If they are transmitting their "own services" in their own network what is there to stop them from setting up their routers to mark packets from their own web (and other) servers with higher quality of service (TOS/Diffserv field)?
Of course these markings lose all meaning when the packet goes out of their AS, but if they want they can always set up peering agreements where the QoS is preserved..
Well, I'm glad that the issues has finally come to light. I heard someone else suspected something along these lines before, but he became Fugitive when he murdered his wife.
When I went to buy a phone recently, the only thing any salesperson wanted to talk to me about was the cameras. I could not care less about the camera, but I ended up with one anyway. At the same time, a feature I really wanted to have - that my old, dying phone had - I couldn't find on any of the "better" new phones: a nested phone book, so that one name (one entry in the phone book list) could be associated with multiple numbers from which I could choose after selecting the name.
ALL Nokia's Series 60 phones have this feature starting from the several years old 7650 to the latest 6680 3G phone (with the dual cameras). That phonebook entry can also include email addresses and such if you want to send a text message to his or her inbox.
It's the 11th book in a series, I have 1-10 sitting on the shelf, but I'm not gonna buy a completely oversized hardback to continue the series.
If you are talking about Wheel of Time, I have found that it's much easier just reading the plot summaries or the stuff at book-a-minute. After all, nothing much has happened lately:). At least the number 10 is pretty darn accurate.
Get a Pioneer DV-470 (or 525 if you need SACD and WMA support). It can play DivX files too (and show your JPEG photos). And after that, get a firmware update from
(The region-free part is actually in the standard firmware, you just need to activate it with some sort of IR signal (the guy who sold me one did it with a Palm Vx). But the Mtz firmware does all that and more, so just use it)
I mean, if I have bluetooth at my laptop, I can connect to my cellphone directly anyway, right? Why would there be a need for some separate gizmo? Does it do something beyond a simple USB BT-dongle?
As far as I have understood the Ximian version of Openoffice (http://go-oo.org/) was born out of the fact that some developers did not want to license their code under Sun's terms. Is there any comment on whether the Ximianized OO will be merging with the main one now?
I personally use XOO because it has far better KDE integration than the regular one.
There are very few certs that are anything but a piece of paper (but some employers decide that they want them).
There are some very notable exceptions. CCIE for one - Cisco gives your company better discounts on network equipment the more CCIE's your company has. Also, CCIE exam is a real lab exam, with you having a real network in front of you and timer going and tasks to set it up various ways with an instructor staring over your shoulder.
Multiple-choice questionnaire certificates are not really worth it, unless, like in my case, the company for some reason values them enough to 1) pay for the certs 2) reward the employers for getting that cert.
No, it was not. Windows 9x still has lots of 16-bit legacy stuff in it. The true leap was Windows NT 3.1 - Where NT 4.0 updated the user interface to Explorer.
Ok, simple omnidirectional antenna. Then you need the base station that drives that antenna. Then you need the base station controller that drives the base station. Then you need MSC (mobile switching center...) that actually gets the calls from the base station and forwards it accordingly to an SS7 network. Then you need to set up Asterisk to talk to that SS7 network and grab your phone calls. And all the rest of the components that I have forgotten.. In effect, you need to become a full-blown telco, albeit with only one base station.
All the equipment can be bought from Nokia, Ericcson or other mobile network vendors. Price range is not for home users.
Then, you need to get a license to operate that basestation. 900/1800/1900MHz is a licensed band. This *might* be quite easy if the location is just a single cell.
Anyway, then you need to apply for Mobile Network Identifiers (MCC + the rest) to distinguish yourself as a GSM operator, so when you search for networks with your GSM phone, you'll see your own network as one.
Then you need to get a SIM Card to use with your phone that has access to your network. (Or, you may be able to set it to "open for all" mode).
(Of course, if the question was simply if you can reaac GSM network via Voip and want to set up the gateway your own home, then that's easy, just plug a phone or wireless modem to your Linux box....but I was under the impression that this meant the ability to use your GSM phone as a "cordless phone".)
With landline this is of course easy, all you need is a modem waiting for calls..
