Use pfsense or Smoothwall. I personally like pfsense better, and it has better support for newer hardware, but Smoothwall has better graphs for what you're looking for.
Maybe I'm missing something here, but shouldn't be the application's responsibility to provide a geographically correct host name to the client, not the responsibility of DNS? It seems like poor application design to rely on DNS for this. Your app should determine the host based on the IP of the client, not give the client an arbitrary host name and then rely on DNS to provide your geologically correct server.
Here's the email I received from Pandora:
Hi, itâ(TM)s Tim -
I hope this email finds you enjoying a great summer Pandora soundtrack.
Iâ(TM)m writing with some important news. Please forgive the lengthy email; it requires some explaining.
First, I want to let you know that weâ(TM)ve reached a resolution to the calamitous Internet radio royalty ruling of 2007. After more than two precarious years, we are finally on safe ground with a long-term agreement for survivable royalty rates â" thanks to the extraordinary efforts of our listeners who voiced an absolute avalanche of support for us on Capitol Hill. We are deeply thankful.
While we did the best we could to lower the rates, we are going to have to make an adjustment that will affect about 10% of our users who are our heaviest listeners. Specifically, we are going to begin limiting listening to 40 hours per month on the web. Because we have to pay royalty fees per song and per listener, it makes very heavy listeners hard to support on advertising alone. Most listeners will never hit this cap, but it seems that you might.
We hate the idea of capping anyone's usage, so we've been working to devise an alternative for listeners like you. We've come up with two solutions and we hope that one of them will work for you:
Your first option is to continue listening just as you have been and, if and when you reach the 40 hour limit in a given month, to pay just $0.99 for unlimited listening for the rest of that month. This isn't a subscription. You can pay by credit card and your card will be charged for just that one month. You'll be able to keep listening as much as you'd like for the remainder of the month. We hope this is relatively painless and affordable
- the same price as a single song download.
Your second option is to upgrade to our premium version called Pandora One. Pandora One costs $36 per year. In addition to unlimited monthly listening and no advertising, Pandora One offers very high quality 192 Kbps streams, an elegant desktop application that eliminates the need for a browser, personalized skins for the Pandora player, and a number of other features: http://www.pandora.com/pandora_one.
If neither of these options works for you, I hope you'll keep listening to the free version - 40 hours each month will go a long way, especially if you're really careful about hitting pause when youâ(TM)re not listening. Weâ(TM)ll be sure to let you know if you start getting close to the limit, and weâ(TM)ve created a counter you can access to see how many hours youâ(TM)ve already used each month.
Weâ(TM)ll be implementing this change starting this month (July), Iâ(TM)d welcome your feedback and suggestions. The combination of our usage patterns and the "per song per listener" royalty cost creates a financial reality that we can't ignore...but we very much want you to continue listening for years to come.
Please don't hesitate to email me back with your thoughts.
Sincerely,
Tim
Founder
Who has their router set to allow access to the admin interface from the wan side? This is certainly not done by default. Is there some sort of browser hijack involved with this to gain access to the inside of the network?
Surely your company is regulated by the FDA. There are practices you should be following. Does your company not have a QA department? The FDA should be all over you about this.
What MythTV, or rather MythDVD does really well is function as a DVD Jukebox. There is nothing else out there right now for backing up your DVDs that is as painless as Myth, unless you want to spend thousands on the Kalidescope system. You pop your DVD in, import it as either a 1:1 iso, a perfect copy of the main title, or a compressed (xvid) copy. It will even pull the cover art and metadata from IMDB for you. I'd highly recommend Mythbunutu for those heading down this road.
There are several Mythtv distros out there now that make setting up a Mythtv box pretty paintless, particularly Mythbuntu. If you're just going to setup a single machine and you have compatible hardware, it isn't any harder than setting up a Windows MCE box.
