In high school, I had a physics teacher who, way back when he first started teaching, ordered x picograms of radioactive material for his class. The school secretary thought he misspelled the order and changed it to grams.
He said later on the principal called him over the intercom and sounded really upset. He went to the office, only to find the principal steaming mad over a $50,000.00-plus invoice. He looked at the invoice and, realizing what it was, went and got his giger counter...only to find it going crazy even out in the hall from the principal's office.
As it turned out, they had shipped a large order of radioactive material in a cardboard box!
They had to evacuate the office and call someone to come and get it.
Possibly unrelated, because that had happened many years prior, but he died of cancer.
Netflix works for those who use it now. But what happens when everybody wants to use it?
Almost all ISPs oversell their bandwidth by a good ratio, which means that they do not think that everyone will be using the bandwidth at the same time.
When everybody is watching streaming movies, the crap is going to come to a screeching halt.
A while back I worked for a WISP. A WISP almost has to over sell its bandwidth, because bandwidth limitations of the access points make it almost impossible to give every customer exactly what they are paying for if every single customer were to be using it at the same time.
I was so worried about the oversell ratio and streaming movies, that it is one of the reasons I don't work there any more.
Without the Internet, just 10 - 15 years ago...you probably wouldn't have heard about any of this unless you happened to be involved in it.
Maybe some trade publications would have covered it, but there were few newspapers that would have.
It's been going on for a while, it is just that the last few years, Slashdot made it front page news for geeks everywhere.
The Internet was a game changing, disruptive technology. Maybe things will change a *little* simply because there are people getting fed up with it. Whereas, in the past, it was just business as usual.
I know after watching what happened to SCO, I would have to have some kind of freaking air tight case to sue a company involved in Linux.
Chicago could rake in at a mere $200 million a year, and wipe out the entire projected deficit for 2009, by using its vast network of redlight and surveillance cameras to hunt down uninsured motorists, aldermen were told today.
Not content to rake in 200 million a year, the city of Chicago will partner with the RIAA and MPAA to tie its massive surveillance system in with the log system of all ISPs, so that it can cross reference all travelers to their downloads, and violators can be swiftly picked up as soon as they venture outside their homes.
The city hopes this partnership will bring in half a billion dollars.
In other news, new legislative items introduced in Chicago include a new bonus system for its lawmakers and a proposal to convert all ISPs to state ownership...with the latter item being criticized because of rumors that the state will appoint former RIAA/MPAA executives to manage the ISPs.
Basically, it works similar to OpenDNS's porn filtering...but it has one huge advantage in that it does not require a static IP address to work (OpenDNS requires either a static IP address or DynDNS to work).
You can just change the DNS settings in your router or computer and it just works. Takes all of five minutes to set up.
Minus side is that it won't block chat...but starting at 2.00 a month, its a very easy way to filter your entire network.
A much greater distance from the DSLAM would be much more needed than the improved speeds. Many people in rural areas can't get anything and would be happy with 5 Mb down if they could just get it.
Some of the important features and capabilities of Win4VDI for Linux include:
* Re-hosting of Windows XP/2000 desktop sessions on Linux servers
* Centralized management and provisioning of users
* "Renewable" windows - just restart any corrupted session and the original master copy of Windows combines with your individual "Documents and Settings"
* Automatic local printing from the server to the local attached printer.
* Consistent user access to personal desktop environment from home, office and other network connected locations.
* Support for multiple remote display choices - Win4Lin client, NoMachine, LTSP, VNC, and X, for example
* Increased security and reliability by running on Linux servers
* Create end-to-end Linux environment with Windows as a guest rather than control point.
* Lock down Windows read, write and other operations with Linux permissions â" an administrator's dream!
* Provide standard application environments to users regardless of desktop hardware and operating system - Windows, UNIX, or Linux on the client, but standard application profile served from Linux server.
* Use as a way to wean your organization from those last few Windows applications by consolidating onto a server for as-needed concurrent use. De-commission Windows from a central location once suitable replacements are in production.
