30 meters of multimode (good to 2km) is can be found for roughly US$60. Add in some cheap PVC conduit ($1.50/10ft) and some pvc glue to place it in the ground/seal it waterproof (and away from any chewing/digging animals) and you can run whatever you want for some time. You can find gigabit (fiber) ethernet cards for roughly $45 online, so for around $200 (yes, kinda expensive) and some minor work you can run that cable over to your neighbors and not have something that is likely to get struck by lightning.
plus you can change the cards on each side to upgrade when you want to go to something faster than gigabit.:)
back before abuse@ was the way to report issues and commonly used, there were a number of people that were customers of various ISPS, including one customer at MSN that used abuse as their e-mail address. I remember the stories of how much mail that person would receive..
I know of someone who created their personal email for their family member as nospam@ a domain and they don't get any:) someone must be doing a s/nospam//
Well, if you're going to do it, at least consider doing something sensible with how you set it up, grab a PV (solar) panel and a deep-cycle battery with a reasonable Ah rating and generate/use your own free power:).
I have a quick & ugly Solar page with links to the build-it-yourself charge coltroller ($55) and places that have generally reasonable prices on the batteries & panels. Then you can take the voltage and step it to what you need, either up or down. Then you also have a built-in UPS system:)
Grandma isn't going to have gallery-remote installed on their system, they have the big blue E.
As far as the rest, yes, I've been around the block for a few years, enough to remember archie, gopher, and when people started talking about this http thing. There was even something like Mosaic and some other stuff that would use a default home page of home.mcom.com
But nobody is going to download a swath of applications to interact with their photo sites (eg: flickr, shutterfly, etc..).. well, unless they're well done like the ITMS (iTunes Media Store), but that has custom DRM requirements with it.
For better or worse, the browser continues to move into the realm of universal-internet-app, no more FTP, Usenet, etc.. people are just moving it all to file (up|down)load over HTTP and RSS instead of news feeds. Now, I'm happy with the sexyness of stuff like maps.google, and the evolution that has happened, but file transfers have stayed the same (basically).
Well, ideally the browser has some hooks in place to protect the user somewhat, but the challenge becomes when you have a few million users where they want to upload digitial pics to granny and don't understand what a "share" is. There's also all those java apps that actually do fancy things. You really need to make it consumer friendly. That's what the Mozilla teams have done with their auto-importing of IE favorites, etc..
My browser touches all sorts of things in the host OS, from the sound card to files that I upload and download. Luckily when I get AIM spam for foo.exe or some other sillyness I don't get far unless I type 'wine foo.exe', then even then;-)
The true challenge is how to dial in the security to a reasonable level. Problem is getting all the millions of programmers to adopt more secure standards combined with the users, IT managers, etc.. that deploy the apps on desktops. Then, getting that out across the millions of home users too. Daunting task.
You didn't make it perfectly clear which you were attempting to isolate, the host related issues or the network related ones. There are a lot of monitoring systems out there from NAGIOS to Sysmon (author disclosure) as well as the previously mentioned OpenNMS.
If your intent is to detect network troubles, I recommend using some system like Cricket or MRTG to graph the interfaces as well as the Errors on the interfaces within the network. This may require some finesse in setting up for the first time.
Aside from that, Sysmon was written primarily to monitor hosts and the host based services, but was morphed also to monitoring networks. It may fit your needs as you can set up SNMP thresholds of network errors and other things.
If you want to be super-lazy, I would download the trial of Intermapper it may be able to find these troubles for you if you can SNMP poll the devices and has auto-discovery. I've not used it in awhile, so hopefully it has support for the platforms that you are using.
Is the problem that the compiler optimizations are not producing the right outputs? or too much of the code is compiled with debug flags (ie: -g).
I would expect the compiler to handle things, but i've found that I rarely have the desire to run the non-debug code as when things do go south it's rare and i'd rather have ease of solving the problem being available to me. There are some cases where I don't do this where performance matters, but that's rare in my experience..
