Did you actually flush your DNS caches like, say, the one in your router, the one in your linksys box, the one on your PC? You can do it manually but the quickest way for a lot of equipment is to reboot. Hence the suggestion.
True enough that DNS caches need to be cleared at all levels. But the cache had to get loaded with the incorrect values originally. If you are getting redirected to Comcast, someone set up that redirect at some point in time. This is the issue. It is rarely (never?) appropriate for an ISP to redirect DNS.
After they put the fiber in the ground in my neighborhood, it took a little over a month before I was notified that service was available. I signed up immediately. It took a week to schedule a crew to run the fiber from the street to my house. A couple of days later the guy came to install the network terminal on my house and hook me up.
I have the business 15/2 package with static IPs in Beaverton, OR. I have had the service for 6 months now and it has been rock solid.
I did not move my phone service to the fiber as I had DSL before and I needed an overlapping month to cleanly cut over the stuff I was hosting (my email and web) I had no hassle with having both the copper and fiber active. Now that I have cut over and turned off the DSL, I will probably move my phone service over to the fiber, but I have had no pressure to do so.
My only complaint has been that Verizon does not offer routable subnets. You can get a block of static IPs, but you can't get a block of IPs that are routed through a seperate, static IP. This means that you have to use NAT for a DMZ and you can't have a routable DMZ protected by simple packet filters.
I keep the following file on all of my machines. It solves the problem with silly EULAs and other agreements. (Well maybe it doesn't solve it, but it at least makes an interesting discussion and may put me on par.)
EOELA.TXT:
Execution and Operational Environment License Agreement (EOELA)
By allowing your software to execute, operate, or be interpreted in this computing environment, you agree to be bound by this license agreement.
You agree that your software operates as a legal proxy for you and binds you to this agreement.
This license agreement supersedes any and all other legal agreements past, present, or future specifically including but not limited to End User License Agreements (EULAs) contained in your software distribution, printed on the package your software came in, or made available on you web site or any other communications medium. In the case of a conflict between agreements, this agreement will take precedence.
You agree that this computing environment may use your software and data for any purpose whatsoever with absolutely no restrictions or compensation of any kind.
You also agree that this computing environment may make your software and data available to any and all other computing environments and people at any time with no restrictions or compensation.
If you do not agree with this legal agreement your software must act as a proxy for you and indicate disagreement by not executing or allowing itself to be interpreted.
This agreement may be changed at any time by the owner of this computing environment. A current copy of this agreement is posted in the standard temporary file location for this operational environment. You agree that your software will periodically check for changes to this agreement.
I figure if someone or some company can claim that my computer or browser can act as a legal proxy for me (and create a contract without me actually signing anything), then my computer can create a legal proxy for the company as well (without them actually signing anything.) It has to work both ways right?
And before we call them greedy or evil, we should consider that most of us do the same thing when buying a toaster, we look for the best quality at the lowest price.
Actually we look for the lowest price at a merely acceptable quality level. This is the root of many of our problems. This goes for both product purchases and employment.
Student has a bookshelf full of legally purchased CDs in his dorm room. 1) Roommate listens to or copies one or more of the CDs without first student's knowledge or permission. or 2) Culture of the dorm is that room doors are generally not locked (at least not during floor-wide party hours...) Student from down the hall comes into the room and listens to or copies a CD without the knowledge or permission of first Student.
In both of these cases the student put the music in a location that could have been accessed by others, but did not give permission, invite, or generally have control over access restrictions to those other people. Would the student be liable for copyright infringement?
Hard for me to say as I have little use for Office software.
If you don't have a need for office software (meaning word processing, spreadsheet, email, shared calendaring, etc.) then you are not qualified in this particular argument. People in business world, where it is not user's job to understand or enjoy working with computers, rely on office software to do their jobs. If the computing platform can not provide these functions, it will not succeed.
Sure, most of this stuff can be "made to work" on linux, but end users in the business world do not have time, ability, or the authority to "make it work". For linux to succeed on the corporate desktop, the functions provided by office software must exist, work well, and work well together.
Note that "office software" doesn't mean Microsoft Office, although Microsoft does have tremendous inroads and has set specific expectations within the business world. The reasons for this are another discussion.
The challenge I see with wired Ethernet is the connectors. Is a standard cat 5 jack designed for multiple plug insertions and removals every day? How often would the jacks need to be replaced and can this be done easily?
Turns out when you sign up for PayPal you agree to waive your credit card rights (so no chargeback or refunds).
