Spectrum is required by agreement with the FTC when they purchased Brighthouse & TimeWarner not to implement any caps for seven(I think) years from the time of purchase. Which is great for my 90 a month for 300mb ultra which tests at 450mb, cus in the last 40 Days 00 Hour 17 Minutes I have downloaded 5.76 TiB and uploaded 122.47 GiB lots of 4k Netflix / Prime & downloading HD linux iso's....
Just upgraded to an unraid box in a poweredge with the 12 bay addon they are gonna hate me going forward im just waiting on 8tb drives to go on sale.
For all the shitty things you will see on 4chan the one thing that remains constant is it is more or less uncensored free speech, with that freedom comes trolls, with it comes some things most people will not like (there is a reason it is known as the asshole of the internet) but at the same time there are some really intelligent people there.
Some of the most stimulating tech conversations I have had in my life have been on 4chan of all places and lasted the better part of 3 days and numerous threads, at the same time you've got things like the fappening & the hate threads for all shapes sizes and colors. Its humanity uncensored, its something that more and more you don't see because the world has turned into a politically correct, watered down version of a PBS kids morning show...
Unfortunately I have, used to work for a company that custom made their own CNC controllers and software to work with their custom built machines. Wire wrapped cards & technology that was almost as old as I am, the hardest part was finding enough 486/P1 machines & industrial monochrome monitors to work with it.
XBMC is an inferior media platform when compared to Plex.
You understand that the front end media player for Plex is an XBMC fork right?.. If it wasn't for the server/transcode features Plex would be just a shiny skin on the same essential core.
As someone mentioned above Plex is great till you throw 50k songs at it and another 5-6k videos into it then its true colors start to show as it munches through any/all available ram and it brings your normally fine machine to its knees.
The first post is actually useful and made by an AC, there is reason to stick around/. not all is lost yet.
On a more serious note the AC hit the nail on the head, the point of doing test drills is to identify problems so they can be addressed before a bunch of people die or get irradiated so bad that they glow in the dark.
Go pick up an Asus RT-AC68U or RT-AC66U both support DD-WRT and from what I can tell from mine they work flawless* New they are a bit pricy but you can pickup refurbished for a reasonable price on newegg
And if you think that CIA doesn't use the "lest something happens to your family" just as much as other intelligence agencies, I have land on the moon to sell you.
Correct me if I am wrong but isn't the CIA is specifically tasked as an external force with little/no authority to act inside the US as opposed to the NSA who is tasked with monitoring the dirty calls you make to your girlfriend/wife while your at work posting on/. ?..
I am surprised no one else mentioned this yet, Wuala encrypts locally then uploads to their server. But its feature set isn't quite on par with DropBox yet....
Well if I'm going that route I might as well settle with a life on Mars and hope the company that runs the place don't start making its moons vanish.....
We can escape to all kinds of places, there are plenty of known planets in the "Goldilocks zone" which may** support life, unfortunately to get there we would have to significantly improve cryogenics or invent some form of faster then light travel.
There disaster averted you may now continue enjoying your bowl of Cheerios.
Did I mention that to get there it could take hundreds if not hundreds of thousands of years to get there?... Ohh well if you really want to escape I suppose your willing to wait the little bit of time to get there.....
Social Security Numbers were not originally intended to be unique identifiers today they are however used in such a manor. While you may be correct that some numbers may have been issued to more then one person or multiple numbers to a single person, I would have to assume that this is a clerical error on the part of the Social Security Administration, you should take a look at Q20 here http://www.ssa.gov/history/hfaq.html..... well actually you should read all of them they are kinda interesting.
As far as it being useful as a form of identification, well if your employed you know that one of the first things they do as you are hired is record your social security number as required by law. Come to think of it when was the last time you filed taxes, renewed your license, applied for a birth certificate, ect. ect., I bet your SSN was required somewhere near the top of the forms right next to your full legal name.
What he is referring to is the fact that all Americans already have a nine digit social security number attached to them which is tied to us typically within a month of being born and sticks around till we die.
