Cut AT&T some slack. I am sure more of us are aware of the complexities of adding mx records to DNS and ensuring said changes are propogated out to each and every DNS server out there.
Microsoft AD is an LDAP service of a sort - the main problem is that it will only respond using LDAP V 1.0 formatted request. Which is clear text challenge / password pairs. It does not do authentication via LDAP over any encrypted protocol except when talking to a Microsoft OS client.
1. The Drought of VC money of late.
2. ILEC's / MSO cable operators not opening access lines easily
3. Cost - for smaller operators, the mantra of "stick new headends on either end of the fiber" is true, except those digipeaters are $$$$.
4. Incremental need, People are not making quantum shifts in usage, it grows over time.. that is unless some person finds usenet / IRC for software / MP3s / video / anime / P2P usage.
5. Virus threats are contained quickly anymore by most people, so the network crawling to a halt because of traffic is a temporal thing.
Here in Kansas city we actually have a company called everest-kc.com that has done a full overbuild of some of the cable infrastructure in the area. phone, Long distance, cable modem & television on a competing / seperate wire. Imagine that. .
As may have been pointed out, the quality of the RM stream and such has much more to do with how the source material is handled than other factors.
I encode a fair amount of content using they're free realproducer frequently. The difference between something as simple as s-video sources rather than composite video or coax.
Also, the bitrate and how it is allocated makes a big difference, I don't mean just throwing the highest quality samplerate at it and letting it go. I've seen to many people encode something at 200kbps+ and leave the audio at "Voice Only" which sounds like absolute crap
New Compression technique gets 100:1 compression on random data.
Caveat: if Random is defined as a arbitrarily long series of identical values. Deviation from this may cause less than optimal amounts, specifically a nominal compression ratio of 1:1.
MORAL: just redefine the question and all problems in science and technology go away.
The difference between 5400 and 7200 is primarily a matter of marketting and market stratification than technical capacities.
People pay more for a 7200 consumer drive than a 5400 one. For the extra cost they expect it to potentially have a larger cache and faster seek time than a slower one. As an example, maxtor makes a 100 gig 5400 drive with 2 megs of cache and a 100 gig 7200 drive with 8 megs of cache.
The price to the company isn't that much greater outside of R&D cost. But being able to sell into multiple markets with the like drive mechanizmes makes sense.
Witness the old MFM / RLL days. When a Seagate ST-225 and ST-238R were the exact same drive . One was a 20 meg and the other was a 32 meg. Just different quality control & marketing.
They sorda have public internet access.. at least in the food area of the DisneyQuest facility they have open access internet points.. using some horrible browser like thing.. think of a secured mozilla with a theme that takes 1/3 of the screen>
of course it's filtered.. no slashdot.. no newgrounds.com.. no theonion.com
Problem with this kind of thing is that the wording is such that ANY percieved act of terrorism can be used in the context of this rule.
To put it in a Slashdot content. Given this administration's stated desire to close up crypto laws in this country to pre 95 levels. The line of thinking is something like this - if a terrorist were to use an encrypted text stream to communicate possible acts to another person, and one gets caught - the detail of the communication might not be brought up in court .
Without the privacy normally enjoyed by ANYONE in the US . Than all of a sudden coders for openSSL and openssh are party to terrorism and are open to a visit in the hot seat.
It's a little circumstantial in this instance.. but given that some people are equating hacking as terrorism it can bite us in the ass.
This doesn't even begin to look at the small erosion of rights it represents.. though the erosion is getting steeper - given the knockless searches and relaxed wiretap rules in effect currently.
A larger question is from this link
http://cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/11/09/attacks.se di tion.ap/index.html
.. for the ignorant.. sedition is detaining and prosecuting someone on the basis of words or ideas.. sort of a version of conspiricy only easier to get a conviction / search warrent / arrest warrent etc>
While it is disheartening to see such a monument of legal work flushed due to a president who has been bought and paid for. I don't know if it qualifies as news in one sense.
Slashdot might as well have been running that banner on the front page since the day the election was forced to settle, leaving blanks for the date and a blank for the link to the reported news on whatever site.
Now that the federal case is more or less gone, the only thing left is to pressure the state attorney generals to persue redress with microsoft directly.. rather than a combined suit as demonstrated by the federal case.
I believe the findings of fact still hold as valid in and of themselves.. even if no action is taken as a explicit result of they're existance.
Problem is that USENET is still arranged very much like pipe connections were setup in internet days of yore.
One service provider sets up a peering relationship with another service provider for usenet traffic. Among the large ISP's & universities there is still a large amount of traffic being relayed back and forth.