Exactly. Storage is relatively cheap these days, and doing something like this doesn't make sense. While you can easily spend a couple million dollars on a large SAN, there would be a massive hit in reliability, redundancy, and performance by using the approach you have described. I know there is a commercially available product to do just what you have described, but I can't remember the vendor. Let's say you have 1000 machines with 80GB drives, and the average machine has 50GB of free space. That will give you 50TB. On such a system, I'd want the data to be redundant on no less than 5 machines, cutting you down to 10TB of useable space. Now imagine the crippling effect this will have on even a network with gigabit to the desktop with 10g switches at the core. Remember every change will have to be replicated across the network to 5 machines. Not to mention the processing overhead each machine will experience. Then there is the problem of securing the data. I can see something like this working in a small network, but it still doesn't make sense as a nice server with a couple TB of space or a NAS device would make more sense.
I've seen the press for this roll by for the last couple of years. Finally after seeing this post I said well I better see what all the hype is really about. I, like your friends, installed it and laughed. Anyone remember MTV's Tikki VRML world from about 10 years ago? Well I was instantly reminded of it. Someone at Coldwell must be delusional, or Linden Labs paid them a heafty sum and gave them free land. It's the lamest thing I've ever seen as far as modern content goes. Is this what they mean by Web 2.0? I think I'll be sticking to my first life with the occational raid in World of Warcraft. Who has time for a second life anyway? I just can't believe businesses are pumping money into this, or is it just media fluff? There is just no way this is going to be very profitable for anyone but Linden Labs. Any company looking to diversify into a market like this really ought to consider sticking to the real world.
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There is a growing movement blaming autoimmune arthritis diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis, on gut flora. http://www.mayoclinic.org/news2012-rst/6933.html
This is the only screwdriver you need. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0018IYTYQ/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=boxe0b-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as4&creativeASIN=B0018IYTYQ&adid=1T1WKNDKHXCX88Z1YN4B&
Dey took yer jerb!
Use pfsense or Smoothwall. I personally like pfsense better, and it has better support for newer hardware, but Smoothwall has better graphs for what you're looking for.
This review is nothing but spam. Go look at the Amazon reviews. The author is allegedly a 17 year old student, which I'll leave at that.
Maybe I'm missing something here, but shouldn't be the application's responsibility to provide a geographically correct host name to the client, not the responsibility of DNS? It seems like poor application design to rely on DNS for this. Your app should determine the host based on the IP of the client, not give the client an arbitrary host name and then rely on DNS to provide your geologically correct server.
Unfortunately, it wasn't designed to de-oil the water.
Here's the email I received from Pandora: Hi, itâ(TM)s Tim - I hope this email finds you enjoying a great summer Pandora soundtrack. Iâ(TM)m writing with some important news. Please forgive the lengthy email; it requires some explaining. First, I want to let you know that weâ(TM)ve reached a resolution to the calamitous Internet radio royalty ruling of 2007. After more than two precarious years, we are finally on safe ground with a long-term agreement for survivable royalty rates â" thanks to the extraordinary efforts of our listeners who voiced an absolute avalanche of support for us on Capitol Hill. We are deeply thankful. While we did the best we could to lower the rates, we are going to have to make an adjustment that will affect about 10% of our users who are our heaviest listeners. Specifically, we are going to begin limiting listening to 40 hours per month on the web. Because we have to pay royalty fees per song and per listener, it makes very heavy listeners hard to support on advertising alone. Most listeners will never hit this cap, but it seems that you might. We hate the idea of capping anyone's usage, so we've been working to devise an alternative for listeners like you. We've come up with two solutions and we hope that one of them will work for you: Your first option is to continue listening just as you have been and, if and when you reach the 40 hour limit in a given month, to pay just $0.99 for unlimited listening for the rest of that month. This isn't a subscription. You can pay by credit card and your card will be charged for just that one month. You'll be able to keep listening as much as you'd like for the remainder of the month. We hope this is relatively painless and affordable - the same price as a single song download. Your second option is to upgrade to our premium version called Pandora One. Pandora One costs $36 per year. In addition to unlimited monthly listening and no advertising, Pandora One offers very high quality 192 Kbps streams, an elegant desktop application that eliminates the need for a browser, personalized skins for the Pandora player, and a number of other features: http://www.pandora.com/pandora_one. If neither of these options works for you, I hope you'll keep listening to the free version - 40 hours each month will go a long way, especially if you're really careful about hitting pause when youâ(TM)re not listening. Weâ(TM)ll be sure to let you know if you start getting close to the limit, and weâ(TM)ve created a counter you can access to see how many hours youâ(TM)ve already used each month. Weâ(TM)ll be implementing this change starting this month (July), Iâ(TM)d welcome your feedback and suggestions. The combination of our usage patterns and the "per song per listener" royalty cost creates a financial reality that we can't ignore...but we very much want you to continue listening for years to come. Please don't hesitate to email me back with your thoughts. Sincerely, Tim Founder
$20 says this guy's router is actually doing the hijacking and redirecting requests to the servers it receives via DHCP.
