I use the E61i with midpssh, which has worked better for me than Putty, though I have long forgotten why.
The E61i's keyboard works great, I can type at a decent clip, and it has a proper control key. Some unix nerd characters (vertical bar, etc.) require 3 or 4 keypresses to get to but it's not that bad. Between wifi, GPRS, and 3G/UMTS I can pretty much always get online.
For example, even in countries where there seems to be no working data service over prepaid GSM SIM cards (e.g., Syria), I've just turned on the wifi sniffer and followed it to a fancy hotel, and then loitered in their lobby to fix a weeping server. The hotel people think I'm just sending text messages.
Downsides: It's a big phone physically, it could use more memory (get the web browser plus a few ssh windows going and you've hit the ceiling), and when the wifi isn't making a connection to a given access point it's very difficult to diagnose why. For example, I've never managed to get it to connect via my MacBook's internet connection sharing, which would be nice so I could sync up the email when I was at an internet cafe and save money on subsequent syncs over the cell network during the day.
Pretty much what I was going to say. They claim Australia and New Zealand have a lower cost per MB than all these other countries, without pointing out that at 20mbps you would go through your entire monthly allocation on a typical Australian broadband account in two hours.
Such shallow analysis makes this report almost useless.
In theory you are not allowed to use the RapidSSL wildcard cert on more than one server unless you pay for additional licenses. Being cheap, we get around that by using a single front-facing server to proxy all the SSL requests for all our other web servers, but that may not work or organisations that have servers scattered around or have high SSL load.
0930 Go to work
1000 Wake up
1030 Step out for nasi lemak before the stall shuts
1200 Lunch
1330 Ask for the bill
1430 Go out for teh tarik
1630 Stop working
1830 Boss leaves the office
1831 Stop surfing the web and chatting on IM and actually leave the office yourself
2000 Arrive home after sitting in the jam on Old Klang Road for one hour
2130 Dinner
2300 Supper
0245 Make a lot of noise to bother raju1kabir in the apartment below you
0300 Go to sleep
Unfortunately, no serious politician, Malaysian or otherwise, is really going to put their unedited musings online.
Jeff Ooi, Penang MP, has blogged regularly for many years and continues to do so. His political career started on his blog.
And Lord, if he has an editor, they ought to be fired. I more or less like Jeff, but he posts some really incoherent, raving, and ill-informed rants sometimes. He runs the comments section like BN exercises the ISA - with swift and sometimes pre-emptive attacks on detractors, punctuated by frequent disappearances.
If that is the case (which I seriously doubt it is), then the youth need to expand their horizons.
In Malaysia they don't have many alternatives.
All the TV stations are controlled by BN (the majority party). Likewise every English and Malay-language newspaper with any significant circulation. The party selects the editors, and fires them if they report any interesting news. The party's acquiescence is required in order to get a printing licence (yes, you really do need a licence to operate a printing press in Malaysia, it's like something out of the Dark Ages).
As a consequence, any educated, interested Malaysian disregards the mainstream media as propaganda, providing little more than amusement and sport scores.
This leaves them with a limited set of alternatives. It more or less comes down to rumors and the internet.
There are plenty of things that your home computer can't do. It can't push BGP updates to backbone routers, are you up in arms about that?
The reason I am not taking your mail is not because you are at home. It is because you are wholly unauthenticated and trying to use my system's resources. 99.99% of the people matching those characteristics are spammers.
Solve the authentication problem, and I'll happily take your mail.
I can think of two easy ways offhand:
Your email server can deliver via your ISP's SMTP forwarder. At least then someone is taking responsibility for it.
You can get a static IP and proper reverse DNS from your ISP.
ISPs really should have better IDS on outgoing traffic. At the very least they should be dropping the malicious traffic
My home ISP just started outbound blocking traffic from DSL customers to port 25 a few days ago, which has stirred up some controversy. Maybe I'm just imagining things, but I believe my connection has been faster since then. We're always suffering from bandwidth problems (the downside of being on the end of a very long cable across the Pacific) so anything that eliminates our share of 100 billion daily spams clogging the line is a good thing in my book.
On mail servers I use spamdyke to immediately drop connections from end-user IP addresses (using the reject-ip-in-cc-rdns rule and Spamhaus PBL) and it's been remarkably effective.
If everyone did this, the botnets would be useless.
If you want to do it right, run your traffic analysis on another host that has access to the subject host's traffic - that's the only way to know you aren't being fooled by an altered network stack. If you're doing this at home, and you have a little broadband router, consider installing OpenWRT on it so you can packet sniff at your leisure.
They have been building huge datacenters for a while now, they own probably one of the largest distributed computing systems on earth
Which leads me to wonder...
Around here (developing Southeast Asia), connectivity to the rest of the world has its good days and its bad days.
People can either host locally, which means paying a lot, getting lousy customer service... and having good connectivity to internet users in the country, which is quite important.
Or they can host in the US, which means paying much less, getting much better customer service... and often having a lot of packet loss and high latency.
But Google peers directly with major ISPs around here, so the Google site is almost always fast even when many of the pages linked in the search results are barely usable.
