Oh I dunno... telephone, and TV maybe? All the bandwidth for cellular telephones and the video/data they transmit, all the medical data for hospitals, all the data/research for universities/military etc etc etc etc... basically the same as in America.
I agree, I can't wait for IPv6. We are rolling out our new 10Gbit network in the spring and once we start doing video, we will probably do IPv6 for all the set-top boxes as well as the streaming servers. That way we can have a totally closed IPv6 network to start playing around. Foundry makes the NetIron 40G that does IPv6 at wirespeed right now and it's backplane is 40Gbs so its ready to go when we want to increase capacity yet again. Also, I run the IP network for an ISP and I have our DSL network set up so that people can have a non-routable IP (DHCP 10.x.x.x) when they plug in, or if they need to do a voice chat etc, they can do PPPoE for a real IP. I really would like to just assign real IPs to everyone, but as you all know, IPv4 addresses are running low.
I run windows on my laptop at work and I *just* put XP on my system at home for the first time in 2 years (to play games... of course). I can't get a lot of cycles out of my laptop because I'm using it all the time and I turn it off to bring it home with me at the end of the day. My real horsepower is in all the LINUX boxen (don't you love that word) I run at work - so make a frickin' linux client! chop chop!
I have a friend that works at Walmart and I remember back when the PS2 *just* came out and the USA had somewhat of a shortage. Systems were going for (IIRC) like $7k on Ebay. The Walmart here (in Southern Ontario) were taking back PS2s and THROWING THEM IN THE TRASH COMPACTOR. My friend tried hiding one in the back that was destined for destruction, but someone found it and tossed it in. Not even charity got them. That's just crazy if you ask me;)
I work for a small telco/ISP in southern ontario (I run the IP network). We are 45min from the nearest city so its just farmland everywhere. We can get DSL to EVERY ONE of our telephone customers (minus one or two). Here is how Bell Canada does it: Provide DSL in town - put loading coils JUST outside of the town limits - kill DSL possibility for anyone outside of town. Here is how we do it: Put fiber pedestals/DSLAMS in logical locations so we can reach everyone out in the country and in all the towns. Everyone can get atleast 1MB/256K, but most can get 2MB+
As for the new TV over the phone lines - sure, we are thinking about it - the first thing we are doing is upgrading our core to 10Gbs, then in certain areas we will do FTTH (Fiber to the home), or ADSL 2+ when it is cost effective to do so. Just so you know, we are a cooperative telephone company and we share our network with a bunch of other independent telcos in this area (together we have over 450km of fiber) - they can also get DSL to most of the customers in their calling area. Of course, our territories border with Bell so we get lots of calls from their customers that can't get broadband (even though they get Bell advertisements on their door saying that they can), so we just started putting up wireless towers in Bell territory. Now we can give highspeed to rural people unlucky enough to be with ma bell;)
Sooo... it may be common knowledge that rural phone systems are out of date, but its definately not true. What is true is that a lot of independents in the States ARE outdated because they have traditionally been run by families who just decided to build a phone system. Many are on their own when it comes to designing a cable plant, and so the quailty of telco to telco varies considerably. Many of these little family telcos are being purchased by the big boys and being revamped as we speak, so I'm sure this will be less and less of a problem in the future. Until then, tell your grandmother to pop up to southern ontario and we'll get her goin' for ya;)
If I purchase a DVD that doesn't allow me to play it without aquiring a license online, AND they don't mention that on the DVD COVER, then they can give me a free internet account to go and download that license. If the DVD cover doesn't say that I require an internet account and I purchase it and then cannot play it, then it is false advertising. They trick you into buying something and then throw a bunch of requirements at you afterwards. This would obviously piss off ANYONE who has to go through this process, and especially piss off and frustrate the 95% of people that aren't so computer literate. The 5 day license is completely absurd. If I purchase a DVD that ends up having these DRM-enables "features," I will mail a bill for my time of having to download the updates, and a new bill (1 hour minimum of course) each time I have to go and get a license (which may be every 6 days). Oh, and they better make sure that license server is still available in 3,4,5,20 years when I want to watch my DVD again.
