I have to disagree. Many if not most on the left feel that china's invasion of Tibet was a very bad thing. Remember the whole free tibet concert/bumber sticker thing? That came (mostly) from the left. As for Cuba.. (shrug) I think cuba is fairly well for a 3rd world country. Compare it to Hati, Jamacia, Dominician (sp?) republic, or anywhere in that area. Most of the problems with cuba right now are that the US wont include them in the world. Sanctions for 40 years from you closest neighbor and one of the world's economic powerhouse tends to do that. Think about how bad Mexico or Puerto Rico would be if the US shunned them. They would colapse in 10 years. I give Castro prop's for playing a good game with a poorly delt hand. This is not to say that he is a great guy, I just dont think he is a bad as many think.
While packet sniffing is very useful dont forget to get SNMP running on everything you can. Not only does it let you see what the network is doing (or not doing as the case may be) but the PHB's love to see pretty graphs. I has a manager who refused to give us a second T saying that we had plenty of bandwith. I showed him the pretty graphs that showed 90% traffic and suddenly he understood. You could almost see the lightbult turn on.
As long as it is not cross linked with private databases (chex, equafax, some other group that is not well known) I say good for them. Mind you I dont think it will make much of a diffrence as the real problem is Trans-Nationals sending their profit to the Caymen Islands (sp?). After all $2000*100,000 = $1,000,000*200
or for that matter Doc Martins. Great shoes, they last me three to five years. Made in the UK and only 100 USD. Considoring that nikes (sp?) cost 80 bucks and are dead in six months it's not a bad deal.
I dont mind shopping outside of the US but try to keep it to more or less first world nations.
The Act says that, in certain situations, the use of a work without prior authorization from the owner of the rights does not constitute a copyright infringement because it is considered "fair dealing."
The Act specifies however that use will only be fair if it is made for purposes of private study or research or for criticism or review, if the source and the name of the author or copyright owner are indicated. In this regard, it must be understood that the notion of fair dealing comes into play only in cases where the use of the work would have otherwise been considered a copyright infringement. Such use would be considered an infringement only if a substantial portion of the work is used.
Does that include the cost of us bailing out the airlines every 15-20 years and the subsidies that we pay to the airline industries? Bet not.. Funny how everyone trashes amtrack for being gov't run but a privatly run company gets (roughly) the same funding from the gov't just as a bailout.
I think seattle is the perfect area to have commuter trains. Relatively small area to stop sprawl, decient population density, a growing area so you know it will be needed in the future and a goodly number of sims that belive in gov't projects. What would be really nice is a train system that connects; Downtown, Northgate mall, Edmunds ferry terminal, mukilteo ferry terminal, boeing plant in Everett, and terminating in everett. I probably would be a good idea to plan for a train to basicly follow 520 to microsoft, redmond and then Bellevue.
Take him to some sort of confrence that the enjoys. I got out of my "shell" by going to several conventions/confrences. After talking to people who are smart and I can talk to I get much better at talking to the other 90% of humanty. Take him to a con get drunk/stoned/over-caffinated, let him make an ass of him self and have a good time.
I am on smaller OEM and typicaly buy XP home OEM for $50-54 and XP Pro for $65 or so. I purchase 10 packs to get a price like this and go through 2 or 3 packs of home a month and a pack of Pro every six weeks or so. Dell buys direst from M$ while I go through a middle-man. I am pretty sure that since the big OEMs are buying 10000 the volume I do they get a better price.
I am on OEM and typicaly buy XP home OEM for $50-54 and XP Pro for $65 or so. I purchase 10 packs to get a price like this and go through 2 or 3 packs of home a month and a pack of Pro every six weeks or so. I am pretty sure that since the big OEMs are buying 10000 the volume I do they get a better price.
Kow know I feel pretty strong as I am giving up mod point to reply but.... NO.
Think of all the good things that upstream useage is for. Just running a small game server/hosting Multiplayer for a weekend will pretty kill a 512k line. To say nothing of SSH to the box at home, VNC/Xterm/Terminal Services, (legit or grey) file sharing. The real challeng is making your border routers work for you. Not cheap but it will pay off in the end.
The only reason I can see ISP's wanting to cut upload is control or power. I get the felling that as far as comcast/verizon/other big telecom are concerned we are consumers and the only reason we need more bandwith is to consume more not produce content on our own. Having said that I think that in the next 3-5 years we will have a real two-teir system 256up/768down NAT'ed lite connection for consumers, and a 3meg up/down for techies.
