Unfortunatly no. Seems that in order to sue the government you have to get the permission of the gov to sue it.... HOWEVER... the states can sue. So what is needed is a company large enough to own a governer or two to convince them to sue.
I'm working for a startup (hopefully not a start down) That is working in this area for Linux/Unix. The objective is to make installation of software as easy for Grandma as it is for Grandaughter. Along these lines we have adopted the following credos
1. The users box is none of our business. We don't snoop, store data on or in any way check out the users box beyond simple checks to see if dependencies are met. Even when we do that it's never "written down" anywhere we can see it.
2. The removal of software should not leave behind "droppings" of unused code or binaries.
3. Standards exist for a reason. As such we follow them. User apps go in usr/local. etc. Spraying a users box with code and binaries is a sure way to piss them off.
4. If you have to do something unique to the user s box (install a daemon or a server for example) TELL THEM BEFORE they install it.
5. Instructions and info should be available before you install the app not after.
6. Users should be allowed to be productive with applications not to applications Don't burden them with endless options and cryptic configuration files.
7. You own your computer. We don't. As such when our software goes on your box, we are a guest, and should be willing to act accordingly.
James Sparenberg Director New Product Development Open Country Inc.
VNC is your answer. Period (in my opinion) the point being that if it's good enough to run the ATT UK research lab (formally Olivetti Research lab) it's surely good enough for your University. It works both ways. (from or to linux/mac/windows) can be secured over ssh and requires a minimul system on the "recieving" end. ( I've used a 486 as the terminal end quite nicely). You can find out all the info/numbers you will need at www.uk.research.att.com/vnc
One quick note on Moores law... the MHZ myth.. A 1 gig Atholon doing real time video processing benchmarked at only 17% faster than a K6-3 500mhz. This is hardly a doubling of processor speed. You need to take into account how many clock cycles it takes for a single process. If the 500 takes 2 clock cycles and the 1gig takes 3 the net gain is not a doubling of speed. This unfortunately is what is happening. Although the MHz is increasing on the box the number of cycles per command is also going up, although not as fast. Besides how many clock cycles does it take to teach a child how TCP/IP works? or how to use a spreadsheet? If having the 1800XP makes you feal good... go for it. Frankly as I travel a lot, I prefer to use older and outdated notebooks. They may be heavier but I don't worry about getting a 400 dollar 166 stolen as much as I would a 2500 dollar Viao. (and boy howdy they do get stolen) Yeah a Ferrari may be able to do 200mph but in a 25mph zone a Focus is just as fast.
I'm sorry, but that's just plain silly. 90-95% of the freeware systems (Linux, *BSD, BEOS) run on Intel-based systems.
ummm do you have any numbers to back this up or do you just mean that YOU are running intel? Sorry, but sales figures show that intel and amd are about neck and neck in sales. Unless you buy from Dell. What they do run on is i386 arch compatible systems. Which doesn't mean intel AMD Cyrix, Transmeta and others build CPU's that are i386 compatible. Then you have to include all of the MIPS and Strong Arm systems running Linux et al. So when you are done you'll find that non intel CPU's are pervasive and you my would be friend have egg all over you.
What I'd like would really be one step further in the chain. Something like my palm or the old Cannon Cat. Turn it off, come back a week, month or year later and voila. You are right back at the same point you left, as if you never turned it off. The basics as I see it would be that ram gets written to swap as an image, (which is what the Cannon Cat did.) Then when your restart the box by tuning it on, ram gets re-initialized from the swap file back to the state it was in before power off. The other option would mean adding a small battery pack to a desktop. If you hit the power button on a box or pull the tail from the wall ram is maintained by the battery until you re-power the box. (or the battery finally goes south.) As I see it there shouldn't be any reason why a box once run through startup shouldn't be able to maintain it's running state almost indefinitly. In fact if you could get Linux to do this one thing..... it would be on desktops so fast you wouldn't believe it. Unless you change hardware what is the diffence that occurs that requires the full init sequence anyway? The Green Peacers would love it because people wouldn't mind turning off there comp since it's "instantly on". The only down side would be that you wouldn't want to stay logged in, but then what's the diff between being logged in with the monitor off and being logged in with an instant on feature? Course it would mean uptimes in years instead of days.....
How long to keep a doc.... depends on the doc. Financials and related materials should be kept for 7 + 3 years. The IRS can audit 7 years back, and request documents for support 10 years back. Corprate brain trust documents (like a copy of original trademark forms) should just plain be kept. The note to your secretary about lunch.. destroyed before the wife finds it.
