I am sure there is a reason they are disabled... Wonder if anyone here has the "m4d sk177z" to enable them? (heh) Oh the hilarity that would ensue... I wonder if she would then file a DMCA about her own site's comment fields to GoDaddy and knock herself off the net? That would be *awesome*. -nB
Sadly I am with you... I voted libertarian (I'm in CA, so not like it matters, my vote is swamped by SF and LA/SD areas). Frankly I know we are supposed to have a multiparty system, but we've been a duopoly so long that the republicrats have consolidated their power. They battle over petty stuff very publicly. But if there is ever something that could actually harm their power base you never hear about it and how they work very closely together to see that it fails.
We need a revolution in this country, not a bloody one, but a ballot box one. I think the Tea Party is a good thing, just because they are harming the existing power base. -nB
PCIe x1 has the same throughput as PCI32/33, so you're going to see the same issues. I have TWO NICs in my system (three if you count the LOM). The PCIe x1 NIC gives me 500Mbps, the PCIe x4 one with TCP offload gives me 950Mbps on the same workload (server they are connected to has a TCP Offload NIC as well. The LOM NIC uses a single PCIe lane, so again it's slow.
Sorry to disagree with you, but with a IEEE compliant 1518 byte frame on a normal NIC you're going to have crap performance. Yes you can use jumbo frames if your app supports it and you will see vast improvements, but a TCP offload engine on the NIC will do even better. -nB
Which infrastructure? I'm in the US and we routinely bash our countries' performance on internet infrastructure. But if you look at it as a whole: We have: *reliable power service *reliable road service *reliable rail service (commercial, not passenger) *reliable POTS service *reliable medical transport and care (I didn't say good, just reliable) *reliable garbage service *reliable food delivery *reliable fuel *reliable government (to a point, and again, not good always, bur reliable, there are no coups every other week) *reliable water service *many more things (police, fire, parks, schools, etc.) Many of these we simply take for granted, but face it they are there for us. In many countries these basics are not there with the reliability that we enjoy. 4G and cellular have excelled in Africa, specifically because of the absence of POTS and power. -nB
I will tell you from my time working in a company that designed Ethernet PHYs and MACs, that most high end desktops and consumer gear can only maintain a 1Gpbs link, but can accommodate no where near that much BW. The best PCs can only sustain ~500Mbps throughput. Most on-board LAN and sub $100 PCIe LAN cards fall closer to 200Mbps. This is because they do not support DMA and are using Polled IO and the host OS for the LAN stack, much like the old winmodems did. -nB
I lived in an apartment with shitty wiring, makes for some very frustrating DSL experience. Since I was at the perimeter of the complex and near the junction box the tech was able to work some voodoo magic and get my 3Mbps connection to work at at least 2... I have always wondered why an apartment wouldn't pay for a fast connection then resell to the residents (or use it as a perk). Mine had close to 300 units, they could have made a killing by just slightly undercutting DSL/Cable internet fees. -nB
With the assumption that they are using single-mode fiber, you will cap out at roughly 40Gbps to the home. If it's multimode, you could pull 100, but the max lengths are so much shorter, I'm not sure that is what they are using. Also, I suspect that FTTH uses the same link aggregation that DSL uses. A block's worth of homes all wire to a cabinet, from there to a switch, and a single (hopefully with redundant pairs) link back to the CO. That last link is important because it represents the maximum all the connected devices can add up to. I am positive this link is oversubscribed (which to be honest is likely just fine in this setting). That last link is likely OC12 ATM, so 622Mbps shared amongst everyone (this is what ATT does for my DSL service BTW.)
from Wikipedia:
OC-12 / STM-4
OC-12 is a network line with transmission speeds of up to 622.08 Mbit/s (payload: 601.344 Mbit/s; overhead: 20.736 Mbit/s).
OC-12 lines are commonly used by ISPs as Wide area network (WAN) connections. While a large ISP would not use an OC-12 as a backbone (main link), it would for smaller, regional or local connections. This connection speed is also often used by mid-sized (below Tier 2) internet customers, such as web hosting companies or smaller ISPs buying service from larger ones.
I'll re-iterate the AC on this one. Where do you live?
I am (possibly) looking to move in the future, and my choice of location is dictated by the following criteria: *Sane legal system (I'm in the US now, so we'll use the due process portion as our comparison of sane). *Reasonable weather. *Cheap and fast BW to the home. *English as a recognized language (Let's face it, I'm a [stereotypical] Yank, and never did well learning a foreign language) .
