The rejections to all but one of the patents were preliminary findings. The only final rejection was issued last week. There is an appeals process that can take upwards of a year or better and RIM was held under a previous ruling. NTP did try to build a similar device that predated Blackberry by several years but failed.
Nearly 10k users, smtp box using sendmail, ldap with iPlanet on another and Cyrus on another box with the pages coming from the Web server pool. Except for the Web servers they were all two and four way SPARC/Solaris boxen, but it could easily (perhaps more easily) be some Linux boxen. We used horde for Webmail. If you don't have that many users you could do it all from one box. It took three of us a couple of weeks, counting planning and testing and hacking horde to work with our auth and template system.
My personal box now runs Redhat with SquirrelMail and uw-imap. I was a great deal easier to install and configure but I doubt it could support more than a few hundred users in this config. I put that up in an hour or two one afternoon.
You may to look at jobbing this out. Doing full time mail will take some experienced staff. You're still going to have to administer it as well.
It's been news from the beginning, hence the name of the protocol Network News Transfer Protocol. "The Cabal" has been using the term news since the beginning.
What it looks like is MS is using NNTP and a database back end to enhance the user experience. I wouldn't think they're doing this so much for the big seven or alt groups but rather for private groups, much like the sort that use Web based discussion forums like UBB or PHPBB.
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FWIW, MSN occupies most of the old Exodus SE2 datacenter and a good part of the newer SE3 facility...
A Solaris RTU comes with every server and you can get a Solaris media kit for under a hundred bucks.
The difference is in the hardware costs. They are comparing commodity Intel hardware with enterprise level proprietary Sun hardware. For example, one of the machines cited was a Sunfire 4800. That box starts a US$100K... it's a 12 way box.
Much of the data in the "report" mirrors what we have found in a mixed Linux/Solaris shop but much of it reads like an IBM ad for Linux.
Which is more users that were using Unix on the desktop before OSX came out.
If anything, OSX will help take Unix to the mainstream. That's something that happened on release and that Linux and the other *nixes haven't been able to acheive in several years.
Connection speed and data tranfer aren't necessarily the same thing. They won't be limiting how fast you download, only the amount of data that you would transfer.
May I point out that it was a US law (the DMCA) that was used by Scientology recently to get pages pulled out of Googles index?
In that case the "Church" held a copyright on the work in question. I don't think DB has a copyright on railroad destruction materials....
After the fork I tired to contribute code to Post Nuke for authentication via LDAP. I was told in no uncertain terms by niceguyeddie, that unless we were to more or less commit to "owning" a part of the project, and actively participating in fixing bugs that were assigned, we couldn't participate.
We were more than willing to contribute a complete replacement of the autentication system to enable the use of LDAP, but as a result of the restrictions and forced commitment to the project, we wern't able to contribute.
You guys have done some good things with it, too bad we couldn't help.
Dave
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Perhaps the solution is for the search engines to offer a setting that will allow Joe User to view 'pure' and commercialized links seperately
Yet another case of "I want something for nuthin' ". Just how do you propose the search engine operators cover expenses?
If you don't like it, I've got a solution. Set up your own spider and maintain it.
That 's bullshit. Recently there have been many intimidation schemes. How about that Lyons Group hardon for the parody Barney sites? Or the IDG "For Dummies" campaign? I got one from the MPAA, they just neglected to mention that the injunciton only dealt with the 2600 site, and not specifically mine. Or how about where the SDMI sharks jumped all over Felton and the others, only to back down when it looked like it would have an adverse effect on the DMCA?
In the US, there is still a thing called the Bill of Rights, the Consititution and Due Process. It might not work everytime, but it works often enough to keep most of the tyrants at bay.
When you drag youir sorry ass out of college, and into the real world, you might recognize it......It's pretty naive to think that those in postiions of power won't abuse it. Particularly when they don't understand the technology involved.
We've got two T-1s (from AT&T) in Seattle at a cost of US$650 month each.....One from a local ISP on the Verizon cloud outside of Boston for about US$850 month. We've also got local loops from our NOC to the cage in the colo that are around US$200/month.
"Only a moron would pay more than a grand a month for a DS1....." Particularly these days.
