It's a good idea, but it'll also creates a hassle with spammers, bots, scrapers and other malicious users that will use Amazon EC2 to do bad stuff. The IP reputation of Amazon EC2 was already bad (with many services blocking EC2 pre-emptively) now it's going to get even worse.
In the past malicious amazon ec2 users would at least have to put some effort into learning EC2. Now they can just use the TOR layer instead to use amazon IPs.
While this is true. There are quite a few situations that can be calculated.
For example, a driver losing falling unconscious / falling asleep would be a perfect example of a system that could kick in and safely slow down the speed of the car.
I'm not saying that a system such as this should be trigger-happy, but simply kick in as a last resort.
I'd love to have some blue, green and red honey on display and possibly on the toast .
Seems to me it should be perfectly safe since the candy color is approved for human consumption unless the colors get concentrated somehow (which I doubt).
Even though they're suspected GPL offenders (opinions differ) I still have to put in my word for mikrotik.
These guys know how to build wifi in rural areas with plenty of subscribers, stable hardware and good software at low cost.
Even their cheaper products are very well up to the task and can be expanded upon with different wireless-transmitters and antennas.
If that is not enough you can always look at their more "enterprise:ish" products. I've only good things to say about them, and we used their products for well over 5 years when we still ran a WISP.
How does your upstream contracts work? You could try and see if you can buy traffic per 95th percentile with a commit instead if you need the burst capacity . Then throttle the worst offenders if you notice your 95th percentile going over your commit.
Hey. What most private customers dont seem to realise is that bandwidth is very expensive.
Some expects DEDICATED bandwidth from your ISP. That's entirely unrealistic.
Maybe it's time to start charging private customers by the 95th percentile? if they want dedicated..
Private internet connection is not dedicated and will never be if customers expects prices to go down. It would increase tenfold if you were to pay the actual prices isp's pay for peering , transit et al.
Gentoo has proven troublesome in a production environment. The problem isnt updating often... it's when you DONT update often.
We had one system which we didnt bother to update. (Dont fix what isnt broken) Then one day we had to upgrade some of the services.. which in turn required lots of libraries to be upgraded.
In the end, we had to upgrade kernel.. cause libraries didnt support 2.4 kernel. Stuff change too much in gentoo to put it simple.. It's easier to keep updating often
emerge sync && emerge -u world Then iron out all config-changes. Find out which undocumented features were changed, which keys to add to startup script etc.
Lesson learnt: Dont use gentoo on production systems. Run it on your desktop computer you play around with...
Uhm... New players can compete with old players by specialization. What's great about eve is that you dont need to "accumulate" lots of stuff to compete.
The more items and more expensive stuff you bring, only means that you'll lose more when you get shot down. It's all about risk vs reward in EVE.
WoW has more users cause they have bigger marketing teams, spell Diablo, Warcraft etc..
It's also the game where all is really about leveling, more leveling, then accumulating the best gear which you never risk losing. It's not a game of minds like EVE is, it's a game of who can spend the most time online to grind in dungeons.
As my first post said... Want a challange? Try Eve online. It's not an easy game, but it's well worth it if you get into it.
World of Warcraft is simply a pretty world where all players are pampered all along the way... If you're looking for a real challange, try out EVE Online at http://www.eve-online.com/ . You can also visit my eve-related blog at http://www.eve-pirate.com/:)
I previously made a comparison on my blog on the subject of LCD a couple of days before slashdot made this post. It's a swedish blog, but Ill to it anyway. lcdguide.se Basicly, I found that the good points about plasma (color depth, if you're out to watch movies) is weighted up by the long life and many nice features of LCD. An lcd is a multi-tool, use it for computer screen, video-playback. Some plasma-fans cling on to plasmas broad angle of view.. well, tough luck. New lcd's sport almost 180degree view. Prices of LCD has also come down and even in big screen sizes LCD is able to beat plasma.
If you're out for an investment that'll last, I'd still wait a bit before buying either plasma or LCD. Prices are coming down, fast.
To sum this up, the thing about plasma which makes it a bad choice is: High power usage Fragile Shorter life (Screen burn issues) Dated technique...
It's not like Telia doesn't do the same.... Although not as open about it as NextGenTel. Telia has a serious marketdominance in the ADSL-field and refuses to let smaller operators in to use the infrastructure without having to pay insane amounts of money.
