There are plenty of people like me, who aggregate news feeds on our sites. I'm pulling a few hundred good news sources, and making them available to my readers. I don't know how the software handles 310 or 404's. I started using it, because it does a good job of reading the feeds, parsing them, and dumping them into a databse.
On occasion, I go through and houseclean. Some sites disappear. A few mainstream papers have gone out of business lately. Some change their RSS URL, which is a pain in the butt. They don't give any warning that I'm aware of, they just move it somewhere else. On those, I have to go back to the original site, and search around for their new feeds. If I don't find them, I simply drop them as a source. That's their loss.
I switched software for our site twice. Each time, I redirected the old feed URL to the new feed. The first was Slashcode. The second was PHPNuke. The final one is my own code, written from scratch. I must say, I'm happier with my own work.:) You can still hit either of the old feeds, and end up on the real feed. We only provide an RSS feed for our own site, not the aggregation of the other feeds. That would just be silly (IMHO). I've considered making a feed of the other feeds, but there's so much redundant stuff in there, I don't really see it as practical for most people to read. That, and it would probably bog down their client. I keep our database pruned down to about 300,000 stories. We get everything from repeated wire stories across quite a few sites, to local interest stuff that was cross posted into their national or world news. I'm sure an accident on I-666 is big news locally, but readers on the other side of the world could care less. People seem to like skimming the headlines, and going off to the other sites to read the rest of the story.
There doesn't seem to be a standard, nor a polite way that people drop their feeds. It's really like anything is. My site is mine. If I decide to change every link tomorrow, or even just shut down, that's my own business. You may not like it, but it's not your decision. It's just like if the powers at Slashdot decided to shut down, or your favorite restaurant decides to change their menu. If you don't like it, go somewhere else.:)
To play catchup with some of the other posts, by deleting the picture, that doesn't absolve you of the fact that you previously possessed it. That can be applied to anything. You had a stolen TV, but got rid of it. That doesn't mean that you did possess it, it just means you don't currently have it.
Hopefully most people look at the intent. I've downloaded all the binaries from particular newsgroups, that were suppose to have nothing but regular stuff. Various other things get cross posted. I've ended up with things that I never wanted to see. Did I have any intent to possess those? No.
The IWF are another case entirely. They are actively searching for those types of web pages, so they can view them (to confirm the content, I'm sure), and then blacklisting them. It's not an accident that they viewed them. Is it any better that they searched for them to blacklist them? Not really.
I remember a while back, there was a preacher and his wife, who would view porn movies in their entirety, so they could complain about the content. They had watched thousands of movies. Sure, it's great to understand your topic so you can argue for or against it, but that's way beyond the requirement of understanding the topic.
I'd love to work with law enforcement to stop kiddie porn. I'd never want to see any of it though. I'm an IT guy, so I automate things anyways. Matching MD5's is my kind of viewing. I'd never view the first image. Following trails of electronic information to identify a person my kind of fun. I'd leave it up to someone with more of a hero complex to show up and arrest them.:) I don't particularly like the idea of getting shot at, so I'm all for someone else doing that part.:) I guess fortunately for me, I don't work in that arena, so the only pictures I see at work are stock photos for web page layouts, and company logos.:)
I totally agree with you. I drive a 2000 TransAm. It's a good bit better than the older sports cars for both handling and ride, but I'm still very aware of how fast I'm going, and what I'm getting into.
A friend has the same year v6 Camaro. It's quiet, softer suspension and handling, and not as fast. Something I noticed was when I was following him, he was speeding up and slowing down by +- 5mph. It wasn't enough to say it was bad driving, but I really noticed. My car isn't loud, but it's loud enough for me to know the difference in RPM's even by 5mph. If I'm a passenger, without looking at the gauges or at the road, I can give you a very good guess how fast you're going. Well, I've been asleep in the passenger seat before, and woken up to tell the person driving to slow down because they were going too fast. It wasn't anything more than feeling the engine purr and hearing the sounds around me.
I've driven the nice squishy luxury cars too. Some of them, I couldn't tell the difference between a dead stop and 80mph, other than looking at the speedometer, and seeing things going past outside.
