Re: jon postel

historian - and https://walden-family.com/ has some more stuff of broader historic interest. Miles Fidelman, BBN 1985-1992 -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra Theory is when you know everything but nothing works. Practi

Re: FCC vs FAA Story

-field-guide-to-the-faa-fcc-5g-c-band-fight/ Well... a bit better look at the politics & motivations of the folks involved.  Still doesn't address whether or not C band radios break radio altimeters. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In prac

Re: Russia attempts mandating installation of root CA on clients for TLS MITM

Masataka Ohta wrote: Sean Donelan wrote: You'll notice there still isn't a CA trust list for use in the USG :-) Wait one... so who issues all the certificates for DoD CAC cards? Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice

Re: Ukraine request yikes

if we cut the lines of communication.  (Of course, removing DNS records doesn't effect connectivity.) Miles Fidelman Matt Hoppes wrote: Information sharing should increase on the ATTACKED side... it should DECREASE and be cut off on the non-provoked attacker's side. On 3/1/22 3:53 AM

Re: Network visibility

Seth Breidbart has the last word on this point, I think: The Internet is "the largest equivalence class in the reflexive, transitive, symmetric closure of the relationship 'can be reached by an IP packet from'." The associated press can bite me. Nice! Miles -- In theory, there is

Re: Network visibility

  It just makes you look silly. Miles Fidelman Owen DeLong via NANOG wrote: On Oct 21, 2021, at 08:55 , Mel Beckman <mailto:m...@beckman.org>> wrote: On Oct 21, 2021, at 8:19 AM, Owen DeLong <mailto:o...@delong.com>> wrote: No, but you are ignoring the point of my mess

Re: Network visibility

e backbone). Miles Fidelman Kain, Becki (.) wrote: How old are all you people?  (JK) -Original Message- From: NANOG On Behalf Of Owen DeLong via NANOG Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2021 11:43 AM To: b...@theworld.com Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Network visibility WARNING: Th

re:

*Mel Beckman*mel at beckman.org wrote: Mark, Before 1983, the ARPANET wasn’t an internet, let alone The Internet. Each ARPANET connection required a host-specific interface

Re: Network visibility

there's the more general notion of "internetworking" - of which there was a considerable amount of experimental work going on, in parallel with TCP/IP.  And of (small i) "internets" - essentially any Catenet style network-of-networks. Miles Fidelman Mel Beckman wrote: M

Re: Network visibility

it really was a lot like the modern Internet. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra Theory is when you know everything but nothing works. Practice is when everything works but no one knows why. In our l

Re: Anyone else getting the 'spam' bomb threat?

ky to know like 6 other data center folks who have also gotten this e-mail?  It seems like a very odd/bizarre spam/threat campaign which would carry significant jail time. And now I REALLY want to get moving on a service to drop a drone on spammers.  (Active Countermeasures!) Mile

Re: verizon fios, northeast, routing issues?

FYI: Funny thing, this morning, the packet loss rate has dropped to between 0 and 10% (from closer to 40%).  Route seems to the same. One wonders if some piece of equipment has been updated. Miles Fidelman Miles Fidelman wrote: Ok folks, Thanks for the info about uunet.  But that doesn't

Re: verizon fios, northeast, routing issues?

in the middle of the path, not at my end. And, come to think of it, that might explain some of the horrid performance of the FIOS channel guide. Any thoughts?  Anyone here from Verizon Northeast FIOS operations who might have a comment? Thanks, Miles Fidelman Miles Fidelman wrote: Any

verizon fios, northeast, routing issues?

bles (or a particular network interface). Any insights (or fixes) to be had? Thanks, Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra Theory is when you know everything but nothing works. Practice is when everything works but no one k

Re: Facebook post-mortems...

