I was watching the BBC online for free back in 1999.
And this is really odd. Public broadcasting is being phased out and we get an article about CNN offering it's video for free. We need to get our priorities straight before someone starts straightening them out for us.
I'd agree. Take the basics of knots for example. You have knots that slip, knots that don't slip, knots that come undone easy under a load, knots you can trust for a few hours and knots you can trust for months, and those knots that you never tie because they don't hold or are known to get stuck. Knots that are functional, knots that are pretty and knots that are both. Those knots have been in use for hundreds of years, and there is a reason... they work.
It's also very fuzzy and analog. The wind changes direction and speed, the current changes, you have waves, you sail trim may be dead on or not. There is no such thing as staying on a heading of 270 exactly for two hours. The weather for tomorrow may be what is predicted or may not, you learn to watch the water and the sky. Sure there are electronics on board, but if you are out on a clear day, it's all by your senses of sight, touch and hearing. Very unlike this binary behemoth that earns me my living (and pays for the slip.) And what I know about sailing will still be good in 5 or ten years, unlike most computer related topics.
Whoa down there buckeroo. Bandwith is not the only resource at stake here. Depending on the vendor of the router upstream, a port scan will consume route cache entries that may make it very hard to open new outbound connections. I know of a major university with the wrong vendor that was routinely getting taken down by a handful people scanning their/16. Yes it was a poor router design in that version, but it was happening. Considering you only get maybe 64k route cache entries that is only 1 or 2 near simultaneous port scans of 1 port across a whole/16 or 1 or 2 scans on all ports on 1 ip address. It *is* possible for port scans to cause problems.
In other Top Secret news, DHS has setup packet sniffers on most transatlatlic cables. A story was submitted to slashdot about how to build nuclear bombs and other details about uranium enrichment. An IT representative from DHS was reported as saying, "Our terrorism database can hardly keep up with the updates we've had this morning. But we are getting some really good leads."
Of course they also saw my packets on the way to slashdot with the sniffers that were already in place, so I guess I'll leave home for the afternoon.
great idea. instead of making it obvious that the machine has been breached, put in a few stealth tools to track the phishers and spammers to get that one step closer to who/where they actually are. maybe shave a few lines off the cgi scripts that breaks them, makes the spammer/admin login and look around. once you get their location, then you can do the fanfaire, put their name and home address and everything else you have learned about them on the homepage:
"WARNING: THIS SITE IS NOT YOUR REAL BANK. JIM SMITH AT address/phone number IS TRYING TO TRICK YOU AND STEAL YOUR MONEY! YOU MAY WISH TO REPORT HIM TO THE PROPER AUTHORITES."
I think what these guys are doing, in keeping with the cowboy vigilante analogy, is burning down the outlaw's hide out. You didn't do much about the outlaws, they will just find a new hideout.
I doubt it was the lack of RIP2 configuration that caused this. You don't use RIP in the core, you use BGP as the exterior protocol and most likely OSPF or ISIS as the interior protocol.
UPS: at least in one place in MSK-IX they did have proper UPS backups, you can tell from routing tables that some BGP connections have an uptime of 4 weeks plus. They did bounce (or it had a power failure) one of their core routers as all those peering connections only have an uptime of 8.5 hours. I'd rather not provide a link to this as the last thing they need is their core routers slashdotted with BGP table summary requests.
Connectivity: it appears MSK-IX is peered with at least 12 other sites that are also peered with another major IX. For example they are connected to three other sites that are also connected to AMS-IX and four other sites that are also peered with LINX, among a few others with only 1 connection to another Internet Exchange. Many of these were thru Informtelecom XXI, so if they also had power problems everything was running on 50% normal capacity. There should have been enough connections to keep things running (i.e. no single point of failure), but that is assuming everything is working/powered, and assuming these guys in the middle could/would handle all the traffic (unlikely).