Basically however the rules for maintaining paperwork have been around since Bob Cratchett was doing books for scrooge and before.... why oh why does anyone think that making them bits and bytes instead of pen and ink changes anything.
But X can also run on Dos and as such 95/98. Point to note is that M$ is not the holder of the international trademark. That"s a Korean Company. See here at http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/9361. html So they are first and formost vulnerable on that front.
According to the Trademark act of 1946 a trademark is a mark or symbol that sufficiantly distigueshes your product or company from others in it's field as to represent it without confusion, deception or fraud intended. In short you can't file a trademark if you aren't intending to do business with that mark. (you couldn't file for example coke if Coca Cola forgot to renew because you dont' do business with that trademark) Windows according to a trademark search is not trademarked. Windows desktop, Windows XP, Windows 98 are (along with all the others) (Search completed at tess.uspto.gov. ) Why because a common word isn't sufficiently unique as to convey an individual and unique product. Windows stylized and with the little warped picture is trademarked. (copyrighted too) But Windows of and by itself is not trademarked and cannot be under current guidelines.(Note over 865 live trademarks exist in the US with the word windows M$ owns only a small number)
So the question comes down to how stupid the gov actual believes we (you and I) are. Would any of us confuse Lindows with Windows. I prefer to believe that for those of use who are capable of reading English we wouldn't be. As for those who don't read english, since at no time does lindows use the little warped window on it "logo" it would definitely not confuse them. This isn't a case that MS should be capable of winning. However it is a case where no matter what they do...... they lose. So in my opinion let the jumping buddha bounce all over the stage telling you his new word for the day. (developers developers) Give Gates a roadmap out of his house and pray to got that Bush decides to lead this country rather than bleed this country (can you say enron?.... kickbacks?)
New Sig: I've got my daddy's shoes his clothes his job..... but I don't know why he wanted to keep the trains?
Couple of notes. According to the Federal Marshals office. They aren't going to coperate unless proper court orders are issued. According to my local police department... call us and we'll boot there Nazi asses outa town. (can't say what dept it is since it's an off the record quote.) Oh and by the way BSA is a trademark of the Boy Scouts of America.... seems that they are violating Trademark and Copyright laws themselves.
Conversly... from the side of people selling you that $5.00 per gigabyte bandwidth.... You were stupid enough to sign the agreement and lay in all that cable to the homes. Now shut up and fold so that Mamma SBC can come in and use your cable at the real cost of wire.
question... why are you using a VPN? Set up a firewall box with IP masq. install a cheap 50 dollar switched hub (passive if you are all 100mbs) and stop using the ISP's bandwidth so your comps can talk to each other or talk to the internet. I've got 6 boxes in my home right now. Files fly around the house constantly (virtual cluster) and yet.... if I disconnet the modem the only thing I lose is my e-mail. Yes I know. ATT at home (oops broadband) teaches you how to set up a VPN if you ask them about "Home Networking" Maybe there wouldn't be so much bandwidth being sucked down by VPN's IF THE IDIOTS IN THE TELCOS WOULDN'T TEACH WINDOWS USERS HOW TO CREATE THEM. Sorry for the shout but This is an issue created by the telco's and then they coming crying to me saying it's my fault, because other people did what they taught them how to do. Hell even WindWoze XP (the XP is for eXtremely Porus) creates a VPN if you click on Internet Connection Sharing. For Christ's sake. If they Telco's don't want people to use VPN's then they need to stop teaching/telling them to use them to share an internet connection. Period. Just for fun... I called ATT and asked about connection sharing. The Person on the phone told be for an extra 10.00 per month I could get 3 more IP numbers (DHCP) and all use the same modem through a VPN... I then asked.. Aren't VPN's Not allowed under your terms of agreement. The phone went quiet. The Person said just a moment, and then came back saying that it's not a real VPN but rather a local VPN. I thanked this person for their time, said I'd consider it and hung up. My question. Would this be a VVPN (Virual Virtual Private Network?)
* Institute a "one strike you're out policy" on Nimda, email virii, spamming, and piracy. So far we have only had three disconnections.
You probably could have stopped right there and saved a bundle. Removing the idgits with infected boxes is a dream. I installed a blocker on my webserver at work just to block requests for Nimda (I run linux and FreeBSD) in one month alone before I installed the blocker I transmitted 1.2 GiGs! (bytes not bits) of 404 error codes to Level 3's infected NT boxes (oh and my service was from level 3) and yes.... I have a record of the boxes and of who owns them. Granted most of these where colo's but if level 3 had bothered to check they would should have just shut them down. They didn't want to because these guys where over running there transfer limits and where getting socked for a bundle in extra traffic charges.
