One of the most useful things I've had while traveling is a small bluetooth gps receiver. For me it is very handy as I can use it with a PC and PC mapping software such as M$ streets and trips, or if I'm traveling lighter I can use it with a portable device such as a pocket PC/smartphone/palm/etc.
I also save a lot of bulk by trying to carry all devices that charge the same way, usually by USB. Currently my smartphone/PDA, gps unit, camera, and a few other devices all charge via USB. I also found a Nimh AA/AAA charger that runs off of either 120vAC, 12vDC (car) or USB.
I do firewall/VPN/security work for a living; I've tried/used Ipcop and nearly all of the products mentioned below and dozens more (m0n0wall, cisco PIX, cisco ASA, checkpoint, juniper, smoothwall, proxy bases firewalls, sonicwall, guarddog, watchdog, hommade linux/freebsd/openbsd/etc etc). I personally vastly prefer PfSense over any of them for nearly all applications. http://pfsense.com/
A: a non-onboard NIC already offloads "networking tasks" to your NIC from your CPU, not that it matters to gaming.
B: upping the QoS priority of ICMP on your PC is very useless. They would be better off making some kind of XXXTreme gaming router with blinky lights and heatsinks all over it, as a router can help a bit more with QoS (although still not very much).
C: these guys are idiots, but consumers are idiots too, so they will make money.
D: $280 ?? AHAHAHAHAHAHAH
I personally have 3-4 laptops currently (work, work, personal, new personal), and have owned many in the past. 12, 14, 15, 17" wide, and no matter what for any type of use the smaller and lighter they are the better. 12" is very very small in the screen department (800x600 resolution sucks) but they are a dream to travel with compared to something silly like a 17" that weighs 20lbs. Battery life is light night and day as well.
I can't even imagine attempting to lug around one of the new 20" monsters, even using it at home would be an annoying experience unless it was permanently on a desk, which begs the question - why not get a desktop... or get a nice portable laptop and a monitor/keboard to use with it at home if you want the huge screen.
It would probably be easier to transport a desktop, CRT monitor, and UPS to run it than some of the laptops being sold today.
CNN's website is awful and always has been, but it worked fine for me in firefox. Just plain left clicked the link the first time and it came up, along with a pop-under flash ad or whatever.
Reading this article was beginning to worry me thinking of all the 21" "laptops" (why is big the new small?) plugging into every outlet in the plane, daisy chaining power stips and whatnot.. seems like a bad idea on an aircraft. Personally I'd rather the plane's resources are spent on keeping the thing in the AIR than everyone getting more than 4 hours of dvd watching or WoW playing in.
It is reassuring that the outlets are limited by wattage.
I actually refuse to wear white headphones to avoid looking like a total tool, since 9/10 of people downtown here have the white headphones - even with non-ipods as it is now a status symbol, apparently.
That and the standards earbuds that come with ipods are terrible quality.
Interesting, they took the FAQ offline http://labs.google.com/intl/en/suggestfaq.html
Also - there are plenty of adult things you can bring up in suggest, just very very basic words like "porn" are blocked.
Well, their DNS is broken or under attack, but if you hit their site via it's original IPs you do get the official statement. So far it is looking to be true that they have shut down.
DNS attack perhaps. If your in windoze open your hosts file with notepad c:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
add one of these lines:
72.52.8.7 www.bluesecurity.com
72.52.9.7 www.bluesecurity.com
I'll wait to see an official satement from them. Considering they are offline right now, likely due to another DoS, and the spammers have spent the last 2 weeks doing joejob attacks and all sorts of e-mails supposedly from bluesecurity... it doesn't seem too unlikely to me that the spammers could convince the media of something.
Yeah, trying to read tfa (or whatever it is) was one of the more difficult things I've tried to do recently. I could have listened to the STREAMING AUDIO, but that shit is annoying.
Sorry, just my internal monitoring servers which I can't publish. I just ran a query on historical availability excluding this month, so not taking these 2-3 days or whatever of downtime into account and show that over a year's time the servers have been up and responding properly 98.121% of the time, 6.8 days total downtime (downtime = none of the 3 redundant servers responding)
Mostly very short amounts of downtime, adds up to be a lot. These monitoring servers have a system of dependencies that exclude any of their own system/network/internet problems and are in multiple datacentres.
I monitor and trend the performance and availability ns1-3.mdnsservice.com the quality assurance DNS tests (failrly infrequent and lenient oness) and it's actually pretty rare for them all to be functioning, and I've had a few instances of them all being broken. This is of course the worst.