I want my browser to remember by last session (if I tell it to). Opera does this, but I haven't seen it anywhere else. Often when I am at the office (with a laptop), I have a browser with "X" number of tabs open. Sometimes I want to close the browser, go home, and finish what I was doing. I hate closing the browser and all tabs down and then either having to bookmark each page and then load them back up, or just remember the links, or leave the laptop on in my bag. I want it to load everything up that I had on my screen the last time so I can keep resarching with a doobie in my mouth. C'mon Firefox!
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Well, I don't have a lot of experience with SSL offloading (we are an ISP and do webhosting, but we aren't a hosting provider with crazy amounts of SSL-enabled sites), but I met with Cisco a few weeks ago to purchase some new equipment (I don't think I am going to though), and they showed me their 7600 series boxes. One of the blades that you can stick in these is an SSL processor. Click Here to check out the link. Here is the summary:
Up to four SSL service modules can be installed in each chassis providing the fastest SSL session setup rates and bulk encrypted throughput in the industry and supporting the highest number of concurrent connections:
3000 connection setups/second per module--10,000 per Chassis fully-populated with SSL modules
300 Mbps bulk encrypted throughput per chassis module--1.2 Gbps per fully-populated with SSL modules
64,000 concurrent client connections--256,000 per chassis fully-populated with SSL modules
So it doesn't look like one blade will do you, but if you stick 4 in there, your rockin'
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Well, I don't have a lot of experience with SSL offloading (we are an ISP and do webhosting, but we aren't a hosting provider with crazy amounts of SSL-enabled sites), but I met with Cisco a few weeks ago to purchase some new equipment (I don't think I am going to though), and they showed me their 7600 series boxes. One of the blades that you can stick in these is an SSL processor. Click Here to check out the link. Here is the summary:
Up to four SSL service modules can be installed in each chassis providing the fastest SSL session setup rates and bulk encrypted throughput in the industry and supporting the highest number of concurrent connections:
3000 connection setups/second per module--10,000 per Chassis fully-populated with SSL modules
300 Mbps bulk encrypted throughput per chassis module--1.2 Gbps per fully-populated with SSL modules
64,000 concurrent client connections--256,000 per chassis fully-populated with SSL modules
So it doesn't look like one blade will do you, but if you stick 4 in there, your rockin'
I've been in meetings for the last few weeks because the company I work for is looking at purchasing a new core network so we can run 10GigE everywhere. Its not terabit, but the routers we are looking at (Foundry NetIron's, Extreme 10k's, etc) have a backplane in terabit territory and can push a heck of a lot of data. One cool tidbit of information: Extreme Networks 10k boxes now run modified linux. If you are trained on Cisco equipment, you can change the CLI to "become" a Cisco box - if you are all about VxWorks you can have a CLI similar to the VxWorks default - if you want your OWN CLI, you can built it and run it on the 10k. Cool stuff IMO. As for IOS being open source - go try to find it, it was stolen awhile back. As for the modules you are referring to - some companies do this - Extreme Networks lets you purchase the modules that you require and then they turn them on in the OS for you. Its the same OS for their whole product line, but with certain features disabled for the lesser products that don't support them. This way you only pay for what you need. Again, pretty cool IMO.
I assume you meant 250GB drives. Also, you can't make anything NEAR this device for anywhere NEAR $300. This thing can store several TB in hot-swappables drive in a redundant configuration so data loss is unlikely. The box does the ripping for you, organizing for you, sharing for you, has a built-in menu system, has decent audio outputs (HDMI, Coax digital (BNC), Optical digital (TosLink(TM)), Analog stereo (2xRCA)) etc. Your PC has no protection, or maybe RAID which means your not using all 750GB anyway (and by the way, thats only half the space of the default config of this box) I don't know where you got 3 250GB drives for $300, let alone a whole system + the drives for less than $300, but I'm pretty sure your fibbing or your parents bought it for you. These things also look great, are quiet, actually look like home theatre equipment (it's damn sexy!) and not a shoddy PC crammed into the media console under your TV. Ofcourse this is worth no where near $27k, but its definately a FAR FAR FAR better solution than your $300 fake response. Buhbye.
