The real problem with shared hosting (virtual or otherwise) means you have to trust the real host not to let someone else at your raw data. Since the real host can see into all the virtual machines, you have to trust it and secure it as well. If your not doing that, who is?
There are more sightings of angles, ghosts, sea monsters and UFOs around areas with high levels of piezoelectric rock and it appears that the apparitions are related to cultural influences. I'm wondering if people who weren't predisposed to see angles or aliens would just see odd lights.
You need to look at how xPON works. There will be a splice point on a pole on your block and that will contain a 32 way splitter prism and each of those lines then go to a house. You are not getting a fiber all the way back to the exchange with the NBN and most of the exchanges will be gone according to the master plan. The upstream may go to another splitter down the road or it may go into an optical switch. Until it gets to a packet switch, all your data is shared with everyone else. The recent PON standards have changed the split id's from 10 bits to more since many carriers saw the need for more than a 1:1024 split ratios. We have been told we are only going to see 1:32 here... at least for now many other telcos are starting to put in 1:64 and 1:128 splitters.
PON isn't much different from HFC except for the last mile which uses coax and many HFC systems can be converted to true PON by pulling out amps and replacing the coax. Both systems tend to use a version DOCSIS to talk to the end user equipment. The NBN is using a 2.5 gbit shared (compared to Telstra which use 600 on their HFC and 2500 on some system) and some US cable TV providers which use 1.2 gbit over coax.
At the last election, the oppositions plan was to change the rules that would allow your ISP greater access to the exchange and backhaul but it was poorly explained.
Solder is a Latin word and has a silent L just like salmon. I have a nice book published in London in 1686 that seems to have left out all the U in color and it also avoids the French spelling that seems to define current British spelling.
Also Fiber optic cables are much, much cheaper than Fibre optic cables.
Sun thought they could sell large systems yet they never made one. The E10k was from Cray, other large systems were from SGI. Their current high end systems are from Fujitsu. Sun makes cool low end systems but they lost the plot. They decided any idiot could manage solaris 10 and built in stupidity that allows hacks on the startup and port listening code and ran off lots of their core supporters who are still asking for new hardware to run Solaris 9. They got ignored and most sold their stock and that killed sun. Maybe Oracle will see the light but they can't even sell basic software only support contracts to allow access to the downloads that used to be included in the cost of buying the over priced hardware.
A CD doesn't have to be 16 bit and many early CDs were 14 bits. Some used 16 bits with the low bits all 00 as well. There are bits at the start of a block that describe how many channels and how many bits are used and you can change between tracks. You could make a mono-8 bit cd that would play for 4 hours and the spec did allow for more than 16 bits and more than two channels but I have no idea what would happen if you put a CD like that on a modern player.
The most interesting bit with the whole 'X is more secure and the old dinosaur programs" is that most of the new rewrites have the same deadlock or race conditions but they never get fixed. Sendmail and bind have plenty of OS work arounds in their code because they are needed to keep the whole system secure.
Keep in mind that ISC runs a lot of very large name servers all over the world that are under constant DDOS attacks and they didn't see this in the wild. At this point, its a theoretical attack and there is a theatrical work around. Releasing the info too soon could have resulted in a real attack against a theatrical work around. I think they did the right thing considering if you had a DDOS problem, you can ask in a number of places and they would have told to you to try the work around.
But when some record exec wants the thing compressed so bad that you only need about 20 dB dynamic range, it won't matter. I suspect that rap is one of the few growing forms of music is that it screws up the auto compressors and so it has a wider dynamic range and dynamic range seems to be what conveys emotion in music.
The Australian government likes to mess with the day light offset for sporting events and I think they gave everyone a whole 5 weeks advanced notice a few years back. You get to the point where you just tell computer clocks to keep a common offset and then go change it twice a year.
There are some master time zone files that can be found here: ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/ On Unix like system you can run a command like # zic australasia (or whatever zone is messed up.. or just run them all).
The US seems to me mostly unique in the concept that it's works belong to the people and therefor are public domain. Commonwealth countries all have a "Crown Copyright" and most of the EU the copyright belongs to the Government. The strangest is the cases where public documents are covered by a copyright of the government at the time when it was created (and for US readers, the "government" is the people in power at the time, not something like "copyright US Senate")
An interesting thing is I don't know of a single country that copyrights is money yet every country has laws in place about making copies. To me that would imply that copyright on government works is legally new concept.