When one provider cuts it's feed - it cuts it's feed for that arm of the branching tree.. it has impact outside of just SBC.
Just to prove this.. hook up to your ISP's usenet server and pull a header list for a binary newsgroup.. alt.binaries.test is a decent example.
download 1 message that correctly made it to your server.
Turn off header suppression.. you will see the path the article took to get to you.
As far as $10US for a commercial usenet provider.. good luck..
The ones I've looked at have a $10 per month service plan.. but it's only for 2-4 gigs of transfer per month..
Keeping up with even a small subset of groups will blow this away without any problem. try alt.binaries.anime and alt.binaries.multimedia.anime.. most digital fansub groups seem to end up here when they release new non-commerial anime material.. for example.. this group can push 1 gig a day.. just because a single episode of a show in VCD format is around 220 megs for 22 minutes of video..
I dumped SBC* services months ago explicitly because of usenet service.
And it wasn't because of alt.bin* style groups. Just plain discussion groups were affected to.
Here is a short timeline of SBC / PACBELL usenet service.
Once upon a time SBC operated several usable usenet servers.
Each one had acceptable retention times and a good varity of groups to see.
news.swbell.net
news.pacbell.net
news.flash.net
There was also a server in prodigy-land that had a horrible retention rate and skipped articles left and right.. this was the one I never used.
Than SBC instituted rate capping at 128K down.. there was a lot of activity in the swbell support newsgroups about this.. most along the lines of talking about class action lawsuits stemming from a rate cap on a service that was explicitly guaranteed at 384k for DSL service
SBC than noticed that customers were leap frogging from server to server. In order to pull together each and every single piece of a multipart binary this was required sometimes.
Up until this point the service was still relativly stable.. even though with the rate caps I had to start downloading stuff before work and finish up when I got home
Than there was some large crash.. all of the indexs were corrupted and no usenet service for several days. Tech support knows nothing about usenet
After his point there was barely a single multipart article that came across properly.
So they're service became unusable and at that point I left as soon as my contract expired.
Now I'm using RR in Kansas City.. 45K upstream.. around 2 meg down and a usenet service that is usable enough to follow discussions and follow binaries without spamming groups with repost request.
This cut of content is just par for the course for SBC. Although I don't think it will affect many people though.. everyone I know who is still on SBC moved on to commercial usenet providers a long time ago.
oh.. and Time Warner KC / RR jacked they're prices up to $45.. now that SBC has backed off a bit from advertising they're service.
funny thing.. my SBC DSL connection has been disconnected since March.. but when I turn the DSL modem on I still get ATM / DSL link contenuity.. must not be to awful busy if they can left former customers still take a port on the DSLAM>
Better than when I worked there
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Tokyo.Disney.Net
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This system is 1000 years more advanced than when I was working at Walt Disney World Florida in 1992.
When I was there the ambient audio was computer controlled.. at least it kept the music / effects at the same relative volume regardless of crowd noise
funny thing was that the point where the audio was originated was just an old magnetic cart system like what was used in radio stations to queue commercials up until a few years ago. This item was 1975 technology,
The next was the control apparatise from magic kingdoms "Hall Of Presidents" exhibit..Ben Franklin I think. It controlled a much more complex animatron.. but was only about 1 large fridge worth of size.
The third was a controller from "The Great Movie Ride" in MGM studios. It controlled such things as the Alien from Aliens or the wizard of oz.
.. it was about the size of a mini fridge.. maybe a sun ultra enterprise 450 size.
So the function and complexity of the technology were exponentially more.. but the size and cost were inversly less.
Much more of this kind of news and all that will be left are the horrible ILEC's service.
We are already seeing the effects here in Kansas City.. SBC has raised the rates for new DSL to $50.00.. with little competition in the CO's locally.. why bother with anything else.. this as opposed to Time Warner / AOL..
I wouldn't put it past Steve Case to make a *nix client for AOL.. or have him abandon all non windows / Mac users in a heartbeat..
Slashdot Mirror
Looks like somebody got a huge budget increase.
Or a large pile of good junk
/sarcasm/
Cut AT&T some slack. I am sure more of us are aware of the complexities of adding mx records to DNS and ensuring said changes are propogated out to each and every DNS server out there.
Putting aside rights of artist vs rights of consumers vs rights of corporations.
.. that should factor into they're media selections.
The simple fact remains that a company is intentionally distributing defective products should speak for itself.
It still surprises me how out of touch a organization can be with the current market.
