Look at Sun/SGI branded Sony 21" GDM monitors. I got one a year old (thanks for dumping hundreds of them Nortel!) for $500 CDN out the door. It utterly rawks. They're about 3X that new. I found it locally, on eBay.
These aren't the consumer monitors, the GDM line is a bit nicer than that; you'll need to research the models a bit as there's lots and the older ones are not what you want.
I was called to New York to meet with Ira Magaziner and some other people about 10 months before ICANN was born. On the surface it was to end the hostilitied bewteen CORE and the alternate root folks. Some sort of democratic organization was envisioned. Lies, lies and more lies. The entire time Magaziner was running around behind the scenes - with Cochetti from IBM (now Verisign) selecting a board.
At a later and very private meeting where NSI and ICANN finally signed with each other, some very high up IBM lawyer-wonk (who called the meeting, that's how powerful they are) bragged they'd spent $60M a year of their washington lobbying budger to make sure no new TLDS were created. Is it any wonder they were so capriciously at Marina del Rey at the 2000 meeting or why there were so fucking lame?
ICANN has always been about protecting the interllectual property of big busines (read: trademarks). Never mind that there are laws protecting trademark owners but no laws protecting domain name owners.
ICANN doesn't need new blood, it just needs honest people at the helm.
As usual: vote with your nameservers - I don't care if you use the ORSC root that I coordnate, or new.net or name.space, OpenNIC or what have you, just back... away... from... the... legacy... root.
Primary the root zone for yourself. Then you don't care if the legacy root servers all get unplugged, your dns will still work just fine. This is a recording... this is a recording... this is a recording...
I'd like to think I'm nor more or less prone to believing in consipracy theories than the next geek.
A friend sent me this last week: "I talked to my good friend who has some business with the defense industry folks. Simply put, there will be some smoke and mirrors on the Shuttle incident, and the public is not going to get the complete answer as to why the shuttle played 52 card pickup."
Take with usual and customary grains of salt, don't shoot the messenger etc...
(every notice how if you don't know much about something a news story seems to make sense, but if you do know something about the topic what appears in the news often has a major disconnect with reality? A good example would be any news story about DNS)
What is it they're actually doing? It doesn't sound to me like they're really going to "find and name every species" it sounds more like they're going to isolate DNA from all current species.
To wit: are they going to comb every square centimeter of darkest Africa? The sea bottom? How will they know when they're done?
Bill Eschemeyer at the California Academy of Sciences has already cataloged and put online all living and extinct fish species. So that part is done. But it took 10 years (and an NSF grant) just to do that, and all he did was identify all known species with references to their descriptions. Mammels aint too hard.
Insects are going to kill them. While we've more than scratched the surface, there's several lifetimes of work to find the rest. Who is going to pay for this? Will there be a team of scientists looking through the river and forest in my backyard to make sure they havn't missed one?
Worse, there's no consensus on "what is a species" or "what is a subspecies"
If they really have a plan to "find and name" all extant living species them I'm impessed as all getout.
Can I make a request they start with West African Killifish, from say, Cameroon and Ghana.
They want to protect their "intellectual property", ie trademarks from infringement. They actually bragged about this in the meeting between NSI and ICANN where they finally came to terms. IBM called the meeting and NDA's everyone; Farber and Cerf were there.
They're utterly the wrong people to be doing this. Unless you count being inept and corrupt as attributes you want to have for an organization that oversees the Internet DNS.
IBM alone spends $30M a year lobbying for no new tlds. Guess where that goes.
Complain to your local congresscritter than the DoC is not exercising proper oversight over ICANN.
ICANN's job is to "measure consensus" of "the community" and implement it.
Go dig up the Marina Del Rey Real(spit)Video where they decided what the new tlds would be and you tell me if that's "measuring community consensus" or simple top down authority.
I know where the bodies are buried, but you people need to go find this out for yourselves. Hint: it's big and blue.
He's never seemed very cantankerous to me. He'a about as cantankerous in this context as any of us would be when faced with horrific and abject stupidity. I thought he's shown remarkable restraint so far frankly.
