Every datacom box supplier is developing DPI features for their products. The main driver is not targeted marketing, but QoS. When you're able to identify traffic on the application layer, it gives you a lot of extra options in determining how to route the traffic. This way you can decide to route P2P traffic flows on best effort basis, but "over-the-top" video (eg. Youtube) flows you route through a higher quality connection. This improves user satisfaction. That's the idea anyway, saying it's for targeted advertising sounds quite paranoid to me.
Obviously you've never worked with Netcool. It's as simple as it is with Nagios, you write a script that either spits out an SNMP trap, or updates the omnibus database; perl and DBD::Sybase will do the trick easy.
What was wrong with Nagios that you decided to go with NetCool?
I guess:
Nagios is targeted at companies up to the medium-sized ISP level. It misses functionality for the real big networks. What we miss is proper SNMP trap handling (you can hack it so it works more or less, but not scalable or extremely reliable), integration with proprietary management systems (such as Cisco WAN manager, Alcatel AWS etc. ad infinitum), and scalability to 10.000's of devices (yes you can distribute your sensors, but it's not very practical).
Netcool provides all this, and the same flexibility you get with Nagios. Netcool is a database of alarms, with different components feeding the database. You can feed it nagios events, Cisco WAN manager events, syslog events, SNMP traps, events from custom scripts etc. etc. So it is quite flexible, yet scales better, features much better presentation options and integrates better in proprietary networks than Nagios. Unfortunately the price is better, too.
When all that the poster mentions is that "thousands of bushels of fruit" are thrown away each year, what good is giving the bushel -> gallon or some metric unit conversion? It doesn't make the original comment any more specific. Basically he just says "lot's of".
There wasn't much of a reaction in the Netherlands. The only thing about it on TV i saw in the news for kids aged 6 to 12, and there the story was: "Americans very cross over dutch ad".
Mind you, there's not much of a black vs. white race issue in the Netherlands. Here it's more white vs. north african/middle eastern..
"This will increase your runnning speed substatially, over 4 minutes in a mile"
"This will increase your runnning speed substatially, over the 4 minute mile barrier"
Neither sentence makes any sense so they seem quite similar to me.
Population density in the US (nr. 143 in list) is higher than in countries known for their high quality broadband connections such as Finland (nr. 162), Norway (166), Sweden (155) and Canada (185).
The population density is a non-issue regarding broadband. The measure of urbanisation is what's important. Rural areas have worse internet connections than cities. The more people live in cities, the more people should have broadband access. The fact that the US -a pretty urbanized country- has bad broadband has other causes.
Part of the modus operandi of the so-called "al-qaeda network" was never to claim any attack. So the fact that someone claims the attack in the name of al-qaeda proves -if anything- that this is not an al-qaeda attack
My personal belief is that the "al-qaeda network" is no more than a figment of western imagination, created to give terrorism a face that really isn't there. The network of the 9-11 bombers has been destroyed, most of Bin Laden's chums have been killed or captured.
Yes there is, the other way around though. I used to maintain DNS servers for ISPs in the Netherlands and turned of caching completely. That way you prevent update problems and cache poisoning. DNS caching was invented when bandwidth and CPU time were expensive. Not the case anymore. Caching is silly.
As a regular customer to different taxi services I fail to see why municipal wireless broadband wastes my dollars, and I wish to take this opportunity to state I strongly object to these allegations.
But.. but.. I heard from somebody who read some story on some website about some company having a 1x1 pixel placeholder jpg with "g5" in its title, so the G5 powerbook will be released very soon!..Right?
Eeehm.. actually it is PIN. Blackberry PIN-to-PIN messaging is a way of sending email like messages to other Blackberry devices connected to the same Blackberry server. Each device has a unique 'PIN' which is used for the addressing of these messages, hence the term 'PIN-to-PIN'.
You're comparing apples and oranges. Ettercap is not just a packet dumping/protocol analyzer tool like tcpdump. It has many active features, like arp-cache poisoning, data injection etc.
There's no real incentive to move to IPv6, at least not in the western world, as there's plenty of IPv4 address space left. Apart from that there's also the perceived complexity of IPv6 (long hex numbers, so it must be more complicated than shorter decimal numbers).
If you've worked with SNMP, you know that it is a technically solid solution - low on resources, fast. However, SNMP _is_ complex. Finding OIDs in large MIBs, secure configuration, interpreting data are mostly difficult.
I give a technically sound, industry standard and less complex alternative for SNMP a good chance for quick adoptation.
In Holland we had a similar case, a drunk driver who killed a pedestrian in a parking garage (while driving drunk) claimed his cruise control malfunctioned and he couldn't stop the car.
Whenever people need to lie to protect themselves, they'll try to blame something they don't understand, expecting that the recipient of the story will not understand the stuff either, and thus believe them.
Ofcourse this is rather stupid, but it's just the way people are wired.
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Every datacom box supplier is developing DPI features for their products. The main driver is not targeted marketing, but QoS. When you're able to identify traffic on the application layer, it gives you a lot of extra options in determining how to route the traffic.
