This is much easier to do in someplace like japan where there isnt as much space in a city. To run fibre to your home in Japan isnt much fibre at all. To do this someplace like Houston would require running miles upon miles of fibre, raising the price considerably. Being dense does have its advantages.
Anyone going to use Fisher should of course, goto Bugzilla.redhat.com and give plenty of bug reports and other issues while using this beta version of RedHat.
I just compiled my daily build of Mozilla a few hours ago, and while I havnt yet tested it, As a hard core mozilla user, and bug reporter, this should really spark some attention to Mozilla, since this is something that even 'the great and powerful IE5' can not do.
It doesnt seem to be in Mozilla yet, after reading the article, and tinkering with my new build, but still a wonderful idea. But how can it interact with other files that need to be on the server that you dont have? And what if you dont use absolute URLs? Im curious to see how it handles stuff like this.
Mozilla is really getting stable, I know some peoples opinions of Mozilla are tarnished, but seriously, give it a try, its come a long way in the past 6 months, I havnt used anything else in months. And please dont compare the current Mozilla tree to Netscape6, They are not the same thing. Netscape took Mozilla M18 (which is old nowadays) and messed up a very decent product. Try out the nightlies, then if you want to flame it, your at least qualified to do so.
And lets not forget that Mozilla 0.8 is supposed to be released the first week of Febuary, 1.0 is expected as early as Mid-April. We're almost there!!
While I dont agree with patents, I can see some good uses for them. But a few things should be done to prevent people/corporations from patenting things that just should not be patented.
The ammount of time that a patent lasts is way too long in todays world. A patent lasting 1 or 2 years seems more fair to me, but any longer than that basically prevents anyone from using the thing patented for a very long time.
I would like to see the USPTO gotten rid of all together, but this will never happen, regardless of how much it makes sense to get rid of it. Corporations want control of products, and patents give them that right to that control.
I think the best sollution would be to have a seperate entity to decide on technology patents. Hopefully with something like that we could stop the future Amazons from patenting outragious things. Trademarks are a little differant, I think you should be able to protect your name, but again, things like:-( shouldnt be trademarked, as it should be considered free-use.
But can we honestly ever expect things to change? The average American doesnt see anything wrong with what we have now, what politician would ever try and change anything? Who cares?
And can anyone clear up international patents? What stops a Japanese company from doing '1-click-shopping'? Especially on the internet, a US only patent doesnt seem to do much good.
As an IRC administrator and ircd developer, and since there seems to be confusion how a DoS attack works, allow me to explain.
First off, The attacker gets a system with a fast connection. He then sends tons of spoofed packets to the server. Now the constant question I here so far is 'How do you stop it' and one guy even told of changing the kernel code to stop ping replies (which is idiotic)
You cant stop it. You can block replying to ICMP through the builtin firewalls, but then the attacker can just use TCP/UDP to try and take out your uplink too. You cant just block the subnets, the source IP is spoofed. There is only 1 way to stop it, and it shows the complete flaw of IP.
You would have to goto your uplink, find out what interface the packets are coming from, then goto THAT uplink and ask them the same, and keep on going until you get to the originating IP. and since the guy doing it probably is using a machine he doesnt own, to get his IP you would have to wait until he connected to it. As you probably guessed, thats damn near impossible.
Modern IPv4 and IPv6 enabled machines should be REQUIRED to do interface checking to try and stop spoofing. It should see if the source IP coming from that interface is an IP that is on that interface. Being able to spoof the IP accross interfaces is dumb, and that is the root of the problem. Its not all that common that a cracker uses multiple computers to do an attack, but it happens. But even still, if we knew the IP from the getgo, it wouldnt be too hard to start adding them to your uplinks firewall.
Just a few thoughts, personally, And if your a script kiddie reading this, please look at your intentions, instead of attacking the box because they banned you, do something else that may be fun to you. Why hurt others? it causes lots of people grief.
Ive now been using 2.4 for 30 minutes, and id like to give my impression of it so far.
