Our service was fine today. They had a ~6hr outage yesterday though. This is for business fiber connectivity. We BGP peer with them and another carrier though, so no actual downtime.
Their last ticket update:
Our local repair group field technician found a dirty fiber connection at the 2nd optical patch panel in the Henderson, NC central office. The field technician cleaned the dirty fiber to clear the automatic power reduction alarm. We are showing two way traffic on the higher level interface has restored. We will hold our ticket for 24 hours to ensure stability.
I'm already using Android Pay on my G6. What would compel me to use their app instead? Either of them (as well as Samsung/Apple) Pay all already follow the same phoneterminal standard. NFC... So, nothing to see here, don't install LG's app, use AndroidPay, move along...
Where does that 1% cash back come from? Are the banks or Visa giving you that out of the kindness of their hearts? The merchant you just bought something from foots that bill. Guess what they do, they include enough mark-up in everything they sell to cover that. So ultimately you're getting 1% of your own money back. They bought your loyalty that easily...
What OS do their applications run on? Heartbleed didn't affect Windows, which has it's own SSL code. OpenSSL was the culprit and that's primarily used on *nix/posix systems.
Is that even possible? Is there a VM layer like Android's Dalvik or is software written directly to a particular arch? If not, I don't see Intel biting.
I have 168 applications/games installed on my Droid. The internal RAM shows as having 27MB still free. I've not put many photos/videos/audio files on the SD card yet so it has 14GB (out of the stock 16GB included card's total) still free.
Psssst... ActiveSync is stock in Android 2.0 Using it now on my Droid for push email, calendars, etc... Mine isn't talking to an Exchange server however, even though that's how it's defined in the phone. Mine talks to a Zimbra Communications Suite server (which also supports ActiveSync)...
Samsung and a few others have Blu-Ray players with built-in NF streaming ability. I bet few if any of them run an MS OS internally. So, wonder what stream they use? I've only watched a couple of things on mine but they were good quality and very consistent.
The author of the story should drive a hundred or so miles southwest of their Arlington County. Around here the acorns, hickory nuts, walnuts and other tree fruit were heavily abundant. More and larger fruits than most anyone can remember. Last year and this year were both exceptional drought years in this area too. I'd assume that had something to do with it.
How many people buy the XP models and subsequently install Ubuntu or some other Linux distro though? For reasons of better RAM or Drive or battery option availability in the XP bundled version of the machine.
The decision, however, will have no effect on our current or future customers because EchoStar's engineers have developed and deployed 'next-generation' DVR software to our customers' DVRs. This improved software is fully operational, has been automatically downloaded to current customers, and does not infringe the Tivo patent at issue in the Federal Circuit's ruling.
"All DISH Network customers can continue to use their DVRs without any interruption or changes to the award-winning DVR features and services provided by DISH Network.
"We intend to appeal the Federal Circuit's ruling to the United States Supreme Court."
Well the point I was attempting to make was more about how Linux distros shouldn't spend all their time fighting against each other. Ubuntu should not be Fedora's "enemy", nor vice versa. They're both solid distros. Those energies could be better spent elsewhere...
Oh and I've ran a Linux desktop at home since RH9 and at work for the past ~3 years. Primarily Fedora or RedHat based distros but I've checked out Ubuntu and others just to see what ideas they've come up with as well.
I've installed both on the same machine within the past 2 weeks. Once the desktop is up and I'm clicking around it would be very difficult to tell which OS is running on the box except for the backdrop and default color scheme. Gnome 2.20 is pretty much Gnome 2.20 no matter which distro it sits on top of. Icon placement, desktop panels, menu arrangement, they were pretty much identical. Who cares about apt vs yum either, click Applications->Add/Remove Software and point'n'click your way through installing whatever you need installed.
There is no "war" between distros. I can run Firefox on any Linux distro. Same goes for Amarok, K3B, OpenOffice, Thunderbird, etc...
Very interesting.. Yeah I was already familiar with Iridium and the fact that it was named after the atomic number of the element but they ended up not needing that number of satellites. I also remember hearing about the planned de-orbiting and at the last minute there was hope it could be converted from a cellular phone coverage platform to an internet delivery one. But, that the electronics on-board simply weren't fast enough or really setup for that, so that was abandoned. The military stepped in and bought it didn't they?
We just have so much in-fighting between cable, dsl, fiber providers over territory, prices, services. I'd love to see someone put up a LEO fleet and offer internet service over it at reasonable rates, low latency, high speeds, and truly _global_ coverage. That would really shake things up... I think Wild Blue has talked about doing this but currently they only offer geosync service. I've used DiSH/Gilat geosync service years ago, the latency is simply too much of a killer.
