1) Bonded dialup PPP I get 33.6K here at the best of times. I have two circuits right now, my wife has one and I have one. What I'm gonna do soon is bond them so there's one 66K feed. The local ISP will support this, if it works out ok I may double it to a 134K feed. Not cheap really and still stuck with dialup latencies, but it might work out.
2) HDSL. I dunno about there, but here you can order a "4 wire unloaded circuit" which is just a copper run from point A to point B. How they wire it is a bit cariable, but if they come in under the HSDL disatance limit you can get Pairgain HDSL boxen on ebay real cheap. Basically you'd have to string segments of these to the closest DSL enabled area.
This car is on of the great car of all times. Is it a car you can get in and just dive. No, hell no and fuck no. The cam chains need constant attention. You'd better have access to a good Citroen or avaiation mechanic to keep the complex hydraulics in order. And they rust. Badly.
But, if you expend the effort to keep one in good nick you get a comfortable French car with a killer Italian engine and spaceship looks even 30 years later. They still go for big bucks today.
Citroen hydraulics are well understood, just not by very mant people. Like many rare and low production cars this one takes some effort to keep it going but is, if you're a car freak, very much worth it.
The lack of the pre 92 Ford Explod^Hrer on this list with its unfixable front end and flimsy head/gasket problems demonstrates beyond the shadow of a doubt the writer doesn't have a clue about cars. The SM has no inherent desugn faults, the Explod^Hrer had several. Sheer, dangerous JUNK.
The 19 year old punk across the street has two of them, both have been stripped down to nothing and built back up.
I have to say I'm hellish impressed with the engineering of them, it's the closest the US has ever come to building a Ferarri - certainly not on looks, but in power and handling. Stock they're less than ideal ecpecially with the 4 banger, but the V6's are pretty nice and the 88 suspension or modded earlier suspension is more than capable. The low polar moment of inertian from a true transverse mounted mid engine placment gives lotus like agility. If you drove one you'd understand.
Plus the engine bay is big enough to drop anything in - Quad 4, Northstar V8, Hemi, even a 454 fits with no modification to the engine bay.
The dash is awful; Like most GM interiors it looks like "Star Wars by Mattel" and frankly I've yet to see any GM dash that didn't look retarded.
The problems with the first batch of Fieros were predictable. The first year of any car usually sucks badly.
The car was killed because by 92, according to Pontiac's develoment schedule it would ourperform a Corvette, and that's not allowed.
They go cheap these days. $300 gets you one you can work on and with not much effort have a daily driver. Really good ones barely get 10X that.
IMO they're one of the neatest cars ever to come out of the US.
You should be running a DNS server in house, and primary the root zone and have a decent sized cache. You're right in that DNS is a major part of all internet traffic (just look at what actually happens for one lousy web request some time, it's downright scary) but, since they're small but urgest requests it would make more sense to route these over a phone line than via the sat.
Think of the sat as a 747. Really good for BIG things, but not so hot if you want to deliver a small package halfway across town really quickly.
Squid and Opera help a lot too. Even with dialup:)
And that's a bonus. Before last week I'd get 28.8K, sometimes 26.4K. After 7 years of this you get used to it. Hell, after a month you get used to it. The only thing you really notice it on is BIG files, for regular eveyrday work stuff the difference with small mostly text based things is barely noticable. Browser caching helps a lot too, if I click preview on this page right here the difference between dialup and a T1 is less than a second. I can live with that.
I had 128K ISFN when I lived in Toronto in the early 90's, but I live where I do by choice, cripplingly low bandwidth and all.
If you saw the view from my (home) office window you'd understand. And the people are way different here than in any big sh^H^Hcity.
The only thing I get tired of is explaining to people: "No, there serevrs aren't here and are not on a dialup. It's actually possible to work on them when you're not sitting at the console".
On Hawthorne Blvd, coming out of Palos Verdes going into Torrance in the sunny state of California there is a single speed limit sign that has both miles per hour and kilometers per hour. Frmom what I saw in the 10 years I lived there it's the only inperial/metric speed limit sign in the LA area.
Are't all liquor and wine bottles metric in the US now? And what about those 2 litre soft drink bottles?
In 1981 I worked at a place that built multiprocessor business computers with an interpreted langauge (I take the blame for "CADOL III") using 8-bit computers.
Word came down from management/marketing that we "have to go 16-bit", never mind that we demstrated we had a faster system built out of 8 bit stuff, marketing had to be able to sell 16 bit systems to run our langage that was based on an 8 bit stack model.
