There are intelligent staffers on the hill that understand these issues. They're what helps. If you noticed, it was suggested that the distinguished senator from alaska had folks calling for him to get some tech staffers after the grandpa simpson 'tubes' incident.
Traffic is cheaper than a salary (of a person or a team that can research, disconnect and support the user). The background noise from scanning, etc.. on the internet is very noisy if you take a moment to actually listen to it. Even when you know a machine is owned, it's hard to get it taken down. I do wish there was a better way of doing this, but oh well.
Problem is that compared to most phones people have owned in the past (at least here in the US), this phone is the least crippled of any that one has owned. Yes, there are a few things that are less than optimal (double activation, lack of tethering). Taking the example of my old Nokia 6230, it was a mp3 player, had a FM radio, had email client and numerous other features that made me repurchase the identical phone when my original was slowly developing some hardware issues with the microphone. The Email, web, etc.. on it sucked. The bluetooth didn't work unless you sent it to get flashed with what is still the latest firmware. It was crippled with some cingular customizations, (you can send the phone to a 3rd party to get them to undo that), yet it was still a good operable phone, etc..
With an iPhone, i now have a full (not the wap garbage) web browser, something that knows how to seek in a mp3/podcast, the ability to do E-Mail, and most of the other things that Nokia didn't get right over the years. I'd looked at other phones, such as the E60, etc... to cover me but they still have serious issues. The polish that apple brings to this space gets rid of all the rough edges. I now have a different set of issues with my phone, but the utility of the current device (in my life) makes those mostly small things. Of course i'd love to be able to ssh from the phone, but would you really want to type your password/passphrase 90 times on the touch keyboard? (because hopefully you're not using a word in the dictionary?;) Running vi would be a massive pain as well.
The issues with the iPhone at least leave the promise of them getting fixed in a newer release that *I* can install at home instead of shipping the phone to a far away service center and who knows when they will update it. I can also file bug reports that get reponses at my hardware/software provider. Much better than the old status-quo for cellular phones. Do I wish it was better, of course! Do I hope that the double activation goes away? Yes! Do I have faith that someone will find a workaround, even if it is via JTAG or some other creative solution set? Yes, it's a large enough target. It's also large enough that apple can't ignore it. Me? I'm watching what's going on with the french iPhone launch.
ATT Claims They will unlock the phone once your contract has been fulfilled. This may include paying a cancellation fee. here is the important excerpt:
Once a contract has been fulfilled, Cicconi says AT&T will "gladly unlock" a customer's phone, if requested
Perhaps that means canceling prior to the 15-day or whatnot window most contracts allow. At least they're talking the right talk, I'd love to hear someone who goes after AT&T to unlock the phones per their promise/assertion to the media, or allow them to face a lawsuit if they don't. I think it would be good for consumers overall, but then again such a small percentage of the US public leaves the US and would need to use a local SIM.
AC, sorry, but I have a postgres install working where I get 70k inserts/second or more with a single index on the table during the day. The first insert of course is faster as the index doesn't exist yet. I'm not sure what you're doing, but I can tell you that I have tuned postgres by increasing some simple parameters. If you're using some Linux package, you're likely not seeing the benefits that are possible by stuff like changing the block size parameter in the source. Yes, it's kinda lame you have to do this, but at the same time, it's not too unreasonable. I'd like it if I could set this larger.
This is on 'decent' hardware running Solaris 10 (amd64). Obviously you need to tweak stuff like wal size, checkpoints, etc.. But getting this type of performance is not hard to do. I can scan an hours worth of data in a short amount of time. Each one of these 'hourly' tables contains roughly 30-32M rows. this is nothing to sneeze at from what I can tell. I haven't had a reason to re-evaluate mysql to see if there are enough tweaks to make it perform similarly, but if you're getting the crappy insert rate that you're talking about, you clearly need to change something as you're doing it wrong if you truly care about performance. E-Mail me if you're interested in my postgresql config files. I'm happy to share to minimize the FUD out there.
