My wife works for a Community Centre as a Mental Health worker, one of her co-workers announced in January she is intending on quitting when she can get her private practice up
I upgraded to SP2 about 5 months after it came out which was way more than a year. I also used the Levellord hack to increase the TCP Connections. To be honest, RC1 did it yesterday but it isn't as bad as v2 was. Those versions it was almost every 10 minutes if I was hitting a lot of websites.
Solution: Close the tab which causes everything else to stall or up the number of connections to e.g. 6 in about:config. That never fixed it. The only solution was to close Firefox and reopen or change all of the existing tabs to IE and wait a short while and then you may be able to go back to using Firefox as the engine.
Right now I have it set network.http.max_connections set to 64 and it still occurs.
When I first started looking into this which was pre v2, it had been filed by someone but poo-pooed. The person who submitted today also responded to my thread saying he had filed it. I was just following up to my question if it was still there. I will say that 3 beta 5 was a lot better than v2 and it looks like it happens less with RC1.
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Well it hasn't been dealt with yet. Here are the steps I took to get it to happen: Open a new Tab Go to www.ebay.com Do a search and go into about a half dozen auctions, navigating back and going into the next one Sooner or later it will slow right down and any other tabs will start experiencing the same thing
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For the last year, I have consistently seen on the Windows version an annoying bug. If one tab takes forever to load, any other tab will not load a new page either. I find Ebay is one of the worst to bring it out. If you switch to using IE in a tab, that tab will show about:blank.
I can understand some websites may make a Firefox tab crap out but it shouldn't affect the rest.
I need to put a plug in for my other favourite forum; Aron's http://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/ if you want to build any of the classic and some new guitar effects. There is a wealth of infomation and some really helpful people.
The wife and I decided to go to DC last July and had a great time. We only rented a car one day and it was to go to the Dulles arm of the Air and Space and a outlet mall. The entire time we were there we relied on the Subway and taxis. All of the Smithsonian museums are free to get in. The only one I know of that costs is the Spy museum which is privately run if I recollect.
You can't really compare the JSF to the F-22 based on when they were designed. Their roles are quite different e.g multi-functional vs air-superiority. The requirements for the JSF are definitely different as an example you will never see a carrier-based F-22.
Except, now that you've unplugged them from their network, they presumably can no longer do their job effectively either. I mean, they are provided network access because they, presumably, have some legitimate business need to communicate with others
That would be something that they would need to explain to their bosses of why they no longer have a network connection. Chances are it wouldn't be permanent, just long enough to make sure the person's superior is made well aware of it and why he was disconnected. You make someone responsible for something, you also have to make them accountable and there should be some kind of punishment.
The other thing it brings up is not only the fact that the person installed unauthorized software on their machine, but this brings up the point of how effective was the person doing their job before if they had the time to dick around with installing said software. Granted some people do put in more hours and take little surfing/smoking breaks during the day. When you get down to it, as long as the work gets done isn't that the point? True, however ponder this, just providing a workstation to someone with the apps does not a good environment make. You need to ensure to do proper risk analysis and decide where you are willing to sit with risk, what do you transfer (i.e. colocating services) and what do you mitigate. You have to assume that network security is not Joe User's forte thus he probably doesn't have that as his topmost priority (otherwise why is he just a user?) so the ramifications of what he does may impact the rest of the users will not naturally be forefront in his mind. You want to take that risk that your job may be forfeit?
In the real world what your suggestion would be the ideal although potentially more work to keep on top of.
Where I work (military) a virus will get your machine disconnected from the network to get a full disk scan and report of what caused said infraction (I had it a couple of weeks ago when I went to a website that kicked the AV to do a false positive), that is standard procedure. This SOP would probably be considered extreme in the private sector but for us it is part and parcel of the job.
I think it would work, user can do whatever they want... as long as the IT Admin can audit and dole out punishments like the angry fist of god. What's that? you installed utorrent and are sucking up all our intertubes bandwidth? Well I guess we will be unplugging you from the network since you can't act like a grownup and do your job.