I've actually been looking at the Isle of Man or Iceland, the latter fails the weather test, but seems to excel on the other parts, Isle of man has a scotch distillery, but I am a Speyside fan... -nB
Hell I'd be happy with 100Mbps. I'm in on e of the better connected cities in the US and I can only affordably get 12/6 ADSL. I could get 20/10, DOCIS but the cable company is known to be not good (Comcast). What I want shouldn't be hard to do: no BW caps, 20/20, metered usage on bulk BW rates. My Colo ISP provides this to me, and I pay $0.04/TB of BW. For residential I'd happily pay 25% more... Hell I'd be willing to bay several times that more, say $1.00/TB. Now, to be fair I also pay for a peering point at my ISP which would be analogous to a service subscription at a home internet account, I pay $25/mo for that. Why can't residential ISPs catch up with the DCs? -nB
I've been installing only two brands of LED: Phillips and Sylvania, both have long guarantees (based on a date stamp on the base) IIRC it's 5 and 7 years. So far I have had one failure on a bulb that was installed over a year ago and when I went to submit an RMA I got a response back in one day confirming shipment of the replacement (a newer model too:) without me needing to do anything. (they take the serial # on the bulb). I asked if they wanted it back to the e-mail and they said the first gen bulbs were not needed back for an RMA (I think this means they knew there was an issue, but with how painless they made it I won't bitch).
All in all I have ~ 15 LEDs installed and aside from that one failure I've really been pleased. I buy when they are on sale only. The sale prices can be over 50% off still as a new model comes out and they liquidate the old units. -nB
I think the bar should be much higher than it is on average for capitol punishment, however, it is possible to only convict those who are guilty, with the tradeoff that very few will be hanged. This is ok. There are some for which recovery is impossible, a return to society impossible, and reprieve impossible. These should be hanged by the neck until dead.
There should never be *any* doubt prior to a capitol conviction (IMHO). If the prosecution has proven beyond a reasonable doubt then ok, incarcerate them. If the prosecution has proven beyond any doubt and the crime is that heinous, then hang them.
From a monetary aspect, however, I believe the death penalty is not sustainable. -nB
The HOA did it wrong, in the same meeting they reopened the pool there should have been a fees increase to cover the cost of reopening and ongoing operation of the pool and related facilities/areas. Then she would have had to hold a sign saying "re-open the pool without me paying for it";)
Another place to save amazing amounts of power is lighting that tends to be left on. I replaced some select lights with LEDs and save ~$108/mo breakdown: 2 60 watt bulbs replaced with 13W LED 3 13W CFL replaced w/ 8W LED 6 40W incandescent replaced w/ 2.5W LED several old florescents w/ magnetic ballast replaced w/ 21W LED strips
These are lights that tend to be left on courtesy of life with kids. I spent ~$1K on LEDs, it'll be paid off in under a year. -nB
It's simpler than that: I pay Fox for their datafeed, this datafeed is the shows and I pay them in one of two ways: On broadcast TV I pay by commercials inserted into the data feed by my local broadcaster. On cable/satellite I pay through the provider who also pays them. Now if my Sat bill for all FOX channels with ads is 0 and I only have to pay the $10/mo rental for the decoder box then fine, disable the skip commercials button.
Aslo, FWIW, while I have Sat TV and a DVR I almost rarely use it, rather I torrent all my shows. Ads are already trimmed out. If they sue me I'll go with the format/timeshift defense, since I am already paying for the shows on my Sat feed. * -nB
*yes I doubt it will work, but it should be entertaining.
Sadly, no. The commissions are automatically generated by a computer, the selling price as well, the problem happens when a human overrides the selling price to liquidate old models. It actually was one in about three points that factored into a class action lawsuit in California. -nB
Correct, it happens because the company has a minimum margin to sell a product, commission is based on a percentage of whatever is over that margin. If the product is being sold for less than the minimum margin commission becomes negative. i.e. widget costs $100 and has a minimum margin of 5%. If it sells for $105 then there is 0 commission, if it sells for $110 then the commission is $2.50 (assuming 50% commission on above margin value). if it sells for $100 then commission is -$2.50.
It should come as no surprise that items with negative commission fail to be sold, and may end up in unsellable state to ensure they are not sold.