I believe that you will need to get someone from the Department of Justice (either Oregon or Federal) to press charges, you can't turn a civil case into a criminal one. I doubt either of them will, but this does look like it is gift-wrapped for them. If you believe the case should be prosecuted, you should contact the local DoJ offices in Oregon.
Actually, I already cancelled my HBO this morning. It's simple through the DirecTV website, just a few clicks and you're done. Sorry you're an unbeliever, but some of these companies at least have some tech clue and good integration to make it happen. I know last time I made a programming change, it took only a few seconds for my receivers to be "updated" and to start getting the channel (or not).
In these situations you're supposed to contact the software mfgr and they will refund you your purchase price (including taxes, etc..). I don't agree with this policy, but this is how most folks get their software returned if you find terms you can not agree to.
Regarding this story (of which i saw the original yesterday), I think there could be some possibly interesting case law here depending on how this goes. If the fact that you clicked 'Accept' isn't recorded somehow by a mfgr, you may not be bound by the EULA. If the EULA is presented on-screen only and you start booting the system by inserting your fedora/knoppix/ubuntu/*bsd disc, you're obviously not bound by it either. But what about it not being recorded by (in this case) Gateway? Seems possibly interesting to me if they can't prove that he agreed to it. Cellular companies have solved this in the past by recording the call during the 'agree' part. Either way, i hope someone tracks this and the various appeals, including some pro-bono assistance for this guy.
Having this capability is an incredible asset. Frequently someone will 'sell' or 'donate' a company directory to these places. I've seen it happen at two different jobs where they call folks direct lines and have their names and titles. The ability to take someone and reject their calls either with a busy, a recording, forwarding them to another number (I use the FTC complaint number for my home phone when I blacklist folks there;)) or some other creative measures is valuable. You have a choice of who you are going to do business with (in most cases), and some 3rd party trying to poach your employees should go bye-bye.
Another effective way to combat them is to have a VP or C*O call them back. This typically immediately stops the calls.
my ppc g4 laptop also rebooed twice. I did not boot it in verbose mode as I was not expecting it to do anything strange so I wasn't quite sure what happened. I also was concerned as it was abnormal behaviour. I consider myself somewhat savvy, but i'm just some random fool on da inraweb clogging up dem t00bs.
Likely they're talking about some sort of 'Traffic Storm' (which is some type of data). I have seen and heard of a lot of devices that are very poorly designed and don't expect a lot of extraneous data on their lan. Most commonly these are things like PBX'es and small 'appliance' devices that have some simple SNMP or web mgmt capabilities. You stick them on an internal lan with lots of broadcast traffic, where there may be other interesting things going on and i've seen them either die under the interrupt load (insufficent cpu for the 10Mb or 100Mb they negotiate) or just lock-up because of what it thinks is a corrupted frame.
I wonder how this would impact CALEA requirements set by the FCC for 'broadband' providers, if it were redefined to 2Mb/s. It might mean stuff under that speed would no longer need to be LI (lawful-intercept) capable. This could have significant cost savings for ISPs for compliance...
It's more like it's a known feature. IPv6 with header stacking was supposed to solve this problem folks allegedly have with IPv4 and it's lack of extensions. Evil bit aside, it's essentially "working as designed". People spin these things up periodically where a known feature could be used (misused) in the past as well. The TCP window fiasco comes to mind. Overall this is another non-event IMHO.
I actually had a website accept a + designation, but then in anothe part of the reg process reject it and leave me in an orphan state half registered. Took forever to get someone there to fix it. Ugh.
I've not found a single client that handles large mailboxes well. This is either lots of attachments, or lots of smaller (ever remember these?) text messages. Add in poorly performing imap and other servers, and reading/var/mail becomes a lot easier.
