Comment Misleading (Score 5, Insightful) 178
Misconfiguration of resolv.conf does not put China's firewall in your way.
Add yourself to the tool belt.
College To Save Money By Switching Email Font
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The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay has come up with an unusual way of saving money: changing their email font. The school expects to use 30% less ink by switching from Arial to Century Gothic. From the article: "Diane Blohowiak is the school's director of computing. She says the new font uses about 30 percent less ink than the previous one. That could add up to real savings, since the cost of printer ink works out to about $10,000 per gallon. Blohowiak says the decision is part of the school's five-year plan to go green. She tells Wisconsin Public Radio it's great that a change that's eco-friendly also saves money."
Submission + - "Indexing everything" 1
ClownPenis writes: With the computing power, disk space, digitization tech., compression etc. Who really believes that "private" conversations exist anymore? Other than face to face "under the Sun" conversations, is there really any reason to assume everything you say, type, text, tweet, etc. is not "saved forever" on a disk somewhere. That kind of power combined with the social networking boom, where everyone knows who you are friends with, and who their friends are etc. etc. (facebook, linkedin, etc.).
I love tech myself, but it seems as though we may have already "given it all away" already.
Maybe I am paranoid, but it doesn't take that much disk space to archive text, and disk space is cheap. Any voice call can more or less be boiled down into a tiny compressible text file and saved infinitely, and be searched against. All you need is a way to grab it all, personalize the data, digitize it, save it, feed it to "Google", and build an interface like "street view". Instead of streets and houses, you get the "top down" big picture on people, who they know, what they are saying, who they are saying it to etc. This is no longer limited to "email" with "Carnivore / Omnivore", I suggest anything that can be, is being stored, indexed, relation-ized, and retained to be used as at least "unwarranted surveillance", at most probably much worse for the average person.
Hopefully I am completely full of crap. Probably not though.
I love tech myself, but it seems as though we may have already "given it all away" already.
Maybe I am paranoid, but it doesn't take that much disk space to archive text, and disk space is cheap. Any voice call can more or less be boiled down into a tiny compressible text file and saved infinitely, and be searched against. All you need is a way to grab it all, personalize the data, digitize it, save it, feed it to "Google", and build an interface like "street view". Instead of streets and houses, you get the "top down" big picture on people, who they know, what they are saying, who they are saying it to etc. This is no longer limited to "email" with "Carnivore / Omnivore", I suggest anything that can be, is being stored, indexed, relation-ized, and retained to be used as at least "unwarranted surveillance", at most probably much worse for the average person.
Hopefully I am completely full of crap. Probably not though.
Submission + - Epic Beard Man Returns!!! (epicbeardman.biz) 3
ClownPenis writes: Epic Beard Man is back!! New videos posted. Donations received. Laptop was donated by a slashdot member with a funny name stolen from "The Simpsons".
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Comment try this (Score 1) 6
1. Yes. turn off password based ssh auth altogether, use key based only with a decent passphrase
2. Look in to "fail2ban".
3. there is more but this was free.
Submission + - Google, the real life MCP.
ClownPenis writes: It isn't 1984.. It is TRON, and Google is the new MCP.
They hide their illegal hiring practices and control most of the data commonly viewed or skewed.
They run everything, and index it too.
Good luck.
My captcha to post this is "regret"
They hide their illegal hiring practices and control most of the data commonly viewed or skewed.
They run everything, and index it too.
Good luck.
My captcha to post this is "regret"
Comment Re:Understanding QoS on the Internet (Score 3, Informative) 414
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"outbound" depends on your perspective.
"YOUR router is saturated" (If your router is saturated, I would recommend drying if out.) Usually the links that routers are connected to become saturated.
Marking the pakets on the way in may or may not happen, but the net result would be the the same. (Unless your WAN (outbound) connection was faster than your LAN (inbound)).3) Most routers mark packets outbound, and little emphasis is placed on inbound marking. This is because by the time the packet gets to you, unless YOUR router is saturated the packet will get through with low latency.
Further,
Actually you get less than 64Bbit/second dedicated if your telco is in the US.
Google "Robbed Bit Signaling"VoIP is UDP based, and is highly sensitive to latency. The Internet is a place where latency is highly unpredictable and the more network hops (the further geographically) your packets have to travel, the higher the end to end latency will be; as such, VoIP is likely to remain a low quality voice transport for a while. Contrastly, your analogue telephone line, when you make a call from US to China, actually reserves an entire set of *dedicated* DS1 (64Kbits/sec) analogue pipes from one end to the other. In other words, there is zero sharing; hence the guarantee and high quality.
VoIP is UDP based, and is highly sensitive to latency.
Bad generalization there. RTP is UDP, but not all VoIP protocals use RTP. I assume you understand that while SIP is a VoIP standard, the standard for VoIP isn't SIP.Perhaps one day, when all the major Telcos and ISPs have more pipe than they know what to do with, long distance VoIP will come close in quality to analogue phones... until then it's a complete crap shoot. You might get amazing quality to some locations on some days, at certain times 99/100 times, and to other locations 80/100 times the VoIP call is utterly useless.
The setup and codecs I use actually exceed carrier quality "G711" codecs. If you aren't an expert, don't try to sell yourself as one.
In resume, you can tweak your home router all you want. It might help slightly since your router would become a saturated network point due to you using bitorrent simultaneously; however, the other 8+ hops to get to "China" are completely out of your control.
Like I said before. The "router" isn't getting saturated. Why are you pushing this fallacy?
Who is calling China via VoIP? Why would you even mention china? My IP phones register with an asterisk server in texas. I can handle the 20 milliseconds, and so can sensitive UDP packets.
My recommendation is that if you have a say 1Mbit Up/Down pipe for broadband internet; that before you make your VoIP call, that you throttle your bittorent software (in the software itself) to use only 850Kbits up/down. VoIP protocols can suck up anywhere between 8Kbit/sec (highly compressed) to 110 Kbits/sec (uncompressed). So by leaving 150Kbits for VoIP, there's a good chance the VoIP and torrents can co-exist peacefully.
Cheers, ADeptus
