We've got web servers that routinely push >700mbps of traffic. We keep them load balanced to never go above 800mbps, but in the "lab" I've had max output as high as 950mbps.
Granted, with current CPU speeds, we're getting near 100% cpu utilization at those rates anyway. But, I haven't tried this on any of our new dual 3.2Ghz systems, which I'm guessing could handle full wire speed without choking the CPU at the same time.
"But wait," I hear you saying, "drives can't keep up with that!" Well, no, one drive can't. But we have RAID, and a very high cache hit rate. When a new video is posted to the front page(not safe for work at all), the same handful of videos account for 99% of the bandwidth from our video download servers. If we've balanced things correctly, the disks hardly get touched. The only limitation on download speed is the most congested link between you and us.
I'm not saying right now that we'd use 10Gb, but I can see it coming in handy soon. The day we start having to buy extra servers just because we're hitting the limit of gigabit ethernet is the day we'd probably invest in 10Gb gear.
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1) We've got no problem with PHP on a pretty high traffic porn site. Turck_mmcache helps quite a bit by caching the pseudo-compiled bytecode of each script, so it's pretty blazing.
Basically every page is dynamically generated, even the images go through a PHP script to make sure the right people are seeing the right images.
We honestly have a bigger problem with the SQL server keeping up than PHP consuming too much CPU. The site listed in my home page URL here runs on 3 servers, one for MySQL, one for most PHP scripts, and one to serve all the images. The two httpd servers handle about 1200 requests per second, and the loads are pretty low. 95% of those requests are PHP scripts.
2) For the site I'm talking about there, we've got anywhere from 1000 to 5000 people browsing the site at once. Another site I admin(very NSFW) gets much more traffic than that, and a lot of those visitors are downloading 5-200MB movies for free. There we have two thttpd servers handling most of the static files (videos and images). At times there we're in the more-than OC-12 levels of bandwidth, and they handle the load just fine.
How do we make money? Some of our sites are subscription based, and we try to have content that you can't get anywhere else. We try to drive the community aspect of our sites, and try not to just be "another generic porn site".
The first site lets anyone browse for free as much as they want, you just get access to more content if you pay. You also get to talk to the "performers" and a few other perks. The second site I mentioned is all free, it's supported by ads though.
(trying not to make this spam, just a bit of insight into how porn on the internet actually works. And no, I'm not Stile.)
Take a look at APC's rackmount "ProtectNet" stuff.
A 1U rack mount chassis with 24 slots (you can protect up to 16 data lines) is $30. Then you can buy different plug-in modules for different devices. They have them for 10/100BaseT, regular Telco phone lines, T1/ISDN/etc, RS232, etc.
Get one of these for $18 per Cat5 you want to protect.
Keep in mind that nothing is going to protect against a direct lightning strike, but these are good filters for surges that can come from an indirect hit.
I have one and it records a pretty decent picture from the component inputs. The included software doesn't work like a PVR, it looks to the system like a DV video camera. But any open PVR software could probably be adapted to take DV input if they don't already.
I would like to know where the settings to turn on and off the ARD service are. I dont see them in the System Sharing preferences or in any other obvious place.
Look again.
System Preferences -> Sharing -> Services. Make sure "Apple Remote Desktop" is unchecked. It's defaulted to off, so it's really not a security issue at all.
I'm not Stile, but I can see how you might have assumed that. Anyway... Yes, we do maintain proof-of-age records (in accordance with 18 USC 2257) for all content we produce or license. Example... All adult sites are required to, and you can contact the people listed on there if you have any doubts. Same with any DVD or magazine you buy.
About half the people on our site never get naked either. Adult oriented at times, but the webcam community isn't just about showing breasts.
I (believe) that I'm the one who originally coined the term "camwhore". (My original registration of camwhores.com/camwhore.com predates any mention of it in google/usenet/archive.org, and the oldest web archive I can find is an IRC log of me).
