What we don't need is the DNS root servers being almost all controlled by this one country. Things could go seriously bad in a shockingly small space of time, and before you know it a key part of the Internet we all rely on is subject to the every whim of a crazy man (not necessarily G W Bush). And considering the Internet is now critical to many industries and governments, any kind of manipulation will be a very bad thing.
Now I'm not saying the UN should take control of this, but why can't we have a collection of countries known for their relatively free nature be in charge of this? USA could take a few servers (with it being so big), Canada could have one, UK have a few (because I'm British and biased), scatter some around France, Germany, maybe even Russia (*gasp*).
Not all the root servers are in US. And while a US agency is "determining" which ones are official, they do not even own them, private businesses do.
The funny part about this is the worst things that can happen if US manages to shut off DNS, is a DNS root split, which is exactly what all the countries are threatening to do if US does not cooperate.
So the worst thing US can do is exactly what they are about to do to themselves.
As that does not make sense, I am going to make a comment that this has nothing to do with infrastructure or security of the net. All that this issue is about is either input into decisions....aka some countries may not appreciate having a.xxx domain, etc. Or money, aka some countries want to use DNS servers to make people make payments to them.
There is no technical merit to any of these bickerings.
I can imagine that using host files is a terrible way to do things...however that is not what I mean.
What I am envisioning is adoption of P2P based DNS system, which is based on some kind of trust/respect model. Such a system will not be as authoritative as a hierarchical system, but it can also have positive effect against domain squatters.
Advantages and disadvantages. Who knows. Personally I think that the DNS schism (I think this is very similar to what happened to roman catholic church) is not going to happen just yet. So I am not that worried.
Not really. The only people that have NAT routers are ones with multiple computers in their homes. Those people will have to buy IPv6 routers as well. IPv6 routers can simply have the same protection as NAT ones enabled by default. Except this time, these boxes will be real routers.
No, there will not be a doubling of the address space, just the name space. Same internet, twice th ICANN. Now people will have to purchase domain names from two registrars to be listed on both DNS systems. And the moment this happens there will be a flurry of activity to develop rootless DNS systems, from which all will benefit.
Well, not it, but the concept of NAT is. When was the last time you have set up a video conference without the aid of thrid party on the internet. I can tell you, it is not that trivial. Neither is ability to run p2p over NAT. I am sure you have seen plenty of messages about lowID on ED2K.
Currently most of Joe Schmoes have been relying on UPNP to fix these issues for them, which is such a horrible, vulnerability prone solution that I am scared to thing of what will happen once someone figures out how to remotely abuse it.
I say bring on IPV6 so that I can stop setting up tunnels each time I want to connect to my computers.
While that is true...it is probably the hardest thing to do. It simply requires too much cooperation from everybody. It is one of those cases where the person who does nothing ends up profiting.
Not that I am saying that it should not be done; I am just not optimistic.
And worse...the energy needs will continue to grow as humanity advances.
There are alternatives to fossil fuels, there is headway to be made in fuel efficiency, there are ways to lessen the envirnmental footprint of humankind. Many of these things, if done properly, will not negatively affect quality of life. So why don't we?
Please tell me one energy source that does not cause any issues when implemented on a scale needed to solve humankind's energy needs? The only one that is close may be fusion...but it is not usable yet. I agree, we should investigate other thing...but rushing headlong into alternatives could also cause problems.
And in my view, it is better to suspend actions of questionable results than it is to continue them without knowing. Are you advocating stopping all energy production? (well...more specifically concentration)
Are you or your destination behind a NAT. Direct connect over aim fails to work with NAT, even on official clientsas of 2 years ago. Perhaps they have some kind of proxy for these nowdays. Please tell me that official clients are not using UPNP to set up a tunnel through NAT....that would be scary.
that's when people use nonstandard character sets in away messages Wha? Heh. I have had the opposite problem. Usually everyone elses message gets converted to complete nonsense...but that is because they are not using unicode for some reason (probably because the official client consists of ASS). Gaim uses utf-8 to send out messages always. The funny part is when I have had my away message say things in 4 different languages, a certain version of official clients immediately crashed. That actually got a few people to switch...thank $DEITY.
Of course by secure you mean that AIM keeps all the keys. That means anyone in AOL can still read your messages. Gaim actually gives you real point-to-point encryption. Over any protocol.