Crap, I just bought 2 copies of RH Enterprise from Dell last week! This is twice they are trying to screw me. I bought 2 servers from them last Thursday. On Monday when I got into the office there was a piece of mail from Dell on my desk with a coupon code for my next purchase. I thought "Damn! I just spend $10,000 and NOW the coupon gets here." I looked at the bottom of the coupon code and it says it expired on Dec 2nd (The day I ordered the servers), but I thought I would type it into their site for the hell of it. The coupon itself expired at the beginning of October, whereas the offer expired Dec 2nd. NOW they want to lower the prices on RH ES too?! Grr, I'm glad its my company payin' the bills and not me:) Though I do agree that RH ES is priced pretty darn high ($320ish I think).
Is this just some sort of trick with existing equipment? The article mentions that it uses several transmitting and several receiving links. Could I just set up 3 point-to-point (several hundred mbit) radio's (in a nice little box) at each location, plug them into a switch with aggregation capabilities at each end and then send data through the switches? The switch could then distribute the load between the 3 radio's and perhaps achive close to 1Gbit with current technology. The article mentions WiFi (point-to-multipoint), but doesn't clearly state whether or not this technology is point-to-multipoint or not. It is talking about 4G Cell technology so that would be point-to-multipoint, but if you require 3 or 4 antennas, and its 5Ghz, then this will never work for cellphones - 5Ghz blows for penetration (I said that kind of funny). This just looks like todays technology but jammed into an "Intelligent antenna system" (taking a bunch of existing wireless backhaul technology, sticking it into one box, aggregating it, calling it new). Am I missing something?
No doubt. When there is real education, real healthcare and lots of food and shelter for everyone, THEN you can make crazy budgets for shrimp, space, and hog control. Until then, it's obvious that you (the gov't) doesn't give a shit about its people. If people are starving, homeless, and have no education, its going to be hard for them to be proud that their government off exploring space...or dealing with hog control in missouri (sp?)
I don't see why you think that the parent doesn't know the difference between India and China... He clearly says "If you see a product that is "Made in China" or "Made in India", simply do not buy it." Why would you assume that he believes those are the same place? He was talking about offshoring jobs so India was a natural topic. He was talking about the abuse of Tibet - China is a natural topic. I don't see why you people assume the guy doesn't know that these are 2 separate countries.
Well can spam be considered a DoS if your on a dialup modem (let's say 28.8) and you get 40 spam emails with images and random text in them? It could take you 45 minutes to download all the crap that was FORCED ON YOU WITHOUT YOUR CONSENT, REPEATEDLY, before you can grab that 1 email from your grandma that you've been waiting for all day. If 90% of your bandwidth is chewed up because of all the junk mail, then I would say that it is a Denial of Service, or at the very least, a Degradation of Service.
Man, I totally hear you. I work for an ISP and if there is a new virus in the "wild," I will email our customers explaining exactly what the virus is, links to virus updates, free scanners, news articles about the virus, how to clean your system etc. The subject will be something like "Important Information about new Virus, Please READ!," it's from my support email address (which every customer has emailed several times;)). The first paragraph is in bold and says something like "PLEASE READ THIS ENTIRE EMAIL AS IT CONTAINS IMPORTANT ISSUES THAT DIRECTLY AFFECT *company* CUSTOMERS. READ THE ENTIRE EMAIL FOR INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO BE PROTECTED FROM THIS NEW VIRUS. ALL INFORMATION YOU NEED WILL BE PROVIDED IN THIS EMAIL. PLEASE DO NOT PHONE THE SUPPORT OFFICE WITH QUESTIONS THAT ARE DIRECTLY ANSWERED IN THIS EMAIL AS IT WILL TAKE LONGER FOR YOU TO GET SUPPORT IF EVERYONE IS CALLING IN WITH THESE QUESTIONS. The next day I will get 300 phone calls/emails similar to this:
Customer: Last night we got an email from you, it says it's important and that its about a new virus. I didn't want to click on the email though because I thought it would infect my machine or something. Can you just tell me about it?
Me: The email contains all the information you need about the new virus.
Customer: Which new virus?
Me: The one in the email.
Customer: Can you just tell me about it? Where should I go to get my updates?