Peering is also a thing which Telia is abusing to their own ends. If you're not a big provider you can't get a peering to Telia (unless you pay insane amounts of money or know someone high up at Telia-sales). The way other operators have to go about and do is to buy traffic exchange with operators who are big enough to be able to buy the amount of traffic required from telia to get the low prices and still resell at more humane levels (although still "reselling").
If the operator you're on is trying to get to Telias network without Internetexchange in sweden you'll have to go over international carrier... Which in return results that going from sweden to holland and back will give additional delays.
When big companies can hoard the good peer-points the market for small operators will be dampened unless your small company has a deal with an operator big enough to get tier2 access to the likes of Telia.
The site has a pagerank 7/10 which is actually pretty good in terms of internet publicity. Getting your own site linked on a 7/10 site will do wonders for your own Pagerank.
Thus those pixels may be worth more than they seem.
The question is how google will treat that amount of links, if it will accept them in the PR calculations.
Bashing macroers was something I gave as an example. Showing that macroers are often caught if they try it. EVE isnt really safe enough to do large-scaled macroing operations.
Someone else said "everybody sells isk" that's wrong.. it's more likely that more buy isk than sell , if you take a look on ebay you'll see maybe 5 to 7 big sellers. These laundry their money by having loads of accounts to do it on. But in reality there arent too many players who just play eve to farm isk. In this case buying isk would be a bigger problem since it's more likely that you'll buy isk to get a little extra headsup in the game. But that also means that the sellers will eventually get caught and banned since the amount of suppliers of ISK are few and easy to recognize. (playervise)
First of all , it takes a lot of time to train characters who are good at making the isk. Compare it to other games where gold-farmers can setup a shop easily by macroing skill for a few days.
In eve it takes months to be competative at that level of ISK gaining.
Thus if you get caught not only do you lose your character and account, but you'll have to start-over.
CoH is a different kind of game, it's really got no ways to lose out a lot. WoW and games where you face no risks by playing is no game that attract me. Anyone can become a twink lvl 60 player in 9 days in those games. From my point of view EVE has attracted a very mature and dedicated playerbase.
Sorry but the idea of selling in-game stuff for RL cash is just wrong. At least to me. It takes away a part of the game where you just play to have fun.
Take a look at Everquest. Go with a party and you wont get the people who think "Wow, I'm going out to have fun with my friends bashing a couple of mean nasties". No you'll get the people who think "I wonder how much dollar I can sell this rare item for..."
It's just taken a turn for greed in games where they encourage or allow people to sell stuff for RL money.
That's why I love EVE-Online so much, not only do CCP (company who runs the game) prohibit ISK (the ingame currency) selling, but they crack down hard on those who sell. But I can actually be evil in this game and loot pillage and plunder, meaning if I find a macro-player I'll just take him down myself...
It's an ultra-capitalistic in-game world where there are no entirely safe-zones. Macro isk-farmers live a dangerous life since "pirates" (a class of players who live outside the in-game law to plunder very much like 17th century pirates) love to go after players who arent watching their client just sitting there macroing away.
Im sorry if I cannot fail to see why parent is modded interesting.
There're lots of uses for long-range WiFi in municipal areas which lack DSL and other broadband alternatives. Where WiFi ISP's can start offering cheaper access to their customers when they dont need to put hotspots as close anymore.
I'm currently working at such ISP, where we are currently using uplinks to local hotspots over ~20km on the 2,4 and 5ghz spectrum. Achieving a high bandwidth over these long ranges has always been a problem with reasonably priced antennas and techniques. Though, I've yet to test out these new antennas and see if they are better than the antennas we are already using, free sight vs non-free sight between nodes etc. 1-2km or more to our hotspots from a customer isnt uncommon, it's relatively easy to guarantee 10mbit access aswell. Provided there are no trees in the path;)
According to Zennström (co-founder of Kazaa and Skype) whose company skype recently got bought by eBay, Skype will still be run as a separate company by him as the head.
So I kind of doubt he'll actively be doing stuff to endanger peoples privacy. It's worth mentioning that he left Kazaa BEFORE they became known as an adware-bloated software.
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It's a good idea, but it'll also creates a hassle with spammers, bots, scrapers and other malicious users that will use Amazon EC2 to do bad stuff.
The IP reputation of Amazon EC2 was already bad (with many services blocking EC2 pre-emptively) now it's going to get even worse.
In the past malicious amazon ec2 users would at least have to put some effort into learning EC2. Now they can just use the TOR layer instead to use amazon IPs.