BTW, packets don't lose thir way, routers lose their routes to destinations. When all the crap started the routes began to "flap", i.e. go up and down as routers were reset, power came back on, routers went back down under the heavy load, manually trying to route around the problem, etc. When your peer sees your routes flapping, they usually put a holddown on them for a period of time, meaning they won't readvertise your route updates to other routers on the internet (said flaps propogate all over the world, putting undue stress on other routers). So even once you get everything working again, the internet waits for a little bit to accept your routes. Well, some do and some don't or some wait longer. That's why you see routers still forwarding packets to London, apparently London thinks it can still get to Moscow so it's still advertising routes. You don't get the count to infinity problem with BGP, but loops are still possible, especially during major outages and route flapping. And routers get "routing loops," not "found themselves in a loopback."
I provided as much details as I could, it's lacking in a few places because I can't follow russian websites.
Did anyone else think the article was about a book on a fine Irish Stout? Now there's a game. The more pellets you eat the more wonky the controls get. I mean, seriously, if there was a gum that tasted like Irish Car Bombs* I would buy it by the case.
* Irish Car Bomb Fill a shot glass 1/2 Irish Whiskey, 1/2 Irish Cream, then drop into a 3/4 full glass of Guiness (the beer not the book) and drinkrealfast. Repeat at most 3 times in one evening, or 5 if not drinking anything else.
*RANT ALERT* I feel so burned by Episodes 1 and 2 that I am not going to the theaters to watch this one. I was a young lad waiting in a block long line to watch the Star Wars episode and it was ground breaking. Empire Strikes Back was equally great. Return of the Jedi was excellent. This was a great series of movies. Great characters, just enough special effects, and a good story.
Then years passed. Something came out in 1999 that was supposed to be from the same director, and the same story, but it had a different twist to it. Suddenly, it had to appeal to everyone. Jar Jar is enough to make me hate the entire franchise in itself. 50 guys fighting with lightsabers is not impressive in today's CG environment. It sucked as a movie, it sucked as SCI-FI. It sucked so bad, I am going to only further say that I fell asleep during Episode 2 and I am not giving it any more of my time or money. I will rent it on video when it comes out. I'm not going to get suckered in to this reviewer hype that, "This one is better than the first two." Ha! When was the last time you could trust the media talking about itself anyways?
No! Were going to need them to vote on the legislation written by the advertising industry lobbyists trying to restrict the power of the FAA to not include space.
I suppose this is something that should have been in the original software contract then. Not that anyone would think to look for things like this, but new mental note. I think that is why today MS and other large software companies have a policy on software support, saying we will support this version until the next third major version or until 200x. But it is, (as you have stated) a very bad customer relations move. You always think about your customer when making decisions of this scope.
A book is less easily reproducable than software though.
What's really going to rattle your noodle is the fact that software has always been easy to copy, books have not, so why all the fuss with laywers and copyright, the SPA, etc.?!?! and what the hell was the entertainment industry thinking would happen when they moved to all digital formats??!?
The important thing is the buttons and the joystick piece. Get six buttons or whatever you think you will need, and a four way joystick (NSEW). These can be found on eBay or arcade supply stores online.
Now what amount of hardware hacking is this going to take? Which USB driver should I use? What interface should I pick? Hehehehe.
Go to your local Target or eBay or BestBuy and get one of those clone console controllers with the two analog sticks, the D pad, buttons and a USB interface. Rip that sucker apart, leave the USB cable intact and don't mess up anything on the PCB (in otherwords, rip the case off the PCB). Note that all the buttons and the D pad go to little traces on the PCB, which work with membrane buttons. The arcade game buttons and the joystick are simple on-off switches. So are membrane buttons. Solder those old skool buttons and joystick to the contacts on the PCB of the clone controller where the membrane buttons were. Solder the joystick up down left right to the corresponding contacts on the D pad, and wire the arcade push buttons to the contacts on the PCB where the right hand buttons were on the clone controller. Wire the R1 and L1 buttons in also if you want 6 puttons (think street fighter emulation). No we don't get analog sticks or vibration, but most old emulated games don't use them anyways.