ICANN looks after 3 things: 1) Protocol numbers. 2) IP addresses 3) Domain names.
1 + 2 are autonomous. If ICANN were tovanish tomorrow, nothing bad would happen; they're fine, ignore the,
3) ICANN has an exclusive contract with the DoC to edit the Internet DNS root zone. Technically, they "suggest changes" to the DoC; they cannot do anything they want.
The extent of this though, is it only affects you if you happen to use the 13 root servers operated under aegis of the DoC. Last weeks attack that knocked, what? - half of them off the air is one more reason why we as users and administrators should end out dependance on the legacy root servers.
How?
Just primary the root zone for yourself. You really want to depend of somebody else for a 100K file that if it's not there the entire known internet ceases to exist do you?
Here's the file you need:
ftp://rs.internic.net/domain/
Dat's it. The whole enchilada. That's what all the fuss is about and that is all those 13 precious servers to is serve up that file. Grab a copy yourself and use it.
These are subtle changes every day. Lithuania may get a new secondary or.cx may change a nameserver name, so to be completely up to date with the primary root server, grab a new copy daily. But frankly, you could use last years copy of the file and not notice.
If you're using windows you may already have the ability to run your own nameservers on your box. If it's not built in, go grab a copy of BIND-PE (NT) or BIND-LE (W9x). If you're using unix, just declare yourself primary for "." or secondary the root zone from your favorite root zone publisher.
Now you don't care what happens to the 13 legacy root servers. Or ICANN.
Oy. Tall order to fill in this timeline in only a few paragraphs, but since I was there here goes.
The National Science Foundation originally had a competition to administed names (domains) and numbers (IPs) and three companies won the award and ran it together: AT&T Ran "DS" directory services, Government Solutions ran "RS" registrations services and General Atomics ran "IS". I forget what IS stood for. RS was "the nic" and took it over from SRI; IS was supposed to create 50 additional NICS.
GA flaked out and GS took their job over and renamed itself Network Solutions.
In 1994 an article appeared in Wired where some clown registered Mcdonalds.com and tried to sell it to Burger King. From that day on the face of the domain name landscape was inexorably changed. Registration volume shot up expoentially and latency went from 3 days to 11 weeks at the peak.
The NSF was paying for all this and while they didn't mind subsidizing research and educational use of the network they were not gonna pay for deoderant.com and the like so they asked the FNCAC what to do. They recommended the NSF tell NSI to charge for domains. They did and everybody got pissed off.
The domain-policy@internic.net mailing list went asymtotic and the "new domain people" split off to the "newdom" mailing list; Postel was one of them and he made up 3 drafts, each successively worsr; the second one had a tithe to none other than ISOC and the third one crated IAHC.
In July of 98 (?) the US Guvmins shut down IAHC as being just too damn silly and began a series of interagency task force meetins (that an ex NSF staffer refers to as "the turkey farm") and Commerce kept saying they had all the answers so everybody giggles and said "Ok, run with it".
In 1999 ni Becky Burr's office, Kathy Kleniman and Mikky Barry suggested some conferences around the world to measure consensus. Rather than debate the contentious points, they were to find where there was consensus. Thus the IFWP meetings were born: one in Virginia, one in Geneva, one in Singaport. Ira Magaziner was at each one (although only on video tape in Singapore) and at each one stated "this is in your peoples hands. Postel himself told me at the Geneva conference that it was "all up to them" (pointing at the conference room) now.
Mike Roberts was on the steering committee for this represennnnting EDUCAUSe (who run.EDU now) and when plans for a 4th meeting to do a wrap up and define what the new company would be to replace IANA, he tanked the whole process.
At this time Ira had been running around with ROger Cochetti of IBM (now a Verisgn VP) picking a board and Joe Sims (now an ICANN attorney) wrote up bylaws and together these lot presented NTIA with a proposal.
Two ther proposals were offered: the Boston Working Group, what was left of IFWP and ORSC.
