/CARRIER LOST
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Well, I guess they can do that now since World Online has changed their name to Tiscali or something like that.:-)
Could be fun to watch the DNS confusion.:-) --------
I live in China, and I have just talked to AOL, which ensures me that they will not censor or monitor anything.
I have always thought the goverment was a bunch of GOOD GUYES who wants AL THE BESTH the people.
I have always had the impression that they DID NOT monitor my websurfing and emails. But I guess I was RIGT.
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By now it should be clear the RIAA is mad and should be put to death. It's so laughable by now that it's getting hard to take them serious. They look like a bunch of old men fearing the future, nah, the present, because they dont understand.
To quote Grandpa Simpson: I used to be with it, but then they changed what "it" was. Now, what
I'm with isn't it, and what's "it" seems weird and scary to me.
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Most undersea cables now typically contain eight such strands, or fibers.
Isn't there more, if I was to put down my cable over the Atlantic, i'd prefer a couple of strands more than 8, now that I had been opening my hidden wallet:-) --------
I don't think that most people realize that today, everybody with a GSM phone can be tracked. So before you get all freaked out, you better turn off that GSM phone.
Many(all?) phone companies keeps track of not just what calls you have made, but which antenna you have used to make those calls. Very often, these records are stored for many years and have proven usefull in catching criminals, claiming the where not a place where their phone was.
The new turn on this where I live in Denmark is that now the police wants to be able to get complete records of who was in a area at a given time when a "major"(what ever that is) crime has been committed. This will also help getting statements and interviewing people in that area.
Ok so is this a good thing only? Well You decide.
Also on a off topic note, when you are on vacation with your phone, and your phone is out of coverage, people from home that tries to call you get a foreign voice telling you that your phone is unreacable. This is also used for criminals that want to empty your house. The phone is a dead giveaway, telling them that theres a really good chance that you will not be home for some time.
I stopped using Asus drivers for my GeForce long time ago because they were too buggy and the latest updates was almost a year old. So I installed NVidia's drivers which are a lot faster with large textures and more stable.
So now I can't use the fancy features I paid for, like the TV out. So I have decided not to buy Asus again. It's a waste of money when you can't use all the onboard features anyway. --------
I don't think I care, the way they are f...... up the last episodes of Voyager with the worst, "lets just assume that we just came up with a method to"-stunt, worse than in TNG
>>Also if I understand the link right this would by default make remote admin tasks impossible and that would suck.
Yes, it would be like working with NT.:)
Long live VNC
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Unions and all the crap that follows.
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IT Unions?
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I was a member of a union once, and I got the monthly magazine. I became tired of reading about:
1) Great deals on cheap vacations around the world
2) Great deals on memberships in clubs that offered me savings in different stores.
3) Great deals on insurances.
4) How bad my boss is.
5) What I should vote in the next election.
6) Their sponsorships for different sport-teams.
7) Their sponsorships for different political parties.
I don't want to pay for all that stuff and read about it in a 40 page montly full-color magazine. As far as I am concerned, it could be in black and white. If they just would tell me what they really are doing for me.
As a computer worker, I have been at several unions headquarters(btw, Im not American), and I was offended by the amount of money spent, not just on fancy flat-screen monitors for all PCs 4 years ago (hundreds of those babies). But the waste of money on funiture and housing. Trust me, the amount of money spent in fancy IT companies on housing, funiture etc. was nothing compared to these guys.
So I quit and saved about $100 every month. fsck them, how stupid do they think I am. The only time they did a proper IT related article was when I was working in a IT dept for a company. They had a nice big article about how everybody should outsource their IT! Good work, and a good thing by boss at the time didn't read that.:-)
I have also tried to get paid a company following the union rules for how much a "IT-worker" should get paid. That didn't work well. If you took responability on your shoulders it was just too bad because they didn't take into account the difference between a hotline supporter and a fx. network administrator. duh, like I could just go when the bell rang.
And finally, So today I work in another company, don't care about the union if I decided to go by the union rules and my boss said "OK, I'll do that too", I'd be much worse of. And I'd figure that if I needed a union, my job would be very crappy.