Me: Just do your updates like normal, all the information is IN THE EMAIL!
Customer: I don't do updates, how do I do them?
Me: Just load up your virus scanner and do your updates... PLEASE READ THE EMAIL!
Customer: Virus scanner?
Me: *crying*
Mind you, I get to type this all out in emails over and over again as people will just keep emailing me back more questions instead of openening the original mail with all the information they need. I don't know why they have no problems opening my return emails, but they won't open my IMPORTANT VIRUS NOTICE. Grrr.
Check out This Site. It has a bunch of awesome cases for making media center PC's - not NEARLY as expensive as the Hush box, but just as sexy IMO. Xoxide has the best (read: most interesting) case selection that I have seen on the internet thus far. I am considering purchasing one of these cases for a MythTV Box.
What? I'm not sure where your confusion is, but what I mean is pretty much exactly what I already typed - note that I never said "server session." I said, if the user wants to run a server (you know, run a webserver for awhile, or perhaps they need to start an FTP server so a friend can grab some files, or they want to do a two-way voice chat over MSN), they can START a PPPoE **SESSION** (or "connection" if you don't understand the word session), and then when they are done their task that specifically requires a real IP (for 2-way, unrestricted communication that can't work through a firewall), they can drop off, or you know, DISCONNECT THE PPPoE SESSION. I'm not sure what you mean about the fantasy comment - I assume you mean that the type of connection I am referring to for $39.95 is not suitable for a guy hosting several webservers out of his parents basement. I don't know what kind of fantasy world that you live in where you run several webservers on a residential internet connection over a DSL and expect 99.999% uptime.... If I were running a bunch of servers, I wouldn't order an account with non-routable addresses/PPPoE sessions. I would have a static IP on stable connection or co-locate.
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Oh I dunno... telephone, and TV maybe? All the bandwidth for cellular telephones and the video/data they transmit, all the medical data for hospitals, all the data/research for universities/military etc etc etc etc... basically the same as in America.
I agree, I can't wait for IPv6. We are rolling out our new 10Gbit network in the spring and once we start doing video, we will probably do IPv6 for all the set-top boxes as well as the streaming servers. That way we can have a totally closed IPv6 network to start playing around. Foundry makes the NetIron 40G that does IPv6 at wirespeed right now and it's backplane is 40Gbs so its ready to go when we want to increase capacity yet again. Also, I run the IP network for an ISP and I have our DSL network set up so that people can have a non-routable IP (DHCP 10.x.x.x) when they plug in, or if they need to do a voice chat etc, they can do PPPoE for a real IP. I really would like to just assign real IPs to everyone, but as you all know, IPv4 addresses are running low.
Naw, the Americans still piss off the world the most in That Department
I run windows on my laptop at work and I *just* put XP on my system at home for the first time in 2 years (to play games... of course). I can't get a lot of cycles out of my laptop because I'm using it all the time and I turn it off to bring it home with me at the end of the day. My real horsepower is in all the LINUX boxen (don't you love that word) I run at work - so make a frickin' linux client! chop chop!