So would their distributed system mean that our sites could take advantage of this? Or will the appserver sites all be in a single place, probably far away from here?
the average household income is only Rp84,000/month
You are claiming the average monthly household income in Indonesia is US$9/month? Have you been to Indonesia? I think you're off by a factor of 5 if not more.
Maybe part of the problem is that you're a foreigner who is after non-local content.
Stream yourself some NHK or torrent one of those fine Japanese movies about the guys with really long moustaches and watch the bits fly!
I know that's how it works where I live (the warmer, beachier part of Asia).
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Looks like it's this one - HID Thinline 2 - which is 125kHz.
You're probably right about it being cheaper to just pony up for a spare card, but I do have a masochistic urge to embark on elaborate and expensive projects.
If the SonMicro kit at US$96 will write to these cards then that looks interesting. Though on their forum I see something about needing "credits" to program cards, and after every so many write operations you have to go back and get more credits from SonMicro or you go read-only. That seems like a downer. Perhaps I am misreading things.
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I just moved into an apartment building that uses a card to access the lift. The sensor is at shoulder height so I can't just hip-swipe it.
Digging this card out every time I want to go home is annoying me tremendously. It's hard to fish it out of my pocket when I am carrying other stuff, and often ends up sending bits of cash flying everywhere.
Additionally, the building charges US$50 (nonrefundable) for a spare card, so when we have houseguests, we end up playing all kinds of games to make sure everyone can get back in from wandering around.
I would love to copy the RFID element onto a keyfob like I have for the office, so I can just dig out my keychain - easy to find, easy to retrieve from a pocket - instead of a big flat card. Is this a service anyone offers, or is it something I can do on my own with the right equipment (preferably $50 of course)?
Fuck, when will people get a clue that the world is better off with fewer but BETTER technologies, than more crappier technologies? and how will we tell you might ask... energy costs will certainly be a defining currency.
This would definitely use an awful lot less energy than a bunch of trucks idling in congested traffic, keeping other people from getting where they want to go.
This system wouldn't work in Florida or any other place where the water table is actually above ground. That is of course unless they feel like spending tons of extra money making this tunnel system able to survive in local conditions.
Once they figure out how to get sewage, water, gas, and electricity delivered underground in Florida, then they can move on to implementing this system.
But the reason we have more people in prison than china is because that same number of people in china are simply killed, if not by sentence, then directly on the spot with nothing close to a trial.
Who is killed on the spot without a trial in China?
The trials may not be very fair by our standards but they happen.
No, it's "Give it all to the government and promise never to do it again." Meanwhile, the people who were scammed are still out $30 million.
Are you sure?
When I've reported fraudulent charges on my bill, they were removed without much hassle. I've also had notifications of charges being removed before I even had a chance to bring them to anyone's attention.
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I use the E61i with midpssh, which has worked better for me than Putty, though I have long forgotten why.
The E61i's keyboard works great, I can type at a decent clip, and it has a proper control key. Some unix nerd characters (vertical bar, etc.) require 3 or 4 keypresses to get to but it's not that bad. Between wifi, GPRS, and 3G/UMTS I can pretty much always get online.
For example, even in countries where there seems to be no working data service over prepaid GSM SIM cards (e.g., Syria), I've just turned on the wifi sniffer and followed it to a fancy hotel, and then loitered in their lobby to fix a weeping server. The hotel people think I'm just sending text messages.
Downsides: It's a big phone physically, it could use more memory (get the web browser plus a few ssh windows going and you've hit the ceiling), and when the wifi isn't making a connection to a given access point it's very difficult to diagnose why. For example, I've never managed to get it to connect via my MacBook's internet connection sharing, which would be nice so I could sync up the email when I was at an internet cafe and save money on subsequent syncs over the cell network during the day.
Pretty much what I was going to say. They claim Australia and New Zealand have a lower cost per MB than all these other countries, without pointing out that at 20mbps you would go through your entire monthly allocation on a typical Australian broadband account in two hours.
Such shallow analysis makes this report almost useless.
In theory you are not allowed to use the RapidSSL wildcard cert on more than one server unless you pay for additional licenses. Being cheap, we get around that by using a single front-facing server to proxy all the SSL requests for all our other web servers, but that may not work or organisations that have servers scattered around or have high SSL load.
This is Malaysia we are talking about.
0930 Go to work
1000 Wake up
1030 Step out for nasi lemak before the stall shuts
1200 Lunch
1330 Ask for the bill
1430 Go out for teh tarik
1630 Stop working
1830 Boss leaves the office
1831 Stop surfing the web and chatting on IM and actually leave the office yourself
2000 Arrive home after sitting in the jam on Old Klang Road for one hour
2130 Dinner
2300 Supper
0245 Make a lot of noise to bother raju1kabir in the apartment below you
0300 Go to sleep
Jeff Ooi, Penang MP, has blogged regularly for many years and continues to do so. His political career started on his blog.
