Who Cares if 50% of the *carrying* bandwidth is cut off, we've been reading reports all over that only about 5-10% of the fiber laid is lit. so, saying its 10%, and assuming that all of the capacity on that 10% is taken up..(a gross overstatement), cut 50% of that capacity, and we still have 95% of the old capacity, just light some more wires.. and we're off.
Ok, so even if they start to try to sue people, how exactly are they going to go about this? maybe they come to my house, I blame it on my roommate, he blames it on me, how are they going to know which of us is the bad guy? wait, I have 15 people using my IP address NATed wirelessly through my apt complex. Are they going to sue me because its my internet connection? Am I supposed to be able to monitor/block all traffic that my friends and neighbors use? How are they going to know who is uploading the music? I don't log anything... and my ISP can't tell exactly what computer its coming from inside my network... Never gonna work
Well, really its pretty darn funny. I as was Batt, was in hysterics reading the article. It is pretty darn funny really... I mean attorneys are dumb, and people certainly are sue happy lately.. which is sad.. but its just funny just laugh..
For 3 years $750 million seems pretty small for a market as large as China, I mean really. almost half of the planet's populace, and they're only investing $750 over 3 years? Seems like a pretty small commitment to me from a company that has earnings in excess of 9 billion a year.
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I totally agree with you there, I did not see the article casting a negative light on Linux at all, rather it seemed pretty positive to me, simply asking the question "Where is Linux now?" since the hype and hysteria (as well as the stock prices) have fallen off, I can see how *normal* computer users could be asking that question since you aren't hearing about linux every other day on CNBC and such...
Well, if they do a good job, it will probably sell like hotcakes. It says in the article that they are going to release the source code, and that they don't have a problem putting palladium on a palm... hum.. new shift for MS, we'll see if it really turns out that way. (It would benifit them, the only way to get this running is to have it in *all* systems). Another interesting thing in the article was that it stated that only certain parts of the OS would actually use the palladium chip. So from my reading, and understanding, other applications, that don't use the palladium stuff, would be vulnerable just like they are today, and could easily be used to compromise the whole system. We'll see.
I'm an independent consultant, during the day, I help my clients implement networks/web sites/intranets/custom apps/databases. This is relatively high margin work (if I work for a client for 3 hours, it pays my rent, and food and gas for a month)
I am still a bachelor, and in college, so I don't have the whole family thing to deal with.. but if I did, I wouldn't have to work that much more to continue equal living conditions.
So as you can see, if I work 3 hours a day every day for a month, I have alot of money compared to my expenses.. and I still have 5 hours of a normal workday left (granted school eats up a bit of that) but I still have on average 1-2 hours of time left in a normal 8 hour business workday to spend developing free software, because I like to, and because it helps my clients, because the things I develop go directly into their solutions(not in my free time, but inside of an 8 hour workday leaving my evenings free to go out, have fun, go to concerts, whatever I want). Thats me I don't know about the rest.
I'm sorry you had problems with Linux, I personally have been using it for about a year, and it is now finally the only OS I use (as of 2 weeks ago, 5 computers..) Anyway, there is definately a learning curve involved with Linux, but, there is also a learning curve with windows.. we just don't remember because it was 7-8 years ago, and now its just natural to us.
Anyway, I can install most all software under Linux now, very easily, I use it for everything, and it works (beautifully I might add) sometimes things don't quite work on the first try.. but, then I've had more problems trying to run Netscape and Seti@home under win2k then I've had with either of those programs under Linux.. those are just 2 examples.. there are many more...
The point is, I know how to fix the problems in windows better because I've been doing it for 8 years now.. in 8 years, Linux will be so natural to me, I'll have to think hard to come up with examples of things that don't work, because fixing the problems will just be a natural response requiring no thought, and will therefore be easily forgotten.. (just as software problems under windows are right now). So I would say, have patience, try Linux again, maybe not as your primary OS, but on a secondary computer, and just mess with it.. Or if you don't want to invest the time, keep paying MS to keep you comfortable and inside of what you already know. basically you can invest time or money, to me investing the time was the better investment, I now know more, and I don't have to invest money anymore... It's your choice.