64 bit makes sense if you're rampaging through memory 64 bits at a time. But nearly 10K for a "hello world!" program? Oh, help. This was like 600 bytes on a PDP-11 in C, much less in assmbly.
I've seen things like Quark go from a 2 meg distro to a 300MB one going from 16 bit to 32 bit.
Back in 98 or so the guys who ran the root at nordu.net would go away on holidays for a month and were incommunicado, so NSI wanted contracts with them all to spell out exactly what each side had to do. This was well before ICANN.
Earlier than this you can find Manning's comments that "there are problems with the current setup [the root server administrators]". GIYF.
That isn't the problem. It's having enough computer to be able to load the com zone without falling over. A few years ago I tried this with as big of a Sun machine I had access to and BIND. It thrashed for an hour then cakked.
I'd like to hear if anybody has tried loading the come zone on a PC running DJBDNS. By my seat of the pants reckoning it ought to work.
Back in the good old days when her serene highness the Dalai Lauren worked there and Dave Holtzman was still VP I took the e-ticket tour. The facility is in a nondescript industrial mall a few miles from the NSI mothership.
"oh, you'll want to see this"
"what is it"
"A-ROOT"
"THAT tiny little thing?"
"Yup. Go ahead and touch it, everybody that comes here wants to do that. See where the paint has worn off the case?".
NSI was fun once and there's lots of good stories. When the FNCAC made the NSF tell NSI to start charging for domain names none of the freaks working at NSI could believe you could charge for this and lots of checks were just pinned up to a bulletin board in a "wait and see" holding pattern for a few months. There weren't so many domains back then.
Karl Aurbach also downloads the root zone from me and you should too. Or use OpenNIC's root or even *cough*ICANNs*cough* (ftp://internic.net/domain/root.zone.gz, or any root.zone you want but if you know what's good for you you won't rely any anybody but yourself to serve up the root zone so your computer can find pointers to the various TLD servers: primary the root for yourself and don't worry about DOS attacks on other peoples computers taking your machine off the air.
That really was the dumbest part of the change from hosts.txt to the DNS - it changed the paradigm from your computer knowing where everything was to making your computer rely on the "." zone to be able to find the computers that know where all names can be found and there's really no reason for it.
Certainly it does not scale for everybody to grab a copy of the root from one place, and Dan Bernstein has suggested a cryptographically signed root be distributed via usenet. To this end I've created news:alt.root.orsc and will begin doing just that this quarter.
I hear ya. While most of mine aren't too bad, especially in a safe in a cabinet there was one, some 4 jewel prewar Mentor with a stunning dial that was loud. Like "I can't sleep with this thing on my arm" loud. Like "I can't sleep with this thing stuffed under my pillow" loud.
I ended up stuffing it inside 16 socks and putting it ni my sock drawer. I woke up in the morming and found it on my desk downstairs; it had woken my wife up and she'd moved it.
TI was the first CHEAP digital watch. Before that was Pulsar which was anything but cheap, and oddly stylish today in a retro sort of way. And who could resist using a little magnetic bar to alter the time?
Cheap digital watches drove the market for cheap (and much less accurate) clock crystals. It was all downhill from there.
Pulsar was a brand name used by Hamilton, one of the few and great American watch companies. They sold Pulsar as a brand name to some Asian consortium and the $17 Pulsar you find in Wal Mart today has as much to do with Hamilton as the $17 Gruens had to do with the original Gruen company.
Hamilton, in turn was sold to SMH, now "The Swatch Group" (which was formed in 1933 when Omega, Tissot and Lemania merged).
I collect old watches (mostly Lemania chronos of the 40s) and I seriously wonder what's gonna happen when the outrageously great and cheap guy I use isn't around any more.
All the old watch repair guys are, well, old. And there's really not a lot of new blood.
It's not too late! Quit whatever you're doing and take him up on his earlier offer.
The cast: two single digit agesd male children and a hapless dad.
Herding cats had nothing on these two, yet a Japanese videogame watch had almost a hypontic effect. I could get those little dveils to behave for hours on end just for a 5 minute time slice of aforementioned watch.
Now they want BMWs. And the watch no longer works. Woe is me.
A few years back NSI and ICANN were at loggerheads. NSI wouldn't sign the contract that gave ICANN aegis over them; there was talk of them "going rogue".