The word "camwhores" itself was sort of a pun... Sure it had the sexual connotations, but we all were talking about how people who like the attention their webcams gave them struggled with the moral impact of showing random strangers on the internet more of their intimate life than most of their friends have seen. whore n. A person considered as having compromised principles for personal gain.
A whole industry of webcam portals, from Jennicam to Stile Project's old cam portals back in the 90's(which evolved into camwhores.com) to the huge sites that are out there now have really changed a lot of how porn works. You didn't have to sell your soul and have sex with strangers in a studio to play with your exhibitionist side. You don't have to make a cheesy home video and try to get your friends to watch it. The live nature of webcam porn lets the viewer interact with the person in front of the cam directly. And this isn't just a fringe minority either, do you really think the hundreds of thousands of webcams sold are just used to videoconference with grandma? When Gateway bundled a webcam with most of their college-geared desktops a year or so ago, the number of applicants on our site alone doubled.
However, the reason for this whole post(not just because of my personal involvement with the word)... The whole "Camwhores" scene is NOT about underage girls. All the major webcam portals, adult hosting sites, one-on-one show sites, and everyone else are really really strict about age verification and policing their content.
The last thing we need is Ashcroft running TV ads saying that webcams fund terrorists.:)
Anyway, Jenni was surely one of the big pioneers of this whole thing, and I wish her the best.
Evidence: While SCO has not yet hired Johnny Cochrane on their legal team, most pundits (John Dvorak included) are predicting it.
What if SCO does: Chewbacca is a Wooky from the planet Kishic, but Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it. That does not make sense. Why would a Wooky, an eight-foot-tall Wooky, want to live on Endor with a bunch of two-foot-tall Ewoks. That does not make sense. But more important, you have to ask yourself what does this have to do with this case.
Nothing. Ladies and Gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case.
It does not make sense. Look at me. I'm a lawyer working for a major software company and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca. Does that make sense? Ladies and Gentlemen I'm am not making any sense. None of this makes sense. And so you have to remember when you're in that jury room deliberating and conjugating the Emancipation Proclamation, does it make sense? No. Ladies and Gentlemen of this deposed jury it does not make sense. If Chewbacca lives on Endor you must convict. The prosecution rests.
Final Outcome: Linus Torvalds wakes up in his bed and says, "Mom? I just dreamt that me and IBM and SCO were trapped in a court case that made no sense and we were talking about everything that happened to us except that it was all wrong, and ended with us eating ice cream."
After removing a crayon wedged in his brain, Homer finds himself a genius. A miserable genius. He goes to Moe(moonlighting as a surgeon) to replace the crayon.
Moe: So what do you want here, uh, appendectomy, lipo, or...
the sampler. That's very popular. Homer: [holds up a blue crayon] I want you to stick this crayon
into my brain. Moe: No problem -- the ol' Crayola oblongata. Moe: All right, tell me when I hit the sweet spot. Homer: Deeper, you pusillanimous pilsner pusher! Moe: All right, all right. [with a small hammer and chisel,
taps the crayon further up Homer's nose] Homer: De-fense! [woof-woof] De-fense! [woof-woof] Moe: Eh, that's pretty dumb. But, uh... [taps once more] Homer: Extended warranty? How can I lose? Moe: Perfect.
No offense, but I don't think you really understand the "adult" industry on the web.
Not all of us want to spam you with our website. Not all of us want to trick you into visiting, or deluge you with popups should you ever commit the horror of trying to leave the site. Not all of us have a blatant disregard for wanting to keep kids out of our sites.
Personally, I'd love to transfer EVERY domain we have over to a ".xxx" or ".adult" or ".sex" or whatever TLD. Existing *.com domains we'd setup to redirect to the *.xxx version.
Yes, something like this would be voulentary, and yes there would be people out there who wouldn't do it. However, I'd love there to be a way that we could easily segregate our adult sites away from the rest of the internet, so that those who DO want to block such things can do with a reasonable accuracy.
It really could go either way. With a *.xxx policy, you'd have very few false positives (who would register and use their.xxx domain, knowing that many people would block it?), but a decent number of false negatives until it caught on.
