I'm glad the FBI puts so much effort into stopping people from uncapping their cable modems, instead of ohh, say preventing aircraft from flying into buildings.
Folks, I know most of you are Linux fanatics, but if a programmer with 23 years of programming experience can't manage to upgrade a simple application in under 30 minutes, Linux will never make it to the masses.
Ok, I was getting ready to flame you for this... but after reading all the other replies, I thought not. I think the biggest problem people have, either on the Windows or Linux side, is living in a paradigm. Like it or not, you're most likely living in a Windows paradigm. You like the way it works, it's "easy" for you, you program in it. You promote and spread the Windows paradigm. The Linux Paradigm doesn't fit you all to well... I'm probably the opposite. Yea, I've been using Windows for years, and I'm used to it, but I honestly think I fit better into the Linux paradigm. (Read: if I were adminning a Linux server, trust it better than if I were adminning a Windows server.) I *know* I should hone my skills in Windows administration, but without really good (free, available) documentation... it's not possible unless I spend all kinds of money. Only thing I can hope for is to pick up tips from people I know are Windows Admin gurus. I think this whole debate is a matter of realizing where you stand. The people who see clearly in both paradigms will be the ones ultimately winning.
and nature of this article, I have to whole-heartedly agree with it. Yea, I know the whole intellectual property and fair use thing is out of proportion, and the RIAA and MPAA are crazy, and most EULAs and other licenses are unfair. But, not only is it a legal issue but it *is* a bandwidth issue as well. I work for an ISP... and da poop really hits the fan when the colleges go back to school. It's when the virus outbreaks, DDOS's, p2p, congestion, hacking and all the crazy stuff start back up. Just sounds to me like this university just wanted to cut down on the headaches. Legal, bandwidth, or otherwise. What happened to crazy college parties with naked chicks and beer? What does everyone do now? Download divx's from morpheus and watch em in their dorms?
Doing FTP, or any other TCP-based transfers, WILL NOT show the true bandwidth of a given connection. T1s usually use WFQ (weighted fair queueing) as the packet queueing method, which will not let a single TCP session saturate the bandwidth. If you have to rely on this method, the way to do it is start several FTP connections, and watch the bandwidth utilization either through viewing "show interface" on your router, or through graphing via MRT
Actually, you can also set the interface for "no fair-queue" which will change the queueing strategy from weighted fair to fifo. The smaller guys are probably more apt to tell you this and set it how you want, as well.
The end user will never see this full 1.544 M. This is the rate at the receiver, which included Framing overhead. The actual end user can only see a 1.536
True... check out my math... 64x24 is actually 1536, not 1544;oD
24 channels of 64 kbits apiece. We sell T1s to customers, and if one of them wanted a util to test their bandwidth (the full 1.544 mbit) they could download a file from an ftp right at our pop. Or, have them ping flood you... use something like mrtg to graph the results, etc.
To make a long story short... I am getting a Dell laptop to replace my workstation where I work. It comes with Win XP Pro preinstalled. Seeing as I have Slackware 8.1 on my workstation right now... I'm left wondering... should I format the dell, or just dual boot linux, and never use windows. Here's the burning question... which would be better? (Wiping the MS OS and never using it, or keeping it installed, no noone else can use it, and never use it.)...
Seeing as it's already been paid for... probably a moot point. Should show this link to the folks who make the decisions where I work...
Moby seems to forget one very important piece of information... Pearl Jam, has for years allowed their fans to bring recording devices into concerts, have often released foreign import albums in this country and have gone out of their way to be an enlightened band. I have all of PJ's albums, some of which I've purchased two or three times. Moby, on the other hand, suffers from little-bald-guy-on-stage-with-a-guitar, "record in my bathroom" laptop-sample-using-techno-rock. To be more accurate, he should have called it the "Moby Effect". If you want to hear any good electronic music, listen to someone like Nine Inch Nails.
My $.02 which is more than I have spent on Moby albums in the last few years...
