IPs are expensive in the US (and other regions covered by ARIN). In Europe, IPs are free. You demonstrate your need to RIPE, fill out the appropriate form via your ISP and addresses are assigned to you. You have four machines at home, you'll get a/28. (4 + router + network + broadcast + 1 spare - you have to round up to the next boundary).
You may still have to pay an ISP to route them, but fundamentally IPs are a zero-cost resource over here. Good job too, as routed public IPs are the only way to go. NAT is flat-out evil, and I'd never pay an ISP for a NAT service.
Your point about the security of telnet on non-routed networks stands, I just don't think your assumption about the numbers of geeks with NATed rather than real networks is necessarily true...
This is *really* not hard, at least for messages that are multipart/alternative with a text/plain part and a text/html part. I knocked up a perl filter to simply remove the text/html part and leave the rest of the message intact, and by the power of procmail everything now goes through that filter on its way from the outside to my mailbox.
For messages that have text/html only it's harder, I'm thinking something with 'lynx -dump', but to be honest I don't get enough of them that aren't spam (and hence filtered off elsewhere) to care about fixing it...
What have VGA ports got to do with servers? Servers don't have monitors attached. Servers don't even have video cards, on a good day when the vendor has managed to think outside the limitations of the PeeCee or you've bought servers based on a real architecture. Even if you're stuck with something that insists on video for a console, you only use it once to install, and not again until it crashes hard.
And underspecced? For what kind of server? For personal web pages (and your friends' personal web pages, and your family's and...), for example, Celery733, 64M and 10GB is total overkill. You can run that sort of server off a P90 quite successfully - an Xbox, if it's hacked to run Linux, could happily do the web, DNS, mail and probably countless other bits at the same time.
I'd pay more to get paperbacks earlier. I don't *want* hardbacks, they're large and heavy, I wouldn't buy them if they were cheaper than paperbacks. If it's all about pricing for "early" purchasers, why don't publishers release both hard and paperback editions at a higher price at the same time, then release a discounted edition (of both? of just the paperback?) later on?
I can't be the only person in the world who dislikes hardback, surely?
I was going to make a gag about McDonalds *selling* chips, not implanting them, but of course they don't, they sell the abomination known as "fries".
Chips are big fat greasy bags of potato, thick-cut and drowned in vinegar. Chips shops sell them, along with nice food to go with them, such as battered sausages and small tubs of gravy. Sadly, chip shops are increasing being replaced with fast food chains, which only ever sell fries:(
Paranoia doesn't successfully rip Natalie Imbruglia's 'White Lillies Island', which is a CDS disc. The TOC is mangled in some interesting way as well as the data, so it can't recognise the last five tracks.
However, CD-DA X-tractor (Windoze, but GPL) successfully ripped everything but the first track, so between the two programs I've managed to save some.wavs and burn an audio CD to replace the strange data CD I was sold.
(Paranoia on a SparcStation2, external SCSI CD, CD-DA X-tractor on a no-brand peecee with some random gray-box cd-rw, for reference).
OK, so two OSes and two programs and a big of juggling is probably too much like hardwork for Joe Public, but it ain't rocket science, and it only needs *one* person to rip and file share for all the Joe Publics to download it. If I was a record company, I'd be talking to Midbar about some penalty clauses;)
'Sinus' is the cavity at the top of your nose. 'Sine' is the mathematical function that give a nice-looking curve to wobble your scrolly message along. At least in English - is this different in some for of popular Foreign that all the demo coders speak?
From reading the article, it runs an SMTP *client* rather then use MAPI hooks to generate spam from Outhouse. Running an SMTP server wouldn't allow it to propogate directly, although it could well turn your box into an open relay, which would be a Very Bad Thing...
My current bugbear at the moment is the GBA magazine in the UK (sorry, can't remember the title.) The reviews seem fairly honest and prepared to say what sucks about a game and why, but then the ratings are confusingly high for everything.
A typical example for a bad game will read something like "This game is poor, very poor. The graphics are blocky and jerky, the collision detection is awful and the hashed-up plot does nothing to encourage you to work around those problems. Stick with $SOME_OTHER_TITLE_IN_THE_GNERE instead. 70%"
Excuse me? 70%? 70% is "Competent, but not earth-shattering. Worth a look if you like this kind of game." "Poor, very poor" should be getting 10-20%.