With a *.kids policy, you knot only have to have someone very STRICTLY controlling its use (or it becomes useless), you'd be forced to limit browsers use to just *.kids if you wanted to play it safe. That's not going to leave much of the internet left until it had a real critical mass going.
You'd also have to deal with the sticky subject of what exactly IS.kids material? What's okay for 15 year olds isn't okay for 7 year olds. Whose idea of what's acceptable do you use?
99.99% of the adult webmasters out there would LOVE a way to keep kids out of the sites. We would love a simple check box that every ultra-conservative letter-writing crusader could check that would make sure they never saw our sites. Yes, we use ICRA style tags that are meant as content advisories to browsers, but every attempt at making THOSE known to users have failed.
I can understand some of the reasons people have for not wanting an "adult only" tld, but I think its use would have a much greater public good than... oh, say....aero?
I didn't investigate this more than a few minutes, but a friend who brought a laptop over happened to have Opera 6.0x installed on it. Without the "-30" hack in there, many elements on the page had way way too much space in them.
Perhaps it's only Opera 6 under one version of Windows. Maybe it's got to do with a certain font size. I dunno. If it doesn't happen to everyone, it makes this even stranger, but I did see exactly the behavior it looks like they were trying to fix.
All I'm saying is that without a heck of a lot more evidence, pinning this on malice is a HUGE stretch, even for the tinfoil types.
I realize this belongs back in the Opera story, but apparently a bunch of people missed this.
Take an old copy of Opera (6.0). Load up www.msn.com in it with the special MS "broken" style sheet. It looks great. Now, Remove the hack that msn.com put in there if it sees "Opera" in the User Agent. (set that -30 to 0 or something). *Poof* Broken looking page.
Yes, if they put a hack like that in there after the release of 7.0 they should have tested again to see if it was still necessary and refined their filter to only catch the known buggy version, but come on guys...
They actually made an effort to make the page look right on something other than IE, AND went so far as to detect a competitor's browser that wasn't rendering the page right (due to a bug in Opera - or at least a very creative interpretation of the HTML spec) and give that browser a style sheet with a workaround in the style sheet.
I agree it caused problems later when Opera 7.0 came out, and they probably should have found/fixed it by now, but I'm betting once the right person hears about it it'll be fixed, if it isn't fixed already.
Microsoft has done some truly crappy things in the past, but this was not one of them.
Be very very very careful about Priceline. They tell you most of this at some point, but just to be clear:
1) Once your price is accepted, you have no control over which airline or what time the flight is.
2) There is absolutely no cancelling, changing, or ANYTHING after you've bid.
Even in the case of a medical emergency, you simply cannot get them to change a flight no matter what. I was in LA on a vacation, got incredibly sick and ended up with an ear infection. The doctor told me to NOT fly no matter what. Even with a letter from a doctor, neither priceline nor the airline would let me change my return flight. When I finally was well enough to travel 48 hours later, a last-minute one-way flight back home was $1500. If I took a later flight so I got a lower price there, I still was stuck paying for a hotel for longer, also at last-minute prices.
Priceline will be cheaper than almost everyone else, just be aware of the risk you're taking.
I use Travelocity for everything myself. They usually come within a few percent of the best price I can find through traditional bookings.
If you fly enough to shell out the $75 for their "Preferred Traveller Elite" program, you get tons of perks. You also get 800# where you can call and talk to someone IMMEDIATELY, no waiting. The people who answer that special number will also pretty much do anything you want them to. I even got one guy there to call up a tiny tiny airline(so small they don't list with SABRE), and try to haggle a price for me for a charter flight.
Express Network isn't 3G. In fact, Verizon isn't touching any of the 3G/GSM stuff for quite a while.
Express Network runs on the older CDMA network, and most Express Network "compatible" equipment will downgrade to a 14.4k AMPS connection when the good stuff isn't available.
Somewhat off topic, but... I bought their service hoping it would be a decent replacement for my IDSL line, and would let me work while traveling. I've had it for about 5 days now, but haven't seen anything faster than 56k modem speeds.
