I have to refute that comment about matching some prices... three large office supply/tech stores around here have such policies, and they will match/beat any price in the country with the only exception being if it's online they will add shipping to the price they are matching, which is fair enough.
Interesting... I have Shaw as well and had them specifically tell me that I could transfer as much data as I wanted to. Apparently I had been transferring 1 Gig a day on their Lite Speed (200 Kbit/sec I think). I'm now upgraded to their High Speed which must be 1.5 Mbit/sec and from my guess I'm probably transferring somewhere around 2-3 Gigs a day.. no problems yet.
I believe they only have a problem when you're running servers, or uploading too much. That's likely what did it for you.
MandrakeSoft only turned around after telling everyone that they were about to go out of business.
Seems to work for the local furniture store. GOING OUT OF BUSINESS SALE! EVERYTHING MUST GO!. It's worked so well, they've been `going out of business' for several years now:)
It must be the latest trend.. in the last 5 years there has been one jewler and one furnature store in this area who have continued GOING OUT OF BUSINESS and then just coming back with a new name, repeating the same thing.
Seems to be doing them a lot better than ??AA|SCO's backwards PUTTING YOU OUT OF BUSINESS marketing plan.
Not sure what to worry about more... being proud that Winamp is good enough to be used in space... or being afraid that the US gov't uses Microsloth for the systems in space.
Some side affects may provide for a slower, more painful death than terminal cancer. Say for example a brain disease, or perhaps a severe case of diabetes?
Yep, the SDSL has no uptime guarantees, but for a low cost connection that isn't lopsided, it's a pretty good alternative. Unfortunately there is only one SDSL provider in the area, as opposed to the 3 cable providers and at least a dozen DSL providers.
I'm not sure why I was quoted for a 1.336 Mbps T1, but I can only assume it was taking into account ATM overhead or something along those lines.
Want a symmetrical line? They have them, they're called T1s, and your local ISP will gladly sell you one.
I'd hate to live where you do. If memory serves me correct from last month, here, on an island in Canada, I can get an SDSL connection using two phone lines giving me a 1.2 Mbps connection for $150 CAD per month.
Sure as heck beats a T1 which supplies 1.3 Mbps at $1300 per month. The only difference is the 99.8% uptime SLA and unlimited IP addresses available to T1 customers.
Actually I was recently on the phone with Shaw because my modem kept losing it's connection. They said to drop by the office and they'll exchange it, which fixed the problem.
The tech told me though, that I'm transferring 1 Gig a day, which is fine, but that could have also been why my connection was crap. He noted I'm on their "Lite" speed package, too. I asked the tech how much transfer is too much, and it said it was unlimited as long as I'm not running a server.
Since my downloads are from mainly binary newsgroups (much better source for "pushed" movies/music than p2p), and not Kazza or whatevever else, I'm needn't have any open ports and am in the clear with downloading as much as I want.
Life is great in Canada. 256kbit/sec unlimited transfer connection for just $18 CDN/month:)
Just got my RHN update letting me down I can download the fix. Looks like any other subscribers can automatically patch up their systems, and those non-subscribers can enjoy try their best at RH's FTP servers.
While you beat RH for a few hours, looks like they caught up:)
Quite honestly, I don't think this would stop them... maybe slow it down, but I'm sure pressing "SPAM" and letting it run overnight instead of for a few hours will not be much of a problem.
> and they need to fetch you public key somewhere
If this is supposed to be as hands-off as advertised, fetching the public key will be done automatically.
Now I suppose both of these will suck up more resources (CPU & bandwidth at the spammer's end), it is looking better for antispam, but the problem I pointed out is still present that scanners will be rendered useless unless they have access to everyone's private key.
Well here in Shaw's side of the country, most of the cable providers are around the $100/mo mark, bundled with web hosting so they're more aimed at home businesses or small offices as opposed to residential. However, the point is that there are companies offering it and it is one more choice to consider.
Right now I have a 100 kbit/sec connection for only $18/month. It's cable, with monopolistic Shaw, and is down for at least 15 minutes a day.
In Victoria, BC -- which is on a friggin island -- we have somewhere around 8 ADSL providers and 1 SDSL provider, as well as 5 or 6 companies who will provide cable Internet. This is because the CRTC requires the telco and cable monopolies to lease lines to private ISPs.