Are they afraid of offending the advertisers? Have Nintendo wielded a big club saying that *no* sub-70% scores are permitted for fear of making the whole platform look bad? Or are the reviewers just "poor, very poor" at maths?
/me awaits Advance Wars and Golden Sun on import for Christmas...
Nike, (like most 'label' producers), makes advertising logos that Sheeple are prepared to pay to wear. The fact that trainers are a convenient delivery vector for said advertising is irrelevent.
USB networking works fine for me, at least at 10Mb. Off-the-shelf PC that I can't open to install a network card without voiding the warranty (yes, that's lame, yes, there were reasons for buying it), so I grabbed a USB 10Mb adaptor, and apart from some teething difficulties with drivers, it's up and running.
Remote X is as usuable is remote X ever is on 10Mb, likewise file sharing, MP3 streaming, mail, etc.
No, I probably wouldn't want to use it as the backbone of a high-performance beowulf cluster, but it's not the total non-starter you're implying, at least IME.
Data point: I can stream MP3s across the network reliably enough to burn audio CDs from them live at 8x. That's good enough networking for me.
Torvalds: You know, I could care less. I don't think anything is going to really change if we discover there is indeed a human nature.
OT, I know, but just where did this horrible mangling of the English language originate from? "I could care less" means "I *am* bothered", and I can't see any other possible way of parsing it. The phrase is "I couldn't care less" - how is it possible to lose the negative and still attempt to retain the same meaning? It seems to be a Merkin thing, but I'm still baffled as to how and why it happens.
Paperbacks are the *only* thing that counts. Hardbacks are the work of Satan - bulky, unwieldy, expensive, and delaying the release of the same title in a useful format.
This is another area where we could benefit from publisher greed giving way to consumer choice. Publish paperbacks and hardbacks at the same time and see which people actually *want*.
You're confusing "Java" with "popular Java IDEs". Java is, in a lot of parts, C++ with a lot of the interesting ways to shoot yourself in the foot removed and some syntactic clean-up.
I'm doing some things in Java these days, and I haven't downloaded components from anywhere, dragged or dropped anything, or let someone else's IDE glue anything together for me. I write source code with an editor, feed it to the compiler, and feed the byte-code to the run-time.
Java has the problem that the flash IDEs were developed in a very close time-frame to the language, so you never got the huge base of "real" coders that you did for something like C. (Although not as bad as Visual Basic, where the drag-n-drop, write all the code for me version is all you get.)
Take a look at a recent version of MS VisualC++ (or whatever they're calling it these days). With the "build me an app" wizard you can get a working "do-nothing" skeleton program that produces a standard Windows app, menus, widgets, open / save dialogs, cut-n-paste etc without typing a single line of code - in C++!
It's definitely a programming *environment* issue, more than a programming *language* issue.
My 2.2.14 box (Mandrake 7 install, various manual upgrades) doesn't play nice with NFS at all. Previous uptimes in the hundreds of days, recompiled for NFS and switched on the server, now it goes a week without a panic if I'm lucky.
That's with one low-volume client (Vaxstation 3100 writing mrtg logs). $DEITY only knows what the thing would do under load...
That's why I used to be a big sendmail fan. When I was talking UUCP, Fidonet and occasionally other oddities, sendmail rocked - you could (and can, I guess) do pretty munge any kind of munging, translation, forwading and other cleverness you need to.
I haven't had a box need to speak anything other than SMTP in probably a couple of years now, and I'm starting to gravitate towards Postfix. While I respect the power of sendmail.cf, it's too much pain to remember what you're doing unless you're hacking on it day-in, day-out.
Moving to a mailer that displays HTML would be a downgrade, not an upgrade. (And worthless, as my.procmailrc bins HTML on incoming mails wherever possible anyway).
I upgrade my mailer when needed to a shiny new release of mutt, and read mail in a variety of 80-column terminals, be they xterms, (virtual) consoles, serial sessions from a termulator, or whatever. Admittedly, I've not used a real, physical VTwhatever in a while.
Other posters' comments regarding cold, dead fingers apply.
Ciscos work fine with quads of zero. You just need 'ip subnet-zero', which is the default on 12.x IOS releases anyway.
