We, too, have noticed these problems, and more. Both Comcast and Verizon DSL have consistent problems with their DNS servers. It has not only become extremely frustrating for us here at DynDNS who use those ISPs at home, but we've also received numerous queries from our customers asking if there is anything that can be done to solve the problem.
To that end, we are now offering a recursive DNS service for customers who wish to ditch their ISPs unreliable servers and sign up for a DNS service that actually works.
DNS is what we do and we're dedicated to providing the best service possible.
Wonderful! Thank you! I'm glad to see that there are at least a few people left with a clue.
Remember: Pure democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch. In pure democracy the minority has no protection from the tyranny of the majority.
Pure democracies ultimately end up as totalitarian regimes.
One may argue that this has already happened in the U.S. but that is beyond the scope of this discussion.
"Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule--and both commonly succeed, and are right..." -- HL Mencken
In January of 1996 I began development of a general purpose package to perform a database query based on the contents of a web form. A user would fill out the form, POST it to the web server which would launch my application (written in Perl).
My application would read a config file that would tell it how to decode the form contents and perform the query. The config file also contained a template HTML page that would tell the application how to format the results and display them.
Another neat thing about this app was that it included an API you could use to write Perl functions and include them in the config file to do pre- and post-processing of query and result data.
Nothing in the app was hard-coded. You could use it to do just about any kind of web-based database query. And, internally at DEC, we did just that.
This package was successfully deployed and used to power the website of the BAA (Boston Athletic Association) for the 100th anniversary Boston Marathon on April 15th, 1996. That system was an AlphaServer 2100 running what was then known as Digital Unix, Netscape web server and Oracle 7-something.
Yeah, we probably could have patented that sucker, but it just seemed so... er... obvious.
While I agree that the TurboLaser architecture is old technology, I must point out that it WILL run the latest processor chips. I have a GS140 in my lab that has eight EV67 processors @ 700MHz and 20GB of RAM.
The Wildfire series will be cool when they start shipping. Up to 32 processors and 256GB of RAM in a single system based on switching technology. Then you can start clustering those puppies together for some really impressive numbers.
My favorite, though, is the ES40. It is, without a doubt, the nicest machine we're currently shipping. My ES40 with 667MHz EV67 processors is almost twice as fast as my "old" GS140 with 700MHz EV67 processors. How? It's the memory switch!
Look at the numbers. The reason NT got dropped from the Alpha lineup is that it accounted for something like 2% of Alpha sales. There was no compelling business case to continue the support.
OpenVMS, on the other hand, still has a *huge* customer base. *You* may not like it, but a lot of customers do and they keep buying systems, upgrades and support. OpenVMS will be around as long as it still makes money for us. NT didn't and it's gone.
The AlphaServer SC is a cluster of up to 64 ES40 machines connected by a high-speed memory channel.
The ES40 can take up to four EV67 Alpha processors running at 667MHz and 16GB of memory. Memory is 4-way interleaved on a crossbar switch rather than a conventional memory bus. It's a really nice machine.
A fully decked-out AlphaServer SC can, therefore, have up to 256 processors and 1 Terabyte of RAM.
If part of your strategy is based on a product that allows you to compete with the Micro$oft market and provide compatibility with it, you'd be sunk if Micro$oft decided to buy the company and kill the product. M$ has been known to do this.
Perhaps Cobalt decided to buy Chilli!Soft before Micro$oft did.
I had this sudden, hysterical vision of a Matrix-like world in which countless towers, each miles high, housed hundreds of millions of cows attached to elaborate machinery.
This machinery included large anal probes to collect methane gas which the machines used to produce energy...
Discover? Yeah, there's a reliable source for ya...
And the National Enquirer told me that if you look real close you'll be able to see the face of Princess Di and JFK Jr's love child on the surface of the moon.
The Viking Mars Lander cameras built by Itek Optical Systems. (Their ability to do stereoscopic imaging is what helped TRW to debug their crummy robot arm.)
Speaking strictly for myself and not for my employer, I'd like to find the idiot within the Company who came up with the brilliant idea to take a perfectly good OS and burden it with such a stupid name as "Tru64".
Upon finding said idiot, I will thrash him soundly about the head and shoulders with an old VT100 keyboard.
:-)
Hey, I work there and I still call it "Digital Unix."
