I have got a fanless 1GHz Via C7 based pfSense box that has really nice QoS support for VoIP. Not to be trifled with..
I'll second that. Whenever I'm downloading the latest release of Ubuntu via torrent, my VoIP would get all choppy, but after I turned on the traffic shaper on my pfsense box, the problem disappeared. pfSense has an easy to use GUI, can run off a liveCD, so you can play around with it if you have a spare computer without trashing it, and if you decide to get more technical you can always drop to the command line in all it's FreeBSD glory.
And I think I was trying to say what's in my post above.
Let me rephrase the starting sentence in my comment:
Your comment was poorly worded and not entirely understandable by my. I am going to attempt to rephrase it in my own words to let you know how I understood it--then you can let me know if my interpretation was correct or if I was waaay off base.
Woot, just like how gun nuts lobbying to keep their precious penis-substitutes are partially responsible for all the deaths of people by the hands (sorry, guns) of criminals who really shouldn't have been able to get their hands on one.
I think what you are trying to say is that you think that criminals are able to use guns to kill people because they are able to get guns from the 'gun nuts'.
This makes me laugh because you appear to ignore facts like guns being smuggled into this country by drug cartels and organized crime. I'd bet that's where the majority of illegal guns come from.
Frankly I'm pretty sure my boss would give me the sack for that sort of BS.
Man--the presidents really set precedents I can get behind!
No honey--I didn't have sex with that other chick. Bill Clinton taught us that blowjobs aren't really sex.
I didn't do anything illegal--I swear I never actually *opened* the latest hollywood release or pop-chart topper.
A new study suggests RFID systems can cause 'potentially hazardous incidents in medical devices.
Seriously--who the f*ck designs this 'medical' equipment. I have RFID tags and readers that are near tons of computer equipment every day. Switches, routers, servers, workstations...none of them have 'potentially hazardous' incidents.
When you buy medical grade equipment, you are paying *TONS* more money, simply to make sure the electronics aren't going to fail and cause a loss of human life. How the hell does my ordinary desktop PC survive the hellish fury of the RFID scanner sitting next to it? Why can't that be duplicated in medical devices.
No, rape is no thought crime. Practicing pedophelia is no thought crime. In my opinion, both of those actions should be severely punished. Taking, having, sending, or selling pictures of those real crimes, however, is a thought crime.
thought crime: a crime defined as having or transmitting information.
...and yet you chose "child pornography" instead of something less detestable, like "downloading movies", or "stealing wifi". I get the point you are trying to make--thought crimes, but you picked a horrible way of presenting it.
It's similar to the legal situation where cops can arrest you for possessing drugs, but not for actually being high.
Of course possessing kiddie porn is another matter entirely. Someone might be able to make the argument that it's a thought crime, but everyone else will want to see that someone hanged regardless.
Child pornography: Thought crime.
Terrorism: Your government wants you to be afraid.
Child pornography is a thought crime? Are you serious?
Taking someone who is not mentally or physically ready for sexual intercourse and forcing it upon them without consent is a thought crime? Spend a night in jail with "bubba" and tell me it's a thought crime.
You don't go to a foreign country and expect their rights, do you?
Actually, yes.
Were I to be arrested while on vacation in, say, Germany, I would fully expect to be tried under normal German law, with rights identical (or at least very nearly identical) to those of a citizen.
Now let's bring this up to the level of comparing apples to apples.
You don't go to a foreign country, declare war by killing thousands of their citizens, blowing up their property, and or being behind the planning, funding, or execution of the attack......and then expect their rights, do you?
There's a big difference between the rights of citizens, and visitors to a country and people who are declaring war and actively fighting a country.
If you go blow up the Kremlin, and tell all the Russians they need to die, you're not going to get treater under the same legal system as someone who does a hit-and-run.
Clinton's lie was 'obstruction of justice' to the same degree that the guy in the csi episode was a 'pedophile'.
Yeah--except that Clinton wasn't high when the incident happened, or when he lied about it.
At least I hope he wasn't.
And I should also say that it doesn't matter if you're stoned, drunk, or whatever. If you are a dumb fuck and decide to drink, and then you drive, hit another car, and kill someone--you should be charged with murder.