* Block all incoming connections to our users, so that they could not become servers. We allowed SSH as long as it is OpenSSH >= 2.5.2.
How do you tell this without violating the privacy act of 1970? The ALU would love to know.
* Block all known VPN clients. These were sucking up tremendous amounts of bandwidth, since we are in a rural area and many people liked to telecommute using our service.
our..... do you have a mouse in your pocket. You contract for a given product, failure to deliver is a breech of contract. Simple direct.
* Charge a $209 service fee to users who have crippled their internet access through a fault of their own.
This is fair.... However determining who caused the cripple can be a nightmare... warning from one who's been there. Be careful and error on the side of caution. The benifits will outway the losses.
* Block all incoming connections to our users, so that they could not become servers. We allowed SSH as long as it is OpenSSH >= 2.5.2.
Oh and again on this one..... define server? SSH is a server. Do you mean web servers? FTP servers. Webmin servers? NTP servers?
My attitude is this... since most of the spam I get comes from either yahoo or hotmail. I opened an account on both of them. I alternate between them on the net. When they fill up. I open more accounts. Fake name and e-mail and I'm off and using their bandwidth for the spam they create instead of mine. Doesn't do much good. But I feel better.
The can't really provide a T1's worth of downloads to each customer for $50/month.
let's check that out.
Ok assuming a graphics intensive web page of 100kbytes.
8x100kbytes = 800kbits
lines speed of t-1 1.544kbits/sec
or 2 (rounded) downloads of this page per second.
Now if we assume that people work 24x7 on the net and download a page every minute then the maximum number of people on a single t-1 is reached in 60 seconds.
if d = downloads
t = time (in seconds)
n = number of people getting full speed
f = monthly fee
R = total revinue
d x t = n and n x f = R
so 2 x 60 = 120 120 x 50 = 6000 or 6 times the cost of the line.
now if we then assume that the figures of the average person spending 2hrs per day on the net round up for error correction to 4 you can, instead of assuming 24x7 usage move to 4 x 7 per cusomer.
24 / 4 = 6 which means 6 times as many customers can go on a t-1 (if they are spread out evenly) as in the previous model. So we then have 6 x 6000 or 36000 dollars per line, per month in revenue.
Now as we all know they aren't spread out evenly over the 24 hr spectrum and instead tend to glob together at peak times (6pm-10pm is the worst) so you then have periods of uneven speeds or degraded usage. You must remember that always on doesn't mean always transmitting or recieving. Estimates range from 80 to 90% idle time (downloading idle time)even on the most active connection (Seti at home anyone). This is why so many modems (dial-up style) have a keep alive signal built in to maintain the connection. Nothing worse than getting cut off because you are a slow reader.
Finally what worries me the most is the effect it will have on the WinXP users. How are they going to keep up with the security patches if they are limited to 10mbits per day?
Did they say they guarantee a bandwidth of NNN mbps?
The gaurantee was for minimum 384 down... 128up unlimited transfers.
Did they omit usual warning that "we can change this agreement at any time [with prior notice]"?
Yes they did... one sided changes in contracts are not necessarally legal here in Cali. So this statement doesn't hold water. In fact this clause is strong only because so few can afford to challenge it. 1 year contract.. who cares they broke I'm free. (just that the other choice is PacHell.)
And, of course, you are free to sue @Home for breaking the agreement (if it was not carefully crafted).
I never contracted with @home.... I contracted with ATTBroadband..who still exists. Says so right on my contract.
Otherwise think of people in Europe paying $120 a month for 64Kbps "cable" with a cap on download.
Which is why our battle here is important for them. Bring the BS to the forefront. I'd also like to know where this cap and rate is.
oh and for info purposes only 2megs down 128 up is not t-3 speed. In fact.... it's not even t-1 those are symetrical.
Actual conversation overhead while in the Military.
ATT official: If we light up this fibre for the Army, people will know it's there.
General: If you DON"T light it up for us, congress will know it's there, and your name to boot.
