I am a pretty dense person, but after thinking long and hard about this post, I'm not exactly sure why it was modded funny. The post is 100% true, this is why CDNs like Akamai, Speedera, Digital-Island, etc. exist, to put the content closer to the end user. Having a p2p protocol that could download only from servers with a low number of hops would definately help alleviate net congestion which is rapidly increasing by use of p2p.
Knowing the IP address is only a few steps away from the RIAA, MPAA, etc finding out who you are. If you have your own konspire channel called "500 Gigs of mp3s", the RIAA would love to know who you are and where they can send their lawyers. If you share music, videos, or any copyrighted works, chances are you prefer to remain as anonymous as possible.
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The concept of konspire is really cool. It provides a good method of anonymity of the original sender. Pesonally I'd like to see it use the bittorrent method of file delivery because you have the potential of only having to send the whole file once, plus if konspire decides to send the file to a 28.8k modem user first, everybody else will have to wait until that user gets the file before they can receive it, where as bittorrent's method can send to many people simultaneously and still use less bandwidth. The problem with bittorrent is that you know who sent the original files, because you got the.torrent from them, so a combination of both technologies would rule!
I did a 160 unit student housing complex about a year and a half ago. The place was already built and the network was an after thought. Luckily each unit had a phone jack wired with cat 5. We used two of the pair for network and the other two for phone. We had to splice the end at the phone box and run it back into the complex (Which was a pain in the rear). For hardware we got some pretty nice stuff for the time. Essentially there were 7 buildings, each building had it's own 24 port switch with a gig uplink back to a central building. We were lucky enough that the distance was within our limits for doing copper, since fiber is considerably more expensive (about 6-10x more expensive than copper). My suggestion is to run copper as much as possible, unless price isn't a problem. For internet access we ran multiple t1s to the complex, and was natted / cached using linux nat, qos, and squid for a transparent proxy. The same box also provided dns, dhcp, and email. The setup works flawlessly, we've just had a few users who have caused problems (where a managed switch system would have come in handy, but is more expensive also.)
I was hoping to send some nice emails in arabic like:
Jihad to Microsoft! Linux has risen in an explosive blaze of fury! I like VX works. Food tastes good with ricin it. Death to BUSH using new hedge trimmers. 90% off swedish made penis enlargers! (Which is what they're really looking for)
EVMS is IBM's version of RAID for linux. This is natively available on gentoo linux. I've been running it on a few boxes with great success. The utilities make it a lot easier to set up raid, lvm, etc.. Definately worth looking at for those interested.
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I am a pretty dense person, but after thinking long and hard about this post, I'm not exactly sure why it was modded funny. The post is 100% true, this is why CDNs like Akamai, Speedera, Digital-Island, etc. exist, to put the content closer to the end user. Having a p2p protocol that could download only from servers with a low number of hops would definately help alleviate net congestion which is rapidly increasing by use of p2p.
Knowing the IP address is only a few steps away from the RIAA, MPAA, etc finding out who you are. If you have your own konspire channel called "500 Gigs of mp3s", the RIAA would love to know who you are and where they can send their lawyers. If you share music, videos, or any copyrighted works, chances are you prefer to remain as anonymous as possible.
The concept of konspire is really cool. It provides a good method of anonymity of the original sender. Pesonally I'd like to see it use the bittorrent method of file delivery because you have the potential of only having to send the whole file once, plus if konspire decides to send the file to a 28.8k modem user first, everybody else will have to wait until that user gets the file before they can receive it, where as bittorrent's method can send to many people simultaneously and still use less bandwidth. The problem with bittorrent is that you know who sent the original files, because you got the .torrent from them, so a combination of both technologies would rule!
I did a 160 unit student housing complex about a year and a half ago. The place was already built and the network was an after thought. Luckily each unit had a phone jack wired with cat 5. We used two of the pair for network and the other two for phone. We had to splice the end at the phone box and run it back into the complex (Which was a pain in the rear). For hardware we got some pretty nice stuff for the time. Essentially there were 7 buildings, each building had it's own 24 port switch with a gig uplink back to a central building. We were lucky enough that the distance was within our limits for doing copper, since fiber is considerably more expensive (about 6-10x more expensive than copper). My suggestion is to run copper as much as possible, unless price isn't a problem. For internet access we ran multiple t1s to the complex, and was natted / cached using linux nat, qos, and squid for a transparent proxy. The same box also provided dns, dhcp, and email. The setup works flawlessly, we've just had a few users who have caused problems (where a managed switch system would have come in handy, but is more expensive also.)
Hey, don't dis punch the monkey. That's my retirement plan!
Everybody know that Linux is the OS of choice for super villins (terrorists)!
I was hoping to send some nice emails in arabic like:
Jihad to Microsoft! Linux has risen in an explosive blaze of fury! I like VX works. Food tastes good with ricin it. Death to BUSH using new hedge trimmers. 90% off swedish made penis enlargers! (Which is what they're really looking for)
EVMS is IBM's version of RAID for linux. This is natively available on gentoo linux. I've been running it on a few boxes with great success. The utilities make it a lot easier to set up raid, lvm, etc.. Definately worth looking at for those interested.