Most of those friggn things measure the "time it takes to download a 1 MB image file"
What they don't tell you is that its mostly wholly dependent on the rendering speed of your computer!
Two machines, side by side with different processors, browser versions, video cards, drivers will give wildly differing opinions of the true "speed".
Unless you're doing a lot of hosting on your end of the T1, or you're doing QoS based services (like VoIP) -- go with the local ISP -- the money you spend will be returned to your community and you'll get better support. Not to mention, most of the smaller ISP's do other types of consulting, so you almost always get more bang for the buck.
But take everything I say with a grain of salt, since I own a small local ISP -- not in your area;)
All you really need to do is look at the track record of the introduction of foreign species into environments that had not evolved with them.
Take Hawaii (okay, share it with the rest of us;) -- the introduction of the mongoose to fight the rat population in the sugar cane fields has had a negative impact on the native bird populations.
Or to quote my favorite Jeff Goldblum line:
"You were so busy trying to see if you could do it that you didn't stop to think about whether you should."
This is really troubling. As an ISP in QWEST territory it might spell trouble for us in terms of the Internet service we provide to our clients.
All they have to do is declare us a competitor instead of a client, and poof! there it goes.
Furthermore, lets not forget that the BELLS get huge tax breaks and subsidies to build out the wiring to provide service.
All those Universal Service Fee's we pay on our lines to help make sure that EVERYONE gets phone service.
I think to some extent that this will eventually get challenged and reversed. Much in the same way MCI and Sprint and the cast of THOUSANDS of small long distance providers have the right to serve your LD needs on your ILEC provided lines, so should the physical plant be open as well.
Of course, you're getting this IMHO from a guy that thinks the cable companies should be open as well, given THEIR tax breaks etc.
Then again, this might help force Neighborhood Wireless Access Points to more of a real thing....then again we have other special-interest-group-companies that want to block up the airwaves and control them. Anyone remember XM's challenge to 802.11 that got essentially rejected?
As an ISP in Minnesota, I seriously wonder about the slippery slope of legalese like "joint-venture" which isn't technically a "third-party". Don't get me wrong, I'm a privacy freak, and QWEST deserves worse...
The second part of the bill is frankly not feasible -- from a forced implementation standpoint:
"A second part of the bill follows the lead of other states that have adopted rules to try to control unwanted e-mail. It would require companies sending unsolicited advertisements to include the letters "ADV" in the subject line of e-mails -- "ADV-ADULT" for material of a sexual nature -- to make it easier to filter out."
And what mechanism is in place to:
a. police it? b. enforce it? c. litigate it? and at who's expense?
The contract jobs I'm doing lately, I'm plugging in as much open source as I possibly can, and then essentially charge the client for the "glue" code that puts it all together.
Most business problems have been "solved" in one way or another elsewhere -- extol the virtures of sourcing in something that they will be able to get support for, using the old "if i get hit by a bus" scare tactic;)
Otherwise, through good architecture, you can compartmentalize the proprietary bits to a few files, thus allowing them to have something of their own at the end of the day.
And again, BE OPEN UP FRONT -- you are probably not in a position to identify on your own what the client may or may not consider proprietary -- lots of businesses have "grey-matter" or "raw experience" when it comes to processes and methods that are not obvious to their competitors.
But basically we get a lot of mileage becase I stand on the shoulders of giants everyday!
It really amazing how many software project managers that don't fully understand what regression testing is all about.
Software engineers simply cannot be trusted to do more than small unit level testing! We get into a pattern of behavior, we know what to expect, and simply do not stress test the system.
Thats why I like hiring sales people and 2-year olds to test my code at the unit/integration level.
"The kernel is now aware of the concept that there are smaller units of scheduling than a process (but only one thread per process is allowed at this time)."
The one feature I've been waiting for the most isn't quite there -- kernel-land threads.
Still though, I'd rather have it right than 'ready'.
besides, I'm relieved that I can continue to listen to my euro trance shoutcast stream uninterrupted by ISO image downloads;)
Does anyone know if its possible to get the last snapshot of the reverse DNS database IAN had?
I think if ORBZ was run on a patching basis we could choose to upgrade our databases on a daily basis.
Or better yet, use a P2P protocol among build a distributed network so that we don't have to suffer with the "READY-FIRE!-AIM" mentality of the technologically challenged;)
sorry about that, i've only ever heard it called that, and since most of the units they use in qwest territory are other brands, i just took it generically
i've seen something like four different models in the field -- not even sure if any of them were actual "t-berds" proper:)
Pretty much my assessment as well. With no practical line-level debugging information, I came away with little more than a gift-book for the half-priced book stores.
