Yup, my ISP has actually gone to court to stop spammers (they won, hear hear). They scan for open relays on their clients hosts and they block the smtp port by default (you can switch that off though). Still they appear on blocklists now and then.
If extreme blocking would just be hitting the innocent I am all for it. But we must make pretty sure that the scheme is actually doing this. A lot of guys are hosting pretty usefull mailinglists on this ISP's accounts. We don't want to loose those against the fight against spammers.
A cable compagny used the term ADSL for their internet access solutions (using coax). They made TV commercials about their great ADSL connection.
The case went to court when the main telco in the Netherlands noticed. Obviously they were in their right. It is impossible to use ADSL on coax. The telco won the case.
HP is wrong here. People are expecting a 9200 chip in the computer with 9200 performance (read, 8x AGP). If this is not delivered they are needlessly confusing customers.
The cable company made a simmilar argument as HP and ATI, telling customers that their service was as good as that of the telco's, and that all the acronyms were fullfilled (asynchronous, digital, subscriber and line).
I think that it is pretty simple though. If it's a horse, call it a horse. Even if it looks like a cow, or has horns. Otherwise you are needlessly confusing customers that want to buy a cow and get a horse. Err, or something like that.
Simple. You give each a different DNS name and use the HTTP header to let the web server serve a virtual host for each. Any self respecting web server (e.g. apache) can do this.
I vouch for IPv6 though. All these things are just patches, and there ARE reasons enought to have more hosts behind my end user router. My provider actually lets me have an IPv6 tunnel (xs4all.nl). So I can play around with it.
Note that I hate a part IPv6 for just one reason; I cannot really remember 128 bit addresses.
These would be at place in a digital video camera even better. JVC (and probably others) has a few of these very small babies already. And speed and storage space are very important for these kind of camera's.
With 4 GB you can easily store hours of high quality video. One of the last places where tape is still common is going to bite the dust.
Just backup media to go. That might be a tough one to crack. For low speed storage it is very economical.
Wait, the PPP is carried before the ATM overhead is added. So it looks like your problem really is just the false advertising of maximum, without telling you that so much is overhead.
Well, that was what I was saying I guess. That high ATM overhead is the cost of its (theoretically) much faster switching/bandwidth, which should not actually constrain the TCP/IP connection over which you get your data.
Eh? I can't follow you here. How ATM cells came to be can be read in Computer Networks of Andy tanenbaum. The 5 byte overhead for only a 53 byte cell is not that well thought out. It's great for voice (they say) but a dog for data. They're just using all those lies to oversubscribe, and crank you down when they mismanage their aggregate bandwidth reservations.
That's a bit too paranoid. I have once seen the effects of too low bandwith down the line (to the ISP) and that was fixed within 1.5 weeks. That was already 2.5 years ago. Since then I have had more disconnections from cranking UP the bandwith then anything else.
If not for the false start (HTML login page, broken 1:1 NAT implementation at the telco) I am very very happy with my ADSL broadband connection.
That must be a very small ISP indeed. You would not want to do that with my ISP (xs4all.nl). Or most others for that matter. Or do you host just their own private usenet groups?
If they would complain on my connection (which they won't) I would do something back too though. I already create an ADSL FAQ once, and I am thinking about writing a site on their "advanced" usages (spam filter settings, ssh access, bsmtp, ipv6 etc).
If they advertise "X-Mbps" and I don't get it 95%, 99%, (what's an appropriate SLA for the computer industry) of the time, it's broken!
In that case my ISP is always broken. In the Netherlands, but e.g. also in the UK, the big telcos, KPN and BT respectively, are using PPPoA (the A is for ATM) to transport IP packages. They use the ATM bandwith for their commercials etc.
ATM has a cell size of 53 bytes, 5 of which are part of the header. So it is impossible to get a bandwith over 91% on the IP level. It must be said that most people here still remember the good old cable days (that's sarcastic) with maximum speeds way over what was actually possible.