I think he should get a few movies made about Typhoid Mary targeting different demographics and then start running ads along the lines of "Don't let your kid be the next Typhoid Mary". I would even try to get Jenny McCarthy as one of the actors to dilute her message.
I think the board should investigate it as it is a legitimate complaint. If the board is made up of the types of people I've known to be on those boards, they will find that David Cox was not doing any engineering work that required a license from their board. They might then investigate the other side of the issue and find that Kevin Lacy broke their rules and should be given a stern warning that his actions could have resulted in him being delisted.
The problem is most home fiber isn't point to point on pairs, its shared with between 32 and 1000+ people on a bi-directional fiber. This is causing problems with the higher speed PON versions since you have to coordinate the talk times of all the end points and you have to leave a quiet time between talk and listen phases so that you don't blind the receivers. A 1kbit packet on a 10 gig fiber takes up about an inch which means if you want to fill up a 10 gig back channel form a number home homes, you have to know how many inches each link is, coordinate the time to about a 1/100 of a nanosecond and then make sure they all talk at just the right time. Our best cheapish consumer clocks are based on GPS and they only know their internal time in the range of about 50 to 90 nanoseconds. 90 ns is about 135k worth of data that can be stepped on. Off the shelf point to point fiber has increase about 20,000 times in 40 years. Shared Passive Optical networks are 40 times faster in the lab today than they were 20 years ago.
The real problem is the amount of music produced is so large that no one could stock even 1% of it. I figure there is about one album worth of new music written for every 1000 people every year in industrialised countries so at least a million new CDs worth of music a year. The record companies where never about selling music, they were about moving plastic around and there is no way they can cope with the amount of material produced.
The magnetic compass will work but there are some runways that should just get marked with a a big 1? as the magnetic deposits on the approach make it a mess.
I'm wondering if its time to stop playing the magnetic orientation game with VOR. Their range now often exceeds the variance in their local area anyway and all new equipment should be reporting true direction and that will come in very handy if the poles do starting moving a great deal. This from 5 years ago http://www.physorg.com/news8917.html shows how the magnetic fields are no longer as clean as they used to be.
I had some plastic dome lights in my house and as they would cool, they would pop once as one layer changed size more than another. This produced a Piezo effect. When the thing would pop, I would think I saw a flash but other people would see or hear different things. It turns out that even if I removed as much of the sonic energy as I could, I would still see the flash that wasn't there so I'm guessing the rapid changing electronic field was messing with my brain. Another person in the house would see ghosts. It turns out that some of the places in the world that have the most sightings of angles and ghosts have a high level of geo-piezo activity and there has been a theory that people who are susceptible tend to see either angles or ghosts or aliens depending on the stories they were told when they were brought up. I wish I had saved the lamp shade, it would have been useful for more experimentation.
The Moore's law doubling gives us other advantages. Early CPUs didn't have a multiply instruction at all. Later ones had enough resources they added the instruction but it simply used the adder many times. At some point thanks to the advantages of Moore's law, there was room for a barrel multiplier. Once those got large enough, floating point became a reality and a floating point multiply ended up being 1000 times faster than it had been just year or so before. Now we are seeing hardware that is close to doing arbitrary ray tracing in near real time yet in 1986 it took a hypercube of 256 Intel 286 chips hours to render what many graphics chips can now do in milliseconds. Just using Moore's law would not have given us that advantage.
There are these things called mutual funds and other retirement funds that are required to invest in stock by their charter. Most of them ran out of good deals decades ago and are now just throwing money away or gambling on how other funds will invest their money. What would you invest in if you were given a billion dollars today and told you have to spend it by next week when the next billion will have to be spent? There just isn't that much good stuff to invest in.
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The real problem with shared hosting (virtual or otherwise) means you have to trust the real host not to let someone else at your raw data. Since the real host can see into all the virtual machines, you have to trust it and secure it as well. If your not doing that, who is?
There are more sightings of angles, ghosts, sea monsters and UFOs around areas with high levels of piezoelectric rock and it appears that the apparitions are related to cultural influences. I'm wondering if people who weren't predisposed to see angles or aliens would just see odd lights.
