All this does at scale is move "peak" time to be all the time, same goes for just with batteries. The more power you take out of the grid "off hours" is simply skewing those off hours to become peak hours eventually with batteries deploying at scale you'll simply move the peak time and or flatten demand across the entire day/night which while beneficial in the short term doesn't do much long term.
So are they banning French Fries, Pizza and any form of processed frozen food too? Do we get to put the school administrators/state officials in detention for serving crap processed foods to the kids? They're trying to do the right thing, but they're going about it all wrong.
I've got one of these notebooks. They've replaced my motherboard twice as well as all the cooling system (fan/heat pipe/etc). I'm confident it's a BIOS level issue, that said, after my third (including orig) motherboard the problem went away. I can play 10+ YouTube videos simultaneously now with no issues, before I couldn't get through a single video. I posted this on my blog including a screen shot of the throttle taking place in Windows Resource Monitor. Nice to hear I wasn't alone.
First I have to say that I work for the company that I'm talking about. Ok, now that's out of the way. Primus Canada recently launched a new service where we give the customer the ability to control telemarketing calls. Think of it like spam filtering but on telemarketing calls. This has reduced inbound Telemarketing VERY substantially for our customer base. Do not call lists are all fine and dandy but they aren't that reliable. You can learn about the feature here:
The best call treatment is the "press 1 jail." If the number is identified as a telemarketer the telemarketer needs to "press 1" in order to reach the customer, since 99% of Telemarketers can't send any digits this effectively blackholes them. Works a charm.
This isn't the same as the government setting a price for gas or oil. The cable companies, and other ISPs have already been paid, the end user, john doe sitting at home who pays his $49.95/month paid the carrier to get him to the Internet with a certain bandwidth. You can't turn around and now say that the content provider needs to pay too.
That would be like UPS charging the sender and receipient for shipping a package.
Not to carriers, we're already paying you to get to Google et al, you can't have your cake and eat it too!
I don't know about in the US but in Canada if your insurance company even suspects you lap your car you're toast. In fact it's got so crazy up here that even calling and asking if lowering the vehicle (springs etc) can be done usually results in a policy being cancelled. Happened to a friend of mine. He later had to take pictures to prove that his car wasn't modified in any way.
I've asked my insurance company a few things and I NEVER tell them who I am. I can just imagine what a "black box" will mean.
If the source of 80% of spam is infected PCs could a method of OS finger printing (ala nmap) not be used to identify the offending PC as 95/98/XP and either flag (with an X header) or reject the mail? A test of the source address would do. It's not perfect and firewalls etc would make it a tad unreliable but if you mix this with other tools like spamassassin it just might work.
There have been several cases/laws brought to light in order to allow someone to use aftermarket parts to repair their car. You can go down to your local Canadian Tire (or PEP Boys in the US) and buy just about any replacement part for your car. Brakes, Brake pads, window motors, water pumps, gas tanks, just about anything you need to repair the mechanicals of a car.
Question... How is a printer any different? If my engine burned out I shouldn't have to go and buy a new engine! If I want to go to the scrap yard and perhaps get one pulled from a wreck that's my legal right. How can this same argument not be applied to the toner cartridge in a printer? Better yet if you assoicate toner to gas imagine if the gas in your car was vehicle specific. Having to buy GM gas from GM gas stations! That's not just wrong it's completely INSANE!
I just payed $84cdn to get new ink for my Canon as I elected to buy the Canon brand. However I didn't see a choice when I was in the store, it was Canon or nothing for my Canon printer. Sure I could have bought one of those
As everyone can see there has been quite a bit of dupes on Slashdot stories lately. Perhaps Slashdot needs to have a better system so they prevent dupes. I don't know what's in place now but I wouldn't be surprised if it's a list of submitted stories and it's just approved or not. Perhaps a voting systems among those that can approve stories is required? So once a story is submitted two+ Slashdot admins need to approve the story in order to have it posted. This way stories need more than one set of eyes to make it to the main page.
My 2 cents Canadian which would be worth around one and a half cents US.
Enough with storage space! I don't care about having a 480GB drive. I want a drive that doesn't have any moving parts. A 100% solid state harddrive for the cost of a regular IDE. I'd even pay twice or three times as much to have 40-60-80GB worth of solid state goodness.
