I have not read a more ignorant comment on how DNS works on slashdot in my entire history of reading slashdot.
Akamai is doing DNS geolocation. The solution is to use a combination of DNS geolocation combined with http redirects (also based on client IP geolocation) to attempt to find a good close server. If an end-user is using a remote DNS server. This can even be mostly invisible with a CDN like Akamai. DNS servers do not decide which 'Akamai' IP to give anyone. Akamai's forward resolving DNS servers return a response they have crafted as 'close' to the requesting DNS caching server (e.g. Google DNS, OpenDNS, your ISP, etc). The caching server caches the result and sends it to the DNS client on your local system. End of story. DNS does not forward or proxy the DNS client's address through the caching server to the forward resolving server. Ever.
For the record, using Akamai DNS *without* their CDN service (e.g. load balance/geolocate only) when redundant sites, AnyCast, and BGP should be standard operating procedure in enterprise network deployments is fucking stupid.
An exception to the above, I have an eee running XP and I did a bluetooth hack, which was totally worth it in my case because I can use my blackberry as a bluetooth modem.
Bluetooth is pretty easy as the extra express card pin out has an integrated USB port and works well, it's actually a little easier in the eee's they removed the express card socket from, since you no longer have to build an adapter and can instead just solder it right to the board.
It's also not odd that it boots XP (or linux, or anything) fast, because it's got a solid state drive. No seek time leads to fast I/O responses, and 90% of booting windows is I/O.
I'm listening to music on my Eee right now, but now to blow away any bias:
1. The Eee PC is a Celron M ULV clocked at 667-ish mhz, not 900. It can do 900, but Asus has yet to release a BIOS update to bring it up to 100mhz FBS that didn't also stand a good chance of bricking your Eee.
2. 4gb is woefully small, you don't realize it until you try to install something. Luckily, it has and can boot from an SDHC card slot, and 4gb SDHC cards run $30-40.
3. The default 512mb of ram these ship with is seriously not enough. It sounds fine, until you try to install Ubuntu or XP on the thing. Luckily, a 2gb DDR module for it might set you back $30-40.
4. While it is an ultraportable, it's still a notebook. This can be a pro or a con depending on how you look at it, personally, I wanted something tiny, light, with a querty keyboard, and it's hard to argue with getting that for $400.
On the plus side, though, I bought a cheap 10" portable DVD player bag, and the Eee, it's power adapter, a bluetooth dongle, a set of headphones, the USB cable required to tether my blackberry, and a 120gb Maxtor One Touch 4 Mini (USB 2.0, bus powered, reduces battery life from about 3.5hrs to about 3, but I just use it to store media and other infrequently used items). The entire bag weighs less than 3-4lbs, and it really is extremely portable, unlike the huge laptop cases people haul around these days with freaking everything in them. There are only two things I would change, honestly:
1. Integrated bluetooth. Tiny ultraportable laptops with tons of usb cables coming out of them make a lot of sense...
2. Mini-DVI instead of a VGA port. This thing is downright handy, but it would be handier if I could plug it into a television with a HDMI adapter. VGA->HDMI is expensive and unreliable, and VGA to s-video or composite outputs, while easy, look like crap.
Outside of that, I've been pretty happy. I can't even complain too much about the above, because, hey, $400.
It's being fucked with by the distribution chain, too.
Example: GameStop held onto thousands of units over a couple of months just so they could horde them into $600 packages and sell them on their website.
Which is how I got mine because, well, let's face it, super paper mario is pretty kick ass.
The iPod has remained relativley the same across all releases. It still does then what it does now. It still works in generally the same way.
If Microsoft wants to touch that, they need an interface most people understand and prefer to the iPod, and they need to STICK TO IT. Ease of use and knowing the tricks to an iPod are part of what keeps people buying them again and again. Knowing Microsoft every revision of the hardware will be wildly different from the last, breaking any device-bound loyalty people have.
...last week, due to Sony and Nintendo's failures, and uh, if Microsoft had been a console developer and had none of this other baggage, I'm pretty sure we'd be giving them much more love than we do here on Slashdot.