Yep.. ; > DiG 9.2.2 > bluesecurity.com ns;; ANSWER SECTION: bluesecurity.com. 46534 IN NS ns1.mdnsservice.com. (tucows/opensrs) bluesecurity.com. 46534 IN NS ns2.mdnsservice.com. bluesecurity.com. 46534 IN NS ns3.mdnsservice.com.
I use tucows/opensrs for DNS hosting of about 400 domains and needless to say I'm not too pleased. This kinda puts a dent in their Fully redundant architecture hosted in a world-class facility, 100% uptime guarantee ensures that authoritative and slave nameservers will always resolve policy.
One interesting step they've taken is now bluesecurity.com resolves to 127.0.0.1 on their servers. Wonder who's decision that was.
You could be right.. I have many domains and many addresses in the do-not-spam database and process lots (tens of thousands per day) of spam to bluesecurity. I can't login to check which is which, but I'm looking at some accounts right now and only see these threats coming to random addresses of protected domains, not to any indvidual accounts.
So they don't have a database of accounts, but they have a database of domains ?
I see this attack as another sign that this is an effective way to deter these spammers, and they are really feeling the heat. I run a farm of mailservers that hosts many domains and deals with about a half million messages a day, I'm feeding some of the big spam target domains' spam into bluesecurity and take up a few spots on the top 10 contributors list. I think the bluefrog approach is very effective, takes care of all the reporting that spamcop does, plus is a pain in the spammer's ass. As you can see it's putting pressure on these spammers or they wouldn't be doing this.
I got over 20,000 of these threats just to a single address last night.. pretty fun.
The retry queue of mail trying to get to bluesecurity's servers right now ? not fun. Going on 2.5 million peices of spam in there:)
Do you happen to use a catch-all alias on your domain ? Scripts find those, and then generate huge lists of "valid addresses" to sell to spammers. E-mails on these lists are both spammed and used as spoof senders.
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One of the most useful things I've had while traveling is a small bluetooth gps receiver. For me it is very handy as I can use it with a PC and PC mapping software such as M$ streets and trips, or if I'm traveling lighter I can use it with a portable device such as a pocket PC/smartphone/palm/etc. I also save a lot of bulk by trying to carry all devices that charge the same way, usually by USB. Currently my smartphone/PDA, gps unit, camera, and a few other devices all charge via USB. I also found a Nimh AA/AAA charger that runs off of either 120vAC, 12vDC (car) or USB.
I do firewall/VPN/security work for a living; I've tried/used Ipcop and nearly all of the products mentioned below and dozens more (m0n0wall, cisco PIX, cisco ASA, checkpoint, juniper, smoothwall, proxy bases firewalls, sonicwall, guarddog, watchdog, hommade linux/freebsd/openbsd/etc etc).
I personally vastly prefer PfSense over any of them for nearly all applications. http://pfsense.com/
A: a non-onboard NIC already offloads "networking tasks" to your NIC from your CPU, not that it matters to gaming. B: upping the QoS priority of ICMP on your PC is very useless. They would be better off making some kind of XXXTreme gaming router with blinky lights and heatsinks all over it, as a router can help a bit more with QoS (although still not very much). C: these guys are idiots, but consumers are idiots too, so they will make money. D: $280 ?? AHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Agreed.
In soviet Russia, the wifi leeches you.
just when we thought this thing couldn't get more japanese :)
I, for one, welcome our new japaneze seizure robot overlords.
Be sure to check out the video of the little guy without his plastic batman suit
nsfw?
I personally have 3-4 laptops currently (work, work, personal, new personal), and have owned many in the past. 12, 14, 15, 17" wide, and no matter what for any type of use the smaller and lighter they are the better. 12" is very very small in the screen department (800x600 resolution sucks) but they are a dream to travel with compared to something silly like a 17" that weighs 20lbs. Battery life is light night and day as well.
I can't even imagine attempting to lug around one of the new 20" monsters, even using it at home would be an annoying experience unless it was permanently on a desk, which begs the question - why not get a desktop... or get a nice portable laptop and a monitor/keboard to use with it at home if you want the huge screen.
It would probably be easier to transport a desktop, CRT monitor, and UPS to run it than some of the laptops being sold today.
ahh reflectoporn
CNN's website is awful and always has been, but it worked fine for me in firefox. Just plain left clicked the link the first time and it came up, along with a pop-under flash ad or whatever.