ok, first off, I started my company for $0.00 up front, how? I used free software, and my knowledge to barter with an attorney, accountant, small business consultant, and a marketing company, and received all of their services free of charge (oh wait, not free of charge...), for a year. We are a 2 man consulting/services op, we've got a really good thing going, and we've been quite profitable since day 1. (since we needed absolutely no capital to start.... that wasn't hard). I'm going to Hawaii for 2 weeks, my partner is in China for the next 2 weeks... geeze, seems like we're doing ok making money with this free software.. Our profit margins are high enough, that we can spend considerable time working on the free software we most often use in our client's solutions, we are not "paid" for doing this development, but wait, yes we are... by developing a better solution, we garner more clients, sure, the solutions are open source, and our competitors have access to them.. and could use *our* solutions... however, if the world is that *devoid* of clients, that I have to be worried about them "running out" or "being scarce" than why am I in this business? Oh wait, there are lots and lots of clients out there, the arguments presented here against free software, all rely on scarcity, and a lack of people willing to pay for consulting/services/support. I am a programmer, and I get paid, quite well I might add, for writing OSS.. Turning software into something like the Attorney/Accountant industry is not a bad thing, ever look in the phone book under Attorneys? Where I am there are 300... pages! 300 pages of attorneys, they all make money.. some more than others, sometimes based on skill sometimes on luck, but hey thats business, turning software into a professional services industry instead of a retail industry is good for everyone. It will allow more people without computer knowledge or a desire to attain said knowledge to have access to computers. No matter how "user friendly" MS can make their software, there will always be a barrier to entry when it comes to computers KNOWLEDGE(my mother and father cannot set up a web server in WinXP, even though its turned on by default, they would not know how to register a domain name, set up DNS, hell, they don't know the difference between a static and dynamic IP address...) and, guess what? They don't want to know! Nor do my clients, they couldn't care less how it works, they just want an intranet, a web site, corporate email, and their network to work reliably and be secure... People like this will ALWAYS exist, they are not scarce. I don't want to know all about accounting, or laws, so I'll gladly pay an accountant, and an attorney to take care of those things when I need them, its worth it to me. This is what specialization is all about. OSS is a beautiful thing! I'm not a fanatic of OSS, just praticality.
you should read your stories before you try to connect them, the STARS system mentioned in that story is not the system that DELL/RED HAT/ORACLE are installing in Virginia.
From reading the stories, it seems STARS is the front end that has all the bugs, and will be installed *everywhere* while the Virginia system seems to me to be some sort of back-end, as it mentions storing all flights from across the nation and will be installed *In Virginia*..
If ICANN begins to seriously limit freedom on the net, by some means, it will be a simple thing for a "new" net to emerge, we already have the alternate DNS roots, I can see a dual net going on, one on the ICANN tld's, (corporations, government, universities), and then, another on the alternate DNS roots, (techies, nerds, brains, and also Universities) and it can be like it was in the early days, mainly for research, learning, lol, we should get Internet 2 to run strictly on the alternate DNS systems... Anyway, having this dual internet situation is not bad I don't think, it gives the corporations a place to use the net, and they need it, and it would give us freedom fighters a place to not be bothered by the corporations.
I would say his mistake was not in being a lone inventor, RCA paid him a million dollars, and royalties on each TV sold... in the 40's that was tons and tons of money. His error was simply being too prideful about *HIS* invention... (ready for the mod down) ala RMS with the linux naming scheme...
If he would have taken his money, and been thankful and happy about it, where is the failure? there is none. Only in feeling somehow ripped off by RCA did he let himself fall to where he ended up.
hardware: 2 servers, each 15k scsi drives, dual 1ghz p3, 2GB RAM. Hardly under-spec. granted, single tcp sessions, not UDP, and I agree, it isn't "a record" in speed, but how would you like to download a cd from amsterdam in 13 seconds? its still pretty impressive.
From reading that article it feels (unlike the movie and music industries) like the advertising interested is actually looking at ways to change their business to adapt to the new technology.
Granted some idiots run around screaming "theft" but, most of the article talks about alternative ways to advertise, I especially like the quote from the rep. who said "We'll have to start making ads that people want to watch".
it would be nice if all of the ads were as entertaining as the super bowl ads, and thats what we have to look forward to if people follow through on that article.
what you forget is a 1gbps ethernet connection might get 300mbps of actual throughput.. and its almost always much lower than that (at work between 2 servers with 1gbps nics, I can normally get throughput of about 150-250mbps) and thats 2 computers sitting right next to each other on the rack.
Across the atlantic, 400mbps is pretty darn impressive.
Don't use TCP/IP as a network protocol???? How on earth do you run a web server/database server on the same machine without using TCP/IP??
What kind of security measure is that?
"Microsoft announces their cure to all of the security holes in their software, simply do not connect any machines running MS software to the internet!!".