A meeting was called, no, demanded, where NSI, ICANN and 2 guys each side got to pick were required to attend.
Evenrybody signed an NDA. ICANN picked Dave Farber and Vint Cerf.
For 3 days they hashed it out, then came to terms.
Who called this meeting? The US department of commerce? No. Anybody in the US Government? No.
IBM did.
And when they were done, IBM bragged they'd spent two years of their USD $60 million dollar a year Washington lobbying budget to prevent the creation of new top level domains.
And this is just what we know about. Literally countless millions and spent lobbying Washington for various things. You'll never hear about them.
How Verf and Farber can keep a straight face knowing what they know, especially in the roles they have in all this is utterly beyond me.
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Do you really care how much you dislike or like the author of some code?
Edison was an insufferable jerk. Do you use light bulbs?
Often time you may also find people respond in kind. I've never pissed off Jim Fleming or Dan Bernstein and they've been remarkably civil to me for over a decade. Shrug.
If you look way back there were various verions of ip, 7 and 8 were spec'd out long ago and dropped. The "new V8" is a result of extending Postels early Catanet work, and bears no relationship to the earlier V8 which was abaondoned.
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Not ALL the rest of the world. One cannot deny the abarasive personality of it's creator if you're on his bad side (I'm not) but that is true of many things. Look at DJBDNS, if you're on the wrong side of Dan (I'm not) he comes off asa jerk, yet his code, I posit, is among the best, if not the best C code I've ever seen. One certainly cannot argue the performance merits of his software compared to bind by any metric.
"IPV8 may be the answer to everything, but keep in mind the net is about consensus, not truth. Never confuse consensus with truth" - Brian Reid
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Doesn't anybody code in C any more?
1) Bonded dialup PPP
I get 33.6K here at the best of times. I have two circuits right now,
my wife has one and I have one. What I'm gonna do soon is bond
them so there's one 66K feed. The local ISP will support this,
if it works out ok I may double it to a 134K feed. Not cheap
really and still stuck with dialup latencies, but it might work out.
2) HDSL.
I dunno about there, but here you can order a "4 wire unloaded
circuit" which is just a copper run from point A to point B.
How they wire it is a bit cariable, but if they come in under
the HSDL disatance limit you can get Pairgain HDSL boxen on
ebay real cheap. Basically you'd have to string segments of
these to the closest DSL enabled area.
This car is on of the great car of all times. Is it a car you can get in and just dive. No, hell no and fuck no. The cam chains need constant attention. You'd better have access to a good Citroen or avaiation mechanic to keep the complex hydraulics in order. And they rust. Badly.
But, if you expend the effort to keep one in good nick you get a comfortable French car with a killer Italian engine and spaceship looks even 30 years later. They still go for big bucks today.
Citroen hydraulics are well understood, just not by very mant people. Like many rare and low production cars this one takes some effort to keep it going but is, if you're a car freak, very much worth it.
The lack of the pre 92 Ford Explod^Hrer on this list with its unfixable front end and flimsy head/gasket problems demonstrates beyond the shadow of a doubt the writer doesn't have a clue about cars. The SM has no inherent desugn faults, the Explod^Hrer had several. Sheer, dangerous JUNK.
The 19 year old punk across the street has two of them, both have been stripped down to nothing and built back up.
I have to say I'm hellish impressed with the engineering of them, it's the closest the US has ever come to building a Ferarri - certainly not on looks, but in power and handling. Stock they're less than ideal ecpecially with the 4 banger, but the V6's are pretty nice and the 88 suspension or modded earlier suspension is more than capable. The low polar moment of inertian from a true transverse mounted mid engine placment gives lotus like agility. If you drove one you'd understand.
Plus the engine bay is big enough to drop anything in - Quad 4, Northstar V8, Hemi, even a 454 fits with no modification to the engine bay.
The dash is awful; Like most GM interiors it looks like "Star Wars by Mattel" and frankly I've yet to see any GM dash that didn't look retarded.
The problems with the first batch of Fieros were predictable. The first year of any car usually sucks badly.
The car was killed because by 92, according to Pontiac's develoment schedule it would ourperform a Corvette, and that's not allowed.
They go cheap these days. $300 gets you one you can work on and with not much effort have a daily driver. Really good ones barely get 10X that.
IMO they're one of the neatest cars ever to come out of the US.