Reading this article was beginning to worry me thinking of all the 21" "laptops" (why is big the new small?) plugging into every outlet in the plane, daisy chaining power stips and whatnot.. seems like a bad idea on an aircraft. Personally I'd rather the plane's resources are spent on keeping the thing in the AIR than everyone getting more than 4 hours of dvd watching or WoW playing in.
It is reassuring that the outlets are limited by wattage.
I actually refuse to wear white headphones to avoid looking like a total tool, since 9/10 of people downtown here have the white headphones - even with non-ipods as it is now a status symbol, apparently. That and the standards earbuds that come with ipods are terrible quality.
I'm waiting until they come with a flux capacitor tbh.
Interesting, they took the FAQ offline http://labs.google.com/intl/en/suggestfaq.html Also - there are plenty of adult things you can bring up in suggest, just very very basic words like "porn" are blocked.
Well, their DNS is broken or under attack, but if you hit their site via it's original IPs you do get the official statement. So far it is looking to be true that they have shut down.
DNS attack perhaps. If your in windoze open your hosts file with notepad c:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts add one of these lines: 72.52.8.7 www.bluesecurity.com 72.52.9.7 www.bluesecurity.com
I'll wait to see an official satement from them. Considering they are offline right now, likely due to another DoS, and the spammers have spent the last 2 weeks doing joejob attacks and all sorts of e-mails supposedly from bluesecurity... it doesn't seem too unlikely to me that the spammers could convince the media of something.
Yeah, trying to read tfa (or whatever it is) was one of the more difficult things I've tried to do recently. I could have listened to the STREAMING AUDIO, but that shit is annoying.
Sorry, just my internal monitoring servers which I can't publish. I just ran a query on historical availability excluding this month, so not taking these 2-3 days or whatever of downtime into account and show that over a year's time the servers have been up and responding properly 98.121% of the time, 6.8 days total downtime (downtime = none of the 3 redundant servers responding) Mostly very short amounts of downtime, adds up to be a lot. These monitoring servers have a system of dependencies that exclude any of their own system/network/internet problems and are in multiple datacentres.
I monitor and trend the performance and availability ns1-3.mdnsservice.com the quality assurance DNS tests (failrly infrequent and lenient oness) and it's actually pretty rare for them all to be functioning, and I've had a few instances of them all being broken. This is of course the worst.
I've switched to another provider for now.
Yep.. ;; ANSWER SECTION:
; > DiG 9.2.2 > bluesecurity.com ns
bluesecurity.com. 46534 IN NS ns1.mdnsservice.com. (tucows/opensrs)
bluesecurity.com. 46534 IN NS ns2.mdnsservice.com.
bluesecurity.com. 46534 IN NS ns3.mdnsservice.com.
I use tucows/opensrs for DNS hosting of about 400 domains and needless to say I'm not too pleased. This kinda puts a dent in their Fully redundant architecture hosted in a world-class facility, 100% uptime guarantee ensures that authoritative and slave nameservers will always resolve policy.
One interesting step they've taken is now bluesecurity.com resolves to 127.0.0.1 on their servers. Wonder who's decision that was.
You could be right.. I have many domains and many addresses in the do-not-spam database and process lots (tens of thousands per day) of spam to bluesecurity. I can't login to check which is which, but I'm looking at some accounts right now and only see these threats coming to random addresses of protected domains, not to any indvidual accounts. So they don't have a database of accounts, but they have a database of domains ?
Too bad feeding tens of thousands of raw spam into bayesian doesn't work now, with intentional bayesian poisoning e-mail campaigns :(
I see this attack as another sign that this is an effective way to deter these spammers, and they are really feeling the heat. I run a farm of mailservers that hosts many domains and deals with about a half million messages a day, I'm feeding some of the big spam target domains' spam into bluesecurity and take up a few spots on the top 10 contributors list. I think the bluefrog approach is very effective, takes care of all the reporting that spamcop does, plus is a pain in the spammer's ass. As you can see it's putting pressure on these spammers or they wouldn't be doing this. I got over 20,000 of these threats just to a single address last night.. pretty fun. The retry queue of mail trying to get to bluesecurity's servers right now ? not fun. Going on 2.5 million peices of spam in there :)
Do you happen to use a catch-all alias on your domain ? Scripts find those, and then generate huge lists of "valid addresses" to sell to spammers. E-mails on these lists are both spammed and used as spoof senders.