Many cars should have more feedback, rather than isolating the driver from the driving environment. It's not even a high tech "add force feedback to the steering wheel", it's simply, use a better suspension that will save lives when the driving gets tough, and give the driver feedback all the time.
My '00 TransAm gives me plenty of feedback. The '00 v6 Camaro doesn't. It's not a huge difference in car design, it's the same chassis, just better suspension components.
That wouldn't exactly be nice. I posted a journal entry on moderation. One specific post went all the way down to -1 Troll, and all the way up to +5 Funny. It all depends on what people think about you.
What's funny to 99% of the people here may be a blatant insult to the other 1%. It really matters who happened to get mod points, and which comments they felt like scoring.
Just because a user (or even a couple) didn't like what I said, is it fair to give up my IP to everyone? Not really.
But for real trolls, just ignore them. Eventually they'll get bored and go away. As long as you feed them, they'll keep hanging around. Kinda like a stray cat, or that girl you picked up at the bar last month. If you stop feeding her, she'll find another place to stay.:)
They consume, their communities grow, but they don't productively support the food chain. Occasionally a human will be consumed by a hungry shark, alligator, or lion, but that has no notable affect on the growth of it's population.
Soon enough, like an uncontrolled viral infection, it will be possible to find humans on every part of the planet, as they expand their growth beyond the resources available.
I do agree, VPN's can help things. It's more trouble than most people are willing to put up with. And ya, providers can traffic shape on anything they'd like. If they see encrypted traffic, regardless of the port, it could be throttled, to allow higher priority to "good" traffic like web.
Some providers do traffic shaping right, but my opinion of right won't always agree with theirs. I've logged into servers over SSH, and found the speed to be terrible (type a line, wait 10 seconds for it to show), but YouTube would be fast. Nope, not good for me, but it makes the other ~99.9% of their customers happy. What does the average home user care about SSH traffic? Nothing. What do I care about YouTube? Nothing.:)
I'd rather see my SSH traffic have priority, but some users would like to see their BitTorrent traffic have priority.:) Then again, I don't use P2P networks.
Second, I had 11Mb/s to the office, which was over my wireless link. Two high gain antennas pointed at each other from 1/2 mile. Our theoretically range with those antennas and the hardware backing it up was about 30 miles. Since they were a rather narrow beam, I couldn't even hear the signal from ground level, so there were no snoopy people problems.
My speed to the datacenter was 1.544Mb/s, but most of my large transfers were from home to the office and back. If I had something so huge that the T1 wasn't fast enough to transfer it, I'd put it on CD, and drive it to the datacenter. With LA traffic, that really took a lot for me to say "this is too slow". Daytime travel time was between 1 to 2 hours. Night time travel time (like 4am) was about 15 minutes.
I had always moved SSH to another port anyways, just to make it that much harder on the script kiddies, but still, what were they thinking?
I'm lucky now. I'm on a 20Mb/20Mb Business FIOS line, so no complaints there. I ran through everything with them before we agreed to it. "Look, we're migrating a small server farm, I have to have no blocked ports, no throttling, reverse DNS, and at least a/25 block". And that's what we got. They had insisted we had to use their stupid router, but before I brought the first machine up, I took it out and put my own Cisco gear up instead.:) Ya, real stuff, not consumer grade Linksys cobranded as Cisco.
This line has been nice. Pricey, but nice. It's a whole lot cheaper than having a cabinet at Level3.
They had tried to sell us on a 20Mb up, 50Mb down line, but I had to explain to them that 10% of the traffic is down, 90% is up (normal for server farms), so there's no need to have the faster down pipe. Since we're not serving adult stuff, the speeds are perfect for their application, and the customers are happy. The only "problem" is getting reverse DNS done. They won't delegate it to us, so we have to spend an hour on the phone to get the right person to get it done. Our response time to the datacenter is so much better, and we have lots of spare parts in the garage, so if there is a server problem, we get it fixed amazingly fast.:)
I saw this, and was curious. According to the article, he found another user on the same ISP as him, who complained about the same problem.
My guess would be, the users provider (not Netflix or their streaming provider) has noted substantial traffic on a particular port, from particular IP's, and since that was a substantial load on their network, they've throttled the per-connection rate down.
