They probably got into the atmosphere, rolled down the window to see if it was warm or cold, then realized nitrogen melts their skin. Of course, it's nearly impossible to pilot an egg shaped craft while weary from a 24 trillion light year trip with your skin melting, so they crashed.
Correctly configured? That may work fine for a bunch of accountants, HR directors, marketing droids, and sales people, but if you have software development engineers you are only making things harder for you. These people live and produce by their tools, locking their tool box down with only a company-issued screwdriver and hammer inside will quickly lead to low productivity, unhappy engineers, and Dilbert cartoons posted outside cubicle walls.
You should also consider, as your post clearly implies, that perhaps corporate doesn't get Apple.
AT&T does have such a switch, but it is made by Alcatel. This whole deal is AT&T/BellSouth, MS, and Alcatel. That is what made Cisco buy Arroyo and Scientific Atlanta, they got cut out of a big piece of the IPTV pie, at least here in the US.
BTW the feature is multicast snooping and it works at L2. The switch listens for the channel join/leave packets and switches the multicast stream on/off to that port. This is a little different than at L3 (multicast routing) where the whole segment (and every port on every switch on that segment) will receive the multicast stream.
I had a chance to work on some of this (it's called project Lightspeed) for Alcatel.
You know you have completed the switch when you start using command instead of control.
Nice joke, but there is more going on here. You are getting video feeds over your fancy new xDSL connection, exactly how many feeds you can get at once (think different rooms) is a huge deal for the service provider. For cable it's different. You have all channels on the wire at the same time, you just need to tune each box into the right frequency/channel. With IPTV, you are not getting 500 multicast streams pushed down your connection at all times, you actually have to subscribe to the channel you want to watch. Can 5 people in your house all connect to your wireless AP and get decent performance from YouTube or other online video sites? Can they get consistent, reliable performance from it? I would doubt it, but that is what faces IPTV.
Notice they mention instant channel changes. These are all problems to overcome with IPTV that cable doesn't have to deal with, and they are setting up their defense for the cable company's media blitz on why you don't want TV from AT&T (american telephone and television?). When you click a button on your remote to change channels in an IPTV system, a ton more things have to happen to before you see fluid video. Think of it as the difference between tuning a station on your FM dial versus clicking a link in iTunes to change radio stations. If the system isn't right and can't switch off the old channel fast enough, it still streams in and clogs your pipe. Add about 5 of those and you have no decent bandwidth for the next channel, not to mention your internet access or your new VOIP phone.
The big deal here is two-fold. AT&T finally has the back end server mess for all this ready. They are using Microsoft IPTV, you would not believe how many servers and disk space this takes up. MSIPTV uses multicast only for the small PIP preview feed, when you select a channel it is a (hold on to your hat) unicast stream from one of those servers over your DSL link to your set top box. AT&T must also feel they are reaching critical mass with their rollout of ADSL2, which can give up to 24Mbps to a home close to the DSLAM (which is ending up in those curbside pedestals now, being fed by fiber from the Central Office - baby stepping that last mile problem). That gives them the bandwidth to offer compressed HDTV streams to the three set top boxes, with a smidge of room left over for internet and VoIP. Oh yeah, if you want more bandwidth for your torrent downloads to avoid Video-on-Demand fees, turn off your television!
Products from Ixia and Spirent and Agilent for that matter can fill up a 10Gb Ethernet connection. Keep in mind this is stateless traffic, there are no ACKs to SYNs or anything like that, but you can definitely saturate the pipes with fairly realistic traffic.
Most of those vendors also offer some sort of portable unit and one-way latency tests. One-way latency is hard, to measure latency you need a transmit time and a receive time so you need the same timing reference at two locations. The vendors accomplish this with NTP or CDMA or GPS time sync. So you can use this gear show your customer the bandwidth of the connection and latency in both directions.
Being an ISP it would not be a bad investment to get a low end tester from one of these companies. They can be used for many other purposes. You can use them to do network simulations against potential designs to debug them before they go into production. Want to know how that next version of the router handles the internet BGP feed with flapping and traffic running through the box? These products will tell you just that.
There could be a few security implications also, namely being able to mount the other OS volume and edit/delete files. Or put "del $USERPROFILE/*.*" into C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\happy.cmd
You think a Billion to look for earth smashing asteroids is cheap? Wait until you see the bill for the gizmo to destroy them!
