But, If you've done business with AOL in recent months, you know that neither of your 2 categories are going to be true for much longer.
They're opening up, they're making many of their internal services public, and they're going to start pushing some very good content to the masses in the very near future. It's lined up. It's almost ready. It's completely new for AOL, and it's designed to completely change the mentality described in your post.
A few advantages of NAT over IPV6 in a 'business' setting: 1) Most default NAT configs will actually prevent internal networks from the trivial overflows that just scan IP address blocks. 2) Most default NAT configs will work with existing or very inexpensive gear, meaning there's almost no cost involved (other than 'time'). 3) NAT doesn't require renumbering existing services. 4) NAT allows conservation of IPV4 at a corporate level; a/20 can be stretched a LOOOONG with some basic NAT in front of the corporate desktops.
No - it's true if and only if the two homes (let's call them network uplinks) are to two independent providers.
If one uplinks goes via Level3, and the other via AT&T, then Level3's depeering would cause Cogent-bound packets to travel out through AT&T - little bit of downtime while routes move, but nothing huge at all.
When you're dealing with niche tools (like 3D and CAD), and you rely on licenses from very expensive software, the licensing stuff is expected.
Mayas is slightly less intrusive than 3DSM, but the real winner (in my eyes) is Cinema 4D, who's network rendering has the most painless licensing terms.
Concern? You expect that to be considered a problem?
The fact of the matter is that there are some substances, including recreational drugs, which are illegal. If you really want to transport them between states, don't use commercial airlines.
Few reasons: 1) The Flash Player is standard across all browsers and operating systems. If the Player is implemented correctly (and for the most part, it is), the video will play correctly on every computer that has flash, regardless of the specific video codecs installed. While you can assume every system has an MPEG player, not all have the same MPEG players (1 v. 2 v. 4), and other formats get even worse (AVI+DivX, Qt 6 v. 7, etc).
On other video blog services, users are given the opportunity to upload in any format they choose; FLV/Flash is only used for recording live videos from webcams. Historically, based on the number of support emails, Flash causes fewer problems than uploaded videos with codec issues.
I agree with (1), (3), and (4). I disagree with (2) on principle: corporations are made of people, and should be treated as people, varying only where their actions vary. If a corporation is mass filing patents (*cough* IBM *cough*), then they'll be tapped by (3) - no reason to hit them just because they're a corporation. I actually disagree with 'exponentially' in (3) - companies with hundreds of thousands of employees will have many more legitimate patents than 5 per year, you don't want to punish unnecessarily, but you do want to weed out the 'bad' patents. Increasing with a steep linear adjustment would be sufficient.
But that's just me, and my fiscally conservative background.
You can use RSS as a communication medium within blogs. For example, I likely don't care about every blog entry posted by a certain user, but I may care about those that involve their new baby:
By incorporating some intelligent thought into the XML generation process (in this case, arbitrary/dynamic feeds based on URL), you can get the great communication tool out of the blogging systems, too.
I wish that Windows NT included some easy interface to LDAP for large corporations to manage all of their workstations... like a directory. It could be used for logins, privileges, login scripts, mapping drives, controlling group policy, and even integrate with the mail and calendaring system. It would be one big active directory. That would be nice.
If they hit your credit rating, you sue them for abuse of process. In fact, the first time you get such a letter, you should make it abundantly clear that IF they touch your credit, you'll do so immediately.
Collection agencies make money by lying to people who don't know any better. Standing up to them isn't difficult, you just have to know what you can and cannot do.
The problem is that the government has no incentive to invest the time and money keeping the system current.
As anyone in Los Angeles can tell you, the best way to make sure that the infrastructure is built once and never updated is to let the government control it. Just look at the 405, 105, 10, 60, 5, 210, 134, 2, 91, 710, 605, 110 freeways. Of all those, I know of two areas of "construction" (maintenance) in the last few years: repaved the 5 for about 10 miles through Burbank, and they added about 30 miles of new highway and called it the 210 (from Glendora to San Bernardino). The rest is a torn up collection of pot-holed, congested asphault. Not exactly what I want the internet to resemble in a few years.
Then you really don't want to go to www.2advanced.com, you'll probably wet yourself. 2Advanced is one of the top webdesign firms in the world. Their portfolio alone is reason enough to install flash.
Right now, tape drives are the right cost/benefit compromise. Could they be better? Yes. Would it cost a lot more? Yes. Why are you using hard drives over tape, when tape holds so much more for the cost?
