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  1. Re:work zones / new pavement with out lines on Ford System Will Warn, Correct Lane-Drifting Drivers · · Score: 3, Informative

    I've only had the system in my volvo get confused a couple of times in work zones. I haven't figured out the exact combination that triggers it, but when you have temp lines that got over other lines gradually that seems to confuse it a bit. but if the lines are at more severe angles to each other it seems to handle it just fine.

  2. Re:Turn signals are a good thing on Ford System Will Warn, Correct Lane-Drifting Drivers · · Score: 1

    When driving in NJ (specifically Northern Jersey). I always thought that law had to be, turn signals optional, but if they are on, said car is coming over right away regardless of safety or a car in that lane. Well at least is the way the majority of the people on the major roads seem to drive :)

  3. Re:Turn signals are a good thing on Ford System Will Warn, Correct Lane-Drifting Drivers · · Score: 1

    My 4 year old Cross Country has Lane Departure Systems. And that is the way they work. You cross the lines it beeps at you. You cross the lines with your blinker on, and it assumes you meant to do the turn. It is pretty handy feature to have.

  4. Re:has it on SORBS Blocklist Reportedly Sold For $451K · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well sorbs (like most DNSBL's) is based on IP address, so generally speaking the users's email address isn't passed over the wire (in terms of BL usage).

  5. Re:Tomato on Botnet Worm Targets DSL Modems and Routers · · Score: 1

    If you allow root to login via ssh from $internet with a password (Regardless of strength). You've probably got issues... Seriously, Port knocking + moving the default ssh port + Public key to a non priv'ed account with a great password (for sudo access), and you are probably a bit better off. Now I have no idea if these devices can do any/all of that, as I have no interest in deploying them to find out.

  6. Re:Palm OS + pssh on Smartphones For Text SSH Use — Revisited · · Score: 1

    i use pssh + treo 755p all the time for access. We jump through a couple of hoops to get behind the firewall. Ssh on different port with port knocking on a bastion host. Passwords disabled keys only. So far seems to work fine.

  7. Re:But, but, but, but... on Open Source BIND Alternative Launches · · Score: 1

    I old skool We use Waxed string here to abuse our cables....

  8. Re:Reporting Database on Keeping Customer From Accessing My Database? · · Score: 1

    select .... with no lock ?

  9. Re:Thief Opportunity on FCC Requires Backup Power For 210K Cell Towers · · Score: 1

    Don't laugh. I've worked for a rural telco, and when the power went out, we had enough batteries to run for a bunch of hours (8+) at our remotes. So we had some time before we had to go and put the generators on (they where not automatic, unlike the CO). We had a couple of cases where someone would actually steal the gen off the side of the remote. It had happened enough time, that as part of our y2k plan, we actually had armed members of the line crew set to stand guard at some of the more remote, remotes.

  10. Re:Where's the bottleneck? on How Much Does a New Internet Cost? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Err oc192 = 622mbps? Explain to me how I get 2.5gbps out of an OC-48 then :) I think you meant an OC-12. which would be 622mbps.

    OC-192 is approx 10gb/s.

    We are moving to GIG-E 10Gig- connections for backbones now, as Ethernet interfaces are way cheaper than POS (Packet of Sonet) ones.

  11. Re:OS X was finally my opportunity to learn UNIX on Mac OS X Leopard is Now Officially Unix · · Score: 1

    The single largest omission it's missing is tabs, which are coming in Leopard. But as an avid screen user, I don't really miss them

    I tend to use iterm instead of terminal.app. Between tabs and bookmarks it tends to work pretty well.

  12. Re:CALEA Impact on Broadband isn't Broadband Unless its 2Mbps? · · Score: 1

    I was just thinking about this as well (as the majority of our DSL circuits are sub 2M). I have a feeling that they would probably just say that the LI requirements are still required as they are now, as they won't want to limit their ability.

  13. Re:Oblig. on Fight Spam With Nolisting · · Score: 1

    I noticed a large increase in the amount of Direct to Secondary MX spam, once postini and the like become popular, as most people had postini setup as their Primary MX and and their existing MX as their secondary (i am guessing in case Postini went down). Spammers realized this and sent to the more lightly protected hosts, IIRC. Then again it has been ages in internet years and I Haven't had my coffee yet this morning.

  14. Re:Score 1 for the "Older" crowd on Two Weeks with the Wii · · Score: 1

    I was supposed to get one @ launch, but kinda got screwed out of it. My brother got one, and we had it at my Dads for Thanksgiving. I think we created a monster. My dad started playing bowling and was addicted. So much so that when he is out, he is looking for them, and if we can get him one, that is what he wants for christmas. My dad is almost 60 years old, and the last video game he played and did ok @ was pong.

  15. Re:The problem is not net-neutrality on Every Time You Vote Against Net Neutrality, Your ISP Kills a Night Elf · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Bandwidth maybe cheap, but router interfaces are not. I work on a DWDM network that covers a good portion of NY, along with running a decent sized Regional ISP. Sure you *can* put 10G on a piece of fiber and it isn't that expensive, it gets expensive when you need to be able to route @ those speeds.

  16. Re:APC Beat them to Market on Sun To Unveil Project Blackbox · · Score: 1

    I just watched the video, but I don't think the Sun has backup power (or maybe even UPS) in there as the Article says

    Project Blackbox packages compute, storage, and network infrastructure capabilities into scalable, modular units outfitted with state-of-the-art cooling, monitoring, and power distribution systems.