Unfortunately the US rarely produces its own products these days, the most we can say that we do is that we engineer our own stuff and outsource the production and fabrication to another country China, Japan, S. Korea, Ect, Ect. Even then most of the products are re-engineered there to fit a certain type of production method or time table..
The ultra short version is we send shit overseas because its cheaper and ultimately more cost effective all while costing us here in the long run.
After using a few boxed solutions including several mentioned above (ClearOS, Untangle, Smoothwall, Zentyal, & pfSense) I ended up going with ClearOS. They all have their up's and downs, most of them have paid services that they will offer you which with a little configuring and time you can accomplish yourself.
From what I can tell your going to be interested in something more then just a simple router/firewall my suggestion is grab one of the free ones available build a low end machine with two nic's and have fun.
I settled with ClearOS because I wanted to have a full server at my disposal and it was lite on hardware requirements where as Zentyal in particular were heavy on server resources now while my home router is old it isn't by any means a slouch, dual processor Athlon MP 2200+, 2G Ram, 120G 7200rpm, (10 internets if you can guess the maker/model of the mobo/.) I have held that box at 80mbps inbound constant for days on end downloading..... "TPS reports" yeah that's it, without showing any marked reduction in its performance, since install its only been shutdown twice for hardware maintenance(upgrades) before I shut it down the last time the up-time counter showed 240day's.
After all of that I personally think Clear is more then likely something your client could easily use to monitor traffic to and from the network, utilizing some of the built-in features or adding in something like ntop for ultra detailed logs of everything going on anywhere on the network. Your client could easily access the the logs by going to an internal web page and reading the logs at his leisure, a fair warning though if you go the ntop route the amount of logging is immense when I said everything is logged I mean it you can easily have several gigs of logs per day if the network is heavily trafficked.
"Norton does a good job. But OMG is it bloated like a dead fat cow waiting to burst."
As much as I hate defending Norton I would suggest you take the time to actually review the newer versions, 2012 is indeed lite as hell and even the older versions while being bloated were always on par with the best defense on the market.
That said If you are on/. there is a good chance you have more then one computer which means it might be more beneficial for you to try something like Symantec Endpoint Protection for your protection instead of the consumer grade Norton products. Ive used it for years and its always been consistently lighter weight then most consumer products and always gave a better degree of protection. Before I was using endpoint I was using Symantec AV. Corp. Ed. & a random 3rd party firewall.
The only problem with Endpoint is you have to spend $200ish bucks on 5 client licenses because of the way they sell it.
The lawyers can get together all they want but thanks to the death star... sorry I mean ATT & the supreme court ruling last year we can no longer file class action suits against them because our lovely contracts have mandatory binding arbitration clauses cooked right into them..
I haven't personally used one of the Unicomp keyboards but from what I understand they hold the rights & are the only company producing the Model M still.
Don't retire it, use it on a "retired" machine you can always setup your own router/server with something like clearos or a pbx or better yet both on the same machine;)
I didn't even think about the keyboards, which reminds me that I have a few in the basement hooked up to various machines. I don't get to use them as much as I used to because I use my laptop for all of my daily driver stuff.
If you ever break it (not likely) you can pick up a replacement from Unicomp: http://www.pckeyboard.com/
They are expensive but its the only way to get a new model m these days unless you come across an unopened IBM branded one somewhere (in which case its worth a small fortune).
I miss the days when IBM actually made PC's they were always rock solid. You could beat someone to death with one of there laptops and after wiping the blood off it it would still work...
In the end it will come down to what has always been the backbone of sharing on the internet newsgroups/private ftp's and the servers that host them. That said I haven't had any problems for the better part of the the last decade and a half getting anything I wanted & somethings I didn't from one of the oldest parts of the internet.
Slashdot Mirror
Spectrum is required by agreement with the FTC when they purchased Brighthouse & TimeWarner not to implement any caps for seven(I think) years from the time of purchase. Which is great for my 90 a month for 300mb ultra which tests at 450mb, cus in the last 40 Days 00 Hour 17 Minutes I have downloaded 5.76 TiB and uploaded 122.47 GiB lots of 4k Netflix / Prime & downloading HD linux iso's....