You can get a free bible, all you have to do is ask at your local house of worship. If you want a fancy one you have to pay I suppose, but there are always perfectly serviceable units available for free. -nB
Yeah, I would have bought them out that minute. I got a good deal on Makers Mark once $9.99/750mL. Asked the cashier if it was a mistake because that seemed a bit over half off. Was assured it was not a mistake, so I spent about $400 on booze. That lasted well over two years!:)
Placed item in bag, computer bitched that it was an unexpected item, removed the item, computer bitched that an item was removed, replaced item, computer bitched... Tried this cycle 2 times then said fsck it, and since the "watcher" was busy flirting I cancelled that item and just left it in my basket. Now, it was only a 50c part in a total purchase of ~$100, but gah! make those systems a little more forgiving about exactness of weights will you? -nB
I worked in a camera chain that went to 100% commission. We had two cameras in the store that paid a negative commission. Somehow they were all defective/damaged packaging/lost in transit/never received. Eventually the home office got the hint and quit trying to re-stock the stores with them, but I have to think they lost more money on that then they would have if they simply ponied up a $0.50 commission on those things so that they were worthless, but not actively hostile to being sold. -nB
If this really isn't a clever troll (and if it is congrats!) then why can the client not install stuff on their own machines? I understand the phones would have to be jailbroken and that may be an issue, but aside from that? Also, specifically what is the person wanting to log? *Everything*? Just textual data? Trying to recompose session information from wireshark is going to be painful at best, impossible at worst. There is a lot of processing that would have to go into this. The simple solution that would not catch everything is to install a squid proxy and caching. It can be configured to save large amounts of the data, but not all, also it will not be able to sniff SSL sessions unless it has a key that should not even exist.
I can't help but be curious, what is this really for? I have seen lots of supposition here about divorce, etc. in which case there are easier ways to get the data.
Finding a cheating spouse is way easier than that. One of my acquaintances recently went through this. Evidence was *everywhere* on the computer, facebook, e-mail, etc. When you save your password you are trusting everyone with access to that machine not to cheat and look at your profiles. Maybe you should change those passwords and not save the updated ones before you have a tryst.
Best thing ever: Judge ruled it was not unauthorized access for him to dump her e-mails to the printer because she had saved the password to the same computer that he had authorized access to, and since she saved the passwords so that IE would auto-enter them she had no expectation of privacy... -nB
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You know? I think you may be right...
I am sure there is a reason they are disabled...
Wonder if anyone here has the "m4d sk177z" to enable them? (heh) Oh the hilarity that would ensue... I wonder if she would then file a DMCA about her own site's comment fields to GoDaddy and knock herself off the net? That would be *awesome*.
-nB
Sadly I am with you...
I voted libertarian (I'm in CA, so not like it matters, my vote is swamped by SF and LA/SD areas).
Frankly I know we are supposed to have a multiparty system, but we've been a duopoly so long that the republicrats have consolidated their power. They battle over petty stuff very publicly. But if there is ever something that could actually harm their power base you never hear about it and how they work very closely together to see that it fails.
We need a revolution in this country, not a bloody one, but a ballot box one. I think the Tea Party is a good thing, just because they are harming the existing power base.
-nB
PCIe x1 has the same throughput as PCI32/33, so you're going to see the same issues. I have TWO NICs in my system (three if you count the LOM).
The PCIe x1 NIC gives me 500Mbps, the PCIe x4 one with TCP offload gives me 950Mbps on the same workload (server they are connected to has a TCP Offload NIC as well.
The LOM NIC uses a single PCIe lane, so again it's slow.
Sorry to disagree with you, but with a IEEE compliant 1518 byte frame on a normal NIC you're going to have crap performance. Yes you can use jumbo frames if your app supports it and you will see vast improvements, but a TCP offload engine on the NIC will do even better.
-nB
60Mbps Fiber == 6MBps ethernet. (Fiber uses 10bit encoding, not 8 bit) You are not oversubscribed at all, I envy you.
-nB
Which infrastructure?
I'm in the US and we routinely bash our countries' performance on internet infrastructure. But if you look at it as a whole:
We have:
*reliable power service
*reliable road service
*reliable rail service (commercial, not passenger)
*reliable POTS service
*reliable medical transport and care (I didn't say good, just reliable)
*reliable garbage service
*reliable food delivery
*reliable fuel
*reliable government (to a point, and again, not good always, bur reliable, there are no coups every other week)
*reliable water service
*many more things (police, fire, parks, schools, etc.)
Many of these we simply take for granted, but face it they are there for us. In many countries these basics are not there with the reliability that we enjoy. 4G and cellular have excelled in Africa, specifically because of the absence of POTS and power.
