your an arse for pissing all over his comment. If you can't enjoy his comment for what it is don't bash it like I am bashing your comment. hmm strike that from the record.
Maybe they aren't limiting the broadcast characteristics in firmware on the broadcomm G cards because they don't have a final spec yet and they are trying to keep the device/chipset as open as posisble so they can adapt to new changes in the specs if need be. I just wish that I could get it to work on my damn linux box cause right now I am running in mixed mode on my home wireless network.
If the phone or cable company won't come out to your neighborhood there is probaly a very good reason. First of all a T-1 aint gonna cut it. Plus the wiring or wireless equipment (and it aint going to be linksys, you need some enterprise stuff.) And if it breaks who is gonna fix it, and who is going to deal with collecting money from residents, and who is gonna deal with the telco. Basically it's going to be a full time job for a couple people.
I used to work for a pretty decent side (national) ISP, and some complex in boston decided to get a T-1 for it's residents. Off the bat they wanted every resident to be able to open trouble ticket, uh no you can't have 30 authorized callers (most companys have maybe 4-8.) Before you know it people are calling up to find out their pop user and server address and you gotta tell em you don't have one, your complex bought a line and bandwitdh and thats it and no we don't support your newbie internet problems. You line is up and isn't taking errors, sorry:) or your line is full cause someones kid is probaly running some p2p apps. It's not worth it...
The Brazilians user sugar cane to fullfil I think almost all of their energy needs. Discovery channel had a special about it a couple years ago. They grow the cane, use the sugar for alcohol production and then use the left overs to burn for heat and electricity production. They best thing about it is the fact that the polution caused by the burning the alcohol and plant waste is gobbled up by the new sugar cane growning. It's not a 100% efficient by any means but it's a hell of a lot better than anything the rest of the world does. Now if we all had the weather to grow sugar cane.:)
I work with Pix firewalls everyday. Infact I had recently upgraded a 520 from a 2 meg flash card to a 16 meg flash card. When installing the PixOS on your machine or Pix it was ask you if want to add another activation code (for the number of connections, URL filter, FA or other stuff.) This activation code is derived from the Serial number of your Pix (4XXXXXXXX), which is burned into the Pix ISA Flash card, or flash chip depending on your model. So you need this code to install and run your pix firewall. In reality you are really taking the only (identifiable/trackable) part of the pix within the flash card. I am sure Cisco isn't happy about it, but at least you gotta buy it from them. It's probaly the worst storage / price ratio on the planet too 16meg/~400bux.:) Anyhow thats serial and activation code are the most important part of that pix. Now if someone could clone that flash card, just about anyone could get a pix serial/activation code (easily obtainable from another real pix) and build their own free pix, without paying cisco a dime.
Disclaimer: I love cisco and think their equipment and service is worth every dime my employer pays for it:)
This will show you info like your line quality, errors and the rate of the bits going accrss it. 9 out of 10 times your T1 will operate full capacity, the big question is what kind of network and peering does your provider has. Are they over subscribed?
IE. My cable modem can do 27 mbps, but RoadRunner doesn't have the capacity to handle that.
The peice of cooper that terminates at your site will almost always be the same wire that all the T-1 providers will provide. It's just depends which cage on the other side of the wire you hooked into.
I know a lot of small ISP have to pay the full price of the line, plus even usage, to send there egress traffic out to the internet via the big private providers. You could get along with public peering point, but they can be unreliable at time and difficult to troubleshoot and fix, because you aren't paying for them like a private peer. I am sure the cost isn't as great as an OC-X accross the ocean floor, but I am not in the least bit surprised, I bet ATT and UUNet could careless if africa had internet right now. Maybe when they have more buying power (more users), getting your traffic to Africa will be in the best intertest of the big partys..
There is a lot more to a CS degree or any degree than your core subject matter. You ave math, science and liberal arts. While some may think this is a waste of you time it's require to get a B.S. Sorry but if you want the paper you got to put in the work like everyone else had too.