While I have yet to find a company who offers reliable service, I imagine that is because the telco (who CRTC is currently fighting because they are providing substandard service), is intentionally neglecting the private companies.
Though all in all, there is plenty of choice here with a population of 300 000 or so, and on an island.
Well everyone, get out the packet sniffers, or if it's encrypted (I hope so!) the memory readers and just take a look at the data this program collected. Transmit that to the site, or however it works, and voila... instant signature of poor Joe Clueless. Even easier than forging a hand written signature!
Every try using an optical mouse on a glass/clear plastic desk? At Future Shop (Canada's version of Best Buy), they had one of those transparent Macs on a matching transparent desk showing off OSX so I gave it a whirl, though the friggin mouse went all over the place!
Going back to the good old fashioned car example... are you suggesting that if I buy a car, I should not have the right to reverse engineer it (take it apart), and fix problems, make customizations, or otherwise tweak it to my likings?
With a car, I can do whatever I want to it, and still sell it --if it's road worthy-- to whoever I want for whatever I want. That is, as long as I don't keep a copy of it myself.
Computer software should be no different. I can hack it, change it, and do whatever I want to it, but if I sell it, the whole thing is gone. I must purchase a new copy and start from scratch again if I want to hack it/upgrade it and resell it more than once.
Aren't you compromising that security when you add third-party patches?
Not nesicarly. Qmail avoids doing anything as root, so an exploit in any 3rd party add ons/patches would only grant you access to one of the 4 qmail users that is installed on the system. Can't do much with that aside from perhaps reading/deleting the mail queue.
As the owner of a few toll free numbers, I can assure you that CID blocking doesn't work. If CID is blocked, sure it won't come up on my caller id at the time of the call - but as soon as my bill arrives, I know exactly who called me sorted by Province/State, City, and eventually phone number, duration of call (obviously), and even the callers that didn't get answered (ie. hung up before VM picked up) or received a busy signal are listed.
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Uhh... MS al ready does on host not found errors, with their MSN search.
At least, the last time I checked, anyways.
I have to refute that comment about matching some prices... three large office supply/tech stores around here have such policies, and they will match/beat any price in the country with the only exception being if it's online they will add shipping to the price they are matching, which is fair enough.
Interesting... I have Shaw as well and had them specifically tell me that I could transfer as much data as I wanted to. Apparently I had been transferring 1 Gig a day on their Lite Speed (200 Kbit/sec I think). I'm now upgraded to their High Speed which must be 1.5 Mbit/sec and from my guess I'm probably transferring somewhere around 2-3 Gigs a day.. no problems yet.
I believe they only have a problem when you're running servers, or uploading too much. That's likely what did it for you.
Seems to be doing them a lot better than ??AA|SCO's backwards PUTTING YOU OUT OF BUSINESS marketing plan.
Just tried a collect call, seems that "this number cannot accept collect calls", according to the automated operator.
Not sure what to worry about more... being proud that Winamp is good enough to be used in space... or being afraid that the US gov't uses Microsloth for the systems in space.
Oh... there are people out there? I thought they were all just on big screen TVs throughout the house.
Some side affects may provide for a slower, more painful death than terminal cancer. Say for example a brain disease, or perhaps a severe case of diabetes?
It looks like they just appended iraq and text on to the end of all their web folders. What's the big panic about?
Yep, the SDSL has no uptime guarantees, but for a low cost connection that isn't lopsided, it's a pretty good alternative. Unfortunately there is only one SDSL provider in the area, as opposed to the 3 cable providers and at least a dozen DSL providers.
I'm not sure why I was quoted for a 1.336 Mbps T1, but I can only assume it was taking into account ATM overhead or something along those lines.
Sure as heck beats a T1 which supplies 1.3 Mbps at $1300 per month. The only difference is the 99.8% uptime SLA and unlimited IP addresses available to T1 customers.
Actually I was recently on the phone with Shaw because my modem kept losing it's connection. They said to drop by the office and they'll exchange it, which fixed the problem.