I have a friend that works at Walmart and I remember back when the PS2 *just* came out and the USA had somewhat of a shortage. Systems were going for (IIRC) like $7k on Ebay. The Walmart here (in Southern Ontario) were taking back PS2s and THROWING THEM IN THE TRASH COMPACTOR. My friend tried hiding one in the back that was destined for destruction, but someone found it and tossed it in. Not even charity got them. That's just crazy if you ask me ;)
I work for a small telco/ISP in southern ontario (I run the IP network). We are 45min from the nearest city so its just farmland everywhere. We can get DSL to EVERY ONE of our telephone customers (minus one or two). Here is how Bell Canada does it: Provide DSL in town - put loading coils JUST outside of the town limits - kill DSL possibility for anyone outside of town. Here is how we do it: Put fiber pedestals/DSLAMS in logical locations so we can reach everyone out in the country and in all the towns. Everyone can get atleast 1MB/256K, but most can get 2MB+
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As for the new TV over the phone lines - sure, we are thinking about it - the first thing we are doing is upgrading our core to 10Gbs, then in certain areas we will do FTTH (Fiber to the home), or ADSL 2+ when it is cost effective to do so. Just so you know, we are a cooperative telephone company and we share our network with a bunch of other independent telcos in this area (together we have over 450km of fiber) - they can also get DSL to most of the customers in their calling area. Of course, our territories border with Bell so we get lots of calls from their customers that can't get broadband (even though they get Bell advertisements on their door saying that they can), so we just started putting up wireless towers in Bell territory. Now we can give highspeed to rural people unlucky enough to be with ma bell
Sooo... it may be common knowledge that rural phone systems are out of date, but its definately not true. What is true is that a lot of independents in the States ARE outdated because they have traditionally been run by families who just decided to build a phone system. Many are on their own when it comes to designing a cable plant, and so the quailty of telco to telco varies considerably. Many of these little family telcos are being purchased by the big boys and being revamped as we speak, so I'm sure this will be less and less of a problem in the future. Until then, tell your grandmother to pop up to southern ontario and we'll get her goin' for ya
I agree, if you look HERE, there are (IMHO) 12 cases that look waaaay better than the ASUS offering and would fit right in to your home theatre setup.
If I purchase a DVD that doesn't allow me to play it without aquiring a license online, AND they don't mention that on the DVD COVER, then they can give me a free internet account to go and download that license. If the DVD cover doesn't say that I require an internet account and I purchase it and then cannot play it, then it is false advertising. They trick you into buying something and then throw a bunch of requirements at you afterwards. This would obviously piss off ANYONE who has to go through this process, and especially piss off and frustrate the 95% of people that aren't so computer literate. The 5 day license is completely absurd. If I purchase a DVD that ends up having these DRM-enables "features," I will mail a bill for my time of having to download the updates, and a new bill (1 hour minimum of course) each time I have to go and get a license (which may be every 6 days). Oh, and they better make sure that license server is still available in 3,4,5,20 years when I want to watch my DVD again.
How cool wouldn't it be to be able to burn the label on your cd using the same laser you used to burn the cd in the first place?
I don't know... not very cool at all?
Though I don't know why you would be writing an article about a sucky technology. Do you know?
I want my browser to remember by last session (if I tell it to). Opera does this, but I haven't seen it anywhere else. Often when I am at the office (with a laptop), I have a browser with "X" number of tabs open. Sometimes I want to close the browser, go home, and finish what I was doing. I hate closing the browser and all tabs down and then either having to bookmark each page and then load them back up, or just remember the links, or leave the laptop on in my bag. I want it to load everything up that I had on my screen the last time so I can keep resarching with a doobie in my mouth. C'mon Firefox!
Well, I don't have a lot of experience with SSL offloading (we are an ISP and do webhosting, but we aren't a hosting provider with crazy amounts of SSL-enabled sites), but I met with Cisco a few weeks ago to purchase some new equipment (I don't think I am going to though), and they showed me their 7600 series boxes. One of the blades that you can stick in these is an SSL processor. Click Here
to check out the link. Here is the summary:
Up to four SSL service modules can be installed in each chassis providing the fastest SSL session setup rates and bulk encrypted throughput in the industry and supporting the highest number of concurrent connections:
3000 connection setups/second per module--10,000 per Chassis fully-populated with SSL modules
300 Mbps bulk encrypted throughput per chassis module--1.2 Gbps per fully-populated with SSL modules
64,000 concurrent client connections--256,000 per chassis fully-populated with SSL modules
So it doesn't look like one blade will do you, but if you stick 4 in there, your rockin'
Well, I don't have a lot of experience with SSL offloading (we are an ISP and do webhosting, but we aren't a hosting provider with crazy amounts of SSL-enabled sites), but I met with Cisco a few weeks ago to purchase some new equipment (I don't think I am going to though), and they showed me their 7600 series boxes. One of the blades that you can stick in these is an SSL processor. Click
Here
to check out the link. Here is the summary:
Up to four SSL service modules can be installed in each chassis providing the fastest SSL session setup rates and bulk encrypted throughput in the industry and supporting the highest number of concurrent connections:
3000 connection setups/second per module--10,000 per Chassis fully-populated with SSL modules
300 Mbps bulk encrypted throughput per chassis module--1.2 Gbps per fully-populated with SSL modules
64,000 concurrent client connections--256,000 per chassis fully-populated with SSL modules
So it doesn't look like one blade will do you, but if you stick 4 in there, your rockin'
I've been in meetings for the last few weeks because the company I work for is looking at purchasing a new core network so we can run 10GigE everywhere. Its not terabit, but the routers we are looking at (Foundry NetIron's, Extreme 10k's, etc) have a backplane in terabit territory and can push a heck of a lot of data. One cool tidbit of information: Extreme Networks 10k boxes now run modified linux. If you are trained on Cisco equipment, you can change the CLI to "become" a Cisco box - if you are all about VxWorks you can have a CLI similar to the VxWorks default - if you want your OWN CLI, you can built it and run it on the 10k. Cool stuff IMO. As for IOS being open source - go try to find it, it was stolen awhile back. As for the modules you are referring to - some companies do this - Extreme Networks lets you purchase the modules that you require and then they turn them on in the OS for you. Its the same OS for their whole product line, but with certain features disabled for the lesser products that don't support them. This way you only pay for what you need. Again, pretty cool IMO.