While this is true. There are quite a few situations that can be calculated. For example, a driver losing falling unconscious / falling asleep would be a perfect example of a system that could kick in and safely slow down the speed of the car. I'm not saying that a system such as this should be trigger-happy, but simply kick in as a last resort.
I'd love to have some blue, green and red honey on display and possibly on the toast
. Seems to me it should be perfectly safe since the candy color is approved for human consumption unless the colors get concentrated somehow (which I doubt).
Even though they're suspected GPL offenders (opinions differ) I still have to put in my word for mikrotik. These guys know how to build wifi in rural areas with plenty of subscribers, stable hardware and good software at low cost. Even their cheaper products are very well up to the task and can be expanded upon with different wireless-transmitters and antennas. If that is not enough you can always look at their more "enterprise:ish" products. I've only good things to say about them, and we used their products for well over 5 years when we still ran a WISP.
Here, go ahead:
http://stats.autonomica.se/mrtg/sums_max/all_month_sum.png
This is the monthly summarized statistics for netnod. Does indeed look like a big drop at April 1st and pretty stable usage before.
How does your upstream contracts work? You could try and see if you can buy traffic per 95th percentile with a commit instead if you need the burst capacity . Then throttle the worst offenders if you notice your 95th percentile going over your commit.
Howtoforge.org has fulfilled that role for a long time which Linux.com aims to do now.
Can someone find me their AS numbers so I can simply nullroute them?
Hey. What most private customers dont seem to realise is that bandwidth is very expensive. Some expects DEDICATED bandwidth from your ISP. That's entirely unrealistic. Maybe it's time to start charging private customers by the 95th percentile? if they want dedicated.. Private internet connection is not dedicated and will never be if customers expects prices to go down. It would increase tenfold if you were to pay the actual prices isp's pay for peering , transit et al.
I thought he had died!
Thinking his ashes might've been sent to space and then come down again.
Not reading those summaries are bad...
one of the bidders for Doubleclick?
Unhappy loser?
Gentoo has proven troublesome in a production environment.
The problem isnt updating often... it's when you DONT update often.
We had one system which we didnt bother to update. (Dont fix what isnt broken)
Then one day we had to upgrade some of the services.. which in turn required lots of libraries to be upgraded.
In the end, we had to upgrade kernel.. cause libraries didnt support 2.4 kernel.
Stuff change too much in gentoo to put it simple.. It's easier to keep updating often
emerge sync && emerge -u world
Then iron out all config-changes. Find out which undocumented features were changed, which keys to add to startup script etc.
Lesson learnt: Dont use gentoo on production systems. Run it on your desktop computer you play around with...
Uhm... New players can compete with old players by specialization. What's great about eve is that you dont need to "accumulate" lots of stuff to compete. The more items and more expensive stuff you bring, only means that you'll lose more when you get shot down. It's all about risk vs reward in EVE. WoW has more users cause they have bigger marketing teams, spell Diablo, Warcraft etc.. It's also the game where all is really about leveling, more leveling, then accumulating the best gear which you never risk losing. It's not a game of minds like EVE is, it's a game of who can spend the most time online to grind in dungeons. As my first post said... Want a challange? Try Eve online. It's not an easy game, but it's well worth it if you get into it.
World of Warcraft is simply a pretty world where all players are pampered all along the way... :)
If you're looking for a real challange, try out EVE Online at http://www.eve-online.com/ .
You can also visit my eve-related blog at http://www.eve-pirate.com/
What if the state claims that he was using their resources and knowledge about how ticket-system works?
Would that affect the case?
I previously made a comparison on my blog on the subject of LCD a couple of days before slashdot made this post.
It's a swedish blog, but Ill to it anyway. lcdguide.se
Basicly, I found that the good points about plasma (color depth, if you're out to watch movies) is weighted up by the long life and many nice features of LCD. An lcd is a multi-tool, use it for computer screen, video-playback. Some plasma-fans cling on to plasmas broad angle of view.. well, tough luck. New lcd's sport almost 180degree view.
Prices of LCD has also come down and even in big screen sizes LCD is able to beat plasma.
If you're out for an investment that'll last, I'd still wait a bit before buying either plasma or LCD.
Prices are coming down, fast.
To sum this up, the thing about plasma which makes it a bad choice is:
High power usage
Fragile
Shorter life (Screen burn issues)
Dated technique...
It's not like Telia doesn't do the same....