-nB
I will tell you from my time working in a company that designed Ethernet PHYs and MACs, that most high end desktops and consumer gear can only maintain a 1Gpbs link, but can accommodate no where near that much BW. The best PCs can only sustain ~500Mbps throughput. Most on-board LAN and sub $100 PCIe LAN cards fall closer to 200Mbps. This is because they do not support DMA and are using Polled IO and the host OS for the LAN stack, much like the old winmodems did.
-nB
I lived in an apartment with shitty wiring, makes for some very frustrating DSL experience. Since I was at the perimeter of the complex and near the junction box the tech was able to work some voodoo magic and get my 3Mbps connection to work at at least 2...
I have always wondered why an apartment wouldn't pay for a fast connection then resell to the residents (or use it as a perk). Mine had close to 300 units, they could have made a killing by just slightly undercutting DSL/Cable internet fees.
-nB
With the assumption that they are using single-mode fiber, you will cap out at roughly 40Gbps to the home. If it's multimode, you could pull 100, but the max lengths are so much shorter, I'm not sure that is what they are using. Also, I suspect that FTTH uses the same link aggregation that DSL uses. A block's worth of homes all wire to a cabinet, from there to a switch, and a single (hopefully with redundant pairs) link back to the CO. That last link is important because it represents the maximum all the connected devices can add up to. I am positive this link is oversubscribed (which to be honest is likely just fine in this setting).
That last link is likely OC12 ATM, so 622Mbps shared amongst everyone (this is what ATT does for my DSL service BTW.)
from Wikipedia:
OC-12 / STM-4
OC-12 is a network line with transmission speeds of up to 622.08 Mbit/s (payload: 601.344 Mbit/s; overhead: 20.736 Mbit/s).
OC-12 lines are commonly used by ISPs as Wide area network (WAN) connections. While a large ISP would not use an OC-12 as a backbone (main link), it would for smaller, regional or local connections. This connection speed is also often used by mid-sized (below Tier 2) internet customers, such as web hosting companies or smaller ISPs buying service from larger ones.
I'll re-iterate the AC on this one.
Where do you live?
I am (possibly) looking to move in the future, and my choice of location is dictated by the following criteria:
*Sane legal system (I'm in the US now, so we'll use the due process portion as our comparison of sane).
*Reasonable weather.
*Cheap and fast BW to the home.
*English as a recognized language (Let's face it, I'm a [stereotypical] Yank, and never did well learning a foreign language) .
I've actually been looking at the Isle of Man or Iceland, the latter fails the weather test, but seems to excel on the other parts, Isle of man has a scotch distillery, but I am a Speyside fan...
-nB
Hell I'd be happy with 100Mbps. I'm in on e of the better connected cities in the US and I can only affordably get 12/6 ADSL. I could get 20/10, DOCIS but the cable company is known to be not good (Comcast).
What I want shouldn't be hard to do:
no BW caps, 20/20, metered usage on bulk BW rates. My Colo ISP provides this to me, and I pay $0.04/TB of BW. For residential I'd happily pay 25% more... Hell I'd be willing to bay several times that more, say $1.00/TB. Now, to be fair I also pay for a peering point at my ISP which would be analogous to a service subscription at a home internet account, I pay $25/mo for that. Why can't residential ISPs catch up with the DCs?
-nB
I've been installing only two brands of LED:
Phillips and Sylvania, both have long guarantees (based on a date stamp on the base) IIRC it's 5 and 7 years.
So far I have had one failure on a bulb that was installed over a year ago and when I went to submit an RMA I got a response back in one day confirming shipment of the replacement (a newer model too:) without me needing to do anything. (they take the serial # on the bulb).
I asked if they wanted it back to the e-mail and they said the first gen bulbs were not needed back for an RMA (I think this means they knew there was an issue, but with how painless they made it I won't bitch).
All in all I have ~ 15 LEDs installed and aside from that one failure I've really been pleased.
I buy when they are on sale only. The sale prices can be over 50% off still as a new model comes out and they liquidate the old units.
-nB
I think the bar should be much higher than it is on average for capitol punishment, however, it is possible to only convict those who are guilty, with the tradeoff that very few will be hanged. This is ok. There are some for which recovery is impossible, a return to society impossible, and reprieve impossible. These should be hanged by the neck until dead.
There should never be *any* doubt prior to a capitol conviction (IMHO). If the prosecution has proven beyond a reasonable doubt then ok, incarcerate them. If the prosecution has proven beyond any doubt and the crime is that heinous, then hang them.
From a monetary aspect, however, I believe the death penalty is not sustainable.
