Check out their quite impressive network infrastructure at this page. Lots of info on their network and links. And, suprise suprise, it spans quite some more countries than only the UK.
You're right, I didn't think of that. And we didn't even cover the 8/16/32 bits. But back in 1985 there were no such extensions. But the faster it is, the more impressive.
Oh, and for the overclocking project maybe we should talk to those Finnish people who cool CPU's using liquid nitrogen.
My first pc was a 8088 at 4,77 MHz, somewhere in 1985. This new CPU does 4,7 GHz which is 4700 MHz, which is 1000 times as fast as what I've started with. Impressive. If back then someone would have told me that one day we would be using a 4700 MHz CPU I would probably burst out in laughter:)
The hoster I work for runs its systems on Linux from Scratch. In our opinion the most Linux distro's are much too bloated with all kind of stuff we never need on our servers. LFS gives us the possibility to do things exactly the way we want them to. Oh, we also run the Dutch LFS mirror:).
From the webpage: In particular, our analysis of the model leads to four potential strategies, which can be used in conjunction: 1. Randomly selecting and litigating against users engaging in piracy
This seems to be the option which involves the least technological action. However, randomly wouldn't work, if it were only because the P2P users don't all live in the same country, hence different laws apply. So some sort of not-so-random selection proces has to be implemented.
2. Creating fake users that carry (incorrectly named or damaged files)
Modern P2P programs support downloading files from multiple sources. If someone downloads such a fake file and discovers it, the file will almost always be deleted. So, these files will not propagate through the network, or at least not as fast and as much as the correct files. So a search where one file can be downloaded from many sources is in this case preferable before one with not many nodes serving the same file.
3. Broadcasting fake queries in order to degrade network performance
Now this is an interesting thing. The makers of the P2P programs who are being targeted by fake queries
could ban such users, or could build in a feature where the user of a P2P program can ban a host his/herself, so that it will be excluded in further searches.
4. Selectively targeting litigation against the small percentage of users that carry the majority of the files
Some users carry gigs and gigs of files, but that doesn't mean they're very popular. If I setup a server where I host my 20CD collection of Mozart works I'll probably won't get as much traffic as when I publish the Billboard 100. It's not the quantity, but the content of the files served that counts. Search for Britney and you'll receive 1000's of hits. Search for Planisphere and a lot less results will show up.
Nice to see they're switching to Juniper equipment. Our 'internet2' (being Gigaport is still built upon Cisco 12k's.
On a more relevant note: I saw a demonstration of some of the capabilities, where a 2GB MRI scan was transmitted from a hospital to a university where it was examined in a CAVE. Very neat and useful stuff.
This is like the system that's in use here (.nl) for people who work on moneytransport. When they carry a suitcase stashed with Mighty Bucks to a bank (not all banks have the space to let moneytransports park right to a wall with a little door) the man who walks with the suitcase also carries a little transceiver. If he gets robbed from his suitcase and the suitcase gets more than 10 meters away from the person, a paintbomb will explode inside the suitcase. The robber won't be harmed, the suitcase is still in one part but all money inside is painted red with an non-removable, semi transparent ink. Thus rendering all money inside the suitcase unusable.
So this laptops seem to operate the same way: if the valueable stuff (in this case the data inside the laptop) gets seperated from the person who owns it, the stuff will be made unusable. Not a Bad Thing (tm).
First law on spamming: Spammers Lie. Which is, in this case, once again true because there is no one at all who has a crush on you. Just some dark-side marketeer who has a crush on your mailaddress so they can start shipping spam. Bah.
(In case you're wondering, the other laws on spammers:
2 - Recursive, If spammer seems to be telling the truth, see Rule 1.
3 - Spammers are stupid.
And ofcourse, the uberrule (rule 0): Spammers are thieves)
We had a similar system too Rabbit, called Kermit (and yes, the phones were greenish). It only worked around hotspots, which were located at trainstations, big busstations and large plaza's. Ofcourse it failed because coverage was limited. But it also, or even more failed because at the same time nationwide coverage by the then proprietary ATF-networks became cheaper. Not long after that the first GSM networks were deployed, making cheap wireless nation-wide covered calling available. So, if you ask me it's not only the limited coverage that counts...