First, It booted FAST, not just the kernel, but the userland programs too. I was impressed,
Next, I played some MP3s and it uses all 4 speakers properly now (rear ones wouldnt work) so that was a pleasant surprise. I decided to compile a little program in X, normally, when doing something like that, my cursor will be kind of choppy, but no more. It handles well. It also detected the USB scanner ive still got hooked up from Windows, still dont know if I can actually scan though (i never scan these days, never really cared)
Im still playing, but if your reading this article wondering if you should use it, give it a try. There is definatly a noticable performance increase. I love it, its been long awaited for 2.4, the wait was well worth it.
As you may of noticed, there is not a release of it noticable. Its only available right now as a diff in
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/testing/prer elease-diff
So as of right now, you need the pre-release source. Hope that helps youll get this new kernel, mine is already compiling - wanted to try and help the world get their's going too
Enjoy
Ok, the poster states that Anyone who subscribes to the MAPS RBL is unable to goto a persons website because there IP is blocked. This is not the case. I am a subscriber to the MAPS RBL, RSS, and the dialup list as well. It stops spam very effectively. MAPS is integrated into sendmail. This has nothing to do with IP, including http. I can goto any working IP address, if there on the RBL or not. I feel that this article is very biased against MAPS and tries to make it seem bad. The MAPS RBL admins dont like people who are friendly towards spam. They are not 'censoring' them, but just preventing them from sending email to any mail server that uses the RBL. This is a big differance that should definatly be noted.
Id like to state, that since I have utilyzed 3 differant MAPS services on my mail servers, I have not had any unsollicated email come through. And that is what MAPS is all about trying to accomplish.
Quake3, very good example. Very few actually paid for the Linux version qauek3. They went out and bought the Windows version, and just used the Linux binary and there Windows CD. MANY did this.
I have a couple theories why people did this: They also used windows and wanted to make sure that it would work in Windows. They also wanted instant gratification and wanted to purchase it in a store. I honestly dont know, But I do know that that kind of consumer activity seriously hurts Linux, Because those sales are needed. How many people actually use the Linux version, and how many actually paid for the version really doesnt matter, but profit matters, at least to commercial applications
Photoshop: The reason why i stated photoshop was that I know MANY graphics artists who want Linux, however *NEED* photoshop, and while I personally dont use photoshop but use gimp instead, Photoshop can do stuff Gimp still cant do (although, im sure given enough time, will be able to) and that is why i felt photoshop could be a good example. Maybe not the best example, but a good one IMHO.
Mozilla has really come along way. Ive been using the nightly builds for the past 3 months (upgrading daily, missed very few builds) and the quality of Mozilla is really improving
Ive now just gotten.6 and tried it out. The first thing I tried to do is install the Java plugin from netscape. Amazingly enough, went without problem. This has been kinda tricky, even in the last few nightly builds. PSM (to enable SSL) installed nicely, but thats nothing new. Then I fired up Mozilla mail and the filters still work (my filters died for some reason a few nights ago)
In conclusion, Mozilla is very stable. Its not perfect, it might just crash on you, but it does it, and does it well. I have not used any other browser in several weeks. I get all my email (including a subscribtion to linux-kernel mailing list among others) through mozilla mail, and it filters it nicely and loads the spool (sometimes over 1500 messages) quickly. Even if your not ready to throwout Netscape just yet, give Mozilla a try. Im glad that this Milestone is stable, the past Milestone (M18) was really awful, and I recommended against it and told others to just use the nightly builds. This one seems to finally be the one to work, and work well.
The mozilla daily builds (with PSM and Java from netscape 6's FTP site) gives me all the function of Netscape 6 without all the Netscape kludge.
I prefer the daily builds over the milestones due to my dislike with the current milestone (M18)
Its far from over. This is now going to go to the Florida suppreme court. Basically, they said Bush wins, but without counting ANY of the hand counted ballots, but instead is going from the number from the machine count. So its far from over, It could still go either way. But right after they announced this, Leiberman was there announcing that Gore is contesting. Now its up to the courts. This had to happen, because now it can be argued.