You should be running a DNS server in house, and primary the root zone and have a decent sized cache. You're right in that DNS is a major part of all internet traffic (just look at what actually happens for one lousy web request some time, it's downright scary) but, since they're small but urgest requests it would make more sense to route these over a phone line than via the sat.
:)
Think of the sat as a 747. Really good for BIG things, but not so hot if you want to deliver a small package halfway across town really quickly.
Squid and Opera help a lot too. Even with dialup
And that's a bonus. Before last week I'd get 28.8K, sometimes 26.4K. After 7 years of this you get used to it. Hell, after a month you get used to it. The only thing you really notice it on is BIG files, for regular eveyrday work stuff the difference with small mostly text based things is barely noticable. Browser caching helps a lot too, if I click preview on this page right here the difference between dialup and a T1 is less than a second. I can live with that.
I had 128K ISFN when I lived in Toronto in the early 90's, but I live where I do by choice, cripplingly low bandwidth and all.
If you saw the view from my (home) office window you'd understand. And the people are way different here than in any big sh^H^Hcity.
The only thing I get tired of is explaining to people: "No, there serevrs aren't here and are not on a dialup. It's actually possible to work on them when you're not sitting at the console".
On Hawthorne Blvd, coming out of Palos Verdes going into Torrance in the sunny state of California there is a single speed limit sign that has both miles per hour and kilometers per hour. Frmom what I saw in the 10 years I lived there it's the only inperial/metric speed limit sign in the LA area.
Are't all liquor and wine bottles metric in the US now? And what about those 2 litre soft drink bottles?
Some of my addresses are older than many of the posters here, and I runs dozens of mailing lists, some more than a decade old.
I get about 5000 spams a day. After filtering I only get about 2-300, which I delete.
In 1981 I worked at a place that built multiprocessor business computers with an interpreted langauge (I take the blame for "CADOL III") using 8-bit computers.
Word came down from management/marketing that we "have to go 16-bit", never mind that we demstrated we had a faster system built out of 8 bit stuff, marketing had to be able to sell 16 bit systems to run our langage that was based on an 8 bit stack model.
64 bit makes sense if you're rampaging through memory 64 bits at a time. But nearly 10K for a "hello world!" program? Oh, help. This was like 600 bytes on a PDP-11 in C, much less in assmbly.
I've seen things like Quark go from a 2 meg distro to a 300MB one going from 16 bit to 32 bit.
A 64 bit MS world terrifies me.
Holtsman pointed out to Sun they were "the dot in dot com" and they used it in their marketing.
When it came time to buy new servers they didn't have enough of a clue to offer NSI a decent price break, and IBM offered them 13 servers.
It's not a big file. Certainly smaller than the last hosts.txt.
It's here: ftp://internic.net/domain/root.zone.gz
Of course if you're feeling really frisky you could use this one: ftp://open-rsc.org/pub/db.root
Back in 98 or so the guys who ran the root at nordu.net would go away on holidays for a month and were incommunicado, so NSI wanted contracts with them all to spell out exactly what each side had to do. This was well before ICANN.
Earlier than this you can find Manning's comments that "there are problems with the current setup [the root server administrators]". GIYF.
That isn't the problem. It's having enough computer to be able to load the com zone without falling over. A few years ago I tried this with as big of a Sun machine I had access to and BIND. It thrashed for an hour then cakked.
I'd like to hear if anybody has tried loading the come zone on a PC running DJBDNS. By my seat of the pants reckoning it ought to work.
Back in the good old days when her serene highness the Dalai Lauren worked there and Dave Holtzman was still VP I took the e-ticket tour. The facility is in a nondescript industrial mall a few miles from the NSI mothership.
"oh, you'll want to see this"
"what is it"
"A-ROOT"
"THAT tiny little thing?"
"Yup. Go ahead and touch it, everybody that comes here wants to do that. See where the paint has worn off the case?".
"Uh, ok"
"You use this thing Dave"
"Nah, I download the root zone from you".
"Cool, for that you can buy me lunch".
"Good idea. Thai okay?"
NSI was fun once and there's lots of good stories. When the FNCAC made the NSF tell NSI to start charging for domain names none of the freaks working at NSI could believe you could charge for this and lots of checks were just pinned up to a bulletin board in a "wait and see" holding pattern for a few months. There weren't so many domains back then.
