I tell this story all the time, and I'll tell it again.
I *tried* to build up a new fiber network in downtown St. Louis using IPv6. I couldn't get the address space!
It's insane - I could get 3x/24 blocks (non-sequential) assigned to my ASN, but in order to get an IPv6 allotment, I had to show proof that I *already* had utilized a full/24 of IPv6 addresses (which is NOT 256. It's 256*256*256!) They said to get it from my upstream provider - they said they don't do that, get it from ARIN. I go back to ARIN, ARIN says "They're full of it, get it from your upstream provider."
Even more insane? IPv6 allotments are FREE! I had to pay per year for an IPv4 allotment, but the free stuff? Pfft...we have it, we'll never run out of it within your lifetime, but you can't have it.
Yeah, when I ran an ISP I myself did shaping, and I never felt any guilt over it. I made sure my customers were aware of it when they signed up, and most were happy to hear it. The simplified version of it went that Just In Time traffic got top priority, so VOIP got top priority, then beneath that, time-sensitive, but not time-critical traffic, so things like chat and ssh, then normal web browsing, then beneath that FTP, and at the bottom was P2P filesharing. That doesn't mean bittorrent was throttled, it just meant that if someone is trying to carry on a phone conversation, they didn't get steamrolled by a torrent. Meanwhile overnight when the pipe's not being used, they can sit there and torrent to their heart's content. Shaping is a tool, not evil.
Here's the thing - you have no choice. Do the shaping.
That said - form a compelling argument for doing the right thing, and present that to your boss. Don't defy him, but give him a reason to reconsider. In the meantime, do as you're told. You can always undo shaping. Don't screw your employment in the interim.
Kind of disappointed that I never made it out to Cornerstone. Seems like Agape Fest has languished in recent years. I keep hoping for it to return to form though.
Online Football is my game of choice, and I tend to play All Pro Football 2K8 more than anything else.
The game expects you to make your own team, and you get to pick 11 "stars" for your team, and everyone else is "average". So right off the start, you are balanced with everyone else in that regard.
Of course, balance goes right out the window - everyone immediately goes looking for the "best" stars, and those are the only ones you ever see online. Jerry Rice is easily the best WR in the game, so who does everyone have if they have a gold WR? For a while when the game first came out, Earl Campbell was somewhat overpowered. Tacklers would just fall off of him - again, and again, and again. So what happened? Every team had Earl Campbell on it for a long time, and the offense comprised of "Run Earl up the middle, drop it off to Earl in the flats, run Earl up the middle..." - again, and again, and again. It wasn't that you didn't know what was coming and didn't call the right defense, it just didn't matter. Thankfully after the first patch they neutered poor Earl.:P
So you can complain about blandness, or you can complain about balance. In a game like APF, balance leads to diversity - you start seeing more players because even though certain players excel at certain abilities, those abilities vary and thus you get variety.
Of course there are still those (in large quantity) that simply want to win and have no intention of playing the game as designed, ever. It's all about winning, so they find every little glitch they can and exploit it to their advantage. Recently I've seen players tackling (or come close to tackling) my Quarterback before he even gets out from underneath center. That's insane. There's also the more or less guaranteed field goal blocking, the fade routes, and there's a glitchy route that goes to the outside on a slant that no zone in the game will cover. The list goes on and on. I simply class these players as griefers. Griefers are the larger problem with balance online. If everyone desired to play the game as designed, balance wouldn't be as large of an issue. It's those fringe players that want to ruin it for everyone else that you're really seeking to balance out of the game.
Nope. A Nickelback is a football term. Typically on defense you'll have what is called a "7 man front" comprised of either 4 defensive linemen and 3 linebackers (4-3 base defense, think Chicago Bears) or reverse, 3 defensive linemen and 4 linebackers (think Baltimore Ravens). Since you can have 11 men on the field at a time, that leaves you with 4 players, called "Defensive Backs". Typically two cornerbacks, one on either side of the field ~ 5 yards off the line of scrimmage covering the wide receivers, and 2 safeties, again, on either side of the field, anywhere from 10-20 yards off the line of scrimmage. Largely they're out there for pass coverage, but safeties will sneak up into the "box" (the 7 man front) to give you "8 men in the box".
Okay, so what does this have to do with anything? Well - if you suspect a play might be a passing down, you can trade one of your linebackers out for an additional defensive back. So now you have a 6 man front, but you have 5 defensive backs. That fifth defensive back is referred to as the "Nickel Back", because the formation is referred to as a "Nickel Package".