Everyone knows very well the consequences of their actions. Take responsibility. Don't blame this shit on drugs or alcohol. After all--you made the decision to take a substance that made you lose control.
and gasoline killed steam, and steam killed sail, and sail killed slave rowers...
Its called progress.
...and now vi has killed whatever the hell N-BRAIN was selling.
<flamewar?>I loved the Visual Studio IDE circa 2002. The new stuff is waaay too noobish. Constant and unending popups and underlines telling you how to fix your code. It's almost like a spell-checker nowadays. You don't even have to write real code--just get it sorta close and the IDE will correct it for you.
The down-side to Visual Studio is that it's not compatible with any good languages...</flamewar?>
At 5 GB/month thatâ(TM)s 4% of oneâ(TM)s pipe. A large amount, but livable.
Who cares. I'd bet most people don't have a problem with capping internet usage, but rather that your option is to take a very low cap and pay extortionate overage charges. $1/GB? WTF?
I have my own linux server in a commercial data center. I pay $59/mo. That covers the power usage at the data center, ssh-based console-port access, rental on the server, and 1 TB/mo transfer at 10 Mb/sec.
Seriously--for the same price you have retarded ISPs giving you 5% of the transfer.
I'll say it again. If Comcast came out and said 15 down/1 up, 1 TB transfer for $80, I'd jump on it.
Currently I just sit here and wonder when they'll switch things off. Rather than give the customer what they want, they yell at the customer for wanting more.
Could you imagine if gas companies did that?
ISP: Um--you've already downloaded 100 gallons of gas into your car this month, we're cutting you off.
Medic: What? We're in an ambulance! We have to drive all over the place to get to people who need us.
ISP: Sorry sir. You're in the 98th percentile, we're going to cut you off because we thing you're using the gas to drive to friends houses and make mix tapes.
Medic: WTF?
Anything associated with the Bush Adminsitration and fundraising for Senator McCain would definitely be sent to some educational sites of my choosing. Government propaganda sites in China would also be re-directed to more educational sites. Sites for military contractors like Halliburton, Blackwater, Lockheed Martin, McDonland Douglass, and Northorp Gruman would be re-directed to sites that show war profiteering information and US General Sevices Administration no-bid or non-competitive contract abuses.
But thank God for the Constitution--it's job is to protect popular speech as well as UNPOPULAR speech.
Because you might not like it if I redirected searches for Global Warming to youareafuckingidiot.com, and Senator Kennedy to heisadrunkard.com, and maybe for good measure, redirect Bill Clinton to heneedstobehangeduntildeadforperjury.com
It doesn't matter if you or I agree/disagree on the subjects above--we are free to speak our opinions.
I suspect there may be some sort of 'controller node' for some number of worker machines, but even then, each controller node is just like another controller node.
...and suddenly I'm wondering if slashdot shouldn't 'borgify' the Google logo instead of Bill...
Please don't do that; the logs get audited. I don't know if Guinness will disqualify the attempt if there's funny business going on but, before anything else, it's cheating anyway.
...that was a joke. I'm not really going to waste my bandwidth downloading 400 copies of firefox.
that is IF Kubuntu detects your display. I had cases where Ubentu couldn't detect the display. It is not about the user interface it is about getting the freaking thing to work with Super New Hardware.
Damn--I know what you're talking about. Except replace Kubuntu with "Microsoft Windows".
Just today I had a laptop that we were downgrading to Windows XP from Vista--and it wouldn't setup Windows because it couldn't find the storage device, giving odd blue screens during setup with strange error codes that never returned a result in google. After F6ing the setup and loading the drivers of a F*CKING FLOPPY DISK (WAKE THE HELL UP MICROSOFT AND LOAD DRIVERS FROM SOME NON-DEPRECIATED DEVICE!)--well, it crashed constantly. After working on it for over an hour, I gave up and attempted to PXE boot the setup using a deployment image made for our standard kiosk machines. That went over well--because Windows couldn't find the NIC driver...even after I loaded it into the deployment image.
Go figure.
So the solution?
Roll back to Vista.
How? You ask?
Popped in my Linux boot CD which detected the HD, NIC, display adapter, sound card, and everything else under the sun, NFS mounted my backup directory and ran "dd if=/mnt/backups/laptop.img of=/dev/sda"
Both OS's have their faults--but in my opinion Windows has a lot more than Linux.