Consider the shiny screen. I can't stand them.
You need to look at how xPON works.
There will be a splice point on a pole on your block and that will contain a 32 way splitter prism and each of those lines then go to a house. You are not getting a fiber all the way back to the exchange with the NBN and most of the exchanges will be gone according to the master plan. The upstream may go to another splitter down the road or it may go into an optical switch. Until it gets to a packet switch, all your data is shared with everyone else. The recent PON standards have changed the split id's from 10 bits to more since many carriers saw the need for more than a 1:1024 split ratios. We have been told we are only going to see 1:32 here... at least for now many other telcos are starting to put in 1:64 and 1:128 splitters.
PON isn't much different from HFC except for the last mile which uses coax and many HFC systems can be converted to true PON by pulling out amps and replacing the coax. Both systems tend to use a version DOCSIS to talk to the end user equipment. The NBN is using a 2.5 gbit shared (compared to Telstra which use 600 on their HFC and 2500 on some system) and some US cable TV providers which use 1.2 gbit over coax.
At the last election, the oppositions plan was to change the rules that would allow your ISP greater access to the exchange and backhaul but it was poorly explained.
Solder is a Latin word and has a silent L just like salmon. I have a nice book published in London in 1686 that seems to have left out all the U in color and it also avoids the French spelling that seems to define current British spelling.
Also Fiber optic cables are much, much cheaper than Fibre optic cables.
Sun thought they could sell large systems yet they never made one. The E10k was from Cray, other large systems were from SGI. Their current high end systems are from Fujitsu. Sun makes cool low end systems but they lost the plot. They decided any idiot could manage solaris 10 and built in stupidity that allows hacks on the startup and port listening code and ran off lots of their core supporters who are still asking for new hardware to run Solaris 9. They got ignored and most sold their stock and that killed sun. Maybe Oracle will see the light but they can't even sell basic software only support contracts to allow access to the downloads that used to be included in the cost of buying the over priced hardware.
A CD doesn't have to be 16 bit and many early CDs were 14 bits. Some used 16 bits with the low bits all 00 as well. There are bits at the start of a block that describe how many channels and how many bits are used and you can change between tracks. You could make a mono-8 bit cd that would play for 4 hours and the spec did allow for more than 16 bits and more than two channels but I have no idea what would happen if you put a CD like that on a modern player.
The most interesting bit with the whole 'X is more secure and the old dinosaur programs" is that most of the new rewrites have the same deadlock or race conditions but they never get fixed. Sendmail and bind have plenty of OS work arounds in their code because they are needed to keep the whole system secure.
Keep in mind that ISC runs a lot of very large name servers all over the world that are under constant DDOS attacks and they didn't see this in the wild. At this point, its a theoretical attack and there is a theatrical work around. Releasing the info too soon could have resulted in a real attack against a theatrical work around. I think they did the right thing considering if you had a DDOS problem, you can ask in a number of places and they would have told to you to try the work around.
But when some record exec wants the thing compressed so bad that you only need about 20 dB dynamic range, it won't matter. I suspect that rap is one of the few growing forms of music is that it screws up the auto compressors and so it has a wider dynamic range and dynamic range seems to be what conveys emotion in music.
The Australian government likes to mess with the day light offset for sporting events and I think they gave everyone a whole 5 weeks advanced notice a few years back. You get to the point where you just tell computer clocks to keep a common offset and then go change it twice a year.
There are some master time zone files that can be found here:
ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/
On Unix like system you can run a command like # zic australasia (or whatever zone is messed up.. or just run them all).
Then things should work.
Here is a script I wrote up to test this sort of nonsense about half a decade ago....
http://www.abnormal.com/~thogard/timezone.shtml
When inittab is set up right, kill -1 -1 works as well as a reboot in most cases and is far faster.
:wq went away over 2 decades ago when it was replaced with :x The reason is :x! does the right thing and :wq! doesn't when something fails.
Real sysadmins know when things get in odd states and can restart those things without rebooting.
Of course reboot tests are required to make sure the box will come back up correctly but those are to reset things, they are part of system testing.
