The NZ filter works by collecting a list of banned websites.
The websites addresses are converted to IP.
These IPs are advertised to the ISPs via BGP.
The ISPs divert all traffic for that IP to the government filter server.
The government filter server examines the request against the list of banned websites, and decides whether to forward or block. Only HTTP is examined, everything else is forwarded.
Hi there. Do you have any more information about the filter blocking updates to nod32 or any other problems created by the filter? If so, please email me at thomas@thomasbeagle.net
The shiny new data centre was so close to being finished it was already operational. The redundant aircon worked and had been tested. The UPS and generator had been tested. The servers were installed, running and live. And then someone needed to do a little bit of work under the floor. They lifted up the tile and accidentally dropped it.
Now, imagine the impact of that thud travelling through the raised floor, up the wall and into *the* relay in the BRS, tripping it. And then you can probably imagine the sound of all that hardware shutting down in a hurry, and the "Oh shit" coming from the unfortunate tech.
"The U.S. House of Representatives this month passed two supercomputing-related bills: HR 4218, the High-Performance Computing Revitalization Act of 2004, and HR 4516, which seeks about $200 million in funding for supercomputer development at the U.S. Department of Energy."
It's just people wanting more government handouts for their pet projects.
I just bought a couple of Poweredge 400sc servers.
The addition of ECC memory and a better standard support contract (24/7 4 hour onsite) over the standard desktop models is worth every penny.
ECC memory is vital for servers as you can't afford to be swapping memory modules in and out of a production server in an attempt to track down a problem.
Someone comes over and asks a question, I press F1, type in the question they asked and then ask them to pick the appropriate answer (which they can normally do). Then I read it out to them.
I've decided that I'm going to keep all my data in online storage - the hard drives in my server. It's backed up (to an external USB2 hard drive) and I'm not going to lose it or find that I can't read it in five years.
I've checked my laptop a number of times on flights without any problems.
Of course, it's normally been in the middle of my suitcase with layers of clothes for padding. (Very similar to how they're shipped by the supplier - hard outer shell, inner padding, laptop.)
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The NZ filter works by collecting a list of banned websites.
The websites addresses are converted to IP.
These IPs are advertised to the ISPs via BGP.
The ISPs divert all traffic for that IP to the government filter server.
The government filter server examines the request against the list of banned websites, and decides whether to forward or block. Only HTTP is examined, everything else is forwarded.
So, you can't get around it via DNS tricks.
More details: http://techliberty.org.nz/issues/internet-filtering/filtering-technical-faq/
We have two major parties in NZ (Labour and National).
The filter process was started when Labour was in power.
It's now gone live while National is in power.
At least the Greens are against it! Oh, pity they only get ~5%.
If you want to know more about it, check the NZ Internet Filtering FAQ at: http://techliberty.org.nz/issues/internet-filtering/filtering-faq/
Hi there. Do you have any more information about the filter blocking updates to nod32 or any other problems created by the filter? If so, please email me at thomas@thomasbeagle.net
The shiny new data centre was so close to being finished it was already operational. The redundant aircon worked and had been tested. The UPS and generator had been tested. The servers were installed, running and live. And then someone needed to do a little bit of work under the floor. They lifted up the tile and accidentally dropped it.
Now, imagine the impact of that thud travelling through the raised floor, up the wall and into *the* relay in the BRS, tripping it. And then you can probably imagine the sound of all that hardware shutting down in a hurry, and the "Oh shit" coming from the unfortunate tech.
You do realise that that Schneier article about flaws in Microsoft's PPTP is eight years old, right?
Microsoft released a patch/upgrade (DUN 1.3) for Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT 3.51 which Schneier agreed fixed most of the problems.
Or, as a certain famous Microsoft staffer put it...
"Developers! Developers! Developers!"
It definitely has some bad memory leaks. (Currently running 1.03 with AdBlock, OpenInIE and Developer extensions.)
Firefox Mem Usage - 146MB
Firefox VM Usage - 196MB
Of course, it's been running for about three days now.
Well, they came installed on my Toshiba Portege M200.
They allow me to configure scrolling and so on in a per-application way.
No idea how many moved to Canada, but we seem to be getting new US political refugees every day in New Zealand.
That would be the same IBM that explicitly developed the MCA bus as used in the PS/2 so they could take back control of the PC market?
The entire story is contained in this line:
"The U.S. House of Representatives this month passed two supercomputing-related bills: HR 4218, the High-Performance Computing Revitalization Act of 2004, and HR 4516, which seeks about $200 million in funding for supercomputer development at the U.S. Department of Energy."
It's just people wanting more government handouts for their pet projects.
I just bought a couple of Poweredge 400sc servers.
The addition of ECC memory and a better standard support contract (24/7 4 hour onsite) over the standard desktop models is worth every penny.
ECC memory is vital for servers as you can't afford to be swapping memory modules in and out of a production server in an attempt to track down a problem.
Interesting. I've had a number of calls which have gone something like this:
"Hi, I'm X from Y, I think you've lost the ISDN connections again." (This was a while ago.)
" Oh, so we have, thanks for calling and I'll get someone to fix it."
I do that for MS Office problems all the time.
Someone comes over and asks a question, I press F1, type in the question they asked and then ask them to pick the appropriate answer (which they can normally do). Then I read it out to them.
Some of them even get the hint.
I entirely agree that you shouldn't trust a single disk to store data on.
That's why there's the bit in my original comment about "It's backed up (to an external USB2 hard drive)". This backup is kept offsite.
The more important stuff is also backed up to my laptop each night.
I don't trust offline storage - bitrot is real.
I've decided that I'm going to keep all my data in online storage - the hard drives in my server. It's backed up (to an external USB2 hard drive) and I'm not going to lose it or find that I can't read it in five years.
Drive storage is cheap, simple and it works.
Well, thank god both are correct as the blurb uses both forms.
"Apple has..." is used at the start, and "Apple haven't..." is then used in the second sentence.
And yes, this post is really as pointless as it looks.
Yes, but the article that got posted was more interesting than yours. Go Slashdot editors!
"cerf the web"
Never seen that before - and it's sort of cute. I always hated the 'web-surfing' metaphor even though I find myself using it.
EISA - 5. There's something weird about a plug in card with two rows of connector pads at the bottom.
This says it all:
"...it requires zero configuration once you're configured properly."
Sound familiar to anyone who has ever used a computer?
I've checked my laptop a number of times on flights without any problems.
Of course, it's normally been in the middle of my suitcase with layers of clothes for padding. (Very similar to how they're shipped by the supplier - hard outer shell, inner padding, laptop.)
Oh dear, it's obviously doomed.
Personally I think Stephenson did a better job of ripping off Gibson than Gibson has been doing for quite a while.
Less cynically, I just enjoyed Snowcrash as a fun read. I haven't really seen anyone describe it as a masterpiece.