I am not referring to the fact that it could be my wife's, or son's machines, but how does Comcast identify my account? As i said, my whole Cable connection is NAT-ed upstream at comcast.
I have a Comcast cable connection that is NATed. I have a 192.168.0 address on their side of my cable modem. If I were to use Azureus to download a torrent of some illegal movie, how would the legal team at the MPAA trace me? I am assuming they would see some sort of gateway/proxy Comcast address make a peering connection to them (if they were the ones posting a torrent for download - isnt that entrapment?). They would have to then reverse map that IP back to Comcast who would then have to identify my node as having sent/received torrent streams from all the nodes sharing the gateway/proxy. Anyone out there work for Comcast or know how an individual user would be identified in this scenario?
on the desktop, and you have (or can whip up) some documents which will help other companies do the same, then you can win a trip to Novell BrainShare in Spain this year. Novell and O'Reilly are offering a nice little prize.
"Your experience can help guide and inspire others who are considering migrating or who have already embarked on the process. We're looking for entries that describe the benefits realized from a desktop migration, a phased migration plan, or the most practical tips for migrating to Linux. We'll publish the best stories and the top entries have a chance to win some fantastic prizes..."
The Google cluster runs Linux. An army of people created Linux and Google get to download and use it for free. I am positive that there are other OpenSource tools in use at Google in other areas as well. These are the things Google 'took'. I prefer the term 'made use of'
Get home, open up the DVD and then there is a power outage (anbody remember the Great Northeast Power Blackout of 2003?) for 6 hours. Better hope its a short movie!
We have been using LVS for about 8 months now. It is rock-solid. You would want to be combining it with keepalived for High Availability and failover. The thing about LVS is that it requires 2 dedicated load balancing machines to run in front of your web cluster. This can be a bit expensive. A possible solution that I discovered and am about to start evaluating, is a product called EAC. I initially found this product when searching for a way to cluster some MySQL servers together effectively. They are about to release an Apache solution as well. Where this product seems to differ is that there is no need for dedicated Load Balancing machines. The load distribution and scheduling is done by EAC software which is run directly from the machines in the cluster. As I say, I have not used it yet, but their documentation looks exciting and I have spoken to them in Finland. I am particularly excited about the MySQL clustering solution because it is promising to deliver the holy grail for MySQL which is a cluster of read AND write databases, sharing the same datasource in the same state with little or no performace hit for the real time replication. Bear in mind this is a commercial product with a per CPU license fee. But if you consider that you no longer need dedicated load balancers, the maths looks good.
I have had this for about a year now, bought it 2nd hand. The one problem they ALL face is that the inline remote/lcd unit sucks and WILL stop working properly. Know that. But it doesnt stop this from being the king MP3 player for sport/running. Its small, lightweight, but best of all comes with an arm strap, so you strap it to your upper arm and forget its there. It comes with 128MB (64 built in and a 64MB MC card) memory.
Software-wise, the BEST interface I have found for this is iTunes on OSX. It comes with a proprietary management app for Win and Mac, but this thing SUCKS. iTunes works very well. There is also a plug-in for Windows Media Player, if you want to venture to the dark side.
There is a linux interface as well, although I must admit, I have had problems with it. You need rioutil for the base interface and there are a few front ends you can layer over that. I dont find that the rioutil interface is perfect, because it often uploads songs to the player, yet the player cant play them for some reason.
Anyway, if its sport-ability you want, this is the player for you. Takes on AA battery, lasts about 8 hours on this.
Freesco (for Free Cisco) is a 1.44MB Floppy Linux distribution, which supports
From their site:
(http://www.freesco.com)
Freesco is based on the Linux operating system and incorporates many of the features of a full operating system into software that fits on a single 1.44 meg floppy diskette. With Freesco, you can make:
a simple bridge with up to 3 Ethernet segments
a router with up to 3 Ethernet segments
a dialup line router
a leased line router
an Ethernet router
a dial-in server with up to 2 modems
a time server
a dhcp server
a http server
a print server (requires TCP/IP printing client software)
Freesco also incorporates firewalling and NAT which are resident within the Linux kernel to help protect you and your network. All of these features can be used in conjunction with each other or individually.
I want one of these to watch the World Series or the Superbowl 4 hours early, or even the previous day. Think about the betting possibilities of this...
Celebrity Death Match! In the copyright corner we have Craig Mundie and in the copyleft corner we have Linus Torvalds.
Oooh, Mundie attacks Torvalds with the ingenuity and proprietry ideas of the 25000 Microsoft employees. Oooh, Torvalds counters with the toughts, ideas, code and dedication of hundreds of thousands of talented people the world over. Thats gotta hurt, Fred.
I would love to have sent this one around my office over the weekend. I can see the people on the third floor desperately unplugging everything on Friday for the big Internet Cleaning.
And it seems Sun has a sense of humour (and the budget) to pull stuff like "This year the wall between Scott and Bernie's office was removed to make a lovely 15 yard dog leg right golf hole. Complete with elevated tee and green. The green is protected by two sand traps and yes there is a small pond. It is completely turfed and a golf cart sits out
front with a bumper sticker reading. "Honk if you are a Sun VP". (More here.)
In my experience it has been silly to sepearte a web interface to your datastore and a traditional application interface. It makes no sense. Sure, so you have a 3TB db, why would you need to have a different db if you wanted to add a web interface for your 'cute' website? The whole point is that the datastore never changes, but the interfaces grow and are added and get more and more powerful.
But more to the point if you still believe that websites are cute and not mission critical, what planet have you been hidding on? Oracle does 70% of its trade online. I would say that 70% of your revenue stream is pretty mission critical. What about easyjet.com. They do not exist except on the net. Amazon.com. Yes, their website is just a corporate self promotion gimmick. Not mission critical at all. Go back to your donut, monkeyboy.