Yea, so I barrow my neighbors car for 6 months, and pay him $250 a month while driving to my business, I find I keep running out of gas, because after all, my neighbor not only has a nice new car, but controls all the gas in the area (for miles). I can't seem to get to my business and make any money because my neighbor, when not out of gas, supplies me with gas that is no good and says "Sorry, that's all I've got." This meets my neighbors needs because he didn't want to share his car in the first place, he didn't want me to be able to afford the $250 it costs to even rent the car from him... thus successfully squelching all his competition like he has in the past. And when they throw me in the poor house, he parks it right next to his other 5,000 cars just like it. Then maybe you have a reasonable analogy. (Sorry folks, bad experiences with Verizon.);P
I was thinking about this the other day... a googol is a 1 followed by 100 zeros, or 10^100. So I wondered what power of 2 I would need to exactly express a googol in binary... and came up with 2^332.19285... but then I thought, why does the popular search engine spell it google instead of googol? What would a binary googol be called? A giggle? Then I thought, wow I am spending waay too much time on this, who cares? If I said google, people would know what I'm talking about.
Well, the local ISP I work for also had customers calling up complaining about slow speeds, many of them on DSL. Alot of our DSL equipment wasn't effected, but overall internet traffic was hell for at least a few days. We informed customers we were doing some rerouting, to avoid it the best we could, and we definitely did not do anything lame like block off port 80. The customers we did find (if any) agreed to patch their IIS webservers, and even those who didn't know what was going on, I explained to them how Code Red works. I think alot of our customers were patient and appreciated anything we could do for them. None of them even mentioned the idea of refunds, but I'm sure that might come up at least once or twice.
As a consumer, I can say... if you're not happy with the quality of a service, definitely don't pay for it. I mean, quit it all together. Ok, let's say my cable modem went down for 3 days... for any reason. Can I deal with that? Sure, I would be aweful damn happy when it was over with. But what's worse? Being down for 3 days, or getting so pissed off and disconnecting the service alltogether? If you were down for 3 months, an unreasonable amount of time, I would say sure, a rebate would be in line. But I think after a month or so, you would have cancelled the service and gone with someone else. It's the nature of business and places like Qwest know this, so they do what they can to get people back up and running as soon as possible. And besides, nothing's perfect and we're all human.
I did what I could for our customers. I informed them about Code Red. And hopefully when they left work that day and went to the bar, they told all their friends about the Code Red story and how to patch your server, etc. And hopefully alot of people listened and cooperated to get this thing under control.
If the sentance was thrown out and appealed because Judge Jackson showed impariality and bias, couldn't the opposite be said? If a new judge is to determine MS's final ruling, wouldn't they be biased if they themselves, or any part of the court used Windows? Wouldn't it show that they are part of their customer base, and perhaps more likely to give a lesser sentance? Doesn't the opposite of what actually happened, actually apply here? So if the new judge/court handling the case uses Windows regularly, the actual product in question, would that fall under biasedness or partiality?
Well, I can start off by saying I watched AntiTrust last night. Wonder if there's a partnership in the making sometime soon with Phoenix and umm "Nurv".
Seriously, does this exciting new "feature" work with all the newer versions of Windows too? Like ME, 2000 and XP? Or just 98? (Can't imagine buying a new machine with 98 on it anymore.)
5 Steps to buying a computer:
1) Go to computer store.
2) Buy computer.
3) bring home.
4) Format Hard drive.
5) Install Linux.
10 years ago, when I went to high school (high school, let alone middle school), I attended a small town school, which was very poor budgetwise, and we did not have alot of computer resources. We didn't even get real computers, or labs (286s and some 386s) until about my junior year.
I was extremely interested in computers (possibly moreso than anyone else in the school), and so was a good friend of mine, and we did all kinds of crazy, goofy, oddball things. Some of the model 25's that were placed on a table back to back, we would switch the keyboards and watch people try and figure out in vain what the heck was going on. My friend created a war dialer to find local bbs's and used it in the library. We were just goofing around and having fun. I found out that when you hit control-x at a certain point in the schools network software, you were dropped to a dos prompt, and could navigate anywhere you wanted to, even the administrators home directories and whatnot.