And we better pay it now! If we wait, China will build it first, then just tell the rest of the world, "Hey, We know about this asteroid that's gonna hit Earth, send your economy and all your citizens dressed as slaves and..."
Your only adequate defense system would be to not send any traffic. That's like trying to have a conversation with someone with a third party present and come up with a defense so they cannot hear it. Speak spanish you say? Sorry, the internet only has one language, IP. And typically, unless you wrote the client and the server, you are probably using a well known standard protocol. That means I can look at traffic for an application I have never seen and still be able to glean a fair amount of info.
I suppose the only real defense is to send a ton of bogus traffic along with your real traffic. Even then, given a while to sit down with a trace and good filters, the devil in the details will be found.
From looking at a trace, they are using standard http GET requests, but there is a cookie mechanism that would have to be mimicked for this to be used for an Add-On. For example a mouse over an item in the character window:
The data coming back was gzipped so I didn't get to see what it looked like, but the mime type was text/xml. If it was consistent or well formatted, it would be possible to write your own client to this data.
I think Blizzard is just getting lazy. They don't want to design, develop, and QC a whole system to let players Inspect more than just items on other players. So they make an interface the back end database, make this Armoury front end as an example of that interface, the Add-On developers will go wild and everyone wins. Brilliant.:)
Luxury! We would have killed for a roll of paper tape! We had to shave hamsters to represent zero bits then shove them down a tube ! And that was after getting up two hours before we went to bed. Ever tried to shave a hamster with -2 hours of sleep?
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They probably got into the atmosphere, rolled down the window to see if it was warm or cold, then realized nitrogen melts their skin. Of course, it's nearly impossible to pilot an egg shaped craft while weary from a 24 trillion light year trip with your skin melting, so they crashed.
That doesn't seem all that strange to me either.
> Hey Joe! - WTF module did you just add? The simulation is slowing to a crawl.
Joe: HMMMM... I did the China checkin last night. The simulation code for the Chinese firewall is a hack, I'll fix it up tonight.
I sure hope it comes complete with options to unleash a tidal wave, hurricane, rioters, and UFOs, just to you know, see what happens.
Correctly configured? That may work fine for a bunch of accountants, HR directors, marketing droids, and sales people, but if you have software development engineers you are only making things harder for you. These people live and produce by their tools, locking their tool box down with only a company-issued screwdriver and hammer inside will quickly lead to low productivity, unhappy engineers, and Dilbert cartoons posted outside cubicle walls.
You should also consider, as your post clearly implies, that perhaps corporate doesn't get Apple.
Mexico is part of it to, there it's called Enchelada.
>> a lake disappeared into a hole in the ground:
> Isn't that where all of them are?
No. There are holes in donuts, holes in the ozone, holes in theories, holes in IE, and three holes in my underwear.
> I really seems that none of the politicians or bureaucrats in the U.S. government have the slightest clue.
Fixed that for ya.
Just dismantle the damn internet, that's where they're going with all this.
Tie the tubes!
Pshaw! I click links then yank the fiber out of the switch and stick it in my eye!
AT&T does have such a switch, but it is made by Alcatel. This whole deal is AT&T/BellSouth, MS, and Alcatel. That is what made Cisco buy Arroyo and Scientific Atlanta, they got cut out of a big piece of the IPTV pie, at least here in the US.
BTW the feature is multicast snooping and it works at L2. The switch listens for the channel join/leave packets and switches the multicast stream on/off to that port. This is a little different than at L3 (multicast routing) where the whole segment (and every port on every switch on that segment) will receive the multicast stream.
I had a chance to work on some of this (it's called project Lightspeed) for Alcatel.
You know you have completed the switch when you start using command instead of control.
Nice joke, but there is more going on here. You are getting video feeds over your fancy new xDSL connection, exactly how many feeds you can get at once (think different rooms) is a huge deal for the service provider. For cable it's different. You have all channels on the wire at the same time, you just need to tune each box into the right frequency/channel. With IPTV, you are not getting 500 multicast streams pushed down your connection at all times, you actually have to subscribe to the channel you want to watch. Can 5 people in your house all connect to your wireless AP and get decent performance from YouTube or other online video sites? Can they get consistent, reliable performance from it? I would doubt it, but that is what faces IPTV.