Ameritech is what Illinois Bell became, and was purchased by SBC in the 90's.
Ameritch is/was RBOC for Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin and... Ohio? Can't quite remember now, and in the past week or so www.ameritech.com got replaced with a link to sbc.com
While I can't say I've torn these programs apart, alot of the programs used in "demos"(especially those who are attempting very small sizes (256 byte, 4k, 64k demos, etc) don't use the Windows API at all, and have no way of calling sleep(), and don't block on any input anywhere... So, when they're not drawing the next frame or decompressing music they're spinning in a do-nothing loop that's just burning CPU.
I wouldn't chalk it up to laziness, it's more an efficiency thing, and a bit of tradition... DOS demos weren't written to be multi-tasking friendly, why should these?:)
These demos are much bigger than most (1.4MB zipped), but i'm guessing a large amount of that is going to mp3 music or something similar. Every byte still counts, and how much CPU it's using really doesn't matter to anyone running/judging these.
Here... One of the few useful bits of Microsoft Word is the "Autosummarize..." feature. Insert wordy airbag story. Set desired compression level (in this case "10 sentences or less"). Read, and get almost everything the original had in far less time. Here goes:
NAFA got to work. NAFA called the people who were to go on these "missions" "WAGGONAUTS".
Then NAFA mounted a second "mission".
Then NAFA mounted a third "mission".
Then NAFA mounted a fourth "mission".
Then NAFA mounted a fifth "mission".
Then NAFA mounted a sixth "mission".
So NAFA mounted a seventh "mission". ONLY NAFA's (and FAFA's) "waggonauts" could go out into the desert.
Then NAFA had another setback.
Ok, so it doesn't quite have the same prose, but it's just as "funny" as the original and took 1/20th the time to read.
Better?:)
This doesn't matter. Really.
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To quote Sean Donelan's post on NANOG:
Since its been 5 years since the hints/cache boot file has changed,
it may be useful to remind people an immediate change to your local configuration files is not required. You don't need to slashdot internic.net tomorrow morning trying to download the file.
As long as 1 listed IP address responds with the current list of root servers, the server doesn't even need to be a root server itself, your name server should figure out who are the current roots. In the 1980's and 1990's when the hints/cache file changed regularly, some people when years without updating it. Or only updated it when they upgraded their name server code.
Don't Panic.
To sum up: You don't need to change anything. As long as one of the 13 servers in your hints/cache file responds, your name server will download the updated list on startup. You only have to worry if you've put off updating it so long that all 13 servers have changed IP's. Pretty unlikely, since that would be a hints file that's more than 10 years old at least. (You're not running Linux, anyway...)
And no, this isn't verisign-causing-instability-as-usual. They're actually trying to help it. Before this change, both a.root-servers.net and j.root-servers.net were in the same/24 and in the same BGP annoucement. They're moving things around a bit(presumably) to increase reliability and redundancy.
It's theoretically possible to do some undeletes manually using fsdb(8). I believe I saw a faq entry or handbook entry or something on one of the BSD user help sites about the general idea of how to recover form this, but... Pretty much you're talking about an extreme amount of your time spent per file, and mixed results.
I'm the geek behind stileproject.com, camwhores.com(mentioned in another comment), etc.
About a year ago, we had www.stileproject.com resolving to 6 different IP's in a round-robin DNS arrangement.
Someone from China reported to us that we got blocked by the.cn government, but that every few days which IP of ours was blocked would change, but it was never more than one IP at a time, so he could still get in eventually.
I'm not exactly sure why, but eventually they either gave up, or decided that the site's content wasn't worth banning anymore because they dropped it and nobody's emailed me in many months saying they were having problems.
And yes, we've had several people from China send in subscriptions (always in cash, wrapped in a dozen sheets of paper) for camwhores.com. I think no matter what country you're in, there's some huge appeal of foreign porn.:)
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Nah, it's not overkill.
We've got web servers that routinely push >700mbps of traffic. We keep them load balanced to never go above 800mbps, but in the "lab" I've had max output as high as 950mbps.