I've been messing with MySQL and PostgreSQL a bit recently, and I have some experience with MS SQL as well.
This bug is obviously MS's fault, the default install of MS SQL allows connections from anywhere, what is that? I don't even think there is a per IP or IP range block you can put specifically on MS SQL.
In contrast MySQL and PostgreSQL both default install with only local host allowed to connect to the DB. And, the admin has to specifically *ALLOW* hosts or IP ranges to connect.
Obviously, a brute force attack on a specific TCP port number will not work against MySQL or PostgreSQL, as the connection will be refused outright, unless the worm can also spoof IP's.
My business partner has a really good one of these. I've never seen it miss, whole ball games, movies, half hour shows, everything, whole vhs tapes full of tv, with no adds. I don't know what manufacturer/model his is, but I know it works.
I have a web server connected through 1mbps sync DSL. the DSL costs me $80/mo. the ISP is $26/mo. and that includes 8 static IPs. I run DNS on my 2 computers so I have that covered, so for $100/mo. I have basically full control over anything I want to put on the web. The initial setup was very cheap (router came with my DSL, cisco 678) and I just use standard desktop machines running linux as servers, I've got a UPS that gives me 30 minutes of power outage coverage. I have very little downtime, basically if the power goes out for more than 30 minutes is the only time I reboot the web server.
The company that I work for got hit with a BSA audit last year, it cost us more than $1 million in fines and legalizing our licensing, plus the auditing software we were required to install on all machines company wide.
Most of the software they found "illegal" was legal, but had been purchased by local offices and the licenses had been lost. (Who keeps around Win95 licenses? or Office 95 licenses?)
The BSA has a media blitz going on here in SLC right now as well, as I guess everyone has a grace period until May 31, and then the BSA is gonna go crazy auditing everyone here... Evil.
It doesn't seem difficult to block out all traffic from China, as we've seen recently the blocking of email traffic from large portions of asia, putting a block on all internet traffic from China is a menial task.
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Who Cares if 50% of the *carrying* bandwidth is cut off, we've been reading reports all over that only about 5-10% of the fiber laid is lit. so, saying its 10%, and assuming that all of the capacity on that 10% is taken up..(a gross overstatement), cut 50% of that capacity, and we still have 95% of the old capacity, just light some more wires.. and we're off.
Strange, I wonder what MS will be doing there?
hopefully no one burns their booth down...
Ok, so even if they start to try to sue people, how exactly are they going to go about this? maybe they come to my house, I blame it on my roommate, he blames it on me, how are they going to know which of us is the bad guy? wait, I have 15 people using my IP address NATed wirelessly through my apt complex. Are they going to sue me because its my internet connection? Am I supposed to be able to monitor/block all traffic that my friends and neighbors use? How are they going to know who is uploading the music? I don't log anything... and my ISP can't tell exactly what computer its coming from inside my network... Never gonna work
Well, really its pretty darn funny.
I as was Batt, was in hysterics reading the article.
It is pretty darn funny really... I mean attorneys are dumb, and people certainly are sue happy lately.. which is sad.. but its just funny
just laugh..
For 3 years $750 million seems pretty small for a market as large as China, I mean really. almost half of the planet's populace, and they're only investing $750 over 3 years? Seems like a pretty small commitment to me from a company that has earnings in excess of 9 billion a year.
I totally agree with you there, I did not see the article casting a negative light on Linux at all, rather it seemed pretty positive to me, simply asking the question "Where is Linux now?" since the hype and hysteria (as well as the stock prices) have fallen off, I can see how *normal* computer users could be asking that question since you aren't hearing about linux every other day on CNBC and such...
Well, if they do a good job, it will probably sell like hotcakes. It says in the article that they are going to release the source code, and that they don't have a problem putting palladium on a palm... hum.. new shift for MS, we'll see if it really turns out that way. (It would benifit them, the only way to get this running is to have it in *all* systems). Another interesting thing in the article was that it stated that only certain parts of the OS would actually use the palladium chip. So from my reading, and understanding, other applications, that don't use the palladium stuff, would be vulnerable just like they are today, and could easily be used to compromise the whole system. We'll see.
Just cause no one else replied, I will,
I'm an independent consultant, during the day, I help my clients implement networks/web sites/intranets/custom apps/databases. This is relatively high margin work (if I work for a client for 3 hours, it pays my rent, and food and gas for a month)
I am still a bachelor, and in college, so I don't have the whole family thing to deal with.. but if I did, I wouldn't have to work that much more to continue equal living conditions.
