I agree with you that optimizing the TCP stack and usage of bandwidth (ie not downloading ads, etc) could speed up internet use, but I am sorry to say that you must never have experienced a high bandwidth home internet connection from standard consumer grade products.
Even with non-optimized settings, high bandwidth doesn't happen if the infrastructure isn't there to support it. If 100 people are connected via a 10 Mbps line to a 100 Mbps backbone, there is going to be congestion. Especially when you factor in streaming video, P2P networks, online gaming, streaming music, etc. You could have the most optimized network in the world, but when you seriously oversell bandwidth not a thing you do other than increasing the backbone speed will help with slowdowns and congestion.
The way I see it, the internet functions just fine at fast speeds (through personal experience). If the ISPs need to rate limit its customers then they haven't done their job to build their networks to meet demand.
Here is Tokyo, Japan, I have great internet usage speeds. I have 100 Mbps fiber to my home. It should be 100 up/down, but up is always slower. I am able to easily cap out my bandwidth esp if things are downloaded from inside of Tokyo (crossing an ocean tends to slow things down a bit). The ISPs in Japan have chosen to invest in their infrastructure so that they can truthfully advertise 100 Mbps speeds.
This is the big difference between US mobile phone internet and Japan's. In Japan all the phones have a PC browser so the web sites look just like they would on a normal computer.
Rule number 1 about proxy firewalls, they are slow! With that said they are are also the most secure option for the network. Of course a pure iptables firewall will be faster (or a Cisco Pix) because it doesn't have to tear down each packet layer by layer, inspect the packet contents, and then rebuild it on the other side. The only time I have had to reboot a Sidewinder is during software updates, and that is because of the trusted OS (role based OS, think LinuxSE on steroids) it is built on (security by design). If a config setting needed a reboot it is probably due to this same reason. If the log for a PIX is mentioned in another post here, then I far prefer the Sidewinder logs to the standard PIX logs. Sidewinders can send their logs out via syslog if you want them to. As far as state tables go, I don't run HA yet, but from the training I got, they are suppose to share the state table or else HA would be worthless... is the heart beat link setup right? Traceroute should be able to be made to work, never tried though so I can't tell you for certain.
I will agree with this one. The Sindwinder runs on SecureOS (a BSD variant), and is the equivalent of Trusted Solaris in terms of hardening. My brain is drawing a blank as to the term that is used for the design of the OS, but each NIC has its own separate network stack, each service is run in the equivalent of a chroot jail. I believe SANS even recommends the firewall. It is mentioned in their GSEC training as an application layer firewall/proxy.
I thought IBM was now owned by a Chinese company. If that is true, why is it such a surprise to see that they are supporting a Chinese Linux distro????
Don't worry the dual layer discs will make into the US someday. You can buy a single dual layer disc here in Japan for about $40USD. There are at least 4 brands of burners (Sony, Panasonic, Pioneer, and Buffalo). Of course this doesn't seem to matter for the home video market.
Use the site firewall to restrict traffic from those machines to only go to the required sites. As for SMB, use a host based firewall, such as Symatec Client Security. SCS can be locked down through the management console.
Most AV and spyware scanners have to be run individually on each account on the computer. I find it humorous that viruses have no problem infecting every account on the computer yet you have to remove them one at a time. When we get in a system with say... 7 user accounts (at least twice a month) it's often more cost-effective to just nuke it and start over, rather than paying the tech for 6 hrs of time spent scanning all those accounts.
Perhaps I am missing something, but the administrator account on a windows machine has full access to the computer. Unless each account is stored on a seperate computer, why would you need to run the scans on a per account basis? Simply log in as an admin user (or create one and log in) then run you AV/AS scanner on the system. Granted I have no knowledge on home/consumer level AV software (only enterprise versions), but virus scanning is easy from an enterprise POV... I can even do it remotely.