My sister was looking at a few Vista computers and asked my advice. I bought her a Mac.
Of course Ballmer is going to say Vista is selling well. What TF else is he going to say? He has to lie to his shareholders to keep the stock up, or else they'll run out of funding and won't be able to crush their competition.
Unfortunately there's no way for them to track how many computers KEEP Vista after they are purchased.
My sister picked up a new laptop for College. She *HATES* Vista and asked me if there was a way to go back to Windows XP.
Since she didn't want to go out and buy Windows XP, I tossed Ubuntu on w/ WUBI. She loves Ubuntu and only keeps Windows around as sort of a safety net.
They were advocating for the rest of the industry to do that, but if you run a data center and can't buy the hardware to do that, you're out of luck.
You know--rather than a government mandate to get that hardware out there, how about demand?
Seriously--if I could purchase devices that consume DC power and I could get DC at my house CHEAPER than I could go the whole AC route, I'd do it--especially if saved me money too.
That's probably why data centers don't want the government involved. The government tends to do stupid stuff like mandate things that no one wants, needs, finds useful, or saves money.
Awww, come on. Just when you're starting to learn how to fish you want me to hand you one?
No. You are the one trying to prove a point. You need to provide supporting evidence. That's not handing me a fish, that's you doing you job (assuming you want to prove your point).
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I have got a fanless 1GHz Via C7 based pfSense box that has really nice QoS support for VoIP. Not to be trifled with..
I'll second that. Whenever I'm downloading the latest release of Ubuntu via torrent, my VoIP would get all choppy, but after I turned on the traffic shaper on my pfsense box, the problem disappeared. pfSense has an easy to use GUI, can run off a liveCD, so you can play around with it if you have a spare computer without trashing it, and if you decide to get more technical you can always drop to the command line in all it's FreeBSD glory.
And I think I was trying to say what's in my post above.
Let me rephrase the starting sentence in my comment:
Your comment was poorly worded and not entirely understandable by my. I am going to attempt to rephrase it in my own words to let you know how I understood it--then you can let me know if my interpretation was correct or if I was waaay off base.
Anything else is a strawman.
I guess I was waaay off base.
Woot, just like how gun nuts lobbying to keep their precious penis-substitutes are partially responsible for all the deaths of people by the hands (sorry, guns) of criminals who really shouldn't have been able to get their hands on one.
I think what you are trying to say is that you think that criminals are able to use guns to kill people because they are able to get guns from the 'gun nuts'.
This makes me laugh because you appear to ignore facts like guns being smuggled into this country by drug cartels and organized crime. I'd bet that's where the majority of illegal guns come from.
Frankly I'm pretty sure my boss would give me the sack for that sort of BS.
Man--the presidents really set precedents I can get behind!
No honey--I didn't have sex with that other chick. Bill Clinton taught us that blowjobs aren't really sex.
I didn't do anything illegal--I swear I never actually *opened* the latest hollywood release or pop-chart topper.
A new study suggests RFID systems can cause 'potentially hazardous incidents in medical devices.
Seriously--who the f*ck designs this 'medical' equipment. I have RFID tags and readers that are near tons of computer equipment every day. Switches, routers, servers, workstations...none of them have 'potentially hazardous' incidents.
When you buy medical grade equipment, you are paying *TONS* more money, simply to make sure the electronics aren't going to fail and cause a loss of human life. How the hell does my ordinary desktop PC survive the hellish fury of the RFID scanner sitting next to it? Why can't that be duplicated in medical devices.
Am I the moron here?
No, rape is no thought crime. Practicing pedophelia is no thought crime. In my opinion, both of those actions should be severely punished. Taking, having, sending, or selling pictures of those real crimes, however, is a thought crime.
...and yet you chose "child pornography" instead of something less detestable, like "downloading movies", or "stealing wifi". I get the point you are trying to make--thought crimes, but you picked a horrible way of presenting it.
thought crime: a crime defined as having or transmitting information.
It's similar to the legal situation where cops can arrest you for possessing drugs, but not for actually being high.