What we really need to figure out is how to combine QoS, packet filtering, transparent proxies, and local mirrors and good ISP hosting solutions to really cut down on traffic. Imagine Joe User. He runs kazza, plays some online games, a fair amount of web browsing, and downloads game patches, and has a pretty good pr0n habit. He also has a server that he uses to show a love of cats and host games. He also has 3meg up/5 meg down line, however the traffic is limmited to 512/1.5 meg at the border router. The QoS caps his P2P at 128/384, more that enough to get what he want without killing the network. His web browsing goes through a transparent proxy using Policy based routing, cutting the traffic in half. Any traffic coming off the proxy as well as mail and news comes in at 5meg. Same thing with game patches/legit ISO's. Since all of this traffic is coming off a "local" server it has no cost. He also has a colocated box along with 1500 of his friends and neighbors. He has local root.administrator and can host games/web pages off it. Lower bandwith costs, better response as far a the user is concerned. everyone wins. Of course you do have to have trained Sr. Techs/Jr. Sysadmins but not too many.
Having worked at a PC repair store. I would say that 50% of the systems we seehave spyware of one sort or another installed. The real problem are one such as new.net and browser hijack spyware that requires a reinstall of TCP/IP including recreating the winsock files in the registry.
It amazes me that the same people comback again and again. We have one customer who every six to eight weeks comes in complaining that her system is slow. Volia! 500 or more spyware items. Apparently she does not mind paying 50 bucks.
We also do work for a mortgage house that get this installed and wonders why their customers get so much spam for competing mortgage companies after they email the customer.:) We explain and explain but apparently they like comet cursor and bargin buddy more.
Oh well, spyware and virii are keeping us in business.
The Network Operations Center or NOC is the cornerstone of all computer networks. I've worked at AT&T's NOC, been around Government NOCs and seen small scaled versions. Most look like something out of the movie, "WarGames" and surprisingly, whether you're a Linux or Windows fan you can build one for cheap and be your own armchair NOC General.
What does a NOC do? It monitors connections, network activity, spots problems, conducts threat assessments, and calculates scalability requirements with customer demands... it also puts on a pretty good "dog-n-pony" show for potential investors and customers.
What's required? Again, surprisingly not too much! Depending on the size of your company, this can be achieved with as little as an 8' X 10' room, and 4 computers. Trust me, you more than likely do not need a $15,000 Cisco PIX or Nokia firewall (which runs Linux derivatives).
You'll need at least three big monitors (the bigger the better), two smaller ones (17"), a KVM switch, and OOB dialup. Here's the loadout:
1. Firewall: Get a copy of IPCOP... its Smoothwall on steroids and very easy to configure. It has a built in Intrusion Detection System, Proxy logging, and you can use Coyote Linux as a failover if you think you are being attacked. This package uses a web interface, so there's no need for a monitor, keyboard, or mouse. These software elements are also free. Minimum requirements are a 333Mhz system with 64MB of RAM and a 2.1GB Hard-Drive.
2. Network Monitoring: Download a copy of F.I.R.E. and run it on a barebones 600 Mhz system. Configure and open Etherape on a monitor for an Air Traffic Controller's view of your network activity... bean counters love this. If you're being attacked or infected, you will quickly see where it's coming from. You should also use a receive only sniffer cable on this box to protect integrity... a receive only box has a zero chance of infection as it's physically impossible.
3. Got wireless? Download and run Airsnare with a semi hyped up Wireless antenna, and you'll quickly spot any war-drivers or unauthorized network connections. If you have an old directional motorized TV antenna system lying around you can go uber-elite and connect a cheap phased array panel antenna or cantenna to locate your wireless intruder with NetStumbler. This can all equally run on a 333Mhz Windows based system.
4. Workstation: Here's the beef... a 1.2Ghz, 512MB, 20GB computer, with dual head Matrox card, with dual booting OS (Linux & Windows), Preferably Linux with a Windows VMWARE guest OS. Trust me, once you go Dual-Head, you won't go back. The best Linux Dual-Head OS is SuSE 8.3. Tie this into the KVM to modify any of your servers.
5. Red Phone... afterall, who doesn't want one? You're batman right?
Your first Monitor should be watching CNN or the weather channel (depending on location), the second should be running Etherape, and the third should be running Airsnare or Windows Services Monitors (CPU, Netload, etc.) All of the software here except Windows is free, and easy to configure... except maybe your General's chair. In the end, aside from having your own WOPR, you have a NOC for just under $2,000.00
Thats a great idea, if by admin you mean to say abuse cop who is not an admin, not really a tech either, but some poor slob making 8-10/hr. Then they could forward the mail on to someone who has a clue.