OK, so I'm relatively safe, hiding up here in the mountains in New Hampshire.
My sister, on the other hand, lives in Jupiter, FL, really close to the coast, and works in the ER at a local hospital. She's on call and CAN'T evacuate. She got her kids to safety, out of state, but she has to ride this sucker out and I, for one, am really worried about it.
Nothing sucks more than knowing your loved ones are in imminent peril.
Yeah, being able to watch the carnage remotely may be cool, just don't forget that this is real and is affecting the lives of real people.
I'd like to know who is responsible for using a living thing as a gimick. It's an insensitive thing to do.
I absolutely agree with you 100%. Using a living thing as a gimick to lure people into your booth at the show is a really sleazy thing to do.
Take those nice-lookin' babes with the big breasts and low neck-lines, for example. Fits your model perfectly but I didn't hear anyone complaining about them.
Lighten up. There are far worse things to get upset about.
And one more thing - technology that has been around for 30 years is there for a reason - it works.
Precisely.
I have a radio sitting on my desk (early 1900's), I'm using a QWERTY keyboard (1920's), I'm looking a cathode ray tube monitor (1920's), and I'm setting under an electric light bulb (late 1800's). How old are you Bob?
Bob is old enough to have invented Ethernet over 25 years ago and lots of us are still using one variety or another of that "ancient" technology.
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MKP has prior art on his web site...
http://mkp.net/glo-loo.html
We, too, have noticed these problems, and more. Both Comcast and Verizon DSL have consistent problems with their DNS servers. It has not only become extremely frustrating for us here at DynDNS who use those ISPs at home, but we've also received numerous queries from our customers asking if there is anything that can be done to solve the problem.
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To that end, we are now offering a recursive DNS service for customers who wish to ditch their ISPs unreliable servers and sign up for a DNS service that actually works.
DNS is what we do and we're dedicated to providing the best service possible.
Check here for more details:
http://www.dyndns.org/news/releases/archives/20
Wonderful! Thank you! I'm glad to see that there are at least a few people left with a clue.
Remember: Pure democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch. In pure democracy the minority has no protection from the tyranny of the majority.
Pure democracies ultimately end up as totalitarian regimes.
One may argue that this has already happened in the U.S. but that is beyond the scope of this discussion.
"Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule--and both commonly succeed, and are right..." -- HL Mencken
Everyone assumes that matter + antimatter produces lots of energy.
Unfortunately, every time someone tries to prove it, there are no survivors.
Ahhh, good old Milberg Weiss. They're the moral equivalent of ambulance chasers in the securities law field.
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My application would read a config file that would tell it how to decode the form contents and perform the query. The config file also contained a template HTML page that would tell the application how to format the results and display them.
Another neat thing about this app was that it included an API you could use to write Perl functions and include them in the config file to do pre- and post-processing of query and result data.
Nothing in the app was hard-coded. You could use it to do just about any kind of web-based database query. And, internally at DEC, we did just that.
This package was successfully deployed and used to power the website of the BAA (Boston Athletic Association) for the 100th anniversary Boston Marathon on April 15th, 1996. That system was an AlphaServer 2100 running what was then known as Digital Unix, Netscape web server and Oracle 7-something.
Yeah, we probably could have patented that sucker, but it just seemed so... er... obvious.
That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.
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I gave my boss a reality check. It bounced.
While I agree that the TurboLaser architecture is old technology, I must point out that it WILL run the latest processor chips. I have a GS140 in my lab that has eight EV67 processors @ 700MHz and 20GB of RAM.
The Wildfire series will be cool when they start shipping. Up to 32 processors and 256GB of RAM in a single system based on switching technology. Then you can start clustering those puppies together for some really impressive numbers.
My favorite, though, is the ES40. It is, without a doubt, the nicest machine we're currently shipping. My ES40 with 667MHz EV67 processors is almost twice as fast as my "old" GS140 with 700MHz EV67 processors. How? It's the memory switch!
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I gave my boss a reality check. It bounced.
Look at the numbers. The reason NT got dropped from the Alpha lineup is that it accounted for something like 2% of Alpha sales. There was no compelling business case to continue the support.
OpenVMS, on the other hand, still has a *huge* customer base. *You* may not like it, but a lot of customers do and they keep buying systems, upgrades and support. OpenVMS will be around as long as it still makes money for us. NT didn't and it's gone.