Of course possessing kiddie porn is another matter entirely. Someone might be able to make the argument that it's a thought crime, but everyone else will want to see that someone hanged regardless.
Off topic, but I'm confused as hell by your sig:
Child pornography: Thought crime. Terrorism: Your government wants you to be afraid.
Child pornography is a thought crime? Are you serious?
Taking someone who is not mentally or physically ready for sexual intercourse and forcing it upon them without consent is a thought crime? Spend a night in jail with "bubba" and tell me it's a thought crime.
You don't go to a foreign country and expect their rights, do you?
...and then expect their rights, do you?
Actually, yes.
Were I to be arrested while on vacation in, say, Germany, I would fully expect to be tried under normal German law, with rights identical (or at least very nearly identical) to those of a citizen.
Now let's bring this up to the level of comparing apples to apples.
You don't go to a foreign country, declare war by killing thousands of their citizens, blowing up their property, and or being behind the planning, funding, or execution of the attack...
There's a big difference between the rights of citizens, and visitors to a country and people who are declaring war and actively fighting a country.
If you go blow up the Kremlin, and tell all the Russians they need to die, you're not going to get treater under the same legal system as someone who does a hit-and-run.
Unfortunately, though, that's the same combination as my luggage.
Personally I'm going to use: yellow blue red blue purple purple blue purple green yellow.
Serious geek points to whomever gets that reference.
It might be rather a giveaway to anyone in a 20 foot radius unless you cover the thing with a duvet when pushing the buttons!
Get smart, dude. It's called The Cone of Silence!
Clinton's lie was 'obstruction of justice' to the same degree that the guy in the csi episode was a 'pedophile'.
Yeah--except that Clinton wasn't high when the incident happened, or when he lied about it.
At least I hope he wasn't.
And I should also say that it doesn't matter if you're stoned, drunk, or whatever. If you are a dumb fuck and decide to drink, and then you drive, hit another car, and kill someone--you should be charged with murder.
Everyone knows very well the consequences of their actions. Take responsibility. Don't blame this shit on drugs or alcohol. After all--you made the decision to take a substance that made you lose control.
and gasoline killed steam, and steam killed sail, and sail killed slave rowers...
...and now vi has killed whatever the hell N-BRAIN was selling.
Its called progress.
<flamewar?>I loved the Visual Studio IDE circa 2002. The new stuff is waaay too noobish. Constant and unending popups and underlines telling you how to fix your code. It's almost like a spell-checker nowadays. You don't even have to write real code--just get it sorta close and the IDE will correct it for you.
The down-side to Visual Studio is that it's not compatible with any good languages...</flamewar?>
Having your answering machine message dictated by S.A.M. for 6 years = Priceless.
Post the number?
Common--I double-dog dare you.
At 5 GB/month thatâ(TM)s 4% of oneâ(TM)s pipe. A large amount, but livable.
Who cares. I'd bet most people don't have a problem with capping internet usage, but rather that your option is to take a very low cap and pay extortionate overage charges. $1/GB? WTF?
I have my own linux server in a commercial data center. I pay $59/mo. That covers the power usage at the data center, ssh-based console-port access, rental on the server, and 1 TB/mo transfer at 10 Mb/sec.
Seriously--for the same price you have retarded ISPs giving you 5% of the transfer.
I'll say it again. If Comcast came out and said 15 down/1 up, 1 TB transfer for $80, I'd jump on it.
Currently I just sit here and wonder when they'll switch things off. Rather than give the customer what they want, they yell at the customer for wanting more.
Could you imagine if gas companies did that?
ISP: Um--you've already downloaded 100 gallons of gas into your car this month, we're cutting you off.
Medic: What? We're in an ambulance! We have to drive all over the place to get to people who need us.
ISP: Sorry sir. You're in the 98th percentile, we're going to cut you off because we thing you're using the gas to drive to friends houses and make mix tapes.
Medic: WTF?
Anything associated with the Bush Adminsitration and fundraising for Senator McCain would definitely be sent to some educational sites of my choosing. Government propaganda sites in China would also be re-directed to more educational sites. Sites for military contractors like Halliburton, Blackwater, Lockheed Martin, McDonland Douglass, and Northorp Gruman would be re-directed to sites that show war profiteering information and US General Sevices Administration no-bid or non-competitive contract abuses.