We had a new vice principle once, who tried to write me up, for skipping a class. Here I was, a young geek, who never got in trouble but got picked on daily relentlessly because he was such a geek. This woman continued to berate me and try and beat me down like I was some sort of street punk strung out on heroin or something. After her tirad was done, I quietly explained that I did not skip a class (there was a mixup about my last name because I liked to be called by my step fathers last name... what it basically boiled down to, was one name was supposed to be in study hall that period, the other name was scheduled for computer lab.), and I explained that both names on the schedule were the same person (me). I think she felt extremely dumb and never bothered me again.
Our school didn't even really have computer science teachers. We had a math teacher and a technology teacher.
But that math teacher, Mr Fred Roberts, was perhaps one of the most influential and positive forces in mine and my friends life. He was a great guy, understood where we were coming from, and I'm sure that if anything like that happened to us, he would have been there to at least speak on our behalf and vouch for us.
One last point I would want to make... Pearl Jam's Jeremy video. It came out in '91 and not too long after, it was banned from MTV. The song and the video delt with something in which this is closely related to. The society in some schools today is terrible. Many kids are treated with intolerance, or indifference, because perhaps they aren't understood. What's happened to all the positive forces in these kids lives? I'm not saying we should encourage "hacking" or any other type of malicious intent, but aren't these schools administrators, teachers, and workers professionals? Aren't they supposed to be pros in areas like child psychology? Or are they just extremely scared of what they don't understand?
What made this poor kid go over the edge?
The company I work for manufactures hybrid fiber coax hardware for broadband network infrastructures. We layed off about 120 people not too long ago. Not only that, the rumors that flew before the layoff, well some were blown way out of proportion before it actually happened. All in all, it's going to happen, perhaps not on as big of a scale as some think.
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I'm glad the FBI puts so much effort into stopping people from uncapping their cable modems, instead of ohh, say preventing aircraft from flying into buildings.
Isn't this sort of like the family who's teenage daughter gets pregnant and they don't want anyone to know because "what will the neighbors say?!?!"?
I might just reboot into linux when I get home and try my gf3 out with this ... looks pretty nifty. Episode 14, here I come...
Yea, right.
... I won't *buy* it at Wal-mart, Best Buy...
Folks, I know most of you are Linux fanatics, but if a programmer with 23 years of programming experience can't manage to upgrade a simple application in under 30 minutes, Linux will never make it to the masses.
Ok, I was getting ready to flame you for this... but after reading all the other replies, I thought not. I think the biggest problem people have, either on the Windows or Linux side, is living in a paradigm. Like it or not, you're most likely living in a Windows paradigm. You like the way it works, it's "easy" for you, you program in it. You promote and spread the Windows paradigm. The Linux Paradigm doesn't fit you all to well... I'm probably the opposite. Yea, I've been using Windows for years, and I'm used to it, but I honestly think I fit better into the Linux paradigm. (Read: if I were adminning a Linux server, trust it better than if I were adminning a Windows server.) I *know* I should hone my skills in Windows administration, but without really good (free, available) documentation... it's not possible unless I spend all kinds of money. Only thing I can hope for is to pick up tips from people I know are Windows Admin gurus. I think this whole debate is a matter of realizing where you stand. The people who see clearly in both paradigms will be the ones ultimately winning.
... congress will debate wether or not to implement the Bush administration's new plan to attack Taiwan...
...Enyego Montoya. I purchased my character. Prepare to die.
and nature of this article, I have to whole-heartedly agree with it. Yea, I know the whole intellectual property and fair use thing is out of proportion, and the RIAA and MPAA are crazy, and most EULAs and other licenses are unfair. But, not only is it a legal issue but it *is* a bandwidth issue as well. I work for an ISP... and da poop really hits the fan when the colleges go back to school. It's when the virus outbreaks, DDOS's, p2p, congestion, hacking and all the crazy stuff start back up. Just sounds to me like this university just wanted to cut down on the headaches. Legal, bandwidth, or otherwise. What happened to crazy college parties with naked chicks and beer? What does everyone do now? Download divx's from morpheus and watch em in their dorms?
