Huh? I've never seen this. Do you have some link with information about this?
Nope just extensive experience as at about a year and a half ago.
In all the modems I tested performance was pretty adequate, mostly indistinguishable until 2 or 3 IPSec vpns came up.
The best of them -- USR -- would slow down very badly.
The worst of them -- D-link if I recall -- would repeatedly reboot when 2 VPNs had a lot of traffic or if 3 VPNs came up at once. Modem go down, modem come up. Really annoying.
Sorry I can't give you any more info than this as I don't have the reports any more...
I know from experience it can be a b*tch to get cross-platform working correctly
I know from experience that IPSec can be a bitch to get working correctly *at* *all*!
There are so many things wrong with it I don't know where to begin...
Under Linux the log entries are virtually encrypted; its extremely difficult to work out what they mean and whats wrong.
Then theres the protocols; if you need to run several IPSec VPNs through ADSL modems things will get tough. IPSec doesn't just use the normal TCP/UDP protocols oh no, it has *special* protocols...
Modern 'consumer grade' ADSL modems can't cope with this when you run multiple IPSec VPNs through them. Some modems will perform really badly while others will constantly crash doing a hardware reset and redial every few minutes.
If you are running on really old ADSL modems like the venerable Nokia M1122 you are fine but I never found an ADSL modem available off the shelf that could cope with 3 IPSec VPNs at a time.
For instance, the Windows name is now all over Windows applets, even the ones that used to be known with unqualified names, such as Calculator.
Not so different from kde or gnome... and frankly I get sick of the both of them especially when looking through lists of software packages. Endless pages of all those k-this and g-that.
Its not as if everything that starts with a 'k' is a kde application or everything that starts with a 'g' is a gnome application.
If all kde applications started with an actual fecking 'kde' (similarly for gnome) it wouldn't be too bad.
Mand{rake,riva} too with all of its Drak-this and Drak-that.
Microsoft are just picking up the same (bad) habit except they are actually spelling it out.
Imagine if they hadn't and they were all w-something instead of windows-something? wcalculator? wdefender? wmail? Not so different from kmail, kontact to give just a couple of kde examples.
A people who can actually *eat* lutefisk need fear no invaders...
(My theory on lutefisk is that it originates from an ancient Viking recipe for cleaning dried blood from weapons and armor... then one day a bored and drunken Nord tried eating it and didn't die)
until as a child I heard him say that there was no way that aliens would ever visit Earth because it would take far too long to get here.
At that point I realised that despite being brilliant he had limited imagination.
(Either that or the aliens had bought him off and made him make that ridiculous statement so that people would think that the aliens wern't here already.)
Either way he was just plain wrong to say something so absurd.
Lack of imagination.
Couldn't concieve of aliens that live tens of thousands of years for who a journey at sublight speeds across thousands of light years would be just a trip across the street.
Its not just money; its about who has the power to destroy whom.
For example, I bet that most large media corporations have stories in a safe somewhere designed to destroy most big-league politicians.
They don't even need to be true stories; done right you could release a story and then apologise profusely and retract the story, but the damage is already done and a political career ruined.
Who has the power to destroy a thing controls that thing.
Then theres the matter of psychological control of a huge swathe of the population and the subversion of democracy; you can defend the electoral process as fiercly as you can and curse the likes of Diebold, but the damage is done to democracy at the point at which voters decide how to spend their vote.
Advertising works just as well on what people spend their vote on as it does on what they spend their money on.
To paraphrase Emo Philips "I used to think that democracy was the most amazing form of government in the world. Then I realised what had been telling me this." (he was talking about his brain as the most amazing organ in his body)
They'd tell of fearmongering from the government and the media (which itself was government-run). This fearmongering was used to turn the people against other nations and peoples, and even against certain ideals.
Very interesting parallel.
Except in the 'western world' of today the media isn't government run; its the other way around.
Someone heard an explanation of why it is that even in the most cosmopolitan areas you see restaurants of all sorts of nationalities and cultures but you never see a Filipino restaurant...
