If you're capturing packets from multiple machines and want to line up the captures, then you need to have accuracy.
If you're using SNMP to log equipment on the network, it helps to have everything as lined up as you can. Now, if you're a company doing this, typically you have your own time server and don't rely on this pool. But there are benefits to some to have more exacting time across all devices.
I have Cable Internet via Insight Communications @ around 55$ / month. The only cable offering that I can get. No fiber. DSL is out since I don't have a PSTN line into my house - unless I feel like paying a 20$ loop fee on top of a DSL charge, which makes it more expensive than cable for the same speeds.
If there are more choices, there's always a chance that they'll start fighting each other for marketshare based on price. Every now and again I'll see commercials for DSL reaching into the 20$ range (without loop cost) and then I'll see commercials for Roadrunner for less than what I pay for - usually only for a limited time (6 months, 12 months) and only limited to new customers.
let me just stick a few sticks of dynamite up my ass
Oh great, now everyone with a severe case of hemmrhoids (sp?) will be labelled a terrorist, thanks to you. You don't think you'd be walking a little bit funny with all that dynamite up your ass?
Part of that (insurance cost) is where you live and garage the vehicle as well... which I'd probably bet NYC is higher than most other places in the US.
There were some drivers (S3 Virge card I had) back in the day for PCI video cards that would cause the video card to hog all of the PCI bandwidth. This was so that the card could be touted as #1 in benchmarks, but it left a weird after-affect --> you could play an mp3, but any time you did anything close to a full screen update such as scrolling in internet explorer, the audio would skip.
The sound card buffer would run out since the video card was taking the bus and not releasing it.
There was a registry patch I searched out one day and that solved the issue. Funny thing was is that I couldn't tell a difference in casual windows refresh performance - only in benchmarks (2d) could I see a degradation of performance. So sometimes it's an architecture/driver issue....
I'm surprised I haven't heard of car stereos with a microphone that determines the volume of background noise in the car and then compresses the dynamic range of the audio
I test drove a GM about 5 years back that had this "feature" on it and I couldn't figure out how to turn it off. I actually noticed that the radio was increasing/decreasing the sound level of the radio, but I couldn't fully place at first that it was happening.
It's just fed a speed reading from the dash to increase/decrease, no mics used if I recall. And there's a ring around the volume knob that's used to defeat it or adjust it's sensitivity.
1. Fibre will now get backhoed (metaphorically) whenever sewer workers do any major work -- which means a talented technician needs to be around all the time sewer work is being done. To make a reliable network, there would need to be alternate paths to clusters of buildings/neighborhoods, etc. Is that possible in sewers? Are sewere designed with multiple paths, in case of blockage?
Working for a larger company, I can tell you - regardless of the situation, where there's a backhoe - it's more than likely a Fiber Seeking (tm) backhoe.
A coworker and I were pondering the fact that a town we have an office in was undergoing city street construction. A couple hours later, we got the page that the local office was down. Coincidence? We also have lost power at a local building more times than I can count because of backhoes.
My company has had trouble with getting Comcast business connections in some of our remote offices to open up ports. It appears they wanted a 150$ administrative service fee to turn on ports. Each time. Insane.
Last night I saw an advertisement on Fox during football for Comcast. It's not available in my area (Insight/Time Warner) thank god.
But you should keep your user population and your server population on different segments. Then the worst they can do is take out the management addy of a switch or a printer...
Where I work, there are switches still in production that are EOL. They are not EOS, however. Windows would work the same way, if I had to hazard a guess.
I have Broadvoice, and they still drop off the yellow pages to me once a year. I really should opt to recycle them or something, but they end up in my garbage can.
I bought a Z28 as a graduation gift to myself several years back. It always amazed me the utter pieces of shit that would rev their engines at me, as if they could hold their own in straight line performance. I'm talking old, beat up v6 oldsmobiles and the like. I really didn't need any attention, and kept the vehicle as stock looking as possible.
I only ever got into one "street race" - between myself and a Dodge Ram V10. We were both laughing with each other at the end; had to be a funny sight for an outsider.
Most V6s in the US seem to now get darn close if not over 200hp. Now, if I were buying another car, I'd be looking at HP and Torque if I was wanting to get that "seat-of-my-pants" feel....
Actually, I see a "plus" for watercooling in one area: Videocards. You can't just replace the heatsink/fan on these with a larger heatsink/fan to make them quieter in most cases, because of the limited space. My latest build (core2duo w/stock fan and a 7950gt) has the videocard pegged for the loudest device in the case - when I'm gaming. Of course, when I'm not gaming, the machine is very quiet.
And if I was going to cool the videocard, I'd probably spend the money for a CPU waterblock too. Then use a 120mm or larger fan to cool the radiator.
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I am SO buying that case for my next build. Thanks!
If you're capturing packets from multiple machines and want to line up the captures, then you need to have accuracy.
If you're using SNMP to log equipment on the network, it helps to have everything as lined up as you can. Now, if you're a company doing this, typically you have your own time server and don't rely on this pool. But there are benefits to some to have more exacting time across all devices.
Competition = lower prices.
I have Cable Internet via Insight Communications @ around 55$ / month. The only cable offering that I can get. No fiber. DSL is out since I don't have a PSTN line into my house - unless I feel like paying a 20$ loop fee on top of a DSL charge, which makes it more expensive than cable for the same speeds.