As an FYI, if you absolutely positively KNOW it's a passing down, you can opt to trade yet another linebacker for another defensive back, giving you 6 defensive backs, and that is (predictably) called a "Dime Package". That last defensive back could be referred to as the Dime Back, but that term is rarely used.
I have my gripe with CCM as a genre, but it's not the music quality.
I went go Greenville College, and went in as a CCM Major. Yes, they have a CCM major.:P
The thing is, this is the school that Jars of Clay came out of, and basically people all think the school is like a music star production factory or something, when in fact almost everyone that goes there changes their major after a year or even a semester once reality sets in.
The two largest majors coming in the door though - CCM and Education. Don't ask me about the second one, don't have a clue there.;)
Why are you blaming this on the dot-com bust exactly? I can and should be as jaded as anyone else. I worked for a dot-bomb, and I've even since started, run, and failed at my own business.
I don't think this has anything to do with dot-com, and everything to do with a trend that's been going on for a LONG time now: each generation is lazier than the last. The last generation had mortgages and homes, this generation didn't know the work involved and presumed buying a home was and should be easy, greedy people accomodated, and here we are: trashed economy (I'm over-simplifying of course). There are kids straight out of college (I'm only 10 years out myself!) that my wife administers at work, and their expectations of what they should have and be able to do while on business time is ridiculous. They're LAZY. I was and still am lazy to a degree, but it's as though they saw my lazy and took it to a whole new level.
I'm not saying every single person coming out of college right now and for the last 3 years is a useless pile, but it's a trend that is going to continue - the next generation is going to see how lazy THIS one is and take THAT to a whole new level. The economy getting trashed like it is might be the best thing for us. Once upon a time, people were encouraged to grow gardens in their yards for food, to go out of their way to work not just for themselves, but the betterment of everyone around them. I would hope it doesn't come to that again, to people living in Hoover^H^H^H^H^H^HBushvilles, etc, but dang it - we all need to become less lazy.
How does that translate? Well - "Linux on the PS3 is stupid, why not just use a PC?" really translates to "That's too much work, I can just use a PC instead." LAZY.
Being a really good geek - I don't care what area of technology or science you work in - requires a desire to learn. You soak up new information like a sponge, and you're always looking for new information. The desire to hack something at it's core comes from that desire for new information, along with a healthy dose of ADD usually.;) OOOH! New! Shiny!
But hey, I'm talking like the old man here, and I'm 31. I've been in my career for almost 13 years now - did some of my time while still in college. If I'm talking this way about 21, 22, and 23 year olds now...woooh boy. My own niece and nephews, the oldest is soon to turn 12 - they're laziness just oozes from their pores. I'm sure I didn't appear much better to my parents, but the way they demand that everything be given to them without any work being required - it's not a value my family has bestowed upon them that I can tell. It's a societal trait.
You're missing a very valuable piece of information here, which is that anyone that openly supports Linux on their platform deserves praise. Sure, it's annoying that they abstracted away the hardware, but STILL. They are trying to protect their IP (gawd, did I really just say that???), but instead of locking it down to the hilt, they provided abstraction and gave us Linux anyway. It's hard to complain about. Given time, that hardware abstraction will probably be bypassed for good - of course it will be after the PS3 is past it's prime, and despite the sales numbers, the hardware itself definitely has a few more good years under it.
No - I won't open fire on Sony on this one. I really wish they would license the ability to get direct hardware access for a reasonable price for homebrew, but I won't hold my breath.
Sadly, it's fair use for you to use it, but you have no "right" to post it to their site. Once you created an account there, you pretty much waived any of your content rights there. C'est la vie.
Oh so true. My work machine is Ubuntu, and dang - just about everything that isn't a game works pretty much first go.
Games are weird creatures. Always pushing the limits of hardware, and as a result making for quite the game of whack-a-mole for wine.
Side note, why on earth haven't these designers ditched DirectX and gone with SDL? The only reason I can think of is doing the whole "Games for Windows" side by side with XBox Live titles. Is there a compelling reason aside from that?
I have a (recently failed) company that was network engineering and OSS development, so feel free to razz me on the "failed" part.
That out of the way - ideally you want 2 offsite backups at locations geographically separated enough that should a catastrophe occur, the data is "safe". We had a Coraid ATA over Ethernet setup (which is for sale now, btw), and something like 15TB of disk space accessible over network. Great.