You have basically replaced the membrane contact switches with your old skool arcade switches (buttons/joystick). The controller, USB interface and your PC won't know the difference, it's just a switch being closed!
Put it all in a nice heavy wood container you built, run the USB cable out the back (or in your upright cabinet if you are really going for it). Plug it into your pc and install your drivers for windows that came with the clone controller, or in Linux configure a joystick device. Fire up mame, and you are all set for the price of the controller ($20) and the joystick and buttons, plus some knee grease for the box and soldering. mame thinks it sees a logitech rumblepad or something similar, you see a box with an old school joystick and buttons and a cable coming out the back. But you won't need any quarters. Enjoy.
In a nutshell, it's kinda showing you connectivity and relative size of an ISP. What it's showing with the red spheres is that there are a few Autonomous Systems (AS) that have lots (hundreds or thousands) of inbound and outbound links to other ASes. Think UUNet or Sprint, alot of people are connected to them, as well as some ISPs. Then you have those smaller (tier-2, the orange to blue skittles) ISPs that are connected to UUnet and also connected to tens of other ISPs. All the way at the edge, you have people who are single homed only to their ISP, but they are not a transit network, meaning they don't send traffic from one AS to another. Any traffic on their link is either from their network or to their network. And there are lots and lots of those, they are the little purple skittles on the outside.
The lines represent the connections between these ASs. All the real connections arent there, the entire background would most likely be completely black if they were.
So it's showing that there are some really huge ISPs that form the "backbone" of the internet, and lots of smaller ISPs and thousands of even smaller ISPs. When you see a line that does not connect to/from the center, that's a connection between a tier-2 ISP to another tier-2 ISP. Usually this is done as a backup mechanism, sometimes it can also be done to more effectively get traffic to another network. For example, if UUNet charges you per byte, and they can get to anyone, you would think that you could just send all your traffic to UUnet. But you might find that a large percentage of your traffic is going to networks that are directly attached (peered) to Level3's network, and Level3 charges less per byte. It might make sense then to peer with Level3 in addition to UUNet, or completely with Level3. I'm leaving some stuff out here but this is the general idea, and what the picture is showing you.
Incidentally, there is also a concept in the internet backbone called "hot potato routing". If I am in LA with Sprint and sending traffic to NY to a UUnet customer, Sprint will do everything it can to put the traffic on UUNet's network while in LA. In otherwords, if this traffic is for a UUnet customer, it won't be sent across Sprint's network from LA to NY. Sprint drops it on UUNet's network at the first opportunity. The routing protocol for the backbone, BGP, has more than 10 different metrics it looks at to decide which route to take, and several rules to follow to decide what is the "best" path. Best is not always shortest or fastest once all the metrics are taken into account. So if you thought the internet was a big harmonious cooperative effort, guess again!
Blasphemy indeed! Everyone knows the internet is FLAT! Only heretics believe the internet is ROUND! If you send a packet with a large enough TTL, it falls right off the edge!
They are Booth Betties. If they don't just scan your badge, but actually regurgitate some marketing speech, particularly while standing within 10 feet of a flat screen and wearing a microphone, then they are Demo Dollies.
I thought it was going to be released in November? Looks like Microsoft is up to it's old marketing tricks again. And this has so much to do with Music Television. Or to quote another slashdotter, Microsoft Television.
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I was watching the BBC online for free back in 1999.
And this is really odd. Public broadcasting is being phased out and we get an article about CNN offering it's video for free. We need to get our priorities straight before someone starts straightening them out for us.
I'd agree. Take the basics of knots for example. You have knots that slip, knots that don't slip, knots that come undone easy under a load, knots you can trust for a few hours and knots you can trust for months, and those knots that you never tie because they don't hold or are known to get stuck. Knots that are functional, knots that are pretty and knots that are both. Those knots have been in use for hundreds of years, and there is a reason... they work.