I'm afraid that does not answer my question, because I'm asking for a different thing. I'm not asking for hordes of "GMs" running the game in real-time reacting to every action by players, just scripted events. For example, that fortress battle:
Create script that
a) spawns 30 demons every 2 minutes to other end of the zone (or arrange them coming in some other fashion) b) spawn 25 NPC guards every 2 minutes to the castle "recovering from field hospital etc. c) Keep doing this for a week, and if the fortress has not been taken by that time, stop the demon attack.
Send the opposing forces walking towards each other, and if they meet, battle. If the demons reach the fortress, they win, vice versa.
Because the "NPC forces" are uneven, the players need to help the defenders or the outcome is clear.
This kind of events can be anything from that simple skirmish to an epic battle at the gates of Stormwind. And don't require real-time GM interaction, just scripting.
Battlegrounds are a nice feature, but despite them, the World of Azeroth is quite static place. There have been few events - like the orphan week - but nothing big.
Are you planning to introduce "events" into the gaming world that would actually shape it permanently, like in Asheron's call?
For example, a demon/naga expedition force attacking a frontier fortress - and depending on how well the battle goes over the next week the threatened faction either hold the town or lose it. Depending on what happened, the next "event" would be either attempts to retake the town or perform a retaliatory strike. NPCs would do most of the "grunt" work, of course, but players ultimately would contribute to the fate of the world. The happenings could be tied to the actual World of Warcraft timeline. Depending on the server type (PvE or PvP) some of the events could also be between factions (players on both sides of conflict).
Battlegrounds are a good start, but in the end they are just refined team deathmatch maps..
High latitude methane may nevertheless work out to be a big deal. Softening the blow a bit is the fact that methane is shorter-lived in the atmosphere than CO2.
What do you mean by this, does it spontaneously combust or break down or something? What are the end-products?
Also, what kind of timelines are we talking about?
If you don't want to pay for VMWare, I would suggest trying out QEMU.
Ever since the "QEMU accelerator" module has been released (version 0.70), it has worked as a virtualizer as well as emulator, so you can get almost VMWare-like performance (that is, if you just want to run Windows under Linux or vice versa). QEMU itself is licensed under LGPL, the accelerator module is free as in beer (and there's another, open-source accelerator project in the works, though I'm not sure what the situation is today)
This seems to be a story that started out from a single source. All the articles in Google news seem to quote each other and none of them seem to know where the original reference is (probably some analyst has started it as a way to boost his holdings). Now Reuters has picked it up. Excpect some nice trading on Monday when first Helsinki stock exchange and NASDAQ later open up. Then everyone forgets about this two days later.
Nope. B-29 was the first bomber that could fly really high (indeed, USAF discovered jet stream when they first flew at those heights), and japanese had no AA equipment that could deal with them at 30000+ feet.
Altough, actually most of the air raids with B-29's were done at low altitudes - japanese had 88 mm AA cannons, so they could not turn fast enough for low-altitude bombing. This saved fuel and allowed for higher payloads (and also prevented some engine troubles - flying at high altitudes caused overheating problems).
So yeah, that demo could have been done without any problems for subsequent real droppings.
Are you sure this is related to *firewall* functionality (ie. start up a bittorrent client inside your network and the firewall allows incoming connections for that client)?
The document seems to talk only about traffic classification, related to qos and traffic shaping. A feature which is probably quite useful for those network admins that wish to limit the bandwidth hogging of P2P applications, but I'm not seeing any firewall (Ip inspect) references.
(Altough you probably could set up a hack by marking bittorrent protocol with some nice diffserv tag and then allowing those tagged packets through...)
even those who do claim to be witches or in some other pagan cult would tell you the same thing.
Actually I remember reading how some witches' coven in Britain had complained to JKR about the way Harry and others fly their brooms. They said that genuine witches and wizards fly them 'backwards', as depicted by several medieval drawings and woodcarvings, and wanted these errors fixed because it gives a false impression on their beliefs:)
I would say Passive FTP is more difficult to firewall on the server than active. Passive puts the responsibility of accepting an incoming connection on an arbitrary high port on the server. Active puts it on the client.
I was naturally talking about outbound connections..the usual case is that your workstations need to access services on the Internet, but Internet only needs to get through to your DMZ.
If running a stateful firewall also for incoming connections (instead of just an ACL) the servers can use SOCKS4 or 5 or similar to notify the FW if they need something opened.