This judge couldn't have said it better. The program by itself doesn't violate anything besides interface aesthetics. I'm glad to see that there's still some common sense left. The Dutch tend to be very 'nuchter' (down to earth would be appropriate translation) towards the grey area of law and order. This prevented our (yes, I'm Dutch myself) society from becoming corporate-driven and claim oriented like American society. Kazaa itself did nothing wrong, so you can't punish them.
And instead of refocussing on the users of Kazaa who do illegal things (almost all users) all that corporate power should be spent building a system where people can legally obtain music. If the downloads are fast, the available tracks are 'what the people want' and the quality is good there is some serious money to be made. And the musicbusiness can have their precious profits back.
Just my point. And to add to that (I'm.nl too), not only do we get to see stuff *way* later than say, the US; but we're kept in the dark about *if* we ever see it, and when. I know, it's about local (in our case national) tv-stations buying the shows from in this case Paramount. But how come they can't buy it at the same time it gets shown in the US? Star Trek in all its forms has al large fanbase here (Voyager is even shown on primetime, which is quite unusual for a sci-fi series here), Enterprise would surely attract enough viewers to satisfy the advertisers.
It's because of ancient behaviour like this people start trading tv-shows in the first place. The tech is there to show us Europeans things that happen on the other side of the globe in no-time. But no, they can't do that with tv-series. If at times like these the US entertainment industry holds on to ancient principles, I have no objection to people doing some trading of tv-shows online.
I know that at least 4 universities have a 10Gbit upling connecting eachother. Most others have 1Gbit. The Surfnet-network which interconnects all dutch universities is connected to several other research networks (one of them is the US Internet2) with at least gigabit speed. Read more about this at this website.
Since the network is there, and it is clearly meant to be used for research purposes I hope some Dutch university (or the Surfnet organisation itself) will raise its hand and help out.
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Bind 9.2.1 has been out for a while. If you haven't upgraded yet consider letting someone who does know run your nameservers...
Check out their quite impressive network infrastructure at this page. Lots of info on their network and links. And, suprise suprise, it spans quite some more countries than only the UK.
(Yet Another Certificate Selling Company)
Take a look at Domainmonger, they sell them for US$ 150.
You're right, I didn't think of that. And we didn't even cover the 8/16/32 bits. But back in 1985 there were no such extensions. But the faster it is, the more impressive. Oh, and for the overclocking project maybe we should talk to those Finnish people who cool CPU's using liquid nitrogen.
My first pc was a 8088 at 4,77 MHz, somewhere in 1985. This new CPU does 4,7 GHz which is 4700 MHz, which is 1000 times as fast as what I've started with. Impressive. If back then someone would have told me that one day we would be using a 4700 MHz CPU I would probably burst out in laughter :)
The hoster I work for runs its systems on Linux from Scratch. In our opinion the most Linux distro's are much too bloated with all kind of stuff we never need on our servers. LFS gives us the possibility to do things exactly the way we want them to. Oh, we also run the Dutch LFS mirror :).
From the webpage:
In particular, our analysis of the model leads to four potential strategies, which can be used in conjunction:
1. Randomly selecting and litigating against users engaging in piracy
This seems to be the option which involves the least technological action. However, randomly wouldn't work, if it were only because the P2P users don't all live in the same country, hence different laws apply. So some sort of not-so-random selection proces has to be implemented.
2. Creating fake users that carry (incorrectly named or damaged files)
Modern P2P programs support downloading files from multiple sources. If someone downloads such a fake file and discovers it, the file will almost always be deleted. So, these files will not propagate through the network, or at least not as fast and as much as the correct files. So a search where one file can be downloaded from many sources is in this case preferable before one with not many nodes serving the same file.
3. Broadcasting fake queries in order to degrade network performance
Now this is an interesting thing. The makers of the P2P programs who are being targeted by fake queries could ban such users, or could build in a feature where the user of a P2P program can ban a host his/herself, so that it will be excluded in further searches.