It was a BBC world service 'from our own correspondent' article if I recall correctly.
Naturally they will only be tested on the brown people of America.
I mean, when they are deployed by US forces around the world they will only be used on brown people, right? So you need to see how they affect brown people; white people are *different*, might not work the same...
When was the last time the US attacked white folk? That was the Serbs and before that the Germans and that was only because they were trying to move in on Americas action.
In Wellington, we've had water over gas pipes for ages now. Seems to work really well. Not.
Broadband is likely to follow soon (with major flooding of even more of Wellingtons underground infrastructure).
(For those who don't know, a high pressure water main burst recently cutting a hole in the neighboring gas main and flooding most of the central cities gas network. It took about 2 weeks to drain all the water out of the gas system leaving much of central Wellington without a gas supply).
Janeway needed to be taken aside and spanked. *Then* she might have made a decent captain.
Sisko was a mincing pussy. Ever notice the annoying way he strutted around and waved his finger when he was annoyed? Mincing *PUSSY*.
Picard had too much Frenchman in him to be a *real* starship captain. I spit on your Earl Grey tea. Or in it.
Archer was a rank beginner, but who can blame him, he was the first... sort of. He did care more about his damn dog than any other consideration including his ship and crew.
Kirk. Ah well, man of action. Action man. Either way he has to be the most dangerous commanding officer that *anyone* could serve under. Next to George W Bush.
In the near future, the United States of America may be a country that non-Americans fear to travel to.
I think its quite clear that the USA is just another one of those freedom-hating rogue states which support and encourage terrorism.
Whenever I have to travel internationally I specify to the travel agent that I do not wish to travel via any US or UK airline or airport.
Hell, I'd rather fly China Eastern Air than British Airways. (If you don't comprehend the extremity of that statement, google for comments about that Chinese airline...)
I mean, as if there is money to be made in *NOT* selling something!
(mind you, trying to buy Skype credit, you'd think there was somehow a way to make money by not taking money from your customers. Either that or Skype have money to burn. Or they are running at a loss and every 'paying' customer costs them money).
You can make the process of voting, the counting of the vote, secure, you can introduce all the technical and physical security you want.
But the vote is *already* subverted by a social engineering attack which is practically unstoppable; media coverage of politics.
This subverts democracy at the earliest stage; right where the voter forms the desire to vote one way or another.
If you think this is bullshit consider advertising.
Billions of dollars, shekels, yen and pounds are spent on the advertising of products. Does it work? Well I think that it would be foolish to assume that its money wasted.
If advertising works for things like consumer products, foodstuffs, whiteware etc, shaping the way that people spend their money, why wouldn't it work for shaping the way that people spend their vote?
A vote is just an item of currency that everyone has just one of and gets to spend it every so many years. Shaping voting patterns is exactly the same as shaping spending patterns.
Problem is, without a crack-down on media presentation of politics its impossible to stop this kind of subversion. And if that were to happen, what would be the point in having a democracy in the first place?
I don't think that democracy can exist in the modern world. A better term for what we *call* 'democracy' would be 'mediacracy'.
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Huh? I've never seen this. Do you have some link with information about this?
Nope just extensive experience as at about a year and a half ago.
In all the modems I tested performance was pretty adequate, mostly indistinguishable until 2 or 3 IPSec vpns came up.
The best of them -- USR -- would slow down very badly.
The worst of them -- D-link if I recall -- would repeatedly reboot when 2 VPNs had a lot of traffic or if 3 VPNs came up at once. Modem go down, modem come up. Really annoying.
Sorry I can't give you any more info than this as I don't have the reports any more...
I know from experience it can be a b*tch to get cross-platform working correctly
I know from experience that IPSec can be a bitch to get working correctly *at* *all*!
There are so many things wrong with it I don't know where to begin...
Under Linux the log entries are virtually encrypted; its extremely difficult to work out what they mean and whats wrong.