* Serve Windows apps to Windows users from a Linux server â" cheaper, more secure, and more reliable - with all the advantages of consolidation and central management
The price for Win4VDI for Linux is USD $125.00 per concurrent user. The minimum number of users that can be purchased is ten(10). Win4VDI for Linux is available in a specially priced 10-user package for $1000.
Make your system a dual boot and install Ubuntu and Crossover Office, at which point you can click a button and install IE on it.
Ironically, I had to install IE to take an online Linux course.
But IE works great and it being that it isn't actually running on Windows, I've never had a moments trouble.
Also, in some cases you can stick with Firefox. There is an add-on to let you report back to the site that it is IE. I've found that a lot of sites that say they are IE only will actually work with Firefox...but this is kind of hit and miss.
And also, I have one Linux system with Win4Lin on it and running XP. That also works well, but native IE running in WINE actually works much smoother.
You know, Firewall or not, the latest Ubuntu is going to be way more secure than an old Windows 2000 machine. Use Linux on the Net and then boot to Windows when you need an old app.
It seems in testing the software, they ran some old moon landing footage through the program and were able to determine exactly where the audio came from. Police have no firm leads in their disappearance.
Interesting. Doesn't that assume that TomTom made the code in question public, which they wouldn't have to do with a BSD license?
I checked and FreeBSD, as well as a long list of other operating systems will mount a FAT32 partition. With FreeBSD it is just mount with "-t msdos,' which will let it mount FAT floppies, FAT16, and FAT32 partitions.
Of course, I'm sure you know this. What I'm just trying to figure out is if they are going after TomTom because they use Linux, or if they would be going after TomTom regardless.
So what about spyware, key loggers, and other various malware? Customer data could still be exposed if it was assumed that it was safe just because it wasn't stored client side.
And part of what I needed to do was block myspace, etc., on the LAN. But the head pharmacist had some P2P running on his computer (its good to be the king). I remember thinking at the time how insecure to run P2P on a business machine with a lot of confidential information on it.
I don't think the customer data was stored locally, but that doesn't stop spyware, key loggers, etc., from still being an issue.
Free music or maintaining the integrity of customer data. That's a tough call.
I don't use Netflix just for streaming, but I moved my plan up a notch just to have access to it.
I can't say I'm burning up the tubes streaming stuff, but I like it when I do.
I feel the price I pay is a fair price, so I can see a business model that does charge for a connection to content.
What isn't going to happen is someone paying 69.95 a month for low quality video just to stream it to a laptop.
This is where they will miss the boat. It doesn't have to be free. People will pay for things if the price is right. I'm on a fairly tight budget but I've been a Netflix customer for well over a year now.
And when a large group of us applied for unemployment, we got more than we should have.
After a few months, we all got a letter from the unemployment office wanting the extra money back. Good luck with that, except I still owe them money and the debt never goes away.
If I ever get laid off again, I can't draw a penny until the original amount is paid off out of what I will draw if I end up unemployed again.
When it was all over, the unemployment office sent me a postcard asking what I thought about my experience with them. I sent them a postcard back that was just short of having a federal marshal knock on my door. If I was at home right now, I would post a copy of it. It was a laugh riot.
In short: that "RouterOS" has been higly unsuitable for the Internet.
Really, that should be highly unsuitable for what appears to be a high-end backbone use on the Internet.
Assuming they don't do themselves in with GPL violations, Mikrotik is in a position to blow Cisco out of the water some day.
We used them for internet use all the time, just internally, where it couldn't take down the whole Internet.
I can tell you right now they aren't ready for prime time. But you guys better look out when they are.
Mikrotik's configuration software, winbox.exe, is about as cool as it gets and I've dreamed of being a good enough programmer to release a GPLed version of it on many occasions.
If a lot of people ever used winbox, they would see that the Linux community dropped the ball in this area.