Cost of Oracle is based on how many servers you are running, how many processors on those servers, the speed of those processors,
They shitcanned the speed portion of the license formula (upu) a couple of weeks ago.
Before the reduction, a 9i license for a dual 440 sparc was about 40 grand (us) with support, now it's around US$27k.
Oracle is expensive, but you get what you pay for. If you need the power and features, it pays for itself. The most expensive part is the brain power to administer it. Usually two or three times the license cost.
Postgres and mySQL are fine for many Web sites, but if what you are doing is really mission critical, Oracle is a good way to go.
...to all of us that do this for a living. Forget for a moment that most here have never set foot in a real data center, much less even own a server. No pros want to see another's network go down (well, most of the time;-) ), and we don't want ours down. I've spent many an hour looking at an errant PIX, or troubleshooting some other network config. I know what those guys were going through. It sucks...
Don't slack. When you slack it bites you in the ass. Maybe not today, maybe not tomarrow, but someday, someday soon, it will.
Test your failover configs. How? By actually making them fail. During the maintaince window, power that primary router/firewall/load balancer down hard and see if the fail over works. It's like testing back ups, kids. You have to know they work before you need them.
Realistically develop on call strategies. OSDN didn't really have a net ops staff of four. One had quit (why are they counted?), one was in hospital, and two had weak "couldn't reach my cell phone" excuses. That just don't work in the real world. If you are on call, you are on call. The "phone too far away" and "battery fell out" just don't cut it in the adult world of professional net ops. Get a satellite pager, and if you are on call, make sure it's on, and near you so you can hear it.
Don't bash your employees/ former employees, particularly during a heated situation. Shows no class. Besides, if you are such a hot shit. grab that console and fix it. Otherwise, keep your mouth shut. Besides, who is in charge of making sure the people that are hired are qualified? Hmmm?
Document your shit. It's not that hard. Visio can do much of it for you. I'm going to break an NDA here, but the Exodus Service Agreement states that all machines and cables are to be labeled. That is so when the dude (or dudette) has to leave the NOC and enter your cage to reboot your lame box, they know what is going on. Also works well for when you net ops staff is too concerned with getting drunk or laid and your poor programmers have to go in to fix the network.
Some folks really went above and beyond, but it seems to me that the management severely dropped the ball.
Is VA really ready to abandon the hardware market for software services? One has to wonder.
I doubt the Supreme Court will even here this. There in no compelling free speech issue at stake. The defendent did not take the issue seriously, did not prepare for it, and didn't argue First Amendment, just that the law did not apply to his circumstance.
This isn't a free speech case, it's a case about a guy that tried to make a buck off of someone else. For example....
He didn't respond to the initial requests and cease and desists. That doesn't look to good in court. Only after being served, did he claim to be a "polictical protest" site. Had he been protesting that in the first place, instead of being a banner sandbox (for that alone he should be flogged) he may have a free speech case.
This is nothing like Universal et al v Corley, or Ford v Corley. Comparing this case to those two cases is an insult to a real free speech case. Anyway, this ruling only applies to this particular case, and not to typosquatted domains in general.
It's the intent that counts, kids. And this guy intended to make some cash from someone elses idea.
I've got a DS-1 local loop to our cage at Exodus, so I'm in no hurry to migrate.;-) I work from home, and do about 6GB/month data transfer. A modem doesn't cut it in the big leagues. Even 128k BRI seems slow.
Most rank and file folks don't care about subnets, and being able to run daemons. They just want to download porn and games at a respectable rate.
Who can blame them? Cable isn't for commercial subscribers. I'd never use a cable modem again, but I don't have to...
Slashdot Mirror
The rejections to all but one of the patents were preliminary findings. The only final rejection was issued last week. There is an appeals process that can take upwards of a year or better and RIM was held under a previous ruling. NTP did try to build a similar device that predated Blackberry by several years but failed.
Nearly 10k users, smtp box using sendmail, ldap with iPlanet on another and Cyrus on another box with the pages coming from the Web server pool. Except for the Web servers they were all two and four way SPARC/Solaris boxen, but it could easily (perhaps more easily) be some Linux boxen. We used horde for Webmail. If you don't have that many users you could do it all from one box. It took three of us a couple of weeks, counting planning and testing and hacking horde to work with our auth and template system.
