That wasn't exactly the whole reason for the 1000+ pings. P2P was definitely to blame for the increased bandwidth load that ResNet faced, but the reason the pings got out of hand was that the whole network was based on old 3Com hubs. With all those packets going to every port on the box, things got insane fast. The major thing that helped improve things (along with the bandwidth capping, which I had not heard about) was that they upgraded everything to smarter switches that didn't have the problems of the old gear.
I can say that Georgia Tech's usernaming scheme pretty much sucks. It works like this:
gt<Letter assigned to the year you entered Tech. For instance, you could have entered during year 'e' or year 'g' recently><three random numbers><random letter>. Believe me, telling people that you're email address is gte172u got a lot of strange looks amongst my non-Tech friends. Of course, my Tech friends just nod, knowingly.:)
The point of the Yahoo! News article was not that Georgia Tech, like many other universities, is using cheat detectors, but that out of 1700 students last semester, it nailed 187. That's around 11% and seems to be news-worthy to me.
That said, odds are that a long fight there is still going to suck, but the experiences of the Soviets and the Americans in Vietnam aren't totally telling.
See, that was the point I was trying to make. Protracted land involvement in Afghanistan will be a hideous loss of life on par with American losses in Vietnam.
If you want further evidence, in 1842, a British force of 17,000 (including women and children) attempted to retreat from a position within Afghanistan. One person was left alive by the Afghan tribesman and allowed to return to tell the tale.
I'm just saying that incidents like these are things that US citizens need to consider before sanctioning any prolonged military action in Afghanistan.
Also, if anyone would wish to respond with "the US army is the best in the world and things will be different when we invade," remember that's what Hitler said before he invaded Russia during WWII.
And when/if the US invades Afghanistan, who do you think will be there with them?
It seems to be a common assumption these days that the United States will be invading Afghanistan (it is at least around the office I work in), but I would just like to point out a few statistics that I gathered doing a quick google search:
Russian Invasion of Afghanistan: Years: 1979-1989 Soviet Killed: Official count is 13,714 but it is estimated to be closer to somewhere between 40,000 and 50,000. Soviet Wounded: 469,685
American Involvement in Vietnam: Years: 1964-1975 Americans Killed: 58,202 Americans Wounded: 303,704
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That wasn't exactly the whole reason for the 1000+ pings. P2P was definitely to blame for the increased bandwidth load that ResNet faced, but the reason the pings got out of hand was that the whole network was based on old 3Com hubs. With all those packets going to every port on the box, things got insane fast. The major thing that helped improve things (along with the bandwidth capping, which I had not heard about) was that they upgraded everything to smarter switches that didn't have the problems of the old gear.
I can say that Georgia Tech's usernaming scheme pretty much sucks. It works like this:
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gt<Letter assigned to the year you entered Tech. For instance, you could have entered during year 'e' or year 'g' recently><three random numbers><random letter>. Believe me, telling people that you're email address is gte172u got a lot of strange looks amongst my non-Tech friends. Of course, my Tech friends just nod, knowingly.
The point of the Yahoo! News article was not that Georgia Tech, like many other universities, is using cheat detectors, but that out of 1700 students last semester, it nailed 187. That's around 11% and seems to be news-worthy to me.
That said, odds are that a long fight there is still going to suck, but the experiences of the Soviets and the Americans in Vietnam aren't totally telling.
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See, that was the point I was trying to make. Protracted land involvement in Afghanistan will be a hideous loss of life on par with American losses in Vietnam.
If you want further evidence, in 1842, a British force of 17,000 (including women and children) attempted to retreat from a position within Afghanistan. One person was left alive by the Afghan tribesman and allowed to return to tell the tale.
I'm just saying that incidents like these are things that US citizens need to consider before sanctioning any prolonged military action in Afghanistan.
Also, if anyone would wish to respond with "the US army is the best in the world and things will be different when we invade," remember that's what Hitler said before he invaded Russia during WWII.
Sources:
http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Alley/5443/af4.
And when/if the US invades Afghanistan, who do you think will be there with them?
It seems to be a common assumption these days that the United States will be invading Afghanistan (it is at least around the office I work in), but I would just like to point out a few statistics that I gathered doing a quick google search:
Russian Invasion of Afghanistan:
Years: 1979-1989
Soviet Killed: Official count is 13,714 but it is estimated to be closer to somewhere between 40,000 and 50,000.
Soviet Wounded: 469,685
American Involvement in Vietnam:
Years: 1964-1975
Americans Killed: 58,202
Americans Wounded: 303,704
Just thought that comparison was interesting.
Sources: http://aryana_afghan.tripod.com/statisti.htm
http://www.no-quarter.org/html/jake.html