I work for an ISP and recall, I think it was last year or maybe early this year, that one of our Atlanta data customers had 3 circuit down trouble tickets over the span of several months where the reason for outage ultimately turned out to be theft of telco cable. 3 times!!!
After the usual confusion it was finally determined that one of the ISP's staff had "noticed a cable not quite seated" while working on the data center floor. He had apparently followed a "standard procedure" to remove and clean the cable before plugging it back in. It was a fiber cable and he managed to plug it back in wrong (transposed connectors on a fiber cable). Not only was the notion of cleaning the cable end bizarre -- what, wipe it on his t-shirt? -- and never fully explained, but there was no followup check to find out what that cable was for and whether it still worked. It didn't, for nearly a week.
Actually there's nothing odd about cleaning a fiber connection at all and it is a very exacting process (see link below). Apparently exacting in this case just didn't include re-inserting the ends in the right holes.
...if you were only the recipient of these robocalls. For several days a few months ago I was the recipient of massive blowback from these calls. My number was one that a robocaller was programmed to spoof and I received dozens upon dozens of calls, some of them extremely angry. I finally ended up recording an explanatory message on my voice mail.
Funny google never saw a website for this supposed company and its 'datacenter,' it only appears as a listing in a couple online business directories with no real information. Nearly 50 customers out of service? As another poster suggested, I suspect this is one small potatoes colo/hosting reseller who had their rack of servers confiscated from a larger colo facility.
"The problem with QOS flags is that the end-user can set them. There's nothing preventing me from marking every single packet I send as high-priority."
Not a problem at all. Routers generally can be configured to pass Class of Service bits as received or rewrite them appropriately to fit one of the ISP's standard QoS profiles.
In Philly, where such a system has been in place for a year or two, one big bone of contention is that the company processing the credit card transactions has been very slow (weeks) to move the money into the cabbies' accounts.
"Reshef indicated that a few thousand domains managed by a top-five domain name registrar may have been impacted by the attack too, but an executive at the registrar told us that it had seen some upstream troubles but no direct attack."
Ha! All of Tucows services, including the managed dns and email defense services were completely down most of yesterday. The managed DNS service is still impaired until the new IPs of ns1.mdnsservice.com and ns2.mdnsservice.com propagate (they just this morning changed the TTL to 1200 secs %-).
status.tucows.com
Managed DNS Service
Degraded Performance - restore time is currently unknown
Beginning at approximately noon Wednesday May 3rd the Tucows network was under a severe DDOS attack. To stop the attack, we have changed the IP addresses of the servers. If you are using IP addresses in order to connect to MDNS, you will have to update your records. Also, any nameserver with a long TTL should be updated in order to use the new info.
Next Update Time:15:20 UTC, 04 May 2006",/i>
That's about the umpteen thousandanth time the above troll has been posted to/. and elsewhere (google it). Does it really still rate 5 funny mods? I'm thinking maybe not.
I opened my old Amiga 500, and for some reason Rock Lobster was on my motherboard!
"The tradition was started by George Robbins - the man responsible for most of the low end Amiga systems and continued by other Commodore employees. Robbin's handiwork was immediately recognisable by the B52's song title. His first Amiga project - the A500 - was originally developed under the working title of B52 and the trend continued to four subsequent models."
Sadly, George Robbins aka Grr passed away 3-1/2 years ago. After Commodore disolved he went on to become director of network engineering for Philadelphia's first ISP, where he literally lived on the premises most of the time.
That's called transit and you pay for it. Peering connections are intended to reach the peer's directly connected customers, which would include the peer's transit customers.
The only way a company can lose money on additional software sales is if they sold the software for less than the price of delivery. Software development is a fixed cost. Once it is finished, additional sales are pure profit minus distribution costs.
OK, so when will MacOSX be "finished"? Or is 10.4 the final release ever?
Substitute macon.com for any Knight Ridder paper's native domain name in the url. For brevity and a longer-lived link, also trim the path between the paper's name and.htm
The article conveniently leaves out the reason for the failure.
No, the article conveniently explained that the sw had a limit of 32000 schedule changes per month. A severe winter storm necessitated enough changes to make the system fall over.