My personal box now runs Redhat with SquirrelMail and uw-imap. I was a great deal easier to install and configure but I doubt it could support more than a few hundred users in this config. I put that up in an hour or two one afternoon.
You may to look at jobbing this out. Doing full time mail will take some experienced staff. You're still going to have to administer it as well.
Good luck.. Have fun...
It's karma, and they're about to get a big fucking dose of it.
What it looks like is MS is using NNTP and a database back end to enhance the user experience. I wouldn't think they're doing this so much for the big seven or alt groups but rather for private groups, much like the sort that use Web based discussion forums like UBB or PHPBB.
FWIW, MSN occupies most of the old Exodus SE2 datacenter and a good part of the newer SE3 facility...
The Samba issue was posted a couple of days ago...
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A Solaris RTU comes with every server and you can get a Solaris media kit for under a hundred bucks.
The difference is in the hardware costs. They are comparing commodity Intel hardware with enterprise level proprietary Sun hardware. For example, one of the machines cited was a Sunfire 4800. That box starts a US$100K... it's a 12 way box.
Much of the data in the "report" mirrors what we have found in a mixed Linux/Solaris shop but much of it reads like an IBM ad for Linux.
Which is more users that were using Unix on the desktop before OSX came out.
If anything, OSX will help take Unix to the mainstream. That's something that happened on release and that Linux and the other *nixes haven't been able to acheive in several years.
It uses and displays the results of other indexers or crawlers such as Google. It's basically a meta front end for searches.
The Flash version is a bit slow, even on huge pipes and a faster client.
Connection speed and data tranfer aren't necessarily the same thing. They won't be limiting how fast you download, only the amount of data that you would transfer.
Seth, they fuck boys like you in prison....
Think about that....
May I point out that it was a US law (the DMCA) that was used by Scientology recently to get pages pulled out of Googles index?
In that case the "Church" held a copyright on the work in question. I don't think DB has a copyright on railroad destruction materials....
We do understand the idea, we just don't agree with many of RMS' positions.
I think it speaks spades that perhaps the most widely deployed free software package is not released under the GPL, or even part of GNU.
The FSF "all or nothing" approach is much more rude than anything a commercial software vendor could come up with.
Dave
After the fork I tired to contribute code to Post Nuke for authentication via LDAP. I was told in no uncertain terms by niceguyeddie, that unless we were to more or less commit to "owning" a part of the project, and actively participating in fixing bugs that were assigned, we couldn't participate.
We were more than willing to contribute a complete replacement of the autentication system to enable the use of LDAP, but as a result of the restrictions and forced commitment to the project, we wern't able to contribute.
You guys have done some good things with it, too bad we couldn't help.
Dave
Perhaps the solution is for the search engines to offer a setting that will allow Joe User to view 'pure' and commercialized links seperately
Yet another case of "I want something for nuthin' ". Just how do you propose the search engine operators cover expenses?
If you don't like it, I've got a solution. Set up your own spider and maintain it.
Dave
That 's bullshit. Recently there have been many intimidation schemes. How about that Lyons Group hardon for the parody Barney sites? Or the IDG "For Dummies" campaign? I got one from the MPAA, they just neglected to mention that the injunciton only dealt with the 2600 site, and not specifically mine. Or how about where the SDMI sharks jumped all over Felton and the others, only to back down when it looked like it would have an adverse effect on the DMCA?
In the US, there is still a thing called the Bill of Rights, the Consititution and Due Process. It might not work everytime, but it works often enough to keep most of the tyrants at bay.
When you drag youir sorry ass out of college, and into the real world, you might recognize it......It's pretty naive to think that those in postiions of power won't abuse it. Particularly when they don't understand the technology involved.
Dave
Try again, greenhorn......
We've got two T-1s (from AT&T) in Seattle at a cost of US$650 month each.....One from a local ISP on the Verizon cloud outside of Boston for about US$850 month. We've also got local loops from our NOC to the cage in the colo that are around US$200/month.