Simular problems here. They would hand out a lease on one subnet and then a gateway on another..... no problem. This is workable.... unlessssssss you forget to route BETWEEN the two subnets! Took me two days and over 8 hrs on the phone and in there little net chat to finally get someone who understood that my linux box wouldn't run the windows config tool. Yes I know ATT planned the cut over. As well as the merger with comcast for months. I know that they managed to switch a lot of people over quickly. I also know that 1 day after I got cable it was down for over a week. I also know that even though it was down for a week they are only giving me two days credit. Why.... I'm on linux and couldn't run their windows config tool. (Never mind that I pulled up my old Libretto with win98 ran the dang tool and it still didn't work, according to them bad hardware. Yes they actually told me it wouldn't work with a PCMCIA ethernet card, only usb) I'm not caring about the download speed. After a year with PacHell and 122 days downtime in the last year. It's not suprising that the net is imploding. The motto seems to be "We want you to give us your money. But please whatever you do, don't post, view content or utilize this service in any way. Am I happy.... no... anyone wanna split a t-1?
I agree. I love my Clio Clone (Sharp version) just wish that you could flash the ram for linux but *sigh* it does do the job. Specially fun on a long flight. No fighting for power connections. It runs for 10 hours straight. hehe.
But seriously. Pads like this would be great in places like hospitals, for inventory control, and other such applications where the info inserted is either a check box on a form or a short message. The larger screen makes it easier to read, and strangly enough enter data accurately. As a doctor I know noted. " I love the PDA system at the hospital, just wish I could read the screen with my glasses on." As such I'm pulling for this one to succeed.
Note... Intentional is not neccessarily a bad thing. It is when by your example mutt requires a spell checker. It isn't when it makes sure that the correct needs of the app are met. My point is that the distro's need (rightfully) to ensure maintaing their user base. However it shouldn't be used to force you to upgrade to the next version. IE 8.1 Mandrake KDE won't install on 8.0 without changing a number of things that don't need to be upgraded. (why for example should I be required to install the next version of mozilla? when kde doesn't use mozilla?) Yes I know how to modify specs. I also know that you can instert a line to make the rpm dependent on an app it doesn't really need like ispell for mutt. Take for example FreeBSD. I can be running 2.2.7 and upgrade an app to a version from 4.1 with minimal hassle, yes I made need to get the latest version of perl or libjpeg, but at least I can upgrade the app without taking my server down either because it's busy installing multiple rpms and running scripts or worse yet breaking my box. In fact if BSD has anything over Linux it's it's ability to upgrade live and still be able to run legacy apps on the box.
A Freaking men........ It's kinda like when people tell you to RTFM and your question was on where to find the Freaking Manual. In short does anyone have an answer to this guys question?
Ever noticed that if you build the app from source you don't have all the dependencies you do from the rpm. Oh sure there are some build dependencies and of course You can't install a perl program and expect it to run on a box that doesn't have perl. The rest. Well they are intended for one purpose only. To sell you the latest version of the release. Why can't I install the latest KDE on my box when it's been built and released for one version up from me? Simple if I do. I might not by the disks for that version. If they built rpm's that were compatible with another distro then they run the risk of having you buy the other guys distro not theirs. Ever wonder why you can't install the Netscape rpm's without index.html?, but if you go to netscape.com and download the installer you don't need it? Or why if you put a redhat rpm on a mandrake box it looks for a redhat rpm and ignores the fact that you have that lib under a different rpm name? I build rpm's for a living and basiclly it comes down to this.
1. Distro created dependencies 75%
2. Dependencies created by nameing conflicts 15%
3. Real Dependencies 10%
Time and time again I've downloaded and edited the src rpm opened the spec file and found that SPECIFIC distro rpms are listed as dependancies rather than the dependencies created during the rpm -bb command. Thereby making sure that an RPM from distro A won't work on distro B. What really sucks is now that ATT has put me on a 56k cable modem I can't get the src RPM's or.gz files as easilly as before. So much for that. Ximian, up2date etc. are a great way to make money off of products that essentially are the same(the distro's). The only question I have is, why can I install Windwos + Office on a 2 gig drive and have lot's of room for data, but I can barely get Mandrake or Redhat to fit. Talk about bloat. Which is why my Libretto runs FreeBSD and X. Dependencies are creating a bloat situation of immense proportion.
Even more important is this one. A linux DISTRO called BRLSpeak aimed at the visually impared. The creatror Osvaldo LaRosa is himself visually impared and also runs the AudioBraille.org/BLinux iniative website. You may also want to check out the LinuxAccesability-HowTo at linuxdoc.org. Linux is not just for the sighted. Also a note on the numbers of handicapped. Not all handicapped require special help in using a computer. I for one may have trouble with walking correctly but other than a pair of glasses I don't need any help with a comp. That's why the number may seem high to some of you .
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Unfortunatly no. Seems that in order to sue the government you have to get the permission of the gov to sue it.... HOWEVER... the states can sue. So what is needed is a company large enough to own a governer or two to convince them to sue.
ummmm did you install netscape for linux? yep spyware everytime you use that little search button .... poof it notifies Netscape.