Now what. I had another in Montreal (I'm in St. Louis), and I did what I could to keep both a real-time data sync, and incremental off-site, but dang it's hard. Unless you have the budget for a monstronsity of a tape jukebox (which we didn't...no amount of wiggle room would have fixed that) - it felt like such a futile cause. The only thing I could manage to do was use an external firewire drive, and *try* to push the daily incremental off onto that drive to take with me. Sometimes it would work, others it wouldn't.
So what do you do in the world of open source that fixes this issue?
Windows 3 (pre-9x?) Windows 3.11 for Workgroups (NT3) Windows NT (NT4) Windows 95 (Win9x) Windows 98 (Win9x - 95 with actual USB support) Windows ME (Win9x - 98, but broken out of the box) Windows 2000 (NT5) Windows XP (NT5 - 2000 but with Fisher-Price lickable interface) Windows Vista (NT6)
So - that brings us to Windows 7, presumably NT7. What we're really speculating is that despite the labelling, Windows 7 is actually still NT6, but possibly the latest version of ME. Since 98, you notice a trend?
Why *can't* this device run flash? Seriously? It's Linux. There are license restrictions, but it runs Firefox. Just go grab the binary installer and load it. I've done it at least a dozen times - it's not exactly hard. It isn't user friendly - yes, I know. There's not much that can be done about that until Adobe makes an effort to make it easier, but still - it's just a binary installer, not really any worse than Windows in that regard. Is the thing not x86 compatible?
Does anyone have a relatively safe/sane script laying around that does a quick arping on the local segment, generates a non-conflicting mac address, and then assigns that mac address to your nic, either at reboot or at regular intervals?
Doing this would basically make this sort of thing moot. Extra credit for adding the *real* mac address of your nic to the exclude list, guaranteeing that no one will ever tie it back to you.
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I said it wrong is all. :\ I meant a /32. Oi. You guys don't skip a beat, do ya?
I tell this story all the time, and I'll tell it again.
I *tried* to build up a new fiber network in downtown St. Louis using IPv6. I couldn't get the address space!
It's insane - I could get 3x/24 blocks (non-sequential) assigned to my ASN, but in order to get an IPv6 allotment, I had to show proof that I *already* had utilized a full /24 of IPv6 addresses (which is NOT 256. It's 256*256*256!) They said to get it from my upstream provider - they said they don't do that, get it from ARIN. I go back to ARIN, ARIN says "They're full of it, get it from your upstream provider."
Even more insane? IPv6 allotments are FREE! I had to pay per year for an IPv4 allotment, but the free stuff? Pfft...we have it, we'll never run out of it within your lifetime, but you can't have it.
WTF?
You'll note that I've asked him to form a good argument, then return to it. I'm not asking him to give up, but rather to be prepared.
Yeah, when I ran an ISP I myself did shaping, and I never felt any guilt over it. I made sure my customers were aware of it when they signed up, and most were happy to hear it. The simplified version of it went that Just In Time traffic got top priority, so VOIP got top priority, then beneath that, time-sensitive, but not time-critical traffic, so things like chat and ssh, then normal web browsing, then beneath that FTP, and at the bottom was P2P filesharing. That doesn't mean bittorrent was throttled, it just meant that if someone is trying to carry on a phone conversation, they didn't get steamrolled by a torrent. Meanwhile overnight when the pipe's not being used, they can sit there and torrent to their heart's content. Shaping is a tool, not evil.
You have no idea.
(In other words, he doesn't know.)
Here's the thing - you have no choice. Do the shaping.
That said - form a compelling argument for doing the right thing, and present that to your boss. Don't defy him, but give him a reason to reconsider. In the meantime, do as you're told. You can always undo shaping. Don't screw your employment in the interim.
Kind of disappointed that I never made it out to Cornerstone. Seems like Agape Fest has languished in recent years. I keep hoping for it to return to form though.
Well, that's the crux of it, now isn't it?
Online Football is my game of choice, and I tend to play All Pro Football 2K8 more than anything else.
The game expects you to make your own team, and you get to pick 11 "stars" for your team, and everyone else is "average". So right off the start, you are balanced with everyone else in that regard.
Of course, balance goes right out the window - everyone immediately goes looking for the "best" stars, and those are the only ones you ever see online. Jerry Rice is easily the best WR in the game, so who does everyone have if they have a gold WR? For a while when the game first came out, Earl Campbell was somewhat overpowered. Tacklers would just fall off of him - again, and again, and again. So what happened? Every team had Earl Campbell on it for a long time, and the offense comprised of "Run Earl up the middle, drop it off to Earl in the flats, run Earl up the middle..." - again, and again, and again. It wasn't that you didn't know what was coming and didn't call the right defense, it just didn't matter. Thankfully after the first patch they neutered poor Earl. :P
So you can complain about blandness, or you can complain about balance. In a game like APF, balance leads to diversity - you start seeing more players because even though certain players excel at certain abilities, those abilities vary and thus you get variety.