We'll see what happens. Expect to see Bush's people talking about 'we need closure, we won, lets call it an election', and expect to see Gore's people say 'Every vote must count, we must have fair results'
Get ready for another few weeks....
Where can I begin... First, using your ISPs mail server does not mean 'another hop' in the term of your speed... In fact, it takes more bandwidth to send it via your MTA than to send it to your ISP...
Next, where do you get this additional hardware cost stuff? From using your ISPs mail server? its going to cost you to pay for more hardware? Wether you use it or not, they will have a mail server, and you WILL have to pay for it, regardless.
Furthermore, why do you not like the dial up list? Do you know how much spam that stops? Throwaway dial up accounts account for most of the spam sent these days.
Next, Users arent clueless by using their ISPs mail server, and they can run an OS that can handle mail traffic wonderfully, but WHY? they dont NEED to, and, they have the potential of getting their mail rejected because they're on a dialup (including broadband IPs)
Finally, if your ISPs mail servers accept the mail, and say it will be delivered, and it takes 'hours' for it to get there, its more than likely not their fault. Now if you said that you cant connect to your ISPs MTA, then you can blame them...
These are the views of me, a competant mail administrator of a redundant mid-sized network. I speak only the truth of my views, and is not meant to put anyone down, but offer a differant perspective.
The power went out here, was down for over 2 hours. My UPS lasted a good 45 mins, but finally died, and i had to shutdown the servers. Now, theyre recharging, and even before reading this, I was planning on going to home depot to get a generator for backup power...
Ironic, could my power outage be related to this? Maybe its striking early. This gives me a good excuse to shell out a few hundred for a cheap generator (400 watts should be enough)
One problem with using a local sendmail to send your email could be if the recipitents mail server uses the MAPS Dialup Blacklist...
Basically, what that is is a database of dial up users, and when your mail server sends mail, and it checks your IP address, if it is identified as a dialup, it will not allow your mailserver to communicate. This is why you should use your ISPs mail server. When you use your ISPs mailserver, it will not be on the dialup list, and will be allowed to communicate (unless its on RBL, relay list, etc)
Ironically, as I write this, the mail-abuse.org DNS servers are unavailable. Interesting... When it comes back up though, goto http://mail-abuse.org for more information
I was testing some filters on my mailserver the other day, and I happened to do a test of sending an email to a Yahoo! account. After realizing the mail got stuck in the queue, I inspected Yahoo's mail servers. Unbelievable, They have 6 MX addresses, each one having 13 IP addresses (round robin). Well, I became curious after realizing the machines were up, so I whipped up a script to telnet to the SMTP port of each mail server. Only 2 were accepting SMTP commands! This was (if i remember right) of 75 mail servers. If Yahoo! were to have their network status put up, they would be utterly embarrased. All the machines were available, but either SMTP was closed down, would drop you immediatly after connection, or just not accept any commands at all. The problem now seems to be resolved, but I doubt Yahoo! would admit to such a failure, it would make them look very bad.
Probably the best way to determine an outtage is to do some inspecting yourself, run pings, traceroutes, telnet to the service, test, and probe to find out what could be going on.
Google cache link since this poor server cant handle the load, Very interesting software, But I feel nothing can beat using the MAPS RBL and other MAPS resources. Havnt had my mailserver spammed since!
MP3 trading has been going on for years before napster. Before this, it was simple web site MP3 search engines. Now its in the hands of everyone, and they try and stop it. No matter what, there will always be people getting free music, with or without napster, gnutella, scour (now dead), or any other public service. It mostly all started on IRC, with bots and fserves allowing people to trade their songs. No matter what happens to napster, the record labels need to realized, people dont have to pay for their songs, and theirs nothinig they can do about it. This will not put them out of business, there are tons of people who still go out and buy music, But they need to find a way to live with this technology, because it will never go away; it will just mutate into something else.