So anyway, Google is wanting to spend billions just for the rights to a frequency band. Instead of someone like AT&T doing so I'd love to see Google be the driving force behind a "global internet initiative" like this instead.
It doesn't look like anyone else is every going to do it so I wish Google would. Launch a fleet of LEO satellites for global high-speed internet access. Unlike geosynchronous satellites some folks use for this now the latency would be very low for LEOs.
LEO = Low Earth Orbit, ~200mi up versus ~26,000mi up for geosynchronous ones.
Skip 700Mhz and go for true global coverage instead.
We too manage a lot of customer sites behind dynamic IP connections. We have the advantage of there being servers at every location where we can run our own code. We have a simple (PERL) program run out of cron once an hour to connect to one of our servers on a high port and pass through some information unique to the site. On the server end is another program (PERL again) that receives the messages, does an in-RAM check (a simple associative array) to see if this IP is any different than the last one we saw for this site, runs nsupdate (yes BIND is working fine for us) to push the new IP into the zone if it has changed.
So now when I want to connect to a particular customer site via ssh, vnc, rdp, whatever.. I just connect to customername.customerstate.customertype and never worry with what the IP is.
Oh, and if BIND has scalability issues, I suspect it's somewhat beyond your "few thousand hostnames" point. We're dynamically updating a few hundred names in a server that is managing a few thousand hostnames without taxing it much at all.
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Makes ya wonder.. If fear of Huawei, led to Apple whispering in the ears of select politicians... What exactly does ~$7M a year in lobbying buy you?
Our service was fine today. They had a ~6hr outage yesterday though. This is for business fiber connectivity. We BGP peer with them and another carrier though, so no actual downtime.
Their last ticket update:
Our local repair group field technician found a dirty fiber connection at the 2nd optical patch panel in the Henderson, NC central office. The field technician cleaned the dirty fiber to clear the automatic power reduction alarm. We are showing two way traffic on the higher level interface has restored. We will hold our ticket for 24 hours to ensure stability.
Cue the Apple apologists...
I'm already using Android Pay on my G6. What would compel me to use their app instead? Either of them (as well as Samsung/Apple) Pay all already follow the same phoneterminal standard. NFC... So, nothing to see here, don't install LG's app, use AndroidPay, move along...
Where does that 1% cash back come from? Are the banks or Visa giving you that out of the kindness of their hearts? The merchant you just bought something from foots that bill. Guess what they do, they include enough mark-up in everything they sell to cover that. So ultimately you're getting 1% of your own money back. They bought your loyalty that easily...
What OS do their applications run on? Heartbleed didn't affect Windows, which has it's own SSL code. OpenSSL was the culprit and that's primarily used on *nix/posix systems.
This doesn't prove much of anything, but:
[user@system ~]$ curl -I www.chs.net | grep Server:
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5
http://www.digitaltransactions...
"Security experts say data still can be transmitted unencrypted, or in plain text, during an EMV transaction."
So this is going to help Target how?
Is that even possible? Is there a VM layer like Android's Dalvik or is software written directly to a particular arch? If not, I don't see Intel biting.
Just read Jack Campbell's Lost Fleet series.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Fleet
Well they did have 400 test subjects remember... So they did need a user base greater than 400 to start with I presume.
I have 168 applications/games installed on my Droid. The internal RAM shows as having 27MB still free. I've not put many photos/videos/audio files on the SD card yet so it has 14GB (out of the stock 16GB included card's total) still free.
Psssst... ActiveSync is stock in Android 2.0 Using it now on my Droid for push email, calendars, etc... Mine isn't talking to an Exchange server however, even though that's how it's defined in the phone. Mine talks to a Zimbra Communications Suite server (which also supports ActiveSync)...
According to this article Lotus Symphony is based on OpenOffice.
http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/IBM-Throws-Out-Microsoft-Office
Samsung and a few others have Blu-Ray players with built-in NF streaming ability. I bet few if any of them run an MS OS internally. So, wonder what stream they use? I've only watched a couple of things on mine but they were good quality and very consistent.
Oh and what OS does the Roku use?
Umm.. You don't run VMWare ESX or XenServer either one *on* Windows or *on* Linux. They're considered "bare-metal" hypervisors:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervisor
I have multiple Win2k8 Server installs running happily on XenServer5 now. Works very well.
