from TelNic: "Registry will charge a USD$275 fee for an initial mandatory three (3) year term for each Domain Name registered as a consequence of any Landrush registration."
Now, if you wait until Open Registration, then you only pay $8 per year.
There is a degree of freedom with closed source tools. You can purchase a license and able to use the code the way you choose.
For the right price, you may also purchase a lot of open source (GPL included) code directly from the project owner. The dual-licensing model allows everyone to win.
We're talking about 40 ounces of malt liquor not distilled grain alcohol.
However, this answers my question! At 9% alcohol, a 40 oz of beer equates to 3.6 oz of alcohol, the same as the sixpack. Thus, philspear's explanation of economic factors now makes sense. For the same amount of alcohol, a 40oz bottle is certainly cheaper than a sixpack.
I would like to mention that the Joe Sixpack I have in mind probably buys his beer in cases of thirty 12oz cans. It's just that he drinks six (or more) beers at a time. (Not that there's anything wrong with that.)
I used to be your average Joe Sixpack. After 8 years of Bush, I'm now your average Joe 40-oz.
This seems funny at first, because comparing one 12 oz beer of a sixpack to a 40 oz of malt liquor yields more drinking. But, a sixpack of 12 oz beers is really 72 oz. So now I'm confused. Do you actually drink less beer now than you used to?
A ghastly article that is shoddy on details. It barely mentioned it was a proxy (as I was also wondering if this was a simulation). The article describes that the toolbar will display your new IP, but the screenshots do not show it.
Also, in regards to the extension:
The "China Channel" is a horrid name
w00t, just what every browser needs, yet another screen-real-estate-sucking toolbar
To get the same experience, why not use one of the manyproxy switching extensions. Then go find a list of Chinese proxies so you can cycle through them.
I do, however, respect the point of showing the rest of the world how the web "feels" inside of China.
On a related note, does anyone have a list of proxies organized by country? As a web developer, I would love to test various web sites that geo-code the IP and dynamically display different content.
These are only a few of the changes in disk hardware that will occur over the next decade. What do these changes mean for file systems? First, fsck will take a lot longer in absolute terms, because disk capacity is larger, but disk bandwidth is relatively smaller, and seek time is relatively much larger. Fsck on multi-terabyte file systems today can easily take 2 days, and in the future it will take even longer! Second, the increasing number of I/O errors means that fsck is going to happen a lot more often - and journaling won't help. Existing file systems simply weren't designed with this kind of I/O error frequency in mind.
These problems aren't theoretical - they are already affecting systems that you care about. Recently, the main server for Linux kernel source, kernel.org, suffered file system corruption from a failure at the RAID level. It took over a week for fsck to repair the (ext3) file system, when it would have taken far less time to restore from backup.
Is a magnetic hard drive really the best media format to leave in space in case our current society is destroyed? Are cosmic rays and other radiation a concern?
I suppose if society rebuilt enough to launch into space again, then the format of the data might not matter.
But what if I never liked my old classmates and have no ex-girlfriends (yic)?
Simply pretend you are one of the old classmates that everyone liked and that also had lots of girlfriends.
Unfortunately, you may need to infiltrate the group first to determine who has not joined yet. Additionally, a photo (non-yearbook) will help strengthen your fake position.
What sort of load can the DB backend handle? Does it use caching? There's a DLZ-bind mod out there, but it executes at least one SQL query for every DNS query; which can't handle even moderate load.
Yeah but those tens of thousands of lines aren't exactly hand-coded then are they? It appears the developers have only hand-coded the ~9k lines as listed above.
Still, that is a fair amount of assembly code done by hand, relative to most modern programs written in 3rd and 4th generation languages (that might use only a handful of hand-coded assembly).
Thanks for the info. Eucalyptus is an open source implementation of EC2, but does not support user-defined images yet. The admin tools are designed for your own data center or computer lab.
Unfortunately, the FAQ lists nothing about data storage. With Amazon's EC2, you cannot persist data inside your image, so I wonder how it works with Eucalyptus. (This comment says they don't support an S3 implementation.) Still, this appears to be a good starting point if you want to roll your own cloud.
If you have a lot of servers already, and would like the scalability of "cloud computing" where you easily add more cores/ram/disk, check out this demo by 3tera.com.
I'm sure it is expensive, and I've not talked to them yet, but it sure would be great to "draw out" a new Dev or QA environment when you need one. Then when the project is complete, you can recycle those resources back into the cloud. If your Production system needs more cores, simply add them.
How do you get a root server to tell you where to go to a TLD if it doesn't have a number: is there some way to redirect that?
Simple. A query to a root server gives you the list of authoritative servers (and IPs as glue records) for the "domain" -- e.g org. Then you query those servers for the "subdomain" -- e.g. slashdot. Then you query those final servers for the "third level" domain -- e.g. www (or '').
As others have pointed out, generic TLDs would put more load on the root servers. Right now the roots just tell you to go to the gtld-roots or cctld-roots, which then tell you the final nameservers. This would bypass the 2nd level root servers and list the final DNS servers directly.
I don't see this to be a scalability problem though, as the gtld-roots (A-F.GTLD-SERVERS.NET) handle an awful lot of traffic just fine.
Slashdot Mirror
from TelNic: "Registry will charge a USD$275 fee for an initial mandatory three (3) year term for each Domain Name registered as a consequence of any Landrush registration."
Now, if you wait until Open Registration, then you only pay $8 per year.
That is incorrect. .tel specifically allows for MX records to be created in the second level .tel zone.