So as you can see, if I work 3 hours a day every day for a month, I have alot of money compared to my expenses.. and I still have 5 hours of a normal workday left (granted school eats up a bit of that) but I still have on average 1-2 hours of time left in a normal 8 hour business workday to spend developing free software, because I like to, and because it helps my clients, because the things I develop go directly into their solutions(not in my free time, but inside of an 8 hour workday leaving my evenings free to go out, have fun, go to concerts, whatever I want). Thats me I don't know about the rest.
I'm sorry you had problems with Linux, I personally have been using it for about a year, and it is now finally the only OS I use (as of 2 weeks ago, 5 computers..) Anyway, there is definately a learning curve involved with Linux, but, there is also a learning curve with windows.. we just don't remember because it was 7-8 years ago, and now its just natural to us.
Anyway, I can install most all software under Linux now, very easily, I use it for everything, and it works (beautifully I might add) sometimes things don't quite work on the first try.. but, then I've had more problems trying to run Netscape and Seti@home under win2k then I've had with either of those programs under Linux.. those are just 2 examples.. there are many more...
The point is, I know how to fix the problems in windows better because I've been doing it for 8 years now.. in 8 years, Linux will be so natural to me, I'll have to think hard to come up with examples of things that don't work, because fixing the problems will just be a natural response requiring no thought, and will therefore be easily forgotten.. (just as software problems under windows are right now). So I would say, have patience, try Linux again, maybe not as your primary OS, but on a secondary computer, and just mess with it.. Or if you don't want to invest the time, keep paying MS to keep you comfortable and inside of what you already know. basically you can invest time or money, to me investing the time was the better investment, I now know more, and I don't have to invest money anymore... It's your choice.
ok, first off, I started my company for $0.00 up front, how? I used free software, and my knowledge to barter with an attorney, accountant, small business consultant, and a marketing company, and received all of their services free of charge (oh wait, not free of charge...), for a year. We are a 2 man consulting/services op, we've got a really good thing going, and we've been quite profitable since day 1. (since we needed absolutely no capital to start.... that wasn't hard). I'm going to Hawaii for 2 weeks, my partner is in China for the next 2 weeks... geeze, seems like we're doing ok making money with this free software.. Our profit margins are high enough, that we can spend considerable time working on the free software we most often use in our client's solutions, we are not "paid" for doing this development, but wait, yes we are... by developing a better solution, we garner more clients, sure, the solutions are open source, and our competitors have access to them.. and could use *our* solutions... however, if the world is that *devoid* of clients, that I have to be worried about them "running out" or "being scarce" than why am I in this business? Oh wait, there are lots and lots of clients out there, the arguments presented here against free software, all rely on scarcity, and a lack of people willing to pay for consulting/services/support. I am a programmer, and I get paid, quite well I might add, for writing OSS.. Turning software into something like the Attorney/Accountant industry is not a bad thing, ever look in the phone book under Attorneys? Where I am there are 300... pages! 300 pages of attorneys, they all make money.. some more than others, sometimes based on skill sometimes on luck, but hey thats business, turning software into a professional services industry instead of a retail industry is good for everyone. It will allow more people without computer knowledge or a desire to attain said knowledge to have access to computers. No matter how "user friendly" MS can make their software, there will always be a barrier to entry when it comes to computers KNOWLEDGE(my mother and father cannot set up a web server in WinXP, even though its turned on by default, they would not know how to register a domain name, set up DNS, hell, they don't know the difference between a static and dynamic IP address...) and, guess what? They don't want to know! Nor do my clients, they couldn't care less how it works, they just want an intranet, a web site, corporate email, and their network to work reliably and be secure... People like this will ALWAYS exist, they are not scarce. I don't want to know all about accounting, or laws, so I'll gladly pay an accountant, and an attorney to take care of those things when I need them, its worth it to me. This is what specialization is all about. OSS is a beautiful thing! I'm not a fanatic of OSS, just praticality.
you should read your stories before you try to connect them, the STARS system mentioned in that story is not the system that DELL/RED HAT/ORACLE are installing in Virginia.
From reading the stories, it seems STARS is the front end that has all the bugs, and will be installed *everywhere* while the Virginia system seems to me to be some sort of back-end, as it mentions storing all flights from across the nation and will be installed *In Virginia*..