    Well the Sun one Doesn't Solve the Energy and Cooling problem (really). If you can pack 200kw of cooling/servers in there, you are basically going to have to have to have approx a 60 Ton Chilled water plant + approx 400kw of power (200Kw to power servers, 200kw to power cooling systems) available. So at 208V you would approx 1700AMPS of power. Plus you would also need a 500-600kw standyby generator (assuming it has to hold the 400kw load since you do not want to run the Generator at 100% capacity). Based on the above I would hardly say it is a plug in and go type of scenario as there are some pretty hefty things you would need to have already. But the article seems to be a bit light on the nitty gritty aspects of it, so it might inclde the chiller plant (but I didn't see exhaust fans etc.. so who knows).

  17. I know I am more productive with 2 screens on Do Big Screens Make Employees More Productive? · · Score: 1

    17 LCD on power book for Mail/IM/calendar and 23" Cinema Display for Day to Day work. I am much more prodcutive now as I can read more slashdot comments without having to scroll. I haven't tested my moving files, but like most others I do not think mv has much to do with screen size :) In all honesty having the 2 screen is helpful as it allows me to see more of my work and not flip as much.

  18. Re:Am I getting this straight? on ICANN OKs Tiered Pricing for .org/.biz/.info · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is at the registry level, not the registrar level. So the the .org registry deceded that forbis.org was worth $40k per year, I believe your only recourse would be to get forbis.someOtherTLDThatDoesntDoTieredPricing.

    But From the article

    Vint said it would be "suicide" for a registry to do it, because there'd be the 6-month notice period to raise prices and the ability for registrants to renew for up to 10 years at "old prices", that supposedly "protects" registrants.

    So even if they where going to jack your registration fee, you could still get it for 10 years at 2006 prices.

  19. Re:Emacs and Vim are both old-school on Vim 7 Released · · Score: 1
    if using X...

    You can change emacs's colors via your .Xdefaults file

    for example

     
    Emacs.background: ivory
    Emacs.foreground: MidnightBlue
     
    Emacs.modeline*attributeForeground : MidnightBlue
    Emacs.modeline*attributeBackground: Bisque
  20. Sudo on Got Root - Should You Use It? · · Score: 4, Informative

    I even use sudo on my *nix boxes @ home. I am a firm believer in sudo. mainly since if I do something stupid with it, I have a log of what it was. We also use sudo at work on all of our boxes(40+), to me it just makes it easier, and makes for one less password to remember. ALso the majority of tasks that I need to do, I can do as myself, there are some tasks, such as restarting services,etc that I need root to be able to do, so as opposed to su'ing over to root, (we don't allow root logins), it is just as easy to sudo the command. Once we get around to hiring a Jr admin, we will use sudo to limit what they can access.

  21. Re:Still the only 'next gen' ill buy on Revolution Horsepower Revealed · · Score: 1

    I have a xbox, a ps2, a game cube. My favorite by far is the cube. Between the Zelda and Mario I don't need anything else. To me gameplay and fun factor are the most important. You can make a turd really pretty and it will still be a turd :) Last week my brother and I (bad Idea to to put 2 guys in a big box electronic store with Credit Cards) decided to get new toys. I grabbed a GBA SP and him a DS (4 hours later I had a DS also -- thank you 24 hour walmart). I haven't been able to to put it down. I have been playing minish cap for a while and I forgot how much fun games like that are. Also with the GBA, playing PacMan Vs is a great time. 1 person plays oldskool pacman on the GBA, 3 other are ghosts in 3d on the cube. It is the tie in like that, that makes Nintendo awesome. I cannot wait for the Revolution (or whatever they wind up calling it) to come out.

  22. Snake Food on Designer Mice Made to Order · · Score: 1

    There is a lab near here that Designs mice like the above. We where talking to them about some bandwidth needs, and got on the subject of what happens if they breed a bunch of mice and they don't sell. The director said they become snake food. For some reason I just found this quite funny.

  23. Re:Look at how much Windows is on verizon.net on ISP Restrictions Based on Hardware/Software? · · Score: 1

    Plus, it's not like any mission-critical hardware in any ISP worth it's bandwidth runs Windows-- they'll mostly be powered by some *nix-like OS.

    www.verizon.net is running IIS 5.0 on Windows 2000, and so are a lot of other web servers on the same domain.

    I believe the original poster said "worth its bandwidth", I'm sorry but VZ doesn't match that.. <grin>

    //me runs and hides..

  24. Re:I can tell you straight up on Desktop Linux Survey Results Published · · Score: 1

    There is a reason for that preview button :)

  25. Re:Open source network analysis tools on Trying to Help a Troubled Network with Linux? · · Score: 1

    I'll add ntop to the list. Plug a box running that into a monitor port and watch the traffic for a while.

    As others have said good documentation of the Network is a must. I was thrown into a similiar situation a year or 2 back at my highschool (I graduated in 94, so it wasn't as a student). Aftering doing a walk through of the network and finding every single hub (there where 2 switches) and what was attached to it we could then easily locate some of the problems. In some cases they have hubs chained 8 deep (with 60-70 computers) and there was a ton of broadcast traffic, we isolated some of the labs and replaced some of the chained hubs with switches (Temp fix), removed some worms, virii and located a bad nic, we got the network running a lot better. My next step was to replace the little NAT box they where using with a Netra that I had sitting at home running OpenBSD and Squid. This way I could transparent proxy all of the net traffic and cut back on a lot of the stuff the school didn't want to come in, also it had the added benefit of speeding up some of their classes, since most of them where like, ok Kids everybody click on this url. So 30+ requests for a graphics heavy page will bog a 1mb/s DSL connection. We are finally upgrading the network (Should be done soon), to use a bunch of fully managed cisco switches with Gig Fiber backbone and much needed vlans and firewalls. (which is cool since I can get my Netra back )