Also, Cloudflare’s take on the outage - https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/ FYI, /John This may be a dumb question, but does this suggest that Facebook publishes rather short TTLs for their DNS records?  Otherwise, why would an internal failure make them unreachable so q

Re: massive facebook outage presently

Jay Hennigan wrote: On 10/4/21 09:27, Tom Beecher wrote: Curious if there is a malicious angle after the 60 Minutes story last night. Hanlon's razor. "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" Corollary - "But don't rule out malice." "Once is

Re: Global Akamai Outage

Indeed.  Worth rereading for that reason alone (or in particular). Miles Fidelman Hank Nussbacher wrote: On 23/07/2021 09:24, Hank Nussbacher wrote: From Akamai.  How companies and vendors should report outages: [07:35 UTC on July 24, 2021] Update: Root Cause: This configuration directive

Re: Famous operational issues

John Kristoff wrote: Friends, I'd like to start a thread about the most famous and widespread Internet operational issues, outages or implementation incompatibilities you have seen. Well... pre-Internet, but the great Northeast fiber cut comes to mind (backhoe vs. fiber, backhoe won). Miles

Re: Texas internet connectivity declining due to blackouts

Last time I looked - admittedly a while - Texas made it VERY difficult for municipalities to set up broadband utilities, even in areas where no commercial player was interested.  Maybe that's catching up to them. Miles Fidelman Brandon Svec wrote: Mismanagement and poor planning are primarily

Re: Parler

e only grounds for moderation or expulsion from this list are repeated complaints about the list host's lack of moderation." Sigh... Miles Fidelman sro...@ronan-online.com wrote: While Amazon is absolutely within their rights to suspend anyone they want for violation of their TOS, it does c

Re: Are the days of the showpiece NOC office display gone forever?

at, back in my BBN days (a LONG time ago), the various Defense Data Network NOCs, around the world, used to keep their big-screen monitors tuned to CNN. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra Theory is when you know

Re: "Hacking" these days - purpose?

Saku Ytti wrote: On Mon, 14 Dec 2020 at 19:12, Miles Fidelman wrote: As to chess... I've begun to think that the game to master is now Go... capturing territory, not pieces, and instantaneous global state changes. Now implies change, when, in your mind, this changed from Chess to Go

Re: "Hacking" these days - purpose?

that the game to master is now Go... capturing territory, not pieces, and instantaneous global state changes. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra Theory is when you know everything but nothing works. Practice

Re: The Real AI Threat?

Valdis, Thank you for a prime example of the REAL threat of software eating the world.  (Well that, and "rm -f *" typed by the wrong users at the wrong place in an increasingly global file heirarchy).  Meanwhile, folks are busy watching AI scenarios on tv. Miles Valdis Klētnieks wrote: On

Re: The Real AI Threat?

are - and it's only going to get worse while people are looking elsewhere.) Miles Fidelman J. Hellenthal wrote: Let me know when a program will rewrite itself and add its own features ... then we may have a problem... otherwise they only do what you want them to do. --  J. Hellenthal The f

Re: The Real AI Threat?

orry about AI taking away your freedom on its own, rather worry about how people using it might… adam *From:*NANOG *On Behalf Of *Miles Fidelman *Sent:* Thursday, December 10, 2020 2:44 PM *To:* 'NANOG' *Subject:* Re: The Real AI Threat? adamv0...@netconsultings.com <mailto:adamv0...@ne

Re: Fwd: Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data

some serious redesign of their content delivery network.  Meanwhile, remember that these folks are seeing serious political efforts to limit things like climate modeling - so some of this might be information suppression through resource starvation. Miles Fidelman -- In theory

Re: The Real AI Threat?

adamv0...@netconsultings.com wrote: > Put them together, and the nightmare scenario is: > - machine learning algorithm detects need for more resources All good so far > - machine learning algorithm makes use of vulnerability analysis library > to find other systems with resources to spare, and

Re: The Real AI Threat?

er a video summary, she has a quick talk on YouTube, "ERROR – The Art of Imperfection Conference: The Fragile”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuDFhSUwOAQ At 2:20 into the video, she puts the kibosh on the mythology of general AI. -mel On Dec 9, 2020, at 11:07 AM, Miles Fidel

Re: The Real AI Threat?

he kibosh on the mythology of general AI. -mel On Dec 9, 2020, at 11:07 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Hi Folks, It occurs to me that network & systems admins are the the folks who really have to worry about AI threats. After watching yet another AI takes over the world show - you know, the sa

The Real AI Threat?

esources Kind of what spambots have done to the global email system. "For Homo Sapiens, the telephone bell had tolled." (Dial F for Frankenstein, Arthur C. Clarke) I think I need to start putting whisky in my morning coffee. And maybe not thinking about NOT replacing third shif

Re: Mail rejected at secureserver.net/godaddy any contacts over there?