How is this possible? Don't my credit card rights come from an agreement between me and the credit card company? How does a third party alter an existing contract between a first and second party?
In case anyone is still wondering, it will cost 60 USD.
The point being that.COM domains register for under $10 now. $60 times the number of potential.XXX domains is a *lot* of money. Is this about moving and corralling porn (which won't work anyway) or is it about making a lot of money for the registrar?
The lack of command-line features meant that many operational activities that could be automated required a dba to manually do the job via the gui.
Um what do you mean about the lack of command-line features? SQL Server has only one interface and that interface is SQL text sent to it from a client. The only thing that all the GUI tools do is write SQL statements for you and send them to the SQL engine. Anything that the GUI tools can do, you can do as well from the command line (ISQL / OSQL / Query Analyzer / Any software you write that can issue SQL requests.)
In fact part of the very definition of a relational database requires that all communication with that server is via the standard query interface and that there are no special "tools" that directly access the underlying data store and bypass they query engine.
If you have memory dumps turned on (My Computer, Properties, Advanced, Startup and Recovery Settings, Write debugging information, Small Memory Dump (or better)), you do get to see the error message.
I can imagine that in a collaborative environment, it even makes sense to have the "Small Memory Dump (or better)" and "Always Send" enabled)?
By in a collaborative environment, if you mean a "work environment", Microsoft does have a good solution for this. It is called "Group Policy". With group policy you can centrally control just about every configuration setting on all the workstations on your network, including the kinds of memory dumps that occur when the system faults. As an administrator for your network, you can dictate whether or not all of your workstations create memory dumps and if they send them to Microsoft or not.
Why not just tell us the error message instead so we can try and fix it?
If you have memory dumps turned on (My Computer, Properties, Advanced, Startup and Recovery Settings, Write debugging information, Small Memory Dump (or better)), you do get to see the error message. That error message is embedded in the created dump file. In order to see what process or driver faulted the system (the error message), you take that dump file and run it through WinDbg. WinDbg is part of the "Debugging Tools for Windows" package, a free download from Microsoft.
When you say "Send it" to Microsoft, what happens is that the equivalent of a small dump file is sent to Microsoft for automated analysis. WinDbg uses basically the same analysis engine. Assuming whatever crashed your system didn't totally corrupt memory and your stack, WinDbg will tell you what process, processor, and what thread caused the fault. It will also take a good stab at what module (dll, sys file, etc.) was responsible for the fault. If you have enough symbolic information available you may even get a function or stack frame name that is of use.
Mark Russinovich has a book Microsoft Windows Internals, Fourth Edition: Microsoft Windows Server(TM) 2003, Windows XP, and Windows 2000 that has useful information about all this.
1. From a "free speech" point of view, how is this any different than than your local newspaper's editorial policy? Some newspapers just won't print some kinds of content, even if the author is willing to pay for the service.
ISPs are not content creators, they are content carriers. It is like city traffic department saying to the paper: "Because your paper is so popular and you have lots of delivery trucks, you have to pay extra to use the roads."
2. Does this form of content limitation take away any of the rights you had before the dawn of email? Back in the day, we wrote pen & paper letters because it was the only option. Today, although letters are (probably) more secure, because they are not subject to the kind of keyword data mining that can be conducted on electronic communications, we seem stuck on email. Do we need to be?
While email may parallel paper letters, there are really not pre-Internet equivalent to web sites and blogs.
With paper mail, the post office does not charge you extra if you generate lots of letters, in fact you get a bulk discount.
If everyone used end to end encryption then no one in the middle would be able to do any form of QoS or other prioritization. Sure, backbone ISPs could fiddle with rates for packets originating from Google or other companies, but they would not be able to vary the rates by type of service. Yes, encryption would create overhead, but as time and technology march on, the bandwidth available will increase. Yes, QoS is highly desired for many applications, but QoS support across the Internet currently limited, and we are getting by now.
If cell phones and other electronic equipment are truly safety concerns, then they along with guns, bombs, and tweezers should not be allowed on planes at all. This, of course, means that they should not be allowed past the security screening checkpoints at the airport.
Yes, if we want to be safe, cell phones can't be allowed in airports at all.
Of course, I don't believe that we would ever ban cell phones from being in an airport, but I do find it odd that our definition of what can and can not be behind the security checkpoint (and therefore on the airplane) is not as simple as "Does this item present a risk to the flight or the passengers?"
The problem is somewhat similar to the security vs. functionality and usability argument that we like to hash out here regarding software and operating systems.
