"Aw, baby... look, you know I didn't mean to hurt you. It's just... sometimes I get so angry. You make me really angry sometimes. But I love you - I love you. I won't hurt you again, I PROMISE. I'm going to get help. "Yeah, I know it's happened before, but it won't happen again - I swear! Come back home baby."
Well, it's actually quite common, now that we have DVRs, to have large video files, even if we don't do any real editing on them. My "standard" quality NTSC files from my ReplayTV are 800-900 MB/hr. Better quality is 1.6GB/hr or so. And the files from my HDTV dongle are 9+GB/hour. Maybe I'm just weird, but everyone I know has DVRs and saves shows from them:)
What on earth would I use files that large for? How would I generate them? I don't do video editing, and nothing I've seen that I have any use for approaches that size.
Oh, well, if you never do video, I can understand.
The biggest flaw in these schemes is always the glaringly obvious: nobody bothered to turn them on. Without written security policies, nobody knows what they should/can/must not do, and even if they do, they follow the rules inconsistently.
Take a look at Cisco's SAFE, for example. It explicitly says
This document presumes that you already have a security policy in place. Cisco does not recommend deploying security technologies without an associated policy. For further information about security policies and their use, consult the SANS Security Policy Project at: http://www.cisco.com/go/safe
If you don't know what you have, who gets to access it, and when, what good is a bunch of hardware and software? You might as well hand all your workers CDs of your databases and cross your fingers. Which, possibly, actually happens in some of these cases. Sadly, this sort of stuff is Day 1 material for CCNA and MCSE and other certifications these days, so it pretty much looks like whoever is running the show in these places can't follow or doesn't know standard industry practices. That's gross negligence, IMO, and nothing to do with any sort of technical failings.
Looks like they're all being done on the same server by Bulgarians:
network:IP-Network:64.14.68.0/24 network:Organization;I:ICDSOFT LTD network:Street;I:6 Asen Halachev Street network:City;I:SOFIA network:Postal-Code;I:1113 network:Country-Code;I:Bulgaria
So, what are you doing from your own network, that requires all that bandwidth? Surely not hosting anything for customers, like web or mail, if your own servers are outsourced (and all sharing the same IP!) What's traffic analysis show you?
How many campuses do you have? Your website says Seattle, Portland, and Salem on one page, but only Seattle on another, so I assume only Seattle has a real office, and you maybe recently got stringers for the other locations. This explains why you only care about one pipe, I guess?
In fact, I'd say, if physical mail for your domain is going to your office, it's at an address on 92nd Ave in Edmonds that looks a lot like a house, with maybe 4 cars parked when the bird flew overheard. So... maybe 4 employees, saturating your bandwidth? Again, what traffic analysis have you done?
You do know that if someone's running a p2p server at the office, not only does it saturate your bw, it's also a legal liability for your company, right?
People keep toeing Apple's party line that this is anti-DRM. It's not at all. It's anti-proprietary DRM. You can have DRM, you just have to tell other industry players how to interoperate with it.
This is like saying the DVD Consortium is anti-DRM, because multiple companies belong.
The newly-elected replacements will preach financial responsibility and restraint for about two election cycles, then it will be right back where it was.
I doubt it will take more than one cycle, because when they all want to get re-elected, they're gonna need some big campaign financing to fend off upstarts complaining about how the government isn't "creating jobs" by giving away money, anymore.
Is the president going to play dress-up, get into an air force uniform, land on an air craft carrier near the Straight of Gibraltar and declare the Spanish American War finally over?
Don't even joke about that, as part of his constituency believes the U.S. is being invaded by "reconquistadors." Not to mention that it's a lot easier to ship people to Guantanamo from Mexico. Oh, he'd probably use that as an excuse to try to "liberate" Havana, like in 1898. Cuba was the only Spanish colony in the area that we didn't take over and declare a U.S. Territory, after the original war's end. So we have to go back, and make democracy safe from exploding cigars.
I do care about bugs that crash the program, and I really care about those that cause data loss. If you knowingly ship code that causes data loss, you are morally responsible for that loss, especially if you don't warn anyone about it.
Disabling that dysfunctionality is always preferable to destroying customers' work.
Do you want the next generation of rural kids to grow up thinking that we were nice for buying them laptops and giving them more educational opportunities? Or do you want them to not know, and remain under the Party control, without knowledge of what else is out there?
Right now a large number of rural kids in China don't even go to school. They used to, back before Westernization these last few years. But the government no longer pays for it, and the parents in rural communities can't pay the fees - less than 1 cent US per year, according to the recent Frontline documentary "Tank Man." So what makes you think their government is going to find money for $100 per child, when they can't find 1 cent per year?
I've still got my ReplayTV 50xx, which at least tries to auto-skip commercials, and doesn't tie up my bandwidth downloading special advertising.
I'll care when I move to HDTV. But I mostly only watch PBS and news, anyway. If I have to, I'll use my USB2-based HDTV dongle to record those, so I'm more concerned with whether DVICO comes out with OSX drivers:)
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was modelling the bubbles that form on the lemon slice after it's pushed into the bottle.
(hackwrench, this should have been your comment)
Once again I am beaten to the punch.
