Sounds like a good place to start up a mesh network with a back haul through long range WIFI to a Florida ISP. Use a VLAN and make the first page each day one that reads "Welcome to the USA."
Am I the only one that gets corrupt TrueCrypt volumes on my USB drive because the drive will fail to dismount when I right click in TrueCrypt and select dismount? Usually this is caused by the AV engine stuck with a lock on a file. I quit using TrueCrypt for my entire 160GB USB drive due to this, and now just use it on static content.
So he gets re-married and the wife has her own kids.. Nothing says Cleveland's voice has to stay the same. Meg's voice is not what it was in the first season.
The area around my house was extremely wrong on all the mapping sites. There were many roads that never actually came to exist due to changes in construction plans. Many roads that showed they met, but did not in reality.
I contacted Google to get their fixed & they provided me with contact information for their source data. I contacted them. Explained that the Google Hybrid view showed aerial pictures and those were accurate. Now the mapping is perfect on most mapping software packages.
The Openstreetmap site has it better than Google previously had it, but it's still way off from reality.
Per various sources, Flash is on 98% of PC's connected to the Internet. So when I start to refresh my web apps on my companies site (about 8 years old now) what should I use? AJAX type code which may or may not work 6 years from now and I might have to update as vulnerabilities become know? My apps from 6 years ago have some AJAX type coding in them, but had to be backwards compatible with IE 4 and NS 3.0 so it's nothing like AJAX of today. Still, I've spent considerabile time updating libraries with security updates.
Or should I program in Flash, where most of the vulnerabilities lie within the users browser & it's their job to update it? As long as I sanitize the SQL server side, I'm ok. There have only been a few cases of changes in Flash requiring me to change my site. Such as in a 7.x change where previously drop down html menus would float over flash content, then after the change, the drop down menus appeared behind the flash content.
The arguments I here on/. really makes me think I am surrounded by pirates here.
Downloading a music file in itself isn't pirating. I have hundreds of MP3's on one my websites that you can download. We own the copyright to the MP3's. You and I are doing file sharing. I let you freely copy the files, without payment, and I retain the IP rights.
It's not the file sharing that is the illegal aspect (at least not by US law, ymmv) it is the IP infringement violation that is illegal. You are stealing incoming - not the file, if you will.
I pay for two XM Radio subscriptions. They in turn send funds to the RIAA. This is similar to the flat rate model. But the RIAA really doesn't like this. And I can't select which songs to listen too. The RIAA went after one device that had DRM but let you save songs as MP3s to the device - not exportable. RIAA doesn't like this model.
Personally, I think the RIAA and the companies they represent are in their end of days. Why can't bands just release the music direct to the public now? Who needs a distributor, just plop it on iTunes & your website. The middle men were getting, what?, 90% of the profits? So the bands don't need nearly as much $ as we've been paying to the middle men -- to sustain themselves.
Theres some real nice indie music out there too. You can find some of their content for free - even videos in some cases. I find myself listening to odd channels on XM. That leads me to some nice indie bands. I've bought stuff directly from their websites. Seems to me this is better for all of us. If enough of us did this, the RIAA would die.
There must be something special about the check 21 aspect of this. We have been scanning and indexing checks in an imaging system and mentioned in the patents, since 1991. We've used ASCII and EBCDIC, Optical Jukeboxes, etc as described by the patent. Some of the checks use overlays so we can save disk space by storing the ASCII text separate from the check image. All of this since 1991.
So what is so special about the Check 21 (check truncation) that warrants a patent?
I'm not sure I understand why my car needs to have a power plant in it. Why can't it just have a large capacitor or bank of batteries, which I can swap out at the filling station? Obviously I am not going to wait for charging at filling time, but why not just swap out the uncharged capacity for charged capacity much as we change out propane tanks?
Then the power can be generated on the grid. If that is nuclear, coal, hydro, solar, or wind power - it can be whatever makes sense for the region. What ever is used, the filling station grabs the electricity from the grid and charges up batteries or capacitors. I swap mine out for a charged one and pay for the service.