I still think it is really bad that they can advertise with bandwidth on the ATM layer though.
Wanna know what you got? Here (alcatel) is a short list I googled up.
"Another good example is a band who releases low-bitrate MP3s for download off their website."
I hate bands that do that. A way better strategy is to use high bitrate recordings and malware (new noun) them at some point best of somewhere in the end. Say a recording of the lead singer asking you to buy the record.
The music sounds good but you wouldn't want 100 songs in your jukebox that are garbled at the end. Selling music by making it sound bad is just not the best strategy:)
Note that this does not work well in movies, I can look past those "call 1-800...." that appear on screen in some movies I watch - eh - at a friends house.
I wanted to make a statement about MSX, which you could hardly call a flop, but then I took a better look at the rest of the list.
It seems a more or less random list without any real argumentation about why the product was such a flop. If you count CD-R as a WORM drive by the way, then this might be the most popular technology so far.
This is more like a list of products that the author dislikes than anything else.
No, nothing from Xanadu will be added to the web. Nothing but ActiveX extensions will be added to the web. Microsoft stopped development, and that's about 9x percent of the market.
Only the mobile interweb will grow, because... Oh well, don't buy a Microsoft based mobile phone would you?
Did you pay up your Microsoft IP rights for your USB pen drive?
Instead of pushing an incredibly biased opinion on something almost completely off-topic, could somebody please mod this down?
I do not even want to go into this discussion, but if a guy mentions "idiot groups like greenpeace" and "widespread misunderstanding of nuclear power"... on usenet he would be in my killfile instantly.
Yes, and inadvertently slowing down the decoding of a divx movie or kernel compile in the background. Remember that this is a hack on CPU resources, not on any other means like human time.
And the way this uses 'time' is the same way as A10 tankkiller used the CPU to calculate the game time. So a killer machine with a different architecture can still be used without any problems.
If this is the way MS wants to create secure computing in the following decade, they are seriously going to loose out. It's a hack, and a bad one at that. NO-ONE of the other mail clients is going to comply.
This must be the only site that does not mention the Athlon 64 in the conclusion. Therefore I can only draw one conclusion (if you remember that a Athlon 64 3000+ outperforms a similar priced P4) Tom's hardware is done for.
I've been following Tom's hardware for years on end, and I loved their articles on RAID and drive benchmarks. Nowadays the articles are mostly written by mediocre "editors" though, and they bear little resemblence to articles by Tom himself.
To be fair, sometimes they still have great reviews (printers, screens and harddisks mostly), but you will have to look for them between articles that should never have seen the light of day.
Linux users should avoid this Windows site at all cost.
Dunno, I always keep my CPU's and motherboards together nowadays. If I upgrade, both my CPU and motherboard go to another machine. Motherboards are not too expensive, and there are always reasons to upgrade your mobo (faster memory, better lan, serial ata, raid etc.).
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Eh, since when does it matter which kind of card you are putting in a server machine?
If I would put one of these cards in a machine I would choose ATI or even better matrox, which have both very stable drivers (and very good 2D quality), something you do want in a server. But a lot of servers have an integrated graphics card, which is fine.
Obviously if you have tons lying around, great, use 'm.
Yes, the prototypes are unmanned. But if the article is as short as this, you might want to take a look at the link. There _are_ meant for passengers.
Not that they will succeed in the current financial climate. Which is a shame, since I hope that that these cramped, noisy, poluting jets we are using now are not the end of aviation evolution.
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If extreme blocking would just be hitting the innocent
Don't drink and slashdot, that's all I am saying.
D'oh!
Yup, my ISP has actually gone to court to stop spammers (they won, hear hear). They scan for open relays on their clients hosts and they block the smtp port by default (you can switch that off though). Still they appear on blocklists now and then.
If extreme blocking would just be hitting the innocent I am all for it. But we must make pretty sure that the scheme is actually doing this. A lot of guys are hosting pretty usefull mailinglists on this ISP's accounts. We don't want to loose those against the fight against spammers.