I've gone and split my mailbox somewhat to have some attachments sent to a imap mailbox to get them on my actual desktop, leaving a copy in my regular mailbox that I can access via mutt. For better or worse, i get 1500-4k messages a day. None of these other clients i've found let me manage this in a reasonable way. So split mailbox it is. Having my thunderbird or mail.app fetch those word and ppt files we get limits the need to scp/sftp quite so much.
I need a better (graphical) mail client. Disk space (message caching) is not an issue. Getting good interactive performance of the mailbox is. If that means keeping a 1g mailbox in ram for speed, i'll buy the ram. I personally need something better. Then again, i may be one of those 99.9% users. Mutt seems to work well enough for me. If I ran it on my desktop, the attachments would work better i'm sure, but there seems to be no perfect solution, or something usable for me.
I frequently disable plugins and java in Safari to reduce the cpu consumption of the process by managing these. None of my own websites require this stuff, nor any of my internal corporate websites. If I am watching strong bad, or doing something else, sure, i may need to re-enable them but in reality, I don't need those plugins and the cpu suck that goes along with doing that animation or even the bw suck of downloading those files. I suspect that most people don't need them for regular web surfing. On FF i use flashblock, so I can set the few websites that need it to work properly, but on my macs i primarily use safari and disable the plugins. it's a big win, try it, you may not mind the extra work to watch your "Will It Blend" and Home*.
When you're talking about larger switches and routers and not the cheap linksys/dlink crap most people call a "router, there was actually a good presentation at NANOG last year. You can watch it(real video) from the link (and view slides). Most of the efficency in these larger devices has already been done. (obviously excluding that whole google + pc power supply discussion). Check it out if you are truly interested in this space.
i've periodically thought about rebuilding the system a few times but just haven't been able to allocate time/resources to it. @nether.net addresses still get a lot of spam and i've even been bouncing mails since at least 2001. I was about to rebuild it during one of my business trips, but then I got stuck in california when they shut down all the airspace for that week and rethought fully open access.
I'm not entirely joe-random user (i say jokingly yet seriously - i registered nether.net before aol registered aol.com), but what i'll say is that it's useful to have copies of these files around for all sorts of reasons, either historical or otherwise. Folks are welcome to add my host in as one in their list of places to find this. I've survived slashdottings in the past before with not a lot of effort (as my pages are primarily static, no ads), and hosted/mirrored large content before without trouble and at reasonable speeds, so while my offer may seem funny to you, it's a bit more serious than that. (asbestos-suit == on)
Actually, it's fairly easy to gain permission to show a MPAA movie in your school, or even for a fundraiser. I've been involved with a few groups in the past where we've done this. You show the movie for "free" and then sell the popcorn. First, you get out your word processor, write a letter explaining what you are doing and kindly asking for permission. You'd be shocked at the response you may get when trying to do something like a Boy Scouts, etc.. fundraiser. It's not that hard, you just have to write a letter, not be trying to make a profit and plan ahead. You can even pay for the problem to go away with some services that will do the legwork for you, but then it will cost you more than a stamp and your time.
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There are intelligent staffers on the hill that understand these issues. They're what helps. If you noticed, it was suggested that the distinguished senator from alaska had folks calling for him to get some tech staffers after the grandpa simpson 'tubes' incident.
Traffic is cheaper than a salary (of a person or a team that can research, disconnect and support the user). The background noise from scanning, etc.. on the internet is very noisy if you take a moment to actually listen to it. Even when you know a machine is owned, it's hard to get it taken down. I do wish there was a better way of doing this, but oh well.
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With an iPhone, i now have a full (not the wap garbage) web browser, something that knows how to seek in a mp3/podcast, the ability to do E-Mail, and most of the other things that Nokia didn't get right over the years. I'd looked at other phones, such as the E60, etc... to cover me but they still have serious issues. The polish that apple brings to this space gets rid of all the rough edges. I now have a different set of issues with my phone, but the utility of the current device (in my life) makes those mostly small things. Of course i'd love to be able to ssh from the phone, but would you really want to type your password/passphrase 90 times on the touch keyboard? (because hopefully you're not using a word in the dictionary? ;) Running vi would be a massive pain as well.