Seems to me that this is something we could do now. Seems to me this way we could adopt newer, cleaner sources of power much quicker than waiting the life span of the auto.
I really don't think the price is the issue. I have been tinkering with computers since the Commodore 64 days. I have OpenSUSE, Mandriva, Ubuntu, OSX, OS400, and Windows experience, along with many others in the past. By experience, I mean I rely upon these OS's to do work at a mid sized company.
We would gladly give up Windows to run *nix on our 600 desktops. It's just not feasible. It would cost more to run *nix than to run Windows. The lowest common denominator is that we have software which will not run on *nix, nor Wine. We've tried. So we have to run Windows TS server or Citrix to enable the use of these applications. You add up the cost of the servers & licenses, and we are actually paying more than running Windows on the desktop.
The same thing is true at home. My dad has various distro's he has tried. He keeps going back to Windows. He has software which just won't run under *nix. All it takes is one package, and *nix is not a replacement option.
There have been many wonderful technologies pop up in the past 10 years which would have made *nix feasible by resolving this issue. WinFrame had a lot of potential until Microsoft's licensing changed making it costly. Java had hope, but never lived up to the cross platform development potential it had. I still can't run many of my Java programs on my Mac. Why is that? Many other client server and web served platforms. Microsoft killed them all.
Back in the Commodore days, I could go to Target and look at software for the C64, for the Apple, for the Atari, and for the IBM PC or clone. Now it's 100% for Windows. When software is sold in stores (games, office apps, etc) I think we will see more of a demand for *nix on the desktop.
>> My comment centers around the fact that companies can share information and create standards and still make a substantial amount of money and not have to confuse the general consumer.
This is often considered collusion and is highly illegal. I know in my industry, if our companies were to do this, we would end up in jail. Now, if a 3rd party develops the standards we're able to apply them. But we can't collude.
Several of my relatives live out in BFE. The only signal they get in places is Analog, or first generation digital. They have ancient phones which they've never upgraded, or newer (not new) phones with support for both.
If you look on several of the carriers maps which show full state coverage, then look at what they mean by that, much of the rural coverage is 1st generation only.
If I'm readying this information correctly, I'm going to have some unhappy relatives. I'm on quad band GSM only, so it doesn't affect my end of the call.
My Macbook PRO 10.5.x (now on 10.5.2) locks up a lot more often than my XP machine does. XP almost never locks up.
But my Mac works correctly when it's not locked up. My XP machine often has problems. CD lower filter driver conflicts, explorer locking up because I close Acronis True image interface, Explorer extremely slow when I right click on a folder with WinZip explorer extensions turned on....
The Mac locks up on stupid stuff - like listening to a CD/watching a DVD or using Video Chat with friends on the other side of the world. Most of the problems seem to be with Front Row, for me.
If I was a pirate (I am not, and have the invoices to prove it.) then;
#1) I will not P2P from my own connection, but from that of a Internet Cafe (shut them down too?) or a so called friends home. #2) I will do this from open WIFI networks, such as my neighbors. They will get shut down, not me. #3) I will put TOR, Apache with Proxy module, Wingate, or some other program onto many computers so the P2P traffic is coming from their computers, even though I'm at home.
What will be next? Microsoft will include an antipirate service in Vista? Then the law will be made so that only Vista is a legal OS for home use?
Come on folks, get a clue - vote these suckers out. Makes me not want to visit the UK.
I have a dual T1 connection with Verizon. 3Mb/s. I can fill this up to 100% utilization 100% of the time, and they don't care. I'm also paying $1300/mo for this. This includes BGP with disparate paths to two different major cities, and a fiber ring out to the RBOC. This has incoming traffic on it and rarely has downtime due to the BGP. (less than one time per year.)
