It's got a strong US bias anyway. I got a mail flagged as offensive as it used the word fags - in the UK sense of cigarettes as opposed to the US meaning. I always got strange looks when I worked there as I have a habit of saying 'I'm away for a fag'.
Obviously in your case open source doesn't equate with an open mind. Plenty of people install and use it on a daily basis. Most of our servers and firewalls run on it and I sleep a little easier as a result.
Try installing it yourself - you'll save hours over trying to tie down any linux distro. Same for solaris too:-)
We migrated to name based hosting about 6 months ago - although it's true to say that you still need the IP's for SSL, we still saved around 400 IP addresses, and we're only a small ISP. IPV6 is still far enough away to make the effort to conserve as many IP's as possible and name based hosting helps a great deal.
We haven't had any problems or complaints, anyone still using a non HTTP 1.1 compliant browser probably writes with a big slab of rock and a chisel.
I work for an ISP and we were offered surftime a while back. IIRC Surftime works like this - BT own the modem racks and rent them out to ISP's (boxes with multiple modems connected to bearers usually). They then stream the data to the ISP. The ISP gets money from the connection fee. These systems (Including ADSL) work due to contention ratios, i.e. you have a ratio for the number of customers to the number of active customers - if I have 1000 customers and can only support 50 at a full data rate then I have a 20:1 ratio. As most customers don't stay on for hours at a time and even when they do they aren't always pulling down data at the full rate this works ok. But it only works if you have a large number of customers. For smaller ISP's this just isn't an option.
They'll set it up to time out automatically if you don't keep the connection alive.
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It's got a strong US bias anyway. I got a mail flagged as offensive as it used the word fags - in the UK sense of cigarettes as opposed to the US meaning. I always got strange looks when I worked there as I have a habit of saying 'I'm away for a fag'.
company and an equivolent education
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Yes, both of you have terrible spelling
Obviously in your case open source doesn't equate with an open mind. Plenty of people install and use it on a daily basis. Most of our servers and firewalls run on it and I sleep a little easier as a result.
:-)
Try installing it yourself - you'll save hours over trying to tie down any linux distro. Same for solaris too
We migrated to name based hosting about 6 months ago - although it's true to say that you still need the IP's for SSL, we still saved around 400 IP addresses, and we're only a small ISP. IPV6 is still far enough away to make the effort to conserve as many IP's as possible and name based hosting helps a great deal. We haven't had any problems or complaints, anyone still using a non HTTP 1.1 compliant browser probably writes with a big slab of rock and a chisel.
I work for an ISP and we were offered surftime a while back. IIRC Surftime works like this - BT own the modem racks and rent them out to ISP's (boxes with multiple modems connected to bearers usually). They then stream the data to the ISP. The ISP gets money from the connection fee. These systems (Including ADSL) work due to contention ratios, i.e. you have a ratio for the number of customers to the number of active customers - if I have 1000 customers and can only support 50 at a full data rate then I have a 20:1 ratio. As most customers don't stay on for hours at a time and even when they do they aren't always pulling down data at the full rate this works ok. But it only works if you have a large number of customers. For smaller ISP's this just isn't an option.
They'll set it up to time out automatically if you don't keep the connection alive.