I used Mikrotik for quite some time and I'm not sure they are "known GPL violators." I guess it sounds good to kdawson them and all, but they offer the changes made to GPLed software:
To get a CD with the corresponding source code for the GPL-covered programs in this distribution, wire transfer $45 to MikroTikls SIA, Pernavas 46, Riga, LV-1009, Latvia. Please contact MikroTikls SIA for our current account information and wire transfer instructions. Offer valid until 2010. This CD will only include the source code of the following programs according to the license requirements. This CD will not include MikroTikls proprietary SOFTWARE.
In reading through their posts on their forums, they claim that there aren't many changes to GPL software, and that they aren't required to release proprietary software code (true). And it seems they do make some attempt to release the code to what little GPL they do change (see above).
Personally, I think Mikrotik is awesome. But to me, they are a little bit in a TiVo-type of area here.
Why on earth they didn't just use FreeBSD instead of Linux, I will never understand. Then they could have done whatever they wanted with FreeBSD and not been made to look bad over it.
I did a tiny amount of research on this, but I would love to write a book. I think Mayor Daley is mentally ill. He is the digital version of those people on those shows who pack one end of their house to the other with junk, to the point you have to walk through little trails to get to a room.
If you search for the term "digital packrats," you will find an acknowledgment of the problem.
I'm kind of one myself, but the difference between me and Daley is that I'm not on some kind of power trip, and I don't have unlimited amounts of taxpayer money.
I have some experience in Oil and Gas. Daley should get into that. He could make some companies rich in his quest to pull in useless data. In that setting, I wouldn't mind working for him.
As a mayor, with access to public funds, he should be removed.
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But if it was shielded, broadband over power lines would be possible.
And check this out:
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/11/1158226&from=rss
In high school, I had a physics teacher who, way back when he first started teaching, ordered x picograms of radioactive material for his class. The school secretary thought he misspelled the order and changed it to grams.
He said later on the principal called him over the intercom and sounded really upset. He went to the office, only to find the principal steaming mad over a $50,000.00-plus invoice. He looked at the invoice and, realizing what it was, went and got his giger counter...only to find it going crazy even out in the hall from the principal's office.
As it turned out, they had shipped a large order of radioactive material in a cardboard box!
They had to evacuate the office and call someone to come and get it.
Possibly unrelated, because that had happened many years prior, but he died of cancer.
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Netflix works for those who use it now. But what happens when everybody wants to use it?
Almost all ISPs oversell their bandwidth by a good ratio, which means that they do not think that everyone will be using the bandwidth at the same time.
When everybody is watching streaming movies, the crap is going to come to a screeching halt.
A while back I worked for a WISP. A WISP almost has to over sell its bandwidth, because bandwidth limitations of the access points make it almost impossible to give every customer exactly what they are paying for if every single customer were to be using it at the same time.
I was so worried about the oversell ratio and streaming movies, that it is one of the reasons I don't work there any more.
Without the Internet, just 10 - 15 years ago...you probably wouldn't have heard about any of this unless you happened to be involved in it.
Maybe some trade publications would have covered it, but there were few newspapers that would have.
It's been going on for a while, it is just that the last few years, Slashdot made it front page news for geeks everywhere.
The Internet was a game changing, disruptive technology. Maybe things will change a *little* simply because there are people getting fed up with it. Whereas, in the past, it was just business as usual.
I know after watching what happened to SCO, I would have to have some kind of freaking air tight case to sue a company involved in Linux.
Even if SCO had one, they would have still lost.
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More likely it will play out like this:
Not content to rake in 200 million a year, the city of Chicago will partner with the RIAA and MPAA to tie its massive surveillance system in with the log system of all ISPs, so that it can cross reference all travelers to their downloads, and violators can be swiftly picked up as soon as they venture outside their homes.
The city hopes this partnership will bring in half a billion dollars.
In other news, new legislative items introduced in Chicago include a new bonus system for its lawmakers and a proposal to convert all ISPs to state ownership...with the latter item being criticized because of rumors that the state will appoint former RIAA/MPAA executives to manage the ISPs.