I'm not as bad, but I would be thrilled with 1M. The best I have seen on my 10M is about 350k and that was for the last Big Bang Theory. I don't download software or movies only tv shows since my Scientific Digital 8300HD PVR from Rogers is shit. The chance that it won't tape something increases with the desire for you to see it. Pretty much anything I want now I download as I can't trust it to tape. I have returned my last one thinking it was something with it, but the new one does the exact same thing.
We used to get bugged the most by Direct Energy. The last time they called I told them that since they don't seem to respect my wishes, why would I want to do business with them. It's been a while.
Normally I say "Take me off your call list". This usually works. However there is one that I still get which is an automated call and if you don't say you are interested, it will hang up. Next time, I may hit 1 as I am interested... in getting off their call list.
Personally, I have no problem with #2. The problem I have is that they are still throttling bandwidth. I have no issue in paying a little more if I get the data I want as fast as I can get it.
At any rate, to finally get back on topic, just randomizing ports and encrypting connections won't do much. As long as you still open two dozen connections, you can still be throttled just as well. The only way to be really stealthy there is if you make it all go to a centralized server, tunneled over a single connection. But then, well, that would miss all the points of why you use P2P in the first place.
I heard that what Rogers did to address this was basically limit bandwidth for all VPN or unidentifiable traffic.
The other thing is that Bell gives lowest priority to any of the clients of the resellers. I worked for a law firm a while back and our internet conection was provided through a reseller. The DSL modem started getting flakey and it took 3 days and a call to Bell (who said they weren't supposed to be talking to us) and a threat of a lawsuit (these were lawyers) before they came in and replaced the modem which the tech said they were aware of having the problem we were experiencing.
I may end up just sucking it up and upgrade to the 10M and 95G cap which would be within my normal downloading. Yeah call me Roger's biatch.
Teksavvy can and does. They have two options of 200G cap or for $10 more Unlimited. I heard about them last week on here and started investigating.
Right now, I am mulling at going with them but according to the tech I would only get between 1 and 2M while now I am at 5.5M. However over the weekend random tests would show I was getting about 1.5M but this morning it peaked to 4.5M. However I gather you would be using Bell infrastructure which is why I may wait to see what the fallout of this article is before I give Rogers the finger.
I mentioned this in another thread but Rogers has figured out how to deal with the big downloaders; drop the cap level that you are allowed to download and start charging for anything over the cap. I wonder how long it will take before people move. Mind you, I think everyone else is doing the same thing (except Teksavvy)
So once you go 12Gb-ish over your limit, they stop charging extra? Make it work for you and download 13Gb more porn per month. Yeah but that's like... paying for porn. Who in their right mind does that?
XBox Live is about to take a kick in the teeth in Canada. Rogers has announced that they will start capping their bandwidth this June. If you go over it will cost you $2/gig (up to $25) extra per month. Until now we have been fortunate. Not sure if Microsoft has taken something like this change into account especially with higher quality videos creating larger data costs for the end user. At this point if no Blu-Ray player is coming, I go out and buy a separate Blu-Ray player (or PS3) and rent movies than risk going over my limit. I already pay Rogers enough.
That was one of the things I didn't like about it. Pretty much every white person I saw was pretty much shown in a bad light (except the priest) but that could be how you might feel as a muslim in a post-911 world.
Another show that shows the other side but does a good job is Big Love (which I do love) shows the opposite that not all polygamists are kooky commune dwelling old men preying on young girls. That show I downloaded through bittorrent as we don't get HBO. It had been recommended by an American I know. CTV I think is now showing it here but I have already finished the first 2 seasons.
Yeah our politicians aren't exactly impeccable either. Haven't been to Cuba either even though technically I could. Funds don't allow it as we are saving up for a downpayment plus the debrief before and after by work would be annoying.
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My wife works for a Community Centre as a Mental Health worker, one of her co-workers announced in January she is intending on quitting when she can get her private practice up
I upgraded to SP2 about 5 months after it came out which was way more than a year. I also used the Levellord hack to increase the TCP Connections.
