So they're sharing a 1.5 mb/sec T1 among themselves and twenty-five other people? Let's see, figuring a total of 27 users (your uncle, his partner, and the 25 subscribers) if divided equally that means each gets.. 55 kbits/sec. I guess it qualifies as broadband but not by much. As long as steps are taken to keep heavy P2P users under control the general performance experianced should be much higher than that. Normal client internet use is not to download solidly 24/7.
A T1 is often availible where other broadband isn't though it will be a lot more expensive.
If you have a friend with broadband in line of sight from your house then a wi-fi link (using high gain antennas, e.g. reused satalite dishes) to them may be a possibility.
Also consider looking at what data plans the cellphone company offers and try to find out if they are availible in you area.
neither debian or ubuntu has it in the default install. I'm pretty sure the fedora installer had a seperate option for development stuff too (which I selected) though i'm not an expert on the redhat side.
I don't know what distro you are using but in my experiance C/C++ compilers are usually not part of the default install (though they usually are on the disk). Python is indeed usually there unless you do a really minimal install and perl is basically irremovable at least in the debian based world.
If they want XP, then they will get it corp licenses come with downgrade rights all the way to windows 95!
Just because MS does something for thier corporate customers doesn't mean they will do it for home and small buisness customers. Small buisness customers have been thrown a bone of one version of downgrade this time and home users basically don't get the choice at all unless they are very savvy (OEM versions of vista buisness and ultimate come with downgrade rights but upgrade versions don't).
XP even with no service packs comes with a servicable firewall that blocks incoming connections. Enabling that before connecting the network should be enough to stop you getting owned while updating.
You can buy a PC with XP but XP OEM licenses will become unavaililble at some point (according to the MS site linked in the slashdot summary big brand OEM and retail ones will stop in early 2008 and whitebox ones will stop in early 2009). Of course there will be odd copies of whitebox OEM and retail hanging arround for a long time but that doesn't help big manufacturers much.
As a customer you have always had downgrade rights with OEM licenses of vista buisness and ultimate but you had to use your own media (forcing you into a telephone activation for each machine unless you already have big brand OEM media of the right brand or VLK media and forcing you to buy at least one copy retail if you don't already have usable media). According to TFA the big brand OEMs can now ship XP media (and even preinstall XP if they wish) with machines that are licensed for vista buisness or ultimate.
As before home users who buy from the likes of PC world and get vista home basic or home premium OEM are screwed, the only legitimate way for them to downgrade is to buy full retail.
Not only does a straight line lead to lower latency, but it seems to me that it's a hell of a lot easier to drop a cable onto the seabed than to route a cable under or above roads and private lands. Afaict there are two reasons why under ocean cables are a PITA.
The first is that power is only availible at the ends. This means that if you want repeaters (all modern undersea cables have them as it is very hard to get a decent data rate over that kind of distance without them). In other words your cable generally has to contain high voltage DC power wiring as well as the fibers that actually carry your data. This brings insulation problems (early undersea telegraph cables also had insulation problems due to high voltages needed to get through without repeaters).
The second is that maintinance is a pain, you have to grapple for the cable, drag it onto the deck of a ship, sort out the problem and then throw it back in and you can probablly only determine where the fault is down to the repeater number which won't be a very accurate position indicator.
With an overland cable you can just build repeater stations which take power from either generators, solar power or the electricity grid depending on what is cheapest locally. You can send people to the repeater stations with specialist test equipment to try and find faults, you can easilly repair the repeater stations themselves and you can probablly pull new cable through the underground ducts or attatch it to the poles with nothing more than a truck and a cherry picker rather than the ship you need for any undersea work.
digging a trench down a road may seem like a lot of work but i'd still imagine it's a lot cheaper than using the huge specialist ships you need for a trans-oceanic cable.
Oh, by the way, breadboards work by friction fitting. You don't use glue to hold them together. If the pieces were falling out, then she could have transferred her circuit to a prototype board. You don't normally use glue but I could see myself doing it if I wanted to make a breadboard up for display reasons and I wanted it to last, breadboarded circuits are kind of delicate. (a bit like the way lego display models are usually glued together).
If two root server systems disagree the one that's wrong doesn't get used much and goes away. I meant what would happen if the official root servers located outside of the US were suddenly reconfigured to return something other than what ICANN wants them to return?