I'm working for a startup (hopefully not a start down) That is working in this area for Linux/Unix. The objective is to make installation of software as easy for Grandma as it is for Grandaughter. Along these lines we have adopted the following credos
1. The users box is none of our business. We don't snoop, store data on or in any way check out the users box beyond simple checks to see if dependencies are met. Even when we do that it's never "written down" anywhere we can see it.
2. The removal of software should not leave behind "droppings" of unused code or binaries.
3. Standards exist for a reason. As such we follow them. User apps go in usr/local. etc. Spraying a users box with code and binaries is a sure way to piss them off.
4. If you have to do something unique to the user s box (install a daemon or a server for example) TELL THEM BEFORE they install it.
5. Instructions and info should be available before you install the app not after.
6. Users should be allowed to be productive with applications not to applications Don't burden them with endless options and cryptic configuration files.
7. You own your computer. We don't. As such when our software goes on your box, we are a guest, and should be willing to act accordingly.
James Sparenberg
Director New Product Development
Open Country Inc.
VNC is your answer. Period (in my opinion) the point being that if it's good enough to run the ATT UK research lab (formally Olivetti Research lab) it's surely good enough for your University. It works both ways. (from or to linux/mac/windows) can be secured over ssh and requires a minimul system on the "recieving" end. ( I've used a 486 as the terminal end quite nicely). You can find out all the info/numbers you will need at www.uk.research.att.com/vnc
One quick note on Moores law... the MHZ myth.. A 1 gig Atholon doing real time video processing benchmarked at only 17% faster than a K6-3 500mhz. This is hardly a doubling of processor speed. You need to take into account how many clock cycles it takes for a single process. If the 500 takes 2 clock cycles and the 1gig takes 3 the net gain is not a doubling of speed. This unfortunately is what is happening. Although the MHz is increasing on the box the number of cycles per command is also going up, although not as fast. Besides how many clock cycles does it take to teach a child how TCP/IP works? or how to use a spreadsheet? If having the 1800XP makes you feal good... go for it. Frankly as I travel a lot, I prefer to use older and outdated notebooks. They may be heavier but I don't worry about getting a 400 dollar 166 stolen as much as I would a 2500 dollar Viao. (and boy howdy they do get stolen) Yeah a Ferrari may be able to do 200mph but in a 25mph zone a Focus is just as fast.
I'm sorry, but that's just plain silly. 90-95% of the freeware systems (Linux, *BSD, BEOS) run on Intel-based systems.
ummm do you have any numbers to back this up or do you just mean that YOU are running intel? Sorry, but sales figures show that intel and amd are about neck and neck in sales. Unless you buy from Dell. What they do run on is i386 arch compatible systems. Which doesn't mean intel AMD Cyrix, Transmeta and others build CPU's that are i386 compatible. Then you have to include all of the MIPS and Strong Arm systems running Linux et al. So when you are done you'll find that non intel CPU's are pervasive and you my would be friend have egg all over you.
What I'd like would really be one step further in the chain. Something like my palm or the old Cannon Cat. Turn it off, come back a week, month or year later and voila. You are right back at the same point you left, as if you never turned it off. The basics as I see it would be that ram gets written to swap as an image, (which is what the Cannon Cat did.) Then when your restart the box by tuning it on, ram gets re-initialized from the swap file back to the state it was in before power off. The other option would mean adding a small battery pack to a desktop. If you hit the power button on a box or pull the tail from the wall ram is maintained by the battery until you re-power the box. (or the battery finally goes south.) As I see it there shouldn't be any reason why a box once run through startup shouldn't be able to maintain it's running state almost indefinitly. In fact if you could get Linux to do this one thing..... it would be on desktops so fast you wouldn't believe it. Unless you change hardware what is the diffence that occurs that requires the full init sequence anyway? The Green Peacers would love it because people wouldn't mind turning off there comp since it's "instantly on". The only down side would be that you wouldn't want to stay logged in, but then what's the diff between being logged in with the monitor off and being logged in with an instant on feature? Course it would mean uptimes in years instead of days.....
How long to keep a doc.... depends on the doc. Financials and related materials should be kept for 7 + 3 years. The IRS can audit 7 years back, and request documents for support 10 years back. Corprate brain trust documents (like a copy of original trademark forms) should just plain be kept. The note to your secretary about lunch.. destroyed before the wife finds it.
Basically however the rules for maintaining paperwork have been around since Bob Cratchett was doing books for scrooge and before.... why oh why does anyone think that making them bits and bytes instead of pen and ink changes anything.
