What better to do on new years than post to slashdot?? Happy new year from Canberra, Australia, where I'm happy to announce that everything is fine and dandy!
Of course, I didnt update my clocks for daylight savings, so the real test is in 10 mins (1am)!
I admire your generousity, but I think that an unpaid domain-name is the least of their worries when it comes to outages. They are constantly having trouble with load and service interruptions, hardware failures, and assholes attacking their resources. It's a great cause to support.
Says who? Mindcraft? Well according to them Windows would be more suitable for the task, but we all know what happened to that. Isn't Slashdot's performance even slightly indicative of Linux's ability to handle large loads? I personally would like to see Linux get a chance as a real-world large-scale server OS.
I wouldn't say that Bigpond is the largest ISP.. in fact I would say it is between OzEmail and Microplex. Both these companies actually market their services. I haven't heard squat from Telstra, they seem to have the attitude 'they can come to us' rather than them pitching their service. I wonder just how interested Telstra is in the Internet game.
Yes, ASIO are so smart, I bet they're reading my email now.. If you're into terrorism, I doubt that the only thing overrunning your quota is going to be ASIO reading your missile plans.
What exactly are you posting to these newsgroups and sending in these emails?
If it's the principle of the whole thing - well lifes a bitch, but you shouldn't be cutting a service because of a few extra meg (max) out of your quota. You probabely use up 10x as much reading slashdot.
Therefore reducing international bandwidth costs for Telstra... 10x more subscribers at a slightly lower monthly cost with less bandwidth usage = much higher profits. Higher profits = higher share prices, happier investors, exactly what telstra wants to achieve. Good business move.
Amen. I saw telstra's prices and I was impressed.. people are comparing telstra's service to services such as @home. Folks, this is apples to oranges. Not only are @home services heavily capped, their backbones are so overloaded its not funny. Telstra offers a service which is fast and quality. Want cheap shitty cable? call C&W optus.
You obviously have NO idea what you are talking about. You refer to Australians as if we're stupid.. we know exactly what is going on, the government is proposing legislation which can never be enforced to silence people like you who would read an article about a proposal and think that all Australians are now barred from viewing porn. NOTHING has changed, and anyway, how is that relevant? One company ups their charges and you're telling us to skip the border? Competition is what gives us lower prices, and we're seeing competition. This doesn't affect 99% of the population anyway. Anyone who believes this is justification to move elsewhere, you may as well leave now.. in fact, do leave RIGHT now, you're the kind of uneducated wankers that think that if they catch a plane on new years it will drop out of the sky.. you're the wankers we'll see huddled around ATMs at 12am waiting for them to spit out money. Geez, relax.. its only the internet. I would love a reason to get my ass out of my chair and get a life.. I say more power to telstra, they will improve the health of Australians.
This decision by Telstra as a half-private corporation is best in its shareholder's interests, which is the name of the game. Hey, when you are the monopoly, why not play it to your advantage?
As for our crazy legislation, sen. Richard Allston has no technical knowledge of the Internet. He is playing into the hands of paranoid voters who have been fed the internet media hype.
I live in Canberra, and even in a pissy little city like this I can get cable (in the newer developed areas). Those who can't, get satellite (see http://www.bigpond.com/cable)
Rupert Murdoch would use any excuse to get another chance at slagging off our government. First the olympics, then digital TV, why not internet next? I like his rationalization, 'I've lived in 5 different countries, I should know what works'. I bet he hasn't seen any Aussie headlines for months, we'll just have to wait for one of his advisors to tip him off on another chance for free publicity.
AM radio signals may be causing interference, but they're the ones licensed to be using the airspace. For crying out loud, what is going to be next? 'Basic laws of physics are making my network go slow'? If the technology is succeptable to AM interference, it is FLAWED, and the speed rating of the technology is dropped, and people have to DEAL WITH IT. It's not as if the bandwidth is necessary anyway, theres no way in hell ISPs are going to be able to handle hundreds of ADSL subscribers.. the subscribers are the ones with the cheap hardware and lines, the technology is fast but it sure as hell isnt stable (as demonstrated with this interference crap). The providers are the ones who need to roll out the huge cable backbones and stable systems. ISPs get a hell of a lot less bandwidth for their buck than subscribers. Not to mention the poor bastards who run webservers who once could serve thousands on their T3 connection, and now are paying for multiple DS3s to keep up. This technology should NEVER have been adopted by ISPs, and anyone who tells me that going higher than modem/ISDN for regular internet access was ever a good idea I consider to be the idiots who made the internet what it is right now... slow, unreliable, full of idiots with $25 a month cable pushing their entire CD collections to each other. RIP ADSL.