4. Selectively targeting litigation against the small percentage of users that carry the majority of the files
Some users carry gigs and gigs of files, but that doesn't mean they're very popular. If I setup a server where I host my 20CD collection of Mozart works I'll probably won't get as much traffic as when I publish the Billboard 100. It's not the quantity, but the content of the files served that counts. Search for Britney and you'll receive 1000's of hits. Search for Planisphere and a lot less results will show up.
Nevertheless it's a good paper.
Nice to see they're switching to Juniper equipment. Our 'internet2' (being Gigaport is still built upon Cisco 12k's.
On a more relevant note: I saw a demonstration of some of the capabilities, where a 2GB MRI scan was transmitted from a hospital to a university where it was examined in a CAVE. Very neat and useful stuff.
This is like the system that's in use here (.nl) for people who work on moneytransport. When they carry a suitcase stashed with Mighty Bucks to a bank (not all banks have the space to let moneytransports park right to a wall with a little door) the man who walks with the suitcase also carries a little transceiver. If he gets robbed from his suitcase and the suitcase gets more than 10 meters away from the person, a paintbomb will explode inside the suitcase. The robber won't be harmed, the suitcase is still in one part but all money inside is painted red with an non-removable, semi transparent ink. Thus rendering all money inside the suitcase unusable.
So this laptops seem to operate the same way: if the valueable stuff (in this case the data inside the laptop) gets seperated from the person who owns it, the stuff will be made unusable. Not a Bad Thing (tm).
for the environment! Smaller planes is less polution!
First law on spamming: Spammers Lie. Which is, in this case, once again true because there is no one at all who has a crush on you. Just some dark-side marketeer who has a crush on your mailaddress so they can start shipping spam. Bah.
(In case you're wondering, the other laws on spammers:
2 - Recursive, If spammer seems to be telling the truth, see Rule 1.
3 - Spammers are stupid.
And ofcourse, the uberrule (rule 0): Spammers are thieves)
We had a similar system too Rabbit, called Kermit (and yes, the phones were greenish). It only worked around hotspots, which were located at trainstations, big busstations and large plaza's. Ofcourse it failed because coverage was limited. But it also, or even more failed because at the same time nationwide coverage by the then proprietary ATF-networks became cheaper. Not long after that the first GSM networks were deployed, making cheap wireless nation-wide covered calling available. So, if you ask me it's not only the limited coverage that counts...
The .dj tld! I'm not sure which country it belongs to, but it sure is nice for the dj/music lovers out there...
This judge couldn't have said it better. The program by itself doesn't violate anything besides interface aesthetics. I'm glad to see that there's still some common sense left. The Dutch tend to be very 'nuchter' (down to earth would be appropriate translation) towards the grey area of law and order. This prevented our (yes, I'm Dutch myself) society from becoming corporate-driven and claim oriented like American society. Kazaa itself did nothing wrong, so you can't punish them.
And instead of refocussing on the users of Kazaa who do illegal things (almost all users) all that corporate power should be spent building a system where people can legally obtain music. If the downloads are fast, the available tracks are 'what the people want' and the quality is good there is some serious money to be made. And the musicbusiness can have their precious profits back.
Just my point. And to add to that (I'm .nl too), not only do we get to see stuff *way* later than say, the US; but we're kept in the dark about *if* we ever see it, and when. I know, it's about local (in our case national) tv-stations buying the shows from in this case Paramount.
But how come they can't buy it at the same time it gets shown in the US? Star Trek in all its forms has al large fanbase here (Voyager is even shown on primetime, which is quite unusual for a sci-fi series here), Enterprise would surely attract enough viewers to satisfy the advertisers. It's because of ancient behaviour like this people start trading tv-shows in the first place. The tech is there to show us Europeans things that happen on the other side of the globe in no-time. But no, they can't do that with tv-series. If at times like these the US entertainment industry holds on to ancient principles, I have no objection to people doing some trading of tv-shows online.
I know that at least 4 universities have a 10Gbit upling connecting eachother. Most others have 1Gbit. The Surfnet-network which interconnects all dutch universities is connected to several other research networks (one of them is the US Internet2) with at least gigabit speed. Read more about this at this website. Since the network is there, and it is clearly meant to be used for research purposes I hope some Dutch university (or the Surfnet organisation itself) will raise its hand and help out.