A cable compagny used the term ADSL for their internet access solutions (using coax). They made TV commercials about their great ADSL connection.
The case went to court when the main telco in the Netherlands noticed. Obviously they were in their right. It is impossible to use ADSL on coax. The telco won the case.
HP is wrong here. People are expecting a 9200 chip in the computer with 9200 performance (read, 8x AGP). If this is not delivered they are needlessly confusing customers.
The cable company made a simmilar argument as HP and ATI, telling customers that their service was as good as that of the telco's, and that all the acronyms were fullfilled (asynchronous, digital, subscriber and line).
I think that it is pretty simple though. If it's a horse, call it a horse. Even if it looks like a cow, or has horns. Otherwise you are needlessly confusing customers that want to buy a cow and get a horse. Err, or something like that.
Somebody should sue HP for this.
Simple. You give each a different DNS name and use the HTTP header to let the web server serve a virtual host for each. Any self respecting web server (e.g. apache) can do this.
I vouch for IPv6 though. All these things are just patches, and there ARE reasons enought to have more hosts behind my end user router. My provider actually lets me have an IPv6 tunnel (xs4all.nl). So I can play around with it.
Note that I hate a part IPv6 for just one reason; I cannot really remember 128 bit addresses.
These would be at place in a digital video camera even better. JVC (and probably others) has a few of these very small babies already. And speed and storage space are very important for these kind of camera's.
With 4 GB you can easily store hours of high quality video. One of the last places where tape is still common is going to bite the dust.
Just backup media to go. That might be a tough one to crack. For low speed storage it is very economical.
Wait, the PPP is carried before the ATM overhead is added. So it looks like your problem really is just the false advertising of maximum, without telling you that so much is overhead.
Well, that was what I was saying I guess.
That high ATM overhead is the cost of its (theoretically) much faster switching/bandwidth, which should not actually constrain the TCP/IP connection over which you get your data.
Eh? I can't follow you here. How ATM cells came to be can be read in Computer Networks of Andy tanenbaum. The 5 byte overhead for only a 53 byte cell is not that well thought out. It's great for voice (they say) but a dog for data.
They're just using all those lies to oversubscribe, and crank you down when they mismanage their aggregate bandwidth reservations.
That's a bit too paranoid. I have once seen the effects of too low bandwith down the line (to the ISP) and that was fixed within 1.5 weeks. That was already 2.5 years ago. Since then I have had more disconnections from cranking UP the bandwith then anything else.
If not for the false start (HTML login page, broken 1:1 NAT implementation at the telco) I am very very happy with my ADSL broadband connection.
That must be a very small ISP indeed. You would not want to do that with my ISP (xs4all.nl). Or most others for that matter. Or do you host just their own private usenet groups?
:) Do you support your ISP?
If they would complain on my connection (which they won't) I would do something back too though. I already create an ADSL FAQ once, and I am thinking about writing a site on their "advanced" usages (spam filter settings, ssh access, bsmtp, ipv6 etc).
Yes, I like my ISP
If they advertise "X-Mbps" and I don't get it 95%, 99%, (what's an appropriate SLA for the computer industry) of the time, it's broken!
In that case my ISP is always broken. In the Netherlands, but e.g. also in the UK, the big telcos, KPN and BT respectively, are using PPPoA (the A is for ATM) to transport IP packages. They use the ATM bandwith for their commercials etc.
ATM has a cell size of 53 bytes, 5 of which are part of the header. So it is impossible to get a bandwith over 91% on the IP level. It must be said that most people here still remember the good old cable days (that's sarcastic) with maximum speeds way over what was actually possible.
I still think it is really bad that they can advertise with bandwidth on the ATM layer though.
Wanna know what you got? Here (alcatel) is a short list I googled up.
So now we go to the store and count the bubbles? Or the size of them? With tiny meters? And don't we have to open the champagne before we get bubbles?