I've found that GoDaddy tech support is amazingly good, and responsive.  If you're a customer, of course (and it's kind of hard not to be these days).  Maybe just call their 800 number. Miles Fidelman On 8/24/20 12:57 PM, Drew Weaver wrote: I’ve attempted to contact them using their form

Re: Telecom billing in 2020

Oh come now.  LISP or assembler.  Maybe TCL. ..Miles On 8/18/20 11:38 AM, Allen Kitchen wrote: Piker. If it ain’t COBOL it ain’t got props. ..Allen On Aug 18, 2020, at 10:32, Ben Cannon > wrote: I’ll just write something in FORTRAN real quick….  :) -Ben Ms.

Re: questions asked during network engineer interview

hing else is irrelevant. Of course, I might ask them what they mean by "size." Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra Theory is when you know everything but nothing works. Practice is when everything wor

Re: questions asked during network engineer interview

(who really wants to hire someone who's going to start doing paper calculations of something silly). Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra Theory is when you know everything but nothing works. Practice is when everyt

Re: Outsourced NOC Solutions

I ain't so little, and I'm old enough to call bullshit when I see it. On 6/8/20 8:04 PM, TJ Trout wrote: stop being a disrespectful little prick. On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 4:52 PM Miles Fidelman mailto:mfidel...@meetinghouse.net>> wrote: *Rod Beck*rod.beck at unitedcablecompa

Re: Outsourced NOC Solutions

maged. So... color me confused about who you are, who you represent, what you're trying to accomplish, what you're asking, and, perhaps, why you don't already know the answer to your question, or have someone internal to your organization who already knows. Miles Fidelman -- In theory,

Re: Outsourced NOC Solutions

tage just fine - but we (and lots of other folks) were all caught short to discover that AT Long Lines routed all of our "redundant" circuits through the SAME fiber bundle.  I expect there are others here who remember that debacle. Miles Fidelman On 6/8/20 2:29 PM, Mel Beckman wrote:

Re: Outsourced NOC Solutions

best not to - a major point of this kind of list is to learn from each other. Miles Fidelman Thanks. Regards, Roderick. Roderick Beck VP of Business Development United Cable Company www.unitedcablecompany.com <http://www.unitedcablecompany.com> New York City & Budap

Re: free collaborative tools for low BW and losy connections

It would be a lot MORE relevant if there were some actual tools listed & discussed! Miles Fidelman On 3/24/20 1:48 PM, Scott Weeks wrote: Hello, I was watching SDNOG and saw the below conversation recently. Here is the relavant part: "I think this is the concern of all of us, ho

Re: Software Defined Networks

. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra Theory is when you know everything but nothing works. Practice is when everything works but no one knows why. In our lab, theory and practice are combined: nothing works

Re: Tiered operations support

ature approach." Miles Fidelman ---harbor...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe you want some of them to leave, if they're "not a professional organization". Get some fresh folks from professional minded organizations and see if the others quit being reactionary only and step up their g

Re: Antennas in the data center

It's not quite clear what you mean by "NIST controls" - NIST publishes standards & guidelines, they don't regulate. Now, if you're running a Federal data center, or one for a government contractor - perhaps you're referring to "NIST Compliance" under FISMA (the Federal Information Security

Re: Reddit down

Seems to be having problems here. Was getting "CDN can't reach" messages, now getting reddit pages - but the individual lines are listing "something went wrong, don't panic" and a global pop-up "couldn't load posts for this page.  Meanwhile the phone app seems to be working just fine. Just

OFFTRACK - Re: 1st Linux Distro [was:Re: Crowdfunding critical infrastructure]

be Slackware. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra Theory is when you know everything but nothing works. Practice is when everything works but no one knows why. In our lab, theory and practice are combined: nothing works

Re: Crowdfunding critical infrastructure

to do ill. This also might be a great role for the Internet Systems Consortium.  You know, the folks who maintain Bind, and already maintain a list of critical software maintained by ISC and others, along with a list of supporters, and a way to support some of the efforts. Miles Fidelman On

Re: Experiences on Cable Advisory Commissions

(essentially the cable board).  Happy to share experiences. Ask away, here, or privately.  Also happy to talk by phone (contact me to coordinate time). Miles Fidelman Its first role is evaluating performance of Comcast, the incumbent, and deciding whether to recommend renewal or make

Re: A Zero Spam Mail System [Feedback Request]

