>Actually, thats is EXACTLY what the post is claiming... > >>She downgraded to the 768K plan expecting to still have 750K. Wrong, instead her >>speed dropped to 300K.
It's a marketing thing. It's common in the broadband industry to advertise the burstable speed, not the CIR. It's not oversubscribing (although some do that too), or false advertising, just slippery marketing. The exactly 50% thing makes it look exactly like that is the case here. You have protocol overhead too of course; 300k 'real' download speed is consistant with a 384k, burstable to 768k, circuit.
Likewise with your 6meg broadband circuit. It was likely a 3meg burstable to 6, and was performing as designed.
The car thing? Yes the Ford Escort can go 130mph, but only for a few seconds before the engine overheats and the frame starts vibrating untill you drop it back to 65. They designed it that way.
It sounds like you were trying to talk to your bell's data people. You need to get ahold of one of their business voice reps to get that isdn. They sell it, it's very common. Most businesses with 10+ lines will go ISDN PRI, and if they sell PRI, they sell BRI too. Find the guy that sells the PRI's and bust his balls till he helps you out with a BRI. That's how you get BRI's. Not sure how hot that works if you don't have any business relationship with the sales guy beforehand though.
Yes, you're doing it wrong. The article says the oober monk was able to maintain the bindness state for 12 minutes, and the average person for only 2 seconds. Since you can't even get them to disapear in the first place, you'd probably make a lousy monk.
The DMCA offers a safe harbor clause for ISPs. In order to qualify for safe harbor:
Title 17, Chapter 5, Section 512a: (2) the transmission, routing, provision of connections, or storage is carried out through an automatic technical process without selection of the material by the service provider;
and Section 512a(d)(1): (A) does not have actual knowledge that the material or activity is infringing;
Now, if an ISP monitored what user's were doing, and attempted to block access to certain sites, they would violate both of these; voiding their safe harbor offered by the DMCA. Feel free to read the whole text:
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/512.html This proposal effectivly voids an ISP's safe harbor on _every_ _single_ _point_ of the safe harbor clause. Data retention, caching and storage, monitoring and censorship, the whole nine yards. Sort of back handed for the IFPI and MPA to propose that ISP's give up their safe harbor. Perhaps so they can sue the ISPs?
The C++ one was a joke and a half. I'd done a little bit of C programming in the past, mostly tcp/ip applications, stupid script kiddy stuff, obfuscated C entries, etc. I didn't take any classes or read any of the material. I think I was supposed to use the API crap they they threw in, but I just re #define'd any of it that appeared to more reasonable things like memcpy. Anyway, it took less than an hour and I got a 5. The hardest part was having to write code with a pencil instead of typing it.
The older games you listed will have people who are much much better than you. A lot of them will appear to be cheating. Every now and then someone really is. Most of the time they're just that much better than you. Some of us have played for years, since the day Quake first out, and have better aim than the best auto-aim cheats. A lot of these players play the newer games too, a lot of skills carry over between fps games.
Unfortunately, at first, you will feel like you are getting your *ss handed to you and get frustrated, accuse people of cheating, maybe look for a new game. But those who become great learn that the best way to learn is to get wooped, repeatedly. Take your beating and learn from it. Try to emulate the smackdown you receive and pass it on to others. It may take several years, but you will become great, 'cheater' in the eyes of newbies.
>It costs them no more money to send a TCP/IP >packet than to receive one.
untrue
I can trade my unused upstream bandwidth to a company that needs it (a colocation or web hosting facility) in return for downstream bandwidth (which they would have excess of).
One T3 plus some trading == slightly less than two T3's worth of downstream bandwidth. If users use up my upstream bandwidth, I can't trade it for more downstream and I would have to purchase another T3.
I wonder how well this works in Quake. Would the cursor instantly snap to the location you were thinking of, or would you have to think 'move left some, then move up some', and if it's the later, what kind of sensitivity would it have?
Blocking all traffic of any sort isn't good. It's pretty easy to set asside chunks of bandwidth for 'important' stuff (port 80, games), set asside another chunk of bandwidth for unimportant stuff (kakazaa, napster), and say ok under no circumstances may the unimportant traffic impact the important traffic.
