> ok, I've gotta ask...where did you find a "200" bps modem?
Easy. In the olden days we used to overclock 300 baud modems to 500 baud. And dot matrix printers too - from 10 cps to 15 cps. And today's young wankers think they invented overclocking. Pfth!:-P
Oooh you lucky dog. I moved to Sillycon Valley last year and got AT&T digital cable. Besides paying a ridiculous amount per year for it, and something like 100+ channels with nothing on, I can't use my VCR to record anything because there is no way for the VCR to change channels on the dumb cable box (which runs dead slow - must of been written in Java, or something equally useless). And I don't get SpeedVision - something that came with Rogers cable. And I could use two VCR's and my WEGA's picture in picture, etc. with Rogers cable. Progress? NOT! AT&T digital cable blows big time - and we won't mention the MPEG artifacting either. Phfft! on digital crud.
Consider an office with 200 people all yakking at their computers. Talk about a noise hazard. Will never happen. Mouse/keyboard already damned efficient method to work a computer. Talking to it is probably the least efficient way to work one.
Then you would find me running through the halls yelling "Format C Colon Yes"...:)
Sorry if I'm repeating what someone else may have already written...
This is nothing new. I know of at least one commercial firewall product that can do NAT and redirect HTTP requests to one server on a private address, SMTP traffic to another private address and so forth. A decent load balancer can also hide many servers (on private IPs) behind one 'real' IP.
However, issues arise when some custom (or not) gumball protocol embeds IPs in the packet data and the firewall can't diddle the data in the packet to fix it.
My vote is still for IPv6 - 'bout flippin' time the industry got on the ball with it.
I've been telling anyone who would listen that this whole Internet thing was a fad and it couldn't go on - back in 1997. The problem I've also been saying, all along, will be how hard hitting the bottom will be when it all comes tumbling down - and we haven't hit bottom yet. It takes time for the closings and layoffs to percolate through the economy...
What also royally cheeses me off is the millionaires out there that got rich off of this scam and the fact that innocent people, that have been working hard, are going to get dinged from other people's stupidity and greed.
I also say that the browser as the user interface to a computer is one of the stupidest ideas in computing. Along with Java, VoIP, streaming media, wireless and a few other things that just don't make sense when you look at the whole thing from the big picture point of view.:-p
This also happens when @Home's DHCP server databases get corrupt. For a period of two weeks I could not connect because my cable modem's MAC (or whatever they use) was not in their database.
> California ranks 48th in the nation in power consumed per person.
Yeah, so? California has the highest population of any state. Multiply population times power consumed per person. Want to take bets that California has the highest total power usage?
I tend to see flicker out of 'the corner of my eyes'. The rods, which pickup intensity levels only (i.e. b&w) respond faster than the cones (which are responsible for color). Or something like that.
Long term, yeah, I don't expect current empires to survive. Historically no society or empire has lasted for ever. Worst part is, this time when things go bad, there are so many more people on planet that things will go bad for. Won't want to be around when it goes phfft!
> Flash forward a few years to the advent of Caller ID.
The money grubbing is more insidious than that. You pay for caller ID on your end. The other end can block it. You can pay for an additional service ($$) that unblocks the block!
Which reminds me, I need to save some $ and drop some of the, turning out to be, useless services from PacBell - such as caller ID.
Hey, Disney could still put out a movie with this plot line: "Snatch that pussy and stuff it in a box".
Yo, Free Willy!
Then you got 'rosebud' in Citizen Kane. Gads, watching the movie over again after learning what the rosebud reference was all about and Citizen Kane becomes hilarious.
Last year I moved from Toronto, ON to Campbell, CA (small town wedged between Los Gatos, CA and San Jose, CA) - about 15 minutes from the biggest concentration of bandwidth on the whole frickin' planet.
In Canada, I had cable and ADSL (one after the other). Around 1-1.5 Mbps for $40+ CDN a month.
In the US, I tried to get ADSL. No go. Too far away from the CO. Sure I could have 144/144 Kbps IDSL for $125 US a month, but no thanks, too much $$$.
Cable is a no go as well because the whole AT&T cable infrastructure in the San Jose area is about 500 years old and they won't be able to provide the service for between 1 to 5 years from now. But, mind you, I do have digital cable.
This is Silicon Valley, hi-tech mecca of the world - why can't I get high speed Internet access at home???
What did I do? I finally broke down this week and picked up a Ricochet 128 Kbps wireless modem from Fry's. I'm getting 'tween 70-100 Kbps and the best part is I can slap it to my laptop and take it around with me.