Speed matters. Just because one is more expensive than the other doesn't rule it out, if they're both relatively affordable for the performance.
No. The logic is that system memory is faster than cache, because LRU caches typically have a high overhead in management and searching. To find data in the LRU cache, you have to search the entire cache, which is much slower than following a pointer already in memory.
The disk caching helps (quite a bit) for the large files, though.
There's a lot of research going on in this area. In particular, there's a newly completed Ph.D. thesis studying a persistent memory/disk hybrid filesystem for linux, named conquest. The performance is quite impressive, although the reports are that it's nowhere near ready for use - the term 'researchware' gets tossed around a lot.
Basically, by storing metadata and files smaller than 1mb in memory, the typically accessed information is much more convenient, and the larger files left on the disk are typically in their 'best case' (it's much more common to read large files than to write them, and typically they're read in some near-linear order: if you watch a moving, you may skip once or twice, but then it's sequential reads). The combination seems to work quite well: We compare Conquest's performance to ext2, reiserfs, SGI XFS, and ramfs, using popular benchmarks. Our measurements show that Conquest incurs little overhead compared to ramfs. Compared to disk-based file systems, Conquest achieves 24% to 1900% faster performance for working sets that fit in memory, and 43% to 96% faster performance with working sets larger than the memory size. .
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You are completely right, but a bit late...
But, If you've done business with AOL in recent months, you know that neither of your 2 categories are going to be true for much longer.
They're opening up, they're making many of their internal services public, and they're going to start pushing some very good content to the masses in the very near future. It's lined up. It's almost ready. It's completely new for AOL, and it's designed to completely change the mentality described in your post.
A few advantages of NAT over IPV6 in a 'business' setting: /20 can be stretched a LOOOONG with some basic NAT in front of the corporate desktops.
1) Most default NAT configs will actually prevent internal networks from the trivial overflows that just scan IP address blocks.
2) Most default NAT configs will work with existing or very inexpensive gear, meaning there's almost no cost involved (other than 'time').
3) NAT doesn't require renumbering existing services.
4) NAT allows conservation of IPV4 at a corporate level; a
Since there was some confusion about how you can tell if this rootkit is installed, remember that it hides files beginning with '$sys$' -
1) If you're not using windows, you're fine.
2) Create a file on your desktop ('test.txt' should be fine). Rename the file to '$sys$test.txt'.
If the file is gone, you're vulnerable.
No editing skills required. "Point, click, smile".
Thanks for the mention!
Funny, but to be fair to Gates, all indications are that he was a hell of a programmer individually.
... ok, most of the time), but he was apparently a hell of a programmer back in the day.
The software his company produces may suck (at times
No - it's true if and only if the two homes (let's call them network uplinks) are to two independent providers.
If one uplinks goes via Level3, and the other via AT&T, then Level3's depeering would cause Cogent-bound packets to travel out through AT&T - little bit of downtime while routes move, but nothing huge at all.
When you're dealing with niche tools (like 3D and CAD), and you rely on licenses from very expensive software, the licensing stuff is expected.
Mayas is slightly less intrusive than 3DSM, but the real winner (in my eyes) is Cinema 4D, who's network rendering has the most painless licensing terms.
Concern? You expect that to be considered a problem?
The fact of the matter is that there are some substances, including recreational drugs, which are illegal. If you really want to transport them between states, don't use commercial airlines.
Probably high-end workstations, where you'll see 2 power-hungry processors pulling full load, busy disks, and a big graphics card.
It'll be purchased by a bunch of 18-25 year olds, but that's fine - let them drive the price down.
I imagine it should warm up some cold dorm rooms running Seti@Home or WorldCommunityGrid or something (mostly useless) like that...
Can you turn on the TV and watch a video of a new baby in the family?
Can you turn on the TV and view a video message recorded for you by a girlfriend/boyfriend/mistress/etc thousands of miles away?
Can you record yourself telling a joke and send it to your friends and family across the country?
There are great uses for video blog services.
Few reasons:
1) The Flash Player is standard across all browsers and operating systems. If the Player is implemented correctly (and for the most part, it is), the video will play correctly on every computer that has flash, regardless of the specific video codecs installed. While you can assume every system has an MPEG player, not all have the same MPEG players (1 v. 2 v. 4), and other formats get even worse (AVI+DivX, Qt 6 v. 7, etc).