My computer sits here beside me and the only mechanical part that will destroy it if it fails is the spinning disk inside the drive. Sure there are still fans but my computer will quickly notice that and shutdown. However if the drive fails, you're toast.
I know we still need storage but can't some of these cycles be put into getting us off the old pre-space age magnetic disc technology and get us into something that doesn't need moving parts!
Come on IBM, where's my Holographic or Memory Based solid state storage. I don't care if it's twice the size of my current drive either, I just don't want any more moving parts!
HP-UX 10.20, 11.0, 11i, IA-64 Solaris SPARC 2.6, 7, 8, 9 Solaris x86 2.6, 7, 8 Linux x86 glibc2.x Linux Alpha glibc2.x Linux PowerPC glibc2.x IBM AIX 4.3, 5.0 SGI IRIX 6.4, 6.5 Compaq Tru64 4.0e,f,g,5.0 FreeBSD 3.4, 4.2 OpenBSD 2.8, 2.9 SCO Unixware 7.1.0 Mac OS X 10.x BSDi 3.0, 3.1, 4.0, 4.1, 4.2
So basically every UNIX or Unix like operating system on the planet.
I agree with another post that says, why depoy 2 Apache boxes for every 1 Zeus box? Zeus beats the snot out of Apache every day of the week. Not to mention the nightmare that it is to manage a large Apache cluster and make sure configuration files are kept in Sync etc. Zeus is managed from a central management server and replicates it's configs out to the web servers in the cluster. You have 30 web server do you? No problem.
As for Apache being more flexible, aparently you've never used Zeus to any extent.
Oh and just FYI, Zeus can also scales almost linearly on multi processor servers. It also runs PHP faster than Apache does, so I don't see where, aside from price, that Apache even comes close?
Why does my HP printer need to know that I'm using HP paper? Maybe I'm paranoid but is it possible that the printer prints a little worse when you don't choose HP Paper as the paper type?
I think I'll print a comparison and see if choosing "HP Paper" as my paper type makes the picture better even if I'm not using HP paper.
I'm assuming that the constitution would back up an argument that this makes the assumption that the end user is guilty of something. Hence the right to being assumed innocent goes out the window.
If this passed I'll be surprised.
If this does pass they better make sure those that they DoS are within the US border as they will be breaking laws outside the US if they DoS an IP that's user is actually outside the US.
With most APs now supporting 802.1x, authentication and billing, not to mention additional security, is quite easy to achieve. Look into 802.1x and various implementations of EAP which requires wireless users to authenticate with a RADIUS server. In the case of Cisco's implementation of EAP it's trivial to setup however for the most part if the AP supports 802.1x you can choose serveral different EAP implementations. Some suck (Microsoft's implementation is x.509 based and requires Active Directory) others as simple as specific client software and then the RADIUS server. This takes care of accounting too so you can track users bandwidth usage. Cisco's RADIUS server is called SecureACS and support's Cisco's APs in for EAP-Cisco (LEAP) which is one of the better implementations as several other vendors are started to say they will support it. Funk Software also has Odyssey which supports EAP-TLS (Supported by XP) and EAP-TTLS. TTLS is WAY easier to manage but not as easy as the Cisco solution. You can check out FreeRadius which supports both EAP-TLS and EAP-MD5.
For a general overview on 802.1x security check out the 802.1x Blackpaper at ArsTechnica.
I just finished designing a LEAP (EAP-Cisco) implementation for a customer of mine only a few weeks ago. The ArsTechnica blackpaper is a pretty good read for someone who doesn't do this very often.
The biggest benifit to all of this outside of the authentication is the RADIUS billing. This way you can very easily enforce bandwidth caps.
That's exactly what I was going to say, I can't see how USB can pass enough data for a full 5.1 digital bit stream. Anyone know the answer to this one?
CmdrTaco....While I agree that in several cases trademark holders are being given special and upfair treatmeat regarding domains that may or may not refer to a trademark. However, in the case of aimster it doesn't take a genious to figure out that the AIM portion of those domain names referes directly to AOL Instant Messenger. I'm all for protecting the rightfull owners of domain names but really, AIM being random characters? Hardly.