Since other users have noted that they are not having the same problem, I would conclude that it is the users provider that is the problem.
It's still something to complain about, they just need to direct the complaint to the correct party.
Years ago, when I was a RoadRunner (now BrightHouse) customer, I had speeds in excess of 3Mb/s. At the time, they were using the same Tier1 provider as my office AND had a peering very very close by (same city). They started throttling various things, including port 80. I complained, and they said they could only provide 768Kb/s (again, this is years ago).
One day, I set up a PPP over SSH tunnel between my home computer, and my desktop at work. Transferring large binary files from my office network to my home computer was much closer to the original 3Mb/s speeds. Shutting down the link and acting like a normal user, my speeds were at 768Kb/s. They wouldn't admit to the throtting of port 80 from my office network, but I had conclusively proved it.
I set up my home firewall (Linux PC, my own rules) to route all of my traffic over the PPP over SSH tunnel, so I was happy. It theoretically incurred a little extra network traffic on my office line, but we were billed on 95th percentile (as most Tier 1 providers do), and when I was at home was our slow time, and a T3, so my 3Mb/s peak was nothing in the grand scheme of things. More importantly, most of my large transfers were from home to work and back.
Providers can set up for just about anything they'd like. They shouldn't. They get a lot of people screaming when they do too much, but for the most part it's just something you live with. Maybe they're throttling everything going to/from the Netflix servers. Maybe they're only throttling port 80 traffic. Maybe, maybe, maybe. There are lots of things they could be doing.
All other things being equal, if you scp a file, or request it by HTTP, it should get very close to the same speeds.
As I've found, it's usually the residential/small business providers who do this kind of throttling. I've never seen this kind of thing with Tier 1 providers. Unfortunately, none of us can afford a fast link with a Tier 1 provider at home, so we have to bend to the will of our residential providers. I was lucky once a long time ago, in another city, at another office. I was close enough (1/2 mile) and had a clear line of sight to work. I set up a wireless bridge between the office and my house. I had 11Mb/s (years ago also, and standard for the time) link from the office to my house. They had just a T1 loop to our datacenter. After hours, when no one was working (like, after 5pm) I had my own T1 to use. I could do great transfers to the office, and was pleased with my anonymity. I was rather removed from where the line seemed to terminate (the datacenter). It wasn't completely anonymous though. We had documented internally what IP's were assigned to my house (1 for my NAT), so if there ever was any funny business, it would have landed with me. But, what if a subpoena was served on the provider to find the user of the IP? It could have been at the datacenter. It could have been at the office. It could have been off of that funny little antenna sitting in the window of a coworker (with the best line of sight to my house).
Oh, the good ol' days. I wish I had my own private T1 still. It was so much nicer than any of the residential lines I've had, even though they advertise faster speeds.
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Charisma my son, charisma. When I go out with a lady friend (not of the rental variety), I always show her a good time, regardless if we may be having an adult interlude later in the evening.
If a prospective romantic partner came over, saw a VCR hooked to the computer with a stack of 100 VHS tapes, you're pretty much guaranteed that she'll immediately have thoughts that you're a pervert.
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Sounds like the best way to waste a weekend and a few bucks. Oh wait, I can take the same money, and go drinking with a pretty girl.:) One may get me laid. One is pretty much guaranteed not to. I'll let you figure out which one is which.
Just kidding. My servers are all Linux. My resume does have Exchange on it, but only because I was forced to setup, configure, and maintain it, and that had a legitimate license.:) My job was to work the server, so I didn't know how many licenses it came bundled with. I just had an original disk to install with.
Oh, I'm sure there's a whole stack of laws that it broke.
I thought the BBC was a government owned entity, but I just looked, and they aren't as of 2007. My bad. That could have protected them to some degree.
The question would be, will there be any prosecution.
If there's a house with the front door open, and I walk in, look around, and lock the door on my way out, I was trespassing. Since I did no harm, it's very likely that my act of trespass would be ignored.
Since they trespassed (electronically) on 22,000 computers, they did commit a crime. They even went as far as to make a change to those computers, incurred expenses (used bandwidth to stage attacks on willing 3rd party servers), this was a very bad thing to do.