On other video blog services, users are given the opportunity to upload in any format they choose; FLV/Flash is only used for recording live videos from webcams. Historically, based on the number of support emails, Flash causes fewer problems than uploaded videos with codec issues.
That works well for MS Office, Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator, etc...
Oh, wait, no - that doesn't work at all.
I agree with (1), (3), and (4). I disagree with (2) on principle: corporations are made of people, and should be treated as people, varying only where their actions vary. If a corporation is mass filing patents (*cough* IBM *cough*), then they'll be tapped by (3) - no reason to hit them just because they're a corporation. I actually disagree with 'exponentially' in (3) - companies with hundreds of thousands of employees will have many more legitimate patents than 5 per year, you don't want to punish unnecessarily, but you do want to weed out the 'bad' patents. Increasing with a steep linear adjustment would be sufficient.
But that's just me, and my fiscally conservative background.
They're bleeding money, you have to expect the ads to get more and more blatant. Right?
Goatse.cx was a pretty popular fad everywhere.
You can use RSS as a communication medium within blogs. For example, I likely don't care about every blog entry posted by a certain user, but I may care about those that involve their new baby:
http://www.vobbo.com/feeds/search/tristen/rss.xml
By incorporating some intelligent thought into the XML generation process (in this case, arbitrary/dynamic feeds based on URL), you can get the great communication tool out of the blogging systems, too.
I wish that Windows NT included some easy interface to LDAP for large corporations to manage all of their workstations ... like a directory. It could be used for logins, privileges, login scripts, mapping drives, controlling group policy, and even integrate with the mail and calendaring system. It would be one big active directory. That would be nice.
I wonder, when they finally land someone on the moon, will they say "We came in peace for all mankind"?
No, that line will be reserved for when they take Taiwan.
If they hit your credit rating, you sue them for abuse of process. In fact, the first time you get such a letter, you should make it abundantly clear that IF they touch your credit, you'll do so immediately.
Collection agencies make money by lying to people who don't know any better. Standing up to them isn't difficult, you just have to know what you can and cannot do.
The FreeBSD + Apple relationship is as good, if not better, than the Apache project.
The problem is that the government has no incentive to invest the time and money keeping the system current.
As anyone in Los Angeles can tell you, the best way to make sure that the infrastructure is built once and never updated is to let the government control it. Just look at the 405, 105, 10, 60, 5, 210, 134, 2, 91, 710, 605, 110 freeways. Of all those, I know of two areas of "construction" (maintenance) in the last few years: repaved the 5 for about 10 miles through Burbank, and they added about 30 miles of new highway and called it the 210 (from Glendora to San Bernardino). The rest is a torn up collection of pot-holed, congested asphault. Not exactly what I want the internet to resemble in a few years.
Then you really don't want to go to www.2advanced.com, you'll probably wet yourself. 2Advanced is one of the top webdesign firms in the world. Their portfolio alone is reason enough to install flash.
Right now, tape drives are the right cost/benefit compromise. Could they be better? Yes. Would it cost a lot more? Yes. Why are you using hard drives over tape, when tape holds so much more for the cost?
Speed matters. Just because one is more expensive than the other doesn't rule it out, if they're both relatively affordable for the performance.
No. The logic is that system memory is faster than cache, because LRU caches typically have a high overhead in management and searching. To find data in the LRU cache, you have to search the entire cache, which is much slower than following a pointer already in memory.
The disk caching helps (quite a bit) for the large files, though.
There's a lot of research going on in this area. In particular, there's a newly completed Ph.D. thesis studying a persistent memory/disk hybrid filesystem for linux, named conquest. The performance is quite impressive, although the reports are that it's nowhere near ready for use - the term 'researchware' gets tossed around a lot.
Basically, by storing metadata and files smaller than 1mb in memory, the typically accessed information is much more convenient, and the larger files left on the disk are typically in their 'best case' (it's much more common to read large files than to write them, and typically they're read in some near-linear order: if you watch a moving, you may skip once or twice, but then it's sequential reads). The combination seems to work quite well: We compare Conquest's performance to ext2, reiserfs, SGI XFS, and ramfs, using popular benchmarks. Our measurements show that Conquest incurs little overhead compared to ramfs. Compared to disk-based file systems, Conquest achieves 24% to 1900% faster performance for working sets that fit in memory, and 43% to 96% faster performance with working sets larger than the memory size. .