Some practical information about using a "T-bird" device would have been helpful -- even more helpful would have been something that would suggest a "build your own t-bird tester from spare vacuum cleaner parts and save a bundle"
Whenever we've had serious problems -- rolls, flips, and bad CSU-DSU cards in the demarc, its either through trial and error "lets see is this really the TX pair? and is it polarity right?" -- or we beg, threaten, bully the CLEC test-and-turn up crew to send out a lineman, who invariably shows up with a t-bird box and pin points where the issue is.
Something also seriously lacking is some other non-protocol uses for T1 splitting, such as slicing Channelized T1 for voice, data.
All in all, save your O'reilly bucks for something you really need;)
What stuns me is that there is evidently a plan in some municipalities want to tax software development efforts as if it were a manufacturing business.
For me software is a consultative and artistic endeavor.
I don't know how "science" ever made it into the moniker -- when they tax architects perhaps it would be categorically fair.
The elevator in our building has a little LCD screen in it that displays time/temp/weather information as well as the individual company names of the floors its on.
Last week the marquis application crashed and had a blue screen of death on it....NO ONE USED THE ELEVATORS until the building management rebooted the display software and sent out a notice that windows was only used for the marquis, and NOT in the operation of the Otis elevator
But then again, filing my taxes electronically this year, the feds accepted three pieces of information to make up the e-signature: last years tax amount, a pin (5 chars long), and my ssn Perhaps the judge wouldn't feel so certain of the ruling if someone had sent a nastygram from his email addr, with his name typewritten to prez@whitehouse.gov
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if the company has serial numbers they can show up on your doorstep with a cop and reclaim it, as well as file theft charges against you
your best bet so far is to send via certified mail a C&D -- assert your copyrights, and threaten and then absolutely try and file a UCC against them
it can and will prevent them from obtaining any kind of financing from a bank since it will stick out like a sore thumb
If Apple REALLY wants to make a jump, they should partner up with Sun and use UltraSparc chips on proprietary motherboards.
sometimes "the enemy of my enemy is my friend"
not always of course, but in this case I think it would be a great combo
Most of those friggn things measure the "time it takes to download a 1 MB image file"
;)
What they don't tell you is that its mostly wholly dependent on the rendering speed of your computer!
Two machines, side by side with different processors, browser versions, video cards, drivers will give wildly differing opinions of the true "speed".
Unless you're doing a lot of hosting on your end of the T1, or you're doing QoS based services (like VoIP) -- go with the local ISP -- the money you spend will be returned to your community and you'll get better support. Not to mention, most of the smaller ISP's do other types of consulting, so you almost always get more bang for the buck.
But take everything I say with a grain of salt, since I own a small local ISP -- not in your area
Just saw these guys at a government security conference, they were one of the other vendors there.
They already claim to have support for all the *bsd variants, including freebsd
Rainbow's CryptoSwift
why, is kirstie alley now in chemo ??
:)
anyone old enough to remember the very short lived "auto-man" ??
tron like 90' turns.....
i suspect that more likely, the drive "bays" will become more like option-slots in the devices.
of course they are trying to impose taxes on the CDR's too
if true, THIS would revolutionalize transportation as we know it
;)
kind of makes fuel cells seem like 8th grade chemistry
and thank Pele for the introduction of Kaluaha into the culture, without it, the Luaua pig just would taste like chicken ;)
All you really need to do is look at the track record of the introduction of foreign species into environments that had not evolved with them.
;) -- the introduction of the mongoose to fight the rat population in the sugar cane fields has had a negative impact on the native bird populations.
Take Hawaii (okay, share it with the rest of us
Or to quote my favorite Jeff Goldblum line:
"You were so busy trying to see if you could do it that you didn't stop to think about whether you should."
This is really troubling. As an ISP in QWEST territory it might spell trouble for us in terms of the Internet service we provide to our clients.
All they have to do is declare us a competitor instead of a client, and poof! there it goes.
Furthermore, lets not forget that the BELLS get huge tax breaks and subsidies to build out the wiring to provide service.
All those Universal Service Fee's we pay on our lines to help make sure that EVERYONE gets phone service.
I think to some extent that this will eventually get challenged and reversed. Much in the same way MCI and Sprint and the cast of THOUSANDS of small long distance providers have the right to serve your LD needs on your ILEC provided lines, so should the physical plant be open as well.
Of course, you're getting this IMHO from a guy that thinks the cable companies should be open as well, given THEIR tax breaks etc.
Then again, this might help force Neighborhood Wireless Access Points to more of a real thing....then again we have other special-interest-group-companies that want to block up the airwaves and control them. Anyone remember XM's challenge to 802.11 that got essentially rejected?
</flame off>
;)
As an ISP in Minnesota, I seriously wonder about the slippery slope of legalese like "joint-venture" which isn't technically a "third-party". Don't get me wrong, I'm a privacy freak, and QWEST deserves worse...