It's also very fuzzy and analog. The wind changes direction and speed, the current changes, you have waves, you sail trim may be dead on or not. There is no such thing as staying on a heading of 270 exactly for two hours. The weather for tomorrow may be what is predicted or may not, you learn to watch the water and the sky. Sure there are electronics on board, but if you are out on a clear day, it's all by your senses of sight, touch and hearing. Very unlike this binary behemoth that earns me my living (and pays for the slip.) And what I know about sailing will still be good in 5 or ten years, unlike most computer related topics.
It uses a solar anchor.
Whoa down there buckeroo. Bandwith is not the only resource at stake here. Depending on the vendor of the router upstream, a port scan will consume route cache entries that may make it very hard to open new outbound connections. I know of a major university with the wrong vendor that was routinely getting taken down by a handful people scanning their /16. Yes it was a poor router design in that version, but it was happening. Considering you only get maybe 64k route cache entries that is only 1 or 2 near simultaneous port scans of 1 port across a whole /16 or 1 or 2 scans on all ports on 1 ip address. It *is* possible for port scans to cause problems.
and martial law would be declared, thus keeping Bush in office indefinitely.
No no no, it's much more simple than that, you just repeal the 22nd amendment limiting presidential terms.
In other Top Secret news, DHS has setup packet sniffers on most transatlatlic cables. A story was submitted to slashdot about how to build nuclear bombs and other details about uranium enrichment. An IT representative from DHS was reported as saying, "Our terrorism database can hardly keep up with the updates we've had this morning. But we are getting some really good leads."
Of course they also saw my packets on the way to slashdot with the sniffers that were already in place, so I guess I'll leave home for the afternoon.
great idea. instead of making it obvious that the machine has been breached, put in a few stealth tools to track the phishers and spammers to get that one step closer to who/where they actually are. maybe shave a few lines off the cgi scripts that breaks them, makes the spammer/admin login and look around. once you get their location, then you can do the fanfaire, put their name and home address and everything else you have learned about them on the homepage:
"WARNING: THIS SITE IS NOT YOUR REAL BANK. JIM SMITH AT address/phone number IS TRYING TO TRICK YOU AND STEAL YOUR MONEY! YOU MAY WISH TO REPORT HIM TO THE PROPER AUTHORITES."
I think what these guys are doing, in keeping with the cowboy vigilante analogy, is burning down the outlaw's hide out. You didn't do much about the outlaws, they will just find a new hideout.
God damn thats good service. It's already available. Kudos to Chad Walstrom! Click on File Sharing here.
We have a new expression: zero-day features!
I doubt it was the lack of RIP2 configuration that caused this. You don't use RIP in the core, you use BGP as the exterior protocol and most likely OSPF or ISIS as the interior protocol.
UPS: at least in one place in MSK-IX they did have proper UPS backups, you can tell from routing tables that some BGP connections have an uptime of 4 weeks plus. They did bounce (or it had a power failure) one of their core routers as all those peering connections only have an uptime of 8.5 hours. I'd rather not provide a link to this as the last thing they need is their core routers slashdotted with BGP table summary requests.
Connectivity: it appears MSK-IX is peered with at least 12 other sites that are also peered with another major IX. For example they are connected to three other sites that are also connected to AMS-IX and four other sites that are also peered with LINX, among a few others with only 1 connection to another Internet Exchange. Many of these were thru Informtelecom XXI, so if they also had power problems everything was running on 50% normal capacity. There should have been enough connections to keep things running (i.e. no single point of failure), but that is assuming everything is working/powered, and assuming these guys in the middle could/would handle all the traffic (unlikely).