People have done many studies of what compiler optimizes things better, eg: gcc vs intel compiler. gcc vs sun compiler. Generally the one written by the vendor does a slightly better job.
Oh, and incase anyone is wondering, one of the customer related things was in Houston, where Keynote indicates their one 'Verio' node is. Note how the Level(3) graphic is both horiz and vert, and the Verio graphic is only vertical. (Meaning it's only one of the sites, ie: the one in Houston).
At least in this case on the 'verio' side i know what it is, as far as Level3 goes, that's obviously something different.
Can someone who has data on what the percieved "Verio" outage is let me know? Obviously Level(3) customers would have issues reaching Verio and Verio would have trouble reaching them but reviewing one of our external monitoring systems I only see 3 events and only one that is not customer related. So unless
you're in that isolated corner of the network in Europe...
You're forgetting that TiVo comes with a Service Agreement and that $12.95 you're paying monthly, or the "Lifetime" Service you paid for up-front allows them to change it at will. Read section 6 of the agreement. You granted them that right. You can terminate that right with them by calling up and cancelling your service.
Exactly. We're not seeing Fuel Strikes in the US like are happening elsewhere.
I have worked at home for 6 of the past 10 years, and been able to telecommute for some part of those other 4 years. I am enjoying the limited impact this has on my expenses as compared to years ago when I was driving 62-miles one-way to work. For the last 6 months or so of that (in 2000) I was getting 30-31mpg in my vehicle.
Well, the last time I really used an optical mouse was when you needed to have the fancy grid pad. (I have a few of these in my basement still I believe, as well as the Sparc mice that go with them, e-mail me if you want them). I've been able to survive this long without doing much. I'm glad to see people somewhat agree with me on the scroll wheel for a middle mouse button. Having a distinct middle button is valuable, IMHO. I don't need a lot from my desktop (except when I play games, but that's in windoze which i rarely boot into). I use xterm, gaim, xmms and Firefox with my lightweight window manager (twm).
I've worked at home full time 6 out of the last 10 years, and been able to do some percentage work at home for the other 4 (1-2 days a week when necessary). So I've burned through a few keyboards by spilling water on them. The last one i was quite sad with because it worked perfectly, and still had those stickers on it from "You Don't Know Jack" game that i thought would be amusing to apply.
The qwertz keyboards in Germany are ok, takes some time to get used to depending on if you can cope with your Y and Z being switched. But the pipe/backslash issue is not a UK vs US thing, these are all keyboards obtained in the US. That's what gets me the most, because if you run a comand like grep foo bar | cut, things can quickly get botched. Things that are much easier done at the shell instead of writing a perl script...
So, I have this issue with keyboards these days. It's hard to find one that has the "Return/Enter" key the same size, they like to move the placement of the | and \ keys and everyone jumped on the m$ bandwagon after they released their keyboard and added some extra keys that I don't need/use.
Then there's these mice, I am quite happy with my Logitech 3 button mouse circa 1995. It works perfectly for me (of course you need to periodically clean them) and doesn't have that stupid scroll device that everyone seems so intent in putting in them these days. That reminds me, I need to go to the local computer recycling place and dig around in their bins to find some good keyboards and mice to stockpile that have a reasonable layout before the entire earth is plagued with these new marvels that annoy me so much.
I don't expect everyone here to agree with me, i know quite a few people who love their scroll wheels and fancy optical mice. I'm just not one of them.
Someone at PBS can email me (not like i'm hard to find) to set something like this up. If things get ugly, I can host it on more than one host, but the peak I saw (and it's well below that now) was ~10Mb/s. I can even stick it on a host I have in Asia so folks there can get it at higher speeds (due to tcp window*delay foo). I know last time in Tokyo i downloaded stuff at ~1MB/s in my hotel room from that machine. (I hate that we don't have that speed links here in the US.. sigh).