Great technology, and it could really be a boom. VCRs, the Internet, and now this would all be a major technology thanks to porn. No doubt, if this goes mainstream, expect 90% of it to be in the adult entertainment business. Its a fact we have to live with.
They dont need to communicate via IP. They can use a proprietary protocol. Or just use a really simple method. Id compare what your saying to giving every key on a keyboard an IP address. Not a perfect analogy, but the point remains, its not needed to put every nanite on the internet. Noone/nothing cares about a specific nanite in a toaster. Noone ever will. Even wiring the toaster raises questions in my eyes, but thats at least logical.
The overhead required for anything past 128bits is too much. Luckily the IPv6 header doesnt take alot more overhead than IPv4, but just assume for a second, that you had a 256 bit address space. thats 512 bits required per packet (one for sender, one for receiver) now, send 1000 packets. That adds up to 62.5K worth of data, just for the IP addresses. Thats alot of bandwidth just for all the toasters of the world.
Currently, there's millions of IP addresses that are for local networks. Your 'toaster' could use addresses in that space, and simply have just 1 address for internet access. Finally, why would having all those 'nanites' require an IP address? Would it make better toast? I dont think so. Just my 2 cents.
With the capacity to provide about a thousand IP addresses to every square foot of surface area on Earth, IPv6 will make things very interesting. Total addresses possible: 340282366920938463463374607431768211456
The neat part is I calculated that by hand while I was really bored in school and had 4 hours to blow away.
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This is much easier to do in someplace like japan where there isnt as much space in a city. To run fibre to your home in Japan isnt much fibre at all. To do this someplace like Houston would require running miles upon miles of fibre, raising the price considerably. Being dense does have its advantages.
I bought from NikeID, and my ID is of course, Linux. Lots of pictures and a review are here
Fisher, is it is *STILL BETA* is only available on a few mirrors, those of which are:a /fisher
/ fisher
a /fisher
s /redhat/redhat/beta/fisher
/ redhat/redhat/beta/fisher
Indiana, USA:
http://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/redhat/bet
ftp://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/redhat/beta
Minnesota, USA:
ftp://ftp.mn-linux.org/linux/redhat/beta/fisher
Buffalo, New York, USA:
ftp://ftp.cse.buffalo.edu/mirror/Linux/redhat/bet
Pennsylvania, USA:
http://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distribution
ftp://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions
rsync://carroll.cac.psu.edu/redhat-beta/fisher
Anyone going to use Fisher should of course, goto Bugzilla.redhat.com and give plenty of bug reports and other issues while using this beta version of RedHat.
I just compiled my daily build of Mozilla a few hours ago, and while I havnt yet tested it, As a hard core mozilla user, and bug reporter, this should really spark some attention to Mozilla, since this is something that even 'the great and powerful IE5' can not do.
It doesnt seem to be in Mozilla yet, after reading the article, and tinkering with my new build, but still a wonderful idea. But how can it interact with other files that need to be on the server that you dont have? And what if you dont use absolute URLs? Im curious to see how it handles stuff like this.
Mozilla is really getting stable, I know some peoples opinions of Mozilla are tarnished, but seriously, give it a try, its come a long way in the past 6 months, I havnt used anything else in months. And please dont compare the current Mozilla tree to Netscape6, They are not the same thing. Netscape took Mozilla M18 (which is old nowadays) and messed up a very decent product. Try out the nightlies, then if you want to flame it, your at least qualified to do so.
And lets not forget that Mozilla 0.8 is supposed to be released the first week of Febuary, 1.0 is expected as early as Mid-April. We're almost there!!
While I dont agree with patents, I can see some good uses for them. But a few things should be done to prevent people/corporations from patenting things that just should not be patented.
:-( shouldnt be trademarked, as it should be considered free-use.
The ammount of time that a patent lasts is way too long in todays world. A patent lasting 1 or 2 years seems more fair to me, but any longer than that basically prevents anyone from using the thing patented for a very long time.