I also have 100Mb/s connection with a local city entity. I pay $800/mo for this. The 100Mb/s is shared with other people on this fiber loop. They monitor it for abuse. I can not use 100% of this link 100% of the time. Outbound web surfing and such has multiple routes out, with this as the primary path out. We average about 1.5Mb/s on this pipe. But having the bursting abilities is very nice.
I understand the business model of over subscribing - it brings costs down. You have an option of buying a T1 for ~$300/mo and not having these issues. If I'm a heavy downloader, I of course want my cake and eat it too. I want the large quantity of bandwidth at a low cost. But that makes you the bad apple ruining the bunch. Comcast is doing something. I suggest they prioritize the traffic over rate limit it or send a reset packet. Saying they should offer unlimited bandwidth 100% of the time with no limits at all for such a low price seems unreasonable to me.
I have public water running to my home. I can use reasonable amounts and be fine. Most people think it is unlimited. But abuse it and see how fast the utility comes out and shuts off your water. Especially in places like LA.
What I don't understand is why everyone is so big on rate limiting, versus priority queuing?
If Comcast has 100Mb/s of bandwidth for 500 subscribers (just making up numbers) Their 100Mb/s pipe is not 100% full 100% of the time. Prioritize my P2P traffic to be low priority. That way, if Joe Blow is trying to pull up his sports scores on ESPN, and the pipe is full, then my P2P is put on low priority to burst his ESPN page through. If it's 3AM and it's just a bunch of P2P freaks downloading over an otherwise unused pipe, let us have it.
TCP/IP has an issue with slow start. If the pipe truly is 100% utilized, it will take some time for the QoS to down shift my P2P to allow the ESPN page through. So I can understand a hard limit that 100% of all P2P/Movies/Downloads shall take no more than 75% of the available bandwidth.
Anyway, I run a company Firewall & that is what we do. Works very well as long as you have the proper ratio of bandwidth to users.
I'm sort of in a simular boat -- I do a bit of everything. Programming PC's, Midrange systems, hardware, software, systems integration, routers, firewalls. Some areas require a lot of understanding, such as the firewall. Other's I'm just so-so on.
I agree with others - either you have the graphic eye, or you don't. I'm decent. I have previously sold works & have had some art published, so I do some of our web design too.
Time is short, so graphic tools are a must. I use things such as Xara (http://www.xara.com/) to quickly build nice looking graphics for pages. Javascript.internet.com has a large amount of scripts which I find valuable. You can search various sights such as Flickr.com for Creative Commons works - many which you can freely alter and use on your site.
I also outsource a lot of work. We use Guru.com. There are many developers from all over the world. I can often get web design, graphics work, and Flash done for next to nothing this way. I typically do the simple & fun things and outsource the rest.
Other great tools that are free -- paint.net, Notepad++, NVU, FileZilla.
I am typing this from my Macbook Pro in Firefox 2.0. My work computer runs XP, and in VMWare I have OpenSUSE, Mandriva, Trustix, Ubuntu, and FreeBSD.
I can never see Linux as taking over the Windows world. But I do see new markets where it could prevail. ASUS Eee PC is the perfect example. A very cheap laptop. Walmart has *nix on very cheap computers.
For the person who doesn't have a computer that simply wants Internet access, *nix is perfect. OpenSUSE is my favorite contender for this market space. YAST is the thing that most distro's need, but lack. A single interface for all options - something GUI that makes all configuration changes easy.
The low end market is an excellent fit for *nix, imo. Especially as Vista requirements have climbed so high.
My 600 office PC's will never run *nix because most of the software I run to drive my business do not run on *nix. I could go TS or Citrix, but the costs are higher - not lower - to do that.
I want games. So I dualboot into XP on my Mac. If *nix could open up a very nice "console" type graphical suite with good DRM, perhaps it could make a good gaming console? But without DRM, that won't happen. Give then open nature of *nix, DRM is unlikely.
The article is saying the IBM system is capable of running the entire Internet as an application - that it has that much power. Not that this is what they are going to do or could possible do with the hardware. Just using it as a comparison metric.