Typically the SDKs don't provide full, unfettered access to the manufacturer's raw format, just a subset. Canon is as bad as Nikon in this regard. Despite that, Thomas Knoll has usually managed to decode any given camera's raw format well enough that Adobe Camera Raw produces results as good or better than the manufacurer's software and with more parameters that can be adjusted.
My experience with a Canon G4 is that ACR not only is more flexible (and even allows recovery of blown highlights if at least one color is not blown on the highlight), but converts images from.CRW 2 or 3 times faster than Canon's own software.
Knoll has essentially reverse engineered the formats for the cameras that ACR supports, but is being extra cautious with the Nikon situation because of the possible DMCA legal issues where encryption is involved. There has been no encryption involved in the other formats ACR handles.
Adobe recently unveiled XML-based DNG (Digital NeGative) as a universal open format, which they are encouraging all camera manufacturers to support.
on wordpress.org view source and look for the following:
div style="text-indent: -9000px; overflow: hidden;
and in that div are the invisible spam links. The word press gang has to be pretty unsophisticated if they thought nobody would view source and catch this eventually. And they still have tyhe offending code on their main page.
Im pretty sure even in the US you need keep access logs for all inward and outward connections. Copies of all emails entering/leaving your network, both of these need to be yearly logs. Also you either need to make sure that you are a least trying to stop all forms of illegal activities, or at least making it to its not your fault if you clients do do something illegal.
Nope, no specific requirements for logging or retention of logs. You do want to have a contact registered for receiving copyright takedown notices.
I'm very fuzzy on the details, but I know that Apple played a leadership role, back in the mid-90s, in lobbying the FCC for the radio spectrum allocations for what we now call WiFi.
Slashdot Mirror
I work for an ISP and recall, I think it was last year or maybe early this year, that one of our Atlanta data customers had 3 circuit down trouble tickets over the span of several months where the reason for outage ultimately turned out to be theft of telco cable. 3 times!!!
After the usual confusion it was finally determined that one of the ISP's staff had "noticed a cable not quite seated" while working on the data center floor. He had apparently followed a "standard procedure" to remove and clean the cable before plugging it back in. It was a fiber cable and he managed to plug it back in wrong (transposed connectors on a fiber cable). Not only was the notion of cleaning the cable end bizarre -- what, wipe it on his t-shirt? -- and never fully explained, but there was no followup check to find out what that cable was for and whether it still worked. It didn't, for nearly a week.
Actually there's nothing odd about cleaning a fiber connection at all and it is a very exacting process (see link below). Apparently exacting in this case just didn't include re-inserting the ends in the right holes.
Inspection and Cleaning Procedures for Fiber-Optic Connections
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk482/tk876/technologies_white_paper09186a0080254eba.shtml
...if you were only the recipient of these robocalls. For several days a few months ago I was the recipient of massive blowback from these calls. My number was one that a robocaller was programmed to spoof and I received dozens upon dozens of calls, some of them extremely angry. I finally ended up recording an explanatory message on my voice mail.
Funny google never saw a website for this supposed company and its 'datacenter,' it only appears as a listing in a couple online business directories with no real information. Nearly 50 customers out of service? As another poster suggested, I suspect this is one small potatoes colo/hosting reseller who had their rack of servers confiscated from a larger colo facility.
This is so last year:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/31/business/media/31billboard.html
"The problem with QOS flags is that the end-user can set them. There's nothing preventing me from marking every single packet I send as high-priority."
Not a problem at all. Routers generally can be configured to pass Class of Service bits as received or rewrite them appropriately to fit one of the ISP's standard QoS profiles.
No ticker - Eolas shares are privately held.
"Eolas is privately held, and the letter does not disclose the total number of shares outstanding in the company."
So no disclosure from Eolas. It remains to be seen how effectively ms can hide the terms and dollar amount in their quarterly reports.
In Philly, where such a system has been in place for a year or two, one big bone of contention is that the company processing the credit card transactions has been very slow (weeks) to move the money into the cabbies' accounts.
Never heard of them. Oh wait, now they've attacked google and everybody knows who Privacy International is. Cheap, but effective, PR for PI.