If there are more choices, there's always a chance that they'll start fighting each other for marketshare based on price. Every now and again I'll see commercials for DSL reaching into the 20$ range (without loop cost) and then I'll see commercials for Roadrunner for less than what I pay for - usually only for a limited time (6 months, 12 months) and only limited to new customers.
Unless you call them up and complain.
Rolls off the road much easier too.
let me just stick a few sticks of dynamite up my ass
Oh great, now everyone with a severe case of hemmrhoids (sp?) will be labelled a terrorist, thanks to you. You don't think you'd be walking a little bit funny with all that dynamite up your ass?
Part of that (insurance cost) is where you live and garage the vehicle as well... which I'd probably bet NYC is higher than most other places in the US.
Wal-mart just has cheap socks and asshole management.
I've heard the older you get, the more you might need asshole management. (I read that sentence wrong.)
There were some drivers (S3 Virge card I had) back in the day for PCI video cards that would cause the video card to hog all of the PCI bandwidth. This was so that the card could be touted as #1 in benchmarks, but it left a weird after-affect --> you could play an mp3, but any time you did anything close to a full screen update such as scrolling in internet explorer, the audio would skip.
The sound card buffer would run out since the video card was taking the bus and not releasing it.
There was a registry patch I searched out one day and that solved the issue. Funny thing was is that I couldn't tell a difference in casual windows refresh performance - only in benchmarks (2d) could I see a degradation of performance. So sometimes it's an architecture/driver issue....
I'm surprised I haven't heard of car stereos with a microphone that determines the volume of background noise in the car and then compresses the dynamic range of the audio
I test drove a GM about 5 years back that had this "feature" on it and I couldn't figure out how to turn it off. I actually noticed that the radio was increasing/decreasing the sound level of the radio, but I couldn't fully place at first that it was happening.
It's just fed a speed reading from the dash to increase/decrease, no mics used if I recall. And there's a ring around the volume knob that's used to defeat it or adjust it's sensitivity.
For some reason, "For Those About To Rock... LASE!" didn't have the right "ring" to it.
1. Fibre will now get backhoed (metaphorically) whenever sewer workers do any major work -- which means a talented technician needs to be around all the time sewer work is being done. To make a reliable network, there would need to be alternate paths to clusters of buildings/neighborhoods, etc. Is that possible in sewers? Are sewere designed with multiple paths, in case of blockage?
Working for a larger company, I can tell you - regardless of the situation, where there's a backhoe - it's more than likely a Fiber Seeking (tm) backhoe.
A coworker and I were pondering the fact that a town we have an office in was undergoing city street construction. A couple hours later, we got the page that the local office was down. Coincidence? We also have lost power at a local building more times than I can count because of backhoes.
And that's when they've got the plans!
My company has had trouble with getting Comcast business connections in some of our remote offices to open up ports. It appears they wanted a 150$ administrative service fee to turn on ports. Each time. Insane.
Last night I saw an advertisement on Fox during football for Comcast. It's not available in my area (Insight/Time Warner) thank god.
Awesome.
Quick addition to that - they usually don't like it when you tell them "I told you so" as you're on the way out.....
I'm kinda curious where you're getting the upside down "i" character from....
*bangs head on desk* That sucks.
But you should keep your user population and your server population on different segments. Then the worst they can do is take out the management addy of a switch or a printer...
Where I work, there are switches still in production that are EOL. They are not EOS, however. Windows would work the same way, if I had to hazard a guess.
You know what's funny?
I have Broadvoice, and they still drop off the yellow pages to me once a year. I really should opt to recycle them or something, but they end up in my garbage can.
I bought a Z28 as a graduation gift to myself several years back. It always amazed me the utter pieces of shit that would rev their engines at me, as if they could hold their own in straight line performance. I'm talking old, beat up v6 oldsmobiles and the like. I really didn't need any attention, and kept the vehicle as stock looking as possible.
I only ever got into one "street race" - between myself and a Dodge Ram V10. We were both laughing with each other at the end; had to be a funny sight for an outsider.
Most V6s in the US seem to now get darn close if not over 200hp. Now, if I were buying another car, I'd be looking at HP and Torque if I was wanting to get that "seat-of-my-pants" feel....
I'm guessing it's somewhere between "L" and "XL".
*whoosh*
Somewhat offtopic, but what happened to your story? The link on the previous /. article goes kinda nowhere.
I remember reading it when it came out - was just curious to re-read it...
Because of what happened Im not allowed to see my girlfriend and our 4 month old daughter, and last night, I slept in my car They took my life away.
Not sure that that means that some judge and jury said "you can't see your gf and daughter" - just sounds like the situation caused some tension???
Sen-Sational!
Actually, I see a "plus" for watercooling in one area: Videocards. You can't just replace the heatsink/fan on these with a larger heatsink/fan to make them quieter in most cases, because of the limited space. My latest build (core2duo w/stock fan and a 7950gt) has the videocard pegged for the loudest device in the case - when I'm gaming. Of course, when I'm not gaming, the machine is very quiet.
And if I was going to cool the videocard, I'd probably spend the money for a CPU waterblock too. Then use a 120mm or larger fan to cool the radiator.