To be honest, RC1 did it yesterday but it isn't as bad as v2 was. Those versions it was almost every 10 minutes if I was hitting a lot of websites.
Solution: Close the tab which causes everything else to stall or up the number of connections to e.g. 6 in about:config.
That never fixed it. The only solution was to close Firefox and reopen or change all of the existing tabs to IE and wait a short while and then you may be able to go back to using Firefox as the engine.
Right now I have it set network.http.max_connections set to 64 and it still occurs.
When I first started looking into this which was pre v2, it had been filed by someone but poo-pooed. The person who submitted today also responded to my thread saying he had filed it. I was just following up to my question if it was still there. I will say that 3 beta 5 was a lot better than v2 and it looks like it happens less with RC1.
Well it hasn't been dealt with yet. Here are the steps I took to get it to happen:
Open a new Tab
Go to www.ebay.com
Do a search and go into about a half dozen auctions, navigating back and going into the next one
Sooner or later it will slow right down and any other tabs will start experiencing the same thing
For the last year, I have consistently seen on the Windows version an annoying bug. If one tab takes forever to load, any other tab will not load a new page either. I find Ebay is one of the worst to bring it out. If you switch to using IE in a tab, that tab will show about:blank.
I can understand some websites may make a Firefox tab crap out but it shouldn't affect the rest.
If it's Heroes, it's not worth watching anyway.
:)
Fixed that for you
/ Sorry I know that TV viewing is subjective but I couldn't resist
I need to put a plug in for my other favourite forum; Aron's http://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/ if you want to build any of the classic and some new guitar effects. There is a wealth of infomation and some really helpful people.
The wife and I decided to go to DC last July and had a great time. We only rented a car one day and it was to go to the Dulles arm of the Air and Space and a outlet mall. The entire time we were there we relied on the Subway and taxis. All of the Smithsonian museums are free to get in. The only one I know of that costs is the Spy museum which is privately run if I recollect.
You can't really compare the JSF to the F-22 based on when they were designed. Their roles are quite different e.g multi-functional vs air-superiority. The requirements for the JSF are definitely different as an example you will never see a carrier-based F-22.
That is like comparing the F-16 to the F-18.
I don't remember where we wer as I was about 14 around that time but I saw one flying low across a desert in the distance and was in awe.
You are incorrect sir! You can't scare Godzilla, he just did a tactical retreat.
Except, now that you've unplugged them from their network, they presumably can no longer do their job effectively either. I mean, they are provided network access because they, presumably, have some legitimate business need to communicate with others
That would be something that they would need to explain to their bosses of why they no longer have a network connection. Chances are it wouldn't be permanent, just long enough to make sure the person's superior is made well aware of it and why he was disconnected. You make someone responsible for something, you also have to make them accountable and there should be some kind of punishment.
The other thing it brings up is not only the fact that the person installed unauthorized software on their machine, but this brings up the point of how effective was the person doing their job before if they had the time to dick around with installing said software. Granted some people do put in more hours and take little surfing/smoking breaks during the day. When you get down to it, as long as the work gets done isn't that the point? True, however ponder this, just providing a workstation to someone with the apps does not a good environment make. You need to ensure to do proper risk analysis and decide where you are willing to sit with risk, what do you transfer (i.e. colocating services) and what do you mitigate. You have to assume that network security is not Joe User's forte thus he probably doesn't have that as his topmost priority (otherwise why is he just a user?) so the ramifications of what he does may impact the rest of the users will not naturally be forefront in his mind. You want to take that risk that your job may be forfeit?
In the real world what your suggestion would be the ideal although potentially more work to keep on top of.
Where I work (military) a virus will get your machine disconnected from the network to get a full disk scan and report of what caused said infraction (I had it a couple of weeks ago when I went to a website that kicked the AV to do a false positive), that is standard procedure. This SOP would probably be considered extreme in the private sector but for us it is part and parcel of the job.
I still get a tab "hanging" on loading and any subsequent attempt at opening any link in another window hangs as well.
Sigh...