This article shows that the guy is now realizing that you also need network design besides only putting a firewall at the border and hoping it magically makes everything ok. He's quoting "innovative" networking desings, like
- Segmenting your network to
- Workstations
- Internal servers
- Internal databases etc (accessed by servers)
- DMZ - Setting up stringent ACLs to only permit specific traffic between segments.
C'mon, this is pretty much elementary stuff. Any network adming should know to design his network like this even in small companies where you have 2 workstations and a single server.
Then he makes a claim that you don't need firewall because only things accessible to Internet (Workstations and stuff in DMZ, like your public website) are running secure OSs patched constantly. I guess they are running OpenBSD with default config then......except there are mentions of "Active Directory", so I guess not.
Only real "innovation" comes at the end: The article states that they are running some sort of IDS/IDP system in their network, presumbaly monitoring for any wormlike packets. This is nothing too interesting, anybody can set up Snort and have it running at your switch's monitor port. Only thing is that if it is running only as a logger, it cannot really react fast enough if one of your boxes gets infected with the latest worm from the completely unsecured Internet connection.
If it is running in some sort of transparent bridging mode, where it blocks those packets too on detection, it is pretty much like any...you guessed it...FIREWALL.
He DOES have a point on the fact that numerous applications require intelligent firewalls, the most basic case of course being active FTP. However, almost any commercial firewall (and Linux kernel iptables) supports numerous protocols. Most recent additions are SIP. P2P protocols are prominently missing so far, but I'm guessing that at least Bittorrent will be added soon (at least to Cisco IOS/PIX and Checkpoint).
Still, I wouldn't give too much credit for this article until he provides us with a detailed network diagram and more specifically states what are the exact benefits.
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If they are transmitting their "own services" in their own network what is there to stop them from setting up their routers to mark packets from their own web (and other) servers with higher quality of service (TOS/Diffserv field)?
Of course these markings lose all meaning when the packet goes out of their AS, but if they want they can always set up peering agreements where the QoS is preserved..
Well, I'm glad that the issues has finally come to light. I heard someone else suspected something along these lines before, but he became Fugitive when he murdered his wife.
Domain names can be outside latin alphabet:
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3491.txt
And the encoding is presented in http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3492.txt and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode
When I went to buy a phone recently, the only thing any salesperson wanted to talk to me about was the cameras. I could not care less about the camera, but I ended up with one anyway. At the same time, a feature I really wanted to have - that my old, dying phone had - I couldn't find on any of the "better" new phones: a nested phone book, so that one name (one entry in the phone book list) could be associated with multiple numbers from which I could choose after selecting the name.
ALL Nokia's Series 60 phones have this feature starting from the several years old 7650 to the latest 6680 3G phone (with the dual cameras). That phonebook entry can also include email addresses and such if you want to send a text message to his or her inbox.
It's the 11th book in a series, I have 1-10 sitting on the shelf, but I'm not gonna buy a completely oversized hardback to continue the series.
:). At least the number 10 is pretty darn accurate.
If you are talking about Wheel of Time, I have found that it's much easier just reading the plot summaries or the stuff at book-a-minute. After all, nothing much has happened lately
Very good explanation in PDF, thank you.
Get a Pioneer DV-470 (or 525 if you need SACD and WMA support). It can play DivX files too (and show your JPEG photos). And after that, get a firmware update from
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http://mtz.softpedia.com/index.php?option=com_web
And you can do all that you want.
(The region-free part is actually in the standard firmware, you just need to activate it with some sort of IR signal (the guy who sold me one did it with a Palm Vx). But the Mtz firmware does all that and more, so just use it)
Funny and all, but I think he already did that donation.
I mean, if I have bluetooth at my laptop, I can connect to my cellphone directly anyway, right? Why would there be a need for some separate gizmo? Does it do something beyond a simple USB BT-dongle?
As far as I have understood the Ximian version of Openoffice (http://go-oo.org/) was born out of the fact that some developers did not want to license their code under Sun's terms. Is there any comment on whether the Ximianized OO will be merging with the main one now?
I personally use XOO because it has far better KDE integration than the regular one.
There are very few certs that are anything but a piece of paper (but some employers decide that they want them).