Then theres the protocols; if you need to run several IPSec VPNs through ADSL modems things will get tough. IPSec doesn't just use the normal TCP/UDP protocols oh no, it has *special* protocols...
Modern 'consumer grade' ADSL modems can't cope with this when you run multiple IPSec VPNs through them. Some modems will perform really badly while others will constantly crash doing a hardware reset and redial every few minutes.
If you are running on really old ADSL modems like the venerable Nokia M1122 you are fine but I never found an ADSL modem available off the shelf that could cope with 3 IPSec VPNs at a time.
The industrialisation of music has done nothing but harm music.
If the music industry can be driven completely out of business I say bloody good job!
Its all about making money for lawyers and suits.
For instance, the Windows name is now all over Windows applets, even the ones that used to be known with unqualified names, such as Calculator.
Not so different from kde or gnome... and frankly I get sick of the both of them especially when looking through lists of software packages. Endless pages of all those k-this and g-that.
Its not as if everything that starts with a 'k' is a kde application or everything that starts with a 'g' is a gnome application.
If all kde applications started with an actual fecking 'kde' (similarly for gnome) it wouldn't be too bad.
Mand{rake,riva} too with all of its Drak-this and Drak-that.
Microsoft are just picking up the same (bad) habit except they are actually spelling it out.
Imagine if they hadn't and they were all w-something instead of windows-something? wcalculator? wdefender? wmail? Not so different from kmail, kontact to give just a couple of kde examples.
Besides, the US would never bother invading a country where gas costs more
And there are barely any brown people worth bombing...
A people who can actually *eat* lutefisk need fear no invaders...
(My theory on lutefisk is that it originates from an ancient Viking recipe for cleaning dried blood from weapons and armor... then one day a bored and drunken Nord tried eating it and didn't die)
Slapping a name on a bill is a dishonest labelling for the purpose of marketing.
You think theres a difference between politics and marketing? I mean, *seriously* dude!
until as a child I heard him say that there was no way that aliens would ever visit Earth because it would take far too long to get here.
At that point I realised that despite being brilliant he had limited imagination.
(Either that or the aliens had bought him off and made him make that ridiculous statement so that people would think that the aliens wern't here already.)
Either way he was just plain wrong to say something so absurd.
Lack of imagination.
Couldn't concieve of aliens that live tens of thousands of years for who a journey at sublight speeds across thousands of light years would be just a trip across the street.
Its not just money; its about who has the power to destroy whom.
For example, I bet that most large media corporations have stories in a safe somewhere designed to destroy most big-league politicians.
They don't even need to be true stories; done right you could release a story and then apologise profusely and retract the story, but the damage is already done and a political career ruined.
Who has the power to destroy a thing controls that thing.
Then theres the matter of psychological control of a huge swathe of the population and the subversion of democracy; you can defend the electoral process as fiercly as you can and curse the likes of Diebold, but the damage is done to democracy at the point at which voters decide how to spend their vote.
Advertising works just as well on what people spend their vote on as it does on what they spend their money on.
To paraphrase Emo Philips "I used to think that democracy was the most amazing form of government in the world. Then I realised what had been telling me this."
(he was talking about his brain as the most amazing organ in his body)
They'd tell of fearmongering from the government and the media (which itself was government-run). This fearmongering was used to turn the people against other nations and peoples, and even against certain ideals.
Very interesting parallel.
Except in the 'western world' of today the media isn't government run; its the other way around.
The government is *media* run.
The UK can not stand for this anymore - we need to find a voice, and a way to complain, that does not make us look like criminals.
Let me know when you are ready and I'll be right there.
I've often said that the only reason I'd return to the UK would be to help in the Revolution.
Just say the word.
Someone heard an explanation of why it is that even in the most cosmopolitan areas you see restaurants of all sorts of nationalities and cultures but you never see a Filipino restaurant...
It was a BBC world service 'from our own correspondent' article if I recall correctly.
Pah!
Who needs email?
Web gives you access to your blog!
Blogging via email is called 'spamming'.