With the kernel and distro bloat that's gone on for the past year or so, and everyone's yammering to throw in things that should *NOT* be in a server (like game shit), it's time to move on to a new os.
So when did Linux become a server-only OS? And who the hell says you have to compile in the drivers? They're there for people who have a use for them, you obviously don't, but I'm sure a heap of desktop users are saying 'why do we need all this networking crap in here...' etc etc.
I'd be wary of this. What they are saying is that they resent anyone else having this control over certain TLDs, so they're going to set up their own 'rogue' TLDs which are only accessable if your nameserver includes reference to these, and which are managed by THEIR guidelines. This sort of thing is not new, not organised or well thought out, and not beneficial to anyone but themselves. These TLDs will cause much conflict, and run in these small operations, mean relying on shonky root nameservers, bad organisation and no sort of union or guidelines. It's hypocritical enough (and also very humourous) that they bitch about some government-endorsed group control the common TLDs, and then want to put any other TLD whatsoever in the hands of any person who wants to! They fully administor an ENTIRE TLD, if you can imagine the potential there - not everyone will want to register a.sex TLD, but if chubby down the street points.sex at his nameserver running on his 386 with his cheap cable connection, and even 1% of the.com population have a.sex TLD, performance isn't going to be real good.
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What better to do on new years than post to slashdot?? Happy new year from Canberra, Australia, where I'm happy to announce that everything is fine and dandy!
Of course, I didnt update my clocks for daylight savings, so the real test is in 10 mins (1am)!
Happy new year, century & millennium
I admire your generousity, but I think that an unpaid domain-name is the least of their worries when it comes to outages. They are constantly having trouble with load and service interruptions, hardware failures, and assholes attacking their resources. It's a great cause to support.
I could still resolve the addresses via:
/etc/hosts file:
lcX.lawX.hotmail.com
Just resolve the addresses, eg. lc3.law5.hotmail.com is 216.33.151.7
Then put in your
216.33.151.7 lc3.law5.hotmail.passport.com
Sorry, I've patented that idea
Says who? Mindcraft? Well according to them Windows would be more suitable for the task, but we all know what happened to that. Isn't Slashdot's performance even slightly indicative of Linux's ability to handle large loads? I personally would like to see Linux get a chance as a real-world large-scale server OS.
I agree. The telstra cable prices are excellent for the service that you get.
Get the CD for a few bucks from cheapbytes. They even burn it for you, what more could you ask for?
I wouldn't say that Bigpond is the largest ISP.. in fact I would say it is between OzEmail and Microplex. Both these companies actually market their services. I haven't heard squat from Telstra, they seem to have the attitude 'they can come to us' rather than them pitching their service. I wonder just how interested Telstra is in the Internet game.
Yes, ASIO are so smart, I bet they're reading my email now.. If you're into terrorism, I doubt that the only thing overrunning your quota is going to be ASIO reading your missile plans.
$11 for a hole in the sand covered with some sticks? Move to timor, its cheaper (and you dont get charged per sand grain).
What exactly are you posting to these newsgroups and sending in these emails?
If it's the principle of the whole thing - well lifes a bitch, but you shouldn't be cutting a service because of a few extra meg (max) out of your quota. You probabely use up 10x as much reading slashdot.
Therefore reducing international bandwidth costs for Telstra... 10x more subscribers at a slightly lower monthly cost with less bandwidth usage = much higher profits. Higher profits = higher share prices, happier investors, exactly what telstra wants to achieve. Good business move.
Amen. I saw telstra's prices and I was impressed.. people are comparing telstra's service to services such as @home. Folks, this is apples to oranges. Not only are @home services heavily capped, their backbones are so overloaded its not funny. Telstra offers a service which is fast and quality. Want cheap shitty cable? call C&W optus.
