Sounds to me like your client picked the name for thier world wide, Internet enabled, company rather poorly. Having seen this done before (For some strange reason, the existing, registered company name wasn't good enough, the new CEO decided we should have the exact same name as a nationly known cable provider), even if you DO have the domain name registered, that is no gurantee you get to keep it.
If the old NIC and all these new fellows would simply demand payment 'up front', the vast majority of this damn 'squating' tactics would go away. Anyone who plans to put a domain name to a legit use won't mind paying the bucks, anyone who is squating has probably registered hundreds (if not thousands) of domains, and makeing them pay up front would free all of those domains up.
Hmmm, obviously this guy didn't pay the least bit attention to the screens when he installed his system. /stand/sysinstall can change pretty much any config file that he would need to, and has a nice interface to the package system. (which, I seem to recall, was around quite a while before Red Had 'invented' RPMs...)
I think I _AM_ going to take the time to write up some FBSD articles, and try and get them published...
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Software Publishers to be held accountable In the future, Y2K will be looked on as the 1st wide-spread demand for systems that WORK the way the CUSTOMER wants.
Lets be honest with ourselves, as an industry, software has been a very much 'take it or leave it' kind of thing. As long as the majority of functionality is there, a large number of people will buy it. Correct date processing was simply a 'feature' that was not demanded by anyone until just recently(last couple of years), and I am sure that the specs for future software purchaes will reflect this type of 'interoperability' in Software.
Many of us know what 'features' we are missing, but the vast majority of the economy isn't clueful enough to relize it is missing!!!
The Media The general public's ability to resist the general mass media's attempt to turn this into a disaster story of epic portions serves to underline a very sad fact. These 'defenders of free speech' have been abusing our trust. Would it really have been that hard to simply say 'check your technology to make sure it processes dates correctly' instead of 'widespread failures of technology MAY occur IF said technology can't cope with the date change?' I know the latter sounds better to an increasingly cynical public, but once again, we see some good trends from all this. The Media is going to be held accountable. Should intent be a factor in a media story? The INTENT of those two headlines are pretty obvious to anyone with a nickle of common sense, the previous warns of a possible technological issue, the latter serves to strike fear into the hearts of men. (and women:> )
At least the 'New Media' can affect this. Now that the Internet connected person can do their own research for storys with relativily little effort, it is becoming plain to see that many 'journalists' A) Barely have a nodding aquaitence with thier subject matter AND B) Are too damn lazy to do any research to understad it!
This, in my Not So Humble Opinion, is the root of the problem. Ignorance Begets Ignorance, and Ignorance leads to fear.
Consumer Rights
So, how do I get a better quality of news out of the mass media? Heck if I know. letter writing doesn't seem to work. about the only thing you could do is become an acknologed 'expert' on something, and let the media interview you.
I remember trying to get an article on that submited to slashdot... Something about the winning team installing FreeBSD probably had something to do with the article getting rejected:>
Not a bad article, from Janes, but definitly needs a grammer/spelling/reality check done on it.
1) Again, that is not IP bandwidth, that is bandwidth overall. DWDM devices currently max out at about 16 lambdas per fiber. DWDM requires the 'good' fiber, as well as repeaters that are a lot closer together than most fiber carriers (like qwest and lvl3) have deployed.
2) as for hitting the market in 13 months, please don't tell WCG that, they have it now...
The bigger impact will be when we figure out how to a) parrallel route accross multiple OC48 trunks b) route IP at 10Gig:>
Most people consider the answer to both of those questions to be some form of Tag Switching (MPLS or ATM)
But, it doesn't free up internet congestion. That is the point I was trying to make. All it does is make a fiber cut all that more of a disaster. (although it may be able to switch around one)
No, it IS a router, just not an IP router, which I believe the Press release would like you to believe. As the man says, it is a router for lambdas, and will be used by fiber carriers to wholesale 'dim-fiber' or 'waves' to non-facilites based carriers.
In other words, this is NOTHING to get excited about, unless you own fiber.
This box doesn't actually route IP, it routes lambdas. Read up on DWDM for more details. There isn't a box out yet that can do OC-192 IP routing. Do the math on how long it takes to dig into an IP packet, make a forwarding decision, and execute it. It will be HARD, with current RAM read rates, to fill up an OC192.
Of course, this doesn't prevent people from putting OC-12s and OC-48s on OC-192s and making press releases!
This is NOT a router for IP, it is a router for WAVES. Read DWDM please. The optical switch technology is used to switch diffrent lambdas through the switches. Primary use would be if you wanted to by a Wave on a carrier's fiber. (much cheaper than buying the fiber, because you don't have to light it up and maintain it yourself) So, the bottom line is, now I can buy a wave that crosses several pieces of fiber, and can be re-routed in case of a fiber cut!