I'm currently in Tokyo and I am paying about $12/month for a 40Mbps/5Mbps DSL line and the 50Mbps/10Mbps line is only about $15/month. Then there is 100Mbps fiber, but I don't know how much that is. Of course Asia is extremely wired, but come on how long has high speed internet been available in the US??? Long enough to have the price much lower for the bandwidth. Granted Tokyo is one of the largest cities in the world, but New York is up there too. Perhaps the US companies just don't want to upgrade their infrastructure... which is probably the problem.
Having used digital sender, it is great... assuming you can hook up a keyboard to it (haven't looked to see if you can). It is a fast scanner that can scan to image or PDF and email or place the file in a network share (SMB). I haven't tried to send to a directory yet as I don't have much scanning to do, but I was very impressed with how it worked... by far much better than a scanner hooked up to a computer.
Unless I missed how resolutions are calculated 960x540 is exactly 1/2 of 1920x1080, not 1/4. Am I missing an important math class somewhere where 1920/2 does not equal 960?
Actaully this is the same exact GUI that was used for Netscape Directory server back in WinNT 4 days... so the question is why didn't RH change change the GUI to something using Gnome/KDE. Looks like they just took the old product and released it.
This is a funny quote, because those that went to school during the early days of the web are now well out of college to include graduate school... about 10+ years out of school.
I seem to remember back many years ago (10+) there was Laser Tag gear out that looked much different than the ones shown on lasertag.org. As a matter of fact the ones I am thinking of were quite realistic (in color at least). They were black guns, kind of futuristic, with these velcro sensors that you could put on your chest (with a black harnass or silver vest). The sensor had a red dome on it with LEDs in it. That was the good laser tag gear... not this new green and red junk that Walmart is selling... those look like the competing brand out at about the same time (even had a TV show with that brand in it).
Now the question is do I still have that stuff floating around my parent's house???
As a Slackware user since 3.6 (about 98/99 time frame), I can tell you that if I didn't want to upgrade to a newer version of Slack I wouldn't have to. If I just refused to upgrade Slack 3.6 or 4.0 would still be running strong to this day without a single reinstall. Try doing that with Windows 98 or ME. I obtained 300+ day uptimes with it. I currently have Slack 9.0 installed and will only be reinstalling it to upgrade to 9.1.
Not sure if this has been said, but why not require any Windows computer to log into a Domain Controller and then have patches puched out to the student machines. NAV works in this same way. Now of course there are problems, such as what to do with Linux and Mac machines... perhaps filter their traffic out to the network while forcing all traffice from a windows machine out to a DC. I'm not sure of the practicality of this in a college environment, but in a corp. this work just fine.
I don't know where you live, but here in the States there were normal commericals in all the normal places. I could only wish there were no commericals. Of course I could have downloaded it, but the quality versions aren't available yet.
I would tend to agree with you... I think. The pilot turned me off immediately (sp?). I haven't watched an episode since. Now only in Dark Angel will be brought back.
I just hope I have new hardware by the time the client is released. My computer beats the min reqs, but it will not run (driver issue for TNT2, I think). I hate it when companies don't put realistic min specs out for their products.
I was disappointed when I bought the game that the Linux version wasn't on it. The last thing I had heard was Bioware was going to release the Win/Mac/Linux version on the same CD. Guess I hadn't been staying up on it at all. Well sometime in the future I will be able to play the Linux native version of this game... I am happy for that at least
With 7 pages of comments, mine will probably not be read... but oh well. A very good place to start would be BCC Radio1's web site. Check out the Dance section and the Urban section (Garage and Drum-n-Bass).
There are so many other web sites out there, but Radio1 is probably a good starting place, and you can listen to them Live over the internet.
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I agree with you that optimizing the TCP stack and usage of bandwidth (ie not downloading ads, etc) could speed up internet use, but I am sorry to say that you must never have experienced a high bandwidth home internet connection from standard consumer grade products. Even with non-optimized settings, high bandwidth doesn't happen if the infrastructure isn't there to support it. If 100 people are connected via a 10 Mbps line to a 100 Mbps backbone, there is going to be congestion. Especially when you factor in streaming video, P2P networks, online gaming, streaming music, etc. You could have the most optimized network in the world, but when you seriously oversell bandwidth not a thing you do other than increasing the backbone speed will help with slowdowns and congestion.