Sure you can route the output of practically any audio player including an ipod into any device with a suitable input using a simple cable (usually one with a mini stereo jack one end and RCA connectors the other for connecting a portable player to other audio gear) but that isn't what people who talk about integration want.
the car stereo is fitted into the dashboard where there is no risk of it coming out by accident and has controls suitable for use while driving. Sometimes it even has controls on the steering wheel. A portable MP3 player is not.
Incidentally, I've run into a similar problem with dedicated server brokers -- where they run into some business issue and the DC that provides the boxen sends a letter direct to the customer base saying, you can keep your server if you send the money to us instead. At least that way the customer gets the option of keeping the box. Sometimes however the datacenter refuses to deal with anyone other than the person who rented the server/space from them and some have even been known to hold colocated hardware that was colocated through an agent hostage.
Afaict the major data centers are usually provider neutral and just rent out racks and connections from your racks to other peoples racks so if you want to host a small number of boxes there you pretty much have to go via a middleman who rents a rack and deals with bandwidth provider(s). Unfortunately sometimes theese middlemen are fairly small and hence vulnerable buisnesses.
The current system isn't perfect but there are a number of reasons reasons why I think abandoning TLDs would be a bad idea
1: with the current system as a non usian I can register a site in my own countries tld and therefore not be subject to the whims of the US courts (yes in theory IANA could shut down a ccTLD, in practice doing it to any major country would be suicide for thier control of the dns) 2: dispute resoloution, the fact is that for better or worse the same name is held by different people in different tlds, how would you resolve that. 3: reconfiguration overhead, it would be an insane ammount of work to reconfigure everything that contains dns names accross the world to use a new structure. 4: users are used to the current system, any change would probablly confuse them more than maintaining the status quo
You could leave the existing tlds as they are and open up the root to direct registrations but that would probablly end up with the root zone in a similar state to info and biz, full of scam sites and not much else.
What would happen if the different roots were to start disagreeing? would people get results from a root picked at random? Would one root somehow take priority. I guess in normal operation A is the master and other roots clone it but that could be changed easilly enough.
There is also the last resort way of taking over dns for your network despite multiple servers inside that are set up to the icann roots. You put dns servers at your network borders and set up your border routers to reroute traffic for the root servers to them.
Well, the cat's outa the bag; it's too late now. WE WANT IT! I think you will find most people don't want it badly enough to switch away from icann to a provider of root service that handles those TLDs differently and put up with the huge breakage that would cause.
A Jedi can slice through a person with a light saber with no perceptible change to the momentum of the saber, so it seems likely that there is not a whole lot of tactile feedback in a "real" light saber either. Sure if you are using it to indiscriminately murder the defenseless. However if both parties have lightsabers they certainly seem to hit each other and stop in the films (which are the main cannon for star wars) so I would imagine thier is quite some tactile feedback.
The thing with jail is that prisoners are a big drain on society. They do little if anything productive and yet are kept at the taxpayers expense in a high security and therefore expensive to run place.
IIRC the US already has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world! Do all those people really need to be in prison?
P.S. I have heared that americans have to spend more to execute someone that to keep them in prison for life. Is this really true and if so why.
Afaict the big bugbears with linux hardware support are wireless networking and any very new hardware. 3D graphics also tends to need manual attention but because the graphics market is dominated by only two vendors there is lots of help out there.
Show me the link where I can order XP based machine from DELL as end user (not business). Is there anything stopping an individual ordering through the small buisness section?
which is increasingly hard given many vendors do NOT offer non-Vista machines, forcing businesses to purchase standalone XP licenses or use second hand hardware are you aware that OEM copies of vista buisness and ultimate come with downgrade rights?
In the W3Schools [w3schools.com] stats, Vista at about 4% is in a statistical dead heat with OSX and Linux. and that number is probablly biased down because web developers are likely to be computer savy enough to be able to avoid vista (whether by carefull buying, corp licenses, piracy or excercising the downgrade rights that come with vista buisness and ultimate OEM versions) until they really want it. Non savvy home users (the kind who buy from PC world and similar stores) basically don't get a choice about getting vista when they buy a new PC.
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So they're sharing a 1.5 mb/sec T1 among themselves and twenty-five other people? Let's see, figuring a total of 27 users (your uncle, his partner, and the 25 subscribers) if divided equally that means each gets .. 55 kbits/sec. I guess it qualifies as broadband but not by much.
As long as steps are taken to keep heavy P2P users under control the general performance experianced should be much higher than that. Normal client internet use is not to download solidly 24/7.