The issues with the iPhone at least leave the promise of them getting fixed in a newer release that *I* can install at home instead of shipping the phone to a far away service center and who knows when they will update it. I can also file bug reports that get reponses at my hardware/software provider. Much better than the old status-quo for cellular phones. Do I wish it was better, of course! Do I hope that the double activation goes away? Yes! Do I have faith that someone will find a workaround, even if it is via JTAG or some other creative solution set? Yes, it's a large enough target. It's also large enough that apple can't ignore it. Me? I'm watching what's going on with the french iPhone launch.
- Once a contract has been fulfilled, Cicconi says AT&T will "gladly unlock" a customer's phone, if requested
Perhaps that means canceling prior to the 15-day or whatnot window most contracts allow. At least they're talking the right talk, I'd love to hear someone who goes after AT&T to unlock the phones per their promise/assertion to the media, or allow them to face a lawsuit if they don't. I think it would be good for consumers overall, but then again such a small percentage of the US public leaves the US and would need to use a local SIM.This is on 'decent' hardware running Solaris 10 (amd64). Obviously you need to tweak stuff like wal size, checkpoints, etc.. But getting this type of performance is not hard to do. I can scan an hours worth of data in a short amount of time. Each one of these 'hourly' tables contains roughly 30-32M rows. this is nothing to sneeze at from what I can tell. I haven't had a reason to re-evaluate mysql to see if there are enough tweaks to make it perform similarly, but if you're getting the crappy insert rate that you're talking about, you clearly need to change something as you're doing it wrong if you truly care about performance. E-Mail me if you're interested in my postgresql config files. I'm happy to share to minimize the FUD out there.
I believe that you will need to get someone from the Department of Justice (either Oregon or Federal) to press charges, you can't turn a civil case into a criminal one. I doubt either of them will, but this does look like it is gift-wrapped for them. If you believe the case should be prosecuted, you should contact the local DoJ offices in Oregon.
Actually, I already cancelled my HBO this morning. It's simple through the DirecTV website, just a few clicks and you're done. Sorry you're an unbeliever, but some of these companies at least have some tech clue and good integration to make it happen. I know last time I made a programming change, it took only a few seconds for my receivers to be "updated" and to start getting the channel (or not).
Regarding this story (of which i saw the original yesterday), I think there could be some possibly interesting case law here depending on how this goes. If the fact that you clicked 'Accept' isn't recorded somehow by a mfgr, you may not be bound by the EULA. If the EULA is presented on-screen only and you start booting the system by inserting your fedora/knoppix/ubuntu/*bsd disc, you're obviously not bound by it either. But what about it not being recorded by (in this case) Gateway? Seems possibly interesting to me if they can't prove that he agreed to it. Cellular companies have solved this in the past by recording the call during the 'agree' part. Either way, i hope someone tracks this and the various appeals, including some pro-bono assistance for this guy.
Another effective way to combat them is to have a VP or C*O call them back. This typically immediately stops the calls.
my ppc g4 laptop also rebooed twice. I did not boot it in verbose mode as I was not expecting it to do anything strange so I wasn't quite sure what happened. I also was concerned as it was abnormal behaviour. I consider myself somewhat savvy, but i'm just some random fool on da inraweb clogging up dem t00bs.
Likely they're talking about some sort of 'Traffic Storm' (which is some type of data). I have seen and heard of a lot of devices that are very poorly designed and don't expect a lot of extraneous data on their lan. Most commonly these are things like PBX'es and small 'appliance' devices that have some simple SNMP or web mgmt capabilities. You stick them on an internal lan with lots of broadcast traffic, where there may be other interesting things going on and i've seen them either die under the interrupt load (insufficent cpu for the 10Mb or 100Mb they negotiate) or just lock-up because of what it thinks is a corrupted frame.