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On all the servers I run, I don't keep the log files for more than one week.
I run Webalizer with the "increment" option and the log file are rotated and deleted if they are more that one week old.
I realize that the option to backtrack problems are limited using this method, but those webserver logs just takes up too much space:-)
Yes, I never thought I should say this, but the national phone company really delivers this time. heh They have a local mirror from which I download with 150 kilobytes pr. second.:-)
I have been thinking about when it would come, I have just installed a new server at work with 4.2 and I was wondering if I should have waited a week. Oh well, time to practice ye olde upgrade routine. heh
Many streaming servers have licences for how many connections they can have at once. Also when you buy power at your ISP to make them serve your stream, so you only have 2 outgoing streams, you often pay for the maximum number of connections also.
So providing your signal on the internet is very different from broadcasting it in the air. You also have logs on how many connects to your service.
Many of these dudes getting mad about the stations streaming the signal on the net seems to forget(or does not know/care) these things. It not like the whole internet can listen in at the same time, there is a limit one way or another(licences, bandwidth). So it should be very easy to work out at contract saying that they allow 3000 people listen to their broadcasts. So you can see them squirm when their dreams of a billion dollar pay check vanishes when they realize that the whole world has the potential of listening in but there can only be fx, 3000 of them in reality.
Ok so there is the whole deal of cache servers for RealAudio, Quicktime and that microsoft format. But let's forget that for a moment. --------
So I read the article and,
>Microsoft and Seattle-based RealNetworks are working to subtly wean consumers away from MP3
> technology, encouraging them to use proprietary software formats instead
I was saying to my self "Oh, go fsck yourself"
Yes let's all kill a good standard(well, good enough for me).
I would be really happy to use a standard from RealNetworks. argh. That always looks crappy it might be good for streaming, but why on earth would i use it for something thats on my harddisk.
sigh
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In other news:
FreeBSD now claims to be the most stable and fastest server to serve pr0n. According to thier website, Yahoo runs on a farm on FreeBSD servers. Over at/. people seem to be happy to strike another blow at m$, which they say "are only creating servers that wants to display BSOD rather than naked Linux chicks".
Also in this issue: Man marries woman in wedding cermony --------
Yes I have heard it also as a local story,
I may not come from the same place but, I know a guy who claims that one of our customers had a case just like that. but then again, it might be one of those stories that no one actually can verify when you ask them to.
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Yes I have seen this story many times, people have a 8 year old PC running netware 3.12 and it becomes unstable after running stable for 7.5 years, so people buy new fancy hardware and install NT and that a fresh installed NT on a new fast(stable) hardware is better that their old NT, heh. go figure..
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Now, I would agree that they should have installed the server properly and installed the latest patches. But if I was the ISP there was no way I would make any contract where it said that I was responsible for the complete security of the site/machine. You _will_ need someone in the project that can evaluate the security of the setup and design.
There's two problems in this case. One is that the user gets full access to the machine to do what ever he wants. The second reason is that he is writing their own programs for the machine.
This means that the user can install a program with a security hole and also write a program/script that provides a entry for the intruder.
If you have root access to a server and are writing programs for it, there's no easy way out, you have to gain the knowledge needed to keep the site secure.
What the ISP should provide is uptime(power backup/connection backups/spare parts) and maybe backup. The good thing about placing your machine in a serverfarm is to save the costs of getting bit fat internet pipes, building serverrooms with all that follow(UPS, security, fire ex., cooling etc.).
Or you could have choosen IBM,:-) that is if I have understood their commercial correctly. heh:-) --------
Slashdot Mirror
The story says that the cables installing in the power station is ment as a live test to see how the cables will react in a real-life enviroment.
/CARRIER LOST
In the beginning the cables will only take about 20% of the power in the line they have been connected to, but once they feel confident in the cables, they will turn it up.
The power used to cool the cable should be less that 50% of the power lost in a normal cable.
Hmm it just strikes me that I am getting power from those cables, cool, they seem to wo.#%Ffbfkhg
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It's rare that you see someone giving up rather than sueing. :-)
fp
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thanks :-)
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Well, I guess they can do that now since World Online has changed their name to Tiscali or something like that. :-) :-)
Could be fun to watch the DNS confusion.