And Lord, if he has an editor, they ought to be fired. I more or less like Jeff, but he posts some really incoherent, raving, and ill-informed rants sometimes. He runs the comments section like BN exercises the ISA - with swift and sometimes pre-emptive attacks on detractors, punctuated by frequent disappearances.
In Malaysia they don't have many alternatives.
All the TV stations are controlled by BN (the majority party). Likewise every English and Malay-language newspaper with any significant circulation. The party selects the editors, and fires them if they report any interesting news. The party's acquiescence is required in order to get a printing licence (yes, you really do need a licence to operate a printing press in Malaysia, it's like something out of the Dark Ages).
As a consequence, any educated, interested Malaysian disregards the mainstream media as propaganda, providing little more than amusement and sport scores.
This leaves them with a limited set of alternatives. It more or less comes down to rumors and the internet.
It's not supposed to be pronounced. Please.
There are plenty of things that your home computer can't do. It can't push BGP updates to backbone routers, are you up in arms about that?
The reason I am not taking your mail is not because you are at home. It is because you are wholly unauthenticated and trying to use my system's resources. 99.99% of the people matching those characteristics are spammers.
Solve the authentication problem, and I'll happily take your mail.
I can think of two easy ways offhand:
My home ISP just started outbound blocking traffic from DSL customers to port 25 a few days ago, which has stirred up some controversy. Maybe I'm just imagining things, but I believe my connection has been faster since then. We're always suffering from bandwidth problems (the downside of being on the end of a very long cable across the Pacific) so anything that eliminates our share of 100 billion daily spams clogging the line is a good thing in my book.
On mail servers I use spamdyke to immediately drop connections from end-user IP addresses (using the reject-ip-in-cc-rdns rule and Spamhaus PBL) and it's been remarkably effective.
If everyone did this, the botnets would be useless.
If you want to do it right, run your traffic analysis on another host that has access to the subject host's traffic - that's the only way to know you aren't being fooled by an altered network stack. If you're doing this at home, and you have a little broadband router, consider installing OpenWRT on it so you can packet sniff at your leisure.
Which leads me to wonder...
Around here (developing Southeast Asia), connectivity to the rest of the world has its good days and its bad days.
People can either host locally, which means paying a lot, getting lousy customer service... and having good connectivity to internet users in the country, which is quite important.
Or they can host in the US, which means paying much less, getting much better customer service... and often having a lot of packet loss and high latency.
But Google peers directly with major ISPs around here, so the Google site is almost always fast even when many of the pages linked in the search results are barely usable.
So would their distributed system mean that our sites could take advantage of this? Or will the appserver sites all be in a single place, probably far away from here?
Oh yes, one of the many wonderful public libraries that dot the villages and towns of Indonesia.
They better invent secular kurdism as well then.
I can see several of these mosques from my balcony. If 60% of the population is going there, then the total population of Malaysia is about 12.
Maybe part of the problem is that you're a foreigner who is after non-local content.
Stream yourself some NHK or torrent one of those fine Japanese movies about the guys with really long moustaches and watch the bits fly!
I know that's how it works where I live (the warmer, beachier part of Asia).
Looks like it's this one - HID Thinline 2 - which is 125kHz.
You're probably right about it being cheaper to just pony up for a spare card, but I do have a masochistic urge to embark on elaborate and expensive projects.
If the SonMicro kit at US$96 will write to these cards then that looks interesting. Though on their forum I see something about needing "credits" to program cards, and after every so many write operations you have to go back and get more credits from SonMicro or you go read-only. That seems like a downer. Perhaps I am misreading things.
I just moved into an apartment building that uses a card to access the lift. The sensor is at shoulder height so I can't just hip-swipe it.
Digging this card out every time I want to go home is annoying me tremendously. It's hard to fish it out of my pocket when I am carrying other stuff, and often ends up sending bits of cash flying everywhere.
Additionally, the building charges US$50 (nonrefundable) for a spare card, so when we have houseguests, we end up playing all kinds of games to make sure everyone can get back in from wandering around.
I would love to copy the RFID element onto a keyfob like I have for the office, so I can just dig out my keychain - easy to find, easy to retrieve from a pocket - instead of a big flat card. Is this a service anyone offers, or is it something I can do on my own with the right equipment (preferably $50 of course)?
How about the message "I hate you," as transmitted via a 50-megawatt laser blast to the head?
Don't be so sure. Here in Malaysia, Telekom only supports IPv1. My IP address is "9".
This would definitely use an awful lot less energy than a bunch of trucks idling in congested traffic, keeping other people from getting where they want to go.
Once they figure out how to get sewage, water, gas, and electricity delivered underground in Florida, then they can move on to implementing this system.
Does that mean I get to bring up Waco? Kent State? MOVE in Philadelphia?
Who is killed on the spot without a trial in China?
The trials may not be very fair by our standards but they happen.
Are you sure?
When I've reported fraudulent charges on my bill, they were removed without much hassle. I've also had notifications of charges being removed before I even had a chance to bring them to anyone's attention.
Unfortunately, he only had about $700K in assets, so he's really repaying about 2% of it. The rest went up his nose or something.