Perhaps they could give proof of concept by hosting the Internet Archive && resolve the issues we currently have where dynamic content isn't always caught & delivered right?
>>Since then I always bring a passport, and I definitely don't go across the boarder as often as I used to since that experience.
One of these days I'm going to be crossing it, and will not come back. I'm looking at Iceland, Norway, New Zealand, and Australia. There are things about each I don't like, such as Iceland forcing everyone to submit DNA samples to a database.
We're either making steps forward, or steps backward. I'm hopeful things will get better with new leadership.
So in this situation they'd have to bock DNS to any server but their own -- easy -- and block requests coming to their server to resolve a specific tLD. Easy.
So why does the tLD have to stay the same? Spammers register millions of domain names to bypass RBL/DNSbl blocking. All we'd have to do is setup the DNS searches so that they hit enough different domain names that it makes it unfeasible for an ISP to block them all. It's pretty easy to setup BIND to have multiple zones hit the same zone file. Slave these to a lot of other servers on various IP blocks, set the NS records to change & point to a few of these slaves at a time... Even if you're limited to your ISP's DNS server, they'd be hard pressed to locate & block all the tLD's.
If it is "PirateBay" that is to be blocked, what stops them from hosting another server which kinda has the same content, but is not PirateBay? I'm not familiar with PirateBay -- I'm scared to even visit the page (thanks Bush) - but from TFA, that's what they are doing.
Of course, TOR/VPN/Anonymous Proxy is easier way to bypass this.
>>Are you not an ISP? No, I am not an ISP. I have 3 Internet connections & utilize BGP with my IPv4 space.
If I'm going to setup IPv6, I'm setting it up with proper addressing. Meaning address space that I can use internally & when IPv6 becomes more viable on the Internet, I can continue to use the same addressing without NAT. Correct me if I am wrong, but it was my understanding that IPv6 was to allow me to use routable addresses on all my devices since there is soooo much space. That I did not use NAT or private space with IPv6. I don't need IPv6, but I could set it up & begin to get it going on my network - steps towards getting to IPv6 on my Internet side too.
>>To qualify for an initial allocation of IPv6 address space, your organization must meet the following requirements:
# be an LIR / ISP;
I am not a LIR/ISP. I am an end user.
# plan to provide IPv6 connectivity to organizations to which it will assign IPv6 address space, by advertising that connectivity through its single aggregated address allocation;
nope
# be an existing, known ISP in the ARIN region or have a plan for making at least 200/48 assignments to other organizations within five years
nope
So am I reading this document wrong? Is it superceded, and ARIN's just failed to mention that on the document? If I am wrong and I can get IPv6 space, then I welcome the information correcting me.
Bingo. We have two links to Verizon, one to AT&T, and an ATM 100Mb/s to a local ISP which BGP's to three ISPs. We are not an ISP. We're an end user.
We do have BGP. So how do we go about getting routable IPv6 space? We can't. If I'm going to IPv6, I'm putting routable addresses on every device. That's one of the *features* of IPv6. No NAT translation needed. I'm not going to assign a private IPv6 structure now, only to re-do this later. Even if we can't currently route this out over the Internet without translation, I'm not going to design it wrong from the beginning. Once it place, this type of infrastructure is typically hell to change.
So if they want us to start implementing IPv6, they have to allow us to get address space first.
There is talk on the Wine page about adding support of DirectX 10 *soon* and that it might be an option to run Wine in Windows XP to provide DirectX 10 support.
I wonder if they are overly optimistic, or if they have truely looked into DX10 and think they can pull it off?
I'm ready to begin to add IPv6 to my network. 99% of my machines can support IPV6. There is no RFC1918 private space needed with IPv6 since there is so much space. I went to allocate space, but found out that I can't;
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Sounds like a good place to start up a mesh network with a back haul through long range WIFI to a Florida ISP. Use a VLAN and make the first page each day one that reads "Welcome to the USA."