I know everyone is focused on the sniffing/security aspects of this technology. I however, being an evil guy at heart amthinking, wow wouldn't it be easy to just get my own wireless card and flood the airwaves with random useless packets. At least with a guided medium you can trace the wire back or at least cut it. Hunting around for a laptop that could be anywhere is gonna be a lot harder and following a cable ( At thats hard enough already.) Imagine how easy it would be to do a DDOS now.
----ZiN----
Hey fire the employees you resist. They aren't there to complain about something stupid like an email setup. If they don't like it that much either quit or shutup about it. After all time warner/aol is paying them to be at work. It's about what the boss wants you to do, not what you would perfer....
First of all. There is always going to be way more than 5 high speed internet access carriers in the US. God I can thing of at least five in my homestate of New York. DSL failed because it was resold like 3 times before it got to the customer. The Telco's sold their lines to places like Covad/NorthPoint. They inturn sold them to ISP's like mindspring or telocity ect. and in some cases the smaller ISP resold their service. With a final selling price of 40-50 a month how the heck is anyone going to make money???? I am sure everystep of the chain the top guy is getting as much as possible for the lines. Plus there is NO SLA, that means they get tossed to the bottom of the ticket queue for maintance cause no one is going to loss money if they stay down the extra couple days (no contract.) Lets look at TW or Comcast and their highspeed systems. They built their infrastructure (fiber, cable), they built up their network (peering, egress ect) and the sell and service their systems themselves. It's vertical integration and it's been an economic principle since grade school people. TW is going to do the best for itself and it's customers because they are benifiting from it. Why would Verizon or Covad care if mom and pop is having trouble with a DSL line that they get $2/month from (resold) when they have their own customers to worry about who they actually make money from. It was a bad business model to begin with. Where I work the only time we resell other ISP's lines is if the customer spend a boat load of money with us already and they need a line in some area we don't support. We aren't going to loss their business over a single T-1 (aren't going to make any money either.) Ok I am done ranting.
I don't know if this has been mentioned yet, but I have a clue as to why AOL doesn't allow other clients.
First. The network that RUNS AIM is actually pretty complex. You can't count on other clients from maybe making mistakes in messaging formats that might really mess up something or perhaps writing a client that could actually do some harm. The best that AOL can do is to keep these possible threats of their network is to keep them from connecting.
Second.
ADS. Aol puts em in their AIM client. Now if you don't have to use their client to IM then you don't have to look at their ads. I have no problem with looks at the ads it's just I don't like having to look at the ads of 3-4 IM's clients at once.
A few words of advice. Read your contract..... If you have any hope of getting it done for free, it's gonna be in the contract. Don't forget the ISP has to pay someone to patch your box as well... Personally I think that System/OS maintance is part of the dedicated services, but feelings play no role in business.....
Whats worse than spam? The People who constantly cry about it. I work for an ISP and for every spam some people get they send out 5+ spams whining about it. It's call a mail filter, use it. Look at it from an ISP stand point. Who are you going to side with, the customer/spammer who pays you ten of thousands of dollars a year or more or some whining person who put their email address on every form they can... I think half the time this person got the SPAM becuase the gave the spammer there email address on some form or didn't uncheck the don't spam me box on a webform. I have had an email address for 4 years now and I don't get spammed at all, why cause I don't plaster on every stupid webform I see. Just get some webamil account and use that for an email address to give to people like Real, Shockwave and Amazon.
If the US portion of the internet was shut off the internet would most likly become so unstable that it would just break. I would think that way peering is set up they internet isn't truely that fault tolerant. I mean With a NSP or AS there is a lot of built in tolarence but between the networks I just don't think there is enough redundacy. Portions of the Internet would still work fine but interconnectivity would just be horrible. Because is the US NSPs are shut down a lot of international network will just die out too. Most of the internet in other places is owned by US companys. UUnet, Sprint, PSI, ect...
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your an arse for pissing all over his comment. If you can't enjoy his comment for what it is don't bash it like I am bashing your comment. hmm strike that from the record.
That how they got over here, Student Visa. Easiest thing in the world to get.
I wanna run top on my linksys and maybe mount some NFS. You could do a lot of other cool stuff too
It's Draught. I think it's nasty but then again what do I know.