I would like to see the USPTO gotten rid of all together, but this will never happen, regardless of how much it makes sense to get rid of it. Corporations want control of products, and patents give them that right to that control.
I think the best sollution would be to have a seperate entity to decide on technology patents. Hopefully with something like that we could stop the future Amazons from patenting outragious things. Trademarks are a little differant, I think you should be able to protect your name, but again, things like
But can we honestly ever expect things to change? The average American doesnt see anything wrong with what we have now, what politician would ever try and change anything? Who cares?
And can anyone clear up international patents? What stops a Japanese company from doing '1-click-shopping'? Especially on the internet, a US only patent doesnt seem to do much good.
As an IRC administrator and ircd developer, and since there seems to be confusion how a DoS attack works, allow me to explain. First off, The attacker gets a system with a fast connection. He then sends tons of spoofed packets to the server. Now the constant question I here so far is 'How do you stop it' and one guy even told of changing the kernel code to stop ping replies (which is idiotic)
You cant stop it. You can block replying to ICMP through the builtin firewalls, but then the attacker can just use TCP/UDP to try and take out your uplink too. You cant just block the subnets, the source IP is spoofed. There is only 1 way to stop it, and it shows the complete flaw of IP. You would have to goto your uplink, find out what interface the packets are coming from, then goto THAT uplink and ask them the same, and keep on going until you get to the originating IP. and since the guy doing it probably is using a machine he doesnt own, to get his IP you would have to wait until he connected to it. As you probably guessed, thats damn near impossible.
Modern IPv4 and IPv6 enabled machines should be REQUIRED to do interface checking to try and stop spoofing. It should see if the source IP coming from that interface is an IP that is on that interface. Being able to spoof the IP accross interfaces is dumb, and that is the root of the problem. Its not all that common that a cracker uses multiple computers to do an attack, but it happens. But even still, if we knew the IP from the getgo, it wouldnt be too hard to start adding them to your uplinks firewall.
Just a few thoughts, personally, And if your a script kiddie reading this, please look at your intentions, instead of attacking the box because they banned you, do something else that may be fun to you. Why hurt others? it causes lots of people grief.
Ive now been using 2.4 for 30 minutes, and id like to give my impression of it so far.
First, It booted FAST, not just the kernel, but the userland programs too. I was impressed,
Next, I played some MP3s and it uses all 4 speakers properly now (rear ones wouldnt work) so that was a pleasant surprise. I decided to compile a little program in X, normally, when doing something like that, my cursor will be kind of choppy, but no more. It handles well. It also detected the USB scanner ive still got hooked up from Windows, still dont know if I can actually scan though (i never scan these days, never really cared)
Im still playing, but if your reading this article wondering if you should use it, give it a try. There is definatly a noticable performance increase. I love it, its been long awaited for 2.4, the wait was well worth it.
As you may of noticed, there is not a release of it noticable. Its only available right now as a diff inr elease-diff
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/testing/pre
So as of right now, you need the pre-release source. Hope that helps youll get this new kernel, mine is already compiling - wanted to try and help the world get their's going too Enjoy
Ok, the poster states that Anyone who subscribes to the MAPS RBL is unable to goto a persons website because there IP is blocked. This is not the case. I am a subscriber to the MAPS RBL, RSS, and the dialup list as well. It stops spam very effectively. MAPS is integrated into sendmail. This has nothing to do with IP, including http. I can goto any working IP address, if there on the RBL or not. I feel that this article is very biased against MAPS and tries to make it seem bad. The MAPS RBL admins dont like people who are friendly towards spam. They are not 'censoring' them, but just preventing them from sending email to any mail server that uses the RBL. This is a big differance that should definatly be noted. Id like to state, that since I have utilyzed 3 differant MAPS services on my mail servers, I have not had any unsollicated email come through. And that is what MAPS is all about trying to accomplish.