This is pretty much just a diversion until I can find a PS3/Wii, but, it's not been as terrible as I had convinced myself to expect.
That's crap. It dosen't work on SELinux, but may if any bypass-type holes in SELinux show up.
Any complete memory protection/RBAC system can prevent stuff like this (e.g. http://www.grsecurity.org/), but it shouldn't. For example, you can make it impossible to insert kernel modules after startup in grsecurity, but for a long time a 'root only' bug in the kernel allowed you to insert a module and execute it anyway (this may be the same bug, who knows). Good RBAC setups assume root is untrusted.
The 32 bit version also allows you to run 64-bit OS'es, you're basically running 64 native, 32 emulated, 64 emulated when you run 64 bit OSes on a 64bit OS hosting vmware.:)
It just emulates the x86-64 instruction set and uses longer 32bit operations to acheive the 64bit functionality.
..but, if I did, I'd major in philosophy. See, I've been working in IT for 10 years now, can code in many languages, can sys admin, can pretty much do anything I need to do from a practical standpoint. The thing is, those skills are nearly worthless in a lot of small/medium IT departments. The skill that keeps me employed is my ability to solve problems, very quickly and without major fallout.
It keeps me employable even if I'm not the best programmer/sysadmin/etc the world has ever seen, because I can pick and choose from the skills I do have to fix random problems as they come up. I usually have success. But, the neat thing about problem solving is that it's a universal skill that you can always get better at it. For example, once you learn a programming language, you know the language, the problem you encounter in becoming 'better' at that language is figuring out how to deal with problems and flush out theories, which takes critical problem solving skills that are better developed in philosophical study.
Anyway. That's my opinion. Science and Philosophy are very related, they just attract two diffrent types of people who don't always overlap.
They're allowed to do it because DSL is not available in the market, so there is no other choice to do data. Normally, you could just run DSL over one of the analog lines.
The whole play is a hack on teleco system inefficencies.
If you order 5 or more phone lines, the ILEC is going to run a T1, because a T1 uses less copper than 5 analog lines.
The CLEC is then going to get the other end of that T1, and is going to offer to sell you cheap data on it, since hell, it is taking up a switch port anyway. And since the CLEC controls the circuit, hell, let's turn the whole thing over on ATM and do everything on demand, so you can get that full 1.54mbit of use out of it, eh?
No one winds up paying a circuit charge, because it's saving the damned teleco money at the end of the day.:)
I learned this trick working for a CLEC. They started quoting T1's with integrated voice lines to data customers who never used or even knew the voice lines were part of the circuit, just to cut costs.
I'm using Choice One Communications, and it's a business-class circuit. I get unlimited data over it (1.54mbit, with phone lines over ATM on demand -- drops data capacity when in use)), and have no restrictions.. because it's a business class circuit. The data part of it costs almost nothing ($100 i think), it's the 5 voice lines that make the bulk of the cost.
I now have a T1 running over b-grade copper to my house. Sure, I had to pick up 5 phone lines, and my combined bill is about $230 for the whole circuit, but I have high speed AND live in the middle of nowhere.
The problem with the PSP is not the people who like it for its media functionality, it's all the people like me who are stuck with Sony's poor game lineup and only using their $300 PSP to play media.
That should say a lot about the PSP to Sony, but they don't listen well. Instead we get more DRM enabling happiness and a web browser.
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I have not read a more ignorant comment on how DNS works on slashdot in my entire history of reading slashdot.
Akamai is doing DNS geolocation. The solution is to use a combination of DNS geolocation combined with http redirects (also based on client IP geolocation) to attempt to find a good close server. If an end-user is using a remote DNS server. This can even be mostly invisible with a CDN like Akamai. DNS servers do not decide which 'Akamai' IP to give anyone. Akamai's forward resolving DNS servers return a response they have crafted as 'close' to the requesting DNS caching server (e.g. Google DNS, OpenDNS, your ISP, etc). The caching server caches the result and sends it to the DNS client on your local system. End of story. DNS does not forward or proxy the DNS client's address through the caching server to the forward resolving server. Ever.
