Helping a country opress its citizens is evil, even if the country says it's the law. Some countries allow husbands to mutilate and abuse their wives--but it's legal, so why don't you go give them a hand?
Assume for a moment that there was nothing except.com.
So, you're suggesting that you take all the names in every TLD and combine them into one TLD? Wow.
Now explain to me how having a root DNS server that knows where the.com servers are is any better than just taking the.com servers and making them root DNS servers?
It's simple arithmetic, my friend. If there are 10 names in 5 TLDs, then the roots need to know about 5 domains. Each TLD nameserver needs to know about only 10 domains. If you combine those into one TLD, then the roots would have to hold data for 50 domains instead of only 5.
The nice thing now is that the roots offload to the TLD nameservers, which then offload to the next level servers. The roots only care about the TLDs, the TLDs only care about what's beneath them. The load is more evenly spread across different servers for the various TLDs. It's akin to a search tree vs. a linear search. If you want everything in one TLD...well...I hope you're not running BIND or Microsoft DNS...
If you're familiar with the domain name system (wiki it if you're not), you know that a tree-like design spreads the load over a number of servers and makes name lookups follow a more structured, logical (read "easy to code") algorithm. I would hate to manage a root DNS server that had to define every TLD that somebody dreamed up. Do you realize how huge that name database would be???
Heck, half the people I work with in IT are clueless, lazy, or habitually late/absent anyway. Might as well unionize so nobody gets fired for it, right? C'mon, maybe most American IT employees deserve to be replaced by a hard-working individual in a third-world country who gets paid 1/4 the salary.
If IT has a bad rep and can be replaced so easily, then maybe the problem isn't with the corporations, but with the people who jumped on the MCSE bandwagon when they got laid off from fry duty at McDonalds and now call themselves IT Professionals. Wait a minute--if they get laid off then there will only be more "consultants" floating around the rim of the IT toilet bowl. (((shudder)))
Perhaps one should consider the lack of access to be a lack of permission. Last I checked both ntpd and a decent packet filter are available in nearly all *nix operating systems and distributions. What's up with a "permission slip" from the server admin? If you don't want some moron using your ntp/dns/ftp/whatever server, then deny them at the network layer!
Disclaimer: I still think D-Link is stupid for doing what they did. But I've thought they were stupid for a long time before this.
In other news, a robot has filed suit against the Mexican Medical Board. The robot has accused a medical student of removing its central I/O system instead of the rubber tumor that was scheduled for removal. There are also complaints of robotic harrassment from other medical lab droids...
the best bang for the buck performance as well as upgradability...though mini-agp and soon to be mini-pcie (?) will help notebooks with some of that.
I know of very few people or companies that actually upgrade their PCs. It's usually more worth it to do an entire system upgrade. I doubt that the new laptop modularity will convince people to make much use of it--they'd rather ebay their old box and buy a new one.
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Helping a country opress its citizens is evil, even if the country says it's the law. Some countries allow husbands to mutilate and abuse their wives--but it's legal, so why don't you go give them a hand?
Assume for a moment that there was nothing except .com.
.com servers are is any better than just taking the .com servers and making them root DNS servers?
So, you're suggesting that you take all the names in every TLD and combine them into one TLD? Wow.
Now explain to me how having a root DNS server that knows where the
It's simple arithmetic, my friend. If there are 10 names in 5 TLDs, then the roots need to know about 5 domains. Each TLD nameserver needs to know about only 10 domains. If you combine those into one TLD, then the roots would have to hold data for 50 domains instead of only 5.
The nice thing now is that the roots offload to the TLD nameservers, which then offload to the next level servers. The roots only care about the TLDs, the TLDs only care about what's beneath them. The load is more evenly spread across different servers for the various TLDs. It's akin to a search tree vs. a linear search. If you want everything in one TLD...well...I hope you're not running BIND or Microsoft DNS...
If you're familiar with the domain name system (wiki it if you're not), you know that a tree-like design spreads the load over a number of servers and makes name lookups follow a more structured, logical (read "easy to code") algorithm. I would hate to manage a root DNS server that had to define every TLD that somebody dreamed up. Do you realize how huge that name database would be???
Yeah, that worked...for about a year. Ask altavista, netzero, or anybody who worked for one that went under (like me). Nothing is free.
Heck, half the people I work with in IT are clueless, lazy, or habitually late/absent anyway. Might as well unionize so nobody gets fired for it, right? C'mon, maybe most American IT employees deserve to be replaced by a hard-working individual in a third-world country who gets paid 1/4 the salary.
If IT has a bad rep and can be replaced so easily, then maybe the problem isn't with the corporations, but with the people who jumped on the MCSE bandwagon when they got laid off from fry duty at McDonalds and now call themselves IT Professionals. Wait a minute--if they get laid off then there will only be more "consultants" floating around the rim of the IT toilet bowl. (((shudder)))
Perhaps one should consider the lack of access to be a lack of permission. Last I checked both ntpd and a decent packet filter are available in nearly all *nix operating systems and distributions. What's up with a "permission slip" from the server admin? If you don't want some moron using your ntp/dns/ftp/whatever server, then deny them at the network layer!
Disclaimer: I still think D-Link is stupid for doing what they did. But I've thought they were stupid for a long time before this.
In other news, a robot has filed suit against the Mexican Medical Board. The robot has accused a medical student of removing its central I/O system instead of the rubber tumor that was scheduled for removal. There are also complaints of robotic harrassment from other medical lab droids...
the best bang for the buck performance as well as upgradability...though mini-agp and soon to be mini-pcie (?) will help notebooks with some of that.
I know of very few people or companies that actually upgrade their PCs. It's usually more worth it to do an entire system upgrade. I doubt that the new laptop modularity will convince people to make much use of it--they'd rather ebay their old box and buy a new one.