So what do you do when somebody calls in with a dispute on their bill and wants to see an itemized listing of the phone calls you are charging them for?
Local calls are traditionally free up here, so they aren't charging you for them. Only LD calls.
I would be willing to say that little more than 20% of the servers on the internet have the resources to update their hardware regularly. Of those that do, the updates are done piece meal, and at an extremely slower rate than on the user end.
Can you say peer-to-peer? (napster, gnutella, etc)
Who needs servers when you can grab the info from the network defined by all your high-bandwidth neighbours?
Each house won't have 100mbit connection to "the net", the house is connected to its upstream, and (more than likely) it shares x amount of bandwidth with other subscribers of the ultra-fast fiber connection. The problems you state come into play if you don't give x an upper bound.
Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on the point of view), the home's internet feed will be what's limiting their access, just like cable modems. Yes, you have 10mbit connection (depending on the provider), but that's just to your cable company's backbone. Then you have to fight tooth and nail to get a chunk of their connection to the rest of the world.
The world won't end because of this technology for the simple fact that the provider has to pay for the subscriber's bandwidth used.
wha' tha' fuck? Replacing a wire with an invisible, pencil-thin laser beam INCREASES reliability? Put down the crackpipe, friend
Maybe you should pick up the crack pipe:-)
Replace *a* wire with 4 pencil-thin laser beams interconnected in a mesh; that's what increases reliability (although the reliability rating is the same: 5min/year downtime).
I mean really what kind of safeguards prevent hijacking the data stream of some backup system and inserting an infinite look of Jigglypuff's song instead?
Its a mesh structure, the nodes can tell when the signal is interrupted, and re-route the information. The same reason why transient obstacles don't kill the connection.
Hijacking, on the other hand could be interesting (besides people noticing you moving a series of mirrors around on top of buildings:-), you disrupt the signal, point it to your own node, and point your node at the recieving end... wouldn't work; the receiving node isn't pointing at you.
Well...the movie studios DID fund the movie...and the DID make the dvd...so don't they have some say on how it gets used?
Well, McDonalds DID fund the R&D and testing for that Quarter Pounder, and they DID make the hamburger, so don't they have some say on how it gets used?
Sorry, you can only eat that hamburger by holding it in your left hand (not with two hands, not right-handed)
After I hadn't used my MasterCard for a few months, and then used it (to buy gas), the next day I received a call from MasterCard asking me if I did use my card recently. Apparently its pretty common among credit card companies.
When you test your cable, you can buy a cheap cable checker that shows a little light for each line (try Weidmuller / Paladin Tools), or a multimeter, and this will tell you whether you have continuity on each line. However, to test the cable properly, you really need a much more expensive checker that tests if it's gonna work at 100Mbit. After all, at 100Mbit, each bit is only 3 metres long!
Bah! Just have a couple *nix boxen, and ping -f from one box to the other through the cable. A couple hundred thousand packets later (ie: 15 seconds or so), and if you have anything > 0% packet loss, the wiring is probably b0rked.
Why isn't your router blocking traffic with an unroutable source address?
And by doing this, your router is now acting like a *ghasp!* firewall. Yes, every computer should be secured, but everything you can do to prevent traffic to getting to the boxes which do the work serving pages, the more REAL requests you can serve from them.
You have N servers plus one firewall. All told, N+1 hosts have the horsepower to deal with the traffic. You just agreed to that, right? So why is life any easier just because one of the machines is configured as a firewall?
Its called "security in depth" (or some crap like that). Its one more box for any potential crackers to have to get through *before* they can touch your servers. IMO, using a freebsd box for a firewall in front of linux boxen is a good idea, different OS's. Breaking into one will mean you have to work to break into the others (since if they were the same, chances are they are running the same (potentially vulnerable) software/kernel config.
the only problem is you'd need to adjust the IP address so that the other system would send the responses to the cable modem... and the gateway on the other side of the T1 would still route you... hmmm... a little tricky. Perhaps Divert sockets and IPchains would do the job? Apparently, its a BSD thing, but there's a mini howto for getting them to work under Linux.
Perhaps the routing metric would do what you need (failover-wise).