Of course there are still those (in large quantity) that simply want to win and have no intention of playing the game as designed, ever. It's all about winning, so they find every little glitch they can and exploit it to their advantage. Recently I've seen players tackling (or come close to tackling) my Quarterback before he even gets out from underneath center. That's insane. There's also the more or less guaranteed field goal blocking, the fade routes, and there's a glitchy route that goes to the outside on a slant that no zone in the game will cover. The list goes on and on. I simply class these players as griefers. Griefers are the larger problem with balance online. If everyone desired to play the game as designed, balance wouldn't be as large of an issue. It's those fringe players that want to ruin it for everyone else that you're really seeking to balance out of the game.
Nope. A Nickelback is a football term. Typically on defense you'll have what is called a "7 man front" comprised of either 4 defensive linemen and 3 linebackers (4-3 base defense, think Chicago Bears) or reverse, 3 defensive linemen and 4 linebackers (think Baltimore Ravens). Since you can have 11 men on the field at a time, that leaves you with 4 players, called "Defensive Backs". Typically two cornerbacks, one on either side of the field ~ 5 yards off the line of scrimmage covering the wide receivers, and 2 safeties, again, on either side of the field, anywhere from 10-20 yards off the line of scrimmage. Largely they're out there for pass coverage, but safeties will sneak up into the "box" (the 7 man front) to give you "8 men in the box".
Okay, so what does this have to do with anything? Well - if you suspect a play might be a passing down, you can trade one of your linebackers out for an additional defensive back. So now you have a 6 man front, but you have 5 defensive backs. That fifth defensive back is referred to as the "Nickel Back", because the formation is referred to as a "Nickel Package".
As an FYI, if you absolutely positively KNOW it's a passing down, you can opt to trade yet another linebacker for another defensive back, giving you 6 defensive backs, and that is (predictably) called a "Dime Package". That last defensive back could be referred to as the Dime Back, but that term is rarely used.
You got modded Troll for that? WOW.
I have my gripe with CCM as a genre, but it's not the music quality.
I went go Greenville College, and went in as a CCM Major. Yes, they have a CCM major. :P
The thing is, this is the school that Jars of Clay came out of, and basically people all think the school is like a music star production factory or something, when in fact almost everyone that goes there changes their major after a year or even a semester once reality sets in.
The two largest majors coming in the door though - CCM and Education. Don't ask me about the second one, don't have a clue there. ;)
Um...
Why are you blaming this on the dot-com bust exactly? I can and should be as jaded as anyone else. I worked for a dot-bomb, and I've even since started, run, and failed at my own business.
I don't think this has anything to do with dot-com, and everything to do with a trend that's been going on for a LONG time now: each generation is lazier than the last. The last generation had mortgages and homes, this generation didn't know the work involved and presumed buying a home was and should be easy, greedy people accomodated, and here we are: trashed economy (I'm over-simplifying of course). There are kids straight out of college (I'm only 10 years out myself!) that my wife administers at work, and their expectations of what they should have and be able to do while on business time is ridiculous. They're LAZY. I was and still am lazy to a degree, but it's as though they saw my lazy and took it to a whole new level.
I'm not saying every single person coming out of college right now and for the last 3 years is a useless pile, but it's a trend that is going to continue - the next generation is going to see how lazy THIS one is and take THAT to a whole new level. The economy getting trashed like it is might be the best thing for us. Once upon a time, people were encouraged to grow gardens in their yards for food, to go out of their way to work not just for themselves, but the betterment of everyone around them. I would hope it doesn't come to that again, to people living in Hoover^H^H^H^H^H^HBushvilles, etc, but dang it - we all need to become less lazy.
How does that translate? Well - "Linux on the PS3 is stupid, why not just use a PC?" really translates to "That's too much work, I can just use a PC instead." LAZY.
Being a really good geek - I don't care what area of technology or science you work in - requires a desire to learn. You soak up new information like a sponge, and you're always looking for new information. The desire to hack something at it's core comes from that desire for new information, along with a healthy dose of ADD usually. ;) OOOH! New! Shiny!