Microsoft Senator, the perfect answer to those, nasty, unpredictable politicians, MS-Senator will follow it's software encoded programing, until corrupted by MS-Money, at which point, MS-BillGates controls it's direction.
I remember having to put wording into my old ISPs AUP to prevent use of this little darling... Of course, it you shell into a FBSD box, you can just use ppp -direct, and not bother with this little program...
Just treat every object on the road as a 'friction' point. The closer one object get to an object, the more it slows down. If there is an object with a few feet of traffic at the edge of the road (Any object large enough to be seen at several car lenghts), traffic will slow. The PERCEPTION of the size of the object and it's proximenty to the road seems to dictate the loss in speed.
So, when you see cars ahead of you stomping on thier brakes for no apperent reason, you can bet the PERCEPTION of the size of the objects ahead of that car has been viewd as being large!
This has been obvious to me for at least 10 years... If you are able to reduce the 'friction' around you, your level of stress goes way down.:>
I thought I was being afflicted with CTS a few weeks back. I couldn't type anymore, my hands were in such pain from moving them. Rather than spend tons of $$$ on a doctor who was going to want to cut open my wrists, I fell back on an old remedy, chiropractic. My chirotpractor took some xrays, check my reflexes and came to the conclusion that my spine was the cause of my pain. 1 hour (and a minimum of fuss) later, my hands had almost returned to normal! Remeber, your body has a network too. How many times have you cursed a shoddy machines' network access, only to find out it was the cable???
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Sounds to me like your client picked the name for thier world wide, Internet enabled, company rather poorly.
Having seen this done before (For some strange reason, the existing, registered company name wasn't good enough, the new CEO decided we should have the exact same name as a nationly known cable provider), even if you DO have the domain name registered, that is no gurantee you get to keep it.
If the old NIC and all these new fellows would simply demand payment 'up front', the vast majority of this damn 'squating' tactics would go away. Anyone who plans to put a domain name to a legit use won't mind paying the bucks, anyone who is squating has probably registered hundreds (if not thousands) of domains, and makeing them pay up front would free all of those domains up.
Hmmm, obviously this guy didn't pay the least bit attention to the screens when he installed his system.
/stand/sysinstall can change pretty much any config file that he would need to, and has a nice interface to the package system. (which, I seem to recall, was around quite a while before Red Had 'invented' RPMs...)
I think I _AM_ going to take the time to write up some FBSD articles, and try and get them published...
Software Publishers to be held accountable
:> )
In the future, Y2K will be looked on as the 1st wide-spread demand for systems that WORK the way the CUSTOMER wants.
Lets be honest with ourselves, as an industry, software has been a very much 'take it or leave it' kind of thing.
As long as the majority of functionality is there, a large number of people will buy it. Correct date processing was simply a 'feature' that was not demanded by anyone until just recently(last couple of years), and I am sure that the specs for future software purchaes will reflect this type of 'interoperability' in Software.
Many of us know what 'features' we are missing, but the vast majority of the economy isn't clueful enough to relize it is missing!!!
The Media
The general public's ability to resist the general mass media's attempt to turn this into a disaster story of epic portions serves to underline a very sad fact. These 'defenders of free speech' have been abusing our trust.
Would it really have been that hard to simply say 'check your technology to make sure it processes dates correctly' instead of 'widespread failures of technology MAY occur IF said technology can't cope with the date change?' I know the latter sounds better to an increasingly cynical public, but once again, we see some good trends from all this. The Media is going to be held accountable. Should intent be a factor in a media story? The INTENT of those two headlines are pretty obvious to anyone with a nickle of common sense, the previous warns of a possible technological issue, the latter serves to strike fear into the hearts of men. (and women
At least the 'New Media' can affect this. Now that the Internet connected person can do their own research for storys with relativily little effort, it is becoming plain to see that many 'journalists' A) Barely have a nodding aquaitence with thier subject matter AND B) Are too damn lazy to do any research to understad it!
This, in my Not So Humble Opinion, is the root of the problem. Ignorance Begets Ignorance, and Ignorance leads to fear.
Consumer Rights
So, how do I get a better quality of news out of the mass media? Heck if I know. letter writing doesn't seem to work.
about the only thing you could do is become an acknologed 'expert' on something, and let the media interview you.
Remeber, your body has a network of nerves, and your spine is the main 'backbone' (DOH!)...
If the backbone is congested (pinched nerve), the rest of the network doesn't work quite right.
Get your back looked at before you spend big bucks on surgery or pain killers.