Otherwise, fsck that, it's just not cost effective and a waste of an already over loaded admin's time.
I do contract work for a mortgage house that has a small telemarketing arm (6 people) and yes these is a list. You register with the FCC and can download a state by state CSV of numbers. In California I think we had upwards of 9 million numbers. Washington state just under 2. So yes they do have a list and yes they do know if you are on it.
Everyone has it or at least access to it. With IMAP I seperate it into folders as needed (open ticket, passed onto other dept waiting results, closed, cant(or wont) do anything about along with the reason why, investigating etc..) With a copy of all sent messages it tracks my day pretty well.
It also forces everyone to contact me in just one way. If it was fixed on my way somewhere else I still have some one send me a mail requesting it as it only takes them one minute to type up a request and I have a copy to justify my job and hours.
Logging copys of everything is the real benefit though. Do I remember what was wrong with bob's workstation? Nope but I have a record of everything he requested, what was fixed and what was turned down. Really good to figure out why the same problems always happen to the same users.
Also you have the advantage of ease of setup. On a windows box use outlook. Linux evolution, Mac use uhh.. what ever MAcv uses. None of the above? I can still check my mail with mail2web.com. Who cares if I have 200 meg of mail it's all LAN traffic anyways.
OTOH, I dont know how well it scales beyond four or five admins/techs. But with shared folders and what not it can't complain. Mail it's the only way to go.
It would also spend more money on education than war, give everyone the right to see a doctor and generaly have a more well rounded and mentaly heathy population.
I never said it was illegal, I think its wrong in the same sense that its wrong for a 40 year old guy to sleep with girls that age. A little but not much.
nothing other than the fact that I am not an AC and say so. I have run into crunch and from what I can tell it is true. I'll tell you this, he does stink, and look like he should go to the soup kitchen. I have seen him a bit over-friendly to younger (17-20) boys/men. I have not seen him go after younger though.
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you say you want me. I sent you an email. 2 days no response.. WTF??
I have to disagree. Many if not most on the left feel that china's invasion of Tibet was a very bad thing. Remember the whole free tibet concert/bumber sticker thing? That came (mostly) from the left. As for Cuba.. (shrug) I think cuba is fairly well for a 3rd world country. Compare it to Hati, Jamacia, Dominician (sp?) republic, or anywhere in that area. Most of the problems with cuba right now are that the US wont include them in the world. Sanctions for 40 years from you closest neighbor and one of the world's economic powerhouse tends to do that.
Think about how bad Mexico or Puerto Rico would be if the US shunned them. They would colapse in 10 years. I give Castro prop's for playing a good game with a poorly delt hand. This is not to say that he is a great guy, I just dont think he is a bad as many think.
While packet sniffing is very useful dont forget to get SNMP running on everything you can. Not only does it let you see what the network is doing (or not doing as the case may be) but the PHB's love to see pretty graphs. I has a manager who refused to give us a second T saying that we had plenty of bandwith. I showed him the pretty graphs that showed 90% traffic and suddenly he understood. You could almost see the lightbult turn on.
As long as it is not cross linked with private databases (chex, equafax, some other group that is not well known) I say good for them. Mind you I dont think it will make much of a diffrence as the real problem is Trans-Nationals sending their profit to the Caymen Islands (sp?). After all $2000*100,000 = $1,000,000*200
or for that matter Doc Martins. Great shoes, they last me three to five years. Made in the UK and only 100 USD. Considoring that nikes (sp?) cost 80 bucks and are dead in six months it's not a bad deal.
I dont mind shopping outside of the US but try to keep it to more or less first world nations.
The Act says that, in certain situations, the use of a work without prior authorization from the owner of the rights does not constitute a copyright infringement because it is considered "fair dealing."
The Act specifies however that use will only be fair if it is made for purposes of private study or research or for criticism or review, if the source and the name of the author or copyright owner are indicated. In this regard, it must be understood that the notion of fair dealing comes into play only in cases where the use of the work would have otherwise been considered a copyright infringement. Such use would be considered an infringement only if a substantial portion of the work is used.
Do you mean something like flexcar?
try flexcar
Does that include the cost of us bailing out the airlines every 15-20 years and the subsidies that we pay to the airline industries? Bet not.. Funny how everyone trashes amtrack for being gov't run but a privatly run company gets (roughly) the same funding from the gov't just as a bailout.
