Even the most expensive residential router chokes on the shear number of connections your average P2P client tries to maintain.
I modified my WRT54G's setting to be just a wireless access point and switch by disabling the DHCP server - then built a cheap Smoothwall firewall using an old P3 800Mhz with a pair of pci nics.
DSL -> Smoothwall -> LAN Port 1 on WRT54
Leaving the WAN port unused, I still have three ports for wired PCs (nearly unlimited with the addition of more switches) and wireless works without a hitch. The WRT's job is just to be a switch and manage wireless authentication and encryption.
The Smoothwall easily handles the traffic without slowing down other clients and (bonus) has QoS built in.
It also provides web caching, email antivirus, DNS, NTP, Snort IDS, and so much more.
Oh, and it's totally open source and available for download from smoothwall.org
Chicago does not sit on half the cross-continental backbone and most internet traffic services only have one router listing for the Chicago area. St. Louis sits on more bandwidth than Chicago. Many private and public networks converge in Chicago... the pipes running north to Madison, Milwaukee, and Minneapolis are very large, as are the pipes going to Saint Louis and all points west... then you also have a major pipeline heading in from the east coast.
The concept of a singular backbone in this day and age is simply not accurate, Chicago has a very robust internet connection - as large as L.A.? Who knows... but it's got fiber heading in many more directions and is much more central in the U.S. than L.A. is.
Nobody should have any sort of datacenter in CA cuz it's too hot and the power to cool it is too expensive. Chicago was a far better choice! Plus it's closer to Wisconsin where I live so the response time will be better. That's even more important;) Ditto - go Bucky!
Now, only if they would have waited for Wisconsin's newest data center in Fitchburg to go online, it would have been even faster for me. But Chicago is just down the road - so I'll take it.
No, parents should empower children to filter the world themselves by giving them the critical thinking skills that they need to do so. Failing to give them this toolbox will turn them into incompetent, naive adults.
You dumbass, I said that their PARENTS should discuss it with them
No, you didn't... you said giving them critical thinking skills.
Children, even with thinking skills, shouldn't be subjected to the onslaught of terrible news coverage non-stop like I originally posted.
Critical thinking skills won't prevent nightmares, stress, or mental trauma in children. Only mental maturation and age appropriate discussions of traumatic events can prepare a child for this world... and even then maybe it won't be enough for this world full of people like you - dumbass.
No, parents should empower children to filter the world themselves by giving them the critical thinking skills that they need to do so. Failing to give them this toolbox will turn them into incompetent, naive adults.
Fantastic theory - but you'd make a horrible parent.
Take your three year old to many R rated horror flicks lately? Well what would you consider the video footage of people swan diving from the 100th floor of the twin towers - played over and over again on Fox news?
Yes, let them figure it out for themselves. Maybe they can discuss it with the boogy monster in their closet or maybe Pokemon has the answer.
When 9/11 occured in the states, we had 24/7 coverage and news on just about every channel. Mr. Rogers came on PBS and said that these are aweful times, but please limit what small children are being exposed to - it could be very scary and detrimental.
Parents should act like a filter for the world - especially the hype and circus that is today's news reporting.
Other than that - what is the usefulness of an order like this? I would think having something for kids and adults alike to watch other than death and destruction would help.
Forcing an extended artificial childhood on people is highly unnatural and only leads to an obvious conflict between authority and instinct. If people don't want to go to school then don't force them. Schools should be places were those interested can get ahead, not some sort of prison. Treating schools as prisons and daycare just undermines their alleged goal.
If you can't keep the truant interested than the school has failed to be relevant. Someone mod the OP up... I couldn't agree with you more.
If the truant students would stay out of class, my kids could get a decent education. But no, they force these disinterested, undisciplined kids in to an already over crowded class room - and nobody learns anything. The teacher is there just to make sure everyone stays alive.
If they really want to scare these kids back into the class room - make them get a job from 8a-3p during school. After a few weeks of flipping burgers or shoveling cow shit - these kids might take school a little more seriously. And in the mean time they'll be paying taxes on their wages.
we should all follow Nintendo, and go with "blocks"
If we're going to go down that road, why don't we measure disk space in tracks and cylinders, like the IBM mainframes I work on?:) Screw that... let's go with KLOCs and nibbles.
According to the most accepted definition K == 10^3, M = 10^6, G = 10^9, T = 10^12. Why should consumer product manufacturers use definitions only understood by technical professionals, that will confuse their average customer and are unflattering to the product? Being most accepted and being correct are two different things. When your computer reports sizes in base 2, then damn it - sell me stuff with capacities written in base 2.
If I go to the store and buy a 100GB hard drive. Why should I have to convert my actual storage capacity will be?
Yep, I'm with you. Let them sit on their throne and watch their hard work fork on down the road... they can enjoy their UI, but damn I'm glad others are like me and hate that freakin' thing AND decided to take matters into their own hands.
I'm using Digsby now, but I'll keep my eye on this and see where it goes.