The fact that normal consumers see that a middle of the road dedicated CD player cost only $50 - $75US less than a middle of the road DVD player.
Since these disk will not play on DVD players
Microsoft AD is an LDAP service of a sort - the main problem is that it will only respond using LDAP V 1.0 formatted request. Which is clear text challenge / password pairs. It does not do authentication via LDAP over any encrypted protocol except when talking to a Microsoft OS client.
Lets see ..
.. that is unless some person finds usenet / IRC for software / MP3s / video / anime / P2P usage.
1. The Drought of VC money of late.
2. ILEC's / MSO cable operators not opening access lines easily
3. Cost - for smaller operators, the mantra of "stick new headends on either end of the fiber" is true, except those digipeaters are $$$$.
4. Incremental need, People are not making quantum shifts in usage, it grows over time
5. Virus threats are contained quickly anymore by most people, so the network crawling to a halt because of traffic is a temporal thing.
Here in Kansas city we actually have a company called everest-kc.com that has done a full overbuild of some of the cable infrastructure in the area. phone, Long distance, cable modem & television on a competing / seperate wire. Imagine that. .
As may have been pointed out, the quality of the RM stream and such has much more to do with how the source material is handled than other factors.
I encode a fair amount of content using they're free realproducer frequently. The difference between something as simple as s-video sources rather than composite video or coax.
Also, the bitrate and how it is allocated makes a big difference, I don't mean just throwing the highest quality samplerate at it and letting it go. I've seen to many people encode something at 200kbps+ and leave the audio at "Voice Only" which sounds like absolute crap
New Compression technique gets 100:1 compression on random data.
Caveat: if Random is defined as a arbitrarily long series of identical values. Deviation from this may cause less than optimal amounts, specifically a nominal compression ratio of 1:1.
MORAL: just redefine the question and all problems in science and technology go away.
The difference between 5400 and 7200 is primarily a matter of marketting and market stratification than technical capacities.
People pay more for a 7200 consumer drive than a 5400 one. For the extra cost they expect it to potentially have a larger cache and faster seek time than a slower one. As an example, maxtor makes a 100 gig 5400 drive with 2 megs of cache and a 100 gig 7200 drive with 8 megs of cache.
The price to the company isn't that much greater outside of R&D cost. But being able to sell into multiple markets with the like drive mechanizmes makes sense.
Witness the old MFM / RLL days. When a Seagate ST-225 and ST-238R were the exact same drive . One was a 20 meg and the other was a 32 meg. Just different quality control & marketing.
Satsuke
They sorda have public internet access .. at least in the food area of the DisneyQuest facility they have open access internet points .. using some horrible browser like thing .. think of a secured mozilla with a theme that takes 1/3 of the screen>
.. no slashdot .. no newgrounds.com .. no theonion.com
of course it's filtered
Satsuke
Problem with this kind of thing is that the wording is such that ANY percieved act of terrorism can be used in the context of this rule.
.. but given that some people are equating hacking as terrorism it can bite us in the ass.
.. though the erosion is getting steeper - given the knockless searches and relaxed wiretap rules in effect currently.
e di tion.ap/index.html
.. for the ignorant .. sedition is detaining and prosecuting someone on the basis of words or ideas .. sort of a version of conspiricy only easier to get a conviction / search warrent / arrest warrent etc>
To put it in a Slashdot content. Given this administration's stated desire to close up crypto laws in this country to pre 95 levels. The line of thinking is something like this - if a terrorist were to use an encrypted text stream to communicate possible acts to another person, and one gets caught - the detail of the communication might not be brought up in court .
Without the privacy normally enjoyed by ANYONE in the US . Than all of a sudden coders for openSSL and openssh are party to terrorism and are open to a visit in the hot seat.
It's a little circumstantial in this instance
This doesn't even begin to look at the small erosion of rights it represents
A larger question is from this link
http://cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/11/09/attacks.s
Satsuke
Only problem with developing a vacceen for this is how the hell do you test it.
.. but still .. infecting an animal with this stuff begs the question of if we want it to get out.
Animal testing occurs all the time
While it is disheartening to see such a monument of legal work flushed due to a president who has been bought and paid for. I don't know if it qualifies as news in one sense.
Slashdot might as well have been running that banner on the front page since the day the election was forced to settle, leaving blanks for the date and a blank for the link to the reported news on whatever site.
Now that the federal case is more or less gone, the only thing left is to pressure the state attorney generals to persue redress with microsoft directly
I believe the findings of fact still hold as valid in and of themselves
IANAL bla bla bla
Problem is that USENET is still arranged very much like pipe connections were setup in internet days of yore.