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Maybe they aren't limiting the broadcast characteristics in firmware on the broadcomm G cards because they don't have a final spec yet and they are trying to keep the device/chipset as open as posisble so they can adapt to new changes in the specs if need be. I just wish that I could get it to work on my damn linux box cause right now I am running in mixed mode on my home wireless network.
ZiN
I am sure thats REAL cheap to. No one thinks about the money...
If the phone or cable company won't come out to your neighborhood there is probaly a very good reason. First of all a T-1 aint gonna cut it. Plus the wiring or wireless equipment (and it aint going to be linksys, you need some enterprise stuff.) And if it breaks who is gonna fix it, and who is going to deal with collecting money from residents, and who is gonna deal with the telco. Basically it's going to be a full time job for a couple people.
:) or your line is full cause someones kid is probaly running some p2p apps. It's not worth it...
I used to work for a pretty decent side (national) ISP, and some complex in boston decided to get a T-1 for it's residents. Off the bat they wanted every resident to be able to open trouble ticket, uh no you can't have 30 authorized callers (most companys have maybe 4-8.) Before you know it people are calling up to find out their pop user and server address and you gotta tell em you don't have one, your complex bought a line and bandwitdh and thats it and no we don't support your newbie internet problems. You line is up and isn't taking errors, sorry
The Brazilians user sugar cane to fullfil I think almost all of their energy needs. Discovery channel had a special about it a couple years ago. They grow the cane, use the sugar for alcohol production and then use the left overs to burn for heat and electricity production. They best thing about it is the fact that the polution caused by the burning the alcohol and plant waste is gobbled up by the new sugar cane growning. It's not a 100% efficient by any means but it's a hell of a lot better than anything the rest of the world does. Now if we all had the weather to grow sugar cane. :)
ZiN
I work with Pix firewalls everyday. Infact I had recently upgraded a 520 from a 2 meg flash card to a 16 meg flash card. When installing the PixOS on your machine or Pix it was ask you if want to add another activation code (for the number of connections, URL filter, FA or other stuff.) This activation code is derived from the Serial number of your Pix (4XXXXXXXX), which is burned into the Pix ISA Flash card, or flash chip depending on your model. So you need this code to install and run your pix firewall. In reality you are really taking the only (identifiable/trackable) part of the pix within the flash card. I am sure Cisco isn't happy about it, but at least you gotta buy it from them. It's probaly the worst storage / price ratio on the planet too 16meg/~400bux. :)
:)
Anyhow thats serial and activation code are the most important part of that pix. Now if someone could clone that flash card, just about anyone could get a pix serial/activation code (easily obtainable from another real pix) and build their own free pix, without paying cisco a dime.
Disclaimer: I love cisco and think their equipment and service is worth every dime my employer pays for it
sh int s0
This will show you info like your line quality, errors and the rate of the bits going accrss it. 9 out of 10 times your T1 will operate full capacity, the big question is what kind of network and peering does your provider has. Are they over subscribed?
IE. My cable modem can do 27 mbps, but RoadRunner doesn't have the capacity to handle that.
The peice of cooper that terminates at your site will almost always be the same wire that all the T-1 providers will provide. It's just depends which cage on the other side of the wire you hooked into.
zin
I know a lot of small ISP have to pay the full price of the line, plus even usage, to send there egress traffic out to the internet via the big private providers. You could get along with public peering point, but they can be unreliable at time and difficult to troubleshoot and fix, because you aren't paying for them like a private peer. I am sure the cost isn't as great as an OC-X accross the ocean floor, but I am not in the least bit surprised, I bet ATT and UUNet could careless if africa had internet right now. Maybe when they have more buying power (more users), getting your traffic to Africa will be in the best intertest of the big partys..
get this satalite out of my ass and replace it with a chip.... Damn aliens...
Actually you get a bit larger file :)
# du random
10281 random
# du -m random
11 random
# gzip -9 random
# du random.gz
10283 random.gz
There is a lot more to a CS degree or any degree than your core subject matter. You ave math, science and liberal arts. While some may think this is a waste of you time it's require to get a B.S. Sorry but if you want the paper you got to put in the work like everyone else had too.