Am I the only one that gets corrupt TrueCrypt volumes on my USB drive because the drive will fail to dismount when I right click in TrueCrypt and select dismount? Usually this is caused by the AV engine stuck with a lock on a file. I quit using TrueCrypt for my entire 160GB USB drive due to this, and now just use it on static content.
So he gets re-married and the wife has her own kids.. Nothing says Cleveland's voice has to stay the same. Meg's voice is not what it was in the first season.
The area around my house was extremely wrong on all the mapping sites. There were many roads that never actually came to exist due to changes in construction plans. Many roads that showed they met, but did not in reality.
I contacted Google to get their fixed & they provided me with contact information for their source data. I contacted them. Explained that the Google Hybrid view showed aerial pictures and those were accurate. Now the mapping is perfect on most mapping software packages.
The Openstreetmap site has it better than Google previously had it, but it's still way off from reality.
Per various sources, Flash is on 98% of PC's connected to the Internet. So when I start to refresh my web apps on my companies site (about 8 years old now) what should I use? AJAX type code which may or may not work 6 years from now and I might have to update as vulnerabilities become know? My apps from 6 years ago have some AJAX type coding in them, but had to be backwards compatible with IE 4 and NS 3.0 so it's nothing like AJAX of today. Still, I've spent considerabile time updating libraries with security updates.
Or should I program in Flash, where most of the vulnerabilities lie within the users browser & it's their job to update it? As long as I sanitize the SQL server side, I'm ok. There have only been a few cases of changes in Flash requiring me to change my site. Such as in a 7.x change where previously drop down html menus would float over flash content, then after the change, the drop down menus appeared behind the flash content.
Anyway, I am a big fan of Flash. After all, the Internet was made for..... (If you don't know, Google does http://www.google.com/search?q=the+internet+was+made+for )
The arguments I here on /. really makes me think I am surrounded by pirates here.
Downloading a music file in itself isn't pirating. I have hundreds of MP3's on one my websites that you can download. We own the copyright to the MP3's. You and I are doing file sharing. I let you freely copy the files, without payment, and I retain the IP rights.
It's not the file sharing that is the illegal aspect (at least not by US law, ymmv) it is the IP infringement violation that is illegal. You are stealing incoming - not the file, if you will.
I pay for two XM Radio subscriptions. They in turn send funds to the RIAA. This is similar to the flat rate model. But the RIAA really doesn't like this. And I can't select which songs to listen too. The RIAA went after one device that had DRM but let you save songs as MP3s to the device - not exportable. RIAA doesn't like this model.
Personally, I think the RIAA and the companies they represent are in their end of days. Why can't bands just release the music direct to the public now? Who needs a distributor, just plop it on iTunes & your website. The middle men were getting, what?, 90% of the profits? So the bands don't need nearly as much $ as we've been paying to the middle men -- to sustain themselves.
Theres some real nice indie music out there too. You can find some of their content for free - even videos in some cases. I find myself listening to odd channels on XM. That leads me to some nice indie bands. I've bought stuff directly from their websites. Seems to me this is better for all of us. If enough of us did this, the RIAA would die.
There must be something special about the check 21 aspect of this. We have been scanning and indexing checks in an imaging system and mentioned in the patents, since 1991. We've used ASCII and EBCDIC, Optical Jukeboxes, etc as described by the patent. Some of the checks use overlays so we can save disk space by storing the ASCII text separate from the check image. All of this since 1991.
So what is so special about the Check 21 (check truncation) that warrants a patent?
I'm not sure I understand why my car needs to have a power plant in it. Why can't it just have a large capacitor or bank of batteries, which I can swap out at the filling station? Obviously I am not going to wait for charging at filling time, but why not just swap out the uncharged capacity for charged capacity much as we change out propane tanks?
Then the power can be generated on the grid. If that is nuclear, coal, hydro, solar, or wind power - it can be whatever makes sense for the region. What ever is used, the filling station grabs the electricity from the grid and charges up batteries or capacitors. I swap mine out for a charged one and pay for the service.