There are some very notable exceptions. CCIE for one - Cisco gives your company better discounts on network equipment the more CCIE's your company has. Also, CCIE exam is a real lab exam, with you having a real network in front of you and timer going and tasks to set it up various ways with an instructor staring over your shoulder.
Multiple-choice questionnaire certificates are not really worth it, unless, like in my case, the company for some reason values them enough to 1) pay for the certs 2) reward the employers for getting that cert.
No, it was not. Windows 9x still has lots of 16-bit legacy stuff in it. The true leap was Windows NT 3.1 - Where NT 4.0 updated the user interface to Explorer.
Ok, the equipment:
One microcell, coming right up.
Ok, simple omnidirectional antenna.
Then you need the base station that drives that antenna.
Then you need the base station controller that drives the base station.
Then you need MSC (mobile switching center...) that actually gets the calls from the base station and forwards it accordingly to an SS7 network.
Then you need to set up Asterisk to talk to that SS7 network and grab your phone calls.
And all the rest of the components that I have forgotten.. In effect, you need to become a full-blown telco, albeit with only one base station.
All the equipment can be bought from Nokia, Ericcson or other mobile network vendors. Price range is not for home users.
Then, you need to get a license to operate that basestation. 900/1800/1900MHz is a licensed band. This *might* be quite easy if the location is just a single cell.
Anyway, then you need to apply for Mobile Network Identifiers (MCC + the rest) to distinguish yourself as a GSM operator, so when you search for networks with your GSM phone, you'll see your own network as one.
Then you need to get a SIM Card to use with your phone that has access to your network. (Or, you may be able to set it to "open for all" mode).
(Of course, if the question was simply if you can reaac GSM network via Voip and want to set up the gateway your own home, then that's easy, just plug a phone or wireless modem to your Linux box....but I was under the impression that this meant the ability to use your GSM phone as a "cordless phone".)
With landline this is of course easy, all you need is a modem waiting for calls..
I'm afraid that does not answer my question, because I'm asking for a different thing. I'm not asking for hordes of "GMs" running the game in real-time reacting to every action by players, just scripted events. For example, that fortress battle:
Create script that
a) spawns 30 demons every 2 minutes to other end of the zone (or arrange them coming in some other fashion)
b) spawn 25 NPC guards every 2 minutes to the castle "recovering from field hospital etc.
c) Keep doing this for a week, and if the fortress has not been taken by that time, stop the demon attack.
Send the opposing forces walking towards each other, and if they meet, battle. If the demons reach the fortress, they win, vice versa.
Because the "NPC forces" are uneven, the players need to help the defenders or the outcome is clear.
This kind of events can be anything from that simple skirmish to an epic battle at the gates of Stormwind. And don't require real-time GM interaction, just scripting.
Battlegrounds are a nice feature, but despite them, the World of Azeroth is quite static place. There have been few events - like the orphan week - but nothing big.
Are you planning to introduce "events" into the gaming world that would actually shape it permanently, like in Asheron's call?
For example, a demon/naga expedition force attacking a frontier fortress - and depending on how well the battle goes over the next week the threatened faction either hold the town or lose it. Depending on what happened, the next "event" would be either attempts to retake the town or perform a retaliatory strike. NPCs would do most of the "grunt" work, of course, but players ultimately would contribute to the fate of the world. The happenings could be tied to the actual World of Warcraft timeline. Depending on the server type (PvE or PvP) some of the events could also be between factions (players on both sides of conflict).
Battlegrounds are a good start, but in the end they are just refined team deathmatch maps..
High latitude methane may nevertheless work out to be a big deal. Softening the blow a bit is the fact that methane is shorter-lived in the atmosphere than CO2.
What do you mean by this, does it spontaneously combust or break down or something? What are the end-products?
Also, what kind of timelines are we talking about?
If you don't want to pay for VMWare, I would suggest trying out QEMU.
Ever since the "QEMU accelerator" module has been released (version 0.70), it has worked as a virtualizer as well as emulator, so you can get almost VMWare-like performance (that is, if you just want to run Windows under Linux or vice versa). QEMU itself is licensed under LGPL, the accelerator module is free as in beer (and there's another, open-source accelerator project in the works, though I'm not sure what the situation is today)
This seems to be a story that started out from a single source. All the articles in Google news seem to quote each other and none of them seem to know where the original reference is (probably some analyst has started it as a way to boost his holdings). Now Reuters has picked it up. Excpect some nice trading on Monday when first Helsinki stock exchange and NASDAQ later open up. Then everyone forgets about this two days later.