As for incoming/outgoing split, it *is* possible, since satellite internet feeds do it (incoming through satellite, outgoing through modem). Perhaps some ipchains rules would be able to rewrite the packets enough?
Reading and books are more than 'information'. It is the same reason online, distance learning cannot replace face time with a teacher, or daycare replace the care of a loving parent, in the home.
Please continue, what does interaction have to do with reading? Its you and words, not you and another person.
Reading something on a screen is different from reading it on paper. Often text looks fine on screen, but when I print and read it I see problems.
I disagree, I have no problems reading from a screen. There is more benefit of running it past another person IMO. Hell, I email documents for proofreading by other people (its just plain text); but for all I know, they print them off and proofread them.
I think its just a personal preference. Perhaps you should try a higher refresh rate, maybe it won't hurt your eyes anymore.
Now this is really interesting. All of the people in charge share my same views. How about that. Until really fast internet access is avaible for every house with a telephone jack don't expect this to work.
Bandwidth has nothing to do with it. Its not hard to split books up into chapters--the splitting point is already there! Whoa the big-assed file just got a *lot* smaller.
There are lots of FAQs and HOWTO's and even online books which are split up just this way. One table of contents to link all the seperate files together.
"Text is too bandwidth-consuming" is the silliest argument that I've ever heard.
I recently whipped up my own Postgres-backed bookmarks page. The one feature that I'm going to have to add is subcategories of bookmarks, but it is a lot easier than hand-editing a 50k html file of bookmarks, which I was doing before.
Its publically accessable, except for the editing:-) Unfortunately, it still takes a while to move 300+ bookmarks from the 'uncategorized' category into their proper categories, so most are still uncategorized.
To selectively not-spider sites with this, you could set up a keyword list of things NOT to send (like your name, address, the word 'password') or something like that, its not perfect (you wouldn't spider anything about selecting good passwords or password cracking tools, but it would keep your data more safe.
Slightly flamebait and off-topic, yes, but I'd just like to point out to everyone who likes to tell moderators what they should moderate, THEY KNOW HOW TO DO THEIR JOB!
When/if you get moderator privledges, you too can make known your preferences, but its almost as much of a waste of space to say "moderate this " as it is to bitch about people doing it. The moderators will see the message in question, and rate it appropriately (or maybe not, but it evens out in the end)
I don't know how or why, but sometimes I just know that I'm dreaming while in it. I generally remember dreams where that happens, and I don't remember them when it doesn't happen (generally).
Perhaps it has something to do with the current phase of sleep that you're in at the time....
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So what do you do when somebody calls in with a dispute on their bill and wants to see an itemized listing of the phone calls you are charging them for?
Local calls are traditionally free up here, so they aren't charging you for them. Only LD calls.
Urgent updates would just let more flapping links through (which is why the holdown timers are there)
Yes, bring in the children and other issues that are IN NO WAY RELATED TO THE DEBATE.
Can you say peer-to-peer? (napster, gnutella, etc) Who needs servers when you can grab the info from the network defined by all your high-bandwidth neighbours?
Wow, that's some service availability! How much do they charge you for the extra 3 hours a day? :-)
Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on the point of view), the home's internet feed will be what's limiting their access, just like cable modems. Yes, you have 10mbit connection (depending on the provider), but that's just to your cable company's backbone. Then you have to fight tooth and nail to get a chunk of their connection to the rest of the world.
The world won't end because of this technology for the simple fact that the provider has to pay for the subscriber's bandwidth used.
Maybe you should pick up the crack pipe :-)
Replace *a* wire with 4 pencil-thin laser beams interconnected in a mesh; that's what increases reliability (although the reliability rating is the same: 5min/year downtime).
Its a mesh structure, the nodes can tell when the signal is interrupted, and re-route the information. The same reason why transient obstacles don't kill the connection.
Hijacking, on the other hand could be interesting (besides people noticing you moving a series of mirrors around on top of buildings :-), you disrupt the signal, point it to your own node, and point your node at the recieving end... wouldn't work; the receiving node isn't pointing at you.