"Gaim does not support personalized MSN emoticons"
Thank god! One thing it also supports is font and color ignore: <AirheadGrrl>dont you just luv my pretty pink on pink size 42 font <me>huh? what? oh...yeah I do
And as far as I have seen...webcam and sound conferencing and file transfer has always had trouble due to inability to direct connect. Anyone who thinks NAT is a good idea is an idiot.
And what is the deal about all the official clients that have ASS support for unicode. I talk to a bunch of people in different countries...and thay all use their local charset with no way to tell which one they are using. I hate you ICQ lite!
The first one I agree with completely. In fact if you remember -- the senators were not voted on by the people. The senate was never supposed to represent anyone but the state government, to push the interests of the state, not the people.
The second one I will disagree with. Densities are irrelevant. Back then PA, VA, and NY would dominate the elections, as they had a lot of people. Simply think of california as having the same density, but larger in area, and you will still have the same problem.
and it showed up as a scsi device. if it does not I recommend scanning your dmesg for problems.
I have also added added a parameter into modules.conf that made sbp2 module load with serialize_io=1. This slows down the io, but makes the requests linear, which seems to fix some issues.
My biggest problem was that it was showing up as a scsi device, but not a disk. It took me 45 minutes to realize that the problem was that the enclosure was not plugged in:'(
I have seen it. It is a very curious problem. Linux, as far as I know, still sees the device, but the device stops responding. I think what happens is that linux feeds them data in a way that they should handle, but do not, due to bugs. And when they crash, linux does not reset them. The drives work in windows because those bugs have been found by testing done by manufacturer.
At least this is what I think is happening. Any kdev willing to be more helpful?
There is a similar problem with firewire, where, for some reason, the io gets reordered wrong and it confuses the drive. There is an option for serializing IO that works like a charm. My external firewire drive has an uptime of a few months now.
I second MacAlly. Works with a 300Gb drive. Good fanless (I think) cooling. Firewire. Never had a single problem with my linux box. Only paid about $10 more than a generic USB2 enclosure.
Sooooo.... a Californian's representative vote is worth about 67 times less that of a (statisticaly less educated) Wyoming resident's vote in the Senate, and 3.5 times less in the presidental election.
That is exactly the point of bicameral systems. If everything was representative then people in California will be getting all the pork they want, while smaller states will descend into political meaninglessness. Now a large state can push for a lot of stuff in the house, only to have to deal with the opposite effect in the senate, and in reverse a small state has a lot of control (per capita) in the senate, but it is completely weak in the house. This actually forces the different states to try to work together.
As far as the presidential election goes, the current system is a bit more suited to when the president was more responsible to the states than individual people. But the difference is not that large, and hey, all you have to do is change the constitution.
Of course to be completely "fair", states should have split voting in the first place. Hey, California should lead the way. Why is it fair that one person difference can change 53 votes in the election. And guess what...they do not even need any federal change to take place to implement that. So, perhaps, they should lead the way...
Capitalism vs. socialism is not the debate here. No matter where you look on the planet, the common person is excluded from decision making. People in power are the only ones that make decision. In a capitalist society money gets you power, in a socialist society connections/relations get you power.
There has never been a time where the wealth got redistributed evenly. There is always corruption.
In this case, capitalism is not what is causing the stifling, corruption does. If politicians were uninfluencable by money/power, would this happen?
There is no need to distribute the wealth. Even if the wealth is highly accumulated, it will eventually change hands. What really needs to be stopped are laws sold to the highest bidder. Sadly, I am not aware of any single government on earth where that problem has been solved.
There are also more violent criminals among Democrats.
Being a democrat has nothing to do with firefox, it is all about the fact that there are more firefox users in the cities, and there are more democrats in the cities.
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I will call you on this.
I think it is not that Americans do not like to tinker, it is that they do not like tinkering in the computers. A lot of this comes with where the people grew up, and what do they know. People like tinkering in what they can modify and show off. Because the computer here is not synonymous with communication or bragging rights, very few try to know and learn about them. (Notice how those that do, i.e. the gamer community, modify the crap out of theirs, and a lot of these stories seem to come out of US).