It's the same as the DSL rush in the late 90's, the ILECs will win.
They can easily convert everyone to unlimited plans and put the domestic LD carriers out of the voice business. There's just so much profit to be milked out of $.25/min in-state calling that it's hard to justify dropping the prices since people are willing to pay it.
Vonage and others will face the same challenge others have seen when fighting the ILECs.
As evilspammer@example.com, I could set my spf record to be 24.0.0.0/8 so I could then spam from anyone in that space. Or i could have short lived ttls for my recently r00ted WinDoze boxen in my zone, utilizting dyndns to push them out. Anyone who thinks spammers can't run their own dns servers or manage technology is in denial.
SPF helps with virii and phishing. eg: someone connecting saying they're billyg@msft.net from a dsl line in bellsouth land. If i'm evilspammer@example.com, I can just publish my SPF records in the same way you do, as long as i send from example.com's authorized SPF records it'll be good.
You're just saying that it's a valid domain-name, but as soon as someones dns servers or smtp servers are rooted, you'll have spam again. The good thing is it'll help let legit people you do business with (eg: your Bank, CC company) say that a message was authorized by them, or at least by the SPF rules.
Slashdot Mirror
plus you can change the cards on each side to upgrade when you want to go to something faster than gigabit. :)
links:
fiber 1000BaseSX ethernet various pvc conduit
I know of someone who created their personal email for their family member as nospam@ a domain and they don't get any :) someone must be doing a s/nospam//
You must've never seen this
or ask someone who has hosted mirrors of /. linked content before and been able to survive it :)
The real question is why set a region coding on a Screener DVD? (esp if it will only play in a limited edition player)
my usual fast Mirror
I have a quick & ugly Solar page with links to the build-it-yourself charge coltroller ($55) and places that have generally reasonable prices on the batteries & panels. Then you can take the voltage and step it to what you need, either up or down. Then you also have a built-in UPS system :)
As far as the rest, yes, I've been around the block for a few years, enough to remember archie, gopher, and when people started talking about this http thing. There was even something like Mosaic and some other stuff that would use a default home page of home.mcom.com
But nobody is going to download a swath of applications to interact with their photo sites (eg: flickr, shutterfly, etc..).. well, unless they're well done like the ITMS (iTunes Media Store), but that has custom DRM requirements with it.
For better or worse, the browser continues to move into the realm of universal-internet-app, no more FTP, Usenet, etc.. people are just moving it all to file (up|down)load over HTTP and RSS instead of news feeds. Now, I'm happy with the sexyness of stuff like maps.google, and the evolution that has happened, but file transfers have stayed the same (basically).
My browser touches all sorts of things in the host OS, from the sound card to files that I upload and download. Luckily when I get AIM spam for foo.exe or some other sillyness I don't get far unless I type 'wine foo.exe', then even then ;-)
The true challenge is how to dial in the security to a reasonable level. Problem is getting all the millions of programmers to adopt more secure standards combined with the users, IT managers, etc.. that deploy the apps on desktops. Then, getting that out across the millions of home users too. Daunting task.
If your intent is to detect network troubles, I recommend using some system like Cricket or MRTG to graph the interfaces as well as the Errors on the interfaces within the network. This may require some finesse in setting up for the first time.
Aside from that, Sysmon was written primarily to monitor hosts and the host based services, but was morphed also to monitoring networks. It may fit your needs as you can set up SNMP thresholds of network errors and other things.
If you want to be super-lazy, I would download the trial of Intermapper it may be able to find these troubles for you if you can SNMP poll the devices and has auto-discovery. I've not used it in awhile, so hopefully it has support for the platforms that you are using.
Yeah, my wife and I were both saying 1) Internet, 2) Buy the Guide. Would have shortened the episode by half an hour though.