But X can also run on Dos and as such 95/98. Point to note is that M$ is not the holder of the international trademark. That"s a Korean Company. See here at http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/9361. html
So they are first and formost vulnerable on that front.
According to the Trademark act of 1946 a trademark is a mark or symbol that sufficiantly distigueshes your product or company from others in it's field as to represent it without confusion, deception or fraud intended. In short you can't file a trademark if you aren't intending to do business with that mark. (you couldn't file for example coke if Coca Cola forgot to renew because you dont' do business with that trademark) Windows according to a trademark search is not trademarked. Windows desktop, Windows XP, Windows 98 are (along with all the others) (Search completed at tess.uspto.gov. ) Why because a common word isn't sufficiently unique as to convey an individual and unique product. Windows stylized and with the little warped picture is trademarked. (copyrighted too) But Windows of and by itself is not trademarked and cannot be under current guidelines.(Note over 865 live trademarks exist in the US with the word windows M$ owns only a small number)
So the question comes down to how stupid the gov actual believes we (you and I) are. Would any of us confuse Lindows with Windows. I prefer to believe that for those of use who are capable of reading English we wouldn't be. As for those who don't read english, since at no time does lindows use the little warped window on it "logo" it would definitely not confuse them. This isn't a case that MS should be capable of winning. However it is a case where no matter what they do...... they lose. So in my opinion let the jumping buddha bounce all over the stage telling you his new word for the day. (developers developers) Give Gates a roadmap out of his house and pray to got that Bush decides to lead this country rather than bleed this country (can you say enron?.... kickbacks?)
New Sig: I've got my daddy's shoes his clothes his job..... but I don't know why he wanted to keep the trains?
Sieg Hiel ...... Seig Hiel ...... Sieg Hiel.....
Couple of notes. According to the Federal Marshals office. They aren't going to coperate unless proper court orders are issued. According to my local police department... call us and we'll boot there Nazi asses outa town. (can't say what dept it is since it's an off the record quote.) Oh and by the way BSA is a trademark of the Boy Scouts of America.... seems that they are violating Trademark and Copyright laws themselves.
Conversly... from the side of people selling you that $5.00 per gigabyte bandwidth.... You were stupid enough to sign the agreement and lay in all that cable to the homes. Now shut up and fold so that Mamma SBC can come in and use your cable at the real cost of wire.
question... why are you using a VPN? Set up a firewall box with IP masq. install a cheap 50 dollar switched hub (passive if you are all 100mbs) and stop using the ISP's bandwidth so your comps can talk to each other or talk to the internet. I've got 6 boxes in my home right now. Files fly around the house constantly (virtual cluster) and yet.... if I disconnet the modem the only thing I lose is my e-mail. Yes I know. ATT at home (oops broadband) teaches you how to set up a VPN if you ask them about "Home Networking" Maybe there wouldn't be so much bandwidth being sucked down by VPN's IF THE IDIOTS IN THE TELCOS WOULDN'T TEACH WINDOWS USERS HOW TO CREATE THEM. Sorry for the shout but This is an issue created by the telco's and then they coming crying to me saying it's my fault, because other people did what they taught them how to do. Hell even WindWoze XP (the XP is for eXtremely Porus) creates a VPN if you click on Internet Connection Sharing. For Christ's sake. If they Telco's don't want people to use VPN's then they need to stop teaching/telling them to use them to share an internet connection. Period. Just for fun... I called ATT and asked about connection sharing. The Person on the phone told be for an extra 10.00 per month I could get 3 more IP numbers (DHCP) and all use the same modem through a VPN... I then asked.. Aren't VPN's Not allowed under your terms of agreement. The phone went quiet. The Person said just a moment, and then came back saying that it's not a real VPN but rather a local VPN. I thanked this person for their time, said I'd consider it and hung up. My question. Would this be a VVPN (Virual Virtual Private Network?)
* Institute a "one strike you're out policy" on Nimda, email virii, spamming, and piracy. So far we have only had three disconnections.
You probably could have stopped right there and saved a bundle. Removing the idgits with infected boxes is a dream. I installed a blocker on my webserver at work just to block requests for Nimda (I run linux and FreeBSD) in one month alone before I installed the blocker I transmitted 1.2 GiGs! (bytes not bits) of 404 error codes to Level 3's infected NT boxes (oh and my service was from level 3) and yes.... I have a record of the boxes and of who owns them. Granted most of these where colo's but if level 3 had bothered to check they would should have just shut them down. They didn't want to because these guys where over running there transfer limits and where getting socked for a bundle in extra traffic charges.