I think it would work, user can do whatever they want... as long as the IT Admin can audit and dole out punishments like the angry fist of god. What's that? you installed utorrent and are sucking up all our intertubes bandwidth? Well I guess we will be unplugging you from the network since you can't act like a grownup and do your job.
Works for me.
I'm not as bad, but I would be thrilled with 1M. The best I have seen on my 10M is about 350k and that was for the last Big Bang Theory. I don't download software or movies only tv shows since my Scientific Digital 8300HD PVR from Rogers is shit. The chance that it won't tape something increases with the desire for you to see it. Pretty much anything I want now I download as I can't trust it to tape. I have returned my last one thinking it was something with it, but the new one does the exact same thing.
We used to get bugged the most by Direct Energy. The last time they called I told them that since they don't seem to respect my wishes, why would I want to do business with them. It's been a while.
Normally I say "Take me off your call list". This usually works. However there is one that I still get which is an automated call and if you don't say you are interested, it will hang up. Next time, I may hit 1 as I am interested... in getting off their call list.
Personally, I have no problem with #2. The problem I have is that they are still throttling bandwidth. I have no issue in paying a little more if I get the data I want as fast as I can get it.
At any rate, to finally get back on topic, just randomizing ports and encrypting connections won't do much. As long as you still open two dozen connections, you can still be throttled just as well. The only way to be really stealthy there is if you make it all go to a centralized server, tunneled over a single connection. But then, well, that would miss all the points of why you use P2P in the first place.
I heard that what Rogers did to address this was basically limit bandwidth for all VPN or unidentifiable traffic.
The other thing is that Bell gives lowest priority to any of the clients of the resellers. I worked for a law firm a while back and our internet conection was provided through a reseller. The DSL modem started getting flakey and it took 3 days and a call to Bell (who said they weren't supposed to be talking to us) and a threat of a lawsuit (these were lawyers) before they came in and replaced the modem which the tech said they were aware of having the problem we were experiencing.
I may end up just sucking it up and upgrade to the 10M and 95G cap which would be within my normal downloading. Yeah call me Roger's biatch.
Teksavvy can and does. They have two options of 200G cap or for $10 more Unlimited. I heard about them last week on here and started investigating.
Right now, I am mulling at going with them but according to the tech I would only get
between 1 and 2M while now I am at 5.5M. However over the weekend random tests would show I was getting about 1.5M but this morning it peaked to 4.5M. However I gather you would be using Bell infrastructure which is why I may wait to see what the fallout of this article is before I give Rogers the finger.
I mentioned this in another thread but Rogers has figured out how to deal with the big downloaders; drop the cap level that you are allowed to download and start charging for anything over the cap. I wonder how long it will take before people move. Mind you, I think everyone else is doing the same thing (except Teksavvy)
So once you go 12Gb-ish over your limit, they stop charging extra? Make it work for you and download 13Gb more porn per month.
Yeah but that's like... paying for porn. Who in their right mind does that?
XBox Live is about to take a kick in the teeth in Canada. Rogers has announced that they will start capping their bandwidth this June. If you go over it will cost you $2/gig (up to $25) extra per month. Until now we have been fortunate. Not sure if Microsoft has taken something like this change into account especially with higher quality videos creating larger data costs for the end user. At this point if no Blu-Ray player is coming, I go out and buy a separate Blu-Ray player (or PS3) and rent movies than risk going over my limit. I already pay Rogers enough.
That was one of the things I didn't like about it. Pretty much every white person I saw was pretty much shown in a bad light (except the priest) but that could be how you might feel as a muslim in a post-911 world.
Another show that shows the other side but does a good job is Big Love (which I do love) shows the opposite that not all polygamists are kooky commune dwelling old men preying on young girls. That show I downloaded through bittorrent as we don't get HBO. It had been recommended by an American I know. CTV I think is now showing it here but I have already finished the first 2 seasons.
Yeah our politicians aren't exactly impeccable either. Haven't been to Cuba either even though technically I could. Funds don't allow it as we are saving up for a downpayment plus the debrief before and after by work would be annoying.