I think seattle is the perfect area to have commuter trains. Relatively small area to stop sprawl, decient population density, a growing area so you know it will be needed in the future and a goodly number of sims that belive in gov't projects. What would be really nice is a train system that connects; Downtown, Northgate mall, Edmunds ferry terminal, mukilteo ferry terminal, boeing plant in Everett, and terminating in everett. I probably would be a good idea to plan for a train to basicly follow 520 to microsoft, redmond and then Bellevue.
Take him to some sort of confrence that the enjoys. I got out of my "shell" by going to several conventions/confrences. After talking to people who are smart and I can talk to I get much better at talking to the other 90% of humanty. Take him to a con get drunk/stoned/over-caffinated, let him make an ass of him self and have a good time.
I am on smaller OEM and typicaly buy XP home OEM for $50-54 and XP Pro for $65 or so. I purchase 10 packs to get a price like this and go through 2 or 3 packs of home a month and a pack of Pro every six weeks or so. Dell buys direst from M$ while I go through a middle-man. I am pretty sure that since the big OEMs are buying 10000 the volume I do they get a better price.
I am on OEM and typicaly buy XP home OEM for $50-54 and XP Pro for $65 or so. I purchase 10 packs to get a price like this and go through 2 or 3 packs of home a month and a pack of Pro every six weeks or so. I am pretty sure that since the big OEMs are buying 10000 the volume I do they get a better price.
Kow know I feel pretty strong as I am giving up mod point to reply but.... NO.
Think of all the good things that upstream useage is for. Just running a small game server/hosting Multiplayer for a weekend will pretty kill a 512k line. To say nothing of SSH to the box at home, VNC/Xterm/Terminal Services, (legit or grey) file sharing. The real challeng is making your border routers work for you. Not cheap but it will pay off in the end.
The only reason I can see ISP's wanting to cut upload is control or power. I get the felling that as far as comcast/verizon/other big telecom are concerned we are consumers and the only reason we need more bandwith is to consume more not produce content on our own.
Having said that I think that in the next 3-5 years we will have a real two-teir system 256up/768down NAT'ed lite connection for consumers, and a 3meg up/down for techies.
What we really need to figure out is how to combine QoS, packet filtering, transparent proxies, and local mirrors and good ISP hosting solutions to really cut down on traffic. Imagine Joe User. He runs kazza, plays some online games, a fair amount of web browsing, and downloads game patches, and has a pretty good pr0n habit. He also has a server that he uses to show a love of cats and host games. He also has 3meg up/5 meg down line, however the traffic is limmited to 512/1.5 meg at the border router.
The QoS caps his P2P at 128/384, more that enough to get what he want without killing the network. His web browsing goes through a transparent proxy using Policy based routing, cutting the traffic in half. Any traffic coming off the proxy as well as mail and news comes in at 5meg. Same thing with game patches/legit ISO's. Since all of this traffic is coming off a "local" server it has no cost. He also has a colocated box along with 1500 of his friends and neighbors. He has local root.administrator and can host games/web pages off it.
Lower bandwith costs, better response as far a the user is concerned. everyone wins. Of course you do have to have trained Sr. Techs/Jr. Sysadmins but not too many.
Having worked at a PC repair store. I would say that 50% of the systems we seehave spyware of one sort or another installed. The real problem are one such as new.net and browser hijack spyware that requires a reinstall of TCP/IP including recreating the winsock files in the registry.
:) We explain and explain but apparently they like comet cursor and bargin buddy more.
It amazes me that the same people comback again and again. We have one customer who every six to eight weeks comes in complaining that her system is slow. Volia! 500 or more spyware items. Apparently she does not mind paying 50 bucks.
We also do work for a mortgage house that get this installed and wonders why their customers get so much spam for competing mortgage companies after they email the customer.
Oh well, spyware and virii are keeping us in business.
The Network Operations Center or NOC is the cornerstone of all computer networks. I've worked at AT&T's NOC, been around Government NOCs and seen small scaled versions. Most look like something out of the movie, "WarGames" and surprisingly, whether you're a Linux or Windows fan you can build one for cheap and be your own armchair NOC General.
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What does a NOC do? It monitors connections, network activity, spots problems, conducts threat assessments, and calculates scalability requirements with customer demands... it also puts on a pretty good "dog-n-pony" show for potential investors and customers.
What's required? Again, surprisingly not too much! Depending on the size of your company, this can be achieved with as little as an 8' X 10' room, and 4 computers. Trust me, you more than likely do not need a $15,000 Cisco PIX or Nokia firewall (which runs Linux derivatives).