For the record, using Akamai DNS *without* their CDN service (e.g. load balance/geolocate only) when redundant sites, AnyCast, and BGP should be standard operating procedure in enterprise network deployments is fucking stupid.
An exception to the above, I have an eee running XP and I did a bluetooth hack, which was totally worth it in my case because I can use my blackberry as a bluetooth modem.
Bluetooth is pretty easy as the extra express card pin out has an integrated USB port and works well, it's actually a little easier in the eee's they removed the express card socket from, since you no longer have to build an adapter and can instead just solder it right to the board.
It's also not odd that it boots XP (or linux, or anything) fast, because it's got a solid state drive. No seek time leads to fast I/O responses, and 90% of booting windows is I/O.
A couple of things..
I'm listening to music on my Eee right now, but now to blow away any bias:
1. The Eee PC is a Celron M ULV clocked at 667-ish mhz, not 900. It can do 900, but Asus has yet to release a BIOS update to bring it up to 100mhz FBS that didn't also stand a good chance of bricking your Eee.
2. 4gb is woefully small, you don't realize it until you try to install something. Luckily, it has and can boot from an SDHC card slot, and 4gb SDHC cards run $30-40.
3. The default 512mb of ram these ship with is seriously not enough. It sounds fine, until you try to install Ubuntu or XP on the thing. Luckily, a 2gb DDR module for it might set you back $30-40.
4. While it is an ultraportable, it's still a notebook. This can be a pro or a con depending on how you look at it, personally, I wanted something tiny, light, with a querty keyboard, and it's hard to argue with getting that for $400.
On the plus side, though, I bought a cheap 10" portable DVD player bag, and the Eee, it's power adapter, a bluetooth dongle, a set of headphones, the USB cable required to tether my blackberry, and a 120gb Maxtor One Touch 4 Mini (USB 2.0, bus powered, reduces battery life from about 3.5hrs to about 3, but I just use it to store media and other infrequently used items). The entire bag weighs less than 3-4lbs, and it really is extremely portable, unlike the huge laptop cases people haul around these days with freaking everything in them. There are only two things I would change, honestly:
1. Integrated bluetooth. Tiny ultraportable laptops with tons of usb cables coming out of them make a lot of sense...
2. Mini-DVI instead of a VGA port. This thing is downright handy, but it would be handier if I could plug it into a television with a HDMI adapter. VGA->HDMI is expensive and unreliable, and VGA to s-video or composite outputs, while easy, look like crap.
Outside of that, I've been pretty happy. I can't even complain too much about the above, because, hey, $400.
It's being fucked with by the distribution chain, too.
Example: GameStop held onto thousands of units over a couple of months just so they could horde them into $600 packages and sell them on their website.
Which is how I got mine because, well, let's face it, super paper mario is pretty kick ass.
The iPod has remained relativley the same across all releases. It still does then what it does now. It still works in generally the same way.
If Microsoft wants to touch that, they need an interface most people understand and prefer to the iPod, and they need to STICK TO IT. Ease of use and knowing the tricks to an iPod are part of what keeps people buying them again and again. Knowing Microsoft every revision of the hardware will be wildly different from the last, breaking any device-bound loyalty people have.
...last week, due to Sony and Nintendo's failures, and uh, if Microsoft had been a console developer and had none of this other baggage, I'm pretty sure we'd be giving them much more love than we do here on Slashdot.
This is pretty much just a diversion until I can find a PS3/Wii, but, it's not been as terrible as I had convinced myself to expect.
I bet all their computers run on CRT's, too, making this even more ironic. Hello localized radiation to the skull.
That's crap. It dosen't work on SELinux, but may if any bypass-type holes in SELinux show up.