The better thing would have been to write the story as a 3rd party. "We were invited to observe an attack by an anonymous botnet controller. In this, they...."
The "didn't access personal information" is not a defense. Defendants in cases lie all the time. I didn't rob them. I wasn't speeding. I didn't steal financial information from the 22,000 people who I had broken into their computers.
Most likely, they won't be prosecuted, simply because they are the BBC. If *I* had done it, and wrote the story, I'd be sitting in jail right now. I'm in the US, so they'd have a nice cell, decorated with a crappy mattress and a copy of the Koran, in Southeastern Cuba. The prosecution would attempt to acquire as much information as they could from the exploited computers. I'd have to hand over the list of the computers I used, because it would be the only way I could even hope for leniency. Hopefully the investigation would find that I didn't do anything wrong. Unfortunately, if the machines were exploited with one thing, they were probably exploited with others that weren't quite so polite. The evidence would show that the machines were exploited, and personal information had been stolen. I'd be screwed. "Big Bob" would be in my cell, offering me a sandwich. Those are things I never want to happen, so I'll keep my hands way way away from any botnets, and I sure as hell won't write about it in an international publication.
If your site doesn't have a lot of images, Apache is tuned up well, and you aren't on a lame hosting environment that has a few thousand other badly coded sites, you'll be fine. Caching of your pages, even for a short time, so you're only sending out simple HTML, will save you.
If you can't do it with one machine, do it with multiple web servers. Even if you're connecting to a common database, if you're caching your pages, you won't kill the database in the process.
But, you're just hopeful that you both have something decent to post, AND you'll get posted here. I'm pretty sure if you try to automate submitting every story here, they'll block you.
Once I admin'd a network with Zimbra. I stay far far away from that now. Thunderbird is a good alternative. I actually liked Evolution, but it became more of a pain to get installed, so I've just been using Thunderbird lately. Evolution was so close to being an Outlook clone (without the crashing) it was nice.
I like GMail too, but it may not be totally appropriate for a business. Web based is nice, most of the time. The question is, can you trust every Google employee who may have access to the data? If your company is contractually obliged to maintain security of data including emails, does this violate the terms of the contract? The only real good solution for email for most companies is an in-house one.
So, you're suggesting a relationship in behavior between Microsoft's world domination, and that of Hitler and the Nazi party?:)
Would they really be a party? Most parties I've went to were fun events, involving booze, women, and loud music. Maybe they should be referred to as the Nazi bad guys club, or something like that.:)
It's more like, they stay with what they know is safe, regardless of the costs (in man hours, dollars, or pieces of their souls).
Myself, I'd look at it as, what is the cost difference? You'll have to deploy OpenOffice to every desktop. That will take manhours. But, if you have to deploy/upgrade and maintain the MSOffice installs, that will also take manhours. I'd say it's a wash on the manhours, but really it isn't. OO installs quicker. The licensing is... well, free. Even if they do decide to one day charge, it most likely won't be as much as for MSOffice.
But, OO doesn't come with Outlook. That's the only problem I've seen for some places so far.
I saw an ad on TV recently, touting the wonders of HFCS. It's all natural and good for you. There was a very fine print line at the bottom of the last couple seconds of it that said something about Corn Growers of America, or something of that sort.:)
I don't watch TV, and watch even fewer commercials, so if I happened to see it, that was either really dumb luck, or they're spending a lot of money on pushing the wonders of their product.
But, what are the Canadian owned and built brands of cars? I know GM builds some there (or at least did), but is there a truly domestic car there, not owned by an American company?
Ok, I went and asked a Canadian, rather than waiting for a response. He couldn't think of any, and couldn't find any through G00gle.
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There are plenty of people like me, who aggregate news feeds on our sites. I'm pulling a few hundred good news sources, and making them available to my readers. I don't know how the software handles 310 or 404's. I started using it, because it does a good job of reading the feeds, parsing them, and dumping them into a databse.
On occasion, I go through and houseclean. Some sites disappear. A few mainstream papers have gone out of business lately. Some change their RSS URL, which is a pain in the butt. They don't give any warning that I'm aware of, they just move it somewhere else. On those, I have to go back to the original site, and search around for their new feeds. If I don't find them, I simply drop them as a source. That's their loss.