I fire up Quake, your kakazaa download goes a little slower. Thats the way this should work. I don't care how much bandwidth you use, 'cause when I mash refresh on my web browser, it gets priority over your napster traffic. This is how traffic shaping works and it DOES work if an organization has the (rare) budget and (even more rare) staff capable of doing it.
Do you have two upstreams? Will they both allow you to speak bgp4 with them? You can multihome! Congrads, anyone can do it, with a shity 2500 series cisco router, and no ip space allocated to you but that single class C UUNet loaned you. You didn't research this at all I think.
Cisco requires a service contract to upgrade your IOS. People like to use this as an excuse. What a lot of people don't know is that at the bottom of most Cisco security advisories there is a telephone number for you to call if you do not have a service contract. So stop using the 'I can't afford to pay for a service contract' excuse .
Its illegal. A lot of the 'damage' done by code red is not direct anyhow. A friendly worm would cause just as many headaches. It would still crash cisco 600 routers, break web proxies, clutter up logs and waste bandwidth. Its fighting fire with fire, the friendly worm would be just as much of a problem as the unfriendly one. The last guy that did it got arrested.
You also have to consider the implications of rebooting a computer with an unknown function.
you dont get paged at 3am on a regular basis. you dont have to wory about loosing money, or getting sued. you dont have to listen to hundreds of people like you whine. guess what the higher up people do. the same stuff you do when they arnt managing a zillion ppl like you. trust me, the upper ups would much rather be doing upgrades and testing than paperwork. a job is not a school, it is a job. you are there to preform tasks for the company. learning this is what your internship is all about.
logitec mouse is great
the kb however has a probley with latency.
its rather slight, but if i switch back to a regular kb its like, WOW, that wireless one is lagged! wtf. it also seems to have a problem with dropping keys. when i get going fast i end up with letters missing in my words, lke tis.
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>Actually, thats is EXACTLY what the post is claiming...
>
>>She downgraded to the 768K plan expecting to still have 750K. Wrong, instead her >>speed dropped to 300K.
It's a marketing thing. It's common in the broadband industry to advertise the burstable speed, not the CIR. It's not oversubscribing (although some do that too), or false advertising, just slippery marketing. The exactly 50% thing makes it look exactly like that is the case here. You have protocol overhead too of course; 300k 'real' download speed is consistant with a 384k, burstable to 768k, circuit.
Likewise with your 6meg broadband circuit. It was likely a 3meg burstable to 6, and was performing as designed.
The car thing? Yes the Ford Escort can go 130mph, but only for a few seconds before the engine overheats and the frame starts vibrating untill you drop it back to 65. They designed it that way.
It sounds like you were trying to talk to your bell's data people. You need to get ahold of one of their business voice reps to get that isdn. They sell it, it's very common. Most businesses with 10+ lines will go ISDN PRI, and if they sell PRI, they sell BRI too. Find the guy that sells the PRI's and bust his balls till he helps you out with a BRI. That's how you get BRI's. Not sure how hot that works if you don't have any business relationship with the sales guy beforehand though.
Selective monitoring like that voids your safe harbor offered to service providers by the dmca.
got it backwards, the article says monks could maintain the blindness state, not avoid the blindness state
Yes, you're doing it wrong. The article says the oober monk was able to maintain the bindness state for 12 minutes, and the average person for only 2 seconds. Since you can't even get them to disapear in the first place, you'd probably make a lousy monk.
The DMCA offers a safe harbor clause for ISPs. In order to qualify for safe harbor:
Title 17, Chapter 5, Section 512a:
(2) the transmission, routing, provision of connections, or storage is carried out through an automatic technical process without selection of the material by the service provider;
and Section 512a(d)(1):
(A) does not have actual knowledge that the material or activity is infringing;
Now, if an ISP monitored what user's were doing, and attempted to block access to certain sites, they would violate both of these; voiding their safe harbor offered by the DMCA. Feel free to read the whole text:
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/512.html
This proposal effectivly voids an ISP's safe harbor on _every_ _single_ _point_ of the safe harbor clause. Data retention, caching and storage, monitoring and censorship, the whole nine yards. Sort of back handed for the IFPI and MPA to propose that ISP's give up their safe harbor. Perhaps so they can sue the ISPs?
fp!
or you can work 2 minimum wage jobs and eat lots of ramen
The C++ one was a joke and a half. I'd done a little bit of C programming in the past, mostly tcp/ip applications, stupid script kiddy stuff, obfuscated C entries, etc. I didn't take any classes or read any of the material. I think I was supposed to use the API crap they they threw in, but I just re #define'd any of it that appeared to more reasonable things like memcpy. Anyway, it took less than an hour and I got a 5. The hardest part was having to write code with a pencil instead of typing it.