On 2/22/19 11:28 AM, John Curran wrote: On 22 Feb 2019, at 9:58 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: On 2/22/19 10:07 AM, John Curran wrote: On 22 Feb 2019, at 7:08 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: On 2/22/19 12:03 AM, John Curran wrote: Either way, until such time your solution is deployed widely enough

Re: A Zero Spam Mail System [Feedback Request]

On 2/22/19 10:07 AM, John Curran wrote: On 22 Feb 2019, at 7:08 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: On 2/22/19 12:03 AM, John Curran wrote: Either way, until such time your solution is deployed widely enough to significantly impact network operations, it’s unlikely to be a particularly relevant

Re: A Zero Spam Mail System [Feedback Request]

ccasion (I run a bunch of small lists). Sigh... Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra

Re: A Zero Spam Mail System [Feedback Request]

On 2/19/19 12:37 AM, Scott Weeks wrote: --- beec...@beecher.cc wrote: From: Tom Beecher Every single person on this list has either sent an email they later regret[...] -- Not me. No way. Never. ;) scott Bet you're about to regret this one.

Re: A Zero Spam Mail System [Feedback Request]

I can't get past all the blabbering to bother reviewing stuff. But why does this guy remind me of Shiva Ayyadurai - you know, the "inventor of email." Seriously - isn't the general rule to start with a demonstration, not a polemic?  (Shiva actually built an email system.  And people actually

Re: Last Mile Design

build big networks, for big customers - in my days at BBN - so it's an informed opinion :-). Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra

Re: Last Mile Design

ternet-exchange><https://twitter.com/mdwestix> The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp><https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> ---- *Fr

Re: Last Mile Design

swisp><https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> ---- *From: *"Miles Fidelman" *To: *nanog@nanog.org *Sent: *Saturday, February 9, 2019 12:20:36 PM *Subject: *Re: Last Mile Design Speaking of wh

Re: Last Mile Design

On 2/9/19 2:51 PM, Grant Taylor via NANOG wrote: On 2/9/19 12:12 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: With early PON designs, upstream bandwidth was horrible. Not particularly useful if you're doing things like remote backup, or video chatting, or running a server (business grade service). GPON does

Re: Last Mile Design

On 2/9/19 1:44 PM, Grant Taylor via NANOG wrote: So let me ask this:  Are there any functional reasons to favor AE over PON /within/ the lifecycle of a deployment?  Does one methodology offer any significant advantages or disadvantages over the other?  If so, is (are) the pro(s) / con(s)

Re: Last Mile Design

hing, and the fiber.  What you put on the poles, or in the lawn furniture, is a pretty minor cost component. Though... getting power to the switches might be an issue, less so if you're deploying on power poles. Miles Fidelman On 2/9/19 12:59 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Sat, 9 Feb 2019, Mark Tinka w

Re: Last Mile Design

Good for you.  None of this PON splitter nonsense. Miles Fidelman On 2/8/19 2:17 PM, Aaron wrote: We run direct fiber connections to each house and business and terminate them on the same switches.  Our switches are housed in small "huts" that are dispersed throughout the city and e

Re: the e-mail of the future is the e-mail oft the past, was Enough port 26 talk...

On 1/14/19 1:49 PM, John R. Levine wrote: And you won't really have a choice because unless you're willing to go full Ted Kaczynski one in a hundred of those emails will be very, very important to you ... Yeah.  E-mail remains the only scheme where the two parties don't have to be

Re: Extending network over a dry pair

It really does seem like repeaters are a necessity.  If he can put power down the wires, and get to them to install repeaters, that would seem the obvious way to go. Miles On 12/12/18 9:32 PM, Dan Hollis wrote: I doubt he will get >1.5mbps with those over a 6 mile long connection. I did a

Re: Confirming source-routed multicast is dead on the public Internet

for multicast. It only works when there is no use-case for it, and even then, it's insecure DoS vector. Personally, I think the use case is a lot stronger for multi-person video conferencing. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice

Re: (perhaps off topic, but) Microwave Towers

Too far North.  BSNF territory. Original message From: Brian Kantor Date: 7/14/18 9:19 AM (GMT-07:00) To: North American Network Operators' Group Subject: Re: (perhaps off topic, but) Microwave Towers > > I find myself driving down Route 66.  On our way through Arizona, I

Re: (perhaps off topic, but) Microwave Towers

Looks like it! Original message From: Tim Pozar Date: 7/14/18 11:46 AM (GMT-07:00) To: Andy Ringsmuth , North American Network Operators' Group Subject: Re: (perhaps off topic, but) Microwave Towers Did it follow this route?