Try smartctl.
/dev/hda should do that (yes, even in Windows).
smartctl --offlineauto=off
Nope. B-29 was the first bomber that could fly really high (indeed, USAF discovered jet stream when they first flew at those heights), and japanese had no AA equipment that could deal with them at 30000+ feet.
Altough, actually most of the air raids with B-29's were done at low altitudes - japanese had 88 mm AA cannons, so they could not turn fast enough for low-altitude bombing. This saved fuel and allowed for higher payloads (and also prevented some engine troubles - flying at high altitudes caused overheating problems).
So yeah, that demo could have been done without any problems for subsequent real droppings.
Are you sure this is related to *firewall* functionality (ie. start up a bittorrent client inside your network and the firewall allows incoming connections for that client)?
The document seems to talk only about traffic classification, related to qos and traffic shaping. A feature which is probably quite useful for those network admins that wish to limit the bandwidth hogging of P2P applications, but I'm not seeing any firewall (Ip inspect) references.
(Altough you probably could set up a hack by marking bittorrent protocol with some nice diffserv tag and then allowing those tagged packets through...)
Thanks for the information though.
Ok, thank you. I only checked the nearest router running 12.4 IOS and the ip inspect ? only gives me
(...)
appleqtc Apple QuickTime
bgp Border Gateway Protocol
bliff Bliff mail notification
bootpc Bootstrap Protocol Client
bootps Bootstrap Protocol Server
cddbp CD Database Protocol
cifs CIFS
(...)
Kazaa is listed, though.
even those who do claim to be witches or in some other pagan cult would tell you the same thing.
:)
Actually I remember reading how some witches' coven in Britain had complained to JKR about the way Harry and others fly their brooms. They said that genuine witches and wizards fly them 'backwards', as depicted by several medieval drawings and woodcarvings, and wanted these errors fixed because it gives a false impression on their beliefs
I would say Passive FTP is more difficult to firewall on the server than active. Passive puts the responsibility of accepting an incoming connection on an arbitrary high port on the server. Active puts it on the client.
I was naturally talking about outbound connections..the usual case is that your workstations need to access services on the Internet, but Internet only needs to get through to your DMZ.
If running a stateful firewall also for incoming connections (instead of just an ACL) the servers can use SOCKS4 or 5 or similar to notify the FW if they need something opened.
This article shows that the guy is now realizing that you also need network design besides only putting a firewall at the border and hoping it magically makes everything ok. He's quoting "innovative" networking desings, like
...except there are mentions of "Active Directory", so I guess not.
- Segmenting your network to
- Workstations
- Internal servers
- Internal databases etc (accessed by servers)
- DMZ
- Setting up stringent ACLs to only permit specific traffic between segments.
C'mon, this is pretty much elementary stuff. Any network adming should know to design his network like this even in small companies where you have 2 workstations and a single server.
Then he makes a claim that you don't need firewall because only things accessible to Internet (Workstations and stuff in DMZ, like your public website) are running secure OSs patched constantly. I guess they are running OpenBSD with default config then...
Only real "innovation" comes at the end: The article states that they are running some sort of IDS/IDP system in their network, presumbaly monitoring for any wormlike packets. This is nothing too interesting, anybody can set up Snort and have it running at your switch's monitor port. Only thing is that if it is running only as a logger, it cannot really react fast enough if one of your boxes gets infected with the latest worm from the completely unsecured Internet connection.
If it is running in some sort of transparent bridging mode, where it blocks those packets too on detection, it is pretty much like any...you guessed it...FIREWALL.
He DOES have a point on the fact that numerous applications require intelligent firewalls, the most basic case of course being active FTP. However, almost any commercial firewall (and Linux kernel iptables) supports numerous protocols. Most recent additions are SIP. P2P protocols are prominently missing so far, but I'm guessing that at least Bittorrent will be added soon (at least to Cisco IOS/PIX and Checkpoint).
Still, I wouldn't give too much credit for this article until he provides us with a detailed network diagram and more specifically states what are the exact benefits.