I wonder how this would impact CALEA requirements set by the FCC for 'broadband' providers, if it were redefined to 2Mb/s. It might mean stuff under that speed would no longer need to be LI (lawful-intercept) capable. This could have significant cost savings for ISPs for compliance...
It's more like it's a known feature. IPv6 with header stacking was supposed to solve this problem folks allegedly have with IPv4 and it's lack of extensions. Evil bit aside, it's essentially "working as designed". People spin these things up periodically where a known feature could be used (misused) in the past as well. The TCP window fiasco comes to mind. Overall this is another non-event IMHO.
I actually had a website accept a + designation, but then in anothe part of the reg process reject it and leave me in an orphan state half registered. Took forever to get someone there to fix it. Ugh.
I've gone and split my mailbox somewhat to have some attachments sent to a imap mailbox to get them on my actual desktop, leaving a copy in my regular mailbox that I can access via mutt. For better or worse, i get 1500-4k messages a day. None of these other clients i've found let me manage this in a reasonable way. So split mailbox it is. Having my thunderbird or mail.app fetch those word and ppt files we get limits the need to scp/sftp quite so much.
I need a better (graphical) mail client. Disk space (message caching) is not an issue. Getting good interactive performance of the mailbox is. If that means keeping a 1g mailbox in ram for speed, i'll buy the ram. I personally need something better. Then again, i may be one of those 99.9% users. Mutt seems to work well enough for me. If I ran it on my desktop, the attachments would work better i'm sure, but there seems to be no perfect solution, or something usable for me.
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I frequently disable plugins and java in Safari to reduce the cpu consumption of the process by managing these. None of my own websites require this stuff, nor any of my internal corporate websites. If I am watching strong bad, or doing something else, sure, i may need to re-enable them but in reality, I don't need those plugins and the cpu suck that goes along with doing that animation or even the bw suck of downloading those files. I suspect that most people don't need them for regular web surfing. On FF i use flashblock, so I can set the few websites that need it to work properly, but on my macs i primarily use safari and disable the plugins. it's a big win, try it, you may not mind the extra work to watch your "Will It Blend" and Home*.
When you're talking about larger switches and routers and not the cheap linksys/dlink crap most people call a "router, there was actually a good presentation at NANOG last year. You can watch it(real video) from the link (and view slides). Most of the efficency in these larger devices has already been done. (obviously excluding that whole google + pc power supply discussion). Check it out if you are truly interested in this space.
heh, I doubt most people here know the song, so I'll provide a link to the lyrics at least.
Generally speaking, yes. YMMV depending on your situation.
i've periodically thought about rebuilding the system a few times but just haven't been able to allocate time/resources to it. @nether.net addresses still get a lot of spam and i've even been bouncing mails since at least 2001. I was about to rebuild it during one of my business trips, but then I got stuck in california when they shut down all the airspace for that week and rethought fully open access.
I'm not entirely joe-random user (i say jokingly yet seriously - i registered nether.net before aol registered aol.com), but what i'll say is that it's useful to have copies of these files around for all sorts of reasons, either historical or otherwise. Folks are welcome to add my host in as one in their list of places to find this. I've survived slashdottings in the past before with not a lot of effort (as my pages are primarily static, no ads), and hosted/mirrored large content before without trouble and at reasonable speeds, so while my offer may seem funny to you, it's a bit more serious than that. (asbestos-suit == on)
http://puck.nether.net/rss-0.9.dtd and http://puck.nether.net/rss-0.91.dtd
Actually, it's fairly easy to gain permission to show a MPAA movie in your school, or even for a fundraiser. I've been involved with a few groups in the past where we've done this. You show the movie for "free" and then sell the popcorn. First, you get out your word processor, write a letter explaining what you are doing and kindly asking for permission. You'd be shocked at the response you may get when trying to do something like a Boy Scouts, etc.. fundraiser. It's not that hard, you just have to write a letter, not be trying to make a profit and plan ahead. You can even pay for the problem to go away with some services that will do the legwork for you, but then it will cost you more than a stamp and your time.