I switched software for our site twice. Each time, I redirected the old feed URL to the new feed. The first was Slashcode. The second was PHPNuke. The final one is my own code, written from scratch. I must say, I'm happier with my own work. :) You can still hit either of the old feeds, and end up on the real feed. We only provide an RSS feed for our own site, not the aggregation of the other feeds. That would just be silly (IMHO). I've considered making a feed of the other feeds, but there's so much redundant stuff in there, I don't really see it as practical for most people to read. That, and it would probably bog down their client. I keep our database pruned down to about 300,000 stories. We get everything from repeated wire stories across quite a few sites, to local interest stuff that was cross posted into their national or world news. I'm sure an accident on I-666 is big news locally, but readers on the other side of the world could care less. People seem to like skimming the headlines, and going off to the other sites to read the rest of the story.
There doesn't seem to be a standard, nor a polite way that people drop their feeds. It's really like anything is. My site is mine. If I decide to change every link tomorrow, or even just shut down, that's my own business. You may not like it, but it's not your decision. It's just like if the powers at Slashdot decided to shut down, or your favorite restaurant decides to change their menu. If you don't like it, go somewhere else. :)
To play catchup with some of the other posts, by deleting the picture, that doesn't absolve you of the fact that you previously possessed it. That can be applied to anything. You had a stolen TV, but got rid of it. That doesn't mean that you did possess it, it just means you don't currently have it.
Hopefully most people look at the intent. I've downloaded all the binaries from particular newsgroups, that were suppose to have nothing but regular stuff. Various other things get cross posted. I've ended up with things that I never wanted to see. Did I have any intent to possess those? No.
The IWF are another case entirely. They are actively searching for those types of web pages, so they can view them (to confirm the content, I'm sure), and then blacklisting them. It's not an accident that they viewed them. Is it any better that they searched for them to blacklist them? Not really.
I remember a while back, there was a preacher and his wife, who would view porn movies in their entirety, so they could complain about the content. They had watched thousands of movies. Sure, it's great to understand your topic so you can argue for or against it, but that's way beyond the requirement of understanding the topic.
I'd love to work with law enforcement to stop kiddie porn. I'd never want to see any of it though. I'm an IT guy, so I automate things anyways. Matching MD5's is my kind of viewing. I'd never view the first image. Following trails of electronic information to identify a person my kind of fun. I'd leave it up to someone with more of a hero complex to show up and arrest them. :) I don't particularly like the idea of getting shot at, so I'm all for someone else doing that part. :) I guess fortunately for me, I don't work in that arena, so the only pictures I see at work are stock photos for web page layouts, and company logos. :)
Damn, a first post that makes sense. :)
I totally agree with you. I drive a 2000 TransAm. It's a good bit better than the older sports cars for both handling and ride, but I'm still very aware of how fast I'm going, and what I'm getting into.
A friend has the same year v6 Camaro. It's quiet, softer suspension and handling, and not as fast. Something I noticed was when I was following him, he was speeding up and slowing down by +- 5mph. It wasn't enough to say it was bad driving, but I really noticed. My car isn't loud, but it's loud enough for me to know the difference in RPM's even by 5mph. If I'm a passenger, without looking at the gauges or at the road, I can give you a very good guess how fast you're going. Well, I've been asleep in the passenger seat before, and woken up to tell the person driving to slow down because they were going too fast. It wasn't anything more than feeling the engine purr and hearing the sounds around me.
I've driven the nice squishy luxury cars too. Some of them, I couldn't tell the difference between a dead stop and 80mph, other than looking at the speedometer, and seeing things going past outside.
Many cars should have more feedback, rather than isolating the driver from the driving environment. It's not even a high tech "add force feedback to the steering wheel", it's simply, use a better suspension that will save lives when the driving gets tough, and give the driver feedback all the time.
My '00 TransAm gives me plenty of feedback. The '00 v6 Camaro doesn't. It's not a huge difference in car design, it's the same chassis, just better suspension components.
That wouldn't exactly be nice. I posted a journal entry on moderation. One specific post went all the way down to -1 Troll, and all the way up to +5 Funny. It all depends on what people think about you.