Quake3, very good example. Very few actually paid for the Linux version qauek3. They went out and bought the Windows version, and just used the Linux binary and there Windows CD. MANY did this. I have a couple theories why people did this: They also used windows and wanted to make sure that it would work in Windows. They also wanted instant gratification and wanted to purchase it in a store. I honestly dont know, But I do know that that kind of consumer activity seriously hurts Linux, Because those sales are needed. How many people actually use the Linux version, and how many actually paid for the version really doesnt matter, but profit matters, at least to commercial applications
Photoshop: The reason why i stated photoshop was that I know MANY graphics artists who want Linux, however *NEED* photoshop, and while I personally dont use photoshop but use gimp instead, Photoshop can do stuff Gimp still cant do (although, im sure given enough time, will be able to) and that is why i felt photoshop could be a good example. Maybe not the best example, but a good one IMHO.
It actually is.
Take a look at the Mozilla Roadmap to see what releases are planned, the time frame, and all that good stuff.
Mozilla has really come along way. Ive been using the nightly builds for the past 3 months (upgrading daily, missed very few builds) and the quality of Mozilla is really improving
.6 and tried it out. The first thing I tried to do is install the Java plugin from netscape. Amazingly enough, went without problem. This has been kinda tricky, even in the last few nightly builds. PSM (to enable SSL) installed nicely, but thats nothing new. Then I fired up Mozilla mail and the filters still work (my filters died for some reason a few nights ago)
Ive now just gotten
In conclusion, Mozilla is very stable. Its not perfect, it might just crash on you, but it does it, and does it well. I have not used any other browser in several weeks. I get all my email (including a subscribtion to linux-kernel mailing list among others) through mozilla mail, and it filters it nicely and loads the spool (sometimes over 1500 messages) quickly. Even if your not ready to throwout Netscape just yet, give Mozilla a try. Im glad that this Milestone is stable, the past Milestone (M18) was really awful, and I recommended against it and told others to just use the nightly builds. This one seems to finally be the one to work, and work well.
The mozilla daily builds (with PSM and Java from netscape 6's FTP site) gives me all the function of Netscape 6 without all the Netscape kludge. I prefer the daily builds over the milestones due to my dislike with the current milestone (M18)
Its far from over. This is now going to go to the Florida suppreme court. Basically, they said Bush wins, but without counting ANY of the hand counted ballots, but instead is going from the number from the machine count. So its far from over, It could still go either way. But right after they announced this, Leiberman was there announcing that Gore is contesting. Now its up to the courts. This had to happen, because now it can be argued. We'll see what happens. Expect to see Bush's people talking about 'we need closure, we won, lets call it an election', and expect to see Gore's people say 'Every vote must count, we must have fair results' Get ready for another few weeks....
Where can I begin... First, using your ISPs mail server does not mean 'another hop' in the term of your speed... In fact, it takes more bandwidth to send it via your MTA than to send it to your ISP...
Next, where do you get this additional hardware cost stuff? From using your ISPs mail server? its going to cost you to pay for more hardware? Wether you use it or not, they will have a mail server, and you WILL have to pay for it, regardless.
Furthermore, why do you not like the dial up list? Do you know how much spam that stops? Throwaway dial up accounts account for most of the spam sent these days.
Next, Users arent clueless by using their ISPs mail server, and they can run an OS that can handle mail traffic wonderfully, but WHY? they dont NEED to, and, they have the potential of getting their mail rejected because they're on a dialup (including broadband IPs)
Finally, if your ISPs mail servers accept the mail, and say it will be delivered, and it takes 'hours' for it to get there, its more than likely not their fault. Now if you said that you cant connect to your ISPs MTA, then you can blame them...
These are the views of me, a competant mail administrator of a redundant mid-sized network. I speak only the truth of my views, and is not meant to put anyone down, but offer a differant perspective.