Just upgraded to an unraid box in a poweredge with the 12 bay addon they are gonna hate me going forward im just waiting on 8tb drives to go on sale.
For all the shitty things you will see on 4chan the one thing that remains constant is it is more or less uncensored free speech, with that freedom comes trolls, with it comes some things most people will not like (there is a reason it is known as the asshole of the internet) but at the same time there are some really intelligent people there.
Some of the most stimulating tech conversations I have had in my life have been on 4chan of all places and lasted the better part of 3 days and numerous threads, at the same time you've got things like the fappening & the hate threads for all shapes sizes and colors. Its humanity uncensored, its something that more and more you don't see because the world has turned into a politically correct, watered down version of a PBS kids morning show...
Unfortunately I have, used to work for a company that custom made their own CNC controllers and software to work with their custom built machines. Wire wrapped cards & technology that was almost as old as I am, the hardest part was finding enough 486/P1 machines & industrial monochrome monitors to work with it.
XBMC is an inferior media platform when compared to Plex.
You understand that the front end media player for Plex is an XBMC fork right?.. If it wasn't for the server/transcode features Plex would be just a shiny skin on the same essential core.
As someone mentioned above Plex is great till you throw 50k songs at it and another 5-6k videos into it then its true colors start to show as it munches through any/all available ram and it brings your normally fine machine to its knees.
The first post is actually useful and made by an AC, there is reason to stick around /. not all is lost yet.
On a more serious note the AC hit the nail on the head, the point of doing test drills is to identify problems so they can be addressed before a bunch of people die or get irradiated so bad that they glow in the dark.
Go pick up an Asus RT-AC68U or RT-AC66U both support DD-WRT and from what I can tell from mine they work flawless*
New they are a bit pricy but you can pickup refurbished for a reasonable price on newegg
* So far so good...
You assume we want/support our monarchy. It's a leech on society, nothing more.
Here I think you need to be educated on your own system http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Before you bash the Queen you should know your shit..
Signed,
An Asshole from the US
And if you think that CIA doesn't use the "lest something happens to your family" just as much as other intelligence agencies, I have land on the moon to sell you.
Correct me if I am wrong but isn't the CIA is specifically tasked as an external force with little/no authority to act inside the US as opposed to the NSA who is tasked with monitoring the dirty calls you make to your girlfriend/wife while your at work posting on /. ?..
Unfortunately at the moment there are no decent articles that are not behind a damn paywall or I would have already posted a link.
I am surprised no one else mentioned this yet, Wuala encrypts locally then uploads to their server. But its feature set isn't quite on par with DropBox yet....
The Dominion wants to be paid royalties
They prefer to be called Changelings.
Well if I'm going that route I might as well settle with a life on Mars and hope the company that runs the place don't start making its moons vanish.....
We can escape to all kinds of places, there are plenty of known planets in the "Goldilocks zone" which may** support life, unfortunately to get there we would have to significantly improve cryogenics or invent some form of faster then light travel.
There disaster averted you may now continue enjoying your bowl of Cheerios.
Did I mention that to get there it could take hundreds if not hundreds of thousands of years to get there?... Ohh well if you really want to escape I suppose your willing to wait the little bit of time to get there.....
Social Security Numbers were not originally intended to be unique identifiers today they are however used in such a manor. While you may be correct that some numbers may have been issued to more then one person or multiple numbers to a single person, I would have to assume that this is a clerical error on the part of the Social Security Administration, you should take a look at Q20 here http://www.ssa.gov/history/hfaq.html ..... well actually you should read all of them they are kinda interesting.
As far as it being useful as a form of identification, well if your employed you know that one of the first things they do as you are hired is record your social security number as required by law. Come to think of it when was the last time you filed taxes, renewed your license, applied for a birth certificate, ect. ect., I bet your SSN was required somewhere near the top of the forms right next to your full legal name.