If China wanted to control what their citizens could see and do on the Internet they could 1) set up their own DNS, and 2) Prohibit DNS traffic from leaving or entering the country. While technically savvy folks could navigate by solely IP or make partnerships with someone outside of China to get DNS information over non-standard ports, restricting use of DNS would be a highly effective control.
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While everyone is whining (rightly so) about what Sony has done, why is there not obvious and loud whining about what Microsoft has done? How come by simply inserting a disk into a CDROM drive, Windows will read the disk and automatically execute code as a privileged user? The Sony DRM stuff is evil and hooks into and hides at the kernel level. It is more evil that kernel level drivers are automatically installed by Windows by the mere insertion of media with no user interaction or confirmation. There is no excuse for this.
Why all the excitement about laptops (which the ELUA doesn't really prohibit anyway)? I am more concerned with:
"You agree that Macromedia may audit your use of the Software... In the event that such audit reveals any use of the Software by you other than in full compliance with the terms of this Agreement, you shall reimburse Macromedia for all reasonable expenses related to such audit."
They get to randomly audit me and make me pay for it? I don't think so.
Has each and every line of the software source code been mathematically verified, as is done with the software systems controlling and monitoring nuclear power plants?
The half-size prototype for this ride was installed at Knott's Berry Farm a year or so before this ride was installed at Cedar Point. I got a tour of the Knott's ride and it uses Allen Bradley control equipment to operate the ride. Allen Bradley is one of the major Distributed Control System (DCS) manufacturers out there and their gear (and software) runs all sorts of potentially dangerous and life critical systems (such as nuclear power and other industrial systems) all over the world. My assumption is that the Cedar Point ride uses the same gear.
If you are not familiar with DCS systems (computers), they are highly redundant control systems that are specifically engineered to be robust from both a hardware and software point of view. They have their own (fairly) high-level programming language that is used to map the various sensor inputs to the appropriate mechanical outputs. The low level code (that executes the high level code) embedded into the DCS by the vendor and is heavily verified.
All modern (and most older) coasters use these types of industrial standard control systems.
I have ridden Top Thrill Dragster a dozen or so times and it definitely worth the trip out to Cedar Point.
Did you miss the part about how he works for a school? He has to get the money before it can be invested, and $100 might be the limit above which he has to get the approval of 3 PHBs and 6 beancounters.
How about OpenWRT? OpenWRT is a linux distribtion (complete with iptables) that runs on an inexpensive (less then $70), off the shelf wireless access point. No fan, hard drive, or moving parts. Configuration stored in NVRAM. Wireless can be turned off if you only want routing.
Yahoo is running a story about HP's national ID plan
Yahoo is not running a story; they are repeating a press release which announces a product. HP would probably love the US Government to select their product to be used to build a national ID system, but we as a country have to decide if we want that or not.
If you are opposed to a national ID system, don't waste your time whining about HP's product or the technology that it is built upon, spend your time lobbying your senators and representatives against pursuing national id.
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It's called DNS caching.
Did you actually flush your DNS caches like, say, the one in your router, the one in your linksys box, the one on your PC? You can do it manually but the quickest way for a lot of equipment is to reboot. Hence the suggestion.
True enough that DNS caches need to be cleared at all levels. But the cache had to get loaded with the incorrect values originally. If you are getting redirected to Comcast, someone set up that redirect at some point in time. This is the issue. It is rarely (never?) appropriate for an ISP to redirect DNS.
I have the business 15/2 package with static IPs in Beaverton, OR. I have had the service for 6 months now and it has been rock solid.
I did not move my phone service to the fiber as I had DSL before and I needed an overlapping month to cleanly cut over the stuff I was hosting (my email and web) I had no hassle with having both the copper and fiber active. Now that I have cut over and turned off the DSL, I will probably move my phone service over to the fiber, but I have had no pressure to do so.
My only complaint has been that Verizon does not offer routable subnets. You can get a block of static IPs, but you can't get a block of IPs that are routed through a seperate, static IP. This means that you have to use NAT for a DMZ and you can't have a routable DMZ protected by simple packet filters.
EOELA.TXT:
Execution and Operational Environment License Agreement (EOELA)
By allowing your software to execute, operate, or be interpreted in this computing environment, you agree to be bound by this license agreement.
You agree that your software operates as a legal proxy for you and binds you to this agreement.
This license agreement supersedes any and all other legal agreements past, present, or future specifically including but not limited to End User License Agreements (EULAs) contained in your software distribution, printed on the package your software came in, or made available on you web site or any other communications medium. In the case of a conflict between agreements, this agreement will take precedence.