The author of the story should drive a hundred or so miles southwest of their Arlington County. Around here the acorns, hickory nuts, walnuts and other tree fruit were heavily abundant. More and larger fruits than most anyone can remember. Last year and this year were both exceptional drought years in this area too. I'd assume that had something to do with it.
How many people buy the XP models and subsequently install Ubuntu or some other Linux distro though? For reasons of better RAM or Drive or battery option availability in the XP bundled version of the machine.
Tivo's:
http://investor.tivo.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=304285
Dish's:
http://dish.client.shareholder.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=304293
The latter includes these tidbits:
The decision, however, will have no effect on our current or future customers because EchoStar's engineers have developed and deployed 'next-generation' DVR software to our customers' DVRs. This improved software is fully operational, has been automatically downloaded to current customers, and does not infringe the Tivo patent at issue in the Federal Circuit's ruling.
"All DISH Network customers can continue to use their DVRs without any interruption or changes to the award-winning DVR features and services provided by DISH Network.
"We intend to appeal the Federal Circuit's ruling to the United States Supreme Court."
Well the point I was attempting to make was more about how Linux distros shouldn't spend all their time fighting against each other. Ubuntu should not be Fedora's "enemy", nor vice versa. They're both solid distros. Those energies could be better spent elsewhere...
Oh and I've ran a Linux desktop at home since RH9 and at work for the past ~3 years. Primarily Fedora or RedHat based distros but I've checked out Ubuntu and others just to see what ideas they've come up with as well.
I've installed both on the same machine within the past 2 weeks. Once the desktop is up and I'm clicking around it would be very difficult to tell which OS is running on the box except for the backdrop and default color scheme. Gnome 2.20 is pretty much Gnome 2.20 no matter which distro it sits on top of. Icon placement, desktop panels, menu arrangement, they were pretty much identical. Who cares about apt vs yum either, click Applications->Add/Remove Software and point'n'click your way through installing whatever you need installed.
There is no "war" between distros. I can run Firefox on any Linux distro. Same goes for Amarok, K3B, OpenOffice, Thunderbird, etc...
Get over it.
Very interesting.. Yeah I was already familiar with Iridium and the fact that it was named after the atomic number of the element but they ended up not needing that number of satellites. I also remember hearing about the planned de-orbiting and at the last minute there was hope it could be converted from a cellular phone coverage platform to an internet delivery one. But, that the electronics on-board simply weren't fast enough or really setup for that, so that was abandoned. The military stepped in and bought it didn't they? We just have so much in-fighting between cable, dsl, fiber providers over territory, prices, services. I'd love to see someone put up a LEO fleet and offer internet service over it at reasonable rates, low latency, high speeds, and truly _global_ coverage. That would really shake things up... I think Wild Blue has talked about doing this but currently they only offer geosync service. I've used DiSH/Gilat geosync service years ago, the latency is simply too much of a killer. So anyway, Google is wanting to spend billions just for the rights to a frequency band. Instead of someone like AT&T doing so I'd love to see Google be the driving force behind a "global internet initiative" like this instead.
It doesn't look like anyone else is every going to do it so I wish Google would. Launch a fleet of LEO satellites for global high-speed internet access. Unlike geosynchronous satellites some folks use for this now the latency would be very low for LEOs.
LEO = Low Earth Orbit, ~200mi up versus ~26,000mi up for geosynchronous ones.
Skip 700Mhz and go for true global coverage instead.
We too manage a lot of customer sites behind dynamic IP connections. We have the advantage of there being servers at every location where we can run our own code. We have a simple (PERL) program run out of cron once an hour to connect to one of our servers on a high port and pass through some information unique to the site. On the server end is another program (PERL again) that receives the messages, does an in-RAM check (a simple associative array) to see if this IP is any different than the last one we saw for this site, runs nsupdate (yes BIND is working fine for us) to push the new IP into the zone if it has changed.
So now when I want to connect to a particular customer site via ssh, vnc, rdp, whatever.. I just connect to customername.customerstate.customertype and never worry with what the IP is.
Oh, and if BIND has scalability issues, I suspect it's somewhat beyond your "few thousand hostnames" point. We're dynamically updating a few hundred names in a server that is managing a few thousand hostnames without taxing it much at all.
Encryption, Compression, Bit-Level verification, Bootable disaster recovery, Commercial support...
http://www.microlite.com/
Oddly enough, Andrew Morton included Reiser4 in his -mm kernel series today.
t ches/2.6/2.6.19-rc1/2.6.19-rc1-mm1/announce.txt
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/pa