(perhaps off topic, but) Microwave Towers

struck me that folks here might have some comments. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra

Re: list blockchain

a DHT?  (FYI: That was tested rather effectively for some USENET groups.  Kind of an interesting approach for traffic with large attachments.) Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra

Re: Blockchain and Networking

Transferring log files, used as forensic evidence, comes to mind. Any kind of paperwork, tables, etc. associated with network configuration - particularly if you're trying to preserve changes. On 1/11/18 10:22 AM, Tom Beecher wrote: "Blockchain is great at proving chain of custody, but when

Re: Novice sysadmins

On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 1:51 PM, Stephen Satchell wrote: What professional engineers you mentioned do can kill people. I have yet to hear of anyone dying from a sysadmin or netadmin screwing up. (Other than dropping something heavy onto someone, using a fork lift

Re: Novice sysadmins

And then, let's not forget the BOFH! (http://www.bofharchive.com), and Mordac. On 12/5/17 11:40 AM, Sam Oduor wrote: Subject of interest; my 15 years experience I met a blend of senior admins while learning the curves .. 1. Those who denied you knowledge/handover due to insecurity 2.

Re: Novice sysadmins

Umm.. back in the day, only researchers & engineers used the ARPANET, and secretaries, and administrators, and very quickly lots of military ratings, ... By the time networks were connected to form the Internet, and particularly once university LANs and CANs were connected, you had students,

Re: Definition of ISP vs Transit provider

llory wrote: Those normally come with ASRs and a tariff from the regulated side of things. At least from my experience anyway. Sent from my iPad On Nov 22, 2017, at 10:08 PM, Miles Fidelman <mfidel...@meetinghouse.net <mailto:mfidel...@meetinghouse.net>> wrote: On 11/22/17 2:50 PM

Re: Definition of ISP vs Transit provider

ed the following question which isn't about the FCC action per say. This is about how does one define Transit provider vs ISP ? For that matter, how does one distinguish between someone delivering IP packets, vs. someone offering frame relay, or ATM - which are clearly telecom services?

Re: Network nerd poker night 11/8 in Seattle

Doesn't anybody play real poker any more? You know, 5 card draw, 7 card stud.  Oh for a good game of high-stakes 7 card high-low stud. Miles Fidelman Original message From: Gordon Cook <c...@cookreport.com> Date: 11/7/17 2:08 PM (GMT-07:00) To: Avi Freedman

media are reporting "major Internet outage"

ticed any issues (as a user or a hosting provider). Tempest in a teapot? Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra

anybody here from earthlink operations?

If there's someone here from earthlink operations, can you contact me privately.  Thanks! Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra

Re: loc.gov

Both work for me in Boston. On 7/8/17 5:55 PM, John Levine wrote: In article you write: http://www.loc.gov/ Works fine for me on Roadrunner in central NY. -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.

Re: Verizon wireless to stop issuing static IPv4

Seems to me that the only people who get static, wireless, IP addresses are people who put sensors on vehicles and IoT applications. Who gets a static IP for a phone? This might cause some serious heartburn for my previous employer - who built CAD systems for transit buses. Miles Fidelman

Re: is something weird going on with cox, level3, and/or cogent

Beckman <m...@beckman.org> wrote: It looks like one or more circuits are down, so you're seeing asymmetrical routing over congested paths in one direction. -mel via cell On Feb 12, 2017, at 7:14 PM, Miles Fidelman <mfidel...@meetinghouse.net> wrote: Hi Folks, I'm visiting AZ, and seeing

is something weird going on with cox, level3, and/or cogent

r string of messages regarding youtube streaming problems - that also seemed to involve cox and level3. Thanks for any insight (and better, for any fixes!). Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra

Re: EVERYTHING about Booters (and CloudFlare)

On 7/28/16 11:56 AM, Niels Bakker wrote: * mfidel...@meetinghouse.net (Miles Fidelman) [Thu 28 Jul 2016, 17:42 CEST]: [...] Now if Cloudflare were to actively suggest that folks use vBooter to test systems, as a way to boost sales for Cloudflare - that would certainly be an interesting test