Paul.
I know that it's more convienient but in the name of security why keep it in your customer's profile at all? I try, the best I can, to avoid sites that insist on keeping my credit card associated to my profile on their site. Sure keep the first few digits or whatever but I'd really love if some of these sites gave me the OPTION to save my credit card into my profile or not. Really, if I were VISA or Mastercard or who ever I'd virtually require that all online retailers DO NOT store credit card info for anything more than the amount of time it takes to verify and clear the purchase. This amounts to maybe 60 seconds maximum.
I once went so far last year as emailing a site to tell them that their site was COMPLETELY insecure. Sure they used a cert and my transaction was encrypted but after looking at the action assoicated to the credit card form I realized all they were doing was sending my credit card and all my info to a mail account using formmail.cgi. So I didn't buy anything from them. That simple. The company was a small DVD company in Canada that are not even in business any more.
So I ask people, why the heck do these companies insist on saving our credit card info at all? Shouldn't we have to give them permission to save this info? I don't care if they save my address, phone number but when it comes time to purchase ask me what my credit card number is, I'd really prefer it.
Ah, but chances are that if you invested the money in real HP PA-RISC servers they you'd be wise to also have a management system running NNM/ITO (Openview) and have a nice big projection screen turn red if something went wrong. Most enterprises, banks, etc. Don't have someone anywhere near a machine;therefore, sound is a little pointless on a $1,000,000+ HP V-Class or SuperDome. BTW, Check out that SuperDome, SWEEEEEEEET.
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All this does at scale is move "peak" time to be all the time, same goes for just with batteries. The more power you take out of the grid "off hours" is simply skewing those off hours to become peak hours eventually with batteries deploying at scale you'll simply move the peak time and or flatten demand across the entire day/night which while beneficial in the short term doesn't do much long term.
So are they banning French Fries, Pizza and any form of processed frozen food too? Do we get to put the school administrators/state officials in detention for serving crap processed foods to the kids? They're trying to do the right thing, but they're going about it all wrong.
I've got one of these notebooks. They've replaced my motherboard twice as well as all the cooling system (fan/heat pipe/etc). I'm confident it's a BIOS level issue, that said, after my third (including orig) motherboard the problem went away. I can play 10+ YouTube videos simultaneously now with no issues, before I couldn't get through a single video. I posted this on my blog including a screen shot of the throttle taking place in Windows Resource Monitor. Nice to hear I wasn't alone.
http://randommusingsofp.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/dell-latitude-e65006400-performance-issues/
First I have to say that I work for the company that I'm talking about. Ok, now that's out of the way. Primus Canada recently launched a new service where we give the customer the ability to control telemarketing calls. Think of it like spam filtering but on telemarketing calls. This has reduced inbound Telemarketing VERY substantially for our customer base. Do not call lists are all fine and dandy but they aren't that reliable. You can learn about the feature here:
http://www.primustel.ca/en/residential/guide/tmg/TelemarketingGuide.html
The best call treatment is the "press 1 jail." If the number is identified as a telemarketer the telemarketer needs to "press 1" in order to reach the customer, since 99% of Telemarketers can't send any digits this effectively blackholes them. Works a charm.
Paul
This isn't the same as the government setting a price for gas or oil. The cable companies, and other ISPs have already been paid, the end user, john doe sitting at home who pays his $49.95/month paid the carrier to get him to the Internet with a certain bandwidth. You can't turn around and now say that the content provider needs to pay too.
That would be like UPS charging the sender and receipient for shipping a package.
Not to carriers, we're already paying you to get to Google et al, you can't have your cake and eat it too!
Hrm, aparently the only person on the planet that thinks the US $ is still worth something.
$2599,99 is $2,245.00us.
I don't know about in the US but in Canada if your insurance company even suspects you lap your car you're toast. In fact it's got so crazy up here that even calling and asking if lowering the vehicle (springs etc) can be done usually results in a policy being cancelled. Happened to a friend of mine. He later had to take pictures to prove that his car wasn't modified in any way.
I've asked my insurance company a few things and I NEVER tell them who I am. I can just imagine what a "black box" will mean.