Helpdesk is typically a dead end job at your current employer - but can be excellent resume fodder for your next. And if its the only thing you're qualified for (lack of experience, education, or both...) it could be a great place to start and build some skills.
I worked at a major ISP helpdesk for a period of time while I finished my college degree. It was a good place gain experience in the basics of computer troubleshooting remotely with people (some glad to talk to a human, others just dumber than a bag of hammers).
Regardless, there was no place to go - even when I graduated. They offered me a new position but they already knew my low wage and insisted on low balling my job offer.
I declined and went to work for another company for more money and better benefits doing the same as the promotion I declined.
So when you're moving off the helpdesk - do a reality check before you accept your new wage and see what the going rate for the new job is. Don't let them give you a token bump in pay - chances are you'll be well under the average pay. You're valuable to them because you're already familiar with the company and their processes... use that as a negotiation bullet point. Stick to your guns and don't be afraid to let them "think on it".
I'll stop browsing the web and playing Quake in class when professors start giving a shit and actually forming a coherent lecture. Until then, they're the ones wasting my tuition money, not me.
I'm glad someone said it... because I was scrolling quickly to the bottom to post a very similar reply.
Too many classes were taught straight out of the text book that it became standard for people to show up for class with a power strip so everyone could be plugged in.
It was even more fun when the school recognized the wireless was being disruptive... so a couple of students with evdo modems just setup their own networks for everyone else to share (we all kicked in a few bucks for the service, it was the right thing to do. )
The mention of similarity between my company and yours makes me throwup in my mouth a little. Your threats are empty and vague. You provided no details to your patent hissyfit.
If you're actually attempting to prove you own a patent on the RCA connector, then fuck you and the horse you rode in on.
Ultimately what is needed is a multicoated surface that eliminates the reflections much like a top quality camera lens. But then you can't touch it until they find material that can't be scratched off.
No, what you need is a taser or other obviously painful weapon to show the next moron who waves a finger towards your brand new 15.4" 1900x1200 LCD screen.
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5 hours to setup smoothwall?
What took you so long? I had mine up and running in less that 30 minutes for the time I burnt the iso.
And that's with two dual port nics and four networks to setup.
Agree with Joce640k - if he's pushing your max upstream chances are his client simply needs to be adjusted to play nicely on your network.
It should only be using 50-75% of the available upstream - any more and it'll be very noticeable to everyone else using it.
Then again, P2P should still QoS'ed and be prioritized low on the importance.
Even the most expensive residential router chokes on the shear number of connections your average P2P client tries to maintain.
I modified my WRT54G's setting to be just a wireless access point and switch by disabling the DHCP server - then built a cheap Smoothwall firewall using an old P3 800Mhz with a pair of pci nics.
DSL -> Smoothwall -> LAN Port 1 on WRT54
Leaving the WAN port unused, I still have three ports for wired PCs (nearly unlimited with the addition of more switches) and wireless works without a hitch. The WRT's job is just to be a switch and manage wireless authentication and encryption.
The Smoothwall easily handles the traffic without slowing down other clients and (bonus) has QoS built in.
It also provides web caching, email antivirus, DNS, NTP, Snort IDS, and so much more.
Oh, and it's totally open source and available for download from smoothwall.org
I'd mod you up for being funny... but I can't - site's broken. :(
Moving your site to a more central location in the states will improve my page loads - thanks /.
St. Louis sits on more bandwidth than Chicago. Many private and public networks converge in Chicago... the pipes running north to Madison, Milwaukee, and Minneapolis are very large, as are the pipes going to Saint Louis and all points west... then you also have a major pipeline heading in from the east coast.
The concept of a singular backbone in this day and age is simply not accurate, Chicago has a very robust internet connection - as large as L.A.? Who knows... but it's got fiber heading in many more directions and is much more central in the U.S. than L.A. is.
Now, only if they would have waited for Wisconsin's newest data center in Fitchburg to go online, it would have been even faster for me. But Chicago is just down the road - so I'll take it.
No, you didn't... you said giving them critical thinking skills.
Children, even with thinking skills, shouldn't be subjected to the onslaught of terrible news coverage non-stop like I originally posted.
Critical thinking skills won't prevent nightmares, stress, or mental trauma in children. Only mental maturation and age appropriate discussions of traumatic events can prepare a child for this world... and even then maybe it won't be enough for this world full of people like you - dumbass.
Parents should act like a filter for the world
No, parents should empower children to filter the world themselves by giving them the critical thinking skills that they need to do so. Failing to give them this toolbox will turn them into incompetent, naive adults.
Fantastic theory - but you'd make a horrible parent.Take your three year old to many R rated horror flicks lately? Well what would you consider the video footage of people swan diving from the 100th floor of the twin towers - played over and over again on Fox news?
Yes, let them figure it out for themselves. Maybe they can discuss it with the boogy monster in their closet or maybe Pokemon has the answer.