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http://www.itssafe4.me/
As a disclaimer, I'm a reseller, but I liked the service so much I contacted them about becoming a sales person:
http://www.itsafe4.me/
Basically, it works similar to OpenDNS's porn filtering...but it has one huge advantage in that it does not require a static IP address to work (OpenDNS requires either a static IP address or DynDNS to work).
You can just change the DNS settings in your router or computer and it just works. Takes all of five minutes to set up.
Minus side is that it won't block chat...but starting at 2.00 a month, its a very easy way to filter your entire network.
Transporter_ii
That's OK, just wait until the next "terrorist" action and the military will step in and take it all over...revenue angle solved.
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A much greater distance from the DSLAM would be much more needed than the improved speeds. Many people in rural areas can't get anything and would be happy with 5 Mb down if they could just get it.
transporter_ii
Some of the important features and capabilities of Win4VDI for Linux include:
* Re-hosting of Windows XP/2000 desktop sessions on Linux servers
* Centralized management and provisioning of users
* "Renewable" windows - just restart any corrupted session and the original master copy of Windows combines with your individual "Documents and Settings"
* Automatic local printing from the server to the local attached printer.
* Consistent user access to personal desktop environment from home, office and other network connected locations.
* Support for multiple remote display choices - Win4Lin client, NoMachine, LTSP, VNC, and X, for example
* Increased security and reliability by running on Linux servers
* Create end-to-end Linux environment with Windows as a guest rather than control point.
* Lock down Windows read, write and other operations with Linux permissions â" an administrator's dream!
* Provide standard application environments to users regardless of desktop hardware and operating system - Windows, UNIX, or Linux on the client, but standard application profile served from Linux server.
* Use as a way to wean your organization from those last few Windows applications by consolidating onto a server for as-needed concurrent use. De-commission Windows from a central location once suitable replacements are in production.
* Serve Windows apps to Windows users from a Linux server â" cheaper, more secure, and more reliable - with all the advantages of consolidation and central management
The price for Win4VDI for Linux is USD $125.00 per concurrent user. The minimum number of users that can be purchased is ten(10). Win4VDI for Linux is available in a specially priced 10-user package for $1000.
Make your system a dual boot and install Ubuntu and Crossover Office, at which point you can click a button and install IE on it.
Ironically, I had to install IE to take an online Linux course.
But IE works great and it being that it isn't actually running on Windows, I've never had a moments trouble.
Also, in some cases you can stick with Firefox. There is an add-on to let you report back to the site that it is IE. I've found that a lot of sites that say they are IE only will actually work with Firefox...but this is kind of hit and miss.
And also, I have one Linux system with Win4Lin on it and running XP. That also works well, but native IE running in WINE actually works much smoother.
You know, Firewall or not, the latest Ubuntu is going to be way more secure than an old Windows 2000 machine. Use Linux on the Net and then boot to Windows when you need an old app.
Transporter_ii
It seems in testing the software, they ran some old moon landing footage through the program and were able to determine exactly where the audio came from. Police have no firm leads in their disappearance.
Transporter_ii
You use Antivirus 2009, too? Cool.
Interesting. Doesn't that assume that TomTom made the code in question public, which they wouldn't have to do with a BSD license?
I checked and FreeBSD, as well as a long list of other operating systems will mount a FAT32 partition. With FreeBSD it is just mount with "-t msdos,' which will let it mount FAT floppies, FAT16, and FAT32 partitions.
Of course, I'm sure you know this. What I'm just trying to figure out is if they are going after TomTom because they use Linux, or if they would be going after TomTom regardless.
Thanks,
transporter_ii
Would there be any difference in how Microsoft handled this case if TomTom had used FreeBSD instead of Linux?
transporter_ii
Where would that get her? Out of the basement?
So what about spyware, key loggers, and other various malware? Customer data could still be exposed if it was assumed that it was safe just because it wasn't stored client side.