Seems to me that this is something we could do now. Seems to me this way we could adopt newer, cleaner sources of power much quicker than waiting the life span of the auto.
I really don't think the price is the issue. I have been tinkering with computers since the Commodore 64 days. I have OpenSUSE, Mandriva, Ubuntu, OSX, OS400, and Windows experience, along with many others in the past. By experience, I mean I rely upon these OS's to do work at a mid sized company.
We would gladly give up Windows to run *nix on our 600 desktops. It's just not feasible. It would cost more to run *nix than to run Windows. The lowest common denominator is that we have software which will not run on *nix, nor Wine. We've tried. So we have to run Windows TS server or Citrix to enable the use of these applications. You add up the cost of the servers & licenses, and we are actually paying more than running Windows on the desktop.
The same thing is true at home. My dad has various distro's he has tried. He keeps going back to Windows. He has software which just won't run under *nix. All it takes is one package, and *nix is not a replacement option.
There have been many wonderful technologies pop up in the past 10 years which would have made *nix feasible by resolving this issue. WinFrame had a lot of potential until Microsoft's licensing changed making it costly. Java had hope, but never lived up to the cross platform development potential it had. I still can't run many of my Java programs on my Mac. Why is that? Many other client server and web served platforms. Microsoft killed them all.
Back in the Commodore days, I could go to Target and look at software for the C64, for the Apple, for the Atari, and for the IBM PC or clone. Now it's 100% for Windows. When software is sold in stores (games, office apps, etc) I think we will see more of a demand for *nix on the desktop.
>> My comment centers around the fact that companies can share information and create standards and still make a substantial amount of money and not have to confuse the general consumer.
This is often considered collusion and is highly illegal. I know in my industry, if our companies were to do this, we would end up in jail. Now, if a 3rd party develops the standards we're able to apply them. But we can't collude.
Several of my relatives live out in BFE. The only signal they get in places is Analog, or first generation digital. They have ancient phones which they've never upgraded, or newer (not new) phones with support for both.
If you look on several of the carriers maps which show full state coverage, then look at what they mean by that, much of the rural coverage is 1st generation only.
If I'm readying this information correctly, I'm going to have some unhappy relatives. I'm on quad band GSM only, so it doesn't affect my end of the call.
Perhaps some XML document? Something like a googlesitemap.xml perhaps? Or PICS ratings?
A Mac is a personal computer.
My Macbook PRO 10.5.x (now on 10.5.2) locks up a lot more often than my XP machine does. XP almost never locks up.
But my Mac works correctly when it's not locked up. My XP machine often has problems. CD lower filter driver conflicts, explorer locking up because I close Acronis True image interface, Explorer extremely slow when I right click on a folder with WinZip explorer extensions turned on....
The Mac locks up on stupid stuff - like listening to a CD/watching a DVD or using Video Chat with friends on the other side of the world. Most of the problems seem to be with Front Row, for me.
The law of unintended consequences;
If I was a pirate (I am not, and have the invoices to prove it.) then;
#1) I will not P2P from my own connection, but from that of a Internet Cafe (shut them down too?) or a so called friends home.
#2) I will do this from open WIFI networks, such as my neighbors. They will get shut down, not me.
#3) I will put TOR, Apache with Proxy module, Wingate, or some other program onto many computers so the P2P traffic is coming from their computers, even though I'm at home.
What will be next? Microsoft will include an antipirate service in Vista? Then the law will be made so that only Vista is a legal OS for home use?
Come on folks, get a clue - vote these suckers out. Makes me not want to visit the UK.
I have a dual T1 connection with Verizon. 3Mb/s. I can fill this up to 100% utilization 100% of the time, and they don't care. I'm also paying $1300/mo for this. This includes BGP with disparate paths to two different major cities, and a fiber ring out to the RBOC. This has incoming traffic on it and rarely has downtime due to the BGP. (less than one time per year.)