A T1 is often availible where other broadband isn't though it will be a lot more expensive.
If you have a friend with broadband in line of sight from your house then a wi-fi link (using high gain antennas, e.g. reused satalite dishes) to them may be a possibility.
Also consider looking at what data plans the cellphone company offers and try to find out if they are availible in you area.
why can't you use satalite?
neither debian or ubuntu has it in the default install. I'm pretty sure the fedora installer had a seperate option for development stuff too (which I selected) though i'm not an expert on the redhat side.
They can't admit it but it is far better for MS if people use pirate MS software than if they use linux.
Linux reaching a large enough market share for software vendors to take it seriously would be incrediablly damaging to MS.
I don't know what distro you are using but in my experiance C/C++ compilers are usually not part of the default install (though they usually are on the disk). Python is indeed usually there unless you do a really minimal install and perl is basically irremovable at least in the debian based world.
are you sure? I'm sure i've used superglue to stick SMT passives to the top of chips before and it hasn't shorted them out.
for making up a display breadboard I would probablly use something like silicone sealent anyway.
If they want XP, then they will get it
corp licenses come with downgrade rights all the way to windows 95!
Just because MS does something for thier corporate customers doesn't mean they will do it for home and small buisness customers. Small buisness customers have been thrown a bone of one version of downgrade this time and home users basically don't get the choice at all unless they are very savvy (OEM versions of vista buisness and ultimate come with downgrade rights but upgrade versions don't).
XP even with no service packs comes with a servicable firewall that blocks incoming connections. Enabling that before connecting the network should be enough to stop you getting owned while updating.
You can buy a PC with XP but XP OEM licenses will become unavaililble at some point (according to the MS site linked in the slashdot summary big brand OEM and retail ones will stop in early 2008 and whitebox ones will stop in early 2009). Of course there will be odd copies of whitebox OEM and retail hanging arround for a long time but that doesn't help big manufacturers much.
As a customer you have always had downgrade rights with OEM licenses of vista buisness and ultimate but you had to use your own media (forcing you into a telephone activation for each machine unless you already have big brand OEM media of the right brand or VLK media and forcing you to buy at least one copy retail if you don't already have usable media). According to TFA the big brand OEMs can now ship XP media (and even preinstall XP if they wish) with machines that are licensed for vista buisness or ultimate.
As before home users who buy from the likes of PC world and get vista home basic or home premium OEM are screwed, the only legitimate way for them to downgrade is to buy full retail.
Not only does a straight line lead to lower latency, but it seems to me that it's a hell of a lot easier to drop a cable onto the seabed than to route a cable under or above roads and private lands.
Afaict there are two reasons why under ocean cables are a PITA.
The first is that power is only availible at the ends. This means that if you want repeaters (all modern undersea cables have them as it is very hard to get a decent data rate over that kind of distance without them). In other words your cable generally has to contain high voltage DC power wiring as well as the fibers that actually carry your data. This brings insulation problems (early undersea telegraph cables also had insulation problems due to high voltages needed to get through without repeaters).
The second is that maintinance is a pain, you have to grapple for the cable, drag it onto the deck of a ship, sort out the problem and then throw it back in and you can probablly only determine where the fault is down to the repeater number which won't be a very accurate position indicator.
With an overland cable you can just build repeater stations which take power from either generators, solar power or the electricity grid depending on what is cheapest locally. You can send people to the repeater stations with specialist test equipment to try and find faults, you can easilly repair the repeater stations themselves and you can probablly pull new cable through the underground ducts or attatch it to the poles with nothing more than a truck and a cherry picker rather than the ship you need for any undersea work.
digging a trench down a road may seem like a lot of work but i'd still imagine it's a lot cheaper than using the huge specialist ships you need for a trans-oceanic cable.
Oh, by the way, breadboards work by friction fitting. You don't use glue to hold them together. If the pieces were falling out, then she could have transferred her circuit to a prototype board.
You don't normally use glue but I could see myself doing it if I wanted to make a breadboard up for display reasons and I wanted it to last, breadboarded circuits are kind of delicate. (a bit like the way lego display models are usually glued together).
If two root server systems disagree the one that's wrong doesn't get used much and goes away.
I meant what would happen if the official root servers located outside of the US were suddenly reconfigured to return something other than what ICANN wants them to return?
