Part of the reason is that even in more "progressive" European nations oil and dirty engergy is very heavily subsidized.
What countries, exactly ? Generally in the US gas is way cheaper than in Europe
In cheaper countries in.EU, gas is around EUR 1,- a liter, which translates to around US 4.50 a gallon. In.NL it's even worse - around US 6,- a gallon.
Actually, Sender-ID is a standard for MTAs (Message Transfer Agents) and here open-source sofware/does/ dominate the market. The four large names are Sendmail, Qmail, Postfix, and Exim.
For more info see the IETF sender-id mailinglist at http://www.imc.org/ietf-mxcomp/mail-archive/thread s.html
Current policy at RIPE and ARIN is that every ISP can get IPv6 addresses just as easy as IPv4. Just ask and you'll get a/32. Recommended allocation to customers is a/48 (yes, 65536 64-bit subnets - 281474976710656 times the complete IPv4 address space for each enduser).
Customers need to renumber when moving ISPs, but ISPs themselves get their own static space.
And renumbering for endusers isn't that complicated either - only the subnet changes, you can keep the address in the/64 the same.
I was vacationing in Toronto at the time, I pressed the elevator button in the hotel that afternoon and the power went out. I actually thought for a moment "uh-oh, did I do that ?";)
Fortunately we were already invited by Canadian friends that night for dinner. They just threw a barbequeue instead. They had gotten large bags of ice (just in time, people were lining up for those) to keep the beer cool. Friends and family came over and we had a great party !
Has anyone here abandoned an email address after it became such a spam magnet as to be nearly unusable?
Well, my inbox consolidates my own account that has existed from 1995, and several support accounts, and I get around 1500-2000 spams per day in that inbox. Fortunately 99% of that is filtered by spamassassin, but it's getting worse and worse.
I do think the author missed something about Europe though. It is obviously behind the United States in many respects. Most importantly again the availability of technology to the average person and the quality of life.
In Europe we have 8 mbit DSL connections for U$ 50-65 / month, IPv6, 16x9 television, you name it. I was in the USA a few years ago and there were a lot of people without a cell phone. In Europe, children from the age of 7 and up have cellphones. Using digital (GSM) technology, developed in Europe, by European companies.
And we actually hear about other countries than our own on the news..
There is a difference between the envelope-from address at the SMTP level and the From: header in the headers.
You set the envelope-from address to the account you actually sent the mail from (ISP), and the From: header line to the address the recipient actually sees in his mail client. Problem solved.
Duh. I miscalculated. 20,000 Gbyte/day is about 2 Gbit/sec, not 20. So it isn't that much after all. Still, with only 8 download sites over the world each site must be able to deliver 250 Mbit/sec sustained, probably 1 Gbit/sec peak. That still is a lot per site.
The download page only lists 8 locations over the world to download from. Even if all of those servers are connected with 1 Gbit/sec ethernet cards to "the backbone" (I know, there's no such thing), and they are able to max out that bandwidth, you cannot ever let 100.000 people download 600 MB worth of data.
100,000 people downloading 600 MB over the coarse of 3 days, that's 20,000 Gbyte/day. That would be 20 Gbit/sec non-stop bandwidth. Assuming that a normal FTP server has trouble enough filling a 100 Mbit link, and that most sites don't have an OC48 link to the internet, they would need at least 200 download sites spread over the globe. Or 20 sites that have at least a 1 Gbit uplink and a small FTP server farm at each site.
So they probably hope that only a few thousand people end up downloading the CD, otherwise they probably need to go talk to a company like Akamai.
You're misinformed. Cistron Telecom is now a 100% competitor to the KPN monopolists and do have access to the last mile. Cistron has it's own fiber network, own SS7 switches and own DSLAMs and IP network. In fact Cistron even does wholesale to other parties, just like KPN does with mxstream.
And mainstreet didn't have the first DSL connection in Amsterdam. People were doing that in 1993.
Well, the GTK side ofcourse. If you're developing a closed source application to run on Linux, why should you have to pay *trolltech* ? I mean, I'd pay Linus, I'd even pay the Xfree86 team, but that whole foundation is free, and it's *only* TrollTech that picks the fruit of all of the free software communities hard labour ?
*That* is what's going to happen if KDE becomes the standard desktop. Therefor I'm not going to support or use it.