The older games you listed will have people who are much much better than you. A lot of them will appear to be cheating. Every now and then someone really is. Most of the time they're just that much better than you. Some of us have played for years, since the day Quake first out, and have better aim than the best auto-aim cheats. A lot of these players play the newer games too, a lot of skills carry over between fps games.
Unfortunately, at first, you will feel like you are getting your *ss handed to you and get frustrated, accuse people of cheating, maybe look for a new game. But those who become great learn that the best way to learn is to get wooped, repeatedly. Take your beating and learn from it. Try to emulate the smackdown you receive and pass it on to others. It may take several years, but you will become great, 'cheater' in the eyes of newbies.
>It costs them no more money to send a TCP/IP
>packet than to receive one.
untrue
I can trade my unused upstream bandwidth to a company that needs it (a colocation or web hosting facility) in return for downstream bandwidth (which they would have excess of).
One T3 plus some trading == slightly less than two T3's worth of downstream bandwidth. If users use up my upstream bandwidth, I can't trade it for more downstream and I would have to purchase another T3.
Here you can find a pdf off chapter 10, chapter 18, and chapter 1.
I wonder how well this works in Quake. Would the cursor instantly snap to the location you were thinking of, or would you have to think 'move left some, then move up some', and if it's the later, what kind of sensitivity would it have?
Blocking all traffic of any sort isn't good. It's pretty easy to set asside chunks of bandwidth for 'important' stuff (port 80, games), set asside another chunk of bandwidth for unimportant stuff (kakazaa, napster), and say ok under no circumstances may the unimportant traffic impact the important traffic.
I fire up Quake, your kakazaa download goes a little slower. Thats the way this should work. I don't care how much bandwidth you use, 'cause when I mash refresh on my web browser, it gets priority over your napster traffic. This is how traffic shaping works and it DOES work if an organization has the (rare) budget and (even more rare) staff capable of doing it.
I have a corner office and found that thick canvas curtains provide a decent substitute for a windowless office.
Do you have two upstreams? Will they both allow you to speak bgp4 with them? You can multihome! Congrads, anyone can do it, with a shity 2500 series cisco router, and no ip space allocated to you but that single class C UUNet loaned you. You didn't research this at all I think.
Cisco requires a service contract to upgrade your IOS. People like to use this as an excuse. What a lot of people don't know is that at the bottom of most Cisco security advisories there is a telephone number for you to call if you do not have a service contract. So stop using the 'I can't afford to pay for a service contract' excuse .
Alfred Huger is leaving the security focus incidents list. Kind odd that they all quit at once.
They have telephone lines? Then they can get a t1.
You can get a T1 for $1-$2k a month. Call up your favorite upstream (UUNet, Sprint, Qwest, etc), give them your address and they'll hook you up.
Its illegal. A lot of the 'damage' done by code red is not direct anyhow. A friendly worm would cause just as many headaches. It would still crash cisco 600 routers, break web proxies, clutter up logs and waste bandwidth. Its fighting fire with fire, the friendly worm would be just as much of a problem as the unfriendly one. The last guy that did it got arrested.
You also have to consider the implications of rebooting a computer with an unknown function.
Image the suprise as during the middle of an important business meeting, your cell phone switches to speakerphone and calls THE DUNGEON.
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you dont get paged at 3am on a regular basis. you dont have to wory about loosing money, or getting sued. you dont have to listen to hundreds of people like you whine. guess what the higher up people do. the same stuff you do when they arnt managing a zillion ppl like you. trust me, the upper ups would much rather be doing upgrades and testing than paperwork. a job is not a school, it is a job. you are there to preform tasks for the company. learning this is what your internship is all about.
logitec mouse is great the kb however has a probley with latency. its rather slight, but if i switch back to a regular kb its like, WOW, that wireless one is lagged! wtf. it also seems to have a problem with dropping keys. when i get going fast i end up with letters missing in my words, lke tis.
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