You obviously have NO idea what you are talking about. You refer to Australians as if we're stupid.. we know exactly what is going on, the government is proposing legislation which can never be enforced to silence people like you who would read an article about a proposal and think that all Australians are now barred from viewing porn. NOTHING has changed, and anyway, how is that relevant? One company ups their charges and you're telling us to skip the border? Competition is what gives us lower prices, and we're seeing competition. This doesn't affect 99% of the population anyway. Anyone who believes this is justification to move elsewhere, you may as well leave now.. in fact, do leave RIGHT now, you're the kind of uneducated wankers that think that if they catch a plane on new years it will drop out of the sky.. you're the wankers we'll see huddled around ATMs at 12am waiting for them to spit out money. Geez, relax.. its only the internet. I would love a reason to get my ass out of my chair and get a life.. I say more power to telstra, they will improve the health of Australians.
This decision by Telstra as a half-private corporation is best in its shareholder's interests, which is the name of the game. Hey, when you are the monopoly, why not play it to your advantage?
As for our crazy legislation, sen. Richard Allston has no technical knowledge of the Internet. He is playing into the hands of paranoid voters who have been fed the internet media hype.
Gee, wonder how this story found its way onto slashdot?
Unless of course the slashdot team moved to Australia for the great prices on cable connections to host their servers?
I live in Canberra, and even in a pissy little city like this I can get cable (in the newer developed areas). Those who can't, get satellite (see http://www.bigpond.com/cable)
Rupert Murdoch would use any excuse to get another chance at slagging off our government. First the olympics, then digital TV, why not internet next? I like his rationalization, 'I've lived in 5 different countries, I should know what works'. I bet he hasn't seen any Aussie headlines for months, we'll just have to wait for one of his advisors to tip him off on another chance for free publicity.
Even if you did want to come to australia you'd have no chance of getting past customs with the diseases you're carrying
AM radio signals may be causing interference, but they're the ones licensed to be using the airspace. For crying out loud, what is going to be next? 'Basic laws of physics are making my network go slow'? If the technology is succeptable to AM interference, it is FLAWED, and the speed rating of the technology is dropped, and people have to DEAL WITH IT. It's not as if the bandwidth is necessary anyway, theres no way in hell ISPs are going to be able to handle hundreds of ADSL subscribers.. the subscribers are the ones with the cheap hardware and lines, the technology is fast but it sure as hell isnt stable (as demonstrated with this interference crap). The providers are the ones who need to roll out the huge cable backbones and stable systems. ISPs get a hell of a lot less bandwidth for their buck than subscribers. Not to mention the poor bastards who run webservers who once could serve thousands on their T3 connection, and now are paying for multiple DS3s to keep up. This technology should NEVER have been adopted by ISPs, and anyone who tells me that going higher than modem/ISDN for regular internet access was ever a good idea I consider to be the idiots who made the internet what it is right now... slow, unreliable, full of idiots with $25 a month cable pushing their entire CD collections to each other. RIP ADSL.
So when did Linux become a server-only OS? And who the hell says you have to compile in the drivers? They're there for people who have a use for them, you obviously don't, but I'm sure a heap of desktop users are saying 'why do we need all this networking crap in here...' etc etc.
First, does the HTML have to be interpreted, or could this get someone sued:
If so, who?
PS. Sorry if I just got you guys sued.
PPS. One more question.. in my above example, whoever gets sued, would it be on 4 different incidents?
I'd be wary of this. What they are saying is that they resent anyone else having this control over certain TLDs, so they're going to set up their own 'rogue' TLDs which are only accessable if your nameserver includes reference to these, and which are managed by THEIR guidelines. This sort of thing is not new, not organised or well thought out, and not beneficial to anyone but themselves. These TLDs will cause much conflict, and run in these small operations, mean relying on shonky root nameservers, bad organisation and no sort of union or guidelines. It's hypocritical enough (and also very humourous) that they bitch about some government-endorsed group control the common TLDs, and then want to put any other TLD whatsoever in the hands of any person who wants to! They fully administor an ENTIRE TLD, if you can imagine the potential there - not everyone will want to register a .sex TLD, but if chubby down the street points .sex at his nameserver running on his 386 with his cheap cable connection, and even 1% of the .com population have a .sex TLD, performance isn't going to be real good.
No, a 3rd party application coupled with a well known & documented bug lost it.
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