Right. While in fact American income taxes are among the lowest in the world.
If the USA wants to do something about this, Greenspan should fix the overrated US dollar. A few weeks ago I spend one week traveling along the California coast. Just the cost of a car, motels, meals and a few beers was almost what I make in a month, and I really don't have a bad job. 4 US$ for a beer ?! come on! I pay the equivalent of 1 US$ here in.NL. Everything was about 2-4 times more expensive than in western europe, except for the high-tech toys and the gas ofcourse.
Remeber, the bandwidth is used at the ethernet layer. A 29 byte udp packet still uses 1500 bytes of bandwidth.
I've read this comment a few times now. It is nonsense, ofcourse. Ethernet packet are variably sized. And you can most certainly send a 29 byte UDP packet.
Which got me thinking about how things such as telepathy and other ESP phenomenon could be replicated easily if we used our bodies as the UI to computers in the future
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -Arthur C. Clarke
It would be really nice if some Denbian and RedHat people would maintain cryptography enabled packages with were always up to date and easy to install
Debian has this. Just point apt to http://non-us.debian.org/debian/ and there you have apache-ssl, modssl, openssl, ssh, you name it. Hosted in the Netherlands.
Well no QT or harmony should be under the LGPL- otherwise, you end up with the situation that companies can only develop applications for KDE if they either release the source, or if they pay troll-tech. That would be a shame - all of Linux free, kernel, X, compiler, etc, but you have to pay some obscure company in Norway that has nothing to do with Linux perse to develop applications for it. Yuck. I'd rather pay Linus T. something.
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Part of the reason is that even in more "progressive" European nations oil and dirty engergy is very heavily subsidized.
.EU, gas is around EUR 1,- a liter, which translates to around US 4.50 a gallon. In .NL it's even worse - around US 6,- a gallon.
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What countries, exactly ? Generally in the US gas is way cheaper than in Europe
In cheaper countries in
It's more like that oil is very heavily taxed
Actually, Sender-ID is a standard for MTAs (Message Transfer Agents) and here open-source sofware /does/ dominate the market. The four large names are Sendmail, Qmail, Postfix, and Exim.
d s.html
For more info see the IETF sender-id mailinglist at http://www.imc.org/ietf-mxcomp/mail-archive/threa
Current policy at RIPE and ARIN is that every ISP can get IPv6 addresses just as easy as IPv4. Just ask and you'll get a /32. Recommended allocation to customers is a /48 (yes, 65536 64-bit subnets - 281474976710656 times the complete IPv4 address space for each enduser).
/64 the same.
Customers need to renumber when moving ISPs, but ISPs themselves get their own static space.
And renumbering for endusers isn't that complicated either - only the subnet changes, you can keep the address in the
So you connect to port 587 (submission protocol - it's just authenticated SMTP) of the mailserver of your mail-forwarding service, and send your mail.
.. codename "domino" ?
I was vacationing in Toronto at the time, I pressed the elevator button in the hotel that afternoon and the power went out. I actually thought for a moment "uh-oh, did I do that ?" ;)
Fortunately we were already invited by Canadian friends that night for dinner. They just threw a barbequeue instead. They had gotten large bags of ice (just in time, people were lining up for those) to keep the beer cool. Friends and family came over and we had a great party !
Has anyone here abandoned an email address after it became such a spam magnet as to be nearly unusable?
Well, my inbox consolidates my own account that has existed from 1995, and several support accounts, and I get around 1500-2000 spams per day in that inbox. Fortunately 99% of that is filtered by spamassassin, but it's getting worse and worse.
+2, flamebait ?
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I do think the author missed something about Europe though. It is obviously behind the United States in many respects. Most importantly again the availability of technology to the average person and the quality of life.
In Europe we have 8 mbit DSL connections for U$ 50-65 / month, IPv6, 16x9 television, you name it. I was in the USA a few years ago and there were a lot of people without a cell phone. In Europe, children from the age of 7 and up have cellphones. Using digital (GSM) technology, developed in Europe, by European companies.
And we actually hear about other countries than our own on the news
Mike.
There is a difference between the envelope-from address at the SMTP level and the From: header in the headers.