The way I see it, the internet functions just fine at fast speeds (through personal experience). If the ISPs need to rate limit its customers then they haven't done their job to build their networks to meet demand.
Here is Tokyo, Japan, I have great internet usage speeds. I have 100 Mbps fiber to my home. It should be 100 up/down, but up is always slower. I am able to easily cap out my bandwidth esp if things are downloaded from inside of Tokyo (crossing an ocean tends to slow things down a bit). The ISPs in Japan have chosen to invest in their infrastructure so that they can truthfully advertise 100 Mbps speeds.
Check out my speedtest.net results:
Tokyo-Tokyo: http://www.speedtest.net/result/320103019.png
Tokyo-Yokohama, Japan: http://www.speedtest.net/result/320111142.png
Tokyo-Chatan, Okinawa: http://www.speedtest.net/result/320109814.png
Tokyo-New York: http://www.speedtest.net/result/320105818.png
Tokyo-Chicago: http://www.speedtest.net/result/320105532.png
Tokyo-Los Angeles: http://www.speedtest.net/result/320106192.png
Tokyo-London: http://www.speedtest.net/result/320106863.png
Tokyo-Stockholm, Sweden: http://www.speedtest.net/result/320107174.png
Tokyo-Frankfort, Germany: http://www.speedtest.net/result/320107789.png
Tokyo-Hong-Kong, China: http://www.speedtest.net/result/320108421.png
Tokyo-Taipei, Taiwan: http://www.speedtest.net/result/320108846.png
This is the big difference between US mobile phone internet and Japan's. In Japan all the phones have a PC browser so the web sites look just like they would on a normal computer.
Rule number 1 about proxy firewalls, they are slow! With that said they are are also the most secure option for the network. Of course a pure iptables firewall will be faster (or a Cisco Pix) because it doesn't have to tear down each packet layer by layer, inspect the packet contents, and then rebuild it on the other side. The only time I have had to reboot a Sidewinder is during software updates, and that is because of the trusted OS (role based OS, think LinuxSE on steroids) it is built on (security by design). If a config setting needed a reboot it is probably due to this same reason. If the log for a PIX is mentioned in another post here, then I far prefer the Sidewinder logs to the standard PIX logs. Sidewinders can send their logs out via syslog if you want them to. As far as state tables go, I don't run HA yet, but from the training I got, they are suppose to share the state table or else HA would be worthless... is the heart beat link setup right? Traceroute should be able to be made to work, never tried though so I can't tell you for certain.
I will agree with this one. The Sindwinder runs on SecureOS (a BSD variant), and is the equivalent of Trusted Solaris in terms of hardening. My brain is drawing a blank as to the term that is used for the design of the OS, but each NIC has its own separate network stack, each service is run in the equivalent of a chroot jail. I believe SANS even recommends the firewall. It is mentioned in their GSEC training as an application layer firewall/proxy.
Plus configuring it is extremely easy.
I thought IBM was now owned by a Chinese company. If that is true, why is it such a surprise to see that they are supporting a Chinese Linux distro????
Don't worry the dual layer discs will make into the US someday. You can buy a single dual layer disc here in Japan for about $40USD. There are at least 4 brands of burners (Sony, Panasonic, Pioneer, and Buffalo). Of course this doesn't seem to matter for the home video market.
Use the site firewall to restrict traffic from those machines to only go to the required sites. As for SMB, use a host based firewall, such as Symatec Client Security. SCS can be locked down through the management console.
Perhaps I am missing something, but the administrator account on a windows machine has full access to the computer. Unless each account is stored on a seperate computer, why would you need to run the scans on a per account basis? Simply log in as an admin user (or create one and log in) then run you AV/AS scanner on the system. Granted I have no knowledge on home/consumer level AV software (only enterprise versions), but virus scanning is easy from an enterprise POV... I can even do it remotely.