What's funny to 99% of the people here may be a blatant insult to the other 1%. It really matters who happened to get mod points, and which comments they felt like scoring.
Just because a user (or even a couple) didn't like what I said, is it fair to give up my IP to everyone? Not really.
But for real trolls, just ignore them. Eventually they'll get bored and go away. As long as you feed them, they'll keep hanging around. Kinda like a stray cat, or that girl you picked up at the bar last month. If you stop feeding her, she'll find another place to stay. :)
Kind of like humans, eh?
They consume, their communities grow, but they don't productively support the food chain. Occasionally a human will be consumed by a hungry shark, alligator, or lion, but that has no notable affect on the growth of it's population.
Soon enough, like an uncontrolled viral infection, it will be possible to find humans on every part of the planet, as they expand their growth beyond the resources available.
I don't know about using Amazon's network.
I do agree, VPN's can help things. It's more trouble than most people are willing to put up with. And ya, providers can traffic shape on anything they'd like. If they see encrypted traffic, regardless of the port, it could be throttled, to allow higher priority to "good" traffic like web.
Some providers do traffic shaping right, but my opinion of right won't always agree with theirs. I've logged into servers over SSH, and found the speed to be terrible (type a line, wait 10 seconds for it to show), but YouTube would be fast. Nope, not good for me, but it makes the other ~99.9% of their customers happy. What does the average home user care about SSH traffic? Nothing. What do I care about YouTube? Nothing. :)
I'd rather see my SSH traffic have priority, but some users would like to see their BitTorrent traffic have priority. :) Then again, I don't use P2P networks.
First off, this was years ago.
Second, I had 11Mb/s to the office, which was over my wireless link. Two high gain antennas pointed at each other from 1/2 mile. Our theoretically range with those antennas and the hardware backing it up was about 30 miles. Since they were a rather narrow beam, I couldn't even hear the signal from ground level, so there were no snoopy people problems.
My speed to the datacenter was 1.544Mb/s, but most of my large transfers were from home to the office and back. If I had something so huge that the T1 wasn't fast enough to transfer it, I'd put it on CD, and drive it to the datacenter. With LA traffic, that really took a lot for me to say "this is too slow". Daytime travel time was between 1 to 2 hours. Night time travel time (like 4am) was about 15 minutes.
They were blocking WHAT? {sigh}
I had always moved SSH to another port anyways, just to make it that much harder on the script kiddies, but still, what were they thinking?
I'm lucky now. I'm on a 20Mb/20Mb Business FIOS line, so no complaints there. I ran through everything with them before we agreed to it. "Look, we're migrating a small server farm, I have to have no blocked ports, no throttling, reverse DNS, and at least a /25 block". And that's what we got. They had insisted we had to use their stupid router, but before I brought the first machine up, I took it out and put my own Cisco gear up instead. :) Ya, real stuff, not consumer grade Linksys cobranded as Cisco.
This line has been nice. Pricey, but nice. It's a whole lot cheaper than having a cabinet at Level3.
They had tried to sell us on a 20Mb up, 50Mb down line, but I had to explain to them that 10% of the traffic is down, 90% is up (normal for server farms), so there's no need to have the faster down pipe. Since we're not serving adult stuff, the speeds are perfect for their application, and the customers are happy. The only "problem" is getting reverse DNS done. They won't delegate it to us, so we have to spend an hour on the phone to get the right person to get it done. Our response time to the datacenter is so much better, and we have lots of spare parts in the garage, so if there is a server problem, we get it fixed amazingly fast. :)
I saw this, and was curious. According to the article, he found another user on the same ISP as him, who complained about the same problem.
My guess would be, the users provider (not Netflix or their streaming provider) has noted substantial traffic on a particular port, from particular IP's, and since that was a substantial load on their network, they've throttled the per-connection rate down.
Since other users have noted that they are not having the same problem, I would conclude that it is the users provider that is the problem.
It's still something to complain about, they just need to direct the complaint to the correct party.
Years ago, when I was a RoadRunner (now BrightHouse) customer, I had speeds in excess of 3Mb/s. At the time, they were using the same Tier1 provider as my office AND had a peering very very close by (same city). They started throttling various things, including port 80. I complained, and they said they could only provide 768Kb/s (again, this is years ago).