And part of what I needed to do was block myspace, etc., on the LAN. But the head pharmacist had some P2P running on his computer (its good to be the king). I remember thinking at the time how insecure to run P2P on a business machine with a lot of confidential information on it.
I don't think the customer data was stored locally, but that doesn't stop spyware, key loggers, etc., from still being an issue.
Free music or maintaining the integrity of customer data. That's a tough call.
transporter_ii
I don't use Netflix just for streaming, but I moved my plan up a notch just to have access to it.
I can't say I'm burning up the tubes streaming stuff, but I like it when I do.
I feel the price I pay is a fair price, so I can see a business model that does charge for a connection to content.
What isn't going to happen is someone paying 69.95 a month for low quality video just to stream it to a laptop.
This is where they will miss the boat. It doesn't have to be free. People will pay for things if the price is right. I'm on a fairly tight budget but I've been a Netflix customer for well over a year now.
transporter_ii
And when a large group of us applied for unemployment, we got more than we should have.
After a few months, we all got a letter from the unemployment office wanting the extra money back. Good luck with that, except I still owe them money and the debt never goes away.
If I ever get laid off again, I can't draw a penny until the original amount is paid off out of what I will draw if I end up unemployed again.
When it was all over, the unemployment office sent me a postcard asking what I thought about my experience with them. I sent them a postcard back that was just short of having a federal marshal knock on my door. If I was at home right now, I would post a copy of it. It was a laugh riot.
transporter_ii
In short: that "RouterOS" has been higly unsuitable for the Internet.
Really, that should be highly unsuitable for what appears to be a high-end backbone use on the Internet.
Assuming they don't do themselves in with GPL violations, Mikrotik is in a position to blow Cisco out of the water some day.
We used them for internet use all the time, just internally, where it couldn't take down the whole Internet.
I can tell you right now they aren't ready for prime time. But you guys better look out when they are.
Mikrotik's configuration software, winbox.exe, is about as cool as it gets and I've dreamed of being a good enough programmer to release a GPLed version of it on many occasions.
If a lot of people ever used winbox, they would see that the Linux community dropped the ball in this area.
Transporter_ii
I used Mikrotik for quite some time and I'm not sure they are "known GPL violators." I guess it sounds good to kdawson them and all, but they offer the changes made to GPLed software:
To get a CD with the corresponding source code for the GPL-covered programs in this distribution, wire transfer $45 to MikroTikls SIA, Pernavas 46, Riga, LV-1009, Latvia. Please contact MikroTikls SIA for our current account information and wire transfer instructions. Offer valid until 2010. This CD will only include the source code of the following programs according to the license requirements. This CD will not include MikroTikls proprietary SOFTWARE.
In reading through their posts on their forums, they claim that there aren't many changes to GPL software, and that they aren't required to release proprietary software code (true). And it seems they do make some attempt to release the code to what little GPL they do change (see above).
Personally, I think Mikrotik is awesome. But to me, they are a little bit in a TiVo-type of area here.
Why on earth they didn't just use FreeBSD instead of Linux, I will never understand. Then they could have done whatever they wanted with FreeBSD and not been made to look bad over it.
transporter_ii
I did a tiny amount of research on this, but I would love to write a book. I think Mayor Daley is mentally ill. He is the digital version of those people on those shows who pack one end of their house to the other with junk, to the point you have to walk through little trails to get to a room.
If you search for the term "digital packrats," you will find an acknowledgment of the problem.
I'm kind of one myself, but the difference between me and Daley is that I'm not on some kind of power trip, and I don't have unlimited amounts of taxpayer money.
I have some experience in Oil and Gas. Daley should get into that. He could make some companies rich in his quest to pull in useless data. In that setting, I wouldn't mind working for him.
As a mayor, with access to public funds, he should be removed.
> cost at least $5,000 each
They are willing to spend every penny you have, and then some.
They should put a seat on the part being pulled in the water. Those that "get it" can use the jet pack. Everyone else can ride the boat. :)
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