"Only a moron would pay more than a grand a month for a DS1....." Particularly these days.
Dave
They shitcanned the speed portion of the license formula (upu) a couple of weeks ago.
Before the reduction, a 9i license for a dual 440 sparc was about 40 grand (us) with support, now it's around US$27k.
Oracle is expensive, but you get what you pay for. If you need the power and features, it pays for itself. The most expensive part is the brain power to administer it. Usually two or three times the license cost.
Postgres and mySQL are fine for many Web sites, but if what you are doing is really mission critical, Oracle is a good way to go.
Dave
I suppose you could use Rewrite cond, but you'd still have to create the result file, as I don't see a way to do that in mod_rewrite.
Doing it as a module is probably a lot less overhead, than reading the directive and expression, then displaying the result.
Don't know how useful it is, but it's pretty cute.
Dave
...to all of us that do this for a living. Forget for a moment that most here have never set foot in a real data center, much less even own a server. No pros want to see another's network go down (well, most of the time ;-) ), and we don't want ours down. I've spent many an hour looking at an errant PIX, or troubleshooting some other network config. I know what those guys were going through. It sucks...
Don't slack. When you slack it bites you in the ass. Maybe not today, maybe not tomarrow, but someday, someday soon, it will.
Test your failover configs. How? By actually making them fail. During the maintaince window, power that primary router/firewall/load balancer down hard and see if the fail over works. It's like testing back ups, kids. You have to know they work before you need them.
Realistically develop on call strategies. OSDN didn't really have a net ops staff of four. One had quit (why are they counted?), one was in hospital, and two had weak "couldn't reach my cell phone" excuses. That just don't work in the real world. If you are on call, you are on call. The "phone too far away" and "battery fell out" just don't cut it in the adult world of professional net ops. Get a satellite pager, and if you are on call, make sure it's on, and near you so you can hear it.
Don't bash your employees/ former employees, particularly during a heated situation. Shows no class. Besides, if you are such a hot shit. grab that console and fix it. Otherwise, keep your mouth shut. Besides, who is in charge of making sure the people that are hired are qualified? Hmmm?
Document your shit. It's not that hard. Visio can do much of it for you. I'm going to break an NDA here, but the Exodus Service Agreement states that all machines and cables are to be labeled. That is so when the dude (or dudette) has to leave the NOC and enter your cage to reboot your lame box, they know what is going on. Also works well for when you net ops staff is too concerned with getting drunk or laid and your poor programmers have to go in to fix the network.
Some folks really went above and beyond, but it seems to me that the management severely dropped the ball.
Is VA really ready to abandon the hardware market for software services? One has to wonder.
Dave
been there before...
MS will remember to renew the passport.com domain next time it's up for renewal.........
Dave
I doubt the Supreme Court will even here this. There in no compelling free speech issue at stake. The defendent did not take the issue seriously, did not prepare for it, and didn't argue First Amendment, just that the law did not apply to his circumstance.
This isn't a free speech case, it's a case about a guy that tried to make a buck off of someone else. For example....
He didn't respond to the initial requests and cease and desists. That doesn't look to good in court. Only after being served, did he claim to be a "polictical protest" site. Had he been protesting that in the first place, instead of being a banner sandbox (for that alone he should be flogged) he may have a free speech case.
This is nothing like Universal et al v Corley, or Ford v Corley. Comparing this case to those two cases is an insult to a real free speech case. Anyway, this ruling only applies to this particular case, and not to typosquatted domains in general.
It's the intent that counts, kids. And this guy intended to make some cash from someone elses idea.
Dave
Being on the hiring end, it sounds like you have an attitude problem.
Dave
If you really did this for a living you'd know that unified login is a standard in most enterprises.
Get a clue.....
Dave
I've got a DS-1 local loop to our cage at Exodus, so I'm in no hurry to migrate. ;-) I work from home, and do about 6GB /month data transfer. A modem doesn't cut it in the big leagues. Even 128k BRI seems slow.
Most rank and file folks don't care about subnets, and being able to run daemons. They just want to download porn and games at a respectable rate.
Who can blame them? Cable isn't for commercial subscribers. I'd never use a cable modem again, but I don't have to...
Dave