Well, McDonalds DID fund the R&D and testing for that Quarter Pounder, and they DID make the hamburger, so don't they have some say on how it gets used?
Sorry, you can only eat that hamburger by holding it in your left hand (not with two hands, not right-handed)
Because its Windows. If you look at it funny, it'll think that the FS needs to be checked.
After I hadn't used my MasterCard for a few months, and then used it (to buy gas), the next day I received a call from MasterCard asking me if I did use my card recently.
Apparently its pretty common among credit card companies.
Or, *gasp* they could run Linux.
Running linux is no guarantee against stupidity. There are a LOT of unsecured linux (and *nix in general) boxes around.
Bah! Just have a couple *nix boxen, and ping -f from one box to the other through the cable. A couple hundred thousand packets later (ie: 15 seconds or so), and if you have anything > 0% packet loss, the wiring is probably b0rked.
And by doing this, your router is now acting like a *ghasp!* firewall. Yes, every computer should be secured, but everything you can do to prevent traffic to getting to the boxes which do the work serving pages, the more REAL requests you can serve from them.
Its called "security in depth" (or some crap like that). Its one more box for any potential crackers to have to get through *before* they can touch your servers. IMO, using a freebsd box for a firewall in front of linux boxen is a good idea, different OS's. Breaking into one will mean you have to work to break into the others (since if they were the same, chances are they are running the same (potentially vulnerable) software/kernel config.
the only problem is you'd need to adjust the IP address so that the other system would send the responses to the cable modem... and the gateway on the other side of the T1 would still route you... hmmm... a little tricky. Perhaps Divert sockets and IPchains would do the job? Apparently, its a BSD thing, but there's a mini howto for getting them to work under Linux.
Perhaps the routing metric would do what you need (failover-wise).
As for incoming/outgoing split, it *is* possible, since satellite internet feeds do it (incoming through satellite, outgoing through modem). Perhaps some ipchains rules would be able to rewrite the packets enough?
Please continue, what does interaction have to do with reading? Its you and words, not you and another person.
I disagree, I have no problems reading from a screen. There is more benefit of running it past another person IMO. Hell, I email documents for proofreading by other people (its just plain text); but for all I know, they print them off and proofread them.
I think its just a personal preference. Perhaps you should try a higher refresh rate, maybe it won't hurt your eyes anymore.
Bandwidth has nothing to do with it. Its not hard to split books up into chapters--the splitting point is already there! Whoa the big-assed file just got a *lot* smaller.
There are lots of FAQs and HOWTO's and even online books which are split up just this way. One table of contents to link all the seperate files together.
"Text is too bandwidth-consuming" is the silliest argument that I've ever heard.
> Things like a "Solar High Energy Laser" could be very scary, what are they going to do with it, blow up the sun?
Yes, just like solar-powered cars are meant for driving around on the sun.
I recently whipped up my own Postgres-backed bookmarks page. The one feature that I'm going to have to add is subcategories of bookmarks, but it is a lot easier than hand-editing a 50k html file of bookmarks, which I was doing before.
:-)
Its publically accessable, except for the editing
Unfortunately, it still takes a while to move 300+ bookmarks from the 'uncategorized' category into their proper categories, so most are still uncategorized.
To selectively not-spider sites with this, you could set up a keyword list of things NOT to send (like your name, address, the word 'password') or something like that, its not perfect (you wouldn't spider anything about selecting good passwords or password cracking tools, but it would keep your data more safe.
> You need to moderate the above post UP!
Slightly flamebait and off-topic, yes, but I'd just like to point out to everyone who likes to tell moderators what they should moderate, THEY KNOW HOW TO DO THEIR JOB!
When/if you get moderator privledges, you too can make known your preferences, but its almost as much of a waste of space to say "moderate this " as it is to bitch about people doing it. The moderators will see the message in question, and rate it appropriately (or maybe not, but it evens out in the end)
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>How do you 'recognize' a dream?
I don't know how or why, but sometimes I just know that I'm dreaming while in it. I generally remember dreams where that happens, and I don't remember them when it doesn't happen (generally).
Perhaps it has something to do with the current phase of sleep that you're in at the time....