You agree that this computing environment may use your software and data for any purpose whatsoever with absolutely no restrictions or compensation of any kind.
You also agree that this computing environment may make your software and data available to any and all other computing environments and people at any time with no restrictions or compensation.
If you do not agree with this legal agreement your software must act as a proxy for you and indicate disagreement by not executing or allowing itself to be interpreted.
This agreement may be changed at any time by the owner of this computing environment. A current copy of this agreement is posted in the standard temporary file location for this operational environment. You agree that your software will periodically check for changes to this agreement.
I figure if someone or some company can claim that my computer or browser can act as a legal proxy for me (and create a contract without me actually signing anything), then my computer can create a legal proxy for the company as well (without them actually signing anything.) It has to work both ways right?
A sign is not a contract or a legal agreement.
Actually we look for the lowest price at a merely acceptable quality level. This is the root of many of our problems. This goes for both product purchases and employment.
Student has a bookshelf full of legally purchased CDs in his dorm room. 1) Roommate listens to or copies one or more of the CDs without first student's knowledge or permission. or 2) Culture of the dorm is that room doors are generally not locked (at least not during floor-wide party hours...) Student from down the hall comes into the room and listens to or copies a CD without the knowledge or permission of first Student.
In both of these cases the student put the music in a location that could have been accessed by others, but did not give permission, invite, or generally have control over access restrictions to those other people. Would the student be liable for copyright infringement?
If you don't have a need for office software (meaning word processing, spreadsheet, email, shared calendaring, etc.) then you are not qualified in this particular argument. People in business world, where it is not user's job to understand or enjoy working with computers, rely on office software to do their jobs. If the computing platform can not provide these functions, it will not succeed.
Sure, most of this stuff can be "made to work" on linux, but end users in the business world do not have time, ability, or the authority to "make it work". For linux to succeed on the corporate desktop, the functions provided by office software must exist, work well, and work well together.
Note that "office software" doesn't mean Microsoft Office, although Microsoft does have tremendous inroads and has set specific expectations within the business world. The reasons for this are another discussion.
The challenge I see with wired Ethernet is the connectors. Is a standard cat 5 jack designed for multiple plug insertions and removals every day? How often would the jacks need to be replaced and can this be done easily?
How is this possible? Don't my credit card rights come from an agreement between me and the credit card company? How does a third party alter an existing contract between a first and second party?
The point being that .COM domains register for under $10 now. $60 times the number of potential .XXX domains is a *lot* of money. Is this about moving and corralling porn (which won't work anyway) or is it about making a lot of money for the registrar?
Who gets how many dollars per registration?
Um what do you mean about the lack of command-line features? SQL Server has only one interface and that interface is SQL text sent to it from a client. The only thing that all the GUI tools do is write SQL statements for you and send them to the SQL engine. Anything that the GUI tools can do, you can do as well from the command line (ISQL / OSQL / Query Analyzer / Any software you write that can issue SQL requests.)
In fact part of the very definition of a relational database requires that all communication with that server is via the standard query interface and that there are no special "tools" that directly access the underlying data store and bypass they query engine.
By in a collaborative environment, if you mean a "work environment", Microsoft does have a good solution for this. It is called "Group Policy". With group policy you can centrally control just about every configuration setting on all the workstations on your network, including the kinds of memory dumps that occur when the system faults. As an administrator for your network, you can dictate whether or not all of your workstations create memory dumps and if they send them to Microsoft or not.
If you have memory dumps turned on (My Computer, Properties, Advanced, Startup and Recovery Settings, Write debugging information, Small Memory Dump (or better)), you do get to see the error message. That error message is embedded in the created dump file. In order to see what process or driver faulted the system (the error message), you take that dump file and run it through WinDbg. WinDbg is part of the "Debugging Tools for Windows" package, a free download from Microsoft.
When you say "Send it" to Microsoft, what happens is that the equivalent of a small dump file is sent to Microsoft for automated analysis. WinDbg uses basically the same analysis engine. Assuming whatever crashed your system didn't totally corrupt memory and your stack, WinDbg will tell you what process, processor, and what thread caused the fault. It will also take a good stab at what module (dll, sys file, etc.) was responsible for the fault. If you have enough symbolic information available you may even get a function or stack frame name that is of use.
Mark Russinovich has a book Microsoft Windows Internals, Fourth Edition: Microsoft Windows Server(TM) 2003, Windows XP, and Windows 2000 that has useful information about all this.