:)
The tech told me though, that I'm transferring 1 Gig a day, which is fine, but that could have also been why my connection was crap. He noted I'm on their "Lite" speed package, too. I asked the tech how much transfer is too much, and it said it was unlimited as long as I'm not running a server.
Since my downloads are from mainly binary newsgroups (much better source for "pushed" movies/music than p2p), and not Kazza or whatevever else, I'm needn't have any open ports and am in the clear with downloading as much as I want.
Life is great in Canada. 256kbit/sec unlimited transfer connection for just $18 CDN/month
Just got my RHN update letting me down I can download the fix. Looks like any other subscribers can automatically patch up their systems, and those non-subscribers can enjoy try their best at RH's FTP servers. While you beat RH for a few hours, looks like they caught up :)
Quite honestly, I don't think this would stop them... maybe slow it down, but I'm sure pressing "SPAM" and letting it run overnight instead of for a few hours will not be much of a problem.
> and they need to fetch you public key somewhere
If this is supposed to be as hands-off as advertised, fetching the public key will be done automatically.
Now I suppose both of these will suck up more resources (CPU & bandwidth at the spammer's end), it is looking better for antispam, but the problem I pointed out is still present that scanners will be rendered useless unless they have access to everyone's private key.
The spam can't be scanned while in PGP form, and according to their diagram it won't be decrypted until AFTER hitting the mail server.
I suppose one point up for security, one point down for preventing spam :(
Because we all know how annoying those sonic booms are that keep us up all night.
Well here in Shaw's side of the country, most of the cable providers are around the $100/mo mark, bundled with web hosting so they're more aimed at home businesses or small offices as opposed to residential. However, the point is that there are companies offering it and it is one more choice to consider. Right now I have a 100 kbit/sec connection for only $18/month. It's cable, with monopolistic Shaw, and is down for at least 15 minutes a day.
In Victoria, BC -- which is on a friggin island -- we have somewhere around 8 ADSL providers and 1 SDSL provider, as well as 5 or 6 companies who will provide cable Internet. This is because the CRTC requires the telco and cable monopolies to lease lines to private ISPs.
While I have yet to find a company who offers reliable service, I imagine that is because the telco (who CRTC is currently fighting because they are providing substandard service), is intentionally neglecting the private companies.
Though all in all, there is plenty of choice here with a population of 300 000 or so, and on an island.
We're at $9700 now! Geez, it would be nice to have that much money to throw away for something like this!
Awww, did the poor server lose it's DNS?
--12:47:55-- http://www.thebulkclub.com/benefits.asp
=> `-'
Resolving www.thebulkclub.com... failed: Host not found.
Well everyone, get out the packet sniffers, or if it's encrypted (I hope so!) the memory readers and just take a look at the data this program collected. Transmit that to the site, or however it works, and voila... instant signature of poor Joe Clueless. Even easier than forging a hand written signature!
Every try using an optical mouse on a glass/clear plastic desk? At Future Shop (Canada's version of Best Buy), they had one of those transparent Macs on a matching transparent desk showing off OSX so I gave it a whirl, though the friggin mouse went all over the place!
Going back to the good old fashioned car example... are you suggesting that if I buy a car, I should not have the right to reverse engineer it (take it apart), and fix problems, make customizations, or otherwise tweak it to my likings? With a car, I can do whatever I want to it, and still sell it --if it's road worthy-- to whoever I want for whatever I want. That is, as long as I don't keep a copy of it myself. Computer software should be no different. I can hack it, change it, and do whatever I want to it, but if I sell it, the whole thing is gone. I must purchase a new copy and start from scratch again if I want to hack it/upgrade it and resell it more than once.
Aren't you compromising that security when you add third-party patches? Not nesicarly. Qmail avoids doing anything as root, so an exploit in any 3rd party add ons/patches would only grant you access to one of the 4 qmail users that is installed on the system. Can't do much with that aside from perhaps reading/deleting the mail queue.
As the owner of a few toll free numbers, I can assure you that CID blocking doesn't work. If CID is blocked, sure it won't come up on my caller id at the time of the call - but as soon as my bill arrives, I know exactly who called me sorted by Province/State, City, and eventually phone number, duration of call (obviously), and even the callers that didn't get answered (ie. hung up before VM picked up) or received a busy signal are listed.