You set the envelope-from address to the account you actually sent the mail from (ISP), and the From: header line to the address the recipient actually sees in his mail client. Problem solved.
if only there was an effective reference implementation
Ah, but there is. http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/
Duh. I miscalculated. 20,000 Gbyte/day is about 2 Gbit/sec, not 20. So it isn't that much after all. Still, with only 8 download sites over the world each site must be able to deliver 250 Mbit/sec sustained, probably 1 Gbit/sec peak. That still is a lot per site.
The download page only lists 8 locations over the world to download from. Even if all of those servers are connected with 1 Gbit/sec ethernet cards to "the backbone" (I know, there's no such thing), and they are able to max out that bandwidth, you cannot ever let 100.000 people download 600 MB worth of data.
100,000 people downloading 600 MB over the coarse of 3 days, that's 20,000 Gbyte/day. That would be 20 Gbit/sec non-stop bandwidth. Assuming that a normal FTP server has trouble enough filling a 100 Mbit link, and that most sites don't have an OC48 link to the internet, they would need at least 200 download sites spread over the globe. Or 20 sites that have at least a 1 Gbit uplink and a small FTP server farm at each site.
So they probably hope that only a few thousand people end up downloading the CD, otherwise they probably need to go talk to a company like Akamai.
You're misinformed. Cistron Telecom is now a 100% competitor to the KPN monopolists and do have access to the last mile. Cistron has it's own fiber network, own SS7 switches and own DSLAMs and IP network. In fact Cistron even does wholesale to other parties, just like KPN does with mxstream.
And mainstreet didn't have the first DSL connection in Amsterdam. People were doing that in 1993.
Yes, that they think there _is_ no world outside of the USA. Where would they have learned about the rest of the world? At school ?
> There's still a final conference to be
> held in Novemeber to ratify the decision
YM "rectify"
Well, the GTK side ofcourse. If you're developing a closed source application to run on Linux, why should you have to pay *trolltech* ? I mean, I'd pay Linus, I'd even pay the Xfree86 team, but that whole foundation is free, and it's *only* TrollTech that picks the fruit of all of the free software communities hard labour ?
*That* is what's going to happen if KDE becomes the standard desktop. Therefor I'm not going to support or use it.
Right. While in fact American income taxes are among the lowest in the world.
.NL. Everything was about 2-4 times more expensive than in western europe, except for the high-tech toys and the gas ofcourse.
If the USA wants to do something about this, Greenspan should fix the overrated US dollar. A few weeks ago I spend one week traveling along the California coast. Just the cost of a car, motels, meals and a few beers was almost what I make in a month, and I really don't have a bad job. 4 US$ for a beer ?! come on! I pay the equivalent of 1 US$ here in
That reminds me of the bad news drive from Douglas Adams HHGTTG..
Remeber, the bandwidth is used at the ethernet layer. A 29 byte udp packet still uses 1500 bytes of bandwidth.
I've read this comment a few times now. It is nonsense, ofcourse. Ethernet packet are variably sized. And you can most certainly send a 29 byte UDP packet.
Remeber, the bandwidth is used at the ethernet layer. A 29 byte udp packet still uses 1500 bytes of bandwidth.
I've read this comment a few times now. It is nonsense, ofcourse. Ethernet packet are variably sized.
Which got me thinking about how things such as telepathy and other ESP phenomenon could be replicated easily if we used
our bodies as the UI to computers in the future
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -Arthur C. Clarke
It would be really nice if some Denbian and RedHat people would maintain cryptography enabled packages with were always up to date and easy to install
Debian has this. Just point apt to http://non-us.debian.org/debian/ and there you have apache-ssl, modssl, openssl, ssh, you name it. Hosted in the Netherlands.
Handsfree carphones flopped? Well, they are compulsatory in the Netherlands now. It's illegal to drive and use a non-handsfree phone in your car.
See http://ftp-eng.cisco.com/pub/IPv6/ for IOS images for a lot of Cisco routers
Well no QT or harmony should be under the LGPL- otherwise, you end up with the situation that companies can only develop applications for KDE if they either release the source, or if they pay troll-tech. That would be a shame - all of Linux free, kernel, X, compiler, etc, but you have to pay some obscure company in Norway that has nothing to do with Linux perse to develop applications for it. Yuck. I'd rather pay Linus T. something.