I assume you meant 250GB drives. Also, you can't make anything NEAR this device for anywhere NEAR $300. This thing can store several TB in hot-swappables drive in a redundant configuration so data loss is unlikely. The box does the ripping for you, organizing for you, sharing for you, has a built-in menu system, has decent audio outputs (HDMI, Coax digital (BNC), Optical digital (TosLink(TM)), Analog stereo (2xRCA)) etc. Your PC has no protection, or maybe RAID which means your not using all 750GB anyway (and by the way, thats only half the space of the default config of this box) I don't know where you got 3 250GB drives for $300, let alone a whole system + the drives for less than $300, but I'm pretty sure your fibbing or your parents bought it for you. These things also look great, are quiet, actually look like home theatre equipment (it's damn sexy!) and not a shoddy PC crammed into the media console under your TV. Ofcourse this is worth no where near $27k, but its definately a FAR FAR FAR better solution than your $300 fake response. Buhbye.
Crap, I just bought 2 copies of RH Enterprise from Dell last week! This is twice they are trying to screw me. I bought 2 servers from them last Thursday. On Monday when I got into the office there was a piece of mail from Dell on my desk with a coupon code for my next purchase. I thought "Damn! I just spend $10,000 and NOW the coupon gets here." I looked at the bottom of the coupon code and it says it expired on Dec 2nd (The day I ordered the servers), but I thought I would type it into their site for the hell of it. The coupon itself expired at the beginning of October, whereas the offer expired Dec 2nd. NOW they want to lower the prices on RH ES too?! Grr, I'm glad its my company payin' the bills and not me :) Though I do agree that RH ES is priced pretty darn high ($320ish I think).
Yeah possibilities like frying your brain with 7 high-gain antennas ;)
Is this just some sort of trick with existing equipment? The article mentions that it uses several transmitting and several receiving links. Could I just set up 3 point-to-point (several hundred mbit) radio's (in a nice little box) at each location, plug them into a switch with aggregation capabilities at each end and then send data through the switches? The switch could then distribute the load between the 3 radio's and perhaps achive close to 1Gbit with current technology. The article mentions WiFi (point-to-multipoint), but doesn't clearly state whether or not this technology is point-to-multipoint or not. It is talking about 4G Cell technology so that would be point-to-multipoint, but if you require 3 or 4 antennas, and its 5Ghz, then this will never work for cellphones - 5Ghz blows for penetration (I said that kind of funny). This just looks like todays technology but jammed into an "Intelligent antenna system" (taking a bunch of existing wireless backhaul technology, sticking it into one box, aggregating it, calling it new). Am I missing something?
No doubt. When there is real education, real healthcare and lots of food and shelter for everyone, THEN you can make crazy budgets for shrimp, space, and hog control. Until then, it's obvious that you (the gov't) doesn't give a shit about its people. If people are starving, homeless, and have no education, its going to be hard for them to be proud that their government off exploring space...or dealing with hog control in missouri (sp?)