When 9/11 occured in the states, we had 24/7 coverage and news on just about every channel. Mr. Rogers came on PBS and said that these are aweful times, but please limit what small children are being exposed to - it could be very scary and detrimental.
Parents should act like a filter for the world - especially the hype and circus that is today's news reporting.
Other than that - what is the usefulness of an order like this? I would think having something for kids and adults alike to watch other than death and destruction would help.
Give him a shovel and have him work for a living.
Forcing an extended artificial childhood on people is highly unnatural and
only leads to an obvious conflict between authority and instinct. If people
don't want to go to school then don't force them. Schools should be places
were those interested can get ahead, not some sort of prison. Treating schools
as prisons and daycare just undermines their alleged goal.
If you can't keep the truant interested than the school has failed to be relevant. Someone mod the OP up... I couldn't agree with you more.
If the truant students would stay out of class, my kids could get a decent education. But no, they force these disinterested, undisciplined kids in to an already over crowded class room - and nobody learns anything. The teacher is there just to make sure everyone stays alive.
If they really want to scare these kids back into the class room - make them get a job from 8a-3p during school. After a few weeks of flipping burgers or shoveling cow shit - these kids might take school a little more seriously. And in the mean time they'll be paying taxes on their wages.
Profit!
If we're going to go down that road, why don't we measure disk space in tracks and cylinders, like the IBM mainframes I work on?
If I go to the store and buy a 100GB hard drive. Why should I have to convert my actual storage capacity will be?
It's just lame - always ways, always will be.
Yep, I'm with you. Let them sit on their throne and watch their hard work fork on down the road... they can enjoy their UI, but damn I'm glad others are like me and hate that freakin' thing AND decided to take matters into their own hands.
I'm using Digsby now, but I'll keep my eye on this and see where it goes.
Second vote for Digsby. It saves my prefs and account information under one digsby account - so it's portable no matter where I'm at.
True... but until I bother to figure out why slashdot's stupid ajax comment system refuses to allow me to reply, I use the old form.
:)
Helpdesk is typically a dead end job at your current employer - but can be excellent resume fodder for your next. And if its the only thing you're qualified for (lack of experience, education, or both...) it could be a great place to start and build some skills.
I worked at a major ISP helpdesk for a period of time while I finished my college degree. It was a good place gain experience in the basics of computer troubleshooting remotely with people (some glad to talk to a human, others just dumber than a bag of hammers).
Regardless, there was no place to go - even when I graduated. They offered me a new position but they already knew my low wage and insisted on low balling my job offer.
I declined and went to work for another company for more money and better benefits doing the same as the promotion I declined.
So when you're moving off the helpdesk - do a reality check before you accept your new wage and see what the going rate for the new job is. Don't let them give you a token bump in pay - chances are you'll be well under the average pay. You're valuable to them because you're already familiar with the company and their processes... use that as a negotiation bullet point. Stick to your guns and don't be afraid to let them "think on it".
Buy an $80 laser printer from home B&W printing, use company color laser for high quality color prints.
No more messy ink.
But after a quick search, color laser printers are well into the low $100's...
At this price point I would fathom to say that inkjets are on their way out. Good riddance.
<quote>Anyone have desudesude.su yet?</quote>
dig!
; <<>> DiG 9.4.2 <<>> desudesude.su
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 528
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;desudesude.su. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
desudesude.su. 0 IN A 208.69.32.132
;; Query time: 145 msec
;; SERVER: 208.67.222.222#53(208.67.222.222)
;; WHEN: Sat Apr 19 20:40:45 2008
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 47
Unfortunately, there isn't - information is only as trustworthy as the source.
I'll stop browsing the web and playing Quake in class when professors start giving a shit and actually forming a coherent lecture. Until then, they're the ones wasting my tuition money, not me.
I'm glad someone said it... because I was scrolling quickly to the bottom to post a very similar reply.
Too many classes were taught straight out of the text book that it became standard for people to show up for class with a power strip so everyone could be plugged in.
It was even more fun when the school recognized the wireless was being disruptive... so a couple of students with evdo modems just setup their own networks for everyone else to share (we all kicked in a few bucks for the service, it was the right thing to do. )
Sadly most of us graduated with high honors.
I see this every day, trust me. Funny, when I see a
It's got to be a trap... the end result is a fair election. Where's the tinfoil hat!?
Dear Monster Lawyers,
The mention of similarity between my company and yours makes me throwup in my mouth a little. Your threats are empty and vague. You provided no details to your patent hissyfit.
If you're actually attempting to prove you own a patent on the RCA connector, then fuck you and the horse you rode in on.
Sincerely,
Kurt Denke
Ultimately what is needed is a multicoated surface that eliminates the reflections much like a top quality camera lens. But then you can't touch it until they find material that can't be scratched off.
No, what you need is a taser or other obviously painful weapon to show the next moron who waves a finger towards your brand new 15.4" 1900x1200 LCD screen.Go ahead... smudge my monitor.