The US seems to me mostly unique in the concept that it's works belong to the people and therefor are public domain. Commonwealth countries all have a "Crown Copyright" and most of the EU the copyright belongs to the Government. The strangest is the cases where public documents are covered by a copyright of the government at the time when it was created (and for US readers, the "government" is the people in power at the time, not something like "copyright US Senate")
An interesting thing is I don't know of a single country that copyrights is money yet every country has laws in place about making copies. To me that would imply that copyright on government works is legally new concept.
I think he should get a few movies made about Typhoid Mary targeting different demographics and then start running ads along the lines of "Don't let your kid be the next Typhoid Mary". I would even try to get Jenny McCarthy as one of the actors to dilute her message.
I think the board should investigate it as it is a legitimate complaint. If the board is made up of the types of people I've known to be on those boards, they will find that David Cox was not doing any engineering work that required a license from their board. They might then investigate the other side of the issue and find that
Kevin Lacy broke their rules and should be given a stern warning that his actions could have resulted in him being delisted.
The problem is most home fiber isn't point to point on pairs, its shared with between 32 and 1000+ people on a bi-directional fiber. This is causing problems with the higher speed PON versions since you have to coordinate the talk times of all the end points and you have to leave a quiet time between talk and listen phases so that you don't blind the receivers. A 1kbit packet on a 10 gig fiber takes up about an inch which means if you want to fill up a 10 gig back channel form a number home homes, you have to know how many inches each link is, coordinate the time to about a 1/100 of a nanosecond and then make sure they all talk at just the right time. Our best cheapish consumer clocks are based on GPS and they only know their internal time in the range of about 50 to 90 nanoseconds. 90 ns is about 135k worth of data that can be stepped on. Off the shelf point to point fiber has increase about 20,000 times in 40 years. Shared Passive Optical networks are 40 times faster in the lab today than they were 20 years ago.
But think of all the wear and tear people save on the volume knobs in their cars thanks to the auto-compressors.
The real problem is the amount of music produced is so large that no one could stock even 1% of it. I figure there is about one album worth of new music written for every 1000 people every year in industrialised countries so at least a million new CDs worth of music a year. The record companies where never about selling music, they were about moving plastic around and there is no way they can cope with the amount of material produced.
I tried to block light as well.
The magnetic compass will work but there are some runways that should just get marked with a a big 1? as the magnetic deposits on the approach make it a mess.
I'm wondering if its time to stop playing the magnetic orientation game with VOR. Their range now often exceeds the variance in their local area anyway and all new equipment should be reporting true direction and that will come in very handy if the poles do starting moving a great deal. This from 5 years ago http://www.physorg.com/news8917.html shows how the magnetic fields are no longer as clean as they used to be.
I had some plastic dome lights in my house and as they would cool, they would pop once as one layer changed size more than another. This produced a Piezo effect. When the thing would pop, I would think I saw a flash but other people would see or hear different things. It turns out that even if I removed as much of the sonic energy as I could, I would still see the flash that wasn't there so I'm guessing the rapid changing electronic field was messing with my brain. Another person in the house would see ghosts. It turns out that some of the places in the world that have the most sightings of angles and ghosts have a high level of geo-piezo activity and there has been a theory that people who are susceptible tend to see either angles or ghosts or aliens depending on the stories they were told when they were brought up. I wish I had saved the lamp shade, it would have been useful for more experimentation.
The Moore's law doubling gives us other advantages. Early CPUs didn't have a multiply instruction at all. Later ones had enough resources they added the instruction but it simply used the adder many times. At some point thanks to the advantages of Moore's law, there was room for a barrel multiplier. Once those got large enough, floating point became a reality and a floating point multiply ended up being 1000 times faster than it had been just year or so before. Now we are seeing hardware that is close to doing arbitrary ray tracing in near real time yet in 1986 it took a hypercube of 256 Intel 286 chips hours to render what many graphics chips can now do in milliseconds. Just using Moore's law would not have given us that advantage.
There are these things called mutual funds and other retirement funds that are required to invest in stock by their charter. Most of them ran out of good deals decades ago and are now just throwing money away or gambling on how other funds will invest their money. What would you invest in if you were given a billion dollars today and told you have to spend it by next week when the next billion will have to be spent? There just isn't that much good stuff to invest in.