You'll need at least three big monitors (the bigger the better), two smaller ones (17"), a KVM switch, and OOB dialup. Here's the loadout:
1. Firewall: Get a copy of IPCOP... its Smoothwall on steroids and very easy to configure. It has a built in Intrusion Detection System, Proxy logging, and you can use Coyote Linux as a failover if you think you are being attacked. This package uses a web interface, so there's no need for a
monitor, keyboard, or mouse. These software elements are also free. Minimum requirements are a 333Mhz system with 64MB of RAM and a 2.1GB Hard-Drive.
2. Network Monitoring: Download a copy of F.I.R.E. and run it on a barebones 600 Mhz system. Configure and open Etherape on a monitor for an Air Traffic Controller's view of your network activity... bean counters love this. If you're being attacked or infected, you will quickly see where it's coming from. You should also use a receive only sniffer cable on this box to protect integrity... a receive only box has a zero chance of infection as it's physically impossible.
3. Got wireless? Download and run Airsnare with a semi hyped up Wireless antenna, and you'll quickly spot any war-drivers or unauthorized network connections. If you have an old directional motorized TV antenna system lying around you can go uber-elite and connect a cheap phased array panel antenna or cantenna to locate your wireless intruder with NetStumbler. This can all equally run on a 333Mhz Windows based system.
4. Workstation: Here's the beef... a 1.2Ghz, 512MB, 20GB computer, with dual head Matrox card, with dual booting OS (Linux & Windows), Preferably Linux with a Windows VMWARE guest OS. Trust me, once you go Dual-Head, you won't go back. The best Linux Dual-Head OS is SuSE 8.3. Tie this into the KVM to modify any of your servers.
5. Red Phone... afterall, who doesn't want one? You're batman right?
Your first Monitor should be watching CNN or the weather channel (depending on location), the second should be running Etherape, and the third should be running Airsnare or Windows Services Monitors (CPU, Netload, etc.) All of the software here except Windows is free, and easy to configure... except maybe your General's chair. In the end, aside from having your own
WOPR, you have a NOC for just under $2,000.00
William M. Nett
Links:
http://www.ipcop.org
http://www.coyote
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/biat
http://etherape.sourceforge.net
http://www.netstumbler.com
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Thats a great idea, if by admin you mean to say abuse cop who is not an admin, not really a tech either, but some poor slob making 8-10/hr. Then they could forward the mail on to someone who has a clue.
Otherwise, fsck that, it's just not cost effective and a waste of an already over loaded admin's time.
I do contract work for a mortgage house that has a small telemarketing arm (6 people) and yes these is a list. You register with the FCC and can download a state by state CSV of numbers. In California I think we had upwards of 9 million numbers. Washington state just under 2. So yes they do have a list and yes they do know if you are on it.
Those Fujitsu 20 giggers were terrible. I had about a 40% RMA rate the first time and about 80% return on the RMA's we get back from fujitsu.
Hence they have forever been named Fu-shit-su. Say it fast and the customers dont even notice.
Everyone has it or at least access to it. With IMAP I seperate it into folders as needed (open ticket, passed onto other dept waiting results, closed, cant(or wont) do anything about along with the reason why, investigating etc..) With a copy of all sent messages it tracks my day pretty well.
It also forces everyone to contact me in just one way. If it was fixed on my way somewhere else I still have some one send me a mail requesting it as it only takes them one minute to type up a request and I have a copy to justify my job and hours.
Logging copys of everything is the real benefit though. Do I remember what was wrong with bob's workstation? Nope but I have a record of everything he requested, what was fixed and what was turned down. Really good to figure out why the same problems always happen to the same users.
Also you have the advantage of ease of setup. On a windows box use outlook. Linux evolution, Mac use uhh.. what ever MAcv uses. None of the above? I can still check my mail with mail2web.com. Who cares if I have 200 meg of mail it's all LAN traffic anyways.
OTOH, I dont know how well it scales beyond four or five admins/techs. But with shared folders and what not it can't complain. Mail it's the only way to go.
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It's on the second paragraph.
Personaly I think it's ok to make a mistake as long as you "fix" it and are fairly open about it.
It would also spend more money on education than war, give everyone the right to see a doctor and generaly have a more well rounded and mentaly heathy population.
I never said it was illegal, I think its wrong in the same sense that its wrong for a 40 year old guy to sleep with girls that age. A little but not much.
nothing other than the fact that I am not an AC and say so. I have run into crunch and from what I can tell it is true. I'll tell you this, he does stink, and look like he should go to the soup kitchen. I have seen him a bit over-friendly to younger (17-20) boys/men. I have not seen him go after younger though.
Someone should send that message up to 3 at least. I found it intersting and too many ppl browse at 3 to get past the auto 2 for karma