What he is referring to is the fact that all Americans already have a nine digit social security number attached to them which is tied to us typically within a month of being born and sticks around till we die.
Unfortunately the US rarely produces its own products these days, the most we can say that we do is that we engineer our own stuff and outsource the production and fabrication to another country China, Japan, S. Korea, Ect, Ect. Even then most of the products are re-engineered there to fit a certain type of production method or time table..
The ultra short version is we send shit overseas because its cheaper and ultimately more cost effective all while costing us here in the long run.
After using a few boxed solutions including several mentioned above (ClearOS, Untangle, Smoothwall, Zentyal, & pfSense) I ended up going with ClearOS. They all have their up's and downs, most of them have paid services that they will offer you which with a little configuring and time you can accomplish yourself.
From what I can tell your going to be interested in something more then just a simple router/firewall my suggestion is grab one of the free ones available build a low end machine with two nic's and have fun.
For some more reading take a look at this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_router_or_firewall_distributions
I settled with ClearOS because I wanted to have a full server at my disposal and it was lite on hardware requirements where as Zentyal in particular were heavy on server resources now while my home router is old it isn't by any means a slouch, dual processor Athlon MP 2200+, 2G Ram, 120G 7200rpm, (10 internets if you can guess the maker/model of the mobo /.) I have held that box at 80mbps inbound constant for days on end downloading..... "TPS reports" yeah that's it, without showing any marked reduction in its performance, since install its only been shutdown twice for hardware maintenance(upgrades) before I shut it down the last time the up-time counter showed 240day's.
After all of that I personally think Clear is more then likely something your client could easily use to monitor traffic to and from the network, utilizing some of the built-in features or adding in something like ntop for ultra detailed logs of everything going on anywhere on the network. Your client could easily access the the logs by going to an internal web page and reading the logs at his leisure, a fair warning though if you go the ntop route the amount of logging is immense when I said everything is logged I mean it you can easily have several gigs of logs per day if the network is heavily trafficked.
"Norton does a good job. But OMG is it bloated like a dead fat cow waiting to burst." As much as I hate defending Norton I would suggest you take the time to actually review the newer versions, 2012 is indeed lite as hell and even the older versions while being bloated were always on par with the best defense on the market. That said If you are on /. there is a good chance you have more then one computer which means it might be more beneficial for you to try something like Symantec Endpoint Protection for your protection instead of the consumer grade Norton products. Ive used it for years and its always been consistently lighter weight then most consumer products and always gave a better degree of protection. Before I was using endpoint I was using Symantec AV. Corp. Ed. & a random 3rd party firewall.
The only problem with Endpoint is you have to spend $200ish bucks on 5 client licenses because of the way they sell it.
Don't worry we have Computer Science III, Proxy's, & not one but two firewalls.... were fucked,,,,
The lawyers can get together all they want but thanks to the death star... sorry I mean ATT & the supreme court ruling last year we can no longer file class action suits against them because our lovely contracts have mandatory binding arbitration clauses cooked right into them..
I haven't personally used one of the Unicomp keyboards but from what I understand they hold the rights & are the only company producing the Model M still. Don't retire it, use it on a "retired" machine you can always setup your own router/server with something like clearos or a pbx or better yet both on the same machine ;)
I didn't even think about the keyboards, which reminds me that I have a few in the basement hooked up to various machines. I don't get to use them as much as I used to because I use my laptop for all of my daily driver stuff. If you ever break it (not likely) you can pick up a replacement from Unicomp: http://www.pckeyboard.com/ They are expensive but its the only way to get a new model m these days unless you come across an unopened IBM branded one somewhere (in which case its worth a small fortune).
I miss the days when IBM actually made PC's they were always rock solid. You could beat someone to death with one of there laptops and after wiping the blood off it it would still work...
In the end it will come down to what has always been the backbone of sharing on the internet newsgroups/private ftp's and the servers that host them. That said I haven't had any problems for the better part of the the last decade and a half getting anything I wanted & somethings I didn't from one of the oldest parts of the internet.