Any complete memory protection/RBAC system can prevent stuff like this (e.g. http://www.grsecurity.org/), but it shouldn't. For example, you can make it impossible to insert kernel modules after startup in grsecurity, but for a long time a 'root only' bug in the kernel allowed you to insert a module and execute it anyway (this may be the same bug, who knows). Good RBAC setups assume root is untrusted.
patriot act
Most importantly, Debian is in a position to tell people when it happens and be up front.
:D
MultiMillionDollar Linux Co Inc, however, might decide that for the customer confidence issue.. nothing happened! Honest.
The 32 bit version also allows you to run 64-bit OS'es, you're basically running 64 native, 32 emulated, 64 emulated when you run 64 bit OSes on a 64bit OS hosting vmware. :)
It just emulates the x86-64 instruction set and uses longer 32bit operations to acheive the 64bit functionality.
At least, it did under XP Professional x64 w/ IIS installed, back when I was using that.
It runs under WoW64, but seems to work fine. I did it for months without incident.
VMWare supports x64.. but not by providing x64 binaries, just by insuring their code runs under Windows on Windows.
<3 your f*cked up penny pinching configuration.. I used to work for a company like that, and it sucks.
I love how Brainfuck hits the list before Java. 3
It does just fine, indirectly, on purchases made by your stock profits, though.
..but, if I did, I'd major in philosophy. See, I've been working in IT for 10 years now, can code in many languages, can sys admin, can pretty much do anything I need to do from a practical standpoint. The thing is, those skills are nearly worthless in a lot of small/medium IT departments. The skill that keeps me employed is my ability to solve problems, very quickly and without major fallout.
It keeps me employable even if I'm not the best programmer/sysadmin/etc the world has ever seen, because I can pick and choose from the skills I do have to fix random problems as they come up. I usually have success. But, the neat thing about problem solving is that it's a universal skill that you can always get better at it. For example, once you learn a programming language, you know the language, the problem you encounter in becoming 'better' at that language is figuring out how to deal with problems and flush out theories, which takes critical problem solving skills that are better developed in philosophical study.
Anyway. That's my opinion. Science and Philosophy are very related, they just attract two diffrent types of people who don't always overlap.
Every judge that's ever lived?
Newer consoles with hard drives are going to die. Lots. :/
They're allowed to do it because DSL is not available in the market, so there is no other choice to do data. Normally, you could just run DSL over one of the analog lines.
The whole play is a hack on teleco system inefficencies.
:)
If you order 5 or more phone lines, the ILEC is going to run a T1, because a T1 uses less copper than 5 analog lines.
The CLEC is then going to get the other end of that T1, and is going to offer to sell you cheap data on it, since hell, it is taking up a switch port anyway. And since the CLEC controls the circuit, hell, let's turn the whole thing over on ATM and do everything on demand, so you can get that full 1.54mbit of use out of it, eh?
No one winds up paying a circuit charge, because it's saving the damned teleco money at the end of the day.
I learned this trick working for a CLEC. They started quoting T1's with integrated voice lines to data customers who never used or even knew the voice lines were part of the circuit, just to cut costs.
I'm using Choice One Communications, and it's a business-class circuit. I get unlimited data over it (1.54mbit, with phone lines over ATM on demand -- drops data capacity when in use)), and have no restrictions.. because it's a business class circuit. The data part of it costs almost nothing ($100 i think), it's the 5 voice lines that make the bulk of the cost.
I, too, felt as trapped as you, friend.
I now have a T1 running over b-grade copper to my house. Sure, I had to pick up 5 phone lines, and my combined bill is about $230 for the whole circuit, but I have high speed AND live in the middle of nowhere.
Hurrah.
Why not just call it DOPY, so we get a better picture of what the politicians are thinking.
Or, you could use the same principals as the Apache Portable Runtime...
Forward and back buttons do nothing. Yay.
The problem with the PSP is not the people who like it for its media functionality, it's all the people like me who are stuck with Sony's poor game lineup and only using their $300 PSP to play media.
That should say a lot about the PSP to Sony, but they don't listen well. Instead we get more DRM enabling happiness and a web browser.