I also have 100Mb/s connection with a local city entity. I pay $800/mo for this. The 100Mb/s is shared with other people on this fiber loop. They monitor it for abuse. I can not use 100% of this link 100% of the time. Outbound web surfing and such has multiple routes out, with this as the primary path out. We average about 1.5Mb/s on this pipe. But having the bursting abilities is very nice.
I understand the business model of over subscribing - it brings costs down. You have an option of buying a T1 for ~$300/mo and not having these issues. If I'm a heavy downloader, I of course want my cake and eat it too. I want the large quantity of bandwidth at a low cost. But that makes you the bad apple ruining the bunch. Comcast is doing something. I suggest they prioritize the traffic over rate limit it or send a reset packet. Saying they should offer unlimited bandwidth 100% of the time with no limits at all for such a low price seems unreasonable to me.
I have public water running to my home. I can use reasonable amounts and be fine. Most people think it is unlimited. But abuse it and see how fast the utility comes out and shuts off your water. Especially in places like LA.
What I don't understand is why everyone is so big on rate limiting, versus priority queuing?
If Comcast has 100Mb/s of bandwidth for 500 subscribers (just making up numbers) Their 100Mb/s pipe is not 100% full 100% of the time. Prioritize my P2P traffic to be low priority. That way, if Joe Blow is trying to pull up his sports scores on ESPN, and the pipe is full, then my P2P is put on low priority to burst his ESPN page through. If it's 3AM and it's just a bunch of P2P freaks downloading over an otherwise unused pipe, let us have it.
TCP/IP has an issue with slow start. If the pipe truly is 100% utilized, it will take some time for the QoS to down shift my P2P to allow the ESPN page through. So I can understand a hard limit that 100% of all P2P/Movies/Downloads shall take no more than 75% of the available bandwidth.
Anyway, I run a company Firewall & that is what we do. Works very well as long as you have the proper ratio of bandwidth to users.
I'm sort of in a simular boat -- I do a bit of everything. Programming PC's, Midrange systems, hardware, software, systems integration, routers, firewalls. Some areas require a lot of understanding, such as the firewall. Other's I'm just so-so on.
I agree with others - either you have the graphic eye, or you don't. I'm decent. I have previously sold works & have had some art published, so I do some of our web design too.
Time is short, so graphic tools are a must. I use things such as Xara (http://www.xara.com/) to quickly build nice looking graphics for pages. Javascript.internet.com has a large amount of scripts which I find valuable. You can search various sights such as Flickr.com for Creative Commons works - many which you can freely alter and use on your site.
I also outsource a lot of work. We use Guru.com. There are many developers from all over the world. I can often get web design, graphics work, and Flash done for next to nothing this way. I typically do the simple & fun things and outsource the rest.
Other great tools that are free -- paint.net, Notepad++, NVU, FileZilla.
I am typing this from my Macbook Pro in Firefox 2.0. My work computer runs XP, and in VMWare I have OpenSUSE, Mandriva, Trustix, Ubuntu, and FreeBSD.
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I can never see Linux as taking over the Windows world. But I do see new markets where it could prevail. ASUS Eee PC is the perfect example. A very cheap laptop. Walmart has *nix on very cheap computers.
For the person who doesn't have a computer that simply wants Internet access, *nix is perfect. OpenSUSE is my favorite contender for this market space. YAST is the thing that most distro's need, but lack. A single interface for all options - something GUI that makes all configuration changes easy.
The low end market is an excellent fit for *nix, imo. Especially as Vista requirements have climbed so high.
My 600 office PC's will never run *nix because most of the software I run to drive my business do not run on *nix. I could go TS or Citrix, but the costs are higher - not lower - to do that.
I want games. So I dualboot into XP on my Mac. If *nix could open up a very nice "console" type graphical suite with good DRM, perhaps it could make a good gaming console? But without DRM, that won't happen. Give then open nature of *nix, DRM is unlikely.
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The article is saying the IBM system is capable of running the entire Internet as an application - that it has that much power. Not that this is what they are going to do or could possible do with the hardware. Just using it as a comparison metric.