;)
The second part of the bill is frankly not feasible -- from a forced implementation standpoint:
"A second part of the bill follows the lead of other states that have adopted rules to try to control unwanted e-mail. It would require companies sending unsolicited advertisements to include the letters "ADV" in the subject line of e-mails -- "ADV-ADULT" for material of a sexual nature -- to make it easier to filter out."
And what mechanism is in place to:
a. police it?
b. enforce it?
c. litigate it? and at who's expense?
and lets talk jurisdiction here....or lets not
The contract jobs I'm doing lately, I'm plugging in as much open source as I possibly can, and then essentially charge the client for the "glue" code that puts it all together.
;)
;)
Most business problems have been "solved" in one way or another elsewhere -- extol the virtures of sourcing in something that they will be able to get support for, using the old "if i get hit by a bus" scare tactic
Otherwise, through good architecture, you can compartmentalize the proprietary bits to a few files, thus allowing them to have something of their own at the end of the day.
And again, BE OPEN UP FRONT -- you are probably not in a position to identify on your own what the client may or may not consider proprietary -- lots of businesses have "grey-matter" or "raw experience" when it comes to processes and methods that are not obvious to their competitors.
But basically we get a lot of mileage becase I stand on the shoulders of giants everyday!
and remember, work = force * distance
It really amazing how many software project managers that don't fully understand what regression testing is all about.
Software engineers simply cannot be trusted to do more than small unit level testing! We get into a pattern of behavior, we know what to expect, and simply do not stress test the system.
Thats why I like hiring sales people and 2-year olds to test my code at the unit/integration level.
Thou shall not be competent?
"The kernel is now aware of the concept that there are smaller units of scheduling than a process (but only one thread per process is allowed at this time)."
;)
The one feature I've been waiting for the most isn't quite there -- kernel-land threads.
Still though, I'd rather have it right than 'ready'.
besides, I'm relieved that I can continue to listen to my euro trance shoutcast stream uninterrupted by ISO image downloads
Does anyone know if its possible to get the last snapshot of the reverse DNS database IAN had?
;)
I think if ORBZ was run on a patching basis we could choose to upgrade our databases on a daily basis.
Or better yet, use a P2P protocol among build a distributed network so that we don't have to suffer with the "READY-FIRE!-AIM" mentality of the technologically challenged
Using services are orbz is opt in, not mandatory.
I for one could care less about an open relay getting a grace period to fix their problem.
It was only when a bunch of them were blacklisted did it get their attention to fix the problem.
Have you ever tried getting a response from a "postmaster" account?
The fact is until their users are impacted, it won't matter.
Now that ORBZ is offline, we have notice a SIGNIFICANT increase in the amount of crap flowing into our systems.
2x !
;)
go search 'scientology' on google and it clambake / xenu.net comes up twice on the right hand side in addition to showing up as #4 ranking!
cancel your earthlink service now and vote local ISP
sorry about that, i've only ever heard it called that, and since most of the units they use in qwest territory are other brands, i just took it generically
:)
i've seen something like four different models in the field -- not even sure if any of them were actual "t-berds" proper
thanks for clarifying!
Pretty much my assessment as well. With no practical line-level debugging information, I came away with little more than a gift-book for the half-priced book stores.
;)
Some practical information about using a "T-bird" device would have been helpful -- even more helpful would have been something that would suggest a "build your own t-bird tester from spare vacuum cleaner parts and save a bundle"
Whenever we've had serious problems -- rolls, flips, and bad CSU-DSU cards in the demarc, its either through trial and error "lets see is this really the TX pair? and is it polarity right?" -- or we beg, threaten, bully the CLEC test-and-turn up crew to send out a lineman, who invariably shows up with a t-bird box and pin points where the issue is.
Something also seriously lacking is some other non-protocol uses for T1 splitting, such as slicing Channelized T1 for voice, data.
All in all, save your O'reilly bucks for something you really need
What stuns me is that there is evidently a plan in some municipalities want to tax software development efforts as if it were a manufacturing business.
For me software is a consultative and artistic endeavor.
I don't know how "science" ever made it into the moniker -- when they tax architects perhaps it would be categorically fair.
The elevator in our building has a little LCD screen in it that displays time/temp/weather information as well as the individual company names of the floors its on.
Last week the marquis application crashed and had a blue screen of death on it....NO ONE USED THE ELEVATORS until the building management rebooted the display software and sent out a notice that windows was only used for the marquis, and NOT in the operation of the Otis elevator
And probably the crucial issue -- and I agree with former posts, the seller looks like a weasel, smells, like weasel, probably tastes a weasel :)
But then again, filing my taxes electronically this year, the feds accepted three pieces of information to make up the e-signature: last years tax amount, a pin (5 chars long), and my ssn
Perhaps the judge wouldn't feel so certain of the ruling if someone had sent a nastygram from his email addr, with his name typewritten to prez@whitehouse.gov