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I am not referring to the fact that it could be my wife's, or son's machines, but how does Comcast identify my account? As i said, my whole Cable connection is NAT-ed upstream at comcast.
I have a Comcast cable connection that is NATed. I have a 192.168.0 address on their side of my cable modem. If I were to use Azureus to download a torrent of some illegal movie, how would the legal team at the MPAA trace me? I am assuming they would see some sort of gateway/proxy Comcast address make a peering connection to them (if they were the ones posting a torrent for download - isnt that entrapment?). They would have to then reverse map that IP back to Comcast who would then have to identify my node as having sent/received torrent streams from all the nodes sharing the gateway/proxy. Anyone out there work for Comcast or know how an individual user would be identified in this scenario?
on the desktop, and you have (or can whip up) some documents which will help other companies do the same, then you can win a trip to Novell BrainShare in Spain this year. Novell and O'Reilly are offering a nice little prize.
"Your experience can help guide and inspire others who are considering migrating or who have already embarked on the process. We're looking for entries that describe the benefits realized from a desktop migration, a phased migration plan, or the most practical tips for migrating to Linux. We'll publish the best stories and the top entries have a chance to win some fantastic prizes..."
The Google cluster runs Linux. An army of people created Linux and Google get to download and use it for free. I am positive that there are other OpenSource tools in use at Google in other areas as well. These are the things Google 'took'. I prefer the term 'made use of'
Get home, open up the DVD and then there is a power outage (anbody remember the Great Northeast Power Blackout of 2003?) for 6 hours. Better hope its a short movie!
More information on this at HoaxBusters
We have been using LVS for about 8 months now. It is rock-solid. You would want to be combining it with keepalived for High Availability and failover. The thing about LVS is that it requires 2 dedicated load balancing machines to run in front of your web cluster. This can be a bit expensive. A possible solution that I discovered and am about to start evaluating, is a product called EAC. I initially found this product when searching for a way to cluster some MySQL servers together effectively. They are about to release an Apache solution as well. Where this product seems to differ is that there is no need for dedicated Load Balancing machines. The load distribution and scheduling is done by EAC software which is run directly from the machines in the cluster. As I say, I have not used it yet, but their documentation looks exciting and I have spoken to them in Finland. I am particularly excited about the MySQL clustering solution because it is promising to deliver the holy grail for MySQL which is a cluster of read AND write databases, sharing the same datasource in the same state with little or no performace hit for the real time replication. Bear in mind this is a commercial product with a per CPU license fee. But if you consider that you no longer need dedicated load balancers, the maths looks good.
I have had this for about a year now, bought it 2nd hand. The one problem they ALL face is that the inline remote/lcd unit sucks and WILL stop working properly. Know that. But it doesnt stop this from being the king MP3 player for sport/running. Its small, lightweight, but best of all comes with an arm strap, so you strap it to your upper arm and forget its there. It comes with 128MB (64 built in and a 64MB MC card) memory.
Software-wise, the BEST interface I have found for this is iTunes on OSX. It comes with a proprietary management app for Win and Mac, but this thing SUCKS. iTunes works very well. There is also a plug-in for Windows Media Player, if you want to venture to the dark side.
There is a linux interface as well, although I must admit, I have had problems with it. You need rioutil for the base interface and there are a few front ends you can layer over that. I dont find that the rioutil interface is perfect, because it often uploads songs to the player, yet the player cant play them for some reason.
Anyway, if its sport-ability you want, this is the player for you. Takes on AA battery, lasts about 8 hours on this.
How could anybody want anything other than The Complete James Bond Collection on DVD??
PRICE: £254.99
From their site:
(http://www.freesco.com)
Freesco is based on the Linux operating system and incorporates many of the features of a full operating system into software that fits on a single 1.44 meg floppy diskette. With Freesco, you can make:
Freesco also incorporates firewalling and NAT which are resident within the Linux kernel to help protect you and your network. All of these features can be used in conjunction with each other or individually.
I want one of these to watch the World Series or the Superbowl 4 hours early, or even the previous day. Think about the betting possibilities of this...
Oooh, Mundie attacks Torvalds with the ingenuity and proprietry ideas of the 25000 Microsoft employees. Oooh, Torvalds counters with the toughts, ideas, code and dedication of hundreds of thousands of talented people the world over. Thats gotta hurt, Fred.
game over.
Why dont they make an inexpensive, complex handheld device and call it the Computer..oh, dang, hang on.
And it seems Sun has a sense of humour (and the budget) to pull stuff like "This year the wall between Scott and Bernie's office was removed to make a lovely 15 yard dog leg right golf hole. Complete with elevated tee and green. The green is protected by two sand traps and yes there is a small pond. It is completely turfed and a golf cart sits out front with a bumper sticker reading. "Honk if you are a Sun VP". (More here.)
If they could only limit the use of these disks to Country CDs, then its a blessing in disguise that they prevent duplicates being made of them ;)
In my experience it has been silly to sepearte a web interface to your datastore and a traditional application interface. It makes no sense. Sure, so you have a 3TB db, why would you need to have a different db if you wanted to add a web interface for your 'cute' website? The whole point is that the datastore never changes, but the interfaces grow and are added and get more and more powerful. But more to the point if you still believe that websites are cute and not mission critical, what planet have you been hidding on? Oracle does 70% of its trade online. I would say that 70% of your revenue stream is pretty mission critical. What about easyjet.com. They do not exist except on the net. Amazon.com. Yes, their website is just a corporate self promotion gimmick. Not mission critical at all. Go back to your donut, monkeyboy.