But hey, I'm talking like the old man here, and I'm 31. I've been in my career for almost 13 years now - did some of my time while still in college. If I'm talking this way about 21, 22, and 23 year olds now...woooh boy. My own niece and nephews, the oldest is soon to turn 12 - they're laziness just oozes from their pores. I'm sure I didn't appear much better to my parents, but the way they demand that everything be given to them without any work being required - it's not a value my family has bestowed upon them that I can tell. It's a societal trait.
You're missing a very valuable piece of information here, which is that anyone that openly supports Linux on their platform deserves praise. Sure, it's annoying that they abstracted away the hardware, but STILL. They are trying to protect their IP (gawd, did I really just say that???), but instead of locking it down to the hilt, they provided abstraction and gave us Linux anyway. It's hard to complain about. Given time, that hardware abstraction will probably be bypassed for good - of course it will be after the PS3 is past it's prime, and despite the sales numbers, the hardware itself definitely has a few more good years under it.
No - I won't open fire on Sony on this one. I really wish they would license the ability to get direct hardware access for a reasonable price for homebrew, but I won't hold my breath.
Oh my god, he's right!
I just cannot believe this went un-remarked upon. For shame...
I think that's just about all I have to say about that. :)
I see what you did there.
I don't mean in any practical sense...
Sadly, it's fair use for you to use it, but you have no "right" to post it to their site. Once you created an account there, you pretty much waived any of your content rights there. C'est la vie.
Oh so true. My work machine is Ubuntu, and dang - just about everything that isn't a game works pretty much first go.
Games are weird creatures. Always pushing the limits of hardware, and as a result making for quite the game of whack-a-mole for wine.
Side note, why on earth haven't these designers ditched DirectX and gone with SDL? The only reason I can think of is doing the whole "Games for Windows" side by side with XBox Live titles. Is there a compelling reason aside from that?
...and we still don't care. :P
Okay, I'll bite.
I have a (recently failed) company that was network engineering and OSS development, so feel free to razz me on the "failed" part.
That out of the way - ideally you want 2 offsite backups at locations geographically separated enough that should a catastrophe occur, the data is "safe". We had a Coraid ATA over Ethernet setup (which is for sale now, btw), and something like 15TB of disk space accessible over network. Great.
Now what. I had another in Montreal (I'm in St. Louis), and I did what I could to keep both a real-time data sync, and incremental off-site, but dang it's hard. Unless you have the budget for a monstronsity of a tape jukebox (which we didn't...no amount of wiggle room would have fixed that) - it felt like such a futile cause. The only thing I could manage to do was use an external firewire drive, and *try* to push the daily incremental off onto that drive to take with me. Sometimes it would work, others it wouldn't.
So what do you do in the world of open source that fixes this issue?
Okay - jokes over. Everyone can go now.
Seriously - why are we making this so difficult?
We have Windows like this:
Windows 3 (pre-9x?)
Windows 3.11 for Workgroups (NT3)
Windows NT (NT4)
Windows 95 (Win9x)
Windows 98 (Win9x - 95 with actual USB support)
Windows ME (Win9x - 98, but broken out of the box)
Windows 2000 (NT5)
Windows XP (NT5 - 2000 but with Fisher-Price lickable interface)
Windows Vista (NT6)
So - that brings us to Windows 7, presumably NT7. What we're really speculating is that despite the labelling, Windows 7 is actually still NT6, but possibly the latest version of ME. Since 98, you notice a trend?
98, ME (9x)
2000, XP (NT5)
Vista, ? (NT6)
? (NT7)
Looks to me like he's onto something.
Might I interject for a moment?
Why *can't* this device run flash? Seriously? It's Linux. There are license restrictions, but it runs Firefox. Just go grab the binary installer and load it. I've done it at least a dozen times - it's not exactly hard. It isn't user friendly - yes, I know. There's not much that can be done about that until Adobe makes an effort to make it easier, but still - it's just a binary installer, not really any worse than Windows in that regard. Is the thing not x86 compatible?
This raises a technical question...
Does anyone have a relatively safe/sane script laying around that does a quick arping on the local segment, generates a non-conflicting mac address, and then assigns that mac address to your nic, either at reboot or at regular intervals?
Doing this would basically make this sort of thing moot. Extra credit for adding the *real* mac address of your nic to the exclude list, guaranteeing that no one will ever tie it back to you.
Did you listen to the interview audio? He actually addresses his own safety, saying "oh, I don't think they do stuff like that. Not anymore anyway."
Oh for crying out loud.
The term "jailbreak" is not only stupid, it's just plain WRONG.
The root filesystem is mounted read-only. The term jailbreak means.....wait for it....
Change /etc/fstab so that the root fs is rw instead of ro and reboot.
OH NOES!