The power went out here, was down for over 2 hours. My UPS lasted a good 45 mins, but finally died, and i had to shutdown the servers. Now, theyre recharging, and even before reading this, I was planning on going to home depot to get a generator for backup power... Ironic, could my power outage be related to this? Maybe its striking early. This gives me a good excuse to shell out a few hundred for a cheap generator (400 watts should be enough)
One problem with using a local sendmail to send your email could be if the recipitents mail server uses the MAPS Dialup Blacklist... Basically, what that is is a database of dial up users, and when your mail server sends mail, and it checks your IP address, if it is identified as a dialup, it will not allow your mailserver to communicate. This is why you should use your ISPs mail server. When you use your ISPs mailserver, it will not be on the dialup list, and will be allowed to communicate (unless its on RBL, relay list, etc)
Ironically, as I write this, the mail-abuse.org DNS servers are unavailable. Interesting...
When it comes back up though, goto http://mail-abuse.org for more information
I was testing some filters on my mailserver the other day, and I happened to do a test of sending an email to a Yahoo! account. After realizing the mail got stuck in the queue, I inspected Yahoo's mail servers. Unbelievable, They have 6 MX addresses, each one having 13 IP addresses (round robin). Well, I became curious after realizing the machines were up, so I whipped up a script to telnet to the SMTP port of each mail server. Only 2 were accepting SMTP commands! This was (if i remember right) of 75 mail servers. If Yahoo! were to have their network status put up, they would be utterly embarrased. All the machines were available, but either SMTP was closed down, would drop you immediatly after connection, or just not accept any commands at all. The problem now seems to be resolved, but I doubt Yahoo! would admit to such a failure, it would make them look very bad.
Probably the best way to determine an outtage is to do some inspecting yourself, run pings, traceroutes, telnet to the service, test, and probe to find out what could be going on.
Google cache link since this poor server cant handle the load, Very interesting software, But I feel nothing can beat using the MAPS RBL and other MAPS resources. Havnt had my mailserver spammed since!
MP3 trading has been going on for years before napster. Before this, it was simple web site MP3 search engines. Now its in the hands of everyone, and they try and stop it. No matter what, there will always be people getting free music, with or without napster, gnutella, scour (now dead), or any other public service. It mostly all started on IRC, with bots and fserves allowing people to trade their songs. No matter what happens to napster, the record labels need to realized, people dont have to pay for their songs, and theirs nothinig they can do about it. This will not put them out of business, there are tons of people who still go out and buy music, But they need to find a way to live with this technology, because it will never go away; it will just mutate into something else.
Great technology, and it could really be a boom. VCRs, the Internet, and now this would all be a major technology thanks to porn. No doubt, if this goes mainstream, expect 90% of it to be in the adult entertainment business. Its a fact we have to live with.
They dont need to communicate via IP. They can use a proprietary protocol. Or just use a really simple method. Id compare what your saying to giving every key on a keyboard an IP address. Not a perfect analogy, but the point remains, its not needed to put every nanite on the internet. Noone/nothing cares about a specific nanite in a toaster. Noone ever will. Even wiring the toaster raises questions in my eyes, but thats at least logical.
The overhead required for anything past 128bits is too much. Luckily the IPv6 header doesnt take alot more overhead than IPv4, but just assume for a second, that you had a 256 bit address space. thats 512 bits required per packet (one for sender, one for receiver) now, send 1000 packets. That adds up to 62.5K worth of data, just for the IP addresses. Thats alot of bandwidth just for all the toasters of the world. Currently, there's millions of IP addresses that are for local networks. Your 'toaster' could use addresses in that space, and simply have just 1 address for internet access. Finally, why would having all those 'nanites' require an IP address? Would it make better toast? I dont think so. Just my 2 cents.
With the capacity to provide about a thousand IP addresses to every square foot of surface area on Earth, IPv6 will make things very interesting. Total addresses possible: 340282366920938463463374607431768211456
The neat part is I calculated that by hand while I was really bored in school and had 4 hours to blow away.
They were built by aliens as a means to land their ships. Any stargate sg-1 fan knows this to be fact.