Although not as open about it as NextGenTel.
Telia has a serious marketdominance in the ADSL-field and refuses to let smaller operators in to use the infrastructure without having to pay insane amounts of money.
Peering is also a thing which Telia is abusing to their own ends. If you're not a big provider you can't get a peering to Telia (unless you pay insane amounts of money or know someone high up at Telia-sales).
The way other operators have to go about and do is to buy traffic exchange with operators who are big enough to be able to buy the amount of traffic required from telia to get the low prices and still resell at more humane levels (although still "reselling").
If the operator you're on is trying to get to Telias network without Internetexchange in sweden you'll have to go over international carrier... Which in return results that going from sweden to holland and back will give additional delays.
When big companies can hoard the good peer-points the market for small operators will be dampened unless your small company has a deal with an operator big enough to get tier2 access to the likes of Telia.
I want my mind-enhancing "remember everything you read" pills for studying.
Exams in a couple of days dammit!
The site has a pagerank 7/10 which is actually pretty good in terms of internet publicity.
Getting your own site linked on a 7/10 site will do wonders for your own Pagerank.
Thus those pixels may be worth more than they seem.
The question is how google will treat that amount of links, if it will accept them in the PR calculations.
sacrilege!
Bashing macroers was something I gave as an example. Showing that macroers are often caught if they try it. EVE isnt really safe enough to do large-scaled macroing operations. Someone else said "everybody sells isk" that's wrong.. it's more likely that more buy isk than sell , if you take a look on ebay you'll see maybe 5 to 7 big sellers. These laundry their money by having loads of accounts to do it on. But in reality there arent too many players who just play eve to farm isk. In this case buying isk would be a bigger problem since it's more likely that you'll buy isk to get a little extra headsup in the game. But that also means that the sellers will eventually get caught and banned since the amount of suppliers of ISK are few and easy to recognize. (playervise) First of all , it takes a lot of time to train characters who are good at making the isk. Compare it to other games where gold-farmers can setup a shop easily by macroing skill for a few days. In eve it takes months to be competative at that level of ISK gaining. Thus if you get caught not only do you lose your character and account, but you'll have to start-over. CoH is a different kind of game, it's really got no ways to lose out a lot. WoW and games where you face no risks by playing is no game that attract me. Anyone can become a twink lvl 60 player in 9 days in those games. From my point of view EVE has attracted a very mature and dedicated playerbase.
Sorry but the idea of selling in-game stuff for RL cash is just wrong.
At least to me. It takes away a part of the game where you just play to have fun.
Take a look at Everquest. Go with a party and you wont get the people who think "Wow, I'm going out to have fun with my friends bashing a couple of mean nasties". No you'll get the people who think "I wonder how much dollar I can sell this rare item for..."
It's just taken a turn for greed in games where they encourage or allow people to sell stuff for RL money.
That's why I love EVE-Online so much, not only do CCP (company who runs the game) prohibit ISK (the ingame currency) selling, but they crack down hard on those who sell. But I can actually be evil in this game and loot pillage and plunder, meaning if I find a macro-player I'll just take him down myself...
It's an ultra-capitalistic in-game world where there are no entirely safe-zones. Macro isk-farmers live a dangerous life since "pirates" (a class of players who live outside the in-game law to plunder very much like 17th century pirates) love to go after players who arent watching their client just sitting there macroing away.
Im sorry if I cannot fail to see why parent is modded interesting.
;)
There're lots of uses for long-range WiFi in municipal areas which lack DSL and other broadband alternatives. Where WiFi ISP's can start offering cheaper access to their customers when they dont need to put hotspots as close anymore.
I'm currently working at such ISP, where we are currently using uplinks to local hotspots over ~20km on the 2,4 and 5ghz spectrum. Achieving a high bandwidth over these long ranges has always been a problem with reasonably priced antennas and techniques. Though, I've yet to test out these new antennas and see if they are better than the antennas we are already using, free sight vs non-free sight between nodes etc.
1-2km or more to our hotspots from a customer isnt uncommon, it's relatively easy to guarantee 10mbit access aswell.
Provided there are no trees in the path
According to Zennström (co-founder of Kazaa and Skype) whose company skype recently got bought by eBay, Skype will still be run as a separate company by him as the head.
So I kind of doubt he'll actively be doing stuff to endanger peoples privacy.
It's worth mentioning that he left Kazaa BEFORE they became known as an adware-bloated software.
Having other people agree with him?