Paul
If the source of 80% of spam is infected PCs could a method of OS finger printing (ala nmap) not be used to identify the offending PC as 95/98/XP and either flag (with an X header) or reject the mail? A test of the source address would do. It's not perfect and firewalls etc would make it a tad unreliable but if you mix this with other tools like spamassassin it just might work.
Just an idea...
Paul
There have been several cases/laws brought to light in order to allow someone to use aftermarket parts to repair their car. You can go down to your local Canadian Tire (or PEP Boys in the US) and buy just about any replacement part for your car. Brakes, Brake pads, window motors, water pumps, gas tanks, just about anything you need to repair the mechanicals of a car.
Question... How is a printer any different? If my engine burned out I shouldn't have to go and buy a new engine! If I want to go to the scrap yard and perhaps get one pulled from a wreck that's my legal right. How can this same argument not be applied to the toner cartridge in a printer? Better yet if you assoicate toner to gas imagine if the gas in your car was vehicle specific. Having to buy GM gas from GM gas stations! That's not just wrong it's completely INSANE!
I just payed $84cdn to get new ink for my Canon as I elected to buy the Canon brand. However I didn't see a choice when I was in the store, it was Canon or nothing for my Canon printer. Sure I could have bought one of those
Wow, today is a dark day for competition indeed!
Syn Ack.
- Calgon take me away!
As everyone can see there has been quite a bit of dupes on Slashdot stories lately. Perhaps Slashdot needs to have a better system so they prevent dupes. I don't know what's in place now but I wouldn't be surprised if it's a list of submitted stories and it's just approved or not. Perhaps a voting systems among those that can approve stories is required? So once a story is submitted two+ Slashdot admins need to approve the story in order to have it posted. This way stories need more than one set of eyes to make it to the main page.
My 2 cents Canadian which would be worth around one and a half cents US.
Cheers,
Syn Ack.
me too.
Syn Ack
Hrm, why does the headline read Sharp but the product is from Sanyo?
Watch out for those short cicuits.
Paul
Enough with storage space! I don't care about having a 480GB drive. I want a drive that doesn't have any moving parts. A 100% solid state harddrive for the cost of a regular IDE. I'd even pay twice or three times as much to have 40-60-80GB worth of solid state goodness.
My computer sits here beside me and the only mechanical part that will destroy it if it fails is the spinning disk inside the drive. Sure there are still fans but my computer will quickly notice that and shutdown. However if the drive fails, you're toast.
I know we still need storage but can't some of these cycles be put into getting us off the old pre-space age magnetic disc technology and get us into something that doesn't need moving parts!
Come on IBM, where's my Holographic or Memory Based solid state storage. I don't care if it's twice the size of my current drive either, I just don't want any more moving parts!
Syn Ack
Yes, Zeus runs on Linux and....
HP-UX 10.20, 11.0, 11i, IA-64
Solaris SPARC 2.6, 7, 8, 9
Solaris x86 2.6, 7, 8
Linux x86 glibc2.x
Linux Alpha glibc2.x
Linux PowerPC glibc2.x
IBM AIX 4.3, 5.0
SGI IRIX 6.4, 6.5
Compaq Tru64 4.0e,f,g,5.0
FreeBSD 3.4, 4.2
OpenBSD 2.8, 2.9
SCO Unixware 7.1.0
Mac OS X 10.x
BSDi 3.0, 3.1, 4.0, 4.1, 4.2
So basically every UNIX or Unix like operating system on the planet.
enjoy.
Syn Ack.
I agree with another post that says, why depoy 2 Apache boxes for every 1 Zeus box? Zeus beats the snot out of Apache every day of the week. Not to mention the nightmare that it is to manage a large Apache cluster and make sure configuration files are kept in Sync etc. Zeus is managed from a central management server and replicates it's configs out to the web servers in the cluster. You have 30 web server do you? No problem.
As for Apache being more flexible, aparently you've never used Zeus to any extent.
Oh and just FYI, Zeus can also scales almost linearly on multi processor servers. It also runs PHP faster than Apache does, so I don't see where, aside from price, that Apache even comes close?
Syn Ack.
Several of the ink refil companies provide software to reset this chip into thinking the cartridge is new. Check out google and the links below.
http://www.itosn.com/ilrs/introduc.htm
http://www.inkrefill.ca/
Cheers,
Syn Ack.