Granted, with current CPU speeds, we're getting near 100% cpu utilization at those rates anyway. But, I haven't tried this on any of our new dual 3.2Ghz systems, which I'm guessing could handle full wire speed without choking the CPU at the same time.
"But wait," I hear you saying, "drives can't keep up with that!" Well, no, one drive can't. But we have RAID, and a very high cache hit rate. When a new video is posted to the front page(not safe for work at all), the same handful of videos account for 99% of the bandwidth from our video download servers. If we've balanced things correctly, the disks hardly get touched. The only limitation on download speed is the most congested link between you and us.
I'm not saying right now that we'd use 10Gb, but I can see it coming in handy soon. The day we start having to buy extra servers just because we're hitting the limit of gigabit ethernet is the day we'd probably invest in 10Gb gear.
Ahh, Coily.
Here's an excerpt from it.
(please don't sue me best brains people)
1) We've got no problem with PHP on a pretty high traffic porn site. Turck_mmcache helps quite a bit by caching the pseudo-compiled bytecode of each script, so it's pretty blazing.
Basically every page is dynamically generated, even the images go through a PHP script to make sure the right people are seeing the right images.
We honestly have a bigger problem with the SQL server keeping up than PHP consuming too much CPU. The site listed in my home page URL here runs on 3 servers, one for MySQL, one for most PHP scripts, and one to serve all the images. The two httpd servers handle about 1200 requests per second, and the loads are pretty low. 95% of those requests are PHP scripts.
2) For the site I'm talking about there, we've got anywhere from 1000 to 5000 people browsing the site at once. Another site I admin(very NSFW) gets much more traffic than that, and a lot of those visitors are downloading 5-200MB movies for free. There we have two thttpd servers handling most of the static files (videos and images). At times there we're in the more-than OC-12 levels of bandwidth, and they handle the load just fine.
How do we make money? Some of our sites are subscription based, and we try to have content that you can't get anywhere else. We try to drive the community aspect of our sites, and try not to just be "another generic porn site".
The first site lets anyone browse for free as much as they want, you just get access to more content if you pay. You also get to talk to the "performers" and a few other perks. The second site I mentioned is all free, it's supported by ads though.
(trying not to make this spam, just a bit of insight into how porn on the internet actually works. And no, I'm not Stile.)
Take a look at APC's rackmount "ProtectNet" stuff.
A 1U rack mount chassis with 24 slots (you can protect up to 16 data lines) is $30. Then you can buy different plug-in modules for different devices. They have them for 10/100BaseT, regular Telco phone lines, T1/ISDN/etc, RS232, etc.
Get one of these for $18 per Cat5 you want to protect.
Keep in mind that nothing is going to protect against a direct lightning strike, but these are good filters for surges that can come from an indirect hit.
This claims it's $10m, but it sounds a bit... boasty..
This quotes $34,000/mo.
Maybe a post to comp.sys.cdc will get you some answers?
Oh, I guess this doesn't exist then. :)
I have one and it records a pretty decent picture from the component inputs. The included software doesn't work like a PVR, it looks to the system like a DV video camera. But any open PVR software could probably be adapted to take DV input if they don't already.
I would like to know where the settings to turn on and off the ARD service are. I dont see them in the System Sharing preferences or in any other obvious place.
Look again.
System Preferences -> Sharing -> Services. Make sure "Apple Remote Desktop" is unchecked. It's defaulted to off, so it's really not a security issue at all.
I'm not Stile, but I can see how you might have assumed that. Anyway... Yes, we do maintain proof-of-age records (in accordance with 18 USC 2257) for all content we produce or license. Example... All adult sites are required to, and you can contact the people listed on there if you have any doubts. Same with any DVD or magazine you buy.
About half the people on our site never get naked either. Adult oriented at times, but the webcam community isn't just about showing breasts.
Just a note...
:)
I (believe) that I'm the one who originally coined the term "camwhore". (My original registration of camwhores.com/camwhore.com predates any mention of it in google/usenet/archive.org, and the oldest web archive I can find is an IRC log of me).