Perhaps they could give proof of concept by hosting the Internet Archive && resolve the issues we currently have where dynamic content isn't always caught & delivered right?
>>Since then I always bring a passport, and I definitely don't go across the boarder as often as I used to since that experience.
One of these days I'm going to be crossing it, and will not come back. I'm looking at Iceland, Norway, New Zealand, and Australia. There are things about each I don't like, such as Iceland forcing everyone to submit DNA samples to a database.
We're either making steps forward, or steps backward. I'm hopeful things will get better with new leadership.
So in this situation they'd have to bock DNS to any server but their own -- easy -- and block requests coming to their server to resolve a specific tLD. Easy.
So why does the tLD have to stay the same? Spammers register millions of domain names to bypass RBL/DNSbl blocking. All we'd have to do is setup the DNS searches so that they hit enough different domain names that it makes it unfeasible for an ISP to block them all. It's pretty easy to setup BIND to have multiple zones hit the same zone file. Slave these to a lot of other servers on various IP blocks, set the NS records to change & point to a few of these slaves at a time... Even if you're limited to your ISP's DNS server, they'd be hard pressed to locate & block all the tLD's.
If it is "PirateBay" that is to be blocked, what stops them from hosting another server which kinda has the same content, but is not PirateBay? I'm not familiar with PirateBay -- I'm scared to even visit the page (thanks Bush) - but from TFA, that's what they are doing.
Of course, TOR/VPN/Anonymous Proxy is easier way to bypass this.
>>Are you not an ISP?
/48 assignments to other organizations within five years
No, I am not an ISP. I have 3 Internet connections & utilize BGP with my IPv4 space.
If I'm going to setup IPv6, I'm setting it up with proper addressing. Meaning address space that I can use internally & when IPv6 becomes more viable on the Internet, I can continue to use the same addressing without NAT. Correct me if I am wrong, but it was my understanding that IPv6 was to allow me to use routable addresses on all my devices since there is soooo much space. That I did not use NAT or private space with IPv6. I don't need IPv6, but I could set it up & begin to get it going on my network - steps towards getting to IPv6 on my Internet side too.
Here is the document I've read;
http://www.arin.net/registration/guidelines/ipv6_initial_alloc.html
>>To qualify for an initial allocation of IPv6 address space, your organization must meet the following requirements:
# be an LIR / ISP;
I am not a LIR/ISP. I am an end user.
# plan to provide IPv6 connectivity to organizations to which it will assign IPv6 address space, by advertising that connectivity through its single aggregated address allocation;
nope
# be an existing, known ISP in the ARIN region or have a plan for making at least 200
nope
So am I reading this document wrong? Is it superceded, and ARIN's just failed to mention that on the document? If I am wrong and I can get IPv6 space, then I welcome the information correcting me.
Bingo. We have two links to Verizon, one to AT&T, and an ATM 100Mb/s to a local ISP which BGP's to three ISPs. We are not an ISP. We're an end user.
We do have BGP. So how do we go about getting routable IPv6 space? We can't. If I'm going to IPv6, I'm putting routable addresses on every device. That's one of the *features* of IPv6. No NAT translation needed. I'm not going to assign a private IPv6 structure now, only to re-do this later. Even if we can't currently route this out over the Internet without translation, I'm not going to design it wrong from the beginning. Once it place, this type of infrastructure is typically hell to change.
So if they want us to start implementing IPv6, they have to allow us to get address space first.
There is talk on the Wine page about adding support of DirectX 10 *soon* and that it might be an option to run Wine in Windows XP to provide DirectX 10 support.
I wonder if they are overly optimistic, or if they have truely looked into DX10 and think they can pull it off?
I'm ready to begin to add IPv6 to my network. 99% of my machines can support IPV6. There is no RFC1918 private space needed with IPv6 since there is so much space. I went to allocate space, but found out that I can't;
http://www.arin.net/registration/guidelines/ipv6_initial_alloc.html