Why does my HP printer need to know that I'm using HP paper? Maybe I'm paranoid but is it possible that the printer prints a little worse when you don't choose HP Paper as the paper type?
I think I'll print a comparison and see if choosing "HP Paper" as my paper type makes the picture better even if I'm not using HP paper.
syn ack.
I'm assuming that the constitution would back up an argument that this makes the assumption that the end user is guilty of something. Hence the right to being assumed innocent goes out the window.
If this passed I'll be surprised.
If this does pass they better make sure those that they DoS are within the US border as they will be breaking laws outside the US if they DoS an IP that's user is actually outside the US.
Syn Ack.
With most APs now supporting 802.1x, authentication and billing, not to mention additional security, is quite easy to achieve. Look into 802.1x and various implementations of EAP which requires wireless users to authenticate with a RADIUS server. In the case of Cisco's implementation of EAP it's trivial to setup however for the most part if the AP supports 802.1x you can choose serveral different EAP implementations. Some suck (Microsoft's implementation is x.509 based and requires Active Directory) others as simple as specific client software and then the RADIUS server. This takes care of accounting too so you can track users bandwidth usage. Cisco's RADIUS server is called SecureACS and support's Cisco's APs in for EAP-Cisco (LEAP) which is one of the better implementations as several other vendors are started to say they will support it. Funk Software also has Odyssey which supports EAP-TLS (Supported by XP) and EAP-TTLS. TTLS is WAY easier to manage but not as easy as the Cisco solution. You can check out FreeRadius which supports both EAP-TLS and EAP-MD5.
For a general overview on 802.1x security check out the 802.1x Blackpaper at ArsTechnica.
I just finished designing a LEAP (EAP-Cisco) implementation for a customer of mine only a few weeks ago. The ArsTechnica blackpaper is a pretty good read for someone who doesn't do this very often.
The biggest benifit to all of this outside of the authentication is the RADIUS billing. This way you can very easily enforce bandwidth caps.
Enjoy.
Syn Ack.
Anyone know if any digital theaters exist in Canada and where?
Paul
That's exactly what I was going to say, I can't see how USB can pass enough data for a full 5.1 digital bit stream. Anyone know the answer to this one?
Paul
CmdrTaco....While I agree that in several cases trademark holders are being given special and upfair treatmeat regarding domains that may or may not refer to a trademark. However, in the case of aimster it doesn't take a genious to figure out that the AIM portion of those domain names referes directly to AOL Instant Messenger. I'm all for protecting the rightfull owners of domain names but really, AIM being random characters? Hardly. Paul.
I know that it's more convienient but in the name of security why keep it in your customer's profile at all? I try, the best I can, to avoid sites that insist on keeping my credit card associated to my profile on their site. Sure keep the first few digits or whatever but I'd really love if some of these sites gave me the OPTION to save my credit card into my profile or not. Really, if I were VISA or Mastercard or who ever I'd virtually require that all online retailers DO NOT store credit card info for anything more than the amount of time it takes to verify and clear the purchase. This amounts to maybe 60 seconds maximum.
I once went so far last year as emailing a site to tell them that their site was COMPLETELY insecure. Sure they used a cert and my transaction was encrypted but after looking at the action assoicated to the credit card form I realized all they were doing was sending my credit card and all my info to a mail account using formmail.cgi. So I didn't buy anything from them. That simple. The company was a small DVD company in Canada that are not even in business any more.
So I ask people, why the heck do these companies insist on saving our credit card info at all? Shouldn't we have to give them permission to save this info? I don't care if they save my address, phone number but when it comes time to purchase ask me what my credit card number is, I'd really prefer it.
Later.
Syn Ack
paulm@nospam.spider.org | PM1819
Ah, but chances are that if you invested the money in real HP PA-RISC servers they you'd be wise to also have a management system running NNM/ITO (Openview) and have a nice big projection screen turn red if something went wrong. Most enterprises, banks, etc. Don't have someone anywhere near a machine;therefore, sound is a little pointless on a $1,000,000+ HP V-Class or SuperDome. BTW, Check out that SuperDome, SWEEEEEEEET.
Paul