ISPs are not content creators, they are content carriers. It is like city traffic department saying to the paper: "Because your paper is so popular and you have lots of delivery trucks, you have to pay extra to use the roads."
2. Does this form of content limitation take away any of the rights you had before the dawn of email? Back in the day, we wrote pen & paper letters because it was the only option. Today, although letters are (probably) more secure, because they are not subject to the kind of keyword data mining that can be conducted on electronic communications, we seem stuck on email. Do we need to be?
While email may parallel paper letters, there are really not pre-Internet equivalent to web sites and blogs.
With paper mail, the post office does not charge you extra if you generate lots of letters, in fact you get a bulk discount.
If everyone used end to end encryption then no one in the middle would be able to do any form of QoS or other prioritization. Sure, backbone ISPs could fiddle with rates for packets originating from Google or other companies, but they would not be able to vary the rates by type of service. Yes, encryption would create overhead, but as time and technology march on, the bandwidth available will increase. Yes, QoS is highly desired for many applications, but QoS support across the Internet currently limited, and we are getting by now.
Yes, if we want to be safe, cell phones can't be allowed in airports at all.
Of course, I don't believe that we would ever ban cell phones from being in an airport, but I do find it odd that our definition of what can and can not be behind the security checkpoint (and therefore on the airplane) is not as simple as "Does this item present a risk to the flight or the passengers?"
The problem is somewhat similar to the security vs. functionality and usability argument that we like to hash out here regarding software and operating systems.
If China wanted to control what their citizens could see and do on the Internet they could 1) set up their own DNS, and 2) Prohibit DNS traffic from leaving or entering the country. While technically savvy folks could navigate by solely IP or make partnerships with someone outside of China to get DNS information over non-standard ports, restricting use of DNS would be a highly effective control.
While everyone is whining (rightly so) about what Sony has done, why is there not obvious and loud whining about what Microsoft has done? How come by simply inserting a disk into a CDROM drive, Windows will read the disk and automatically execute code as a privileged user? The Sony DRM stuff is evil and hooks into and hides at the kernel level. It is more evil that kernel level drivers are automatically installed by Windows by the mere insertion of media with no user interaction or confirmation. There is no excuse for this.
"You agree that Macromedia may audit your use of the Software ... In the event that such audit reveals any use of the Software by you other than in full compliance with the terms of this Agreement, you shall reimburse Macromedia for all reasonable expenses related to such audit."
They get to randomly audit me and make me pay for it? I don't think so.
Sure you could build the device with a full color touch screen and an easy to use interface, but then it would cost more then people want to pay.
If you don't care about cost and are technically inclined, you could install your own PBX.
If you are really technically inclined, you could use Asterisk, an open source PBX.
The half-size prototype for this ride was installed at Knott's Berry Farm a year or so before this ride was installed at Cedar Point. I got a tour of the Knott's ride and it uses Allen Bradley control equipment to operate the ride. Allen Bradley is one of the major Distributed Control System (DCS) manufacturers out there and their gear (and software) runs all sorts of potentially dangerous and life critical systems (such as nuclear power and other industrial systems) all over the world. My assumption is that the Cedar Point ride uses the same gear.
If you are not familiar with DCS systems (computers), they are highly redundant control systems that are specifically engineered to be robust from both a hardware and software point of view. They have their own (fairly) high-level programming language that is used to map the various sensor inputs to the appropriate mechanical outputs. The low level code (that executes the high level code) embedded into the DCS by the vendor and is heavily verified.
All modern (and most older) coasters use these types of industrial standard control systems.
I have ridden Top Thrill Dragster a dozen or so times and it definitely worth the trip out to Cedar Point.
How about OpenWRT? OpenWRT is a linux distribtion (complete with iptables) that runs on an inexpensive (less then $70), off the shelf wireless access point. No fan, hard drive, or moving parts. Configuration stored in NVRAM. Wireless can be turned off if you only want routing.
Yahoo is not running a story; they are repeating a press release which announces a product. HP would probably love the US Government to select their product to be used to build a national ID system, but we as a country have to decide if we want that or not.
If you are opposed to a national ID system, don't waste your time whining about HP's product or the technology that it is built upon, spend your time lobbying your senators and representatives against pursuing national id.
In order to authenticate, the player would also need to link to some type of online network
So every time I want to watch a movie my player will phone home and inform someone that I am currently watching a movie?
There will be a record of what and when I watch?
So some time in the future someone else can decide that I don't get to watch the movie I paid for anymore?
If my Internet connection goes down, I can't watch movies instead?
I paid what for these features?