The word "camwhores" itself was sort of a pun... Sure it had the sexual connotations, but we all were talking about how people who like the attention their webcams gave them struggled with the moral impact of showing random strangers on the internet more of their intimate life than most of their friends have seen. whore n. A person considered as having compromised principles for personal gain.
A whole industry of webcam portals, from Jennicam to Stile Project's old cam portals back in the 90's(which evolved into camwhores.com) to the huge sites that are out there now have really changed a lot of how porn works. You didn't have to sell your soul and have sex with strangers in a studio to play with your exhibitionist side. You don't have to make a cheesy home video and try to get your friends to watch it. The live nature of webcam porn lets the viewer interact with the person in front of the cam directly. And this isn't just a fringe minority either, do you really think the hundreds of thousands of webcams sold are just used to videoconference with grandma? When Gateway bundled a webcam with most of their college-geared desktops a year or so ago, the number of applicants on our site alone doubled.
However, the reason for this whole post(not just because of my personal involvement with the word)... The whole "Camwhores" scene is NOT about underage girls. All the major webcam portals, adult hosting sites, one-on-one show sites, and everyone else are really really strict about age verification and policing their content.
The last thing we need is Ashcroft running TV ads saying that webcams fund terrorists.
Anyway, Jenni was surely one of the big pioneers of this whole thing, and I wish her the best.
SCO hires Johnny Cochrane
Likelihood: Very likely
Evidence: While SCO has not yet hired Johnny Cochrane on their legal team, most pundits (John Dvorak included) are predicting it.
What if SCO does: Chewbacca is a Wooky from the planet Kishic, but Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it. That does not make sense. Why would a Wooky, an eight-foot-tall Wooky, want to live on Endor with a bunch of two-foot-tall Ewoks. That does not make sense. But more important, you have to ask yourself what does this have to do with this case.
Nothing. Ladies and Gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case.
It does not make sense. Look at me. I'm a lawyer working for a major software company and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca. Does that make sense? Ladies and Gentlemen I'm am not making any sense. None of this makes sense. And so you have to remember when you're in that jury room deliberating and conjugating the Emancipation Proclamation, does it make sense? No. Ladies and Gentlemen of this deposed jury it does not make sense. If Chewbacca lives on Endor you must convict. The prosecution rests.
Final Outcome: Linus Torvalds wakes up in his bed and says, "Mom? I just dreamt that me and IBM and SCO were trapped in a court case that made no sense and we were talking about everything that happened to us except that it was all wrong, and ended with us eating ice cream."
I think I know where my bet is.
Actually, they only have a /27
/24, you're hitting a few unrelated (probably innocent) organizations.
OrgName: Cyveillance
OrgID: CYVEIL
Address: 1555 Wilson Blvd., Ste. 404
City: Arlington
StateProv: VA
PostalCode: 22209-2405
Country: US
NetRange: 63.148.99.224 - 63.148.99.255
CIDR: 63.148.99.224/27
If you block the whole
After removing a crayon wedged in his brain, Homer finds himself a genius. A miserable genius. He goes to Moe(moonlighting as a surgeon) to replace the crayon.
... ... [taps once more]
Moe: So what do you want here, uh, appendectomy, lipo, or
the sampler. That's very popular.
Homer: [holds up a blue crayon] I want you to stick this crayon
into my brain.
Moe: No problem -- the ol' Crayola oblongata.
Moe: All right, tell me when I hit the sweet spot.
Homer: Deeper, you pusillanimous pilsner pusher!
Moe: All right, all right. [with a small hammer and chisel,
taps the crayon further up Homer's nose]
Homer: De-fense! [woof-woof] De-fense! [woof-woof]
Moe: Eh, that's pretty dumb. But, uh
Homer: Extended warranty? How can I lose?
Moe: Perfect.
-- Simpsons episode "HOMR" BABF22
No offense, but I don't think you really understand the "adult" industry on the web.