-nB
The HOA did it wrong, in the same meeting they reopened the pool there should have been a fees increase to cover the cost of reopening and ongoing operation of the pool and related facilities/areas. Then she would have had to hold a sign saying "re-open the pool without me paying for it" ;)
Another place to save amazing amounts of power is lighting that tends to be left on.
I replaced some select lights with LEDs and save ~$108/mo
breakdown:
2 60 watt bulbs replaced with 13W LED
3 13W CFL replaced w/ 8W LED
6 40W incandescent replaced w/ 2.5W LED
several old florescents w/ magnetic ballast replaced w/ 21W LED strips
These are lights that tend to be left on courtesy of life with kids. I spent ~$1K on LEDs, it'll be paid off in under a year.
-nB
It's simpler than that:
I pay Fox for their datafeed, this datafeed is the shows and I pay them in one of two ways:
On broadcast TV I pay by commercials inserted into the data feed by my local broadcaster. On cable/satellite I pay through the provider who also pays them. Now if my Sat bill for all FOX channels with ads is 0 and I only have to pay the $10/mo rental for the decoder box then fine, disable the skip commercials button.
Aslo, FWIW, while I have Sat TV and a DVR I almost rarely use it, rather I torrent all my shows. Ads are already trimmed out. If they sue me I'll go with the format/timeshift defense, since I am already paying for the shows on my Sat feed. *
-nB
*yes I doubt it will work, but it should be entertaining.
Sadly, no.
The commissions are automatically generated by a computer, the selling price as well, the problem happens when a human overrides the selling price to liquidate old models.
It actually was one in about three points that factored into a class action lawsuit in California.
-nB
Correct, it happens because the company has a minimum margin to sell a product, commission is based on a percentage of whatever is over that margin. If the product is being sold for less than the minimum margin commission becomes negative.
i.e. widget costs $100 and has a minimum margin of 5%. If it sells for $105 then there is 0 commission, if it sells for $110 then the commission is $2.50 (assuming 50% commission on above margin value). if it sells for $100 then commission is -$2.50.
It should come as no surprise that items with negative commission fail to be sold, and may end up in unsellable state to ensure they are not sold.
Here have a bible sir.
You can get a free bible, all you have to do is ask at your local house of worship.
If you want a fancy one you have to pay I suppose, but there are always perfectly serviceable units available for free.
-nB
Yeah, I would have bought them out that minute. :)
I got a good deal on Makers Mark once $9.99/750mL. Asked the cashier if it was a mistake because that seemed a bit over half off. Was assured it was not a mistake, so I spent about $400 on booze. That lasted well over two years!
I ended up in an infinite loop.
Placed item in bag, computer bitched that it was an unexpected item, removed the item, computer bitched that an item was removed, replaced item, computer bitched...
Tried this cycle 2 times then said fsck it, and since the "watcher" was busy flirting I cancelled that item and just left it in my basket. Now, it was only a 50c part in a total purchase of ~$100, but gah! make those systems a little more forgiving about exactness of weights will you?
-nB
I worked in a camera chain that went to 100% commission. We had two cameras in the store that paid a negative commission. Somehow they were all defective/damaged packaging/lost in transit/never received. Eventually the home office got the hint and quit trying to re-stock the stores with them, but I have to think they lost more money on that then they would have if they simply ponied up a $0.50 commission on those things so that they were worthless, but not actively hostile to being sold.
-nB
If this really isn't a clever troll (and if it is congrats!) then why can the client not install stuff on their own machines? I understand the phones would have to be jailbroken and that may be an issue, but aside from that?
Also, specifically what is the person wanting to log? *Everything*? Just textual data?
Trying to recompose session information from wireshark is going to be painful at best, impossible at worst. There is a lot of processing that would have to go into this.
The simple solution that would not catch everything is to install a squid proxy and caching. It can be configured to save large amounts of the data, but not all, also it will not be able to sniff SSL sessions unless it has a key that should not even exist.
I can't help but be curious, what is this really for? I have seen lots of supposition here about divorce, etc. in which case there are easier ways to get the data.
Finding a cheating spouse is way easier than that.
One of my acquaintances recently went through this. Evidence was *everywhere* on the computer, facebook, e-mail, etc.
When you save your password you are trusting everyone with access to that machine not to cheat and look at your profiles. Maybe you should change those passwords and not save the updated ones before you have a tryst.
Best thing ever: Judge ruled it was not unauthorized access for him to dump her e-mails to the printer because she had saved the password to the same computer that he had authorized access to, and since she saved the passwords so that IE would auto-enter them she had no expectation of privacy...
-nB