Karl Aurbach also downloads the root zone from me and you should too. Or use OpenNIC's root or even *cough*ICANNs*cough* (ftp://internic.net/domain/root.zone.gz, or any root.zone you want but if you know what's good for you you won't rely any anybody but yourself to serve up the root zone so your computer can find pointers to the various TLD servers: primary the root for yourself and don't worry about DOS attacks on other peoples computers taking your machine off the air.
That really was the dumbest part of the change from hosts.txt to the DNS - it changed the paradigm from your computer knowing where everything was to making your computer rely on the "." zone to be able to find the computers that know where all names can be found and there's really no reason for it.
Certainly it does not scale for everybody to grab a copy of the root from one place, and Dan Bernstein has suggested a cryptographically signed root be distributed via usenet. To this end I've created news:alt.root.orsc and will begin doing just that this quarter.
on eBay...
I hear ya. While most of mine aren't too bad, especially in a safe in a cabinet there was one, some 4 jewel prewar Mentor with a stunning dial that was loud. Like "I can't sleep with this thing on my arm" loud. Like "I can't sleep with this thing stuffed under my pillow" loud.
I ended up stuffing it inside 16 socks and putting it ni my sock drawer. I woke up in the morming and found it on my desk downstairs; it had woken my wife up and she'd moved it.
I sold the watch.
TI was the first CHEAP digital watch. Before that was Pulsar which was anything but cheap, and oddly stylish today in a retro sort of way. And who could resist using a little magnetic bar to alter the time?
Cheap digital watches drove the market for cheap (and much less accurate) clock crystals. It was all downhill from there.
Pulsar was a brand name used by Hamilton, one of the few and great American watch companies. They sold Pulsar as a brand name to some Asian consortium and the $17 Pulsar you find in Wal Mart today has as much to do with Hamilton as the $17 Gruens had to do with the original Gruen company.
Hamilton, in turn was sold to SMH, now "The Swatch Group" (which was formed in 1933 when Omega, Tissot and Lemania merged).
I collect old watches (mostly Lemania chronos of the 40s) and I seriously wonder what's gonna happen when the outrageously great and cheap guy I use isn't around any more.
All the old watch repair guys are, well, old. And there's really not a lot of new blood.
It's not too late! Quit whatever you're doing and take him up on his earlier offer.
The time, the early 90s.
The place: Toronto.
The cast: two single digit agesd male children and a hapless dad.
Herding cats had nothing on these two, yet a Japanese videogame watch had almost a hypontic effect. I could get those little dveils to behave for hours on end just for a 5 minute time slice of aforementioned watch.
Now they want BMWs. And the watch no longer works. Woe is me.
A few years back NSI and ICANN were at loggerheads. NSI wouldn't sign the contract that gave ICANN aegis over them; there was talk of them "going rogue".
A meeting was called, no, demanded, where NSI, ICANN and 2 guys each side got to pick were required to attend.
Evenrybody signed an NDA. ICANN picked Dave Farber and Vint Cerf.
For 3 days they hashed it out, then came to terms.
Who called this meeting? The US department of commerce? No. Anybody in the US Government? No.
IBM did.
And when they were done, IBM bragged they'd spent two years of their USD $60 million dollar a year Washington lobbying budget to prevent the creation of new top level domains.
And this is just what we know about. Literally countless millions and spent lobbying Washington for various things. You'll never hear about them.
How Verf and Farber can keep a straight face knowing what they know, especially in the roles they have in all this is utterly beyond me.
URL ?
Do you really care how much you dislike or like the author of some code?
Edison was an insufferable jerk. Do you use light bulbs?
Often time you may also find people respond in kind. I've never pissed off Jim Fleming or Dan Bernstein and they've been remarkably civil to me for over a decade. Shrug.
If you look way back there were various verions of ip, 7 and 8 were spec'd out long ago and dropped. The "new V8" is a result of extending Postels early Catanet work, and bears no relationship to the earlier V8 which was abaondoned.
Not ALL the rest of the world. One cannot deny the abarasive personality of it's creator if you're on his bad side (I'm not) but that is true of many things. Look at DJBDNS, if you're on the wrong side of Dan (I'm not) he comes off asa jerk, yet his code, I posit, is among the best, if not the best C code I've ever seen. One certainly cannot argue the performance merits of his software compared to bind by any metric.
"IPV8 may be the answer to everything, but keep in mind the net is about consensus, not truth. Never confuse consensus with truth" - Brian Reid
You just need to pick a 128 bit InterNAT address and the current criticisms about it go away. It's a lot more useful the the broken V6 will ever be.