.. it has impact outside of just SBC.
.. hook up to your ISP's usenet server and pull a header list for a binary newsgroup .. alt.binaries.test is a decent example.
.. you will see the path the article took to get to you.
.. good luck ..
.. but it's only for 2-4 gigs of transfer per month ..
.. most digital fansub groups seem to end up here when they release new non-commerial anime material .. for example .. this group can push 1 gig a day .. just because a single episode of a show in VCD format is around 220 megs for 22 minutes of video..
..
One service provider sets up a peering relationship with another service provider for usenet traffic. Among the large ISP's & universities there is still a large amount of traffic being relayed back and forth.
When one provider cuts it's feed - it cuts it's feed for that arm of the branching tree
Just to prove this
download 1 message that correctly made it to your server.
Turn off header suppression
As far as $10US for a commercial usenet provider
The ones I've looked at have a $10 per month service plan
Keeping up with even a small subset of groups will blow this away without any problem. try alt.binaries.anime and alt.binaries.multimedia.anime
$10 just doesn't cover it
Satsuke
I dumped SBC* services months ago explicitly because of usenet service.
.. this was the one I never used.
.. there was a lot of activity in the swbell support newsgroups about this .. most along the lines of talking about class action lawsuits stemming from a rate cap on a service that was explicitly guaranteed at 384k for DSL service
.. even though with the rate caps I had to start downloading stuff before work and finish up when I got home
.. all of the indexs were corrupted and no usenet service for several days. Tech support knows nothing about usenet
.. 45K upstream .. around 2 meg down and a usenet service that is usable enough to follow discussions and follow binaries without spamming groups with repost request.
.. everyone I know who is still on SBC moved on to commercial usenet providers a long time ago.
.. and Time Warner KC / RR jacked they're prices up to $45 .. now that SBC has backed off a bit from advertising they're service.
.. my SBC DSL connection has been disconnected since March .. but when I turn the DSL modem on I still get ATM / DSL link contenuity .. must not be to awful busy if they can left former customers still take a port on the DSLAM>
And it wasn't because of alt.bin* style groups. Just plain discussion groups were affected to.
Here is a short timeline of SBC / PACBELL usenet service.
Once upon a time SBC operated several usable usenet servers.
Each one had acceptable retention times and a good varity of groups to see.
news.swbell.net
news.pacbell.net
news.flash.net
There was also a server in prodigy-land that had a horrible retention rate and skipped articles left and right
Than SBC instituted rate capping at 128K down
SBC than noticed that customers were leap frogging from server to server. In order to pull together each and every single piece of a multipart binary this was required sometimes.
Up until this point the service was still relativly stable
Than there was some large crash
After his point there was barely a single multipart article that came across properly.
So they're service became unusable and at that point I left as soon as my contract expired.
Now I'm using RR in Kansas City
This cut of content is just par for the course for SBC. Although I don't think it will affect many people though
oh
funny thing
Satsuke
Make that http://www.geocites.com/satsuke1/webserver.html - all previous comments still apply
Just a note .. I've posted a mirror of just the opening page @ http://www.geocities.com/satsuke1
Satsuke
Solaris 8 user since - oh wait
This system is 1000 years more advanced than when I was working at Walt Disney World Florida in 1992.
.. at least it kept the music / effects at the same relative volume regardless of crowd noise
..Ben Franklin I think. It controlled a much more complex animatron .. but was only about 1 large fridge worth of size.
.. maybe a sun ultra enterprise 450 size.
.. but the size and cost were inversly less.
..
When I was there the ambient audio was computer controlled
funny thing was that the point where the audio was originated was just an old magnetic cart system like what was used in radio stations to queue commercials up until a few years ago. This item was 1975 technology,
The next was the control apparatise from magic kingdoms "Hall Of Presidents" exhibit
The third was a controller from "The Great Movie Ride" in MGM studios. It controlled such things as the Alien from Aliens or the wizard of oz.
.. it was about the size of a mini fridge
So the function and complexity of the technology were exponentially more
Just my 2 cents worth
Satsuke
Much more of this kind of news and all that will be left are the horrible ILEC's service.
.. SBC has raised the rates for new DSL to $50.00 .. with little competition in the CO's locally .. why bother with anything else .. this as opposed to Time Warner / AOL ..
.. or have him abandon all non windows / Mac users in a heartbeat ..
We are already seeing the effects here in Kansas City
I wouldn't put it past Steve Case to make a *nix client for AOL