*Any* equipment that doesn't support subnet 0, or the classful-broadcast subnet (eg 10.255.255.0/24) is broken - there should be no reason not to use these. Of course, if you *know* you have broken equipment, not using them is wise;)
Hmm... followed the links from that HOWTO, and they're trying to convince me that the tinydns zone file format is more human-readable and easier to maintain than BIND zone files.
Now, more easily *machine* readable / writable I'll buy - autogenerating BIND zone files needs a little care, and parsing them is non-trivial. But to a human, which is easier to follow:
host.dom.ain IN A 1.2.3.4
which quite clearly tells you which type of record you're dealing with, or:
+host.dom.ain:1.2.3.4:0:4000000038af1379
which unless you're editing the damn things day-in, day-out, you're not going to remember which meaningless symbols correspond to which types of resource record.
The djbdns docs seem to advocate maintaining the DNS via the 'add-foo' scripts rather than editing zone files, secondarying is one of a variety of hacks ('run the axfr prog, filter the output in various ways, rebuild the database' or 'not our problem, use rsync'), and starting and stopping the daemons is non-standard.
No, a customer called asking to speak to "Bob", who had failed to fix his problem earlier. There was no Bob working at the time, but 'The Customer Is Always Right', so *everyone* was renamed Bob, just to be on the safe side.
It was a tech support department then too, most emphatically *not* a call centre.
It also includes the fact that you may not run a site where more than 20% of the traffic is file downloads. I'm utterly intrigued to know how a browser is supposed to display HTML, images etc without downloading the files. Most puzzling...
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IPs are expensive in the US (and other regions covered by ARIN). In Europe, IPs are free. You demonstrate your need to RIPE, fill out the appropriate form via your ISP and addresses are assigned to you. You have four machines at home, you'll get a /28. (4 + router + network + broadcast + 1 spare - you have to round up to the next boundary).
You may still have to pay an ISP to route them, but fundamentally IPs are a zero-cost resource over here. Good job too, as routed public IPs are the only way to go. NAT is flat-out evil, and I'd never pay an ISP for a NAT service.
Your point about the security of telnet on non-routed networks stands, I just don't think your assumption about the numbers of geeks with NATed rather than real networks is necessarily true...
Regards,
Tim.
Nope, Sid is *always* unstable. Once woody is stable, there will be a new name for testing.
Regards,
Tim.
This is *really* not hard, at least for messages that are multipart/alternative with a text/plain part and a text/html part. I knocked up a perl filter to simply remove the text/html part and leave the rest of the message intact, and by the power of procmail everything now goes through that filter on its way from the outside to my mailbox.
For messages that have text/html only it's harder, I'm thinking something with 'lynx -dump', but to be honest I don't get enough of them that aren't spam (and hence filtered off elsewhere) to care about fixing it...
Regards,
Tim.
What have VGA ports got to do with servers?
Servers don't have monitors attached. Servers
don't even have video cards, on a good day when
the vendor has managed to think outside the
limitations of the PeeCee or you've bought
servers based on a real architecture. Even if
you're stuck with something that insists on video
for a console, you only use it once to install,
and not again until it crashes hard.
And underspecced? For what kind of server? For
personal web pages (and your friends' personal
web pages, and your family's and...), for example,
Celery733, 64M and 10GB is total overkill. You
can run that sort of server off a P90 quite
successfully - an Xbox, if it's hacked to run
Linux, could happily do the web, DNS, mail and
probably countless other bits at the same time.
Regards,
Tim.
I'd pay more to get paperbacks earlier. I don't *want* hardbacks, they're large and heavy, I wouldn't buy them if they were cheaper than paperbacks. If it's all about pricing for "early" purchasers, why don't publishers release both hard and paperback editions at a higher price at the same time, then release a discounted edition (of both? of just the paperback?) later on?
I can't be the only person in the world who dislikes hardback, surely?
Regards,
Tim.
I was going to make a gag about McDonalds *selling* chips, not implanting them, but of course they don't, they sell the abomination known as "fries".
:(
Chips are big fat greasy bags of potato, thick-cut and drowned in vinegar. Chips shops sell them, along with nice food to go with them, such as battered sausages and small tubs of gravy. Sadly, chip shops are increasing being replaced with fast food chains, which only ever sell fries
Hungry now...
Tim.