I bet you will be interested to find that there is a huge car modding and tweaking community (people who replace and tweak engines, not tailpipes), which thinks that Europeans are completely ignorant about cars. I would guess that more Americans would now the difference between a carburator and fuel injection than Europeans. (I myself am not of that community, and have only a slight knowledge of carburator/fuel injection systems, I just heard of them)
Different cultures, different interests, different results.
While many of the cuts listed are bad, others aren't so bad either. Fewer crashing, mostly empty, dirty trains rocketing through our neighborhoods? By bye Amtrack!
Meanwhile the govt subsidizes bankrupt airlines, that can not provide decent passenger service, safety, guarantee of travel (apparently I have the "please bump me" sticker on the back), even if the next plane is in 24 hours.
Personally I want to see all the crap airlines go bye bye before amtrak does.
I do not know, but the invasion of Iraq could have been planned using Civ II. It looked like my favorite strategy. 2 Runs of 10 stealth bombers each on the cities with city walls, then three division of tanks, and some riflemen behind them to keep the cities guarded. My problem was that I always push on with the tanks to the bigger cities, meanwhile my riflemen are being overwhelmed by the partisans that appear all over the map, and I can not get the production going because of the riots in the cities I capture. Meanwhile, in my home cities I have riots because I have too many troops too far away from my cities. Makes me want to switch the government to something a bit more palatable, like despotism, and shut them up by creating a bunch of conscripts, and then using those to make everyone calm.
64 kbps WMA It seems that every single player that can handle WMA uses 64 kbps as the song estimate. Some label them as "x songs, x/2 songs in mp3". Something tells me that this is a part of Microsoft's PlaysForSure campaign that tries to encourage the use of WMA, by only licensing it to those people who will advertise it like it is a Messiah.
Sit back and recall, with tremendously smug satisfaction, a decade's worth of tech industry punditry holding that superior design would never get Apple anywhere, and that Apple should instead, you know, be more like Dell. Meh. I do not see Apple's design to be superior. A bit different, and definitely higher quality that the average crap, but nowhere close to revolutionary.
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What we don't need is the DNS root servers being almost all controlled by this one country. Things could go seriously bad in a shockingly small space of time, and before you know it a key part of the Internet we all rely on is subject to the every whim of a crazy man (not necessarily G W Bush). And considering the Internet is now critical to many industries and governments, any kind of manipulation will be a very bad thing.
.xxx domain, etc. Or money, aka some countries want to use DNS servers to make people make payments to them.
Now I'm not saying the UN should take control of this, but why can't we have a collection of countries known for their relatively free nature be in charge of this? USA could take a few servers (with it being so big), Canada could have one, UK have a few (because I'm British and biased), scatter some around France, Germany, maybe even Russia (*gasp*).
Not all the root servers are in US. And while a US agency is "determining" which ones are official, they do not even own them, private businesses do.
The funny part about this is the worst things that can happen if US manages to shut off DNS, is a DNS root split, which is exactly what all the countries are threatening to do if US does not cooperate.
So the worst thing US can do is exactly what they are about to do to themselves.
As that does not make sense, I am going to make a comment that this has nothing to do with infrastructure or security of the net. All that this issue is about is either input into decisions....aka some countries may not appreciate having a
There is no technical merit to any of these bickerings.
I can imagine that using host files is a terrible way to do things...however that is not what I mean.
What I am envisioning is adoption of P2P based DNS system, which is based on some kind of trust/respect model. Such a system will not be as authoritative as a hierarchical system, but it can also have positive effect against domain squatters.
Advantages and disadvantages. Who knows. Personally I think that the DNS schism (I think this is very similar to what happened to roman catholic church) is not going to happen just yet. So I am not that worried.
Not really. The only people that have NAT routers are ones with multiple computers in their homes. Those people will have to buy IPv6 routers as well. IPv6 routers can simply have the same protection as NAT ones enabled by default. Except this time, these boxes will be real routers.
double the address space for the same price
No, there will not be a doubling of the address space, just the name space. Same internet, twice th ICANN. Now people will have to purchase domain names from two registrars to be listed on both DNS systems. And the moment this happens there will be a flurry of activity to develop rootless DNS systems, from which all will benefit.
well IPv4 is inherently broke..
Well, not it, but the concept of NAT is. When was the last time you have set up a video conference without the aid of thrid party on the internet. I can tell you, it is not that trivial. Neither is ability to run p2p over NAT. I am sure you have seen plenty of messages about lowID on ED2K.