However, the biggest difference between this TLD and all others is that no A or AAAA records are allowed, unless they point to the TelNic webservers.
So you can run your own email under .tel, but not your own website.
One major annoyance with the non-standard port is the port flag option passed to both SSH and SCP.
For ssh: ssh -p2222 ... ...
For scp: scp -P2222
There is a degree of freedom with closed source tools. You can purchase a license and able to use the code the way you choose.
For the right price, you may also purchase a lot of open source (GPL included) code directly from the project owner. The dual-licensing model allows everyone to win.
We're talking about 40 ounces of malt liquor not distilled grain alcohol.
However, this answers my question! At 9% alcohol, a 40 oz of beer equates to 3.6 oz of alcohol, the same as the sixpack. Thus, philspear's explanation of economic factors now makes sense. For the same amount of alcohol, a 40oz bottle is certainly cheaper than a sixpack.
I would like to mention that the Joe Sixpack I have in mind probably buys his beer in cases of thirty 12oz cans. It's just that he drinks six (or more) beers at a time. (Not that there's anything wrong with that.)
I used to be your average Joe Sixpack. After 8 years of Bush, I'm now your average Joe 40-oz.
This seems funny at first, because comparing one 12 oz beer of a sixpack to a 40 oz of malt liquor yields more drinking. But, a sixpack of 12 oz beers is really 72 oz. So now I'm confused. Do you actually drink less beer now than you used to?
A ghastly article that is shoddy on details. It barely mentioned it was a proxy (as I was also wondering if this was a simulation). The article describes that the toolbar will display your new IP, but the screenshots do not show it.
Also, in regards to the extension:
I do, however, respect the point of showing the rest of the world how the web "feels" inside of China.
On a related note, does anyone have a list of proxies organized by country? As a web developer, I would love to test various web sites that geo-code the IP and dynamically display different content.
article from 2006: http://lwn.net/Articles/190222/
That only works if you can crack the current key (whichever it may be) in the required XX hours.
Is a magnetic hard drive really the best media format to leave in space in case our current society is destroyed? Are cosmic rays and other radiation a concern?
I suppose if society rebuilt enough to launch into space again, then the format of the data might not matter.
But what if I never liked my old classmates and have no ex-girlfriends (yic)?
Simply pretend you are one of the old classmates that everyone liked and that also had lots of girlfriends.
Unfortunately, you may need to infiltrate the group first to determine who has not joined yet. Additionally, a photo (non-yearbook) will help strengthen your fake position.
Sorry, you can't prove that they *didn't* hire you based on your social networking profile(s).
Instead of CAPTCHAs, why do Google and Yahoo not simply spam-check outgoing email?
Of course, this only works for email services...
Possible, but highly unlikely. We get 30M DNS queries per day.
If you run a non-public master with public slaves running BIND, load should not be an issue.
I am actually doing exactly that. Yet with over a hundred thousand zones, even the refresh time-outs and notifies kill DLZ-bind.
Even a web-based redirect from example.com to www.example.com still needs a valid A record for the host: "example.com".
I do agree that for search indexing, you want to either HTTP/HTTPS redirect www.domain => domain or vice versa.
What sort of load can the DB backend handle? Does it use caching? There's a DLZ-bind mod out there, but it executes at least one SQL query for every DNS query; which can't handle even moderate load.
Yeah but those tens of thousands of lines aren't exactly hand-coded then are they? It appears the developers have only hand-coded the ~9k lines as listed above.
Still, that is a fair amount of assembly code done by hand, relative to most modern programs written in 3rd and 4th generation languages (that might use only a handful of hand-coded assembly).
Actually, the price of hay is so high that some people are giving ponies away for free!
So how do I read the Terms of Use?
Go to facebook.com? If I do that, I've already agreed to it!
And that is the definition of clickwrap.
What does FTLOF stand for?
Thanks for the info. Eucalyptus is an open source implementation of EC2, but does not support user-defined images yet. The admin tools are designed for your own data center or computer lab.
Unfortunately, the FAQ lists nothing about data storage. With Amazon's EC2, you cannot persist data inside your image, so I wonder how it works with Eucalyptus. (This comment says they don't support an S3 implementation.) Still, this appears to be a good starting point if you want to roll your own cloud.
If you have a lot of servers already, and would like the scalability of "cloud computing" where you easily add more cores/ram/disk, check out this demo by 3tera.com.
I'm sure it is expensive, and I've not talked to them yet, but it sure would be great to "draw out" a new Dev or QA environment when you need one. Then when the project is complete, you can recycle those resources back into the cloud. If your Production system needs more cores, simply add them.
And it takes a "special" kind of drunk to use the wrong form of to
I am drunk but I still have no idea what you are talking about. Clearly reply too this and reply two this are not the correct options.
You're obviously too sober.
How do you get a root server to tell you where to go to a TLD if it doesn't have a number: is there some way to redirect that?
Simple. A query to a root server gives you the list of authoritative servers (and IPs as glue records) for the "domain" -- e.g org. Then you query those servers for the "subdomain" -- e.g. slashdot. Then you query those final servers for the "third level" domain -- e.g. www (or '').
As others have pointed out, generic TLDs would put more load on the root servers. Right now the roots just tell you to go to the gtld-roots or cctld-roots, which then tell you the final nameservers. This would bypass the 2nd level root servers and list the final DNS servers directly.
I don't see this to be a scalability problem though, as the gtld-roots (A-F.GTLD-SERVERS.NET) handle an awful lot of traffic just fine.