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I gave my boss a reality check. It bounced.
Already been done.
:-)
The AlphaServer SC is a cluster of up to 64 ES40 machines connected by a high-speed memory channel.
The ES40 can take up to four EV67 Alpha processors running at 667MHz and 16GB of memory. Memory is 4-way interleaved on a crossbar switch rather than a conventional memory bus. It's a really nice machine.
A fully decked-out AlphaServer SC can, therefore, have up to 256 processors and 1 Terabyte of RAM.
Is that enough for now?
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I gave my boss a reality check. It bounced.
If part of your strategy is based on a product that allows you to compete with the Micro$oft market and provide compatibility with it, you'd be sunk if Micro$oft decided to buy the company and kill the product. M$ has been known to do this.
Perhaps Cobalt decided to buy Chilli!Soft before Micro$oft did.
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I gave my boss a reality check. It bounced.
This machinery included large anal probes to collect methane gas which the machines used to produce energy...
And it all works fine until the cows wake up...
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I gave my boss a reality check. It bounced.
And the National Enquirer told me that if you look real close you'll be able to see the face of Princess Di and JFK Jr's love child on the surface of the moon.
Sheesh...
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I gave my boss a reality check. It bounced.
The Viking Mars Lander cameras built by Itek Optical Systems. (Their ability to do stereoscopic imaging is what helped TRW to debug their crummy robot arm.)
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I gave my boss a reality check. It bounced.
'Creative accounting' is used by most major corporations, Billy G didn't invent it.
Billy G never invented anything. He just learned how to take the inventions of others and leverage the Hell out of them.
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I gave my boss a reality check. It bounced.
Speaking strictly for myself and not for my employer, I'd like to find the idiot within the Company who came up with the brilliant idea to take a perfectly good OS and burden it with such a stupid name as "Tru64".
Upon finding said idiot, I will thrash him soundly about the head and shoulders with an old VT100 keyboard.
:-)
Hey, I work there and I still call it "Digital Unix."
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I gave my boss a reality check. It bounced.
OK, so I'm relatively safe, hiding up here in the mountains in New Hampshire.
My sister, on the other hand, lives in Jupiter, FL, really close to the coast, and works in the ER at a local hospital. She's on call and CAN'T evacuate. She got her kids to safety, out of state, but she has to ride this sucker out and I, for one, am really worried about it.
Nothing sucks more than knowing your loved ones are in imminent peril.
Yeah, being able to watch the carnage remotely may be cool, just don't forget that this is real and is affecting the lives of real people.
--
I gave my boss a reality check. It bounced.
I'd like to know who is responsible for using a living thing as a gimick. It's an insensitive thing to do.
I absolutely agree with you 100%. Using a living thing as a gimick to lure people into your booth at the show is a really sleazy thing to do.
Take those nice-lookin' babes with the big breasts and low neck-lines, for example. Fits your model perfectly but I didn't hear anyone complaining about them.
Lighten up. There are far worse things to get upset about.
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I gave my boss a reality check. It bounced.
I need a big honkin, uber efficient squirt gun for sniping these kids that keep ringing my doorbell and running.
No, what you need for that particular case is a paintball gun.
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I gave my boss a reality check. It bounced.
That's not funny, that's sick.
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I gave my boss a reality check. It bounced.
And in memory of DeForest Kelley, I just have to say:
Sorry, just couldn't resist. :-)
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I gave my boss a reality check. It bounced.
I prefer the Elvis Costello line, "I used to be disgusted, but now I'm just amused."
Seems pretty fitting to this whole whiny thread.
Precisely.
I have a radio sitting on my desk (early 1900's), I'm using a QWERTY keyboard (1920's), I'm looking a cathode ray tube monitor (1920's), and I'm setting under an electric light bulb (late 1800's). How old are you Bob?
Bob is old enough to have invented Ethernet over 25 years ago and lots of us are still using one variety or another of that "ancient" technology.
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black...
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Doesn't matter. Besides, they're not *that* different.
"CodeFusion" could still be deemed to be an infringement of the "ColdFusion" trademark if it is determined that they are confusingly similar.
This will be especially true when Allaire releases a version of ColdFusion for Linux.
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