I remember trying to get an article on that submited to slashdot... Something about the winning team installing FreeBSD probably had something to do with the article getting rejected :>
Not a bad article, from Janes, but definitly needs a grammer/spelling/reality check done on it.
This is a good example of Government trying to be responsible FOR the people instead of Government responsbile TO the people.
I , for one, don't need another set of parents...
The limit is the routers, not the amount of available bandwith.
Please read some of the other threads here, this is NOT an IP router....
Don't confuse it with one.
1) Again, that is not IP bandwidth, that is bandwidth overall. DWDM devices currently max out at about 16 lambdas per fiber. DWDM requires the 'good' fiber, as well as repeaters that are a lot closer together than most fiber carriers (like qwest and lvl3) have deployed.
:>
2) as for hitting the market in 13 months, please don't tell WCG that, they have it now...
The bigger impact will be when we figure out how to
a) parrallel route accross multiple OC48 trunks
b) route IP at 10Gig
Most people consider the answer to both of those questions to be some form of Tag Switching (MPLS or ATM)
But, it doesn't free up internet congestion. That is the point I was trying to make. All it does is make a fiber cut all that more of a disaster. (although it may be able to switch around one)
No, it IS a router, just not an IP router, which I believe the Press release would like you to believe.
As the man says, it is a router for lambdas, and will be used by fiber carriers to wholesale 'dim-fiber' or 'waves' to non-facilites based carriers.
In other words, this is NOTHING to get excited about, unless you own fiber.
This box doesn't actually route IP, it routes lambdas.
Read up on DWDM for more details.
There isn't a box out yet that can do OC-192 IP routing. Do the math on how long it takes to dig into an IP packet, make a forwarding decision, and execute it. It will be HARD, with current RAM read rates, to fill up an OC192.
Of course, this doesn't prevent people from putting OC-12s and OC-48s on OC-192s and making press releases!
This is NOT a router for IP, it is a router for WAVES. Read DWDM please.
The optical switch technology is used to switch diffrent lambdas through the switches.
Primary use would be if you wanted to by a Wave on a carrier's fiber. (much cheaper than buying the fiber, because you don't have to light it up and maintain it yourself)
So, the bottom line is, now I can buy a wave that crosses several pieces of fiber, and can be re-routed in case of a fiber cut!
The X-10 Programable IR remote worked well for me...
now if only the PC remote had programable IR...
mmmmmmm
I seem to recall UT used to name their VAX cluster after Dr. Who Companions...
you need to to know the port and interupt settings for that card.
when you boot FBSD, use the visual configuration mode, and change the config for the aha0 device to match what your card is.
you might also want to disable anything you arn't using, before proceding.
I had a system for my VIC20 that could 'emulate the style of Mozart'
Anyone Else remember that program? i thought it was the most amazing thing, at the time, esp since it fit into 3.5K of RAM (not megs, K!!!)
MS-Senator 1.0
Microsoft Senator, the perfect answer to those, nasty, unpredictable politicians, MS-Senator will follow it's software encoded programing, until corrupted by MS-Money, at which point, MS-BillGates controls it's direction.
Wouldn't it be nice if this was simulacast from a streaming video system? (ala NANOG)
Then you wouldn't HAVE to travel all the way to the left coast!
I remember having to put wording into my old ISPs AUP to prevent use of this little darling...
Of course, it you shell into a FBSD box, you can just use ppp -direct, and not bother with this little program...
Dont be to sure about RedBack and Juniper... They are hot now, but once they get leapfrogged, I think they are gonna take a nice hit. :>
GAWD I LUV that sig, can I steal it?
Anti-Particles...
:>
Just treat every object on the road as a 'friction' point. The closer one object get to an object, the more it slows down. If there is an object with a few feet of traffic at the edge of the road (Any object large enough to be seen at several car lenghts), traffic will slow. The PERCEPTION of the size of the object and it's proximenty to the road seems to dictate the loss in speed.
So, when you see cars ahead of you stomping on thier brakes for no apperent reason, you can bet the PERCEPTION of the size of the objects ahead of that car has been viewd as being large!
This has been obvious to me for at least 10 years... If you are able to reduce the 'friction' around you, your level of stress goes way down.
I thought I was being afflicted with CTS a few weeks back. I couldn't type anymore, my hands were in such pain from moving them. Rather than spend tons of $$$ on a doctor who was going to want to cut open my wrists, I fell back on an old remedy, chiropractic. My chirotpractor took some xrays, check my reflexes and came to the conclusion that my spine was the cause of my pain. 1 hour (and a minimum of fuss) later, my hands had almost returned to normal! Remeber, your body has a network too. How many times have you cursed a shoddy machines' network access, only to find out it was the cable???
makes ya think, don't it.
Does BSD ipfw support filtering based on IP TOS?