There is no 'new' economy, there was no 'new' economy - there is just economy 101 and everyone has to play by its rules - me
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Easy. In the olden days we used to overclock 300 baud modems to 500 baud. And dot matrix printers too - from 10 cps to 15 cps. And today's young wankers think they invented overclocking. Pfth! :-P
It's a way for people to steal music. Period.
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Dude, does the DHCP thingy you guys ship with 7.1 support DHCP relay? Previous releases didn't...
Yeah, it's down.
Consider an office with 200 people all yakking at their computers. Talk about a noise hazard. Will never happen. Mouse/keyboard already damned efficient method to work a computer. Talking to it is probably the least efficient way to work one.
Then you would find me running through the halls yelling "Format C Colon Yes"... :)
This is nothing new. I know of at least one commercial firewall product that can do NAT and redirect HTTP requests to one server on a private address, SMTP traffic to another private address and so forth. A decent load balancer can also hide many servers (on private IPs) behind one 'real' IP.
However, issues arise when some custom (or not) gumball protocol embeds IPs in the packet data and the firewall can't diddle the data in the packet to fix it.
My vote is still for IPv6 - 'bout flippin' time the industry got on the ball with it.
Amen.
What also royally cheeses me off is the millionaires out there that got rich off of this scam and the fact that innocent people, that have been working hard, are going to get dinged from other people's stupidity and greed.
I also say that the browser as the user interface to a computer is one of the stupidest ideas in computing. Along with Java, VoIP, streaming media, wireless and a few other things that just don't make sense when you look at the whole thing from the big picture point of view. :-p
Hey! Where is yer fancy 3D video card?
He has to say that - it is the only possible long term business model spin that may support RedHat's decision to do what they do.
This also happens when @Home's DHCP server databases get corrupt. For a period of two weeks I could not connect because my cable modem's MAC (or whatever they use) was not in their database.
Yeah, so? California has the highest population of any state. Multiply population times power consumed per person. Want to take bets that California has the highest total power usage?
Think! - me.
I tend to see flicker out of 'the corner of my eyes'. The rods, which pickup intensity levels only (i.e. b&w) respond faster than the cones (which are responsible for color). Or something like that.
Long term, yeah, I don't expect current empires to survive. Historically no society or empire has lasted for ever. Worst part is, this time when things go bad, there are so many more people on planet that things will go bad for. Won't want to be around when it goes phfft!
The money grubbing is more insidious than that. You pay for caller ID on your end. The other end can block it. You can pay for an additional service ($$) that unblocks the block!
Which reminds me, I need to save some $ and drop some of the, turning out to be, useless services from PacBell - such as caller ID.
Good olde Jimmmy, with his Mr. Mojo risin'
Yo, Free Willy!
Then you got 'rosebud' in Citizen Kane. Gads, watching the movie over again after learning what the rosebud reference was all about and Citizen Kane becomes hilarious.
VoIP, another bad idea, like Java, that just needs to go away - me.
When are people going to get it?
Multicasting is, also, not going to work.
Why? Think about it. How many 1 Mbps multicasts can a 10 Mbps pipe carry? 10. Ooh Aah.
Work the numbers boys and girls. There just ain't enough bandwidth to carry more than a handful of broadcast shite in the backbones...
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these...
In Canada, I had cable and ADSL (one after the other). Around 1-1.5 Mbps for $40+ CDN a month.
In the US, I tried to get ADSL. No go. Too far away from the CO. Sure I could have 144/144 Kbps IDSL for $125 US a month, but no thanks, too much $$$.
Cable is a no go as well because the whole AT&T cable infrastructure in the San Jose area is about 500 years old and they won't be able to provide the service for between 1 to 5 years from now. But, mind you, I do have digital cable.
This is Silicon Valley, hi-tech mecca of the world - why can't I get high speed Internet access at home???
What did I do? I finally broke down this week and picked up a Ricochet 128 Kbps wireless modem from Fry's. I'm getting 'tween 70-100 Kbps and the best part is I can slap it to my laptop and take it around with me.
There is no 'new' economy, there was no 'new' economy - there is just economy 101 and everyone has to play by its rules - me
This release of Mac OS X does not support DHCP Relay. FreeBSD does, more recent distros of Linux do, Mac OS 9 does (!), as do all versions of Windows.
Until they tell you that you are too far away from the CO.
Pffft!