If ICANN begins to seriously limit freedom on the net, by some means, it will be a simple thing for a "new" net to emerge, we already have the alternate DNS roots, I can see a dual net going on, one on the ICANN tld's, (corporations, government, universities), and then, another on the alternate DNS roots, (techies, nerds, brains, and also Universities) and it can be like it was in the early days, mainly for research, learning, lol, we should get Internet 2 to run strictly on the alternate DNS systems... Anyway, having this dual internet situation is not bad I don't think, it gives the corporations a place to use the net, and they need it, and it would give us freedom fighters a place to not be bothered by the corporations.
talk about war on terrorism!
Good idea!
I would say his mistake was not in being a lone inventor, RCA paid him a million dollars, and royalties on each TV sold... in the 40's that was tons and tons of money. His error was simply being too prideful about *HIS* invention... (ready for the mod down) ala RMS with the linux naming scheme...
If he would have taken his money, and been thankful and happy about it, where is the failure? there is none. Only in feeling somehow ripped off by RCA did he let himself fall to where he ended up.
hardware: 2 servers, each 15k scsi drives, dual 1ghz p3, 2GB RAM. Hardly under-spec. granted, single tcp sessions, not UDP,
and I agree, it isn't "a record" in speed, but how would you like to download a cd from amsterdam in 13 seconds? its still pretty impressive.
From reading that article it feels (unlike the movie and music industries) like the advertising interested is actually looking at ways to change their business to adapt to the new technology.
Granted some idiots run around screaming "theft" but, most of the article talks about alternative ways to advertise, I especially like the quote from the rep. who said "We'll have to start making ads that people want to watch".
it would be nice if all of the ads were as entertaining as the super bowl ads, and thats what we have to look forward to if people follow through on that article.
what you forget is a 1gbps ethernet connection might get 300mbps of actual throughput.. and its almost always much lower than that (at work between 2 servers with 1gbps nics, I can normally get throughput of about 150-250mbps) and thats 2 computers sitting right next to each other on the rack.
Across the atlantic, 400mbps is pretty darn impressive.
Don't use TCP/IP as a network protocol????
How on earth do you run a web server/database server on the same machine without using TCP/IP??
What kind of security measure is that?
"Microsoft announces their cure to all of the security holes in their software, simply do not connect any machines running MS software to the internet!!".
I've been messing with MySQL and PostgreSQL a bit recently, and I have some experience with MS SQL as well.
This bug is obviously MS's fault, the default install of MS SQL allows connections from anywhere, what is that? I don't even think there is a per IP or IP range block you can put specifically on MS SQL.
In contrast MySQL and PostgreSQL both default install with only local host allowed to connect to the DB. And, the admin has to specifically *ALLOW* hosts or IP ranges to connect.
Obviously, a brute force attack on a specific TCP port number will not work against MySQL or PostgreSQL, as the connection will be refused outright, unless the worm can also spoof IP's.
Dumb defaults MS, once again.
There was a story here a couple weeks ago about the evils of best buy.
Why are we suprised that they don't care about their customers, they've already proved that with the nVidia 4600 Ti scandal.
My business partner has a really good one of these.
I've never seen it miss, whole ball games, movies,
half hour shows, everything, whole vhs tapes full of tv, with no adds. I don't know what manufacturer/model his is, but I know it works.
I live in Salt Lake City, its a local one here they aren't anywhere else but Utah.
Xmission is what they are called.
solid though all around.
I have a web server connected through 1mbps sync DSL. the DSL costs me $80/mo. the ISP is $26/mo. and that includes 8 static IPs. I run DNS on my 2 computers so I have that covered, so for $100/mo. I have basically full control over anything I want to put on the web. The initial setup was very cheap (router came with my DSL, cisco 678) and I just use standard desktop machines running linux as servers, I've got a UPS that gives me 30 minutes of power outage coverage. I have very little downtime, basically if the power goes out for more than 30 minutes is the only time I reboot the web server.
The company that I work for got hit with a BSA audit last year, it cost us more than $1 million in fines and legalizing our licensing, plus the auditing software we were required to install on all machines company wide.
Most of the software they found "illegal" was legal, but had been purchased by local offices and the licenses had been lost. (Who keeps around Win95 licenses? or Office 95 licenses?)
The BSA has a media blitz going on here in SLC right now as well, as I guess everyone has a grace period until May 31, and then the BSA is gonna go crazy auditing everyone here... Evil.
It doesn't seem difficult to block out all traffic from China, as we've seen recently the
blocking of email traffic from large portions of asia, putting a block on all internet traffic from China is a menial task.