Paranoia doesn't successfully rip Natalie Imbruglia's 'White Lillies Island', which is a CDS disc. The TOC is mangled in some interesting way as well as the data, so it can't recognise the last five tracks.
.wavs and burn an audio CD to replace the strange data CD I was sold.
;)
However, CD-DA X-tractor (Windoze, but GPL) successfully ripped everything but the first track, so between the two programs I've managed to save some
(Paranoia on a SparcStation2, external SCSI CD, CD-DA X-tractor on a no-brand peecee with some random gray-box cd-rw, for reference).
OK, so two OSes and two programs and a big of juggling is probably too much like hardwork for Joe Public, but it ain't rocket science, and it only needs *one* person to rip and file share for all the Joe Publics to download it. If I was a record company, I'd be talking to Midbar about some penalty clauses
Regards,
Tim.
'Sinus' is the cavity at the top of your nose. 'Sine' is the mathematical function that give a nice-looking curve to wobble your scrolly message along. At least in English - is this different in some for of popular Foreign that all the demo coders speak?
From reading the article, it runs an SMTP *client* rather then use MAPI hooks to generate spam from Outhouse. Running an SMTP server wouldn't allow it to propogate directly, although it could well turn your box into an open relay, which would be a Very Bad Thing...
Regards,
Tim.
My current bugbear at the moment is the GBA magazine in the UK (sorry, can't remember the title.) The reviews seem fairly honest and prepared to say what sucks about a game and why, but then the ratings are confusingly high for everything.
A typical example for a bad game will read something like "This game is poor, very poor. The graphics are blocky and jerky, the collision detection is awful and the hashed-up plot does nothing to encourage you to work around those problems. Stick with $SOME_OTHER_TITLE_IN_THE_GNERE instead. 70%"
Excuse me? 70%? 70% is "Competent, but not earth-shattering. Worth a look if you like this kind of game." "Poor, very poor" should be getting 10-20%.
Are they afraid of offending the advertisers? Have Nintendo wielded a big club saying that *no* sub-70% scores are permitted for fear of making the whole platform look bad? Or are the reviewers just "poor, very poor" at maths?
/me awaits Advance Wars and Golden Sun on import for Christmas...
Tim.
Nike, (like most 'label' producers), makes advertising logos that Sheeple are prepared to pay to wear. The fact that trainers are a convenient delivery vector for said advertising is irrelevent.
UK release date is 16/11, I'm seeing UKP 29.99 for pre-orders, which I think is around 40-45 of that funny colonial money.
Regards,
Tim.
USB networking works fine for me, at least at 10Mb. Off-the-shelf PC that I can't open to install a network card without voiding the warranty (yes, that's lame, yes, there were reasons for buying it), so I grabbed a USB 10Mb adaptor, and apart from some teething difficulties with drivers, it's up and running.
Remote X is as usuable is remote X ever is on 10Mb, likewise file sharing, MP3 streaming, mail, etc.
No, I probably wouldn't want to use it as the backbone of a high-performance beowulf cluster, but it's not the total non-starter you're implying, at least IME.
Data point: I can stream MP3s across the network reliably enough to burn audio CDs from them live at 8x. That's good enough networking for me.
Regards,
Tim.
>>>
Torvalds: You know, I could care less. I don't think anything is going to really change if we discover there is indeed a human nature.
OT, I know, but just where did this horrible mangling of the English language originate from? "I could care less" means "I *am* bothered", and I can't see any other possible way of parsing it. The phrase is "I couldn't care less" - how is it possible to lose the negative and still attempt to retain the same meaning? It seems to be a Merkin thing, but I'm still baffled as to how and why it happens.
Rant over,
Tim.
Paperbacks are the *only* thing that counts. Hardbacks are the work of Satan - bulky, unwieldy, expensive, and delaying the release of the same title in a useful format.
This is another area where we could benefit from publisher greed giving way to consumer choice. Publish paperbacks and hardbacks at the same time and see which people actually *want*.
Regards,
Tim.
You're confusing "Java" with "popular Java IDEs". Java is, in a lot of parts, C++ with a lot of the interesting ways to shoot yourself in the foot removed and some syntactic clean-up.
I'm doing some things in Java these days, and I haven't downloaded components from anywhere, dragged or dropped anything, or let someone else's IDE glue anything together for me. I write source code with an editor, feed it to the compiler, and feed the byte-code to the run-time.