Currently most of Joe Schmoes have been relying on UPNP to fix these issues for them, which is such a horrible, vulnerability prone solution that I am scared to thing of what will happen once someone figures out how to remotely abuse it.
I say bring on IPV6 so that I can stop setting up tunnels each time I want to connect to my computers.
While that is true...it is probably the hardest thing to do. It simply requires too much cooperation from everybody. It is one of those cases where the person who does nothing ends up profiting.
Not that I am saying that it should not be done; I am just not optimistic.
And worse...the energy needs will continue to grow as humanity advances.
There are alternatives to fossil fuels, there is headway to be made in fuel efficiency, there are ways to lessen the envirnmental footprint of humankind. Many of these things, if done properly, will not negatively affect quality of life. So why don't we?
Please tell me one energy source that does not cause any issues when implemented on a scale needed to solve humankind's energy needs? The only one that is close may be fusion...but it is not usable yet. I agree, we should investigate other thing...but rushing headlong into alternatives could also cause problems.
And in my view, it is better to suspend actions of questionable results than it is to continue them without knowing.
Are you advocating stopping all energy production? (well...more specifically concentration)
Are you or your destination behind a NAT. Direct connect over aim fails to work with NAT, even on official clientsas of 2 years ago. Perhaps they have some kind of proxy for these nowdays. Please tell me that official clients are not using UPNP to set up a tunnel through NAT....that would be scary.
that's when people use nonstandard character sets in away messages
Wha? Heh. I have had the opposite problem. Usually everyone elses message gets converted to complete nonsense...but that is because they are not using unicode for some reason (probably because the official client consists of ASS). Gaim uses utf-8 to send out messages always. The funny part is when I have had my away message say things in 4 different languages, a certain version of official clients immediately crashed. That actually got a few people to switch...thank $DEITY.
Of course by secure you mean that AIM keeps all the keys. That means anyone in AOL can still read your messages.
Gaim actually gives you real point-to-point encryption. Over any protocol.
"Gaim does not support personalized MSN emoticons"
Thank god! One thing it also supports is font and color ignore:
<AirheadGrrl>dont you just luv my pretty pink on pink size 42 font
<me>huh? what? oh...yeah I do
And as far as I have seen...webcam and sound conferencing and file transfer has always had trouble due to inability to direct connect. Anyone who thinks NAT is a good idea is an idiot.
And what is the deal about all the official clients that have ASS support for unicode. I talk to a bunch of people in different countries...and thay all use their local charset with no way to tell which one they are using. I hate you ICQ lite!
The first one I agree with completely. In fact if you remember -- the senators were not voted on by the people. The senate was never supposed to represent anyone but the state government, to push the interests of the state, not the people.
The second one I will disagree with. Densities are irrelevant. Back then PA, VA, and NY would dominate the elections, as they had a lot of people. Simply think of california as having the same density, but larger in area, and you will still have the same problem.
i just did:
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e _Device
modprobe ohci1394
modprobe sbp2
and it showed up as a scsi device.
if it does not I recommend scanning your dmesg for problems.
I have also added added a parameter into modules.conf that made sbp2 module load with serialize_io=1. This slows down the io, but makes the requests linear, which seems to fix some issues.
My biggest problem was that it was showing up as a scsi device, but not a disk. It took me 45 minutes to realize that the problem was that the enclosure was not plugged in
just a pointless link to some instructions: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_FireWire_Mass_Storag
I have seen it. It is a very curious problem. Linux, as far as I know, still sees the device, but the device stops responding. I think what happens is that linux feeds them data in a way that they should handle, but do not, due to bugs. And when they crash, linux does not reset them. The drives work in windows because those bugs have been found by testing done by manufacturer.
At least this is what I think is happening. Any kdev willing to be more helpful?
There is a similar problem with firewire, where, for some reason, the io gets reordered wrong and it confuses the drive. There is an option for serializing IO that works like a charm. My external firewire drive has an uptime of a few months now.
I second MacAlly. Works with a 300Gb drive. Good fanless (I think) cooling. Firewire. Never had a single problem with my linux box. Only paid about $10 more than a generic USB2 enclosure.