But thank God for the Constitution--it's job is to protect popular speech as well as UNPOPULAR speech.
Because you might not like it if I redirected searches for Global Warming to youareafuckingidiot.com, and Senator Kennedy to heisadrunkard.com, and maybe for good measure, redirect Bill Clinton to heneedstobehangeduntildeadforperjury.com
It doesn't matter if you or I agree/disagree on the subjects above--we are free to speak our opinions.
That's how it was back in the day before DNS, grasshopper:
That's what he was referring to. It's called a joke, grasshopper.
I suspect there may be some sort of 'controller node' for some number of worker machines, but even then, each controller node is just like another controller node.
...and suddenly I'm wondering if slashdot shouldn't 'borgify' the Google logo instead of Bill...
Please don't do that; the logs get audited. I don't know if Guinness will disqualify the attempt if there's funny business going on but, before anything else, it's cheating anyway.
...that was a joke. I'm not really going to waste my bandwidth downloading 400 copies of firefox.
wget -c will exit immediately as the file is fully downloaded ;)
Damnit--you're right. I'll bet Hello World had a bug the first time they tried to run it.
and testing their server capacity.
/bin/true; do wget -c http://download.mozilla.com/whatever/firefox-3.0.0-is-awesome.tar.gz; done
;)
while
Well--I'm ready to help them meet their goal.
that is IF Kubuntu detects your display. I had cases where Ubentu couldn't detect the display. It is not about the user interface it is about getting the freaking thing to work with Super New Hardware.
Damn--I know what you're talking about. Except replace Kubuntu with "Microsoft Windows".
Just today I had a laptop that we were downgrading to Windows XP from Vista--and it wouldn't setup Windows because it couldn't find the storage device, giving odd blue screens during setup with strange error codes that never returned a result in google. After F6ing the setup and loading the drivers of a F*CKING FLOPPY DISK (WAKE THE HELL UP MICROSOFT AND LOAD DRIVERS FROM SOME NON-DEPRECIATED DEVICE!)--well, it crashed constantly. After working on it for over an hour, I gave up and attempted to PXE boot the setup using a deployment image made for our standard kiosk machines. That went over well--because Windows couldn't find the NIC driver...even after I loaded it into the deployment image.
Go figure.
So the solution?
Roll back to Vista.
How? You ask?
Popped in my Linux boot CD which detected the HD, NIC, display adapter, sound card, and everything else under the sun, NFS mounted my backup directory and ran "dd if=/mnt/backups/laptop.img of=/dev/sda"
Both OS's have their faults--but in my opinion Windows has a lot more than Linux.
My sister was looking at a few Vista computers and asked my advice. I bought her a Mac.
Of course Ballmer is going to say Vista is selling well. What TF else is he going to say? He has to lie to his shareholders to keep the stock up, or else they'll run out of funding and won't be able to crush their competition.
Unfortunately there's no way for them to track how many computers KEEP Vista after they are purchased.
My sister picked up a new laptop for College. She *HATES* Vista and asked me if there was a way to go back to Windows XP.
Since she didn't want to go out and buy Windows XP, I tossed Ubuntu on w/ WUBI. She loves Ubuntu and only keeps Windows around as sort of a safety net.
According to Cacti, in the last year I've uploaded 1.3 terabytes and downloaded 741 gigabytes. Not one word out of Verizon this entire time.
:)
There's your answer--you're not doing it right.
Try and do that in a month or two instead of a year and I'll bet you get their attention...
They were advocating for the rest of the industry to do that, but if you run a data center and can't buy the hardware to do that, you're out of luck.
You know--rather than a government mandate to get that hardware out there, how about demand?
Seriously--if I could purchase devices that consume DC power and I could get DC at my house CHEAPER than I could go the whole AC route, I'd do it--especially if saved me money too.
That's probably why data centers don't want the government involved. The government tends to do stupid stuff like mandate things that no one wants, needs, finds useful, or saves money.
Awww, come on. Just when you're starting to learn how to fish you want me to hand you one?
No. You are the one trying to prove a point. You need to provide supporting evidence. That's not handing me a fish, that's you doing you job (assuming you want to prove your point).