Re: EVERYTHING about Booters (and CloudFlare)

ging DDoS attack, and starts looking for some deep pockets to sue. Or, if somebody attacks the wrong Government computer and the FBI, or DoD, or DHS get ticked off. It will make for very good theater - at least for anyone not directly in the cross-hairs. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra

Re: EVERYTHING about Booters (and CloudFlare)

well be conspiracy - which is criminal. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra

Re: Verizon Wireless 4G Voice/Data

No problems in Newton, MA (Boston suburb). 43/5. Miles Fidelman On 6/14/16 6:51 PM, Josh Luthman wrote: 25/8 in Troy. Phone works. I am using the "advanced calling" not sure what it is though. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy

Re: ISP License in the USA?

anchises, and such) - which is how I know them - but may be able to help or point you in the right direction. Miles Fidelman On 6/5/16 12:31 PM, Ryan Finnesey wrote: Would you mind sharing some of the telecommunications focused law firms? I am about to start a company that is going back into the

Re: ISP License in the USA?

work from there to whatever licenses (if any) that you require. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra

Re: Devices with only USB console port - Need a Console Server Solution

- the same applies to IPMI boards - been bit by this personally). Miles Fidelman On 2/3/16 10:48 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote: On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 2:18 AM, Erik Sundberg <esundb...@nitelusa.com> wrote: Digi has something called USB Anywhere. http://www.digi.com/products/usb-and-

Re: SMS gateways

There are also services that do it for you. In my day job (Transit related software), we use textmarks.com to provide interactive transit information ("where's my bus" kinds of things) via interactive SMS. Not particularly expensive. On 1/6/16 2:36 PM, David Hubbard wrote: Hey all, was

Re: [ih] Fiction->History

Larry Sheldon wrote: On 9/24/2015 10:56, Bill Ricker wrote: On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 10:27 PM, Larry Sheldon wrote: Fiction->History ​There are two sorts of SciFi (aside from the Fantastic) - those that aren't facts yet​ ​but likely will be if we persevere, and

Re: Sign-On Letter to the Court in the FCC's Net Neutrality Case

well written and informative. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra

Re: Data Center operations mail list?

of the support lists for various cloud stacks the LISA and USENIX communities have some lists of sysadmin types Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra

Re: Remember Internet-In-A-Box?

Stephen Satchell wrote: This goes back a number of years. There was a product that literally was a cardboard box that contained everything one needed to get started on the Internet. Just add a modem and a computer, and you were on your way. No fuss, no learning curve. I'm beginning to

Re: Visualware/Speedtest self-hosting alternatives

). Of course if all you're interested in is throughput and latency, there's ping, traceroute, mtr, iperf, etc. - all of which let customers check performance without needing anything special at the datacenter, other than a host to ping against. Miles Fidelman -- In theory

Re: Thousands of hosts on a gigabit LAN, maybe not

expect that interconnect architecture and latency might be a bit of an issue for this sort of application. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra

Re: Thousands of hosts on a gigabit LAN, maybe not

Forgot to mention - you might also want to check out Beowulf clusters - there's an email list at http://www.beowulf.org/ - probably some useful info in the list archives, maybe a good place to post your query. Miles Miles Fidelman wrote: John Levine wrote: Some people I know (yes really

Re: Searching for a quote

That was quick. :-) Tom Paseka wrote: Be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept ^http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 5:20 PM, Jason Iannone jason.iann...@gmail.com wrote: There was once a fairly common saying attributed to an early

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

. On Mar 1, 2015 9:11 AM, Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote: Hey Barry - just to be clear, twasn't I who made the claim - I'm the one who asked for your input re. Scott's claim! With all due respect it's like people act purposely obtuse just to argue. If you're a Usenet server

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

the next round of edits. On the other hand, at 50mbps it takes only 40 seconds - annoying, but acceptable, and at a gig, it only takes 2 seconds. So, tell me, with a straight face, that what matters is average transfer rate to the user experience. Miles Fidelman -- In theory

Re: FW: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

speed is also dependent on how many people you're sharing a channel with (can you say PON?) and the traffic characteristics of the folks you're sharing a link with. So, tell me, with a straight face, that what matters is average transfer rate to the user experience. Miles Fidelman Straight

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

to the mix?) Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

. On Mar 1, 2015 10:25 AM, Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net mailto:mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote: Scott, Asymmetric measured where? Between client and server or between servers? I'm thinking the case where we each have a server running locally - how do you get a high

  1   2   3   >