Notice they mention instant channel changes. These are all problems to overcome with IPTV that cable doesn't have to deal with, and they are setting up their defense for the cable company's media blitz on why you don't want TV from AT&T (american telephone and television?). When you click a button on your remote to change channels in an IPTV system, a ton more things have to happen to before you see fluid video. Think of it as the difference between tuning a station on your FM dial versus clicking a link in iTunes to change radio stations. If the system isn't right and can't switch off the old channel fast enough, it still streams in and clogs your pipe. Add about 5 of those and you have no decent bandwidth for the next channel, not to mention your internet access or your new VOIP phone.
The big deal here is two-fold. AT&T finally has the back end server mess for all this ready. They are using Microsoft IPTV, you would not believe how many servers and disk space this takes up. MSIPTV uses multicast only for the small PIP preview feed, when you select a channel it is a (hold on to your hat) unicast stream from one of those servers over your DSL link to your set top box. AT&T must also feel they are reaching critical mass with their rollout of ADSL2, which can give up to 24Mbps to a home close to the DSLAM (which is ending up in those curbside pedestals now, being fed by fiber from the Central Office - baby stepping that last mile problem). That gives them the bandwidth to offer compressed HDTV streams to the three set top boxes, with a smidge of room left over for internet and VoIP. Oh yeah, if you want more bandwidth for your torrent downloads to avoid Video-on-Demand fees, turn off your television!
Is that a new 10 megabit Ethernet technology???
Products from Ixia and Spirent and Agilent for that matter can fill up a 10Gb Ethernet connection. Keep in mind this is stateless traffic, there are no ACKs to SYNs or anything like that, but you can definitely saturate the pipes with fairly realistic traffic.
Most of those vendors also offer some sort of portable unit and one-way latency tests. One-way latency is hard, to measure latency you need a transmit time and a receive time so you need the same timing reference at two locations. The vendors accomplish this with NTP or CDMA or GPS time sync. So you can use this gear show your customer the bandwidth of the connection and latency in both directions.
Being an ISP it would not be a bad investment to get a low end tester from one of these companies. They can be used for many other purposes. You can use them to do network simulations against potential designs to debug them before they go into production. Want to know how that next version of the router handles the internet BGP feed with flapping and traffic running through the box? These products will tell you just that.
There could be a few security implications also, namely being able to mount the other OS volume and edit/delete files. Or put "del $USERPROFILE/*.*" into C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\happy.cmd
I could go on all day!
What, you want a salary or perk that can be represented in 16 bits??!!?
You think a Billion to look for earth smashing asteroids is cheap? Wait until you see the bill for the gizmo to destroy them!
And we better pay it now! If we wait, China will build it first, then just tell the rest of the world, "Hey, We know about this asteroid that's gonna hit Earth, send your economy and all your citizens dressed as slaves and..."
Your only adequate defense system would be to not send any traffic. That's like trying to have a conversation with someone with a third party present and come up with a defense so they cannot hear it. Speak spanish you say? Sorry, the internet only has one language, IP. And typically, unless you wrote the client and the server, you are probably using a well known standard protocol. That means I can look at traffic for an application I have never seen and still be able to glean a fair amount of info.
I suppose the only real defense is to send a ton of bogus traffic along with your real traffic. Even then, given a while to sit down with a trace and good filters, the devil in the details will be found.
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I am totally psyched!
From looking at a trace, they are using standard http GET requests, but there is a cookie mechanism that would have to be mimicked for this to be used for an Add-On. For example a mouse over an item in the character window:
/item-tooltip.xml?i=27794&r=Malorne&n=g-san&lang= HTTP/1.1
:)
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The data coming back was gzipped so I didn't get to see what it looked like, but the mime type was text/xml. If it was consistent or well formatted, it would be possible to write your own client to this data.
I think Blizzard is just getting lazy. They don't want to design, develop, and QC a whole system to let players Inspect more than just items on other players. So they make an interface the back end database, make this Armoury front end as an example of that interface, the Add-On developers will go wild and everyone wins. Brilliant.
You mean like Zudeo?
I thought it was between the user and the keyboard?
This is really getting monotonous...
Yay Bob.
So, anyone over 70 around here able to tell us what you all sang at birthday parties before 1935?
Luxury! We would have killed for a roll of paper tape! We had to shave hamsters to represent zero bits then shove them down a tube ! And that was after getting up two hours before we went to bed. Ever tried to shave a hamster with -2 hours of sleep?