(not that I am a blogger, in fact I find the blog phenomenon extremely lame... just saying; web obviously gives more and equivalent functionality).
I'm making a Low Budget HDV Filipino Horror Movie in NYC
Let me guess without even following the link; its about Filipino cuisine?
Naturally they will only be tested on the brown people of America.
I mean, when they are deployed by US forces around the world they will only be used on brown people, right? So you need to see how they affect brown people; white people are *different*, might not work the same...
When was the last time the US attacked white folk? That was the Serbs and before that the Germans and that was only because they were trying to move in on Americas action.
In Wellington, we've had water over gas pipes for ages now. Seems to work really well. Not.
Broadband is likely to follow soon (with major flooding of even more of Wellingtons underground infrastructure).
(For those who don't know, a high pressure water main burst recently cutting a hole in the neighboring gas main and flooding most of the central cities gas network. It took about 2 weeks to drain all the water out of the gas system leaving much of central Wellington without a gas supply).
Janeway needed to be taken aside and spanked. *Then* she might have made a decent captain.
Sisko was a mincing pussy. Ever notice the annoying way he strutted around and waved his finger when he was annoyed? Mincing *PUSSY*.
Picard had too much Frenchman in him to be a *real* starship captain. I spit on your Earl Grey tea. Or in it.
Archer was a rank beginner, but who can blame him, he was the first... sort of. He did care more about his damn dog than any other consideration including his ship and crew.
Kirk. Ah well, man of action. Action man. Either way he has to be the most dangerous commanding officer that *anyone* could serve under. Next to George W Bush.
So what? It measures puzzlement? ;)
In the near future, the United States of America may be a country that non-Americans fear to travel to.
I think its quite clear that the USA is just another one of those freedom-hating rogue states which support and encourage terrorism.
Whenever I have to travel internationally I specify to the travel agent that I do not wish to travel via any US or UK airline or airport.
Hell, I'd rather fly China Eastern Air than British Airways. (If you don't comprehend the extremity of that statement, google for comments about that Chinese airline...)
I mean, as if there is money to be made in *NOT* selling something!
(mind you, trying to buy Skype credit, you'd think there was somehow a way to make money by not taking money from your customers. Either that or Skype have money to burn. Or they are running at a loss and every 'paying' customer costs them money).
I never understood that tortoise question.
My answer would have to be in the form of a question: "I don't know, I give up, you tell me"
19) Budge. I don't know why they keep reprinting him...
Because even though most of his work is shit, his dictionary is shit-hot.
(I got that from a top-notch Egyptologist).
That would be 'the entire *half* season'.
It never made a full season.
14 episodes. Ok *slightly* more than half a seasons worth.
"My john thomas is gonna pop off and fly around the room theres so much tasty in here!" -- Jayne.
I imagine that the network executives would have choked on their caesar salads hearing that line... they couldn't cancel fast enough.
You can make the process of voting, the counting of the vote, secure, you can introduce all the technical and physical security you want.
But the vote is *already* subverted by a social engineering attack which is practically unstoppable; media coverage of politics.
This subverts democracy at the earliest stage; right where the voter forms the desire to vote one way or another.
If you think this is bullshit consider advertising.
Billions of dollars, shekels, yen and pounds are spent on the advertising of products. Does it work? Well I think that it would be foolish to assume that its money wasted.
If advertising works for things like consumer products, foodstuffs, whiteware etc, shaping the way that people spend their money, why wouldn't it work for shaping the way that people spend their vote?
A vote is just an item of currency that everyone has just one of and gets to spend it every so many years. Shaping voting patterns is exactly the same as shaping spending patterns.
Problem is, without a crack-down on media presentation of politics its impossible to stop this kind of subversion. And if that were to happen, what would be the point in having a democracy in the first place?
I don't think that democracy can exist in the modern world. A better term for what we *call* 'democracy' would be 'mediacracy'.
Yeah well thats exactly the sort of pedantic 'rules-lawyering' that I'd expect from someone used to debian-legal