.xxx domain, knowing that many people would block it?), but a decent number of false negatives until it caught on.
.kids material? What's okay for 15 year olds isn't okay for 7 year olds. Whose idea of what's acceptable do you use?
.aero?
Not all of us want to spam you with our website.
Not all of us want to trick you into visiting, or deluge you with popups should you ever commit the horror of trying to leave the site.
Not all of us have a blatant disregard for wanting to keep kids out of our sites.
Personally, I'd love to transfer EVERY domain we have over to a ".xxx" or ".adult" or ".sex" or whatever TLD. Existing *.com domains we'd setup to redirect to the *.xxx version.
Yes, something like this would be voulentary, and yes there would be people out there who wouldn't do it. However, I'd love there to be a way that we could easily segregate our adult sites away from the rest of the internet, so that those who DO want to block such things can do with a reasonable accuracy.
It really could go either way. With a *.xxx policy, you'd have very few false positives (who would register and use their
With a *.kids policy, you knot only have to have someone very STRICTLY controlling its use (or it becomes useless), you'd be forced to limit browsers use to just *.kids if you wanted to play it safe. That's not going to leave much of the internet left until it had a real critical mass going.
You'd also have to deal with the sticky subject of what exactly IS
99.99% of the adult webmasters out there would LOVE a way to keep kids out of the sites. We would love a simple check box that every ultra-conservative letter-writing crusader could check that would make sure they never saw our sites. Yes, we use ICRA style tags that are meant as content advisories to browsers, but every attempt at making THOSE known to users have failed.
I can understand some of the reasons people have for not wanting an "adult only" tld, but I think its use would have a much greater public good than... oh, say...
I didn't investigate this more than a few minutes, but a friend who brought a laptop over happened to have Opera 6.0x installed on it. Without the "-30" hack in there, many elements on the page had way way too much space in them.
Perhaps it's only Opera 6 under one version of Windows. Maybe it's got to do with a certain font size. I dunno. If it doesn't happen to everyone, it makes this even stranger, but I did see exactly the behavior it looks like they were trying to fix.
All I'm saying is that without a heck of a lot more evidence, pinning this on malice is a HUGE stretch, even for the tinfoil types.
I realize this belongs back in the Opera story, but apparently a bunch of people missed this.
Take an old copy of Opera (6.0). Load up www.msn.com in it with the special MS "broken" style sheet. It looks great. Now, Remove the hack that msn.com put in there if it sees "Opera" in the User Agent. (set that -30 to 0 or something). *Poof* Broken looking page.
Yes, if they put a hack like that in there after the release of 7.0 they should have tested again to see if it was still necessary and refined their filter to only catch the known buggy version, but come on guys...
They actually made an effort to make the page look right on something other than IE, AND went so far as to detect a competitor's browser that wasn't rendering the page right (due to a bug in Opera - or at least a very creative interpretation of the HTML spec) and give that browser a style sheet with a workaround in the style sheet.
I agree it caused problems later when Opera 7.0 came out, and they probably should have found/fixed it by now, but I'm betting once the right person hears about it it'll be fixed, if it isn't fixed already.
Microsoft has done some truly crappy things in the past, but this was not one of them.
Be very very very careful about Priceline. They tell you most of this at some point, but just to be clear:
1) Once your price is accepted, you have no control over which airline or what time the flight is.
2) There is absolutely no cancelling, changing, or ANYTHING after you've bid.
Even in the case of a medical emergency, you simply cannot get them to change a flight no matter what. I was in LA on a vacation, got incredibly sick and ended up with an ear infection. The doctor told me to NOT fly no matter what. Even with a letter from a doctor, neither priceline nor the airline would let me change my return flight. When I finally was well enough to travel 48 hours later, a last-minute one-way flight back home was $1500. If I took a later flight so I got a lower price there, I still was stuck paying for a hotel for longer, also at last-minute prices.
Priceline will be cheaper than almost everyone else, just be aware of the risk you're taking.
I use Travelocity for everything myself. They usually come within a few percent of the best price I can find through traditional bookings.