Doing FTP, or any other TCP-based transfers, WILL NOT show the true bandwidth of a given connection. T1s usually use WFQ (weighted fair queueing) as the packet queueing method, which will not let a single TCP session saturate the bandwidth. If you have to rely on this method, the way to do it is start several FTP connections, and watch the bandwidth utilization either through viewing "show interface" on your router, or through graphing via MRT
Actually, you can also set the interface for "no fair-queue" which will change the queueing strategy from weighted fair to fifo. The smaller guys are probably more apt to tell you this and set it how you want, as well.
The end user will never see this full 1.544 M. This is the rate at the receiver, which included Framing overhead. The actual end user can only see a 1.536
;oD
True... check out my math... 64x24 is actually 1536, not 1544
24 channels of 64 kbits apiece. We sell T1s to customers, and if one of them wanted a util to test their bandwidth (the full 1.544 mbit) they could download a file from an ftp right at our pop. Or, have them ping flood you... use something like mrtg to graph the results, etc.
To make a long story short... I am getting a Dell laptop to replace my workstation where I work. It comes with Win XP Pro preinstalled. Seeing as I have Slackware 8.1 on my workstation right now... I'm left wondering... should I format the dell, or just dual boot linux, and never use windows. Here's the burning question... which would be better? (Wiping the MS OS and never using it, or keeping it installed, no noone else can use it, and never use it.) ...
Seeing as it's already been paid for... probably a moot point. Should show this link to the folks who make the decisions where I work...
Am I the only person who realized the "Segway Human Transport" spells out SHT? Who wants to ride a SHT?
... hmm ...
Combined with the idea it was called "It"
It seemed neat, but expensive.
Moby seems to forget one very important piece of information... Pearl Jam, has for years allowed their fans to bring recording devices into concerts, have often released foreign import albums in this country and have gone out of their way to be an enlightened band. I have all of PJ's albums, some of which I've purchased two or three times. Moby, on the other hand, suffers from little-bald-guy-on-stage-with-a-guitar, "record in my bathroom" laptop-sample-using-techno-rock. To be more accurate, he should have called it the "Moby Effect". If you want to hear any good electronic music, listen to someone like Nine Inch Nails.
My $.02 which is more than I have spent on Moby albums in the last few years...
Yea, so I barrow my neighbors car for 6 months, and pay him $250 a month while driving to my business, I find I keep running out of gas, because after all, my neighbor not only has a nice new car, but controls all the gas in the area (for miles). I can't seem to get to my business and make any money because my neighbor, when not out of gas, supplies me with gas that is no good and says "Sorry, that's all I've got." This meets my neighbors needs because he didn't want to share his car in the first place, he didn't want me to be able to afford the $250 it costs to even rent the car from him... thus successfully squelching all his competition like he has in the past. And when they throw me in the poor house, he parks it right next to his other 5,000 cars just like it. Then maybe you have a reasonable analogy. (Sorry folks, bad experiences with Verizon.) ;P
I was thinking about this the other day... a googol is a 1 followed by 100 zeros, or 10^100. So I wondered what power of 2 I would need to exactly express a googol in binary... and came up with 2^332.19285 ... but then I thought, why does the popular search engine spell it google instead of googol? What would a binary googol be called? A giggle? Then I thought, wow I am spending waay too much time on this, who cares? If I said google, people would know what I'm talking about.
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... glad to be a RR user...
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Well, the local ISP I work for also had customers calling up complaining about slow speeds, many of them on DSL. Alot of our DSL equipment wasn't effected, but overall internet traffic was hell for at least a few days. We informed customers we were doing some rerouting, to avoid it the best we could, and we definitely did not do anything lame like block off port 80. The customers we did find (if any) agreed to patch their IIS webservers, and even those who didn't know what was going on, I explained to them how Code Red works. I think alot of our customers were patient and appreciated anything we could do for them. None of them even mentioned the idea of refunds, but I'm sure that might come up at least once or twice.