The NTIA picked the Magaziner/Cochetti/Sims plan and that's the ICANN we have today.
Google knows their place in the DNS. But they aren't willing to make a move yet. Keep in mind the guy that legitimized the alt newsgroups is now director of engineering there.
You could do worse than write to google and ask them to do something.
ICANN has a Momorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the US Department of Commerce (DoC) National Telelcomunications Infrastructure Administration (NTIA).
http://watch.gallery/b/bulova/accutron/218/asym/14
on
The Bulova Accutron
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· Score: 1
Forget timekeeping, the unconventional movement somehow freed Bulova to use designs not even close to other Bulovas (or any other watches, and copied to some extent the wild ass Hamiltons from the 50's (ie. the Ventura "MIB" watch - which had a utterly worthless elecric movement).
I'm not big on accutrons although they certainly have a cult following in the watch world, but I couldn't pass this one up.
For the dns-impaired try http://vrx.net/richard/watches/b/bulova/accutron/2 18/asym/14kt/1/ but you won't see exactly the same thing. You'll get an index page instead of a thumbnail gallery.
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Look at Sun/SGI branded Sony 21" GDM monitors. I got one a year old (thanks for dumping hundreds of them Nortel!) for $500 CDN out the door. It utterly rawks. They're about 3X that new. I found it locally, on eBay.
These aren't the consumer monitors, the GDM line is a bit nicer than that; you'll need to research the models a bit as there's lots and the older ones are not what you want.
I was called to New York to meet with Ira Magaziner and some other people about 10 months before ICANN was born. On the surface it was to end the hostilitied bewteen CORE and the alternate root folks. Some sort of democratic organization was envisioned. Lies, lies and more lies. The entire time Magaziner was running around behind the scenes - with Cochetti from IBM (now Verisign) selecting a board.
At a later and very private meeting where NSI and ICANN finally signed with each other, some very high up IBM lawyer-wonk (who called the meeting, that's how powerful they are) bragged they'd spent $60M a year of their washington lobbying budger to make sure no new TLDS were created. Is it any wonder they were so capriciously at Marina del Rey at the 2000 meeting or why there were so fucking lame?
ICANN has always been about protecting the interllectual property of big busines (read: trademarks). Never mind that there are laws protecting trademark owners but no laws protecting domain name owners.
ICANN doesn't need new blood, it just needs honest people at the helm.
As usual: vote with your nameservers - I don't care if you use the ORSC root that I coordnate, or new.net or name.space, OpenNIC or what have you, just back... away... from... the... legacy... root.
Richard Sexton
Primary the root zone for yourself. Then you don't care if the legacy root servers all get unplugged, your dns will still work just fine. This is a recording... this is a recording... this is a recording...
A friend sent me this last week: "I talked to my good friend who has some business with the defense
industry folks. Simply put, there will be some smoke and mirrors on the
Shuttle incident, and the public is not going to get the complete answer
as to why the shuttle played 52 card pickup."
Take with usual and customary grains of salt, don't shoot the messenger etc...
(every notice how if you don't know much about something a news story seems to make sense, but if you do know something about the topic what appears in the news often has a major disconnect with reality? A good example would be any news story about DNS)
What is it they're actually doing? It doesn't sound to me like they're really going to "find and name every species" it sounds more like they're going to isolate DNA from all current species.
To wit: are they going to comb every square centimeter of darkest Africa? The sea bottom? How will they know when they're done?
Bill Eschemeyer at the California Academy of Sciences has already cataloged and put online all living and extinct fish species. So that part is done. But it took 10 years (and an NSF grant) just to do that, and all he did was identify all known species with references to their descriptions. Mammels aint too hard.
Insects are going to kill them. While we've more than scratched the surface, there's several lifetimes of work to find the rest. Who is going to pay for this? Will there be a team of scientists looking through the river and forest in my backyard to make sure they havn't missed one?
Worse, there's no consensus on "what is a species" or "what is a subspecies"
If they really have a plan to "find and name" all extant living species them I'm impessed as all getout.