Is the problem that the compiler optimizations are not producing the right outputs? or too much of the code is compiled with debug flags (ie: -g). I would expect the compiler to handle things, but i've found that I rarely have the desire to run the non-debug code as when things do go south it's rare and i'd rather have ease of solving the problem being available to me. There are some cases where I don't do this where performance matters, but that's rare in my experience.. People have done many studies of what compiler optimizes things better, eg: gcc vs intel compiler. gcc vs sun compiler. Generally the one written by the vendor does a slightly better job.
At least in this case on the 'verio' side i know what it is, as far as Level3 goes, that's obviously something different.
Can someone who has data on what the percieved "Verio" outage is let me know? Obviously Level(3) customers would have issues reaching Verio and Verio would have trouble reaching them but reviewing one of our external monitoring systems I only see 3 events and only one that is not customer related. So unless you're in that isolated corner of the network in Europe...
If you're in Asia use this link.
You're forgetting that TiVo comes with a Service Agreement and that $12.95 you're paying monthly, or the "Lifetime" Service you paid for up-front allows them to change it at will. Read section 6 of the agreement. You granted them that right. You can terminate that right with them by calling up and cancelling your service.
I have worked at home for 6 of the past 10 years, and been able to telecommute for some part of those other 4 years. I am enjoying the limited impact this has on my expenses as compared to years ago when I was driving 62-miles one-way to work. For the last 6 months or so of that (in 2000) I was getting 30-31mpg in my vehicle.
I've worked at home full time 6 out of the last 10 years, and been able to do some percentage work at home for the other 4 (1-2 days a week when necessary). So I've burned through a few keyboards by spilling water on them. The last one i was quite sad with because it worked perfectly, and still had those stickers on it from "You Don't Know Jack" game that i thought would be amusing to apply.
The qwertz keyboards in Germany are ok, takes some time to get used to depending on if you can cope with your Y and Z being switched. But the pipe/backslash issue is not a UK vs US thing, these are all keyboards obtained in the US. That's what gets me the most, because if you run a comand like grep foo bar | cut, things can quickly get botched. Things that are much easier done at the shell instead of writing a perl script...
Then there's these mice, I am quite happy with my Logitech 3 button mouse circa 1995. It works perfectly for me (of course you need to periodically clean them) and doesn't have that stupid scroll device that everyone seems so intent in putting in them these days. That reminds me, I need to go to the local computer recycling place and dig around in their bins to find some good keyboards and mice to stockpile that have a reasonable layout before the entire earth is plagued with these new marvels that annoy me so much.
I don't expect everyone here to agree with me, i know quite a few people who love their scroll wheels and fancy optical mice. I'm just not one of them.
Someone at PBS can email me (not like i'm hard to find) to set something like this up. If things get ugly, I can host it on more than one host, but the peak I saw (and it's well below that now) was ~10Mb/s. I can even stick it on a host I have in Asia so folks there can get it at higher speeds (due to tcp window*delay foo). I know last time in Tokyo i downloaded stuff at ~1MB/s in my hotel room from that machine. (I hate that we don't have that speed links here in the US.. sigh).
Yes, folks should feel free to use this (fast host, and i've survivded slashdotting before, easily). Mirror of mp4: Nerd TV MP4 Episode 1
They can easily convert everyone to unlimited plans and put the domestic LD carriers out of the voice business. There's just so much profit to be milked out of $.25/min in-state calling that it's hard to justify dropping the prices since people are willing to pay it.
Vonage and others will face the same challenge others have seen when fighting the ILECs.
As evilspammer@example.com, I could set my spf record to be 24.0.0.0/8 so I could then spam from anyone in that space. Or i could have short lived ttls for my recently r00ted WinDoze boxen in my zone, utilizting dyndns to push them out. Anyone who thinks spammers can't run their own dns servers or manage technology is in denial.
You're just saying that it's a valid domain-name, but as soon as someones dns servers or smtp servers are rooted, you'll have spam again. The good thing is it'll help let legit people you do business with (eg: your Bank, CC company) say that a message was authorized by them, or at least by the SPF rules.