Oh well, if I get to a restaurant and get a glass with big bubbles I will send it back. Waiter, could I get another glass? The bubbles are too big.
Sheesh.
You just added number 5 to my "good intentions" for 2004. Great.
I normally do nothing (for instance, I read /.) on new years day. For a good reason. So how was your new years eve?
"Another good example is a band who releases low-bitrate MP3s for download off their website."
:)
I hate bands that do that. A way better strategy is to use high bitrate recordings and malware (new noun) them at some point best of somewhere in the end. Say a recording of the lead singer asking you to buy the record.
The music sounds good but you wouldn't want 100 songs in your jukebox that are garbled at the end. Selling music by making it sound bad is just not the best strategy
Note that this does not work well in movies, I can look past those "call 1-800...." that appear on screen in some movies I watch - eh - at a friends house.
Parent should be marked as troll.
I wanted to make a statement about MSX, which you could hardly call a flop, but then I took a better look at the rest of the list.
It seems a more or less random list without any real argumentation about why the product was such a flop. If you count CD-R as a WORM drive by the way, then this might be the most popular technology so far.
This is more like a list of products that the author dislikes than anything else.
No, nothing from Xanadu will be added to the web. Nothing but ActiveX extensions will be added to the web. Microsoft stopped development, and that's about 9x percent of the market.
Only the mobile interweb will grow, because... Oh well, don't buy a Microsoft based mobile phone would you?
Did you pay up your Microsoft IP rights for your USB pen drive?
Ok, but do you still hear any birds around there?
I'll start collecting fans immediately!
Instead of pushing an incredibly biased opinion on something almost completely off-topic, could somebody please mod this down?
I do not even want to go into this discussion, but if a guy mentions "idiot groups like greenpeace" and "widespread misunderstanding of nuclear power"... on usenet he would be in my killfile instantly.
Yes, and inadvertently slowing down the decoding of a divx movie or kernel compile in the background. Remember that this is a hack on CPU resources, not on any other means like human time.
And the way this uses 'time' is the same way as A10 tankkiller used the CPU to calculate the game time. So a killer machine with a different architecture can still be used without any problems.
If this is the way MS wants to create secure computing in the following decade, they are seriously going to loose out. It's a hack, and a bad one at that. NO-ONE of the other mail clients is going to comply.
For those developers that are not so Java aware (see title).
This must be the only site that does not mention the Athlon 64 in the conclusion. Therefore I can only draw one conclusion (if you remember that a Athlon 64 3000+ outperforms a similar priced P4) Tom's hardware is done for.
I've been following Tom's hardware for years on end, and I loved their articles on RAID and drive benchmarks. Nowadays the articles are mostly written by mediocre "editors" though, and they bear little resemblence to articles by Tom himself.
To be fair, sometimes they still have great reviews (printers, screens and harddisks mostly), but you will have to look for them between articles that should never have seen the light of day.
Linux users should avoid this Windows site at all cost.
Never mind my old hardware, how am I gonna use this on my mobile phone, even if somebody takes the time to create a compatible mail client for this?
The bad: Will Smith.
No, that's the ugly, stupid...
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Dunno, I always keep my CPU's and motherboards together nowadays. If I upgrade, both my CPU and motherboard go to another machine. Motherboards are not too expensive, and there are always reasons to upgrade your mobo (faster memory, better lan, serial ata, raid etc.).
Eh, since when does it matter which kind of card you are putting in a server machine?
If I would put one of these cards in a machine I would choose ATI or even better matrox, which have both very stable drivers (and very good 2D quality), something you do want in a server. But a lot of servers have an integrated graphics card, which is fine.
Obviously if you have tons lying around, great, use 'm.
Yes, the prototypes are unmanned. But if the article is as short as this, you might want to take a look at the link. There _are_ meant for passengers.
Not that they will succeed in the current financial climate. Which is a shame, since I hope that that these cramped, noisy, poluting jets we are using now are not the end of aviation evolution.