I know everyone is focused on the sniffing/security aspects of this technology. I however, being an evil guy at heart amthinking, wow wouldn't it be easy to just get my own wireless card and flood the airwaves with random useless packets. At least with a guided medium you can trace the wire back or at least cut it. Hunting around for a laptop that could be anywhere is gonna be a lot harder and following a cable ( At thats hard enough already.) Imagine how easy it would be to do a DDOS now.
----ZiN----
Hey fire the employees you resist. They aren't there to complain about something stupid like an email setup. If they don't like it that much either quit or shutup about it. After all time warner/aol is paying them to be at work. It's about what the boss wants you to do, not what you would perfer....
First of all. There is always going to be way more than 5 high speed internet access carriers in the US. God I can thing of at least five in my homestate of New York. DSL failed because it was resold like 3 times before it got to the customer. The Telco's sold their lines to places like Covad/NorthPoint. They inturn sold them to ISP's like mindspring or telocity ect. and in some cases the smaller ISP resold their service. With a final selling price of 40-50 a month how the heck is anyone going to make money???? I am sure everystep of the chain the top guy is getting as much as possible for the lines. Plus there is NO SLA, that means they get tossed to the bottom of the ticket queue for maintance cause no one is going to loss money if they stay down the extra couple days (no contract.) Lets look at TW or Comcast and their highspeed systems. They built their infrastructure (fiber, cable), they built up their network (peering, egress ect) and the sell and service their systems themselves. It's vertical integration and it's been an economic principle since grade school people. TW is going to do the best for itself and it's customers because they are benifiting from it. Why would Verizon or Covad care if mom and pop is having trouble with a DSL line that they get $2/month from (resold) when they have their own customers to worry about who they actually make money from. It was a bad business model to begin with. Where I work the only time we resell other ISP's lines is if the customer spend a boat load of money with us already and they need a line in some area we don't support. We aren't going to loss their business over a single T-1 (aren't going to make any money either.) Ok I am done ranting.
I don't know if this has been mentioned yet, but I have a clue as to why AOL doesn't allow other clients.
First. The network that RUNS AIM is actually pretty complex. You can't count on other clients from maybe making mistakes in messaging formats that might really mess up something or perhaps writing a client that could actually do some harm. The best that AOL can do is to keep these possible threats of their network is to keep them from connecting.
Second.
ADS. Aol puts em in their AIM client. Now if you don't have to use their client to IM then you don't have to look at their ads. I have no problem with looks at the ads it's just I don't like having to look at the ads of 3-4 IM's clients at once.
Just my humble opinion....
ZiN
A few words of advice. Read your contract..... If you have any hope of getting it done for free, it's gonna be in the contract. Don't forget the ISP has to pay someone to patch your box as well... Personally I think that System/OS maintance is part of the dedicated services, but feelings play no role in business.....
Whats worse than spam? The People who constantly cry about it. I work for an ISP and for every spam some people get they send out 5+ spams whining about it. It's call a mail filter, use it. Look at it from an ISP stand point. Who are you going to side with, the customer/spammer who pays you ten of thousands of dollars a year or more or some whining person who put their email address on every form they can... I think half the time this person got the SPAM becuase the gave the spammer there email address on some form or didn't uncheck the don't spam me box on a webform. I have had an email address for 4 years now and I don't get spammed at all, why cause I don't plaster on every stupid webform I see. Just get some webamil account and use that for an email address to give to people like Real, Shockwave and Amazon.
If the US portion of the internet was shut off the internet would most likly become so unstable that it would just break. I would think that way peering is set up they internet isn't truely that fault tolerant. I mean With a NSP or AS there is a lot of built in tolarence but between the networks I just don't think there is enough redundacy. Portions of the Internet would still work fine but interconnectivity would just be horrible. Because is the US NSPs are shut down a lot of international network will just die out too. Most of the internet in other places is owned by US companys. UUnet, Sprint, PSI, ect...