BTW, packets don't lose thir way, routers lose their routes to destinations. When all the crap started the routes began to "flap", i.e. go up and down as routers were reset, power came back on, routers went back down under the heavy load, manually trying to route around the problem, etc. When your peer sees your routes flapping, they usually put a holddown on them for a period of time, meaning they won't readvertise your route updates to other routers on the internet (said flaps propogate all over the world, putting undue stress on other routers). So even once you get everything working again, the internet waits for a little bit to accept your routes. Well, some do and some don't or some wait longer. That's why you see routers still forwarding packets to London, apparently London thinks it can still get to Moscow so it's still advertising routes. You don't get the count to infinity problem with BGP, but loops are still possible, especially during major outages and route flapping. And routers get "routing loops," not "found themselves in a loopback."
I provided as much details as I could, it's lacking in a few places because I can't follow russian websites.
how do i respode to a message?
you are obviously a script.
Did anyone else think the article was about a book on a fine Irish Stout? Now there's a game. The more pellets you eat the more wonky the controls get. I mean, seriously, if there was a gum that tasted like Irish Car Bombs* I would buy it by the case.
* Irish Car Bomb
Fill a shot glass 1/2 Irish Whiskey, 1/2 Irish Cream, then drop into a 3/4 full glass of Guiness (the beer not the book) and drinkrealfast. Repeat at most 3 times in one evening, or 5 if not drinking anything else.
*RANT ALERT*
I feel so burned by Episodes 1 and 2 that I am not going to the theaters to watch this one. I was a young lad waiting in a block long line to watch the Star Wars episode and it was ground breaking. Empire Strikes Back was equally great. Return of the Jedi was excellent. This was a great series of movies. Great characters, just enough special effects, and a good story.
Then years passed. Something came out in 1999 that was supposed to be from the same director, and the same story, but it had a different twist to it. Suddenly, it had to appeal to everyone. Jar Jar is enough to make me hate the entire franchise in itself. 50 guys fighting with lightsabers is not impressive in today's CG environment. It sucked as a movie, it sucked as SCI-FI. It sucked so bad, I am going to only further say that I fell asleep during Episode 2 and I am not giving it any more of my time or money. I will rent it on video when it comes out. I'm not going to get suckered in to this reviewer hype that, "This one is better than the first two." Ha! When was the last time you could trust the media talking about itself anyways?
slash rant.
Well, seems to me if they don't get this fixed in 5 months, they will be running out of crew.
No! Were going to need them to vote on the legislation written by the advertising industry lobbyists trying to restrict the power of the FAA to not include space.
Two things:
1. Don't worry about if this law really matters.
2. Don't worry about how much of our tax dollars were spent on this.
I suppose this is something that should have been in the original software contract then. Not that anyone would think to look for things like this, but new mental note. I think that is why today MS and other large software companies have a policy on software support, saying we will support this version until the next third major version or until 200x. But it is, (as you have stated) a very bad customer relations move. You always think about your customer when making decisions of this scope.
A book is less easily reproducable than software though.
What's really going to rattle your noodle is the fact that software has always been easy to copy, books have not, so why all the fuss with laywers and copyright, the SPA, etc.?!?! and what the hell was the entertainment industry thinking would happen when they moved to all digital formats??!?
The important thing is the buttons and the joystick piece. Get six buttons or whatever you think you will need, and a four way joystick (NSEW). These can be found on eBay or arcade supply stores online.
Now what amount of hardware hacking is this going to take? Which USB driver should I use? What interface should I pick? Hehehehe.
Go to your local Target or eBay or BestBuy and get one of those clone console controllers with the two analog sticks, the D pad, buttons and a USB interface. Rip that sucker apart, leave the USB cable intact and don't mess up anything on the PCB (in otherwords, rip the case off the PCB). Note that all the buttons and the D pad go to little traces on the PCB, which work with membrane buttons. The arcade game buttons and the joystick are simple on-off switches. So are membrane buttons. Solder those old skool buttons and joystick to the contacts on the PCB of the clone controller where the membrane buttons were. Solder the joystick up down left right to the corresponding contacts on the D pad, and wire the arcade push buttons to the contacts on the PCB where the right hand buttons were on the clone controller. Wire the R1 and L1 buttons in also if you want 6 puttons (think street fighter emulation). No we don't get analog sticks or vibration, but most old emulated games don't use them anyways.