I always love it when someone manages to get /. to post an article whose only link is to the submitter's own blog.
Really classy, Andy.
It's the pile on the plush carpet lining the walls of your spaceship that is most important.
That, and Duran Duran must be stopped!
Well, it's actually quite common, now that we have DVRs, to have large video files, even if we don't do any real editing on them. :)
My "standard" quality NTSC files from my ReplayTV are 800-900 MB/hr. Better quality is 1.6GB/hr or so. And the files from my HDTV dongle are 9+GB/hour.
Maybe I'm just weird, but everyone I know has DVRs and saves shows from them
Oh, well, if you never do video, I can understand.
No need to be a jerk.
Nice quote in your sigpic.
How do you serve files bigger than 4GB? Or, really, bigger than 2, I guess?
Heck, I just went from AGP4x to 8x about 3 months ago. My PC motherboard doesn't support a single PCI-E card, much less three.
My side hurts, now.
Without written security policies, nobody knows what they should/can/must not do, and even if they do, they follow the rules inconsistently.
Take a look at Cisco's SAFE, for example. It explicitly says
If you don't know what you have, who gets to access it, and when, what good is a bunch of hardware and software? You might as well hand all your workers CDs of your databases and cross your fingers. Which, possibly, actually happens in some of these cases. Sadly, this sort of stuff is Day 1 material for CCNA and MCSE and other certifications these days, so it pretty much looks like whoever is running the show in these places can't follow or doesn't know standard industry practices. That's gross negligence, IMO, and nothing to do with any sort of technical failings.
Looks like they're all being done on the same server by Bulgarians:
network:IP-Network:64.14.68.0/24
network:Organization;I:ICDSOFT LTD
network:Street;I:6 Asen Halachev Street
network:City;I:SOFIA
network:Postal-Code;I:1113
network:Country-Code;I:Bulgaria
So, what are you doing from your own network, that requires all that bandwidth?
Surely not hosting anything for customers, like web or mail, if your own servers are outsourced (and all sharing the same IP!)
What's traffic analysis show you?
How many campuses do you have? Your website says Seattle, Portland, and Salem on one page, but only Seattle on another, so I assume only Seattle has a real office, and you maybe recently got stringers for the other locations. This explains why you only care about one pipe, I guess?
In fact, I'd say, if physical mail for your domain is going to your office, it's at an address on 92nd Ave in Edmonds that looks a lot like a house, with maybe 4 cars parked when the bird flew overheard. So... maybe 4 employees, saturating your bandwidth? Again, what traffic analysis have you done?
You do know that if someone's running a p2p server at the office, not only does it saturate your bw, it's also a legal liability for your company, right?
It's "drown it in a bathtub." :)
Which is why it became a pretty good anti-Republican response, superimposed on images of Katrina-damaged areas.
But does this law cover software-only designs, or just hardware?
Everything I've been reading says hardware.
There hasn't been a good computer magazine since the early days of BYTE :)
People keep toeing Apple's party line that this is anti-DRM. It's not at all. It's anti-proprietary DRM.
You can have DRM, you just have to tell other industry players how to interoperate with it.
This is like saying the DVD Consortium is anti-DRM, because multiple companies belong.
I doubt it will take more than one cycle, because when they all want to get re-elected, they're gonna need some big campaign financing to fend off upstarts complaining about how the government isn't "creating jobs" by giving away money, anymore.
Don't even joke about that, as part of his constituency believes the U.S. is being invaded by "reconquistadors."
Not to mention that it's a lot easier to ship people to Guantanamo from Mexico. Oh, he'd probably use that as an excuse to try to "liberate" Havana, like in 1898. Cuba was the only Spanish colony in the area that we didn't take over and declare a U.S. Territory, after the original war's end. So we have to go back, and make democracy safe from exploding cigars.
I do care about bugs that crash the program, and I really care about those that cause data loss.
If you knowingly ship code that causes data loss, you are morally responsible for that loss, especially if you don't warn anyone about it.
Disabling that dysfunctionality is always preferable to destroying customers' work.
Do you want the next generation of rural kids to grow up thinking that we were nice for buying them laptops and giving them more educational opportunities?
Or do you want them to not know, and remain under the Party control, without knowledge of what else is out there?
Right now a large number of rural kids in China don't even go to school. They used to, back before Westernization these last few years. But the government no longer pays for it, and the parents in rural communities can't pay the fees - less than 1 cent US per year, according to the recent Frontline documentary "Tank Man." So what makes you think their government is going to find money for $100 per child, when they can't find 1 cent per year?
How quickly we forget.
and Jobs said, "let them eat paste!"
Cool, thanks. Useful to know when I quit my current bank, even though I'm not Hispanic. It shows some forward thinking :)
Thanks. I really need to renew that subscription :)
I've still got my ReplayTV 50xx, which at least tries to auto-skip commercials, and doesn't tie up my bandwidth downloading special advertising.
:)
I'll care when I move to HDTV. But I mostly only watch PBS and news, anyway. If I have to, I'll use my USB2-based HDTV dongle to record those, so I'm more concerned with whether DVICO comes out with OSX drivers