Can I make a request they start with West African Killifish, from say, Cameroon and Ghana.
ISAGN.
They want to protect their "intellectual property", ie trademarks from infringement. They actually bragged about this in the meeting between NSI and ICANN where they finally came to terms. IBM called the meeting and NDA's everyone; Farber and Cerf were there.
The Department of Commerce has oversight.
They're utterly the wrong people to be doing this. Unless you count being inept and corrupt as attributes you want to have for an organization that oversees the Internet DNS.
IBM alone spends $30M a year lobbying for no new tlds. Guess where that goes.
Follow the money.
Nameservers are:
e jac.palo-alto.ca.us.
p2.cavebear.com.
ns1.vrx.net.
ns2.vrx.net.
m
Complain to your local congresscritter than the DoC is not exercising proper oversight over ICANN.
ICANN's job is to "measure consensus" of "the community" and implement it.
Go dig up the Marina Del Rey Real(spit)Video where they decided what the new tlds would be and you tell me if that's "measuring community consensus" or simple top down authority.
I know where the bodies are buried, but you people need to go find this out for yourselves. Hint: it's big and blue.
Usenet needs unique identifiers too. Compare and contrast the differences between expansion of the DNS namespace and the Usenet namespace.
Hint: they're both messy and ugly, but one works.
He's never seemed very cantankerous to me. He'a about as cantankerous in this context as any of us would be when faced with horrific and abject stupidity. I thought he's shown remarkable restraint so far frankly.
ICANN looks after 3 things:
.cx may change a nameserver name, so to be completely up to date with the primary root server, grab a new copy daily. But frankly, you could use last years copy of the file and not notice.
1) Protocol numbers.
2) IP addresses
3) Domain names.
1 + 2 are autonomous. If ICANN were tovanish tomorrow, nothing bad would happen; they're fine, ignore the,
3) ICANN has an exclusive contract with the DoC to edit the Internet DNS root zone. Technically, they "suggest changes" to the DoC; they cannot do anything they want.
The extent of this though, is it only affects you if you happen to use the 13 root servers operated under aegis of the DoC. Last weeks attack that knocked, what? - half of them off the air is one more reason why we as users and administrators should end out dependance on the legacy root servers.
How?
Just primary the root zone for yourself. You really want to depend of somebody else for a 100K file that if it's not there the entire known internet ceases to exist do you?
Here's the file you need:
ftp://rs.internic.net/domain/
Dat's it. The whole enchilada. That's what all the fuss is about and that is all those 13 precious servers to is serve up that file. Grab a copy yourself and use it.
These are subtle changes every day. Lithuania may get a new secondary or
If you're using windows you may already have the ability to run your own nameservers on your box. If it's not built in, go grab a copy of BIND-PE (NT) or BIND-LE (W9x). If you're using unix, just declare yourself primary for "." or secondary the root zone from your favorite root zone publisher.
Now you don't care what happens to the 13 legacy root servers. Or ICANN.
Oh man did I read that wrong.
BIFF@BIFF.NET
my caps were reposessed
Google's 11 lawyers vs. Novak? I'm still thinking about this?
...sounds like Klingon.
Oy. Tall order to fill in this timeline in only a few paragraphs, but since I was there here goes.
.EDU now) and when plans for a 4th meeting to do a wrap up and define what the new company would be to replace IANA, he tanked the whole process.
The National Science Foundation originally had a competition to administed names (domains) and numbers (IPs) and three companies won the award and ran it together: AT&T Ran "DS" directory services, Government Solutions ran "RS" registrations services and General Atomics ran "IS". I forget what IS stood for. RS was "the nic" and took it over from SRI; IS was supposed to create 50 additional NICS.
GA flaked out and GS took their job over and renamed itself Network Solutions.
In 1994 an article appeared in Wired where some clown registered Mcdonalds.com and tried to sell it to Burger King. From that day on the face of the domain name landscape was inexorably changed. Registration volume shot up expoentially and latency went from 3 days to 11 weeks at the peak.