One day, I set up a PPP over SSH tunnel between my home computer, and my desktop at work. Transferring large binary files from my office network to my home computer was much closer to the original 3Mb/s speeds. Shutting down the link and acting like a normal user, my speeds were at 768Kb/s. They wouldn't admit to the throtting of port 80 from my office network, but I had conclusively proved it.
I set up my home firewall (Linux PC, my own rules) to route all of my traffic over the PPP over SSH tunnel, so I was happy. It theoretically incurred a little extra network traffic on my office line, but we were billed on 95th percentile (as most Tier 1 providers do), and when I was at home was our slow time, and a T3, so my 3Mb/s peak was nothing in the grand scheme of things. More importantly, most of my large transfers were from home to work and back.
Providers can set up for just about anything they'd like. They shouldn't. They get a lot of people screaming when they do too much, but for the most part it's just something you live with. Maybe they're throttling everything going to/from the Netflix servers. Maybe they're only throttling port 80 traffic. Maybe, maybe, maybe. There are lots of things they could be doing.
All other things being equal, if you scp a file, or request it by HTTP, it should get very close to the same speeds.
As I've found, it's usually the residential/small business providers who do this kind of throttling. I've never seen this kind of thing with Tier 1 providers. Unfortunately, none of us can afford a fast link with a Tier 1 provider at home, so we have to bend to the will of our residential providers. I was lucky once a long time ago, in another city, at another office. I was close enough (1/2 mile) and had a clear line of sight to work. I set up a wireless bridge between the office and my house. I had 11Mb/s (years ago also, and standard for the time) link from the office to my house. They had just a T1 loop to our datacenter. After hours, when no one was working (like, after 5pm) I had my own T1 to use. I could do great transfers to the office, and was pleased with my anonymity. I was rather removed from where the line seemed to terminate (the datacenter). It wasn't completely anonymous though. We had documented internally what IP's were assigned to my house (1 for my NAT), so if there ever was any funny business, it would have landed with me. But, what if a subpoena was served on the provider to find the user of the IP? It could have been at the datacenter. It could have been at the office. It could have been off of that funny little antenna sitting in the window of a coworker (with the best line of sight to my house).
Oh, the good ol' days. I wish I had my own private T1 still. It was so much nicer than any of the residential lines I've had, even though they advertise faster speeds.
Charisma my son, charisma. When I go out with a lady friend (not of the rental variety), I always show her a good time, regardless if we may be having an adult interlude later in the evening.
If a prospective romantic partner came over, saw a VCR hooked to the computer with a stack of 100 VHS tapes, you're pretty much guaranteed that she'll immediately have thoughts that you're a pervert.
I think you were looking for these....
VCR seen as PC storage device
or the links here
Sounds like the best way to waste a weekend and a few bucks. Oh wait, I can take the same money, and go drinking with a pretty girl. :) One may get me laid. One is pretty much guaranteed not to. I'll let you figure out which one is which.
Buy it? Isn't that what Warez sites are for? :)
Just kidding. My servers are all Linux. My resume does have Exchange on it, but only because I was forced to setup, configure, and maintain it, and that had a legitimate license. :) My job was to work the server, so I didn't know how many licenses it came bundled with. I just had an original disk to install with.
Oh, I'm sure there's a whole stack of laws that it broke.
I thought the BBC was a government owned entity, but I just looked, and they aren't as of 2007. My bad. That could have protected them to some degree.
The question would be, will there be any prosecution.
If there's a house with the front door open, and I walk in, look around, and lock the door on my way out, I was trespassing. Since I did no harm, it's very likely that my act of trespass would be ignored.
Since they trespassed (electronically) on 22,000 computers, they did commit a crime. They even went as far as to make a change to those computers, incurred expenses (used bandwidth to stage attacks on willing 3rd party servers), this was a very bad thing to do.
The better thing would have been to write the story as a 3rd party. "We were invited to observe an attack by an anonymous botnet controller. In this, they...."
The "didn't access personal information" is not a defense. Defendants in cases lie all the time. I didn't rob them. I wasn't speeding. I didn't steal financial information from the 22,000 people who I had broken into their computers.