* Block all incoming connections to our users, so that they could not become servers. We allowed SSH as long as it is OpenSSH >= 2.5.2.
How do you tell this without violating the privacy act of 1970? The ALU would love to know.
* Block all known VPN clients. These were sucking up tremendous amounts of bandwidth, since we are in a rural area and many people liked to telecommute using our service.
our..... do you have a mouse in your pocket. You contract for a given product, failure to deliver is a breech of contract. Simple direct.
* Charge a $209 service fee to users who have crippled their internet access through a fault of their own.
This is fair.... However determining who caused the cripple can be a nightmare... warning from one who's been there. Be careful and error on the side of caution. The benifits will outway the losses.
* Block all incoming connections to our users, so that they could not become servers. We allowed SSH as long as it is OpenSSH >= 2.5.2.
Oh and again on this one..... define server? SSH is a server. Do you mean web servers? FTP servers. Webmin servers? NTP servers?
This is informative? It's not even polite.... what basics do your refer to by the way. Oh and by the way you should care.... Zieg Hiel
My attitude is this ... since most of the spam I get comes from either yahoo or hotmail. I opened an account on both of them. I alternate between them on the net. When they fill up. I open more accounts. Fake name and e-mail and I'm off and using their bandwidth for the spam they create instead of mine. Doesn't do much good. But I feel better.
The can't really provide a T1's worth of downloads to each customer for $50/month.
let's check that out.
Ok assuming a graphics intensive web page of 100kbytes.
8x100kbytes = 800kbits
lines speed of t-1 1.544kbits/sec
or 2 (rounded) downloads of this page per second.
Now if we assume that people work 24x7 on the net and download a page every minute then the maximum number of people on a single t-1 is reached in 60 seconds.
if d = downloads
t = time (in seconds)
n = number of people getting full speed
f = monthly fee
R = total revinue
d x t = n and n x f = R
so 2 x 60 = 120 120 x 50 = 6000 or 6 times the cost of the line.
now if we then assume that the figures of the average person spending 2hrs per day on the net round up for error correction to 4 you can, instead of assuming 24x7 usage move to 4 x 7 per cusomer.
24 / 4 = 6 which means 6 times as many customers can go on a t-1 (if they are spread out evenly) as in the previous model. So we then have 6 x 6000 or 36000 dollars per line, per month in revenue.
Now as we all know they aren't spread out evenly over the 24 hr spectrum and instead tend to glob together at peak times (6pm-10pm is the worst) so you then have periods of uneven speeds or degraded usage. You must remember that always on doesn't mean always transmitting or recieving. Estimates range from 80 to 90% idle time (downloading idle time)even on the most active connection (Seti at home anyone). This is why so many modems (dial-up style) have a keep alive signal built in to maintain the connection. Nothing worse than getting cut off because you are a slow reader.
Finally what worries me the most is the effect it will have on the WinXP users. How are they going to keep up with the security patches if they are limited to 10mbits per day?
Did they say they guarantee you that?
.... it's not even t-1 those are symetrical.
Yes as a matter of fact they did....
Did they say they guarantee a bandwidth of NNN mbps?
The gaurantee was for minimum 384 down... 128up unlimited transfers.
Did they omit usual warning that "we can change this agreement at any time [with prior notice]"?
Yes they did... one sided changes in contracts are not necessarally legal here in Cali. So this statement doesn't hold water. In fact this clause is strong only because so few can afford to challenge it. 1 year contract.. who cares they broke I'm free. (just that the other choice is PacHell.)
And, of course, you are free to sue @Home for breaking the agreement (if it was not carefully crafted).
I never contracted with @home.... I contracted with ATTBroadband..who still exists. Says so right on my contract.
Otherwise think of people in Europe paying $120 a month for 64Kbps "cable" with a cap on download.
Which is why our battle here is important for them. Bring the BS to the forefront. I'd also like to know where this cap and rate is.
oh and for info purposes only 2megs down 128 up is not t-3 speed. In fact
Actual conversation overhead while in the Military.
ATT official: If we light up this fibre for the Army, people will know it's there.
General: If you DON"T light it up for us, congress will know it's there, and your name to boot.