The NSF was paying for all this and while they didn't mind subsidizing research and educational use of the network they were not gonna pay for deoderant.com and the like so they asked the FNCAC what to do. They recommended the NSF tell NSI to charge for domains. They did and everybody got pissed off.
The domain-policy@internic.net mailing list went asymtotic and the "new domain people" split off to the "newdom" mailing list; Postel was one of them and he made up 3 drafts, each successively worsr; the second one had a tithe to none other than ISOC and the third one crated IAHC.
In July of 98 (?) the US Guvmins shut down IAHC as being just too damn silly and began a series of interagency task force meetins (that an ex NSF staffer refers to as "the turkey farm") and Commerce kept saying they had all the answers so everybody giggles and said "Ok, run with it".
In 1999 ni Becky Burr's office, Kathy Kleniman and Mikky Barry suggested some conferences around the world to measure consensus. Rather than debate the contentious points, they were to find where there was consensus. Thus the IFWP meetings were born: one in Virginia, one in Geneva, one in Singaport. Ira Magaziner was at each one (although only on video tape in Singapore) and at each one stated "this is in your peoples hands. Postel himself told me at the Geneva conference that it was "all up to them" (pointing at the conference room) now.
Mike Roberts was on the steering committee for this represennnnting EDUCAUSe (who run
At this time Ira had been running around with ROger Cochetti of IBM (now a Verisgn VP) picking a board and Joe Sims (now an ICANN attorney) wrote up bylaws and together these lot presented NTIA with a proposal.
Two ther proposals were offered: the Boston Working Group, what was left of IFWP and ORSC.
The NTIA picked the Magaziner/Cochetti/Sims plan and that's the ICANN we have today.
You can see all the early history at http://newdom.faq although you may need to visit http://support.open-rsc.org to see this domain. But it's all there. And it's ugly.
See also http://lists.ifwp.org, altough the CIX who ran this before it fell into my lap loast all the early archives.
Google knows their place in the DNS. But they aren't willing to make a move yet. Keep in mind the guy that legitimized the alt newsgroups is now director of engineering there.
You could do worse than write to google and ask them to do something.
ICANN has a Momorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the US Department of Commerce (DoC) National Telelcomunications Infrastructure Administration (NTIA).
And yes, they ARE idiots.
http://support.open-rsc.org
.org thing?
Or use OpenNIC (but you wont get as many tlds)
But whatever you do dump ICANNs root zone and while you're atit dump BIND and run DJBDNS lest you be compelely mired in the 80s.
http://slash.dot anybody? Or are you really stuck on this
Any time you guys are really fed up with all this you know what to do.
ICANN ISOC IAHC
I I I I I IEEEEEEEEEEEEE
And it doesn't seem to have cause any permanent brain damage, even with that stupid WIDJET system.
I can't get too worried about this. What semi cluefull Math/CS student would take C# seriously?
Besides, there's a PDP 11/45 running UNIX on the sixth floor of the math building in a case with a sign saying "in case of emergency break glass".
Wasn't it New Berlin?
Hey, that's my school they're fucking with. Bleh.
Forget timekeeping, the unconventional movement somehow freed Bulova to use designs not even close to other Bulovas (or any other watches, and copied to some extent the wild ass Hamiltons from the 50's (ie. the Ventura "MIB" watch - which had a utterly worthless elecric movement).
2 18/asym/14kt/1/ but you won't see exactly the same thing. You'll get an index page instead of a thumbnail gallery.
I'm not big on accutrons although they certainly have a cult following in the watch world, but I couldn't pass this one up.
For the dns-impaired try http://vrx.net/richard/watches/b/bulova/accutron/
You've got a chairman of ICANN, a Worldcom employee, telling one of the very few elected directors he can't see the books?
C'mon, you're making this shit up.
I'm pretty sure one of these ate my homework in 1976 and I failed Russian history because of it.
Another great mystery of the universe is now cleared up and the dog is absolved of all wrongdoing.