Most likely, they won't be prosecuted, simply because they are the BBC. If *I* had done it, and wrote the story, I'd be sitting in jail right now. I'm in the US, so they'd have a nice cell, decorated with a crappy mattress and a copy of the Koran, in Southeastern Cuba. The prosecution would attempt to acquire as much information as they could from the exploited computers. I'd have to hand over the list of the computers I used, because it would be the only way I could even hope for leniency. Hopefully the investigation would find that I didn't do anything wrong. Unfortunately, if the machines were exploited with one thing, they were probably exploited with others that weren't quite so polite. The evidence would show that the machines were exploited, and personal information had been stolen. I'd be screwed. "Big Bob" would be in my cell, offering me a sandwich. Those are things I never want to happen, so I'll keep my hands way way away from any botnets, and I sure as hell won't write about it in an international publication.
Hey now, the fixed it meme is suppose to make it funny, not just fix his mistakes. :)
Code your site well.
If your site doesn't have a lot of images, Apache is tuned up well, and you aren't on a lame hosting environment that has a few thousand other badly coded sites, you'll be fine. Caching of your pages, even for a short time, so you're only sending out simple HTML, will save you.
If you can't do it with one machine, do it with multiple web servers. Even if you're connecting to a common database, if you're caching your pages, you won't kill the database in the process.
But, you're just hopeful that you both have something decent to post, AND you'll get posted here. I'm pretty sure if you try to automate submitting every story here, they'll block you.
They had the BOFH fortune file? Sweet! :)
Would you mind sending me $10 via PayPal? I promise I'll send you $10 back. :) If there's a decimal slip in there, it won't matter, right? :)
Once I admin'd a network with Zimbra. I stay far far away from that now. Thunderbird is a good alternative. I actually liked Evolution, but it became more of a pain to get installed, so I've just been using Thunderbird lately. Evolution was so close to being an Outlook clone (without the crashing) it was nice.
I like GMail too, but it may not be totally appropriate for a business. Web based is nice, most of the time. The question is, can you trust every Google employee who may have access to the data? If your company is contractually obliged to maintain security of data including emails, does this violate the terms of the contract? The only real good solution for email for most companies is an in-house one.
Sorry, I intended to say "I don't watch TV much". :)
No, 1,000,000 FRF = 196,721.05 USD
But, the French use the Euro now, and 1,000,000 Euro = 1,290,965.50 USD
So, you're suggesting a relationship in behavior between Microsoft's world domination, and that of Hitler and the Nazi party? :)
Would they really be a party? Most parties I've went to were fun events, involving booze, women, and loud music. Maybe they should be referred to as the Nazi bad guys club, or something like that. :)
It's more like, they stay with what they know is safe, regardless of the costs (in man hours, dollars, or pieces of their souls).
Myself, I'd look at it as, what is the cost difference? You'll have to deploy OpenOffice to every desktop. That will take manhours. But, if you have to deploy/upgrade and maintain the MSOffice installs, that will also take manhours. I'd say it's a wash on the manhours, but really it isn't. OO installs quicker. The licensing is ... well, free. Even if they do decide to one day charge, it most likely won't be as much as for MSOffice.
But, OO doesn't come with Outlook. That's the only problem I've seen for some places so far.
I saw an ad on TV recently, touting the wonders of HFCS. It's all natural and good for you. There was a very fine print line at the bottom of the last couple seconds of it that said something about Corn Growers of America, or something of that sort. :)
I don't watch TV, and watch even fewer commercials, so if I happened to see it, that was either really dumb luck, or they're spending a lot of money on pushing the wonders of their product.
But, what are the Canadian owned and built brands of cars? I know GM builds some there (or at least did), but is there a truly domestic car there, not owned by an American company?
Ok, I went and asked a Canadian, rather than waiting for a response. He couldn't think of any, and couldn't find any through G00gle.
Fortune is good for teaching people how do web programming.
Make it show Fortune.
Make it format pretty.
Keep clicking reload, and keep making it prettier. :)
I actually put it back into my personal site. I got the BOFH excuses fortune file, so whenever someone needs an excuse, they can just click.
"Power Company having EMP problems with their reactor" :)