This way you can decide to route P2P traffic flows on best effort basis, but "over-the-top" video (eg. Youtube) flows you route through a higher quality connection. This improves user satisfaction.
That's the idea anyway, saying it's for targeted advertising sounds quite paranoid to me.
Obviously you've never worked with Netcool. It's as simple as it is with Nagios, you write a script that either spits out an SNMP trap, or updates the omnibus database; perl and DBD::Sybase will do the trick easy.
I guess:
Nagios is targeted at companies up to the medium-sized ISP level. It misses functionality for the real big networks. What we miss is proper SNMP trap handling (you can hack it so it works more or less, but not scalable or extremely reliable), integration with proprietary management systems (such as Cisco WAN manager, Alcatel AWS etc. ad infinitum), and scalability to 10.000's of devices (yes you can distribute your sensors, but it's not very practical).
Netcool provides all this, and the same flexibility you get with Nagios. Netcool is a database of alarms, with different components feeding the database. You can feed it nagios events, Cisco WAN manager events, syslog events, SNMP traps, events from custom scripts etc. etc. So it is quite flexible, yet scales better, features much better presentation options and integrates better in proprietary networks than Nagios. Unfortunately the price is better, too.
When all that the poster mentions is that "thousands of bushels of fruit" are thrown away each year, what good is giving the bushel -> gallon or some metric unit conversion? It doesn't make the original comment any more specific. Basically he just says "lot's of".
There wasn't much of a reaction in the Netherlands. The only thing about it on TV i saw in the news for kids aged 6 to 12, and there the story was: "Americans very cross over dutch ad".
Mind you, there's not much of a black vs. white race issue in the Netherlands. Here it's more white vs. north african/middle eastern..
Neither sentence makes any sense so they seem quite similar to me.
The population density is a non-issue regarding broadband. The measure of urbanisation is what's important. Rural areas have worse internet connections than cities. The more people live in cities, the more people should have broadband access. The fact that the US -a pretty urbanized country- has bad broadband has other causes.
The naked people artwork, obviously!
Hey, I've found some interesting background info on this novel story here.
So the fact that someone claims the attack in the name of al-qaeda proves -if anything- that this is not an al-qaeda attack
My personal belief is that the "al-qaeda network" is no more than a figment of western imagination, created to give terrorism a face that really isn't there. The network of the 9-11 bombers has been destroyed, most of Bin Laden's chums have been killed or captured.
Yes there is, the other way around though. I used to maintain DNS servers for ISPs in the Netherlands and turned of caching completely. That way you prevent update problems and cache poisoning.
DNS caching was invented when bandwidth and CPU time were expensive. Not the case anymore. Caching is silly.
At best that's a very minor part of the reason as only 1 in 100 people use those. We're talking people here, not /.-ers.
Actually, that's 230V.
Marcelo Tosatti has been maintaining the 2.4 kernels you've been running for a long time. He's a Brazilian working for Conectiva.
You on the other hand are an asshole.
As a regular customer to different taxi services I fail to see why municipal wireless broadband wastes my dollars, and I wish to take this opportunity to state I strongly object to these allegations.
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An interesting fact is that Steve Jobs headed Apple is the top North American brand
So which one is it?
But.. but.. I heard from somebody who read some story on some website about some company having a 1x1 pixel placeholder jpg with "g5" in its title, so the G5 powerbook will be released very soon! ..Right?
Eeehm.. actually it is PIN. Blackberry PIN-to-PIN messaging is a way of sending email like messages to other Blackberry devices connected to the same Blackberry server. Each device has a unique 'PIN' which is used for the addressing of these messages, hence the term 'PIN-to-PIN'.
This sort of thing pleases me greatly
I on the other hand, could unpossibly care less.
You're comparing apples and oranges. Ettercap is not just a packet dumping/protocol analyzer tool like tcpdump. It has many active features, like arp-cache poisoning, data injection etc.
Linux/iptables equivalent is here.
He wasn't talking about geeks. He was talking about people.
This is a very neat solution I'm using myself. You can control the ipod with the on-wheel CD changer controls. Hardly a hack.
There's no real incentive to move to IPv6, at least not in the western world, as there's plenty of IPv4 address space left. Apart from that there's also the perceived complexity of IPv6 (long hex numbers, so it must be more complicated than shorter decimal numbers).
If you've worked with SNMP, you know that it is a technically solid solution - low on resources, fast. However, SNMP _is_ complex. Finding OIDs in large MIBs, secure configuration, interpreting data are mostly difficult.
I give a technically sound, industry standard and less complex alternative for SNMP a good chance for quick adoptation.
In Holland we had a similar case, a drunk driver who killed a pedestrian in a parking garage (while driving drunk) claimed his cruise control malfunctioned and he couldn't stop the car.
Whenever people need to lie to protect themselves, they'll try to blame something they don't understand, expecting that the recipient of the story will not understand the stuff either, and thus believe them.
Ofcourse this is rather stupid, but it's just the way people are wired.