As a consumer, I can say... if you're not happy with the quality of a service, definitely don't pay for it. I mean, quit it all together. Ok, let's say my cable modem went down for 3 days... for any reason. Can I deal with that? Sure, I would be aweful damn happy when it was over with. But what's worse? Being down for 3 days, or getting so pissed off and disconnecting the service alltogether? If you were down for 3 months, an unreasonable amount of time, I would say sure, a rebate would be in line. But I think after a month or so, you would have cancelled the service and gone with someone else. It's the nature of business and places like Qwest know this, so they do what they can to get people back up and running as soon as possible. And besides, nothing's perfect and we're all human.
I did what I could for our customers. I informed them about Code Red. And hopefully when they left work that day and went to the bar, they told all their friends about the Code Red story and how to patch your server, etc. And hopefully alot of people listened and cooperated to get this thing under control.
... and I will be using this cluster for my distributed.net client...
If the sentance was thrown out and appealed because Judge Jackson showed impariality and bias, couldn't the opposite be said? If a new judge is to determine MS's final ruling, wouldn't they be biased if they themselves, or any part of the court used Windows? Wouldn't it show that they are part of their customer base, and perhaps more likely to give a lesser sentance? Doesn't the opposite of what actually happened, actually apply here? So if the new judge/court handling the case uses Windows regularly, the actual product in question, would that fall under biasedness or partiality?
Oh, and almost forgot... someone please open source my bios...
Well, I can start off by saying I watched AntiTrust last night. Wonder if there's a partnership in the making sometime soon with Phoenix and umm "Nurv".
Seriously, does this exciting new "feature" work with all the newer versions of Windows too? Like ME, 2000 and XP? Or just 98? (Can't imagine buying a new machine with 98 on it anymore.)
5 Steps to buying a computer:
1) Go to computer store.
2) Buy computer.
3) bring home.
4) Format Hard drive.
5) Install Linux.
10 years ago, when I went to high school (high school, let alone middle school), I attended a small town school, which was very poor budgetwise, and we did not have alot of computer resources. We didn't even get real computers, or labs (286s and some 386s) until about my junior year. I was extremely interested in computers (possibly moreso than anyone else in the school), and so was a good friend of mine, and we did all kinds of crazy, goofy, oddball things. Some of the model 25's that were placed on a table back to back, we would switch the keyboards and watch people try and figure out in vain what the heck was going on. My friend created a war dialer to find local bbs's and used it in the library. We were just goofing around and having fun. I found out that when you hit control-x at a certain point in the schools network software, you were dropped to a dos prompt, and could navigate anywhere you wanted to, even the administrators home directories and whatnot. We had a new vice principle once, who tried to write me up, for skipping a class. Here I was, a young geek, who never got in trouble but got picked on daily relentlessly because he was such a geek. This woman continued to berate me and try and beat me down like I was some sort of street punk strung out on heroin or something. After her tirad was done, I quietly explained that I did not skip a class (there was a mixup about my last name because I liked to be called by my step fathers last name... what it basically boiled down to, was one name was supposed to be in study hall that period, the other name was scheduled for computer lab.), and I explained that both names on the schedule were the same person (me). I think she felt extremely dumb and never bothered me again. Our school didn't even really have computer science teachers. We had a math teacher and a technology teacher. But that math teacher, Mr Fred Roberts, was perhaps one of the most influential and positive forces in mine and my friends life. He was a great guy, understood where we were coming from, and I'm sure that if anything like that happened to us, he would have been there to at least speak on our behalf and vouch for us. One last point I would want to make... Pearl Jam's Jeremy video. It came out in '91 and not too long after, it was banned from MTV. The song and the video delt with something in which this is closely related to. The society in some schools today is terrible. Many kids are treated with intolerance, or indifference, because perhaps they aren't understood. What's happened to all the positive forces in these kids lives? I'm not saying we should encourage "hacking" or any other type of malicious intent, but aren't these schools administrators, teachers, and workers professionals? Aren't they supposed to be pros in areas like child psychology? Or are they just extremely scared of what they don't understand? What made this poor kid go over the edge?
The company I work for manufactures hybrid fiber coax hardware for broadband network infrastructures. We layed off about 120 people not too long ago. Not only that, the rumors that flew before the layoff, well some were blown way out of proportion before it actually happened. All in all, it's going to happen, perhaps not on as big of a scale as some think.