Java has the problem that the flash IDEs were developed in a very close time-frame to the language, so you never got the huge base of "real" coders that you did for something like C. (Although not as bad as Visual Basic, where the drag-n-drop, write all the code for me version is all you get.)
Take a look at a recent version of MS VisualC++ (or whatever they're calling it these days). With the "build me an app" wizard you can get a working "do-nothing" skeleton program that produces a standard Windows app, menus, widgets, open / save dialogs, cut-n-paste etc without typing a single line of code - in C++!
It's definitely a programming *environment* issue, more than a programming *language* issue.
Regards,
Tim.
My 2.2.14 box (Mandrake 7 install, various manual upgrades) doesn't play nice with NFS at all. Previous uptimes in the hundreds of days, recompiled for NFS and switched on the server, now it goes a week without a panic if I'm lucky.
That's with one low-volume client (Vaxstation 3100 writing mrtg logs). $DEITY only knows what the thing would do under load...
Regards,
Tim.
That's why I used to be a big sendmail fan. When I was talking UUCP, Fidonet and occasionally other oddities, sendmail rocked - you could (and can, I guess) do pretty munge any kind of munging, translation, forwading and other cleverness you need to.
I haven't had a box need to speak anything other than SMTP in probably a couple of years now, and I'm starting to gravitate towards Postfix. While I respect the power of sendmail.cf, it's too much pain to remember what you're doing unless you're hacking on it day-in, day-out.
Regards,
Tim.
Moving to a mailer that displays HTML would be a downgrade, not an upgrade. (And worthless, as my .procmailrc bins HTML on incoming mails wherever possible anyway).
I upgrade my mailer when needed to a shiny new release of mutt, and read mail in a variety of 80-column terminals, be they xterms, (virtual) consoles, serial sessions from a termulator, or whatever. Admittedly, I've not used a real, physical VTwhatever in a while.
Other posters' comments regarding cold, dead fingers apply.
Regards,
Tim.
Regular IOS access lists, assuming the 675 runs IOS in the same way the 80x dial-up boxen do.
I have an 803 at home for dial-up (ISDN), and it's the same interface / config as everything else, right up to a GSR - one reason I like Cisco.
Regards,
Tim.
Ciscos work fine with quads of zero. You just need 'ip subnet-zero', which is the default on 12.x IOS releases anyway.
;)
*Any* equipment that doesn't support subnet 0, or the classful-broadcast subnet (eg 10.255.255.0/24) is broken - there should be no reason not to use these. Of course, if you *know* you have broken equipment, not using them is wise
Regards,
Tim.
Hmm... followed the links from that HOWTO, and they're trying to convince me that the tinydns zone file format is more human-readable and easier to maintain than BIND zone files.
Now, more easily *machine* readable / writable I'll buy - autogenerating BIND zone files needs a little care, and parsing them is non-trivial. But to a human, which is easier to follow:
host.dom.ain IN A 1.2.3.4
which quite clearly tells you which type of record you're dealing with, or:
+host.dom.ain:1.2.3.4:0:4000000038af1379
which unless you're editing the damn things day-in, day-out, you're not going to remember which meaningless symbols correspond to which types of resource record.
The djbdns docs seem to advocate maintaining the DNS via the 'add-foo' scripts rather than editing zone files, secondarying is one of a variety of hacks ('run the axfr prog, filter the output in various ways, rebuild the database' or 'not our problem, use rsync'), and starting and stopping the daemons is non-standard.
The whole design simply doesn't work for me.
Regards,
Tim.
It's not calendar geeks, it's maths geeks. Or more correctly, anyone with a simple understanding of maths who knows what fence-post errors are.
Your 'correct' doesn't need quoting. The start of the millennium isn't open to debate, it's a simple mathematical definition.
Regards,
Tim.
No, a customer called asking to speak to "Bob", who had failed to fix his problem earlier. There was no Bob working at the time, but 'The Customer Is Always Right', so *everyone* was renamed Bob, just to be on the safe side.
It was a tech support department then too, most emphatically *not* a call centre.
Regards,
Tim.
It also includes the fact that you may not run a site where more than 20% of the traffic is file downloads. I'm utterly intrigued to know how a browser is supposed to display HTML, images etc without downloading the files. Most puzzling...
Regards,
Tim.