I'm currently in Tokyo and I am paying about $12/month for a 40Mbps/5Mbps DSL line and the 50Mbps/10Mbps line is only about $15/month. Then there is 100Mbps fiber, but I don't know how much that is. Of course Asia is extremely wired, but come on how long has high speed internet been available in the US??? Long enough to have the price much lower for the bandwidth. Granted Tokyo is one of the largest cities in the world, but New York is up there too. Perhaps the US companies just don't want to upgrade their infrastructure... which is probably the problem.
The specs look like a Sony Vaio laptop as does the sceen... perhaps Apple just rebranded Sony's product.
Having used digital sender, it is great... assuming you can hook up a keyboard to it (haven't looked to see if you can). It is a fast scanner that can scan to image or PDF and email or place the file in a network share (SMB). I haven't tried to send to a directory yet as I don't have much scanning to do, but I was very impressed with how it worked... by far much better than a scanner hooked up to a computer.
Unless I missed how resolutions are calculated 960x540 is exactly 1/2 of 1920x1080, not 1/4. Am I missing an important math class somewhere where 1920/2 does not equal 960?
Welcome to Open Source where piracy doesn't exist.
Actaully this is the same exact GUI that was used for Netscape Directory server back in WinNT 4 days... so the question is why didn't RH change change the GUI to something using Gnome/KDE. Looks like they just took the old product and released it.
This is a funny quote, because those that went to school during the early days of the web are now well out of college to include graduate school... about 10+ years out of school.
Alright did a little googling and found it... the products are made by LazerTag
http://www.adequate.com/LazerTag/equipment/
The gun is the StarLyte and the sensor was the StarSensor
Those are the good old days... oh well, I doubt my wife would want to play lazer tag with me anyway.
I seem to remember back many years ago (10+) there was Laser Tag gear out that looked much different than the ones shown on lasertag.org. As a matter of fact the ones I am thinking of were quite realistic (in color at least). They were black guns, kind of futuristic, with these velcro sensors that you could put on your chest (with a black harnass or silver vest). The sensor had a red dome on it with LEDs in it. That was the good laser tag gear... not this new green and red junk that Walmart is selling... those look like the competing brand out at about the same time (even had a TV show with that brand in it).
Now the question is do I still have that stuff floating around my parent's house???
As a Slackware user since 3.6 (about 98/99 time frame), I can tell you that if I didn't want to upgrade to a newer version of Slack I wouldn't have to. If I just refused to upgrade Slack 3.6 or 4.0 would still be running strong to this day without a single reinstall. Try doing that with Windows 98 or ME. I obtained 300+ day uptimes with it. I currently have Slack 9.0 installed and will only be reinstalling it to upgrade to 9.1.
Not sure if this has been said, but why not require any Windows computer to log into a Domain Controller and then have patches puched out to the student machines. NAV works in this same way. Now of course there are problems, such as what to do with Linux and Mac machines... perhaps filter their traffic out to the network while forcing all traffice from a windows machine out to a DC. I'm not sure of the practicality of this in a college environment, but in a corp. this work just fine.
As I would never listen to any of the music on that list, much less download it.
I don't know where you live, but here in the States there were normal commericals in all the normal places. I could only wish there were no commericals. Of course I could have downloaded it, but the quality versions aren't available yet.
I would tend to agree with you... I think. The pilot turned me off immediately (sp?). I haven't watched an episode since. Now only in Dark Angel will be brought back.
I just hope I have new hardware by the time the client is released. My computer beats the min reqs, but it will not run (driver issue for TNT2, I think). I hate it when companies don't put realistic min specs out for their products.
I was disappointed when I bought the game that the Linux version wasn't on it. The last thing I had heard was Bioware was going to release the Win/Mac/Linux version on the same CD. Guess I hadn't been staying up on it at all. Well sometime in the future I will be able to play the Linux native version of this game... I am happy for that at least
With 7 pages of comments, mine will probably not be read... but oh well. A very good place to start would be BCC Radio1's web site. Check out the Dance section and the Urban section (Garage and Drum-n-Bass).
There are so many other web sites out there, but Radio1 is probably a good starting place, and you can listen to them Live over the internet.