Ha! All of Tucows services, including the managed dns and email defense services were completely down most of yesterday. The managed DNS service is still impaired until the new IPs of ns1.mdnsservice.com and ns2.mdnsservice.com propagate (they just this morning changed the TTL to 1200 secs %-).
status.tucows.com
Managed DNS Service Degraded Performance - restore time is currently unknown Beginning at approximately noon Wednesday May 3rd the Tucows network was under a severe DDOS attack. To stop the attack, we have changed the IP addresses of the servers. If you are using IP addresses in order to connect to MDNS, you will have to update your records. Also, any nameserver with a long TTL should be updated in order to use the new info. Next Update Time:15:20 UTC, 04 May 2006",/i>
Microsoft Vista: Not 'People Ready'
That's about the umpteen thousandanth time the above troll has been posted to /. and elsewhere (google it). Does it really still rate 5 funny mods? I'm thinking maybe not.
I opened my old Amiga 500, and for some reason Rock Lobster was on my motherboard!
"The tradition was started by George Robbins - the man responsible for most of the low end Amiga systems and continued by other Commodore employees. Robbin's handiwork was immediately recognisable by the B52's song title. His first Amiga project - the A500 - was originally developed under the working title of B52 and the trend continued to four subsequent models."
Sadly, George Robbins aka Grr passed away 3-1/2 years ago. After Commodore disolved he went on to become director of network engineering for Philadelphia's first ISP, where he literally lived on the premises most of the time.
Missed closing quote = dead link in my previous post. The Philadelphia Inquirer (in Comcast's hometown) originated the story (registration-free link thru sister paper).
The Philadelphia Inquirer (in Comcast's hometown) originated the story (registration-free link thru sister paper).
That's called transit and you pay for it. Peering connections are intended to reach the peer's directly connected customers, which would include the peer's transit customers.
Further back than that I think. In the 60s the IBM 360 had Channels and Control Data mainframes had Peripheral Data Processors.
OK, so when will MacOSX be "finished"? Or is 10.4 the final release ever?
No login needed, just a quick edit of the url.
o cal/states/california/the_valley/11665968.htm
.htm
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/l
Substitute macon.com for any Knight Ridder paper's native domain name in the url. For brevity and a longer-lived link, also trim the path between the paper's name and
http://www.macon.com/mld/mercurynews/11665968.htm
The Macon Telgraph doesn't require registration yet; all KR papers share article number namespace.
No, the article conveniently explained that the sw had a limit of 32000 schedule changes per month. A severe winter storm necessitated enough changes to make the system fall over.
Typically the SDKs don't provide full, unfettered access to the manufacturer's raw format, just a subset. Canon is as bad as Nikon in this regard. Despite that, Thomas Knoll has usually managed to decode any given camera's raw format well enough that Adobe Camera Raw produces results as good or better than the manufacurer's software and with more parameters that can be adjusted.
.CRW 2 or 3 times faster than Canon's own software.
My experience with a Canon G4 is that ACR not only is more flexible (and even allows recovery of blown highlights if at least one color is not blown on the highlight), but converts images from
Knoll has essentially reverse engineered the formats for the cameras that ACR supports, but is being extra cautious with the Nikon situation because of the possible DMCA legal issues where encryption is involved. There has been no encryption involved in the other formats ACR handles.
Adobe recently unveiled XML-based DNG (Digital NeGative) as a universal open format, which they are encouraging all camera manufacturers to support.
on wordpress.org view source and look for the following:
div style="text-indent: -9000px; overflow: hidden;
and in that div are the invisible spam links. The word press gang has to be pretty unsophisticated if they thought nobody would view source and catch this eventually. And they still have tyhe offending code on their main page.
Im pretty sure even in the US you need keep access logs for all inward and outward connections. Copies of all emails entering/leaving your network, both of these need to be yearly logs. Also you either need to make sure that you are a least trying to stop all forms of illegal activities, or at least making it to its not your fault if you clients do do something illegal.
Nope, no specific requirements for logging or retention of logs. You do want to have a contact registered for receiving copyright takedown notices.
I'm very fuzzy on the details, but I know that Apple played a leadership role, back in the mid-90s, in lobbying the FCC for the radio spectrum allocations for what we now call WiFi.