Get the 95 dollar a month service...*grin* ... grimace*
Simular problems here. They would hand out a lease on one subnet and then a gateway on another..... no problem. This is workable.... unlessssssss you forget to route BETWEEN the two subnets! Took me two days and over 8 hrs on the phone and in there little net chat to finally get someone who understood that my linux box wouldn't run the windows config tool. Yes I know ATT planned the cut over. As well as the merger with comcast for months. I know that they managed to switch a lot of people over quickly. I also know that 1 day after I got cable it was down for over a week. I also know that even though it was down for a week they are only giving me two days credit. Why.... I'm on linux and couldn't run their windows config tool. (Never mind that I pulled up my old Libretto with win98 ran the dang tool and it still didn't work, according to them bad hardware. Yes they actually told me it wouldn't work with a PCMCIA ethernet card, only usb) I'm not caring about the download speed. After a year with PacHell and 122 days downtime in the last year. It's not suprising that the net is imploding. The motto seems to be "We want you to give us your money. But please whatever you do, don't post, view content or utilize this service in any way. Am I happy.... no... anyone wanna split a t-1?
lotta good this does me on linux *grin* (jk)
I agree. I love my Clio Clone (Sharp version) just wish that you could flash the ram for linux but *sigh* it does do the job. Specially fun on a long flight. No fighting for power connections. It runs for 10 hours straight. hehe.
But seriously. Pads like this would be great in places like hospitals, for inventory control, and other such applications where the info inserted is either a check box on a form or a short message. The larger screen makes it easier to read, and strangly enough enter data accurately. As a doctor I know noted. " I love the PDA system at the hospital, just wish I could read the screen with my glasses on." As such I'm pulling for this one to succeed.
Note... Intentional is not neccessarily a bad thing. It is when by your example mutt requires a spell checker. It isn't when it makes sure that the correct needs of the app are met. My point is that the distro's need (rightfully) to ensure maintaing their user base. However it shouldn't be used to force you to upgrade to the next version. IE 8.1 Mandrake KDE won't install on 8.0 without changing a number of things that don't need to be upgraded. (why for example should I be required to install the next version of mozilla? when kde doesn't use mozilla?) Yes I know how to modify specs. I also know that you can instert a line to make the rpm dependent on an app it doesn't really need like ispell for mutt. Take for example FreeBSD. I can be running 2.2.7 and upgrade an app to a version from 4.1 with minimal hassle, yes I made need to get the latest version of perl or libjpeg, but at least I can upgrade the app without taking my server down either because it's busy installing multiple rpms and running scripts or worse yet breaking my box. In fact if BSD has anything over Linux it's it's ability to upgrade live and still be able to run legacy apps on the box.
A Freaking men........ It's kinda like when people tell you to RTFM and your question was on where to find the Freaking Manual. In short does anyone have an answer to this guys question?
Ever noticed that if you build the app from source you don't have all the dependencies you do from the rpm. Oh sure there are some build dependencies and of course You can't install a perl program and expect it to run on a box that doesn't have perl. The rest. Well they are intended for one purpose only. To sell you the latest version of the release. Why can't I install the latest KDE on my box when it's been built and released for one version up from me? Simple if I do. I might not by the disks for that version. If they built rpm's that were compatible with another distro then they run the risk of having you buy the other guys distro not theirs. Ever wonder why you can't install the Netscape rpm's without index.html?, but if you go to netscape.com and download the installer you don't need it? Or why if you put a redhat rpm on a mandrake box it looks for a redhat rpm and ignores the fact that you have that lib under a different rpm name? I build rpm's for a living and basiclly it comes down to this.
.gz files as easilly as before. So much for that. Ximian, up2date etc. are a great way to make money off of products that essentially are the same(the distro's). The only question I have is, why can I install Windwos + Office on a 2 gig drive and have lot's of room for data, but I can barely get Mandrake or Redhat to fit. Talk about bloat. Which is why my Libretto runs FreeBSD and X. Dependencies are creating a bloat situation of immense proportion.
1. Distro created dependencies 75%
2. Dependencies created by nameing conflicts 15%
3. Real Dependencies 10%
Time and time again I've downloaded and edited the src rpm opened the spec file and found that SPECIFIC distro rpms are listed as dependancies rather than the dependencies created during the rpm -bb command. Thereby making sure that an RPM from distro A won't work on distro B. What really sucks is now that ATT has put me on a 56k cable modem I can't get the src RPM's or
Even more important is this one. A linux DISTRO called BRLSpeak aimed at the visually impared. The creatror Osvaldo LaRosa is himself visually impared and also runs the AudioBraille.org/BLinux iniative website. You may also want to check out the LinuxAccesability-HowTo at linuxdoc.org. Linux is not just for the sighted. Also a note on the numbers of handicapped. Not all handicapped require special help in using a computer. I for one may have trouble with walking correctly but other than a pair of glasses I don't need any help with a comp. That's why the number may seem high to some of you .