--------
I live in China, and I have just talked to AOL, which ensures me that they will not censor or monitor anything.
I have always thought the goverment was a bunch of GOOD GUYES who wants AL THE BESTH the people. I have always had the impression that they DID NOT monitor my websurfing and emails. But I guess I was RIGT.
--------
By now it should be clear the RIAA is mad and should be put to death. It's so laughable by now that it's getting hard to take them serious.
They look like a bunch of old men fearing the future, nah, the present, because they dont understand.
To quote Grandpa Simpson:
I used to be with it, but then they changed what "it" was. Now, what I'm with isn't it, and what's "it" seems weird and scary to me.
--------
Most undersea cables now typically contain eight such strands, or fibers. :-)
Isn't there more, if I was to put down my cable over the Atlantic, i'd prefer a couple of strands more than 8, now that I had been opening my hidden wallet
--------
I don't think that most people realize that today, everybody with a GSM phone can be tracked.
So before you get all freaked out, you better turn off that GSM phone.
Many(all?) phone companies keeps track of not just what calls you have made, but which antenna you have used to make those calls.
Very often, these records are stored for many years and have proven usefull in catching criminals, claiming the where not a place where their phone was.
The new turn on this where I live in Denmark is that now the police wants to be able to get complete records of who was in a area at a given time when a "major"(what ever that is) crime has been committed. This will also help getting statements and interviewing people in that area.
Ok so is this a good thing only? Well You decide.
Also on a off topic note, when you are on vacation with your phone, and your phone is out of coverage, people from home that tries to call you get a foreign voice telling you that your phone is unreacable. This is also used for criminals that want to empty your house. The phone is a dead giveaway, telling them that theres a really good chance that you will not be home for some time.
--------
I stopped using Asus drivers for my GeForce long time ago because they were too buggy and the latest updates was almost a year old. So I installed NVidia's drivers which are a lot faster with large textures and more stable.
So now I can't use the fancy features I paid for, like the TV out. So I have decided not to buy Asus again. It's a waste of money when you can't use all the onboard features anyway.
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Just don't tilt too much backwards when letting go of those hand suction cups.
swoop, swoop
Help, I am falli...
splat
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I don't think I care, the way they are f...... up the last episodes of Voyager with the worst, "lets just assume that we just came up with a method to"-stunt, worse than in TNG
--------
>>Also if I understand the link right this would by default make remote admin tasks impossible and that would suck.
:)
Yes, it would be like working with NT.
Long live VNC
--------
I was a member of a union once, and I got the monthly magazine. I became tired of reading about:
:-)
1) Great deals on cheap vacations around the world
2) Great deals on memberships in clubs that offered me savings in different stores.
3) Great deals on insurances.
4) How bad my boss is.
5) What I should vote in the next election.
6) Their sponsorships for different sport-teams.
7) Their sponsorships for different political parties.
I don't want to pay for all that stuff and read about it in a 40 page montly full-color magazine. As far as I am concerned, it could be in black and white. If they just would tell me what they really are doing for me.
As a computer worker, I have been at several unions headquarters(btw, Im not American), and I was offended by the amount of money spent, not just on fancy flat-screen monitors for all PCs 4 years ago (hundreds of those babies). But the waste of money on funiture and housing. Trust me, the amount of money spent in fancy IT companies on housing, funiture etc. was nothing compared to these guys.
So I quit and saved about $100 every month.
fsck them, how stupid do they think I am. The only time they did a proper IT related article was when I was working in a IT dept for a company. They had a nice big article about how everybody should outsource their IT! Good work, and a good thing by boss at the time didn't read that.
I have also tried to get paid a company following the union rules for how much a "IT-worker" should get paid. That didn't work well. If you took responability on your shoulders it was just too bad because they didn't take into account the difference between a hotline supporter and a fx. network administrator. duh, like I could just go when the bell rang.
And finally, So today I work in another company, don't care about the union if I decided to go by the union rules and my boss said "OK, I'll do that too", I'd be much worse of. And I'd figure that if I needed a union, my job would be very crappy.