Sooooo.... a Californian's representative vote is worth about 67 times less that of a (statisticaly less educated) Wyoming resident's vote in the Senate, and 3.5 times less in the presidental election.
That is exactly the point of bicameral systems. If everything was representative then people in California will be getting all the pork they want, while smaller states will descend into political meaninglessness. Now a large state can push for a lot of stuff in the house, only to have to deal with the opposite effect in the senate, and in reverse a small state has a lot of control (per capita) in the senate, but it is completely weak in the house. This actually forces the different states to try to work together.
As far as the presidential election goes, the current system is a bit more suited to when the president was more responsible to the states than individual people. But the difference is not that large, and hey, all you have to do is change the constitution.
Of course to be completely "fair", states should have split voting in the first place. Hey, California should lead the way. Why is it fair that one person difference can change 53 votes in the election. And guess what...they do not even need any federal change to take place to implement that. So, perhaps, they should lead the way...
Probably because they are still blocking w3c validator.
Capitalism vs. socialism is not the debate here. No matter where you look on the planet, the common person is excluded from decision making. People in power are the only ones that make decision. In a capitalist society money gets you power, in a socialist society connections/relations get you power.
There has never been a time where the wealth got redistributed evenly. There is always corruption.
In this case, capitalism is not what is causing the stifling, corruption does. If politicians were uninfluencable by money/power, would this happen?
There is no need to distribute the wealth. Even if the wealth is highly accumulated, it will eventually change hands. What really needs to be stopped are laws sold to the highest bidder. Sadly, I am not aware of any single government on earth where that problem has been solved.
Then you did not get your own joke. Bummer.
No, but it has everything to do with the country you grew up in, and the environment you live in now.
There are also more violent criminals among Democrats.
Being a democrat has nothing to do with firefox, it is all about the fact that there are more firefox users in the cities, and there are more democrats in the cities.
I will call you on this.
I think it is not that Americans do not like to tinker, it is that they do not like tinkering in the computers. A lot of this comes with where the people grew up, and what do they know. People like tinkering in what they can modify and show off. Because the computer here is not synonymous with communication or bragging rights, very few try to know and learn about them. (Notice how those that do, i.e. the gamer community, modify the crap out of theirs, and a lot of these stories seem to come out of US).
I bet you will be interested to find that there is a huge car modding and tweaking community (people who replace and tweak engines, not tailpipes), which thinks that Europeans are completely ignorant about cars. I would guess that more Americans would now the difference between a carburator and fuel injection than Europeans. (I myself am not of that community, and have only a slight knowledge of carburator/fuel injection systems, I just heard of them)
Different cultures, different interests, different results.
While many of the cuts listed are bad, others aren't so bad either. Fewer crashing, mostly empty, dirty trains rocketing through our neighborhoods? By bye Amtrack!
Meanwhile the govt subsidizes bankrupt airlines, that can not provide decent passenger service, safety, guarantee of travel (apparently I have the "please bump me" sticker on the back), even if the next plane is in 24 hours.
Personally I want to see all the crap airlines go bye bye before amtrak does.
I do not know, but the invasion of Iraq could have been planned using Civ II. It looked like my favorite strategy. 2 Runs of 10 stealth bombers each on the cities with city walls, then three division of tanks, and some riflemen behind them to keep the cities guarded. My problem was that I always push on with the tanks to the bigger cities, meanwhile my riflemen are being overwhelmed by the partisans that appear all over the map, and I can not get the production going because of the riots in the cities I capture. Meanwhile, in my home cities I have riots because I have too many troops too far away from my cities. Makes me want to switch the government to something a bit more palatable, like despotism, and shut them up by creating a bunch of conscripts, and then using those to make everyone calm.
64 kbps WMA
It seems that every single player that can handle WMA uses 64 kbps as the song estimate. Some label them as "x songs, x/2 songs in mp3". Something tells me that this is a part of Microsoft's PlaysForSure campaign that tries to encourage the use of WMA, by only licensing it to those people who will advertise it like it is a Messiah.
Sit back and recall, with tremendously smug satisfaction, a decade's worth of tech industry punditry holding that superior design would never get Apple anywhere, and that Apple should instead, you know, be more like Dell.
Meh. I do not see Apple's design to be superior. A bit different, and definitely higher quality that the average crap, but nowhere close to revolutionary.