Who has their router set to allow access to the admin interface from the wan side? This is certainly not done by default. Is there some sort of browser hijack involved with this to gain access to the inside of the network?
Why is this on the front page of Slashdot? This is not news worthy. I fucking hate you sometimes Slashdot.
Surely your company is regulated by the FDA. There are practices you should be following. Does your company not have a QA department? The FDA should be all over you about this.
What MythTV, or rather MythDVD does really well is function as a DVD Jukebox. There is nothing else out there right now for backing up your DVDs that is as painless as Myth, unless you want to spend thousands on the Kalidescope system. You pop your DVD in, import it as either a 1:1 iso, a perfect copy of the main title, or a compressed (xvid) copy. It will even pull the cover art and metadata from IMDB for you. I'd highly recommend Mythbunutu for those heading down this road.
Fuck yeah I have a whole shelf full of old Autodesk products waiting for the bay.
There are several Mythtv distros out there now that make setting up a Mythtv box pretty paintless, particularly Mythbuntu. If you're just going to setup a single machine and you have compatible hardware, it isn't any harder than setting up a Windows MCE box.
http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Wikileaks
Exactly. Storage is relatively cheap these days, and doing something like this doesn't make sense. While you can easily spend a couple million dollars on a large SAN, there would be a massive hit in reliability, redundancy, and performance by using the approach you have described. I know there is a commercially available product to do just what you have described, but I can't remember the vendor. Let's say you have 1000 machines with 80GB drives, and the average machine has 50GB of free space. That will give you 50TB. On such a system, I'd want the data to be redundant on no less than 5 machines, cutting you down to 10TB of useable space. Now imagine the crippling effect this will have on even a network with gigabit to the desktop with 10g switches at the core. Remember every change will have to be replicated across the network to 5 machines. Not to mention the processing overhead each machine will experience. Then there is the problem of securing the data. I can see something like this working in a small network, but it still doesn't make sense as a nice server with a couple TB of space or a NAS device would make more sense.
Look Mr. Bubbles...ADAM.
That map looks a lot like the graphical output from Toneloc. (Wardialing app from way back when)
Seriously this post sucks. Why is some lame rant slashdot news?
They do. Don't buy models from the Home/Home Office site, use the Enterprise site.
Vonnegut's Asshole -> * One of my favorite authors. I own more of his books than anyone else's.
I've seen the press for this roll by for the last couple of years. Finally after seeing this post I said well I better see what all the hype is really about. I, like your friends, installed it and laughed. Anyone remember MTV's Tikki VRML world from about 10 years ago? Well I was instantly reminded of it. Someone at Coldwell must be delusional, or Linden Labs paid them a heafty sum and gave them free land. It's the lamest thing I've ever seen as far as modern content goes. Is this what they mean by Web 2.0? I think I'll be sticking to my first life with the occational raid in World of Warcraft. Who has time for a second life anyway? I just can't believe businesses are pumping money into this, or is it just media fluff? There is just no way this is going to be very profitable for anyone but Linden Labs. Any company looking to diversify into a market like this really ought to consider sticking to the real world.