You have basically replaced the membrane contact switches with your old skool arcade switches (buttons/joystick). The controller, USB interface and your PC won't know the difference, it's just a switch being closed!
Put it all in a nice heavy wood container you built, run the USB cable out the back (or in your upright cabinet if you are really going for it). Plug it into your pc and install your drivers for windows that came with the clone controller, or in Linux configure a joystick device. Fire up mame, and you are all set for the price of the controller ($20) and the joystick and buttons, plus some knee grease for the box and soldering. mame thinks it sees a logitech rumblepad or something similar, you see a box with an old school joystick and buttons and a cable coming out the back. But you won't need any quarters. Enjoy.
Huh? Schools definitely need SSNs. How else do you think they put things on YOUR PERMANENT RECORD?!?!
In a nutshell, it's kinda showing you connectivity and relative size of an ISP. What it's showing with the red spheres is that there are a few Autonomous Systems (AS) that have lots (hundreds or thousands) of inbound and outbound links to other ASes. Think UUNet or Sprint, alot of people are connected to them, as well as some ISPs. Then you have those smaller (tier-2, the orange to blue skittles) ISPs that are connected to UUnet and also connected to tens of other ISPs. All the way at the edge, you have people who are single homed only to their ISP, but they are not a transit network, meaning they don't send traffic from one AS to another. Any traffic on their link is either from their network or to their network. And there are lots and lots of those, they are the little purple skittles on the outside.
The lines represent the connections between these ASs. All the real connections arent there, the entire background would most likely be completely black if they were.
So it's showing that there are some really huge ISPs that form the "backbone" of the internet, and lots of smaller ISPs and thousands of even smaller ISPs. When you see a line that does not connect to/from the center, that's a connection between a tier-2 ISP to another tier-2 ISP. Usually this is done as a backup mechanism, sometimes it can also be done to more effectively get traffic to another network. For example, if UUNet charges you per byte, and they can get to anyone, you would think that you could just send all your traffic to UUnet. But you might find that a large percentage of your traffic is going to networks that are directly attached (peered) to Level3's network, and Level3 charges less per byte. It might make sense then to peer with Level3 in addition to UUNet, or completely with Level3. I'm leaving some stuff out here but this is the general idea, and what the picture is showing you.
Incidentally, there is also a concept in the internet backbone called "hot potato routing". If I am in LA with Sprint and sending traffic to NY to a UUnet customer, Sprint will do everything it can to put the traffic on UUNet's network while in LA. In otherwords, if this traffic is for a UUnet customer, it won't be sent across Sprint's network from LA to NY. Sprint drops it on UUNet's network at the first opportunity. The routing protocol for the backbone, BGP, has more than 10 different metrics it looks at to decide which route to take, and several rules to follow to decide what is the "best" path. Best is not always shortest or fastest once all the metrics are taken into account. So if you thought the internet was a big harmonious cooperative effort, guess again!
Did you try holding down the T and D keys while booting your mac?
Blasphemy indeed! Everyone knows the internet is FLAT! Only heretics believe the internet is ROUND! If you send a packet with a large enough TTL, it falls right off the edge!
They are Booth Betties. If they don't just scan your badge, but actually regurgitate some marketing speech, particularly while standing within 10 feet of a flat screen and wearing a microphone, then they are Demo Dollies.
I thought it was going to be released in November? Looks like Microsoft is up to it's old marketing tricks again. And this has so much to do with Music Television. Or to quote another slashdotter, Microsoft Television.
You can't smoke in space, silly.