I don't see why you think that the parent doesn't know the difference between India and China... He clearly says "If you see a product that is "Made in China" or "Made in India", simply do not buy it." Why would you assume that he believes those are the same place? He was talking about offshoring jobs so India was a natural topic. He was talking about the abuse of Tibet - China is a natural topic. I don't see why you people assume the guy doesn't know that these are 2 separate countries.
Thank God we live in an age where we can finally bring about the society we as Americans so richly deserve
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Taking after China are we?
Well can spam be considered a DoS if your on a dialup modem (let's say 28.8) and you get 40 spam emails with images and random text in them? It could take you 45 minutes to download all the crap that was FORCED ON YOU WITHOUT YOUR CONSENT, REPEATEDLY, before you can grab that 1 email from your grandma that you've been waiting for all day. If 90% of your bandwidth is chewed up because of all the junk mail, then I would say that it is a Denial of Service, or at the very least, a Degradation of Service.
Man, I totally hear you. I work for an ISP and if there is a new virus in the "wild," I will email our customers explaining exactly what the virus is, links to virus updates, free scanners, news articles about the virus, how to clean your system etc. The subject will be something like "Important Information about new Virus, Please READ!," it's from my support email address (which every customer has emailed several times ;)). The first paragraph is in bold and says something like "PLEASE READ THIS ENTIRE EMAIL AS IT CONTAINS IMPORTANT ISSUES THAT DIRECTLY AFFECT *company* CUSTOMERS. READ THE ENTIRE EMAIL FOR INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO BE PROTECTED FROM THIS NEW VIRUS. ALL INFORMATION YOU NEED WILL BE PROVIDED IN THIS EMAIL. PLEASE DO NOT PHONE THE SUPPORT OFFICE WITH QUESTIONS THAT ARE DIRECTLY ANSWERED IN THIS EMAIL AS IT WILL TAKE LONGER FOR YOU TO GET SUPPORT IF EVERYONE IS CALLING IN WITH THESE QUESTIONS. The next day I will get 300 phone calls/emails similar to this:
Customer:
Last night we got an email from you, it says it's important and that its about a new virus. I didn't want to click on the email though because I thought it would infect my machine or something. Can you just tell me about it?
Me: The email contains all the information you need about the new virus.
Customer: Which new virus?
Me: The one in the email.
Customer: Can you just tell me about it? Where should I go to get my updates?
Me: Just do your updates like normal, all the information is IN THE EMAIL!
Customer: I don't do updates, how do I do them?
Me: Just load up your virus scanner and do your updates... PLEASE READ THE EMAIL!
Customer: Virus scanner?
Me: *crying*
Mind you, I get to type this all out in emails over and over again as people will just keep emailing me back more questions instead of openening the original mail with all the information they need. I don't know why they have no problems opening my return emails, but they won't open my IMPORTANT VIRUS NOTICE. Grrr.
Check out This Site. It has a bunch of awesome cases for making media center PC's - not NEARLY as expensive as the Hush box, but just as sexy IMO. Xoxide has the best (read: most interesting) case selection that I have seen on the internet thus far. I am considering purchasing one of these cases for a MythTV Box.
What? I'm not sure where your confusion is, but what I mean is pretty much exactly what I already typed - note that I never said "server session." I said, if the user wants to run a server (you know, run a webserver for awhile, or perhaps they need to start an FTP server so a friend can grab some files, or they want to do a two-way voice chat over MSN), they can START a PPPoE **SESSION** (or "connection" if you don't understand the word session), and then when they are done their task that specifically requires a real IP (for 2-way, unrestricted communication that can't work through a firewall), they can drop off, or you know, DISCONNECT THE PPPoE SESSION. I'm not sure what you mean about the fantasy comment - I assume you mean that the type of connection I am referring to for $39.95 is not suitable for a guy hosting several webservers out of his parents basement. I don't know what kind of fantasy world that you live in where you run several webservers on a residential internet connection over a DSL and expect 99.999% uptime.... If I were running a bunch of servers, I wouldn't order an account with non-routable addresses/PPPoE sessions. I would have a static IP on stable connection or co-locate.
No Sir, I Don't Like It.