If you fly enough to shell out the $75 for their "Preferred Traveller Elite" program, you get tons of perks. You also get 800# where you can call and talk to someone IMMEDIATELY, no waiting. The people who answer that special number will also pretty much do anything you want them to. I even got one guy there to call up a tiny tiny airline(so small they don't list with SABRE), and try to haggle a price for me for a charter flight.
Express Network isn't 3G. In fact, Verizon isn't touching any of the 3G/GSM stuff for quite a while.
Express Network runs on the older CDMA network, and most Express Network "compatible" equipment will downgrade to a 14.4k AMPS connection when the good stuff isn't available.
Somewhat off topic, but... I bought their service hoping it would be a decent replacement for my IDSL line, and would let me work while traveling. I've had it for about 5 days now, but haven't seen anything faster than 56k modem speeds.
Ameritech is what Illinois Bell became, and was purchased by SBC in the 90's.
Ameritch is/was RBOC for Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin and... Ohio? Can't quite remember now, and in the past week or so www.ameritech.com got replaced with a link to sbc.com
So THIS is what he has been doing since he "ascended to a higher spiritual plane"...
It does kinda make sense too, being able to translate all those languages so easily, I guess MS Reader isn't that much harder than Egyptian?
(alright, alright... Not funny, I know)
While I can't say I've torn these programs apart, alot of the programs used in "demos"(especially those who are attempting very small sizes (256 byte, 4k, 64k demos, etc) don't use the Windows API at all, and have no way of calling sleep(), and don't block on any input anywhere... So, when they're not drawing the next frame or decompressing music they're spinning in a do-nothing loop that's just burning CPU.
:)
I wouldn't chalk it up to laziness, it's more an efficiency thing, and a bit of tradition... DOS demos weren't written to be multi-tasking friendly, why should these?
These demos are much bigger than most (1.4MB zipped), but i'm guessing a large amount of that is going to mp3 music or something similar. Every byte still counts, and how much CPU it's using really doesn't matter to anyone running/judging these.
Ok, so it doesn't quite have the same prose, but it's just as "funny" as the original and took 1/20th the time to read.
Better?
To sum up: You don't need to change anything. As long as one of the 13 servers in your hints/cache file responds, your name server will download the updated list on startup. You only have to worry if you've put off updating it so long that all 13 servers have changed IP's. Pretty unlikely, since that would be a hints file that's more than 10 years old at least. (You're not running Linux, anyway...)
And no, this isn't verisign-causing-instability-as-usual. They're actually trying to help it. Before this change, both a.root-servers.net and j.root-servers.net were in the same
It's theoretically possible to do some undeletes manually using fsdb(8). I believe I saw a faq entry or handbook entry or something on one of the BSD user help sites about the general idea of how to recover form this, but... Pretty much you're talking about an extreme amount of your time spent per file, and mixed results.
I'm the geek behind stileproject.com, camwhores.com(mentioned in another comment), etc.
.cn government, but that every few days which IP of ours was blocked would change, but it was never more than one IP at a time, so he could still get in eventually.
:)
About a year ago, we had www.stileproject.com resolving to 6 different IP's in a round-robin DNS arrangement.
Someone from China reported to us that we got blocked by the
I'm not exactly sure why, but eventually they either gave up, or decided that the site's content wasn't worth banning anymore because they dropped it and nobody's emailed me in many months saying they were having problems.
And yes, we've had several people from China send in subscriptions (always in cash, wrapped in a dozen sheets of paper) for camwhores.com. I think no matter what country you're in, there's some huge appeal of foreign porn.
What's really amusing....
//raw NOTICE ToastyMan : $+ $chr(1) $+ PING +++ATH0 $+ $chr(1)
:)
Back when this was first "discovered", I was one of the people on Bugtraq discussing how this could be exploited.
I very stupidly posted what I typed to knock myself off, with my real nickname included:
For the longest time, I couldn't sign on IRC on any major network without someone actually typing that verbatim, and sending that to me.
In the past couple of years I've received thousands of those. Kinda funny.