--------
On all the servers I run, I don't keep the log files for more than one week. :-)
I run Webalizer with the "increment" option and the log file are rotated and deleted if they are more that one week old.
I realize that the option to backtrack problems are limited using this method, but those webserver logs just takes up too much space
--------
Yes, I never thought I should say this, but the national phone company really delivers this time. heh They have a local mirror from which I download with 150 kilobytes pr. second. :-)
I have been thinking about when it would come, I have just installed a new server at work with 4.2 and I was wondering if I should have waited a week. Oh well, time to practice ye olde upgrade routine. heh
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For inspiration, you should go here.8 -11d2-A769-00AA001ACF42
http://www.phpgeek.com/print.php?=PHPE9568F36-D42
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Intersting picture of the journalist.1 d2-A769-00AA001ACF42
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk?=PHPE9568F36-D428-1
Ok ok, I do know what it really is.
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What I think is even more important is the Octium Octium chip. For furter details, see http://www.octiumchip.com
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Many streaming servers have licences for how many connections they can have at once. Also when you buy power at your ISP to make them serve your stream, so you only have 2 outgoing streams, you often pay for the maximum number of connections also.
So providing your signal on the internet is very different from broadcasting it in the air. You also have logs on how many connects to your service.
Many of these dudes getting mad about the stations streaming the signal on the net seems to forget(or does not know/care) these things. It not like the whole internet can listen in at the same time, there is a limit one way or another(licences, bandwidth). So it should be very easy to work out at contract saying that they allow 3000 people listen to their broadcasts. So you can see them squirm when their dreams of a billion dollar pay check vanishes when they realize that the whole world has the potential of listening in but there can only be fx, 3000 of them in reality.
Ok so there is the whole deal of cache servers for RealAudio, Quicktime and that microsoft format. But let's forget that for a moment.
--------
So I read the article and, >Microsoft and Seattle-based RealNetworks are working to subtly wean consumers away from MP3
> technology, encouraging them to use proprietary software formats instead
I was saying to my self "Oh, go fsck yourself"
Yes let's all kill a good standard(well, good enough for me).
I would be really happy to use a standard from RealNetworks. argh. That always looks crappy it might be good for streaming, but why on earth would i use it for something thats on my harddisk. sigh
--------
I guess it can't hurt their stocks.
/. people seem to be happy to strike another blow at m$, which they say "are only creating servers that wants to display BSOD rather than naked Linux chicks".
In other news:
FreeBSD now claims to be the most stable and fastest server to serve pr0n. According to thier website, Yahoo runs on a farm on FreeBSD servers. Over at
Also in this issue: Man marries woman in wedding cermony
--------
Yes I have heard it also as a local story, I may not come from the same place but, I know a guy who claims that one of our customers had a case just like that.
but then again, it might be one of those stories that no one actually can verify when you ask them to.
--------
Yes I have seen this story many times, people have a 8 year old PC running netware 3.12 and it becomes unstable after running stable for 7.5 years, so people buy new fancy hardware and install NT and that a fresh installed NT on a new fast(stable) hardware is better that their old NT, heh. go figure..
--------
Now, I would agree that they should have installed the server properly and installed the latest patches. But if I was the ISP there was no way I would make any contract where it said that I was responsible for the complete security of the site/machine. You _will_ need someone in the project that can evaluate the security of the setup and design.
:-)
There's two problems in this case. One is that the user gets full access to the machine to do what ever he wants. The second reason is that he is writing their own programs for the machine. This means that the user can install a program with a security hole and also write a program/script that provides a entry for the intruder.
If you have root access to a server and are writing programs for it, there's no easy way out, you have to gain the knowledge needed to keep the site secure.
What the ISP should provide is uptime(power backup/connection backups/spare parts) and maybe backup. The good thing about placing your machine in a serverfarm is to save the costs of getting bit fat internet pipes, building serverrooms with all that follow(UPS, security, fire ex., cooling etc.).
Or you could have choosen IBM,:-) that is if I have understood their commercial correctly. heh
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"Those who would trade freedom for security deserve neither freedom nor security."
- Benjamin Franklin
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