Sure you can route the output of practically any audio player including an ipod into any device with a suitable input using a simple cable (usually one with a mini stereo jack one end and RCA connectors the other for connecting a portable player to other audio gear) but that isn't what people who talk about integration want.
the car stereo is fitted into the dashboard where there is no risk of it coming out by accident and has controls suitable for use while driving. Sometimes it even has controls on the steering wheel. A portable MP3 player is not.
Incidentally, I've run into a similar problem with dedicated server brokers -- where they run into some business issue and the DC that provides the boxen sends a letter direct to the customer base saying, you can keep your server if you send the money to us instead.
At least that way the customer gets the option of keeping the box. Sometimes however the datacenter refuses to deal with anyone other than the person who rented the server/space from them and some have even been known to hold colocated hardware that was colocated through an agent hostage.
Afaict the major data centers are usually provider neutral and just rent out racks and connections from your racks to other peoples racks so if you want to host a small number of boxes there you pretty much have to go via a middleman who rents a rack and deals with bandwidth provider(s). Unfortunately sometimes theese middlemen are fairly small and hence vulnerable buisnesses.
The current system isn't perfect but there are a number of reasons reasons why I think abandoning TLDs would be a bad idea
1: with the current system as a non usian I can register a site in my own countries tld and therefore not be subject to the whims of the US courts (yes in theory IANA could shut down a ccTLD, in practice doing it to any major country would be suicide for thier control of the dns)
2: dispute resoloution, the fact is that for better or worse the same name is held by different people in different tlds, how would you resolve that.
3: reconfiguration overhead, it would be an insane ammount of work to reconfigure everything that contains dns names accross the world to use a new structure.
4: users are used to the current system, any change would probablly confuse them more than maintaining the status quo
You could leave the existing tlds as they are and open up the root to direct registrations but that would probablly end up with the root zone in a similar state to info and biz, full of scam sites and not much else.
What would happen if the different roots were to start disagreeing? would people get results from a root picked at random? Would one root somehow take priority. I guess in normal operation A is the master and other roots clone it but that could be changed easilly enough.
There is also the last resort way of taking over dns for your network despite multiple servers inside that are set up to the icann roots. You put dns servers at your network borders and set up your border routers to reroute traffic for the root servers to them.
Well, the cat's outa the bag; it's too late now. WE WANT IT!
I think you will find most people don't want it badly enough to switch away from icann to a provider of root service that handles those TLDs differently and put up with the huge breakage that would cause.
Anybody know where I can register an .su domain?
/. you might have to move pretty quickly to get it.
http://www.nic.ru/en/
the fee is 3000 rubles (about $120) per year so it's a relatively expensive TLD to register in.
I hope commierat.su isn't taken!
It wasn't when I just checked but having posted your intention on
A Jedi can slice through a person with a light saber with no perceptible change to the momentum of the saber, so it seems likely that there is not a whole lot of tactile feedback in a "real" light saber either.
Sure if you are using it to indiscriminately murder the defenseless. However if both parties have lightsabers they certainly seem to hit each other and stop in the films (which are the main cannon for star wars) so I would imagine thier is quite some tactile feedback.
The thing with jail is that prisoners are a big drain on society. They do little if anything productive and yet are kept at the taxpayers expense in a high security and therefore expensive to run place.
IIRC the US already has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world! Do all those people really need to be in prison?
P.S. I have heared that americans have to spend more to execute someone that to keep them in prison for life. Is this really true and if so why.
Afaict the big bugbears with linux hardware support are wireless networking and any very new hardware. 3D graphics also tends to need manual attention but because the graphics market is dominated by only two vendors there is lots of help out there.
Show me the link where I can order XP based machine from DELL as end user (not business).
Is there anything stopping an individual ordering through the small buisness section?
which is increasingly hard given many vendors do NOT offer non-Vista machines, forcing businesses to purchase standalone XP licenses or use second hand hardware
are you aware that OEM copies of vista buisness and ultimate come with downgrade rights?
more likely people would just grey import or pirate MS software in europe.
In the W3Schools [w3schools.com] stats, Vista at about 4% is in a statistical dead heat with OSX and Linux.
and that number is probablly biased down because web developers are likely to be computer savy enough to be able to avoid vista (whether by carefull buying, corp licenses, piracy or excercising the downgrade rights that come with vista buisness and ultimate OEM versions) until they really want it. Non savvy home users (the kind who buy from PC world and similar stores) basically don't get a choice about getting vista when they buy a new PC.